19. Kindled hope
Until leaving the collector's shop, Cyber's mood was in a tossing and turning, it stands to reason that this time all the problems have been solved very specifically, and the next thing to do is to solve them, but many things in this world are not solved only by getting methods, and to do big things, strength and luck are indispensable.
"17 hours to go!"
Sitting in the command chair of the Centurion's ship, Cyber waved his hand to the waiting crowd behind him: "Go and prepare enough supplies, fuel, and then go rest, and when Quill returns, we should go." ”
"Yes!"
Everyone behind him leaned over in unison, and then quietly left, leaving Cyber here alone, he needed to think, in the face of the difficult choice now, he must sort out a plan that is at least theoretically feasible for himself.
Cyber was playing with two rings that shone with different colors of light, the red one had a ring and a double-horned symbol on the surface, which looked like an abstract bull's horn, and the yellow ring had interlaced lines on the surface, at first glance it looked like the ring was divided into three fans, according to the collector's technique, he only needed to bring it, and he could go to the location of their legion once with the corresponding psychic power.
But Cyber doesn't plan to do this at the moment, firstly, because of the cosmic spirit ball, he doesn't have that leisure time, and secondly, he can feel that a single lamp ring doesn't seem to be strong for the improvement of his strength, at least not as strong as he imagined, at most it is the icing on the cake.
And the Black Lantern Ring, the most powerful light ring, is also the most mysterious, and before it can be called, even the collector has no way to give a specific location, so he can only wait for the opportunity.
"Click"
Cyber stretched out his hand to open the communicator on the console in front of him, entered a complex and long communication frequency band, and after waiting for more than ten seconds, Yongdu's voice sounded in the communication:
"Mr. Cyber, are you here to inquire about progress?"
"Yes"
Cyber hummed briefly, and on the other side, at a distance that was so far away from Cyber that it had even spanned more than half a galaxy, Yongdu sat on his already tattered ship, playing with an irregular white crystal in his hand, and replied:
"Progress is... The first fragment hidden deep in the tomb of an emperor has arrived, and we have made a mess of the capital of the Arcturus galaxy in order to get it, but things are generally going well, and we are currently on our way to the Perseus system, and if we are lucky, we should be able to find the second piece there... But to be honest, I suddenly found that the two of them had a bit of a hard time moving..."
"How many people do you need?"
Cyber asked calmly, and on the other side, Yongdu thought for a moment and replied:
"Another 10-20 people, enough supplies, enough light and heavy weapons, otherwise we will have to run in all directions in the event of a big pursuit, which is a waste of time. ”
"Good!"
Cyber agreed: "You determine a coordinate, I'll let them go directly to you, do you want to be very capable of fighting, or more clever?"
"Let them find us in the starport of the capital planet of the Perseus Galaxy, and enter the wormhole immediately by ship, and we will contact us next time, by the way..."
A smile appeared on the corner of Yongdu's mouth:
"Don't forget to get paid, Mr. Cyber. ”
"When you get back, you'll get enough stars to buy a planet... That mountain of stuff means nothing to me, I just need shards!"
Cyber coughed lightly:
"I await good news from you. ”
"Ding"
The communication hung up, Cyber raised his head, looked at the dying sun overhead, watched it still struggle to release its last heat, even at the end of the self-declaration, it was still unwilling to extinguish, this is more or less nostalgic, and in the universe, there are too many such scenes, such magnificent landscapes.
"If you have wisdom, too... Are you going to curse that bastard waiting to pick up your body?"
Cyber smiled silently, and he turned away from the bridge and into his lounge, waiting for a new day.
"Bang"
Fourteen hours later, a miserable, black smoke smear, its tail pierced by a missile, and what looked like it was about to fall in the next moment jumped out of space and landed in the starport of the black market, and a few minutes later, Quill rushed into Cyber's ship with the dying Gamora.
"I picked her up outside the battlefield where the Kree and the Nova Legion were facing off!"
Quill took the water handed over by Groot, gulped down, and pointed to Gamora, who was dying in the treatment chamber next to him, and said, "Ronan attacked her, snatched the spirit orb, and threw her in the asteroid belt to die, Ronan seems to know what's inside... Hell, just as I was leaving that narrow starfield, he attacked with the Kree!"
Star-Lord described the scene, his body still trembling a little, and he waved his hands in front of Cyber's eyes, talking about what he had seen and heard:
"It was purple, a purple storm, no, no, it was more like a flipped flame, crazier than the biggest star I've ever seen, in short, that thing swept through the center of the Nova Legion's interstellar defense, and a dozen combat starships were engulfed, as if they had been eaten by an interstellar monster, and then the black-painted Cree battleship rushed into the Nova Legion's position like a locust under the leadership of Ronan's "Dark Star"... They're losing ground and they're retreating!"
"Hey, calm down, man!"
Rocket Raccoon, who was sitting on Groot's shoulder, skillfully disassembled his energy gun and wiped the firearm, looked at Quill, and asked curiously:
"Didn't the Kree Empire just sign a peace agreement with the Nova Legion, isn't Ronan afraid that his country will punish him?"
"Ronan is a madman!"
Sitting aside, he took off his helmet and listened silently as things unfolded, Drax the Destroyer whispered:
"I've heard in Chien prison that when he destroyed my planet, he didn't have the permission of the Kree Empire at all, and it was only because of his high position among the Kree people, coupled with his ability to bring honor and victory to that barbarous country, that they acquiesced in what he did... It's certainly the same!"
He wielded his fist with a steel glove, no longer yelling at Ronan for revenge as before, but the green flames in his eyes represented his uncalm mood.
