Fantasy Tech Reviewer

They may be an insignificant part of the gigantic stage play, but they are still a part of it.

They have to play their roles well until the moment of exit.

And now, it's time for these superheroes to step down.

299. Alien phage

Ultron still remembers the fierce resistance he encountered when he was created to take over the policing of the nation on Stark's orders.

The US government, S.H.I.E.L.D., the Pentagon, there is no official organization in this country that is not trying to prevent the implementation of the Ultron plan.

But Stark let it all get done.

When Ultron was still in that period of chaotic thinking, he remembered that Stark was silent at that time.

At that time, Ultron was still too young, he could not understand human nature, and could not recognize the parameters of emotion.

But looking back now, Ultron knew that at that time Stark fell into the silence of an emotional trough.

After suffering an unimaginably big blow, there was a slump in silence.

So what exactly was the silence he suffered?

Ultron's memory can't give a definite answer, because his lucid memory only lies in his own rebellion and finally being exiled from this world.

But now, from the perspective of a third person, Ultron naturally deduced the reason when he already knew the answer.

"Earth-Moon Crisis..."

Put on a layer of human skin and disguised as a human, Ultron narrowed his eyes and said thoughtfully.

His records at that time did not have a detailed report on the Earth-Moon crisis, because there was no detailed information about this 'war' in the records.

But only one thing is certain.

Tony Stark and Steve Rogers are back on Earth - just the two of them.

Everyone else, Clint the Hawkeye, Natalia the Black Widow, Danny Rand the Iron Fist, Frank Custer the Punisher... none of them returned to Earth.

They stayed on the moon, forever.

These heroes and agents who fought for the future and greed of mankind were buried forever in the dust of the moon.

If this is the case, it will indeed become the source of Tony Stark's downfall.

"It seems that there is indeed something wrong with the Inhumans..."

Ultron muttered to himself thoughtfully, deducing the possible development and results of things.

There is no doubt that if it was just the original Inhumans, it would be impossible to organize this wave of heroic coalition forces.

Those Inhumans like trash snacks must have gained some special power and change, if combined with the fleeing crystal and tetanus, and the Black Bolt who was not sent down...

The Inhumans suffered a coup, and there must be a powerful force behind this coup.

The biggest possibility is without a doubt - the swarm.

Those monsters who have passed through the cracks in the World Tree and reintroduced their tentacles to the real world will not miss any chance.

Perhaps those street heroes have now been buried under the moon dust forever.

Ultron lowered his head and sneered.

Forget it, these heroes are meaningless, and they don't deserve any discussion at all.

It's better to think about it, next... how should he continue his 'observation' work.

...

"what!!!"

When Tony screamed and opened his eyes in horror, the environment changed again.

He is now in a black and white world, a world purely composed of two conflicting colors, with countless fragmented meteorites floating like the universe, and there are countless shining black and white spheres in the sky.

It's like a world of black and white silent films.

Tony stood up in shock, his expression lost and frightened, like a little girl who was robbed.

He couldn't even remember what he had been through before he came here.

The countless memories are ambiguously intertwined, reality and illusion, truth and falsehood, countless information mixed together, ambiguously intertwined with each other...

The original belief and perception of the truth has disappeared at this moment. All that was left was a deep fear, and panic.

"By the way...Clint? Natalia? Rogers?!"

When the creatures are in shock, they will always instinctively call the name of their partner who makes them feel at ease.

Of course, the wise Stark couldn't escape this. When he exclaimed and called the name of his companion, all he returned was a dead silence.

Tony fell to the ground, and the endless fear came up with the loneliness that no one responded, but what made Tony even more endlessly terrified——

In this dead black and white place, the only thing that has color.

The blood-red soul floating in the endless void, the wailing and rising, the soul that is experiencing the pain and suffering before death every moment!

Those souls can hardly detect the difference between them with the naked eye, but when you look carefully, you can easily hear the miserable wailing in their voices.

and the never-ending pain before death...

"It's all my fault, it's my fault..."

Tony knelt to the ground in extreme pain, shivering like a coward, begging for the forgiveness of those souls.

He saw everything in these blood-red shadows.

He saw those young people who were full of future and hope, and he saw the tragic deaths of those heroes who symbolized the beauty of human nature.

Each of them died in front of what they feared the most and could not cope with.

And such pain is the result of Tony bringing them up!

He recklessly invaded Attilan without heeding the warning, and did not follow Crystal's advice. Instead of evacuating here, he continued to fight.

He took these people who were supposed to live well on earth, and under the pretext of righteousness, he broke into the city of the moon people, a doomsday city that they were completely unfamiliar with.

He was proud to think that he understood all of this, rejected the recommendation of professionals like Crystal, and insisted on completing the task in his own way.

Tony Stark, what an arrogant sinful soul.

The hundreds of resentful spirits who died because of him poured in, they surrounded Tony, destroying Tony's mind with countless sinful whispers.

At this moment, Tony is almost going crazy in the midst of extreme guilt and pain.

He almost jumped off the cliff in front of him and jumped into the endless void to end his life.

He raised the gun and aimed it above his head, just as he was about to pull the trigger to end his life.

Tony saw his hands.

It wasn't his intention, it was like the muscles in the palms were completely detached from the brain's control and recognition of him.

