## Chapter 337: Tony: I misjudged... wait, did I?
Nick Fury braced himself, pushing his upper body up from the chair. He reached into a cabinet beside him, pulled out a box, and opened it.
"The engines and data protection for all three Helicarriers were upgraded by Stark at our request, under other pretexts. So, seizing control of the Helicarriers directly through the network is extremely difficult. Plus, there's Dr. Zola, who's become something like an electronic lifeform, an AI. Watt, the last few times you tried to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D.'s network to track Hydra, Dr. Zola stopped you.
So this time, we can only retrieve control of the Helicarriers through more physical means. Insert these three chips into the carriers' control consoles."
Nick Fury displayed the three chips from the box to them.
"I refuse." Captain America said.
"Captain, this…"
"S.H.I.E.L.D. has turned traitor, Nick. We're not just destroying Hydra, but S.H.I.E.L.D. too, including those three Helicarriers."
Fury shifted his gaze to Hill.
"Actually, I agree with the Captain. From a management perspective, if a team or organization is completely rotten, then destroying it and rebuilding a new one is the more correct approach."
Fury finally looked to the last person whose opinion carried weight, Qingshui, seeking his help.
"I don't care, unless the strike methods in your Project Insight are nuclear bombs. Otherwise, it shouldn't pose a threat to me." Qingshui waved his hand dismissively.
Hydra's goal was world domination, not to flatten the Earth with a bunch of nuclear bombs. The Helicarriers' strike methods couldn't be nuclear bombs; they were more likely gamma bombs or similar means.
"Alright then, I'm not the director anymore, so I can't order you around." Nick Fury sighed.
After discussing for a while longer, they emerged from the room.
Captain America and his new acquaintance, Falcon Sam, stood on the bridge by the reservoir, chatting.
Black Widow and Maria Hill were taking Crossbones and other S.H.I.E.L.D. special forces members for interrogation.
Meanwhile, Qingshui received a call from an unknown number.
"Watt, I heard you were attacked too?"
"Tony? Let me guess, you must be in a pretty rough state right now."
"Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm calling for your help. I don't suppose you have a way to transport some things to Michigan? I need to repair my armor.
Listen, Watt, a guy named Killian, the founder of Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.), he's the real power behind the Mandarin. He stole Rhodes' War Machine. They plan to use War Machine to assassinate the president, and then put their man, the vice president, into the presidency.
That way, the entire country will fall under their control."
"Alright, I'm a bit busy right now. Tell me your current location, down to the house number. I'll have to get back to other things in a few minutes." Qingshui told Tony on the other end of the line.
"Come on, buddy, what else do you have to do? Is there anything more urgent than this?"
"Uh… destroying S.H.I.E.L.D. and then saving the world?"
Tony: ???
Even though he was about to leave, Qingshui still had Watos search for Tony's location, then opened a portal and went there.
However, this time it was a Shadow Clone that went. Before leaving, Qingshui also went home to give Electrolight II and a Sling Ring to the Shadow Clone to use.
The Shadow Clone's weakness was its lack of durability; it would shatter if hit once. Although it could theoretically split half of the original's Chakra, it couldn't actually regenerate Chakra like the original.
However, equipping it with the Electrolight Armor, powered by an Arc Reactor, could largely compensate for these flaws.
The energy in the reactor could replace the Chakra stored in the Shadow Clone for combat, significantly extending its endurance. The Gold-Titanium Alloy on the surface could also provide some protection to the Shadow Clone, preventing it from being as fragile as paper.
The Sling Ring was also given to the Shadow Clone for opening portals.
After the original mastered the technique of opening portals, he could directly use the Eye of Watt to control the power of the Mind Stone to help him open doors. If the Shadow Clone used the Sling Ring, it would have to pay a certain price to Vishanti – the payment would be in the form of energy like Chakra, and the energy paid would definitely be greater than the energy Vishanti provided.
After all, the quality of Chakra was far inferior to the power Vishanti possessed as a multiversal deity.
