[Zhongyingmei] That snake

Chapter 178 False

"Some of their weapons are controlled by intelligent systems," Tony replied, "They use the local area network. I have asked Jarvis to crack it. It will take some time. I will now go inside the building to get the Mind Stone."

Tony smashed the broken glass windows into the inside of the fort, and the fainted Hydra soldiers lay all over the ground. He flew in unimpeded all the way, and found the laboratory where the gems were placed behind a wall. Tony stepped out of the armor and put the armor on alert mode.

The crystal installed on Loki's scepter is blue, but the body of the Mind Stone is much smaller than that crystal, and it emits an orange-yellow light.

I don't know what kind of energy extraction method Strucker used to make the Mind Gem suspend in the mid-air of the desktop placement table, ups and downs.

The interior of the laboratory used an old masonry structure. After Strucker requisitioned the fortress, he did not paint his interior, which made the entire laboratory look dark and cold under the yellow light of the mind gem.

Tony walked around the experimental bench where the Mind Stone was placed, with a complicated look on his face, and finally returned to the original position.He shook his head, ready to reach out and take the gem away.

"Don't touch it."

A figure rang out together with the sound of bullets hitting metal and the sound of laser firing. Tony had already withdrawn his hand, thinking why the armor didn't make defensive preparations, but at the same time, he recalled the armor and quickly covered his whole body.

Tony turned cautiously to find that the two standing with their backs to the secret passage door Tony had pushed open were Steve and Bucky. Steve was looking suspiciously at Bucky who had just shot.

Bucky put down his gun and leaned against the wall beside him and explained to Steve and Tony: "The early warning device, if someone wants to take something from the machine, it will launch an attack mechanism. I remember this design is only in Hydra's Europe Departments will appear."

"This is indeed Europe." Tony twitched the corners of his mouth, and put down the palm gun aimed at the two people, "How to solve these early warning devices? I have asked Jarvis to shut down the network system in the base."

"These things aren't controlled by the network, we just have to," Bucky walks down the steps, slowing down as he passes Tony, but then back to normal quickly, "just destroy them."

Bucky's p226 strapped to the side of his left leg shoots directly at the warning devices surrounding the test bench.

"It's that simple?"

"Yeah." Bucky nodded.

"Captain, why did you stop me?" Tony asked, seeing the way the captain looked at the Winter Soldier just now, he was obviously also surprised by his actions.

"Don't just hold that gem with your hands." Steve still held the shield in his hand, "The special energy given to those weapons by this gem is very similar to the energy given to those weapons by the Cosmic Rubik's Cube I found at the Red Skull Base back then. The Red Skull disappeared immediately after holding the Rubik's Cube, Tony, don't underestimate its power, Loki also needs a scepter to use it."

"Okay, so how do we take this little gem, Captain?"

Bucky held his gun, but turned his gaze to Steve's shield, which had a nice rounded shape on the inside.

"Bucky..." Steve said blankly, "Don't tell me, you're thinking about it."

"I think Star Shield is a very good container." Bucky nodded calmly.

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Tony broke through another window of the base and flew out, Steve was holding the Star Shield with the Mind Stone in it like a flower, and Bucky followed behind to guard him.

"Having got the Soul Stone, everyone can go back to the plane, and Thor can go and love his brother again," Tony said, "Don't lose Oliver."

"Tony, don't worry, Oliver detected another group of people entering the valley, 3000 meters southeast."

"Jarvis turned on the thermal imaging scan. Ok, I see them."

"Is it okay to knock them out and take them away, Tony."

"Oliver, aren't your headphones broken?"

"He used Clint's," Natasha explained.

"I think I can find some clues about Maria from them."

Oliver felt a particularly familiar mutant aura in that group of people. It was the aura of mutants with the ability to replicate that were constantly undergoing transformation and reorganization at Maria's original base.

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After returning to the Avengers Tower, the Avengers have no time to rest. Tony and Bruce need to find a suitable container for the Mind Stone.There's also the captive party that needs to be interrogated, and that's up to Natasha and Oliver.

Loki didn't act like a monster along the way, maybe the Hulk's restraint really worked, but after returning to the Avengers Building, he refused to communicate with Thor and went to Bucky's room.

And the group of people who were captured was even more troublesome.They were given the task of escorting Dr. Bright to the Sterak base for a friendly exchange visit between Hydra, but the problem was that they were escorted by a team of mercenaries.

They just collect money to do things, don't know the identity of the employer at all, and I'm afraid they don't know that they are just disposable items that are thrown away after use.

And the really useful people, that is, Dr. Bright and the mutant experimental subjects he brought with him, killed themselves by biting poison when they discovered that Iron Man was attacking.

Even if Oliver wanted to save the people who died one minute later, he couldn't save them, so he could only reluctantly bring their bodies back together.What can come in handy are some documents in Dr. Bright's suitcase.

