The next day, Ronan's execution ceremony began on time, and the area around the execution square was filled with people who came to watch the ceremony.
I don't know how many of these people are agents of Nova Corps or people who come to cause trouble.
On a building around the square, Star-Lord looked at the dense crowd in the square below and turned to Rocket on the side and asked, "Let's stay here. If there is a fight later, can we really get there?"
Rocket held a telescope in his hand and said casually, "Don't worry, after the ceremony starts, the square will be covered with an energy shield, and everyone watching the ceremony will be blocked out."
Speaking of this, Rocket remembered something interesting, "And if someone down there wants to break the energy shield and save people, powerful explosives are the most effective way."
A powerful explosive?
Star-Lord looked at the dense crowd below and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
"Then should we remind them? Otherwise, it may turn into purgatory later."
"If you dare to go down now and shout to be careful about explosives, Nova Empire's agents will immediately push you to the ground. Those malicious guys in the crowd will also directly detonate the explosives and send you flying into the sky. Do you still want to go down and warn them now?"
Star-Lord listened to Rocket's analysis and immediately shook his head.
The two clarified the current situation, and Shadow Ninjas on the side also told Lu Qi about Rocket's speculation.
In a building around the square, Lu Qi was sitting in the luxurious suite prepared for him by the Nova Empire. In front of him was a floor-to-ceiling window, facing the execution square.
"Today may be very lively, are you ready?"
After hearing Shadow Ninjas's report, Lu Qi asked Sal who was sitting aside.
Sal held a tablet in his hand, looking at something from time to time, and smiled when he heard Lu Qi's questions.
"The Empire has made complete preparations for today's ceremony. We have monitored the entire area around the venue. The friends who were with you last time are also under our surveillance. However, after listening to their conversation, we knew that they were not looking for trouble, so we did not take action against them."
"At the same time, we have corresponding countermeasures for the troubles your friend mentioned. Among the people watching the ceremony, we have set up an agent every 100 meters. Each agent has a detection device that can detect dangerous objects around him. Once detected, other agents will take away those guys. At the same time, we have also arranged many snipers on the surrounding buildings. Once a commotion occurs, we will immediately take action to deal with those who caused the chaos."
After listening to Sal briefly explain their countermeasures, Lu Qi nodded. The battle between the two empires had already begun when Nova Prime publicly announced the beheading of Ronan.
Under the pretense that nothing happened, the two empires had fought each other countless times. They also tried their best to guard against each other's actions, and it would not be as simple as directly exploding as Rocket said.
"You are so well prepared, it seems like I don't have to do anything today?"
"I hope so. Of course, even if you don't need to take action today, we will give you a small gift as compensation for wasting your time."
Sal said with a smile, they also considered Lu Qi's feelings very carefully.
While Lu Qi and Sal were chatting, in a suite not far from them, Gamora was having video communication with the Collector.
"So, Nova Prime decided to sell Ronan's head to me?"
"She said that they have no idea of collecting Ronan's head. After all, they are not the crazy people like Kree, but their asking price is a bit high, 200 million."
"It's okay. It doesn't exceed my psychological expectations. However, after the ceremony is completed, you must get the head of Ronan as soon as possible and put it in the refrigerator, otherwise it will not be fresh."
"I have given the refrigerator to the people at the Nova Empire. Once Ronan dies, they will put his head in the refrigerator. Don't worry."
"Okay, I'll rest assured that you can do the work. I won't say anything anymore. I'll wait for your good news."
After saying that, the Collector hung up the communication. A smile appeared on Gamora's mouth. In fact, Nova Prime only offered a price of 100 million. However, as the Collector's partner for many years, she probably guessed his expected price and backhandedly offered an extra 100 million.
The 100 million went into her own pocket, which was enough for her to buy a small spaceship and live her own life in the universe with Nebula.
Of course, the premise is that she can get Ronan's head, otherwise the Collector will not give money so easily.
Looking at the people below who came to watch the ceremony, Gamora also took out his own dagger and played with it leisurely in his hands.
Among the crowd, Hawkeye and Black Widow also appeared here.
