The Snap

After hearing him out, Rhodey and Tony both looked thrilled. Once the excitement faded, they bowed to Lu Qi in thanks.

Lu Qi waved it off and said to the others, "We didn't catch Thanos, so let's handle the important business first."

The Avengers immediately perked up at those words.

Hadn't they risked traveling through the timeline precisely to gather all six Stones and bring back everyone who had vanished?

Now that Lu Qi had said it, they naturally agreed without hesitation.

Looking around, Lu Qi's gaze lingered briefly on the teleportation platform behind them.

"So where are you planning to snap your fingers? I don't mind doing it here, but you guys..."

"Oh, we have a safe house. We can go there."

Tony hurriedly said, and the group headed in that direction.

As he walked, Lu Qi surveyed the base.

Perhaps for confidentiality, or perhaps because the global population had plummeted after the Snap and they could no longer recruit enough people, the base had no staff at all. There was only Captain America and this group of superheroes.

What caught Lu Qi's attention even more was how unnaturally quiet this world felt compared to his own.

It seemed Thanos had considered population growth when he snapped his fingers. He had probably slapped this universe with a fifty-percent pregnancy-rate debuff.

After walking for more than ten minutes, they arrived at the secret room Tony had mentioned.

"Do you have a gauntlet?"

Lu Qi took out the six Stones, but Tony and the others all shook their heads. Lu Qi was somewhat helpless.

"So we have to wait for you to make one?"

"It shouldn't take too long..."

Lu Qi sighed. "Forget it. Wait here."

Lu Qi drew a dimensional portal directly to his own timeline.

Then, without missing a