"Everyone, don't make a move!"
Behind them, Shanhai barked a warning and stepped forward.
His expression was grim too.
If something could make Lin Feng look that grim, it was probably nothing good.
Shanhai did recognize the thing Hela was holding.
No, recognize wasn't quite right. He simply knew what the name Lin Jili had spoken meant!
"Hela, what exactly do you want?!"
"Where did you find that thing?!"
Before Hela could answer, Tony's curiosity got the better of him.
"You know what that is?"
"Come to think of it, you're one of Lin Feng's people, aren't you?" Tony suddenly realized.
Their Heat Vision attacks were identical.
He didn't know Shanhai, but they were on the same side. That gaping hole in Hela's body was partly Shanhai's doing.
"I know where that thing came from, but it shouldn't be in her hands..."
Shanhai clenched his fists and stared at the glowing, gemlike sphere.
"Oh, you know what this is... Cough, cough..."
Hela held up the M'Kraan Crystal with a shaky hand. Before she could finish speaking, she coughed up blood.
She hadn't wanted to bring it out either, but the situation had left her no choice.
The M'Kraan Crystal in Hela's hand was one of the Marvel Universe's legendary artifacts.
And the Marvel Universe had plenty of those.
But most of the ones Lin Feng knew well, the ones he had seen in movies, were the familiar few.
Thor's Hammer, Stormbreaker, the infinitely powerful Infinity Stones, and the Casket of Ancient Winters, which belonged to the Frost Giants but now sat in Asgard's treasury.
Others had never appeared, or had appeared only rarely.
There was the Crimson Gem, which enhanced an individual's strength; the Wand of Watoomb, once wielded by Master Wong; and the Cosmic Control Rod, which could rearrange