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Chapter 3947

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The other two were attracted by his laughter. Bruce coughed twice and said: "I think I know why Baron Zemo was so panicked."

"You don't mean to say..."

"He might have thought Ant-Man was in this jar."

The Punisher walked over and took the jar from his hand, but it was just a plain empty jar. The material was identified as pure large glass.

"Baron Zemo's subordinates went to capture Ant-Man under his orders, but obviously they didn't catch him, but they didn't want to be blamed by their superior, so they lied that they caught him."

"This should have been a very clumsy lie, but unfortunately, Ant-Man is different from all other superheroes, and his most special feature is that his body size can be changed at will, and can even be as small as invisible to the naked eye. So anyone who brings an empty jar can say Ant-Man is inside. As for why the other party doesn't show up, of course it's because they don't want to cooperate."

"This is a lie that no one can debunk, because Pym particles are Ant-Man's patent, and no one in the world can copy them, and even can't figure out a clue. So unless Ant-Man appears elsewhere, no one can prove he is not inside."

The Punisher was speechless, and he said: "Zemo just believed it? Doesn't he know that an ordinary jar can't lock Ant-Man?"

"Not everyone has been to school," Bruce said, "You can't expect someone who hasn't been to school for a few days to understand what a molecule is. He might prefer to use theories like magic to explain the principle of Ant-Man's transformation."

"This is interesting," the Punisher said, "Iron Man checked up to him, and it's not something that can be dealt with by just one sentence of 'no evidence', not to mention there is a more unreasonable Doctor Strange..."

Just as he said this, Schiller turned his head abruptly to look out the window. He seemed to feel something, and said in a low voice: "Let's leave here."

They walked quickly out of the secret room. Bruce also restored the control panel to its original state quickly, then passed through the office, came to the lounge next to it, pretended that he didn't know anything, and sat down to drink coffee.

Not long after, a familiar voice came from the office next door: "You'd better not play any tricks on me, your little tricks are not worth mentioning in front of me. Dr. Pym's safety is related to universe security, give him to me now."

Schiller held the coffee cup and took a sip of coffee. Although this voice was familiar, the tone was completely different. The tone of the main universe Iron Man was colder and sounded more mature.

Baron Zemo was pushed into his office step by step by the hand cannon. Obviously, the negotiation failed.

But this was also within expectations. After all, Baron Zemo didn't know what a big deal this was; he didn't know that Dr. Pym was related to the Avengers' plan to confront Batman next, and thought it was just an unremarkable scientist in the Avengers, thinking that as long as Iron Man had no evidence, he wouldn't break in.

But the facts were completely contrary to his estimation. This matter was bigger than the sky, and if it didn't go well, the whole universe would follow to be buried. As the firm resistance faction, the pressure faced by Iron Man and Doctor Strange was incomparably huge, which could be said to be the string that was stretched almost to the point of breaking. Not to mention that the moral bottom line of this group of Illuminati people wasn't that high, even if it was, they definitely couldn't care about so much now.

Simply put, the huge pressure of confronting Batman and even the neighboring big world made Iron Man and Doctor Strange anxious. Don't care about police and evidence, if you don't cooperate, just die.

The Punisher sat in the lounge and watched all this coldly, and after a long while, he snorted lightly: "Sure enough, you only know pain when the knife cuts on yourself. No one can live a high-sounding life forever."

Obviously he thought of the accusations of his violent behavior by the Avengers in the past. However, although he said so, he didn't go out; after all, anyone could see now that Iron Man was on the verge of going crazy, and anyone who went out would easily be blown up.

Baron Zemo was forced to press the button on the air conditioning control panel with trembling hands—he pressed it two or three times, but there was no reaction. Schiller turned to look at Bruce and found that Bruce's eyes were flashing with schadenfreude.

"This can't blame me," Bruce spread his hands and said, "The quality of the things he made himself is too poor, it broke after being dismantled once."

Feeling the increasingly heavy murderous intent behind him, Baron Zemo said in a trembling voice: "What's going on? Why can't it open? Damn it..."

"I told you, don't play tricks on me." The voice of the main universe Iron Man had sunk to the bottom.

"I didn't!" Baron Zemo shouted, "This thing should be broken! I should have called a maintenance worker over earlier!"

Fortunately, he wasn't stupid to the end. He pointed to the wall where the secret room was located, and then said: "Here, here is the secret room. The wall is not thick, you should be able to blow it open."

The main universe Iron Man narrowed his eyes, seemingly judging whether this was a lie. But he might have been forced to the point of anxiety, and directly stretched out his hand, two missiles flew out spiraling, and with a bang, blew the wall open.

Before the dust had settled, he had already landed on the floor of the secret room. Baron Zemo also rushed in hurriedly, picked up the empty jar that had been put back on the desk, and said to the main universe Iron Man: "He is inside! I swear I didn't do anything to him, he just doesn't ignore me!"

With a click, the mask of the mecha opened. The main universe Iron Man stared at him with that incomparably cold look and said: "You really were playing tricks on me."

After speaking, he raised his hand. Baron Zemo widened his eyes in disbelief, roared at him: "You damn lunatic! Do you want to blow me and Ant-Man to death together?!"

"My scanner shows that it's just an empty jar. There are no traces of Pym particles left in this room either. Where did you hide him?!"

