Let time set things right and return to the right track. This is a very meticulous job.
Even if Smith Chow has mastered an artifact like the Infinity Stone, he can only slowly adjust it. This is a bit like dredging a river. Even if you know which direction the river should flow, you must be careful when dredging it, step by step to prevent the river from changing its direction.
And time is far more complicated than a river. If it makes a mistake, it will only change the direction of the world. A reality that deviates from the world he painstakingly created, this is not the result he wants to see. So almost exhausted, he was trying his best to ensure that every major event that happened in the past did not change.
Alien invasion, the appearance of Thanos, Hydra rebellion, Mutants, Apocalypse, Hell, Domamu … Every major event that can affect the earth, he has reviewed them one by one. It's not that one person dies more, nor is it that one person dies less. This is also an attitude he holds at the moment.
Perhaps some of them are biased towards him and were once used by him. But at this time, he didn't have any intention of favoritism, but with a heart of stone, he forcibly outlined them.
At this moment, nothing is more important than his lifelong ambition. So even if he only needs a thought, he can change many past mistakes, and even bring Alexia back to his side, but he still chose to follow the trend of time and let the world return to normal.
This is selfless in a sense. However, such selflessness brought about great pain to the people around him.
Humans and animals are different after all. For the vast majority of animals in this world, their lives were muddle-headed. They simply wandered between survival and instinct. Time is just a measure of life and death for them, and it has no other meaning. But humans are different. The complexity of human nature is destined, and their labeling of time is also much more complicated.
Every minute, every second, every moment. Humans use their memories and emotions to label the scale of time. For humans, time is not just time, but a collection of people's long memories and emotions. Above the normal scale of time, this kind of emotion and memory may not be so obvious. But once the time scale was reduced, the impact on the emotions and memories became intense and manic.
Human emotions could transcend time. Some people could love someone for a lifetime, while others could hate someone for decades or even centuries. Intense emotions could transcend space and even time, lasting for a long time. Even if it was death, if one's emotions were strong enough to move death, then even reincarnation would not be able to eliminate it.
This was probably the only power that humans had that could surpass time. It was also because of this that they were experiencing extraordinary torture at this very moment.
The pain of loss, the sorrow of passing away. People were always the most unforgettable when it came to things that couldn't be salvaged. In these turbulent ten years, countless people had personally tasted this kind of sorrow, again and again. There was nothing they could do about it. The only thing they could do was to let time heal their wounds. However, the current situation was that this long period of time was just a false appearance. It was only long in terms of time. In terms of transcending time, it was only a short moment when Smith Chow played with time.
This was equivalent to experiencing all the accumulated pain and sorrow of ten years in an instant. Even if they knew logically that it was a difference of ten years, emotionally, they would still have the illusion that it happened yesterday.
And this illusion was enough to make them feel even more tormented. Especially those who had suffered too much pain and were not so strong-willed. At this moment, it was as if they had fallen into a frenzy.
It could be said that if human emotions could be materialized, then the entire Earth would be shrouded in a dense and undispellable dark cloud.
This kind of gloom could not be hidden from Smith Chow's eyes. From his experience, if he allowed this kind of emotion to spread, it would not be surprising if it gave birth to some kind of terrifying evil god.
Of course, he was indifferent to this. Because no matter what kind of monster it gave birth to, it would only be a chicken or a dog in front of him. He would not stop because of this possibility. He would only carry out his goal until the end. And it was because of his stubbornness that the world returned to its original state.
Withered and ruined, and people were in a state of panic. It could even be said that because of the indescribable chaos in time, almost everyone showed symptoms similar to mania. They were uneasy, panicked, and at a loss. Facing this familiar yet strange world, it was difficult for them not to be like frightened beasts, baring their teeth and preparing to attack.
For ordinary people, this would probably make them a little difficult to get along with. But for those powerful forces, those powerful countries, it meant that there was a certain degree of undercurrent surging.
This world was chaotic to begin with. It was because of caution, caution, and to a certain extent, luck and hesitation that the entire world maintained a kind of superficial peace. And now, Smith Chow's move was no different from throwing a huge rock into the calm water.
It caused an uproar and made the world even more strange and treacherous. After all, the higher-ups of a country were also human. If they could maintain basic rationality and restraint, and carefully maintain the current peaceful situation, then it would be fine. However, if even they lost their rationality and were manipulated by a manic mentality, then it would be impossible to maintain the so-called peace in this world.
This was very realistic, just like how you could not expect a country under the leadership of a madman to be kind to others. When they lost their rationality and could no longer maintain restraint, the friction and scheming between the forces of a country were bound to become more and more intense.
In this day and age, from the terrible situation of the various countries, playing such a trick was no different from courting death. But they did not care, just like how a madman would never think that his actions were crazy, and they would always think that they were on the right path.
This was the arrogance in human nature, and arrogance would always lead them further and further down the path of self-destruction.
Smith Chow understood this human nature too well. Therefore, when he saw that his actions had brought about such a pleasant surprise, he immediately accepted it and deliberately pushed it forward, making the situation even more complicated.
This was not considered cheating. Because when time returned to the right track, the situation of the world had become clear again.
