When Lu Qi notified Nova Prime to come and buy people, Nova Prime still couldn't believe that Lu Qi had successfully defeated the Ronan fleet. After all, they had not detected any signs of large-scale battles in this planetary system.
But after confirming that Lu Qi was not talking nonsense, Nova Prime immediately sent a fleet to 'greet' Ronan.
And when this fleet arrived in this planetary system, they saw those Kree battleships and Dark Aster floating in space, and thought they had been fooled.
But when those battleships transformed into giant forms, they realized that these Kree battleships were no longer cold weapons, but living lives.
Nova Empire paid special attention to the captured Ronan, and also sent Nova Corps's senior officer: Denarian Sal (the Nova Corps fleet commander who participated in the battle at the critical moment in the Guardians movie) to lead the team.
After paying one billion to purchase Ronan, Sal also specifically found Lu Qi who was observing their warship manufacturing equipment.
"What's wrong?"
"The empire has decided to broadcast the beheading of Ronan in the entire empire the day after tomorrow to boost the morale of the Nova Empire. The Supreme Leader specially asked me to invite you to watch."
"Beheading Ronan live? Do you want to beat Paramount War?"
Lu Qi said helplessly, what Ronan is saying is also one of the core characters of the Kree Empire.
If Nova Empire doesn't play well, it will definitely be very lively at that time. Maybe it will be more powerful than Paramount War, and Xandar will disappear forever.
"Paramount War? What is that?"
Sal asked curiously, Lu Qi waved his hand to indicate that the question was not important.
"Aren't you afraid that Kree Empire will call you directly?"
"We also have concerns in this regard, but... this is also the best thing we can do at the moment."
Lu Qi acted like he was willing to hear what he had to say, wanting to hear why Nova Empire was forced to execute Ronan.
Sal also explained, "You should know that after the Nova Empire and Kree Empire signed the armistice agreement, Ronan is still attacking various strongholds and planets of the Nova Empire, right?"
Lu Qi nodded. Ronan's actions seemed to be unpalatable to both sides, but they weakened Nova Empire's combat power. If he were allowed to continue like this, it might delay Nova Empire's recovery of strength. Later, Kree Empire could defeat Nova Empire more easily.
There is no Supreme Intelligence signal from the Kree Empire behind it, and Lu Qi doesn't believe that Ronan dares to be so crazy.
Lu Qi was thinking about the intrigue between the two empires, and Sal also continued to explain, "During the attack, Ronan frantically launched a massive attack on several habitable planets. Carnage, hundreds of millions of residents were killed under his orders. Such actions cast the shadow of Ronan over the entire empire, affecting all aspects of the empire and greatly reducing the efficiency of social operations."
"In order to remove the shadow of Ronan, Nova Prime also made the decision to live broadcast the execution of Ronan. In order to cope with the actions that Kree Empire may take, the empire has deployed many battleships to guard Xandar as the execution site."
"Well, there's nothing we can do about it."
Lu Qi also understood Nova Prime's idea, but this time he invited himself to watch the meeting...
"Are you afraid that you wouldn't be able to control the situation, so you asked me to attend the meeting?"
Lu Qi asked directly, and Sal also looked a little embarrassed.
"We also have ideas in this regard, but don't worry, if you need to take action at that time, we will definitely pay you appropriate compensation."
When it comes to the reward, Lu Qi is a little excited. Anyway, he has already formed a relationship with the Kree Empire. With the character of those guys, they will definitely fight against him later, and there will be no problem in fighting with them again.
"Then I will definitely be there when the time comes, and my men will also go to Xandar with me to help."
"Thank you!" He said very excitedly when he thought about the hundreds of Starship Giants and Sal he saw in the universe.
Then, Sal also turned around and left, planning to take Ronan back early to avoid long nights and dreams.
As soon as Lu Qi finished talking to Sal, he saw the holographic TV in the manufacturing factory light up. Nova Prime publicly explained the live broadcast of the beheading of Ronan.
