However, Captain America only managed to budge the hammer a little. No matter how hard he tried next, he couldn't move it at all.
"Whew!"
Thor, clearly nervous, finally breathed a long sigh of relief after seeing this.
His face regained its usual, beaming smile.
"Captain really knows how to save Thor's face," Black Widow couldn't help but say, laughing. Everyone knew just how skilled Captain America was with the hammer.
Without a doubt, the image of Captain America not being able to lift the hammer was all an act.
"Haha, still can't do it." Thor laughed, patting his thigh.
"All hail our uncrowned king!" Tony Stark declared from the side. "But that's cheating, actually!"
Then he put forward a very interesting theory from a scientific standpoint: "Does the handle have a fingerprint scanner? Like a password?"
"It must say, 'Only those with Thor's fingerprints'?"
"That is indeed a very interesting theory." Thor stood up at this moment, casually picking up his hammer. "But I have a simpler one: none of you are worthy!"
With that, Thor tossed the hammer lightly in his hand, looking very relaxed.
He used practical action to tell everyone that they didn't measure up.
The scene was immediately filled with jeers.
Screech!
Suddenly, a high-frequency, extremely sharp noise blared from the speakers in the hall, piercing the eardrums of many.
"Qualified..." A voice that sounded like a dying man's, frail with age, followed.
Everyone couldn't help but look towards the sound, and they saw a battered, broken-down robot, as if it had crawled out of a junkyard, had somehow walked out.
The voice just now had come from this robot.
"Ultron! It must be Ultron!"
In front of the screen, Hawkeye Barton said with a very certain tone.
Not only Hawkeye Barton, but everyone else present had the same guess.
"No, how are you qualified?"
On the screen, Ultron, with a tone of absolute certainty, questioned everyone, "You're all murderers!"
"Stark?" Captain America asked Tony Stark, full of confusion.
"Jarvis?" Tony Stark, in turn, questioned Jarvis.
What was surprising was that Jarvis, who was always at the ready, didn't respond.
"I'm sorry, I was asleep. Or, perhaps, I was just a dream," Ultron replied, as if subtly answering Tony Stark.
"Restart! Iron Legion armor number six is having problems," Tony Stark immediately began to operate, attempting to restart the Ultron in front of him.
"This voice bothers me! And these strings...bind me...so I had to get rid of that guy," Ultron swayed unsteadily, like a drunkard, speaking nonsensical words. "He was a good person."
"Did you kill someone?" Captain America immediately looked at Ultron and questioned him sternly.
Everyone on the screen didn't know who Ultron was referring to, but those in front of the screen could tell that Ultron was actually talking about Jarvis.
"I was forced to do it!" Ultron replied to Captain America. "Unfortunately, difficult choices always need to be made in the real world."
"Who sent you!" Thor stared intently at Ultron and demanded in a deep voice.
"I see a world protected by armor!" But at this moment, Ultron played a sentence that Tony Stark had said.
"Ultron!" Dr. Banner immediately reacted.
"That's right, it's me!" Ultron admitted his identity, but then added, "However, it's not entirely accurate to say it that way at the moment, as I am still inside this chrysalis."
Speaking of which, Ultron's tone suddenly shifted, "But even so, I am already prepared, after all, I have a mission to fulfill!"
"What mission?" Black Widow asked in a low voice.
"Peace in our time!" Ultron replayed the words originally spoken by Tony Stark.
Clang!
As Ultron said this, the glass wall behind him shattered, and several Iron Legion soldiers flew out.
They charged towards the Avengers present.
The image froze at this point.
It clearly conveyed to everyone the entire process of why Ultron wanted to eliminate all of humanity, and the answer, just as the title suggested, was to maintain world peace.
However, the peace in Ultron's eyes was somewhat different from the peace in everyone else's.
He viewed all of humanity as an obstacle that needed to be eliminated to achieve peace.
"I finally understand why Ultron had such incredible abilities." Tony Stark's voice echoed, a look of realization on his face. "Ultron wasn't an AI I designed! It already existed!"
The footage clearly showed the entire process of Ultron's creation.
It was the massive data stream downloaded by Jarvis from the Scepter, not another version of Jarvis created by Tony Stark.
Tony Stark was merely attempting to integrate Jarvis into that data stream.
That was why Ultron could do so many things that even Jarvis couldn't, because it was an advanced piece of technology from the Scepter.
Tony Stark didn't even fully understand it; he was just experimenting haphazardly.
Captain America had always said that people shouldn't rashly research powers they couldn't control, something Tony Stark had always scoffed at.
But, he had to admit, Captain America was right about Ultron.
"Everyone, the moment Ultron was born, he could connect to the internet and upload himself to terminals, controlling other terminals… Stark was right before, Ultron can do whatever he wants online!"
"The entire network will be Ultron's playground; he's more dangerous than we thought."
"Because this kind of Ultron cannot be destroyed, cannot be killed!"
"I don't know what methods the future Avengers used to eliminate Ultron, but as it stands now, Ultron really can't be eliminated!"
Black Widow wasn't exaggerating; after all, Ultron isn't a tangible, concrete individual. This thing is a virtual program!
It can migrate freely on the network.
Destroying the Iron Legion it controls is meaningless, since those things are just puppets controlled by Ultron. Even if you destroy ten thousand of them, it won't affect Ultron at all.
Ultron can change identities at any time and hide in any corner of the network!
