Quinjet's engine sound changed, suddenly rising from a low roar to a harsh scream.
The fuselage shook violently, and a savage thrust pinned the three people to their seats. This prototype aircraft, which combines top human technology and some alien technologies, was like a thrown javelin, breaking straight through the camouflaged rock formations on the base's dome, and piercing into the cloudless sky without slowing down.
Carol held the joystick tightly with both hands, her expression extremely focused. She did not need to look at those complicated instrument panels, her body seemed to be integrated with this cold machine. She could feel every tiny vibration when the wings cut through the thin air, and she could feel the strength of every energy pulse in the engine core.
"The design is crude."
Talos's voice came from the back seat, with a hint of Skrull's unique hoarseness. He had unbuckled his seat belt at some point, but under a huge overload that could displace the internal organs of ordinary people, he seemed to be fine. They stood steadily and floated calmly to the middle of the cockpit. The clouds outside the window quickly gathered into an endless white ocean below them. The sky above their heads was transitioning from azure to deep blue and then to pure black at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Chu Hang lazily leaned on the passenger seat, with his arms folded in front of his chest and his eyes closed. His leisurely look seemed as if he was not on an interstellar flight, but on a long-distance bus home. He glanced at Carol's side face from the corner of his eye. She bit her lower lip tightly, her eyes mixed with excitement, nervousness, and a trace of imperceptible confusion.
"About to break through Kármán line." Carol's voice trembled slightly. This was not fear, but an instinctive reaction that he was about to return to the universe he had been away from for a long time.
As soon as he finished speaking, the heavy feeling that had been pressing on his body suddenly lightened up, and the violent vibrations and harsh noises of the fuselage also disappeared without a trace at the same moment.
The world is quiet.
There is absolute darkness outside the window, so deep that it seems to swallow up all light. On this extreme dark background, countless stars are frighteningly bright. They are not as gentle as those seen on the earth, but like diamonds, shining with cold and sharp light. Below them, a huge, quiet, and breathtakingly beautiful blue planet is slowly rotating, covered with a layer of gauze-like clouds.
Earth.
The spacecraft successfully entered the predetermined orbit, and the engine switched to a low-power cruise mode. The cabin completely lost the constraints of gravity.
Talos Like a child, he floated awkwardly to the porthole and stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to touch the distant planet. He Greed looked at the blue and pure white with complex eyes. That was the presence of his people. They dreamed of their ideal home countless times during their escape, a place full of vitality and hope, but they could never have it. The war took away their home planet, and now, like the dust in the universe, they can only look for a corner where they can breathe.
Carol also let go of the joystick, letting her body float in the weightless environment. She looked at the blue planet without saying a word. She couldn't remember exactly where on that continent she was born, but she could feel that a connection originating from blood was coming from that planet, touching her heart. There was her past and the life that was taken away from her.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?"
Chu Hang The dull voice broke the silence in the cabin. He also floated to the porthole and watched the magnificent scene side by side with them.
"I have seen many planets." Talos spoke hoarsely, with lingering exhaustion in his voice, "Burning planets, frozen planets, planets shrouded in poisonous gas... but like this... very few are full of life and covered with Life Law's gentleness. It's like a miracle."
"Yes." Chu Hang responded in a nonchalant manner, and then turned his gaze to Carol, "Find the laboratory, get back your lost memory, and then what? What are you going to do?"
Carol slowly withdrew his gaze, and the confusion in his eyes was replaced by a cold flame. "I want to find Supreme Intelligence. I want to expose its hypocritical rhetoric in front of all Kree. I want to make Yong Rogg pay the price for everything he did to me."
Her voice was not loud, but every word seemed to be squeezed out from between her teeth, full of unquestionable determination.
"Revenge." Chu Hang summed up her plan in two words, "Sounds good. Simple, direct, and clear in purpose."
He paused, then suddenly changed the subject, like a scalpel, accurately cutting into the most vulnerable part of her plan. "But have you ever thought about it, Supreme Intelligence is not a person, it is a program, a program made up of countless Kree A super artificial intelligence formed by merging the brains of elite leaders. How are you going to expose the lies of a program? Rush to the supreme Sanctum of Hala and punch that huge green head? Then what?"
