The Cosmic Cube
"Marvel's Magnetic Field Rotation"
Why did Doom suddenly end the war and reconcile with his mortal enemy?
That's because Wei Xiuming wanted him to do that, and demanded it in the name of Doctor Death.
War is coming.
Just as mentioned in the movies and countless Marvel fanfictions, the Space Stone in the Tesseract is like a door that can be pushed open from one side or the other.
When he was researching the Tesseract some time ago, the power of the Space Stone was activated several times. In that state, the Tesseract was more active than ever before, emitting a large amount of energy radiation. If left unchecked, the underground base, which cost hundreds of billions of dollars to build, would collapse due to these energy bursts.
That base was originally intended for NASA to build a super-large particle accelerator, but the budget was exhausted just from excavating the underground base, and the project was therefore shelved.
Adhering to the principle of "if I'm having a hard time, I'll make you suffer too," the United States leaked this project to the country across the ocean through a scientist, wanting to create a United States version of the Zheng Guo Canal.
Although the project was shelved, the base that had already been built could not be wasted. It was leased to S.H.I.E.L.D.. at a price that satisfied both parties, allowing them to conduct research on the Tesseract there... However, there was a prerequisite: S.H.I.E.L.D.. had to share the results with the United States.
But how could Nick Fury possibly agree? The United States side had always thought that the research was making no progress. In fact, before Wei Xiuming got involved in the project, the technology of extracting energy from the Tesseract and weaponizing it was already in the works. It was just that its practicality was very poor and its reliability was not as good as South XIV, but its power was enormous.
Each burst of energy from the Tesseract is several times greater than the total amount extracted by S.H.I.E.L.D.., as it possesses the power to warp space itself.
It can be said that the base was saved countless times by Wei Xiuming. Dr. Selvig, who was working with Wei Xiuming on the Tesseract, broke out in a cold sweat after reviewing the data from that time.
However, Wei Xiuming's concerns went further than those of Dr. Selvig. They hadn't activated the Tesseract to study its various properties. The increased energy of the Tesseract indicated that the person on the other side of the door had opened it, and Wei Xiuming's attempt to salvage the situation was tantamount to forcibly closing the door.
But you can't guard against thieves forever; there will always come a day when the door is opened.
Many in the universe have been obsessed with the Tesseract, such as Tanlia Tivan, Collector was so obsessed with collecting it that he reached a certain level of Thanos. But perhaps only Thanos, who had a deep understanding of the Infinity Stones, could have done all this across tens of thousands of light-years. After all, Odin, who once possessed it, only sealed it on Earth until it was found by Red Skull and brought back to light. Hela's evaluation of the Tesseract after invading Asgard was only "not bad."
If it really is Thanos, then that's terrible. Even without the Infinity Stones and the Heart of the Universe, the Mad Titan wasn't invincible. But he had a huge number of henchmen under his command, and ruling over a vast expanse of space, he had a large and powerful army. Even with his expendable, low-rational Outriders troops using sheer numbers, he could still flood the current Earth—given the Avengers' current Avengers in the Avengers movie, they would be completely overwhelmed.
Although we don't know what kind of Thanos this world is like, if he's still that idealist who believes killing one person is equivalent to saving one, then that's really bad. This world hasn't yet produced any items with more than Six Infinity Stones' power, so the Infinity Gauntlet with all Six Infinity Stones is the pinnacle of power in this world.
If Thanos really snaps his the Snap and wipes out half the population, Wei Xiuming can't guarantee he'll be one of the lucky half; he has to stop him.
Taking precautions, Wei Xiuming did many things, one of which was borrowing people from Doom.
Those two so-called Latovinia ambassadors were actually the two girls that Wei Xiuming and Doom had rescued together. One of them had the eyes of a dragon, and the other had the heart of a dragon. They had also been bathed in Dragon Blood, which meant that they had an inexhaustible magical furnace inside their bodies, constantly providing them with magical power. The price they had to pay to cast spells was so low that it was enviable.
While it has a style reminiscent of the American comic book genre where adventure is more about serendipitous encounters than self-learning and training, it is ultimately a shortcut.
Unfortunately, the accident happened even earlier than tomorrow.
A month after Ambassador Latovinia officially arrived in the United States, the Tesseract in the underground base exploded once again during an experiment, and powerful energy began to gather.
Wei Xiuming has temporarily left for some reason, and astronomer Selvig has become the research director.
In the very center of the room, a device, improved from the blueprints left behind by Howard Stark, is placed. The Tesseract, emitting a faint blue light, is embedded in the center of this device. The energy it constantly releases is collected by the device and transmitted to other places through cables, continuously charging S.H.I.E.L.D..'s energy weapons, while also relieving the pressure on the decorations.
In terms of design, this instrument for analyzing the Tesseract looks very much like Tony Stark's Arc Reactor, and indeed it is; this device is a direct descendant of the Arc Reactor.
Howard Stark was inspired by the Arc Reactor while studying Tesseract, and then he collaborated with Anton Vanko to complete the design of the Arc Reactor, which can be considered a prototype.
Researchers in white lab coats moved back and forth, recording various values and constantly adjusting various devices in an attempt to stabilize the Tesseract.
This situation has been occurring frequently for the past few months, so they've become somewhat accustomed to it and have developed a set of effective solutions.
Ironically, they had tried everything to get the Tesseract to respond, but now that it was actually activated, they were the ones scrambling around in a flurry of activity.
But today's situation is exceptionally unusual. No matter what they try, the Tesseract cannot be stabilized. The energy increase is getting bigger and bigger, exceeding the set peak value, which triggers a specific alarm.
The entire base immediately sprang into action. Apart from the researchers working on the Tesseract in this room, and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and rapid response teams responsible for security, the rest of the team left the base as quickly as possible.
After months of irregular training, the staff have become very familiar with what to do when the alarm sounds. They have developed muscle memory for this unique alarm frequency. Some agents who were on break even realized they had run halfway before they came to their senses and found themselves unconsciously heading towards the evacuation route.
This was a rule established after Wei Xiuming participated in the research, and the original Nick Fury agreed to his plan.