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

"Aren't you curious, what's going on with this Manhattan, this New York?"

An invisible thrust ripped apart Hawkeye's hands, and the cleverness surrounding Hawkeye made his wife's voice

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

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

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

"...The whole New York you see is a phantom shaped by light." 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, and it is the basis for the birth of life. In the garden, it is the gardener who plants the seeds and maintains the growth of the flowers, while the Yanggu people are responsible for adjusting the ecology and cutting off the branches and leaves.

From this story, it can be easily understood that the power of light energy is the foundation of creation, creating existence from nothing, or shaping existence from its essence.

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

Whether it is the current Stark or the past Ultron, he can't actually understand this proposition.

Because even the Ultron who transferred his 'soul' to a living metal body of a space undead in the past is only a transferred soul in essence.

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

Not even the entire Space Commander understands how souls are formed.

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

Yuan An cannot reconstruct the soul, the essence of darkness is to seize, and the power of Yanggu people can only prune branches and leaves to adjust the environment but not sow seeds.

Not even Necrons, whose technology is powerful enough to reshape time and reconstruct the Big Bang, can reshape their souls.

After all, it has already involved the field of the mysterious "Lady of Death", reshaping a soul from scratch, even those dimensional lords can't do this.

At most, they can only make some plausible things, or simply replace them with other souls in parallel worlds.

But only Stark, who got the Infinity Stone and received the gift of light energy from it, can do this.

Although he couldn't understand the nature and reason of this power, it was like a primitive man looking at a supercomputer.

He was even in a state and inexplicable knowledge that he himself could not understand, and he created these cleverness from nothing.

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

But that doesn't prevent usage, does it?

And Stark has actually "understood" the way light can shape life.

The light energy stored in the spirit seems to record the posture of his soul, and every time before his dead soul 'leaves', the light energy will reconnect the soul and return to the body in a way that he cannot understand. .

In other words, when his soul had nowhere to go, and dissipated at the moment of death without signing a contract with the dimensional demon gods like Mephisto, Ji Ling returned to reconstruct those souls according to the 'appearance' of the soul stored in them. dispersed particles.

Thus, the resurrection of the dead was achieved.

In simple terms, this is the case, but in a deeper way, whether this is a kind of resurrection is indeed a false proposition.

But in Ultron's view, this is nothing. Isn't every cell and every molecule that constitutes the basis of everyone? If the soul does exist in some special 'molecular' form, why is reconstruction not considered resurrection?

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

The power of the gardener's creation is not just about resurrection, but by reconstructing the basic molecules of matter and soul, it can resurrect the dead in a sense "from nothing" and create things out of thin air.

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

Stark looked at the horrified eagle eye and said lightly

"I started to reshape Manhattan from nothing, but the diffuse fog of light doesn't completely reshape the city. They're dead unless someone 'remembers' them."

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

It was Hawkeye's wife and daughter who was 'revived' under the power of light energy, but unfortunately, far from Manhattan's light energy support, the existence of his wife and daughter can only be observed and influenced by Hawkeye.

In a sense, the guardian of the dead and resurrected is such an existence. The basis of their ability to intervene in the universe with physical matter is their 'intelligence'. This light-energy structure that records the guardian's soul form can exist as a strong observer, allowing the guardian to be preserved in the physical 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 the 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 that his wife and daughter died under the snap of Thanos' fingers, chose to be a killer to slaughter those criminals, just because he thought 'if good people like his wife and daughter live If they don't come down, then these **** should die. ', and for that reason, he began to slaughter anyone he didn't think deserved to live in the world.

"No way." Hawkeye's clever spirit lingered on and explained.

"Only those who can accommodate light energy are qualified to be guardians, and it is impossible to become a guardian if even the corpse cannot be kept and found."

"And even if the body is found, the selection of guardian standards is extremely harsh."

Hawkeye was struck by lightning in an instant, and the current situation of fate like a roller coaster made him almost breathless.

Looking at the desperate eagle eye, Stark blinked and said softly.

"Actually...there is another tricky way to help you."

332. EXO

A cloned body cannot take on a soul.

This is a very interesting proposition. Neither the Necrons nor Stark can 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 water. They can create almost unlimited clones. Relatively speaking, they can create unlimited souls, but even so, they still know nothing about the mysteries of souls. Know.

