Chapter 1997

In order not to attract attention, Quill had to hold Rocket Raccoon in his arms, pretending he was a teddy bear. Drax and Groot were easy to explain, after all, tourists were already used to doll actors with larger bodies.

Their progress was very slow, because people kept coming over to take photos with Groot. Mantis, who looked cute, was also welcomed by many people. Even Drax had fans, and many people asked Quill where he bought such a cute raccoon doll.

If they were in other areas, their slightly strange images might have caused alarm, but the setting here was Batuu, a place where various alien races gathered. Tourists would only think this was a special actor arranged by Disney, sighing that it was too professional and too immersive.

The Guardians of the Galaxy were also immersed in this welcoming atmosphere. Drax kept posing as a strongman, and even carried little girls on his shoulders, letting their parents take photos as souvenirs.

Groot seemed to like human cubs very much, as if the young of this race just happened to grow on his aesthetic. He carried four or five children on his shoulders, and even let one sit on his head, taking a family photo for them.

Mantis was like the most dedicated Disney actor, smiling and nodding at the people around her, showing a slightly shy expression and taking photos with tourists.

Star-Lord, who looked the most normal, kept showing off his alien gun, chatting and bragging with young men interested in weapons. He had more fun than the tourists, and didn't walk a hundred meters in twenty minutes after entering the park.

Shiler, sitting by the window of the restaurant next to him, saw all this and silently covered his forehead.

Steve and Stark were gloating. What is a fool overcoming a master?

Of course, Stark could also understand what Shiler was going to do. Yondu was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, otherwise he wouldn't have risked entering Earth.

And delving into the reason for Yondu's anxiety, it was nothing more than the fact that interstellar countries were tightening security defense measures. The Shi'ar Empire was undergoing a massive purge due to Mystique's rise to power, and the lives of interstellar pirates everywhere were not easy.

Thanos was stirring up trouble everywhere for his own career, but he actually convinced important figures of the major empires, and in tandem with Loki, he was about to seize the power of interstellar security in his own hands.

Thanos was a ruthless man. If he really took office, the three fires of the new official would be enough to burn all the interstellar pirates.

This time, receiving Loki's invitation, Yondu must have thought they intended to negotiate, but his situation was too unfavorable now, with no information, and the negotiation location was still in the other party's home.

He urgently wanted to win some chips. Even if it was recruitment, he had to get some real goods. But now that it was burning his eyebrows, he could only choose to sharpen his spear before the battle. Information was the best chip.

Understanding what the other party was going to do to build a security defense system and whether there were any loopholes to drill through were all chips that could reverse the situation. Even if he learned some information that other pirate groups didn't know, he could occupy an advantage when dividing the spoils later.

Shiler of course guessed Yondu's psychology. He urgently wanted to get information, so Shiler gave him information.

No one in this world knows how to fabricate information better than Shiler. Still the same sentence, you give him a framework, he returns you a world.

The story foundation of Batuu was already very good, because the setting here was that the once prosperous planet had become a paradise for smugglers, all kinds of wanted criminals, black merchants, and information brokers, perfectly fitting Yondu's needs.

After communicating with Disney and raising the reward to 15%, the other party immediately added scenes to the staff at light speed, replacing all the originally fabricated interstellar information with real interstellar information provided by Nick.

For example, the smugglers here would actually tell some tourists where the badges were hidden, mixed with some fabricated interstellar secrets to enhance the sense of reality and immersion.

Now these interstellar secrets were all replaced with real ones, and they were real secrets that Shiler heard from the elite class during his time in the universe. As long as you verify them slightly, you can find that they are absolutely true and valuable information.

This was like a sweet bait, and Yondu couldn't help but take the hook.

The Ravager team wasn't particularly wealthy, and couldn't be called the fat sheep in Shiler's mouth at all. But the interstellar society was an enlarged version of human society. Which pirate didn't have a backer?

You could tell from Yondu's reaction that his backer was definitely not long for this world. Don't count on this group of pirates to talk about loyalty. The old boss was about to die, why not sell for a good price quickly, so as to improve their status with the new boss?

What Shiler wanted was Yondu's old boss.

People who could afford to hire interstellar pirates to plunder resources for them for a long time were definitely fat sheep in the interstellar society, and were very likely high-level officials of the three major empires.

Shiler first lured Yondu down with the possibility of information here, and then negotiated with him.

By then, Yondu would provide information. After Shiler got the information, he would turn around and sell it to Thanos. Thanos would kill the chicken to warn the monkey in the name of interstellar security. Besides getting the spoils of the raid, Thanos would also have to thank us.

But Yondu sent Star-Lord.

Shiler didn't know what kind of unrealistic fantasy Yondu had about the IQ of his adopted son. Just saying that letting a raccoon that could walk upright, a green-skinned alien woman, a grumpy big guy, a giant tree man, and an insect woman with tentacles on her head get together to do intelligence work was worthy of being called a contemporary Golden Plan. Interstellar security performance art had a kind of beauty that Thanos would give a thumbs up to.

Shiler let out a long sigh, changed his plan directly, looked at Steve, and said, "Can you call Bucky and ask him to come over?"

Steve was a bit confused, but thought it was Shiler's plan, so he called his little partner over.

After Howard was resurrected, Stark could barely stay in the same room as Bucky. Bucky didn't care at all. When he walked over, he first gave Steve a hug.

