"If I remember correctly, according to the original plot, this dam gets destroyed in the end. Even if William Stryker survives, he won't be able to search the bodies and identify everyone. How about I sneak out now and start a new life?"
Just as Wei Xiuming was about to fall asleep, an idea suddenly popped into his head. He couldn't hold back anymore. The thought urged him to escape as soon as possible. Then the sky would be his limit, and the ocean his to roam.
He lay on the ground and listened carefully. There were no footsteps nearby. This was his chance.
With that in mind, Wei Xiuming got to his feet. When he looked up, he saw a face handsome enough to appeal to both men and women—none other than the male protagonist.
The man had been gliding through the base, which was why Wei Xiuming hadn't heard his footsteps. Seeing that his enemy, who had fallen under the Mind Storm, had gotten back up, the male protagonist's face showed a flicker of surprise and a hint of disdain.
He held a straight-backed, straight-edged long sword in each hand. Judging by where he'd come from, he must have been in the lab where Wolverine had originally been modified. The swords must have been made from the Adamantium stored there.
Talk about a lack of imagination. A metal as rare as Adamantium Alloy, and he'd used it to make swords? Was he planning to use one as his Destiny Flying Sword after he started cultivating immortality?
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"Fellow countryman, don't shoot! I'm one of you." Wei Xiuming held the male protagonist in utter contempt, but hurried to stop him from attacking. "I'm a transmigrator too! If you don't believe me, I can tell you a bit from the comedy sketch I Want to Transmigrate. Or I can recite a poem—'Though a dog...'"
He'd finally regained control of his body. It'd be a shame to get chopped in half by this guy, especially when he didn't even know if he could transmigrate a second time.
But the male protagonist had no patience to hear him out. First, Wei Xiuming hadn't spoken for a long time, so his Mandarin sounded extremely strange. Second, transmigrators never allowed other transmigrators to exist.
Transmigrators relied on their good fortune and foreknowledge of the plot to get ahead. Having another person to share the spoils was unacceptable. Better to kill him on the spot.
The man's mental energy was probably still depleted from earlier, because he didn't use Mind Storm again. Instead, he controlled a long sword with telekinesis and sent it flying at Wei Xiuming like a flying sword.
The telekinetic force behind it was immense. The sword instantly broke the Sound Barrier, leaving a sonic boom cloud in its wake.
The Infinite Flow Male Protagonist was supremely confident. With Adamantium's properties, there was no way Wei Xiuming could stop that strike.
Wei Xiuming's reflexes couldn't dodge a supersonic flying sword. But he could act faster than the male protagonist.
He didn't try to twist the sword's path by controlling its metal with magnetism like other people with powers might. He wasn't sure his magnetic-field control was stronger than the other man's telekinesis, so he went straight for the source. Using his ability to cut through magnetic field lines, he generated a powerful current out of thin air and sent it crashing into the Infinite Flow Male Protagonist.
The man wasn't tough enough to shrug off an electric shock. He was knocked unconscious at once, and the sword fell to the ground as his telekinetic grip vanished. His hair stood on end, and the shock scrambled his nerve signals, making his muscles spasm uncontrollably.
"Phew..." Wei Xiuming let out a long breath. Still shaken, he looked behind him. The sword that had been there was now buried in the wall, with only its hilt sticking out.
He used his ability to pull the sword free, gripped it by the hilt, and hurried toward the male protagonist.
If he hadn't acted half a second faster, the shock wouldn't have disrupted the other man's control, and the sword wouldn't have veered off course and barely missed his ear. If that had happened, it might have been him lying on the ground now.
"I sincerely wanted to cling to you, the protagonist, and you actually tried to kill me. You showed me no mercy, so don't expect any from me!" Wei Xiuming brandished the sword for a while, but ultimately couldn't bring himself to strike. He kicked the male protagonist instead, then began searching him for valuables. Maybe he had something like a Storage Ring.
He'd need money to live on in the future. Knowing how Infinite Flow protagonists were, the man had to be carrying plenty of gold, jewelry, and other hard currency. Wei Xiuming didn't have a legal identity and couldn't be bothered to work, so he'd have to pave his way with money.
