8. Retention...
"You have to calm down and let go of all the doubts and worries in your heart... Empty yourself, understand?"
In the magnificent plaza of the Star of Igo, where the sun shines warmly on the ground, beneath a sculpture of a woman holding a basket of flowers, planetary life Igo and his son sit face to face on the ground, and Igo is teaching Quill how to awaken the power in his body.
"Listen to me, kid!"
Igo's figure was illusory at this moment, and when he reappeared, he was already standing behind Quill, and he bent down and pressed Quill's shoulder, and whispered in his ear:
"This planet under your feet, that is, me, my power is the source of your power, to feel it, to merge your spirit with it, theoretically, you can feel its presence in every corner of the universe, but here, you can feel it more easily, right under your feet..."
Igo's voice became softer:
"It's going to be a long process to see, to feel it, to feel every beat of its power, to sketch out your own wisdom brain, but that's okay, we have plenty of time... When you're done, I'll find you a suitable planet and finish the first seeding, and when you're growing..."
A hint of longing flashed in Igo's eyes, and his voice became softer:
"When you're older, we'll be able to pick up your mom... Come on, for your mother!"
"Wow"
A milky arc of electricity pulsed across Quill's arm, then the next, and soon, his arms seemed to be wrapped around the milky white light, and this scene made Igo's eyes jump with satisfaction.
He turned his head and looked at the sculpture of the woman beside him, his eyes were flowing with tenderness, but under the gentleness, there was a touch of haughty coldness:
"Thank you, my love, for the best legacy you have left me... I'll make good use of him..."
Igo silently disappeared in place, and when he reappeared, he was already standing inside his golden temple, he was sitting on the throne, his eyes closed, and the tentacles like animal tentacles Mantees walked out of the inner sanctum quickly, and skillfully placed his hands on Igo's forehead.
As a planetary creature, the concept of sleep does not exist, but since Igo wants to maintain the stability of the shell of the planet that protects his brain of wisdom, every once in a while, his consciousness must return to the brain of wisdom for the necessary "rest".
But he himself is unable to sleep, he must rely on outside help, which is why Mantis will appear next to him, Mantis race has perished, only she is left as a young body, and this race is proficient in mind control, relying on Mantis ability, Igo can really sleep.
And this time, before he fell asleep, he whispered:
"Go get rid of those things in the abyss... Before my son finds out about them!"
There was an irrepressible fear on Mantis's beautiful face, but she still bit her lip and nodded, watching the god-like Igo fall into the deepest slumber, Mantis quickly left the temple, she looked at Quill meditating in the square, she seemed to want to tell him something, but in the end, she turned her head and entered the abyss within the shell of the planet through a secret passage that was difficult to find.
Every time he came here, it was an unbearable torture for Mantis, who was still just a larvae.
For more than 100 years, every time Igo confirmed that one of his children did not have the blood of the gods, he would not hesitate to abandon him, and Mantis would send those children into the abyss, leaving them to fend for themselves.
And before Mantis arrived, there were already too many corpses piled up here, and Yongdu was not the first interstellar pirate to be hired by Iago, and likewise, he would not be the last.
Mantis walked step by step into the abyss along the dark passage, she covered her eyes in horror, as if she didn't want to let herself see the terrifying picture in front of her, to be honest, this larva who has followed Igo for more than 100 years is actually very simple sometimes.
And in front of Mantis's eyes, it was enough to make any hard-hearted person feel a terrifying scene from the bottom of his bones.
Skeleton... All kinds of skeletons, humanoids, humanoids, non-humanoids, almost all the creatures in this universe, judging from their twisted shapes, these beings suffered the most terrible pain before they died, and their bones were piled together like a mountain.
And the roots of those plants that spread down from the bottom shell pierce into the skeletons and suck out their last nutrients, yes... Igo's heaven is held up by a desperate hell, and I don't know if Quill would vomit out disgusting if he knew the truth, and his favorite fruits these days are all made from fruit trees that draw the bones of dead people.
That's why the larvae Mantis never eats food from this planet... She was afraid that when she dreamed, she would be dragged into the most terrible hell, but she couldn't escape, as a larva, her strength was too weak, and Igo only needed a trace of thought to kill her.
"Don't blame me... Poor children. ”
Mantis blindfolded himself with a strip of black cloth, and while manipulating the earth elemental monster derived from the rock, completely smashing the corpses into powder, he whispered to the bones:
"I was also forced... I want to save you too, I'm sorry... I'm sorry!"
Her voice was tinged with crying, obviously, this job was also torture for her, smelling those rotten smells, she couldn't help but take a few steps back, but just as she stood firm, a cold arrow against her neck, a low voice emerging from the darkness, also at the same moment, sounded behind her:
"Don't move, sweet little girl!"
Two hours later, Quill's 7th meditation was over, he opened his eyes, looked at the milky white light jumping in his hands, he felt very interesting, he stood up, learned the appearance of Cyber in his memory, raised his left hand, the milky white light, according to his will, in his hand beating rapidly, forming a wasteland-style throwing gun, Quill panted back a few steps, ran forward, the moment he stopped, he threw the throwing gun in his hand.
"Whoosh"
The milky white light pierced through the air like a sharp arrow flying out of the bowstring, piercing the center of the rock carving 500 meters away, destroying the delicate stone carving, exploding, and shattering the stone, much more powerful than the elemental gun he used to use.
"Wow!Cool!"
Quill waved his fist excitedly, he finally had his own "Flaming Dragon Lance", every time he watched Cyber use it, he would feel very handsome, and now he was like a child who had been given a new toy, looking over and over at the light in his hand.
