Unexpected Visitors
Gamora looked at her sister in disbelief and asked, "Why would you say that?"
The pursuit of freedom is the nature of all life. Under the father's rule, you cannot freely pursue love (marriage is arranged for those without wives after adulthood), pursue a career (no jobs after adulthood, forced job assignments), choose your own gender (sex reassignment is prohibited), or even decide whether to have children (family planning). Even housing prices cannot be increased arbitrarily (houses are all government-owned, and are assigned based on the nearest available job).
"With such a brutal rule, are you sexually happy?"
Nebula looked at her sister, who seemed like a complete stranger, and immediately shook her head.
Damn it, how could I have thought my sister made sense just now? It's like I was influenced by something.
However, out of loyalty to her father, she immediately realized what was going on.
Gamora's statement is utterly absurd.
How big is this universe? It wouldn't be wrong to say it's boundless.
It's normal for Planet to be large enough to give rise to civilizations with billions of stars.
But why are only the Three Great Empires and the Ten Great Alliances the most famous?
That's naturally due to the Dark Forest Law.
When a civilization lacking strength is discovered, it will not be met with technological advancements or harmony, but rather with plunder.
Plunder resources, land, people, and even the entire planet.
If the Natives were strong, they might be enslaved to mine; if they were good-looking, they would be sold to the Merchant Alliance; if they were good-looking, they would be domesticated; and as for those who were useless, they could only be used to fertilize the land.
Let's not even talk about wars between planets or between different races.
Even among the same race, different civilizations can engage in such wars.
Nebula even saw a Natives planet, a civilization with slightly lighter skin, which, because of its slightly higher level of civilization, began to enslave other civilizations and plunder their resources and property.
Keep in mind that these are all races from the same planet.
This shows that just surviving is hard enough; happiness can wait until you become the ruler of the universe.
Just as Nebula was about to try to persuade Gamora, she suddenly realized that it would be pointless to do so and that she wouldn't be able to convince her at all.
So she shook her head, gave up trying to persuade them, and sent out a distress signal.
In the end, the two sisters parted on bad terms, while Gamora boarded her Spaceship and continued her journey towards the Wilderness Star.
Several hours later, they entered the Wilderness Star system.
Through scanning, they learned that there were five Planet in the Wilderness Star system, and their orbits were very chaotic, as if several Planet were about to collide.
There are no patterns like those of ordinary Planet.
This is likely caused by gravitational disruptions that occur when Fixed Star leaves its Galaxy.
Just as they were preparing to land on the first Planet, the Spaceship suddenly detected another unfamiliar Spaceship.
The Spaceship was entirely grayish-white, approximately one kilometer long and one hundred and fifty meters wide, and was a model of Trade Federation Spaceship.
The Trade Federation is primarily a commercial entity, and its design, unsuitable for warfare, is intended to facilitate docking at Planetary Orbital Port for loading and unloading cargo.
Spaceship are generally rounded in shape.
At that moment, the commercial Spaceship was flying straight towards them.
The target seems very clear: them.
Upon seeing this, they immediately became tense.
Even if it's a commercial Spaceship not designed for war, the size difference between the two is too great; it's simply incomparable to the Spaceship they stole, which is only a little over thirty meters long.
A short while later, they received a call request from an unknown number.
Star-Lord, Gamora, and Rocket Raccoon exchanged glances and then nodded.
Since there are differences between the two sides, why not talk things out first?
The next instant, a Three-Dimensional projection appeared in front of them.
The other party was a humanoid life form with pink skin and a full head of white hair.
She was about 1.8 meters tall, wearing a red bodysuit and leggings, and a blue jacket.
The person's muscles look very well-developed, but it also indicates that they are quite old.
Upon seeing the other party, the five members of the Guardians of the Galaxy immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Because they knew each other, and had even interacted a few times, it was none other than the Collector, Tanelia Tivan.
Tanelia smiled and said, "Hello, Guardians of the Galaxy."
Star-Lord nodded and returned the smile, "Hello, Mr. Collector. What are you looking for this time? Do you need any help?"
The Guardians of the Galaxy have collaborated with them several times and have made a considerable amount of money from them.
However, the Collector didn't know much about the other party either. They only knew that the other party was an ancient being who was extremely wealthy, or even richer than a country.
You can tell what the other person's hobby is from their nickname: collecting all sorts of strange and unusual things.
The Cosmic Orb was originally acquired by him at a high price offered by the other party.
Tanelia smiled slightly and said, "Yes, I need it. I'm here to collect the Soul Stone. If you can give it to me, I'll give you two billion Cosmic Credits."
He had inquired about it before coming.
The Peace Alliance's governor offered one billion Peace Credits for the gems, so he offered double that, and in Cosmic Credits no less.
I don't believe these money-grubbing Guardians of the Galaxy would refuse.
Sure enough, when Star-Lord and Rocket Raccoon heard about two billion Cosmic Credits, their eyes lit up immediately, as if they were about to rush over and grovel.
Money is their life; they have an instinctive craving for wealth.
Gamora, however, is different; she is an ambitious and idealistic woman.
"No! What if Thanos steals the Soul Stone if you hand it over? We must give it to the Peace Alliance!"
As one of the Ten Great Alliances in the universe, the Peace Alliance naturally has the confidence to exist.
Even Thanos, with his current strength, cannot storm their doorstep and launch a full-scale attack against the Peace Alliance.
Tanelia frowned upon hearing this.
It wasn't because the other party disobeyed him that he was angry; after all, in all his years of life, he wouldn't get angry easily.
What made him uneasy was the name Thanos.
As one of the Elders of the Universe, although his strength wasn't particularly impressive, his nearly three billion years of life experience allowed him to know many of the universe's secrets, and he also possessed the ability to foresee the future.
Although it was unreliable at times, he was well aware of Thanos's terror in the future visions.
It seems a bit pointless for Thanos to come after me because of the Soul Stone.
However, the thought that once he collected Six Infinity Stones, he wouldn't have to fear Thanos at all, immediately put his worries aside.
"Don't worry, even if Thanos comes, he won't be able to take the Infinity Stones from me."
Just as he finished speaking, a warning suddenly came from inside the Spaceship.
"An unknown space jump has been detected. Based on the size of the Space Rift, it is preliminarily determined that the other party is Titan-class Spaceship."
Immediately afterwards, the Guardians of the Galaxy's Spaceship also issued the same alarm.
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