Seeing everyone look at him with sympathetic eyes, Thor stood up from his chair, a forced smile squeezed onto his face as he hefted his hammer, pretending to be strong.
"Why are you all looking at me with those eyes? I'm fine, I'm doing great right now. If you don't believe me, look, I not only have my axe now, but I also have my hammer!"
"Is your storytelling process finished? If it is, let me be the one to bring back half of all life in the Universe that was annihilated by Thanos's snap!"
Seeing Thor, holding an axe in one hand and a hammer in the other, already standing up, the crowd hurriedly stopped him.
Tony pressed his hand against Thor's belly, which looked ten months pregnant, and advised, "Hey, Point Break Plus, let's just calm down for a second, okay?"
"The convergence of energy from the six Infinity Stones will cause massive damage to the user; even Thanos was critically injured and on the verge of death because of it. In your current state, you're not fit to perform this deadly snap!"
Thor was naturally dissatisfied with Tony comparing him to Thanos and puffed out his chest.
"What's wrong with my current state? I feel great right now. What do you think is flowing through my body? Have you forgotten who cut off Thanos's head?"
Rhodes suddenly interjected from the side, "Is it cheese?"
To this, Ryan had a different opinion: "No, I think it should be beer~"
Hearing the two's teasing, Thor pointed at them in annoyance, wanting to refute them, but he opened his mouth and couldn't find the words to argue back.
Because this actually seemed to be the truth!
Finally, with a grieved sob in his voice, Thor grabbed Tony's arm and pleaded, "Please, just let me do it. I am a god, the Strongest Avenger. Just let me perform that damn snap!"
Everyone knew Thor was blaming himself for missing with that axe strike years ago and wanted to use this to make up for his past mistake.
But naturally, no one could allow Thor to risk his life like that.
Besides, Thor couldn't be blamed for that missed axe strike; after all, if it weren't for Thor, they wouldn't have even been able to fight Thanos!
Finally, Captain America stepped in to mediate, saying, "Thor, we'll discuss who will perform the snap later. Right now, the situation of the Universe visited by one last group is still unclear. Why don't we first listen to their experiences in that Universe?"
Hearing this, Thor finally calmed down a bit, and everyone turned their gaze toward Rhodes and Nebula.
They were the last pair who had not yet recounted their time-travel experiences.
Nebula, who had remained cold and watched from the side with her arms crossed from the beginning, made a gesturing motion to Rhodes, indicating he should speak.
Rhodes cleared his throat and was about to speak, but Ryan, who as an outsider had also not spoken much, raised his hand at this moment to interrupt the words about to escape Rhodes's mouth.
Everyone looked at Ryan in confusion, and Tony, who trusted Ryan the most among the Avengers, asked directly, "Ryan, is there a problem?"
"Yes, I indeed have a question I want to ask..." Ryan nodded, slowly standing up from his chair and walking over to Nebula, who had her arms crossed. His cold eyes looked down into her mechanical prosthetic eye as he asked indifferently:
"Tell me, are you the Nebula of this Universe?"
Nebula's pupils dilated slightly for an instant, but her face and body showed no abnormality whatsoever, and even her tone was exceptionally calm as she said, "Of course. What do you mean by that?"
Even the top psychologists would probably be unable to see any abnormality in Nebula at this moment, but...
"Interesting..." Ryan lowered his head close to Nebula, his nose twitching, and a cruel smirk curled at the corner of his mouth. "But this is the scent of a lie!"
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Completely without any warning to anyone, Ryan suddenly thrust one hand through Nebula's chest, his fingers clenching her mechanical heart as they burst through her back!
The Avengers:!
Immediately, Rhodes, Thor, and Rocket each grabbed their weapons and took an aggressive stance toward Ryan!
Meanwhile, Tony, Captain America, Ant-Man, and the Green Doctor appeared somewhat at a loss.
Facing the differently reacting Avengers, Ryan calmly turned the skewered Nebula toward them and said indifferently, "You didn't even know a 'werewolf' had entered your house?"
Amidst the bewildered gazes of the Avengers, Ryan flipped his other hand to reveal the Mind Stone and lightly tapped it against Nebula's forehead.
The next moment, as she hung from Ryan's arm with sparks sputtering from her chest, Nebula's eyes turned blue, and a hologram was projected into the air.
And seeing the images in the projection, the Avengers couldn't help but all look horrified.
In the image, there were actually two Nebulas, one kneeling and one standing, appearing before a Thanos!
Clearly, the Nebula from their Universe who went to borrow the Power Stone had been captured by the Thanos of another Universe!
And they also immediately realized that the Nebula currently pierced by Ryan's hand was not their Universe's Nebula at all, but an undercover agent sent by the other Universe's Thanos!
Having figured it out, everyone instantly turned their gazes toward the bewildered Rhodes and shifted their vigilance toward him.
Since the Nebula who teamed up with Rhodes to get the Power Stone had been swapped, then this Rhodes was naturally very likely to be fake as well!
Seeing everyone look at him with suspicious eyes, Rhodes looked like he was about to cry.
"I... I'm the real one. Nebula and I got the Cosmic Orb at the Temple of Power and came back immediately. I don't know when Nebula was swapped..."
Ryan looked at the innocent-faced Rhodes, a disdainful smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.
Heh, the same scent of a lie...
As expected, the Rhodes in this Universe near the sacred timeline had already been swapped for a Skrulls during the Civil War.
Because the emotional perception ability of his Spider-Sense could clearly feel the emotion of a lie mixed within Rhodes's panic!
It had to be said, this emotional perception ability upgraded from his Spider-Sense was truly insane; as long as something had emotions, whether it was a pure biological being or a cyborg, it couldn't tell a single lie in front of him!
This way, even if he didn't know the future plot because of timeline changes, he could still avoid a lot of trouble!
Especially when dealing with someone like the current impersonating Rhodes, a Skrulls who could even replicate DNA, this ability appeared particularly important!
However... he didn't plan to take action against the Skrulls race just yet, so he didn't expose Rhodes on the spot.
Instead, Ryan restrained his expression and spoke to smooth things over: "He is the Rhodes from before the time travel; the only one swapped was Nebula."