Chapter Twenty-Three: The Ultimate Weapon
"If you can't think of a good reason, you're screwed, you know? Nick. Fury. ”
The smart golden-red armor broke through the window and descended from the skylight. Wrapped in this armor, Stark unceremoniously told Nick that the security system here was actually designed by him, and only he could break in with a weapon. Nick secretly remembered this in his heart, and made up his mind that next time he would definitely find someone to modify it and install the system.
Tony glanced around the room, lingering on the familiar faces for a moment before looking away, his armor and helmet popping open to reveal Tony's unhappy face, "There are so many people here, what is there that I have to do?" I don't think it's a more important thing now than saving those who were injured in the attack. ”
"S.H.I.E.L.D. has sent people to rescue the wounded, and where are Skynet's rescue robots! The crisis here is no less than there, and we are fighting for the survival of humanity. Time is very important to us now, Tony! We need you. ”
Nick's words are very sincere, every minute and every second is urgent now, and most of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s scientific research strength has been concentrated, but the results are still progressing slowly, and now he can only count on Tony's partial talent.
"Of course you need me, who else can you count on when everyone is powerless?" Tony smirked, "Now tell me, what makes S.H.I.E.L.D. helpless?" ”
"Let me see, what is this?" Tony pushed away Nick, who was blocking him, and looked in amazement at the quaint stone tablet placed in the center of the laboratory, on which an obscure phrase was inscribed in ancient words, mysterious and strange to Tony: "Lemurian script! This kind of thing really exists, and you should find an archaeologist instead of me. ”
If not in Howard. Stark's relics had seen something similar, and Tony had a hard time recognizing the ancient, relics from Lemuria, a lost ancient civilization. This was once a sunken continent in the South Pacific Ocean, between North America and Australia in Asia. Its history and existence are a mystery, except that it was a civilization of the same era as Atlantis, and humans know almost nothing about it.
The discovery of relics of suspected Lemurian script here is an important discovery for world civilization.
"This is the Death Monument!"
Standing in front of the stele, Pym explained to Stark, "An artifact from the ancient civilization of Lemuria, we are sure that Lemuria was once a technologically advanced country. A powerful civilization that has fought many wars with the Atlantean civilization. But both civilizations have a common enemy - the 'apocalypse'. ”
"The Apocalypse was very powerful, and after a stubborn resistance, the two hostile civilizations were wiped out together. Most of the traces they left in this world have been erased from the face of the earth by the catastrophic presence of the Apocalypse. Only a few things remained that could not be destroyed - this stele is the most important of them. ”
In the last century, the stele was removed from the palace of the Chinese emperor by European armies, and after nearly three decades of displacement, it fell into the hands of S.H.I.E.L.D., and has been stored in the research institute of prehistoric civilizations, from which researchers have discovered a large number of supertechnologies that are now incomprehensible to science. It eventually became evidence of the existence of the Lemurian civilization.
However, because the technology was too advanced to be exploited, it remained sealed in the warehouse of the research institute until the obelisk of the Inhuman translation mentioned this mysterious stone tablet and called it the 'Death Tablet'.
"It's really mysterious, and the technology it contains shouldn't be accessible to humans today...... If you don't understand something, you should be cautious about it, otherwise it will bring disaster. Of course. Leave me out. Tony nodded intently as he studied the stele.
"But why is it about the survival of humanity?"
Nick looked at Tony with one eye for a moment. Said cautiously: "Because the culprit who caused the demise of the Lemurian civilization has reappeared!" ”
Tony turned his head to look at him and affirmed, "Skynet!" ”
"In the records of another prehistoric relic, the obelisk, Skynet is indeed one of them, but the 'apocalypse' is far more terrifying than we imagined, Lemuria, Atlantis. Even those ancient civilizations that disappeared in the long river of time were destroyed because of it. The earth is very fragile, and human civilization is at stake......"
"You want to find the strength of the Lemurian civilization to resist the catastrophe of the 'Apocalypse'?" Tony wondered.
