Ke Chen did not want to keep bickering with Tony, so he immediately said, "Go on. What did you need me for?"
"A major discovery."
Tony did not want to waste words either. He had Ke Chen come over and began explaining.
"Some unlucky guy has been researching the Quantum Realm. Someone in his family got trapped in there before, and now they're trying to use the Quantum Realm to travel through time and space..."
Ke Chen was suddenly enlightened. Was Tony talking about Ant-Man's family?
Thanos in this timeline had not gathered all the Infinity Stones, so the Avengers had not needed to travel through time and space. But Ant-Man's family had not abandoned the research, because the First-generation Wasp was trapped in the Quantum Realm, which had made them deeply interested in it.
Moreover, the Quantum Realm could enable time travel and even allow one to cross into countless worlds.
No wonder people said that in the Marvel Universe, the poor relied on mutation while the rich relied on technology. Technology could accomplish something like crossing worlds too. Without money... one could only rely on personal strength to cross over, like Ke Chen.
"They succeeded?"
Ke Chen asked.
"No, they failed."
Tony immediately replied. Ke Chen twitched his mouth, and then Tony, as expected, said in an incredibly pretentious tone, "They don't have my intelligence and talent. How could they possibly succeed?"
"You should know that Earth's smartest people are all in the Illuminati!"
Tony said smugly, "After I found out, I did a little research with Reed and the others, and we developed a machine that could travel through time and space. We still had to use them, though, because we needed Pym Particles."
Ke Chen nodded, his interest piqued. Tony had actually gone down this road