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Chapter 4023

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"Stop them!!!" Doom also let out a roar. Several cannon muzzles instantly unfolded under his black robe, but what was fired was not artillery, but several fusion devices.

These ring-shaped devices shot out at an astonishing speed, blocking behind the enemy heroes, and then gathered together as if there were traction, and then collapsed inward at the same time. Heart-stopping gravity came from that direction.

"Run!! Run!!!" Martian Manhunter shouted heart-rendingly.

But it was too late. The light began to disappear gradually, a kind of silent darkness spread outward, and a kind of deep black formed inside. Time began to slow down, and then everything began to twist.

Other Doctor Dooms ran for their lives as soon as that thing began to collapse, and didn't forget to scoop up the few survivors who were standing there in a daze, running all the way into the gravity circle of the Asgard base and still not feeling safe, desperately putting out shields.

The main universe Captain America was a bit dazed and hadn't realized what happened, until he heard a Doctor Doom beside him curse: "What a madman! He actually carries a black hole with him!!!"

The main universe Captain America shuddered, and only then did he realize what this series of cosmic phenomena meant—an artificial black hole appeared above the Asgard base.

This black hole was not large in mass; the main universe Captain America could only judge by the range where the light disappeared. However, it was also a black hole. And I don't know if it was artificially adjusted, but the range of this black hole's event horizon was larger than imagined, so that everything inside and outside the range was sucked in.

Facts have proved that even god races like Wonder Woman cannot face a black hole. After being captured by the black hole, divine power couldn't light up at all, and they could only be helplessly dragged toward the singularity; first time slowed down infinitely, and then consciousness gradually disappeared. In this process, several white lights lit up. And then, a big hand covered down.

That was a hand completely composed of information flow; it was constantly dismantling all cosmic information and then reorganizing it. Steve looked at the huge figure and muttered to himself: "Didn't expect it to become stronger again."

Earth has been peaceful for a long time, and the Iron Demon God hasn't shown his face for a long time. However, Steve remembered the last time he appeared; it was still no different from most demon gods, but the form of expression was infinitely proliferating machinery.

But appearing again, there was no dazzling magic radiance, nor was there a group of mechanical armies; although equally huge and vast, it was dark and silent. But this meant another kind of strength.

The main universe Batman, who was watching all this through monitoring equipment, suddenly remembered that in the magic school, Lucifer, who taught cosmic structure, once said that the universe is simple and unadorned in its true nature, and if it must be described in human vocabulary, it is closer to one word—'information'. This group of cosmic administrators of theirs are programmers who maintain infinitely huge information in the background.

And the current form of the Iron Demon God is like abandoning all the filters and rendering added later, presenting a construct of the universe's original information form, reading directly, rewriting directly, and running directly.

Steve remembered that Stark once proposed a hypothesis: whether people suffering from a certain disease would be directly cured when he deleted that disease from the universe. Now it seems that it was not just a hypothesis; he is afraid he has been exploring this. And he might be close to success.

The black hole was deleted silently, and rich white light also emerged from the palm of that hand, and all the captured superheroes exited the battlefield. Then, that huge figure also disappeared into invisibility.

The returning Stark gasped for breath, Steve hurriedly flew over with his shield to catch him, but was still a step slow. A sharp blade light flashed, a huge hole was directly cut in the back of Stark's mech, and a blade broke through the defense of the mech and directly cut into Stark's back.

"Uh!!!!"

Stark let out a scream. Steve threw his shield toward that direction in anger, and the green-haired woman was knocked flying. Steve hurriedly reached out to support Stark.

"He's fine," Jarvis's voice came from the mech, "we brought enough healing potions; it should heal soon."

Steve took a look at the wound and found that the blood had stopped and was already healing. He breathed a sigh of relief, but found that Stark had already fainted from the pain.

"Damn it." He cursed.

But just at this time, in the pitch-black cosmic space, several magic lights suddenly lit up; the mages had arrived.

The main universe Captain America hurriedly greeted them and said: "Is the crisis on Earth resolved?"

The leading Archmage saluted and said: "The Sorcerer Supreme is still cleaning up the mess; we were ordered to come and help."

"Great," the main universe Captain America said. He hadn't recovered from the previous stimulation yet, his tone was a bit trembling, and he said, "There is a group of invisible killers; we need your help to solve them. Magic energy can interfere with their invisibility ability."

The mages nodded to him, and then each had a golden light circle. Soon, the people of the Female Furies were scanned out and then broken one by one.

The mages' magic is the best way to clear the Parademon army; after a few magics, the Parademons were swept away. And those superheroes who were not captured by the black hole were also scattered soldiers and couldn't form a climate, so they could only retreat.

