Chapter 1861: The Madman's Journey (Thirty-Nine)

Before dawn the next day, it started to drizzle in New York. Thick fog spread on the suburban highway. The damp air floated in the woods, and ghosts were reflected between the trees.

Nick was driving the car, and Natasha sat in the passenger seat, staring expressionlessly at the frost condensed on the glass.

In the end, Nick opened the conversation first.

"I'm sorry, that was a secret mission, not within your knowledge. In general, I deliberately downplayed Hope's death."

"You know this is against the rules." Natasha said, staring at Nick's profile.

"You know the rules are useless." Nick pursed his lips and replied, but soon his tone softened and explained: "I can't say that Hope's death was completely an accident. I have to take responsibility for it."

"And you can't take any responsibility." Natasha raised her voice and said: "You said that every agent's sacrifice is worthy of attention, but you didn't do it."

"Since then, there has been no more." Nick reached out and patted the steering wheel and said: "But you have to listen to my explanation. Hope's everything happened for a reason. She didn't just die in combat."

"Then why did you hide it from everyone? Why even her grave was set up in the most remote suburbs of New York? What are you afraid of?"

Nick Nick looked away and said, "If the mastermind is Dr. Pym, I think this is understandable. He must think that I made his daughter's death a secret that should not be exposed to the public. She did not get the treatment that a hero who died heroically deserves. I hope I can have a chance to explain to him."

"And you are still hiding it." Natasha pursed her lips and shook her head and said, "The excessive emphasis on game theory and the unfounded paranoia will sooner or later kill you and all of us."

"This time is different. This time it is not a false alarm."

The decelerating tires raised a fine mist of water, and the boots stepped on the muddy puddles. When the heavy water droplets were splashed, it was like a ghost hand reaching out from hell.

Nick took Natasha to a tombstone at the deepest part. On it was written Hope Pym's name in cursive English, and Natasha keenly noticed that the part where the name was written had been wiped off in advance.

"Be careful."

When the female agent's low voice echoed, a huge figure slowly walked out from the depths of the jungle, and with a "click" his cheek opened, revealing an old face.

Natasha had never seen Dr. Pym so old, but from the familiar facial features, she could still tell that it was Hank Pym, the genius scientist who developed the Pym particles.

"Long time no see, Hank."

"You should say this to Hope." Hank's voice sounded weak, but he still stared at Nick's eyes, which were sunken in his eye sockets, flashing with nameless fire.

"I'm sorry about your daughter, I..."

"Be careful!"

"Bang!"

Nick flew backwards and fell heavily on the mud. Natasha held Thor's hammer tightly, looked around and said, "Dr. Pym, killing is not the way to solve the problem. We must talk."

With a "swish", Hank Pym, who had grown bigger again, appeared behind Natasha. He gritted his teeth and said, "The despicable SHIELD and his director killed my daughter and concealed her death. I didn't know she was dead until she was buried. Nick Fury is a complete despicable villain, and so are superheroes..."

Watching Pym disappear again, Natasha had to raise her hammer for defense. The protective shield formed by the lightning made a black dot fly backwards the moment it came into contact with the bright light.

The old Ant-Man fell to the ground, but he rushed towards Natasha like crazy. Natasha saw the familiar flash of purple light in his eyes.

Natasha didn't dare to act rashly. She jumped back and leaped three or four meters with the help of thunder. At this moment, her phone rang and Jarvis' voice came from the phone.

"Madam, the analysis of the armor is complete. The system was not cracked in an ordinary way. A special energy that humans cannot analyze for the time being cut off my connection with the armor and took control. You have to be careful... Hello? Hello?! Natasha, this is Tony Stark!"

"Listen, this power is very dangerous, and for some reason, it is very familiar with the Stark Group's system. The energy left in the armor just now attacked the Stark Group's software system. I am now reinforcing the defense system."

"This strange energy has an unimaginable infectious power on the intelligent system. Be careful of all intelligent devices..."

Natasha decisively hung up the phone, rolled to avoid Pym's attack, and stared at the armor he was wearing.

In her universe, although Pym has developed Pym particles, he has not become a superhero in a battle suit, or he was caught in the laboratory before he could wear the battle suit to fight.

But Natasha could see that the battle suit on Pym was the same type as the one Stark used, and it probably also had an intelligent control system.

Pym, who pounced again, suddenly stopped, and a cold light appeared around his body. After a light "crackling" sound, Pym's whole body was frozen.

Loki walked out of the woods, holding the faintly glowing Ice Box in his hand, and Nick also got up from the ground. He rushed to Pym in a panic-stricken manner and stared at his eyes closely.

When he saw the familiar purple in Pym's pupils, Nick seemed to have lost all his strength and retreated against the trunk of a tree.

After discovering Nick's abnormality, Natasha keenly thought of something. She turned to look at Nick and said, "What's wrong? You seem to have seen this kind of power."

"Hope... Hope she..."

Nick closed his eyes hard, clenched his fists and said, "The night Hope died two years ago, I saw the same color in her eyes."

