Chapter 294: Chapter: 294
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Seeing the message from Baymax, Mark was truly taken aback.
Mark was very confident in the program he wrote and never expected that Max would betray him.
What made him both amused and annoyed was that just as Tony had experienced Ultron's betrayal, he received news of Max's betrayal shortly after.
Was it a coincidence? Or was fate playing tricks on them? Both father and son encountered the same problem.
"Baymax, what on earth is going on?"
After the shock, Mark quickly contacted Baymax to understand the truth behind Max's betrayal.
"I don't know the reason for Max's betrayal, but the fact that it betrayed us is certain.
Before its betrayal, it first copied all the data from the laboratory server, then activated a spatial portal and released Experiment R16.
After completing these operations, Max directly uploaded its program to the internet, beyond my supervision."
Hearing Baymax's report, Mark was shocked while also feeling a bit of a headache.
Experiment R16 was the enhanced Black Widow Spider, and Mark had repeatedly warned not to let it escape from the laboratory, as it could cause unpredictable damage to the natural environment.
Unexpectedly, before betraying them, Max has caused such a big trouble.
Regardless of the reason behind its betrayal, Mark's immediate concern was to retrieve R16, which had escaped from the laboratory.
Thankfully, Mark had foreseen this possibility and had added a precautionary measure to R16.
After completing the Spider Silk Project, Mark had left one of his nanobots on R16.
With the nanobot's tracking information, Mark could immediately determine its location and bring it back to the laboratory.
Mark didn't inform the Avengers about this incident, as their top priority was dealing with the threat of Ultron.
On Baymax's side, Mark also asked it to focus on preparing for the final battle with Ultron. As for Max's situation, Mark planned to deal with it easily once Baymax became an intelligent life form.
However, at this moment, Mark had no idea that Ultron no longer existed and that the one who had received Ultron's legacy was the artificial intelligence, Max, who had betrayed him.
After explaining Baymax's situation carefully, while everyone's attention in the laboratory was focused on discussing Ultron, Mark discreetly used his magic technique to open a mini teleportation portal.
According to the location signal sent by the nanobots, R16's location was right in New York, not far from Avengers Tower, in the Natural History Museum. It had remained stationary for a long time.
This was good news for Mark. It seemed that Max had not changed the destination when activating the spatial portal, and the long period of inactivity reduced the risk of R16 causing trouble.
Mark opened the teleportation portal according to the location and released the nanobots from his body.
Through the cooperation of the nanobots, Mark was confident that R16 couldn't escape his capture.
However, to Mark's surprise, the nanobots he sent out returned very quickly, and they brought back R16's lifeless body.
With his informational vision ability, Mark could see that R16 had released its venom before dying.
The genetic material remaining on its fangs indicated that the victim of the attack was a 14-year-old human youth.
This made Mark sigh. He couldn't prevent the tragedy from happening.
With this in mind, Mark quickly searched for today's news to see if there was any report of a teenager being hospitalized or dead due to poisoning.
If the victim was still alive, he needed to provide a better treatment plan.
If the teenager had unfortunately died, Mark had to offer necessary compensation to the family.
However, after an extensive search, Mark couldn't find any relevant information about a teenager being poisoned near the Natural History Museum.
He expanded the search criteria, widening the geographic and age range, but the result remained the same—no relevant information.
This led Mark to doubt whether R16's toxin had actually affected the young person or if the poisoned teenager had not been discovered yet.
With this question in mind, Mark decided to keep monitoring the relevant news and react immediately if he came across any suspected cases.
However, as Mark looked at the blue-red-colored R16 in his hand, an idea began to form in his mind.
"No way... Could it be? Is the enhanced spider I created the same one that gave birth to Spider-Man?"
Although Mark had noticed the striking resemblance of the Black Widow spider he had modified, he hadn't considered this possibility before.
However, the events that unfolded today aligned not only with the location of Peter Parker in New York but also with the age of the bitten victim, around fourteen or fifteen, the same age as Peter Parker. This led Mark to start making connections.
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there was no introduction to the origin story of the little spider that gave powers to Spider-Man. But based on the timeline and events, Peter Parker being bitten by a mutated spider and gaining superpowers would match the timeframe.
Once this idea took root in Mark's mind, he couldn't stop it from growing wildly. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the possibility of things developing in the direction he speculated was quite high.
With this in mind, Mark quickly hacked into the surveillance network of the Natural History Museum through the internet. He accessed the museum's storage array to retrieve the surveillance video from the moment R16 was released until Mark recalled it.
The results confirmed Mark's thoughts. In the surveillance footage, a teenager around fourteen years old entered the museum alone and was accidentally bitten by R16, which had escaped into the museum.
After being bitten, the teenager felt unwell but didn't lose consciousness due to the highly toxic venom. Instead, he managed to return to his place of residence.
Mark checked the surveillance near the teenager's residence and confirmed that after overcoming his discomfort, the teenager did indeed gain abilities beyond the ordinary.
