A soldier should be treated like a soldier, regardless of whether his motives are evil or righteous.
Anyone who lies down on the battlefield deserves some respect.
Especially after he gave his life for his final attack.
While Qin Xiao was setting up a grave for Ronan with Yondu Star-Lord, a major incident occurred at the Tivan Group.
On the side of the God's skull, might makes right—this saying applies everywhere. Qin Xiao went straight for the heart of the matter, taking down the Tivan Group with lightning speed.
The Collector was locked in a custom-made, transparent box by Tony and Rocket.
Compared to the biological artifacts collected by previous Collector, these two were still somewhat humane, using an enormous box, roughly twenty square meters in size, essentially imprisoning him in a transparent room.
For security reasons, all his personal belongings were confiscated.
However, since neither of them were professional prison guards, neither of them noticed that the Collector activated an emergency communicator on the shoe in the middle of the night.
Just as Qin Xiao was fighting Yondu and his Yondu, the Collector summoned his first enemy.
Thanos Black Order Corvus Glaive.
Before leaving, Qin Xiao not only brought back Groot and Natasha, but also a group of Widow agents from Earth, in order to infiltrate and control the entire Celestial Head Tivan Group.
Thousands of small and medium-sized spaceships come and go from the Celestial Head every day. The Avengers have just taken control of this place, which has led to a certain degree of laxity in external security.
When Corvus Glaive landed in a giant 'donut', they assumed he was just a regular space traveler visiting for leisure or trade.
However, Thanos's henchmen, accustomed to their arrogance after following Thanos, were unlikely to obediently land.
The 'donut' entered the skull with unusual force and slammed into a metal building.
"Boom!"
With a loud bang, the metal passageways between the buildings became perfect resonance channels, and the sound of the impact echoed throughout the entire area.
The vandalized bar was located on the outskirts of the city. It mainly catered to wandering thieves from outer space; it was a place with low prices but extremely mixed characters.
"Enemy attack!"
The Avengers reacted quickly, gathering together the instant the impact occurred.
Natasha, the Little Groot, Tony in full armor, and of course Thor and Gamora.
Tony quickly turned on the projector on the table. He had been occupying this place for several days and had completely taken control of the surveillance.
Tony paused for a moment when he saw the shape of the spaceship.
"Were we hit by a donut?"
Tony looked at the crowd, but they didn't take it too seriously. They had witnessed the so-called Accuser and the power of the super empires in the universe, so to them it was nothing special.
Only Gamora's expression changed drastically upon seeing the spaceship.
"Damn it, why did they get here so fast? This is his spaceship, his men are here!"
"Who? The space police?"
Natasha also cracked a joke with a relaxed expression.
" Thanos, Mad Titan, these are my father's men. He's sent them. No, notify Qin immediately, this place is no longer safe."
As Gamora spoke, she prepared to open the communicator on the table to contact Star-Lord's ship.
"Relax, you're safe with us here. Although I don't know just how terrifying your 'father' really is, it's just one of his henchmen, isn't it?"
A hammer appeared in front of Gamora, but Thor intervened and stopped her.
Although Qin Xiao's appearance completely changed the trajectory of the Avengers, and Qin Xiao was also a spiritual leader with top-notch combat power, this group of people had their own pride and wouldn't just send Qin Xiao out with any random subordinate.
"He is Corvus Glaive, one of Thanos's five generals. If he's here, Thanos won't be far behind. We must inform Qin Xiao."
Gamora pointed to the strange-looking person in the projection who was walking off the spaceship, holding a double-edged spear.
This time, it was an armored hand that stopped her.
"We told you, we'll protect you. You just need to stand behind us."
"But... but that's..."
Gamora wanted to say something more, but Black Widow gently pulled her aside.
"Trust us. Besides, Thanos hasn't arrived yet. Even if he does, Qin Xiao can get back instantly, right?"
Gamora shut her mouth this time, but there was still a hint of worry in her eyes, showing how much Thanos's power was in her heart.
