"They might want to use weak spatial points... to open countless Hell Gates... on Earth!"
As he finished speaking, Tony closed his eyes, trembling. He seemed to see a vision of countless Hell Gates opening on Earth, with endless demons pouring out like a tide, causing boundless slaughter.
"Tony Stark! Look what you've done!!"
Hearing this, Steve strode directly up to Tony.
If he could still remain calm when Tony accidentally created a Hell Gate before, hearing such disastrous news now, even with Steve's temperament, he wished he could punch Tony in the face.
However, before Steve could make any move, Tony himself seemed to have lost his bones and collapsed instantly. If Steve hadn't grabbed his shoulder, Tony might have slumped directly to the ground.
In fact, this blow was far more severe to him than anyone imagined.
Initially, Tony just had a burst of inspiration while researching how to open a cross-dimensional portal to help Gwen return home. He thought of a completely new idea to stably offset spatial rifts.
A large part of the chaos in the world today, and why the United States couldn't settle down even after the HYDRA rebellion, was because spatial rifts opened from time to time in various places, bringing countless otherworldly invaders.
Many rebel leaders even appeared under the leadership of otherworldly villains.
Now that he had a solution to this problem, Tony naturally wanted to research deeper.
However, as the research progressed, he found that there was a core problem that couldn't be solved no matter what—the energy required to offset spatial rifts was simply too massive.
The Earth today was like an incredibly fragile giant bubble. Because Loki misused the Tesseract back then, countless weak points that could tear at any time appeared on this bubble.
Although every time these weak spatial points ruptured and one or two outsiders slipped in, a mysterious force would slowly repair the rift.
But as long as these weak spatial points couldn't be completely repaired, the next tear was inevitable.
Even with continuous tearing and repairing, the 'bubble' was continuously weakened.
It was very likely that it would evolve into hundreds or thousands of spatial rifts appearing on Earth every moment.
However, according to Tony's own calculations, even repairing a single weak point would require the entire power supply of a large city like New York to barely seal it.
And this was continuous energy supply, not a one-time fix.
Given the fragility of Earth's space now, there might be dozens or hundreds of large and small spatial weak points within a single city.
Not to mention that not many cities in the world had this level of energy supply. And if all electricity were used to repair spatial rifts, would society regress to a pre-electric era?
Finally, Tony thought of a more extreme solution!
The energy of the Hell Dimension could be called inexhaustible.
As long as a stable energy series structure could be designed to link all existing spatial weak points on Earth together...
Then whenever a spatial rift appeared, a burst of Hell Dimension energy would immediately patch it up, instantly obliterating the rift.
This continuous smoothing of spatial rifts, and even gradually repairing and strengthening the currently tattered 'bubble' of Earth, could be said to be a once-and-for-all solution.
This was the 'Spatial Fluctuation Stabilization Circuit' Tony mentioned.
A super-large 'Circuit Magic Array' covering the globe, encompassing all known spatial weak points, and stealing Hell Dimension energy to operate!
After listening to Tony's explanation, everyone present fell into silence.
A person spending energy and finding ways to solve a global crisis—could you say his intentions were bad?
But to solve the problem, this guy actually dared to target the energy of the Hell Dimension...
This looked like the kind of fool in fairy tales who would make a deal with the devil to save people.
More importantly, even an old antique like Steve, who didn't understand science very well, understood what Tony meant by 'after reversal, countless Hell Gates will open.'
This was equivalent to being in a war where one's 'defensive line' had countless weak points and gaps needing protection, but one's own 'repair materials' were insufficient.
At this time, a 'genius' from the position engineering department proposed, 'We just need to steal the enemy's landmines and dynamite packs to plug the gaps. These things are plentiful and free.'
It seemed like a good solution, but the key problem now was...
Now the enemy was preparing to personally deliver these 'landmines and dynamite packs' to your door with drums and gongs!
Even thinking with a big toe, one would know that the enemy definitely wouldn't just deliver the goods and leave!
However, just as everyone fell into silence, Luca, who knew more about demonology, the Hell Dimension, and portals, suddenly asked Tony.
"Are you saying you calculated all the nodes and circuit directions of that Spatial Fluctuation Stabilization Circuit by yourself?"
At this moment, Luca's tone was incredibly serious.
It wasn't that he doubted Tony's ability as a researcher.
But this giant magic array covering the entire Earth, combining technology and Hell Dimension energy, and needing to precisely link all spatial weak points on Earth to ensure stable energy output without chaos...
The difficulty of this far exceeded the defensive barriers of the three Sanctums of Kamar-Taj.
Even Tony...
Sure enough!
Tony, who was already somewhat like a walking dead, shook his head slightly upon hearing this.
"I designed two plans. Initially, it was just a single spatial rift stabilization algorithm, targeting this portal."
As he spoke, Tony looked at the Hell Gate still glowing red.
"But this plan lacks stability. Each node needs independent calculation. The subsequent large-scale plan only designed the stabilization circuit for the area near New York. But expanding the circuit coverage further would increase the difficulty geometrically."
"Wanting you and Banner to help before was also to continue perfecting this defense circuit."
Hearing this, for some reason, the hearts of everyone present, which had sunk to the bottom, surprisingly rose slightly.
Although it was unfortunate for New York, and opening Hell Gates would still release countless demons...
Compared to a worldwide influx of demon tides, at least there was hope for defense and resistance.
How to put it?
New York citizens should be used to this kind of thing...
However, Tony's next sentence slapped everyone's emotions back to the bottom.
"But it's useless. Defense repair is different from opening Hell Gates. The other side doesn't need to pursue stability in energy output..."