Chapter 1337: The Mystery of the Feast (Part 4)

The moment they saw the corpse, everyone's gaze began to circulate on each other, and the undercurrent surging under the silence was about to erupt. The first to speak was Thor, who was holding Sif's hand.

"What's going on?" Thor's voice was very low, and the anger contained in it made the guests present terrified. No one here could withstand the God King's anger.

It can only be said that fortunately, today's banquet is not the official wedding ceremony, but a welcome banquet for interstellar civilization guests. It will not be until tomorrow morning that the God King and Queen will officially hold the ceremony. If such a thing happened at that time, I am afraid that the interstellar society would set off another bloody storm.

But such an accident is enough to make people tongue-tied. That is the real-power ruler of one of the three major empires in the universe, who died at the Asgardian banquet scene in front of so many civilization leaders.

Thor cast his gaze on Loki, and Schiller also turned to look at Loki, while Loki lowered her head slightly and said, "I'll go investigate immediately."

The insiders present knew what she meant by investigation. She only needed to look at the universe above to trace back the timeline and see who did it. At worst, she could go to the Time Variance Authority and ask Mobius to bring a machine here to trace back time.

Loki turned around slowly, and just at this moment a voice sounded: "Wait a moment, Your Highness Loki."

Loki looked back and found that the one who spoke was Stark. Thor's gaze fell on Stark's face again, and Stark touched his wrist unhurriedly and said: "Shouldn't we first confirm the identity of the deceased? Although she looks like Her Majesty the Queen of the Shi'ar Empire, this is the Imperial Palace of Asgard. Her Majesty the Queen has no reason to die here. Shouldn't we first check if this is a substitute or an illusion?"

Stark had just finished saying this when a gaze fell on him. Stark raised his eyes to look at Schiller, who was staring at him. He didn't continue to speak, just showed a smile.

At this time, Sif, who was the head of the Xiangong Guard, frowned and said: "In order to ensure the smooth progress of the banquet, the soldiers of the guard are waiting outside the venue, but other members of the guard without security tasks, including doctors, coroners, etc., have long since withdrawn from the Xiangong."

"Your Majesty, if you want to verify the identity, I will notify professionals to come and investigate now."

"No need." Thor didn't look at Sif, but rejected her proposal.

But everyone also understood that Sif is not the captain of the palace guard now, she is the God King's fiancée, she cannot take a team of people to touch the corpse, and even leaving here temporarily is not allowed. This is very rude.

"I think there is a doctor here, isn't there?" Frigga's voice came. She looked at Schiller. Schiller turned his head slightly but didn't look at Frigga, but glanced at Odin's face.

Obviously, everyone on the field has their own purposes and secrets, and a subtle and fragile balance is gradually established.

Everyone has information that others don't have, which will be the key to their goals.

They are sure that the smart people present can understand the current situation—when they don't understand other people's purposes, they cannot rashly use overly rough methods to break the game to peek at the truth, which will only bring trouble to themselves.

Under the shroud of this atmosphere, even a fool understands that this will not be a simple murder case, or that the fact that the Shi'ar Queen will die, and die at the Asgardian banquet, does not exist as a simple murder case.

Schiller stood in place and was silent for a few seconds, but didn't walk up, but said: "I am a psychologist, I don't understand magic, I can't perform autopsies, and I can't break illusions. I think there is someone more suitable for this job than me."

After saying this, he turned to the other side and looked at a figure in the crowd. Everyone followed his gaze and focused on that figure. Strange, holding a wine glass, walked over through the crowd.

His gaze first fell on the corpse on the ground, then looked at Thor and said: "I am not a coroner, just a surgeon."

"But at least you can check if this is magic playing tricks, right, Your Excellency the Sorcerer Supreme?" Thor opened his mouth to emphasize.

"Loki can also... well, it's not polite for Her Highness, who is dressed in grand attire, to touch the corpse. I'll do it." Strange turned around and put the wine glass on the waiter's tray.

Schiller's eyes didn't follow Strange's movements like others, but only glanced at the wine glass Strange had just put down.

The Sorcerer Supreme untied his cloak, handed it to Loki who was closest to him, and then walked to the side of the Queen's corpse and squatted down. The flowing light in his eyes flickered slightly, and a golden light flashed from his fingertips.

Strange's fingertips tapped lightly on the ground, and the magic brilliance rippled. When it swept over the Queen's corpse, there was no abnormality in the magic fluctuation. Most people on the field saw this point.

"The corpse is real." Strange shook his head and said: "No traces of magic fabrication or illusion were found."

"Then can you judge the cause of death?" Thor asked again.

Strange stared at the corpse and said: "I want to check the wound on the corpse, but this might be a bit offensive. I'm not sure if the Queen and her family will agree to me touching her body at will."

"Leland! Leland! Her Majesty Lilandra!

"A burst of anxious shouting came from the main entrance of the Xiangong, and a strong male of the Mengyu race rushed in with two guards.

"That is the husband of the Queen of the Shi'ar Empire." Loki explained to Schiller in a low voice.

But Schiller's attention was not on this husband, but on the face of the young guard who had just entered.

"Their Imperial Guard is not all Mengyu race?" Schiller asked Loki in a low voice.

