Chapter 1382 The Call of the Stars (VIII)

In front of the round Zen window, Stark and Strange both frowned as they looked at the black notebook on the table. Stark pinched it with his index finger and thumb, and frowned as he put his chin against it and said, "So, how many companions did the owner of this notebook find during his adventure?"

"Yes, he called them 'Witch, Hercules, Robot, Warrior and Small Animal', which sounds a bit like the names of playing cards."

"Each has its own characteristics." Stark commented, and then he added, "The comprehensive abilities seem to be deliberately arranged."

"There is no doubt that the team members with unique skills provide greater security for the survival of this team, but next, they will face greater challenges."

Strange smiled, and after he finished speaking, he gently snapped his fingers, and the opened black notebook floated up and hovered on the right side of the coffee table, and a map was spread out on the coffee table.

Strange opened his five fingers, and five light spots flew to the pages of the black notebook, and then five vivid origami figures jumped out from between the pages.

The first one wore a long black robe, a pointed wizard hat, and a brilliant light came out from the top of the staff in his hand.

The second one was burly and strong, holding a shield in his hand. When he landed on the table, it made a loud sound and raised a cloud of dust.

The third one's body was made up of several blocks, connected by wires in the middle, with sizzling tracks under his body and antennas on his head swinging left and right.

The fourth one was agile, wearing an oriental-style kung fu robe, with the Chinese character "武" written on his back, and he landed with a beautiful roundhouse kick.

The fifth one was a slender weasel with a big furry tail, and it flexibly shuttled around the feet of the other members.

The last stickman with a travel bag landed in the center of the map.

Stark glanced at the little paper figures and read out their names in order: "Witch, Hercules, Robot, Warrior, Little Animal and the owner of the notebook, let's call him the 'protagonist'."

Strange nodded, and his fingers gently pressed on the table. The magic light shot out from his fingertips like an electric current, and like leaf veins, it connected to the feet of each paper figure.

When the magic light enveloped the bodies of all the paper figures, they seemed to be given life and moved vividly. They looked at their bodies in surprise and turned to look at their companions.

Strange lifted the other end of the magic light, opened and closed his fingers, and threw it into the black notebook.

When the notebook and several paper figures were connected by magic energy, they regained their consciousness from their ignorance, glanced at each other, then clenched their weapons and looked at the unknown journey ahead of the map.

Stark and Strange both leaned forward, put their heads close to the map, and stared at the movements of the little paper people. The little paper people on the map seemed to be unaware of the two people observing them in mid-air, and started to discuss.

"I think you are completely overthinking. It seems that the light spot in front is what we want to investigate. We only need to take two more steps to get a result that is almost acceptable. I have already returned in the time of entanglement."

Wanda hugged her arms, and there seemed to be some anger accumulated between her eyebrows. The part of the witch's character inherited from her father was fully displayed at this moment. Rather than acting cautiously, she still prefers to cut the Gordian knot.

"I know, Wanda, I know you're strong, but my spider sense has never been wrong. The things ahead must be very dangerous, even dangerous that we may not be able to deal with."

Riley frowned more deeply than Wanda, he stepped forward and said in a somewhat tough manner: "I dragged you to do the mission, so I must be responsible for your safety. I can't accept anyone getting hurt here, even a little bit."

"But we've come here." Wanda paced in confusion, she said: "As long as we take a few more steps forward, the mission will be completed. You overestimated its difficulty. We shouldn't No more wasting time."

"Okay, okay, Wanda." Riley stretched out his hands to comfort Wanda. He said, "I called you here to complete my mission, but now I plan to give up this mission and points, so we can leave now. There is no need to stay here."

"You are wasting our time!"

"I am not a prophet. I can't predict the situation here. I am considering your safety!"

As the quarrel between the two became more and more intense, others had to join the battle. Xu Shangqi stood on Riley's side because he really felt uncomfortable.

Not only physiologically, his rich associative ability made him see the darkness around him too complicated. He knew that he was scaring himself, but he couldn't help feeling fear, just like when he got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, he would see everything in the house as human-like.

Jarvis stood on Wanda's side, not entirely because of their personal feelings. He was the one in the best condition here, especially in his mental state. He had just acquired the emotional module not long ago, and he actually couldn't understand what other people were panicking about. He didn't have similar feelings at all.

Both sides insisted on their own opinions, and finally all eyes fell on Star-Lord and Rocket Raccoon on his shoulders. Quill sighed, looked at Wanda, then at Riley, and said:

"To be honest, it doesn't matter to me whether I can come up with an investigation report and hand it in, but I think we have to find out what happened here."

"Without a detailed report, do you think SHIELD or NASA will give up sending people here? And without your strong strength, how many investigating agents or scientists can walk out of here alive?"

