"You! Yes, you! ..."
The captain flew forward and kicked Quill in the ass, shouting sternly.
Quill took the blow hard enough to make his kiwi shake, his face blank with confusion.
"What the hell? You done picking on honest people?"
Just as he was about to blow up, he heard the captain ask,
"You said he attacked first?"
The captain's authoritative interrogation echoed through the plaza.
"I fucking saw it myself—yes, sir!"
Quill reacted quickly and forcibly swallowed the profanity.
The clever ones had already guessed the captain's intentions from that question, their faces full of disbelief.
Gamora was one of them.
Watching Quill get kicked, she could not help but smile.
Her eyes shifted.
"Looks like something happened. The guards don't dare provoke that guy, so they're trying to smooth things over..."
She looked at Su Ming again.
He stood there with a calm, unassuming air, his expression as still as an ancient well.
Gamora narrowed her eyes, thinking of the dangers that would inevitably come after betraying Thanos.
If she could follow this guy, perhaps the pressure would be much lighter...
When Rocket saw Quill get kicked, he burst out laughing.
"Haha..."
His heart filled with a feeling called satisfaction.
He had originally planned to use Groot to establish his authority and make those bullies who preyed on the weak stay out of his way.
Who would have thought that Su Ming's move would have such an astonishing effect?
Rocket was thin and physically unimposing, so he usually chose heavy weaponry to make up for it.
He had teamed up with Groot largely because their abilities complemented each other.
Groot was tall and powerful, but he was missing a screw upstairs.
That made Rocket's clever brain especially useful.
Now Rocket had no weapons left, only Groot, his