"What's going on?" Natasha stared at Nick, walked up to him and said, "You can't hide it anymore, Nick."

Nick slowly squatted on the ground, wiped his face with his hand and said, "The mission report said that Hope Pym was attacked and killed in the battle, but I killed her."

Natasha widened her eyes.

"I had no choice." Nick stood up, stretched out his hand and hammered the tree trunk hard, saying: "Hope's armor went out of control, she suddenly attacked the surrounding agents like crazy, she killed thirteen people, and wanted to kill me."

"She chased me to the corner of the corridor, and I had no choice but to shoot. I silenced all the agents who witnessed it, not for me, but for Hope."

"She did a lot for SHIELD, she can't be a betrayer." Nick lowered his head and shook his head and said: "But at least four agents witnessed her killing, and the gun I used at the end was also thrown to me by one of the agents. This is a proven fact, irreversible, and can only be downplayed."

"I know that if I tell her father the truth, he won't believe it, he will only think that I am shirking responsibility." Nick turned his head and said: "After Hope's death I did a lot of research to find out where this strange power came from, but to no avail. "

After that, he turned back to look at Hank Pym, and said in a heavy tone: "If something happened to old Pym, I can't be sure that Hope is completely innocent. If it is really an experiment of old Pym that caused Hope to lose control and kill people, then both father and daughter should be held responsible for it. "

"It's not that simple." Natasha said: "Jarvis just told me..."

Suddenly, the roar of the engine came from far away, and a familiar golden-red armor landed in front of the grave. With a "click", the mask opened, and Stark's face was extremely serious. He said: "An extremely incredible bad news, it was Jarvis who invaded the Jarvis system."

"What did you say? !" Natasha looked at him in disbelief.

"I can't believe it either, but it's true. It was another Jarvis who cut off the connection between the armor and Jarvis, and even almost invaded him in reverse."

Everyone on the Devouring Star Engine looked at Stark's face. Stark shook his head and said, "Don't look at me. My butler is busy dating. I suspect he has forgotten how to write even the most basic code now."

"Remember the name we got from the Observer?" Nick touched his chin and said, "'Infinite Ultron', Ultron is also a robot, right?"

"That's possible." Stark nodded and said, "The Observer said that Infinite Ultron is Ultron who got the Infinite Gems, so he must have some real skills."

"Hope's death two years ago was also caused by Infinite Ultron. Did he start planning so early?" Loki frowned and said.

"Not necessarily." Schiller shook his head and proposed another possibility. He said, "Don't forget the role of the Time Stone. It may also be able to travel through time like us."

"But aren't the Infinity Stones only useful in their own universe?" Nick frowned and said a little puzzled: "This Infinity Ultron has harmed more than one universe. How did he do it?"

"That crazy Doctor Strange." Schiller reminded: "He kept devouring Strange in various universes and gained a lot of energy."

"And now there may be a group of Ancient Ones looking for him. He is forced to jump off the wall and is very likely to cooperate with Infinity Ultron. In most cases, the Infinity Stones are only useful in their own universe. , but if it is combined with the method of crazy Doctor Strange to devour the power of the multiverse, it may not be certain. "

"It's really troublesome." Nick held his forehead and said, "That is to say, the mastermind behind the scenes is likely to have traveled to two years before us to kill Hope, and then let the universe develop, using Hank Pym to destroy the Avengers. "

"But our arrival attracted his attention, so he exerted extra power to get his plan back on track. "

Schiller shook his head again and said, "I'm afraid it's not that simple. Maybe at some time in the future, we thwarted his conspiracy, and he chose to go back to the past to interfere with us."

"But if we really succeed, will you give him a chance to escape?" Nick asked back.

"That's not necessarily true." Schiller touched his chin and said, "Maybe I want to play the long game and catch the big fish?"

Just as everyone was discussing, Natasha came back. She nodded to everyone and said, "The trouble is basically solved. Tony used Jarvis to take back the control of Pym's armor, and Pym woke up."

"He heard our conversation in the ice. Nick showed him some of the backups left by the mission at that time, especially the surveillance in the building where the mission was located. Pym saw the scene of his daughter going crazy."

"Tony wanted to avenge Rod, but Nick stopped him. They must find the murderer first, otherwise everyone is still in danger. I told them we will do our best."

"Loki went back to find his brother. I returned Thor's hammer to him, but he gave me this."

Natasha took out the almost powerless Ice Box from behind, handed it to Tony and said, "The real murderer spent a little time absorbing the power in this artifact, and it is very likely that he left his own power on it."

Tony took the Ice Box, walked to the experimental table and said, "Wait for me a while."

About half an hour later, the projection screen lit up, and everyone stared at one of the countless light spots.

Tony pulled down the joystick and said, "He went to another universe. As usual, hold on tight, we're about to leave."

There's a tourist attraction downstairs from my house. When I opened the window, I saw people from other places crowding in. The seagulls were almost fed to death. Hahahahahahaha