Gamora

"Marvel's Magnetic Field Rotation"

"A man calling himself White Robe Gandalf and an unknown Ravagers —I've sent them their photos." The mechanical parts of Korath's body stored images of Wei Xiuming and the other man, and he sent this information directly to the Dark Aster via a communicator.

Looking at Wei Xiuming, whose face was full of murderous intent, and Star-Lord, who looked completely dumbfounded, Ronan paused for a moment, then instructed his subordinates, "Post an anonymous bounty: five thousand for this man who calls himself White Robe Gandalf, and fifty thousand for this Ravagers —note: they must be alive. If their exact whereabouts are discovered, half of the bounty can be taken immediately."

Without Star-Lord's brainless aura, Accuser Ronan a very strategically astute individual who was not blinded by hatred for the Xandar and the Kree and turned into a reckless fool.

Lowering the bounty for the most dangerous target is a sign of wisdom.

"Found it. The Ravagers is called Peter Quill, nicknamed Star-Lord, a low-level petty thief." Gamora said, pulling up the data on the virtual screen, "He made a deal with an In-Betweener called Broker to take on the mission to find the Orb for a very low price."

Although he had independent military and law enforcement powers, Ronan ultimately only had one Dark Aster. Therefore, he made a deal with Thanos, searching the universe for the Infinity Stones as the Kree Accuser in exchange for Thanos's military assistance. Thanos's habit of killing half and leaving half had already made him infamous throughout the universe, making it impossible for him to operate normally within the territories of the three great empires.

"I will go to Xandar and retrieve the Orb from those two scoundrels," Nebula, who was traveling with Gamora, volunteered to Ronan.

Although she was Thanos's daughter, she was not favored by Thanos. Gamora had a high degree of freedom on the Dark Aster and could even challenge Ronan's orders, but she could not. She could only lower her posture and treat herself as Ronan's subordinate.

"I'll go. You're not familiar with Xandar ... and besides, I've never failed." Gamora glanced at Nebula, then turned her gaze to Ronan.

In the end, Ronan agreed to the card magic request. There was no other reason than that Nebula had always lost to her sister, as evidenced by the fact that half of her body had been Mechanical Modification.

On the other side, after entering the destination coordinates and setting the spaceship to autopilot mode, Star-Lord continued to linger in front of Wei Xiuming, bombarding him with questions, most of which concerned the powerful half-bloodline within him.

Then the phone rang.

"It's Yondu, the leader of the Ravagers." Because of the different treatment he received from Star-Lord, Beryt was now on Wei Xiuming's side, and she immediately asked Wei Xiuming for instructions.

"Bring him in."

Wei Xiuming assumed a pose, while Star-Lord looked tense.

"Peter... what's wrong with you!" After the call connected, Yondu's big face appeared on the screen. He was about to scold Star-Lord for his unauthorized behavior when he found his precious son with a bruised and swollen face, and there was someone who didn't look so easy to mess with sitting in Star-Lord's spaceship.

"Hello, Mr. Yondu." Wei Xiuming waved to Yondu.

After Wei Xiuming finished greeting him, Star-Lord said impatiently, "Listen, Yondu, if you haven't gone to Morag Planet by now, then don't go. The Orb is no longer there, and there's a guy named Ronan looking for Orb. Don't let him find you."

Yondu expressionless, but inwardly he was overjoyed. His child had finally grown up and knew how to care about the safety of his old father. However, his first words were. "Peter, you're holding the Orb now, right? Where are you going?"

"Gentlemen, your reminiscing is over. If you're going to use my spaceship to stage another father-son sympathy scene, I'll have to start charging you by the hour." Wei Xiuming coughed twice, interrupting the conversation between Star-Lord and his son.

"Mr. Yondu, this Mr. Peter Quill is now my slave, and this spaceship is my spoils... If you want to ransom this fool, remember to bring enough money. I'll be waiting for you in the Knowhere."

Then, at Wei Xiuming's signal, Beryt shut down the communication.

"Hey... what exactly do you want?" Star-Lord asked, puzzled.

