Chapter 168 The Meaning of Doctor Strange's Gestures

"This gesture is 'one'." Clint Barton tried to decipher. "He means, 'This step has to be taken'?"

"'It's time to take this step', 'It's time to take this step', it should mean something like that." Natasha Romanov said, "To deal with a powerful enemy like Thanos, we must have already done so before. Various plans have been discussed and formulated, and Tony stealing the gem must be one of the plans. It’s just that most of them know that Thanos is very powerful, and also know that the power of the Infinity Glove cannot be tolerated by anyone, so Tony’s stealing the gem and snapping his fingers means death . Unless it is a last resort, everyone will definitely not do this trick. But as you can see in the video, we have failed to stop Thanos from snapping his fingers, so Stephen will use that gesture to tell Tony, 'It's time to steal gems and snap your fingers. Way to go'."

"Is that so?" Phil Coulson had a different opinion. "How do I feel it should mean 'drop a gem'? The Infinity Gauntlet needs six gems to snap your fingers, and you can't just drop one. It can stop Thanos from snapping his fingers. And as long as Thanos doesn't snap his fingers, he will definitely be beaten to death, right? Carroll is on a par with you and Thanos, not to mention Stephen and Thor these strong men."

"Colson makes more sense," said Bruce Banner.

"I think it should mean 'you hold on for a while, and I will help you right away'." Sam Wilson also joined the discussion, "We all know how powerful Doctor Strange is, but he seemed to be held back by other things at that time. I can't walk away. So he probably just wanted to tell Tony that he could go over and help him right away."

"I think Mr. Strange's expression is not 'one', but pointing to the sky." Pietro Maximoff said, "Though Thanos is powerful, he looks like a warrior, and he doesn't Fly. So he should be telling Iron Man to 'fly to the sky'."

"This also sounds reasonable." Clint Barton agreed.

"I think you may have misunderstood what Strange meant." James Rhodes said suddenly and solemnly.

"Oh, Rhodes, what exactly does Stephen's gesture mean?" Tony Stark asked.

"We all know that when answering questions, there are many times when reasoning is needed. Tony often reasoned and behaved like Sherlock Holmes. And Stephen is also often incarnate as Sherlock Holmes." James Rhodes laughed, "So Stephen's gesture It means 'there can only be one Sherlock Holmes for the two of us'."

"The reasoning is so amazing, I think you are Sherlock Holmes!" Tony Stark said angrily.

[The second question begins, please be prepared. 】

[May I ask who among the following characters burned the heart-shaped grass in Wakanda? 】

【A Ulysses Crowe】

【B Everett Ross】

【C Eric】

【D Mbaku】

[If you answer this question correctly, you will be rewarded with "Tong Arm Fist". If you answer incorrectly, your life expectancy will be deducted for one year. 】

"Tong arm fist? What is this?" T'Challa said involuntarily.

"It sounds like a boxing method from the East," Nick Fury said. "It's a magical country where everyone knows kung fu."

"Kung Fu? Kung Fu like Bruce Lee?" Scott Lang asked.

"It should be, after all, I haven't seen Bruce Lee, and I haven't seen a through-arm fist." Nick Fury said.

"What is this 'heart grass'?" Stephen Strange asked.

"It seems like I've never heard of such a thing."

"Similar to the captain's serum, after taking it, there will be an improvement in strength, endurance, speed, etc." T'Challa said, "This is the source of the black panther's power."

"Then this heart-shaped grass is a good thing." Stephen Strange said, "It's a pity that such a good thing will be burned one day in the future."

"T'Challa, although I know you shouldn't trade, I still have to ask." Nick Fury couldn't help but said. "Is the heart-shaped grass for sale? Or is it not money, other ways to trade the heart-shaped grass?"

"Sorry, heart-shaped grass can't be traded." T'Challa refused without thinking.

"T'Challa, you also know that our future enemy is very powerful..."

"Even in Wakanda, there is only one person qualified to take heart-shaped grass, that is, the black panther of every generation, the king of Wakanda." T'Challa directly interrupted Nick Fury, "Don't use heart-shaped grass. The idea is not negotiable."

"What a pity." Nick Fury closed his mouth when he saw T'Challa's firm attitude.

"Then who burned the heart-shaped grass?" Bruce Banner said, "It shouldn't be burnt by accident, it must be to destroy the heart-shaped grass, which means that the person knows the heart-shaped grass. role, and have a grudge against Wakanda."

