Peter didn’t waste any words.
His figure flashed abruptly, and relying on Superman’s ultimate speed, he instantly swept to the center of the ruins.
There quietly lay the tyrant blade that had been blasted away by him earlier, embedded with the Time and Power stones.
He bent down and raised his hand, easily grabbing the Uru divine steel blade that could even cleave Vibranium apart with ease.
With a slight exertion of force from his fingertips, the patterns on the incomparably hard blade directly burst open.
The two infinity stones were effortlessly pried off by him and clutched in the palm of his hand.
Not only that.
Earlier, when he fully opened Superman’s perception to scan the entire Blue Star, the locations of the remaining scattered infinity stones, as well as the Iron Man-branded Infinity Gauntlet embedded with the stones, had long been precisely locked onto by him.
With several afterimages flashing consecutively, Peter maneuvered across various parts of the battlefield, and in a mere two seconds, he gathered all the infinity stones completely.
At the same time, he retrieved the Infinity Gauntlet crafted by Iron Man as well.
Looking at the six glowing infinity stones in his palm that carried the Universe’s top rules, along with that Infinity Gauntlet symbolizing ultimate power…
Doctor Strange’s eyes suddenly lit up, instantly realizing the key within it.
He blurted out, his tone carrying hard-to-conceal excitement and anticipation: “infinity stones! That’s right! As long as we gather the stones and snap our fingers, resetting the battlefield and purifying all things, we can definitely completely clear out this damned bizarre virus!”
On the ground, the eyes of Steve, Thor, Natasha, and others also lit up with light, reigniting the hope of survival deep within their despair-verging hearts.
Yet facing everyone’s heartfelt hopes and expectations, a long sigh quietly escaped the depths of Peter’s heart.
He knew better than anyone else that this method most likely wouldn’t work.
If this really was a quantum virus, then it perhaps belonged neither to the magic system nor to conventional cosmic energy.
The infinity stones were undeniably formidable, capable of controlling all rules, spacetime, matter, and energy of a single Universe.
Yet ultimately, it was merely the ultimate power of a single Universe.
Its power boundaries were always locked tightly within the “single Universe”.
And the Quantum Realm was inherently a special interstitial dimension transcending the rules of the material Universe, unbound and ungoverned by the rules of the stones.
This point had long been verified in the original plot.
Thanos’s snap seemed to kill randomly, but in reality, there was a set of logic to it.
Almost all the superheroes erased by the snap subsequently had deep linkages with the multiverse; they were the “unstable factors” filtered out by the Universe.
Little Spider defeated Strange’s Kafka curse with chatterbox magic, and finally detonated the multiverse rift, causing Spider-Man, Doctor Octopus, and others from other Universes to arrive hand in hand.
Wanda was even more typical: she awakened the true form of the Scarlet Witch, wielded the Darkhold, and massacred the Illuminati across dimensions in search of her children.
Strange himself was no better, likewise stepping into the multiverse domain to stir up trouble, and even creating an undead version of himself.
(Though his situation could also be considered a victim.)
And Scott, who looked the most inconspicuous, caused disasters that were not inferior to anyone else’s.
This family of his burrowed into the Quantum Realm and released Kang the Conqueror; if not for certain special reasons, the Council of Kangs would most likely have been the content of Avengers 5.
This was sufficient to prove that Scott’s lucky survival back then was never a matter of luck, but rather the special nature of the Quantum Realm, which allowed him to completely bypass the erasure rules of the infinity stones.
In other words—the power of the infinity stones simply could not touch, affect, or purify a virus rooted in the quantum dimension!
However…
they still had to try.
He inexplicably traveled through to the Marvel Universe, took over Peter Parker’s life, unlocked the Spider-Man totem, and accidentally awakened the Superman Bloodline.
Holding the top-tier talents of two major Universes, he should have opened up a brand new life of unrestrained galloping and stable carefree ease.
Yet now, a sudden, bizarre viral catastrophe originating from the quantum dimension completely disrupted everything.
Not only instantly subverting the victorious battle situation, but also dragging everyone into a desperate situation.
It also completely disrupted his wonderful life!
This was definitely not what he wanted!
Even if a snap couldn’t completely eradicate the virus, at least it could probe the virus’s fundamental rules, confirm the true origin of this bizarre catastrophe, and fight for a glimmer of life for breaking the situation later.
Just as Peter’s thoughts were churning, a hoarse voice suppressing pain suddenly rang out.
“Magician, isn’t this the one and only success you saw?”
Tony relied on his armor’s functions to forcibly stabilize his standing posture, and with Friday’s emergency stabilization assistance, he slowly lifted his armor’s faceplate.
Purple-black patterns had already quietly crawled onto his neck and the side of his face, intense pain continuously eroding his flesh, and his reason was slipping away bit by bit.
Strange’s lips moved slightly, his expression complex, stopping himself from speaking several times, his eyes filled with unspeakable solemnity and bitterness.
“When is it already, and you’re still playing coy?!!”
Tony instantly flew into a rage, the suppressed anxiety and despair completely erupting.
At this moment, not only was his physical body enduring the ultimate pain of viral mutation, but his heart was also on the verge of collapse.
No one knew the torment of those five years better than he did.
He had endured the desolate years after the Blip, broken free from the despair of desperation, finally staying together with his beloved Pepper, having an obedient and lovely daughter Morgan, and waiting for a stable and ordinary rest of his life.
He could have put down the armor and cast off his responsibilities, accompanied his family well, and enjoyed the hard-won peaceful life.
But now, everything was ruined.
The battlefield before his eyes was out of control once again.
The comrades who had just won through a bloody battle were mutating one after another, degenerating into monsters; the erosion patterns on their bodies kept spreading, the pain piercing their hearts, and their sanity was rapidly draining away.
He didn’t dare to imagine that once he completely lost control and fell, young Morgan would lose her father and be left helpless and alone.
He dared not think further about whether Pepper, or young Morgan, would also be infected by this unsolvable quantum virus, falling into such a crazed state where they were neither human nor ghost!
Ultimate fear and despair gripped his heart tightly.
“Sorcerer! Hurry up and speak! What on earth is the future you saw?!!”
Beside him, Thor likewise couldn’t bear it any longer.
Enduring the intense pain of his soul being eroded, he let out a sudden roar that shook the four directions, filled with anxiety and anger.
Strange was silent for a moment, seeming to make a choice.
Subsequently, he sighed as if giving up, and then pointed a finger at Tony: “The only successful future I saw is you…”
Tony’s angry expression suddenly froze.
“I saw that in the future, you sacrificed yourself, snapped that finger, and ended everything.”
“That’s why I guessed, is it necessary to snap that finger to bring everything back on track…”
“But now…” Strange said, glancing at Peter, “Now it’s completely different from the future I saw, and I don’t know if it’s still useful…”