Chapter 547: I Don’t Like the Gemstone Purple Sweet Potato Spirit (Part 1)
Thanos, a well-known villain in the Marvel Universe, will not be introduced in detail here, only his current status.
Now, he is in his own country, the Dark Quadrant. After he left Titan and entered the universe, he defeated a group of space pirates and replaced their leader. This group of people is the first batch of people of Thanos's country.
At this time, the development of the Dark Quadrant is orderly. The five black generals under Thanos will fight in various parts of the universe to plunder resources for Thanos to develop the base.
Before, the Dark Quadrant was at the peak of its development. Even if destruction is Thanos's nature, he has been farming in his hometown for a long time.
In a sense, Thanos' situation is somewhat similar to Stark's current situation. The development of the territory is complicated and it will not be effective in a short time. Thanos is very strong alone, but sometimes, fighting in the interstellar requires the overall strength of civilization.
Thanos wants to speed up the development of the overall military strength of the Dark Quadrant, but he doesn't know where to start. He was thinking about this problem when he sat on the throne.
Now, he has two options. One is to make himself stronger, to be able to fight against thousands of enemies, to form an army, and to have the strength to conquer the universe by himself, just like the Cosmic Demon. The other way is to develop a military empire, just like Asgard.
For Thanos, the first way is simpler. He is a Titan and has innate advantages. His starting point is much higher than that of individuals in many civilizations and even the Cosmic Demon. However, if an Asgard can really be developed, it will also be very attractive to Thanos.
He once thought that if the major empires in the universe became the sharp blade in his hands, then those endless destruction ambitions would become more and more real.
But the fact is that the Dark Quadrant is far less powerful than these major empires, and at this time, the Thanos Empire, which has been developing rapidly, has entered a bottleneck period. This is a problem that every civilization will encounter.
Thanos is not sure whether he should completely give up this path and focus on his personal improvement.
Just as he was leaning on the throne with his eyes narrowed, thinking, a waiter came in tremblingly, holding a huge communicator in his arms, which was constantly making a "beeping" sound.
Thanos frowned and turned his head, looking at the communicator impatiently, feeling very dissatisfied with the call that interrupted his thinking.
But he still stretched out his big hand and took the communicator. The communicator, which was very huge for the waiter, was just a normal-sized phone for him.
Thanos answered the phone, and a pleasant female voice came from the other end: "Hello, Your Majesty Thanos, I am the eldest princess of Asgard, Loki, we just met..."
"I really didn't know that you are a shy person. The time we just met was too short and there was no way to communicate deeply, so I called you. You can write down my phone number and call me at any time..."
Loki's words were very ambiguous, but obviously, the map in her hand was very short, and soon the dagger under the map was revealed.
"I think we can really talk about the Infinity Stones. I think you should know how powerful it is. At this moment, the Infinity Stones are in the nine kingdoms. As long as Odin and Thor are killed and Asgard's defense is broken, you can... Hello?? Hello!!!"
In the guest room of the Starport Transit Station closest to the Dark Quadrant, Loki knocked hard on the table with the communicator. She gritted her teeth and cursed: "How dare you hang up my phone, country bumpkin with no gentlemanly manners!"
But soon, she restrained her anger and took out the phone to dial again, but found that her call to Thanos was no longer connected.
Loki snorted coldly, showing a mocking smile, and then a flash of light flashed on her hand. After dialing again, she called Thanos again, but the sales pitch was hung up before she finished two sentences.
Loki took a deep breath, not discouraged, and used magic to change her communication channel, and then called Thanos again, and as expected, she was hung up again.
Obviously, the results are not important now, the main thing is to win.
The principle of communication in the universe is similar to that of human phone calls, except that they use another signal. When Loki calls Thanos, it is actually the same as when the Cosmic Demon calls the Sanctuary, both of which are achieved through the energy of the origin of the universe.
And this method also has a part equivalent to a phone number, that is, the uniqueness of the soul. Whether it is the Cosmic Demon or ordinary humans, their souls are unique in the universe, and for creatures that can use the energy of the origin of the universe, the breath of the soul is equivalent to a unique phone number.
Some creatures can change their appearance, some can change their body shape, but most creatures cannot change their souls.
Loki is not among these most creatures.
All priests in Asgard have their special abilities, and the ability of the God of Mischief is to cover up the breath of his soul.
This is why Loki can still come to the Dark Quadrant unimpeded after being blocked by most of the medium civilizations. She can not only change her appearance and voice, but even her soul. If one IP is blocked, can't she just change another one?
And this can also be used to make harassing calls.
Therefore, Loki alone is equivalent to a telecommunications fraud company that can change numbers infinitely. She can switch her number and IP unlimitedly to harass her customers.
After being hung up by Thanos many times, Loki still doesn't intend to give up. She directly uses the clone magic to divide more than a dozen of herself, and then calls Thanos in turn.
Some people may ask, then Thanos doesn't answer the phone, right? But Thanos is not an ordinary person who is idle at home. He is the leader of an empire and has to deal with countless affairs every day.
