Chapter Twenty-Five: James's Calculations
The Collector's Shell ship is extremely performant.
It took James five days to reach the "Void Land" that evolved from the remnants of the Celestial Skull, almost separated by hundreds of millions of light-years from the entire Milky Way.
Even in the age of wormhole jumping and curvature engine technology, it would take more than a month for most first-class spacecraft to reach this remote and desolate extragalactic galaxy in Earth time.
As soon as the shell ship broke through the fiery atmosphere of the planet, the crimson dead hills and mountains immediately filled James's vision, and the surface below was covered with red and yellow mountains or deserts, and there was not even a trace of a lake or river in sight, let alone a vast ocean like Earth.
The planet called Corbyn must have been extremely arid and dehydrated, or had more bizarre creatures and intelligent civilizations to survive.
The clue to the Infinity Primordial provided by Tanlia Tiwan is a mysterious figure known as the "Legendary Speaker".
It is said that the "Legendary Speaker" knows everything, and no one knows his origins, and even the "Elders of the Universe" who have survived for an unknown number of years, such as the Collector, have never seen his true face.
And the news about this mysterious person was learned from the mouth of the previous generation of Saka Star gladiatorial champions in Tiwan's collection, "Horse-faced Thor" Beta Ray Beale.
Planet Corbyn is the home planet of the horse-faced Thor, and before he left his homeland, he had met a "prophetic" traveler who seemed to have insight into everyone's past and future, even the deepest secrets of their hearts, and often told the story of the six Infinity Stones as a nursery rhyme to the children of Corbyn.
"What do you think of this man who preaches the secrets of the Infinity Stones and claims that he will stay here and wait for his fate?"
James stood in front of the ship's magnificent and changing capsule, looking out at the strange wilderness
Wu Xingxing glanced sideways at Beta Bill, who walked to his side, and his gaze fell on the dull brass-colored short-handled hammer in his hand, and then added:
"I'm sorry, Odin's death made your hammer lose its power..."
Horse-faced Thor is extremely tall, with a height of over two metres and knotted muscles, and is two laps larger than James.
His yellow-brown skin is solid, a bit like old tree bark, his face is long, his mouth is protruding, and in James's opinion, his head is more like a "dragon's head" in China than a "horse's head".
Beta Beale lowered her head and looked at the "Storm Hammer" in her hand, shook her head gently, and hung on her waist to look at the homeland of the home planet that had been away for decades, her eyes were full of tenderness.
"Don't mind Mr. Logan, Thor's power doesn't belong to me in the first place, thanks to Lord Odin Poulson forging this storm hammer for me and attaching it to divine power, I should fight for Asgard."
"Swinging a hammer at me now counts as fighting for Odin, why, don't you want to try? I thought 'rage' would be one of the conditions for an Asgardian artifact to be approved."
James said with some teasing, after a few days of occasional spending time on the spaceship, he slowly learned a little about Berta Beale's "eccentric" temperament.
This Corbyn with a hideous appearance and physique, but an extremely gentle heart, obeys some kind of unique self-rule.
He met Thor Odinson, the god of thunder, many years ago while wandering through the universe, and the two clashed and eventually fought.
But the strange thing is that Bill was able to lift Thor's hammer "Mjournier" with ease, and snatched the hammer to defeat Thor.
After Odin descended through the Rainbow Bridge, he was recognized by Thor's hammer and praised by Odin for his bravery, so he built a separate "storm hammer" with rune magic attached to him, which has the same power as Thor.
Later, for some reason, "Horse Face" was left behind in the star Saka of High Heaven, who enslaved him as a gladiator and became a competitive champion after repeated battles, and then was sold to collectors, and in the "Glass Jar", one level is ten
Years.
Until he inadvertently chatted with Tiwan's slaves who were responsible for cleaning the floor,
tells the story of the "Legendary Speaker", coupled with the fact that Odin's soul returned to Valhalla, the magic left behind has no basis and the power of thunder has been lost, and the "value" in the eyes of collectors has been greatly reduced.
Only then was Beta Beale allowed to be free, and he was ordered to accompany James to Corbyn Star to find the unknown Infinity Primordial.
And in all this humiliating and displaced, "Horse-faced Thor" has never fought once, even when he was imprisoned by collectors, he has never resisted in the slightest.
"Mr. Logan only fought with Lord Odin, not the root cause of his return to Valhalla, if I could be present I would definitely fight to the death with Mr. Logan and the people who attacked Asgard, but revenge at this moment will not restore the established reality."
Beta Beal's narrow mouth opened and closed indifferently, and after a moment of distraction, he suddenly recalled James's question, and continued with a little apology:
"I'm sorry Mr. Rogan, I'm distracted, I want the 'Legend' to do this.... It must be to fulfill the path of his destiny."
"What about you, too, because you accept the arrangement of fate, and accept everything that happens to you?"
James looked at Beta Beale suspiciously, and the spaceship stopped on the land of Corbyn at this time, and then looked out, only to find that the buildings of the planet's cities seemed to be hollowed out of countless hills and mountains, relying on natural terrain conditions.
To put it simply, it is a variety of more delicate and magnificent "caves", and there are almost no traces of man-made buildings when looking down from the sky, which is an excellent topographical cover.
"In the eyes of the Corbyns, just waving their fists in anger and resisting all the forces oppressed above their heads is not the only manifestation of fighting against fate, we are never afraid to fight, but we also follow the rules that should be followed under different identities to complete this journey of destiny."
The calm and indifferent face of the "Horse-Faced Thor" finally gave birth to some excited anticipation, except for the storm hammer with no thunder power on his waist, he had nothing on his body, and there was nothing to bring, so he hurriedly walked out of the spaceship and ran towards a low yellow-brown "dirt bag".
