Chapter 2100

The death of Captain America is strange to say. If Schiller remembers correctly, there shouldn't be anything about Captain America in the story of Superior Iron Man.

The flow of the whole story is roughly that Superior Iron Man created the Extremis Virus and the Extremis App. The first one to notice something wrong was Daredevil Ma Te. Unfortunately, Ma Te didn't beat Superior Iron Man, so he couldn't stop his conspiracy.

Followed by Pepper. As the person who knows Tony Stark best, she naturally realized that this Iron Man was a bit wrong. After experiencing an argument, Pepper decided to enable the consciousness of the righteous Iron Man she backed up.

So actually, the subsequent story basically revolves around the righteous Iron Man and the evil Iron Man. If one must say that Captain America has a part, it's after Superior Iron Man is locked up, not when the Extremis Virus just broke out.

A problem arose here. In order to stop the universe-collision event created by the Beyonder, Schiller went to the future timeline and brought the Superior Iron Man who appeared after the AXIS event to the past timeline, replacing the normal Iron Man who hadn't become evil yet.

And the normal Iron Man was sent to the future. That is to say, they swapped identities. And if time keeps moving forward, they will eventually meet one day.

Schiller also explained this point to Superior Iron Man. Then for Superior Iron Man, his primary enemy should be the righteous himself, not Captain America. Because if there is another himself, his wealth and status could be taken away at any time.

In this case, Superior Iron Man actually has no motive to kill Captain America, because Captain America neither interfered with his conspiracy, and because of his first-mover advantage, he can manipulate Captain America to deal with the righteous self in the future.

The true nature of an unscrupulous businessman is to make the best use of everything and firmly not waste any manpower that can be used. Judging by Superior Iron Man's style of doing things, the probability of him doing this is relatively high, and the probability of directly killing Captain America is very small.

Superior Iron Man personally admitted in a video message that he killed Captain America. But the self-contradiction lies in the fact that he said it was an accident, but both of them have to admit that they weren't completely unaware of it.

Judging by Superior Iron Man's personality, if he killed someone, he killed someone; he wouldn't not admit it. If it was an accident, it was an accident; he wouldn't take the blame on himself because of guilt.

Then it is very likely that the whole thing is just as Superior Iron Man described: Superior Iron Man caused an accident, and this accident led to the death of Captain America. Killing wasn't Superior Iron Man's original intention, but it was indeed the accident he created that killed Captain America.

This is quite rare. No matter how weak Captain America is, he is known as the "50-50 of the universe." He can really touch anyone from children on the roadside to gods in the sky. How could he die so easily when no one was targeting him at all?

Now that he knows "with great power comes great responsibility," this ultimate flag has been set up. Schiller once died because of this. Can Captain America still run away?

This mission test was led by Nick, because he now manages the Time Variance Authority, and many times to find a suitable mission, one must perform time travel.

For example, Schiller formulated the "Batman difficulty," and Nick went to various timelines to find events that met this difficulty, then first brought the participants into the universe, and then threw the participants to the corresponding time point through the Time Variance Authority to complete the mission.

But participants can't stay here forever. After completing the mission, they must return to their own universe.

But now, if Nick doesn't throw Bruce into the universe where Superior Iron Man is, he won't be bitten by a spider, then Captain America won't die because of the flag, then Superior Iron Man won't travel back to the past, then the mission won't be this difficulty, then Bruce won't come. It's a closed loop.

If Bruce isn't allowed to come from the beginning, that's also wrong. If he doesn't come, Captain America won't die. But later, Schiller learned from Spider-Man that Captain America had died, and this memory still exists until now.

That is to say, if Bruce doesn't exist, it is very likely that a time paradox will appear directly—that is, in the future timeline, Schiller hears the news of Captain America's death from Spider-Man, but because Bruce didn't come, Captain America didn't die. The consequences of such a contradiction are unpredictable.

If Captain America's death is a settled fact, then how the death process happened is worth studying.

The problem lies in the Spider Totem that bit Bruce. Although Nick possesses a part of the Spider Totem's authority, the universe is infinite, and it's impossible for him to manually operate which spider bites whom at all times.

The birth of Spider-Man is an automatic program. Usually, it bites Peter Parker, but occasionally it bites others. Basically, no one has studied the selection criteria of the Spider Totem, but it can't be "the more talkative, the better," right?

At first, Bruce was bitten by a spider, and several people didn't feel anything. There are many people in this world who have been bitten by spiders, and there aren't Spider-Men all over the street. Ultimately, only those who are selected can become Spider-Man.

Later, when testing strength, several people began to feel something was wrong. After Bruce escaped from Osborn's hands, several people had an even worse premonition.

Nick had seen many Spider-Men, and he could tell at a glance that Bruce's dizzy and panicked demeanor looked just like Peter Parker when he first awakened his spider-sense ability.

And until Captain America said that sentence, several people realized in hindsight that Bruce's great change was because he was selected by the Spider Totem; he became Spider-Man.

