In the underground laboratory of Tony's seaside villa, Tony, who had returned from participating in the auction, was debugging various precision testing instruments around him with the cooperation of JARVIS, preparing to record important information.
"JARVIS, connect my brain waves to the sophisticated Divine Power detector I designed. I want to see what this stand-in is like?"
Tony ordered JARVIS while putting the test patch on his temple. He still had extra energy to look at the card in his hand.
[Stand Arrow: Xian collects the desires and emotions of people all over the world and uses absolute power to create a one-time prop. By inserting it into your own head, you can awaken a spiritual energy substitute that matches your own characteristics.]
Tony stopped moving his hand, and the content on the card was clearly displayed in front of him.
In addition to an explanatory text, there is also a simple bronze double-headed short arrow with a strange Inhuman face pattern drawn on the card.
Tony's eyes lingered on the card, recalling the things that appeared at today's auction. He didn't like the spell cards or super genes. With the magic knowledge Li Ge opened to him, he didn't need these things at all.
In the afternoon King Fruit, only those ordinary people or people who need to be taken care of were auctioned. Although Spirit Fruit Tony with tens of thousands of people was in the auction, although Spirit Fruit with Tony with tens of millions of people on the Samsara Realm Heaven-Reaching Mountain was in the auction, I gave up on participating in the auction.
He felt that he was a dignified Subordinate God, so if he asked Li Ge for a billion-level Spirit Fruit, he should be able to successfully obtain it at some cost.
The final auction item, the Stand Arrow that could awaken the avatar, immediately piqued Tony's interest. In the end, he successfully auctioned the next item with ten Red Crystal.
Not long after, all the instruments were debugged. Tony took a deep breath, stood in the middle of all the instruments, and input a ray of energy into the card.
"Crack--!"
The card suddenly made a sound like glass breaking, and the picture and text on it became blurred, and then all disappeared. Then, Tony's hand sank.
Throwing away the useless blank card, Tony picked up the palm-length Stand Arrow and looked around, then asked, "JARVIS, did you find anything?"
"Sorry sir, I can only detect very strong biological-like brainwaves on Stand Arrow. I didn't find anything else!"
"Oh?" Tony raised his eyebrows, his interest was completely aroused. He rubbed the arrow body of Stand Arrow, which was as warm as jade, and took out a file to frustrate it, but it couldn't be fudged at all!
"The message says that it will be inserted directly into one's head. Does this count as inciting someone to commit suicide?"
Tony said this, but he did not hesitate to pick up Stand Arrow and insert it into his head. He was confident that nothing would happen to his head. According to his understanding, there must be a reason why Li Ge designed Stand Arrow to be used in this way.
"Is it to stimulate the brain and sperm Divine Power?"
Thinking of the introduction on the card, Tony already had the answer in his mind.
Just as he expected, Stand Arrow did not touch his head at all, or in other words, the moment it came into contact, the entire arrow body transformed into strange spiritual energy and penetrated into Tony's head.
Tony only felt that his head was swollen and his hands were empty, as if something was jumping in his mind, and then his thoughts were empty. It seemed that the things in his head were Galactus's thoughts. In a trance, he heard JARVIS's voice blurring away.
"Alarm... alarm... abnormal fluctuations in brain waves... no conscious response... call Ms. Pepper..."
"Oh no...Tony...Tony... How about you... answer me..."
Tony feels like he is floating in a dark universe now, with countless miniature stars twinkling in front of him. They approach him for a while, and then suddenly move away, flickering, as if they are saying hello, observing him, or waiting for his choice.
His consciousness was still a little confused. He couldn't remember how he came here, nor could he remember the purpose of coming here. Even what happened was hazy, as if he was in a dream.
Tony doesn't know what he should do, or should he stay here motionless?
No, there was an idea brewing in his mind.
What is it?
Tony was thinking, unconsciously looking at the stars around him, and even subconsciously stretched out his fingers to try to touch them.
At this moment, an icy blue light with a meaning of mechanical order, and a star with data flow meandering inside, slowly approached Tony.
When Tony saw it, he felt inexplicably kind and wanted to get close to it.
He didn't notice that the other stars began to gradually move away, fade, and disappear into the darkness.
Tony raised his hand, and with a sense of matter-of-factness that he didn't even react to, he gently grabbed the star.
Just when he grabbed the star, as if he had met some conditions, Tony suddenly felt an unstoppable sense of pulling away. With a subconscious force on his hand, he tightly grasped the only gain here.
In the laboratory, Pepper, who was called by JARVIS, had already pulled off the testing sticker on Tony's temple. After calling Tony several times but still no response, she was going to help Tony sit down in the corner, and then contact Li Ge to come over and check the situation.
It had only been a few minutes since Tony inserted Stand Arrow into his head.
"Huh... huh... wow... Hou Li Xia Te... Damn Li Ge, you didn't explain this situation clearly!"
"Pepper, don't worry, I'm fine. I just used Stand Arrow normally. Hahahaha, you must be shocked by me!"
As soon as Pepper helped Tony to the corner, before he could sit down, Tony suddenly felt excited, opened his eyes suddenly, and gasped for air, not forgetting to curse Li Ge.
While comforting Pepper, he laughed loudly and said nonsense, causing Pepper to give him a fierce look.
"What happened?"
When Tony finally calmed down, Pepper asked about what happened just now.
Tony pulled Pepper over, put his arms around her waist and sat on the sofa together, and talked about what happened after he used Stand Arrow.
"Pepper, I think the darkness I saw should be the depths of my subconscious, and those stars are my various spiritual qualities. Stand Arrow allows me to find the spiritual qualities that best suit me, and then condense them into a unique stand-in for me."
"Look..."
In just a short period of time, Tony had used his genius mind to analyze the situation in detail, and then pointed in front of him with a show-off gesture.
Pepper looked in the direction of Tony... and saw nothing.
She frowned and looked at Tony in confusion. "I didn't see anything?"
Tony was stunned for a moment, and then he patted his head in annoyance. "Can you use sperm Divine Power to take a look again?"
Pepper immediately used his increasingly powerful spirit Divine Power under the influence of Telekinesis given by Tony and Li Ge to look forward again.
"Is this... is this really a stand-in? Why does it look so much like a... robot?"
A delicate and strong silver-gray robot spread its hands, lifted one foot up, and pointed down the toes of the other foot, suspended in mid-air, and looked at them calmly with blue mechanical eyes.
Tony's expression was more emotional than that of Pepper, because the first time he saw his stand-in, he knew what name he should give him.
"Yes Pepper, he is my substitute, a substitute that belongs to me alone. I call him--Ultron!"