thefictionvixens Chapter 270 Illusion: Kids, this isn't funny
Chapter 270 Illusion: Kids, this isn't funny
Chapter 270 Illusion: Kids, this isn't funny
Anyone can talk big.
Although the Punisher is a cold-blooded and ruthless vigilante who kills, his military background means he respects Captain America more than anyone else, and he even genuinely believes in what the other says.
Now, Captain America's death has plunged his hopeful heart into an irreversible winter.
"She-Hulk and Luke Cage have tried, and the result is that they are both dead."
Neither serving the citizens nor the American spirit can reverse the fate that this world was destined to have.
What use is this inexplicable "superman" that has appeared in front of us?
Even if the other side blocks the signal transmission, so what? Ultron can come back again at any time, and their world is already practically dead.
The world is completely finished. How can he possibly turn the tide and restore the world to its pre-disaster state?
"That might be a bit difficult."
Joey stretched his limbs, preparing for the next step: "Of course, I'm referring to the part about 'restoring the world to its pre-disaster state.'"
If he had that kind of ability, he wouldn't have appeared in the Flashpoint universe or this universe in the first place.
However, along the way, he has seen too many cases of attempts to rewrite history that have only made a mess of the universe, which makes the thorn in Joey's heart ache again.
The reason they failed to change history was simply because their methods were wrong—that was the only way Joey could console himself.
Even under the extremely strict Novikov self-consistency principle, the methods Joey initially prepared were very reasonable and could withstand the test of time.
Enough of the small talk. The Punisher's doubts were also the thoughts of the vast majority of people present. No matter how much Joey guaranteed it, it would be difficult to make a big splash in the superhero group that now only had a few dozen members.
They had given up hope of everything, so much so that they didn't even bother to think about who "Superman" was or whether he was a robot spy for Ultron.
If so, that might be even better—a wild and desolate place could also be a feng shui treasure land for burial.
"Stay here and wait for my message."
After uttering those words, Joey leaped into the sky and sped northward, entering North America in no time.
These survivors are only alive today because of good luck and Ultron's leniency.
They lost their will to fight, and it wasn't their fault.
The core of this massive war machine, Nie Li, stands on the shallow coastline near New York. Signals commanding all Ultron robots worldwide originate from here; a massive mechanical dome has virtually turned Manhattan into perpetual night.
As Joey slowed down as he approached the core area, the first to attack him were not the cloud of drones directly controlled by Ultron, but rather various local human armed forces—
"Grab him!" "Alive!"
From jeeps welded with machine guns and cannons to tanks and even various helicopters and aircraft, anything with even a little firepower was controlled by a group of madmen who were beating Joey in the path he was flying, and a huge number of tracer rounds illuminated the entire night sky.
Joi, who was observing from mid-air, paid no attention to these attacks, which were not even tickles. He was only focused on calculating how to cause the greatest damage and the least casualties when removing Ultron's processing core, "Vision".
As for why these human thugs attacked Joey, it was a consequence of the Age of Ultron.
From its inception, Ultron was designed to possess "needs" and "desires".
Dr. Pym didn't want to create a purely logical monster devoid of emotions, which is why Ultron didn't always use efficiency as the sole criterion for making decisions.
Ultron, who was originally capable of infinite learning and evolution, quickly learned a series of emotions and desires that contradicted mechanical logic, such as "hatred," "revenge," and "torture."
Ultron could have taken advantage of the surprise attack at the beginning of the invasion and used his tens of thousands of super robots to blast most of the so-called "superheroes" to dust one by one, but that would not have been satisfactory at all.
Instead, we could bribe these humans with the "right to live," making them hunters to do trivial things for us—capturing every superhero they could find and handing them over to their master, Ultron, in exchange for a reward.
Watching these superheroes being hunted and hunted down like stray dogs by the very people they once protected provided Ultron with immense satisfaction.
What Joey faced was the final outcome.
A barrage of ammunition was fired, exploding around Joey, but not a single bullet could penetrate the bio-force field's defenses.
It's no wonder that those superheroes would rather stay in the wilderness and wait to die than fight Ultron to the death with their broken bodies; no one wants to die at the hands of the enemy like that.
In the event of the apocalypse, those who survive to the end are mostly such despicable and shameless individuals.
Joey could have killed them all in a single thought, but he didn't.
Human nature is easily tested in extreme environments, and this is not their fault.
Joey's gaze sharpened as he calculated the path. After a sonic boom swept away the remaining smoke and shrapnel, only a blur remained in place.
These ordinary people's weapons could no longer capture his figure.
The massive swarm of robots, like an ant colony, had gathered within the mechanical fortress, which spanned dozens of miles, and had long since moved as if it were an empty place.
These Ultron robots are even older than the models Joey first encountered, and they couldn't stop him then, let alone now.
Even though a few specialized robots fired rays powerful enough to harm Joey, they were quickly rendered immune to in the next attack.
At the very center of the fortress is Vision, whose upper body is now only half intact, fixed in mid-air in a cross shape by countless semi-transparent streams of data.
