"I'm ...... Am I a spy? Tony froze in place, unable to speak.

He had never thought about it, as if something in his subconscious was preventing him from thinking about it. But when someone mentions this possibility in front of him, it seems that all the evidence points in this direction.

Even to his own surprise, when this sentence came out of Michael's mouth, he accepted the fact so simply, as if deep down he knew the truth. The reason why he didn't realize it was just that there was no one who told him to his face.

Tony Stark fell to his knees in a daze, like a shell of a soul that had been drained of his soul.

Dazed? Astound? Depressed? Doubts about your own meaning and worth?

Maybe both, but it's secondary. At this moment, when he was told that he was not who he was who he thought he was, the first thing Tony felt was ...... Not to feel like Atlas any longer.

Yes, just relieved.

He had always felt that he was carrying the weight of the whole world on his shoulders, all the things that needed to be dealt with by him, the responsibilities that he needed to bear, and all of them weighed him down all the time. He couldn't sleep for countless days and nights, he had to be on the highest alert, on guard against possible invasion from the unknown, he always had to make difficult choices, he had to make the ultimate sacrifice, because he was Iron Man, the last shield of the world.

Because the whole world is counting on him.

But it was at this moment, at this moment, that it all suddenly disappeared. It suddenly dawned on him that none of the responsibilities were his, but someone else's.

It turns out that he is not Iron Man at all.

...... That's great.

He no longer fought or resisted, he just sat on the ground with a long sigh of relief, only to feel that his life had never seemed to be so easy as it was now.

"So I'm not Tony Stark." He said.

"Yes, you're not." Michael confirmed.

“...... I don't even know if I'm supposed to be happy. Tony—or the Skruller disguised as him—said, "How long have you been looking?" ”

"It didn't take long." Michael shrugged, "Your armor reveals identity." You guys are really well disguised, and this armor is not much different in performance and function from the real Iron Man armor, maybe it's enough to fool most people, but you can't fool me. ”

And of course. The Skrulls wanted to forge a Tony Stark, but to do so, they would have to knock it off with his armor. However, Tony's Genesis suit was upgraded with Michael's help during the last time he fought against the Manchurians, and now the Iron Man suit uses a lot of technology from the 41st century, and even the Skrulls, who are far ahead of Earth, can't easily forge it.

That's why they copied this set of Iron Man armor - on the surface, it seems that all the functional modules have been perfectly restored, but in fact it is all just some specious technology. They used Skrull technology to replicate the various weapon systems of the Genesis suit, which seemed to have a similar effect in actual combat, but compared to the original version, it only looked very similar, and it was not the real Iron Man.

Others may not be able to see the clues, but Michael, who personally handed over these future technologies to Stark, certainly saw the problem at a glance, otherwise it would not be easy to find out this spy Stark.

"So what am I now?" The Skrull looked at his hand and said self-deprecatingly, "Obviously I'm not Tony Stark, I'm not even an Earthling. But I remember everything he remembered clearly. I remember the day I was caught in a cave, and I remember the first time I had to rely on an arc reactor to sustain my heartbeat. I remember the first time I soared through the skies in the MK2, the day I became S.H.I.E.L.D., and I remember the most difficult choice I made myself and had to go toe-to-toe with my best friend...... It all feels so real, it's like...... It's like my own. ”

He closed his eyes and shook his head.

"But I'm not him, am I? I'm a spy, a damn alien spy...... But I don't remember at all. I don't remember anything about the Skrulls, I've forgotten how to get back to my original face......"

"It doesn't matter." "It's impossible for the Skrulls to actually erase all of your memories and really turn you into Tony Stark through and through—to do so would be to lose the meaning of a spy itself." Your memories are not erased, they are just hidden in the subconscious. All you need to awaken your original memories and restore your original identity is a switch, an opportunity, like a hypnosis. ”

"So you're saying that as soon as the switch is triggered, I'll immediately revert to myself and turn back into that alien spy." The Skrull smiled wryly.

Even if he knew that his actual identity was an alien spy, at least at this moment, he was still Tony Stark, a complete earthling. Of course, he had no reason to sell Earth for an alien empire that he had no impression of.

"It doesn't have to be that way." Michael looked at him calmly with his head down, "I often tell people that we can always decide what kind of person we will become. We are never dictated by others, and who we are depends only on ourselves. ”

The Scruls were silent for a moment.

"And what are you going to do?" He looked up and asked, "I'm a spy, but you know I can't think of anything right now. I can't help you enough......"

"You don't have to worry about this aspect, we have experts who are good at probing thinking, as long as it is in your head, even if it is a memory from a hundred years ago, she can turn it out." "But it's your own decision that matters. Who do you hope will have the upper hand in this war? It's a Skrull...... Or the Earth? ”

Michael had previously studied the physiology of the Skrulls, and he had discovered that the brain structure of the shapeshifters was also very different from that of other races, and perhaps it was because of this structure that their mimicry could not be detected by psychic probes. Because of this, if you want to spy on a Skrull's brain, you have to do it voluntarily, otherwise you won't get any information even if you burn their brains into a pulp with mental power.

So in general, it's almost impossible to get information out of the heads of the Skrulls.

And this Scrull Stark is a great place to start. He didn't even remember being a Skrull, and the odds of agreeing to cooperate were extremely high. In addition, he was assigned to a top-secret mission such as "impersonating Iron Man", and he himself is likely to have a high level in the Skrull Empire, and may know a lot of confidential matters.

Sure enough, he made his decision almost without any hesitation. The Skrull looked up at Michael, "What am I going to do?" ”

Michael took two steps back.

"Witch." Michael said, "It's your job to do the rest." ”

Wanda walked out silently and nodded, "Understood." ”