Chapter 150: How Many Extra Are There Exactly?

Traveling through the colorful light, Lin Yu's heart stirred, and his perspective rose infinitely under the action of his main consciousness, as if jumping out of the Quantum Realm and the river of time, seeing the various timelines of the future.

It's just a pity that this time travel was too short.

Before he could carefully examine the scenes of those different timelines, he had already arrived at the future seven years later.

Opening his eyes again, the world in front of him had already turned into the Avengers base in 2019.

Everyone stood on the future quantum tunnel device, opened their eyes, and looked at each other.

"No one is missing, it looks very smooth!"

"So... did we really succeed?"

"Did we get all the stones?!"

War Machine James Rhodes removed his faceplate and said excitedly.

Rocket Raccoon frowned, suddenly pulled out an energy gun, aimed at the only strange face in the room, and said coldly: "No one is missing, but it seems there is one extra!"

"Speak, who are you!"

Rocket Raccoon bared his teeth, looking fiercely at Lin Yu, the energy gun in his hand transforming, revealing blue energy that was stored but not released.

"Whoa, whoa~ calm down, little raccoon!"

Tony hurriedly blocked Lin Yu's path and explained: "These are helpers we invited from the past, not enemies!"

"Wait!" Rhodes frowned, "Didn't we agree that we couldn't affect the past?"

"..."

Tony and Steve looked at each other and sighed: "That's a long story."

Just at this moment, Dr. Banner, who had been silent, suddenly said: "Not one, it's two."

"Two?" Rocket Raccoon asked in surprise, "What two?"

Dr. Banner said gloomily: "There are two extra."

Rocket Raccoon was slightly startled, then looked at everyone beside him.

Tony, Steve, Banner, Scott, Rhodes, Nebula, Thor, Barton, Lin Lie, and himself—a total of ten people, the number could match up perfectly!

"... Wait!"

"Lin Lie?!"

Rocket Raccoon widened his eyes and couldn't help but blurt out: "Aren't you dead?!"

"He is the Lin Lie from the past."

Dr. Banner explained, then looked at Hawkeye, who had been keeping silent: "Where is Natasha?"

Once these words were out, everyone who had been excited calmed down, as if splashed with a bucket of cold water, looking at Barton with confusion.

Facing everyone's gaze, Barton couldn't say a word, could only kneel on the ground holding the Soul Stone, remaining silent.

Seeing this scene, Lin Lie and Lin Yu looked at each other, sighing gloomily in their hearts.

【Lin Lie: Good news, we succeeded.】

【Lin Lie: Bad news, they also succeeded...】

【Yun Ye: What do you mean?】

【Lin Lie: It means that except for my universe being independent due to Brother Yu's influence, other Future Avengers traveled to the past and successfully obtained the Infinity Stones】

【He Jingfeng: Natasha and Hawkeye too?】

【Lin Lie: That's right.】

【He Jingfeng: Sigh, what a pity...】

The rule of the Soul Stone is to exchange a soul for a soul.

According to the original plot, the ones who went to collect the Soul Stone were Natasha and Barton.

The two learned of the Soul Stone's rule, fell silent for a moment, then scrambled to die, and in the end, Natasha exchanged her life for this Infinity Stone...

Barton told of his and Natasha's experience in a slightly choked voice.

After hearing this, everyone fell into silence, obvious grief and sorrow flowing in their eyes.

Lin Yu sighed in his heart, then looked at everyone and said: "I know it's very inappropriate to say this now, but there is one thing I have to correct..."

"..."

Everyone frowned slightly, but still turned their heads to look at Lin Yu.

Lin Yu glanced at Nebula, who was feigning sadness, and said faintly: "The one who came from the past is not two people... but three!"

Three?

Everyone was startled upon hearing this. Nebula's pupils shrank, and she immediately turned around, popped a metal short blade from her right arm, and held it against the neck of Rhodes, the War Machine beside her.

"Don't move!"

Nebula hijacked Rhodes, who hadn't yet recovered from his grief, and looked at everyone with cold eyes.

Everyone reacted one after another; Tony instantly put on his full nanotech armor, Thor gripped Stormbreaker and Mjolnir, and Steve also raised the vibranium shield in his hand.

In the blink of an eye, all the Avengers were fully armed, looking at Nebula vigilantly and with confusion.

"... What exactly is going on?"

"Very simple!" Lin Yu looked at Nebula and said faintly, "She is the Nebula from '14. At that time, she was incomparably loyal to Thanos and voluntarily acted as a guide, returning to the future universe in place of the '19 Nebula."

What?!

Everyone was shocked.

Rocket Raccoon placed his finger on the trigger, glaring at Nebula: "Where is the other Nebula?!"

Nebula sneered: "If you're lucky, you might be able to meet her in hell!"

"You!"

Rocket Raccoon was anxious for a moment, but because Rhodes was in her hands, he didn't dare to act rashly.

Lin Yu turned to look at Tony and Steve beside him: "Now you believe it, right?"

