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Chapter 192: Real or fake Chili Pepper or real or fake Happy?

Tony could understand T'Challa's worries. After all, Shuri was his sister, and they were both among the few survivors of Wakanda.

Therefore, he did not keep the secret and directly explained: "Su Rui is fine, don't worry."

"When she was attacked, she put on her vibranium suit in time. Although she failed to subdue the mad Hulk, she rescued Maya Hansen."

"Fury has now successfully evacuated Shuri and the others to the safe house. You will be able to see her when we meet up at the old place tomorrow."

Upon hearing this, T'Challa's expression relaxed. As long as Shuri was okay, it was fine.

Tony continued in a heavy tone, "It's a pity that Matt died. And based on what you recounted about the situation in the fighter plane, Coulson should have died as well."

"As Sharon Carter and Hill are both ordinary people, it is difficult to tell whether they are Skrulls in disguise."

"That's why Fury didn't dare take them with him when he evacuated. Now we can only hope that they are smart enough to escape from the headquarters in time."

The sudden attack launched by the Skrulls caused the Avengers to suffer such heavy casualties in manpower.

Pepper Potts was horrified by what she heard and said worriedly, "God, this alien race can disguise itself as anyone. This race is really scary."

As Tony listened, he suddenly stared at Pepper and said warily, "Pepper, you are not someone else, are you?"

Little Pepper was stunned by the question and asked with a puzzled look on her face: "You actually doubt me? Then how can I prove that I am myself?"

Tony groaned for a moment and said, "I also investigated the intelligence of the Skrulls. In fact, their camouflage ability is also limited!"

"Although the Skrulls can have the same DNA, fingerprints, appearance, and even memories as their hosts through disguise."

"But the Skrulls cannot obtain the host's long-term memories in a short period of time."

"So Pepper, if you can tell me one thing that only you and I knew two years ago, I can confirm your authenticity."

Pepper Pepper thought carefully for a few seconds and said uncertainly:

"Four years ago, you asked me to buy a 27-carat diamond ring from Fernandez-Arpels.

Later, you never gave it away, but gave it to Happy for safekeeping. I guess you wanted to give it to "

Tony interrupted hurriedly: "OK! I believe you are the real Pepper."

T'Challa didn't notice Tony's embarrassment, he just sighed silently:
"The Skrulls have caused us to have a crisis of confidence, which is a real problem."

“Even if we can confirm the authenticity of the friendly party now, we still can’t help but worry whether the friendly party will be replaced in a few days.”

Luke sighed and said, "The crisis of trust is indeed a big problem. For example, the Happy I just mentioned, have you confirmed his authenticity?"

Pepper and Tony looked at each other and both hesitated.

Just then, Happy, wearing a super oversized suit and with a big belly, walked into the ward hurriedly, sweating profusely.

"Mr. Stark, there's a visitor outside. It looks like one of the Avengers, Agent Natasha!"

Jarvis also projected the real-time surveillance video at the entrance of the mansion at the right time.

In the surveillance footage, Natasha was pacing back and forth at the door with an anxious look on her face.

Tony didn't look at the surveillance footage, but instantly became alert and said in almost unison with Pepper: "You're not Happy!"

T'Challa also became alert and asked, "How do you know that he was transformed from a Skrull?"

A Mark 13 battle armor flew in from outside the ward with a whoosh.

Within two seconds, Tony finished putting on his armor, raised his palm cannon and aimed it at the fake Happy at the door of the ward, and said in a tone that seemed to see through everything:
“Happy never calls me Mr. Stark, you must be a damned Skrull in disguise!

I'll only give you one chance to answer, what did you do to Happy?"

Happy raised his hands in surrender and said in confusion, "What Skrull transformation? Sir, is this a new joke?"

Hearing the familiar name, Tony became a little uncertain again. After thinking for a while, he asked:
"Tell me a secret that only you and I know! It can't be recent!"

Happy was stunned for a moment, then took out a gift box from his suit jacket pocket, "This is the diamond ring you gave me for safekeeping in 2008. You always wanted to give it to me."

Tony quickly called out, "STOP! No need to continue, you are really happy!"

Little Pepper covered her forehead and said speechlessly: "It turns out that this matter was just a misunderstanding."

Luke was stunned. In the end, this young couple just made a mistake?
T'Challa didn't want to discuss these trivial matters. He pointed at the holographic surveillance screen and reminded:

"Hey, that Natasha is still waiting outside, is she real or not?"

Tony said confidently, "She must be fake. There's no way Natasha could find my secret shelter so quickly."

Pepper glanced at him and said unhappily, "Tony, being overconfident is arrogance. You should confirm it first. You should know that you just caused a misunderstanding."