Quill's words happened to hit Riley, and his expression began to become a little shaken, because he knew that what Quill said made sense. If they returned empty-handed, those who coveted the treasure would not stop their investigation.

Even if the superpowers present repeatedly emphasized to them how dangerous this place was, there would still be forces that would continuously send people here to die, which was something no Spider-Man wanted to see.

Seeing Riley waver, Wanda also slowed down her tone. She said, "We are not going to rush over all at once. We can use magic or mechanical detection to test it first. If there is danger, we will ask for support on the spot."

"If the danger is so great that we can't solve it, then there will naturally be people who can solve it." Jarvis also chimed in, "Whether ordinary people or mutants, no one wants to see any uncontrollable dangers on Earth. We are not fighting alone."

Riley sighed deeply, and the rhythm of his spider-sensing bell did not slow down, but he could only compromise and lowered his head and said, "Okay, but we have to conduct at least two rounds of inspections before moving forward."

Quill stepped forward and patted Riley on the shoulder, and took out a set of equipment from his travel bag, which were a small flying saucer that could float and a monitoring screen.

Quill snapped his fingers and said, "This is a military product discarded by the Skrol Empire. Yondu bought it from the black market. Even if it is bathed in the energy of a stellar explosion, it can last for a short while, enough to transmit the data back."

After that, he remotely controlled the small flying saucer to fly to the place where the light ball was. Everyone came forward to look at the picture on the monitoring screen. The screen was dark and there was nothing. After flying for a while, the small flying saucer approached the light ball and could no longer move forward.

"It looks like this is just a lamp?" Quill said in confusion: "In addition to the light, no strange energy was detected. There is nothing behind it. It's just an ordinary passage. Maybe we are a little too surprised."

Seeing this, Wanda stepped forward, took a few deep breaths, and tried to concentrate. The red energy like a ribbon spread forward, and the faint red light illuminated the passage, but still did not find the monster they imagined in the passage.

After approaching the light, the red power ribbon was wrapped around it, but it did not cause any strange reaction. The light spot just floated there like a large light bulb.

"Hey, I thought it would make a big noise." Rocket Raccoon stretched out his paw and touched his nose, and said: "This may be a light bulb used by aliens for lighting. We are too imaginative and think there is a monster behind it."

"The passage behind it looks very long. There may be some rooms behind it. I think we have to hurry up."

No monster rushed out of the darkness, which made everyone relieved. Riley shrugged and said: "Okay, I am nervous and fussing. Let's go."

"Is your charlatan induction okay?" Rocket Raccoon asked.

"That's not a charlatan." Riley frowned, as if he didn't know how to explain it, but he was used to this feeling. Most people don't trust things like induction and think it may be an illusion caused by mental tension.

To be honest, even Riley himself was not so sure that the spider sense was correct, or that the genuine spider sense might be correct, but he was a clone after all, and it was hard to say whether the program would go wrong.

After verifying that there was no danger ahead, Riley tried to block the buzzing in his mind and followed the team forward.

As the narrow passage gradually became smaller in the field of vision, the two huge heads disappeared into the darkness. Strange retracted his gaze, looked at Stark, and said, "They made a stupid decision."

Stark said thoughtfully, "Have you heard of a fish called '𩽾𩾌' in the deep sea?"

"Of course."

"People always say that the light bulb on the head of the 𩽾𩾌 fish is not a very clever trap, and those who are fooled are also some stupid fish."

"But from another perspective, the human vision of land creatures must be more evolved than that of fish in the deep sea, so from our perspective, we can't understand why some fish can only see the light bulb but not the terrifying giant mouth behind it."

Stark's eyes flickered, and he said in a low tone: "Maybe sometimes, humans are also a group of stupid fish, and some aspects of us have not evolved to be able to see the trap behind the light bulb."

Then, the two of them turned their eyes to the little man on the map, and at this time, the Scarlet Witch who was walking in the front had approached the glowing light bulb.

"No, wait! Wanda, don't go over there!!!"

Suddenly, a roar sounded in the passage, Riley covered his head and shook his head like crazy, the violent alarm sound of the spider sense could no longer be ignored in any way, but it was too late.

The whole passage shook violently, and the bright light swallowed up all the darkness, but the light did not come, only endless falling.

The originally bright ball of light suddenly turned into a tiny dark hole, and the storm of power was like a deep-sea vortex, spinning all the dregs into the lightless abyss.

The pattern formed by the turbine and the small black hole in the middle formed a pupil-like pattern. The gray eyes blinked, and Schiller, who was sitting in front of the desk, rubbed his tense wrist.

At this time, another small figure jumped onto the desk. Spider-Ham sat at the desk and looked at Schiller and said: What is so special about the universe that the portal of the spider totem you asked me to open leads to? "

"Special? Nothing special." Schiller shook his head and smiled, and then added: "...It's just very dangerous."

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