"Wow!" Black Widow couldn't help but exclaim first, "He blew up your house, Stark. Whoever it is, it seems he hates you to the core."
"Geniuses always have enemies," Tony Stark said with a calm and proud expression. "Do you know why? Because they're all inferior to me! They can only use such underhanded methods to deal with me!"
"But as always, they can't deal with me either!"
"Pierce, Killian, Ivan Vanko, they're all our 'old acquaintances.' Who is this Helmut Zemo?" Captain America scanned the names on the options and couldn't help but ask everyone present.
Everyone looked at each other, but no one knew who this Zemo was.
"Whoever he is, since he appeared in the options, he might be my enemy in the future!" Tony Stark said with a serious expression.
He had already made up his mind to investigate Helmut Zemo after he returned to see if he could find anything.
Tony Stark had gone through so many questions that he deeply understood that even some distracting options in the questions could not be ignored.
They also had great reference value.
"Let's not worry about Zemo for now, let's look at the others." Tony Stark then collected his thoughts and began his analysis.
"Pierce, currently our known supreme leader of Hydra. It's not surprising that the high-ranking leader of this evil organization wants to kill me."
This was indeed not surprising. Not to mention that a superhero like Tony Stark might clash with Hydra in the future.
Even if they had always kept to themselves, Hydra still had Project Insight.
No one would be surprised if such an evil organization wanted to get rid of Stark for some reason.
"Not just Pierce." Black Widow interrupted Tony Stark, "Killian and Ivan Vanko are also possibilities!"
"One is the actual controller of the Ten Rings, who will kidnap Miss Pepper in the future, and the other has a fated grudge against you and will plot to kill you in the future!"
"Compared to Pierce, they are even more likely."
"I don't think it's Pierce," Captain America began to express his opinion, his tone quite firm.
"Hydra is an organization that can't operate openly, an organization that, like a rat, can only hide in the shadows."
"They don't dare to show their true colors to the world!"
"If they wanted to kill Stark, they would choose a relatively low-key method, like assassination."
"Sending helicopters to blow up Stark's mansion is too high-profile, too attention-grabbing. That's not Hydra's style."
"It's not even the style of any large, organized, disciplined, and highly professional intelligence agency."
"That's more like the style of crude terrorists."
Everyone present generally agreed with Captain America's words.
After all, Tony Stark was a pivotal figure in the entire United States. If such a person died, it would undoubtedly shake the entire world.
Military, FBI, and various other agencies and departments, big and small, would investigate the matter, and Hydra would face countless troubles as a result.
The risk of exposure would greatly increase.
This was indeed not Hydra's modus operandi.
Sending an assassin-type agent like the Winter Soldier to silently kill the target was the appropriate method for killing someone of Tony Stark's status.
"Exactly, I also think Pierce can be ruled out." Tony Stark nodded solemnly. On this matter, he also agreed with Captain America's view.
"Killian?" Tony Stark then turned his gaze to another option. "He's the actual controller of the Ten Rings, causing countless killings and chaos worldwide, even daring to kidnap the president."
"If it were him, sending helicopters to blow up my villa wouldn't surprise me at all."
"As the Captain said, blowing up your villa certainly looks like the lawless terrorist style of the Ten Rings." Hawkeye Barton nodded in agreement.
"Ivan Vanko, what about him?" Thor asked from the side.
"Ivan Vanko wants to kill me, but I don't think sending helicopters to blow up my villa is his style."
Tony Stark said with a serious expression after a moment of contemplation.
"In the future, Ivan Vanko attempted to assassinate me. He controlled dozens of suits of armor through a series of means and bombarded me with them."
"This assassination is a future event displayed by the quiz system that hasn't happened yet."
"And in real life, Ivan Vanko also attempted to assassinate me in Monaco."
"In that assassination, Ivan Vanko created a simple exoskeleton device that could even briefly contend with Iron Man."
"These two assassinations, that's Ivan Vanko's style!"
"Ivan Vanko certainly wants to kill me, but it's not just about killing me! What he wants more is to defeat me, to triumph over me!"
"Simply put, he wants to replace me!"
"He wants to defeat Iron Man in front of everyone, using his own technology, and trample Iron Man underfoot, rather than simply killing Tony Stark."
If Ivan Vanko merely wanted to simply kill Tony Stark, there would have been countless opportunities.
Not to mention anything else, just at the Monaco race, he himself had snuck into the venue with Tony Stark. Wouldn't it have been simpler to just find an opportunity and shoot Tony Stark?
Why bother running onto the racetrack to show off?
Whipping him repeatedly looked cool, but for the goal of killing Tony Stark, wasn't that deliberately creating difficulty for himself?
Because that was precisely the effect Ivan Vanko desired.
He wanted to kill Iron Man, not Tony Stark!
He believed Tony Stark was a thief who stole the honor that rightfully belonged to the Vanko family, which is why Ivan Vanko wanted to reclaim it in this manner.
"I heard about that assassination too," Black Widow nodded. "Based on my analysis of Ivan Vanko's behavior, bombing your villa with helicopters is indeed not his style."
"If it were him, he would have sent out Iron Man suits, not helicopters!"
Ivan Vanko was also happily ruled out by everyone.
"So now we have two 'candidates' left, Killian and Zemo. Stark, it's up to you how to choose."
Captain America said to Tony Stark from the side.
This question was about Tony Stark, and everyone tacitly agreed that Tony Stark would answer it.
