After seeing Gwen off,
Su Yi checked the time and prepared to get off work.
When the clock struck five in the afternoon, Su Yi shut his office door and turned to leave.
"Clock In," Su Yi murmured inwardly.
Clock-in successful! Reward: True Sight Ward x3
"True Sight Ward?"
True Sight Ward: After activation, within a certain range, all vision, surveillance, detection, perception, and mental probes originating from outside the range—including electronic devices—will fail unless they enter the range!
After reading the item description,
Su Yi immediately understood what kind of item this was.
"A true ward from the Rune Continent."
Not bad. It was a good thing.
Su Yi nodded in satisfaction.
There were three in total.
He could place one in the office and one at home. Then he would not have to worry about any surveillance from outside.
Otherwise, things like cameras...
Entities like Jarvis, Ultron, and Vision could access cameras all over the world whenever they wanted.
Could anyone really feel at ease with one installed at home?
Wouldn't that just be a live broadcast?
Night arrived.
At the Avengers base,
Wanda stared thoughtfully at the business card Tony had given her.
She took out her phone and searched for the address.
It turned out to be in Manhattan, New York's busiest district.
To be honest,
Wanda did not want to go somewhere like that right now.
There was no shortage of people online cursing her out.
Her mistake when trying to save Captain America had indirectly killed more people than the mission had saved!
So people online were cursing Wanda as well.
They called her the Wicked Witch.
They called her all sorts of things.
This left Wanda with two thoughts.
One was to never use her powers again.
The other was to never go anywhere crowded again.
She only wanted to find somewhere with few people and live alone. That would be enough.
But...
Wanda also wanted to live a normal life.
To go out normally.
To have fun normally.
To be happy normally...
For those things...
Maybe she needed to give it a try.
And the way to try was...
Wanda lowered her head and picked up the wooden business card.
She slipped it into her pocket, then got up and prepared the clothes she would wear tomorrow.
An ordinary pair of blue jeans.
A gray, oversized hoodie with a hood.
That way, people would not immediately recognize her as the Scarlet Witch when she walked down the street.
It would also save her a lot of trouble.
At the same time,
In the new Stark Tower,
Tony Stark sat in his chair, staring at the public opinion data Friday had gathered with a headache.
First of all,
Jarvis was already gone.
It had become the Vision of today.
Secondly,
The data and future projections Friday provided were extremely serious.
At this very moment,
Half of the online discussion surrounding superheroes was already negative.
And among those who supported superheroes,
Most were fans of a particular hero rather than supporters of superheroes as a whole.
For example, Iron Man or Captain America.
As for the negative comments,
They were either insults or objections. Nothing more.
"Hoo..." Tony sighed.
He folded one arm across his chest and pressed his other hand against his forehead.
"Sir, based on calculations, there are two most effective ways to quell society's opposition."
Tony did not move his hand from his forehead. "What two ways?"
"First, the Avengers resolve a world-ending crisis and let society understand that superheroes are the final safeguard."
"Second, the Avengers disappear from public view. Based on the rate at which online information changes, discussions will decrease by approximately 70 percent after one year and approach the optimal value after three years."
"Alternatively, the Avengers could completely reveal their internal operations, allowing all of society to feel at ease."
Faced with that answer,
Tony helplessly shook his head.
"That told me nothing."
Friday was an artificial intelligence.
It could calculate the answers, and those were indeed answers.
But neither was something that could be done.
At the very least, not in the short term.
The Avengers had only just managed to assemble.
And they had just prevented a disaster.
Although Tony had played a major role in causing that disaster, wasn't reality simply like that? Success brought honor, while failure ruined one's reputation...
Without a turning point,
Trying harder would only be counterproductive.
Tony looked toward a device on the table.
It was a neural network and intelligent control interface.
He had made it together with Banner.
But now Banner was gone too.
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