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Chapter 1567

~10 min read 1,899 words

In the pitch-black universe, the flames of the spaceship's wake appeared exceptionally brilliant. Behind the shattered planetary wreckage, a small scout ship bearing the Nova Corps insignia swept past rapidly.

A furry claw pressed a button on the control panel, and the porthole shield slowly rose. Star-Lord Quill stood before the window, gazing at the scene in the universe, and said.

"Another destroyed star system. It must have been the Extinction Queen's troops passing through here, swallowing all the energy of the star."

Rocket Raccoon, while operating the equipment on the ship, said: "Thank their abundant desire for destruction; it allows us to follow their tracks to here. I don't believe they can hide the Brood Mother Superbrain so tightly."

Star-Lord put his hands on his hips and took a deep breath, his chest puffing out. Then, as he exhaled a long breath, he leaned back against the side wall of the ship and said: "We really have gotten ourselves into some incredible big trouble."

"There will be plenty more such things in the future." Rocket Raccoon jumped around on the console and then pointed to a lever on the wall for Groot, who was squatting by the wall. Groot's arm extended a vine and pulled the lever down hard.

The spaceship shook slightly. Quill stumbled back a few steps. Rocket Raccoon looked down at the panel and said: "Hold on tight, I'm going to accelerate. We have to catch their tail before this flanking army completely disappears into the universe, so we can find a way to get the coordinates of the Brood Mother Superbrain."

Quill shook his head in a daze, preparing to welcome the dizziness brought by this not-so-advanced big ship suddenly speeding up. But just as the engine's energy wake sprayed again, Quill saw through that big porthole pair after pair of red eyes lighting up in the distance.

"What's going on?" Quill screamed: "Aren't those bugs just passing through here briefly? How could they stay here on such a large scale?"

The light from the screen shone on Rocket Raccoon's face. The cold light illuminated every one of his hairs like needles flashing with cold light, making the expression of shock and doubt on that raccoon face appear even more exaggerated.

"Hmm..." Gray Mist dragged out a long sound, then said in a somewhat uncertain tone: "You are killing faster than we were before, but it seems like you aren't the one moving."

Magneto slowly widened his eyes, but before he could express his opinion, Thor's slightly terrified voice came from his ear: "It moved... that thing moved, it is moving!!!"

Unimaginable, massive gravity shattered the Gray Mist factors themselves. A terrifying void expanded outward, and what condensed was an infinite mass existence that exceeded the density limit of all celestial bodies in the universe.

In the area dozens of star systems away, everyone only saw that in just a few microseconds, a large area of the universe completely collapsed. Everything with form and substance disappeared, replaced by an "Empty Realm" where even thought did not exist.

Very soon, Shiler arrived at a star system close to the front line of the Shi'ar Empire's big portal sector. There were many bugs here; it looked like a troop-storage area ready to replenish troops to the front line at any time.

Shiler said nothing. The gray mist particles didn't spread out like normal mist as usual, but instead, like a swift sharp sword, spread out rapidly in a straight line toward one direction, with a speed basically equivalent to the speed of light.

"That is Shiler." Magneto answered without any hesitation. Then he raised his tone and said: "Professor Charles, is this what you called 'letting Shiler stretch his muscles'?! Good God, what the hell is that thing?!"

Rocket Raccoon stared at the red dot and, after a long silence, said: "Unless they don't want to leave, but can't leave."

"That is a complete void." Stark's voice sounded behind Magneto. He was still floating quietly in the universe. Compared to the massive demon god, he was as tiny as a grain of sand, as thin as a gust of wind, but also broader than them.

"He transformed into an energy lifeform?"

In the deepest part of the mist sea, the continuously rising mist guarded a figure, like the cloud waves that lift the sun from the horizon every mist-filled morning.

So he truly retreated a few steps, then turned his head and shouted crazily toward the main control room: "Hurry and leave here, hurry, hurry and leave here!!!"

Against the light of the sun, when that gray mist line reached its end, Shiler re-condensed his form in front of the dazzling fireball.

Gray Mist thought for a moment, then said: "How about we try another kind of movement?"

"Where is he going?" This was the only question Shiler was thinking about.

"Look at the radar map, what is that red dot in the middle?"

"But before, when I went to fight those big bugs with Sloth, it made us both very tired, and the other Shilers weren't satisfied either. So I was wondering if that's not the movement they were referring to?"

This flame experienced a transformation from birth to aging in just a few seconds. And when the gravity inside the dense core reached the limit that the structure could bear, the gray mist factors in the center of the dense core shifted from an extremely dense structure to another form of composition—all factors collapsed inward.

Shiler's voice sounded somewhat ethereal, as if he were thinking about something at the same time. Then he continued: "There is nothing there, no life, no light..."

