Chapter 1354: The Mystery of the Feast (IV)
The moment they saw the corpse, everyone's eyes began to flow around each other, and the undercurrent surging under the silence was about to burst out. The first to speak was Thor, who was holding Sif's hand.
"What's going on?" Thor's voice was very low, and the anger contained in it made the guests present terrified. No one here could withstand the anger of the God King.
I can only say that fortunately today's banquet is not a formal wedding ceremony, but a banquet to welcome guests from interstellar civilization. The God King and the Queen will not officially hold the ceremony until tomorrow morning. If such a thing happened at that time, I am afraid that the interstellar society will set off another bloody storm.
But such an accident is shocking enough. That is the de facto ruler of one of the three major empires in the universe. He died at the banquet in Asgard in front of so many civilization leaders.
Thor set his eyes on Loki, Schiller also turned to look at Loki, and Loki lowered her head slightly and said, "I'll go investigate right away."
The insiders present knew what she meant by investigation. She only needed to take a look above the universe, and she could trace back along the timeline to see who did it. At worst, she could go to the Time Administration and ask Mobius to bring the machine here to trace back time.
Loki turned slowly, and at this moment a voice sounded: "Wait a minute, Her Highness Loki."
Loki turned around and found that it was Stark who spoke. Thor's eyes fell on Stark's face again, and Stark touched his wrist calmly and said: "Should we confirm the identity of the deceased first? Although she looks like the Queen of the Shi'ar Empire, this is the palace of Asgard. There is no reason for Her Majesty to die here. Shouldn't we check whether this is a substitute or an illusion?"
As soon as Stark finished speaking, he felt a gaze falling on him. Stark looked up at Schiller who was staring at him opposite. He did not continue to speak, but smiled.
At this time, Sif, the leader of the Asgard Guard, frowned and said, "In order to ensure the smooth progress of the banquet, the soldiers of the guard are waiting outside the venue, but other members of the guard who are not on security missions, including doctors, coroners, etc., have already withdrawn from the Asgard."
"Your Majesty, if you want to verify your identity, I will let someone notify professionals to come and investigate now."
"No need." Thor did not look at Sif, but rejected her proposal.
But everyone also understood that Sif was not the captain of the palace guard now, she was the fiancée of the God King, she could not take a team of people to touch the corpse, even temporarily leaving here, which was very rude.
"I think there is a doctor here, isn't it?" Frigga's voice came, she looked at Schiller, Schiller turned his head slightly but did not look at Frigga, but glanced at Odin's face.
Obviously, everyone on the field had their own purpose and secrets, and a delicate and fragile balance was gradually established.
Everyone had information that others did not have, which would be the key to their achieving their goals.
They were sure that the smart people present could understand the current situation - when they didn't understand the purpose of others, they couldn't rashly use overly rough means to break the situation to spy on the truth, which would only bring trouble to themselves.
Under the cover of this atmosphere, even a fool would understand that this would not be a simple homicide, or that the Queen of the Shi'ar Empire would die, and died at the Asgard banquet, so there was no possibility of a simple homicide.
Schiller stood there in silence for a few seconds, but did not step forward, but said: "I am a psychiatrist, I don't understand magic, I can't do autopsies, and I can't see through illusions. I think there is someone who is more suitable for this job than me."
After speaking, he turned his head to the other side and looked at a figure in the crowd. Everyone followed his gaze and focused on that figure. Strange, holding a wine glass, walked through the crowd.
His eyes first fell on the body on the ground, then he looked at Thor and said, "I'm not a forensic doctor, just a surgeon."
"But at least you can check whether this is caused by magic, right, Your Majesty the Supreme Sorcerer?" Thor emphasized.
"Loki can also... Well, it's impolite to let Your Highness, who is dressed in full dress, touch the body, let me do it." Strange turned around and put the wine glass on the waiter's tray.
Schiller's eyes did not follow Strange's movements like others, but only glanced at the wine glass that Strange had just put down.
The Supreme Sorcerer took off his cloak and handed it to Loki, who was closest to him, and then walked to the side of the queen's body and squatted down. His eyes were slightly floating, and a trace of golden light flashed on his fingertips.
Strange's fingertips lightly touched the ground, and the magic light rippled. When sweeping over the queen's body, there was no abnormality in the magic fluctuations, and most people present saw this.
"The body is real." Strange shook his head and said, "No trace of magic fabrication or illusion was found."
"Then can the cause of death be determined?" Thor asked again.
Strange stared at the body and said, "I want to check the wounds on the body, but this may be a bit offensive. I'm not sure the queen and her family will agree to let me touch her body at will."
"Leland! Leland! His Majesty Lelandra!!" An anxious cry came from the main gate of the Asgard, and a strong male of the Fierce Feathers rushed in with two guards.
"That is the husband of the Queen of the Shi'ar Empire." Loki explained to Schiller in a low voice,
But Schiller's attention was not on the husband, but on the face of the young guard who had just come in.
"Aren't all their royal guards from the Fierce Feathers?" Schiller asked Loki in a low voice.
