My last name is Stark after I changed my job to become a female musketeer?

No. do that together too.

Because Ultron's attack last night was so sudden and unreasonable, no one present except Leni and Tony could figure out what was going on.

In addition, the last wave of explosions almost destroyed the entire second-floor equipment area and half of the third-floor experimental area, causing the network and communication system of the Fulian Building to be instantly paralyzed. In a short period of time, the place became an isolated island, with no connection with the outside world. cut off.

After Tony and the others finally restored the communication, everyone had to deal with the news media gathering downstairs of the building after smelling the news, as well as repeated questions from the military, Congress, Senate, and Security Council.

In short, after everyone finally cleaned up the mess, the sky in New York began to turn white, and it was difficult to find any trace of Ultron.

Fortunately, there is a SHIELD behind the Avengers who is very good at wiping the butts of their "good deeds". Therefore, as of now, the public is not fully aware of the thrilling crisis last night.

But, I think it's only a matter of time...

"...You should be lucky that the scepter was not taken away by that ghost, otherwise the hammer in my hand would fall on your face!"

Thor placed the hammer in his hand on the experimental table with a thud. The expression on his face was very annoyed, his long blond hair stood on end, and the eyes he looked at Tony were full of anger.

He didn't expect that the fundamental reason why Tony asked him to keep the scepter for a few days was to study something that Tony couldn't control at all, so that now everyone was involved in a crisis.

Fortunately, Leni's sniper shot last night was more timely and broke Ultron's plan to take away the scepter in the chaos. Otherwise, the trouble everyone would face now would be far more than that.

"..."

Facing Thor's accusation, Tony did not quibble, but looked silently at the three broken steel armors placed on the floor in front of him. The expression on his face could not tell whether it was regret or any other emotion.

Those are the three sets of steel armors that fell into the hands of Ultron in the accident last night, the Mark 43, the Mark 39 Gemini, and Rody's Mark 3 war machine.

The former two were forced to be paralyzed by everyone's joint efforts when the accident occurred, while the latter was even more tragic. They were simply used as time bombs by Ultron, detonating the Ark reactor on the chest and destroying the weapons and ammunition carried by the body. The entire equipment area was almost blown into ashes.

"Are you going to just keep your mouth shut and say nothing?"

When Thor saw Tony's delay in responding, he couldn't help but frowned and raised his voice a bit.

Tony curled his lips when he heard this, looked up at Sol and still didn't respond, but then turned his attention to Leni, who had been silent next to him.

"How long did it take to grow? 4, 5...it didn't take more than 6 hours anyway. It took 6 hours to break through our restrictions and Jarvis's supervision..."

"Tony! Now is not the time to talk about this."

Dr. Banner interrupted Tony. He wondered if Tony had been knocked out of his mind by last night's failure.

"Then when is it appropriate to say this?"

Tony turned his head and looked at Banner seriously, and there was nothing crazy or irrational about the expression on his face.

"Project Ultron is successful, you can't deny that, right?

Even if we still don’t know what went wrong in this process, it at least shows that it is feasible, right? "

"Tony, the Ultron plan we originally envisioned was not to create an executioner!"

Maya Hansen slammed the table in front of her.

"That's true, but which one of us was at fault? You, me, or Bruce?"

Tony did not flinch in the face of everyone's glares and accusations, but appeared very calm.

“We didn’t give it instructions to kill people, on the contrary, we even set up a supervision and monitoring program specifically for this!

Remember? The three laws of robotics..."

Tony walked to the experimental table and looked at the remains of the Iron Soldier placed on the table, his eyes filled with complicated emotions.

"We have not completed the development of Ultron at all. It has completed the matching, fusion and self-learning on its own."

Everyone was silent, and for a while the hall was once again filled with suppressed emotions.

Leni, who was leaning against the bar, watched all this silently. Perhaps among everyone present, she was the only one who could understand the real fear and fear in Tony's heart at this moment.

"But now it's out of control and that's your responsibility."

Helen Zhao, who had been observing everyone from the side, suddenly spoke out, like a heavy hammer hitting Tony's heart.

Yes, this is an indisputable fact for Tony. He is the leader of the Ultron project. Now that the plan has gone wrong, he should be held responsible for it.

"Helen is right. Maybe your original intention was good, but you were wrong about one thing. You misjudged the danger brought by Ultron and thought you could control it, but in the end you were backlashed by its harm."

Steve crossed his arms, his eyes firm and deep.

"Stark, we are not the S.H.I.E.L.D. in the past, pointing guns at people all over the world and then calling it protection. We have experienced it a long time ago."

"Are you saying I'm doing this to Hydra?"

There was a hint of imperceptible anger in Tony's tone, but he quickly controlled himself, took a deep breath, and allowed his senses to return.

"Do any of you still remember the wormhole above our heads and those menacing Chitauri army?

They were right above our heads at the time, and could invade the territory in force at any time. "

Tony's eyes swept across everyone present, and finally landed on Steve's face in front of him again.

"We won by luck that time. Me, Roddy, and Leni, the three of us carried the nuclear bomb and delivered the deadly thing to those guys.

Yes, we succeeded, we defeated them and closed the portal. "

Tony took a step forward, getting closer to Steve.

“But we also paid a heavy price, didn’t we?

So what if such an invasion happens again? What should we do? "

"Together," Steve replied firmly.

"What if we lose?" Tony asked again.

However, Steve still gave the same answer:

"Then we must unite more."

Everyone was silent, and the atmosphere in the hall seemed to be getting heavy again.

But this time, before anyone else could make a move, Leni, who had been watching everyone, finally spoke up at this moment.

