Chapter 149: His Name... Thanos!
The Cosmic Rubik's Cube is actually a space gem.
For Steve Rogers in front of him, he only knew the name of that thing, which was called the Cosmic Rubik's Cube.
As for what the Cosmic Cube has abilities, even Hydra, which has been studied for many years, has not been able to study its specific use.
It can be said that this thing is in the hands of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra, and it is completely in the wrong direction.
"That's right, the Cosmic Rubik's Cube was indeed taken by me."
"But may I ask, why are you curious about this?"
Ronan didn't mean to hide it, and directly admitted that he took it himself.
Anyway, it's impossible to get him to hand it over now, so it doesn't matter if you admit it or not.
"If you take it, then I'll have a lot easier."
"At least you're not going to use him to develop weapons, are you?"
Steve Rogers nodded, as if relieved.
How Loki came to Earth in the first place, it wasn't because S.H.I.E.L.D. studied the Cosmic Rubik's Cube, so it opened the source of all disasters.
If the Cosmic Rubik's Cube can be properly kept, it will be of great benefit to Steve Rogers and to the humans on Earth.
"All I can say is that this thing is a weapon in itself."
"But a weapon is a weapon, and whether it is good or evil depends on whether the person holding the weapon is evil or not."
"At least I can say that your research on it is completely wrong."
Ronan smiled, using space gems to study weapons?
That's nothing short of blasphemy!
There are only six Infinity Stones in the world, each with its own abilities, and they are one of the most powerful weapons out there.
What was the difference between S.H.I.E.L.D.'s approach at that time and riding a donkey to find a horse?
The other Infinity Stones couldn't help but laugh at it when they heard what happened to the Space Gem!
After all, the Soul Gem has not only created two incomparably powerful mutants, but at least the Scarlet Witch is undoubtedly powerful.
Even, an artificial intelligence called Vision was created.
No, Vision can't be called an artificial intelligence anymore, he's just a living person.
Thinking about it this way, even robots have objects, so there really won't be anyone who is still a single dog, right?
"Do you know what the Cosmic Cube does?"
Steve Rogers was a little surprised.
Whether it is Hydra or S.H.I.E.L.D., they have studied the Cosmic Rubik's Cube for so many years, but they have not studied and understood the secrets of the Cosmic Rubik's Cube.
Looking at Ronan like this, he seemed to know something.
Ronan shrugged, and instead of answering Steve Rogers' words, he glanced around.
"Tony, can you make sure no one around here can eavesdrop on the candid film?"
Ronan asked thoughtlessly.
Although he didn't know what Ronan meant, Tony Stark answered him anyway.
"Don't worry, I'm absolutely safe here."
For this, Tony Stark is still confident.
However, Ronan thought about it carefully and finally decided not to take any risks.
I saw his hands stamped on his chest, and an invisible wall instantly encompassed several people.
In the next second, Tony Stark directly threw out the headphones in his ears and covered his ears in some pain.
Because of the strong electronic sound, his ears were a little uncomfortable.
"What did you do?"
"Jarvis suddenly disconnected."
Tony Stark covered his ears and looked at Ronan.
He lost contact with Jarvis.
And Ronan tilted his head, and under the gaze of the two people, the whole space began to change strangely!
I saw Ronan gently push with his hand, and Steve Rogers, who was sitting opposite him, was pushed out more than ten meters at once.
Steve Rogers didn't even react.
Because he didn't feel any power that touched him.
The floor was neatly laid, and each piece began to rotate in the same way.
What shocked Tony Stark even more was still behind, only to see that the glass window, which was seven or eight meters away from him, suddenly came to his back.
The wines that were originally displayed on the wine cabinet flew above their heads one by one, and the letters TS were arranged on the ceiling.
The meaning is simple, short for Tony Stark.
"What are you doing?"
Tony Stark looked at the house that had become a mess, and his heart was full of shock.
Even if you renovate your own home, why do you put all the wine in his collection on the ceiling!
If it falls, it will be a blood loss!
"I just prepared a safe place for us to talk."
"Here, all electronics are useless, and no one can interfere with us."
"Steve, what do you think of this place?"
Ronan looked at Steve Rogers, who was more than ten meters away.
The reason why he wants to use the mirror space is not only to find a safe place to talk, but also to show his means.