Wei Xiuming picked up his drink and said slowly, "You've been saying you want to awaken the power hidden within you, and I'm just helping you out! Although I possess a tiny bit of combat power, I'm a scientist, and I can create a device based on your physical condition to allow you to better control that power—it's just that the raw materials needed are only found in the Knowhere. Rather than letting middlemen make a profit on the black market, it's better to buy them directly from the place of origin... Considering the half-human blood in you, I've already been merciful enough."

"What you told Yondu, about ransom or something?" Star-Lord asked with an awkward smile.

Wei Xiuming stared at Star-Lord with the look of someone looking at an idiot—oh, he really was an idiot. "Hey, bro, you're my prisoner now, my slave. What's wrong with asking for a ransom? Besides, purchasing supplies is free, and the equipment needed to manufacture gear doesn't require renting, does it? With your worth, ten more wouldn't be enough. It all depends on Yondu loves you, kid."

Hehe...

Who would want to stay with a fool like you? Would anyone be so kind as to help you unleash your potential?

What I'm after is Ego, who covets your power!

As a celestial being, and a Living Planet with a desire for expansion, it is such a valuable reference! It would be perfect as the brain of a giant robot.

As for Star-Lord, he's merely bait to lure Ego into a trap. This only child to inherit Ego's Celestial genes will make Ego disregard everything.

What Wei Xiuming needs to do is make Star-Lord "smell good," so that Ego can smell his scent—and activating the Celestial genes within Star-Lord is a very good option.

Aside from Star-Lord's incessant chatter, the journey was uneventful, and the spaceship eventually landed on Xandar, the capital of the Xandar Empire.

Star-Lord originally wanted to say goodbye to his temporary girlfriend, Beryt, but after learning that Ronan was going to launch a major attack on Xandar, Beryt said goodbye to Wei Xiuming and headed straight for the Nova Corps headquarters without looking back—even though Wei Xiuming had deduced the news, it's better to be safe than sorry.

"Stop looking, take me to the weapons shop." Wei Xiuming flicked Star-Lord's head lightly.

Star-Lord said, "Aren't you going to the Knowhere? There are no restrictions on weapons there, and they can be as powerful as you want. While Xandar doesn't prohibit the sale of weapons to civilians, they're mostly not very powerful. Even on the black market, the really good stuff is controlled by the Nova Corps, which is why they allow the black market to exist."

In the Knowhere, the severed head of a certain god was transformed into a habitable mining colony using technology.

Because it is not a naturally formed planet, no empire can claim dominion over it, as they cannot afford to offend the Celestial Group.

It wasn't until Talia Tivan, Elders of the Universe and the Collector, reached an agreement with the Celestial Group to send workers to mine the organic matter in the Celestial skull, such as brain tissue and cerebrospinal fluid, that this was resolved.

The Collector Tivan possesses the ability to live forever. Over the long years, he felt he needed a hobby to maintain his identity, so he began collecting interesting artifacts and life forms from all over the universe. However, he ended up putting the cart before the horse, his obsession with collecting reaching a certain level, where he began to collect things he considered rare or precious simply for the sake of collecting.

Such a person would naturally not care about the existence of order or anything like that, and places like mining colonies seem to only have value in terms of violence and barbarity, so the Knowhere is in complete chaos.

Star-Lord, with his limited intelligence, could easily deduce that if Wei Xiuming truly sought a weapon of mass destruction, he wouldn't buy it on Xandar, but rather in the Knowhere.

Incidentally, he was already quite eager to unleash his latent power.

"I really want to go, but I don't know the coordinates of the Knowhere." Wei Xiuming leaned on the railing of the overpass. Just now, two deliberate gazes fell on him.

A peculiar creature from the nearby fountain—a modified instant noodle—is standing next to a tree-man drinking water from the fountain.

Another gaze came from a woman approaching him, with green skin and a dashing figure. Star-Lord, with his pig-like head, was immediately captivated by her, turning into a pig-like figure, puffing out his chest and trying his best to look as tall and mighty as possible.

"Hello, Peter Quill, also known as Star-Lord."

Wei Xiuming turned to look at Gamora —just change her skin to blue and she's an Avatar.

"Bang!"