"Master Quill?"
A soft voice interrupted Quill's rambling thoughts, and he turned back to see a very well-behaved Mantis with his hands folded on his abdomen, who was pale and seemed to be unwell.
The gentleman's Quill asked softly:
"Mantis, you should go and rest... Are you sick?"
The larva Mantis showed trademark hesitation on her face, she bit her lip and her fingers jumped back and forth, obviously, she was still afraid of the consequences of going against Igo's will, but at the same time, the past few days with Quill also made Mantis feel the kindness in the heart of this prodigal son who was always talking, he was more peaceful than anyone before, he treated her true friend, not Igo's pet and servant.
The metal blow arrow behind her felt Mantis's resistance, and under the manipulation of some will, it pierced forward a little, feeling the cold touch from the skin behind her, the larva gritted her teeth violently, and whispered:
"Please come with me, there are some things I have to show you!"
A moment later, Mantis's figure reappeared in the rift of the abyss, and behind him, Quill bit down on the apple he had picked and asked in surprise as he ate it:
"I thought Igo had built his planet full of palaces, but I didn't expect there to be... This TM's... It's..."
The moment Quill walked out of the stairs, he saw the horrible pile of bones, and he didn't need to explain much, he noticed the roots of the trees that pierced the bones, he subconsciously looked at the apple in his hand, and the next moment, he threw the apple that he asked for several bites on the ground, as if he had thrown away a poisonous snake.
"Gross!"
Thinking of the fact that he had been eating this kind of thing for the past few days, Quill rushed to the corner next to him and began to vomit, almost throwing up everything in his stomach, and when he got up, a hand reached in front of his eyes and handed him a tissue.
Quill didn't think much of it, took the tissue and wiped his mouth:
"Thank you..."
Before he could finish speaking, he froze in place, holding a tissue in his hand, and slowly turned his head, and saw Yongdu sitting on a rock, smoking a cigar, Sim standing with his arms crossed, Gamora hiding in the dark, and finally Groot, a treeman half-kneeling on the ground, touching the bones with a sad face, and the rocket raccoon sitting on his shoulder.
The tissue just now was handed to him by Yongdu.
"You... You guys..."
Quill didn't know what to say for a while, he subconsciously looked back at the skeletons behind him, he stared at Mantis, his face shining with anger:
"What the hell is going on!
Mantis was so frightened by the enraged Quill that he retreated again and again, unable to speak, and even cried directly, until he was held in Gamora's arms, the timid larva hid in Gamora's arms and trembled, while Gamora, the most dangerous woman in the universe, looked at Quill with disdain:
"Only a fool like you would be deceived by a hypocrite like Iago... Overlord let us take you back, and this is the end of your cosmic adventure!"
Yongdu stepped forward with an indifferent face, he squatted next to the pile of bones, he picked up a worm skeleton casually, turned around and shook it at Quell:
"This guy... I remember very well that it was the "Son of God" who was sent before you, and I personally sent him to this planet..."
Yongdu's blue skin and expression became a little sad, he threw the bones on the mountain of bones, and he looked at Quill:
"I've done a lot in my life, and I don't think I'm a good person, Quill, but my brothers and I are really saving you!"
"But you taught me to steal!"
Quill couldn't accept everything in front of him for a while, he thought that the bad seed was saving him, but the father he had just accepted was a monster.
"If we are killed by Iago, you will have to learn to live alone. ”
Yongdu snorted: "Who do you think the ultra-small flying machine in that spaceship is for?" Tell me, Quill, an 8-year-old child, to survive in the universe, except for praying to meet good Samaritans, except for stealing things, how can he live?"
"But you threatened me and said... If I don't do a good job, I'll eat me!"
Quill retorted, and at the mention of this stubble, Yongdu laughed:
"It's just for fun... I'm not a barbarian, have you ever seen me eat people?"
"So you've been lying to me!"
Quill held his head and screamed, "You know Igo is a monster, why didn't you tell me!"
Yongdu hesitated for a moment and did not answer, while the rocket raccoon flapped its bat wings and levitated in the air, and said loudly:
"Guys, it's time to go! Igo will wake up at any moment!"
Yongdu shrugged, stepped forward, and patted Quill on the shoulder:
"Let's go, kid, it's time to go home. ”
"What about her?"
Gamora looked at Mantis hiding in her arms, and she turned to look at Yondu, who looked at Mantis with horror in his eyes, and he breathed a sigh of relief:
"Take her, she can force Igo to sleep, and if things don't go well, we need her to save her life!"
Ten minutes later, Yongdu's spaceship soared into the sky of Igo, and in the driver's seat, Yongdu turned his head to look at the silent Quill beside him, and he whispered:
"What's the matter? You look like you've been wheeled by a dozen picklemen. ”
"Nothing. ”
Quill shook his head, he glanced back at Igo Star who was getting farther and farther away, and he whispered, "I just, I just think I'm a little too stupid, I would... Fast acceleration !!"
Quill's voice became sharp and frightened at this moment, and Yongdu glanced back, and behind him, the surface of the planet began to bulge wildly, and in an instant it turned into a planet-sized face, which was Igo's face.
The low voice sounded in this silent universe, almost deafening, and what was even worse was that more than a dozen milky white bands of light full of destruction swayed wildly between the star fields, like poisonous snakes rushing towards their spaceship, and the planets along the way were easily penetrated, destroyed, just like the end of the universe.
"Oh, my dear child Quill... Where are you going? Are you going to leave your poor father behind?"
"Good... Come back, I can act as if nothing happened..."