Chapter 948 Dormammu’s Revenge
"I advise you not to do stupid things.
Because once the battle begins, you have to say goodbye to your dreams.
Don't think that just four Infinity Stones can give you the power to defeat everyone.
Believe me!
When the fight actually starts, you will find that your control over these gems is far less powerful than you imagined.
Of course, it doesn’t matter if you insist on giving it a try.
But before you challenge Soth, you have to pass me. ”
It only took less than a second for the Kryptonian girl Kara to instantly change back into the black Kryptonian tights. Her eyes began to flash red with a destructive aura, and her tone was full of warning.
Since becoming the God of Power in New Phyrexia, she has actually been looking for an opportunity to test her current strength.
Thanos, who has four Infinity Stones, is obviously a good candidate.
"You?"
Thanos' originally angry mood quickly calmed down, and his eyes showed strong fear.
Because he will not forget that the black-haired girl in front of him is evenly matched with him holding the gem in terms of power.
Facts have proven that the best way to calm down a person who is so angry that he loses his mind is always to show him a fist as big as a sandbag.
After all, the only thing that can stop violence is greater violence.
This is the underlying logic by which all living things deal with each other.
All subsequent order, law, morality, and social consensus are based on this foundation.
It can even be said that the process of understanding and communication between people and between civilizations, to conducting trade, and concluding alliances, often begins with bloodshed and violence.
That’s why some people say that there are only two universal languages in the universe that can be clearly and intuitively understood by all civilizations.
One is mathematics and the other is violence.
Obviously, Thanos understood Kara's violent language and the strong desire to attack.
As an overlord, he has challenged countless enemies and accepted challenges from countless people. He understands that Kara is not bluffing, but is really ready to fight.
If it were a one-on-one situation, Thanos would certainly not mind a fight to vent his inner pain of losing his beloved daughter.
But the problem is that the Kryptonian girl is not the only one here. Zuo Si standing not far away is the real threat and big trouble.
Because anyone who is not blind can see that among the two, the latter is the one who has the upper hand.
"Haha, have you woken up from the grief of losing your daughter?
Although I know that most people choose to vent their anger on others when they encounter misfortune and pain.
But this time you clearly found the wrong person.
Because I am not the kind of coward who can swallow his anger, let alone your unreasonable troubles.
Remember, since this is the first time I can forgive you for being rude.
But if there is another time, I will make you a specimen and put it on display in my collection room. ”
As the last word blurted out, Zuo Si suddenly released indescribable terrifying energy from his evil heart, covering the purple sweet potato spirit from head to toe.
Although Thanos frantically activated the power of the Infinity Stones to fight or escape, all the energy and rules released were distorted at a speed visible to the naked eye.
He didn't know what happened, and he didn't know why even the Infinity Stones, which were said to be able to mobilize the entire universe, were so fragile in the face of this terrifying evil.
But one thing is certain, that is, the opponent's power is far beyond the limit that he can imagine.
In the end, Thanos could only watch his body wither little by little in fear and despair, turning into a living mummy like a mummy.
What is unbelievable is that he did not die, nor did he lose consciousness. He remained conscious throughout the entire process, and he could even feel the Infinity Gauntlet being removed from his hand.
The feeling of watching him fall just a few steps away from reaching the end of his dream almost made the Eternal Titan almost fall into hysterical madness.
He tried his best to open his mouth and say "no" loudly, but he couldn't control his muscles and vocal cords.
"I guess you must be feeling terrible right now, right?"
Zuo Si fiddled with the gloves that had been inlaid with four infinity stones. His two black eyes were as deep and terrifying as a deep pool.
Obviously, this is the first time he has gone all out to use his evil heart that connects countless time and space throughout the multiverse.
Judging from the visual effects, it is enough to easily suppress all the energy, matter and rules of a single universe.
This can be seen from the result of the head-on confrontation with the four Infinity Stones.
Although Thanos himself is not the most suitable user of the Infinity Stones and Infinity Gauntlet, nor can he unleash the true power of these stones, it is enough as a reference.
"Honey, I think you should leave him to me."
Seeing that the purple sweet potato spirit that was alive and kicking one second turned into a dried purple sweet potato the next second, the Kryptonian girl Kara immediately expressed her disappointment.
Zuo Si smiled and responded: "That's not necessary. I don't intend to kill him, I just give him a warning so that he does not have any illusions about his inflated strength."
"Oh? So you plan to let him finish the play?"
Kara raised her eyebrows with a different expression.
"Why not? After all, all I want is the Soul Stone. As long as he can promise to give it to me afterward, there will be no problem."
With that said, Zuo Si raised his hand and lightly snapped his fingers.
