Dark Forest

The laws of survival in the universe.

Never expose your own coordinates, or what follows will not be friendly visitors, but endless slaughter and blood.

Mind Star was an inconspicuous Planet in the Milky Way ruled by Odin.

On this planet lived a race called the Mind-Linked.

This was a race with human bodies and rhinoceros heads, standing about two meters tall with powerful physical strength, though unfortunately their intelligence was not all that high.

After thousands of years of development, they were still stuck in a slave society, the Bronze Age.

Therefore, in the eyes of the Mind-Linked, those Asgardian Gods who could fly around naturally seemed like divine beings.

And today happened to be the once-a-year time to offer tributes to the gods.

At this time every year, every city of the Mind-Linked needed to provide the required offerings to the gods.

These tributes might be ores, or some kind of food, or perhaps some special items.

As long as the demands of the gods were met, they could spend the year in peace.

If they could not be met, a batch of people would be taken away.

And these people who were taken away had always been seen only going, never returning at all.

Even dull-witted people like the Mind-Linked knew that this spelled doom.

It was not that the Mind-Linked had never thought of resisting, but every time they did, it only brought even more violent Carnage.

Over time, the Mind-Linked with backbone had all died off, and the ones left were all spineless.

At this moment, in a city called Chita City, a large expanse of the Mind-Linked knelt on the ground.

And before them stood six Asgardian Gods wearing glittering gold, holding long spears and shields.

The elderly Mind-Linked kneeling at the front and leading them was none other than the lord of Chita City. At this moment, his eyes were filled with terror as he bitterly begged, "Respected divine lords, please grant us a few more days. You suddenly demand such a huge increase, and we simply are not prepared.

Furthermore, the weather has been bad recently, causing the yield of the Titimi Fruit to drop a lot. Just give us a few days, just a few days, and once the fruit in the other field ripens, we will immediately pick it and send it to you."

The Titimi Fruit was a sweet-tasting fruit and also the item demanded as tribute by this city.

To meet the requirements of the tribute, they had leveled a large amount of farmland and replanted it with Titimi Fruit trees.

Because of this, an unknown number of clansmen had starved to death.

And an unknown number of people had fallen beneath the Titimi Fruit trees.

In Chita City, there was even a rumor that beneath every single Titimi Fruit tree, there were ten corpses of the Mind-Linked.

Originally they had prepared a sufficient quantity of Titimi Fruits, but this year the gods suddenly demanded that the quantity be doubled, and they truly could not produce that much all at once.

However, facing the pleas of the Mind-Linked, the Asgardian Gods were clearly filled with impatience.

The leading Asgardian even had a flash of cold light in his eyes as he said fiercely, "Today is the day of the tribute. If you haven't prepared the offerings, you'd better prepare for the consequences!"

The old city lord knelt on the ground and continued to beg pleadingly, "Divine lords, we originally prepared a sufficient quantity, but you suddenly said the quantity must be doubled. We really cannot produce it all at once. Please grant us a few more days."

A look of impatience flashed through the Asgardian's eyes, and then the long spear in his hand flashed.

With a puff sound, the long spear pierced into the old city lord's body. Then he lifted the corpse with one hand and said viciously, "I don't want to hear any excuses. Prepare the Titimi Fruits for me right now, or you'll all die!"

With that, he threw the corpse onto the ground.

To the Asgardian Gods, it didn't matter even if these lower races were completely wiped out in Carnage.

Just like rats in the dirt, after killing one batch, a new batch would appear anyway.

And what they wanted were rats that could satisfy their demands.

This was also the true reality of the universe.

The law of the jungle, the Dark Forest Law.

At this moment, the Mind-Linked below saw the old city lord killed, and their hearts were instantly filled with anger.

In their hearts, the old city lord was a person worthy of great respect and admiration.

One could say he had contributed everything for the development of Chita City.

It was precisely due to the old city lord's efforts that, from being unable to eat because they planted Titimi Fruit trees, they had reached a point where everyone could eat their fill.

One could say that everyone in Chita City had been aided by the old city lord and had received his kindness.

Yet no one was without fear of death. Though their hearts were filled with anger, they still did not dare to resist the enraged divine lords.

Seeing this, the Asgardian warriors felt even greater disdain and contempt, and a wave of killing intent also arose within them.

It seemed these lower races had not witnessed the wrath of the Asgardian Gods for too long, failing even to prepare a sliver of tribute. How was he supposed to report back with this?

He knew that King Odin was currently preparing a ball and had specifically named this fruit.

This was also why he wanted the tribute doubled.

If he could not collect it now and delayed King Odin's ball, he would probably be punished.

If he were punished, those natives wouldn't have an easy time either.

Thinking of this, he even entertained the idea of slaughtering the city.

At that very moment, a young Mind-Linked raised the large iron saber in his hand and roared in grief and indignation, "Avenge the old city lord! Overthrow the cruel oppression of the gods!"

Seeing this, the Asgardian warrior wore a cold smile at the corner of his mouth, then raised the long spear in his hand and fired a blue energy cannonball.

Clearly, the long spear in his hand was only a cold weapon on the surface; in reality, it was an energy weapon.

The next instant, a puff sound rang out.

A large hole instantly appeared on the chest of the charging Mind-Linked.

He wore an expression of disbelief as his gaze gradually dimmed.

The next second.

With a bang sound, the corpse collapsed.

"Young city lord!"

The surrounding Mind-Linked cried out in grief and anger upon seeing this.

This also revealed the identity of this Mind-Linked: he was the old city lord's son.

Soon, other voices emerged.

"The gods won't let us live, let's fight them to the death!"

"Avenge the old city lord!"

"We'd rather die on our feet than live on our knees!"

Watching the rioting Mind-Linked, the six Asgardian Gods immediately revealed excited expressions, then licked their lips.

The next instant, an energy shield rose, enveloping them all.

Soon, a battle between high technology and primitive people broke out.

To call it a battle was less apt than calling it Carnage.

These Mind-Linked grasping cold weapons were utterly incapable of inflicting even a shred of damage on the Asgardian warriors hiding behind the energy shield.

Instead, every time the Asgardian Gods fired their energy cannons, they could wipe out a large swath of the Mind-Linked.

Yet the Asgardian Gods did not expect that the scenes of this Carnage were currently being transmitted to Thanos's eyes by a certain Spaceship in the sky.

Thanos, sitting on Sanctuary II, merely looked coldly at the Carnage on this planet.

Carnage like the one just now was happening simultaneously in several places across the entire Planet.

After watching for a while, this made him understand a few things.

"No wonder in the movies of the Thor Series, one could always see Thor suppressing rebellions.

It seems the guy spent twenty-four hours a day either suppressing rebellions or on his way to suppress rebellions.

With Asgard acting like this, it would be a miracle if no one rebelled."

Though naturally, in the real universe, nothing was as beautiful as filmed in movies.

Even people of the same race would engage in Carnage, let alone people of different races.

Having finished watching the show, Thanos immediately ordered his subordinates to launch an attack.