Loki keeps changing numbers, and Thanos has no way to tell which is his harassing call and which is a normal call. He can't hang up all the calls, so there is no need to develop this Dark Quadrant.
The reason why Thanos rejected Loki so straightforwardly was, of course, due to his wisdom.
Loki had written the words "I am a liar" on her face. The races in the universe that were not as good as Thanos and the civilizations in the dark quadrant had already analyzed the answer very thoroughly. This was purely a scam. How could Thanos step on it?
In the era when Odin was in power, there were few rivals in the universe, and the Asgardians were getting stronger and stronger with age. God knows how strong he is now. In addition, the so-called new king, Thanos, who had no gloves or gems, had to consider whether he would be put in a sack if he went there.
Even if I take a step back, I just can't do what the enemy wants me to do. The more you want me to take the bait, the more you use various gems and artifacts to tempt me, the more I can't waver.
Whether to grab the gems is my own decision, not if you ask me to grab them, I have to grab them, wouldn't that be like working for me?
Thanos thought so, but Loki was so determined that she started not eating, drinking or resting. She created dozens of clones every day, switched phone numbers in turn, and bombarded Thanos with harassing calls.
Thanos had no way to call Loki through the phone line. Even if he had a way, he had to consider the weight of the Asgard princess. If Asgard came out in full force to attack the Dark Quadrant, Thanos might be able to stay out of trouble, but his territory, army and weapons would not be able to escape.
Finally, Thanos compromised.
In the last call from Loki, he said to Loki: "Come to my throne room, we will have a face-to-face meeting."
The palace of the leader star of the Dark Quadrant is located in the center of the entire city. The overall shape is like a spear piercing the sky. At the top of the spear, the extreme light illuminates the entire planet. That is the throne room where Thanos is.
To enter the throne room, one must first cross the long corridor bridge. The sky is always dim, like a dusk with floating shadows. Loki's black hair flutters in the wind, and the sound of her heels stepping on the glass floor echoes over the dusk city.
When Loki appeared, she still raised her head high, and a kind of brilliance emerged from her, making her look like a god descending to the earth.
She saw that in addition to Thanos sitting on the tall throne, there was another skinny figure standing under the throne. He had a gray head and deeply sunken eyes. Seeing Loki's eyes on him, the figure said:
"Hello, Princess, I am Ebony Maw, one of the five obsidian generals under His Majesty Thanos, and also a general and counselor of the empire."
"Today, Your Majesty wants to discuss the future development of the empire with you. Please allow me to listen in and put forward my insignificant little opinions..."
Loki frowned, and the light on her body lit up, and an invisible wave was bounced off and accurately reflected back to Ebony Maw, making him take two steps back and cough twice.
Loki said: "Ebony Maw, are you trying to control my mind?"
Ebony Maw's face became a little ugly. He didn't expect that his signature skill was seen through by Loki.
Ebony Maw does have the ability to control people's hearts, but it is different from Professor X's ability. His ability is not so comprehensive, mainly manifested in language control.
He can use language to seduce people's hearts and make them think according to his ideas. In the comics, he even made Doctor Strange fall for it. It can be said that although he is not as comprehensive as Professor X, he is more specialized.
Loki snorted coldly, thinking of the entries written in the booklet that Schiller gave him before, she said: "Do you want to control and suppress me mentally? Do you still want to use extreme violence against me?"
The halo lit up again, and Thanos was dazzled by her and couldn't open his eyes. Thanos snorted coldly and glanced at Ebony Maw with some dissatisfaction.
When Ebony Maw came to see Thanos, he heard that Thanos wanted to invite Loki, so he took the initiative to ask for it, wanting to give Loki a warning. As a result, this time it was good, not only did it not weaken Loki's momentum, but made her brilliance stronger and stronger.
Thanos guessed that the radiance might be Loki's innate ability. No matter what this ability is, it looks like it's not easy to mess with.
He sat up a little straighter, looked directly at Loki and said, "You have been contacting me for so long, what do you want to say? You don't need to use those tricks, let's talk about the real deal."
Loki wanted to start selling reflexively, but when she heard Thanos' words, she knew that Thanos had other intentions.
At this time, Ebony Maw, who was shaken by the rebounded power ripples, cleared his throat and spoke for Thanos:
"We are not interested in the Infinity Stones, but we are a little interested in Asgard's new plan..."
Loki frowned. Of course, she knew that it was rumored in the interstellar society that her solicitation of aid was actually a conspiracy of Asgard, but she didn't expect that Thanos would be interested in it.
"Your Majesty's empire is flourishing, but we will never stop here. We still need more power. For this reason, I hope to know the specific results and implementation methods of Asgard's tactics, as well as... Asgard's future strategy."
Loki narrowed his eyes and had to admit that Thanos was quite smart. Compared with the illusory Infinity Stones that looked like a trap, the intelligence of Asgard's strategy was indeed more important.
Loki smiled professionally and said:
"Next, please allow me to introduce to you the source of these tactical plans and the professional team that created genius strategies - the Sanctuary of the Nine Kingdoms!"
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