James took the black cloak from the collector's servant who was in charge of piloting the ship, put it on his body, and walked in the direction of Beta Bill.
"I am willing to fight to the death for survival, and I am willing to be the loser for all the injustices..... Even, try to fulfill the role of the loser. It's no wonder that the collector was relieved to let him bring me here with just a promise, and he didn't worry about anything going wrong."
James muttered about the behavioural traits of the Corbyns, saying that they had a very pure racial culture and a strong sense of commitment and current status.
Let's say it's ugly... Servility is deep.
A large group of small "horses" ran out of the hill building, calling out to Beta Bill with long faces.
The planet is extremely arid and hot, with little vegetation to see, and the wind and sand never seem to stop, and the vision is distorted by the scorching air.
James couldn't understand the Corbyn language, fiddling with a coin-sized language converter clipped to light armor, which sounded to him like the snoring of a beast out of his throat, with all sorts of frustrated rhythms and intonations.
"You are finally back, Big Brother Beta, these are the newborn brothers and sisters after you left, from twenty-three to sixty-seven, of which thirty-six and fifty-eight were robbed outside, and twenty-eight and forty-five were sick and died, and the rest were named Arica, Lonta, Zelan.....".
Standing behind Berta Beale, James listened in amazement as a leading Corbyn, who was about the same height as the horse-faced Thor, but was excessively thin, led a large group of adult or juvenile "pony faces" to introduce Bill to Bill.
Although he had heard some of the characteristics of the Corbyn from the Collector during his time in the Void, James was still horrified by the sturdy, long-lived, and fertile alien race.
No wonder they are called the universe
Interstellar mercenaries and hunters often come to Corbyn to capture people and sell them to slave owners in need.
Therefore, when the horse-faced Thor was blessed by Odin's rune power, Tanlia Tiwan lost interest in collecting him.
Beta Beale greeted dozens of younger siblings rubbing their cheeks one by one, and then walked out of the mound, where a broad, but slightly short female Corbyn hugged each other, their narrow cheeks rubbing back and forth, and they couldn't stop talking like a sniff.
"Mr. Logan, I've asked my mother, the last time they heard from the Storyteller was two years ago, in the hill town of Saruka, not far from here, I hope you wouldn't mind going there after three meteors when the sun returns, Corbyn is extremely cold at night, people go underground to take refuge, that's when our city is at its busiest."
James nodded indifferently, even if he was in a hurry, he wouldn't care about such a few days, he should always let this man who had been away from his hometown for decades reunite with his relatives for a few days.
Led by Bill, James walks into the mound-like building and follows the corridor to a giant underground city that is crisscrossed by each other.
Not only is the market bustling, but there is also a lush underground vegetation that can grow without daylight, streams and underground rivers are abundant, and livestock and a large number of leaves of grass that the Corbyns eat daily grow all over the underground world.
The food here doesn't seem to be as troublesome as humans growing crops such as wheat and rice, and it's almost everywhere you can eat.
It's no wonder that this seemingly barren planet can support a race like the Corbyns, who can live and live.
James walked along with Bill, observing the city, which was still in the realm of tools and the technology of daily life, in a similar setting in the era of human animal husbandry.
Some vendors can also be seen using obviously high-tech electronic and energy equipment, but the general low productivity of the Corbyns is very different from that of a planet that has come into contact with the advanced civilizations of the universe.
He even suspected that the current state of the indigenous people of this planet was deliberately done by some advanced interstellar civilizations to suppress them on a slave planet that could grab human resources, and it had also shaped the character and concept of this race that seemed to him to be submissive for thousands of years.
.........
At night, James declined the invitation of the "horse face" and walked up the corridor to the planet's floor alone, sitting on the top of the hill to feel the extreme cold night after the stars fell.
He lit a cigar and lay on his back looking at the blue-purple sky, the purple smoke and breath from his mouth drifting into the sky.
James' "commission" seemed too simple.
Obtain an Infinity Rough for the Collector and bring it back to him, allowing Tivan to solve the trouble of the Eternal Fire in his body and return to Earth.
But in James's heart, whether it was the original stone or the eternal fire, he had no intention of giving it to Tiwan.
Although every fight against this flame consumes his life and spends time for James to be burned out as a "firewood", he can feel a slight connection with the eternal flame, and there is no only way to take out the flame.
Looking up at the exotic starry sky, a pair of black pupils followed the most frequent meteors of the burning galaxy across the sky.
Suddenly, a strange light slowly grew larger, and James's pupils shrank until the tiny point of light turned into a giant ring-shaped golden and red spaceship, whistling down.
The inner ring of the circular spacecraft was moving rapidly, releasing energy to feed the ship's action, and the outer circle began to fly out of the small shuttle-shaped airships, as if they had already identified the target, and rushed towards the shell-shaped spaceship that James was riding in the wild.
"Fake!"
Before James could get close to the ship, the circling fire attack blew up the collector's favorite car, and James lost the ability to fly at will after being suppressed by the Eternal Flame.
He stood in front of the spaceship, which had turned into a raging fire, and indifferently stabbed the claws of his fists, staring at the small one that was roaring in the sky
The airship spat out only a small piece of purple cigar.
........
"Unify the order to the legion, don't rush to carry out a needless cleanup, let it go for a while, and find the clues that the adults need as the first task.....
Ahh
A longlance carved with obscure lines sparkled the ground, and the figure in the black and gold hood commanded the herald in a hoarse voice, his cheeks pale and hidden in the hood.
A giant black shadow with a great axe roared and twisted its neck, seemingly extremely unhappy with the hooded man's plan.
」... The ritual of killing half of the life on the planet can be done slowly, black dwarf, get that stone, it is for Lord Sanos..... The best to please."