Tony Stark has always been a nocturnal animal, and he always feels more inspired at night, especially in the early hours of the morning, when the hustle and bustle of Manhattan becomes especially quiet, and this is when his mind is at its most active.

The suit for Bruce Banner was almost finished, and now only the final debugging phase remained, which gave Stark no reason to stay up late and fight, and went to the shower around five o'clock to get ready for bed.

However, as soon as he stepped into the tub and had just adjusted to a comfortable position to lie down, Jarvis's voice rang out.

"Sir, someone opened Safe 7."

"What?" Stark sat up from the water abruptly, the mist that had not yet spread in the bathroom was washed away by his body, "What did you say?" ”

"Someone opened Safe 7, 12 seconds ago." Jarvis repeated.

Stark immediately tensed up as his mind raced.

With the technology of his own laboratory security system, if a stranger intrudes into the case, the alarm will be triggered first, and if someone can open Safe 7 without triggering the alarm, then there are only two explanations - either this person is a skilled thief, or this person is an insider of Stark Industries. Considering the unlikely possibility of the former, Stark immediately guessed that there was a surprise visit from insiders.

"Is it Xiu? Or maybe Dr. Banner? ”

Stark hurriedly gave Jarvis an order: "Bring up the surveillance footage." ”

The walls of the bathroom were immediately photographed with high-definition projections, showing surveillance footage of the inside of the lab a minute earlier — Helen was seen entering through the door with her face brushed and then looking around the lab.

"Dr. Zhao?" Stark was stunned, "What is she doing in the lab at night?" ”

Half a minute later, Dr. Zhao walked straight towards Safe 7, and she closed the energy isolation cover on the outside of the safe, which surprised Stark: "Damn, what is this woman doing?" Doesn't she know how dangerous it is? ”

Sure enough, after Dr. Zhao turned off the energy isolation cover, she suddenly hung down her hands as if she had lost her soul, stunned.

Stark took a deep breath and commanded in a low voice, "Jarvis, analyze the energy field at the scene." ”

Jarvis immediately sketched out the energy distribution in the laboratory in the video, and Stark clearly saw that a strong energy field was projected from Vault 7, and successfully interfered with Helen Zhao standing next to it.

"Damn!" Stark was furious, "Dr. Zhao took the wrong medicine?!" ”

Although Tony Stark has added two layers of isolation covers to the No. 7 safe, and strengthened the safe with black road metal film, it seems that after Helen closes the first layer of isolation cover, it can easily "catch" the "prey" of the outside world through the penetration protection measures.

In their previous research, Luo Xiu and Stark discovered the secret of the Soul Primordial Stone - this Primordial Stone is far more dangerous than the Space Primordial Stone in the Cosmic Rubik's Cube because it is "alive".

The Soul Gem has its own consciousness and thinking, and it will passively protect itself, and even take the initiative to attack. At the moment, it is obviously very unhappy that it is "imprisoned" in the safe by the Avengers, it is trying to gain freedom, and Dr. Helen, who is wandering in the laboratory late at night, becomes its prey, but Helen also opens the isolation shield by magic.

So the Soul Primordial stretched out its invisible tentacles, easily hijacking Helen's consciousness, and now Helen has become its puppet, and has been driven by it.

It was not too difficult for the Soul Primordial to crack the isolation cover set up by Stark, and it manipulated Helen to easily open the second layer of isolation cover, enter the code and open the safe.

So the Soul Stone was free, and it was carefully held in Helen's hand, and the yellow crystals shone in the bright lights of the laboratory, like a liberated soul.

A smile appeared on Helen's face as she turned and walked out of the lab.

Stark hurriedly turned over and came out of the bathtub, nervously ordering Jarvis: "Jarvis, dial Xiu's phone!" ”

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In an underground laboratory.

Rosho and Fitz are still staying up late to fight.

It was another all-nighter, but the second stage of the transcendent body hatching was still no progress.

"Xiu, I don't think we will have good results if we continue to do this, so it is better to adjust our thinking, such as directly improving the super soldier serum, or improving the vampire or something......" Fitz said with some despair.

Luo Xiu looked calm: "Don't panic, we'll have results soon." ”

At this moment, Helen hurriedly came from outside, her face was slightly pale, and her expression was a little strange.

"Dr. Zhao, didn't you go home? I thought you went back to rest. Fitz said with a smile.

Helen glanced back at Fitz, but didn't say anything.

Fitz frowned, vaguely feeling that Helen was a little strange, she wasn't so cold before, and now she was a little abnormal.

"It's strange, I was still smiling when I left just now, why did I come back with an iceberg face?" Fitz pondered quietly in his heart, but he didn't think it was like it, but with Luo Xiu present, he didn't think too carefully, anyway, according to his experience, there were no emergencies that Luo Xiu couldn't handle.

"How?" Luo Xiu didn't seem surprised by Helen's abnormality, but asked with a smile.

But Helen also didn't answer Luo Xiu's question, and she walked straight towards the transcendent body incubator.

"Dr. Zhao, what do you want to do?" Now Fitz began to feel that something was wrong, and he stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Do you want to use the incubator again?" But we don't have a mature design prototype yet. ”

Finally, Helen Zhao spoke.

"I don't need a prototype."

Before she could finish speaking, a yellow sparkling gem floated from her jacket pocket and hung in the air in the laboratory.

"Soul Stone!" Fitz suddenly realized, and hurriedly turned around and retreated, "Xiu, Dr. Zhao was controlled by the Soul Primordial Stone......"

Before he could finish speaking, Fitz's body suddenly shook, and he suddenly stopped his voice and stood up, obediently walking to the other end of the incubator like a puppet.

Luo Xiu, the only surviving one, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly cast a spell with his bare hands to separate the energy field of the soul primordial stone to prevent it from being manipulated by it.

Helen sneered and turned to Luo Xiu, and said in the tone of a soul primordial stone: "Earthling, thanks to your invention, I longed for an excellent body a long time ago, but unfortunately I have never found a suitable opportunity, and now with your help, I can finally get my wish......"

While Helen was speaking, Rochew's cell phone rang irritably—the call was from Stark, but unfortunately it was too late.