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As soon as Peter said those words, Wanda's Chaos Magic instantly dissipated.
Because she suddenly discovered that there was indeed a massive blank space in her memory.
She couldn't remember how she had come here, nor could she remember what had happened during this past period of time.
She only remembered following a bespectacled man named Gravik out of the HYDRA Base, and that they had agreed to defeat Peter together and overthrow America's hegemony. After that, she remembered nothing.
"What... what did you do to me?" Wanda's voice was trembling.
"I didn't do anything. Compared to me, I think you should ask that green-skinned freak over there what he did to you."
Peter gave Mantis a look, and Mantis understood immediately, stepping to Peter's side and allowing him to place his hand on her shoulder.
Immediately after, she gave Wanda and Quicksilver a slight smile, then reached out her hands to take theirs respectively:
"Don't be afraid, feel it carefully."
This was a qualitative change in Mantis's ability under the amplification of Celestial Energy.
At this moment, her ability was no longer limited to hypnosis and sensing emotions, but could project complete memory images from one person's mind to another.
Peter's goal was to use Mantis as a medium to completely transmit the memory fragments in his own mind to Wanda and Quicksilver.
Thus, the two were able to see how Gravik had triumphantly stated in the previous video call that he would rule Earth and turn all humans into his slaves.
After finishing the broadcast of the images from Peter's mind, Mantis thought for a moment and decided to improvise a bit more.
Using her ability, she successfully unearthed what Wanda and Quicksilver had seen and heard while controlled by the drug from corners of their memories that they themselves could not find.
This instantly made the two recall how Gravik had manipulated the siblings like training dogs.
And how he had desperately forced those Skrull civilians into gene-fusion chambers, and how he had discarded the corpses of the mutated failures like trash!
After seeing these images, Wanda's pretty face became incredibly pale.
Quicksilver's fists also creaked as he clenched them.
That green-skinned bastard named Gravik... had actually been using them as pawns from beginning to end!
At that thought, the two slowly turned around and faced Gravik's direction once more.
Crimson Chaos Magic surged in Wanda's deep pupils.
Quicksilver also took a sprinting stance, clearly prepared to flash in front of Gravik instantly and give him a heavy blow.
When Gravik saw this scene, the last trace of color on his face completely faded.
"No, no, no, no, no..."
Gravik took three steps back, his expression going through pride, shock, and resentment within just two seconds, finally settling into deep fear.
Wanda and Quicksilver had defected.
The secret weapons he had painstakingly cultivated, the final trump cards he used to turn the tide of battle, had been turned against him by Peter in less than a minute.
"Stop them! Stop them for me, now!"
Gravik screamed, trying to get his loyal soldiers to handle these troubles.
But before his subordinates could rush up, crimson Chaos Magic poured out from Wanda's fingertips...
This time, her targets became the Skrull soldiers on the battlefield who were being pursued by the Superheroes.
A crimson energy wave swept across the battlefield, and over a dozen Skrull soldiers were sent flying uncontrollably on the spot.
Quicksilver's figure turned into an afterimage, weaving through the Skrull ranks at a speed difficult for the naked eye to track.
Although he didn't have a powerful physique, as the saying goes, "speed is power"!
With his superior speed, he could easily knock down the Skrulls one by one before they could even react!
Seeing this, the bullet screen instantly erupted:
"Holy crap! Those two planet-traitors actually defected!"
"What defected! Couldn't you tell they were clearly being controlled just now!"
"Speaking of which, the lady in red is so beautiful, I feel she's even prettier than that Female Goddess of War! Her abilities are super cool too!"
"That blonde guy is also pretty good! Although he's too fast to see his face, this ability is awesome just thinking about it!"
Amidst the heated discussion on the bullet screen, the situation on the battlefield also completely showed a one-sided trend.
Of the 2,700 Super Skrull Soldiers, less than 800 remained alive after less than ten minutes of combat.
Meanwhile, the Superheroes still had zero casualties.
The situation on the battlefield had completely collapsed.
Peter watched all this with cold eyes.
Seeing those once fearless Super Skrull Soldiers go from arrogant to hesitant, and finally huddle around Gravik, only daring to shrink back-to-back together, no longer daring to launch a charge.
He knew that this war could be declared over.
Thus, Peter indifferently issued his final ultimatum:
"Surrender, green-skin."
Peter's voice came from the other side of the battlefield, not loud, but every word reached Gravik's ears clearly.
"You've lost. From the moment you chose to treat your own people this way, you had already lost."
Gravik stared at Peter, trembling with rage for a moment.
Surrender?
He had gambled the future of his race!
Sacrificed the lives of over a thousand kinsmen!
Given up the reproductive capacity of the next generation!
And this was the outcome?
How could he accept this!
"Hahahaha~"
A low, crazed laugh squeezed out of Gravik's throat.
The laughter was small at first, then grew louder and sharper, finally turning into a piercing, hysterical cackle.
"You think you've won?"
After the laughter, Gravik's expression instantly became incredibly fierce, and he pulled something from his coat.
It was a miniature remote control with no extra buttons, just a large red button right in the center!
"Guess what this is?"
Gravik held up the device for Peter to see, his face filled with madness.
The moment Peter saw the remote, the smile on his face couldn't help but stiffen slightly.
His Observation Haki vaguely sensed something...
"You think I, General Gravik, would bet all my chips on this frontal war? You think I'd be stupid enough to only prepare one trump card?"
Gravik's voice gradually regained its former confidence. He placed his thumb on the red button and spoke with a playful expression:
"Before I came to Chernobyl, I had already planted nuclear bombs under the capitals of thirteen countries: Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Seoul, Tokyo, Sydney, Cairo, Brasilia, Bei Jing..."
"As soon as I press this button, these thirteen cities will turn to ashes at the same time!"