The disaster comes without any warning, but it makes even the most determined minds begin to waver.
People began to see things that did not exist, hear silent whispers, and memories were strangely confused and overlapping. Solid walls were sometimes transparent and sometimes distorted, and familiar streets became strange and familiar inexplicably. The laws of physics became inconsistent in some areas, as if reality itself had become a wet oil painting that was being daubed and modified at will.
"Large-scale reality distortion has occurred globally!" Bruce·Banner's voice carried a rare tremor in the S.H.I.E.L.D. command center, "It's not an illusion! It's that the 'resolution' of the reality structure itself is declining! Logic and continuity are collapsing!"
Nick Fury's one eye scanned the absurd reports coming from all over the world, and his face turned pale. "The reason?"
"Unknown!" Maria·Hill's voice was full of powerlessness, "The energy signature cannot be identified and the source cannot be traced! Master Strange?"
In Kamar-Taj's Sanctum Sanctorum, Strange and Wang were doing their best to maintain the protective formation, with cold sweat breaking out on their foreheads. "It's not an invasion of dimensions... it's the 'fibers' of reality itself that are being worn and splintered!" Strange explained with difficulty, "Something is...'disassembling' our reality, like disassembling a sweater!"
Avengers once again fell into an incomprehensible war. What they faced was not the enemy, but the ever-changing rules. Captain America's shield sometimes passed through objects, and sometimes it was too heavy to lift; Iron Man The battle armor's navigation system failed due to space distortion; Black Widow and Hawkeye found that sometimes they could see through walls, and sometimes they couldn't even find the door; Hulk's anger became confused in the face of illusions that were difficult to distinguish between true and false.
They try to stabilize the situation and rescue people trapped in panic and chaos, but they often become victims of reality distortion. The world seems to have fallen into a collective, waking nightmare.
Tony·Stark analyzed the fragmented data and came up with a terrible conjecture. "This is not like an attack... more like a...'collection'! Something is extracting the 'structural force' of reality itself! It's like removing threads from cloth!"
"Collecting? For what?" Steve shouted on a street that was constantly changing colors.
"I don't know! But if this continues, reality will completely disintegrate!"
Just when the whole world is sliding to the edge of complete madness--
Malibu Beach.
Xiao Han's drink cup suddenly became translucent in his hand, and the liquid inside seemed to exist and not exist at the same time. The beach chair under him felt sometimes as hard as iron, sometimes as soft as clouds. The sea in the distance flashed crazily between blue, purple and colorless.
This extreme "uncertainty" and "sense of chaos" seriously interfered with his process of absorbing solar energy. The energy became mixed and impure, making it difficult to absorb, just like trying to extract a clear sound from a severely interfered signal.
"Inferior signal." He frowned displeased. Super-Senses - especially the perception involving the stability of reality and the certainty of micro-physics - instantly locked onto the abnormal fluctuations that pervaded the world and caused reality to "fade" and "loose".
To him, it was like a clear picture being forcibly mosaic, making it blurry and uncomfortable.
He didn't even do anything deliberately, he just subconsciously "manifested" his absolutely certain and absolutely real "existence" to the outside world.
Like an absolutely precise coordinate, an unshakable reference point.
The abnormal power that attempts to "spin" reality and reduce its "resolution", at the moment it comes into contact with this absolutely "real" and "certain" existence, its internal chaotic instructions are like encountering an incompatible system, instantly collapsing and failing.
Reality distortion on a global scale has come to an abrupt end.
The walls returned to strength, the streets returned to stability, the laws of physics returned to normal, and people's perceptions and memories returned to clarity. The world suddenly woke up from that absurd nightmare, leaving only lingering fears and countless questions.
Avengers froze in place, feeling the world return to "normal" and "real", unable to speak for a long time.
"Reality... is stable?" Strange checked Eye of Agamotto in disbelief and found that the reality fibers had regained their strength.
"Is it him?" Tony looked at the direction of the source of the monitoring data that stabilized all readings like a needle in the sea.
Doctor Banner slumped in the chair, looked at the laboratory wall that had returned to normal, and murmured, "He... he is the 'reference point' of reality? Any blur and distortion that deviates from this 'reference point' are... forced to be 'rendered' back to normal?"
Natasha recalled the absurd scene he had just experienced, and took a deep breath. "For him, maybe it was just that the display effect of the 'world' just now was too poor, and he felt uncomfortable looking at it, so he 'repaired' it."
In an indescribable realm beyond dimensions, an ancient existence that tried to extract low-level reality structures to weave its own dreams emitted silent astonishment. Its extraction behavior encountered incomprehensible resistance, and its tools even had cracks.
It silently removed the "Earth-616" reality from the list of collectibles, and added a note, "There is an unparsable 'Reality Anchor' in this reality. The intensity of 'Reality Veil' is abnormally high, and any attempt to extract it may cause the tool to be damaged. The risk is extremely high. The collection permission for this reality is permanently given up."
Xiao Han feels that the world around him has returned to "high definition" and "stable", and the drink cup in his hand has also returned to its normal texture and weight.
The world is finally free of "flash screens" and "garbled characters".
This is good.
As for why the screen flickered just now? Who is trying to reduce the resolution?
He has no interest.