The form of disaster transcends the conventional categories of time and space.
Across the world, the strange "Causal Inversion" phenomenon has begun to appear. Wounds appear and begin to heal before they are harmed. Answers are widely disseminated and cause confusion before questions are asked. Buildings show signs of wear and tear before construction begins. Effects appear before causes, and effects force the causes.
"Causality Law is experiencing regional disorder!" Bruce·Banner In the S.H.I.E.L.D. command center, looking at the soaring incidence rate of global logical paradox events, his voice was filled with shock and a hint of fear, "The order of the time series is being subverted! The chain of 'cause' and 'effect' is being disrupted and even connected in reverse!"
Nick Fury's single eye scanned the reports that read like ridiculous jokes but actually happened, "Source? Purpose?"
"Unable to locate!" Maria·Hill's voice was full of powerlessness, "Energy characteristics... it is more like a 'rule distortion' that acts on the logical relationship itself! It is not modifying events, but modifying the 'connection method' between events!"
The holographic image of Tony·Stark appeared. In his laboratory, the data of an experimental result was displayed on the screen before the experiment started. "Friday named it 'Temporal Entropy Disorder'! The causal relationship is no longer reliable! Predictions and plans become meaningless because the future is 'leaking' into the present and affecting the past!"
Strange and Wang struggled to maintain the stability of the time flow in Sanctum Sanctorum, while Eye of Agamotto's light flickered on and off. "This is not time travel, but... the 'mirror' of causal logic itself has been broken!" Blood oozed from the corners of Strange's mouth, "The boundaries between the past, present, and future have become blurred and permeable!"
Avengers himself fell into a whirlpool of cause and effect confusion. Captain America saw new scratches on the shield, but could not remember when and where it was caused; Iron Man's armor activated the defense mode before being attacked; Black Widow already knew the results of the instructions received before they were executed. They tried hard to maintain order, but their actions were often based on reasons that had not happened yet, leading to more chaos.
The operation of society is stuck in a logical dilemma, the judicial system is confused because "evidence" appears before crimes are committed, and scientific research loses meaning because results precede experiments. The structure of reality is becoming unstable due to the collapse of cause and effect.
Malibu Beach.
Xiao Han noticed that the ice cubes in his drink glass began to melt before the sunlight was strong enough, and when he looked at the sun, it seemed to have returned to its original state. What made him even more unhappy was that he felt that his "state of existence" that absolutely existed in the "now" and had a clear causal chain had been subject to an extremely subtle "logical interference." This disruption of certainty and timing made the process of absorbing solar energy seem to have an indescribable "dislocation".
"Logical error." He whispered displeasedly. Super-Senses - especially the ultimate perception of causal logic and temporal absoluteness - instantly locked onto the "logical noise" that permeated the level of real rules and led to Causal Inversion.
In his opinion, this is like a serious logical error in a piece of code that needs to be forcibly corrected.
He didn't even look for the source of the error, but subconsciously "synchronized" his biological logic field that absolutely followed the "cause-effect" sequence and existed "now" outward slightly.
Like an absolutely precise timing controller, it forcibly resynchronizes all chaotic logic signals to the correct clock pulse.
The abnormal regular field that attempts to reverse "causation" and disrupt "time sequence", at the moment it comes into contact with this absolutely "ordered" and "determined" logical field, its internal chaotic instructions are like encountering an insurmountable barrier, and are instantly corrected, straightened out, and reset.
The global Causal Inversion phenomenon came to an abrupt end.
Wounds only appear after injuries, answers only arise after questions, and the building returns to its normal order from construction to wear and tear. Causality Law becomes clear and reliable again, and the arrow of time regains its firm direction. The world is forcibly pulled back on track from that logical nightmare.
Avengers froze in place, feeling the chain of cause and effect that suddenly returned to "normal" and "predictable", with lingering fear in his heart.
"Karma... has it returned to normal?" Steve looked at the scratches on the shield and finally remembered what happened during the battle.
"Is it him again?" Natasha found that the result of the command will not be known until it is received.
Doctor Banner watched as the index representing the stability of the timing returned to normal instantly and murmured, "He... he used his absolute 'causal certainty' to act as a 'timing calibrator'? Forcibly smoothing out the 'logical chain' of the universe?"
Strange felt the time flow restored to "orderliness" and "clearness" and breathed a sigh of relief, "For him, maybe he just felt that the logic of the 'world operation' just now was confusing and full of annoying paradoxes, so he 'debugged' it."
And at an abstract level that transcends logical rules, an experimental consciousness that is testing the boundaries of "free will and fatalism" and trying to inject more "temporal flexibility" into the low-dimensional universe is surprised to find that its experimental intervention has been forcibly terminated, and the causal chain has been reset back to an absolutely linear and irreversible state.
It detects the force that completely "offsets" and "solidifies" its "sequential elastic injection", and feels a Causality Law characteristic that is extremely "certain", extremely "linear" and cannot be distorted in any way.
It silently sets the Causality Law intervention permission of the experimental universe (ID: 616) to "read-only" and notes. "The target universe has a powerful 'causal deterministic guard mechanism'. Any attempt to flex its time arrow or subvert its causal order will trigger forced logic reorganization. The experimental environment is invalid. Suggestion: Terminate relevant intervention to avoid logic collapse and rebound."
Xiao Han felt that the "orderly" and "certain" logical environment around him had returned, and the chain of cause and effect became clear and unshakable again. He took a sip of the drink, and the ice cubes slowly melted under the normal sunlight.
The world is finally no longer "logically chaotic".
This is good.
As for who is playing with cause and effect? Why?
He has no interest.