Chapter 1060

Bucky, who was behind Steve, walked up and patted him on the shoulder. Steve put his hands on his hips, shook his head, and said:

"At the very beginning, when Tony told me he had arranged for Venom and Thor to contact Shiler, I felt very uneasy. How could an extraterrestrial symbiote with an abnormal brain and an Asgardian God King possibly have a therapeutic effect?"

"But looking at it now, perhaps our thinking was too limited. Human thinking is always too emotional, and because we were mindful of our friendship with Shiler, we spoke too tactfully."

"What Thor said makes a lot of sense, but if it were me, I wouldn't be able to face Shiler in such a bad state and say things like that."

At this moment, Professor X rolled his wheelchair forward. He took off the monitoring headphones from his ears and said, "I can feel that Shiler just had a momentary emotional fluctuation. This is very rare for patients on the spectrum."

"'Inability to empathize' is a very typical manifestation of autism spectrum disorder. Many times, what you see—their joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness—is actually performed by them, and there are very few times when there are genuine emotional fluctuations inside."

Charles stroked the side of his headphones and said, "Some patients with milder symptoms can gradually return to normal as they age, but the severity of Shiler's condition clearly cannot be left to take its own course."

"Speaking of which, Tony asked us to watch the monitoring equipment here, so what did he go off to do?" Steve frowned with some confusion and said, "In the past few days, he, Shi Difen, and Luo Yi have always been acting mysterious. I don't know what they are up to..."

"Perhaps he is arranging the next steps of the treatment..." Charles shook his head and speculated, but soon, he frowned and said, "Oh, wait a minute, why do I feel something is wrong?"

Seeing Charles's gradually sinking expression, Steve and Bucky both walked toward him. Charles frowned deeply and closed his eyes; he was likely using his abilities to investigate something.

After a while, he opened his eyes, looked at Steve, and said, "It's like this: Tony hopes I can use my abilities to constantly monitor Shiler's emotional changes to observe the treatment effect."

"However, I will not use my mind-reading ability to monitor anyone for a long time. This is against morality and ethics."

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"But I also feel that for a patient with mental illness, one should indeed carefully observe his emotional fluctuations to prevent him from suddenly losing control and causing any danger. Therefore, I adopted a compromise method."

"Previously, the Radiant Alliance built a base in the mental space. Everyone set up a path between their own mental space and the public space. I can indirectly monitor the other party's emotions through the mental fluctuations transmitted through this path."

"This kind of monitoring is passive. If the other party does not have significant mental fluctuations, I will not receive any prompts, and I will absolutely not see any details of their thoughts or secrets in their minds."

Hearing this, Steve also exclaimed sincerely, "Professor, your moral standards always surprise me. No one dares to say that after possessing such powerful abilities as yours, they could still be so self-disciplined..."

Charles gave a wry smile but didn't say much more, instead continuing, "According to my monitoring just now, there is no problem with the mental fluctuations transmitted by Shiler, but..."

Charles showed a somewhat troubled expression. Bucky keenly sensed something and spoke up, "Is it that something went wrong with the others?"

Charles looked at him with some surprise, but still nodded and said, "I don't know if there is a problem with my ability, but I felt Tony Stark's pain and weakness..."

Steve was slightly stunned and then said, "It should be that he is feeling pain for Shiler's condition, right?"

Charles shook his head and said, "No, he has shown painful emotions several times before, especially when watching Shiler wandering the streets. However, that is different from now. The current pain is very intense, and his mental fluctuations are getting weaker and weaker. Simply put, he might be in danger..."

Charles's wording was very conservative and tactful, but Steve was so shocked he almost jumped up. He said, "Professor, are you sure? Tony might be in danger? What is he doing now? My God! I knew they would definitely cause trouble!"

After speaking, he turned around and began to put on his gear, picked up his shield, and was about to walk out immediately. Bucky stopped him and turned to ask, "Professor Charles, where is Tony Stark now? Are there enemies near him?"

"He is in the laboratory of Stark Tower, and there are no enemies around." Charles hesitated for a moment, but still slightly broke his moral bottom line to help Steve and Bucky check Stark's location.

"Do you need me to go over and help you?" Charles asked. He turned his head to look at the playground of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, which was empty now; many mutants had followed Magneto to the Andromeda Galaxy for internships.

Steve stood where he was, took a deep breath to calm down, and then said, "No, Professor, you stay here to monitor Shiler's condition. I will go handle Tony's matter. We cannot lose our composure."

