Truth be told, there was a moment when Quill did hesitate before hanging up the communication.

Looking at Yongdu's bruised-nosed and swollen face, and the cold glint in the hostage's eyes, it didn't seem to be a joke, and this hesitation grew thicker as he continued to walk towards the client's hut.

When Quill was 6 years old, he was kidnapped from Earth by Yongdu's gang, when he had just lost his mother, and was already in extreme sadness and despair, and after 3 consecutive jumps away from the solar system, Quiel's life unfolded on a different trajectory.

Yongdu was not good to him, taught him all kinds of survival skills, and then forced him to go to various planets to steal things, at that time, Yongdu's pirate group was not very large, and life was very bad, often chased by the fleets of various civilizations, when Quill was most afraid, Yongdu always threw him weapons, and threatened him to throw him to the big fat man Pakchak if he cried.

Well, it's the unlucky ghost who claimed to want to taste the earthlings, and then was burned to ashes by Cyber.

In Quill's mind, Yongdu is a very complex character, he is cruel, he is cunning, he uses him as a tool, but he always protects him when necessary, although more often than not, the communication between the two is always vicious.

But Quill still hasn't forgotten that even in the most difficult times, Yongdu didn't abandon himself...

"Cut!"

Quill shook his fist viciously: "It's a big deal to exchange 2 billion for your life! Lao Tzu can still leave 1 billion, but if he bids too high, Yongdu, I can only wish you a good journey." ”

Until now, the simple Star-Lord felt that this was a problem that could be solved with money...

On the other side, watching Quill take the initiative to hang up the communication, Yongdu's expression became ugly, and when he looked up, he saw a pair of burning eyes.

"Looks like you're no longer of much use, Mr. Yongdu. ”

Cyber whispered, "I urgently need some information right now, and there is no one more suitable here than you." ”

"Wait..."

Yongdu took a step back, but before he could finish his words, the spikes of spiritual power that were so powerful that they pierced into his alien brain, and for a moment, Yongdu even thought that he was facing a soul the size of an entire planet, which made him have no ability to resist at all, and in just a moment, he was invaded by Cyber Soul.

"Buzz"

In the process of reading, time has lost its meaning to consciousness, even if only 1 second of time has passed in the outside world, but for Yongdu, whose soul is swaying and trembling, this time seems to be as long as a hundred years have passed, and for a moment, he even felt a substantial flame licking his sinful soul, and only a slight stroke was needed to burn him completely, but in the end, the flame was slowly extinguished.

"Whew... Whew..."

The moment Seber stopped reading his memory, Yongdu fell to his knees as if he had lost all his strength, the experience of passing with death and extreme annihilation was too bad for anyone to experience a second time.

Cyber crouched down, stretched out his hand, and lifted Yongdu's head with his cold golden armor, he looked at the leader of the interstellar pirates in front of him, and he said in a deep voice:

"You've ever touched a Phoenix Shard?"

"Phoenix?"

Yongdu's brain was in a mess, but in the face of Cyber's inquiry, he subconsciously nodded:

"More than a decade ago, I was looking for this for a black market collector, and we found an indigenous god in another galaxy, and after killing it, we got the white shards, and it was a good deal..."

"Good!"

Cyber's left hand flipped and three things were thrown in front of Yongdu, a Edman alloy dagger, a cloud of venom parasites, and a soul stone that shone with a purple sheen.

"Yondu, Udon Tower, you have been hired, and this is the only reason I left your humble life behind... Go and help me find as many phoenix shards as possible, you can choose to refuse, I will give you the opportunity to kill yourself, but even if you die, your deformed soul will still be of use to me. ”

Cyber snapped his fingers, and the embodied dark blue flames flowed behind him like lines, and soon formed a dark blue flame throne, just in time to catch his falling body, he leaned on the scorching throne, crossed his legs, and looked at Yongdu in front of him:

"Or you can choose to rebel, and the parasite of my minion Venom will erase all your sense of resistance and become the most loyal cosmic mercenary to me. Of course, you can also choose to obey, hold on to the soul stone in front of you, and I will give you the strength you need to complete the task. ”

He reached out and pulled out a spear that had broken from the top, and judging by the surface that shone with thousands of arcs, it was the remains of the spear of judgment that he had cut off in the previous battle, and he lit it to the ground, accentuating his tone.

