When Tony arrives at the military hospital where Banner is located, he sees an unexpected figure near the entrance to the ward. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info This is a neat military uniform, several Medals of Honor on his chest, gray hair but still in good spirits, who quietly peeks into Banner through the door of the hospital room.

"General Ross, I thought you were dead."

That's right, this veteran is General Ross, the leader of the special forces who specializes in dealing with superhumans for the U.S. government, who was kidnapped by the escaped abomination of the Lonely Island Prison robbery. However, he has been missing for so long, perhaps the military has already treated him as a dead man, and I don't know what identity he returned this time.

"The emir didn't kill me, he thought it was too cheap for me." General Ross explained in a calm tone as if he were telling someone else's story, and he showed Tony his now pinhole-ridden palm, "so he did to me what had happened to him, saying that only then could I understand his pain." ”

The only thing I want General Ross to experience is the mutation caused by the direct exposure of gamma rays that turned Bruce Banner into the Hulk. Only monsters can understand the pain of monsters, and what they hate to do is to make General Ross their own kind.

Killing General Ross after all the suffering he had experienced was the abomination's plan for revenge, but he never had a chance to realize the second half of it.

"So, are you still going to capture Banner?" Considering that General Ross had dedicated his life to capturing the Hulk, Tony rightly raised this question.

"No, now I can understand how he feels, and I can't blame him entirely for all this." As if he had understood something, General Ross suddenly felt empathy for Banner's plight, and at the same time he took off the medal on his military uniform, threw it into the trash and said: "What's more, now that I am no longer an American soldier, I am very happy to be a colleague with you, and I am inconvenient to disclose more things." ”

Tony looked at the back of the departing General Ross and felt confused, why did he step down from his job as a military general and become a colleague with himself? And he really just wanted to sneak a visit to Bruce Banner?

"Forget it, let Chen be distressed about these things." Tony, who had made up his mind to give up thinking, walked into Banner's hospital room and unceremoniously shook him out of his sleep: "Hey, man, wake up, I'm not here to stare at you sleeping." ”

Banner was nervously startled by the sudden awakening, and was relieved to see Tony's appearance in front of him clearly: "Tony, you scared me to death." Alas, I have finally recovered my original state, can't you let me sleep well? ”

"So, do you need me to sing you a lullaby?"

"Alright Tony, I'm not in the mood to joke right now. What would you do if you woke up and found that you had destroyed several cities and left millions of people homeless? “

"Hmm-think about the compensation this time is equivalent to a fraction of a percent stake in Stark Industries?" Tony teased flirtatiously, but saw that Banner wasn't in the mood to joke and had to look a little more serious, "Okay, I'm here to ask how you got back to your original state, and you hope we can stop you next time." ”

Banner recalled, blankly, "I just remember hearing the lullaby music for some reason after Captain America appeared in front of me. ”

"Lullaby? That thing will fail when your emotions reach a certain point, and it won't be completely ineffective, but it can't have a very critical effect. As a member of the Avengers, Tony knew very well that the usual lullaby could not be the main reason for the Hulk's return to Banner, and eagerly asked, "There must be other factors that are restraining your anger, such as asking me to put on an anti-hulk armor and beat you up." ”

"Nobody attacked me, Tony. At that point, though, I felt as if there was a force in my head that was helping me suppress the Hulk and suppress the anger in my body, I can't say what it was, but I believe it was the force that strengthened my will and I was able to recover my body from Hulk's control. ”

Banner's answer obviously didn't solve all the problems, but it seemed that there was only so much information he could get from him. He said goodbye to Banner and left the hospital, and returned to his office to contact Chen Lu, who was engaged in incitement activities at the Mutant Academy.

"You're saying that Banner was brought back by some of Captain America's secret allies, and no one else knows who he is?" After listening to Tony's description of the incident, Chen Lu asked thoughtfully.

"Obviously, it's a very troublesome opponent anyway." Tony said nonchalantly, with his knowledge of Chen Lu, this level of clues should be enough for him.

"Well, with the ability to strengthen the will of others, he is obviously a psychic superpower. I don't want people to know that he is still alive, which means that the world thinks he is dead. And very firmly on Captain America's side, then it's not a supervillain or anything like that. Chen Lu sorted out his thoughts according to the information Tony gave him, combined with his understanding of the Marvel movie world, and soon, the easter egg plot of a superhero movie came to his mind.

"Tony, you go and investigate the birth records of twins with the surname 'Xavier' all over the United States, I believe that there will not be many twin brothers, if there are or have been vegetative symptoms among them, it means that you have found the right one." Chen Lu ordered Tony that, as Tony's Secretary of Defense, there should be no pressure to check the birth records of American citizens.

"Well, I'll let Jarvis look into it, and I'm sure the results will be available soon. Also, when I went to see Banner, I met General Ross, and I didn't expect that old fellow to be torn in half by the abomination. Tony recounted his conversation with General Ross to Chen Lu in its entirety, to see what the magical time-traveler could know.

After hearing this, Chen Lu smiled bitterly and said, "What else can there be, can there be any other fate for people who have been irradiated by gamma rays?" ”

"In fact, the vast majority of people die outright, and Hulk and Abomination are just a handful of cases." Tony replied rigorously from the perspective of a scientist that if everyone who had been exposed to gamma rays could turn into a Hulk, then the Earth would have become a superhuman Krypton.

Tony's idea is naturally correct, but unfortunately the person who was irradiated this time was General Ross. Of course, an ordinary person in the Marvel world would not become a Hulk because of a little gamma ray, but as a character who had mutated in the original comics, the appearance of another giant became a matter of course.