Chapter 920

"I also have no interest in the New Skrull Empire, and I will definitely not go back." Shiler said.

"However, I also don't want such a thing to happen. Even if it is to strive for development space for one's own civilization, it is not a reason for humanity to provoke a large-scale war between the three major empires." Shiler was righteous.

"You should all know that my relationship with Gana is not bad. Among those who once followed Gana, he trusted me the most."

"Up to now, I can also say it directly. Back then, he was able to board the Star-Pole without authorization because I stole my father's—that is, the deputy commander-in-chief's—identity authentication, so he could successfully implement his plan to steal the spaceship..."

"His trust in me exceeded anyone else's, because without me, his plan back then would have been impossible to succeed. He always firmly believed that I was on his side, so he had no precautions against me, but I felt he was just a fool who could be utilized."

Shiler narrowed his eyes and said, "You should know that there are devices on the Star-Pole that contact the Skrull Empire. In order to prevent Gana from doing something stupid one day and attracting the Skrull fleet, I did something to that communication device so that Gana could not easily control it to send signals."

"But also to prevent the day when I need to use it, I dismantled the key components and hid them. Although the Star-Pole has crashed, the communication device is still there. Therefore, we can use this communication device to send signals to the Skrull Empire."

"You mean..." Arungael frowned, as if he had thought of something. He said, "Every spaceship of the Skrull Empire has a special identification code. If we use the communication device on the Star-Pole to send information to the Skrull Empire, they will definitely think the information was sent back from the Star-Pole."

"That's right. We can disguise the signal before the Star-Pole crashed. In human terms, it is sending a black box message."

Shiler paced in the room and said, "Just as we said before, disguise this as an accident of the Skrulls fighting internally to seize control of the spaceship. Then both sides can take a step back and will not let this war evolve into an interstellar war."

"I understand. The Kree Empire doesn't care about the starport itself; it's nothing more than caring about face. As long as there is a reasonable reason, they are actually not willing to use force against the Skrull Empire." Barrak said.

Shiler nodded and said, "That's it. For a cosmic empire, war must extract benefits; otherwise, there is no need to start a war."

"If there is no black box, then the benefit of them starting a war is to find face for themselves. But if there is a black box, both sides have a reason to start negotiations, instead of having to fight."

"Since that's the case, let's start." Talos nodded and said.

At this time, on the edge of the solar system, outside the orbits of Pluto and Neptune, a starport with a somewhat strange shape was floating quietly in the universe.

The reason it is called strange is that the spherical starport, which should have been planet-like, was split into two halves at this time.

One half was connected by various mechanical structures, and the other half was covered with a magic shield, emitting mysterious light.

On the dock of the mechanical starport, several spaceships were docked, and on the dock of the magic shield starport, several spaceships flickering with magic luster were also docked.

Among them, in a cabin of the mechanical starport, Stark was debugging the equipment controlling the starport's docking pier while asking, "Where is Shiler? Is he back?"

Peter, who was looking at the blueprint beside him, answered without raising his head, "Not yet. He seems to have gone to find that group of Skrulls, saying something... to let them cooperate with the plan?"

"Who knows what he is playing at? This starport doesn't seem to be his final goal. I always feel he has bigger plans."

"This is not the final goal?!" Peter opened his mouth wide and looked at Stark, saying, "Wouldn't that be a bit exaggerated? We even got back a whole starport!"

"Although Dr. Shiler said this starport is relatively old, that's only for the Kree Empire. The Kree Empire is one of the three most advanced civilizations in the universe..."

Peter shook the blueprint in his hand and said, "The energy system inside is adapted to their wireless energy hub. If we want to modify it, we either have to change it to stellar energy or change it to Arc Reactor function, but the efficiency will drop a lot."

Peter sighed and looked at the blueprint again, saying, "The modification of a small component inside requires humanity's basic industry to develop for another few hundred years. Although we have pieced it together now, if we want to truly build it ourselves..."

Peter shook his head and didn't continue. But Stark didn't care at all and said, "It's fine as long as it can be used. Have you forgotten? The first generation of mecha was also assembled by me from broken parts in a trash heap."

He just wanted to use this topic to educate Peter not to be discouraged, to look directly at the gap with advanced civilizations, and to work hard to catch up. But at this moment, Shiler walked in and said, "Thank you for your hard work, everyone. If you have time, come with me to the Large Magellanic Cloud."