Snap!
With a crisp sound, Thanos, who had been turned into a mummy, instantly returned to his original state, fell to the ground with a plop, gasping for air, his face full of shock, panic and fear.
Before he could recover from his narrow escape, he saw the lost Infinity Gauntlet being thrown directly in front of him.
"Here, take it.
I think you should now understand your position and the role you play.
Remember, the soul gem belongs to me, you are only borrowing it temporarily.
No matter what the final outcome is, you must bring it back to me.
Tell me, do you understand? ”
Zuo Si squatted down and grabbed Thanos' big, wrinkled purple head and asked word by word.
"In your eyes, what do I and my ideals mean?"
Thanos did not try to resist, but asked with wide eyes.
Zuo Si sneered and replied: "Of course it's fun!
Otherwise, what do you think it would be?
You don’t think that I will understand or agree with your stupid and ridiculous life-clearing plans, do you?
To me, you look like a clown standing in the middle of the stage performing to please the audience.
The more serious you are, the harder you work, the more serious you are and do whatever it takes to achieve your goals, the funnier you are in my eyes.
Because what's more interesting than a fool pursuing what he thinks is the truth? ”
This time Zuo Si didn't hide anything and directly showed his monstrous malice.
There is no doubt that this made Thanos, who has always had a savior plot, feel intense humiliation.
After all, that is his ultimate ideal!
It is the only motivation to support him to survive after the destruction of his home planet!
But now, some people have trampled this extremely sacred and noble motive under their feet and ridiculed it without restraint.
Tremble!
Trembling violently!
I don't know if it was because of anger, anger, or the fear of just escaping death.
In short, after a long silence, Thanos slowly lowered his head, looking like a defeated rooster.
Seeing this, Zuo Si nodded with satisfaction: "That's right! There is a saying in my hometown that he who knows the current affairs is a hero. It seems that you are a smart man and know what to do."
When saying these words, he also deliberately slapped the other party's face in a very humiliating way, and then stood up and took Kara to directly activate the teleportation magic and disappear from the place.
And Thanos just knelt on the ground motionless like a sculpture.
After several hours, the Eternal Titan slowly stood up and let out a blood-curdling growl: "You will pay for everything you did today! I swear on my life and even my soul!"
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Just as he was about to activate the space gem and leave this remote and desolate planet, a huge space crack appeared out of thin air.
Then a big black hand stretched out from inside and pulled him in.
Thanos only felt his eyes go dark, and found that he was actually standing in front of a huge round table.
There were several huge invisible figures standing around the table.
Just when he was about to ask where this place was, one of them suddenly began to emit red flames and burn violently.
Against the bright firelight, Thanos saw a black shadowy face like a skeleton.
I saw this huge figure greeting directly in a low voice: "Welcome, Thanos. I know you must have a lot of questions to ask, but you only need to know one thing now, we are all enemies of Soth. .”
"You are... Dormammu, the lord of the dark dimension?"
Thanos obviously recognized the other party.
After all, Dormammu has lost his body since he completely merged into the dark dimension, so he doesn't have a fixed appearance.
But most of the time he usually appears in two forms.
One of them is the big face Doctor Strange saw when he entered the dark dimension, and the black shadow wrapped in flames in front of him is another.
The burning shadow nodded slightly: "Yes, I am Dormammu.
The one on your left is the famous Mephisto;
On the right is Satanish.
We are all members of the Council of Hell Lords.
Because of the appearance of Soth, souls on the earth and even the entire universe began to flow to his dimension.
The most hateful thing is that he stole half of the dark dimension from my hands.
Now we have decided to unite and form a covenant to deal with him together.
I wonder if you are interested in joining? ”
"Council of Hell Lords?!"
Thanos quickly swept across these beings that exuded a strong aura of evil, and immediately realized that the masters of the hell dimension no longer fought among themselves but united together.
You must know that there are many mountains of hell in this universe. Whether it is Mephisto, Satanish, or Dormammu, they can only have the final say on their own territory.
They don't agree with each other, and fierce wars often break out, trying to annex each other to increase their own power, and eventually unify all hell dimensions and become the king of hell.
But now, these people actually formed an alliance and wanted to start a war with Zuo Si.
This is undoubtedly good news for Thanos, who also hates Zuo Si to death.
So he replied without hesitation: "Okay! I'll join!"
Upon hearing these words, the huge shadow on the left instantly dissipated, revealing a humanoid monster with a sharp mouth, monkey cheeks, and blood-red clothes and skin. It was none other than the famous Mephisto.
