Chapter 921

In the Large Magellanic Cloud, on the main star of the Kree Empire, mechanized blue cities tower into the clouds. The lower atmosphere and greater gravity make everything here look larger and more determined.

In the very center of the blue city, there is a high tower that goes straight into the clouds. Above the high tower, the spherical energy core is constantly releasing lightning, piercing through thick clouds, letting the star's light sprinkle into the city.

Below the core, there is a smaller sphere, which is called the "Palace of Wisdom" by the Kree, and also has a more official term called "Supreme Intelligence."

When the Supreme Intelligence was first created, the Kree hoped that he could create a Cosmic Cube to counter the Skrull World-Builder's plan to create a cube. However, later, the Supreme Intelligence developed his own thoughts. He felt that the cube was a very dangerous thing, so he refused to create it for the Kree.

Due to the large investment in creating the Supreme Intelligence, the Kree at that time did not choose to destroy this intelligent life that had its own thoughts, but let him remain. After many years of evolution, the Supreme Intelligence served the Kree Empire with his wisdom and harvested a group of believers.

Later, the influence of the Supreme Intelligence grew day by day, to the point that he replaced the Kree government and became the supreme ruler of the Kree Empire.

The Kree Empire has developed rapidly in the last thousand years, leaping from the youngest interstellar civilization to the position of the second of the three major empires. This has an inseparable relationship with the Supreme Intelligence.

The external manifestation of the Supreme Intelligence is usually a huge green human face, surrounded by many tentacles. Sometimes, he also appears in the form of an orange dragon or a green octopus.

He has many abilities, including but not limited to using the green tentacles on his head to communicate with every Kree, understanding their psychology and actions in real-time, and connecting with every warship in real-time to ensure they are all under control.

In the Kree Empire, the Supreme Intelligence has absolute control, and everything must be judged by him before it can be implemented. And this time, it is no exception.

The judgment of gain and loss produced by the Skrull Empire spaceship's blitzkrieg on the Kree Empire's First Starport was also seen very clearly by the Supreme Intelligence.

In his view, the First Starport itself had no value. He didn't even send a fleet to inspect the accident site, because they could create countless starports more advanced than the First Starport at any time. The point of this matter lies in the occurrence of the event itself.

Due to his life form, the Supreme Intelligence does not worry about the problem of morale decline within the Kree Empire. He is more judging whether this is a conspiracy or whether there is a possibility of further action by the Skrull Empire.

He gave a revenge warning also to test whether the Skrull Empire had been prepared long ago, or whether there was a greater conspiracy hidden behind this matter.

But at this time, the Skrull Empire sent a message, requesting to negotiate with the Kree Empire and explaining the misunderstanding, which made the Supreme Intelligence even more suspicious of their motives.

Because the Supreme Intelligence knew that this was not a conspiracy he had arranged, so the Skrull Empire's weak reaction seemed particularly suspicious.

Both sides fell into a "dark forest" situation again. Both sides knew it wasn't their own hands that did it, and both thought it was the other side's hands. But both sides also produced relative reactions because they knew it might be the other side's hands. But this kind of reaction looked very abnormal in the eyes of both sides, which further confirmed that it might be the other side's hands.

It sounds complicated, but in short, both sides felt the other side had a conspiracy, thereby falling into a vicious circle of "you predicted my prediction."

Under these circumstances, the willingness of both sides to go to war is not high, because both feel the other side has a trap. But such a stalemate is not a way, and finally, the method to break the deadlock still fell on negotiation.

The Skrull official side needs to comply with public opinion, and the Supreme Intelligence wants to break the situation. Both sides only gradually began to discuss matters related to negotiation.

Since negotiation is inevitable, many formalities can be omitted, but only one thing is very important, and that is the negotiation location.

The Supreme Intelligence knows the truth of "asking for a sky-high price and paying back on the ground." He first proposed to set the negotiation location in the core star sector of the Large Magellanic Cloud, only allowing negotiators to enter alone, and the visiting fleet must not carry any weapons.

The Skrull side naturally could not agree to this proposal. They also proposed a relatively outrageous condition, which the Supreme Intelligence also did not agree to. In this way, the two sides began a long tug-of-war.

