Chapter 1331: The Interstellar Grand Stage (Part 55)
The moment he arrived in the Kingdom of Death, Schiller felt a breeze on his face, and a breath of unusual atmosphere surrounded him. That was not the breath of death in the universe he often felt, but another death.
The universe where Thanos snapped his fingers is not in the multiverse where Schiller was, but a single universe in another multiverse, which is to say, this death is not the death Schiller knew before.
Schiller actually knew this point long ago, so he came to the Kingdom of Death to find Death to negotiate terms, because if it were the death of the universe he was originally in, he wouldn't be allowed to enter the Kingdom of Death at all. That branch wouldn't wait until it was close to the heart before being grabbed by an invisible force, just like the balance back then.
Feeling the breath of the strange death, Schiller felt very at ease, just like going home. But suddenly the breeze on his face disappeared, and a figure appeared in the thick black mist.
Before Schiller could open his mouth to speak, the woman opposite spoke first: "... Wait a minute, why do you look a bit familiar?"
Schiller was about to explain, but a harsh scream came from the opposite side, followed by a cry mixed with shock and fear: "Are you Schiller??!!!"
Schiller was stunned.
"I am Schiller." Schiller nodded, looked at the woman opposite wearing a black long dress and pale skin, and said: "You are Death? Well, as you can see, I am here to..."
"Who do you want to resurrect?!" The goddess opposite interrupted Schiller's speech cleanly and neatly, and said quickly: "Tell me his name, take him away now, and then get out of my kingdom, immediately, right now!"
"I..." Schiller stepped forward to talk to the Death Goddess, but in the thick black mist, a pale hand made a stop gesture.
"I warn you, stand there! Don't come over!" The Death Goddess stretched out a hand to block in front of Schiller, her eyes looking as if she had seen something indescribable.
Schiller showed a smile and said: "I think you must have misunderstood. Actually, I..."
He just said this, and two arms stretched out from the black mist again, covering the Death Goddess's ears. She maintained that gesture of stopping Schiller and said: "People were not killed by me. I don't know that Thanos, and I don't know anything. I have sent all human souls back. Please get out of my house immediately! Right now! Otherwise, I will call Eternity!"
Schiller stared at her, blinked, and said: "You resurrected all humans?"
"You are going too far, Schiller!" The Death Goddess screamed: "Don't tell me you want me to resurrect all life? What do those aliens have to do with you?!"
"Actually, I just wanted to ask, how did you..."
"Don't say it. Give me two days. I will send 90% of the souls back!... Really can't be more. I maintain the universe and also need costs. Don't tell me I can't even collect taxes?!"
Schiller was speechless. Could it be that the Death in his universe was loose-lipped and poked his name out at the meeting? Eternity hasn't said anything yet, how could she be so petty??
The high-spirited Schiller felt like he had been poured with cold water. He originally thought that Eternity and Death in his universe guarded against him like thieves, and there was really no room for him to play. Coming to another multiverse, shouldn't he have a good exchange of feelings with the five great gods here?
As a result, that big-mouthed Death must have been bad-mouthing him throughout the Omniverse. He hadn't even raised his knife yet, and the other side surrendered directly. It was simply without any challenge.
The bored Schiller waved his hand and said: "Alright, you look at it. By the way, don't go to Thanos if you have nothing to do. He is still useful."
As soon as the words fell, Schiller was kicked out of the Kingdom of Death. He just sat up from the ground and saw Thanos with eyes as wide as copper bells.
Schiller stretched out a hand to pull out the branch on his chest and said angrily: "What are you looking at? Haven't you seen resurrection from the dead?"
After speaking, he stood up and looked at the sky of Titan. It was already a mess there. Visitors from other worlds were fighting more and more fiercely, various energy bombardments, demon gods used all means to save their lives, and energy was thrown out like it didn't cost money.
Thanos, wearing the Infinity Gauntlet, no longer had the ability to snap his fingers. He could only fight using the properties of the Infinity Stones themselves, and instead, he didn't appear conspicuous in the battle.
