Thanos didn't want to be a villain.

"What? What did you say?!" Tony Stark's voice rose eight octaves instantly.

Startled by the sudden increase in tone, Thor threw Tony Stark aside and covered his ears.

"What's wrong?" Thor looked at Tony with an innocent expression.

The five representatives behind him all looked shocked.

Who could imagine that Thor, as the prince of Asgard, would join the so-called superhero team, the Avengers, on Earth, and be the brother-in-law of Emperor Dio of the Empire!

Who would have thought that the big shot was right next to us!

This was the first thought of the six people.

After all, the aura that Dio brought to Earth was truly terrifying, especially his army, which included not only the Astartes, the Imperial Guard, Transformers, but also the Spartan warriors with the Halo.

Who knows if there will be more Predators later on?

"It's nothing," Tony Stark finally said after holding it in for a long time.

Thor was puzzled. He scratched his head and thought for a while before saying, "My brother-in-law has been to Earth? Was he scary? Don't worry, my brother-in-law is a very nice person, he just looks a bit fierce."

"Let's go, open an account and I'll let you use the black card. I have other things to do later," Thor urged as he walked ahead.

It's not just that he looks fierce.

The five people behind him were thinking to themselves.

During the account opening process, Tony Saul struck up a conversation, asking, "By the way, Saul, what brings you here...?"

Thor laughed and said, "My father recently made a fortune here. My mother's birthday is in a few days, and he asked me to take some money to buy her something as a surprise."

Tony Stark suddenly realized what was going on, and then congratulated her in his own way: "That's great. I don't know what your mother likes, and I don't know what to give her either. I'll have the rest of the team prepare something when we get out."

Saul smiled and said it wasn't necessary, he appreciated the sentiment.

But he complained, "For Mother's birthday this year, I originally wanted my sister and brother-in-law's family to come as well, but he had something to do and could only send his subordinates to deliver the gifts. To be honest, Mother treats my brother-in-law better than we, her own children, do."

Tony Stark thought for a moment. He shouldn't interfere in the other family's private affairs, but he still comforted him, "Your brother-in-law is, after all, an emperor of an empire. He must have a lot to deal with every day. Maybe he's just too busy."

Thor shook his head: "No, although my brother-in-law is the emperor, as the first person to establish the empire, he is already semi-retired. I don't know what he and my sister are busy with all day long."

Tony Stark nodded imperceptibly, gaining a deeper understanding of the Empire.

The two chatted for a few more minutes, and once Thor had the black card in hand, he was about to leave.

"By the way, Thor, if we've prepared a gift for you, how should we give it to you? Should we shout 'Heimdall' to the sky?" Tony Stark asked as they parted.

Thor stopped and thought for a moment: "That's fine, but you can also use a courier service. Whatever, I'll have Heimdall keep an eye on you guys later."

After saying that, he walked away, leaving Tony Stark dumbfounded.

Does it also offer courier service?

Space Express?

Tony Stark's brilliant mind hadn't immediately considered that there were delivery services within the cosmic empire, but now, thinking about it, he nodded knowingly.

Without courier services, you'd have to deliver everything yourself, which would take a lot of time and effort.

If it's a valuable item, that's fine, but if it's an item of very low value, then the expense is a bit too much.

Shaking his head, Tony Stark led everyone to the learning center.

The name is simple, but it contains almost all the knowledge that can be learned by paying money in the empire.

Of course, this knowledge is definitely more expensive than what's taught in school, and the verification process and post-learning review are extremely complicated, all to prevent those with ulterior motives from learning it and bringing disaster to the empire.

Tony Stark and his five men spent two hours going through the screening together before they went inside to make their selections.

These five people were just an advance team, originally there to scout ahead. Once they were done, they would go out to report and allow the country to select valuable items for study or purchase.

Now that they know about Space Express, their minds are all set on something.

"Hiss~ This is controlled nuclear fusion." One of the representatives gasped.

"There's also antimatter energy extraction and utilization here." The representative standing to the side, with sharp eyes, had already seen everything and felt numb.

Tony Stark's breathing quickened. He saw many technologies on the list that were far beyond Earth's reach. He was confident that he could do the same, but it would take a lot of time to create models and perform calculations, and he would probably fail countless times!

But all this knowledge was now laid out before Tony Stark.

The American representative, on the other hand, looked at this knowledge with great excitement.

Because Tony Stark is American, they considered sending him there to study, and this representative was just a figurehead whose only purpose was to cultivate a good relationship with Tony Stark and find opportunities to get him to study there.

Even if Tony Stark does what he does after completing his studies, the US Congress is not worried. Not only is Tony Stark an American, but Stark Industries is also the largest and most comprehensive technology company in the United States.

Regardless of what Tony Stark does after learning, he will inevitably use some of the technology to benefit people's lives, since Stark Industries still needs to make money even after leaving the military industry.

Now that they know about interstellar express delivery, this representative feels it doesn't matter whether Tony Stark learns it or not; they can buy these tools and let other scientists learn from them.

The Chinese representatives were initially overwhelmed by the sheer number of options before gradually selecting the scientific and technological knowledge that their country needed.

In the end, everyone had a lot of things in their bags, and some of them were even duplicates.

Although Tony Stark was using his black card for this purchase, no one said anything, and the American representative didn't try to sabotage it. The payment went smoothly, but they didn't know how to fill in the delivery address.

Transylvania, Midgard, the mortal realm, Earth.

Although these names are widely circulated, they are mostly just communication between extraterrestrials and are not official names or designations for Earth.

Tony Stark was stumped; he didn't know how to write the shipping address for online purchases, it was the first time he'd ever done it.

"Should we ask His Highness Thor?" one of the representatives asked.

“But where is Prince Thor? He may have already left the virtual universe after buying his things,” another representative countered.

"There should be a call function here, right?" The Chinese representative waved his hand, and a semi-transparent screen appeared with many panels on it.

"Then here's the problem: we don't know His Highness Saul's phone number," the American representative sighed after glancing at it.

"The Divine Realm must be quite famous in the universe, right?" the British representative suddenly asked, making everyone realize something.

They then found Asgard's number, called it, and after a conversation, Asgard, knowing it was their prince's friend on Earth, notified Thor.

Tony Stark quickly obtained Earth's official name in the universe from Thor.

And so, five large packages were purchased.

As for how the Earth will develop in the future, that is none of Dio's business.