"Did you know? This time, I'm going to invent an incredibly powerful bomb. It only needs to be used once to maintain world peace." After dinner, beside the pool, Stark excitedly introduced the latest weapon he was about to invent.
Iron Man is about to appear. Watching the excited Stark, Shen Fei thought to himself. Although Stark had yet to name the weapon, the moment he heard about its function and power, Shen Fei knew what it was—the Jericho Missile, the catalyst that would turn Stark into Iron Man.
Why did you sell weapons? For world peace.
In some ways, Stark truly thought the same way. Weapons were meant for deterrence. Just like after Nuclear Weapons appeared, local wars had never ceased, but large-scale wars had more or less stopped, especially between countries that both possessed nuclear weapons.
Unfortunately, Stark's ideals were good, but the other directors of Stark Group did not think so, especially his uncle. Small-scale conflicts continued everywhere in the world, and in some respects, they were deliberately engineered by certain people. Come on, if you all lived in peace, who the hell would I sell weapons to?
Shen Fei had no intention of interfering with Stark becoming Iron Man. After all, if his involvement somehow caused Iron Man to cease to exist, that would be a major problem.
Besides, he had his own matters to attend to now, and they were no less important than Stark becoming Iron Man.
Although he was not weak now, Shen Fei had always resisted the idea of becoming a superhero. He was not as noble as Iron Man or Spider-Man, especially when it came to risking his life to save people, only to be blamed by those he had saved afterward. Shen Fei was not as magnanimous as Iron Man and the others. He could help when it was within his abilities, but risk his life? Forget it.
Speaking of this, Shen Fei greatly admired Spider-Man. Spider-Man had never used his abilities to secure benefits for himself. Instead, he had always lived in poverty and had even sacrificed love because of it. This made Shen Fei, who had always used his abilities for personal gain, feel somewhat ashamed. Of course, ashamed or not, when it was time to seek benefits, he would still seek them.
If Spider-Man had gained the powers of the Op-Op Fruit, he would probably have wanted to cure every incurable disease on Earth.
"The Key of Solomon, the Grand Grimoire, Malleus Maleficarum, the Necronomicon, Dimensional Theory, Invisible Sun, the Book of Cagliostro." After that, aside from occasionally conducting experiments, Shen Fei focused on studying the magical books he had previously stored on a tablet at Kamar-Taj.
After finishing the Vibranium Ant-Man Suit, Shen Fei had begun considering crossing into dimensional worlds. It was dangerous, but some things could not be avoided simply because they were dangerous.
People were truly strange creatures. Back then, Shen Fei's greatest dream had been to sleep until he woke naturally, count money until his hands cramped, live in a villa with a swimming pool, and throw swimsuit parties. Now, those goals were more or less within reach. In theory, he could learn from Stark and live a debauched life. Yet the reality was that he had not sought out a single woman.
"Hell, Heaven."
Hell and Heaven existed in the Marvel Universe. In the past, angels from Heaven would occasionally appear, but now Heaven had long ceased to show any miracles. Hell, on the other hand, occasionally sent people back, such as a certain Ghost Rider who rode a motorcycle.
Fortunately, ordinary people generally could not enter either of these Dimension Spaces.
Some dimensional worlds possessed their own repulsive force. Without sufficient strength, one simply could not enter them. Heaven and Hell were such places.
"So Dormammu doesn't transcend time after all."
"I've come to bargain." This was how Doctor Strange drove back Dormammu. For a long time, many people had believed Dormammu transcended time, and Shen Fei had once believed so as well. The reason he said once was because the Book of Cagliostro discussed this very matter.
Dormammu did not transcend time. If he had, he would never have been trapped in Doctor Strange's time loop.
Dormammu could sense the time loop, while Doctor Strange had not used a time loop against Thanos, because Dormammu and Thanos were different kinds of beings.
The Book of Cagliostro divided time into narrow and broad meanings. The narrow meaning referred to the time of a single world, while the broad meaning involved the infinite universe. As for the latter, there was only a concept.
Yet this perfectly explained why Dormammu could sense the time loop. Dormammu was a being from another dimension, and the timeline there differed from that of this world.
One second in this world might be a year in another. In that respect, it was somewhat similar to the Quantum Realm. Even if one traveled to the past and spent a long time there, only five seconds would have passed in contemporary society.
This did not mean that once someone traveled from one world to another, they would no longer be governed by that world's time. If that were true, Shen Fei himself would be such a person, and he would not be governed by this world's time either. How could that be possible?
Dormammu could perceive the time loop because he was a Dimensional Being. He himself was the Dark Dimension. The body he sent into Earth was only a part of his enormous body, so while he was governed by this world's time, he could also perceive time looping.
It was like someone watching a video on an endless loop. The people inside the video could not notice that it was repeating endlessly, but the viewer could.
The viewer and the people in the video existed in two different Dimension Spaces. Dormammu, meanwhile, had placed part of his body inside that endlessly looping video, while the rest remained the viewer watching it.
Shen Fei could not help but admire Strange here. As expected of the next Sorcerer Supreme. During that endlessly repeating stretch of time, he had no idea how many times he died.
As a Dimensional Being, Dormammu's concept of time differed greatly from Strange's. Even so, Strange had persisted until Dormammu finally lost patience and retreated. One could imagine how many times he had died. This was far beyond what a movie could portray.
This also proved the power of the Time Stone. It allowed Strange to step outside the timeline within his own world, making him both a person inside the video and the one watching it.
"Thank goodness for Pym Particles, or I really wouldn't dare do this." Shen Fei was not charging in recklessly for no reason. That would be toying with his own life. He only dared to do so because he had some confidence, and the source of that confidence was Hank Pym's Pym Particles.
Dimension Space was like the Quantum Realm. It was difficult to determine direction within it, but Pym Particles changed that.
"I wonder whether I'll be able to return, or when I'll be able to return. Forget it. Now isn't the time to dwell on such external matters."
After preparing everything he could and hiding everything that could be hidden, Shen Fei activated the Ant-Man Suit and turned himself into a quantum state. Then he opened a Portal and plunged headfirst into Dimension Space.
"What a dazzling, colorful world."
The surroundings were just like the Dimension Space Ancient One had previously brought his soul into. For Wasp, entering the Quantum Realm meant there was no way back out, but that was not a problem for Shen Fei.
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