Finally, both sides made a decision: the negotiation location would be in the Spider Nebula, which is on a planet not far from the accident site.

Although this is the jurisdiction of the Kree Empire, it is after all the first line of defense on the periphery of the Kree Empire, belonging to the edge of the star sector. The Kree Empire doesn't have to worry about the Skrulls playing tricks to endanger the main star, and the Skrulls don't have to worry about the other side attacking from front and back, thereby being unable to run.

Secondly, the fleet of the third major empire of the universe, the Shi'ar Empire, needs to witness on the side to prevent both sides from playing small tricks. Again, both sides can only bring one main fleet and cannot press the border with a large army.

Finally, as the most dangerous military conflict in the last thousand years, and also the largest accidental discharge that has occurred between the two countries since the end of the thousand-year war, the negotiation specification must not be low.

Finally, it was decided that the Skrull Empire would send the Star Interstellar Colonization Commander-in-Chief, while the Kree Empire would be projected by the Supreme Intelligence, reaching almost the highest level of dialogue negotiation.

Of course, it is impossible for only the two of them to come. Many generals and other officers will also come. Although it cannot be said that they are gathered together, at least a small half of them have come.

Of course, since it is a negotiation of this specification, naturally, safety issues must be considered. And safety issues are not reliable no matter who comes. Finally, it can only be the responsibility of the third party, the Shi'ar Empire.

The Kree Empire and the Skrull Empire provide rewards separately, and the Shi'ar Empire sets up the negotiation location and arranges defensive lines. Of course, they naturally also have to consider the possibility of the Shi'ar Empire playing small tricks.

Therefore, the God King Thor, far away in Asgard, received an invitation. Besides him, some civilizations second only to the three major empires also received invitations, hoping they would send witnesses to ensure the safety of this negotiation.

After all, one civilization can be bought, but hundreds or thousands cannot. Everyone's interests are different, which is the safest.

Asgard naturally sent Loki, who runs around the universe. But this made the three major empires feel more at ease. Loki is just a liar, and his strength is not very strong.

If Thor and Odin came together, they would have to consider whether they would be wiped out in one pot. After all, Asgardians are an army by themselves, two God Kings, father and son on the battlefield—the people brought by the three major empires might really not be able to hold them.

On the day of the negotiation, the Spider Nebula was impassable. Although the area of the Spider Nebula is very large and there are many stars, it couldn't withstand so many civilizations with heads and faces coming over with spaceships. For a while, it actually reached the point of rubbing shoulders.

And in the base just set up on the surface of the negotiation planet, Loki took a glass of water from the waiter, smiled and nodded at him, and then looked out the window.

In the negotiation hall, there was a huge viewing window. At this time, there was a shining star outside the window, and the patterns on it were clearly visible.

However, this huge viewing window was not used for viewing the scenery. Outside the viewing window, a green ray appeared out of thin air, and immediately after, an incomparably huge green human face appeared outside the window and slowly opened its eyes.

"Supreme Intelligence..." Loki whispered, and then he said in a voice that no one could hear clearly: "It's really ugly, isn't it?"

After the Supreme Intelligence descended, the Skrull commanders and generals entered. They stood in front of the viewing window, in front of the envoys of many civilizations, and began negotiations with the Supreme Intelligence.

"Your Excellency Supreme Intelligence, I am the Star Interstellar Colonization Commander-in-Chief of the Skrull Empire. Many days ago, a tragedy that we were all unwilling to see occurred on the border of the Kree Empire..."

Both sides began long official rhetoric. Just when Loki was a bit sleepy, the Skrull commander finally talked about the key point. He said: "What Your Excellency doesn't know is that many years ago, when the New Skrull Empire had not yet been established and our fleet was still sailing, a shameful thief stole one of our flagships. To prevent us from taking extreme measures, he held a batch of hostages, including the top scientists very precious to the Skrull Empire..."

"They wandered to Earth, and Odin, the All-Father of Asgard, took them in..." When saying this, he turned to look at Loki. Loki nodded to the Supreme Intelligence, indicating that what he said was true.

"This spaceship has never been removed from the Skrull Empire's arsenal. Therefore, when it crashed, we received the last information sent back by the black box of this spaceship..."