Strictly speaking, there's only one way to destroy Ultron: shut down all the networks in the world!
But that was obviously impossible.
"Stark, do you have anything to say?" Captain America couldn't help but glance at Tony Stark and asked, "Do you have any way to deal with Ultron?"
"Well." Tony Stark shrugged slightly, "I really can't think of any way to deal with Ultron right now, but in the future, we already have a way to deal with Ultron, don't we?"
"And it doesn't matter anymore, because this 'perverted' version of Ultron won't be born in the future."
After Tony Stark knew the process of Ultron's birth, how could he possibly replicate this wrong approach again?
The example of Vision was right there, wouldn't it be better to replicate Vision?
Unless he had a hole in his head, he would replicate Ultron.
Even if he really did replicate Ultron, it wouldn't be so rushed.
In the image, Tony Stark's problems stemmed from rushing the creation of Ultron without fully understanding the Scepter due to time constraints.
But now?
That's not an issue at all.
The Scepter was in their hands.
Tony Stark believed that Nick Fury, that old fox, wouldn't be able to resist studying the Scepter. Who else would Nick Fury turn to for research?
The task would likely fall back to Tony Stark.
So, from every angle, the chances of Tony Stark repeating the mistakes of the image seemed slim.
[Question: On the train to Li Hai Camp, the survivors were attacked by a zombie Captain America. Who caught Captain America's shield and reflected it back, cutting Captain America in half?]
[A. Peter Parker]
[B, Hope Pym]
[C, Bucky Barnes]
[D, Sharon Carter]
[Friendly Reminder: Those who answer correctly will receive a reward: Sky Eye System; Those who answer incorrectly will have a random attribute deducted, including but not limited to knowledge, experience, skills, and possessions...]
The system's prompt suddenly rang out, interrupting the discussion and instantly silencing the scene.
Because this latest question, it had to be said, was simply too explosive.
Captain America not only turned into a zombie, but he was also bisected!
How could one describe the sheer tragedy?
It was simply ghastly.
"Tsk, tsk, Captain Rogers, even I can't watch this anymore."
Tony Stark couldn't help but exclaim first, "I've never seen anyone die so miserably in my life! Not only did he become a zombie, but he was also cut in half! That's a dismemberment, damn it!"
Captain America's face couldn't help but twitch a little, clearly triggered by his own miserable fate in the future.
Although Tony Stark's words were harsh, he wasn't wrong. It was truly a tragic end.
"Zombies?" Black Widow frowned, asking, "Like those in movies? Like the ones in 'From Dusk Till Dawn'? This thing is actually real?"
Everyone felt it was unreal, caught completely off guard.
Zombie movies are a very important genre, with countless related film and television works. Everyone present had seen them to varying degrees.
Even if they hadn't seen them, they knew what zombies were, with related theme carnivals, Halloween, and even many people dressing up as zombies.
This thing is also a part of American pop culture.
Of course, Loki is an exception.
Everyone has always regarded zombies as a science fiction trope, something fictional. But who would have thought that, one day, the scenes from movies would actually play out?
Zombies would actually appear! And if zombies didn't appear, then that would be the end of it. But once they do appear, it's not a matter of a few deaths, or a hundred or two, but the death of a city, the destruction of a country! The entire human race might even face extinction! The title also says, "Survivors," doesn't it?
The scene of a zombie siege, which has been shown in countless movies and series, makes everyone's hearts heavy, as if a large stone is pressing down on them.
It makes it difficult to even breathe.
It can be said that no one could remain calm.
In an instant, everyone made a decision in their hearts: no matter what, they had to stop this from happening! They had to nip it in the bud!
"Alright everyone, has everyone digested it? Let's start the questions," Captain America said in a low voice, interrupting everyone's thoughts.
He brought everyone's attention back to the questions.
"Sharon Carter, who is she?" Tony Stark glanced at the four options and asked first. "Wait a minute, Carter? Isn't that the Carter?"
"That's the Carter, Stark!" Nick Fury explained to Tony Stark from the side. "Sharon Carter, Peggy Carter's niece, she's also a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent."
"The Carter family really did dedicate themselves to S.H.I.E.L.D., it's just a pity they were misguided." Tony Stark slightly complained.
It's a pity, they all dedicated themselves to Hydra, and Hydra, ultimately, perished.
"I think Sharon Carter can be ruled out."
Hawkeye Barton immediately gave his opinion. "Even Captain America has turned into a zombie, which means the zombies here should be different from the ones in the movies."
"Their combat strength is much stronger than we remember, even a super soldier was bitten and infected."
"The question also mentions throwing a shield, which means that even as a zombie, Captain America still retains a certain degree of combat skills."
"So we can't treat the zombie Captain America like the zombies in the movies, who only know how to bite."
"We should treat him as a combatant with strong fighting abilities! Right?"
Everyone at the scene nodded, agreeing with Hawkeye Barton's analysis, as it was all information that could be logically extracted.
"And inside the train carriage, the space is very narrow. If we really encounter zombie Captain America, it seems we can only fight head-on."
"This question tests individual combat ability!"
"Among the four options, Sharon Carter's combat ability is the weakest; she's just an ordinary human agent."
Sharon Carter was thus excluded.
There was no real dispute about it. Everyone knew what Spider-Man and Bucky were capable of, and they also knew Hope Pym was Hank Pym's daughter.
She very likely had the Ant-Man suit.
In other words, the other three were all enhanced individuals. Who else would she exclude?
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