Star-Lord

"I shouldn't have responded to his comment!"

After reflecting on his behavior, Wei Xiuming realized that it was best to avoid dealing with Star-Lord.

As we all know, comedic characters are the strongest in the comic book world, especially characters like Star-Lord who have an aura of idiocy. Even a renowned figure like Accuser Ronan was tricked, causing the Middle-earth re-employment group to lose a member.

Wei Xiuming didn't want to talk to Star-Lord, but the guy's mouth wouldn't stop. Just like his name Peter Parker, he was a real chatterbox. Even if no one paid attention to him, he could keep talking non-stop. Even when Wei Xiuming couldn't stand his noise and beat him up, artificially fattening him up to look like a pig's head, it only brought a moment of peace.

Although Star-Lord is a very unfriendly character to the protagonist, he is a tool for writers to pad out word counts; a chapter can be made up of some meaningless nonsense.

"Hey bro, I'm from Earth too, a Shuri." After rambling on for nearly six thousand words, Star-Lord grinned and continued trying to get on Wei Xiuming's good side, "Where are you from?"

Wei Xiuming accepted the hot drink and some kind of alien fruit from the tray held by the pink-skinned girl, ignoring Star-Lord as if he were invisible, and asked her, "Madam, what is your name?"

"Beryt."

Xandarians Beryt, said somewhat fearfully that she had witnessed Wei Xiuming's brutal beating of Star-Lord Peter Quill and was afraid that her words or actions might have angered him.

"Beryt"

Wei Xiuming repeated Beryt's name, then casually pulled out an inconspicuous little piece from his waist and handed it to her. "In my hometown, it's customary to give gifts to people you've just met. Unfortunately, I was in a hurry this time and didn't bring much with me, so this will be a gift."

Beryt took it with trembling hands, then exclaimed in a voice trembling with joy, "Ten thousand!?"

Wei Xiuming's gift to her was Universal Currency with a face value of ten thousand.

In the movie, Yondu offered Star-Lord a bounty of only $40,000 for secretly taking the Orb. This amount made Rocket Raccoon think he had struck it rich, and he brazenly attacked Xandar despite the Nova Corps maintaining order on Xandar. This shows that $40,000 has considerable purchasing power, so even $10,000 was enough to surprise Beryt.

As for the origin of this money, it certainly wasn't earned by Wei Xiuming. It was still cargo from the Skrulls spaceship from back then. They were a small exiled tribe, and the wealth of the entire tribe was concentrated in Wei Xiuming's hands, making him instantly rich—just like the oligarchs in Lucia on Earth, who transferred all the assets belonging to the entire alliance to their own names when the CCCP disintegrated. Concentrating the common wealth of a large group of people in one person will certainly make one very wealthy.

Wei Xiuming doesn't feel the pinch when he spends money that isn't his own.

Upon discovering that his temporary girlfriend had earned a large sum of money simply by mentioning his name, Star-Lord widened like panda eyes. He cautiously, yet unable to contain himself, said, "Brother, my name is Peter Quill..."

"Your name is Peter Quill, a United States from Shuri. You were abducted from Earth and taken to space by Ravagers when you were a teenager, but the Ravagers leader Yondu spared you for some reason and trained you to be a qualified Ravagers." Wei Xiuming took a bite of the alien fruit. The taste and texture were indescribably peculiar, but very much to his liking.

It's estimated that this fruit isn't the kind of crop suitable for long-term storage, or perhaps it's a specialty of a certain star system. The Skrulls spaceship that Wei Xiuming hijacked only had dry rations with extremely poor taste and texture, which made him consider opening a space restaurant to enrich the aliens' palates during his spare time.

Star-Lord, with a shameless grin, declared, "It seems my Star-Lord has spread throughout the entire universe; even remote places like Earth have my name on them."

"No, it was in your six-thousand-word rant that you probably didn't even realize you'd revealed your secrets while rambling on." Giving a hand gesture for Beryt to bring over some more fruit, Wei Xiuming continued, "And, although it was nonsense, you kept subtly trying to find out my purpose for going to Morag Planet. Deadly questions were hidden in seemingly insignificant words... Yondu really raised a fine son!"