Although the two people in front of him feel good, Tony Stark and Ronan are still friends.
However, the display of arms is for the sake of more exchanges.
also in order to make what Ronan said more credible.
"I think it's pretty good."
Steve Rogers looked around and didn't know what adjectives to use.
After all, it was the first time he had seen such a scene.
It's like close-up magic.
No, it's a lot more gorgeous than close-up magic!
"You're talking too quietly, let's get closer."
With that, Ronan beckoned to Steve Rogers.
Steve Rogers just wanted to stand up and walk forward, but he didn't expect the sofa under his ass to move on its own.
It wasn't until he returned to his original position that the couch stopped moving.
"This is your ability."
Tony Stark took a deep breath, and he couldn't find the right adjective.
"It's a pity not to perform magic tricks."
In the end, he only held back this sentence.
Ronan, on the other hand, pouted.
Performing a magic trick?
If it weren't for Gu Yi's disagreement, Ronan would have used this trick to perform magic tricks to make extra money!
It's not like I'm living like a poor student now!
"You should have a deep sense of this ability."
"After all, you didn't make the headlines in the major American newspapers last night, and it was all up to him."
Listening to Ronan say this, what happened last night once again appeared in Tony Stark's brain.
In fact, he also wondered why a celebrity like him had such a situation, and major TV stations and newspapers seemed to turn a blind eye.
You must know that near his residence and company, there are reporters squatting 24 hours a day to shoot.
Why what happened that night, there is no report.
This incident made Tony Stark think that he was not on fire for a while.
Another thing Ronan didn't say was that at that time, Tony Stark was able to contact Jarvis and make his steel suit fly out of the roof, and everything was actually just illusion.
Ronan used illusion to mimic Jarvis's voice, and then the scene when the steel suit flew out of the roof.
For nothing else, play for real!
"That's how you used that ability?"
Tony Stark couldn't help but ask.
Although he didn't want to reminisce about that situation, he couldn't help his curiosity.
It is said that curiosity kills cats, and this sentence is really not false at all.
"Introduce you two, it's a little trick."
"To put it simply, I created a reality-like mirror space and brought you in."
Perhaps to cooperate with Ronan's explanation, at the same time, the elevator door on the other side opened.
Pepperpotts stepped out of the elevator.
Tony Stark stood up in a panic, trying to explain what had happened to Pepperpots.
But, as if he hadn't noticed him, Pepperpotts looked inside twice, his eyes full of doubt.
She didn't seem to see anyone here.
"Nothing happens in this mirror space, the outside world will not know, and they will not be able to see us."
Ronan gestured to Pepperpots, who had walked back into the elevator, and continued to explain.
Steve Rogers also stood up, his right hand outstretched, stroking the air.
He seemed to be looking for the wall.
Ronan smiled, and with a slight wave of his hand, a cracked wall appeared not far from Steve Rogers.
It's a mirror, to be exact.
Steve Rogers, who had spotted his target, stepped forward and touched the wall, as if feeling something.
Seeing him like this, Ronan's face became a little strange.
The person in front of him once touched the meow hammer once, and then made up a whole set of ways to use the meow hammer in his own brain.
He even practiced a trick in private.
Then he touched the mirror space, and he won't surprise Ronan next time, right?
"Since you've set up such a secret thing, what you have to tell us is important, right?"
At this moment, Tony Stark had recovered from the initial shock.
He had thought that he had gradually become accustomed to Ronan's methods.
But each time, Ronan was able to give him something new.
And these new tricks are also something he has never seen before, or even heard of, for more than 40 years.
"Aren't you curious about the Cosmic Rubik's Cube?"
"So, I'm going to give you a popular science explanation."
"Legend has it that Hydra is everywhere, and I'm worried that there are Hydras within your company."
Ronan shrugged, who knows if Hydra still has agents hidden.
Someone like Tony Stark, he must have it around him.
"So, what exactly is the Cosmic Rubik's Cube?"
"Why do you say it's a weapon?"
At this point, Steve Rogers was also back in place.
He knew that Ronan must have a reason for doing this with such great pains.
Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years.
As a man who had survived the battlefield, he knew these truths better than anyone else.
"Do you know the formation of the universe?"
Ronan didn't start to explain, but asked a question first.