"The Shi'ar Empire is an empire of great ethnic integration. Although the Fierce Feathers are a royal race, in order to show respect for other races, their guards include members of more than 20 races."
"Including humans?"
Loki was stunned for a moment. She followed Schiller's gaze and found that the young soldier standing behind the king's husband who fell to the ground looked exactly like a human.
A glimmer of magic flashed in Loki's eyes, and then she found that the young guard was really a human, at least he must have human blood.
There are many humanoid races in the universe. This phenomenon started from some existences that spread life in the beginning. But in fact, humanoid races are the mainstream of interstellar society, and most races are vertebrates with limbs.
But on this basis, different races also have slight differences. Differences such as skin color can no longer be considered differences. Some races may have four arms instead of just limbs, some races have human bodies and fish tails, and some races even have two heads.
Even if they look exactly like humans, their internal organs, blood vessels, and muscle tissues will definitely be very different.
After all, there are very few races as weak as humans in the universe. Even if they are not good-looking and do not look strong enough, most of them can use other energy.
This means that their organs will undergo special changes during evolution, and it is impossible for them to be completely consistent with humans, a race with weak bodies and no ability to use energy.
But the young man opposite him conforms to the laws of the human body from internal organ structure to blood vessels to muscle tissue, so he is very likely a human.
But the fact that humans would become members of the Shi'ar Empire Guard was itself very strange. Humans were not a member of the Shi'ar Empire at all. The territories of the two races were far apart, and humans had never traded with the Shi'ar Empire. The two sides had nothing to do with each other.
Who would this human being who appeared here be? How could he join the Shi'ar Empire's palace guard? Why did he appear beside the queen and her husband?
Schiller searched for information quickly in his mind. He knew that all humans who could walk out of the nine kingdoms were not weak hands. They must have something to rely on. They must be well-known in the Marvel world.
Searching with the Shi'ar Empire Guard as the keyword, Schiller suddenly found a very inconspicuous piece of information in the depths of his dusty memory.
The origin story of Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy recorded his experience. The first half of the story was too complicated, but in short, Star-Lord Peter Quill was imprisoned in an interstellar prison named Kane.
Star-Lord wanted to escape from prison, so he found a few teammates. On the way to escape from prison, he found that there was a big explosion in the interstellar prison Kane, so he wanted to go over to check the situation. At this time, he met a gladiator. Later, the gladiator recruited Star-Lord to join the guard of the Shi'ar Empire.
But in the comics, Star-Lord refused the call-up and chose to stay in Kane Prison, but there is no doubt that Star-Lord had a chance to join the guard of the Shi'ar Empire.
The butterfly effect of the time traveler is too complicated, and Schiller is not sure whether it was the change he brought that caused Star-Lord to agree to the gladiator's request and really join the guard of the Shi'ar Empire.
But in this inconspicuous story, there is still a famous big man involved, that is, Thanos.
At that time, Star-Lord wanted to deal with a being called the Creator. Because he felt that he was not strong enough, he wanted to pull Thanos as a teammate. In the comics, Thanos did not agree, but beat the Creator himself.
In other words, Thanos and Star-Lord have dealt with each other before. Not only do they have no grudges, but Star-Lord also wants to cooperate with Thanos. So, even if Thanos wisely rejected Star-Lord in terms of fighting the enemy together, will the two of them cooperate in other aspects?
Schiller turned his head and looked at the edge of the dance floor. The purple-skinned giant just stood there with a glass of wine, drinking by himself, without saying a word, as if he had not noticed the chaos in the middle of the dance floor at all.
But Schiller understood that Thanos was not a law-abiding person. If he said that he had no part in this chaos, no one would believe it.
Was the chaos caused by the Queen's murder an emergency?
On the contrary, all conspiracies were carried out in silence, and the final chaos was nothing more than the result of the collision and accumulation of various factors to reach the peak and then burst out together.
Standing in the middle of the bright and wide dance floor, Schiller could see everyone's thoughtful expressions at a glance.
Looking into everyone's pupils and connecting perspectives that others did not know, a complete truth can be formed.
Schiller, who did not have this information, had to infer where the source of the power that caused the chaos came from and when it was generated through everyone's words, reactions and attitudes within just a few minutes of the chaos.
Unraveling the mystery, step by step, inferring everyone's motives, methods and ultimate goals.
As the brain thought at high speed, the heart began to beat faster and faster, and the "bang bang bang" drumbeats were like the prelude to the opening of the dance.
Time stopped, space condensed, and the last beam of light flowed into Schiller's eyes along his brow, and then it was like the afterglow on the bridge of the Asgard, drawing the curtain for the darkness.
The sound and color in the world of fame and fortune gradually faded, and the light became dim.
Suddenly, a fierce light flashed, and Schiller woke up from a somewhat confused sleepiness. Outside the bedroom window of the Asgard, he could see the bright energy tail flames of the engine of the royal spacecraft of the Shi'ar Empire when it slowed down and landed.
This is really strange, Schiller thought, the queen and queen of the Shi'ar Empire would come to congratulate in person, and they came earlier than the other two empires.
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