"Yes, according to the Obelisk, the Atlantean and Lemurian civilizations were at the last moment of destruction. Together, they found the power to fight the Apocalypse, and successfully sealed the Death. They recorded the key message of 'death' on the 'Death Tablet', and the power to fight against the 'Apocalypse' on the 'Life and Time Tablet', and then went to meet the destruction! ”
"Humanity has nothing compared to powerful ancient civilizations. But now that the prophesied time of the 'Apocalypse' is getting closer, Skynet first came to this world and chose Doom as the human form. The Inhumans have warned us that we will end up like countless civilizations that have been destroyed by the Apocalypse. ”
We want nothing more than to survive!
This is the desperate belief of the Inhumans, they have experienced too many disasters that have destroyed civilization, and they can still insist on starting over and creating civilization at the beginning, and after despair again and again, the Inhumans choose to go into self-exile. Give up civilization, give up inheritance, survive in the form of a race, and save the fire after the 'Apocalypse' disaster.
"I'll give it a try!" Tony was shocked by the news he heard, and he rarely hesitated: "The technology system of this stone tablet is completely different from ours, and I am not completely sure, so I can only try." Nick, help me get Pepper back! ”
Nick nodded silently and patted him on the shoulder.
"Bruce's deciphering the obelisk, which also has a lot of vital information there. Tony, I'll start with some information that has been deciphered. Pym led Tony into the very center of the stele.
"Ancient civilizations and apocalypse, we come from the same universe, in the ancient universe tens of billions of years ago, 'Apocalypse' and the original ancient civilization came to this world, and then there was a war that lasted for billions of years. In the end, the original ancient civilization perished along with the indigenous civilizations of the galaxy, and the apocalypse waited for the arrival of the second ancient civilization. ”
"The second ancient civilization came to this universe in order to escape the 'apocalypse' and follow the footsteps of the original primitive civilization, but because of the subtle differences between the two cosmic dimensions, there was a difference of tens of billions of years. When they arrived on Earth 100 million years ago, they only came into contact with the ruins of the first ancient civilizations. ”
"On top of the ruins, together with the remnants of the original ancient civilization, they have created an even more glorious civilization, and the brilliant light of civilization illuminates the entire galaxy until the 'Apocalypse' comes once more. The time of destruction has come! In the end, our ancestors were divided into the Nine Realms by the Apocalypse, and the ancient civilization left only Atlantis, Lemuria, Gendaya, and Mu Continent. ”
"The stele is very important to us, the stele of death and the stele of time and life record the power of Atlantis and Lemuria against the apocalypse, the power that has been passed down from the first ancient civilization and developed to the fullest."
"Energy and life from the universe born from the Apocalypse!"
"Is there a clearer message?" Tony spread his hands and said, "It's all vague history!" ”
"Our decipherment of the other obelisk is still in a vague stage." Pym couldn't do anything about it, he said helplessly: "According to some more vague information, the power we are looking for is a collection of energy and life, which has about the positive and negative energy of a million stars and the ultimate life form, which comes from a plan of an ancient civilization called 'Sentinel'. ”
Tony looked at the obscure words on the stone tablet and sighed, "What we are looking for is the sentry?" ”
"Now the Sentinel is dangerous, and it is speculated that its complete information is divided into two parts, one part records its energy and soul, and the great miracle of sealing 'death' is recorded on the Death Tablet, and the other part, which represents the life equation of the Sentinel becoming the ultimate life, is recorded on the 'Time and Life Monument', and I don't know what to do."
"If there is only energy and soul, then the sentinels who have been polluted by 'death' are likely to fall into the control of 'Apocalypse' and be controlled by 'nothingness'. Only by composing energy and life into a complete 'sentinel' can rely on the characteristics of the ultimate creature to get rid of the pollution of 'death'. It was originally just a robot, and it was not until the ancient civilization discovered an infinitely evolving ultimate life in our universe and cracked its secrets that the equation of life and the energy of the other universe constituted this most powerful weapon of war. (To be continued.) )