Chapter 1857: The Madman's Journey (35)

Everyone in the Devouring Engine looked at the results of Natasha's investigation and expressed their opinions.

As the king of agents, Nick certainly saw the clues. He said: "The possibility of Ross committing the crime is very small. Not to mention that I personally think he is unlikely to commit murder. Tony went to find Rhodes completely on impulse."

"And Ross and Rhodes' factions in the military are not completely opposite. There is no reason for him to install surveillance equipment in Rhodes' home, so he couldn't know that Rhodes complained to Tony about his arrest. Even if he knew, he would not have time to prepare for it."

"This is very strange." Tony frowned and said: "I came to this world wearing a battle suit. The battle suit worn by Tony Stark already has the most basic life scanning function. Even if the other party has an invisible function, it will be invisible under the scan. How can it not be discovered?"

"Unless the other party didn't come at all." The special agent standing behind the bar said. Chara expressed his opinion, saying, "I think the other party may have poisoned in advance."

"Again, Tony was obviously impulsive, who could have expected that he would suddenly go to Rhodes and poison in advance?" Nick refuted this view, saying, "Either Tony was unlucky, the other party wanted to murder Rhodes at this time, and he just happened to run into him."

"The possibility is too small." Tony shook his head and said, "The other party clearly wanted to create a conflict between the Stark Group and the military. There is no such coincidence in the world."

"Have you ever thought that the other party was also impulsive?" Schiller said, "Changed his behavior based on Tony's behavior?"

"But again, if he was monitoring Stark in this universe, he would definitely be discovered."

"That may not be the case." Schiller said thinking.

Although he knew what the normal plot of this universe should be like, it was obvious that the current situation was very abnormal. The time of the murderer's actions against Thor and Tony overlapped to a certain extent. This did not happen originally. This was not something that could be explained by the butterfly effect brought by Natasha.

Schiller silently analyzed in his heart, whether the murderer wanted to do two things at the same time and rush to complete the two cases, or there was more than one mastermind behind the scenes?

"Let's sort it out from the beginning." Nick stretched out a finger and said: "At noon, the SHIELD agents received the task of investigating the unidentified falling objects. At about 3:30 pm, Natasha and Coulson arrived in New Mexico."

"At 4:30 pm, the crazy Thor broke in, and at 5 pm Thor returned to normal. Almost at the same time, Tony came to Colonel Rhodes's home."

"At 11:30 pm, Colonel Rhodes showed physical abnormalities, and Rhodes died at 3 am."

"Then the most noteworthy thing is that at 5 pm, Thor returned to normal and Tony came to Rhodes' home. Does this mean that the murderer's target has officially changed from Thor to Rhodes?"

"Did Loki find any abnormalities when he used magic to check Thor in this universe?" Schiller looked at Thor and asked.

Thor shook his head and said, "He didn't have any abnormalities."

"What about the recurrence of old injuries?" Nick asked.

"Nonsense." Thor shook his head and said, "The Asgardians' capital for roaming the universe is their strong recovery ability. No matter how fierce the battle is or how serious the injury is, as long as they have a breath left, they will not have any sequelae after recuperation."

"I know better than anyone that I didn't have any old injuries at that time. Although I was injured a little by the riot in Jotunheim, the superficial injuries had healed long before the Father of the Gods called me over."

Nick couldn't help but sigh, showing some envy of the Asgardians' strong physique, but at this time Schiller frowned and said, "Then is it possible that when Thor cried out in pain, his heart was really injured, and when Loki went over to check, the wound had healed thanks to the powerful recovery ability of the Protoss?"

"But if it was only such a minor injury, how could he be in so much pain?" Thor asked back.

Schiller smiled and said, "Then you really underestimate the experience that humans have summed up from torturing their own kind for millions of years. We are good at making all life feel pain."

Thor was speechless.

"Then can I understand it this way." T'Challa said again: "The moment Tony stepped into Rhodes' house, the murderer shifted his attention from Thor to the two of them."

"The question is whether Tony's entry into Rhodes' house diverted the murderer's attention, or the murderer wanted to avoid Loki's detection and was forced to shift to Tony's side?"

"Or both are possible." Schiller said thoughtfully: "Since he was able to knock down Thor, it means that the murderer's ability is not small. Loki's detection power is not concealed, and he is likely to feel the energy fluctuations."

"He didn't want to expose himself, so he had to leave. Just when he was determining the escape route, he found that Tony and Rhodes were together. He simply made another plan and determined Rhodes as his target."

"Why me?" Stark immediately grasped the key point, "Why did he think of me first when he was preparing the escape route?"

"It's very likely that he didn't think of you, but could only find you." Schiller tapped the coffee table in front of him and said, "Even for our universe, instant transfer is not a common technology. It must have various restrictions in this universe."