In a certain corner of the universe, Thanos is watching Nova Prime's live broadcast, his eyes narrowed slightly.
"Now it's fun."
At this time, Ebony Maw opened the door and walked into the room.
"My lord."
"Have my two daughters been captured?"
Thanos raised his head and looked at Ebony Maw. Ebony Maw's expression froze and he lowered his head and said, "Sorry, we haven't found any trace of Gamora and them yet."
"Why haven't we found it yet? Are so many intelligence officers just eating shit?"
Speaking of this, Thanos also had a little anger on his face.
A few days ago, Thanos and the others successfully found Hawkeye and Black Widow from Parallel World, but since there is another Odin who is eyeing them, the large army must not be able to move.
At this moment, Gamora volunteered to arrest these two people, and Thanos was very relieved to let her go. After all, in his eyes, Gamora could be said to be more capable and trustworthy than Black Order.
Although the ignorant Nebula had to intervene and snatched away this opportunity to gild Gamora, but seeing that Gamora didn't say anything, Thanos also agreed to Nebula's participation in this operation.
But something unexpected happened. Gamora and Nebula took a group of soldiers and never returned, disappearing together with the two Parallel World people.
According to the situation at the scene, it was Gamora and Hawkeye who eliminated those soldiers. From this point of view, Gamora's betrayal seems to be a certainty.
But Thanos still has some expectations for Gamora, thinking that she did not betray voluntarily, it must be that Nebula! She betrayed herself at Parallel World, and she will definitely betray herself this time!
It must have been her who blackmailed Gamora into betraying her, and it must have been her who asked Gamora to kill those soldiers as a vote to join them!
So he must find them, kill the traitor Nebula, and rescue his good daughter.
Just when Thanos asked Ebony Maw to warn the intelligence personnel, at the edge of the planet Vormir, a spaceship very similar to Star-Lord's spacecraft was floating here.
In the cabin of the spaceship, Nebula was tied up hand and foot and thrown into the corner of the cabin, looking at Gamora angrily.
"How dare you betray your father! Gamora, my father will definitely kill you! He will definitely!"
"Should we gag her?"
Black Widow said helplessly to Gamora, who shook her head.
"She has been transformed many times by Thanos, and her vocal organs have long been removed. Now, she relies on the speakers embedded in her body to make sounds. And she has more than ten such speakers..."
Hawkeye leaned on the chair and put his hands behind his head, "No wonder she didn't dry up after talking for so long. Otherwise, let's just kill her."
Gamora shook his head, "Didn't you say that Nebula in your world has changed her ways? I think she has this possibility too."
After all, Gamora and Nebula have been together for so long, and she has not experienced the plot of killing and falling in love with Nebula in the original plot. She still has some feelings for Nebula, which makes her unable to bear to act.
Seeing Gamora's expression, Hawkeye could only helplessly close his eyes.
"I should have prepared a pair of earplugs if I had known..."
Looking at Hawkeye's actions, Gamora asked again.
"Even if one of you two has to sacrifice, you still have to look for Soul Stone."
Hawkeye nodded, and looked at each other with Black Widow, with an unknown look in their eyes, "We must go, this is our only chance."
Black Widow said nothing, but there was a trace of determination in his eyes.
Gamora sighed helplessly, "Okay then, we will arrive soon Vormir, you guys have to discuss it, are you going to sacrifice... what the hell?"
The spaceship flew out of the wormhole, looking at Vormir and Gamora in front of them, their eyes widened.
Obviously the last time she came over secretly, Vormir didn't look like this.
"Vormir What happened? How did it become like this?"
Hawkeye and Black Widow also came over, "What's wrong? Vormir shouldn't be like this?"
"Of course not, it should not have these cracks!"
"That's strange. Let's go down first and see if Soul Stone is still there."
Hawkeye's face became a little gloomy, and he flew the spacecraft downwards.
Soon, Gamora took them to Demon Mountain's location, but looking at the huge pit, Gamora's face became extremely ugly.
"Originally there is a high mountain here, and then Soul Stone should be on the mountain, but where is the mountain?"