"First of all, two people can be ruled out, Ulysses Crowe, this thief, Wakanda has been looking for him since he stole in Wakanda, and he has been hiding from us like a mouse, He wouldn't dare to step into Wakanda again unless he was caught by us. And if he was caught by us as a prisoner, he probably wouldn't have the ability to burn the heart-shaped grass."

"Indeed, Crowe doesn't look like someone capable of doing such a thing in Wakanda," Tony Stark asked. "And what about the second person excluded?"

"Mbaku, the leader of the Jabari tribe," said T'Challa, "although he is unruly and may have some criticism of my father's rule, he will not do things like burn the heart-shaped grass. ." After a pause he added, "Actually, I don't think any Wakanda would do that, we'll just protect the heart grass."

"So that's someone outside of Wakanda?" Nick Fury said, "I don't know who Eric is, but if this Everett Ross is the one I know, what does he know about Wakanda? Dalai is definitely an 'outsider'."

"Who is he?" T'Challa asked.

"CIA." Nick Fury said succinctly.

"The CIA people burned our heart-shaped grass?" T'Challa thought for a while, "This is unlikely, we and the CIA have nothing to do with each other."

"Maybe in the future?" Phil Coulson said.

"Wakanda is relatively closed, and it is unlikely that we will form a relationship with any country, especially an institution like the CIA." T'Challa said, "I don't think this kind of thing will be done by the CIA."

"What about this Eric?" Clint Barton said. "You've just ruled out three options, and this is the only one left."

"I've never heard of this name," T'Challa said, "but as you said, I've already ruled out three, and it seems that I can only choose him."

"Impossible reasoning," Clint Barton said.

"I choose C!" T'Challa made a choice.

【correct answer! Rewards issued! 】

Immediately, a piece of knowledge about Tongjiquan poured into T'Challa's mind. Not only that, but his brain also gained more experience in using Tongjiquan against the enemy, obviously he had never used this boxing technique before.

T'Challa tried two moves, and he was majestic and majestic, just like everyone who had been immersed in Tongjiquan for decades. Who would have thought that this was only his first punch?

"The reward of the answering space is really amazing." T'Challa couldn't help but marvel.

"Is this a tong arm punch? It looks so powerful!" Clint Barton was stunned when he saw it. "I feel that I would not be T'Challa's opponent even if I played four or five together."

"This is Oriental Kung Fu?" Natasha Romanov also nodded, "It lives up to its reputation."

"T'Challa, you won't sell the heart-shaped grass, so what about this set of punches?" Nick Fury focused on Tongjiquan again, "I think my agents will practice this set of punches, and their combat effectiveness will definitely increase. What price do you need me to pay to give me this set of punches?"

"It doesn't cost anything." T'Challa said, "I can give it to you for free, but I want to remind you that this kung fu will not become a climate without decades of hard practice."

"Decades?" Nick Fury was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, it takes at least several decades to get started. If you want to reach the point I just now, it will take not only decades of hard training, but also a lot of actual combat." T'Challa said, "In fact Almost all Eastern Kung Fu is like this, and it doesn't work out overnight."

"In this case, you don't have to." Nick Fury's interest in Tongjiquan suddenly diminished. It takes decades to practice results. How can he have this time.

At this point, the video starts playing.

At the beginning, a door opened slowly, and Wakabi led a black man with pigtails to enter, and in this room, T'Challa sat upright in the center.

"I became a king!" T'Challa saw at a glance that his identity was different in the video. He was no longer a prince, but a king.

Wakabi brought the black man with pigtails, Eric the "Leopard", to T'Challa, and then slowly walked aside.

"Speak," T'Challa said to Eric.

"I'm standing in your palace now and tell you that I punished a thief for you who stole your vibranium and murdered your people." Eric looked at T'Challa and said, "Your king failed to punish you. he."

T'Challa stood up as soon as he heard this. He walked over to Eric and said to him, "I don't care if you brought Klaw back. I haven't killed you yet because I know who you are. , now, what do you want?"

"I want that throne." Eric said bluntly.

Seeing this, T'Challa in the answering space couldn't help frowning slightly.

"What's wrong?" Steve Rogers asked.

"Is this person a royal family?" T'Challa said, "Only the royal family of Wakanda is qualified to challenge the throne."