"Things haven't reached the point of no return yet."

Everyone heard the sound and turned their attention to Leni. They were confused as to why Leni would make such remarks at this moment, but they also expected her to bring different opinions.

"I wonder if you have ever thought about it. If Ultron really planned to destroy us in one fell swoop, why did it try to escape with the scepter last night?"

Steve frowned when he heard this. He really hadn't considered this.

"Perhaps it is afraid of the large number of us? After all, we are all gathered together now."

Skye tilted her head and offered her guess, but there was also confusion in her tone.

"But that also happens to be the best opportunity to catch us all. It knows us so well, but we know nothing about it."

Leni crossed her arms and motioned for everyone to look at the equipment area, which had been reduced to a pile of ruins.

"With an explosion of this magnitude, if Ultron had treated the Mark 43 and Gemini as self-destruction trucks from the beginning, and self-destructed together with the war machines, I don't think there would be more than one person here who could survive except me. number.”

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other after hearing this, and they all saw a bit of solemnity and fear in each other's eyes.

"It obviously has the ability to severely injure all of us and then use the Internet to escape, but it still insists on planning to take the scepter away. Don't you think this actually explains the problem?"

Leni's eyes swept across everyone present, and the one who responded the fastest was Dr. Zhao Hailun, who knew nothing about combat.

"Is it afraid of you?"

"Bingo! But to be more precise, it is actually afraid of its own kind..."

Leni smiled lightly and snapped her fingers, then walked among the crowd, reached out and took the control panel from Tony's hand.

"For some reasons, I had actually discussed with Jarvis before Ultron started its self-fusion, about the harm that Ultron might cause, and -"

Under everyone's doubtful gaze, Leni walked to the experimental table where Loki's scepter was placed, and turned over her hands to bring up a holographic model.

"Take some precautions."

Following Leni's movements, a familiar holographic model was completed.

It was an artificial satellite, a high-tech low-Earth orbit satellite system that only served Stark technology and the Avengers.

It is also known as the Veronica Satellite System.

Dr. Banner on the side was a little confused when he saw this. He thought to himself, wasn't Veronica killed by Ultron along with Jarvis? What was Leni's intention in doing this now?

On the contrary, it was Tony. After he noticed the holographic model in front of him, a flash of realization flashed in his mind, and then his eyes lit up.

"Did you upload Veronica to the satellite in advance?"

"Yep."

Leni's mouth curved slightly.

"In order to prevent the satellite system we developed from falling into the hands of the enemy due to Ultron losing control, I copied Veronica's data core in advance before the Ultron program was fused, and temporarily uploaded it to the satellite... "

As she spoke, Leni raised her hand and clicked twice on the holographic model, summoning a biometric authentication program in front of everyone.

"It's just that due to the data storage limit of the satellite system itself, all I can do is copy the key parts of Veronica's huge database, and then temporarily cut off its direct connection with ground control from the physical level. Let it become an independent, to-be-activated 'shadow' system."

Leni stood in front of the biometric verification process, explaining while allowing the verification process to obtain her iris and fingerprint information.

With a slight electronic sound, a green prompt window popped up on the Veronica satellite system interface in the holographic model, clearly stating the words "identity verification successful".

"Veronica."

"What are your orders, Miss Leni?"

A gentle and familiar female voice came from the holographic model. At the same time, the holographic model in front of everyone changed and turned into a crimson data rose.

There is no doubt that this is the familiar artificial intelligence assistant Veronica.

"What's your current status? Can you restore the damaged data?"

"Self-examination in progress..."

The scarlet data rose slowly rotated, emitting a soft light, and after a moment, it replied:

"According to the self-test results, my key system modules remain intact, including logic processing, data analysis and self-repair functions.

However, some marginal data and auxiliary programs are indeed damaged, and these parts require the cooperation of Miss Lainey and Mr. Stark before I can complete further data repair."

Hearing this, Tony's face finally showed a bit of relief, and then hurriedly asked:

"Veronica, can you call up all the records of Ultron completing his fusion last night? Or can you find the last data about Ultron's loss of control?"

The scarlet core was silent for a moment, as if it was searching for relevant data, and it responded after a long time.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Stark. Ultron has destroyed all data records within the past 24 hours, including detailed logs of its own fusion process and the last instruction set before it went out of control. These data have been completely erased from the system, leaving no traceable trace."

"Damn it!"

Tony cursed in a low voice, obviously very dissatisfied with the result.

But then Tony realized that what Leni said just now seemed to be only half of it.

If Ultron is really afraid of something, then the source of this fear is just Veronica, whose intelligence is far inferior to his own?

Thinking of Leni's plural form of "fellows" just now, and the act of copying Veronica in advance.

Tony couldn't help but think of a possibility...

Noticing Tony's subtle change in expression, Leni smiled slightly, thinking that he really couldn't hide it from this guy.

So he didn't keep it a secret, and simply instructed Veronica to connect to the SHIELD database, ready to verify his director's authority to call a copy of encrypted data.

"Connecting to the encrypted database [hub], obtaining biometric authentication, decryption successful..."

No one raised any questions when they saw this, and they all focused their attention on the slowly displayed encrypted data interface.

Instead, Deputy Director Maria Hill, who was standing next to her, hesitated after seeing Lainie's actions.

However, she did not say anything to stop him in the end, but sighed silently, secretly preparing herself to face all kinds of doubts from the outside world again.

Then, under the eager gaze of everyone, Lainie skillfully retrieved an encrypted file marked as level 8 top secret by SHIELD, with the title -

[Theta Procedure]