Chapter 1822

Everyone in the Star-Eater Engine looked at the results of Seeing Natasha's investigation and expressed their opinions one after another.

As the King of Agents, Nick naturally saw the clues and said, "The possibility of Ross committing the crime is very small; not to mention that I personally think he couldn't commit murder, Tony going to find Rhodes was completely a spur-of-the-moment decision."

"And Ross and Rhodes' factions in the military are not completely opposed; he has no reason to install surveillance equipment in Rhodes' house, so he couldn't have known Rhodes was complaining to Tony about his capture operation, and even if he did, he wouldn't have had time to prepare."

"This matter is very strange." Tony frowned and said, "The me of this world came wearing a suit; the armor worn by this Tony Stark already has the most basic life scanning function; even if the other party has stealth functions, they would have nowhere to hide under the scan; how could he not have discovered it?"

"Unless the other party didn't come at all." T'Challa, standing behind the bar, expressed his opinion and said, "I think the other party might have poisoned him in advance."

"Still the same thing, Tony was clearly acting on a whim; who could have calculated that he would suddenly want to go find Rhodes and poison him in advance?" Nick refuted this view and said, "Either Tony is unlucky, the other party just happened to want to murder Rhodes at this time, and he just happened to run into it."

"The possibility is too small." Tony shook his head and said, "The other party clearly wants 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 acting on a whim?" Schiller said, "Changed their behavior according to Tony's behavior?"

"But still the same thing, if he was monitoring the Stark of this universe, he would definitely have been discovered."

"That's not necessarily true." Schiller thought and said.

Although he knew what the normal plot of this universe should be, clearly the current situation was very abnormal; the killer's actions against Lei Shen and against Tony had a certain overlap in time; originally there was no such thing, which couldn't be explained by the butterfly effect brought by Seeing Natasha.

Schiller silently analyzed in his heart, was the killer trying to do two things at once, finishing two cases in a rush, or were there more than one mastermind behind the scenes?

"Let's sort it out from the beginning." Nick held up a finger and said, "At noon, S. H. I. E. L. D. agents received an investigation mission for an unidentified falling object; around 3:30 PM, Seeing Natasha and Coulson arrived in New Mexico."

"At 4:30 PM, the crazy Lei Shen broke in; at 5:00 PM, Lei Shen returned to normal; almost at the same time, Tony came to Colonel Rhodes' house."

"At 11:30 PM, Colonel Rhodes showed physical abnormalities; at 3:00 AM, Rhodes died."

"Then the most noteworthy point is the 5:00 PM time point; Lei Shen returned to normal, Tony came to Rhodes' house; does this mark that the killer's target officially shifted from Lei Shen to Rhodes?"

"Did Loki find any abnormalities when he used magic to check the Lei Shen of this universe?" Schiller looked at Lei Shen and asked.

Lei Shen shook his head and said, "He has no abnormalities."

"Then what about the old injury acting up?" Nick asked.

"Nonsense." Lei Shen shook his head and said, "The capital for Asgardians to roam the universe is that powerful recovery ability; no matter how fierce the battle, no matter how heavy the injury, as long as there is still a breath, there will be no sequelae after recovery."

"I know better than anyone that I had no old injuries at that time; although the rampage in Jotunheim caused me some injuries, those skin injuries had healed long before the All-Father called me over."

Nick couldn't help but sigh, looking a bit envious of the Asgardians' powerful physique, but at this time Schiller frowned and said, "Then is it possible that when Lei Shen shouted in pain, his heart was really injured, and when Loki went to check, thanks to the god race's powerful recovery ability, the wound had already healed?"

"But if it was just such a tiny injury, how could he be in so much pain?" Lei Shen asked back.

Schiller smiled and said, "Then you really underestimate the experience humans have summarized in torturing their own kind for millions of years; we are good at making all life feel pain."

Lei Shen was speechless.

"Then can I understand it this way." T'Challa spoke again, "The moment Tony stepped into Rhodes' house, the killer shifted his attention from Lei Shen to the two of them."

"The question is whether it was Tony entering Rhodes' house that made the killer shift his attention, or was the killer forced to shift to Tony to avoid Loki's investigation?"

"Or both are possible." Schiller thought and said, "Since he could knock down Lei Shen the God of Thunder, it shows that the killer's skills are not small; Loki's investigative power was not concealed, he is very likely to feel the fluctuation of energy."

"He didn't want to expose himself, so he had to leave; just as he was determining his escape route, he found Tony and Rhodes gathered together, so he simply came up with another plan and set his target on Rhodes."