"Perhaps Tony in this universe is the anchor point for the murderer's instant transfer. When he wants to use this kind of technology to escape, he can only return to you."

"So he has contacted me before? When?" The moment Stark asked this question, he thought of the cup of coffee that Natasha spilled on himself in another universe.

"Coffee shop clerk? Boss?" Stark guessed.

He knew that Natasha couldn't spill coffee for no reason. He thought it might be a hint, but he didn't find any suspicious points about other people in the coffee shop, so he could only list his suspects.

"Why can't it be that cup of coffee?" Schiller said.

Instantly, everyone looked at him.

In the secret safe house of Nick Fury, director of SHIELD, Stark took a bottle of wine and two cups from Nick, all in a transparent evidence bag.

"Tony, I don't mean to put pressure on you, but the situation is not optimistic now. The FBI is planning to cooperate with the military. They want you to go to jail."

"They can't do it." Stark walked back to the lab table, put on gloves and began to prepare for analysis. He said, "Help me hold them for ten hours, and I will give you an accurate result."

Nick's eyes stayed on the blue pattern on Stark's neck. Stark said without looking back, "I won't die before I avenge Rod. Leave my lab now. I don't need anyone to get in my way here."

Nick took a last look at him, turned around and walked out of the lab. Stark was the only one left in the safe house.

He kept busy in various analytical equipment, testing the remaining liquid in the bottle and cup, analyzing the material composition of the container, and various speculations kept flashing through his genius brain.

Three hours passed, and everything that could be checked was checked, and no toxic components were found in anything.

But Stark did not show any decadence or doubt. He stood quietly in front of the lab table and stared at a pile of experimental reports. Obviously, his genius brain that looked down on the universe was running rapidly because of pressure.

Suddenly Stark paused, and whispered: "It's not poison, not chemical poison! It's not chemistry at all, but physics, physics..."

He turned around to pick up the phone, but in an instant, a hand grabbed his wrist.

Stark looked up and looked at the battle suit that he had placed in the corner of the room in disbelief. Now it was standing upright in front of him, and stretched out a hand to grab his wrist.

A pair of eyes lit up in the mask.

"Bang!"

Stark was thrown out, and his forehead hit the wall in the corner, and his head was bleeding. He groaned in pain and shouted: "Jarvis... Jarvis! Jarvis, are you there? Why don't you answer me? No... Impossible..."

At the same time, Natasha and Coulson, who were driving to the Biyot High Energy Physics Laboratory where Dr. Banner was, suddenly heard a voice in the car.

"Hello, I'm Tony Stark's artificial intelligence butler Jarvis. About three minutes ago, the armor system numbered 1025 suddenly lost contact and detected its location..."

Hearing Jarvis suddenly report the address of Nick's safe house, Natasha braked suddenly, and Coulson next to her screamed in pain from the seat belt.

The female agent immediately turned the car around, stepped on the accelerator, and drove towards the safe house at the highest speed. At the same time, she picked up her mobile phone and dialed a number and said to the other side: "Nick, Tony is in trouble! Go over! Someone has hacked into his armor, he may be in danger!"

Natasha arrived faster than Nick, but when she arrived at the door, she found that the safe house had activated emergency defense measures and she couldn't get in at all. Fortunately, Nick followed closely and took out the physical key to crack the security lock of the door, and the agents entered one after another.

Natasha reached out to Nick, who handed Thor's hammer to her. Natasha rushed in with the hammer. As soon as she reached the door, she saw Iron Man's armor grabbing Tony Stark's neck and lifting him up.

Stark struggled desperately, constantly using his hands to pry out the steel fingers of the armor, and his legs curled up and fell down weakly.

Natasha raised Thor's hammer high.

"Crack!"

A flash of lightning charred the mecha and Stark. Nick behind Natasha cursed, rushed in with the agents, and lifted the half-dead Stark onto a stretcher.

Natasha had no intention of stopping. She walked out quickly with the hammer, and at the same time called Coulson and said, "I see what tricks the murderer is playing. Go to the high-energy physics laboratory!"

This time Coulson sat in the driver's seat. He was about to step on the accelerator, and Natasha said coldly, "It's too late."

"The murderer has the ability to teleport." Natasha said, holding the hammer, "He is playing tricks on us. When we protect one, he kills the other. When we rush back to protect this one, he teleports away to kill the original target."

"What should we do then?"

"We teleport too."

"But how do we..."

Under Coulson's shocked gaze, Natasha raised Thor's hammer with both hands and smashed it on the car with a bang.

The next second, the power of thunder carried the car up and turned into a point of light that disappeared on the New York skyline.