Faced with Gamora's questioning, Qin Xiao directly opened a spatial wormhole.
On the other side of the wormhole was a seemingly barren planet. Qin Xiao gestured for him to come in, like a gentleman.
What place is this?
Gamora looked at the scene on the other side of the wormhole and asked.
" Vormir, the location of the Soul Stone, that's the real reason you escaped Thanos, isn't it? You wanted to stop his plans!"
Qin Xiao's words left Gamora's expression uncertain; the whereabouts of the Soul Stone was her biggest secret.
"I guess that's why you didn't stay. You think that if I collected all six Infinity Stones, it would bring disaster to the universe, right?"
Qin Xiao then continued, speaking slowly and deliberately.
Gamora's face was already a little pale. No matter who you are, when the secrets or trump cards you think only you know are worthless in the eyes of others, you will fall into a state of self-doubt.
But Qin Xiao still didn't pay attention to her expression and continued speaking.
"To be honest, I currently possess three: Space, Reality, and Power. The Soul Stone is located here. The remaining two, Time and Mind Stone, are on Earth, and can be said to be under my control."
"What??"
Gamora's expression finally changed drastically at this moment. Of the Six Infinity Stones, even her father Thanos had only acquired the Mind Stone over the years, and he had even lost it during the last invasion of Earth.
" The Chitauri invasion of Earth was ultimately defeated by you?"
Gamora clearly knew about this and asked directly.
"That's right, the Chitauri army is nothing. The key is your father. You see, I can come from anywhere in the universe at any time to do things for me. There's no safer place than this. Just contact me, and I can come over anytime, or take you to a safe enough place."
"I don't believe you. You're right, my father wanted to collect all six Infinity Stones to wipe out half of all life in the universe, in order to achieve his ideal of cosmic balance. And you? What are you after? To unify the universe?"
"I have absolutely no interest in unifying the universe, nor do I have any interest in sitting on a high throne."
As Qin Xiao spoke, he beckoned Gamora to step onto Vormir.
"I know you don't believe me, but time will tell. Besides, you can't stop me from doing what I want, can you?"
Qin Xiao's words struck Gamora.
Aside from knowing the location of the Soul Stone, she had no other value to Qin Xiao. If Qin Xiao truly had any evil plans, she had neither the value to help him nor the power to stop him.
Seeing Gamora remain silent, Qin Xiao continued speaking.
"You can't hide the location of the Soul Stone from him. Thanos will come after you sooner or later!"
"I won't tell him. If he finds out, I'll kill myself in front of him!"
Gamora said stubbornly.
"Leaving aside whether you had the opportunity to commit suicide in front of him, what if he threatened you, for example, by using your sister, Nebula!"
"She's not my sister. Her biggest wish since she was a child has been to kill me!"
Gamora roared angrily at Qin Xiao.
"Your biggest wish is not to be Thanos's assassins, but to become true sisters, isn't it?"
"Don't look at me like that. I've already said the Time Stone is on Earth, and we have someone who can fully control Time Stone. She can see many fragments of the future, such as how your father obtained the Soul Stone."
On Vormir, at the foot of the mountain where the Soul Stone altar is hidden.
Qin Xiao and Gamora stood facing each other.
"Go up and take a look, look at this place that ultimately became your final resting place."
The two walked for a while, Qin Xiao simply told Gamora about the fate that should have been hers. As for why Qin Xiao knew so much, he naturally attributed it to the Ancient One, who possessed the Time Stone.
As for things like the Time Variance Authority, Qin Xiao didn't plan to tell her too much for the time being. After all, Gamora and Thanos still had a father-daughter relationship, and he didn't want any unfounded changes to occur out of nowhere.
Gamora pale. In fact, by the time she got here, she had already believed most of what Qin Xiao had said.
If, as Qin Xiao said, there really is an envoy guarding the Soul Stone on the mountain, and everyone is required to follow certain rules to obtain it, given Thanos's personality, he will definitely pay any price.
To achieve cosmic balance, Thanos is willing to sacrifice himself at any time, let alone an adopted daughter.
What Gamora found hard to accept was Thanos's love for her.
According to Qin Xiao, only by sacrificing one of one's most beloved people can one obtain the Soul Stone.
This love can be friendship, familial love, or romantic love.
But when it comes to Thanos, there is probably no exception. From childhood to adulthood, his attitude towards himself and Nebula was completely different. At first, it might have been because he was more powerful.
However, Gamora gradually realized Thanos's fatherly love for her, but she dared not believe it, did not want to believe it, and was even less willing to show her fatherly affection for Thanos because of this love.
Raising someone from infancy to adulthood, how could one not have any feelings for them? It's just that Thanos was preoccupied with his own grand ambitions and had no time to spare, while Gamora struggled to suppress her emotions, daring not to show any feelings for this 'father' who Carnage her family and raised her to be a murderer.
After hearing her story, Gamora bit her lip and remained silent. Qin Xiao didn't urge her; he simply took out a chair, lay down next to her, and then picked up a laptop to watch a movie with great interest.
Gamora Qin Xiao a deep look, gritted her teeth, and headed towards the top of the mountain. Regardless of whether what Qin Xiao said was true or false, she had already come this far, so she had to go up and take a look.
Qin Xiao had no interest in going up there. The key was that there wasn't a good way to obtain the gem right now, and going up would only make him envious; there was no need for it.
It took Qin Xiao three whole hours to watch two movies before he saw Gamora come down from the mountain peak looking utterly dejected.
"Um?"
Qin Xiao narrowed his eyes.
"I've said so much, and you're still half-believing, half-doubting. There's no reason why a stroll on the mountaintop would have resulted in this. What did you see at the summit?"
Qin Xiao put his things away, stood up, and looked at Gamora, asking her a question.
Gamora remained in a daze as she walked over to Qin Xiao and stood there for a full two minutes, until Qin Xiao could barely stand it anymore.
Suddenly looking up at Qin Xiao, he said, "I saw everything, everything, absolutely everything!"
As she spoke, Gamora opened her right hand, revealing an orange gem lying prominently in her palm.
"Holy shit! Holy shit!!!"
Now it was Qin Xiao's turn to lose his composure.