With those two system prompts, a rather unconventional but actually very ordinary black rifle appeared in Black Widow's hand.
It was truly the most ordinary kind.
The initial visual impression was indeed that.
The gun looked neither high-tech nor advanced; compared to some other weapons issued by the system, this thing seemed like a placeholder.
Yet, even so, Black Widow's face still showed excitement after receiving the information about this blaster rifle, which was infused by the system.
"Stark, this is an energy gun!" Black Widow immediately said to Tony Stark, and then smoothly ejected the magazine.
Tony Stark, Nick Fury, including Captain America and Hawkeye, all leaned in to look and found that there were indeed no bullets in the magazine.
Instead, it was an energy device similar to a battery.
Tony Stark then became slightly interested. He quickly took it and examined it: "It looks like this magazine also uses plasma confinement technology, similar to a plasma lightsaber."
"Romanoff, how powerful is this energy gun?" Nick Fury couldn't help but ask in a deep voice from the side.
"Sir, it's naturally much stronger than metal bullets," Black Widow said, her eyes filled with uncontrollable excitement. "A single shot from a blaster can penetrate the armor of soldiers from another world!"
"Although I don't know what material that armor is made of, I think it's at least no worse than a bulletproof vest, because they are soldiers of the Galactic Empire! They are interstellar soldiers!"
The words "interstellar soldiers" immediately made everyone present think of interstellar mercenaries like the Chitauri.
If blasters could even deal with interstellar soldiers, then dealing with interstellar forces like the Chitauri should also be no problem.
"And this one magazine can fire five hundred times!"
"Which means this one magazine has five hundred rounds!"
"Also, although this blaster is called a rifle, it's not like our traditional rifles; we can use it as a semi-automatic ordinary pistol!"
This means,
This is a pistol that can penetrate bulletproof vests and is equipped with five hundred rounds.
It's simply the fighter jet among pistols.
"Stark, I need a batch of these blasters replicated," Nick Fury immediately said to Tony Stark with a serious face.
The appearance of the blaster made Nick Fury see the possibility of countering alien armies similar to the Chitauri.
Of course, Loki has now been captured by everyone, and Nick Fury has also started to summon Thor. The Battle of New York in the original work is very likely not to happen.
After all, Loki didn't even have a chance to open the portal.
But this incident did indeed sound an alarm for everyone, which is that Earth currently does not have the ability to counter interstellar armies!
This can be said to be a fatal flaw, a fatal shortcoming.
But now it's different.
Earth finally has interstellar-level weapons.
Originally, Nick Fury's idea was Falcon wings plus an electric whip, but how could an electric whip compare to a blaster?
That thing was too inconvenient, and its limitations were too great.
But if it were Falcon wings plus a blaster, that would be a completely different story.
"No problem! This is not difficult for me," Tony Stark did not decline and immediately agreed.
He naturally knew what Nick Fury's plans were, but Tony Stark agreed with them; he would do the same.
This matter was thus happily agreed upon.
The answering is over, now playing the answer analysis!
Soon, the system's prompt sounded again, and everyone present temporarily refocused their attention on the large screen in front of them.
A corresponding image then appeared.
"We are under attack! I repeat, we are under attack!"
"Engines out, life support failing! Requesting support from nearby ships! We are 22 jump points from Asgard!"
"The ship is filled with Asgardian families, very few soldiers. This is not a warship, I repeat, this is not a warship!"
With these few faint sounds, two spaceships began to appear in the vast, boundless starry sky.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
One of the colossal ships was seen continuously attacking the other ship.
Undoubtedly, the attacked ship was Asgard's.
Next, the camera switched to the interior of the Asgardian ship.
Inside the ship, bodies lay scattered everywhere, debris and ruins covered the ground, and war raged incessantly, a truly tragic sight.
Loki's brows furrowed instantly, and his face grew even darker. Even if he held some resentment towards Asgard now, he absolutely could not accept this scene before him.
"Hear me and rejoice!"
A man walked among the piles of bodies, speaking loudly to the surviving Asgardians, "You are to be saved by the Great Titan!"
"You may think this is suffering, but in fact, it is salvation!"
"Because of your sacrifice, the universe's balance is restored. So smile! Even in death, you will become children of Thanos!"
As Ebony Maw delivered this "long speech," the scene inside the warship was fully displayed before everyone.
Thanos and his Black Order stood majestically, and around them, except for Loki, all the Asgardians lay on the ground.
Even important Asgardian figures like Thor and Heimdall were no exception.
The atmosphere in the room was somewhat oppressive. Thanos's power made everyone feel a little breathless. If even Asgard's ship suffered such a fate, what other planetary civilization could withstand Thanos?
"I know what it's like to fail," Thanos then spoke, "to feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail nonetheless."
At this point, Thanos reached out and lifted Thor, who lay on the ground unable to move.
He walked towards Loki, holding Thor as if he were a dead dog.
"It's terrifying, makes your legs weak, but I ask you, what's the point? Fear, running away, destiny always arrives, and now, it has arrived! Or rather, I have arrived!"
Thanos, still holding Thor, came before Loki. "The Tesseract, or your brother's head! You should make a choice."
Thanos's target was actually the Tesseract?
This surprised and somewhat shocked everyone present.
First Tony Stark and Captain America traveled through time to seize the Tesseract, and now Thanos destroyed the Asgardian ship to seize it. What exactly is the Tesseract?
Why is it so important?
In an instant, everyone present couldn't help but feel a heavy weight in their hearts.
