Chapter 1863: Shiler Has Disappeared Again (Part 1)
Venom finished listening to Shiler's entire plan. Eddie had already rushed out carrying the camera, but even if the Iron God and the Light God King didn't use their most proficient forms, their power was not to be underestimated. The two of them fought together, and even Ultron, who possessed six Infinity Stones, was suppressed.
However, the good news was that the Dark Doctor Strange, who was possessing the Darkhold, didn't even have the chance to be suppressed. Captain America hit him with a shield, and he was captured on the spot, just waiting to be handed over to that group of Ancient Ones for a public trial.
Seeing the situation was not good, Infinity Ultron wanted to use the robot army he created to support for a while and cover his escape. Unfortunately, it wasn't just him who had a robot army; in the lightning-fast exchange, Iron Man also released a robot army.
Infinity Ultron hadn't been born long, and the number of robot iterations wasn't enough; they were far from as perfect as the robot warriors created by the Iron God, let alone any coordination. If it were bullying the few with the many, they might have an advantage, but if it were a battle of armies, the collapse of the defense line would happen in an instant.
When the defense line showed signs of collapse, Infinity Ultron turned and ran. Just as Iron Man was about to pursue, he saw Infinity Ultron like a lagging character in a game, his movements stiffening for a moment.
Soon it was the second time, the third time, until finally, Infinity Ultron was stuck there and didn't move.
The Avengers were afraid of a trap and didn't dare to approach easily, but suddenly the red light in Infinity Ultron's eyes went out, replaced by cunning green light.
"Hey hey hey, this is the Super Terror Robot, I'm going to destroy this universe, hahahahaha!"
Thor, holding a long spear, frowned and appeared behind Infinity Ultron with a "whoosh," swinging the long spear like a golf club and smashing it onto the back of Infinity Ultron's head.
That voice screamed "Ah," and Thor narrowed his eyes and said, "Loki? What are you doing?"
At this time, Iron Man also flew over. Loki, who was occupying Infinity Ultron's body, shrugged and said, "I found the code sample left by Iron Man when he transmitted Ultron's consciousness on Earth in this universe, and sent it to Jarvis to take a look. He said he could find a way to use the same equipment to transmit my brainwaves to this body. As you can see, I succeeded."
"You even understand code?" Stark asked with no small amount of surprise.
Loki rolled his eyes and said, "Have you forgotten? When I saved Jarvis, I used the Time Stone to go back to the past countless times. For this, I was arrested by the Time Variance Authority along with Helen. I learned those little bits of human programming knowledge long ago."
"Then can you find his database? Can you tell us what he wants to do?" Steve stepped forward and asked.
Loki was silent for a while, then cleared his throat and began to recount the birth process and future plans of Infinity Ultron.
Venom controlled Eddie to roll a big eye at Shiler. Sure enough, Shiler had even prepared for this step. If Infinity Ultron were captured alive, he wouldn't honestly confess his crimes according to Shiler's arrangement.
But if it were hacked and found out by Loki, then adding some glorious deeds that didn't belong to Infinity Ultron by Loki, who was in cahoots with Shiler, wouldn't be noticed.
After telling the Avengers the things Infinity Ultron had done with added embellishments, Loki said, "It seems he is the culprit who triggered a series of disasters in the universe. However, the process of uploading consciousness was too rushed, and the equipment wasn't advanced enough. The culprit's consciousness wasn't backed up; he is already mentally dead."
"Alright, now there's no proof of death." Venom rolled his eyes fiercely in his heart.
Hearing the Avengers still discussing what kind of plan Shiler had made on the way back to the Devouring Engine, Venom sighed in his heart. If this group of people had half the suspicion of Batman, they wouldn't be fooled every day, and the tricks would be different every time.
Actually, it had been so many times; whenever something big happened in the universe, everyone could think it was Shiler's doing, but it couldn't be helped that while the heroes were upgrading, the Demon King was also upgrading, and Shiler had many tricks. He put on a mask, and the heroes wouldn't recognize him.
In the past, Shiler liked to use force to strike force, leveraging a small matter to pry open a big situation, and often he would personally enter the field, influencing some people's thoughts and actions.
This time, Shiler didn't hesitate to find two helpers and put on a "true and false Monkey King" show. These heroes didn't recognize it, and still thought the process of chasing the murderer was so ups and downs, and the result was so happy, because they had strength and good luck.
A group of people were still guessing where Shiler buried the thunder, not knowing that Shiler had already finished watching a whole fireworks show.
But this time, Venom noticed that Shiler wasn't as relaxed and happy as he was after watching the fun in the past. He seemed to still have concerns. Venom had the heart to ask, but in terms of caring for others, he inherited it from Batman, and the main thing was that he didn't have a mouth, so in the end, he didn't speak.
Shiler's concern was, of course, the Beyonders. This group of "bear children" didn't know when they would take action, and the matter of building an engine to propel the universe couldn't be rushed. After all, the universe wasn't really a billiard ball; it couldn't run just by flicking it with a finger.
