In the E39537 Universe.
The Infinity Watch's betrayal had turned the war in this universe into a one-sided slaughter.
Countless lives had been lost, countless planets devoured, and entire galaxy groups wiped away.
The universe, already battered beyond repair, had begun to collapse.
The Celestials had clearly abandoned it altogether.
So Thanos absorbed the ruined universe without a hitch.
At last, his dead universe regained nearly half its energy.
Within Thanos's universe, fixed stars began to gather and galaxies slowly took shape.
Tiny points of light began to shine through what had once been a dark universe.
They were lights of hope.
For light meant energy, and light meant warmth.
And energy and warmth meant life.
Life could never arise in a universe that was dark and cold.
Give this universe a few thousand more years, and it would become brilliant and thriving once again.
At that moment, Female Adam and Captain Marvel led the rest of the Infinity Watch and tens of billions of ordinary people to a stable star system Thanos had chosen for them.
Female Adam gazed at the fixed star overhead, excitement flashing in her eyes.
"We made the right choice. Look! What a young star, blazing so brightly! And this warmth—nothing in our ruined universe could compare!"
Her own universe was full of decay and ruin, its stars gradually going dark.
Besides the Chaos Currents that appeared from time to time, there was another crucial reason she had decided to abandon her universe.
According to a recent research report known only to her, not a single new star had been born there in the past century.
It was like a country whose birth rate had fallen below one child per couple: a slow death.
If the average couple had fewer than one child, the country's