Was it really a good thing to have something of this caliber on Earth?
Could Earth truly preserve such a thing?
Everyone knew that Thanos would invade Earth in the future, but no one knew the reason for his invasion.
Could it be... for the Tesseract?
No one could be certain.
But the Tesseract did indeed bring a lot of pressure to everyone.
"Of course, kill him!" Loki's voice rang out, and he made this decision without hesitation, his face cold.
It was as if he didn't care about Thor's life at all.
Thanos stopped talking nonsense and immediately used the purple gem on his gauntlet to press down hard on Thor's head.
"Ah!"
Thor immediately let out a pained scream, his face showing extreme agony.
Loki, seeing this scene, his face immediately twitched. It was clear that his earlier indifference to Thor's life was all an act.
He was bluffing in front of Thanos.
"Alright, stop it quickly!" Loki quickly couldn't bear to watch anymore and couldn't help but shout at Thanos.
Loki's true nature was once again "exposed" before everyone.
Although this guy had sent the Destroyer to Earth to assassinate Thor before, in the future, he still cared deeply about Thor.
"The Tesseract isn't with us, it was destroyed on Asgard!" Thor said to Thanos, panting heavily.
But how could such a lie deceive Thanos?
Thanos didn't even bother to reply to Thor, just stared intently at Loki, waiting for Loki's next move.
Under Thanos's gaze, Loki flipped his hand, and with a flash of light, a blue glowing cube appeared in his hand.
It was indeed the Tesseract.
"You really are the worst brother!" Thor couldn't help but say to Loki.
"I promise you, brother, our luck will turn around!" Loki, however, said to Thor with a profound meaning.
"Your optimism is misplaced, Asgardian," Thanos said with a look of disdain.
"First, I am not Asgardian," Loki corrected Thanos with a serious expression, "secondly, we have the Hulk!"
Roar!
With Loki's words, a large green behemoth suddenly sprang out and tackled Thanos to the ground.
It was the Hulk.
"Hulk?"
Everyone in front of the screen felt very surprised. Wasn't this Asgard's spaceship?
How could Dr. Banner also be on it?
Did Dr. Banner actually go to Asgard in the future?
Loki, in front of the screen, seeing this big guy who had brutally beaten him in the footage, at this moment, a hint of expectation secretly appeared in his heart.
Could this monstrous behemoth deal with Thanos?
Bang bang bang!
Under everyone's gaze, the Hulk began to swing his fists, relentlessly pummeling Thanos, forcing Thanos to retreat repeatedly.
This made everyone excited, surprised, and delighted. They never expected the Hulk to be so formidable, capable of even beating the cosmic overlord Thanos.
But everyone's joy quickly froze on their faces.
Because the situation on the battlefield was quickly reversed.
It turned out that Thanos was being pummeled only because he wasn't serious, and once Thanos got serious, the Hulk practically became a weakling.
He was beaten by Thanos so miserably that it was unbearable to watch.
In just a few blows, he was knocked to the ground, unable to get up, and then passed out, his face covered in blood.
The Hulk was knocked out!
This scene can be said to have caught everyone off guard.
An entity like the Hulk, who grew stronger with anger, and against whom no known method could currently contend, was so valued that Captain America's reward of a calming bracelet was considered a treasure by everyone.
But now, someone could actually knock the Hulk unconscious?
One could only say that a cosmic overlord truly lived up to his reputation.
Bang!
The sound of a heavy impact rang out, as Thor seized the opportunity to rush to Thanos's side and attack him, only to be effortlessly kicked away by Thanos.
Ebony Maw then waved his hand, and a large circle of metal debris flew up into the air, wrapping tightly around Thor's body, completely immobilizing him.
Scarlet Witch had also demonstrated similar telekinetic abilities to everyone, but it had to be said that Scarlet Witch's performance was far inferior to Ebony Maw's.
Ebony Maw's power was also deeply etched into the minds of everyone present.
"All-Father, let the dark magic flow through me one last time!" Heimdall, gravely wounded and lying on the ground, murmured, then reached out a hand towards the Hulk on the ground.
Whoosh!
A beam of light, similar to the Bifrost's teleportation, suddenly projected onto the Hulk.
The Hulk's figure instantly vanished.
"That was a mistake!" Thanos reached out and took a spear from Corvus Glaive, then thrust it directly through Heimdall's heart.
"No!"
Thor immediately let out a painful roar, shouting at Thanos, "I'll make you pay!"
"Shh!"
Ebony Maw made a shushing gesture, then waved his hand, and another piece of metal debris wrapped around Thor's mouth.
Then Ebony Maw took the Tesseract in his hand and knelt before Thanos: "My humble self submits to your greatness! Never has anyone been so great, so exalted! Able to wield the power of not just one, but two Infinity Stones!"
As he spoke, Ebony Maw presented the Tesseract to Thanos.
Amidst Ebony Maw's flattery, Thanos took the Tesseract with one hand, and with a single powerful grip, he crushed it.
When Thanos opened his hand again, another blue gem had appeared in his palm.
"That's one of the six Infinity Stones!"
Tony Stark, who had seen Endgame, immediately recognized the gem, his face filled with surprise. "So there's an Infinity Stone inside the Tesseract!"
At this point, everyone finally understood why the Tesseract was so important.
Not only Tony Stark, but all the others present, including Loki, also showed expressions of astonishment.
The "true nature" of the Tesseract could be said to have exceeded everyone's expectations.
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