"The recording shows that this batch of people who were held hostage seized the spaceship and wanted to return to the Skrull Empire, but the people buried in the spaceship by that thief back then kept interfering with them. Finally, the spaceship control system was damaged, and it unfortunately crashed near the First Starport..."

"For the losses suffered by the Kree Empire's starport, we feel sorry, but this is actually a very coincidental accident."

"Subsequently, the Skrull Empire's commander played the recording. After a burst of noise, a voice sounded: 'Stop him! Hurry and stop him!! He wants to destroy the spaceship's acceleration system...'"

"'Report! The jump engine has failed! The acceleration system has been locked.'"

"'Warning! Warning! Warning! The space stabilization system is out of control! Warning.'"

After a chaotic sound, a violent explosion sounded, and then it returned to silence.

The Supreme Intelligence was silent for a long time before saying: "The friendship between the Kree Empire and the Skrull Empire has lasted for millions of years and has always been very deep. We are all unwilling to see such a thing happen. But since the tragedy has already occurred, I must give the Kree people an explanation..."

Hearing this, the Skrull Empire officer's brow relaxed, because he knew that the time to negotiate conditions had come.

For the Skrull Empire, this was not an entirely bad thing. When this news came, almost the whole country celebrated. After all, being able to make the biggest rival lose such a big face was, strategically speaking, a very successful blitzkrieg.

Therefore, they were willing to pay some price for such a morale boost. Anyway, the people were not interested in the negotiation. Paying some price in exchange for morale and popular support was worth it.

Just when the Supreme Intelligence wanted to speak again, Loki narrowed his eyes and revealed a cold smile, because he saw a black hole suddenly appear in front of the star behind the Supreme Intelligence.

It was as if the star had been burned with a hole, and all the light around the black hole disappeared. That was the black hole in the binary star system of the Spider Nebula.

But Loki already knew the special nature of this black hole. It was not a black hole evolved from a star, but a mysterious "sleeping black hole" that did not emit any rays, silent, like a sharp blade of dark light held in the hands of an assassin.

The next second, the assassin swung the blade, the star's light paused for a moment, then returned to complete darkness, and when it flickered again, it became more violent.

The explosion of this star almost instantly destroyed the entire planet, but it failed to hurt the base where the negotiation was located.

The technology of the Shi'ar Empire is worlds apart from the Sulfur Dwarves. Their safety base is enough to withstand the impact of a star explosion.

But what was truly fatal was the black hole in the binary star system.

This black hole with sixteen times the mass of the sun is a silent killer in the universe. There are no rays, and the volume is very small. Almost no civilization that can come here takes it seriously.

However, the explosion of a black hole is more special than a star explosion. When a black hole explodes, it will shoot out huge jets. If a star explosion is like a range magic, then a black hole explosion is like a sniper rifle.

After a black hole is born, it is constantly evaporating. As the black hole becomes smaller and smaller, the radiation it emits becomes stronger. Advanced civilizations will be wary of such old black holes because they are very likely to emit high-energy radiation and particle torrents the moment their lifespan comes to an end.

If the black hole mass is small, it might only destroy one or two spaceships, but if a supermassive black hole at the center of a huge galaxy erupts completely, even civilizations at the level of the three major empires might disappear as a result.

However, sleeping black holes almost do not emit rays, so they were not taken seriously by the Shi'ar Empire or any civilization.

However, when a powerful existence that naturally embraces the stars accumulates for a long time, releases all its power, and ignites the remaining life of the black hole, the intensity of this explosion far exceeds anyone's imagination.

The natural power is almost irresistible. When the brilliant star stream erupted from the sleeping black hole in the binary star system, in just a split second, it penetrated the mirror phantom of the Supreme Intelligence, like a high-speed rotating sniper rifle bullet, shooting through the entire safety base in one shot.

Instantly, all the planets, spaceships, and lives on a straight line disappeared, leaving only empty, dark space.

Such powerful radiation interfered with the image projection of the Supreme Intelligence. The huge green human face revealed a look of horror, flickered a few times, and then disappeared.

And before it disappeared, the last sentence it heard was a declaration that spread throughout the nebula:

"Conquest, victory, and glory, all belong to Thanos, Amen!"