The moment the card materialized in his hand, Hawkeye Barton's mind was flooded with information regarding the body attribute enhancement card.
As the card's name suggested, it could enhance a person's physical attributes.
It divided these attributes into five categories: Speed, Strength, Resistance, Mental Strength, and Body Strength.
Hawkeye Barton could use this card to randomly enhance one of his five attributes by ten percent.
This was a significant boost, and Hawkeye Barton was quite pleased.
After some consideration, Barton decided to apply the enhancement to his Speed.
After all, for a ranged class like an archer, improved mobility could greatly enhance their overall strength.
However, Hawkeye Barton wasn't just a simple archer; his close-quarters combat skills were also excellent, easily ranking him among the top-tier agents.
Even when Loki controlled his mind and he fought Black Widow, he'd once suppressed her to the point where she was struggling to breathe. His close-quarters combat ability was not inferior to hers.
But an increase in Speed also provides a huge boost to close-quarters combat ability.
Overall, this upgrade wasn't a loss.
Hawkeye Barton immediately made a decision. He used the attribute enhancement card on the spot, choosing to enhance his Speed attribute.
Whoosh!
A flash of light immediately burst from the attribute enhancement card, instantly shooting into Hawkeye Barton's body and then disappearing.
Hawkeye Barton immediately felt corresponding changes in his body.
Even without conducting an experiment, he already knew that his Speed had indeed increased by ten percent.
"Not bad." Barton nodded in satisfaction. "My current speed has increased a lot compared to before. If it were now, I don't think I would be injured by that bunker again."
Speed enhancement isn't a big deal. Besides, the reward's name says it all, so Hawkeye Barton didn't avoid Loki.
He explained the specific effects to everyone present.
"A great reward, Barton! You're the ace of aces now," Nick Fury praised, equally satisfied.
[Answer session complete, now playing the answer analysis!]
Soon, the text on the big screen disappeared, and a new video appeared before everyone.
With the sound of hurried footsteps, a group of figures appeared. They were walking through the lobby of a building.
Even though they hadn't shown their faces, everyone still recognized their identities: Tony Stark, Thor, and Loki.
And several other fully armed special forces soldiers.
"This is Stark Tower!"
The others hadn't recognized where they were, but Tony Stark immediately knew.
After all, it was his own property, so he was naturally very familiar with it.
This made everyone present curious. Thor, Loki, and so many special forces members appearing inside Stark Tower, what was it all about?
But what happened next made everyone even more curious.
Another special forces member was patrolling the front desk of the building, and when Thor and the others walked past, the guy turned his face.
What the hell?
Everyone present wore a face full of question marks, because that special forces member was actually Tony Stark!
But Tony Stark had just left with Thor and the others!
There were two Tony Starks!
What the hell!
This question wasn't supposed to be about the two Captain Americas fighting. Instead, before Captain America even showed up, two Tony Starks appeared.
This is a mess!
Utter chaos, completely baffling.
"Thumbelina, do you copy? I see the target," Special Forces Tony Stark immediately said into the comms channel, looking in the direction of Tony Stark and the others. "You can go!"
"Start the explosion!"
"Thumbelina's" response immediately came through the comms channel.
Then everyone saw that on the head of the Tony Starks in front of them, someone was hiding in his hair. He jumped down his face and plunged into Tony Stark's beard.
After being tickled by Tony Stark, he then slipped down along the seams of Tony Stark's clothes and fell onto Tony Stark's chest.
"Are there people this small on Midgard?" Loki immediately wore a thoughtful expression.
According to his understanding, the people of Midgard shouldn't have anyone this miniature, right?
"It's the second Ant-Man, Scott Lang!"
Black Widow said with a little surprise.
Scott Lang had appeared during the Hero Civil War. At that time, he was fighting against Iron Man alongside Captain America. Unexpectedly, he was now acting with Tony Stark.
Clang!
A faint metallic tremor sounded. It was Scott Lang, who had become the size of an ant, landing on the Arc Reactor on Tony Stark's chest.
"Is that AXE Fragrance?" Scott Lang was still thinking about this kind of thing at this moment.
"Yes, I always keep a can on my desk for emergencies. Relax, can you focus?" Tony Stark said, a bit speechless.
"I'm going in!" Scott Lang announced, then rapidly shrunk again, actually entering the Arc Reactor through a gap.
"So, this is someone who can change their size!" Loki exclaimed in amazement, genuinely curious about how he did it.
It didn't look like magic at all.
Thump, thump, thump!
Footsteps approached, and Pierce appeared with a group of people, blocking the path of Tony Stark, Thor, and Loki.
It was then that everyone noticed Loki was wearing shackles on his hands, and even a muzzle on his mouth!
"What?" Loki's eyebrows immediately furrowed.
He glanced at the restraints on his hands, utterly speechless. He had just been captured, and now he saw that he would be captured again in the future?
What the hell?
Addicted?
"Excuse me, may I ask where you're going?" Pierce asked Tony Stark and Thor directly.
"First, we're going to eat, then back to Asgard." Thor had a slight look of confusion on his face. "Excuse me, who are you?"
"Alexander Pierce." Tony Stark began to introduce him to Thor. "He's Nick Fury's boss."
