Chapter 4039: MU: The Super-Body Event (Part 130)

As the light slowly dissipated, the entire planet had been pierced through.

The power of a starship's main cannon is terrifying. According to the Interstellar Weapon Safety Convention, such weapons are strictly prohibited from being fired at planets. This is because, although many starship main cannons cannot shatter a planet in a single blow, they can severely damage a planet's stability, ultimately leading to its disintegration or explosion.

Even a brute civilization like Xiangong, which possesses a planet-killing weapon like the Rainbow Bridge, generally only uses it for boarding actions rather than firing directly at someone's home planet. This is because the destructive power of such a weapon is too great; firing it at a planet's surface is no different from genocide.

Any society that still maintains order cannot accept this form of slaughter and extermination. Once done, it is equivalent to cutting oneself off from interstellar society and becoming a universal enemy.

Therefore, even though the Kree Empire and the Skrull Empire have fought a thousand-year war, they have never once fired a starship main cannon directly at a densely populated planet.

But today, that record was broken. A starship belonging to the Interstellar Safety Bureau fired directly at the most densely populated market planet in the Centaurus constellation and successfully pierced it through.

Fortunately, the target area was not the largest market, but slightly offset. Even so, the planet's structure was completely destroyed. After being pierced, the planet began to vibrate rapidly and was on the verge of disintegration.

The Prime Universe Constantine, who was staying in the Central Tower, was shaken right off his chair. He had just scrambled up from the ground when he was knocked down again, his head striking the corner of the table and leaving him bloodied.

Yet, he still crawled up on his hands and knees, rushed to the window, and just happened to see that beam of white light that had not yet dissipated.

"My God..." the Prime Universe Constantine was dumbfounded. But he didn't even have time to notify Batman before the entire Central Tower collapsed.

The Prime Universe Constantine only had enough time to cast a protective shield on himself with magic. But even so, being buried under hundreds of tons of building materials left him with several broken ribs. When he crawled out of the ruins, he nearly died on the spot.

But that was no longer the critical issue. The surface of this planet had split open and was shaking incessantly; by human standards, it was roughly equivalent to a magnitude 13 earthquake. Any creature without the ability to fly would find it hard to stand.

Fortunately, creatures capable of navigating the black markets of the universe are naturally not too weak, and most have a spaceship of some kind. From the moment the earthquake began, they ran toward their ships. Countless vessels lifted off from the surface, ignoring any blockades by the Interstellar Security Committee, flying away for their lives.

As one of the few without a ship, the Prime Universe Constantine could only use magic to escape. He teleported to a distant satellite, and only then did he see the culprit behind the planet's disintegration—a starship whose main cannon had not yet fully cooled.

"Good heavens, has that Thanos gone mad?!" the Prime Universe Constantine said. "Using a main cannon to strike a planet, this is a total massacre, isn't it?!"

But just at that moment, he saw an octopus wobbling as it flew out of the starship. The size and coloring of this octopus were very familiar; it was none other than Toros, with whom he had shared a brief fling not long ago.

The Prime Universe Constantine swallowed hard. He immediately realized that this matter was not so simple and hesitated about whether to move further away.

But just then, he saw a figure on another satellite, on the far side of the starship, slowly flying toward this side.

It looked like traveling, but not quite, because as the figure flew, it circled to the side, then came to the top of the starship, and finally just dove straight inside.

Because he was some distance away, the Prime Universe Constantine didn't see clearly who it was, but his intuition told him there was definitely something fishy going on. After thinking for a moment, he also flew toward the entrance of the starship.

After entering, Constantine smelled a somewhat indescribable odor, which seemed to be some kind of psychedelic agent. However, the starship itself was quite clean and tidy, with no signs of battle.

Constantine walked all the way inside, and when he entered the banquet hall, he saw a tall, black figure standing there, holding a camera and wondering what he was filming.

"Hey! You..."

Before Constantine could finish his sentence, the big guy turned around. Constantine was stunned, then said: "Venom? Are you Venom?"

The black slime vanished instantly, revealing Eddie's face behind it. He said: "I'm Eddie Brock. Are you Constantine?"

"That's right, it's me. Honestly, you looked smoking hot just a moment ago." The Prime Universe Constantine stepped forward and shook hands with Eddie.

"He's hitting on you!" Venom shouted in his mind.

"He's hitting on *you*," Eddie said irritably. "Don't come out, be careful he doesn't just reach out and grab you."

"What are you doing here?" the Prime Universe Constantine asked.

"Filming news, of course," Eddie shrugged and said. "I was originally a war correspondent over there, but while wandering around the battlefield, I discovered that two planets full of octopuses were at war, and one side seemed to be abusing prisoners of war. I followed this lead and came near this ship, but I didn't expect that guy to be so insane as to dare to attack a planet directly with the starship's main cannon. I think a charge of massacre is inevitable, but I feel there's a story here that can be dug deeper, so I came up to take a look."

