"Ah? Not the only one?"
Not only was Luca surprised by Tony's conclusion, but even Gwen, who was still clinging to the ceiling, flipped down.
What she was thinking now was, could it be that all her Spider-Man companions who fought Kingpin with her had come to this World?
"So, what exactly are you investigating?"
However, facing Luca's question, Tony just shook his head slightly.
"That's not something a child like you needs to worry about."
But just as he spoke, Dr. Banner, who was tinkering with the mechanical spider legs, simultaneously chimed in.
"It's all that bastard Loki's doing!"
At these words, the scene immediately fell into an eerie silence.
Tony Stark looked at Dr. Banner with a somewhat blank stare, as if his eyes were saying, "You have a mouth like a sieve! Is this information you can just tell anyone?!"
Dr. Banner, on the other hand, looked at Tony with an expression that was both awkward and innocent, blinking repeatedly.
"Didn't you call him over precisely because you were going to involve him?"
Tony's eyes blinked again: "I called him over because he's an interdimensional visitor, and to protect this kid in the process!"
Thor: "Are your eyes dry?"
Watching the few people continuously blinking, Luca, who had been quietly observing from the side, was speechless.
Do you say these people have no tacit understanding?
They seemed to be able to communicate without barriers just by looking at each other.
But if you say they have tacit understanding?
Even on the most basic and important matter of whether to inform him and let him participate, they couldn't even reach an agreement...
Seeing these people blinking as if sending Morse code, Luca finally broke the silence and spoke first.
"This has nothing to do with age now. Since I'm already involved, whether I participate later or not, there's a lot of danger. Instead of hiding things, you might as well tell me some useful information so I can avoid subsequent risks."
Hearing this, Thor, who hadn't been able to join the conversation channel, immediately spoke up, pointing at Luca.
"This kid makes sense."
Saying that, he also gave Luca a thumbs up.
To be honest, Thor's officially certified perfect appearance, which transcends human aesthetics, looked quite impressive up close.
However, coupled with his somewhat goofy expression, it immediately lost much of its persuasiveness.
Nevertheless, after a moment of contemplation, Tony finally gave up struggling and briefly explained the current situation to Luca, picking out what he could say.
As mentioned before, ever since the Battle of New York ended, S.H.I.E.L.D. had been tracking Loki's whereabouts after he escaped.
However, at that time, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s chosen method was to use the gamma energy fluctuation detection program designed by Tony and Banner before the Battle of New York, combined with a large number of satellites and signal towers, to conduct a carpet search.
Initially, this method was indeed effective, allowing them to catch Loki's tail twice in a row.
But both times, he successfully escaped by relying on illusions and cunning.
After that, S.H.I.E.L.D. was unable to detect any further fluctuations.
This made Fury once believe that Loki might have used the Tesseract to teleport away from Earth.
However, when Bruce Banner sought Tony's help again,
the two geniuses worked together and improved the tracking program.
They immediately discovered that during this period, a new type of spatial fluctuation signal had suddenly appeared all over the World.
Moreover, the appearance of this fluctuation had no pattern.
It was as if a mischievous child with spatial divine power was casually poking the World from outside.
This discovery immediately made the two realize that things might be going terribly wrong.
However, before the two could even inform S.H.I.E.L.D. about this news, Luca called.
This was why Tony was in such a hurry to call them over after hearing about an 'interdimensional visitor'.
Luca felt a headache coming on as soon as he heard this.
What was this? A global invasion? It'd be better if HYDRA was causing trouble!
No, the guy who played with exploding eyes must be from HYDRA, right?
Luca, whose mind was a mess at this moment, was already regretting getting involved here.
Originally, he had thought of making an impression on these superheroes, so that even if HYDRA really exploded and his family was inextricably linked with them,
at least with some basic goodwill, he wouldn't be too deeply implicated.
Now it seemed that with his small arms and legs, building goodwill wasn't an easy task.
"So, according to you, is the World now full of interdimensional invaders like Gwen?"
"I'm not an invader, I just want to go back to my original World now," Gwen mumbled softly from the side.
However, Luca had no time to mind his wording at the moment, staring straight at Tony Stark.
Fortunately, Tony gave a negative answer.
"Not at all. Although we haven't found a pattern for the appearance of these fluctuations yet, at least we can confirm that it's not specifically for summoning interdimensional visitors."
"Besides people, it could be animals, or it could be objects. But more often, spatial fluctuations are just pure fluctuations and don't bring anything."
At this point, Dr. Banner, from the side, spoke up at a very inopportune moment.
"It could also be a virus."
Seeing everyone's gaze turn to him, Dr. Banner shrugged innocently.
"You know, no one can guarantee that people from parallel Universes are exactly the same as the viruses we've experienced. Without antibodies that have evolved over hundreds of years, an ordinary flu virus from an interdimensional person could wipe out our World."
The others immediately shivered subconsciously upon hearing this.
Samira even carefully backed away a few steps from Gwen, and even wanted to gently pull her young master away.
However, Luca, who was closest to Gwen, showed no signs of panic.
As for why he wasn't afraid?
Marvel's writers probably don't have that kind of brain. How many aliens and interdimensional beings have come and gone, and no one has ever heard of any bringing viruses due to physical differences.
Of course, that was just a thought.
Gwen being fine doesn't mean other interdimensional visitors aren't dangerous.
If a zombie from a zombie Universe accidentally dropped out of a spatial fluctuation, this World would probably be doomed in minutes.
Temporarily skipping over this topic, Tony Stark looked back at Luca and continued.
"Although there's no pattern to the appearance of spatial fluctuations, our detection shows that the fluctuations here in New York are particularly frequent."
"And the most central location among them is precisely the experimental Base that Kingpin left behind, as you mentioned."