"My friends call me Mr. Secretary. I'm requesting that you hand over that prisoner to me," Pierce said to Thor and the others in a commanding tone.
"Loki will answer to Odin."
"No, he will answer to us. We will interrogate him before he answers to Odin. In addition, I also need that box. It has been S.H.I.E.L.D.'s property for seventy years." Pierce spoke to Thor and the others without the slightest hint of politeness.
"Who does he think he is?" Loki sneered with a hint of killing intent.
Calling him a prisoner, and putting himself above Odin... wasn't that a bit too arrogant?
"Pierce? Didn't you guys discuss that he was your enemy before? If I help you kill him, I don't think you'd mind, right?"
Loki immediately proposed, very seriously, to everyone present.
"We'll handle Pierce, you don't need to worry about it," Nick Fury said coldly to Loki.
"Hand over the box, Stark!"
On the screen, Pierce's people started to get physical, fighting with Tony Stark over the box.
"Alright, let's move, Stuart Little! Things are getting a bit tricky here, hurry!"
Special Ops-Tony Stark, seeing this, immediately said to Scott Lang in the comms channel.
"Are you sure you won't die?"
Scott Lang asked, confirming, as he stood inside Tony Stark's Arc Reactor.
"We just need to make my heart skip a beat," Tony Stark explained to Scott Lang.
"That sounds violent!" Scott Lang quipped, then grabbed one of the "wires" and yanked it hard.
Crack!
He snapped the wire right off.
Zap!
The Arc Reactor in Tony Stark's chest flickered violently and went out.
Tony Stark's body shuddered violently, as if struck by lightning, and he collapsed to the ground, convulsing.
The box in his hands naturally fell to the floor as well.
However, at this moment, everyone's attention was completely drawn to Tony Stark, and no one noticed the box.
Scott Lang took the opportunity to climb out from Tony Stark's sleeve, did a few graceful flips on the ground, and then kicked the box hard.
The box immediately slid towards Special Ops-Tony Stark.
Special Ops-Tony Stark picked up the box and quickly walked towards the stairwell, saying in a casual tone over the communication channel, "Good job, see you in the alley, I'm going to find something to eat!"
The video played to this point, and everyone finally understood a bit of what was going on.
Clearly, the purpose of the second-generation Ant-Man, Scott Lang, and Special Ops-Tony Stark's actions was for that box.
Everyone's curiosity reached a peak. What exactly was inside that box?
It was worth so many people going to such great lengths to搶 it?
Bang!
At this moment, a loud sound suddenly rang out, attracting everyone's attention.
Just as Tony Stark arrived at the stairwell, the door at the top was violently smashed open.
Tony Stark was knocked over in the process, and the case he was carrying flew out of his hands.
"I hate stairs!"
Hulk emerged from the doorway, roaring angrily at his surroundings.
One could only say that Tony Stark's luck was terrible, encountering the angriest guy ever, the Hulk.
Clang!
The case shattered, and its contents spilled out, rolling a long distance away.
The object was shimmering, emitting a beautiful and deep blue light. It was none other than the Tesseract, the very object Loki wanted to steal!
This outcome was somewhat unexpected.
After all, the Tesseract was still safely within the base, and still S.H.I.E.L.D.'s property. Who could have guessed the trouble it would cause in the future?
Under everyone's watchful gaze, the Tesseract slid towards Loki's feet, and he picked it up.
Buzz!
Then, who knew what Loki did, but a ball of energy flashed from the Tesseract, engulfing Loki's figure, and he vanished.
Whoosh!
Everyone present couldn't help but cast a wary glance at Loki.
They made a firm decision in their hearts: no matter what, they could not let Loki touch the Tesseract, not even get close to it! That would be a very dangerous thing.
Loki, on the other hand, was curious and had a hint of anticipation. He couldn't directly control the Tesseract like in the image.
It seemed that he had improved in the future.
On the big screen, the image continued.
Hawkeye Barton and the others were frantically fussing over Tony Stark, and it was Thor's unorthodox method that finally brought Tony back to normal.
It was only then that everyone realized a crucial problem: the box was gone, and so was Loki.
"Where's Loki?" Thor asked, looking around with a bewildered expression.
Then the camera cut to a different scene.
Captain America was seen exiting the elevator, carrying a box.
As the metal doors of the elevator slowly closed, the figures of some people inside were glimpsed: Sitwell, Crossbones, and the others.
Everyone immediately recognized the footage; it was the same scene as the one where Captain America had shouted "Hail Hydra!" and taken the scepter.
Captain America was walking forward, a look of triumph on his face, carrying the box.
"Tony, what's going on? Tell me you found the Tesseract," Captain America asked over the comms, but then he looked up and froze.
"What the hell?!" Captain America couldn't help but curse under his breath.
Before Captain America stood another Captain America!
An interesting scene unfolded: two identical people, meeting on a bridge.
The only difference between the two was that the newly appeared Captain America was wearing a hood. Otherwise, they were exactly the same.
"I found Loki, on the 14th floor!" Hooded Captain America said immediately over the comm channel.
"I am not Loki!" Captain America immediately explained to Hooded Captain America, setting down the case he was carrying. "And I don't want to hurt you!"
But, without a doubt, Hooded Captain America didn't believe Captain America, and charged forward with his shield.
The two Captain Americas then engaged in a battle.
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