"The reason is simple. This time, Thanos's target is clear. He came for me—more precisely, for the Infinity Stones in my possession. I don't need to explain what the Infinity Stones are, do I?" Shen Fei said calmly, glancing at Nick Fury's virtual projection.
Shen Fei's words immediately drew everyone's attention to him. Yet no one spoke for a while, and the room instead fell silent.
"If—if we handed over the Infinity Stones now, would they withdraw?" Nick Fury was the first to speak after a long while.
"They would." Shen Fei nodded firmly. Once Thanos obtained all the Infinity Stones, he naturally would not need to come here. He could simply snap his fingers.
"If that's the case, could we hand over the Infinity Stones and avoid this war?" Seeing that the others remained silent, Nick Fury continued.
"I'm not afraid of war. It's just that this war is completely unnecessary. You've seen the enemy's strength. Against an enemy like that, we have very little chance of winning." Seeing everyone looking at him, Nick Fury hurriedly explained.
"Wait a moment. I haven't finished. The reason I'm certain he'll withdraw after obtaining my Infinity Stones is that he will have achieved his goal, so there will naturally be no need to start a war.
"To maintain the balance of the universe, Thanos has been carrying out massacres throughout the cosmos. But compared to all life in the universe, those massacres amount to nothing. Even if he kept doing it until he died, he still could not achieve his goal. So he came up with a solution: borrowing the power of the Infinity Stones. As long as he gathers every Infinity Stone, one snap of his fingers will accomplish his goal and turn half of all life in the universe to