Thor stood with his arms folded and explained to everyone in a low voice:
"Loki's ambitions are far greater than you imagine. He has an alien army called the Chitauri at his command. Who knows where those monsters came from."
"He plans to bring the entire Chitauri Army to Earth to conquer and rule you completely. The Tesseract is probably his payment."
Hearing Thor's words, Tony, who stood in the corner, frowned slightly. What Solomon had told him the night before flashed unbidden through his mind.
An alien army, the Space Stone, and that seemingly ridiculous bet...
Could that mysterious guy named Solomon have known about all this long ago?
"We shouldn't have been so focused on Loki. He's a lunatic."
Thor immediately took offense.
"Watch what you say! However unreasonable and overbearing Loki may be, he's still one of us from Asgard. He's also my brother."
Black Widow suddenly spoke up:
"He killed eighty people in two days."
Thor immediately changed his tune.
"He's adopted."
Tony quietly suppressed his shock and suspicion and returned to the laboratory. While helping Dr. Banner track the Tesseract using gamma rays, he had JARVIS secretly hack into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s top-secret database.
Soon, not only had the Tesseract's files been fully decrypted, but Tony and Steve had also caught S.H.I.E.L.D. red-handed with its "Phase Two" project to secretly use the Tesseract to manufacture weapons of mass destruction!
In the laboratory, everyone who had learned the truth surrounded Nick Fury, and an extremely heated argument erupted at once.
Under the influence of the negative energy invisibly emanating from Loki's Scepter, which lay on the table with the Mind Stone embedded in it, their tempers grew hotter and hotter, their reason gradually consumed by anger.
Tony and Steve went head-to-head, exposing each other's shortcomings.
"You look impressive