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"Of course they are not fake." Stark looked at Hawkeye and said calmly.

"Aren't you curious about what this Manhattan, this New York is all about?"

An invisible push pulled away Hawkeye's hands, but the cleverness surrounding Hawkeye made his wife's voice

"Clint, you have the talent to become a guardian, and you have the talent to use light energy!"

At this moment, Hawkeye didn't care about this at all. He directly pushed away the cleverness surrounding him, walked up to Stark and asked loudly

"Stark - tell me, tell me everything!!!"

"...The entire New York you see is an illusion created by light energy." Stark said lightly.

"But they are also real phantoms, Clint. I can't explain the nature of light energy to you, but you just need to know that everything it creates is 'real'."

The essence of a gardener's power is creation, which is the basis for the birth of life. In the garden, it is the gardener who plants the seeds and maintains the growth of flowers, while the winnower is responsible for adjusting the ecology and pruning branches and leaves.

From this story, we can simply understand that the power of light energy is the basis of creation, creating something from scratch, or shaping existence from its essence.

Soul and life, what is the essence of these things?

Whether it is Stark now or Ultron in the past, he actually cannot understand this proposition.

Because even Ultron, who transferred his 'soul' to the living metal body of a Necron in the past, was essentially just a transferred soul.

He could not understand what the essence of the soul was, because no matter how they decomposed it or used it, they could not dissociate the soul into some substances that could be reversely reconstructed.

Even the entire Space Commander probably doesn't understand how a soul is formed.

Otherwise, they would have given up their cold mechanical bodies and regained their bodies and souls.

The source of darkness cannot reconstruct the soul. The essence of darkness is to seize. The power of the winnowing people can only cut off branches and leaves to adjust the environment but cannot sow seeds.

Even the Necrons, whose technology is powerful enough to reshape time and reconstruct the Big Bang, cannot reshape the soul.

After all, it already involves the realm of the mysterious 'Lady Death', reshaping a soul from scratch, which even the dimensional lords cannot do.

At most, they can only make something specious, or simply replace it with other souls from parallel worlds.

But Stark, who just got the Infinity Stones and received the gift of light energy from them, was able to do this.

Although he cannot understand the nature and reason of this power, it is like a primitive man looking at a super computer.

He was even in a state that he couldn't understand and was driven by inexplicable knowledge, creating these clever things from scratch.

It was as if the mysterious 'gardener' was standing behind him, controlling his every move.

But that doesn't prevent it from being used, right?

And Stark has actually already initially 'understood' the way light can shape life.

The light energy stored in the spirit seems to record the posture of his soul. Whenever his soul 'leaves' after death, the light energy will use a method he cannot understand to redirect the soul and return it to the body. .

In other words, when his soul has nowhere to go and dissipates at the moment of death without signing a contract with dimensional demons such as Mephisto, Smart will reconstruct those souls according to the 'appearance' of the soul stored inside. dispersed particles.

Thus, such a thing as resurrection from the dead was achieved.

To put it simply, this is the case, but to put it more deeply, whether this is considered a kind of resurrection is indeed a false proposition.

But in Ultron's view, this is actually nothing. Isn't it every cell and every molecule that forms the basis of every human being? If the soul really exists in the form of some special 'molecule', then why is reconstruction not considered resurrection?

Therefore, Stark accepted his rebirth and resurrection calmly, and on this basis, continued to study the power of light energy.

The power of the gardener's creation can play more than just resurrection. By reconstructing the basic molecules of matter and soul, he can resurrect the dead and create things out of thin air in a sense.

"I came to Manhattan, a wasteland, and used the gamma ray amplifier invented by Dr. Banner to expand the 'gap' in the Mind Stone."

Stark looked at the frightened Hawkeye and said calmly

"I started to shape the entire Manhattan from scratch, but the diffuse light energy fog cannot completely reshape the entire city. They will die when they leave here, unless someone 'remembers' them."