While the latter was a multiversal deity leaning towards chaotic neutral, it wouldn't make a losing deal.
"A portal? You really developed space technology?"
In a garage, Tony, holding a soldering pen and repairing his Mark XLII Armor, looked at Qingshui, who emerged from the portal, clad in the Electrolight II Armor, with a look of suspicion.
"I brought you what you needed."
The Electrolight II's arm extended, revealing a block of hydrogen-saturated palladium metal, which it placed on the table in front of Tony.
"Oh, no, Watt, I don't just need a standard unit of palladium metal. I also need a magnetic field generator and a high-energy ion thruster. I can build the first one myself, but with household electricity, it would take three days to charge enough for even minimal use, which clearly isn't fast enough. As for the second, this isn't like that cave in the Middle East where I had a discarded Jericho missile's tail thruster to use." Tony exasperatedly scratched his head.
"Who said this was just an ordinary piece of palladium metal?"
Qingshui spread his hands in front of Tony. The chest of the Electrolight Armor rotated, revealing the familiar glow of an Arc Reactor that Tony knew so well.
Tony's expression immediately became incredibly complex, feeling a sense of betrayal from a friend deep inside.
"Watt, I never thought you would actually…"
"You didn't expect me to figure out the secret of the Arc Reactor using other methods, did you? To achieve cold fusion, the most reliable theoretical approach is to maximize quantum tunneling.
So, the theory behind your Arc Reactor is pretty clear, isn't it?
I used nanobots to construct a molecular-level factory that can fill hydrogen atoms into the unit cells of palladium metal according to a set design. An Arc Reactor built this way has an energy output exceeding 2.5 billion joules per second."
Qingshui casually sat across from Tony Stark, shamelessly taking credit for a method invented by Bruce Wayne.
Anyway, Batman couldn't come to this Marvel Universe, so how would he know?
Tony subtly exhaled, then put on the flippant persona most commonly seen on television.
"So that's how it is. I heard you previously acquired a famous South Korean nanomedical technology company. Was that to integrate their nanotechnology? While your method is good, it's at least ten percent worse than mine. Perhaps at best, it can reach 16.8 percent, because my reactor's output power is higher than yours."
Tony leaned back in his chair, a tactical posture.
The strange competitive spirit of a forty-something-year-old man acting like an overgrown teenager.
"Just tell me if you're going to use it or not?"
Qingshui said disdainfully, pointing at the palladium metal block on the table.
"Oh, of course I'll use it, even if it's not as good as my own."
Tony quickly picked up the palladium metal block, pushed out the Arc Reactor from the chest of the Mark XLII Armor sitting on the sofa, and removed the discarded one to replace it.
When the reactor was pushed back in, the familiar and welcome blue light once again illuminated the Iron Suit, making Stark feel a surge of joy.
"J.A.R.V.I.S.?"
"Hello, sir, it's good to see you again."
Stark's expression was a little wistful.
"Before, I built a new computational matrix as J.A.R.V.I.S.'s server, doubling his computing performance. But that computational matrix was hidden under my home in Malibu and was destroyed along with Killian's missiles. This forced J.A.R.V.I.S. to rely on the armor's smart chip as its host. Otherwise, things would have been much easier for me."
"Never mind all that. It's time to get down to business."
Qingshui said to Tony.
...
In the Shadow Clone's location, Tony was making final adjustments to the Mark XLII Armor, preparing for the next move against Killian.
Meanwhile, the main body had already begun its operation.
"Attention all S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, this is Steve Rogers..."
Captain America, along with Hill, Coulson, and Falcon Sam, had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.'s broadcast room and begun his speech.
When it came to talk-no-jutsu, Captain America was quite skilled.
In the early to mid-World War II period, he performed and gave speeches in military entertainment troupes.
Moreover, America had promoted Captain America for seventy years, making him a crucial spiritual symbol in the hearts of these Americans. With his special ability to influence specific groups, Old Steve's talk-no-jutsu might not be inferior to a certain Blondie.
Qingshui felt that even if he used the Mind Stone for hypnosis, the effect might not be as good.