Shiler had sufficient patience for developing new technologies, but to leave enough scientific research time for the White Tank, he had to find a way to stall the Beyonders so they wouldn't take action in the short term.
To deal with the Beyonders, one had to start with the Molecule Man. Shiler had a way to deal with the Molecule Man, but the first step from zero to one was the most difficult and critical. He had to deal with the Molecule Man without alerting the Beyonders.
The Beyonder should be considered the first opponent Shiler had encountered since coming to Marvel, so he paid extra attention to him.
There had been many villains in the past who wanted to destroy the Earth or the universe, and even the likes of Reed had put this into practice, but to Shiler, they were just roadblocks, or more like garbage placed in the wrong place, all of which could be utilized by him in some position of the plan.
But the Beyonder was not like this, and he was special not because they were powerful, but because his concepts were diametrically opposed to Shiler's. They were the "gods of the gods."
Cosmic gods were often worshipped by weak life forms, and some also claimed to be gods, such as the Black Panther and other gods, who also opened up their own dimensions and protected a group of believers. But they had the motivation to become stronger, wanting to gain more energy to survive in the cruel elimination tournament of the universe, or at least pursuing eternal existence, having ambition and desire.
The Asgardians were called gods by others, and they also considered themselves a god race, but the gods they understood were more like powerful creatures whose force surpassed everything. In essence, they didn't jump out of all things, and they didn't think they were transcendent of everything. Among them, emotional people like Thor were often born, which could only be said to be one of the more arrogant sentient beings.
The five great gods, such as Eternity and Death, were genuine gods, and they also regarded themselves as gods. At the same time, they were transcendent of the material world and basically didn't participate in the struggles of the material world. But they had responsibilities; they were the incarnation of rules and also managed the rules, like gardeners and also like program administrators.
But the Beyonders were completely different from them. They had no desires, didn't want to move forward, had no emotions, jumped out of all things, didn't bear responsibilities, and didn't rush for anything.
The Beyonders watched everything in the universe with cold eyes, and could interfere at any time, or destroy countless universes just for an experiment. They were gods through and through.
Of course, Shiler wasn't standing on the moral high ground to accuse them. If one read the above evaluation carefully, one would find that Shiler was sometimes like this; he was just taking pleasure in it.
Their biggest contradiction lay in the different fun they wanted to see.
"Fun-seekers" and "day-to-day people" were not enemies. Some people might think that fun-seekers always created chaos and didn't let day-to-day people have a good time, but the chaos created by people who purely looked for fun in this world was really rare, and it couldn't make a splash when thrown into the tide of chaos created for profit.
Since ordinary people could survive in such a fierce tide, seeing one more drop of water wouldn't make them feel worse, not to mention that most of the time, they didn't even realize they were feeling sad for the mental abuse inflicted by some vicious mental perverts.
There were quite a few contradictions between fun-seekers and profit-seekers. People who chased fame and fortune really couldn't understand what these lunatics who took pleasure in watching the world burn were laughing at, and fun-seekers felt that the act of rushing for profit was absurd and ridiculous. The plans of the two sides often conflicted and hindered each other, naturally full of contradictions.
But if one wanted to talk about real enemies, it had to be between fun-seekers and fun-seekers.
The most terrible thing was that two lunatics were eyeing you at the same time, but their academic research directions were completely different, or even diametrically opposed.
Looking for fun in the universe could generally be divided into the "World School" and the "Biological School." The representative figures of the World School were the Beyonders. They viewed the universe as a whole, feeling that all things were born naturally and should evolve together, and intelligent life was just a product of world evolution. The evolution of the world, whether natural or artificially interfered with, was quite interesting, and in order to see more such fun, it didn't matter if the universe was destroyed.
The Biological School took intelligent life as the main body, believing that the evolution of intelligent life transformed the world. Shiler always felt that the various strange, absurd, and complex relationships produced among these countless intelligent life forms were the greatest fun. Therefore, it must be well protected. The universe could be chaotic but not destroyed; if the stage collapsed, there would be no play to sing.
Simply put, the Beyonder felt that he was a person walking on the side of the road, and it was interesting to see an anthill and kick it to pieces, while Shiler believed that he should be an ant living in the anthill, and exploring the social ways and social structure of ants was the fun.
The academic pursuits of the two sides were surprisingly consistent, but the directions were reversed, and they were mutually hostile. One must destroy the universe for fun, and one must keep the universe existing for fun. This was a completely irreconcilable extreme contradiction.
Shifting this relationship to DC and applying it to the Batman Who Laughs was the same.
The reason Shiler could get along well with the Gotham villains was that Shiler's fun lay in watching their changes and interactions, in planning, in gaming, and in watching everything go on the right track through his arrangements.
And the fun of the Batman Who Laughs lay in destroying everything, in kicking the chessboard away when others were playing chess.
Shiler hoped that the infinite future had infinite possibilities, and the Batman Who Laughs hoped that everyone he saw would end at this moment.
Such two types of people could never be reconciled, because their views were opposed, and because they both wanted to prove to the other that only they were right. ===== CHAPTER 1864 =====
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