That day, Hawkeye walked into the fog of light energy and finally brought out his wife and daughter.

They were Hawkeye's wife and daughter who were 'resurrected' by the power of light energy. Unfortunately, far away from the support of light energy in Manhattan, the existence of his wife and daughter could only be observed and affected by Hawkeye.

In a sense, the guardian who has been resurrected from the dead is such an existence. The basis for their ability to interfere with the universe with physical matter is their 'smartness'. This light energy structure that records the soul form of the guardian can exist as a strong observer, allowing the guardian to be preserved in the material universe in the form of material existence. States that can be observed and interfered with by other things exist in the real world.

"Then give me cleverness!!!" Hawkeye said loudly

The only hope for this man who was almost destroyed by the weight of a tragic life is here. Hawkeye's will may be strong enough, but he is always the one who tends to go to extremes.

Just like if in the original history, Hawkeye, who accepted the death of his wife and daughter under the snap of Thanos's finger, chose to be a killer and kill those criminals, just because he believed that 'if good people like his wife and daughter were alive, If you don't come down, then these bad guys deserve to die. ’, for this reason, he began to kill anyone he thought did not deserve to live in the world.

"No." Hawkeye's clever spirit stalked over and explained.

"Only those who can contain light energy are qualified to become guardians, and if you can't even keep and find the body, it's impossible to become a guardian."

"And even if the body is found, the selection standards for guardians are extremely harsh."

Hawkeye felt like he was struck by lightning, and the rollercoaster of fate made him almost breathless.

Looking at the desperate Hawkeye, Stark blinked and said softly

"Actually... there is another trick that can help you."

332.EXO

A cloned body cannot bear a soul.

This is a very interesting proposition. Neither the Necron nor Stark know the mystery of the soul, but the clones in their hands all have their own souls.

For them, cloning technology is as simple as eating and drinking. They can create almost unlimited clones. Relatively speaking, they can create unlimited souls. But even so, they still know nothing about the mystery of the soul. Know.

They can easily create thousands of bodies with souls, but they cannot simply create a single soul without the body.

The 'dead spirit' that exists in a soul state cannot be attached to a living person - if it dies, it can only operate a living corpse like a puppet.

Whether it is a cloned body or the soul of a normal person, the power of the undead can only control the body for a short time at most, and it is completely driven at the expense of the vitality of the body. This is not a complete life at all.

The so-called "body seizing" is completely untenable in this universe. The soul can be replaced and can exist independently, but it cannot completely control the body containing the soul.

In contrast, a dead body cannot contain a soul at all.

Because it is just a moving corpse at most. A simply moving rotten corpse is essentially no different from a zombie.

Even though Stark can freely use light energy, he still cannot create an independent soul to create a body that can accommodate the soul to fuse and be reborn, because this behavior violates the basic laws of the universe.

However, there is a trick.

"EXO, that's what I call them."

What Stark showed Hawkeye was a mechanical body. It looked like a human, but its face was round and white without sculpture.

"These mechanical bodies are very special bodies that can accommodate the soul. When the light energy irradiates the soul and blends with it, it will turn the soul into some shining liquid substances. When injected into this metal body, another form of " Rebirth'."

Stark described his tricks lightly.

Simply put, this is how you imitate the Necron.

It's just that unlike the living metal body of the Necrons, which uses dark technology to replace the soul, EXO's metal body completely uses light energy technology.

Although the results are the same, the two have different advantages and disadvantages.

EXO's metal body will turn the soul into some shining liquid objects after combining the soul and the endowment of light energy. After this 'soul liquid' is injected into EXO's body, they have the basis for their activities.

And if the soul liquid of these material existences is destroyed, it is equivalent to the complete demise of this life.

Compared with the almost immortal characteristics of a living metal body, EXO is undoubtedly much more fragile.

But the body built using light energy also has its advantages.

EXO's container still retains the physical senses recorded by the soul. Although this 'material desire' can only be satisfied through some substitutes, it makes the soul undoubtedly more active.