Charles nodded, feeling that what Steve said also made sense. Whether it was Tony Stark or Shiler Rodriguez, they were both very important to humans and mutants, and there could be no mistakes.

After Steve and Bucky left the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, they immediately rushed toward Stark Tower. In the past, Steve could have rushed directly into the tower and then taken the dedicated elevator to the floor where Stark was.

But today, before he even got close to the tower, he was stopped by security robots. The robot beeped twice and then said to him, "Sorry, Stark Tower is currently under full lockdown. No non-invited personnel are allowed to enter. Please leave immediately..."

Steve tapped his shield and said, "Am I not invited personnel?"

The security robot just kept repeating that one sentence. Bucky pulled Steve's arm and said, "It might be because of me that you can't get in. I'll stand further away; he should let you in then."

Steve thought that Stark might not have had time to update the whitelist of the security program recently, and given the conflict between him and Bucky before, it was impossible for him to let Bucky enter Stark Tower.

Therefore, Steve thought for a moment and let Bucky stand further away, then intended to walk in himself.

But unexpectedly, just as Steve was about to walk in, the security robot's arm emitted a series of electric sparks. Steve instinctively rolled to the side, only then avoiding being electrocuted.

He frowned deeply and said, "What is Tony doing?! He wouldn't want to block me outside, would he? Damn it, he must be doing something big!"

Then, Steve stepped back two paces, huddled with Bucky, whispered for a while, and then stretched out a hand, saying, "Alright, alright, it seems we came at a bad time. We'll leave now..."

As they retreated, the security robot also retreated, but the next second, a shiny shield cut through the air, "Bang!" smashing into the security robot's head. Immediately after, two figures rushed into Stark Tower.

In an instant, the reception hall of Stark Tower was in chaos, and all kinds of robots collapsed into a pile under the offensive of Captain America and the Winter Soldier.

The two successfully rushed to the elevator, and Steve shouted, "Jarvis! Open the door!"

Very unsurprisingly, no one responded at all. Steve stomped his foot in anger, then tilted his head and said, "Take the stairs! It's only a few dozen floors!"

The two rushed toward the stairs but were subsequently met with more obstruction. Although there were no lethal weapons, the sheer number of robots was enough to keep them busy for a while.

Steve parried a robot's fist with his shield and swung forward violently, smashing it to the ground. He immediately turned to cover Bucky. As Bucky's mechanical arm swung, it constantly created one afterimage after another. Many robots fell down with electric sparks and rolled down the stairs.

"What on earth is Stark doing?!!" Steve roared angrily, "Why use this electronic junk to block our way?!"

"He is stalling for time." Bucky said very calmly, "These robots don't have any attack methods, but they are particularly tough and durable because he knows we don't have any wide-range attack methods..."

Steve snorted coldly and said to Bucky, "Back off!"

Bucky immediately used his mechanical arm to grab the ventilation duct on the ceiling and jumped to the other side of the stairwell.

Steve swung his shield, embedded a robot that was emitting electric sparks onto the edge of the shield, and then swung it hard with him.

"Zzzzt—!!!!"

A large-scale electric burst occurred. In an instant, the robots crowding the corridor all collapsed, emitting black smoke. Steve waved his hand and said, "Let's go!"

For the rest of the journey, the two kept clearing out the robot army. The entire Stark Tower seemed to have turned into a lair of evil robots overnight, and they had to stop for at least ten minutes every few floors.

By the time the two finally reached the floor of the target laboratory, nearly an hour had passed.

Steve's bad premonition in his heart grew stronger and stronger. He could no longer care about conserving physical strength, instead ignoring all the robots' attack methods and rushing straight toward the laboratory.

Bucky shouted from behind, "No! Steve! Watch out!!!"

Just as Steve rushed to the door of the laboratory, with a "Boom," a huge robot landed in front of him and raised its fist toward him.

Steve, still in a running posture, didn't have time to block and watched helplessly as the huge iron fist fell from above his head.

But just as the shadow was about to touch his head, suddenly, all the robots stopped their offensive and all went silent.

Amidst the gradually dimming lights and the fading sound of mechanical friction, Steve truly heard these inorganic bodies emit a mournful cry like the howling of sea winds.

Passing the huge defensive robot, the door of the laboratory slowly opened in front of Steve.

And what appeared before his eyes was Tony Stark, who was leaning against the laboratory bench with his upper body bare, with smoking electrode pads stuck to his heart, and who had already stopped breathing at this moment.