Su Ming's call brought bad news:
The Regeneration Cradle had been contaminated.
And at that moment, Tony and Banner were uploading JARVIS into the Regeneration Cradle.
The progress bar was already past halfway.
Dr. Banner's face instantly went pale as paper.
His eyes widened behind his glasses, his fingers frozen in midair as he stared in disbelief at the import progress bar that was nearly complete.
He had no idea what to do.
Tony's reaction was even more intense!
"What?! Contaminated?!"
He sprang up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
His voice was shrill.
The frustration of Ultron going off course and the resentment of being questioned by his teammates rushed straight to his head.
At the same time.
The fury of having his professional expertise questioned instantly took over his reason!
"What the hell are you talking about?! Contaminated?!
We monitored the Cradle's biological indicators the entire time!
JARVIS's code was screened layer by layer!
Ultron only used it to make a body!
What the hell does he know about core programming?! What gives you the right...?!"
"Because Ned Leeds saw it with his own eyes!
And because of the data he copied..."
Su Ming's words were like a cold scalpel.
They precisely cut open the risk Tony had been trying to ignore all along.
—His dependence on Ultron's technology and his eagerness to make up for his mistakes had made him instinctively avoid the deeper danger.
Tony looked as if someone had grabbed him by the throat.
His face turned livid, his fingers unconsciously clenched, and his knuckles went white.
The rest of his words were forcibly swallowed back down.
Ned...?
Peter's tech geek friend?
He was there? And he got the data?
The Mind Stone... infected the core program?
Twisted the logic of life?...