Playing with Time?

Time flows backward.

This is the most unsolvable force in the universe.

Doctor Strange, Stephen Doctor Strange, slumped amidst the ruins, staring in despair at the illogical scene unfolding before him.

As the former owner of the Eye of Agamotto, he knew all too well the terrifying power of the Time Stone. As long as one possessed this stone, no matter how severe the injury or how many times one was killed, the caster could reset their state to a perfect moment an infinite number of times.

This is practically an unkillable monster!

The carbon ash and shattered bone fragments floating in the air seemed to be summoned by some irresistible force, and like a movie rewinding, they rapidly converged on the mangled body of the Zombie Thanos.

Purple, decaying flesh regrows, and severed veins reconnect.

In just three seconds.

Zombie Thanos was just blasted into pieces, has already recovered most of his body. His empty left eye socket has even begun to regenerate a cloudy eyeball.

"Roar..."

The Zombie Thanos let out a deep roar, raised his left hand, and prepared to activate the Power Stone again.

However, faced with this suffocating situation of resurrection, Jiang Li stopped in his tracks.

He neither continued his attack nor retreated, but simply watched with interest the Time Stone that shimmered with green light.

"Playing time in front of me?"

Jiang Li's lips curled into a mocking sneer.

A thought flashes. The Master Control.

Whoosh--!

The Feedback form on Jiang Li's body instantly dissipated, replaced by a set of mechanical armor interwoven with bronze and dark gold.

This is an alien life form about two meters tall, resembling a wind-up robot from the last century. A transparent glass plate is embedded in its chest, inside which intricate and complex gears are meshing and turning wildly. Above its head, a huge metal wind-up key is conspicuously displayed.

Clockwork!

A pure-blooded extraterrestrial life form based on time, a creation whose genes have the laws of time etched into its very being!

Jiang Li raised the mechanical arm and grasped the wind-up key above his head.

"Click."

He turned it counterclockwise half a turn.

Buzz--!!!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor any blinding light.

A single, invisible ripple, centered on Jiang Li, swept across the entire Manhattan district in an instant.

The next second, the whole world fell silent.

Doctor Strange in the distance remained with his mouth agape, as if he had become a statue; the dust falling from the sky hung suspended in mid-air; even the propagation of light seemed incredibly viscous at this moment.

Ahead.

The Time Stone on Zombie Thanos's Infinity Gauntlet was emitting a blinding green light, attempting to counter Jiang Li's Time Freeze Domain.

The clash of their laws caused glass-like cracks to appear in the space around Thanos.

But the Zombie Thanos was ultimately just a mindless Beast. He knew how to brutally use the Infinity Stones to reverse his own time, but he didn't understand how to use the laws of time to fight.

The standoff lasted less than a tenth of a second.

The green light of the Time Stone was severely suppressed by a golden gear phantom that erupted from Jiang Li's body!

The Zombie Thanos's half-reconstructed body, along with his unuttered roar, was frozen in place.

Time stands still.

Jiang Li lowered his arm and walked with heavy, mechanical steps to the statue-like Zombie Thanos.

"Just because you use an external tool, you really think you're a time lord?"

Jiang Li's voice had a metallic, electronically synthesized quality.

He raised his hand again and gripped the spring on top of his head.

This time, it's not counter-clockwise, but clockwise.

"Click! Click! Click!"

Jiang Li twisted it three times in succession. The gears inside the transparent disc on his chest spun wildly, even producing dazzling Mars from the friction.

"I'll speed it up for you. Ten thousand times, is that enough?"

Boom!

A golden torrent of time surged from Jiang Li's chest, precisely enveloping the Zombie Thanos's entire body.

The freeze in time was lifted, replaced by an extremely terrifying acceleration of time!

Under Jiang Li's control, the Time Stream around Thanos was forcibly sped up by ten thousand times!

"Roar!!!"

The Zombie Thanos let out the most piercing scream in history.

His once-proud Titan-like body, his zombie skin that even plasma flames couldn't burn through, now appear so fragile and laughable after being washed away by the river of time.

Even zombies will decay over time.

One second is equivalent to Thanos spending decades.

The purple flesh instantly withered and weathered; the hard bones turned gray and became brittle.

In just a few seconds, under the frenzied torrent of time, this zombie overlord who struck fear into the hearts of the Multiverse was reduced to a lifeless pile of bones before everyone's eyes.

A gentle breeze blew by.

The bones were completely weathered into ashes, scattered in the Manhattan night wind.

Only a heavy golden glove remained, along with the five Infinity Stones embedded in it, which clattered to the ground.

[Ding! Shocking! Doctor Strange! Emotion Points +30000!]

[Ding! Shocking Spider-Man! Emotion Points +20000!]

[Ding! Advanced achievement completed: Crushing the Laws of Time! Bonus reward: +100,000 Emotion Points!]

System notifications exploded in Jiang Li's mind, making him incredibly wealthy.

Swish!

A flash of green light, Jiang Li deactivated his [Clockwork] transformation, reverting to his human form.

He breathed a sigh of satisfaction, stepped forward, and bent down to pick up the Infinity Gauntlet from the ground.

However.

Just as Jiang Li's fingers were about to touch the Infinity Gauntlet--

Buzz!!!

An indescribable sense of deadly crisis, like a cold, poisonous thorn, instantly pierced deep into Jiang Li's brain! The dial of the Omnitrix uncontrollably emitted a rapid red alarm!

Jiang Li's pupils contracted sharply, and without even thinking, his body instinctively retreated dozens of meters!

Just 0.01 seconds after he stepped back.

Above the sky, the purple Multiverse rift that had previously harbored a large army of zombies suddenly froze.

Immediately afterwards, a beam of destructive light, completely silent and pure white, shot out from the endless depths of the universe!

This beam of light was too fast and too absolute.

It did not produce any explosion or blast wave.

The beam of light pierced precisely through the Multiverse rift.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone in the Marvel, the enormous spatial rift in the sky, along with the hundreds of thousands of zombies that had not yet fallen inside... appeared like a pencil drawing erased by an eraser in this white light.

Evaporated instantly! Reduced to utter nothingness!

The night sky returned to calm, leaving only an eerie, deathly silence.