Chapter 4705

In fact, in most comics, the three great empires are not just background. Not only did the Skrull Empire secretly invade, but the Kree Empire also made a strong appearance in the cinematic universe. The Shi'ar Empire is relatively more mysterious, but that is because the film and television adaptations of mutants have not involved Professor X's love life. Back then, mutants caused quite a stir in the Shi'ar Empire, and there were also characters closely linked to the Shi'ar Empire, like sword fighters.

Relatively speaking, the Skrull Empire and the Kree Empire, these two civilizations, have already stopped pretending; it's obvious they want to invade Earth and occupy the galaxy. The Shi'ar Empire is relatively more civilized, but that does not mean they won't secretly cause trouble.

By the way, the American government in Marvel comics accepts all disasters and unknown dangerous goods with open arms, fearing to neglect any force that wants to invade Earth, so they must accept all comers and treat everyone equally.

When Stark learned that the Red Door Lan factory was not entirely human technology, he already had suspicions. It's not that humans cannot use alien technology, after all, Earth's technology level in this universe is also quite high, being able to participate in interstellar society is not surprising, and exchanging useful technology with other aliens is quite normal.

But the problem lies in the nature of the Red Door Lan factory. You know, this is a factory producing superweapons, and it is aimed at mutants. Given the strength of mutants, it can be said outright that any superweapon capable of defeating mutants would likely be invincible across the entire universe. How could such a weapon production line's technology be put up for sale?

Just like governments on Earth, hearing that someone sells aircraft, hearing that someone sells tanks, but never hearing that someone sells nuclear weapon factories. Such things simply cannot be put up for sale, even by the three great empires.

Then there is another possibility. That is, this weapon factory only targets mutants, and what it produces will only affect mutants, causing absolutely no harm to anything else. Only then could such technology possibly leak out and be obtained by humans.

But if it is a civilization that has never come into contact with mutants, it is also impossible to have such technology. The place of origin of the technology must have a profound understanding of mutants and must have invested great effort in researching how to completely exterminate mutants; otherwise, such technology would not exist.

Stark knows that when the Phoenix went out of control, it directly exterminated a star system of the Shi'ar Empire. This event is an important milestone for mutants, and generally every universe will have such an event. However, because Professor X muddied the waters and refused to execute the Phoenix woman, in the end the Shi'ar Empire could not do anything to the culprit.

The Shi'ar Empire is very likely to have painstakingly researched weapons to exterminate mutants after this lesson. Only they would do this, after all, only they have a deep grudge against mutants.

And if the technology and materials were provided by the Shi'ar Empire, then they must also have mastered the factory's final control rights. Because if not, they could not ensure the factory would be built smoothly, and the robots produced would, as they expected, only exterminate mutants.

After all, humans are notorious for being unreliable; expecting them to get anything done is futile. If the factory wasn't built or it exploded, that would be fine, but if those robots went berserk and began indiscriminate slaughter, the Shi'ar Empire would also suffer chaos. So they definitely left a backdoor in the factory.

Stark had already hinted many times before that the factory being able to be built was suspicious. But alas, whether it was Dr. Gregger and other researchers, the human government, or mutants, they were all very confident, thinking alien technology was just the icing on the cake, and everything relied on human technological advancement.

Stark also understood the Shi'ar Empire. He knew this country was not as authoritarian as the other two, but rather a noble republican system most prone to mutual obstruction. This operation could be pure revenge, but pure revenge is unlikely.

Consuming so much manpower and material resources just for old grudges would not work in any country. Currently, exterminating mutants does not seem to bring them much benefit, unless they can also gain other advantages through this plan.

Upon learning of this miraculous crystal material that exhibits different properties at different temperatures, Stark could roughly guess the Shi'ar Empire's plan. After all, in his universe, this empire excels most at portal technology, and without using this technology to cause trouble, it would not be them.

Under normal high temperatures, the crystal can serve as a key conductor to solve some originally difficult energy transmission problems. Under extreme high temperatures, the crystal can become a flake for containing consciousness. So, under other temperatures, will the crystal still have other uses?

In Stark's view, the answer to this question is affirmative. From the structural diagram of the Red Door Lan factory he saw, he had already discovered that the large head mother model everyone was focusing on was actually just a smokescreen, with few key structures inside.

On the contrary, the ring structure supporting the mother model used a large amount of source energy crystals, and its form was very similar to the outer frame of a portal. One can almost see that once a certain condition is met, it could directly support the opening of an extremely large portal.

