Gains were delightful, but good things couldn't happen to a person all the time.
At that moment, Luke was troubled by some of the information regarding the battle in New York, such as Loki's scepter and the Tesseract.
When he had obtained Loki's scepter earlier, he had tried to put it in his inventory. It was a habit.
The system had a hobby of eating mysterious items, so it was best to let the system take a look at anything rare.
A scepter that could confuse and control people, and a Tesseract that could open a spatial gate – these two items were related to the mysterious side no matter how he looked at it.
In the end, Luke almost fell to the ground.
When he tried to put the scepter in his inventory, the system suddenly flashed a red warning: source substance discovered. Once this substance entered the inventory, the system's existence would be locked onto by some mysterious and unknown existence. To prevent the host from triggering this extremely serious consequence, the system's functions wouldn't be used on this substance.
It was only because of Luke's firm belief that he had to save New York that he didn't smash the scepter on the spot.
After that, Tony suggested having barbecue, but he refused. At that time, he wasn't in the mood to eat barbecue. It was already good enough that he hadn't scratched his head.
He then closed the spatial gate. As the person closest to it, he naturally collected the Tesseract Cube that had lost its protective shield.
Sure enough, he received a warning similar to before. The difference was that the system's first sentence was "source substance discovered, Tesseract Cube."
Yes, there was an extra "Tesseract Cube."
Luke's heart skipped a beat when he received this warning for the second time.
At that time, his clone was still in space, carrying a peaceful weapon to blow up the No. 1 flagship. His reaction was a beat too slow, and he was immediately half-crippled.
Luke, whose mind was already elsewhere, could only have his clone throw out the peaceful weapon, which quickly turned to dust.
At that moment, he had already gradually regained control of his emotions.
Being used to being controlled by impulses and emotions was a very dangerous thing for him.
Thus, he and Selina switched back to their detective identities and went to save people. The clone that had been summoned again was busy cleaning up, and didn't think too deeply about this problem for the time being.
The system's warning was just a warning. No matter how great the unknown danger was, it hadn't been triggered.
Now that his Dexterity had reached 40, he began to reconsider this matter.
The last person to receive a red warning from the system was Mephisto.
Although that person had already gone back to hell to sleep, there was no doubt that he was powerful.
Be it the Vampire Blood God, the experimental mutant Blood God, or the ancient witches, none of them were qualified to receive the System's Crimson Alert.
Even if the ancient witch almost killed Batman and Iron Man together.
This reminded Luke of when the system had sent Mephisto back home.
Back then, the old man had wanted to pry into his soul and said that Luke's soul had already signed a contract with someone.
Clearly, this "person" was the system that was bound to Luke's soul.
If Mephistos wanted to check his soul, he would naturally discover the System. Thus, the System immediately activated a forceful counterattack mechanism.
Now that the System had issued a blood-red alert, it was also because it had been targeted by some mysterious and unknown existence.
Obviously, the system was not willing to be discovered by others.
Luke didn't remember what Loki's scepter was.
However, the Tesseract Cube was also called a Space Gem. It was an Infinity Gem.
There are several Infinity Stones in the Marvel Universe, so the scepter that the system evaluates to be the same as the Cosmic Rubik's Cube is likely to be another Infinity Stone.
Thor had inadvertently forgotten that the scepter did not belong to Loki.
The Battle of New York began with Loki's arrival.
After he left Asgard, he returned to Earth with a scepter inlaid with an Infinity Gem and snatched the other Infinity Gem, the Tesseract Cube.
The implications chilled Luke's heart.
Infinity Gems were things that Asgard valued very much, but two gems had coincidentally fallen into Loki's hands!
Loki wanted to give the Tesseract Cube to the Chitauris in the end, but he didn't seem to know that there was also an Infinity Gem on the scepter.
Luke easily came to the conclusion that someone was collecting Infinity Gems!
Luke didn't believe that there were such good people in the universe. In a universe where the strong preyed on the weak, a fool wouldn't live that long.
This was yet another heavy burden on Luke's heart.
For the time being, Luke didn't delve into why Loki had come to snatch the Tesseract Cube. He asked the system for a while more.
In the end, he heaved a sigh of relief.
As the system said, the system's abilities couldn't be used on the Infinity Gems, but that was all.
Luke had no problem touching the Infinity Gems himself.
It was just like when he poked the Tesseract Cube with the scepter, the system didn't react at all.
Thinking that, he couldn't help but look down at himself. Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind: Was this the reason why he had been reborn as Luke Coulson?
According to the system, he definitely hadn't been reincarnated.
In this life, Luke Coulson had been born and raised in this world for twenty years, and was a "local."
What he had received at level 5 was the Super Learning Module, not the Super Replication Module, and he couldn't learn those "magical" superpowers.
The Super Learning Module only allowed the experience of those "major" characters to be directly applied to him until he had the ability himself.
His body didn't have the "magical" abilities to learn, so he naturally couldn't learn them.
Such a system wasn't that convenient, but it could ensure that the abilities he had belonged to him.
So, even if he beat up Mephistos, the other party didn't do anything special except hold a grudge.
Thus, he held the scepter for a long time, but wasn't locked onto by the mysterious and unknown existence.
That was because Luke Coulson was a "local" resident of this world.
The system refused to let his soul be spied on because it didn't want Mephistos to discover it.
It refused to put the Infinity Gem into the inventory, because the inventory was its ability.
Putting the Infinity Gem inside was tantamount to putting the system face to face with the Infinity Gem.
Hearing the system call it a dimensional source substance, Luke knew that the Infinity Gem had to be very special. It wasn't hard to understand why it would attract the mysterious and unknown existence that even the system wasn't willing to face.
It was like when Luke went to loot the Federal Reserve Bank's vault. How could the American government not go crazy looking for trouble?
The Infinity Gem was equivalent to the "vault" of those mysterious and unknown existences. If Luke dared to let the system devour it, those mysterious existences would dare come knocking and devour him.
More importantly, the system should be an "outsider," or "stowaway."
Every aspect of the system had the shadow of an antique game from his previous life.
A "stowaway" running over to rob an official "vault" was completely different from the "stowaway's" hidden purpose.
Thus, the system would never use its function on the Infinity Gem, let alone "eat" it.
Understanding all this, Luke dispelled the faint regret in his heart.
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