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Chapter 2102

~10 min read 1,870 words

And Bruce, for another reset, had no temper, but still didn't want to give up and wanted to try another path.

Snatching the medicine at the construction site would turn into a monster, the Osborn Group didn't have what he wanted, and he would be attacked by mysterious mucus and lose his reason.

Then Bruce only had one path left, and that was to cooperate with the mysterious person who contacted him via text message.

This time Bruce was open and honest, because through the elimination method of the previous few times, he already knew the Osborn Group wasn't the culprit. Even a fool could see that the mysterious person who contacted him via text message was "thief crying stop thief." This mysterious person behind the text message was the distributor of the Extremis Virus.

Thus, Bruce demanded that Superior Iron Man provide him with the Extremis Virus, and it had to be the Extremis Virus without side effects. Otherwise, he would go to provide evidence to the Osborn Group to identify Stark for conducting illegal biochemical experiments and poisoning the water source in San Francisco.

That's right, in the last conversation with Norman, Bruce already knew that what Osborn was investigating was actually the Stark Group. Thinking about it, it wasn't strange. The only one who could develop this kind of black technology was probably Tony Stark, who was known as the smartest scientist in the world.

Superior Iron Man was a local of Marvel, so as time reset, his memory would also be reset. He felt surprised that this ordinary human experiment subject recognized him. But no matter how he investigated, Bruce's background had no flaws.

Because this was a background story woven by higher-dimensional power, there were almost no flaws.

Stark could only think that Bruce might have learned about this through Osborn's channels. Then, since Bruce had already cooperated with the Osborn Group, would this be an olive branch thrown by the Osborn Group?

Whether it was seen as extortion or an invitation to cooperate, Superior Iron Man thought about it and felt that letting the Osborn Group explode this mine now wasn't a wise move, so he could only adopt a delaying tactic and give him what he wanted first.

Thus, Superior Iron Man provided Bruce with the third-phase Extremis Virus. He actually didn't have time to conduct clinical limit dose tests, so he just happened to take Bruce as a test subject.

Unfortunately, the experiment wasn't very successful. The third-phase virus was indeed more stable, but the effect was approximately equal to nothing.

The upper limit of human appearance and muscle mass was limited. No matter how it was improved, it was still human—two eyes, one nose, two arms, and two legs. The Extremis Virus couldn't create other organs to enhance humans themselves, so the effect couldn't be as strong as spider mutation.

Bruce blankly discovered that after he injected a large amount of this virus given to him by Stark, except for increasing a little strength, it had no effect at all.

If it were other Batmen, they would have been thinking about the way the virus acted, or simply excluding the virus option and starting to look for other reasons for their own strength increase.

Because other Batmen could figure out that Iron Man had no need to lie to him. If this virus hadn't been released on a large scale, and large-scale release was sooner or later, then giving him the real virus would do no harm, while lying to him would have no benefit.

But Bruce obviously couldn't figure this out. The thing ordinary people are best at is not doubting when they should, and conducting groundless suspicion and attacks when they should think rationally.

Bruce also fell into a dead end of thinking. He felt that either the Osborn Group didn't give him the real thing, or the Stark Group didn't give him the real thing. Anyway, these two groups weren't good people.

But with Bruce's ability, he could only be furious. He had no effective way to retaliate against these two groups, and even less able to ask them how they could make him stronger.

But he didn't go to retaliate against these two groups, yet these two groups were both eyeing him.

In most cases, fence-sitters don't have a good end. The Osborn Group felt that Bruce must have revealed the situation of the research center to the Stark Group, while the Stark Group felt that Bruce and Osborn had long cooperated.

Both sides wanted to silence him, and neither Osborn nor the evil Iron Man were good people, and both had the ability to kill.

Finally, the Osborn Group took the lead. In the process of taking Bruce to New York, Bruce escaped, but was accidentally killed by the Osborn Group's security guards.

Fortunately, Nick Fury, who had been watching him, hurriedly reset time back to the very beginning again.

Thus, Bruce was reborn again.

Bruce, no matter how stupid he was, saw that there was a problem somewhere. As long as he changed his trajectory, he definitely couldn't achieve his goal.

The power blocking him was very strong, and crashing around trying to change the future couldn't achieve his goal. It was better to follow the script, maybe he could acquire strength again.

Bruce felt that as long as he followed the original script meticulously, he would definitely be able to reach the step of acquiring strength, and the moment he acquired strength, he wouldn't waste time testing, but immediately start exploring what was preventing him from acquiring strength.

