Chapter 3411

The outpost was not large, even smaller than the space station. There were not many staff working inside. According to the male employee who opened the door for them, there had been quite a few Chinese people recently, and there were even fewer people before.

After all, this place couldn't connect to Earth's network, and the outside was bare, so there was really nothing to see. The main work here was to collect Jupiter data and transmit it back to Earth. Although the bus ship would come every week, without special circumstances, one could not leave their post without authorization. The work was boring and dull, and no one was willing to do it.

In the staff's introduction, Shiler learned the basic situation of the outpost.

Callisto is a tidally locked satellite. Its relationship with Jupiter is equivalent to the relationship between the moon and Earth, with only one side always facing Jupiter. That side is equivalent to the front of the moon.

And the location of this outpost where they were now was actually equivalent to being on the back of the moon, which is the side not facing Jupiter. Shiler was actually a bit curious why they didn't build the outpost on the front.

But he thought about it, Callisto is relatively far from Jupiter. Looking at Jupiter from Callisto is actually not much bigger than looking at the moon from Earth.

If it were built on the front, what would rise every day wouldn't be the sun and the moon, but Jupiter, which would have a very strong sense of abnormality, which might aggravate the employees' sense of loneliness and affect their mental health.

As the third-largest satellite in the solar system, Callisto's volume is about equivalent to 2.6 moons, still much smaller than Earth. So even if the outpost was built on the back, it wouldn't take much time to go to the front. Considering the mental health of the employees, it was finally decided to build it on the back.

After visiting the outpost, Stark started asking questions. Mainly asking if they had discovered any strange spaceships, seen any suspicious people active, etc.

The answers given by the outpost staff were all no. Although a bit disappointed, it was not unexpected. Roxxon was so guilty that it was impossible to swagger in front of the official outpost of human civilization.

Stark hid the name of Roxxon and briefly told the staff about the current situation. Employees who worked here for a long time must know more about this place and should be able to give some useful speculations.

Sure enough, the employee confirmed Stark's previous speculation, saying, "If someone is really secretly mining here, they would definitely put the stronghold on Io. On one hand, there is abundant heat energy there, and on the other hand, Io is the large satellite closest to Jupiter."

"If they use the mining ship method to travel between Jupiter and the satellite, they will definitely pick a close one. This saves energy and is fast. If they are afraid of being discovered, the shorter the journey, the more hidden it must be. Overall, Io is the best choice."

"Of course, Europa is actually not far either. And Europa's orbit is better. So the possibility of choosing Europa is also there. I even feel that there might be strongholds on both planets."

"Why?" Stark asked curiously.

"If as you said, they mine, but didn't send ships to transport the ore out, then there must be a place to put the resources, right?"

"Io is close and has abundant heat energy, but it has a big disadvantage, which is frequent geological activity. The volcanoes on Io are the most in the entire solar system, and they erupt at every turn. That's not a good place to store resources."

"Although Europa is slightly further away and particularly cold, it is relatively calm. You can build storage there, store a large amount of resources, and then transport them away at once."

Stark nodded, feeling that what he said made a lot of sense. Because they knew that Roxxon was very likely using magical transportation means, most likely some kind of portal.

Except for human portals, most civilizations' portals have a big disadvantage, which is that they need a relatively stable environment. Once the runes and frames built are destroyed, the portal is basically unusable.

If Roxxon wasn't using Earth technology, but portal technology from other civilizations, it might also be limited by this disadvantage. That would mean it's impossible to build a portal on Io, and they can only go to other calmer planets. Then it might be on Europa.

Since the suspicion of these two planets is not small, then investigating them one by one is fine. But the order is also very particular. After Stark thought about it, he said, "We should split into two groups. The main combat power will go to check Europa first, and the remaining one will keep an eye on Io."

"Just Roxxon mining Jupiter doesn't explain anything. If we rush up rashly and interrupt their mining process, not only will we not be able to defeat them in one fell swoop, but we might also be bitten back by them, slandering us for wanting to monopolize the resources of the solar system."

"But if they really transported resources out of the solar system through magical means, then the process of them transporting resources is the ironclad proof of them being traitors. We must catch the evidence first, and then things will be easy to handle."

Shiler nodded with satisfaction. He thought so too.

Roxxon is a dog company that is quite good at abusing legal weapons. In the original comic, it sued superheroes more than once, and even sued Thor and made him lose the lawsuit.

On the surface, they are using the law to protect their rights, but in fact, they are setting traps for others, and then shooting some ambiguous evidence and then buying off the jury. It's just bullying superheroes for not having so much time and energy to fight lawsuits with them.

To deal with this kind of dog company, you must hit the seven inches when hitting a snake. Catch the evidence of them being traitors first, let them not be able to turn over in the public opinion field, and then things will be easy to handle.