The silly demeanor is just Star-Lord's act. How could he be so simple, having grown up among the Ravagers, a group of bandits who robbed and plundered everywhere? Some of the wisdom that allows him to survive is hidden in his few words.

"Where did I say six thousand words?" As if his disguise had been exposed, Star-Lord subconsciously straightened his back, muttered something under his breath, and then silently started the spaceship.

From his perspective, he certainly didn't mention six thousand words, but Wei Xiuming's perspective was different.

When people engage in conversations in a language other than their native language, they first translate what they hear into their native language before trying to understand it. Therefore, in Wei Xiuming's case, Star-Lord's rambling consisted of more than six thousand words.

After finishing another alien fruit, Wei Xiuming spat the pit into his palm and gently tossed it away. The pit arced through the air and struck Star-Lord on the back of the head, startling him so much that the spaceship shook.

"Don't forget, you're my prisoner now. Normally, I should open the hatch, throw you into space to fend for yourself, then take your ship and see if there's anything valuable on it to sell on a secondhand market... I may not care about money, but nobody ever complains about having too much."

Wei Xiuming said slowly, "Now I'm being very merciful and letting you stay on my spaceship to pilot it for me, but it seems you're very ungrateful, keeping going in circles... This isn't a taxi with a fare system, you're taking a thirteen-dollar journey and making it thirty dollars! I only spent seventy-five dollars on a pair of pants! It's not like I don't know the way to Morag Planet, you're just wasting my time here!"

"Or perhaps you know something on Morag Planet... and that's what you're here for, and due to a conflict of interest, you're deliberately taking a longer route to delay until your reinforcements arrive?"

Wei Xiuming's voice was calm and unhurried, yet it made Star-Lord's heart leap into his throat—because Wei Xiuming had exposed his true intentions.

A buyer placed an order with the Ravagers through a middleman, requiring Ravagers to find something called the "Orb" on the Morag Planet, for a hefty reward.

Having grown up in a den of thieves, Star-Lord had a wicked idea after hearing the amount of the reward. He planned to reach Morag Planet before Yondu, find the Orb, make a deal with the broker, and then run away with the money.

Unfortunately, he encountered Wei Xiuming on his way to Morag Planet. He distracted Wei Xiuming with annoying words while circling around the star system where Morag was located, trying to wait for Yondu to arrive with his men.

His plan was exposed by Wei Xiuming. Although a large part of his speech was inexplicable, Star-Lord had no choice but to turn his ship around and fly in the right direction due to the threat of force.

Before Wei Xiuming could even finish eating a single alien fruit, the spaceship landed smoothly on the Morag Planet.

Although he desperately didn't want to see the "Orb" fall into Wei Xiuming's hands, Star-Lord's curiosity got the better of him, and he put on his helmet and the Ravagers's personal equipment and followed Wei Xiuming onto the land of this abandoned planet.

The weather in the area where they landed was terrible; corrosive rain was falling from the sky, and gusts of wind were howling. Not far away, groundwater heated by geothermal activity was gushing to the surface.

Star-Lord took out the Civilization Restoration Device, an essential product for interstellar explorers. It can scan a planet to determine its gravity and atmospheric conditions, and if there are remnants of a civilization, it can completely reconstruct the state of the civilization when it was at its peak by scanning the building ruins... Of course, its use is even greater in the hands of Ravagers, such as reconstructing the location of the vaults or other important buildings of a destroyed civilization, making it easier for them to dig for treasure.

Furthermore, the more obvious difference between Ravagers and space explorers is that Ravagers only need equipment that works, while space explorers are guaranteed to have the latest generation of equipment.

For example, the one Star-Lord has malfunctioned immediately after being turned on. Like an old TV with a faulty display, it only worked properly after being tapped a couple of times.

With the help of specialized equipment, Star-Lord and Wei Xiuming found the flattest path through the ruins and headed towards the Temple of Morag.