Blame the universe where Schiller was. The strength was originally higher than here, and the people who came were all rich dogs. Magneto, Sorcerer Supreme, and Iron Man had special effects one more dazzling than the other, and the range of influence was one wider than the other.
Thanos, wearing the Infinity Gauntlet, consumed too much energy and was in a poor state. Mixing in this group of monsters, he instead didn't look enough.
His remaining energy was enough for self-preservation in the melee, but not enough for attack. Let alone doing nothing to these monsters, even those demon gods who were forced to jump over the wall to save their lives could flip him over.
For someone like Thanos, the powerlessness brought by weakness is what he fears most, and such fear will breed extreme anger.
He made himself so embarrassed to maintain the survival of the universe, but this group of demon gods who wasted energy unscrupulously hid in the corner to recuperate, taking advantage of his weakness to step on his head.
Thanos couldn't help but think of what Schiller said, that group of gods must be hiding behind and laughing, laughing at him for being so overreaching, completely unable to find the real crux of the problem, exhausting his efforts and only being able to spin at the bottom, raising a butcher knife at his compatriots, emptying everything and then being ruthlessly harvested.
Such anger brewed in Thanos's heart, but he didn't let the fire of anger burn up. Instead, he gripped the gauntlet-wearing hand tightly, turned and withdrew from the battlefield, and flew toward the endless dark distance.
Those satisfied retirement thoughts had completely disappeared. Anger gave this cosmic hegemon a new goal. Perhaps soon, there would be another God Butcher in this universe.
The melee in the universe continued. Of course, not all the teams that came here had such bad tempers. There were still people doing serious work.
Or rather, only the Spider-Man team remembered what they were here for. Little Spiders were focused and diligent no matter where they were. No Spider-Man participated in the fight. Everyone was conscientiously organizing supplies.
Well, mainly because fighting not only deducts credits, but also might be sent back, which would lose the opportunity to earn credits.
And Peter, who belonged to this universe, had long learned from Loki that this universe was his hometown, and he couldn't take care of following other Spider-Men to pick up corpses in the universe, but rushed back to Earth at the fastest speed, wanting to maintain the safety here.
In order to prevent himself from being unable to cope with the current situation, he also pulled Reilly, Shang-Chi, and Squirrel Girl.
The four of them rushed back to Earth through the mage's teleportation portal at the fastest speed and returned to New York, landing on the roof of Stark Tower.
New York was still a scene of ruins, but Peter found that there were suddenly many confused people on the road, as if they had a dream, wandering on the street with a dull face, as if they didn't know where they should go.
What's going on? Peter was also a bit confused. He remembered that when he came back before, New York looked empty and there were not so many people at all.
"Are you sure the Thanos of your universe snapped his fingers?" Reilly asked very suspiciously: "Although I don't know much about Infinity Stones, I know New York. This city has always been very crowded. Are you sure this is what it looks like with half the population missing?"
And Shang-Chi, who was standing on the side, recalled the movie "Avengers" in his mind. After Thanos snapped his fingers, who died?
Then, he thought of the key. He called Peter, but Peter didn't react, so Shang-Chi reached out and pushed Peter, saying: "Do you remember where the Avengers were fighting? We have to go over and see, maybe someone needs help."
Peter then woke up like a dream, looked up and said: "Right, right, hurry back to the battlefield. They might be unable to retreat, hurry follow me."
Peter stretched out his arm and was about to swing down, but was pulled by Shang-Chi. He said: "Have you forgotten? The mage gave us a Sling Ring, take the teleportation portal."
About two minutes later, a teleportation portal unfolded on a piece of ruins, and four young people rushed out of the teleportation portal one after another. Peter was the most anxious. As soon as he landed, he began to look around, wanting to find those familiar faces.
Then he saw Captain America, who was also looking confused, standing on the edge of the ruins, and beside him was the Winter Soldier who had just climbed up, and Falcon who had just stretched out a hand from the ruins not far away.
Peter jumped over at the fastest speed and shouted loudly: "Captain, are you okay? I'm back!"
"Peter, Peter, you are still alive!" Captain America turned his head and was very excited after seeing Peter's face. He wanted to rush over, but his footsteps stopped again. He first helped the somewhat staggering Winter Soldier up, and then ran to Peter's side and hugged him.