Some of the papers recorded the latitude and longitude magnetic field change reports. Bucky said that in his impression, there was a Hydra base in this latitude and longitude, but his base in Italy was abolished for a while.

"Maria is Italian," Oliver pressed his forehead, "I wouldn't be surprised if she chose this place."

"Do the mission again." Natasha twisted her stiff neck, "Can't Hydra calm down?"

Oliver also felt powerless, "Don't count on them, I'll inform Tony and Banner in the lab."

Oliver was a member of the Avengers research team, and Tony gave him most of the permissions in the laboratory, which also allowed him to enter the laboratory unimpeded.

But as soon as he stepped into the laboratory, a familiar aura rushed towards him and took a few steps back.

If Oliver's ability had a form, it would probably be a cat with bared teeth and mouth, growling lowly at this breath.It should be said that the information detected by Oliver's ability has no taste, but a psychological disgust that he doesn't like.

"What's wrong?" Tony asked strangely, seeing Oliver's disgusted expression.

"Did you bring that mutant who has the ability to replicate over here to dissect?" Oliver pinched his nose. "It's full of his leftover information. I don't like this feeling."

"The mutant? No, we haven't had time to see him yet. I just tried several kinds of rays on this gem just now to see if it can stimulate its energy." Banner answered honestly.

Oliver looked at this yellow gemstone and the data on the dashboard beside it that did not fluctuate too much.It seemed that instead of arousing the energy of the gemstone, they had an aura of replicating mutants that Oliver didn't like very much.

Oliver narrowed his eyes dangerously, feeling a bad premonition in his heart. He crossed his elbows and thought about it, and finally chose the simplest and crudest verification method.

Oliver drew his gun and shot at the Mind Stone before Banner and Tony could stop it.

"whatareyoudoing???" Tony opened his caramel eyes wide, his face was full of horror, the anger was welling up, but before it reached his cheeks, he was stunned by the sight in front of him, the mind gem It didn't explode with a powerful energy to resist the bullet, or was directly knocked away by the impact of the bullet, it just emitted a wisp of thin smoke after the blow, and slowly began to burn.

A small piece of gemstone about the size of a fingernail burned up in an instant, leaving a small lump of black ash on the test bench.

"Is this what the captain told me could be dangerous?" Tony said delicately.

But Oliver's premonition of crisis climbed rapidly after the gems burned out and the flames went out, stabbing into his mind before the data on the dashboard skyrocketed.

The only thing he could do was throw Banner and Tony to the ground a second before a huge wave of energy burst out of the pile of fly ash, and he didn't even have time to get them both out of the lab.

The majestic energy shattered the entire laboratory, and the glass on all sides turned into fragments and scattered in all directions. The ears could only capture the sound of the explosion for a moment, and then the tinnitus caused by the damaged eardrum took over.

With all the experimental instruments damaged, Oliver retained some sense of pain to perceive the destructive power of this vast energy.He put his arms on Banner and Tony, keeping the Hulk out of the way while repairing Tony's wounds.

The explosion happened extremely quickly and lasted for a very short time, but to the people under the explosion, it seemed as if they had traveled a distance of a light-year in an instant. The darkness followed the light, and the violent noise was calm disappeared without a trace.When the explosion subsided and everything returned to silence, Oliver slowly helped Tony and Bruce who were in a dazed state to their feet.

Tony carelessly touched his own blood on the palm of his hand, "What happened just now? Did you blow up the Mind Stone?"

Oliver wanted to find something to rely on, but found that all the instruments in the laboratory were damaged. "That's not the Soul Stone. If it was really the Soul Stone, New York City would have been destroyed. It's just a replica."

"How did they do it?" Banner asked eagerly, the amount of energy stored in a small gem is really incredible.

"That copy-type mutant. The Hydra Research Institute where Maria worked before has been trying to evolve this mutant gene. They have too many experimental subjects. It is not impossible to copy a low-profile version of the Mind Gem .”

"But how did they copy it? Don't tell me to pull out a magic wand like a fairy godmother," Tony joked, but the muscles in his face stiffened.

"They are actually manipulating carbon atoms. The explosion just now," Oliver said, still pressing his forehead, "is the law of energy conservation. They have stored energy, and once the main body is destroyed, the energy must be released."

"Okay," Tony, gesticulating, "They can copy the structure of the Mind Stone and infuse it with energy. Where does the energy come from?"

"If I'm not wrong...Tony, do you know how much energy a person can store after so many breaths in a lifetime?"

"You mean, life?"

"That's pretty much what it means." Oliver smiled wryly.

They only found a fake mind gem. This news made people feel decadent, but it also made Oliver a little puzzled. Since Loki can find the energy of the mind gem, doesn't he know that this gem is fake? "

"Loki..." Oliver thought, not realizing that he had already said it aloud.

"what happened?"

The sound pulled Oliver out of his thoughts, but he didn't answer Tony's question, just saying, "I've got to go find him, something's wrong."