And compared with the living metal body of the Necrons, the soul contained in EXO is fixed. He will not be swallowed up by the source of this power as time passes. However, having desire is a kind of enjoyment. , is also a kind of torture.

At least until Stark's experiment, the result has been like this.

"Clint, you have to think carefully. If you want to transform your wife and daughter into EXO, that will theoretically be their last life."

Stark looked at the troubled Hawkeye and said softly

"Stark... let them be reborn."

Hawkeye was silent for a moment, and finally he clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said

However, Stark just looked at him indifferently and said lightly

"Clint, I answered your questions and provided methods, but that doesn't mean I will help you for free."

"Go back to underground Washington and tell Nick what you saw and heard here. Tell him that I have a plan and a cooperation waiting for him."

"...What do you want me to tell him?"

"Tell him that I will work with him to solve Ultron's problem. Then, prepare to escape from this damn ruin."

…

At the edge of the Rainbow Bridge, Loki sat here without saying a word, looking down at the sea of ​​stars below.

As a passage connecting the nine realms, the ocean of stars is almost always shining beneath the Rainbow Bridge.

There is no doubt that every star there represents a star in the universe, and the shining light illuminates the entire Rainbow Bridge!

But now...it's dark here.

"Nearly half of the stars have dimmed."

Loki looked at the sparse starlight, and even some starlight that was slowly darkening, and said softly

"Have we really withstood the advance of darkness?"

"Maybe, at least we've persisted until now."

Following the rough voice, Thor sat down next to his brother, handed over a pot of mead, and drank it with his head raised.

"Asgard has done its best for the peace of the universe!"

"Really? But who will praise us? Who will blame us? Those who can speak and criticize us are all dead."

Loki grinned, full of mockery and sadness

Growing up seems to happen very quickly. For Loki, witnessing the terrifying scene of this vast war made him learn to mature all of a sudden.

At least he is no longer the resentful person he was before.

"Does Asgard really have an obligation to sacrifice for other civilizations in the universe? Even if we work so hard, what will be the results?"

Each of those countless dim stars represents a sun that has been swallowed up.

Half of the universe that can be observed by the Rainbow Bridge has been buried in the bottomless darkness.

They fought off the swarms, they tore them apart, and then more swarms came in from the darkness.

They repeated this process countless times. They kept winning, but their enemies became more and more...

The boundless darkness keeps returning from the end of the end, but they who only exist in the beginning and the end are not the opponents of the infinite darkness after the end of all things.

It is no longer possible to see beyond the Milky Way from the Rainbow Bridge because there is only darkness.

Perhaps all civilizations outside the galaxy have been swallowed up by the bottomless darkness of the swarm?

This desperate thought kept echoing in Luo Luoji's mind. He could not throw away this terrible conjecture, because he was already the best able to explain today's reality.

"We're still here and that's why we fight."

"But how many living people are there in Asgard?" Loki sneered.

"Our dear sister has sidelined our father, and now the whole of Asgard is just her tool."

"If Hela's rule can help us fight against the swarm, then I will be happy to do so." Thor said calmly.

Hela's rule is undoubtedly brutal, authoritarian, cruel, and harsh. Most importantly, death in the hands of Hela is just the beginning of punishment.

In order to fight against the swarm, Hela has recycled all the corpses of Asgard and its allies who died in battle at any cost and forged them into Stormcast Eternals to send to the front line. Not only the corpses of those who died in battle, but also the souls of civilians. …

Asgard took advantage of almost everything it could, ultimately delaying the war until now.

They won countless wars, but sadly, their enemies only needed to win one.

"And Loki, we are not completely without allies."

"Yeah, a bunch of crazy demons." Loki said mockingly

"When did the 'noble' Asgardian god fall to the point of partnering with a group of butcher demons?"

Woo woo woo~~~~

In the distance, the sound of Heimdall blowing Galar's doomsday horn echoed in the empty Asgard.