Although Stark usually appears sloppy, he is reliable in the general direction. He continued, "The other side must also know that the portal is their lifeline. They will definitely send many people to guard it, and there may also be some traps we don't know about."

"If we can secretly get evidence on Europa, that's better; if we are discovered, the person watching Io will make some noise. Let them bloom at two points, unable to take care of themselves, and we can escape smoothly."

"Then I'll go to Io," Shiler said.

Stark looked at him with some distrust and said, "There is no moon here, are you sure your spells can be used?"

Although there was nothing under the hood, Stark seemed to see the other side's look like looking at a mentally retarded person.

Moon Knight raised his hand slightly, and a moon rose over Jupiter's satellite.

"Fine, fine, I know you're powerful," Stark waved his hand and said, "Spider-Man and I are going to Europa."

Then he threw a headset to Shiler and said, "Wear this. Once there is a situation, I will call you in the headset, and you act according to the situation."

After discussing the countermeasures, the two sides acted separately.

Shiler flew toward Io. There was no air traffic control here, and he directly teleported a super long distance, arriving at a place not far from Io.

Don't look at his previous confident appearance, now he is also asking Khonshu in his heart, "Are you sure your ability can be used here? Don't wait until I jump down, and you tell me it can't be used..."

"Rest assured," Khonshu said unhappily, "If you can see me, it means it can be used."

"Why can it be used? There is no moon here?"

"Don't ask so much about magic... fine, if you must get to the bottom of it. There is no concept of a galaxy in Egyptian mythology. There are no planets, no orbits, and no relationship of mutual occlusion."

"The moon and the sun are eternal existences, and the stars are just embellishments among them. The moon and sun on the magical level are almost unaffected by the state of the planets in your real world."

"If one day the celestial moon in your universe disappears, my magic will not fail. Because the moon in the definition of magic still exists and will never disappear."

"Then why did it take so much power for you to cover the celestial moon?"

"It also takes a lot of power for me to cover the celestial Mars, celestial Jupiter, and celestial Mercury. Because I have to use divine power to completely cover the light source of the sun they reflect. Do you know how much divine power that takes?"

"Then can't you cover them from the magical level?"

"Then can ordinary people see magic? If they can't see the stars on the magical level in the first place, what's the use of covering them?"

Shiler was speechless.

"I can control the celestial moon because I have divine power, not because I, the Moon God, have anything special about your satellite," Khonshu said. "My ability only stays on the romantic fantasy of ancient humans about the moon. You cannot require me to keep pace with the times because your era has developed and realized more functions of the moon. This cannot be done."

"Fine," Shiler could only say so.

In fact, he felt it was quite good that Khonshu couldn't control the celestial moon. Otherwise, if the Chinese ran away with the Earth one day, he would have to drive the moon to chase after them.

Shiler flew around Io. At the foot of what might be the largest volcano on this satellite, he saw a strange building. It really didn't look like a human creation.

Mainly because this color tone doesn't look like something humans could build. Their outpost on Callisto is white, and the space station near Earth is blue and white. Even if the new starship was painted black for combat needs, it also used dark blue as an embellishment.

But the building at the foot of the volcano is purple.

Shiler really couldn't figure out what kind of human architectural designer would design a space building to be purple, and it was purple and black. And the shape, if taken out and put into a game setting collection, wouldn't be out of place at all; it didn't look like a functional building, but rather like a temple.

"Why does this style look a bit familiar?" Shiler muttered to himself.

Shiler suddenly remembered that the style of this temple was a bit like Asgard's. But Asgard is used to using gold, so he didn't think of it for a while.

"Roxxon couldn't possibly be colluding with Asgard, right?"

This conjecture was overturned in one second. Asgard couldn't look down on the mosquito legs of Jupiter, and there was no need to be so sneaky.

Asgard's mining process is probably: find a resource planet, send out a warship, aim, fire, break the planet, and then pack it up and take it home.

Most advanced civilizations in the universe do this. Basically, only those civilizations that have not yet left the galaxy set up a lot of equipment there to mine.

If it's not colluding with Asgard, then it's possible it's colluding with other civilizations in the Nine Realms. Because Asgard, as the master of the Nine Realms, their aesthetics and culture have greatly influenced other civilizations here, causing other civilizations to have more or less the shadow of Asgard.

At this time, Shiler remembered that in the comic "War of the Realms," Roxxon obtained the mining rights to all minerals in his territory from Malekith, the leader of the Dark Elves, by handing over the skull of Laufey, the King of the Frost Giants.

"Roxxon's partner is the Dark Elves?"

?? I caught a cold recently due to the change of seasons, and my head hurts so much I want to die, so it might be late.

? (End of chapter)