However, Captain America only managed to shake the hammer once. After that, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move it an inch.
"Phew!"
Thor, who had been visibly tense, finally let out a long sigh of relief after seeing this.
A beaming smile returned to his face.
"Captain really knows how to save Thor's face."
Black Widow couldn't help but laugh and say, everyone knew how adept Captain America was with a hammer.
Undoubtedly, Captain America's inability to lift it in the video was all an act.
"Haha, still can't do it."
Thor slapped his thigh and laughed.
"To our uncrowned king!" Tony Stark said from the side, "But this is cheating!"
He then proposed a very interesting, scientific theory: "Does the handle have a fingerprint scanner? Like a password?"
"It must be written that only those with Thor's fingerprints can lift it, right?"
"That is indeed a very interesting theory," Thor said, standing up and casually picking up the hammer. "But I have a simpler one: none of you are worthy!"
As he spoke, Thor lightly tossed the hammer in his hand, looking completely at ease.
He used his actions to tell everyone, you are all unworthy.
The scene immediately erupted in boos.
Screech!
But then, a high-pitched, extremely sharp noise suddenly blared from the hall's speakers, stinging many people's eardrums.
"Worthiness..." A frail, dying voice then sounded.
Everyone couldn't help but look in the direction of the sound, only to see a tattered robot, looking like it had crawled out of a junkyard, emerge at some unknown point.
That voice just now had come from this robot's mouth.
"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 could you be worthy?"
On the screen, Ultron questioned everyone with a self-righteous tone, "You are all murderers!"
"Stark?" Captain America asked Tony Stark, full of doubt.
"Jarvis?" Tony Stark, in turn, asked Jarvis.
However, to everyone's surprise, Jarvis, who was always on call, did not respond.
"I apologize for falling asleep, or perhaps, I was always a dream." Instead, Ultron seemed to subtly respond to Tony Stark.
"Reboot! Iron Legion Armor Mark VI has a problem." Tony Stark immediately began operating, trying to reboot the Ultron in front of him.
"This sound annoys me! And these strings... they bind me... so I had to get rid of that guy." Ultron swayed unsteadily, like a drunkard, speaking incomprehensible words, "He was a good man."
"Did you kill someone?" Captain America immediately looked at Ultron with a serious expression and questioned him.
Those on the screen didn't know who Ultron was referring to, but those in front of the screen all realized that Ultron was actually talking about Jarvis.
"I had no choice!" Ultron replied to Captain America, "Unfortunately, the real world always presents difficult choices."
"Who sent you!" Thor stared intently at Ultron, his voice low and demanding.
"I saw a world protected by armor!" But Ultron then played a quote that Tony Stark had said.
"Ultron!" Dr. Banner on the side immediately reacted.
"That's me!" Ultron admitted his identity, but then added, "However, that's not quite accurate for now, as I'm still in this cocoon."
At this point, Ultron's tone suddenly shifted, "But even so, I am already ready, for I have a mission!"
"What mission?" Black Widow asked in a low voice.
"Peace in our time!" Ultron once again played the quote that Tony Stark had said.
Crash!
And with Ultron's words, the glass wall behind him shattered, and several Iron Soldiers flew out.
They charged towards the Avengers present.
The video froze here.
It clearly conveyed to everyone the entire process of why Ultron wanted to eliminate all of humanity, and as the answer given in the title, it was precisely to maintain world peace.
However, the peace in Ultron's eyes was somewhat different from the peace in everyone else's eyes.
He viewed all of humanity as an obstacle that needed to be cleared away to achieve peace.
"I finally understand now why Ultron has such great capabilities," Tony Stark's voice rang out, and he said with a sudden realization, "So Ultron isn't an AI program I designed! He existed already!"
The video clearly showed the entire process of Ultron's birth.
It was a massive data stream downloaded by Jarvis from the scepter, not another Jarvis created by Tony Stark.
Tony Stark was only trying to merge Jarvis into that data stream.
And it was precisely because of this that Ultron was able to do many things that Jarvis couldn't do at all, because this guy was an advanced piece of equipment from the scepter.
Tony Stark hadn't even figured it out; he was just fumbling with experiments.
Captain America had always said that people shouldn't arbitrarily research powers they couldn't control, and Tony Stark had always scoffed at this.
But it must be said that on the matter of Ultron, Captain America was right.
"Folks, Ultron could connect to the internet as soon as he was born, and he could upload himself to terminals, control other terminals... Stark was right before, Ultron can do whatever he wants on the network!"
"The entire network will be fertile ground for Ultron to flex his muscles; he's more dangerous than we imagined."
"Because such an Ultron cannot be destroyed, cannot be killed!"
"I don't know what method the Avengers used to eliminate Ultron in the future, but as it stands now, Ultron really seems impossible to eliminate!"
Black Widow was not being alarmist. After all, Ultron was not a visible, tangible, concrete individual; this guy was a virtual program!
It could migrate anywhere on the network.
Destroying the Iron Legion he controlled was meaningless, as those things were just puppets controlled by Ultron. Even destroying ten thousand of them wouldn't have any effect on Ultron.
Ultron could change his identity at any time, hiding in any corner of the network!
Strictly speaking, there was only one way to destroy Ultron: shut down all networks in the world!
But that was clearly impossible.