Carol was stunned.
She really hadn't thought about this. In her mind, revenge was a matter of course. Yong Rogg had lied to her, and Supreme Intelligence was the mastermind behind it. Then find them out, beat them up severely, and make them admit their mistakes in front of the entire universe. Isn't this wrong?
"Even if you destroy that green head, it will be useless." Chu Hang's voice was very calm. "Its core code is backed up in the network of every military base Kree Empire, and even in the central computer of every main battleship. As long as Kree Empire, this huge War Machine, is still running, but Supreme Intelligence will never die. What you are facing is not one or a few enemies, but a deep-rooted system, a form of civilization that has lasted for thousands of years. You alone cannot defeat a system."
Talos, who had been silent all the time, listened on the sidelines, with deep approval in his eyes. No one knew better than him how desperate it was to fight against a huge interstellar empire. Skrull also tried it before, but the result was that the mother planet was destroyed, the people were displaced, and they were hunted down in the universe for sixty years.
"Then what do you think we should do?!" Carol asked a little irritably. She felt that she had exerted enough strength to punch, but it hit the empty space hard. The feeling of powerlessness made her extremely uncomfortable.
"I don't know." Chu Hang's answer was very bare, making Carol sigh in his chest, "I just remind you, don't think about things too simply. Revenge cannot solve the fundamental problem, it will only create more problems. If you kill Yong Rogge, Kree Empire will send ten commanders who are stronger and more ruthless than him. Officer. If you destroy Supreme Intelligence's host in Hala, they will immediately activate the backup system, then list you as the number one public enemy of the empire, and mobilize all their forces to hunt you down throughout the universe. What are you going to do then? Like them, wander in the endless universe for decades, never finding a place where you can sleep peacefully?"
He stretched out his hand and pointed at Talos beside him.
Talos's body visibly stiffened, his eyes instantly dimmed, and his green face was filled with pain and sadness.
"We... don't want revenge." He whispered in a voice that was almost a whisper. "We just want to survive, find a place, and rebuild our homeland. The war... we have had enough."
Carol was completely silent. Chu Hang's words and Talos's pain were like a basin of ice water poured on top of her burning anger. For the first time, she began to think about what else she could do and what she should do besides anger and revenge.
"Didi didi..."
At this moment, the monotonous prompt tone of the navigation system interrupted this heavy conversation.
"Arrived at target coordinates."
The three of them floated towards the cockpit at the same time. Looking out through the huge front porthole, they saw an empty and dark universe. There was nothing except distant stars.
"What's going on?" Talos's voice was filled with uncontrollable anxiety, "Are the coordinates wrong? Or... is this another scam by Kree?"
"No, it's right there." Carol suddenly spoke, her voice was very soft but extremely sure.
Her eyes had lit up with a faint golden light at some point. She stared at the seemingly empty darkness in front of her, as if she saw something that others could not see.
"I can feel it," she murmured to herself, "An energy that is the same as ours, very weak, and shielded by some kind of force field. But it's there. Like a... sleeping heartbeat."
She stretched out her hand and pointed to the paint Black Sky area about thirty degrees to the left in front of her.
Chu Hang raised his eyebrows. It seems that the energy of Cosmic Cube does have some kind of resonance in the Transcendence space between different homologous individuals. Under his own guidance, Carol's perception of energy has become quite keen.
"Can you make it appear?" Chu Hang asked.
Carol closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She followed the method taught by Chu Hang and no longer tried to use brute force to perceive. Instead, she let her mind go and let the Cosmic Energy in her body feel like the calm lake surface, feeling the ripples caused by the weak "heartbeat".
This was more difficult than any of the fine manipulations she had practiced on Earth before. It was like trying to distinguish the breathing of an individual audience member at a loud rock concert.
A few minutes passed, and beads of sweat broke out on her forehead.
"No... it's too weak, I can't catch it." She opened her eyes in frustration.
"Don't 'grab' it." Chu Hang's voice sounded like a clear spring in her ears, "Go and 'call' it. Treat it as a part of your body, just like your finger. You don't need to 'grab' your finger to control it, you just need a thought and it will move on its own."