And when the Zerg at the very edge, which was closest to that small spaceship, disappeared, Quill on the ship finally saw clearly how they disappeared—after a dense mist swept past, they were like a puff of rising smoke, drifting away from bottom to top without a trace.

"Is this the way Shiler exercises outdoors?"

"What is that?" Thor widened his eyes and asked.

Explosion, an extremely violent explosion. The extremely violent explosion instantly swept across dozens of star systems within its range, completely leveling everything.

The moment the fusion fire rose, the light, bright enough to illuminate dozens of star systems within the range, escaped at a speed faster than light.

"Those bugs are disappearing, where did they go?" Quill took two steps back, then rushed to the front of the porthole. Just as the radar screen showed, the iconic red compound eyes of the Annihilation Zerg in the distance were rapidly decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Traveling between every particle of the mist, heading toward the deeper silence, those that were destroyed left no corpses behind. Therefore, the closer one moved toward the center, the more eerily empty it became.

"He couldn't have interpreted it as physical exercise, could he?!!"

"But isn't this flanking unit of the Extinction Queen rushing to the front line for support? How could they delay their combat mission because of some lifeform?" Quill raised a question.

Afterward, the continuously inward-gathering gray mist factors began to collide inward at a speed faster than light, until the gray mist, which had already condensed into a structural entity, was struck into a dense core.

And what that super-giant gravity could absorb was not just entities and light, but also energy, souls, spirits, and other intangible, formless things. Finally, it collapsed until the rules of the universe themselves completely disappeared.

As his voice faded, the brightest red dot in the center of the screen suddenly disappeared. Rocket Raccoon widened his eyes, his whiskers shook fiercely, then he rushed to the radar console and said: "How is this possible? The life signal hasn't disappeared, but his entity doesn't exist."

"No fundamental forces, no rules, no energy, no thought... there is simply no universe there."

Through countless knocks and collisions of the outer factors against the inner core, a point of light was lit in the center, and then a special fusion flame rose.

Gray Mist thought for a while longer and said: "According to my observation, normal exercise is making oneself very tired through various movements."

This process didn't look like death, but more like some kind of sacrificial ritual containing terrifying implications, making Quill recall his terrible encounter in that dream world.

Shiler watched all this silently. A voice, hoarser than usual, finally sounded: "They only said to let me go up and exercise."

"That is a special lifeform that this spaceship cannot identify. He seems to be surrounded by the Zerg." Rocket Raccoon stared at the screen and said.

When the beam of light from the violent explosion escaped to the outpost, and the Iron Demon God, the Dark God King, and other existences within the extreme walls of the single universe turned their gaze toward the Empty Realm, they only saw a white sun rising slowly.

Magneto stared blankly at this white sun. The traces of certain particle movements around it seemed familiar. After a long while, he finally reacted and roared.

Gray Mist hesitated for a moment and said: "Actually, I don't quite understand either. Greed only said to exercise, saying it's good for the body, but I'm not sure what he was referring to."

When he said this, Shiler hadn't realized the severity of the problem. He just wanted to open his mouth to ask when he heard Stark continue.

"Even the energy detection radar didn't sound an alarm!"

"I don't know what exercise is." Facing Gray Mist, Shiler appeared even more straightforward.

Loki, who had just flown over, widened his eyes, looked at the completely non-existent void, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said.

When his back was illuminated, countless gray mist factors scattered again, and then gathered, squeezed, squeezed, and squeezed again toward a point at the same speed.

"Zerg, that is the Zerg front line!"

Just within the second that Rocket was stunned, the mist, which had swept over like a sea wave, approached a bit closer. Those bugs, born for battle and destruction, were defeated at the first touch in the waves. The small ship Quill was on was even more like plankton drifting with the waves; facing the whale-swallowing momentum, they could only try their best to escape.

"Then what were they referring to?"

Magneto immediately turned his head to look. This massive white sun, with only a faint arc of escaping light at its edge, began to move slowly in one direction. Everything in its path of movement disappeared completely from every level, as if erased by an eraser.

The raccoon took a few steps back and looked up at the holographic screen of the radar map. Quill also ran into the main control room and stared at the anomaly scanned in front of the ship with Rocket Raccoon.

Suddenly, Star-Lord froze, then he extended a hand and pointed at the radar projection screen with a somewhat trembling fingertip.

Rocket Raccoon turned his head. He saw that along with the disappearance of the brightest red dot in the center, the dense small red dots around it, with him as the center, began to disappear continuously at an extremely fast speed.

And Shiler was indeed not far from the star, where he saw two planet-sized Zerg nests, which were currently continuously spitting out ferocious-looking Zerg soldiers.

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