"JARVIS, analyze the statue's composition!"
"Yes, sir. Its constituent elements are oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, sodium... Its primary compounds are calcium carbonate, calcium hydroxide, calcium oxide... Composition analysis complete! Assessment indicates an eighty-five percent probability that it is ordinary stone."
Tony and Thaddeus Ross exchanged looks.
An absurd yet silent atmosphere spread among the teams.
A Dark Gate had suddenly appeared in the world, and a Sealed Object had appeared beyond it. Yet their analysis now revealed that behind this supposed Sealed Object, there was nothing but a statue carved from stone?
And after analyzing it, the stone really was just ordinary stone?
Were you crazy, or were we crazy?
Wasn't this far too unreasonable?
Tony's brows knitted tightly. As he looked at the statue's eyes and distorted face, a vague sense of unease rose within him.
He controlled the Mechanical Arm to set the statue down and said, "JARVIS, analyze the statue in front of us again. Run a deep analysis!"
"Yes, sir. Deep analysis in progress!"
General Ross, however, thought nothing of it. He even felt that Tony was being far too cautious!
How many battles had the military and Tony's Guardians Squad already fought?
They were all battle-hardened teams of superhumans.
Even among the many superhumans, their extraordinary powers ranked among the best.
If they sensed nothing unusual in this area, perhaps that was because there was nothing unusual here at all?
"All right, Tony, finish your analysis as quickly as possible. We're definitely taking this thing out." Tony Stark's standing was not necessarily any lower than Thaddeus Ross's now, so although Ross was somewhat dissatisfied with Tony's excessive caution, he still refrained from saying anything inappropriate.
"Mm... all right. The analysis will be finished shortly." Tony nodded. If he could find no reason to prove the