S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.
"Baron Strucker's base was destroyed by a girl named Wanda?"
"And he died?"
Pierce frowned as he looked at Crossbones, who had brought him the bad news.
The HYDRA organization was just like its name. It did not have a single supreme commander, but rather a large number of relatively independent leaders, each of whom controlled their own force.
It was precisely because of this that the organization possessed an incredible ability to survive, embodied in the saying:
"Cut off one head, two more shall take its place."
Because Pierce had infiltrated deep into S.H.I.E.L.D., he had access to resources that ordinary HYDRA leaders could not even imagine.
Because of this, he knew the strength of the other leaders very well.
Although Baron Strucker had placed his base in a relatively remote part of Sokovia, a large number of elite HYDRA soldiers were under his command.
He also possessed many advanced technologies left behind by Red Skull.
How could such a powerful man have been defeated by a single little girl?
Crossbones did not directly answer Pierce's question, but instead took a photograph from the folder he was carrying and placed it on the table before him.
Pierce only glanced at it once, and his pupils instantly contracted.
The photograph had obviously been taken by satellite and showed a terrifying scene.
The old castle and all the land around it had been cut in half!
An enormous crack, so deep that its bottom could not be seen, stretched all the way into the unknown distance!
It looked as though a giant ten thousand meters tall had swung an enormous sword and cut through everything before him!
"That was done by that girl."
Looking at the satellite photograph before him, even Pierce, despite his experience and composure, opened his eyes wide in horror, while a powerful shock swept over him like a tide.
Was this some kind of joke?
If one little girl could do something this unbelievable, was she not practically a humanoid weapon of mass destruction?
Taking a deep breath, Pierce forcibly suppressed the shock inside him, turned his head, and asked Crossbones:
"Where is that girl now? Do we have any more information about her?"
Crossbones shook his head.
"The girl can fly, and at full speed she can even exceed the speed of sound."
"After she destroyed Baron Strucker's base, we no longer had anyone in that area, so at the moment we cannot track her location."
"Damn it! That idiot Strucker missed such a valuable resource."
Pierce frowned and threw the satellite photograph onto the table.
Although he held the trump card known as the Winter Soldier in his hands, that man was still only a super soldier.
But the girl in the photograph, if properly used, would practically be a living nuclear bomb!
At that moment, inside Megatron's cabin, Tony sat in the front seat, but kept glancing backward at Wanda, who was sitting in the rear.
And his eyes were filled with disbelief.
Only a few minutes earlier, Tony had arrived in Sokovia inside Megatron and, relying on the phone location calculated by the Void Engine, found Pietro.
But just then, a terrifying explosion echoed through the sky and completely shocked him.
When he flew Megatron toward the place from which the sound had come, Tony was left completely stunned.
The entire land had been cut apart!
What kind of weapon could cause such terrifying destruction?
After Wanda flew over to Megatron and told Tony what had happened, the arrogant Iron Man was deeply shocked for the second or third time.
That little girl could not only fly.
She could also unleash an attack with such destructive power!
Tony could not imagine how such terrifying strength could exist inside such a small body.
Even now, every time he looked back at the white-haired girl sitting there with her eyes closed and calmly meditating, Tony felt his emotions violently surge and could not completely calm himself down.
And besides shock, he also felt a certain sense of relief.
Fortunately.
The hostility between him and this terrifying girl had been resolved.
Otherwise, every day he would have to wonder whether an enormous sword capable of cutting through the earth itself would suddenly fall from the sky!
Even Megatron might not be able to stop something so incredible!
After being modified for interplanetary travel, Megatron, when fully accelerated, could leave the Solar System in only a few minutes.
That was why Tony and the others, traveling in it, very quickly arrived in New York from Sokovia.
After landing on the runway beside the mansion, Tony had barely stepped out of Megatron when he saw a beautiful woman with a suitcase standing beside Pepper.