Shiler walked out of the restaurant, walked directly to the Guardians of the Galaxy, and reached out to touch Rocket's head.

Rocket Raccoon was about to get angry, but when he looked up and found it was Shiler, he was so scared his hair stood up.

Quill, who was looking at the other side, was also startled by Shiler when he turned his head back. Shiler waved at them and said, "Come over, I have something to talk to you about."

The others didn't know Shiler, but seeing that he was an acquaintance of Quill, they had no defensive psychology and followed Shiler.

Rocket Raccoon just wanted to stop them, but remembered how miserable Shiler had made them when he threw them into that terrifying universe last time. In order not to be retaliated against again, he decided to shut up.

The group walked to the restaurant seat together. Quill hadn't even had time to sit down when Shiler pointed directly at Bucky's arm and said to Rocket Raccoon, "Do me a favor, and I'll give you an arm just like that."

Rocket Raccoon stared wide-eyed.

"Wait, what's going on?" Quill said with some confusion, "How did you know we were here? Did you invite Yondu? What do you want us to cooperate with? And what's with the arm? Where is all this coming from?"

Shiler saw the other orange cat in Quill's arms. He was slightly stunned, then said, "This cat wouldn't be..."

Just at this moment, his phone rang. After he answered, it was Nick's voice on the other side. He asked, "Doctor, did you see an orange striped cat? That's my old friend. Is it with you now?"

Shiler answered him. Not long after, Nick pushed the door and entered. As soon as he saw the orange cat, he hurriedly picked it up, touched the cat's head hard, and then said, "Thank you for your hard work, Goose. Where is your owner?"

Seeing the orange cat about to open its mouth, Nick immediately hugged it and turned around. Countless tentacles stretched out from the orange cat's mouth. With a 'blech', a woman crawled out from among the tentacles.

"God, Nick Fury! Even if you help me with more things, I won't do this again. Do you know how many things Goose swallowed? I was almost hit in the head by half an iron door just now!"

The blonde woman turned around and looked at Nick with no good air. Nick revealed a bright smile at her and said, "Long time no see, Captain. I mean Captain Marvel."

"Let me introduce you. This is Captain Marvel Carol, an old friend of S. H. I. E. L. D. This time I asked her to let her pet help me transport some things."

"Wait a minute, where is this?" Carol also found something wrong. She looked left and right, then said, "Disney, wait, you wouldn't be thinking of holding Goose to ride a roller coaster and then shaking me dizzy, would you?"

"I absolutely didn't think so." Nick stretched out two hands and said, "It's all a misunderstanding."

"What's going on? This is actually your pet?" Quill looked at Carol with some confusion again and asked.

"I'm too lazy to fly so far with it, so I just drilled into its stomach and let it hitch a ride with you." Carol took the orange cat from Nick's hand, touched its head, and said, "This is Goose, its big name is Chewie. It is... uh, I always thought it was a cat, you can just treat it as a cat."

"This guy is a Flerken!" Rocket Raccoon shook his whiskers and said with no good air, "It can swallow us and the whole spaceship. You actually always thought it was a cat?"

Rocket Raccoon was actually talking about Quill, but Captain Marvel Carol thought he was talking about her, so she shrugged and said, "I really thought it was just a cute little kitty."

"Who knew that when I went to the Andromeda Galaxy a few months ago, a group of symbiotes called Cosmic Agents told me that Goose is actually a monster called a Flerken. But so what? Anyway, it looks like a cat, so it's a cat."

"What did you go to the Andromeda Galaxy for?" Shiler asked.

Carol rolled her eyes and turned to look at Nick. Nick sighed and said, "You know mutants have a Cerebro, right? Magneto wants to build a bigger one."

"How big?" Stark asked.

"As big as the moon."

Everyone gasped.

"The other parts are fine, but the key parts must use sound-absorbing steel, which is Vibranium. You probably also know the special properties of Vibranium. Only by using this material for precision parts can we achieve the best brainwave amplification effect."

"Just because the total volume is larger, a lot of Vibranium is needed, exhausting the resources mutants have accumulated for decades, and spending a lot of money to collect a pile of loose goods."

"Because the quantity is too large, it's very troublesome to smelt by hand. Magneto used the sun in the solar system to smelt it and shape it, and then pulled it to the Andromeda Galaxy."

"The special properties of Vibranium precision parts make it impossible for him to take a mage's portal, and he can't take Magneto's wormhole either. Mutants don't have enough manpower to pull these parts over, so I asked Carol to help."

"The parts were delivered, right? Why did Ms. Carol come back?" Steve asked, "What did you ask her to bring you?"

"Is it free to use our sun?" Nick said righteously, "Even self-service washing machines require coins. Using our sun to smelt so many parts, we have to pay some equipment wear and tear fees, right?"

Stark covered his eyes. It turned out Nick asked Carol to move the mutants' rewards.

"What are you all talking about?" Only Quill was always out of the loop. He looked at Shiler and said, "Whatever your plan is, Doctor, I won't let Rocket take risks. He is our friend."

"Your last plan put us all in danger. This time we won't be fooled, right, Rocket?"

Quill turned his head, only to see Rocket Raccoon staring straight at Bucky's mechanical arm.

He slapped his forehead.