Carol was stunned for a moment, as if he had some realization.
She closed her eyes again. This time, she no longer tried to capture that energy, but completely let go of her consciousness, imagining that she was an infinite ocean of energy, and that weak energy was a drop of water from the same source in the distance. She did not chase or grab it, but gently and continuously called to it.
Slowly, she felt a response.
That weak heartbeat began to become clearer. It was no longer a distant and fuzzy point, as if it was attracted by her call and was actively approaching her.
"It's now." Chu Hang reminded in a low voice.
Carol opened her eyes suddenly, and the golden light in them suddenly became bright. She stretched out her right hand, palm forward, and a beam of highly condensed golden energy, like a precise laser, silently shot towards the point she sensed.
There was no expected explosion, no earth-shattering noise.
The moment the golden energy beam shot into the darkness, it was like a drop of ink dropping into clear water.
Centered on the impact point of the beam, a layer of water-like ripples visible to the naked eye spread rapidly in the smooth space. Wherever the ripples passed, the originally empty space began to distort and blur. Then, the outline of a huge object gradually appeared from Void in the changes of light and shadow.
That's a space station.
A very beautiful space station.
It is not like any spaceship made by humans or Kree, it does not have that cold, angular military style.
Its overall structure is like a metal lotus blooming in the universe, with smooth arcs and a huge ring structure.
Countless huge blue observation windows, like quiet eyes, are gazing gently at the blue planet below. The entire space station is covered with a layer of advanced optical camouflage, integrating with the surrounding cosmic environment. Without the guidance of the same source of energy, no radar or detector can detect its existence.
On the central body of the space station, its name is engraved in an elegant, non-terrestrial font.
--Marwell.
Talos looked at this space station that appeared out of thin air, and was trembling with excitement. For the first time, moist tears filled his eyes that had experienced many vicissitudes of life. After sixty years of exile, decades of pursuit, and the sacrifice of countless people... they finally found their last hope.
Carol also stared blankly at the space station named after her mentor. A strong sense of belonging and indescribable sadness surged into her heart at the same time. This is Doctor Lawson's true home, a place of her own that is far away from war and turmoil.
Quinjet slowly approached the space station, as if under some kind of guidance. A hidden docking hatch that was originally perfectly integrated with the ship automatically slid open to both sides, revealing the brightly lit apron inside.
"Let's go." Chu Hang patted the shoulder of Carol, who was still in a daze, "Go and see your real past."
The spacecraft sailed smoothly into the docking bay and stopped with slight vibrations.
The cabin door opened, and the three of them stepped onto the cold metal deck. A smell that had been dusty for a long time, but not unpleasant, hit their faces.
In front of them was a long, pure white corridor with a simple and open design. The moment they stepped in, the lights in the corridor automatically turned on, casting a soft but not dazzling light. On the walls on both sides of the corridor, there were some holographic photos. There were magnificent Nebula, magnificent galaxies, and some... life photos.
Carol's footsteps stopped in front of a photo. In the photo, young Doctor Lawson and a young girl, also wearing Earth Air Force flight suits, were leaning in front of an old-fashioned propeller plane and laughing. The girl was smiling heartlessly, and the sun shone on her blond hair, which seemed to be glowing.
It's herself.
She stretched out her hand, her fingertips trembling, wanting to touch the smiling face of herself in the photo.
At this moment, deep in the corridor, there was suddenly an extremely slight sound of metal friction, as if something was moving.
"Who?!"
Talos reacted the fastest. He instantly became vigilant, turned around suddenly, and assumed a fighting posture, staring at the end of the dark corridor with his eyes.
Chu Hang also frowned slightly. His Energy Perception had already covered the entire space station. He could clearly feel that there was a fourth... no, a fifth Life Law signal in this seemingly deserted space station.
One signal source is very strong, full of pure energy. The other... is very strange, like Life Law, but also like a machine.
A slightly dull, mechanically synthesized female voice suddenly sounded from the broadcast system throughout the space station, breaking the long silence.
"Unknown visitor, identification failed. Starting...Tier-One Defense Protocol."