Under the general trend, no matter how much the countries in decline struggled and pretended, it was impossible to change their own situation that was deteriorating day by day. Their current madness was only pushing themselves towards their own destruction. And for Smith Chow, who wanted to destroy these inherent barriers and rebuild the world, this was the best thing he could hope for.
Perhaps the current turmoil would cause some losses to the human race. But as the dust settled, as all of his plans came to an end, he felt a sense of dread. Everything would become the past, and a new chapter of the entire human and even the world would be presented before him.
Everything was down to the last step. The war from the secular world would determine the final victor. On this point, Steve shouldered the most important responsibility, and at this moment, he was obviously aware of this.
As Smith Chow's most important partner, he was also his kindred spirit in his great ambitions. Steve was different from the others.
For Smith Chow, he did not need other people in this world to understand the so-called truth. He only needed humans to continue moving forward according to his plan. But Steve was different. As a partner, he needed to understand what kind of twists and turns their plan had gone through, and what kind of effort and price they had paid in order to push this great ideal to the final step.
Therefore, even if time was revised and reality was corrected, Smith Zhou still used the supreme power he had to let Steve witness and understand everything that had happened as a bystander.
It seemed to be a kind of irony. Almost everyone in this world no longer remembered the existence of Tony Stark, whether it was the civilians he had saved, the country he had dedicated his life to, or his former relatives and friends. They could no longer find the existence of Tony Stark in their memories.
It was as if he was a fictional character, or more sorrowful than fiction. That was, he had completely become a blank slate. No matter how much he had done in the past, even if he had completely reversed everything at one point. In the present, humans knew nothing about him.
The long river of time had eliminated him, and there was no place for him in the memory of humans. It was a great tragedy. The only thing worth rejoicing about was that as an opponent, Steve remembered him in his heart.
Stark was an opponent worthy of his respect. This was the highest evaluation he could give as a friend and an enemy. He was sure of all the efforts Stark had made, and he knew what he had done for. Even if they were opponents, he could not deny what Stark had done. He may be righteous, but this justice was only from his personal standpoint. And as an old friend and rival, Steve knew very well that there was something more meaningful than justice. What he was doing …
His consciousness was a little dazed, which was the residual symptom after being destroyed by the power of the Infinity Stone. As an artificial Demigod based on the Steel Slash Sword and Avalon, the source of all Steve's power almost came from these two artifacts. The destruction of Avalon undoubtedly shattered his foundation and made his life completely go in a direction that could already be seen.
This was unavoidable. Because Avalon itself had the attribute of transcending time. When Tony shattered this transcendence with the power of the Infinity Stone, he was almost beaten back to his original form. This level of damage could no longer be reversed by the backtracking of time and the modification of reality.
His time was coming. It was also because of the nearness of death that his heart became calmer. At this moment, he was willing to admit Stark's justice, and he could judge what kind of blood he had stained his hands with. This was not something that he needed to avoid or deny. It was just that at this moment, he could face these things more squarely than ever before, and he was even more determined to uphold everything that he stood for.
He had killed countless people. The mountain of corpses and the sea of blood had been left on the road he had walked, and Stark was also looking at him with eyes that made him regret. This made his heart palpitate, but it was by no means a reason for him to deny everything he had done in the past.
On the contrary, if he repented at this time and denied everything he had done. Then, he was the one who made the real mistake. He was the one who turned everything he had done into an irreversible sin.
He could not, and could not, stop his footsteps at this time. Even if he did not have much time left, and his life was about to come to an end, he must finish this last part of the road. Because only in this way, only by completely changing the pattern of the world into what they wanted it to be. Only then could the sins of the past be turned into nutrients and breed the most wonderful results they expected. Only in this way, those regrettable sacrifices were truly meaningful and valuable.
He had to make these sacrifices worthwhile because he didn't want to face the people he had killed with a regretful apology after death. Although death was bound to bring about a certain sense of depravity, those who died because of him might want to gnaw every bone in his body. But if he could, he would rather face them with the calmest attitude, and then say that he did not waste their sacrifices, even if this was not the answer they wanted.
What he needed was a reason to feel at ease, and this was the best reason. When he realized this, he immediately pulled himself together and appeared in front of his subordinates in a straight posture.
Perhaps they had suffered a heavy blow. But these soldiers from Hydra and the Sect of Man were not a mob that could be defeated in one blow. Many of them regarded Steve as a prophet and a god who would do anything for his orders. This was foolish, but it was also terrifying.
Just like now, Steve took out his Steel Slashing Sword and pointed it straight to the east. As usual, he was like a flawless saint guiding these people.
"Go, this is the last battle. The world that I promised you is after this battle! So, do whatever it takes. Win everything or lose everything, it depends on your own efforts! "
"Oh!" The crowd was in an uproar, and countless people fell into a frenzy because of his order. It was just as Steve had said. This was the last battle. And what this battle would determine was the fate of all of them and even the fate of the entire human race!
The outcome might have been predetermined, but it was unavoidable. No one would be able to easily obtain everything. Even if he was destined to be the winner, he still had to go through all of it.
And this itself was a test.
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