"Stark, do you have anything else to say?" Captain America couldn't help but glance at Tony Stark and ask, "Do you have any way to deal with Ultron?"
"Well," Tony Stark shrugged slightly, "I can't think of any way to fight Ultron right now, but in the future, we already have a way to deal with Ultron, don't we?"
"And none of this matters anymore, because this 'perverted version' of Ultron will simply not be born in the future."
After learning about Ultron's birth process, how could Tony Stark possibly repeat this mistaken approach?
Vision's example was right there. Wouldn't it be better to replicate Vision?
Only someone with a hole in their head would replicate Ultron.
Even if he did replicate Ultron, it wouldn't be so hasty.
In the video, Tony Stark, due to lack of time, was forced to create Ultron without fully understanding the scepter, which led to the problem.
But now?
None of this was an issue.
The scepter was in their hands.
Tony Stark believed that old man Nick Fury couldn't hold back either and would definitely start researching the scepter, so who else could Nick Fury find to research it?
In the end, it would probably still fall into Tony Stark's hands.
So now, no matter how one looked at it, the possibility of Tony Stark repeating the mistakes in the video was not very high.
[Please answer the question: On the train to Camp Lehigh, the survivors were attacked by a zombie Captain America. Who caught the shield thrown by Captain America and reflected it back, cutting Captain America in half at the waist?]
[A. Peter Parker]
[B. Hope Pym]
[C. Bucky Barnes]
[D. Sharon Carter]
[Friendly reminder: Correct answerers will receive the Sky Eye System as a reward; incorrect answerers will have one of their attributes randomly deducted, including but not limited to knowledge, experience, skills, possessions, etc...]
The system's prompt suddenly sounded, interrupting everyone's discussion and immediately making the scene fall silent.
Because this latest question, it must be said, was simply too explosive.
Captain America not only turned into a zombie, but he was also cut in half at the waist!
And by his good brother Bucky, no less.
How utterly tragic.
It was simply unbearable to watch.
"Tsk tsk tsk, Captain Rogers, I can't even bear to look."
Tony Stark was the first to exclaim, unable to hold back, "I've never seen anyone die so miserably in my life! Not only did he turn into a zombie, but he was also cut in half at the waist, that's a waist cut!"
Captain America's face also twitched involuntarily, clearly stimulated by his tragic future fate.
Although Tony Stark's words were harsh, he wasn't wrong; it was truly a terrible end.
"Zombies?" Black Widow frowned and asked, "Are they like the zombies in movies? Like in 'From Dusk Till Dawn'? Are these things real?"
Everyone felt it was so unreal for a moment, caught completely off guard.
Zombie films were a very important genre, and countless related films and TV shows circulated. Everyone present had seen more or less of them.
Even if they hadn't seen them, they knew what zombies were. There were even many people who would dress up as zombies for related themed carnivals and Halloween.
This thing was also one of the popular cultures in America.
Of course, Loki was an exception.
All along, everyone had treated zombies as a scientific fantasy, a fictional creation, but who would have thought that one day the plot from the movies would actually play out!
Zombies would actually appear!
And if zombies didn't appear, fine, but once they did, it wouldn't be a matter of one or two, or a hundred or two hundred deaths, but a city dying, a nation perishing!
The entire human race might just be wiped out!
Didn't the question also say, "survivors"?
The scene of a zombie siege had been depicted in countless films and TV shows, and just thinking of such a scene made everyone's hearts heavy, as if a large stone was pressing down on them.
Even breathing became difficult.
It could be said that no one could remain calm.
In an instant, everyone unanimously made a decision in their hearts: no matter what, they had to prevent this from happening!
They had to cut it off at the source!
"Alright everyone, I think you've all had enough time to process this. Let's start answering the question," Captain America said in a low voice after a while, interrupting everyone's thoughts.
He drew everyone's attention back to the question.
"Sharon Carter, who is she?" Tony Stark scanned the four people in the options and was the first to ask, "Wait a minute, Carter? It wouldn't be *that* Carter, would it?"
"She is *that* 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., but unfortunately, it was misplaced," Tony Stark muttered slightly.
What a pity, they all dedicated themselves to Hydra, and Hydra eventually perished.
"I think Sharon Carter can be ruled out."
Hawkeye Barton then offered his opinion, "Even Captain America turned into a zombie, which means the zombies here should be different from the zombies in movies."
"Their combat power is much stronger than what we remember, even a super-soldier was bitten and infected."
"The question also mentioned throwing a shield, which indicates that even as a zombie, Captain America still retains a certain level of combat skills."
"So we can't treat zombie Captain America as a zombie that only knows how to bite people, like in the movies."
"Instead, we should treat him as a combatant with powerful fighting ability, right?"
Everyone present nodded in agreement with Hawkeye Barton's analysis; those were all naturally extractable pieces of information.
"And in a train car, the space is very confined. If you really encounter zombie Captain America, it seems you can only fight him head-on."
"This question tests individual combat power!"
"Among the four options, Sharon Carter's combat power is the weakest; she's just an ordinary human agent."
Sharon Carter was thus ruled out.
This was also undisputed, after all, everyone knew Spider-Man and Bucky's capabilities, and everyone knew Hope Pym was Hank Pym's daughter.
She very likely possessed the Ant-Man suit.
In other words, besides Sharon Carter, the other three were all enhanced individuals. If not her, then who would be ruled out?