Accompanied by the four men's screams, they dropped into the water one after another like dumplings being tossed into a pot.
Splash, splash, splash!
Wait, why were there only three splashes?
That was because...
"Ahhh, I... I... I'm floating?!!"
Banner, still in soul form, looked completely dumbfounded...
As for the others, Captain America and Iron Man had fast enough reactions to snap their masks shut immediately, so at least they did not look too miserable.
Poor Ant-Man, on the other hand...
He took a huge mouthful.
At this moment, Heisenberg was a little stunned too.
Weren't those three idiots who had just fallen into the sea exactly three of the four-man New York Infinity Stone squad from Avengers 4, that so-called America-ass quartet led by Captain America?
But how the hell was that possible?!!
Could it be that he really was that lacking in vision, that lacking in ability?
To the point that he had failed to stop future Thanos at all?
Heisenberg shook his head.
What a joke.
On his Earth, there was absolutely no way anyone was snapping their fingers.
After all, as long as the snap never happened, the fate of half the life in the universe would be changed!
Wouldn't that mean a massive profit for him?
So this time, had Captain America and the others come back through time to deal with him?
Had his future self replaced Thanos's role?
But that was impossible too.
If future Cap and the others really had gotten in his way, then Heisenberg was one hundred percent certain that they would have died on the spot!
So there had to be something fishy going on here.
His Kryptonian brain immediately began spinning at full speed.
Super-thinking was the sort of thing that, when you did not use it, let you live as happily as an ordinary person.
But once you used it, everything instantly turned scientific.
In just a brief moment, Heisenberg discovered a blind spot he had never paid attention to before!
"System, restate this universe's designation."
"The active universe you are in is Marvel Cinematic Universe 19999."
"All right. So it's 19999 as mentioned in the movies, not 199999 as in the official film universe, right!"
At that point, how could Heisenberg still not understand what had happened?
The universe he had arrived in was not a pure movie universe at all, but rather the multiverse timeline that Captain America and the others had traveled back to!
Which meant their return through time was inevitable. It was part of this universe's original historical track!
No wonder they had still run into the Snap crisis even with Heisenberg around. They were not even in the same multiverse, much less on the same timeline!
But if his universe was not the movie universe...
Then...
Then the Thanos in his universe would never snap his fingers at all!
And why wouldn't he?
Because five years later, the Thanos of Heisenberg's universe would learn everything about the future through future Nebula, who came to this universe in search of the Power Stone!
And after that, the Thanos from Heisenberg's universe would run off to the main Avengers 4 universe and get erased by Tony Stark at the cost of Tony's own life!!!
So the Thanos in Heisenberg's universe was just... gone?!!
Which meant Heisenberg could not use the shortcut of killing Thanos ahead of time to alter the fate of the universe and harvest Origin Matter from it.
Because the destiny of the universe Heisenberg lived in had always been that Thanos would mysteriously disappear in 2014!
He disappeared mysteriously, which meant he could never snap, and half the universe stayed alive.
Even if Heisenberg killed him in advance, the result would still be the same. Thanos still would not snap, and half the universe would still stay alive!
No change at all!
Which meant that the shortcut Heisenberg had been counting on for harvesting Origin Matter...
Had disappeared along with Thanos!
Fortunately, Elder Heisenberg's brain turned fast enough. In the blink of an eye, he had already come up with a new plan.
And his heart, which had just been depressed over losing a path to overnight riches, reignited in an instant.
So Heisenberg looked confidently toward the Ancient One.
He had just been about to say something, only to freeze again.
Had this Ancient One seriously changed actresses or something?
Wasn't she a little too ridiculously beautiful?!
A pale yellow dress, loose flowing hair...
With that figure and that temperament, she could beat Bond girls at their own game!
So he blankly nodded to the Ancient One.
She did the same, nodding to him first before slowly floating to his side and saying, "I found a little surprise, so I brought them to meet you."
"Mm-hm. This surprise isn't small at all. I can accept it, but I'm afraid the one in the sky won't!"
As he spoke, Heisenberg looked up at Tony Stark, who was descending from above.
Three seconds earlier, Tony had still been holding Pepper in her indigo armor, whispering sweet words to her.
Like...
"Darling, look at that palace. I have to give you a surprise!"
Pepper naturally looked where he pointed.
And then she froze.
"Tony...?!"
"What?"
Tony immediately heard something off in Pepper's voice, so he hurriedly looked down as well.
Only to see Pepper staring in shock at Heisenberg's position below.
"The surprise you prepared for me is... another you?!!
Two Tonys... two of you?!!"
"Motherfucker!!!"
Tony straight-up cursed.
What the hell was this?!
The surprise he wanted was freezing this stretch of ocean, not another version of himself showing up to steal his wife!
How was that supposed to work? I get Monday, Wednesday, Friday, you get Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and all three of us share Sunday?
Get the hell out of here!!!
Tony and Pepper instantly sped up, rocketing toward the three people who had just fallen into the sea!
But the moment Heisenberg saw them accelerate, he finally remembered what he was supposed to be doing.
Without even turning around, he controlled his bio-field, and the three Iron Men in the sea were instantly lifted up, floating neatly behind him.
Then all the seawater clinging to them was pushed away by the force field and splashed back into the ocean.
Heisenberg merely stood there without moving and had already arranged everything for Iron Man and the others perfectly.
As if he would raise a hand and strike a pose every time he controlled his force field. That sort of thing was just meaningless grandstanding.
If everything could be controlled with his mind alone, then why would he bother making a show of clenching fists or lifting his arms?
What did they think he was, Magneto?
Some kind of classy gentleman?
Tony and the other two were held floating behind Heisenberg by the force field, while Banner's soul drifted over and lined up beside them.