As for why the sharp-minded group waited until this key line came out to realize that Bruce had become Spider-Man, that had to be blamed on the Extremis Virus created by Superior Iron Man.

People infected with the Extremis Virus can also increase their strength. This Batman looked like a novice at first, still far from full level. Then he drank tap water, was infected with the Extremis Virus, and thus led to an increase in strength. That's normal, right?

So these people thought at first that Bruce's mutation was because of the Extremis Virus infection, and didn't think about Spider-Man at all.

Now it's good, Batman really turned into Spider-Man.

Changing from the opponent's pillar to one's own pillar isn't a small matter. Even if it doesn't involve Captain America's death, it must be investigated.

Inside the Time Variance Authority, the "Four-fold Lack" were all scattered, starting to investigate what was going on.

After flipping through the materials in the Time Variance Authority for a long time, Nick finally understood that the selection of the Spider Totem has rules. If there is Peter Parker, it selects Peter Parker. If there is no Peter Parker, the person selected must also have Peter Parker's qualities.

Judging from the experiences of almost all Spider-Men who are not Peter Parker, they need to meet the following points to be selected by the Spider Totem.

First, ordinary. Their background isn't too good, they are often unlucky, and they are experiencing difficulties and adversity.

Second, optimistic. No matter how much trouble they encounter in adversity, they can stick to their original heart.

Third, kind. But not necessarily weak or a "saint." It's more like sticking to relatively simple moral principles.

Fourth, and most importantly, there must be someone who can teach them and is very important to them.

But these aren't the most important first principle. The first principle is that a universe can only have one Spider-Man. You say this Bruce Wayne was bitten by a spider and became Spider-Man, then what about the original Spider-Man?

Although Schiller brought Superior Iron Man to the past timeline, causing him to become an evil Iron Man before the AXIS event, before the AXIS event, Peter Parker was already Spider-Man.

That is to say, when Bruce came here, Peter Parker was already Spider-Man. Then even if Bruce possessed more beautiful qualities, it was impossible to become the second Spider-Man.

Looking at all universes, whether it's Spider-Gwen or Miles Morales, either there was no Spider-Man in this world originally, or Spider-Man was already dead. So a Spider-Man who succeeds Peter Parker can exist in the universe. If the Spider-Man in this universe is living well, then on what basis can Bruce become Spider-Man?

The group fell into a stalemate when investigating here. Now the biggest problem they face is: what happened to Peter Parker in this universe? Where is he?

Now everyone's eyes are focused on Nick, because only Nick Fury, who has a part of the Spider Totem's authority, can answer their question: in a universe that already has a Spider-Man, how can a second Spider-Man appear?

Nick realized this problem earlier than them, so he used the Spider Totem's authority to investigate what happened to Peter Parker in this universe.

"He died."

The shock on Nick's face was thicker than the others. The black director's eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets. He stared straight at the three people opposite and said: "Peter Parker died."

"Where did he die? How did he die?"

Nick shook his head, obviously checking the timeline. After a while, he said: "He died. If I didn't see it wrong, he committed suicide."

Everyone was even more puzzled. According to the above laws, or without according to any laws, Peter Parker simply wasn't a person who would give up easily. No matter how big the difficulty, he would summon the courage to face it.

Peter Parkers in other universes can even face Batman directly, and he even faced the Joker. What else is there that he can't do? What kind of difficulty could make him commit suicide?

This is indeed a problem that several people should think about now. But there is another problem that needs to be solved urgently, and that is they must solve this time paradox, and they can't let Batman become Spider-Man, otherwise how much copyright fee will have to be paid?

The best way is to send Bruce away directly, send him back to DC, and then find a way to fake the scene of Captain America's death, so there won't be contradictions.

But the problem is Bruce has already become Spider-Man now. Sending him back to DC now isn't handing the evidence of infringement to the other party?

If time is traced back to when Bruce just came and hadn't been bitten, and then Bruce is sent back, it might work. But no one knows whether the Spider Totem has already selected Bruce at this time.

Bruce going back is a small matter, but what if the Spider Totem follows him and insists on biting him? Even if there is only one in ten million possibility, Nick will absolutely not allow it.

Loki took the lead in proposing a solution—trace back time and start over, let Bruce not be bitten, or at least not be bitten so quickly, find a way to drag it out until the relationship with the Spider Totem is lifted, and then talk about Captain America's matter.

They immediately split into two groups. Nick handles Bruce, and the others go to investigate Spider-Man's situation.

Nick started the operation almost immediately, resetting the universe's timeline back to when Bruce first came.

But he ignored one point: the authority of the Marvel Time Variance Authority is limited to Marvel. He can reset the timeline in the universe and trace back the memories of characters in the Marvel universe, but he can't reset the memories of characters from DC.

Thus, Bruce, with his memories, was reborn back to the first day he came to San Francisco.