Hawkeye looked at the deep pit below, "Are you sure you remembered the location correctly?"
"I'm sure not."
Gamora said firmly, and Hawkeye didn't ask any more questions. "According to the original timeline, Soul Stone should be safely placed here now. Now Vormir has changed and Soul Stone has disappeared. These two things must be related!"
"Let's take a look at the cracks around us." Black Widow also said in a sympathetic tone.
The spacecraft twisted and turned directly into those extremely wide cracks.
"The cut surfaces of these cracks are a bit too smooth, as if they were directly swallowed by something."
Hawkeye's eyes are very vicious and he quickly observed this phenomenon.
Gamora also put forward various conjectures on the side, while Black Widow was thinking about something with the three-dimensional modeling of Vormir.
"How do I feel that these cracks are a bit like a language of the earth?"
Hawkeye heard this and immediately came over, "What language?"
"China language."
"Will you?"
"Learned it when Red Room was training."
Black Widow found paper and pen, copied down all the China words, and then tried to spell them into a sentence on the paper.
Soon after, Hawkeye looked at the translation on the paper and was stunned for a moment.
"Do we know anyone in this world?"
Black Widow was also a little confused, "Maybe it's someone Tony knows?"
After all, Tony went to a timeline one year earlier than them, so it's really possible that he was someone they knew in this world.
But even in the original world, they didn't know anyone who could do such a thing to a planet. If they had such combat power, how could Thanos defeat them?
"It looks like you have done multiple-choice questions. Are you leaving now?"
Gamora asked curiously, Black Widow and Hawkeye looked at each other, "No, we can't leave without worries."
In this regard, Hawkeye and Tony made the same choice. They did not blindly hand over the fate of their world to others.
"Then what are you going to do?"
"Find the person who left this message and confirm the situation with him."
"Are you sure? This person must be terrifyingly strong, otherwise he would never be able to turn Vormir into like this."
Gamora said with some worry. Black Widow glanced at Hawkeye and comforted, "It's okay. If you are scared, we will put you in a safe place later."
Although he really wanted to say something, Gamora finally nodded, "Okay, then you take me to Knowhere. I have some friendship with the person in power over there, and maybe I can find some work to do."
In another corner, Star-Lord was driving a newly painted spaceship, looking at Rocket holding a big gun on one side.
"So, where are we going to find Thanos?"
"Do you really want to find it?"
Rocket said disdainfully, Star-Lord was stunned, are you not going to look for it?
"Haha, do you really think we can find someone in this endless universe that Lu Qi can't even find?"
Star-Lord was reminded and sighed, "That's right. How can we find someone he can't find? So what are we going to do?"
Rocket looked at Shadow Ninjas who was silent behind him, "Of course we are looking for some work. Although we still have a lot of savings, I am not a person who is so easily satisfied, let alone we happen to have a good thug. Besides, don't you want to change to a bigger ship?"
Star-Lord really wants to buy a big ship, but even if they still have more than 100 million, it is not enough to buy a big ship, not to mention that not all of the money belongs to him.
For his own dream, Star-Lord immediately agreed, "That's okay, then where should we go?"
Rocket smiled proudly, "Then let the professionals tell you that the best place to find a job is where something big is going to happen. Turn on the radio and let's hear if there is any big news recently!"
Rocket pressed on the radio and soon got the information they wanted.
"Nova Prime actually plans to publicly execute Ronan? This is a big event among big things. Let's go back to Xandar!"
"Are you sure we want to stir up this muddy water?"
"With this thing, what are you afraid of?"
Rocket took out the crystal that Lu Qi gave him and waved it in front of Star-Lord.
"Anyway, he said that the rescue would be free during the mission, so why don't we take this opportunity to do something big?"
Rocket said in a sinister manner, he was extorted 10 billion by Lu Qi before, and he felt particularly unhappy in his heart.
Now you can enjoy 10 billion services for free, why not go for it?
Star-Lord hit it off with him and immediately changed direction and returned to Xandar.