The Mission Issued Early

The Battle of New York ended with Natasha seriously injured. Under strong pressure from S.H.I.E.L.D.., Xia Yu and the others finally decided to hand over the Mind Stone Scepter, mainly because Xia Yu didn't want Scarlet Witch and other Hero to cease to exist because of his arrival.

Although Hydra was exposed prematurely, as long as Alexander Pierce is still alive, the Mind Stone Scepter will inevitably fall into Hydra's hands.

As Xia Yu had predicted, the Hydra agents who had been exposed either died mysteriously or disappeared without a trace under the supervision of S.H.I.E.L.D.. The little thread that had just emerged was quickly wiped out before it could even be pulled.

Enraged, Nick Fury launched the most massive purge in S.H.I.E.L.D.. history. However, at this point, only small fry could be purged. Xia Yu knew this, and Nick Fury naturally knew it too, but there was no other way. Hydra had infiltrated too deeply, and now they had to do something to stabilize morale.

Xia Yu was focused on absorbing the Tesseract, but Thor was in a hurry to take Loki back to Asgard, the Bifrost urgently needed the Tesseract to repair, and Xia Yu also needed to help Natasha heal her injuries every day. So, he had no choice but to let Thor take Loki back to Asgard first.

Before leaving, Xia Yu Yuqian repeatedly told him to come back to Earth as soon as he finished repairing the Bifrost, and that he could bring the Tesseract with him, or even go to Asgard with him.

Xia Yu was simply too busy. He not only needed to treat Natasha's injuries, but he also planned to hold an internal meeting of the Avengers to reshape the Avengers' positioning and take a series of actions in advance to ensure that the Avengers would completely avoid the division caused by the Sokovia Accords.

But before that, there was one more thing he needed to do.

In a room at the Avengers Compound, Tony had installed thick Gold-Titanium Alloy around the walls, which was connected to a large Arc Reactor Tony had specially built for the base. Whenever the pressure on the walls exceeded 5 kilograms, it would be subjected to a 100,000-volt current surge.

Xia Yu calls this room the Pikachu Apartment.

Tony transformed the Pikachu Apartment in just one night to hold the half-dead Mar-Vell, although Hawkeye got Mar-Vell to tell him everything he knew in less than three hours.

Seeing Mar-Vell's miserable state, Hawkeye suggested that they should just kill him, but Tony insisted on leaving him with Xia Yu.

"Devil, it's you, you devil! Please, let me die!" Mar-Vell shouted hoarsely as he looked at Xia Yu entering the room.

His voice was hoarse; he had been imprisoned here for three days. During those three days, Tony and Hawkeye selectively forgot about him, while Captain America and Banner, who were relatively more saintly in the Avengers, assumed that Hawkeye and the others had already made arrangements.

So Mar-Vell didn't eat or drink anything for three days and three nights, but fortunately Hawkeye had treated his wounds beforehand.

Xia Yu looked at Mar-Vell, who was lying paralyzed on the bed with only his left leg remaining as a limb, and said calmly, "You look much better like this. We found your small spacecraft. I'm curious, Thanos sent you to take the Tesseract and the Scepter. Do you know what those things are?"

"Please, let me die." Mar-Vell ignored Xia Yu's question and just kept muttering his plea for death.

"See these walls?" Xia Yu pointed to the surrounding walls. "You should know what they do. If you want to die, go ahead. Although you have the strong physique of Kree, if you try a few more times, you should be able to kill yourself."

Mar-Vell fell silent, but Xia Yu wasn't about to let him off so easily. He continued, "What about your honor as Kree? You were once a glorious warrior of the Kree. When did you become a coward who needs help to commit suicide? You still have a perfectly good leg. Jump over there, do it a few more times, and you'll be fine."

Mar-Vell turned his head to look at the wall, shivering. He had tried before, but the intense pain and numbness made him give up.

Xia Yu saw the fleeting fear in Mar-Vell's eyes. "Look, your so-called glory, courage, and fearlessness as Kree warriors are nothing but brainwashing by your so-called Supreme Intelligence."

"We also have many warriors on Earth who are willing to sacrifice themselves for victory, for love, friendship, or national interests. For example, that old man with the shield here is much more determined and normal than you warriors who are forcibly brainwashed and self-hypnotized. A race that worships the AI they created has completely erased its own humanity. Foolish." Xia Yu's words were merciless.

Brainwashing from childhood and a sliver of Kree pride emboldened Mar-Vell, who roared at Xia Yu, "What do you know? You natives of this remote, backward Planet C-53, you will never understand the greatness of the Supreme Intelligence!"

"So great that you elite warriors and your Ronan the Accuser have become Thanos's dogs, searching the universe for the Infinity Stones, yet you don't even know what you're looking for? A bunch of arrogant idiots. You Kree remind me of a rather disgusting country on Earth, but at least they worship their emperor, at least he's a human being. You actually worship an AI?" Xia Yu spat on the ground, making no attempt to hide his disdain.

"We Kree..."

"You Kree are a bunch of pathetic worms." Xia Yu interrupted Mar-Vell again. "Natives of C-53? You don't even understand why the incomparably powerful Thanos in your eyes doesn't dare to come to Earth in person to take what he wants? Yet you dare to condescendingly call us natives? You just happened to be begging a native to grant you a dignified death? Don't even think about it. There's only one way to maintain your dignity." Xia Yu pointed to the wall again.

"What? You dare not? Where is the courage that your Supreme Intelligence, that artificial intelligence that can only exist in the virtual world, bestowed upon you?"

"You devil, you're a devil! What do you want? I'll tell you everything..." Mar-Vell completely broke down, tears and snot streaming down his face, his armless upper body shaking violently on the bed.

Three days ago, Hawkeye extracted all the information about his trip to Earth, but under Xia Yu's merciless trampling of dignity, Mar-Vell's years of self-hypnotized pride, dignity, and sense of honor as Kree warrior were all shattered.

In Xia Yu's words, the pride and sense of honor brought about by this forced self-hypnosis and brainwashing are not as respectable as the ten dollars in a prostitute's wallet.

Mar-Vell told Xia Yu everything, including the story of Captain Marvel, Ronan and Thanos, and the current power distribution of the Kree, etc. Xia Yu memorized it all.

"Go in peace. Whether it's Ronan, Thanos, or even your so-called Supreme Intelligence, I will send them down to meet you, if your Supreme Intelligence has a soul." As Xia Yu spoke, he snapped Mar-Vell's neck, giving him a dignified end.

"Let's put Thanos aside for now, but the Kree, Ronan the Accuser, and Natasha's wounds aren't something Mar-Vell's life can easily erase," Xia Yu muttered to himself.

System Tasks:

A Fit of Rage for a Beauty.

Driven by hatred for the attack on his woman, for the peace of the universe, and to eliminate Thanos's remaining forces.

Kill Ronan the Accuser and destroy his fleet, infiltrate the Hala, eliminate the Supreme Intelligence, reward: the Power Stone's energy and attribute absorption.

Xia Yu hadn't expected this to lead to a mission involving the Infinity Stones. He also happened to want to explore the universe, and the missions involving the Power Stone and Ronan were conveniently connected to the storyline of Guardians of the Galaxy.