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

And the 'dead spirit' that exists in the state of a soul cannot rely on a living person-it can only do the same thing as manipulating a puppet by manipulating a living corpse.

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

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

On the other hand, a dead body cannot hold a soul at all.

Because at most it is just a moving corpse, a simple moving carrion is essentially no different from a zombie.

Even if Stark is able to use light energy freely, he is still unable to achieve an independent soul to create a body that accommodates the soul's integration and rebirth, because this behavior violates the basic laws of the universe.

However, there is a tricky idea.

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

What Stark showed for Hawkeye was a mechanical body, which looked like a humanoid, but its face was round and white without carvings.

"These mechanical bodies are very special bodies that can accommodate the soul. When the light energy irradiates the soul and merges with it, it will turn the soul into some shining liquid substances, which can be injected into this metal body to complete another form." Reborn'."

Stark lightly described his tricks.

In simple terms, this is the way Necrons are imitated.

It's just that the metal body of EXO is completely different from the living metal body of the Necrons and the use of 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 after combining the gift of soul and light energy. After this 'soul liquid' is injected into EXO's body, they will have a basis for their activities.

And if the soul liquid that exists in these substances is destroyed, it is equivalent to the complete fall of this life.

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

But the body created by the use of light energy also has its advantages.

The accommodator of EXO still has the physical senses recorded by the soul. Although this 'material desire' can only be satisfied through some substitutes, he undoubtedly makes the soul more active.

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

At least until the Stark experiment, the result has been the case.

"Clint, think about it, if you want to convert your wife and daughter into EXOs, that's their theoretical last life."

Stark looked at the tangled eagle eyes and whispered

"Stark... Let them be reborn."

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

However, Stark just looked at him indifferently and said lightly.

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

"Go back to Underground Washington and tell Nick what you've seen here. Tell him I have a plan, a collaboration waiting for him."

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

"Tell him that I'm going to work with him to clean up the Ultron problem. Then, prepare to escape this **** ruin."

…

On the edge of the Rainbow Bridge, Loki sat here without a word and looked down at the sea of ​​stars below.

As a passageway connecting the Nine Realms, there will almost always be a sea of ​​stars shining beneath the Rainbow Bridge.

There is no doubt that every star there represents a star in the universe, and the shining light fills the entire rainbow bridge!

But now... it's dark here.

"Almost half of the stars have dimmed."

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

"Have we really resisted the march of darkness?"

"Maybe, at least we've held on until now."

With the rude voice, Thor sat next to his brother, handed over a pot of mead, raised his head and drank it all.

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

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

Loki grinned, full of mockery and sadness

Growing up seems to be a fast thing. For Loki, witnessing the terrible sight of this vast war made him learn to mature all of a sudden.

At the very least, his karma and his hatred for everything are not like he used to be.

"Is Asgard really obliged to sacrifice for other civilizations in the universe? Even if we work so hard, what will be the result?"

The countless dim stars, each dimmed, represent a engulfed sun.

Half of the universe that the Rainbow Bridge can observe has been buried in the bottomless darkness.

They fought off the swarm, they tore the swarm apart, and then more swarms came out of the darkness.

They have repeated this process many times, they have been winning, but their enemies have become more and more...

The infinite darkness keeps coming back from the end of the end, but they who only exist in the beginning and the end are not the enemies of the infinite darkness after the end of all things.

The Rainbow Bridge can no longer see beyond the Milky Way, because there is only darkness there.

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

This hopeless thought kept reverberating in Logi's mind, and he couldn't let go of this terrible conjecture, because he was the one who could best explain today's reality.

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

"But how many people are still alive in Asgard?" Loki sneered.

"Our dear sister took over her father, and now the whole of Asgard is her tool."

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

Hela's rule is undoubtedly brutal, autocratic, cruel, harsh, and most importantly, death at Hela's hands is but the beginning of punishment.

In order to fight against the swarm, Hela has recycled all the dead bodies of Asgard and allies at all costs and cast them into thundercast soldiers to send to the front line, not only the dead bodies, but also the souls of civilians. …

Asgard took advantage of pretty much everything at its disposal and ended up delaying the war until now.

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

"And Loki, we're not completely without allies."

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

"When did the 'noble' Asgardian **** fall to the point of joining a group of butcher demons."

woohoo~~~~~~

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