"Your topic is so profound that even the top scientists today can't explain the formation of the universe for you."
Tony Stark shook his head, but soon, he seemed to think of something.
"Or, you mean, the Cosmic Cube has something to do with the formation of the universe?"
When he said this, he himself was a little surprised.
Why is the Cosmic Rubik's Cube called the Cosmic Cube instead of the Earth Rubik's Cube?
Could it be true as Ronan said?
"At the beginning of the universe, the world was in chaos."
"Then, with a bang, the explosion created six elemental crystals."
"At the time of the Big Bang, these explosions threw six Infinity Stones into the depths of the universe, and these six Infinity Stones all controlled a specific attribute."
"The blue one, known as the Space Gem, holds the power of all the spaces in the universe."
"This is what you call the Cosmic Rubik's Cube."
When Ronan explained, the "projector" skills that every Kama Taj must know were once again displayed.
This slide-like scene appeared in front of the two people.
This scene was familiar to Tony Stark, because he had seen the same tactics when Ronan told him about Dormammu.
"The mind, the yellow one, allows the user to enter the minds of others."
"On that S.H.I.E.L.D. spaceship, you've already seen what it's capable of."
"Of course, there are many more things that it can do, and there are also many things that I don't understand."
Ronan glanced at the two of them and said with a smile.
"Is that the scepter Loki is holding?"
"At the top, there's something that resembles a stone, the Mind Gem you said?"
Tony Stark remembers the details.
He and Bruce Banner had studied the scepter at the time.
"That's right, that's it."
"But it's worth mentioning that Loki couldn't use the scepter to control you in the first place, and you have to thank your Ark Reactor a lot."
Ronan pointed to Tony Stark's chest.
Although now in that place, the Ark reactor has been dismantled.
However, there are still lights on.
"Ark Reactor?"
Tony Stark asked rhetorically.
"That's right, the new elements used in your improved Ark Reactor are from the Space Gem."
"To be precise, the new element that your father discovered is nothing more than an isotope of the new element in the Space Gem."
When S.H.I.E.L.D. had the Cosmic Cube in its hands, Howard Stark naturally participated in the research.
Otherwise, he would not have been able to create such a new element out of thin air.
Hearing Ronan's words, Tony Stark couldn't help but touch his chest.
He didn't dare to imagine what the final result would have been if he had been controlled by Loki at that time.
"In addition to this, the remaining gems are the Reality Gem, the Strength Gem, the Soul Gem, and the Time Gem that we mages have guarded for generations."
"These Infinity Stones make up our universe today."
Ronan didn't go into detail about the other gems.
Because it's useless to introduce them to them, they haven't seen them, so it's not that simple to understand.
"Are they named because of the abilities they have?"
Tony Stark is clearly sharper.
Mind gems can control the mind, and space gems can control space.
The others, presumably abilities and names, are all in line with each other.
"That's right, you're smart."
"It's just that I've only seen the other three gems, and I've only seen the reality gem."
"Some time ago, there was an alien invasion in London, and what they were looking for was the Gem of Reality."
"It's just that the Reality Gem was eventually brought back to Asgard by Thor, and they were responsible for keeping the gem safe."
As for the location of the Reality Gem, Ronan concealed it.
It's not that Ronan doesn't tell them, it's that it's useless to tell them.
Let Asgard carry the pot first.
"If you can protect the Time Gem for generations, why don't you hold the other gems?"
"Also, if you're not going to hold the other gems, why would you end up taking the Cosmic Rubik's Cube. That is, the space gem? ”
Steve Rogers reacted as well.
Since Ronan and their mage organization are so powerful, why don't they choose to take all the gems into their pockets?
"No, you misunderstood why we exist."
"The reason why we have guarded the Time Stone for generations is because the first mage on Earth once used the Time Stone as a magic weapon to save the Earth that was on the verge of the end of the world."
"From that time on, in order to prevent the invasion of the earth by the unrealistic dimension, the time stone has also become our magic weapon."
"It can be said that since the time gem appeared on Earth, it has belonged to our weapons against the invasion of non-realistic dimensions."
"Over the years, it has been passed down."
Ronan shook his head, in a way, Kama Taj wasn't incapable of collecting gems.
Rather, they don't want to do it.
On the one hand, according to the ancient one, this is the legacy of the patriarch of Agamotto.