"Oh, my god, Captain, you don't know what I've been through!... Forget it, don't talk about these. What's going on? I mean, is everyone okay?"
The Winter Soldier covered one side of his head with his steel arm and shook his head hard, saying: "I feel a bit dizzy. What's going on? I... I am not..."
"You are resurrected!" Captain America raised his tone and said loudly: "Although I don't know what's going on, you are resurrected! Oh my god, this is simply a terrible nightmare. Fortunately, everyone is okay."
"Resurrected?" Peter muttered suspiciously, a bit unbelievable, and Ben Reilly looked at the situation around the ruins and said: "It seems that it's not just superheroes who are resurrected. All the half of the people who died have also been resurrected."
"Am I dreaming?" Peter looked down at himself, seemingly wanting to confirm whether he was dreaming. He pinched his arm hard and let out a painful cry.
"In any case, this is a good thing, right?" Squirrel Girl shrugged and said.
"By the way, Mr. Stark, where is Mr. Stark?" Peter looked around again as if he had just reacted, looking for Iron Man's figure.
At this time, Stark of this universe was standing in front of Eddie with his arms crossed, full of sarcasm: "Who said I had no hope for the championship? Answer me, who is the first place now?"
"It seems I looked away." Eddie smiled and shrugged: "Iron Man is worthy of being the greatest genius in the world. He didn't forget to collect resources while fighting. Alright, Champion, you won."
Behind the two, one transport robot after another carried a large amount of resources through the teleportation portal, walking with light steps and transporting them back to the universe where Schiller was.
And just then, a teleportation portal opened beside Stark. Peter rushed out of it in a hurry. At the first sight of Stark, he recognized that it was the Stark he was familiar with, so he said anxiously: "Mr. Stark, so you are here. Captain said you disappeared after the great war, and I was scared to death!"
"Peter?" Stark was stunned for a moment. Just when he was a bit unsure, Peter took off his mask, and Stark also recognized that this was the Spider-Man he was familiar with, so he flew over immediately and hugged Peter.
Stark wanted to open his mouth with tears in his eyes, but Peter had no time to catch up with him, but said: "Mr. Stark, hurry follow me. Half of the life in the universe has been resurrected, but Earth is still in great chaos. We have to go back to maintain order!"
"What, what? What did you say?" Stark was very confused.
He hadn't reacted to what was going on, and Peter pulled him into the teleportation portal and returned to Earth. Seeing the familiar ruins, Stark realized that this was our universe.
"Otherwise?" Peter stared at him with wide eyes.
Stark stood in place, constantly floating in his mind the scene of his universe's resources being pulled away car by car—the cars were provided by him.
Stark covered his chest. He pointed at Peter with a trembling finger and said: "Quick, quick, open the teleportation portal! Hurry back, stop them!!!"
And when Stark pulled Peter back to the location of the resource transport teleportation portal just now, only half of the shrunken teleportation portal remained there, and a familiar figure poked his head out from inside.
"It's me, Tony. I knew long ago that you were not the Tony of my universe, and I also knew long ago where the Spider-Man you were looking for was. But to help you, I didn't tell you the truth."
"I helped you resurrect the half of life that died in this universe. Don't thank me. Do you still remember the document you signed in my asylum? That is the bill. I took the resources away. Happy cooperation!"
After speaking, the teleportation portal "swish" closed. Stark stared in place. After a while, Iron Man's roar echoed in the universe: "Schiller!!!!!!"
"Zzzzz" sound, the teleportation portal opened halfway again, Schiller poked his head out and said: "I know you want to chase over and beat me up, but I must remind you that it's not just humans who are resurrected, but also the members of the three great empires."
"But we took away all their weapons, starships, and energy hubs. Of course, you can chase me, and then wait for them to recuperate, recover their vitality, and run over to bully humans again. Your universe will never catch up with us... Bye, Champion!"
"Mr. Stark, Mr. Stark, don't be angry, don't be angry, Mr. Stark, calm down!!!"
End of Chapter