However, he didn't use hypnosis but another spell.
It was similar to the one he used previously in Watt Manor, but with a larger range, covering the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. base in the Washington area and identifying all the Hydra members.
"Shit."
Coulson couldn't help but curse as he looked at the spreadsheet Qingshui sent him on his tablet.
"What's wrong?"
Hill asked.
"Nearly a third of S.H.I.E.L.D. is Hydra, thousands of people. How am I supposed to remember all of them?"
"Your director is truly remarkable, only realizing this when his own subordinates turned out like this."
Falcon Sam couldn't help but complain.
"At least the previous directors didn't find out, but he did."
Coulson defended his respected director.
"Alright, he's the best of those incompetent directors, but with so many people, how are we going to identify them later?"
Sam asked.
"No need to identify them. Anyone who shoots at us is an enemy. The list is for future cleanup. Watt, how are things on your end?"
Captain America put down the microphone and asked.
"Steve, if you ask me, why don't I just try destroying these three Helicarriers?"
Qingshui stood on the ground, using the Mind Stone's illusion ability to assist in casting Genjutsu, and looking at the Helicarriers slowly ascending into the sky, he replied:
"It should be possible."
There's a saying: one Tibetan Mastiff can fight three wolves, two can contend with a tiger, and three can sink an aircraft carrier.
Qingshui felt that his combat power was at least equivalent to nine Tibetan Mastiffs.
Even if these three carriers were Helicarriers.
"Then as a backup plan, I'm worried this might harm some innocent people on the three Helicarriers. For now, let's stick to the original plan. You, Sam, and I will each be responsible for a Helicarrier's chip. If we run out of time, I'll have to rely on you, Watt."
On the Helicarrier's deck, Captain America, who had already moved there, replied while charging through the enemies with his taunt-enabled shield.
On the other side, Falcon Sam was manipulating his high-tech mechanical wings, dodging gunfire from the deck, and flying towards the chip installation point near the engine.
"Alright," Qingshui said indifferently.
Anyway, with him watching, nothing could go wrong. It was better to keep things easy.
A portal opened, and Qingshui casually strolled to the chip installation location. Without much of a fight, he inserted the rewritten program chip.
Next was Falcon Sam.
This brother didn't encounter any significant obstacles either and successfully installed the chip.
The most troublesome was Captain America.
He had run into his good friend, Winter Soldier Bucky.
Both were Super Soldiers whose strength surpassed the peak of human capability. The former might be slightly stronger, but he couldn't bring himself to be ruthless with Bucky, and the latter indeed had the strength to hold him back.
"Need any help?"
With two minutes left on the countdown, Qingshui opened a portal and asked the two men wrestling on the glass floor.
The first response he received was a flying knife.
*"Bang!"*
Before the knife could reach Qingshui, it was shattered by an energy blast.
"Sorry, you'll have to install the chip. Also, don't kill him. That's Bucky. Just hand him over to me."
Next to the shield lying on the ground, Steve used all his limbs to firmly restrain Bucky's body with a hold and spoke.
He had multiple obvious wounds, including several gunshot wounds.
For an ordinary person, even a highly trained soldier, they would be seriously injured if not dead by now. However, for Steve Rogers, whose body was enhanced by the Super Soldier Serum, as long as it wasn't a fatal injury to the heart or brain, everything else was a minor issue.
"Why make it so complicated?"
Qingshui cleanly severed Bucky's mechanical arm with his Vibranium sword and then slapped the other party's head.
Didn't pass out?
Then another slap, combined with the Mind Stone's mental hypnosis, put Bucky into a peaceful sleep like a baby.
*"Beep!"*
The chip was inserted.
All three chips had passed through Qingshui's hands.
From this moment on, even if the countdown hadn't ended, the three Helicarriers were already under Watos's control.
The next second, weapons extended from the bottom of the Helicarriers, and they began firing at each other.
The Helicarriers rapidly began to fall.
And Qingshui had also kept a trick up his sleeve.
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