"You devil, you will definitely meet a terrible end."
The once prosperous Xandar was now covered in corpses. The Queen of Xandar had a face full of soot and bloodstains, but she, who usually had a bit of mysophobia, did not care about her image at all now. Her eyes were burning with raging anger. If looks could kill, the executioner in front of her would have been killed by her countless times already. The once glorious Nova Corps of Xandar had been reduced to scrap metal. The corpses of the Nova Corps were scattered in front of the Queen of Xandar in pieces. The Queen's eyes were fixed firmly on the tall figure sitting in front of her. The tall figure wearing golden armor was none other than the most notorious person in the entire Universe, known to others as the God of Destruction, Thanos, also jokingly referred to by netizens in Artoria's previous life as the 'Purple Sweet Potato'.
Thanos, facing the 'vicious' curse from the Queen of Xandar, had no expression at all, as if he were a statue. Thanos looked at the smoke in the distance, then stood up from his throne. His height of nearly three meters made him exceptionally prominent. The warriors surrounding the throne expressed their respect to their god and cleared a path to the Queen. Thanos stepped slowly toward the Queen in his golden combat boots, his tall figure shrouding the petite Queen.
"What do you think the operation of the Universe is?"
Thanos did not care about the Queen's murderous gaze. He leaned down and looked at his opponent this time. His eyes had no ripples, like a calm lake. He lowered his head and touched the blood on the ground, throwing a philosophical question to the Queen. This stunned the Queen, but the next moment, the Queen felt humiliated. This guy had defeated her, and even if he didn't kill her, he was actually humiliating her. Instantly, the Queen's anger grew even greater.
"It is resources, it is energy, but the energy and resources of the Universe are limited. If there is no intervention, then population expansion will occur. You are just one of the contenders now, and you will never consciously restrain yourself. As for resource consumption, when the population expands to a certain number, then strife begins. It is an endless cycle of consuming resources and war. You will never consider other things; you are just repeating this cycle."
Thanos spoke expressionlessly about what seemed to be only theoretical words. His words might be very philosophical, but this could not calm down the Queen who had lost her home, family, and friends. She stared fiercely at Thanos like a Beast that had lost its mind, as if she could tear a piece of meat off from somewhere. But Thanos did not care about the Queen's attitude. He seemed to be just a 'repeater', finishing what he wanted to say without caring about the Queen's reaction. He just looked at the Queen quietly, looking at the land behind her, at the two sides surrounded by his subordinates, packed with dense crowds of people. They looked with hatred at this group of executioners who had destroyed their home.
"Therefore, I believe that killing one half and keeping the other half is the only way to alleviate population expansion and allow people to cherish their current lives more."
Suddenly, Thanos stood up. He looked down at the Queen and announced the answer he had thought of. The moment she heard Thanos's words, the Queen's anger instantly disappeared, replaced by humble begging. She was not a fool; no one who could govern a Planet was an idiot. Based on Thanos's words just now and this declaration, she understood that this madman intended to kill half the population. Although she didn't want to admit it was reality, the Queen was so frightened that her face was somewhat distorted. She felt as if her head had been hit by a hammer, and her limbs were weak, her hands and feet cold. This was truly a madman.
"They are your people; let you choose which side needs to die!"
At this moment, she wished so much that this was a nightmare, wished so much that she could wake up from her soft bed, but the devil in front of her left her no hope, directly telling her to choose which side of the people should die. She stared at Thanos in disbelief. The next moment, she knelt down, hoping that Thanos would spare her people. She was willing to die. She begged bitterly and loudly for Thanos to spare her people, but Thanos turned around without hesitation, not even looking at this pitiful Queen. The next moment, Thanos waved his hand, and both sides opened fire simultaneously. Everyone died.
"No, isn't it to leave half?"
The moment the firing started, the Queen's eyes widened. She turned her head to look, and her people had all fallen into a pool of blood. This scene brought her too much shock. She muttered, and then a soldier stepped forward and shot the Queen. The Queen fell into the pool of blood with her eyes wide open in Death. Her eyes were facing Thanos, who was walking toward the floating throne, and the luster in her eyes gradually faded.
"My God, this was found in their defense system, an object archived as the Cosmic Orb."
Thanos sat on the floating throne facing such a scene, his expression not changing at all. This made Ebony Maw, who was standing on the side, frown. What was going on during this time? What changes had happened to him? He actually didn't leave a single living soul. This was completely different from the previous Thanos. What happened? Hadn't I always been here? I hadn't found anything unusual. What is going on now? Ebony Maw was full of question marks in his heart, but the others didn't feel that anything was wrong. Their God had given his decree, and they just had to execute it; they didn't need to think too much. Soon, a high-level commander-level alien walked up to Thanos with a Cosmic Orb, knelt on the ground, and presented the Cosmic Orb to Thanos.
"Fake."
The next moment, the Cosmic Orb in the subordinate's hand seemed to be lifted by an invisible hand and floated toward Thanos, drifting into Thanos's hand. Thanos crushed it without hesitation. A burst of smoke flew out from Thanos's hand. Thanos directly determined that this was a fake, and he didn't blame this stupid subordinate. Thanos slowly closed his eyes, and the floating throne carried Thanos into the behemoth in the sky. This matter was settled just like that. Thanos's subordinates also began to retreat. Ebony Maw looked at Xandar and also turned and left. After the huge spaceship left, only corpses remained on the entire Planet.
"This kind of plant has not appeared on Earth now; it is completely not a product of Earth."
Artoria, who was hiding in the company to avoid Maria's pressure to marry, suddenly saw a piece of news. A plant suddenly expanded in the park, turned into a mass of things, and swallowed everything around it. It was accompanied by a set of photos. Artoria understood as soon as she saw it. Isn't this a part of Ego, one of the Celestials? It actually erupted suddenly, so that meant Star-Lord had actually met his biological Father and successfully 'killed his Father', which also caused his adoptive Father to kick the bucket as well.
"Artoria, I don't know why a pimple suddenly grew on my face."
"It will go away. Stop calling me about boring things."
Just as Artoria was thinking, Gaea suddenly called Artoria. Artoria, who thought Gaea had an accident because of Ego's invasion, quickly answered the phone, but what made Artoria speechless was that Gaea had only grown a pimple. Artoria rolled her eyes and hung up the phone with some displeasure. Although she said that, Artoria still put on her Spirit Gear and flew to the place where Ego had planted his avatar years ago. Although Ego's main body had kicked the bucket and his consciousness had disappeared, it was not impossible for these avatars to regenerate a consciousness, but the probability was very small, and it would take hundreds of thousands of years! During this period, it would probably have been taken by guys from advanced civilizations to make specimens or experiments. Artoria decided to collect a small piece to study. The body tissue of a Celestial was indeed something that made people covet; how did such a guy survive?
"You S.H.I.E.L.D. guys are really fast this time."
She originally thought her action was already very fast, but she didn't expect to see old acquaintances, namely the people from S.H.I.E.L.D. Seeing Artoria descend from the sky, Phil used a familiar smile and kindly received Artoria's arrival, but Artoria had no intention of paying attention to him and walked directly to the side of the large mass, preparing to take samples.
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