Everyone present looks at me, I look at you, and then suddenly, at the same time, they quietly cast their eyes on a figure outside the crowd.

Stark walked through the crowd with his glass, he came to the other side of the corpse, face to face with Schiller, and when he looked up at Schiller through the Queen's corpse, the moment their eyes met, the bright light on the dance floor began to dim.

The intricate plant patterns on the floor tiles under the feet of the two of them continued to disappear, and one after another streamers crossed horizontally and vertically, outlining the wide stage into a huge chessboard.

As time stopped flowing, everyone's expressions stayed at that moment, and the brilliant colors on their skin and clothes gradually faded, becoming as gray and hard as stone.

"Bang bang bang", after a subtle sound like a heartbeat, one after another chess pieces with different postures landed on the chessboard.

On one side of the chessboard, Doom, Thor, Loki, Star-Lord, Strange, Thanos, Professor X, Sif and Odin, Friggya, Jarvis, Yongdu, Rocket Raccoon, and even Prince Alain stand proudly on the chessboard, some riding horses, some holding swords, and behind him, Stark stands on the throne of king.

"I will unite various forces and let them attack one after another under my control, using the Queen's death as a medium to achieve their own goals."

With that, Stark's arm pointed forward, and with a "bang", the Yongdu chess piece dressed in the Marauder's service jumped forward.

"Buzz."

There was a somewhat annoying vibration, a big rough hand grabbed the communicator, Yongdu's face was full of irritation, he took the phone and yelled over there, "Which fucking grandson called so early?" Do you understand the rules?! ”

"Commander Yongdu? I have a list here, I don't know if you're interested? A mysterious voice came from the other end of the line.

"What list?" Yongdu asked angrily.

"I need you to go to Centauri to help me hunt down a robot raccoon, you don't need to know what a raccoon is, you just need to know that the underlying agreement of this robot raccoon has what I want, the reward is settled in energy, pay a 30% deposit first, the faster the speed, the higher the price, how?"

Yongdu's eyes immediately lit up, and he repeated: "Energy settlement, are you sure?" ”

"Of course, you don't take orders?"

"Pick it up, dead or alive?"

"You can do whatever you want, I just need the underlying agreement."

"Wait for my good news, Broadie!"

With a "bang", on the chessboard, the hooded Doom's pawn also jumped forward.

In the laboratory of Stark Building, Stark hung up the phone and looked back at Doom, who was cleaning up the wreckage of a robot in front of the experimental table, he looked up at Stark and said, "Doom doesn't know where you got this pile of rubbish, but Doom has extracted the information in it as agreed." ”

"I've already called the interstellar pirate leader who Loki introduced me, and I think it won't be long before the results will be available, but unfortunately, these robots that I don't know who destroyed don't have the coordinates of the mysterious madhouse in their bodies, otherwise, we'd be there by now."

"Doom wants to know where you got the robot wreckage and why you care so much about the madhouse called Halfworld."

Stark touched his chin and said, "The robot wreckage was picked up by me when the demon gods were fighting in the past, and at that time, Jarvis did some autonomous analysis, but I didn't care about the results. ”

"It wasn't until some time ago, when I searched for the keywords of the gods in my database, that I found the names of the two gods of Xi'a in the analysis results of these robots."

"Among the somewhat fragmented data of these robots, I found a madhouse called Half World, which is the testing ground of the Xia Empire, and it is an evil experimental project called the 'Cosmic Life Fusion Project', but it doesn't matter, the important thing is that it mentions how the Xia Empire realized this plan."

Doom looked down at the robot's wreckage and spat out a name: "M'Kraan Crystal? ”

Stark nodded, but Doom still looked at him and said, "Doom still doesn't understand, why are you investigating this crystal?" ”

Stark shook his head again, he turned his head to look at the sunset outside the window of Stark Building, but there was darkness flowing in his eyes that did not belong to him, and he whispered, "Perhaps, soon you will know." ”

The light was even darker, and there was a "bang" twice, and the whole chessboard shook with Thor and Loki's chess pieces that stepped forward, and even the statues of the Asgardians showed a kind of fabulous handsomeness.

“…… What does it mean that my wedding can do more? Tony, don't sell it, I don't have time to play dumb riddles with you. Thor reclined on the couch and looked at Stark across from him.

Stark, on the other hand, looked at Loki, and he smiled and said, "Since ancient times, the marriage of emperors has to solve more than just marriage, isn't it?" ”

Loki slowly narrowed his eyes, he naturally understood what Stark meant, but he still said, "This is the Asgardian royal family's own business, we can solve it." ”

"Of course, but the rebuilding of the underworld that you complained to me about before is not just a private matter for the Asgardian royal family, is it?"