"Okay!" Tony spread his hands, "JARVIS, open the front door, let's go see if this Natasha is real."

Soon, Tony and his group left the ward.

I took the elevator to the first floor of the mansion and saw Natasha, who looked anxious, in the living room at the entrance.

"Finally I see you, Tony. You should know that our headquarters was attacked. Let's go back and provide support."

"Wait!" Tony raised his hand and pointed his palm cannon at Natasha, saying in a bad tone, "Listen, Agent Romanov, you have to prove your true identity to us first. You need to tell us a secret from a year ago!"

Natasha quickly understood Tony's concerns. She recalled for a while and slowly said:

"In May 2010, that is when the Russian Ivan Vanko attacked you at the Moroccan Grand Prix.

"There was a gift box left at the scene of the attack, which I picked up."

"And then Happy said, it's his."

"But I know that the diamond ring in the gift box is definitely for..."

Tony interrupted quickly: "Enough, I believe you are the real Natasha!"

After saying that, he put his hands down, opened the visor of his metal helmet, and said speechlessly: "Why do you all have to bring up this?"

Natasha did not respond to his doubts, but said anxiously: "Director Fury is in a critical situation, we have to go back and provide support!"

Tony let down his guard and walked over to the low-key and luxurious bar counter.

The bar counter is made of terrazzo material, which may look rough at first glance, but is actually imported raw stone from Australia.

He slowly took out a bottle of 98 Romanee-Conti from the wine cabinet and poured a small glass of red wine.

Tony shook the glass to sober up and said comfortingly, "Don't worry, Fury and the others have already evacuated from the Avengers headquarters. We can meet up with them at the old place tomorrow."

Natasha could only suppress her anxiety after hearing this, and nodded silently: "Okay, it seems we can only wait until tomorrow.

By the way, didn’t you go to look for Clint and the others? Did you find them? "

Tony took a sip of the red wine, savoring the smooth taste and rich fruity aroma of the fine red wine, while shaking his head and replying:
“It’s a pity that even though we found Clint and his group, they still managed to escape in the end.

Even Coulson was killed by Clint who was confused and died!"

Natasha was surprised when she heard this. "What? Coulson was killed by mistake?"

T'Challa's face was heavy as he said, "No one could react at that time, and Clint suddenly broke free and stabbed Coulson in the chest with a dagger."

"We didn't find Coulson's body afterwards, but he was most likely killed."

"He suffered a penetrating wound to the heart, and the plane exploded. He fell from a height of several thousand meters without a parachute."

"Under so many terrible conditions, Coulson's chance of survival is almost zero!"

Everyone was silent for a while.

Luke sighed and said to Natasha, "At that time, a Skrull transformed into your appearance and suddenly rebelled, catching us off guard."

Natasha's eyes were misty, and she sighed and said, "Well, maybe if I had listened to Stark and investigated the Skrulls in depth, we wouldn't have come to this point now."

T'Challa comforted everyone, saying, "When we meet up tomorrow, we can all use our ingenuity together and come up with a way to identify the Skrulls."

Tony put down his wine glass, looked around, and seeing that everyone had a heavy look on their faces, he spoke to end the topic.

"Okay, everyone, go to the guest room and rest. We may not have any rest time later, so we all need to get enough rest before we can consider the problems that come later."

Afterwards, Pepper led everyone to the guest room to rest.

In the living room, Tony was the only one left sitting alone on the leather sofa, drinking by himself, his back looking a little lonely.
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Noon the next day.

December 2012, 5.

The days of the Battle of New York in the original time and space.

Tony brought Natasha and others to the agreed place early.

Most of the buildings in Manhattan were flattened by the nuclear explosion, and Stark Tower was no exception.

Tony and his friends met Nick Fury and Shuri in the nuclear explosion pit.

There is no human habitation within a radius of 200 kilometers, and the surrounding area is filled with a nuclear explosion crater with lethal doses of nuclear radiation.

Tony Stark, Natasha, Techara, Luke, Nick Fury, Shuri, the five Avengers finally reunited

"Are these the only Avengers left?" Nick Fury asked in a heavy tone as soon as they met.

When T'Challa saw his sister Shuri was safe and sound, he excitedly hugged her tightly.

After the hug, T'Challa said in a low voice: "Fortunately, Shuri is okay. It's a pity that Matt and Coulson died."

Luke didn't want to talk about this, so he interrupted the two and said, "Well, let's mourn for the lost buddy later!

We have to hurry and figure out a way to identify the Skrulls.

Otherwise, everyone will be suspicious of each other all the time, which is too passive! "

(End of this chapter)