However, so far, no one has discovered this.

Stark also did not speak. Although he was frustrated by this group's slow reaction and hindsight, giving him a headache, he still chose to remain silent.

This is not the opposite of interventionism—self-abandonment. On the contrary, if this matter is utilized well, perhaps it will be beneficial for solving the fundamental problem of this universe.

Thus, Stark still told the local Spider-Man that if the situation indeed develops to an uncontrollable point, such as the factory completely losing control, he would be willing to intervene. This is already a major development, and the local Spider-Man did not ask for more.

Having received this promise, the human government also began to let go and act. They opened the external defense devices, allowing the Avengers to enter the core system.

At this moment, above the mother model, several mutants have gathered. Magneto brought the mutant elites he had summoned again and arrived near the mother model. These people even did not need a spaceship; they could ignore the sun's heat and physically traverse the universe with their bodies.

Compared to the previous assault team, these people are vastly stronger. At the same time, they are also very cautious, not rashly attacking that big head.

"You really don't want to control the factory?" Apocalypse asked.

"I only want to save people," Magneto said, "excessive greed will destroy everything, I am very clear about this."

Apocalypse looked dissatisfied, but remained silent without speaking. Other mutants also did not speak, because when they truly came before the mother model, everyone felt a certain threat budding, deep into the marrow, making their backs feel cold.

Magneto also silently gazed at that skull. It did not look like a skull, but rather like a heart slowly beating. For some reason, he felt the mother model had already awakened, and some deadly threats were being nurtured within, mutants were already not far from extinction.

This sense of crisis even made him want to break his original plan and completely destroy the factory. But in the end, he still controlled himself, waved his hand and said: "Let's go."

They began to break through the external defense system. There were countless patrolling drone ships and cannons, but in Magneto's presence they were meaningless. The real trouble was the several hundred sentinel robots here, although not all were main body sentinels, but they were also very powerful.

Magneto was obviously one of those mutants who had been thoroughly studied. He had appeared too many times, so everyone knew what he could do. The weapons used by those sentinels were not ordinary cannons, but molecular static stasis fields. This is somewhat like dense ice, only not as long-lasting and stable, but undoubtedly Magneto's bane.

Magneto was left and right. After just pushing open a sentinel robot, he was grabbed by the throat from behind by another sentinel with a force field. He wanted to use his ability to resist, but was again trapped by the force field. Fortunately, Apocalypse threw a punch, forcing that sentinel robot to retreat. Magneto shook off his cloak, somewhat embarrassed, and retreated a bit.

"You cannot rely only on long-range attacks," Apocalypse said, "you also need to practice fists and feet occasionally."

"My fists and feet are even less effective against them," Magneto said with a grim face, "the sentinels really restrain me."

Apocalypse had no time to talk to him. He directly grabbed a sentinel robot charging at him, twisted off its head in one motion, casually tossed the head aside, and said: "That's all."

The situation of the other mutants was also much better than Magneto's; they appeared infrequently, and ordinary human governments did not regard them as major enemies, so the data input on sentinel robots was insufficient. Even the main body sentinels were defeated repeatedly in front of these mutants. Not long after, they had already broken through the external defenses and entered the core system, with the big head right before their eyes.

"You go deal with them," Apocalypse said, crossing his arms, "be quick, I suspect those cunning humans still have some dirty tricks waiting for us."

Magneto flew forward a bit. But soon, several figures flew out from the ring ahead.

"Avengers!" Magneto gritted his teeth.

"I didn't expect to meet you here?" Thor raised his hammer and said, "The failure of the assault team was entirely your plot. You just wanted to take the opportunity to send consciousness into the factory system, control the mother model, and alter the settings of the Ninglu robots. We will not let you succeed!"

Upon hearing this, Magneto knew the other side had definitely misunderstood, but arguing was pointless. Because the idea of transferring consciousness sounds like Professor X's domain the moment it is mentioned, and even Magneto himself suspected, could it be that Professor X set this up? After all, those X-Men obey him so well, and he indeed has such ability.

Now saying he came to pick people up, the Avengers would not believe him at all. They would only think Magneto was contacting the system to collude inside and out to take down the mother model, more talk is useless, better to just fight.

"You go," Apocalypse said to Magneto, "I'll deal with them."

Magneto wanted to leave, Thor wanted to stop him. But Apocalypse narrowed his eyes, and in almost an instant, turned into a stream of light and slammed Thor into the ring behind him. With a bang, the ring violently trembled, and Thor spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Thor!!!!"