Baron Zemo widened his eyes and looked down at the jar in his hand. He shouted: "Impossible! Don't you know that Ant-Man can become big and small?! He just became too small, so we can't see him, just like dust in the air!"

With a bang, Baron Zemo was blown away directly. He fell to the ground and spat out a mouthful of blood, the empty jar shattered in response, but nothing happened. Ant-Man didn't appear, and Iron Man turned and left.

Returning to the office, the main universe Iron Man turned to look at the door of the lounge. And at this time, Schiller had already walked out.

"Nice to see you, Mr. Iron Man."

The main universe Iron Man was stunned, but soon clenched his fists. He was obviously aware of something.

"You must be very disappointed that the traveler from another world who appeared here is me. You have heard of me and know that you might not be able to restrict me. If someone else came, you might be able to lock the other party up and let them not go back to their universe to talk nonsense."

Schiller pointed out the main universe Iron Man's heart. He said: "However, even if you can restrict me, it's useless. The multiverse has probably already spread it."

"How is that possible?" The main universe Iron Man obviously didn't believe it. He walked a step towards Schiller and then said: "Even if they have seen Ultron, there are many Ultrons in the universe, how would they know that the one in our universe had a problem?"

"After Ultron escaped, the most wrong thing you did was not let Spider-Man go to support other universes," Schiller said truthfully, "Almost all Spider-Men went to the dark universe of the neighboring world to help the people there, but the Spider-Man of the main universe disappeared. Do you think this is reasonable?"

The main universe Iron Man was stunned. His lips moved, but he didn't say anything. Schiller continued: "I don't know what others think, anyway, I think it's very unreasonable. So I came here."

"I didn't not let him go," the main universe Iron Man gritted his teeth and said, "Do you know what he would encounter if something happened halfway?!"

"You're worried that Batman will lock him up?"

"Don't tell me Batman wouldn't do that," the main universe Iron Man stepped forward again, narrowing his eyes and looking at Schiller, "Even if he wouldn't, I would never give Spider-Man a chance to have a change of heart and stand on their side. I won't give him a chance to betray us."

Schiller lowered his eyes and said: "Then is it good now? Because of his disappearance in the multiverse, everyone suspects you. Do you still want to blame him for this?"

"Of course I won't. Since it was a decision I made, I will take the responsibility. He only needs to stand with us—I will solve all the troubles."

"Alright, this is you, Iron Man. However, I have to remind you that there must be more than one person who noticed the abnormality. When you discovered me, it proved that travelers from other worlds might be everywhere."

The main universe Iron Man's fist clenched abruptly again. The muscles on his neck were trembling, he kept swallowing, and his blinking speed was fast. But the more this happened, the faster that smartest brain in the universe turned.

"Someone kidnapped Ant-Man, if it wasn't this damn Hydra, then who would it be? Which universe are you from?"

"This is not important. You only need to judge one thing now." Schiller also stepped forward, and now the distance between them was very close. He looked at Stark's eyes and said: "—Is it Batman who kidnapped Ant-Man."

The main universe Iron Man widened his eyes abruptly, and his breathing rhythm was visibly messy. Obviously, he also knew very well what the consequences would be if Ant-Man fell into Batman's hands—that would mean they would completely lose all initiative, and the plan to fight to the end would become like a joke.

"Tell me, is it him?" The main universe Iron Man asked.

"I don't know. All I can give you is this." Schiller took out his phone and showed him the picture on the phone—that was the scene in the apartment where Ant-Man lived.

"It is known that it wasn't Doctor Strange who did it, nor was it Hydra, then who do you think could leave such traces?"

The main universe Iron Man seemed to be seeing the scene for the first time. When he saw those traces, his pupils shrank, and the look of memory flashed by, as if he thought of something and pursed his lips.

"Whiplash," he said, "This is the trace left by his energy whip. Damn it, this is not a magic trace at all!"

After hearing this name, Schiller was also a bit surprised. He raised his eyebrows and said: "Why would this guy go to kidnap Dr. Pym? Do they have a grudge?"

"He has no grudge against Ant-Man, he has a grudge against me," the main universe Iron Man answered absent-mindedly, obviously searching for something inside the mecha.

"Then that's not right. It's impossible for him to formulate such an effective plan to strike you hard without knowing your plan."

"What do you mean?" The main universe Iron Man looked at him.

"As far as I know, he doesn't have a ticket to Battleworld, and it's impossible for him to know anything about the multiverse, let alone the Ultron runaway incident, and he knows nothing about your plan. Even if he wants to take revenge on you, it's more likely to hit the door of Stark Industries, rather than kidnapping Dr. Pym and finding you a huge trouble."

The main universe Iron Man also calmed down. He took a deep breath and said: "Unless someone told him about this, but this is impossible. Our plan is only known to the members of the Avengers, they couldn't cooperate with this guy."

"That's true. But are there only members of the Avengers in the Avengers?"

The main universe Iron Man was stunned. He naturally knew that Schiller wasn't saying any tongue twister; he vaguely understood what he meant.

"And I'm afraid the members of the Avengers may not know all your plans. I'm afraid that recently, the one who is closest to you is not them—you know who it is in your heart."

The main universe Iron Man was silent for a long while, and then spat out that name in a slightly trembling tone:

"…Jarvis."

"I am here, sir."

When the familiar mechanical voice sounded, the main universe Iron Man broke out in a cold sweat.

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