Coulson, you're right. I'm indeed a genius, but the Ark Reactor, as I said before, is a groundbreaking invention," Tony Stark said. "I didn't develop it. It's my father's technology, and I just shrunk it down. I don't want to admit it, but I don't think I can create something that can replace the Ark Reactor."
"You might not be able to do this normally, but Stark, the situation is different now," Clint Barton said. "You are poisoned and your life is under constant threat. As you know, people can always unleash their potential in times of crisis."
"Barton, I can only say you don't understand scientific research at all." Tony Stark couldn't help but laugh after hearing Clint Barton's words. "Do you think scientific research is like a mother who treats her child as her life, able to lift a truck at a critical moment? Scientific research is cruel. If you understand it, you understand it, and if you don't, you don't understand it. Yes, perhaps some people can unleash their potential under pressure, becoming clearer-headed and more agile in their thinking, thus breaking through problems that were previously intractable."
"Sounds a lot like your current situation, doesn't it?"
"It's very similar, but do you know what developing another form of energy supply means? It means overthrowing the Ark reactor and starting from scratch, in a brand new field..." Tony Stark seemed to feel that there was no need to say too much to a group of scientific idiots. He paused and said, "I know myself. If my life really was on the countdown, I would be more likely to act willfully and misbehave rather than unleash my potential."
"So that's why you sit on a donut and eat a donut?" Phil Coulson said. "Dying antics?"
"Maybe." Tony Stark shrugged. "I've always been a bohemian person who never cares about what others think, so I can't tell whether this is my normal behavior or just my last act."
"Now that all three options have been eliminated..." Thor said, "it looks like the correct answer has been revealed."
Thor and the other two all looked at Tony Stark.
It has long become an unspoken understanding that whoever is responsible for answering the question will answer it.
"I choose A. Ask Doctor Strange Stephen Strange to heal me with magic." Tony Stark gave his answer.
[Answer incorrectly, and one year of life will be deducted! ]
Surprisingly, the answer was wrong.
"It wasn't healed by magic?" Tony Stark couldn't help but frown. "My father is gone, so he can't help me. Dr. Banner's blood can't help me either. Could it be that I really invented a completely new form of energy supply?"
"See, Stark, I said it was a D," Phil Coulson said. "It seems you're better than you thought."
"Is it me?" Tony Stark fell into self-doubt. Based on his understanding of himself and his understanding of the Ark's reactor and armor, he believed that it was impossible for him to come up with an alternative energy supply.
But the answer he thought of had been rejected, and the other two answers were even more impossible.
By process of elimination, it seems that only D is left.
"Is it really like what they say? Am I more talented than I thought?" Tony Stark couldn't help but have such thoughts in his mind.
"I'm sorry, isn't the answer to this question very obvious?" Thor's voice rang out at this time.
"Thor, what do you think is the right choice?" Phil Coulson couldn't help but ask. He was still quite surprised by Thor's words, because Thor, who had just arrived on Earth, didn't know much about the question or the options.
"Choose C," said Thor.
"Choose C?" Clint Barton was the first to question, "Did you just hear that Howard Stark is no longer alive?"
"Of course I heard it, but can't the dead communicate?" Thor said.
"For you humans, the idea that death is the end of all contact with the dead may be a fixed concept. However, I, a living god, am standing before you. Shouldn't you have some imagination when it comes to communicating with the deceased?"
"Communicate with the dead?" Thor's words were like a thunderclap in everyone's ears. Yes, in this world, even gods, vampires, aliens and even magic exist, so communicating with the dead does not seem to be impossible.
At least it sounds more reliable than God or magic.
"I do know there's a profession called a psychic, claiming to be able to communicate with the dead." Phil Coulson's thoughts were opened, and he spoke again. "I used to think it was nonsense. I guess I should pay attention to it."
"If those scammers can really communicate with the dead, S.H.I.E.L.D. wouldn't be unaware of it," Clint Barton directly denied Phil Coulson's claim. "Even a species as rare as vampires can't hide from our eyes, so how can the psychics who are everywhere on the street hide?"
"I'm not talking about a medium," Thor said, shaking his head. "I'm talking about magic. Although I'm not a magician, I do know that there's a kind of magic that allows people to communicate with the spirits of the dead." Thor's gaze fell on Tony Stark. "Don't we have magicians on Earth now? Maybe one of them is letting you communicate with your father's spirit."
"This was indeed an oversight on my part," Tony Stark nodded in agreement. "I was still thinking along the same lines as before, forgetting that this world is no longer the one I once knew."
"If it is really possible to communicate with Howard Stark's ghost, then as the person who invented the Ark reactor, he should have a way to solve the problem of palladium poisoning." Phil Coulson thought about it and felt that this inference was reasonable, even more reasonable than using magic to cure Tony Stark.
Because using magic to heal is only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution. It only solves Tony Stark's physical problems, but the cause of Tony Stark's poisoning is not solved.
As long as Tony Stark is Iron Man, he will eventually get palladium poisoning.
Using magic to allow Tony Stark and Howard Stark to communicate and find a solution is the way to solve the problem at the source, treating both the symptoms and the root cause.
"Thor, as a god, you have seen a world that is completely different from ours. Since you have thought of this, why didn't you say it earlier?" Clint Barton asked.
"That's because..." Thor had nothing to be embarrassed about, "I just remembered it too."
Tony Stark was about to speak when the video started playing.