"Come on! Let's go greet our guest, even though he's a little ugly."
With the internal issues resolved, Tony said something and took the lead, clad in his armor, heading in the direction Corvus Glaive had come from.
Thanos's reputation in the universe is indeed formidable. Corvus Glaive, with four or five henchmen, simply barged in, crushing more than ten people to death, and swaggered around in what became known as a lawless zone in the universe.
It felt like bandits had entered the city; the usually bustling streets had vanished instantly, everyone hiding in buildings or nooks and crannies to avoid provoking these infamous killers from across the universe.
"I'm sorry, you startled our guests. If you're here to make a purchase, you should compensate us for our losses. Hmm, those people next to you look familiar. Are they your bodyguards or pets?"
Tony took the lead, pointing to Corvus Glaive and his men approaching from afar.
Accompanying Corvus Glaive were several Chitauri soldiers, just like when Loki attacked Earth last time.
"Huh? You've kidnapped the Collector? Hand him over, I have questions for him."
Corvus Glaive stopped in his tracks, completely ignoring Tony's question, and said arrogantly.
In their eyes, the entire universe is insignificant, like ants. As Thanos's subordinates, they don't need to give anyone a friendly look, no matter how powerful an individual or super empire they are.
If it were anyone else, they might have actually humbled themselves, but they encountered the Avengers and met Tony.
"Is he questioning me in return? He barged into our territory, ignored my questions, and then retorted with a commanding tone? Are all people in the universe so rude?"
Tony looked around, then looked down at Rocket and asked.
Rocket glanced at Corvus Glaive, then turned to look at Groot beside him.
"I don't know either. I'm just curious about one thing: this guy's job must be really tough. Look at his skin, it's even rougher than Groot's. Groot is a tree-man, and look at his face, it looks like rotten tree bark. Hey, how long has it been since you washed your face?"
"I've noticed that too, you know? There's something called a face mask on our planet, but it probably takes a lot of face masks to use up."
Tony continued Rocket's line of conversation, and the two of them started teasing Corvus Glaive's face back and forth.
Since you're ignoring my question, I'll just ignore you too.
"You're all courting death! Do you even know what you're doing... Gamora, what are you doing here? You betrayed Thanos?"
Corvus Glaive was speaking when he spotted Gamora behind the crowd.
Seeing this, Gamora could only take two steps forward and speak to Corvus Glaive.
"It's not betrayal. He's not my father at all. He just wanted to use me and train me to be an assassin. Go back and tell him I won't listen to him anymore. I want to live my own life."
Gamora shouted at Corvus Glaive.
Her response was Corvus Glaive, hurled with all his might.
"Since you have betrayed the master, you should die!"
The sharp whistling sound of spears piercing the air accompanied the words.
"Clang!"
Blocking the spear was Mjolnir.
"Ambushing a girl is not something a soldier should do."
Thor, who had smashed the spear away with his hammer, said calmly.
"You're right, Thor, but ambushing the Ugly Duckling is an option!"
Tony picked up where Thor, then suddenly clasped his hands together, white light surging from his palms, and the two energy cannons merged into one, hurtling towards Corvus Glaive.
Thanos's top lieutenant would not be so easily defeated in one move; Corvus Glaive dodged Tony's attack with a quick movement.
But what followed immediately was a bolt of lightning as thick as an arm.
The battle began with Tony's first shot.
Corvus Glaive only brought four Chitauri soldiers with him.
On the other hand, there's Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, half of the Guardians of the Galaxy, and a Little Groot with the power of early Thor.
The group swarmed forward and easily subdued Corvus Glaive. As for the Chitauri soldiers, they had already been electrocuted to a crisp in the first wave of lightning.
"You're all dead! Thanos won't let you get away with this, Gamora! You foolish woman, Thanos is your father!"
Corvus Glaive was pinned to the chest by Thor's hammer, unable to move, but he kept chattering away.