Under the attention of everyone, the ceremony quickly began, and an energy shield rose out of thin air to isolate the crowd from the outside.
A man named Nova Guards emerged from the underground passage, holding a weapon in his hand. He stood on the edge of the shield and looked warily at the crowd outside.
On the high platform in the middle, Ronan was also escorted by a group of guards and asked to kneel on the high platform.
Seeing the real owner appear, countless Nova Empire residents around him also became excited.
They crowded in front of the shield and shouted angrily, "Kill him!"
To be able to stay on top of Xandar at this time, most of these people have a blood feud with Ronan, so they are extremely emotional.
Under their gaze, the executioner was already standing nearby, but the beheading ceremony was not just about pushing Ronan out and then hacking him to death. In order to maximize the effect of this ceremony, a Nova Empire executive stepped onto the high platform and stood in front of Ronan who was kneeling on the ground.
"The core figure of the Kree Empire, Ronan the Accuser! For a long time in the past, you ignored the armistice agreement signed between the Nova Empire and Kree Empire and wreaked havoc in the territory of the Nova Empire. Carnage civilians, according to the law, we sentenced you to death. Is there anything else you want to say?"
Ronan, who had been tortured for a while, raised his head and looked at the executioner next to him and the instruments of torture in his hands without fear, with a smile on his lips.
"Nova Empire bastards! Do you think that if you kill me, you can continue to live in this world? No, you think so!"
"Kree Empire and Nova Empire have been fighting a war for thousands of years. The hatred between us cannot be erased by an armistice agreement. The war between us will still break out at a certain point in time, and at that time, it will be the time when you, Nova Empire, will perish!"
Looking at the surrounding crowd and the viewing room, Ronan was not surprised to see the person who caught him.
He looked at Lu Qi from a distance, "And you! I have sent the video of the battle between us back to the Kree Empire. They already know what you have done. They will not let you go. You and your planet will be burned to ashes by the Kree Empire!"
Listening to Ronan's speech, Nova Empire's senior management also realized that letting Ronan continue speaking was not worth the gain, so they quickly had his mouth shut.
The surrounding guards came towards Ronan, but Ronan ignored it and continued to shout in the direction of Lu Qi: "You will be wiped out by us! You will!"
After a while, Ronan put a mask on his face so that he could not open his mouth, which made him feel much quieter.
But his eyes were still locked on Lu Qi, which made Sal sitting next to Lu Qi feel a little strange.
"Sir Lu Qi, can I ask what methods you used to arrest Ronan, and why was Ronan so excited?"
Lu Qi was also a little surprised. If Ronan said directly that you caught me, Kree Empire would avenge him or something. He could still understand, but what did he show?
He showed a lot of things at that time, but he didn't know what violated Kree Empire's taboo and made Ronan say such things.
Looking at Lu Qi's face, Sal didn't ask any more questions. He lowered his head and glanced at the tablet to see if anything strange had happened.
But as he looked at it, Sal frowned.
Lu Qi came back to his senses and looked at Sal's expression. He temporarily put aside his doubts and asked him, "What's wrong? Did something happen down there?"
At the same time, Nova Empire's senior management below also announced the start of the execution after a speech.
Ronan was pressed on the shelf. In front of him was the refrigerator that Gamora handed to the Nova Empire. Once his head was cut off, he would fall directly into this box.
Ronan, who was disgusted, struggled a bit, but to no avail. The executioner on the side raised the laser ax in his hand. Only this thing could hurt Ronan's body.
At this critical moment, a spaceship suddenly appeared around the venue, and the surrounding Nova Guards immediately raised their anti-aircraft weapons to blast it.
A fireball slowly fell, but before anyone in the venue could react, another bunch of spaceships appeared in the sky and crashed directly into the energy shield.
Due to the Nova Empire's strict inspection measures, there were no armed spacecraft among these spacecraft, they were all civilian spacecraft.
These spaceships seemed to have undergone some modifications and could be driven unmanned. Under the command of the mastermind behind the scenes, they crashed straight into the energy shield.