The most famous Hell Lord was seen applauding and laughing: "Hahaha! I knew you would not refuse. Now, we have finally put together the last piece of the puzzle leading to victory. It is time to take action. ”
"Wait! Are you sure it's a good idea to start a war now? Don't forget, Thanos only has four infinity stones in his hand, and the last two are still missing to meet our requirements." The whole body is covered with green skin, and there is one on his belly. Satanish, who had a huge mouth, interrupted.
"I think the time has come.
After all, Soth has made it clear that he will not interfere with Thanos's trip to Earth to collect the last two Infinity Stones.
So it was only a matter of time before these two gems fell into his hands.
What we have to do now is to arrange in advance and gather our strength to launch a fatal blow when the time is right.
This time we must not give Soth any chance to react. We must completely expel him from this universe and take back the dark dimension that belongs to me. ”
Dormammu suddenly waved his big hand and clenched his fist, his tone revealing unforgettable hatred.
He obviously learned the painful lesson from the last time he broke into the universe where the planet Toril was located and was beaten by a group of gods. This time he not only formed an alliance, but also attracted other dimensional demons with similar power, and also planned to fight in a group. Zuo Si.
After all, Zuo Si's move to directly monopolize the souls of the entire human race and all colonial planets through a contract seriously damaged the interests of all hell lords.
As the saying goes, one learns from one's mistakes.
I have to say that Dormammu has indeed become a lot smarter after experiencing the fiasco.
"I need to know more details!"
Thanos demanded, clasping the hand with the Infinity Gauntlet tightly.
"Okay."
Dormammu agreed without thinking.
Soon, these hell lords began to reveal all their prepared plans.
In fact, since the last time Dormammu was forced to give up half of the dark dimension, he began to join forces with Mephisto to secretly plan his revenge.
Now with the addition of Thanos who possesses the Infinity Gauntlet, he feels that the conditions are ripe to defeat Zuo Si.
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At the same time, Zuo Si and Kara, who had just returned to Earth through teleportation magic, were wandering along a bustling pedestrian street, observing the surrounding pedestrians of different ages and expressions with interest.
Especially those bionic robots that follow humans as servants and possess considerable intelligence.
With the birth of super artificial intelligence Ultron, strong artificial intelligence technology is no longer an unattainable and taboo science for the earth.
Quite the opposite!
It is like Pandora's box that has been opened, bringing everyone into a new world.
People no longer need to worry about the tedious chores of cooking, washing clothes, cleaning up, and mowing the lawn, nor do they need to get up in the middle of the night to change diapers, feed, or play with crying children.
Even the dirty work that most people are unwilling to do, such as cleaning sewers and sewage pipes, can be replaced by professional robots or bionic robots.
For the first time in history, human beings have been truly liberated from heavy physical labor and can spend their time and energy on imagination and creation.
The most obvious feature is the snowball-like expansion of the already highly developed culture, entertainment, music, and art industries.
Because compared to science and engineering, which have hard intellectual thresholds that many people can't even understand, this kind of creation without thresholds is the direction of choice for most ordinary people.
After all, anyone can tinker with a song, a painting, a sculpture, or a short video.
And as long as you train for a period of time, there will be very obvious progress.
Therefore, with the birth of strong artificial intelligence and bionic robots, the first impression of today's global society is that it is full of fragmentation.
On one side are bionic robots that are busy and working endlessly, and on the other side are real humans who are frantically unleashing their natural pleasures and pursuing excitement.
If the People's Federation hadn't promulgated laws banning bionic humans from appearing in certain sensitive areas, bionic companions and lovers would have been everywhere.
Compared with girlfriends who often get emotional and unreasonable, or scumbag men who cheat on each other or fall in love with other people every now and then, bionic talents who are always loyal, never betray, always provide emotional value stably, and never complain are the most ideal. choice.
It's a pity that the top leaders of the People's Federation have long expected this, so they directly issued a decree to ban it from the source.
But there is a saying that goes well: if there are policies from above, there will be countermeasures from below.
Regular manufacturers can't make this thing, but it doesn't mean that "folk masters" can't make DIY modifications.
Especially needs such as sex and alcohol, which originate from the lowest level of biological instincts. The more prohibited they are, the more huge black industry chains will be spawned.
Along the way alone, Zuo Si saw more than 300 "machine girls" and "machine brothers" who had been modified to satisfy people's desires.
Some of them use advanced bionic materials to make all kinds of internal organs, including the intestines, so that the visual and tactile sensations are not much different from those of normal people.
This type of product is obviously a high-end product that requires expensive modifications in a professional studio. It can even be used to store sperm or eggs to conceive and produce offspring in the body.
Its price is probably equivalent to that of a small space shuttle, which is equivalent to the total cost of an ordinary person working without food or water for ten years.