"Shut your filthy mouth, or I'll shoot your ugly face into... well, it seems impossible to make it any uglier, into ashes. That's right, shut up, you ugly monster!"
Rocket viciously pressed the gun directly into Corvus Glaive's mouth, silencing his endless stream of words.
"Why should we keep this guy alive? We should just blow his head off. If we let him go, he'll bring his own troops to attack us. Why should I let an enemy go?"
Rocket cocked his gun and addressed the crowd.
"I have no objection!"
Tony's palm was also aimed at Corvus Glaive's head.
"Wait, you can't kill him!"
Gamora stepped forward once again.
"Why? He just tried to kill you. He's a Thanos fan; he won't stop being our enemy just because of that."
Tony looked at Gamora and said.
"He was my martial arts instructor for a period of time when I was a child."
Gamora sighed, and said with some reluctance.
Although Thanos's henchmen were mostly fanatics and they couldn't get along at all, Gamora couldn't bring herself to kill him after spending so many years with him.
Hearing Gamora's words, Tony lowered his hands, while Rocket turned to ask everyone in confusion.
"You don't really think you'll let this person go, do you? This is our enemy. A dead enemy is the best enemy, isn't it?"
Natasha reached out and pressed down on Rocket's gun. "You're right, but we're not assassins. Let him go."
After saying this, he turned to the still immobile Corvus Glaive on the ground and said, "Go back and tell your master that Gamora is here with us. No one can force her to do anything she doesn't want to do. Of course, since you damaged our stuff, leave your ship here, and we'll give you a new one to go back and report."
That's more like it!
Rocket grumbled as he put his gun away.
"Leave it to me. I'll take charge of all the spaceships here. Qin promised me that, didn't he?"
Finally, Corvus Glaive boarded a pitiful little single-person lifeboat, which, well, let's just say it was a small ship.
Those little spaceships that play nursery rhymes and accept coins outside supermarkets are only slightly larger than this one. Corvus Glaive sat inside, he would have a hard time turning around or even looking up.
Thanos's henchmen have never been treated like this before, but when you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head. Thor's hammer and Tony's armor are no joke.
The Avengers knew that to gain a foothold here, they had to settle things with Thanos Corvus Glaive, but none of them expected Thanos to arrive so quickly.
In the original movie storyline, the Guardians of the Galaxy did not sell the Power Stone to Collector, but instead entrusted it to the Nova Corps for safekeeping.
The one the Collector ultimately possessed was the Reality Stone, sent to him by Asgard after the defeat of the Dark Elves.
The reason is that the two Infinity Stones cannot be placed together.
In fact, according to China cultural understanding, one of these things is fine, but two would be too much for Asgard's fortune to suppress.
Something was bound to go wrong. Who knew that in the end Asgard couldn't even hold onto one stone? Because of the Space Stone, the Asgardians, who had barely survived Ragnarok Thanos half of them were Carnage.
This includes Loki, the young princess, and Heimdall, the gatekeeper of Asgard.
However, what the Avengers didn't know was that long before Thanos collected the Infinity Stones, he had threatened the Collector, saying that if anyone tried to sell him Infinity Stones, Thanos would buy it back for double the price and promised that Thanos's forces would protect the Collector for life.
However, the Collector eventually succumbed to the allure of the Infinity Stones, or perhaps he himself harbored ambitions to use the stones to unify the universe; in any case, Thanos ultimately Thanos.
However, it is a fact that he was in contact with Thanos, and the emergency communicator hidden in his shoe was something Thanos left for him.
So after Corvus Glaive's defeat and return, coupled with the Chitauri Army already lost on Earth and the Mind Stone Scepter...
This time, he also lost his most beloved daughter. With both old and new grudges, Thanos's Sanctuary III Corvus Glaive left.
The massive Sanctuary III spaceship loomed overhead over the skull of the Celestial God, while Qin Xiao and Yondu were still carving a tombstone for Ronan.