"Go to the Large Magellanic Cloud?" Stark turned his head somewhat suspiciously and looked Shiler up and down, saying, "You wouldn't be like those perverted serial killer cases, liking to return to the crime scene to see the expressions of the victims and investigators being played around by you, right?"

Shiler froze for a moment, then looked up at the patterns on the ceiling and said, "... Of course not."

Stark widened his eyes and said, "You really want to do that??!! No way? Peter! Peter! You go to the room next door first, stay away from this person!"

Peter thought they were joking. He shrugged and said, "Doctor, even if you want to go back and mock them, you have to ensure your own safety, right?"

"We smashed their starport; they are probably furious now. If we go back now, we might be attacked."

Shiler rolled his eyes and said, "Don't you pay any attention to the news in the universe at all? Forget it, I'll call Loki. Radiant Alliance, prepare for a meeting."

After a while, in the office of the Sanctum Sanctorum, when Loki walked out of a portal, he looked somewhat travel-worn, clearly having just conducted interstellar travel. He said, "Latest news, the Kree fleet has officially entered the Spider Nebula, preparing to organize a defensive line."

"There is also movement among the Skrulls. I infiltrated their capital star and found that the people there are celebrating victory. The people believe that their military action this time achieved good results and hit the Kree Empire hard in the face."

"Has the matter spread?" Stark asked.

"Of course, the information circulation speed of interstellar society is much faster than you imagine. The First Starport exploded less than two hours ago, and the vast majority of prosperous star sectors have learned of this news. Many more visionary civilizations have begun to prepare for war."

Loki took off his coat, hung it on the coat rack beside him, sat on the sofa, drank some water, and said, "Just about two hours ago, the Kree Empire capital lowered its flag to mourn. At the same time, it issued a document stating that the Skrull Empire must give an explanation. If there is no response within one day, they will take unrestricted retaliatory measures to respond to the Skrull Empire's sneak attack..."

"The Skrull Empire's official side seems to still be investigating the cause of this matter. Just about an hour ago, they stated that this was an accidental accident and expressed willingness to negotiate with the Kree Empire's representatives."

Stark raised one eyebrow somewhat suspiciously and said, "How does the Skrull Empire seem a bit weak? They don't intend to fight directly?"

Loki shook his head and said, "Don't you think this looks very much like a trap? Hasn't humanity's complex war history shown you enough conspiracies?"

"The Skrull Empire believes that the Kree Empire must have been prepared long ago and then concocted such an attack incident, using an old starport as bait to legitimately launch retaliatory activities, finally provoking a war, ambushing the Skrull Empire, and catching them off guard."

"Oh, I get it!" Peter raised his hand and said, "The Skrull Empire thinks that the ship that crashed into the Kree Empire's First Starport was arranged by the Kree people themselves, and the purpose was to come and 'touch porcelain'?"

Loki nodded and said, "That's right, so they are not willing to fight. Maybe if they send a few fleets over, what's waiting on the other side is a million-starship army. Losing the fleet doesn't matter; the decline in morale is the most terrifying."

"Such two countries with a thousand-year grudge are not willing to suffer even a little loss in anything. Once they bow their heads to the other side, the people of their own country are easily incited to anger."

Stark looked at Shiler somewhat gloatingly and said, "The two of them can't fight anymore. Your wishful thinking is going to fail."

"However, it's not a loss." Stark leaned on the sofa and said, "At least, the starport and the spaceship are in hand, and there is progress on the mutant problem. You don't have to be too disappointed."

"If you want to laugh, laugh; no need to hold it in." Shiler curled his lips and looked at Stark. Stark immediately revealed a brilliant smile and said, "I wasn't even this happy the day I got the starport. 'A wise man thinks a thousand times, but there is always one loss.' Hahahahahaha!!!!"

Shiler shook his head and said, "... Tony, have you discovered a problem?"

Stark stopped laughing, took a deep breath, and said, "What problem?"

"In the entire plan, there was a more suitable candidate for a certain position, but he never appeared from beginning to end."

Stark paused, but he actually wasn't thinking at all; he was still immersed in the joy just now, so he asked casually, "What position? Which position has a more suitable candidate? Who didn't appear?"

But after he asked this question, his very sharp brain had already told him the answer. He suddenly froze in place, then looked at Shiler and slowly spat out a name:

"Magneto??!!!"