Although he normally loved looking at beautiful women more than anything, Tony's face darkened the moment he saw her.
"Hmph, that bald Nick Fury really sent you specifically to bring the Tesseract. Is he deliberately trying to annoy me?"
Black Widow completely ignored Tony's insult toward her direct superior and calmly said:
"The Director ordered me to personally hand the Tesseract into your hands."
"No one else is allowed to receive it."
"Heh, you really take your duties seriously."
Tony mocked her several times, then ordered Pepper to place Wanda and Pietro in the mansion's guest rooms.
He picked up the suitcase Black Widow had placed on the ground, then gestured with his hand that she could leave.
Seeing this, Black Widow hesitated slightly, but still quietly said:
"Obadiah Stane just committed suicide by jumping from the Stark Industries building."
"Oh, really? It seems Obadiah could no longer withstand the pressure."
Tony replied indifferently, then directly made it clear to Natasha that it was time for her to leave.
In fact, after seeing the recording from another universe in which Black Widow had easily deceived him, Tony felt only caution toward the beautiful woman before him.
Seeing Tony being completely cold toward her and not even paying attention to her beauty, Black Widow was extremely irritated inwardly, but had no other choice than to turn around and leave.
When she reached the door of Stark's mansion, Black Widow looked back somewhat hesitantly, but in the end did not try anything.
After returning from the live broadcast room to S.H.I.E.L.D., under Fury's supervision, she had tested the Oni General mask she had received as a reward and successfully summoned the Shadowkhan.
Nick Fury and Black Widow immediately discovered in surprise that those strange black ninjas could not only travel through some kind of shadow space, but Black Widow herself could do so as well!
For a spy whose job was stealing secrets, what ability could be more useful than this?
In fact, if it had been anyone else, Black Widow would probably have put on the mask long ago and secretly infiltrated the mansion before her through the shadow space!
However, Fury had strictly forbidden her from doing so.
According to his calculations, Tony had received the most rewards in that question-and-answer room.
And what exactly were those rewards?
What kind of power had they given him?
S.H.I.E.L.D. knew absolutely nothing about that.
In such a situation, it would be far too risky to send a promising elite agent like Black Widow straight into his house.
Tony placed the suitcase on the laboratory table and opened it. Looking at the shining blue cube inside, he could not resist exclaiming:
"Dad, did studying this really lead you to so many scientific discoveries?"
According to what Howard Stark had told him earlier, the Arc Reactor Tony used to power his armor had developed precisely from Howard's research into the Tesseract!
Thinking about this, Tony's ambition and curiosity flared up at the same time.
Besides wanting to study the Tesseract through traditional methods, Tony wanted to try something else.
He wanted to use the Void Engine to analyze and calculate the structure of the mysterious Tesseract before him!
"Start the system engine and analyze this thing for me."
[Void Engine has started. Target analysis begins.]
[Target locked. Analysis begins. Current progress: 0%... 0%... Warning! Warning!]
[Target structure is too complex. Analysis cannot be performed.]
[Insufficient engine energy, insufficient computational frequency, and engine iteration level too low.]
"What is this now?"
Hearing the entire series of "warnings" and "insufficient values" spoken by the Void Engine, black lines almost appeared on Tony's forehead.
What?
Was the level of this Tesseract really that high?
It could not analyze even one percent?
"Energy, computational frequency, engine level... it looks like I need to improve all of them."
Scratching his head, Tony helplessly shook it.
"Forget it. It seems shortcuts are not so simple after all. I will have to use traditional methods."
Then Tony carefully controlled the robotic arm and placed the Tesseract on the laboratory table.
Even when he was still a child, Howard Stark had told him that the danger of the Tesseract was far beyond what ordinary people could imagine!
If handled improperly, a person could die at any moment!
Inside a bar, a middle-aged man with short hair and a wild appearance was smoking a cigar.
Two men opened the door and entered.