Sensing the dangerous aura emanating from Wei Xiuming, the rat-sized, dinosaur-like creatures that remained after the destruction of civilization fled in droves. The enormous, anaconda-like monster in the crevices lay prostrate on the ground, not daring to move, lest it provoke Wei Xiuming, this top-tier Ravagers.

The Orb was housed in the treasury inside the temple. As Star-Lord eagerly tried to open the treasury door, Wei Xiuming stopped him. "Be careful."

Star-Lord immediately reached for the Element Gun hanging at his waist and asked in a low voice, "Are there enemies?"

After waiting for a long time, Wei Xiuming slowly said, "No... but I'm actually looking forward to someone wearing black power armor suddenly appearing and knocking you out."

Unable to keep up with Wei Xiuming's train of thought, Star-Lord pulled out his tools and quickly opened the door to the vault—even though civilization had been destroyed, the device created by the Morag to preserve the Orb was still functioning, powered by the Power Stone within the Orb, its properties protected by the Infinity Stones.

The magnetic field was activated, and the Orb, protected by the energy field, was drawn in, breaking through the barrier and flying to Wei Xiuming's hand from a great distance.

After weighing the Orb in his hand, Wei Xiuming realized that the civilization of Morag had indeed conducted in-depth research on the Power Stone. The outer shell they created effectively sealed the Power Stone's energy, preventing any leakage. Without opening it, one would have no idea that the Power Gem contained a priceless treasure.

Furthermore, the Morag can indirectly use the Power Stone by manipulating the Orb, much like the Tesseract is to the Space Stone, the Eye of Agamotto to the Time Stone, Aether to the Reality Stone.

Unfortunately, due to the destruction of civilization and the loss of knowledge, the Orb longer has the value it had when it was created, except for being used as a container for the Power Stone.

However, besides being envious of the Orb, Star-Lord was also very envious of Wei Xiuming's telekinetic abilities. "Hey bro, I'm an Earthling too, can you teach me that trick?"

Wei Xiuming placed the Orb behind his waist, looked down at Star-Lord, and stared at the seemingly foolish man until he involuntarily straightened his back and puffed out his chest.

"I would love to teach you, but unfortunately you can't learn it!" Wei Xiuming pointed a finger at Star-Lord's brow, and a faint energy seeped into his body, activating the part of his bloodline belonging to Ego —centered on his heart, with silver light spreading along his nervous system.

"This power..."

Star-Lord shouted excitedly, feeling better than ever before as the power of his awakened bloodline was depleted. However, as the energy that Wei Xiuming had given him was used up, the illusion that he was powerful enough to knock Wei Xiuming down with one punch vanished in an instant.

"Is this the power you wield?" Star-Lord looked at Wei Xiuming expectantly. "Look, I passed the test!"

Wei Xiuming shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, but this only proves that you can't learn my abilities. You only have half Earthling blood. What you just saw was the activation of the other half... If that other half of your blood were Saiyan, we could still discuss things, but unfortunately, that's not the case."

"One of my parents isn't from Earth?" Star-Lord asked in surprise, then added, "And what race are Saiyan?"

"You don't need to concern yourself with the Saiyan... but I can talk to you about your mixed bloodline." Wei Xiuming said as he and Star-Lord walked out of the temple, "If I'm not mistaken, the alien blood in your veins comes from your father. He or it is an ancient being that has never existed in any records, powerful enough to rival a planet. You, possessing half of its power, have limitless potential! I'm very curious about how it resolved the reproductive isolation issue with your mother, an Earthling. I'd like to discuss it with him sometime—purely on a technical level, don't get the wrong idea."

If you hadn't deliberately mentioned it, I wouldn't have thought anything of it!

Star-Lord thought to himself, but he dared not say it aloud because of Wei Xiuming's strength.

"By the way, how did your mother die?"

Suddenly remembering something, Wei Xiuming asked.

"Cancer." Mentioning this painful topic, Star-Lord's expression immediately turned sorrowful.

"Then, have you ever considered that your mother's cancer was caused by your father from that mysterious race, that he killed your mother?"

"What?" Star-Lord exclaimed in surprise, his expression changing rapidly, perfectly fitting his comedic character.