12. Dark awakening
The night in Mexico is no different from the night in the United States, and if I had to say, the night sky here might be even prettier.
In the cool breeze of the night, Private Beckett with a tail held a gun, sat in the back of the Humvee, and followed his captain Cromwell to patrol near the barracks under construction, and after the last accident, they returned to their original troop sequence, which was not a bad result, in fact, for the soldiers who had seen the strange story of that night, it was a very good thing to come back alive.
The old boss of the Devil's Gang has a very good saying: it is never too good to be involved in mysterious things as a mortal, and no one in his right mind will be willing to waste his precious life in a rewardless matter.
In the last seat of this car, there was also an uninvited guest.
A strong blond man, landed in New Mexico with a plane carrying ammunition, and then was sent to the northern battlefield, and the Seventh Reconnaissance Team was responsible for sending him to the edge of New Mexico and Mexico, and he had to go the rest of the way.
"I said, Donald, why don't you just fly to New Mexico?"
Beckett pursed his chapped lips and amiably shared a cigar with Donald, who grinned at him without laughing at him for the tail behind him, and certainly not at Cromwell's horns.
"No money!"
Donald gave a very standard answer, which made Beckett roll his eyes, he leisurely helped the two people light the fire, and whispered in the mist: "Then you can bear it, it takes about 3 days to hike from here to the nearest human town in New Mexico, even if we give you supplies, it is easy for you to get lost on the road alone, and get lost in the Gobi... Oh my God, that's pretty much the same as sending you to death. ”
"I'm leaving. ”
Cromwell parked the car in the final cordon, Thor, who goes by the alias Donald, jumped out of the military vehicle, and Beckett threw him a large green package filled with food and water, which the latter took in his hand and waved at the friendly mutant:
"Friends with long tails and horns, next time I'll invite you to drink!"
Seeing Thor disappear out of the cordon with his bag on his back, Beckett and Cromwell looked at each other, shrugged their shoulders, and frankly, they liked this familiar guy, he was a good drinker, he was good at chatting, and most importantly, he looked like he could fight, and he would be the best fighter.
"Let's go, let's go back!"
Cromwell got into the car and greeted Beckett: "I'm going to take a vacation tomorrow, I'm going to Gotham to have some fun, will you come along?"
Beckett didn't answer, and a few seconds later, Cromwell turned to look at his companion and saw him standing still, and farther away in the darkness, Donald, who had just left, was running all the way with an unconscious woman on his back, and behind him, there were also embarrassed old men and girls.
"Hmm"
Beckett glanced at the sizzling energy detector in his hand, which Strange had given them to detect the next possible portal fluctuation, but now, the readings on the detector were outrageous.
He glanced back at Cromwell a little helplessly:
"Man, our vacation looks like it's gone for naught. ”
Ten minutes after Jane Foster, who was unexpectedly unconscious, was sent to the camp of the Third Legion, Archmage Strange of Kama Taj who got the news, appeared in the barracks, he just felt the dark aura on Jane's body, and his face changed drastically and declared martial law, in less than 5 minutes, the entire camp was surrounded by more than 30 heavily armed Kama Taj battle mages, and the soldiers in the camp were urgently transferred, and in the sky, the four-headed dark dragon and the big demon bat cavalry with a lot of data patrolled back and forth.
Apparently... There's something super big going on.
"What the hell is going on? It's just one night, what's wrong with this girl?"
Seber, who was dressed in pajamas, and Selena, who was also wearing nightgowns, stepped out of the portal and saw Jane Foster wrapped in a rune circle that shone with golden light, the intellectual astronomer who was now floating in the air at a height of 1 meter above the ground with a painful face, and Mordu, the leader of the battle mages of Kama Taj and the disciple of the Ancient One, was personally controlling this complex circle.
Strange stood to the side with his staff in his hand, looking murderous, and at the same time his whole body was covered with an icy aura.
Hearing Cyber's question, Doctor Strange turned around and smiled bitterly bitterly:
"There are 6 Infinity Stones, the Time Stone is sealed in Kama Taj, and the Soul Stone is somewhere on Earth, and now... We found the third piece. ”
"What?"
Rao was a little speechless with the current will of Cyber, he was also shocked by this news, he raised his head to look at Jane, in the vision of the Eye of Repentance, the unconscious girl's whole body was covered with a layer of dark red, dotted with ominous light, it was like a life with its own, constantly expanding, contracting, repeating the process, it seemed to regard Jane's body as its own lair... Or rather, carriers.
"What the hell is this?"
Cyber sensed the feeling of danger coming from the dark red liquid, and he subconsciously protected Selena behind him and asked in a low voice, "Is it dangerous?"
"The Reality Stone has always been synonymous with danger. ”
Master Mordo answered Cyber's question, but his gaze never took off Jane's body, and he said solemnly, "The Reality Stone can turn all the illusions of the host into reality, and as long as you can bear the terrible price of using this gem, this girl in front of you can even reshape the entire universe in an instant..."
"And at what cost?"
Cyber asked, and Strange shook his head, looking at Jane with a deeper gaze:
"The cost? her existence is completely annihilated, and the cost of her existence being being exchanged for reshaping the universe is not enough, the change will end at the moment of her annihilation, the question is, can you imagine what kind of catastrophic consequences would be caused if the basic rules of a universe were changed even a little bit?"