They approached the wild-looking man from behind and introduced themselves.
"Excuse me, my name is Erik Lehnsherr."
"I am Charles Xavier."
Seeing that the two of them had obviously approached him with some purpose, the wild man did not even turn his head, but coldly said:
"Get lost."
Charles Xavier smiled helplessly, exchanged a glance with Erik Lehnsherr, and was just about to leave.
But at that moment, a short sound was heard:
"Ah!"
Charles's newly acquired friend Erik suddenly disappeared before his eyes.
"Enemy attack?"
The smile on Charles's face instantly disappeared, while Wolverine, who had been casually smoking his cigar, frowned.
In the next moment, an enormous screen suddenly appeared before the two mutants.
"Oh! Someone disappeared!"
"What is happening?!"
Looking at the small display in the corner of the screen, Charles Xavier's expression suddenly froze.
Then he looked around at the disturbed and confused people in the bar, smiled bitterly, and raised his fingers toward his temples.
"Huh..."
A wave of telepathic energy swept across the entire bar.
All the ordinary people seemed to instantly forget what had just happened and continued doing what they had been doing before, even completely ignoring the enormous screen in the room.
"That is mind control."
Wolverine turned his head and looked at Charles. His face immediately became cautious, while terrifying bone claws slowly began emerging from his hands.
Seeing this, Charles spread his hands and said in as calm a voice as possible:
"At the moment, I am no longer interested in you at all."
As he spoke, he pointed toward the corner of the large screen.
"I only want to know how my friend ended up there!"
While cautiously watching Charles, Wolverine glanced from the corner of his eye at the large screen that had suddenly appeared.
A single glance was enough to leave him stunned.
In the small display in the lower-right corner of the screen appeared a strange space, and the man who had just introduced himself as Erik Lehnsherr was indeed right there!
"Where is this place? Who are you?"
Erik looked at the men and women of different appearances around him, and his caution immediately reached its highest level!
These people had teleported him from the bar into this strange space without any warning.
Did they perhaps want to capture him and use him for human experiments?
At that moment, Erik suddenly remembered his childhood.
Instinctively, he raised his right hand, wanting to use his mutant ability.
But the moment he tried, he was shocked to discover that his ability to control magnetism, of which he had been so proud, did not work at all.
"How is this possible?"
At that moment, an emotionless voice echoed through the space.
[Dimensional Live Q&A System has been activated!]
[Tony Stark has joined the live broadcast room.]
[Stephen Strange has joined the live broadcast room.]
[Loki Odinson has joined the live broadcast room.]
[Peter Parker (The Amazing Spider-Man) has joined the live broadcast room.]
[Natasha Romanoff has joined the live broadcast room.]
[Wanda Maximoff has joined the live broadcast room.]
[Magneto has joined the live broadcast room.]
[This system will randomly display important events from the past and future of different universes in the multiverse.]
[When the broadcast ends, the system will ask the participants in the live broadcast room questions. Those who answer correctly will receive live broadcast points and random rewards.]
[Live broadcast points can be used to order displays of one's own past or future.]
[After the questions and answers are finished, everyone may freely leave.]
[The third live question-and-answer broadcast begins in one minute!]
[The content of this round, in order, is: "Doctor Strange," "The Avengers," and "Captain America: The Winter Soldier"!]
[Inviting specially selected viewers into the live chat group begins!]
[Thor has joined the live chat group!]
[Mordo has joined the live chat group!]
[Nick Fury has joined the live chat group!]
[Peter Parker (Spider-Man Universe 1) has joined the live chat group!]
[Charles Xavier has joined the live chat group!]
[Wolverine has joined the live chat group!]
[We wish you successful answering!]
"Peter Parker? What is this now?"
Seeing the new Peter Parker labeled "Spider-Man Universe 1" who had just appeared in the live chat group, Peter felt his brain become completely tangled and stood there stunned.
What was happening?
Was this his version from some other universe?
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