Theoretically, this train of thought was already the most correct one at present. But he missed one factor, and that was Aisha.

Don't forget, Aisha was also a DC person. Although she could also reset time as the universe was reset, her memory was also retained.

During the second reset, Aisha discovered Bruce's abnormality and deduced what he was doing with his crazy crashing around.

Through the first contact, Aisha knew this Bruce was weak to death, so she could infer from his incredibly weak strength that he wanted to save Gotham but couldn't, and was even more helpless than other Batmen.

Then she could guess that Bruce's urgent and crazy state must be because he saw hope of acquiring strength.

Aisha actually hoped to help Bruce acquire strength.

But she really didn't know, if Bruce saw hope, how did he see it? She could only, like other Batmen, control the situation as much as possible.

But this control led to trouble.

In the first few times, Aisha was assisting Bruce. Later, Aisha found that this Batman was really hopelessly weak. If he wanted to achieve his goal, he couldn't be counted on, so she had to do it herself.

Aisha took a more radical step.

As mentioned before, Aisha controlled robots to physically seize the Stark Group's storage equipment. This was actually relatively conservative. Although the success rate wasn't high, it was relatively safe.

But due to Bruce's crazy state, Aisha found that she had no time after reaching this step.

If she couldn't figure out the secret of the Stark Group's Extremis Virus in a short time, Bruce would definitely go crazy after finding that he still couldn't acquire strength after following the plot.

Aisha gritted her teeth, physical intrusion was too late, I'll just write an AI and let it invade Stark Tower.

Theoretically, the level of AI Aisha wrote wasn't bad, but her hardware conditions were too limited, and it was far from Stark's cross-era super equipment.

So in order to continue optimizing the program, Aisha chose to get a piece of equipment first. But to get equipment, she had to break through security defense. To break through security defense, she had to rely on AI, which became a dead loop again.

Finally, Aisha chose to consume a bit of energy, violently break in, and get a piece of equipment first.

But the bad thing was that Pepper kept the original righteous Iron Man's consciousness in the Stark Group.

Aisha could be considered to have inherited Batman's consistent tradition of bad luck. The equipment she moved away happened to be the equipment that saved Iron Man's consciousness.

Aisha was in a hurry to optimize the program and didn't consider the network security issue. After getting control of the equipment, she connected to the network without thinking, and then started to optimize the AI life she created.

As the saying goes, "newborn calves aren't afraid of tigers." The newly born AI wasn't that intelligent yet. It crashed around in the local area network and directly bumped into the Iron Man backup consciousness that was still sleeping.

For a long time, Tony Stark's body was its shackle. When it truly became an intelligent life without perception and without weaknesses, then few carbon-based lives could beat it.

The moment Stark broke through the storage device's restrictions, he entered the Internet through the networked equipment and naturally learned about the Extremis Virus information.

Iron Man realized for the first time that the spread of the Extremis Virus was the prelude to human destruction.

People who could afford it would be divided layer by layer, cutting human society into denser small pieces, making the upper class more divided. People who couldn't afford it wouldn't let it go either; they would try every means to resist the increasingly intensified oppression.

Stark would absolutely not sit idly by and watch a war that would destroy humanity happen. So the first thing he had to do was to confront the evil self and must find a way to thwart his conspiracy to release the Extremis Virus.

Superior Iron Man was also sharp enough. He caught the traces of the righteous Iron Man in the network and had long been prepared for confrontation.

But in a confrontation, one person has a moral bottom line, while the other doesn't. Eventually, it will develop into both having none.

Because to win, a person with integrity can't beat a villain without any bottom line. So for the sake of victory, both sides will eventually stop at nothing.

What kind of disaster will happen when two of the world's greatest geniuses collide?

On this day, humanity lost all their network signals. A long-lost meteor shower fell on Earth. Those countless satellites that had risen, representing the arrival of the information age, fell.

When the disaster happened, Bruce finally woke up. And the terrible thing was that he caused the disaster, but he didn't have the ability to clean up the mess at all.

Nick, who was squatting in front of the screen watching all this, sighed deeply. As the King of Spies, he understood that he wasn't actually good at remote-controlling everything from the office.

When sitting here, the things he could do weren't many, and none were what he was good at. And if he wanted to solve this problem thoroughly, he had to go down to the field himself.

Nick stood up, put on his coat, and walked toward the portal. He was going to the universe himself, replacing the Nick Fury there, and as the S. H. I. E. L. D. director, solve all this trouble thoroughly.

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