As Joey barged in, Ultron was still remotely controlling the mangled body to conduct what he called a "deal":
What can you offer?
Another unlucky soul was captured by these so-called "hunters" and taken to the heart of this place.
Joey looked closely—
In a sense, they are "old acquaintances".
Spider-Man, Peter Parker.
This was probably the worst-dressed Peter Parker Joey had ever seen. His uniform was torn, he was tied up, and he had been beaten so badly that his skin was ripped open. Two of his molars had been pried out, and blood was seeping uncontrollably from his swollen mouth.
It seems that the pursuit by the Heirs may not have such a big impact on the infinite multiverse. Aren't there still wild Spider-Men roaming around right now?
Moreover, those medieval vampires were the epitome of picking on the weak.
He dares not go to universes where Joy is, nor does he dare come to universes where Ultron is active. All he does all day is slaughter relatively weak spider totems under the guidance of the Master Weaver.
Joey swiftly pressed down on Vision's head, ripping him off the seemingly indestructible cable.
Although it's unclear how Parker ended up in the hands of a group of armed ordinary people, he's probably rescued over a thousand Spider-Men recently, so adding one more wouldn't hurt.
Joey casually brought along Parker, who had been beaten so badly that even his Aunt May wouldn't recognize him.
As the intelligent core was removed, a dazzling red light flashed inside the mechanical fortress. Before the signal faded, the Ultron robots began firing at everyone in the room.
The bounty hunters began to scream in panic. They were just mortals, and under such firepower, they could not survive even a second.
"Damn it!"
Upon seeing this, Joey took a deep breath and exhaled a blast of cold air, instantly freezing the entire mechanical fortress, rendering both robots and humans temporarily immobile.
These people deserve to die, but considering how few humans are left in the world, perhaps they will have other uses.
Of course, that will be a long time from now.
Once Joey defeats Ultron, once the superhero survivors return to New York, once people like the Punisher return to restore order to the world.
For these rioters who will be thawed out, a brief and painless death will likely be a luxury.
Once they were far from the mechanical fortress, which acted as an amplifying antenna, the command chain, relayed by the illusion, completely collapsed. The robot legion that had been patrolling the globe huddled together like ants, entering standby mode.
"Hey, what are you doing! Who told you to ruin my plans!"
Peter Parker, rescued by Joey, was not appreciative at all. Instead, he immediately changed his attitude and berated Joey: "I'm about to successfully control... no, kill him!"
Spider-Man originally had a big plan.
He feigned capture only to get close to Ultron's main body, and then used his meticulously written program to breach its firewall.
Destroy Ultron in one fell swoop!
Joey didn't even want to explain to Spider-Man how far-fetched his adventurous behavior was. A low-EQ way to put it would be that he was just too imaginative, while a higher-EQ way would be, "You have a good imagination; you'd be quite suitable to join the Green Lantern Corps."
Fortunately, Joey didn't need to explain this; Ultron, who projected his will through Vision's body, perfectly evaluated Spider-Man's action for him.
"Haha, you idiot."
He originally devoted most of his energy to commanding the global drone army, but now that the command link has been broken, all he can do is verbally attack the other side.
You could even explain to this spider, who still doesn't understand the situation, the fact that everyone already knows: "No matter what virus you use, you can't hurt me."
The two sides are currently in completely unequal situations. Ultron, who is in the future, can freely transmit information streams to the past and control machine legions to launch attacks without warning, while launching attacks from the past to the future in the form of information data.
Just as an archer draws his bow from the foot of a mountain in an attempt to bring down Ultron at the summit, the future Ultron has almost eternal time to figure out how to solve the virus.
"Let me see how I can shut you up."
After scanning the half of the illusion with his super vision, Joey realized that this was definitely not the same Mind Stone version of the machine they had fought before.
This one is more...retro.
Like Ultron, Vision, a founding member of the Avengers, was not initially created by Tony Stark, Iron Man, as is the established character in the cinematic universe.
The Stark Hand was not created by Ultron.
Ultron's initial attitude towards Vision was similar to Ant-Man's attitude towards Ultron, resembling a father-son relationship, which led to Vision's betrayal.
Vision, who betrayed Ultron, was accepted without hesitation by the Avengers, led by Ant-Man, and treated as their own son, until one day Ultron finally found a way to bring about the deserved end of the world through Vision.
Although their origin stories are different, their forms and functions are largely the same. The only difference is that the gem on Vision's forehead is not the Mind Stone, but a high-tech energy core that Ultron synthesized himself.
What are you waiting for?
The golden gem on his forehead was shining brightly. Even with only half a body left, Ultron, who was being controlled by Vision, still had the power to resist.
However, faced with a being of Superman's stature, Ultron decided to conserve some computing power and invest it in more important matters:
"Destroy this machine now, see you next time!"
However, the two machines are roughly similar in design, which means that if you want to cut off Ultron's future vision of the past, you have to scrap this machine.
The simplest and quickest way to scrap this machine is... "Hmm...—"
Thinking back to how Vision died on the movie screen, Joey was starting to lose his composure.
Is it destined that every gem on Vision's forehead will be pried off?