Instead, he found a USB Drive on the man. He had just pulled a beautifully crafted ring off his finger when it began to vibrate, sending ripples through space. Before Wei Xiuming could react, it vanished from this world along with him.
The vast universe contained very little matter, and that matter took the form of celestial bodies such as black holes, stars, planets, moons, asteroids, and sources of radiation.
Very few planets could support life. The birth of life was limited by factors such as a young star, the precise distance between a planet and its star, and whether the planet had abundant resources.
Once life developed into civilization and reached a certain level, matter could be used to transform almost any environment into one suited to life. Even so, planets remained enormously important.
Take the famous Skrull Empire in the Marvel Universe, for example. It had once been one of the three great empires of the universe, standing alongside the Kree Empire and the Shi'ar Empire. But one day, Galactus, ravenous with hunger, devoured its homeworld—with the entire royal family of the Skrull Empire as his side dish.
Having lost both its nominal leader and its highly symbolic homeworld, and with no single faction strong enough to crush the others, the Skrull Empire fell apart. It splintered into five or six hundred factions.
Some of these factions were large, others small. The powerful ones used their ability to transform into anyone at will to infiltrate other societies and seize new planets for bases. The weak ones were little better than refugees, chased by squads from the Kree Empire, which had once been inferior to them in every way. They could only wander the universe and cling to life.
One day, a medium-sized Skrull ship was traveling through space toward a planet suitable for life. The planet belonged to the Shi'ar Empire, but lay on the fringes of Shi'ar territory. Although it could support life, its environment was far from ideal, and its resources and location were nothing special. As a result, the Shi'ar Empire paid it little attention.
Those were precisely the conditions this crew needed. After wandering the universe for so long, they desperately needed a planet where they could rest and regroup. Better still if the other powers in the universe didn't notice them.
But their dream was about to be shattered. A streak of light appeared out of nowhere at the far end of the universe, flying recklessly through space. Within it, one could just make out a humanoid silhouette.
By sheer coincidence, the light crossed paths with the Skrull ship. It smashed a huge hole in the vessel in an instant.
The ship didn't explode or fall apart after the light beam punched through it. Even the backward people of Earth, who could send only a handful of people into space at enormous expense, knew to include airtight compartments in their ship designs in case the hull was breached. The Skrulls, an interstellar civilization, surely knew that much.
As soon as the damage occurred, an energy barrier appeared across the breach, preventing the internal pressure from dropping and causing further casualties. It also gave the repair crew time to seal the hole.
When Wei Xiuming regained consciousness and got up to look around, he found himself surrounded by a group of green-skinned people holding guns. They wore black combat suits, had pointed ears, and faces covered in wrinkles like the tread of a pair of coconut-fiber sandals.
"Skrulls? So this is the Marvel Universe. I wonder which one?" Wei Xiuming patted his head, raised the long sword in his hand, and addressed the wary Skrulls. "This ship belongs to me now. Change course and head for planet C-53, Water Blue Star."
The blade in his hand was an Adamantium Alloy sword he'd taken from the Infinite Flow Male Protagonist. When the man's ring had forcibly brought him to this world, the sword had come along too.
As for Water Blue Star, that was what Earth was called in the Marvel Universe. Compared to an unfamiliar alien empire, Earth—a backwater little place full of hidden masters and opportunities—was better suited to Wei Xiuming's plans to keep a low profile and grow stronger.
The Skrulls all laughed when they heard Wei Xiuming. It was like watching a monkey at the zoo do something strange and chatter away—even if that monkey had just punched a hole in their ship and was clearly no ordinary creature.
#brr#The universal language of the cosmos definitely wasn't English. Without learning another species' language or wearing a universal translator, different species couldn't communicate at all. It was perfectly normal that the Skrulls couldn't understand Wei Xiuming, especially since he'd come from another universe and spoke Mandarin with a strong regional accent.
"This is great. You can't understand a word I'm saying, so I don't have to feel bad about attacking you!" Wei Xiuming waved his sword and grinned at the Skrulls.
A short while later, the ship changed course, abandoning its original destination and heading for a new one.
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