Others are relatively simple and crude.
Just modify the appearance of the previous vibrator or special-purpose cup and insert it into it.
The advantage is that the modification fee is very cheap, and if you have good hands-on skills, you can do it at home.
Of course, after solving the physical aspect, another very important thing is program implantation.
You must know that the People's Federation has legally prohibited the relationship between bionic robots and humans, and major companies also exclude this part from AI programs during production.
In other words, after simply completing the physiological transformation, the bionic robot will not cooperate, and the user will even make a warning sound when doing these actions.
But once the software limitations of major companies on AI are bypassed, some additional content that cannot be described can be implanted.
This is like ROOT for Android phones, or jailbreaking for IOS systems.
Although there may be huge security risks, it allows you to do whatever you want.
“The changes here are really fast.”
After witnessing a thrill-seeking wild lady hiding in a public toilet and fighting with three macho versions of androids, Zuo Si sighed slightly.
You must know that only a few years have passed since his arrival.
But whether it’s the buildings, the streets, or the people living here, it feels like half a century or more has passed.
"Do you think these natural people who cannot keep up with the development of the times and only know how to indulge and enjoy themselves will eventually be eliminated by the times and slowly die out?"
Kara asked in an uncertain tone.
Zuo Si shook his head gently: "No, no.
Because although they are destined to be eliminated by the times, their children will not.
As virtual technology and knowledge infusion technology mature, the next generation of humans will completely surpass their parents.
It will take about thirty to fifty years for the People's Federation to complete its primitive accumulation and truly transform into a mature space civilization.
What's more, what happens even if they perish?
Their genes and civilization will continue to be passed down in the clones.
Compared to the future of these humans, I am actually more concerned about whether Thanos will be noticed by Dormammu and join his alliance after being strongly stimulated. ”
"So the hurtful words you said before were intentional? Did you use Thanos as a bait?"
Kara's eyes widened in surprise.
"That's right.
Just like I've been looking for Dormammu.
Even after he lost half of the dark dimension, he was always waiting for an opportunity to take revenge on me.
Especially after the death of Ancient One, the various weird situations happening on the earth far exceed the total of the past hundred years.
This obviously cannot be a coincidence, but some dimensional demon god is planning something.
It’s just that I don’t have time to continue playing cat and mouse with them. ”
Zuo Si expressed his thoughts very simply.
After all, the Igvirvo he put here was not for free.
Especially after absorbing a large amount of faith and worship, this Witch Queen has been completely promoted to a quasi-divine power and can sense all supernatural events happening on the earth.
The auras of hell lords including Dormammu, Mephisto, Olivier, and Satanish have all appeared one after another.
If it were anyone else, it might be considered normal.
After all, it is completely normal for the hell lord of this universe to appear on earth to collect souls.
But Zuo Si knew that the sudden and frequent appearance of these guys could only mean one thing, and that was the establishment of the Hell Lords Council.
There is a high probability that they will form an alliance and prepare to deal with themselves.
"That's it! So what's the strength of these hell lords?"
Kara asked in an uncertain tone.
"It's not easy to say.
Because as far as I know, most of the current hell lords are second-category demons.
It was born from the primitive energy left over from the ancient god war long ago.
Although they are not as powerful as those expelled ancient gods, they basically rule their own dimension, and without exception they are all dimensional demon gods.
Due to their deep connection with the earth, these lords attach great importance to this planet and humans.
Ever since I monopolized the ownership of human souls through a contract, I have essentially become their enemy.
The reason why they didn't rush to take action before was probably because they were waiting for the right opportunity. ”
Zuo Si touched his chin and gave his own analysis meaningfully.
"So Thanos' collection of six Infinity Stones is an opportunity?"
Kara's eyes shone slightly as if she understood something.
"Yes.
Because the Infinity Stones represent all the power of the current universe, they are quite powerful even for them.
If Thanos gets the six Infinity Stones, plus these Hell Lords, he should theoretically be able to pose some threat to me.
But Dormammu doesn't know that the smartest hunters often appear in the form of prey.
All he could think about was how to regain the lost half of the dark dimension.
As everyone knows, I also hope to grab the other half of the dark dimension.
Now that the stage has been set up and the clown is about to perform, I hope he won't be intimidated by my true power when the curtain finally kicks off. ”
After saying that, Zuo Si slightly raised the corners of his mouth and showed a playful smile.
"Do you need me to go back and notify the Demon Judges in New Phyrexia to gather their strength?"
Kara undoubtedly smelled the atmosphere of war.
But Zuo Si shook his head: "No need. Because I have prepared a different surprise for them this time..."