"So the royal family of Wakanda burned down your precious heart-shaped grass?" Steve Rogers also felt very strange, "Didn't you say that Wakanda people will protect the heart-shaped grass?"

"That's the problem. I didn't know there was such a person at all," T'Challa said. "But if he is a royal family, how could I not know him?"

"But you seem to know each other in the video," Phil Coulson said.

"Maybe in the future, but I've never heard of this now," T'Challa said. "I'm also very curious about this person's identity now."

"Ha ha!"

"Hahaha!"

"It's so loud!"

In the video, the tribal leaders all laughed when they heard Eric's words.

"You are all sitting comfortably here, don't you feel good?" Eric said calmly, "but there are still two billion people in the world with the same skin color as us still living in dire straits, Wakanda. There are tools that can liberate them."

"What kind of tool is that?" T'Challa asked knowingly.

"Zhenjin, your weapon." Eric said.

"Our weapons are not used to wage war against the world," T'Challa said. "We will not use vibranium to be the world's policeman, to examine, sentence or even execute people of other countries."

"People of other countries?" Eric asked. "But didn't life originate from this land? Aren't all human beings your people?"

"I am not the king of all mankind, I am the king of Wakanda," T'Challa said, "and it is my responsibility to ensure the safety of all Wakanda, and to ensure that the vibranium does not fall into your kind. in human hands."

"Son, we've been playing with this fake for too long." T'Challa's mother said at this time, "Don't agree to his request."

"I haven't made a request yet," Eric said. "Ask me who I am."

"You are Eric Stevens, a black American spy, a mercenary known as Kermongo, this is your true identity." Shu Rui said Eric's identity.

"That's not my name, princess." Eric craned his neck and called to Shuri, then to T'Challa in front of him, "Ask me, King."

"No." T'Challa didn't cooperate.

"Ask me," Eric insisted.

"Take him down." T'Challa waved.

"Who the hell are you?" At this moment, an old guy from the River Tribe suddenly couldn't help but ask.

It's not surprising that this person has a big mouth, because there is a disc stuffed in his mouth, which stretches his mouth wide, and he doesn't know how to eat or rinse his mouth.

"I am Njadaka, son of Prince Njob!" Eric exclaimed.

"What? Uncle EnJob's son?" In the answering space, T'Challa was taken aback, but he didn't expect EnJob to have a son outside.

But if that's the case, then everything makes sense.

"When my father died, there was a leopard's paw print on his chest!" In the video, Eric glared at T'Challa: "You are not a king, you are the son of a murderer!"

"You lied!" T'Challa's mother also angrily said, "What nonsense!"

"I'm afraid what he said is true, Queen." Wakabi took out a pendant.

"What?" The leaders of the various tribes in the room were very surprised when they saw the pendant, which showed that everyone knew it.

"I am now exercising my rights as a descendant of the royal family and challenging the throne! Challenge the Black Panther!" Eric said.

"Don't accept his challenge, son," said T'Challa's mother.

"As a descendant of Prince Njob, he has this right," said the leader of an unknown tribe.

"He has no rights here!" T'Challa's mother scolded.

"The challenge is weeks of preparation," said the River Tribe's mouth again.

"A few weeks? I don't need that long," Eric said, looking at T'Challa. "I don't need the whole country here, I just need him, and someone who can untie me."

"I accept your challenge." T'Challa, sitting on the throne, accepted Eric's challenge.

"T'Challa, you are impulsive and should not agree." Seeing this, Tony Stark said, "Since this Eric dares to challenge you, he must have his confidence."

"I am the king of Wakanda, and he is alone. If I dare not even accept this kind of challenge, what qualifications do I have to be a king?" T'Challa asked rhetorically.

"What you said makes sense, but then again, he dares to challenge you as a king alone, which shows that he is sure to win." Tony Stark said, "And from the point of view of the title, you are thorough. Failed, not only lost the king's position, but also burned the heart-shaped grass."

"Tony is right." Bruce Banner also said, "If Eric loses, Wakanda may save his life, but he certainly can't burn the heart grass. But the title says he burned Heart-shaped grass, that means he won, he became the new king of Wakanda, so he was able to burn the heart-shaped grass."

"Is this Eric crazy?" Steve Strange said, "Since the heart-shaped grass can already be a super soldier, and he is a king again, then the heart-shaped grass is equivalent to becoming his thing. , will he actually burn down?"