"The Shi'ar Empire is an empire of ethnic integration. Although the Mengyu race is the race of the royal family, in order to show respect for other races, their guard covers members of more than 20 races."

"Including humans?"

Loki was stunned for a moment. She looked in the direction of Schiller's eyes and found that the young guard standing behind the husband who fell to the ground looked exactly like a human.

A magic micro-light also flashed in Loki's eyes, and then she found that the young guard was really a human, at least he definitely had human blood.

There are many humanoid races in the universe. This phenomenon has to start from certain existences that spread life at the beginning, but as far as the facts are concerned, humanoid races are the mainstream of interstellar society, and most races are vertebrates with four limbs.

But on this basis, different races also have small differences. Differences like skin color can no longer be called differences. Some races not only have four limbs, but may have four arms, some races have human bodies and fish tails, and some races even have two heads.

Even if the appearance looks exactly like a human, the internal organs, blood vessels, and muscle tissues will definitely have great differences.

After all, there are few races in the universe as weak as humans. Even if they are not good-looking and not strong enough, most of them can use other energy.

This means that their organs will undergo special changes during evolution, and it is impossible to be exactly the same as humans, a race with weak bodies and no ability to use energy.

But the young man opposite conforms to the laws of the human body from internal organ structure to blood vessels to muscle tissue, so he is very likely a human.

But the fact that humans become members of the Shi'ar Empire's guard is itself very strange. Humans are not a member race under the Shi'ar Empire at all. The territories of the two races are far apart, and the two sides have never conducted trade. The two sides have nothing to do with each other.

Then who is this human who appeared here? And why can he join the Imperial Guard of the Shi'ar Empire? And why would he appear by the side of the Queen's husband?

Schiller searched the data in his mind rapidly. He knew that all humans who could walk out of the Nine Realms were not weak, and must have something to rely on. In the Marvel world, they must be famous existences.

Searching with the keyword Shi'ar Empire Guard, Schiller suddenly found a very inconspicuous piece of information in the depths of his dusty memory.

The origin story of Star-Lord in the Guardians of the Galaxy records one of his experiences. The first half of the story is too complicated, but in short, Star-Lord Peter Quill was locked into an interstellar prison named Kyln.

Star-Lord wanted to break out of prison, so he found a few teammates. On the way to break out, he found that the interstellar prison Kyln had a big explosion, so he wanted to go over to check the situation. At this time, he met a gladiator, and later, this gladiator conscripted Star-Lord into the Imperial Guard of the Shi'ar Empire.

But in the comics, Star-Lord refused the conscription and chose to stay in Kyln prison. But there is no doubt that Star-Lord once had a chance to join the Imperial Guard of the Shi'ar Empire.

The butterfly effect of the transmigrator is too complicated, and Schiller cannot be sure whether it was the change he brought that led Star-Lord to agree to the gladiator's request, thereby really joining the Shi'ar Empire's guard.

But in this inconspicuous story, it still involves a famous big shot, and that is Thanos.

At that time, Star-Lord wanted to deal with an existence named the Creator. Because he felt his power was not enough, he wanted to pull Thanos as a teammate. In the comic plot, Thanos did not agree, but went to beat the Creator himself.

That is to say, Thanos and Star-Lord have dealt with each other. Not only do they have no enmity, but Star-Lord even wanted to cooperate with Thanos. Then, even if Thanos wisely refused Star-Lord in terms of fighting the enemy together, would they have cooperation in other aspects?

Schiller turned his head to look at the edge of the dance floor. The purple-skinned giant was just standing there drinking alone, saying nothing, as if he hadn't noticed the chaos in the center of the dance floor at all.

But Schiller understood that Thanos is not a person who abides by his duty. If someone says that there is no contribution from him in this chaos, no one will believe it.

Is the chaos caused by the Queen's murder case a sudden event?

On the contrary, all conspiracies are carried out quietly, and the final chaos is just the result of the collision and accumulation of various factors reaching the peak and erupting together.

Standing in the center of the bright and wide dance floor, Schiller can see everyone's thoughtful expressions at a glance.

Following everyone's pupils, connecting the perspectives that others don't know, can constitute a complete truth.

And Schiller, who doesn't have this information, has to infer where the source of the power that caused the chaos came from and when it was produced in the few minutes of the chaos.

Deduce the motives, methods, and ultimate goals of everyone.

Accompanied by the rapid thinking of the brain, the heart also began to beat faster and faster. The "bang bang bang" drumbeat was like the prelude to the opening of the dance.

Time stopped, space condensed, and the last beam of light flowed into the eyes along Schiller's brow bone, and then, like the afterglow on the Xiangong Bridge, pulled down the curtain for the darkness.

The sound and color in the vanity fair gradually faded, and the light became dim.

Suddenly, a violent light flashed, and Schiller woke up from some confused drowsiness. Outside the bedroom window of the Xiangong, he could see the bright energy tail flame of the Shi'ar Empire's royal spaceship when it decelerated and landed.

This is really strange, Schiller thought, the Shi'ar Queen and her husband actually came to congratulate in person, and arrived earlier than the other two major empires. ===== CHAPTER 1338 =====