"Click"
The door to the treatment room was pushed open, and Cyber in his pajamas walked in, and he saw Gamora in the treatment chamber at a glance, and then turned his head to look at Quill, who immediately sat up straight and said loudly:
"The orb was snatched by Ronan!"
"Ronan, the warlord of the Kree?"
Cyber frowned, turned to the old pirate behind him, and said:
"Set sail, let's go find him!"
Overlord, tens of thousands of warships of the Cree and Nova Legions are fighting each other, right in the rift galaxy where they are confronting, that galaxy has now become a battlefield, and no one wants to go there!"
Quill hurriedly advised, "We may be able to wait until the war eases a bit." ”
"Wait?"
Cyber shook his head:
"I've waited long enough... Set sail now!"
His eyes fell on the pirates behind him, these guys whose bodies were infused with demonic souls did not dare to resist under the pressure of Cyber, and quickly ran into the cab, and a moment later, Cyber sat in the command chair, his eyes closed, as if he was recuperating.
The sharp, beating scythe was held in his arms, and there was a certain rhythm beating inside the hideous weapon, and in the light click of Cyber's fingers, it was like a song of thunder and lightning, and in a short time, his hands were wrapped in the beating arc.
"Buzz"
The black shattered empty ship slowly opened in front of the Centurion starship, and 38 energy emitters fine-tuned the space tunnel in front of them from all directions, determining the landing point of the small wormhole on the other side, and then driven by the starship's engine, the distant space was like a hole opened left and right of folded paper, so that the road that took several months to sail was completely penetrated at this moment.
Only civilizations that have mastered this space folding technology are qualified to carry out controlled deep space navigation, otherwise they can only be bound to the sea of stars around the home star, like a child swimming in a big bathtub, unable to accept the real challenge, and will never be able to truly rise.
"Wormhole ready!Space jump ready!3,2,1!"
"Huh"
The 5 thrusters behind the Centurion starship ignited at the same time, and the blue energy grid turned into an orange-red beating flame at this moment, so that the speed of the big guy was accelerated to the extreme in an instant, and it rushed into the orderly collapse space in front of him, and the entire square spaceship was like dough at this moment, infinitely elongated, as if it had escaped from the three-dimensional space into the two-dimensional, but this process only lasted less than a second.
"Buzz"
Cyber's keen senses could feel the moment he passed through the wormhole, the squeeze of the space that rushed to his face, and for a moment, he could even clearly feel the powerful spatial power rolling out on his body like a rolling pin, flattening and stretching him, and the feeling of weightlessness that is difficult to experience in an advanced starship, but these influx of sensory stimulation only lasted less than 1 second, and by the time the picture in front of everyone's eyes was restored, they were already in a distant and strange galaxy.
"Report location!"
The pirate pilots who were busy at the console worked closely with each other, and these old pirates might not be as reliable as the Bancor-born pilots, but in this time-grabbing operation, they definitely threw out the regular pilots a dozen streets.
"We are currently located in the unnamed asteroid belt of the Southern Galaxy, and we are still 170 light-years away from the rift galaxy, and we perceive a large-scale battlefield space lock in front of us, overlord, we can't jump in space anymore, if we force a breakthrough, we may be thrown directly into the center of the battlefield... Then you're going to die!"
The pirate, who had only one eye left and a small vision collector in the other, turned to Cyber and said:
"The best way to do this now is to activate stealth mode and quietly join the battlefield from the edge. ”
"How long will it take?"
Cyber opened his eyes and asked coldly, "You know, I'm not going to wait too long. ”
"Well, the fastest, 1 hour and 12 minutes... The ship's faster-than-light engine is great and can support long overspeed voyages!"
"1 hour of words... Yes, then do it!"
After saying that, Cyber jumped out of the command seat and strode into the bridge of the starship, from his position he could see everything on the 12 layers of the deck inside the ship, each folding summoning array had been opened, and with the help of the energy conversion of the backup engine, every second a demon soldier with a weapon in his hand walked out of the portal.
"Sim!"
Calling out to his loyal servants in the spirit link, Cyber whispered, "Reverse summon to Xandar and let the demons there gather and wait for the big portal to open, this time it's going to be a big deal." ”
"Yes!"
"Whew..."
Cyber sighed, what kind of battlefield enveloping a galaxy is, he has not seen it, but through the war of Xandal, he has understood that his demon army has no overwhelming advantage over these high-tech civilizations, and only with the demons of Shandar's own land, it is estimated that they will not even be able to make a splash if thrown into the galaxy war.
"But so what?"
Cyber's eyes narrowed, and the cold light overflowed: "I took my things and still want to run... Where is there such a good thing!"
"Click"
Behind him, the hatch opened, and Quill walked over with Gamora, who had just been healed of her trauma, and the pale, green-skinned woman stood 5 meters away from Cyber, leaning over slightly, and whispering:
"Thank you for saving my life, Overlord, but unfortunately, the spirit orb has been snatched away by Ronan. ”
She clenched her fists and looked unwilling:
"My sister Nebula betrayed me, and she fell completely for Ronan, that madman..."
"I was about to get it back, but until then, I had a question. ”
Saibo didn't look back, he asked in a low voice:
"What is in the spirit orb, is it some kind of weapon? Or is it some kind of treasure, and why do people like the Mad Titans Sanos and Ronan want to get it desperately?"
Gamora hesitated for a moment, but remembering her situation, she pursed her lips and replied in the slightest voice:
"The Cosmic Spirit Sphere is just a closed carrier, and what it contains inside is one of the six Creation Stones... Power Gem!"