Cosmic Orb

The Purple Silk Star was a fixed star with a diameter of more than three million kilometers, an orange surface, and a total of five planets.

Judging by the age of the fixed star, the Purple Silk Star was not young and was already in its senescent stage.

Perhaps precisely because of this, Aihe Star, the only planet among the five that had nurtured life, was now on the verge of collapse.

Earthquakes and volcanoes occurred here almost every day, causing the life here to slowly and completely vanish.

One week later.

Aihe Star welcomed the first batch of guests after the apocalypse.

This was a miniature small spaceship.

After passing through thick clouds and various volcanic eruptions of magma on the ground, it landed on a relatively stable hillside.

Hiss, hiss...

Along with the sound of the engine shutting down, the hatch was quickly opened, and then a Blue Star man jumped down.

That's right, he was a Blue Star person.

Brown short hair and eyes, white skin, wearing a Ravagers uniform.

He was the notorious Thanos's adopted son, Peter Jason Quill, nicknamed Star-Lord.

Soon Star-Lord activated his helmet, took out a map, and walked toward his destination.

After more than ten minutes, Star-Lord arrived at a rock cave entrance and walked inside.

Therefore, he did not see that in the sky behind him, a shockingly huge dark shadow soon appeared.

After walking into the cave entrance, he excitedly deactivated his helmet, turned on his music, twisting and stepping, and walked inward with very comical movements.

In the cave, there were only bones and skeletons.

From this, it could also be seen that the life on this planet had not died too long ago; otherwise, it would have long since weathered away and left no bones behind.

Judging by the patterns painted all over the walls, although intelligent life was born here, the technological civilization was not developed.

It was precisely because the intelligent life on Aihe Star had not reached the level of a Level-One cosmic civilization and could not venture out of the planet that almost all the life here had died out.

Why did he say almost? That was because Space Pirates occasionally passed by here, stealing resources from the place and incidentally recruiting some manpower.

This was also the reason why the news here could spread out.

Star-Lord easily arrived at the secret chamber, and after a series of decryption steps, he simply obtained the Cosmic Orb.

And here, he did not encounter the interception seen in other cosmic timelines, but instead packed away the Cosmic Orb and headed outside the cave.

However, after coming outside, his eyes immediately widened and he showed a look of utter disbelief.

Because in the sky, a Spaceship that almost covered the entire sky had appeared.

"Oh, my, god!"

At this moment, Star-Lord did not know how to describe his feelings.

Faced with a Spaceship of this caliber, it was obvious that even if he brought his father's Ravagers fleet, escape was utterly impossible.

At this time, several small spaceships flew down from the sky and landed beside him after a moment.

With a few hiss, hiss sounds, the spaceships quickly opened their hatches.

Nebula jumped out of the spaceship first, followed by a few normal humanoid Black Order members.

Immediately afterward, from the other spaceships, Black Order Warriors jumped out one after another.

Two minutes later, thousands of people surrounded Star-Lord.

Seeing this, Star-Lord instantly raised his hands and gave up resistance.

"Everyone, let's talk this out nicely. I'm just strolling around here."

Nebula ignored Star-Lord and said to her subordinates beside her, "Keep an eye on him, we're going in to search."

With that, she led most of her subordinates into the cave.

Watching as only ten people were left to guard him, Star-Lord's eyes darted around, wanting to escape from this place.

He was not a man who resigned himself to fate; even when faced with a desperate situation, he would not give up hope.

However, before he could make a move, more spaceships soon appeared in the sky, and several ships even came above his spaceship and then blasted it to pieces with a single shot.

"Barit!"

Upon seeing this, Star-Lord let out a grief-stricken roar.

Barit was a very cute and pretty red-skinned alien woman.

Although her appearance might seem a bit bizarre to a Blue Star person, to Star-Lord, who was not picky, there was no such thing as being unselective.

Before coming here, he had been intimate with her in the spaceship for quite a while.

Precisely because the two of them were too intimate, she had become too exhausted and thus remained behind in the spaceship to rest.

He never expected that because of this, she would lose her life.

However, before he could vent his anger, the surrounding Black Order struck him with a shot.

With a loud bang!

The electromagnetic bullet instantly struck his chest, taking away his life.

Inside Sanctuary II.

Thanos just chuckled coldly after watching Star-Lord fall to the ground.

He was the one who had personally given the order for his subordinates to fire just now.

As for someone who could neither be used nor subjugated, what was the point of letting him live in the world—was he wasting air?

However, Star-Lord seemed to have come out of a cave earlier, so the Power Stone might just be on him.

After thinking about it, he immediately issued a new order.

"Bring me back his corpse."

Upon receiving the order, the Black Order warrior immediately stepped forward, preparing to lift Star-Lord's body.

But right at that moment, a blue light flickered on Star-Lord's chest.

The next instant, the injury on his chest healed, and following closely, he opened his eyes as a massive blue energy erupted from his entire body.

With an angry roar of "Ah!", the formidable energy instantly turned the surrounding people to ashes.

Seeing this, Thanos narrowed his eyes at once.

Sure enough, Star-Lord was not so easy to kill.

And understandably so; as the son of a Celestial, although his father, Ego, was merely a malnourished premature infant, how could a descendant of such a being possibly be a mortal?

Moreover, Star-Lord was an offspring who had inherited Ego's fine genes and possessed immensely strong energy.

The current situation clearly showed Star-Lord awakening this energy prematurely while on the brink of death.

After some thought, Thanos turned his head to look at Ronan beside him and spoke. "It's time for you to make a move."

The reason he asked Ronan to strike instead of making a move himself was naturally because he knew the waters of the Marvel Universe ran too deep. Not knowing whether the Celestials had taken notice of this place, it was better to let Ronan handle it.

Otherwise, why else would he have called Ronan over—to watch the show from the sidelines the whole time?

If the Celestials really did take notice of Star-Lord, he would have no choice but to abandon Ronan and make a strategic retreat.

Why did he think the Celestials would notice Star-Lord? He had his basis for it.

Keep in mind that in the plot of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Star-Lord miraculously broke through several levels of strength in succession, stubbornly going toe-to-toe with Ego, and then miraculously blew up a planet with just a tiny bomb.

If anyone told him there was no secret help from the Celestials behind that, he wouldn't believe it even if beaten to death.

Hearing this, Ronan beside him nodded with a solemn expression.

"Yes."

With that, he picked up his Kree Warhammer and flew downward.

He had sensed Sub-Celestial Father Level energy erupting from below just moments ago, so naturally, he wouldn't take things lightly as he had before.