"Stop wasting time with him," Venom said in his mind. "There seems to be someone upstairs; I heard movement. Let's go up and see."

Eddie nodded at the Prime Universe Constantine and then carried his camera upstairs. The Prime Universe Constantine followed behind him. The two arrived upstairs one after the other, and then they saw several high-ranking officials who frequently appeared in interstellar news walking out, wobbling.

Most interstellar high-ranking officials were from the three major empires. Among them, because the Supreme Intelligence's control over the Kree Empire was extremely tight, most high-ranking officials from the Kree Empire were actually avatars of the Supreme Intelligence. And since the Supreme Intelligence was an electronic life form with no selfish desires, these officials were relatively fair when facing issues outside the Kree Empire, and their personal conduct was not a problem.

But the other two empires were a chaotic mess. The Skrull Empire was slightly better because most of its citizens had undergone high-level mechanical modification, but this Shi'ar Empire had been a feudal aristocracy from beginning to end, and there's no need to elaborate on how depraved they played. These officials this time were also from the Shi'ar Empire.

Eddie and Constantine reacted very quickly, instantly flashing into a small room nearby. Eddie poked the camera out and clearly captured the faces of this group of people.

"I knew there was a problem. That Toros captured his own kind, and instead of killing them, he locked them all up and brought them here—it turns out it was to sell them to these officials. But what use do they have for octopuses?"

"Uh..." the Prime Universe Constantine paused and said, "Don't you think those octopuses look quite beautiful?"

"Hmm???"

"Their limbs are very soft, their colors are very vibrant, and their suckers are absolutely superb. Oh..."

"Wait," Eddie said in disbelief, "you don't mean to say that they brought those octopuses here to... My God! I mean... God!"

"Of course, their most wonderful aspect isn't their limbs, but their psychic abilities, which can allow you to achieve a dual enjoyment of both body and spirit..."

Eddie looked at Constantine's reminiscent expression and couldn't say a word, only feeling that his own worldview had suffered a severe shock.

"Don't look at me like that," the Prime Universe Constantine said. "This is publicly acknowledged in the universe; the issue of this ethnic group being trafficked has always been very serious. This just shows that my aesthetic is normal."

"Ugh!"

"What's going on?! Why did so many people die all of a sudden?!" Earth's command center was already in an uproar. Looking at that grayed-out list of names, all the commanders were on the verge of a breakdown.

Death in war is nothing out of the ordinary, but these people were not ordinary people with fragile bodies; they were Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the Fantastic Four! How could they be wiped out directly without even a shred of resistance?! At least send a message back!

But soon, they received messages from the deceased in Battleworld. Yet everyone stated that they didn't know what had happened; they just saw a beam of white light, and the next second they appeared in Battleworld.

"A beam of white light?!" Stark said with some surprise. "Could it be another version of the Omega Beams?! Could it be Darkseid's doing again?"

"It doesn't seem like it," Natasha shook her head, checking her own information interface, and then said, "This time there is a significant difference from the last time. They felt obvious thermal energy, and the death process was slightly longer than being hit by Omega Beams; it doesn't seem to be the same type of energy."

"Then what exactly is going on?!" Steve was also scratching his head. The losses this time were even more devastating than the last, but they didn't even know what had happened.

But soon, they learned from interstellar news about the disintegration of the Centauri market planet. And this news was even posted on the interstellar internet by their war correspondent, Eddie Brock.

"In the footage, we can see that this once very prosperous planet is gradually disintegrating. Due to safety considerations, I cannot get too close, but I have invited a customer who was purchasing on this planet earlier to give us a detailed account of the situation at the time of the incident. Hello, may I ask if you know how this planet disintegrated?"

Eddie was standing on a satellite, with the gradually disintegrating market planet behind him, and many spaceships were parked on this satellite, all appearing to have fled from the main planet.

And the one he was interviewing was a purple-skinned alien with four arms. The other party chattered a lot in an alien language. Eddie translated: "He said he also doesn't know how the planet disintegrated, only that he felt a very strong vibration. However, his personal terminal told him that the energy fluctuations seemed to come from the Interstellar Security Committee's ship."

"Prior to this, the Interstellar Security Committee had blockaded this planet under the pretext of pursuing fugitives, but according to this customer, he had not seen any fugitives on this planet."

"In the few minutes after the explosion occurred, I risked my life to approach the Interstellar Security Committee's starship, entered it, and discovered a shocking secret. Next, please look at the footage I captured inside the starship..."

As the footage switched, they first saw an octopus-like alien creature fly out of the starship; after entering the interior of the starship, there was first all kinds of slime in the messy banquet hall, then the drunken high-ranking officials of the Interstellar Alliance; immediately following that was the starship's weapon deployment log, which clearly stated that just a few minutes ago, the starship's main cannon had charged and fired, with the target being the surface of the market planet.