"Why me?" Stark immediately grasped the point, "Why would he think of me the first time when preparing an escape route?"

"It's very likely not thinking of you, but only being able to find you." Schiller tapped the coffee table in front of him lightly and said, "Even for our universe, teleportation is not a rotten technology; in this universe, it must also have various limitations."

"Perhaps the Tony in this universe is the anchor for the killer's teleportation; when he wants to use such technology to escape, he can only return to you."

"That is to say, he has contacted me? When?" Stark thought of the coffee Seeing Natasha spilled on the other universe's self the moment he asked this question.

"Coffee shop clerk? Boss?" Stark guessed.

He knew Seeing Natasha couldn't have spilled the coffee for no reason; he thought it might be a hint, but he really 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 S. H. I. E. L. D. Director Nick Fury's secret safe house, Stark took a wine bottle and two glasses from Nick's hand, both packed in transparent evidence bags.

"Tony, it's not that I want to put pressure on you, but the situation is not optimistic now; the FBI has already planned to cooperate with the military; they want you to go to jail."

"They can't do it." Stark walked back to the lab bench, put on gloves, and started preparing for analysis, saying, "Help me stall them for ten hours, and I'll give you an accurate result."

Nick's gaze stayed on the blue pattern on Stark's neck; Stark didn't look back and said, "Before avenging Rhodes, I won't seek death; leave my lab now, I don't need anyone to be an eyesore here."

Nick looked at him one last time, turned, and walked out of the lab; only Stark was left in the entire safe house.

He kept busy with various analysis equipment, testing the remaining liquid in the wine bottle and glasses, analyzing the material composition of the containers, and various speculations flashed through his genius brain.

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

But Stark didn't show any decadence or confusion; he stood quietly in front of the lab bench staring at a pile of experimental reports; clearly, his genius brain, which looked down on the entire universe, was running rapidly because of the pressure.

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

He turned around abruptly to reach for the phone, but instantly, a hand gripped his wrist.

Stark looked up in disbelief at the armor he had originally placed in the corner of the room, which was now standing straight in front of him, reaching out a hand to grab his wrist.

A pair of eyes lit up in the faceplate.

"Boom!"

Stark was thrown out, his forehead hitting the wall in the corner, and he was immediately covered in blood; he groaned in pain and shouted, "Jarvis... Jarvis! Jarvis, are you there? Why don't you answer me? No... impossible..."

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

"Hello, I am Tony Stark's AI butler Jarvis; about three minutes ago, the armor system numbered 1025 suddenly lost contact; it was detected that its location is..."

Hearing Jarvis suddenly report the address of Nick's safe house, Seeing Natasha slammed on the brakes, and Coulson next to her let out a painful cry as he was strained by the seatbelt.

The female agent decisively turned the car around, stepped on the gas pedal, and drove toward the safe house at top speed, while picking up her phone to dial and saying to the other side, "Nick, Tony is in trouble! Hurry over! Someone hacked his armor, he might be in danger!"

Seeing Natasha arrived faster than Nick, but after she reached the door, she found that the safe house had activated emergency defense measures; she couldn't get in at all; fortunately, Nick followed closely behind, took out a physical key to crack the door's security lock, and the agents filed in.

Seeing Natasha reached out to Nick, Nick handed Mjolnir to her, Seeing Natasha rushed in with the hammer, and just 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 the armor's steel fingers outward, his legs curled and dropped powerlessly.

Seeing Natasha raised Mjolnir high.

"Crack!"

A bolt of lightning scorched both the armor and Stark black; Nick behind Seeing Natasha cursed, rushed in with the agents, and lifted the half-dead Stark onto a stretcher.

Seeing Natasha didn't stop at all; she walked quickly with the hammer and called Coulson, saying, "I see what trick the killer is playing; go to the High Energy Physics Laboratory!"

This time Coulson sat in the driver's seat; just as he was about to step on the gas, Seeing Natasha said coldly, "It's too late."

"The killer has the ability to teleport." Seeing Natasha gripped the hammer and said, "He's playing with us; we go to protect one, he goes to kill another, and when we rush back to protect this one, he teleports away again to kill the original target."

"Then what should we do?"

"We teleport too."

"But how do we..."

In Coulson's shocked gaze, Seeing Natasha raised Mjolnir with both hands and slammed it onto the car with a bang.

The next second, the power of thunder carried the car, swaying as it flew up, turning into a speck of light and disappearing on the New York skyline.