With a soft popping sound, a capture net unfolded above the three people, and under the influence of gravity, it covered them.

On the other side, Rocket Raccoon and Groot had disappeared. The capture net was launched by them— Rocket Raccoon had discovered and sent the location of Wei Xiuming and Star-Lord to Gamora. Rocket, who had successfully obtained half the money, wanted more and sneaked over to launch the capture net.

Then, the net was manipulated by an invisible force, enveloping the tree-man and raccoon combination instead. Gamora on the other side was also suspended in the air, flailing her arms and legs wildly like a drowning person, but unable to move an inch.

"What a huge haul!" Wei Xiuming said, looking at Gamora. "Gamora, Thanos's daughter, with that name, she'll definitely fetch a good price on the black market..."

He then turned to look at Groot and Rocket Raccoon, who were struggling to break free from the beam. "Tree people are a rare breed; they can fetch a good price."

Turning his head, Wei Xiuming found Star-Lord lost in thought. He kicked him and said, "Hurry up and start the ship. We need to get out of here before the Nova Corps enforcers arrive... They've found a suitable buyer who can sell it for a better price than the Orb."

Normally, the Nova Corps would have noticed their movements, but Beryt's report prompted the Nova Corps to begin combat preparations, and some of the manpower used to maintain order was redeployed.

"What a coincidence, just what I wanted." After the spaceship took off and flew aimlessly, Wei Xiuming took out the Orb from his waist and played with it like a toy. "I've got the weapon modification master I wanted."

Bound and placed on the ground, Gamora stared intently at the Orb. After organizing her thoughts, she said, "Listen, if you want money, I can introduce you to a buyer. He's asking for four billion for the Orb. Thanos might not take that money."

Thanos a large and powerful family business with considerable daily expenses. His net worth is four billion, but that only includes fixed assets and cash flow on paper. He may not actually have four billion in cash available.

"What?! Forty billion! That middleman only asked for forty thousand! He made a killing! What a swindler!"

Star-Lord, piloting his spaceship, roared, "That's four billion! I don't even know if you could sell Yondu's entire Ravagers fleet for four billion!"

"The person who issued the task through the broker is the same person as the buyer Gamora mentioned, but the value of a commodity depends on the seller's perception of it."

Furthermore, the broker's mastermind is the Grandmaster, who runs an arena on Planet Sakaar, broadcasts battles of powerful individuals throughout the universe, and operates casinos to maintain the normal operation of Planet Sakaar, this cosmic junkyard.

In Thor: Ragnarok, the middleman was killed by the Grandmaster's assistant because he failed to handle a certain matter.

Wei Xiuming stored the Orb behind his waist, then looked at Gamora, who was trying to unlock her handcuffs, and said, "If the person you're talking about is the Collector Tivan, I'd be very interested."

Wei Xiuming's initial purpose in coming to the universe was to reach the Knowhere. The tissue samples from the Celestial Group were very helpful to his ultimate plan, serving as important samples for cultivating super-large biological tissue structures.

However, he later stumbled upon Star-Lord, so Wei Xiuming turned his attention back to Ego. But he still had to make a trip to the Void. However, even with Star-Lord as bait, whether he could catch Ego was still Knowhere, and he had to be prepared for both possibilities.

"However, selling this for four billion is a bit too cheap," Wei Xiuming said, looking at Gamora with a devilish gaze. "The Infinity Stones are supreme treasures, of which there are only six in the universe. Selling them for four hundred billion is a bargain."

"You already know."

Gamora down her spine.

Although she didn't know Tivan's true identity, the fact that Tivan Corporation was able to develop the remains of the Celestials unscathed indicated that it had powerful forces and a strong background supporting it. It would be perfect for him to take control of the Infinity Stones, which would prevent Thanos from collecting all Six Infinity Stones and achieving his insane dream with the Snap.

If Wei Xiuming didn't understand the true nature of the Orb, then he could have been exploited for his greed in daring to anger Thanos, but he clearly did.

"Certainly."

Wei Xiuming snapped his the Snap, the sound crisp yet resonating like thunder in Gamora's mind, "How coincidental, I also don't need to collect Six Infinity Stones to fulfill my dream."