These spaceships, which did not perform maneuvers at all, were naturally just living targets, and were bombarded by the Nova Guardss in pieces. However, due to the large number of these civilian spaceships, there were still many fish that slipped through the net and hit the energy shield.
Groups of fireballs exploded on top of the energy shield, with parts flying everywhere, causing considerable damage to the surrounding crowd. Each guard looked at the scene and hurriedly evacuated the civilians for refuge.
However, there were still many spies among the civilians. Although they did not bring any dangerous weapons, the chaotic crowd provided cover for them, knocking down those Nova Guards, grabbing the weapons in their hands, and shooting around.
The scene instantly became chaotic. Sal, who was sitting next to Lu Qi, could not sit still and directly pressed the communicator to convey the orders one after another.
Lu Qi looked at the energy shield that was constantly fluctuating under the sacrificial attack of the spacecraft, and asked Sal: "Do you need me to do something?"
Sal took the time to glance at Lu Qi, "It's not necessary now. I will inform you when there is a need."
Since they had no request, Lu Qi was content to sit back and relax, sitting in his seat and looking at the chaotic scene below. At this point, he also saw two familiar figures in the crowd.
Hawkeye and Black Widow, they found a bunker and were embarrassed to avoid the attack of Kree spy.
Seeing this scene, Lu Qi also said to Sal that he saw an acquaintance, and then sent several Shadow Ninjas to rescue Hawkeye and them.
Seeing Shadow Ninjas leading Hawkeye and the others to fight their way out and escape to a safe location, Lu Qi also breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help but feel a little angry.
One look at Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Lu Qi and guessed that they were visitors from Parallel World. After all, I had only seen them on Earth not long ago, and they were not dressed like this at that time.
But didn't he leave a message for them? Why didn't he go back obediently and had to come to join in the fun?
While Lu Qi was sulking, the Nova Guards around the square quickly reacted, and the snipers placed in the surrounding buildings began to call names one by one, killing those Kree spies who were causing trouble.
But the good times didn't last long. Not long after the snipers joined the battle, a group of civilian spaceships in the sky also came out and crashed into the surrounding buildings with snipers.
Each sniper was killed in the fire under this attack, and the suppression of those Kree spies was also greatly reduced.
But Sal's expression remained unchanged, and a formation of Nova Corps's spaceships soon appeared in the sky. The crossfire shot down all the spaceships flying in the sky, which relieved the Nova Guards's defensive pressure a lot, and the chaos around the venue was quickly suppressed.
On the execution platform, Ronan's head was cut off decisively by the executioner when the chaos occurred. The head was smashed directly into the refrigerator and was taken away by the executioner.
The ceremony has been completed and the surrounding chaos has been suppressed.
Sal breathed a sigh of relief. Next, as long as the execution video is edited and released, the shadow that Ronan has cast over the people of the empire will be lifted.
At that time, the incident will be truly over.
Thinking of this, Sal's body, which had been tense, softened and collapsed on the chair.
"You are quite well prepared, I really don't have to do anything."
Lu Qi said to him with a smile, Sal waved his hand.
"How can we allow these Krees to be arrogant in our territory?"
Indeed, although quite a commotion broke out in the venue, it was quickly controlled by Sal and the others. In terms of the result, it was pretty good.
But Lu Qi also feels a little strange.
"Logically speaking, if Kree really wants to save Ronan, he should send out more manpower. With such a small number of people, it is completely impossible to rescue Ronan, right? Have you discovered Kree's fleet outside the galaxy?"
Sal shook his head, "That's not true."
"That's strange. Kree's actions don't seem to be to save people, but to attract our attention. But the key is, even if they attract our attention, what can they do?"
After thinking hard for a long time, Lu Qi could not figure out the purpose of Kree, but at this moment, he suddenly received the message from Sorcerer Supreme the Ancient One.
After reading the message from her, Lu Qi slammed the chair handle, shattering it into pieces.
Sal looked at Lu Qi in surprise, but then looked at Lu Qi and said fiercely.
"Supreme Intelligence You bastard, how dare you steal my house!"