Chapter 15: The Cat in the Box and the Man Outside the Box
Well, people are actually double-standard animals.
There are some things I can do, but you can't.
Ronan wasn't a saint, he was just an ordinary high school student.
It's just a little bit longer.
"Looks like you're in a good mood."
"Got the answer you wanted?"
Just as Ronan returned to the Avengers base, Black Widow's voice rang out from behind him.
She seems to have been waiting here.
"Not bad."
"At least it's much better than when I came before."
Ronan smiled and spun around in a semicircle, walked to a couch and sat down.
These Avengers' friends are truly grateful to the hooded man.
Otherwise, I really don't know where to vent my anger.
"Here's your coffee."
"Captain, seeing that you haven't come back yet, I'll leave it here."
Black Widow placed a cup of coffee on the table and sat down across from Ronan.
Hiss...
It's really swaying.
Ronan raised an eyebrow, his gaze deftly avoiding the two flashbangs.
Looks like there's something wrong with Black Widow?
No, to be exact, it was about herself.
"Thank you."
"If it's okay, I'll go around."
"After all, this is the future, so if you look at it more, maybe it will help me with my homework."
With that, Ronan picked up the coffee on the table and saluted Black Widow.
It's kind of a token of gratitude.
He didn't intend to have anything to do with the woman in front of him.
To be exact, he wasn't going to have anything to do with anyone in this world.
Although Black Widow is not dead, the overall plot has not changed.
If the plot develops, the two people who are the leaders of the original Avengers will leave in this battle.
One is dead, the other is old.
Although Ronan was capable of doing something, he was not willing to do it.
It's like he doesn't want to come here.
What happened here had little to do with him.
It's not that he can't do it, it's that he doesn't want to do it.
For him, a passer-by, it makes no difference whether he is a friend or a stranger.
"Wait."
However, Black Widow stopped Ronan.
Ronan stopped half of his body and looked at Black Widow with some confusion.
Not sure what she meant.
"Something... I want to ask you. ”
Black Widow's eyes looked at Ronan, and there seemed to be some pleading in her tone.
Ronan opened his mouth, subconsciously wanting to refuse.
But in the end, he sat his butt back on the couch once again.
"Well, as long as I can answer you."
Although Ronan probably already knew what the problem was.
But he sat down anyway.
"Before you said that I should die on the planet Vormir."
"Are you, like Strange, able to see the future?"
"Is my future going to die on Wommel?"
Black Widow asked her top concern.
Sure enough, this is it.
Hearing this question, Ronan couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
He knew that the words he blurted out before would definitely be remembered by Black Widow.
"That's right."
"If you follow the established future, you will end up dying on the planet Vormir."
Ronan nodded, he didn't intend to hide it from Black Widow.
The future of this world about Black Widow has completely changed.
There's no need to hide it.
"And now?"
"Why didn't I die on Wommel?"
Her focus is not on whether she is dead, but why she is not dead.
This surprised Ronan a little.
"I can't answer you about that."
"Because I don't know why."
Ronan shrugged, it was the truth.
He didn't know what the hooded man's purpose was.
The so-called "Time Authority" in general terms is also related to certain moments in the future.
Even Ronan himself didn't figure this out, let alone tell Black Widow.
"What about the future?"
"Or rather, does it have any impact on what we're doing?"
Black Widow took a deep breath.
From her face, Ronan seemed to see mixed emotions.
There are joys, there are uneasiness, there are surprises, there are apprehensions.
It seems that at this moment, she has several movies in her head.
"I'm sorry, but I can't tell you about the future."
"As for the impact..."
"Natasha... I can call you that, right? ”
Seeing that Black Widow nodded slightly, Ronan continued: "You should have heard of Schrödinger's cat theory, right?" ”
Ronan came up with a theory that was more accessible to the scientific community.
Although Black Widow's education is not high, after all, she has lived for so many years, and she is still relatively clear about such a common theory.
"In 1957, a man named Hugh Everett came up with a very interesting theory."
"When humanity opens the box, the world splits into two versions of it."
"One of the worlds, the atom decayed, and the cat died."
"Another world, where the atom has not decayed, and the cat is still alive."
"These two worlds will evolve completely independently of each other, like two parallel lines."
"This is the famous many-world interpretation."
"In the mouths of our professionals, it's called a parallel universe."
Ronan took another sip of coffee, this time because he was talking too much and his mouth was a little dry.
It's just that, looking at her eyes that both understood and didn't understand, Ronan couldn't help but sigh.
For Black Widow, this passage is not difficult to understand literally, but it is also beyond her comprehension.
"I don't understand."
Black Widow shook her head.
She still couldn't blend her experience with the explanation.
Why did Ronan say she would die, and she didn't.
"Hey..."
Ronan sighed.
Although she also knew that this passage was not easy to understand.
However, this is also the best explanation that he, a poor high school student, can give.
"Natasha, he means very simply, you are the cat in the box."
"Everything that happens on Vormir represents the condition of whether the atom decays or not."
"And he..."
"It's the person outside the box?"
Tony Stark's voice rang out from behind them.
I don't know when, Tony Stark was already standing at the doorway, quietly watching them.
Ronan smiled slightly, but shook his head.
"No, I don't have that much skill yet."
"I just..."
As he spoke, Ronan stopped what he was saying, and the smile on the corner of his mouth faded.
For some reason, the appearance of the ancient one appeared in front of his eyes.
Before leaving, that smile full of meaning.
"Just what?"
Black Widow asked curiously.
"Nothing."
"What I'm trying to say is..."
"I'm also the cat in the box..."