"I know absolutely nothing about this Zemo person; I've never even heard of him."
"But Killian, however, fits the requirements in every aspect. I can't give up a suitable option to choose an option I know nothing about."
"I choose B, Aldrich Killian!" Tony Stark then immediately announced his answer to the big screen.
This question was actually not difficult; everyone could figure out the answer with a little thought.
「Correct answer!」
The system then provided feedback, which was not unexpected; Killian was indeed the correct choice.
「Congratulations to quizzer Tony Stark for winning the reward of one Revive-Revive Fruit!」
Immediately after, a strangely shaped fruit appeared in Tony Stark's hand, looking similar in style to the Tremor-Tremor Fruit that Black Widow had received last time.
"This fruit is exactly like the one I got before," Black Widow immediately noticed. "Could this be part of a series?"
"Possibly, the Revive-Revive Fruit, the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and there might be other fruits containing other magical abilities," Captain America echoed, also agreeing with Black Widow's speculation.
"Stark, what does this fruit do?" Thor asked, his eyes gleaming with immense curiosity and anticipation.
Black Widow's Tremor-Tremor Fruit had transformed her from an ordinary person into a powerful individual who could overturn a car with a single punch.
So, what was the purpose of this fruit, which seemed to be from the same series as the Tremor-Tremor Fruit?
"Please wait a moment." Tony Stark first made a pause gesture to everyone, then took a bite of the Revive-Revive Fruit and swallowed it. "This stuff tastes awful! No wonder Romanoff had that expression."
Thud!
After casually tossing the remaining, now useless, fruit onto the ground, Tony Stark shrugged and said to everyone.
"Simply put, eating this fruit is like gaining an extra life. Yes, this fruit can bring the dead back to life."
Hiss!
Everyone present couldn't help but gasp.
Bringing the dead back to life, wasn't this Revive-Revive Fruit too heaven-defying?
"So, to prevent you from snatching the fruit from my hands, I ate it first. You don't mind, do you?" Tony Stark then provocatively said to everyone.
You've already eaten it, so what's the point of minding!
It's too late to mind!
Everyone present couldn't help but grumble inwardly.
"However, besides bringing the dead back to life, this fruit has no other effects," Tony Stark then continued to explain to everyone.
"Well, it's not completely useless; it can also grant some strange and bizarre abilities, but the prerequisite is that one must die once."
Captain America: "…"
Hawkeye Barton: "…"
Thor: "…"
Dr. Banner: "…"
Black Widow: "…"
Everyone was slightly speechless. No one would die just to gain those abilities.
But even so, even if no abilities could be gained, the ability to bring the dead back to life was already abnormal and heaven-defying enough.
"First the healing potion, then the Revive-Revive Fruit. Doesn't this mean Stark can snap his fingers twice?" Black Widow then looked at Tony Stark and teased.
"No, since I already know about the threat of Thanos, I will prepare in advance!"
"At that time, I will definitely develop a powerful suit of armor to defeat him, without needing to snap any fingers at all!"
Tony Stark declared with his usual arrogance.
「Quiz completed. Now playing the answer analysis!」
With this system prompt, corresponding footage began to appear on the large screen.
Knock, knock, knock!
First to appear was a woman, standing at Tony Stark's doorstep, knocking.
"This woman?"
Tony Stark, in front of the screen, immediately found the woman very familiar, surely having seen her somewhere.
But where exactly he had seen her, Tony Stark couldn't quite recall for a moment, because he had dealt with far too many women in his life.
"Passing through a garden of flowers" was merely an exaggerated metaphor for others, but for Tony Stark, it was a literal truth.
He hadn't yet remembered that the woman was Maya Hansen, the female scientist who had a deep conversation with him at the Swiss science conference, causing him to stand up Killian.
Clang!
On the screen.
Tony Stark's automatic door opened, and Maya Hansen strode in.
However, a scanner at the door immediately projected a beam of light onto Maya Hansen.
It was exaggerated that one had to go through a security check to enter Tony Stark's house.
But what was even more exaggerated came next: Tony Stark came out fully armed, wearing his suit, and his first question was, "You're not the Mandarin, are you? Right? You're not, are you?"
This made everyone present feel a sense of strangeness.
Tony Stark was so on guard; did he already know that the Mandarin was going to attack him?
Otherwise, who would set up a security check at their doorstep and wear a suit of armor while holed up at home?
"You don't remember? I'm not surprised at all," Maya Hansen's voice rang out, a faint hint of sarcasm on her face.
"Don't take it to heart, I don't even remember what I had for breakfast!" Tony Stark said earnestly to Maya Hansen.
"I want to speak to you alone, preferably not here. It's something very important." Maya Hansen's expression also became serious.
"Normally I wouldn't refuse, but right now, I already have a serious girlfriend." The playboy, being asked out by someone, actually refused, which surprised everyone.
It seemed that this playboy wasn't as bad as the rumors suggested; at least he had some boundaries.
However, Tony Stark was immediately proven wrong. Just as he was about to introduce his girlfriend to Maya Hansen, several bags were roughly thrown down from the second floor.
One look at the situation and it was clear they had argued, and his girlfriend was planning to run away from home.
"Tony, do we have company?"
Immediately after, a woman's voice was heard.
Everyone present recognized it; it was Pepper's voice.
Then, Pepper's figure appeared in everyone's sight, coming before Tony Stark.