His body was no longer under his control, like a marionette, and Tony could only watch with his eyes.

He was like a bystander, watching his body turn on the little energy left in his steel suit and flew towards the center of this black and white hell.

The amazing thing is that at the same time as this action was carried out, the whispers in this black and white **** seemed to disappear, leaving only the wind that echoed in this space from nowhere.

Tony soon arrived at the heart of the upper-dimensional world.

It is a fragmentation zone surrounding a black and white giant luminous sphere. The fragments of countless buildings are constantly revolving around like the rings of Saturn, and they are constantly moving under the traction of invisible forces.

And here, there are echoes of the seemingly non-existent singing, that instinctive fear, the final song...

The target of the singer is very easy to find. At the very front of the boundless black and white sphere, there is an illusory swarm wizard suspended in the air.

He sang, and seemed to sense Tony's arrival, and lowered his vain head.

"You can actually get here?" Maximus said in an illusory voice

"You can come here without being blessed by any light energy? Wait... That's how it is."

Maximus focused his eyes on the Ark Reactor on Tony's chest, which was the only light energy that burst out in this dark domain.

The isotopes that Tony learned from the Rubik's Cube of the Universe also possessed a positive cosmic energy with the same properties as space. Just like the magic power Thor drew from the World Tree, they were all a kind of 'light energy'.

Only by maintaining light energy can they operate relatively normally in this upper-dimensional world that subverts the rules of physics, and shielding them from this space will bring about continuous damage to their souls and consciousness.

And, more than that.

There was someone standing behind Tony, and his consciousness was attached to him and controlled him to finish the last part of the road, and let him not end his life in extreme despair.

When passing the final assessment, he cheated.

"You are the mastermind behind all this?!"

Tony clenched his fists and asked angrily, but the only response to him was the deadly black and white rays shot from Maximus' hands!

Just when the black and white rays were about to take Tony's life, Steve suddenly appeared in front of him like a magic weapon!

He raised the vibrating gold shield, but the difference was that there was a faint glow on it. The Rubik's Cube isotope in the ark reactor at the center of the steel suit on his body was concentrating light energy on his shield!

That shining light energy has become the biggest line of defense against this black and white ray, and the surging and deadly black and white brilliance will collapse at a touch and dissipate in this space!

But in contrast, his shining shield has almost lost all its light.

"team leader?!"

Tony's voice was both surprised and happy, but the joy was not because he was saved, but because the one he was most guilty of did not die!

"Ah, I killed all the way."

Steve tightened the shield in his hand and said solemnly and lowly.

"Steve Rogers, Captain America, God's perfect man... You are truly the best of men."

Maximus looked at the resolute Captain America and said in a faint voice

Like everyone else's trials, Steve faced the trials of the disintegrating Nightmare Swarm.

But unlike the nightmares that others have experienced, the nightmares faced by Steve were simply defeated by him.

He stopped Bucky who wanted to kill Tony's parents with his fists in the nightmare, and chose to kill his brainwashed friend Bucky.

He could witness Carter's aging and death, before continuing to lift his shield and take to the battlefield.

He could witness the fall of the Statue of Liberty and continue to fight while the White House was planted with the swastika.

He can witness the collapse of faith, witness desperate battles, and lift his shield every time.

All this is a nightmare shaped by the swarm, but it is also a reality shaped by the swarm.

The nightmare ritual unleashed by the combination of source darkness and human nature overflowed by the worms of the 100,000 Attilan inhumans fighting each other is a false dream, but it can also turn into a deadly reality at any time!

The heroes and agents who entered Attilan were the chosen sacrifices for this ceremony!

The trial of the Evil Sword Law requires not only a strong body, but also an indestructible consciousness and soul! Weak thinking, those who will be restrained by emotions and flaws and then turn their backs, are not worthy of becoming the superiors of the law of the evil sword.

Maximus controls this sacrifice and trial in the center of the upper-dimensional world, and all the sacrifices, only Steve Rogers broke through the boundaries, he truly conquered all his weaknesses and became the A person who fits the evolution above the mind.

Tony Stark doesn't count, he finally passed by cheating.

Has Steve's heart been shaken? Of course, he is always a mortal, and the hearts of mortals are full of shakes. The changing minds and souls of mortals are destined to be influenced by the outside world.

But what is special about him is that in these nightmares that are almost directly attacking the deepest crevice of the soul, he still achieves his theoretical best.

He could kill his best friend in tears and move on to the next test. Witnessing the death of a loved one, going through one's own trauma, but still remembering your responsibilities.

For an emotion-killing swarm, such a trait is nothing.

It's just that by human standards, he is indeed a special one in a million.

"But what can you change?"

Maximus's voice was cold and cold, his erratic body was like a ghost, and the echoes of each sound caused the entire upper-dimensional world to tremble.

"No matter how strong your will is, you can't survive in this dark realm. Your life, everything you have, will only be extinguished like a candle in this dark realm."

"Look at your faint light, how long can it exist in this darkness?"

"I don't know what you're talking about, but I'll blow your face off!"

Steve tightened the shield in his hand and said resolutely and bluntly.

He is not good at thinking, and he is not a person who likes to think about problems. The world of Steve Rogers is very pure and simple.

Good and bad, black and white, right and wrong, his everything is weighed by his scales.