“Shit! It seems that just isolating our place here isn’t enough; we’d better wrap up the entire Blue Star, otherwise the demonized virus might still spread in from the outside,” Tony’s expression was exceptionally grim.
He had thought that everything he did with all his might would be enough to protect his daughter Morgan, keeping her free from the threat of infection by the demonized virus.
Who would have thought that the entire Universe would no longer be safe.
At this moment, everyone present truly believed Strange’s words, realizing that this might very well be the true beginning of the Universe’s destruction!
Peter also suddenly understood.
No wonder he always felt something was wrong.
In the original work, Captain Marvel had clearly rushed back to assist in Avengers: Endgame, and she had suppressed Thanos for a long time; otherwise, Endgame might not necessarily have been won.
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And this time, she didn’t appear at all.
At first, he thought it was because he had wiped out Thanos, so Captain Marvel simply didn’t come back.
Now it seemed clear that she had discovered the spread of the demonized virus on her way back, which delayed her progress!
That being said, the demonized virus probably started spreading across the entire Universe the moment the time hijacking plan began.
Even if they isolated the first batch of infected people now, or even protected the Blue Star further, it would probably be of no use.
Because according to the current analytical intelligence, this demonized virus possessed at least three characteristics:
First, symbiosis.
Its existence was somewhat similar to a symbiont.
Although it didn’t possess true independent consciousness like well-known symbionts such as Venom and Carnage, it also had an ability similar to biological instinct.
This was also the reason why Peter’s Superman Field could not completely eradicate them from the hosts’ bodies.
The moment they entered the host’s body, they had already become one with it!
Second, enhancement.
Strictly speaking, this point could actually be classified into the first point; after all, symbionts in the Marvel Universe indeed had the effect of enhancing their hosts.
It was just that Eddie, an ordinary person, became the anti-hero Lethal Guardian after being symbiotically bonded with Venom, and eventually even became the God of Symbionts.
As for Peter Parker, who was already Spider-Man, after being symbiotically bonded with Venom, he turned from a wronged honest person into an angry honest person, daring to throw some dust into other people’s eyes.
However, the demonized virus did not have such a strong enhancement capability.
It could roughly elevate someone like Tony—a fifty-year-old geezer who only did moderate physical health training—to a physical fitness level surpassing his physical prime at twenty by one or two points.
As for someone like Thor, it wasn’t that obvious.
The demonized virus could not enhance divine power; instead, it would erode his body.
The one with the greatest improvement was Hulk.
Because Hulk’s main output means was his physical body, and what amplified this aspect was his anger.
If the demonized virus completely infected him, theoretically it would keep him in a state of extreme anger all the time.
An extremely angry ordinary person could beat to death a muscular man who drank protein powder every day to grow muscles.
A Hulk who maintained extreme anger could theoretically grow into the strongest hero in the Universe.
But the consequence was being completely controlled by the demonized virus, completely “falling into demonic obsession”, and eventually perishing.
As for the last one, it was fury, or rather, loss of sanity.
After being invaded by the demonized virus in the brain, it would infinitely amplify an individual’s negative traits, eventually causing them to lose their sanity and only frantically attack and destroy everything they saw.
However, infected individuals would not attack each other.
Judging from this point alone, it was very similar to the zombies in the Marvel series.
It was just that the zombie virus lacked enhancement capabilities.
Only in this way, a problem would arise: by the time all those civilizations outside the Blue Star were infected by the demonized virus, these demonized beings might descend upon the Blue Star!
Therefore, what they needed to do was to think of a way to solve all of this before that happened!
In response, Strange put forward an idea.
“In fact, I only have a half-understanding of many things in the Dark Dimension, but I know someone who definitely understands a lot.”
Hearing this, Peter’s heart stirred; he knew who Strange was talking about.
Sorcerer Ancient One—Strange’s master.
The former-former Sorcerer Supreme of the Blue Star!
This was indeed a pretty good method.
Although Ancient One always said during her lifetime that Strange would be the most powerful among all generations of Sorcerer Supremes.
However, Strange at the current stage was actually still a bit lacking, far inferior to the version in Doctor Strange 2 who could use dark sorcery to control the undead across the Universe, let alone that Dark Strange in “What If…?” who had devoured countless dimensional demons.
At least Strange at the current stage probably hadn’t secretly started studying many dark spells yet.
As for Ancient One, it was different.
She was very old, and in order to wait for Strange’s appearance, she even “secretly” drew energy from the Dark Dimension to maintain her vitality.
The dimensional demon gods of the Dark Dimension naturally knew about this; playing along with the scheme, they prepared to use Ancient One as a springboard to invade the reality dimension.
Seeing that she couldn’t pay back the debt, she simply acted like a deadbeat, discarded her physical body, and her soul went to Eternity.
The dimensional demon gods could only be dumbfounded upon seeing this.
Of course, his apprentice Doctor Strange was even more outdoing his master.
Ancient One only ran away to act like a deadbeat, while Strange directly beat the debt collector to death once and for all.
You tell me if this master and apprentice were unscrupulous scoundrels.
However, this also brought up a problem: Ancient One was already dead.
According to normal circumstances, she should have been summoned away by the Great God Eternity by now.
Although the Five Gods of the MCU Universe rarely appeared in this Universe, they truly existed.
In Thor: Love and Thunder, Eternity had appeared, though it should have been a singular Eternity.
But this also proved the existence of the Five Creation Gods.
Ancient One most likely followed Eternity away, just like the setup in the comics.
So how to find her?
Go find the [Eternity Realm], and then use Thor’s stormbreaker to open a door and find [Eternity]?
Not to mention the question of where the [Eternity Realm] was.
Right now, the Universe outside the Blue Star was an absolute danger zone.
Many alien civilizations had been wiped out by the demonized virus, and it was estimated that many star domains were in complete chaos.
Going out to search would definitely take a lot of effort.
No, there was another way…
Peter’s gaze fell upon his right hand.
In fact, over the past few days, the Infinite Nano Gauntlet had been worn on his hand all along.
Someone did raise objections, feeling that it was truly not very good for such a dangerous thing to be controlled by a single person.
What if Peter accidentally snapped his fingers while sleeping and made people vanish again?
What should they do?
However, Tony blocked these people’s mouths with just a single sentence.
“Can you beat him?”
Obviously, no one dared to say the word “can”.
Even the self-proclaimed powerful Thor didn’t dare say that he could beat Peter, who had ripped Thanos apart with his bare hands.