They quickly looked around at their surroundings, and the expressions on their faces changed immediately!
With the eyesight of superheroes like them, of course they could tell what had happened.
So Captain America and Iron Man were the first to notice another version of themselves!
Especially Iron Man!
At that moment, he was insanely jealous of that gold-and-red bastard flying in the sky.
I spent so many hard years being a hero before I finally married Pepper.
And you got together with her as early as 2008?!!!
His jealousy exploded!
But just as they were about to say something, the Ancient One suddenly raised a hand toward them.
"Quiet."
She spoke, then looked seriously toward Heisenberg.
Scolded by her like that, the four of them instantly lost the urge to speak and turned to look at Heisenberg as well.
Under their tense and expectant gazes, Heisenberg drew in a deep breath!
And when that breath came out, it was certainly not going to do anything for global warming.
As that icy breath swept out, terror instantly appeared in the eyes of the four.
That blue-white freezing mist swept across the nearby ocean and directly froze eighty percent of the sea within visible range solid!
"Th... this kind of power...?!"
Ant-Man could not stop himself from speaking in shock, but before he could finish, Heisenberg suddenly turned and looked straight at him!
Under the tense and wary gazes of Cap and the others, Heisenberg coldly said with a blank expression, "Stay quiet. This is my friend's wedding."
As soon as he finished speaking, Heisenberg waved toward Tony and Pepper, who were still descending, signaling for them to continue the wedding.
With that reminder from Heisenberg, Tony finally managed to steady his mentality a little.
Because he knew Heisenberg would give him an answer about those suddenly appearing people!
So he gently landed with Pepper in his arms, completely ignoring everyone's stares, and together they walked across the endless frozen plain.
As for Heisenberg, his gaze shifted slightly, and the range of his force field expanded in an instant.
The ice beneath Tony and Pepper's feet was immediately reshaped into stairs, stretching all the way toward the most beautiful part of the projected castle.
And at that moment, the Iron Man floating behind Heisenberg...
Had only one thing in his heart.
Jealousy.
Partly because his wife had been married off, even if it was to another version of himself.
And partly because...
Why didn't he have a friend this badass?!!
Why?!!
Still, after a brief moment of anguish, Iron Man quickly became absorbed in the wedding.
In his eyes, the Tony in this world was so young, and Pepper was too.
They had gotten each other at the very best point in their lives.
And this world's Tony even had a Superman-like friend such as Heisenberg.
So his life had to be much happier than Tony's own!
That was good.
That was good enough.
Please!!!
Please do not end up like me. Make sure you spend more time with your lover, with your child, you in this world.
Because I owe them far too much!
...
On the yacht, Hill and the others, especially Rogers, were staring at the four-man Cap squad in the distance in complete shock.
And at a time like this, Hill, the bargain-bin S.H.I.E.L.D. director, had also received the latest intelligence from New York.
The videos of Captain America's four-man team time-traveling and then fleeing had already gone viral online.
After all, they had the Hulk with them. He was simply too noticeable!
Once they learned the news, Rogers and the other three were almost dying of curiosity.
But Heisenberg was floating overhead, unbeatable while everyone else could do as they pleased. So who would dare commit the outrage of interrupting the wedding?
And just like that, Tony's wedding quickly returned to its proper course and moved toward its conclusion.
At the highest point of the castle, they embraced one another and pledged themselves for life.
And at that same moment, Heisenberg had already shaped the ice into the form of a true castle!
His effortless handling of the ocean as if it were no more than putty completely crushed any thought the four-man team had of resisting him.
Before coming here, they had compared the power Heisenberg displayed with Thanos's strength.
They had thought that Heisenberg could at least match Thanos.
Take note, they had only thought he could match him.
But now...
Now all they felt was envy.
Because in a world with Heisenberg, Thanos would never be a problem again!
They were convinced of it.
By the time the wedding finally came to a complete end, the more than three hundred tiny Iron Man robots had all returned to the yacht as well.
Only then did Heisenberg decide to have a proper talk with Captain America's group.
So he nodded toward the four behind him.
"Follow me."
With that, he floated side by side with the Ancient One toward the yacht.
But he did not stop there. Instead, he merely glanced at the yacht and used his force field to lift both Captain America and Hill into the air as well.
That left Peggy's niece standing there on the ship alone, looking foolishly lost.
At that point, she was utterly dazed.
Why was she the only one left behind?
Could it be that Heisenberg did not like fangirls, and since she was a fan...
Sharon Carter was devastated...
...
Heisenberg and the Ancient One drifted all the way toward Tony's hillside villa, chatting as they flew.
"You should stop attending occasions like this alone. You have no reason to settle for loneliness."
"Mm-hm. So you came, and dressed like this too. Very beautiful."
"Thank you for the compliment. I simply felt that on an occasion like this, no one would enjoy seeing a bald old woman in traditional sorcerer's robes."
"So what? They never liked me either, but they have to like me!"
Heisenberg's words were tyrannical to the extreme, and the霸权-minded arrogance hidden within them made Captain America's group feel that things were not going to go smoothly for them.
And right after that, Heisenberg just happened to bring up their matter.
"Still, I really didn't expect you to bring them here directly!"
"Of course. This is my little surprise for you. I knew you'd like it," the Ancient One said with a smile.
"Of course I like it. Let Rogers see Captain America, let Tony see Iron Man. I've wanted to do this for a long time, hahahaha!"
Heisenberg openly admitted his bad taste without caring in the slightest about the people floating behind him.
That made every one of them wear an awkward expression.
Rogers looked thoughtfully toward Captain America.
As for Iron Man...
He turned his head to look behind him, where Tony and Pepper were flying this way.
The sight of the two of them filled his heart with boundless longing.
How wonderful...
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