"It's been a long time. Come and try the apple pies I made. They are leftovers from last night, but... Wow, you should have called me before you came. Casey and I were going to have lunch at Hulk's Pizza. I heard that they have launched a new set menu, and this time there is finally a food named after me. Casey and I are very excited..."
At Scott's house, Dio and his companions were looking at Scott busying around with helplessness on their faces, nagging non-stop.
It seems that he is becoming more and more like a housewife while accompanying his daughter, especially with the funny pink apron tied around his waist.
His daughter Casey has also grown up a lot. Although she is not as cute as she was when she was a child, she has become more graceful and more like a grown-up girl. At the moment, she is huddled together with Luce. I don't know what they are talking about, but it can be seen that the two of them are having a very pleasant conversation.
"Hey, Scott! Sorry to interrupt you, but you should know that we didn't come to you for apple pie. I mean, this thing tastes good, even though it's stale, but... we have something more important to talk to you about."
Steve tasted it and found that it was not as bad as he had imagined. It seems that being a househusband does help improve cooking skills.
Scott, who was still busy with his back to them, paused for a moment, then put down what he was doing, and said to his daughter with a big smile: "Kathy, maybe you can go to the room to 'explore' with this... young lady, but remember, don't let 'Sam' scare the guests."
"Okay, Dad."
Although she has grown a lot, Casey is still so well-behaved and directly took Luce's hand and went into the room.
After sending his daughter away, Scott wiped his hands on his apron and sat down. "Okay, you can talk now, but I have to state in advance that if you need me to do something very dangerous, please allow me to refuse, because Cathy has lost her mother, and I can't let her lose her father again."
Natasha and the others looked at each other, and then Dio took the initiative to speak: "We failed, the original plan failed..."
Dio quickly explained the key points so that Scott, who had returned to ordinary life, knew what situation they were facing.
After hearing this, Scott's expression was very complicated, and he even felt a little relieved.
"You're saying that the Infinity Stones have been destroyed in the battle, and you're trying to tell me that those who have disappeared can never come back, right?"
"No, although it seems that way, we have not given up. We are still looking for other possibilities, so we need your help." Dio went straight to the point.
"Me? How can I help?" Scott's expression was a little unnatural, but he quickly regained his composure.
"We want to know if quantum mechanics can help us recover this, like traveling to a parallel world, or... something else."
After hearing this fantastic theory, Scott did not laugh at anything. Instead, he pondered for a moment and asked very seriously: "Do you understand quantum mechanics?"
"Just chatting... Okay, I admit that we don't know anything about this, but after the Infinity Stones were destroyed, we had to find other solutions. If quantum mechanics doesn't work, then maybe there are other theories that can help us, or something more powerful and magical than the Infinity Stones?"
Hearing this, for some reason, Scott suddenly relaxed. He thought they knew something, but it turned out they were just trying their best to grab at the last straw.
"Well, whether you understand quantum mechanics or not, I can only tell you that parallel worlds may really exist, but the quantum field is not the key to enter other parallel worlds. At least in the current research results, I don't see any possibility, so if you are thinking about this, then you can choose to give up now."
Scott said very seriously that although he was not a super genius in the field of research, after "working" with Hope and her father for such a long time, his understanding of the quantum field could be said to be at the forefront of the world.
Natasha felt very disappointed with the result.
Although I didn't have much hope before coming here, I still felt very disappointed after hearing the answer, because another road was blocked.
The atmosphere suddenly became very silent and quiet...
But at this moment, Steve, who had been observing Scott's expression, suddenly said, "Scott, you know something, right? You just emphasized that the quantum field has nothing to do with the parallel world, but you didn't completely deny our proposal. Why?"
Scott sat there, pursing his lips, in silence.
At this time, silence is actually the best answer.
Natasha suddenly had a glimmer of hope in her eyes, and she asked anxiously, "Is that so, Scott? Do you also think that the quantum realm could help us save everything?"
Facing the hopeful look on Natasha's face, Scott seemed very conflicted. After hesitating for a long time, he gritted his teeth and said, "It's just a concept, but it's... too absurd, too crazy, and it's impossible to achieve."
"Haven't we experienced enough absurdity and craziness? Just before coming here, I was talking to a raccoon via email."
"Speak up, Scott. No matter how difficult it is, it's possible if we work together."
Scott nodded silently, then stood up, took off his apron, organized his words, and continued, "In the more than two years since that incident, I have never given up my research on the quantum field. Then, combining my previous research results with Janet's description of the quantum field, I came to a conclusion."
"The rules of the quantum realm are different from those of this world. Everything is unpredictable, including time!"
"That's right, the time mechanism in the quantum realm is completely different and extremely chaotic!"
"And the only problem right now is that we can't control it. But what if we could? I've always wondered, what if we could control this temporal chaos... What if we could enter the quantum realm at a certain point in time and come out of it at another point in time?"
"Like... before all this tragedy happened."
Scott paced back and forth and made an extremely shocking and crazy hypothesis, which shocked Dio and others!