Plagiarism and Inspiration

"This thing is indeed unusual!"

With the arrival of the Great Leader, SHOCKER's business expanded rapidly, but Doctor Death still stayed in the original tavern with the first batch of SHOCKER combatants he created, and the Great Leader also liked to hang out there drinking.

Colonel Zemo and the Hell Ambassador returned here after retrieving the Gaia Memory and the Coin of Desire, and handed the Mind Stone to the Great Leader.

As the Great Leader touched the Mind Stone, he immediately sensed two consciousnesses attempting to invade his brain. One was a consciousness created by someone using the power of the Mind Stone, filled with thoughts of destruction and devastation—in short, the person invaded by this consciousness would carry out another great purge of Earth, completely wiping out humanity like the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs.

The second consciousness is the Mind Stone's own consciousness within itself. Unlike the first consciousness, it is not as aggressive. It subtly tells the person who holds the Mind Stone to stop the person who is trying to collect all the Infinity Stones.

As Doctor Death watched the power of the Mind Stone begin to spread from the Great Leader's palm to his brain, he immediately took out a briefcase from under the counter. It was a device specifically made to store the Infinity Stones —the plot to seize the Mind Stone was something that Wei Xiuming and his parallel universe counterpart had long ago discussed, and this device was indispensable.

"Unfortunately, I will not follow any of your ideas!"

The Great Leader's will was so firm; he would only follow the path he sought. How could he be swayed by the will of others and forcibly suppress the power of the Mind Stone?

"Magnetic Field Rotation, Atomic Control!"

The Great Leader reached out and grabbed the briefcase. Under the Magnetic Field Rotation, the complex and precise instrument was instantly disassembled into the most basic electronic components. Then, the material structure that made up these parts began to recombine and optimize. Many brand-new parts, some familiar to Doctor Death and some not, were born. Some of these parts even had chemical structures that exceeded the range of the periodic table.

These cosmic-tech-grade components began to assemble under the control of an invisible force, eventually forming a very simple-looking lantern, similar in style to a horse lantern.

Place the Mind Stone in the wick of the lantern, pull down the lampshade, and the entire device begins to activate. A vast and unique energy is drawn from the Mind Stone and gathers in the lampshade, radiating light like a flame.

"The magical power of emotions, the power of the Mind Stone."

Looking at the Great Leader's face illuminated by the Mind Stone's energy, Doctor Death suddenly wanted to retort. Although the other was a parallel universe version of himself, he thought, "Are you perhaps planning to transplant the Emotional Spectrum from the DC universe and form the Green Lantern Corps... Just so you know, who knows when the X-Men copyright might be revoked? And if some avocado-headed guy comes knocking on your door demanding his Green Lantern Ring, don't drag me into it."

"It's common for writers from Marvel and DC to switch jobs, and plagiarism of characters is even more commonplace. There's the Lantern next door, and the Nova Corps here, so you don't need to worry about that." The Great Leader picked up his lantern, and the flames of his Mind Stone coiled around him, materializing into a suit of armor at his will.

"Compared to me, how do you plan to repel the Chitauri attack?" the Great Leader said. "In my time, the Chitauri motherships had energy shields; a single tactical bomb couldn't break through those shields."

"How did you do that?" Doctor Death asked with some curiosity.

The Great Leader glanced disdainfully at Doctor Death and said, "Back then, my Magnetic Field Rotation had reached 490,000 horsepower. I was the one who delivered the nuclear bomb through the portal. Seeing that the mushroom egg was useless, I used my strongest punch to blast it apart, and then broke through to the 500,000 horsepower anti-gravity realm in one fell swoop."

Doctor Death chuckled but didn't say anything more.

Some time ago, aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier.

"Let me show you my masterpiece... Space Armor!"

Wei Xiuming then took out another bottle containing Tesseract particles from his waist, installed it in the slot of the teleportation gun, and said to Nick Fury, "Get the entire ship ready for outer space operations."

"The Helicarrier does not have the capability to travel in outer space." Nick Fury stared at Wei Xiuming with his one eye and said, "Although the propulsion system has been upgraded from a turbine engine to an anti-gravity engine, and the energy system uses a combination of a nuclear reactor and two Arc Reactor, the overall design is only based on operating within the atmosphere."

"Leaving aside whether the weapon systems can support combat in a space environment, the airtightness requirements of the Helicarrier itself cannot reach the level of a spacecraft... Even if all four anti-gravity engines are operating at full power, the thrust generated cannot allow the Helicarrier to reach the second cosmic velocity—you should know this better than I do."

Although Nick Fury usually makes many unreasonable demands on the scientists and researchers at S.H.I.E.L.D.. Science Center, he now uses the scientists' rebuttal to stop Wei Xiuming's delusions.

"You just need to give the orders; leave the rest to me!"

Wei Xiuming pointed the teleportation gun diagonally at the floor beneath his feet, then uttered two words: "Steaming Blood!"

After the trigger was pulled, a cloud of black, chaotic smoke shot out from the muzzle, quickly enveloping Wei Xiuming. Pale blue energy flowed within the smoke, forming pulsating currents that eventually enveloped Wei Xiuming.

The black smoke quickly faded, yet lingered, blurring Wei Xiuming's figure as if his tall, muscular body were nothing more than a mixture of light and shadow.

Nick Fury glanced at Wei Xiuming, then immediately looked away, no longer looking at him. In that instant, a flood of information rushed into his mind, making him dizzy. Furthermore, the light mist surrounding Wei Xiuming distorted his perception. Having studied psychology, he realized that if he stared at Wei Xiuming for too long, he might go insane.

That's the impact of humanity's shattered understanding of the world—when extracting information from certain die-hards, these professionally trained individuals are almost immune to existing truth serums, and lie detectors fail in their presence.

To obtain the information they want, S.H.I.E.L.D.. would resort to such extreme methods to destroy the personality of their target, but that requires a large amount of drugs and equipment. Wei Xiuming, however, has achieved this effect simply by standing there.

A powerful intuition and the biological instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm made Nick Fury turn his head away and avoid looking at Wei Xiuming.