This battle has reached the point where it can't be fought anymore; the losses on both sides are too heavy. The superheroes were wiped out in formation, and the remaining few cats and kittens could only retreat miserably.

Returning to the base, everyone was very silent. The conference room that could have been filled was now only filled in the first three rows, and each person's counterpart could hardly form a small team, and they could only sit together to make the number of people look a bit more.

"Everyone worked hard," Steve sighed and said, "there is no order for a review meeting from the command center for now; everyone go back and rest."

But no one left; anyway, they were not ordinary people and didn't need to sleep. People with some experience know that if you leave and go to be alone now, post-traumatic stress disorder might break out even more severely, so it's better to stay together and talk to each other, which can also divert attention.

Before, they questioned Professor X's statement about Doctor Strange's mental problems, but now it seems that it was not groundless.

Captain Americas are also veterans; they originally felt that they wouldn't be troubled by this, but in reality, it was not like that at all.

On the front line, various artillery fire bombed in turns, the meat grinder of street fighting, he had seen it all. Someone fell down after being shot, someone was covered in shrapnel, someone was blown into two sections by landmines; all the scenes were very bloody and terrifying. Steve Rogers, who was still a recruit, had also been afraid, but later he gradually became numb.

Because people were dying every second on the battlefield, and the screams would never stop, but if you didn't concentrate, the next one to die would be you. Even if it was to live for oneself, one could only ignore those painful scenes.

But this battle was completely different from the past; almost no one bled, and those who were hit by Omega Beams just disappeared like that; they didn't even make a sound. No blood, no painful wailing, just suddenly disappeared. This is another kind of strangeness and terror.

This kind of thing completely exceeded the cognition of normal humans, and the greatest fear of humans is the unknown.

Where did this beam come from? Where is it going? Where did the people hit by it go? Are they dead? Or disappeared? How did they die? Was it high temperature or cutting? Or suffocation?

Just like after humans first came into contact with cosmic knowledge, they always think repeatedly: what happens if you fall into the sun? What about falling into Jupiter? What does it feel like to be captured by a black hole?

There is no answer, because no one has ever experienced it.

Everything is just a hypothesis; no one knows what the truth is. That is a realm they cannot reach; in these realms, humans are as small as ants, completely unable to struggle.

This kind of doubt and uncertainty always surrounds people, making their thinking slide into the abyss of fear, catalyzing their primitive instincts, and making them begin to become excited and extremely aggressive.

The main universe Captain America realized that he might be walking on the same path as Doctor Strange, but he really had no way to control himself. He began to feel the nerves in his brain jumping rapidly, some jumping and runaway thoughts appeared in his mind, and then disappeared quickly, and he couldn't even remember them at all.

Followed by an increase in heart rate, an increase in breathing frequency, began to clearly hear his own heartbeat, joints began to ache, muscles began to twitch, and every breath became very shallow. To prevent suffocation, one could only breathe deeper and faster, and then the symptoms brought by respiratory alkalosis would make people dizzy and nauseous.

Fortunately, at this time, Strange returned. He scanned the circle and was also very shocked to see that only so few people were left.

Although he had already understood the general battle situation from Charles, seeing it with his own eyes was still very impactful.

He frowned deeply, and then, according to what Charles said, knocked on the ground with the long staff in his hand. The power of light magic swung out, and everyone felt refreshed.

"Sorry, special methods for special times; really no time to find you a psychologist, can only use this relatively fast method. But rest assured, after the war ends, there will be special personnel to conduct psychological counseling for you." Strange said.

"What did the command center say?" Steve asked.

"Still have to have a meeting, but we won't run around through portals; this time we will have a remote meeting. Go back and rest first, and gather in the conference hall in 12 hours."

Everyone began to disperse gradually. However, they didn't choose to stay with their counterparts again, but walked out in teams with the Avengers as the unit.

Most of the Avengers couldn't be gathered together; only two universes were relatively lucky, one was the main universe, and one was the central universe; at least the people were still complete.

After they left, Steve walked up and asked: "How is Earth?"

"No problem, I expelled Shuma-Gorath. But that Set is very cunning and didn't show up at all. However, I discovered its aura around the universe; I have to go around again in a while."

"What about Asgard?"

"With Hulk's help, the situation is much better. At least the defense of the Nine Realms is no problem. It's just that if we want those two empires to withdraw their troops, we have to think of other ways."

He said this, and Steve knew that they must have a way, so he didn't ask any more questions.

Suddenly, the light of teleportation flashed, and Loki appeared in front of the two and said: "There is news about the main universe Doctor Strange; he ransacked the Collector's treasure vault and now doesn't know where he ran off to."

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