The Time Variance Authority's tribunal was solemn and austere.
It carried an unquestionable air of authority.
The female judge sat high above.
Expressionless, like the embodiment of an icy legal code.
Su Ming, Deadpool, and Rocket were brought in one after another.
For Su Ming, the trial was practically a formality.
The female judge merely declared coldly:
"Individual Su Ming, for severely interfering with the Sacred Timeline.
You are hereby formally detained by the TVA, pending final disposition."
Clearly, for such a special existence,
the TVA had more complicated arrangements in place and would not deal with him lightly for now.
When it was Rocket's turn, a trace of disgust flashed through the female judge's eyes.
She seemed especially impatient with creatures that were "non-humanoid, highly intelligent, and prone to causing temporal paradoxes":
"Individual 89P13, codename 'Rocket,'
your source timeline has become redundant, and you pose an uncontrollable risk.
Ruling: immediate deletion."
The moment she finished speaking, Rocket's near-screeching roar filled the entire hall:
"Deletion?! Have you time bureaucrats lost your minds?!"
Rocket's fur instantly bristled as he struggled desperately in his specially made restraints:
"I've had enough!
Why the hell can't I ever escape the fate of being experimented on and deleted?
That was how it was in the Kree laboratory, and it's still like this in this damned place!
I f***ing **beep—beep—!"
Just as the TVA executioner was about to press the deletion button,
Su Ming lowered his eyelids slightly, and the Soul Resonance Art quietly began circulating within him.
A wisp of extremely pure soul radiance, simulating a kind of "higher-dimensional energy reaction,"
was subtly guided onto Rocket's body.
It flashed and vanished!
"Hm?"
The agent about to carry out the order and the technician monitoring the equipment beside him both froze.
The instruments detected a fleeting