"Maybe, it's not just T'Challa that he wants to take revenge on, and it's not just T'Challa that he wants to destroy, but the whole of Wakanda." James Rhodes said.

"It doesn't matter anymore." T'Challa said in a deep voice, "Since I already know about this in advance, no matter what purpose he has or what conspiracy he has, it will not succeed."

The video continues to play.

In a mountain stream surrounded by waterfalls, Eric was standing there with a javelin in his left hand and a knife in the right, while T'Challa was kneeling in the water, drinking an unknown liquid.

"Because I took heart-shaped grass and Eric didn't, this challenge was unfair." In the answering space, T'Challa also knew that everyone didn't understand this, and took the initiative to explain, "So when challenging, It's only fair that I have to remove the effect of the heart-shaped grass, remove the power of the panther, and become a normal person."

"It's really only fair," Steve Rogers said. "For a normal person to fight a super soldier, there's no chance of winning. It's not a challenge at all."

No matter what T'Challa drank in the video, the effect was immediate. The blood vessels on his body burst out and turned black, and his mouth also roared, showing that this process was accompanied by painfully.

After a while, those black blood vessels disappeared, and T'Challa took a breath and stood up.

At this time, he is no longer a black panther who can fly over the eaves, but an ordinary Wakanda warrior.

But even so, T'Challa was still very confident, he said to Eric, "This is your last chance, put down your weapons, so that we still have room for negotiation."

"I've been preparing for this moment all my life. I've trained hard, lied a lot, and killed countless people just to get here." Eric put his sword and spear in the stream, and took off his shirt as he spoke, only to see him On his skin, there are dense bulges one after another.

Fortunately, T'Challa is not a patient with intensive phobia, otherwise it would be too disadvantageous.

"I've fought in America, Afghanistan, Iraq, and I've taken away my life, my brothers and sisters from this land." Eric pulled the knife out of the water and pointed at T'Challa, "I've killed so many. People, just to kill you."

Hearing these words, T'Challa knew that the opponent could not back down and that this battle could not be avoided, so he nodded to Zu Li on the side, so Zu Li announced, "The challenge starts now!"

Eric and T'Challa fought back and forth with swords and swords. At first, the two sides were able to fight back and forth, but soon T'Challa couldn't, and was stabbed in the abdomen by Eric with a puff.

"This is for my father!" Eric raised his knife high, and was about to kill T'Challa.

"Eric!" Zu Li on the side shot directly, holding Eric's knife with a long spear.

"Zu Li, don't!" Zu Li obviously couldn't intervene in this battle. As soon as he made his move, whether it was T'Challa, who was lying on the ground and was almost cut off, or other spectators, they all spoke out to stop him.

"I killed your father, not him." Zu Li didn't care about those people, he walked up to Eric, looked at Eric and said, "Kill me."

"Both of you are going to die, Uncle James." Eric didn't know what politeness was at all. Zu Li asked him to kill, so he shot directly and stabbed Zu Li's chest.

Zu Li's death made T'Challa very angry, and he picked up the knife and slashed Eric wildly, but at this time his knife was obviously messed up, and he couldn't cut Eric at all, and was easily knocked down by Eric on the ground.

"This is your king?" Eric said to those watching. "Black Panther was supposed to be the one to lead you into the future, just him? Still trying to protect you?"

T'Challa got up from the water, punched Eric with a punch, and was directly resisted by Eric on the shoulder, and was thrown into the cliff.

"T'Challa, you really lost." Seeing this, Tony Stark said, "It was a terrible loss."

"But not now," T'Challa said. "I've unlocked the Fist of Arms achievement now, and I can knock that Eric down with my bare hands."

"However, this Zu Li is really loyal to you, and he sacrificed his life to save you." Natasha Romanov said.

The video continues, and Eric stands there and says to a black woman in a blue robe, "Is it all here?"

"Yes," said the black woman. "We'll be ready when the next king takes over."

"The next king?" Eric asked.

The black woman nodded.

"Go and burn those," Eric said.

"Your Majesty, we can't do this," said the black woman. "It's our tradition..."

Before he could finish speaking, the black woman was held in the air by Eric's throat, and the latter said murderously, "Whatever I tell you to do, you have to do it." He gave the order again: "Burn it all. !"