You've been dead for 20 years and you still want to teach me?" Tony Stark laughed while standing in the projection of the new element.
I don't know whether to laugh at myself for finding a new element to solve palladium poisoning, or at the communication between myself and my father across time and space.
"The new element you discovered should be able to replace the palladium you are using now." Jarvis' voice sounded.
"Thanks, Dad." Tony Stark shrunk the elemental projection, held it between his fingers, and looked at it carefully.
"Unfortunately, it cannot be synthesized."
"Hmm~" Tony Stark smiled again, then stood up. "Get ready for a major renovation, guys. Time to get some sweat on it."
Then Tony Stark started smashing the walls and the ground with a hammer, making holes one after another.
"Stark, your house is truly the most dangerous residence in the world." Clint Barton looked at the room that had been torn to pieces by Tony Stark in an instant and couldn't help but say, "What are you doing?"
"Obviously, we need to synthesize new elements," said Tony Stark.
"How are you going to do it?" Phil Coulson couldn't help but ask. He had no idea how to start something as impressive as synthesizing new elements.
"Isn't this simple?" Tony Stark shrugged and pointed at the video. "Watch it with your eyes wide open and learn from me."
In the video, Tony Stark installed some high-end parts one by one to their corresponding positions, and a huge particle accelerator was presented freshly and hotly in front of everyone.
"I heard you left." At this time the door was opened and Phil Coulson appeared here.
"Yes," Tony Stark said, "This happened in a lifetime ago. Where were you?"
"I'm busy." Phil Coulson said.
"Really?" Tony Stark said as he fiddled with the particle accelerator. "Me too, and I'm almost there."
At this time, Phil Coulson, who was wandering around, found an unfinished shield. Tony Stark asked Phil Coulson to help put the shield under the pipe.
"I'm busy, what are you doing here?" Tony Stark asked while leveling the floor with a spirit level.
"Say goodbye," Phil Coulson said. "I've been transferred. I'm going to New Mexico."
"Enchanting wonderland." Tony Stark gave a four-word evaluation.
"That's what everyone says," said Phil Coulson.
"Secret mission?" Tony Stark guessed.
"Almost." Phil Coulson didn't say much.
"Good luck." Tony Stark's blessing seemed perfunctory.
"Bye." Phil Coulson's farewell didn't seem very sincere.
The video ends here.
"New Mexico?" But this last location attracted the attention of several people in the answering space, because this place is where Thor descended.
"So the me in the video went to find Thor?" Although Phil Coulson asked with doubt, his tone was very certain.
"Didn't you say this was a video of the future?" Thor said, "But I appeared before the video."
"This video shows the unchanging future," Tony Stark mused. "It's the trajectory of events that didn't occur in the answering space."
"In other words, if there is no answer to the question, then at this point in time, Thor has not yet come to Earth?" Clint Barton said.
"No, the timeline of Thor's arrival on Earth won't change, and answering the questions hasn't affected Thor yet." Tony Stark said, "Answering the questions changes us. If I hadn't answered the questions, I would have invented new elements with what my father left me, just like in the video, with Nick Fury's reminder.
But because he was busy answering questions, Nick Fury's mind wasn't on me. He was more concerned about Thor and Captain America, and he didn't remind me when he should have."
"So this is still a video from the past." Phil Coulson gave a classic summary.
"Yes, it is the past, but it is also the future." said Tony Stark.
"Stark, could you please stop saying such profound things?" Clint Barton said.
"That's right. According to the chronological order, Thor has already arrived on Earth. For us now, this video is from the past." Tony Stark glanced at Clint Barton and continued to explain, "But because of the emergence of the answer space, part of the past that was supposed to happen didn't happen. Instead, it became the future that hasn't happened yet."
"Thor's past has already happened, because he wasn't affected by the questions," Phil Coulson continued. "But you, Stark, your past, which was supposed to happen—the past where you solved the palladium poisoning at Director Fury's suggestion—didn't happen, and it's become your future."
"I don't quite understand why you're so lenient," Thor interrupted. "Is there any point in discussing this?"
"There is," Tony Stark said. "This video at least confirms one thing for us: the future shown in the video is based on the assumption that the answer space has never existed."
"Isn't this obvious?" Thor asked back.
"It's quite obvious, but this is something about the future. We need to confirm it, don't we?" Tony Stark paused and said, "Also, thank you for your analysis of this problem."
"I was lucky by accident." Thor was a little embarrassed. "Yes, you solved the palladium poisoning with your father's help, but it was not the kind of help I was talking about."
"No, I want to thank you because you gave me an idea, an idea that will allow me to see my father again." Tony Stark sighed, his eyes reddening again. "You know what? The day my father had the car accident, I was still arguing with him, and I didn't even say goodbye to him! I never told him I love you. For all these years, I've been thinking, if I could have the chance to say goodbye to him, if I could tell him I love you in person, I would be willing to give everything."
"Stark, are you really planning to ask a wizard to meet your father's ghost?" Phil Coulson couldn't help but frowned. "That doesn't sound like the right thing to do."
"I'm not sure if there are ghosts in this world after death," Clint Barton said. "There's a difference between life and death, Stark. If there really are ghosts, there must be a reason they never appear to us humans. I think it's best if we don't cross this barrier."