Chapter Fifty-Six: What Seems to Be Nothing Threatening Is Often the Most Deadly
Diana is dead, and all that is left to die is sand.
This was what Beckett learned from Gates early the next morning.
After preparing breakfast, the robot cat with a yellow spotted apron around his waist told Beckett everything that happened outside the base last night, and even played the picture of Diana melting into the sand to Beckett.
The projection loops on top of the restaurant's light screen.
When Astra, yawning, followed the scent, she saw the image of Diana circulating sand on the light screen.
Astra's eyes widened, and the hazy drowsiness vanished in an instant.
Watching Diana circulate in front of her eyes over and over again, watching herself in the picture bend down over and over again to pick up the wine bottle buried in the fine sand, the sadness that blocked Astra's heart last night disappeared without a trace.
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"Good morning, Lord Astra."
The robot cat raised its hand in a friendly manner, raised its head and grinned, smiling and greeting.
"Good morning, kitten." With her messy beard brushed, Astra glanced at the table full of food, turned and bent over, and responded with a smile.
After greeting Gates, Astra sat down, and his eyes fell back to the table and he was about to start, but suddenly found that the dishes on the table were disappearing at a very fast speed!
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Under Astra's ghostly gaze, Beckett was solving the dishes at the table with a slow and methodical attitude and the speed of the storm.
"This ......"
"I'm sorry Lord Astra, Gates didn't make your breakfast, these are His Highness Beckett, if you need to eat, you can take the aircraft to the warship next door to the garrison star, where there is a canteen dedicated to military food."
"Alternatively, you can choose to eat the nutrient solution, but it doesn't taste too good, and Gates recommends that you take the aircraft to the warship station next door."
"............" Astra thought she might have misheard. The big table of dishes in front of him was actually Beckett's alone???
"Are you sure you're not lying to me?" Astra is skeptical.
"Lord Astra, there is no lying option in Gates' program." The little hand scratched the back of his head, and the robot cat in the yellow spotted apron grinned and retrieved the empty plate on the table and placed it on the dining car in front of him.
"Actually, that's not all, Gates has thirty-seven dishes in his kitchen, okay, I won't tell you, Gates is going to serve the dishes."
Waving goodbye to the stunned Astra, the robot cat Gates pushed the dining cart with a pair of small short legs, and ran to the kitchen with a grunt.
Thirty minutes later............
Astra, who hadn't fished a mouthful of soup, viciously bit the bar, which had congealed into a solid, green bar that matched the green helmet on top of his head.
He doesn't understand, where did Beckett get such a big stomach??
Aren't you afraid to die?
This is the saying that the bold are supported and the cowardly are starved?
Or is it that the Titans are so edible?
The most important thing is that there are so many dishes, can't you share a mouthful of soup with him?!
The more he ate the nutrition bar that chewed the wax, the more angry he became, but because he had a powerful body but no ability to rob Beckett's food, Astra could only accept his fate.
"Your Highness Beckett, Lord Thanos asked you to come over." After eating, Gates informed Beckett of the message Thanos sent to him.
"Got it."
Wiping his lips, Beckett glanced at Astra, who was still munching on the bar, and got up to leave.
"Father?"
Beckett, who had left his palace, came to the main hall of the base with ease, and after saluting respectfully, he found that before him, there were two other people who were not in the dark quadrant all year round.
The second of the four generals of Obsidian, the general of the Dead Blade and the star Proxima Centauri in the night.
"This time, your mission is the Skru Empire, to be precise, the four Skru Empire's Baltans, Gezla, Augustus, and Magma."
Beckett's arrival did not make Thanos, who was on the throne, suspend his account of General Deathblade and Proxima Centauri in the Night.
"Magma has been killed by Beckett, so your next target is Baltan, Gothra, and Augustus."
"But, Lord Sanos, didn't you say yesterday that we should attack the Kree Empire?"
Looking at the virtual portrait in front of him, Proxima Centauri asked puzzled.
Hearing this, Thanos didn't speak, but just tapped his index finger on the armrest of the throne, but the attitude in his eyes made Dark Night better than Scattered in his heart, and saluted: "I understand." ”
"Your army is responsible for dragging the army in the hands of these three people into the battlefield, and the rest, Beckett will take care of it."
Decapitation operations, which is what Beckett does best. And once Beckett completes the decapitation plan, Thanos will also complete the deal with Astra, and the coordinates of the mysterious power will be in hand.
"Father, why did you agree to this deal? Wouldn't it be nice to just let him say the coordinates you want? ”
After Proxima Centauri and the Deathblade General were ordered to leave, Becket asked the doubts that had been holding back in his mind for a long time.
Astra's strength is really weak and pitiful, and Beckett can swear that if Thanos hands Astra to him, then he has a hundred ways to make Astra live or die in the dark quadrant and honestly account for everything.
But Thanos didn't, and instead insisted on completing the deal with Astra.
"You think Astra is weak and no threat to us at all, right?"
Looking at the most satisfying son in front of him, Thanos smiled and stood up from the throne.
"You're wrong."
"You think he doesn't have the capital to be your enemy, but that's exactly the trap he set for you. Remember what I told you, never let pride blind you. ”
The particularity of the Eternal Titans allows Thanos to sense the special power in Astra's body very clearly, which is completely on the spiritual level.
Moreover, the being who gave Astra this power seemed to be looking for something through him. Once the force is used, it will inevitably alarm the existence behind Astra, which is not the result that Thanos wants. At least, it's not the result that Thanos wants now.
"What seems to be no threat is often the deadliest."
"I've seen a grain of sand summon an endless number of companions to fill the sea of stars because it's lonely, and I've seen a grass slash a falling meteorite out of anger."
"So Beckett, I want you to remember that."
"This universe is big and has a lot of magical powers. You have to learn to use the power within yourself to perceive everything in this universe. ”
"That's what you're going to do next, you know?"