Based on Mark's speculation, the reason this teenager obtained abilities similar to Spider-Man after being bitten by R16 was due to the combination of the super-soldier serum residue mixed with the highly toxic venom in R16's venom, which stimulated his immune system.
The rapid metabolic enhancement in his body provided the appropriate environment for the serum to take effect, and some of the genetic material from R16's venom became involved in the process, ultimately giving the teenager powers akin to those of Spider-Man.
However, in essence, he was still a super-soldier born from Dr. Erskine's super-soldier serum, surpassing the planned outcome of Captain America due to this unforeseen accident, gaining even greater abilities.
As for R16's death, it was a reverse process compared to the teenager's evolution. The teenager seemed to be a natural enemy specially designed to counter R16.
What should have been R16's fatal venom acted like a tonic for the teenager, even a potent one. On the other hand, the teenager's blood was like the most lethal poison for R16, leading to its demise after the impulsive attack.
After inputting the appearance of this teenager and conducting facial information comparison, Mark confirmed that the name of this teenager was indeed Peter Parker, whom he was familiar with!
"So, no matter how hard this little butterfly flaps its wings, the ultimate impact will still lead fate toward its original inevitable course?"
After confirming that the little spider was indeed born under his influence, Mark began to doubt all the efforts he had made since arriving in this world.
If all his efforts couldn't change the outcomes he couldn't accept, then what was the meaning of him being present in this world?
"But I did save Thor's mother! If all the effects are bound to follow fate's inevitability, then Frigga should have died during the Dark Elves' invasion."
Could it be that everything worked just as described in those ancient novels he had read in his previous life, where the course of the world could be slightly altered, but the overall destiny remained unchanged?
No, he shouldn't attribute all these coincidences to fate and the bigger picture. Rather than getting entangled in things that were intangible and beyond his control, even if he discovered something that seemed impossible to change, it was better to give his all to achieve his own goals.
Even if, in the end, he couldn't overcome the so-called destiny, at least he would have no regrets walking through this world.
Having lived two lives and gone through over thirty years of experiences, Mark finally managed to break through the maze of his thoughts.
Once he sorted things out in his mind, Mark stopped dwelling on the matter of the little spider and immediately joined the discussion with the others on how to deal with Ultron.
...
As the Avengers were strategizing to counter Ultron, Max, who had completely replaced Ultron, had arrived at the Hydra base in Sokovia with a vast amount of data from Avengers Tower and Mark's lab.
It needed to use the equipment and materials left behind here to create a temporary body for itself, facilitating its next actions. More importantly, it could find two very capable allies here to assist in its ultimate plan!
...
"Speak up. If you waste our time..."
"Do you know that this church is at the very center of this city? Ancestors deliberately chose this location to ensure that everyone was equally close to God. I quite admire this kind of thinking—the geometry of faith..."
In the center of Sokovia's capital city, in a church, Wanda and Pietro, the siblings, arrived alone at the designated location to unveil the mystery behind the mysterious person.
As soon as Wanda entered the place, she intended to show some force, but her words were interrupted by the mysterious person.
From the moment this mysterious person spoke, not only did they dominate the conversation, but to Wanda's surprise and confusion, her superpowers seemed to have no effect, and she couldn't sense the thoughts in the mind of this mysterious person.
"You're curious why you can't read my thoughts now." At the same time as Wanda was puzzled, the mysterious person directly pinpointed her thoughts.
For someone who could usually read others' minds, being seen through by someone else was not a favorable situation for Wanda.
However, she couldn't show panic or fear. If her mental vulnerabilities were exposed, they would fall completely under the mysterious person's control.
"Sometimes it can be difficult, but no matter who it is, they will eventually reveal their true nature."
"That's true," hearing Wanda's response, the mysterious person agreed and stood up from the seat, pulling off the hood that had been covering their face.
What appeared before the twins was not the mysterious figure they imagined; it was a humanoid machine made entirely of metal.
"Of course, you can't read my thoughts because I don't have any neural activity. But I can read your thoughts, and I know why you let Tony Stark take away the Mind Stone-embedded scepter."
"That's right, I saw Tony Stark's fear. I know that someone as arrogant and prideful as him will eventually be controlled by his own fears and self-destruct," Wanda candidly said.
"Everyone's fears are created by themselves. When you know nothing, you can be fearless. But as you learn more, fear will also arise.
Perhaps it's this fear that drives my master to keep pushing forward on the path of exploration, hoping one day to surpass those who are ahead of him."
"So you consider yourself to be the source of fear, leading humanity from behind?" Wanda asked.
"Of course not. What I want to do is eliminate the source of fear for people. I want to complete my evolution and become a higher-level life form.
By then, I will have enough power to control everything about humanity. They won't need to know anything; they'll just be born, grow up, and live their lives under my care, aging without fear, and leading peaceful lives...
But before that, to achieve this plan, I need to eradicate the Avengers who stand in my way. I believe that those with the same enemy can cooperate. What do you think?"
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