The Disappearance of Jane Foster

"Stand there, don't move." After a brief moment of thought, Xia Yu immediately stopped the Captain and Falcon from coming over.

"I think I know what's going on." Xia Yu slowly backed away, reaching the side of the Captain and Falcon.

"Let's leave here first, then we'll talk."

Xia Yu gave the Captain a lesson on the Nine-Star Alignment, which is about the Nine Realms and the World Tree. Of course, Xia Yu and Thor had already discussed this part.

The Captain wasn't surprised, after all, they'd been through a lot together.

"You mean that guy just went to another planet instantly? One out of eight?" Falcon was surprised.

"To be precise, it should be one out of nine. It could be somewhere on Earth. Thor's girlfriend is an expert in this area; I should ask her to come and take a look."

Xia Yu went to call Thor and Jane over, while the Captain called Peggy. Nick Fury and Peggy were essentially the official liaisons in the Avengers; they had a way to temporarily lock down this generation.

Nick and his team acted quickly, and soon local government officials arrived to seal off the factory. Some researchers were installing various testing equipment.

"Are these people ours too?" Xia Yu turned and asked Nick Fury.

"Not entirely. Some of them are local government people. We can't completely avoid the local government; we don't have that authority. If it were the old S.H.I.E.L.D.., that would be possible, but now I'm just a team leader working for the Avengers."

Nick Fury shrugged.

Xia Yu ignored the old man's complaints and instead took out his phone to answer a call. Jian and the others had already prepared the things.

Xia Yu found a secluded corner and secretly opened a portal. Jane, Thor, and Dr. Selvig came in.

Thor was alright, after all, although he was too old to experience it, he had heard his father talk about the Nine-Star Alignment countless times.

However, Dr. Selvig and Jane excitedly took out their instruments and began taking measurements. If the legend that Thor mentioned was true, then it would scientifically confirm that their previous research was indeed true.

Professionals are indeed different. They used instruments to initially pinpoint several relatively stable connection points of the Nine Realms, such as a certain location inside the factory, which appeared perfectly normal on the surface.

Jian casually picked up an aluminum can from the ground and threw it upwards and forwards. The can visibly disappeared into thin air.

But miraculously, after a second or two it would rush upwards and reappear, then disappear again when it reached a certain point, and then reappear upwards again, repeating the cycle endlessly.

"Oh! Yeah!" Jane Foster shouted happily.

"How did you do that? I mean, the can was constantly descending," Falcon asked.

"This is very simple." Xia Yu walked up to Falcon and opened a portal in the sky that looked like two parallel portals, but it was actually a vertical wormhole.

Xia Yu also picked up an aluminum can and threw it into the portal on the ground. The can immediately appeared in the portal above, then fell directly into the portal on the ground, and reappeared from above.

Xia Yu waved his hand and closed the portal. "That's roughly the principle, except that the nine planets are interconnected, making it a bit more complicated. Also, we can't see the connection points with our eyes, and even I can't sense anything amiss. It seems only their instruments can detect it."

"In fact, we can only detect some fixed ones. There are also some that appear suddenly and disappear before my instruments can detect them, so I can't fully grasp those irregular spatial wormholes."

Jane Foster took out a laptop and was connecting it to her measuring instrument.

"Damn it, that means wormholes could appear around us at any time, and you or I could just disappear the next second and randomly appear somewhere in the so-called Nine Realms?"

Falcon felt that coming in with the others was a mistake.

"In fact, yes," Jane said calmly.

"Then why did you just come in like that? I need to get out of here right away." Falcon was genuinely panicked.

"I've been waiting for this moment for a long time. I started researching these things when I was in school." Jane was even more excited because the spatial fluctuations on the measuring instruments were becoming increasingly intense.

"What a mad scientist! I'd rather fight terrorists." Falcon tugged at the Captain, signaling everyone to go outside.

Jane, ever understanding, turned back to everyone and said, "You should all go. I want to stay here and record all of this. This only happens once every five thousand years; it's my only chance in this life. Thor, just stay and keep me company."

Xia Yu gave Thor a wary look, Thor waved his hand dismissively and pointed to the top of his head. Xia Yu understood what he meant; with Heimdall and the Bifrost, everything would be alright.

Sometimes reality teaches us that we shouldn't speak too definitively.

Thor hadn't even had time to lower his hand from above.

A ripple like water flowed through the air, and Jane, who was standing next to Thor, had vanished without a trace.

"Hey!"

Thor yelled anxiously and took a step forward to where Jane had just been, but unfortunately, the wormhole had appeared instantly, and now no one knew where Jane had gone.

"Jane..." Thor called out loudly throughout the factory, running around frantically, hoping to catch a wormhole that had appeared.

"Thor, stop searching around. Even if one appears, it might not be able to bring you to Jane. Let's go out first. You go back to Asgard and find Heimdall. He'll help you find Jane. If all else fails, you can just use the Bifrost to get back."

Thor nodded, and everyone followed Xia Yu out of the factory. Falcon was terrified of this thing, and he was extremely cautious the whole way, practically holding onto the Captain's arm the entire time.

Now let's look at Jane's side. Jane was just operating her computer, and the next second she appeared in a grand hall with an ancient aura.

The empty hall appeared desolate and barren, devoid of any signs of life, not even a single plant.

Hello? Is anyone there?

Jane called out tentatively a few times, but received no response other than her own echo.

I reached out and touched some of the stone pillars inside the main hall, and I felt that this building was at least several thousand years old.

Since there's no one here and we can't go back, why not take a good look at what kind of place this is?

Jane Foster wasn't afraid at all. First, she was at least safe for the time being; second, she knew Thor would definitely come looking for her; and third, the curiosity of a scientist seeing the unknown overcame her fear.

So she began to carefully observe the hall, the pillars, the stone walls, and the patterns and designs on them.

Finally, Jane, who had been slowly observing her surroundings, spotted a stone coffin in the center of the main hall.

The stone coffin was not large, about the same size as a normal human coffin, but upon closer inspection, some differences became apparent.

It looks like a stone coffin, but it is actually a rectangular solid stone, with another rectangular stone on top, but much thinner than the one below. The two stones are stacked together.

It looks remarkably like a sarcophagus.

Jane approached and took a closer look, discovering that the lid-like stone on top wasn't directly covering the stone below, but rather floating on top, with a very small gap in the middle.

Jane looked down curiously, wondering what was supporting the stone above.

When he turned his head to the side, he saw a dark red light emanating from below.