On the other hand, it is also to prevent the Supreme Mage of future generations from repeating the mistakes of the Supreme Mage before him.
"As for why we don't collect other gems, there are some special reasons for this, and I can't tell you."
"But what you do know is that we had no intention of appearing in the world."
"It wasn't until the events in New York that my teacher saw the world change."
"So, I'm being the representative of one of us, occasionally helping you through difficult times."
It's not that Ronan is talking nonsense, although the ancient one didn't say it explicitly, but Ronan can guess a little bit of what she means.
Since she'd told Ronan countless times, Ronan shouldn't be bound by the rules.
What Ronan does should be reasonable.
"That means that because of that New York incident, the earth is already extremely dangerous?"
Steve Rogers was a little taken aback.
"That's right, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s application of space gems is to send a signal to the universe."
"The Earth is ready to open its doors to everything that happens in the universe."
"In other words, if there are aliens coming in the future, or no matter how dangerous things are, then you can only blame S.H.I.E.L.D."
"They opened Pandora's box."
Hydra had been studying for so many years, and it hadn't brought Loki or any other aliens.
Could it be S.H.I.E.L.D.'s bad luck?
Or, because of the progress of science and technology, the bottleneck that Hydra had been unable to break through before was broken through in the hands of S.H.I.E.L.D.
That's why everything happened after Loki's arrival.
Of course, it's not correct to blame S.H.I.E.L.D., after all, it's not too much to call S.H.I.E.L.D. Hydra.
"Didn't you ask me before, why did I take the Space Gem?"
"Now what I can tell you is that these gems have been targeted by an extremely powerful alien in the universe."
"His purpose is to collect these Infinity Stones."
"That's why I took it away."
Ronan has been thinking about whether to spoil the content of Avengers III for them.
After thinking about it, it is better to reveal a little bit first, so that they have a sense of crisis.
"Powerful aliens?"
Tony Stark couldn't help but ask.
"That's right, he probably holds the same philosophy as some people on the planet."
"That is to wipe out half of the population of the entire universe so that the planets do not fall into a resource crisis."
"Presumably this set of theories, the two of you have heard more or less of them in some channels, right?"
Ronan glanced at the two of them and said with a smile.
This theory is not to mention Thanos, even if someone on Earth has said so.
It's just that this statement is too anti-human, so it's just like a small wave, directly submerged by the ocean.
But when in the midst of these small waves, suddenly a monstrous wave appeared.
Tsk tsk.
"If he wants to accomplish his goal, he must collect these six Infinity Stones."
"Then borrow the power of these six Infinity Stones, thus wiping out half of the population of the entire universe."
"This is also the crisis that all earthlings will encounter in the future."
Ronan leaned back on the couch and gave them a little bit of Thanos' purpose.
Actually, this thing is quite scary.
After all, with a fifty percent chance, who knows if it's a turn to get yourself.
If you survive, it's easy to say.
But what if you are the half that is eliminated?
Who wants to die so suddenly?
"You mean, you can see the future?"
Steve Rogers frowned because it had never happened.
That is, this is what will happen in the future.
Tony Stark, on the side, didn't speak, because he wasn't even surprised by this.
Ronan even sided with the future man, and even predicted that he would have a daughter in the future.
So what else is Tony Stark surprised about?
Predicting the future, what is more frightening to stand with the people of the future?
Especially the man of the future, it is Tony Stark himself.
Although according to Ronan, it was him in a parallel universe, although the time of that universe passed a little faster.
But that's the future, isn't it?
"I can't answer that question."
"Because the future is always changing, and all we can predict is an approximation."
"Maybe because of the influence of a certain butterfly time, that alien died suddenly because of something."
"Then the 'future' I mentioned before will also cease to exist."
Ronan spread his hands.
Seriously, he doesn't quite believe in the "plots" he saw in his previous life now.
Because of these plots, he has invisibly changed too much.
"Can you tell us, then, what is the alien's name?"
Steve Rogers thought about it for a long time and finally asked this question.
He chose to believe everything Ronan said.
No, it should be said, even if he didn't believe it, he couldn't confirm these things.
Ronan glanced at him with a smile on his face.
"His name."
"Thanos!"
I haven't changed, I'm still strong, I can still update!
(End of chapter)