Loki and Thor glanced at each other, Thor coughed lightly, looked at Stark and said, "We do intend to bring Hela back to Asgard, but we won't act rashly until we find out Odin's attitude, the Father of the Gods is our father after all, and we don't want to embarrass him too much." ”

"And, what does this have to do with Thor's wedding?" Loki asked, looking at Stark with a frown.

"If you're willing to help me, I'm certainly willing to help you solve your long-standing headaches, how about it?"

"Bang!" A larger piece jumped out, and Thanos jumped diagonally forward and stood on Loki's side.

"Don't tell me, you don't have any interest in the marginal sectors that the Xia Empire doesn't have a lot of control over, Your Majesty Sanos." Loki smiled and looked at Thanos in front of him, and said, "Now there is a chance to make the Xia Empire chaotic without a fight, do you have any good ideas?" ”

Thanos's fingers touched the side of the wine glass, he lowered his eyes, and then raised his eyes to look at Loki and said: You are bolder than I thought, but you are right, who would not be tempted by the fat that is sent to the mouth? ”

There was another "bang", and Star-Lord's pawn jumped forward and came to the side behind Thanos' pawn.

"Mr. Quiell, I'm sorry we didn't work together last time at Kane Prison, but this time, I think we'll have a great time working together." Thanos smiled and looked at Star-Lord Peter Quayle.

"What do you want me to do?" Star-Lord looked at Thanos unmoved, and he said, "I'm not an interstellar mercenary, and I won't work for anyone because of money." ”

"I just wanted to give you a chance to get revenge." Thanos shook his head lightly and said, "Haven't you always been haunted by your mother's death?" ”

Star-Lord opened his eyes slightly, but he still said in a calm tone: "I have already helped my mother avenge it, the group of aliens who came to Earth to kill my mother were sent by my own uncle, Gareth, the prince of the Spartak Empire, and I had already killed him when I returned to the Spartak Empire." ”

"Do you really think that the civil strife in the Spartak Empire was just a coincidence?" Thanos smiled and continued to ask.

Star-Lord's fist clenched, but then he let go of his arm, looked at Thanos and said, "What if someone deliberately provoked it behind his back?" Are you going to tell me that you can kill them all? ”

"Of course not, but at least I can give you a chance to avenge your parents' long-term separation due to the war, and give the mastermind behind the scenes a grand enough funeral."

Thanos's voice fell, the light on the chessboard brightened, the bright light of the engine port gradually extinguished, the ship of the Xia Empire landed in the starport of Asgard, and Queen Xia walked out of the hatch.

When the Queen and Thor, the god-king of Asgard, greeted each other with the courtesy of their own country, she did not see a cold glint in the eyes of Peter Quill, a young member of the Xia Imperial Guard, standing behind her.

Then, as if the pause button had been pressed, the carpet rolled back from the front of the feet, the intricately embroidered shoes retreated, and the guards withdrew their ceremonial swords from their scabbards and retreated back to the ship.

Until the light and darkness turned around, the light and shadow overlapped, and in the office of the Holy of Holies, a pair of bright leather shoes stepped through the door, and Strange, who was sitting on the sofa, looked up at Stark with a smile and said, "Tony, long time no see, the other one really surprised me by your performance." ”

"When I'm done with the important things, you'll have time to laugh at me." Stark tightened his suit and walked over to Strange and sat down.

Strange raised an eyebrow, but Stark smiled, pointed a finger at his temple and said, "I'm sorry, but one of the guys here yells every day not to do anything superfluous, so your next taunt may not work." ”

"So what exactly do you want to talk about?" Strange narrowed his eyes.

"Don't contradict me about the big portal technology you've been stuck in for a long time, let alone some nonsense about the progress that is just a little bit of progress, we all know that you need a revolutionary technological breakthrough even more."

Stark reached for the wine glass on the table, and when Strange was about to pick up another glass, Stark tapped the table with his own glass and said, "It's time for you to quit drinking, Stephen, especially before you get down to some important business." ”

"Drinking doesn't affect my use of magic at all." Strange picked up his glass and said, "The special meditation method allows me to block out the effects of alcohol, so you don't think of the teacher so lightly, right?" ”

Stark looked up at him and said, "I mean, do it to let people know that if you don't drink, you're going to get down to business." ”

"But you haven't said anything yet."

"Who has the biggest portal in this universe?"

Stark and Strange met their eyes, and they both saw the cold smile in each other's eyes, just as they had planned to borrow money to build guns.

With a "bang", Friggia's pawn moved behind Strange at some point, and the queen was as gentle as ever.

Thin knuckles ran over the tie, then buttoned down the suit, and the smooth leather shoes stepped through the door of the dormitory, and Frigga smiled and turned to look at Strange as he walked in.

"Your Majesty, Supreme Mage, long time no see."

(End of chapter)