Not being afraid of death doesn't mean that you want to die, especially someone like the Ancient One who has a mission.

Washington, S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.

"S.H.I.E.L.D. is very well built, it is nothing from above, but down it is an underground structure with a depth of 800 meters and a diameter of 5 kilometers. Arsenals, laboratories, arsenals, hidden runways, nuclear silos, you name it, we have it all. In addition, in the underground bunkers, we have factories large and small, up to the space shuttle, down to the buttons on clothes, we are all self-sufficient. ”

Sitting on the electric car, Wang Xu took the ancient mage and Hermione to visit the internal area of S.H.I.E.L.D.

When she saw that there was a subway at a depth of 200 meters underground, Hermione couldn't help but speak: "Is this the S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters?" Looks like a complete battle fortress! ”

"It can also be said that there are more than 2,200 civilian personnel and scientists stationed at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters for a long time, 800 special operations teams, 1,000 mutant special operations teams, plus some maintenance personnel and mechanical engineers, it is conservatively estimated that there are more than 6,000 people."

Wang Xu drove an electric car and walked past the gate that said District 1, and he could hear the sound of engineering work inside from a long distance.

Sensing the gaze of the Ancient One Mage, Wang Xu swept the gate of Area 1 and explained: "Area 1 used to be the most important place for S.H.I.E.L.D., and the former Director Fury built a flying aircraft carrier here, but since I took office, the aircraft carrier program has been canceled, because I can't think of any use for these big, stupid live targets for me. ”

Wang Xu's words were so pointed, and he did not tell the ancient one mage that the current No. 1 area was changed into a robot factory, which was specially used to produce combat robots.

The Ancient One mage didn't care about this either, and after a few casual glances, he withdrew his gaze and said, "I heard that Odin's Cosmic Cube is also in your hands?" ”

"Rumors, there are too many rumors like this." Wang Xu didn't admit that there are some things that can be done but can't be said, and it's not fun to say them.

He was also wondering why the Ancient One Mage suddenly cared about the Cosmic Rubik's Cube, knowing that the Cosmic Cube was put on the earth by Odin thousands of years ago, and if the Ancient One Mage wanted to get it, he would have obtained it hundreds of years ago.

"Odin has entered Odin's Sleep and needs to regain his divine power through deep sleep. But I sensed that Odin's power was weakening, and he used to be like the sun in the sky, always shining brightly. And this time, I sensed the weakness behind the light, and carefully calculated, Odin has ruled the Nine Great Divine Domains for almost five thousand years, and the life span of Asgardians is thirty times that of ordinary people, judging from Odin's sleep this time, his time is estimated to be short. ”

The Ancient One mage closed his eyes, lay on the back seat and whispered, "In the final stage, Odin will definitely regain all his strength, I hope you don't do anything stupid." Of course, Odin has his own mission and will not leave Asgard easily, and it may be his heirs who ask you for the Rubik's Cube. If I were you and I had the Cosmic Cube in my hand, I wouldn't be able to wait to hand it over, it wouldn't be easy to take. ”

Wang Xu didn't speak, just savoring the words of the ancient one.

Odin's situation is not good, he is not the Odin of the Norse mythological system after all, and he does not have an eternal and endless life.

According to the timeline, before the end of Avengers 2 and the start of Avengers 3, Odin will enter the eternal silence and pass the throne to Thor, who will start the plot of Thor 3 Ragnarok.

Calculating the time, Odin's return period is probably 2016-2017, and now it is 2012, and there is really not much time left for Odin.

"No wonder in the Avengers, Odin will send Thor to retrieve the Cosmic Rubik's Cube, not only to prevent Thanos' men from snatching the Rubik's Cube, but also to prepare for his own retreat! Others don't know, but I know very well that Odin has easily not left the Divine Domain all these years, not only to sit in Asgard, but also to seal Hela, the goddess of death. ”

Hela, the goddess of death, Odin's first child, and the sister of Thordo, the god of thunder.

This is an ambitious and powerful being.

In the movie, Hela once proudly said that seventy percent of Asgard's sphere of influence was brought down by her.

At that time, Thor had not yet been born, Odin was not the king of the gods, and the Asgardians were only part of the Nine Divine Domains.

Odin held aloft the Eternal Spear, Hela rode the Wolf of Fenrir, and the two commanded the Asgardian army and launched an expedition against the Nine Divine Domains, establishing the supreme supremacy of Asgard.

Later, as time went on, Hela grew stronger and stronger, even surpassing Odin's.

With strength comes ambition, and Odin thinks that the Asgardians can only rule the nine gods at most, and no more will be beyond their reach.

Hela believes that Asgard should take advantage of the victory to pursue, open outward, and if necessary, arm the Nine Great Divine Domains, let the people of the other Divine Domains act as the vanguard, and let the glory of Asgard envelop the universe.

Odin rejects this decision, and an enraged Hela decides to take the risk and force Odin to abdicate and become king of Asgard herself.

It turns out that Jiang is still old and spicy, and although Hela's strength is stronger than Odin's, she is not a god king after all, and there are few people who support her rebellion.

Eventually, Hela's legion was defeated, and he was captured and sealed by Odin in Niforheim, the land of the dead.

From now on, only when Odin dies will she break free from the seal and return to the world.

Similarly, because Odin wants to maintain the seal, he will not leave Asgard easily, and he will avoid using his power as much as possible, so as not to weaken the power of the seal.

This is the reason why in the Thor 1 plot, Thor questioned Odin, saying that he had become weak and unworthy to be king again.

But Thor didn't know that Odin was not weak, and he didn't wage war against the Frost Giants because he didn't dare to use his divine powers and couldn't leave Asgard for a long time.

After all, compared to the Frost Giant, Hela is Odin's henchman.

When Odin was in the prime of life, he couldn't beat Hela one-on-one, and now that he is entering his old age, his strength will be even worse.

"It's strange, the ancient one suddenly talked about the Cosmic Cube and Odin's Sleep, these words are just casual words, or do they portend something?" Wang Xu came back to his senses and subconsciously glanced at the ancient one.

The Ancient One is a guardian of time, able to see what the future may happen with the blessing of the Time Gem.

In the film, she realizes her death before being killed by Casillas, and tells Strange that even if she is her, she is not indispensable to the world.

Although this kind of foresight of the future is not immutable, and the future seen is only one of the more likely among countless futures, it is still impossible to deny the practicality of foreseeing the future.

If the Ancient One Master really saw something in the future and was deliberately mentioning himself, then what was the scope of the point.

Odin's Sleep, the weakening of power, Thanos's advance team, the comeback of the dark elves, Hela's escape from the seal, and Thanos's personal appearance, as if these are the things related to Odin.

Wrong!

A bright light flashed in Wang Xu's mind, wrong, it was not these events related to Odin, but the Infinity Stones, the trigger point of the event.

Before Odin entered the period of decline, he united with the Ancient One mage and formed an iron triangle with Thanos, forming an equilibrium point that was not a balance point.

The three were afraid of each other, forming a balance, so that Thanos did not act rashly.

Now that Odin's power is declining, the Ancient One Mage is seriously injured, and the two top powerhouses who can protect the Earth are at their weakest.

That's why Thanos' expeditionary force descended on Earth to seize the Space Gem Cosmic Rubik's Cube, and the returning Night Elves raided Asgard to retrieve the Night Elves' ultimate treasure reality gem.

Coupled with the Mind Gem on Loki's Scepter and the Time Gem of the Ancient One Mage, three of the six Infinity Stones are related to Odin, and one is indirectly related to Odin.

Wang Xu linked all the clues together, and suddenly found that the time was ripe for Thanos to make a move.