"I am a generous man, I am very good to my brother, and now I leave the choice in your hands..."

A playful smile twitched in Cyber's eyes:

"Let me see what you'll choose. ”

He waved his hand, and watched as Sim of Yongdu took a step back and gave freedom back to the interstellar pirate leader, who wiped the blood from his nostrils, he glanced at Cyber, whose eyes were full of smiles, and he looked at his captured brothers again, he took a deep breath, picked up the dagger first, and with a heavy hand, he stretched out his fingers and touched the blade of this dagger, just a light touch, and cut his skin open.

"What a sharp weapon..."

As he spoke, he plunged it into his quiver as if it were his, and then he picked up the parasite split by the venom, looked at it in his hand, and shook his head:

"Dangerous parasites. ”

Finally, he pinched up the soul stone and put it under the light to look at it, and in the dim light, he could clearly see the frantically struggling soul of the abyss spider demon lord who was sealed in the soul stone and roared.

"It looks like the product of some kind of system of witchcraft. ”

The interstellar pirate leader stood up, he looked at Cyber, a hint of helplessness flashed on his blue nose and swollen face, and he said in a deep voice:

"We people are known to be greedy... So, I'm going to do it all!"

"Click"

The soul stone was crushed, and in full view of everyone, the purple soul escaped little by little, like a scattered dandelion, surrounding Yongdu's body, and soon, they joined together, and in the frantic roar of the soul, Yongdu's body was lifted to the sky.

"Ahhhh

This process was ten thousand times more painful than he imagined, and without the use of the contract scroll, the fusion of the two souls must be devouring and attacking as the main means, the pain of this process will be infinitely magnified, the soul is always sensitive, and Yudu's screams of pain to the bone marrow made the other prisoners in the entire cabin tremble, but for Sim and the Great Tengu, this kind of scene is already commonplace.

Although Cyber has said many times that after the Devil's Gang grows and grows, it will no longer be able to use the Demon Contract, although this method of drawing on the power of the Devil to fight is simple and fast, and it can have a legion with strong combat effectiveness in a short time, but the sequelae are too great, and with the passage of time, the host's personality will always drift to the side of the demon, and one day, they will fall into an endless war frenzy and be completely unable to extricate themselves.

It's like being an addict in another sense.

But come on, who cares about the good and evil of the means now that we are in a lawless zone hundreds of millions of light-years away from Earth, facing a group of interstellar pirates who do all kinds of evil?

Time flew by as Cyber watched with interest, and three minutes later, the purple soul storm slowly stopped, and a huge monster covered in purple scales lay on the ground as if exhausted, breathing heavily, and a moment later, under the trembling gaze of the prisoners, a pair of purple bone wings suddenly opened in front of their eyes.

Yudu, who had gained new strength, rose from the ground, stretched out his hideous claws, pulled out the useless metal symbiote above his head, and threw it at his feet, and on his forehead, the compound eyes of twelve evil spiders looked shocking, and his original eyes had completely turned dark red.

He moved his body, adjusting to his new strength, then reached out and placed his hand on the venom parasite in his hand, and the next moment, the black ball rolled on his arm, quickly covering his whole body, weaving a tough and beautiful black skull armor for him.

"I... It's alive!"

Dark green demonic fire swirled around his claws, and a tyrannical aura swept through the entire chamber that had fallen on the barren planet like a storm, and he couldn't control it perfectly, but it didn't matter, he had plenty of time to get used to it.

"Go pick someone yourself, bring your most trusted brother..."

