"You don't know anything? What kind of answer is that?" Ren took a deep breath, forcing down the urge to hit someone.
Stark braced himself and explained, "The fighting was too intense. We had no time to verify anything. As for whether the missing team members are alive or dead, we genuinely can't confirm it yet."
Ren rolled his eyes. "Did you never figure out the Skrulls' basic abilities? To perfectly copy superpowers, they have to keep extracting fresh genetic samples!"
"As long as the impostors are still using those powers, the people they replaced must be alive!"
At that, Stark's taut nerves finally eased.
But a crushing sense of defeat followed.
As Earth's foremost technological genius, gathering intelligence had always been his specialty.
Yet today, he had been led around like a blind man.
Iron Man lowered his head and withdrew into himself.
He even felt as though his entire worth had been trampled.
Ren shook his head. There was no point relying on Earth's existing detection technology.
He slowly closed his eyes, and mental power as vast as the Sea of Stars surged outward.
Seeing through a Skrull's disguise was nearly impossible for ordinary people, but for someone of Ren's power, it was effortless.
Having touched the Cosmic Source, Ren could see the nature of a soul at a glance.
No matter how the body changed, its soul's imprint could not be faked.
Stark's instruments could scan only a small area at most.
Ren's mental net enveloped the entire Earth in the blink of an eye!
In that instant, all seven billion people on Earth shuddered.
It felt as though someone had seized them by the scruff of the neck, as though every secret they held had been laid bare.
Countless people panicked, with no idea what had