"Honkai... From the microcosm to the macrocosm, all existence will collapse with the change of rules, and this universe will die completely... The Reality Gem is the most powerful of the 6 Infinity Stones, but it is also the most difficult to master, it needs the cooperation of other gems to take effect, this thing has never been a means for the weak to change their lives, it should not be in the hands of the weak!"
Doctor Strange's voice was filled with a sense of powerlessness, mainly because this incident appeared too suddenly, in the face of an Infinity Stone, no one in this world except the Ancient One dared to say that he could protect it foolproof.
Even once the news leaks, even the Ancient One will face a great challenge, this is an Infinity Stone, a treasure that any leader wants to hold in his hands.
Cyber's brow furrowed deeply, even though he was only one step away from an infinity stone, but he didn't want to be involved with this thing at all, he had seen the Time Stone, but the lovely green gem didn't oppress his heart, the dark red thing in front of him, Cyber only wanted to get as far away from it as possible.
"Where's the Ancient One? Find her back!"
Cyber took a deep breath: "We alone can't protect this thing!"
"The master is trying to get back as fast as he can. ”
There was also a hint of gloom in Mordo's tone: "The master even interrupts the process of self-healing for this, and it will leave an eternal wound because of it, but that will take time, and before that, we must use all our strength to defend it!"
"Are we all dead?"
Cyber said disdainfully, but seeing that the other mages, including Strange, were protecting Jane with a determined gaze, Cyber knew that it was useless to say more.
"What a bunch of stubborns!"
Cyber breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head to Selena and said, "Call our best people to come over and suspend all other activities!
Selena looked at Cyber worriedly, with the degree of her understanding of Cyber, she knew that Cyber was going on an adventure again, the latter gently wiped Miss Cat's face, and whispered:
"Don't worry, I won't be so desperate anymore. ”
After speaking, he turned his head to look at Thor who was standing to the side, his face full of worry:
"Let's go, take me to the place where this girl is unconscious!"
"Where are you going?"
Strange asked, and Cyber shook his hand without looking back: "An existing, solid rift in space, so close to my army, I must at least make sure what is on the other side, lest one day a thing come out and kill us." ”
Fifteen minutes later, Cyber's car stopped on the outskirts of the abandoned parking lot, and in the middle of the night, the parking lot, which had been abandoned for at least five years, resembled a scene from a classic horror movie, with Cyber and Saul jumping out of the car, and Dr. Eric following them with a large pile of instruments, chattering:
"I don't know what happened to Jane, but I'm sure at least a third of the building in front of you is completely infected by that weird thing, it's like a gateway to another world, and you don't know if you're going to step into hell next. ”
Cyber took out two respirators used by Kryptonian warriors from his sandalwood fan and threw them to Eric and Thor, this thing has been modified by Dr. Ethan to maintain life for at least 15 minutes in any bad situation, which is the best for exploration, and he himself does not need these, Cyber was moved, and the black trench coat on his body began to twist strangely, like a layer of black liquid, covering his face.
Venom has been shown to help Cyber breathe in outer space, and with this thing, Cyber doesn't need to worry about suffocating himself.
The three big men walked in the chaotic darkness, and the weak Thor carried the breathing apparatus and the sword and shield sponsored by Cyber in his hand, and while carefully looking at the darkness in front of him, he asked in a low voice:
"If it's been around for five years, then why don't you know about this place in no time?"
"Shh
Cyber suddenly made a silent motion, his eyes saw some chaotic space in front of him, he took a deep breath, and stepped into it, in the eyes of the other two, Cyber seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
A few minutes later, Cyber poked his head out of the chasm and beckoned to the two men behind him, motioning for them to come in.
Thor was braver, as a prince who had fought across planets, he was not nervous, he clenched his sword and shield, smiled at the somewhat timid Dr. Eric, and then stepped into it, the last doctor was an ordinary person, but he gritted his teeth, and with a kind of researcher's fanaticism and fearlessness, he also strode into it.
"Bang"
After an experience that felt like walking through a curtain of water, Dr. Eric stepped onto the land of another dimension, and the respirator detected the poisonous gas in the surrounding air and immediately began to work, and the first kick from the doctor kicked something that shouldn't exist in this place.
He lowered his head and saw more than 20 corpses, and judging by the painful posture of the white bones, they should have died of suffocation and poisoning.
"That's the answer... The people who came here died, so no one knew about it. ”
Standing outside the dark cavern, Cyber looked up at the world in front of him, which was very different from Earth, and was greeted by a dark sky, pale ominous clouds hanging over the distant sky, the whole world covered in a layer of scorched earth, and in the distance there were wreckage and war ruins worn by time.
"Here... Here it is..."
Thor's eyes widened, and he sensed that the environment seemed to be somewhere he'd heard of... Somewhere has been utterly destroyed.
"The site of Watt Alheim! The Abandoned Star on the Edge of the Nine Kingdoms!
"No!"
Cyber interrupted Thor's words in response, he turned his back to the dead sky, slowly opened his hands, and on his face covered with venom, there was a hint of toughness, and a hint of undisguised joy, and he whispered:
"Welcome to the new home of the Devils... Welcome to the planet of Cyber Hawke!"