Without raising his head, Cyber threw out a golden war bow, which was picked up by the demonized Yongdu, and he whispered:

"After I'm done with Xandhar, I'm going to see at least two Phoenix Shards, don't let me down, Yongdu, I've given you the best weapon, the best armor, the best strength, and the most freedom, and if that's all that can be exchanged for failure, then prove it... The meaning of your humble life, nothing more than that!"

"Buzz"

Yongdu flicked the bowstring of the warbow, the flames on his body suddenly disappeared, and he returned to his original blue-skinned alien posture, he carried the warbow behind his back, put his left hand on his chest, and made a celebratory salute to Cyber, he whispered:

"As luck it happens, I hate that thing too... Mr. Cyber, wait for my good news. ”

Fifteen minutes later, an assault ship with a changed livery and a dull black paint all over its body flew off the barren planet and sped towards the infinite universe.

In the cabin of the assault ship, Craglin had a feeling of escaping death, to be honest, the moment he saw Yongdu being swallowed by the soul storm just now, he really had the urge to rush out and fight desperately, but fortunately, now it seems that everything is moving in a good direction.

"Yongdu, I say, are you really going to find that fragment?"

He lowered his voice: "I think it's better for us to take this opportunity to escape!"

As soon as he said this, the black armor covering the surface of his body suddenly extended two sharp cones, which pressed against Clagreen's neck, and with a slight stab, it would completely take the life of this slippery pirate.

"Alright, alright! I'm just kidding! Hell, you demon armor!"

The first mate exclaimed for mercy, and after a few seconds, the sharp bony cone slowly disappeared, and behind him, Yongdu, who had built a wooden arrow with a short knife, suddenly spoke:

"No! we're not running away this time!"

He put the repaired arrow in front of him, although it was only wooden, but the extremely sharp arrow that was sharpened, still had the ability to take people's lives, he took the golden war bow from his back with his backhand, and put it in his hand to pull it away, this thing is one of the few trophies left by Ares after the self-explosion, and it is indeed the best weapon that Cyber can take out now.

Without the power of Olympus, Yondu could not have used it to shoot shadowless energy arrows directly like Ares, but when he put the sharpened wooden arrow on the bowstring, the bow still quickly covered the top of the wooden arrow with a layer of dark green light, attaching the most evil poison to it, and killing those who touched it.

In Yongdu's original hometown, in their tradition as interstellar hunters, only those warriors who have truly proven themselves are qualified to wear a war bow, Yongdu has always used blow arrows because it is difficult for him to find the right weapon, but now, he feels that the longbow in his hand is so hideous, so suitable for him, like a warrior who has been given a weapon and is ready to go on battle.

This made Yongdu feel a little nostalgic, but that wasn't why he accepted Cyber's employment.

"Buzz"

The wooden arrow slammed into the target at the end of the cabin, shattering the steel target in pieces, and a sly glint flashed in the eyes of the former interstellar pirate:

"Cragrin, remember Quiel's father, the monster who killed all his children and hunted us down among the stars, now we don't have to be afraid of him. ”

"Hey, we've found another monster!"

Clarglin, who was driving the spaceship, paused for a moment, then laughed out loud: "Hahahaha, Yongdu, it's really you! I didn't expect this layer! You're such a complete bad seed! But seriously, Quill is on the side, he's done a fool of us all this time... Are you still going to keep him?"

"Let's talk about it! we're all in a position to protect ourselves now. ”

Yongdu picked up another arrow, and while sharpening it, he scolded: "Lao Tzu was really almost killed by him this time, but Cyber is not so easy to deal with, he may not die, but I am sure that he will suffer this time, and he deserves it!"

"Whoosh"

Another target was smashed by a wooden arrow, and Yongdu seemed to tilt all his anger at losing his freedom into it, he took a deep breath, looked at the endless sea of stars outside the window, and scolded in a low voice:

"Quill, you're such a fucking bastard!"