The two looked at each other and nodded with grim faces.

Lin Yu nodded: "That's good!"

"Boom!"

Before the words had faded, a deafening loud noise suddenly came from the base.

Rhodes was startled by the sudden sound and looked down in bewilderment.

He saw the floor tiles beneath his feet burst as if struck by a heavy blow, spreading into dense spiderweb-like cracks.

And the '14 Nebula who had hijacked him just now was now gritting her teeth tightly, her metal-textured cheeks pressed tightly against the ground, as if a heavy mountain were pressing on her body, unable to move at all!

For a time, the whole place was silent, only Lin Yu turned around indifferently and walked off the quantum tunnel platform.

"Leave it to you!"

"..."

The Avengers came back to their senses one after another and surrounded her with full-faced anger.

Half an hour later, the '14 Nebula had already been thrown into a prison cell.

The Avengers returned to the laboratory, looking silently at the energy barrier in the center of the laboratory.

At this time, the six Infinity Stones were blooming with brilliant light in the energy barrier, and under the manipulation of the mechanical arm, were slowly being installed onto the nanotech version of the Infinity Gauntlet Tony had built.

According to the plan, after the Infinity Gauntlet was built, Lin Yu would snap this finger to bring back all the life that died in Thanos's Snap on Earth and even the entire universe.

Looking at the silent Tony and Steve beside him, Lin Lie hesitated for a moment and whispered:

"How is the relationship between the future me and Natasha?"

"... Quite good."

Tony looked at Lin Lie and whispered: "You once saved her, and you also saved me."

Lin Lie said thoughtfully: "It seems the future me is still quite reliable..."

Tony smiled reluctantly: "Of course, after all, you almost became the strongest Avenger."

Lin Lie asked in surprise: "I joined the Avengers?"

"No." Tony shook his head, "So it's 'almost'."

The two chatted one sentence after another.

Steve beside them was silent for a long time, then suddenly opened his mouth: "Your Excellency Lin Yu."

Lin Yu turned his back to him: "Hmm?"

Steve stood up and said softly: "There is one thing we want to communicate with you."

"What is it?"

"After you snap your fingers and save everyone, let us return the Power Stone and Soul Stone!"

"..."

Lin Yu raised his eyebrows, immediately understanding his meaning, so he turned around and said: "You want to go back to '14 again to save Nebula, who was captured by Thanos?"

Steve said in a deep voice: "We have already lost Natasha; we cannot lose another comrade."

Lin Yu said faintly: "Even if it means facing Thanos again?"

Steve and the group of Avengers looked at each other and nodded firmly.

Lin Yu looked at them deeply, then said in a leisurely tone: "Round and round, in the end, it still returned to Thanos. This is what is called those who play with time will inevitably be played by time!"

The Avengers looked at each other, all looking dejected.

Only Steve said firmly: "Then let him come!"

"Very good!"

Lin Yu looked at him with admiration: "From the moment you decided to break the order of time, you should have had this awareness!"

Steve's eyes lit up: "So you actually agreed?"

"No, I didn't."

Lin Yu shook his head: "Thanos's forces are not as simple as you think, and the number of his armies is definitely not just the few hundred thousand Chitauri soldiers from the Battle of New York."

A... a mere few hundred thousand?

Everyone looked at each other.

Lin Yu glanced at them: "Just think about it carefully; before collecting the six stones, Thanos and his Black Order had already invaded countless life-bearing planets, slaughtering half of the life on those planets."

"To do this, one cannot crudely use weapons of mass destruction; there must be sufficient troops to perform the precise operation of killing only half."

"Taking Earth with its seven billion population as an example, to efficiently slaughter half of the intelligent life, a rough estimate is that at least an army of millions is needed."

"Even if the number of intelligent life doesn't reach that, there must be substitutes like intelligent robots."

"And according to Thanos's efficiency in conquering life-bearing planets, he must have at least ten such armies..."

In other words, an interstellar legion of tens of millions?

The Avengers' hearts sank, all realizing the danger of this trip.

But even so, their will still did not waver, and they still firmly expressed that they wanted to save Nebula.

The only problem was, Lin Yu had just refused them...

Everyone looked at each other, hesitating about how to persuade Lin Yu.

Lin Lie glanced at the expressions on their faces and sighed: "Brother Yu, stop teasing them; now is not the time for jokes."

Once these words were out, Lin Yu raised his eyebrows, and the expression on his face changed instantly, laughing:

"I was just wanting to see their awareness~"

"So you actually agreed?"

Lin Yu shook his head: "No, I mean, going back to '14 is too dangerous; it's better to fulfill Thanos's wish and let him come over!"

Steve said in a daze: "Let him come over?"

Lin Yu smiled: "Pym Particles are limited after all. Even if he caught Dr. Pym from '14, he couldn't bring all his armies back; at most, he could bring his flagship and main legion."

"These few troops don't even need you; I alone am enough!"

Everyone looked at each other, all making a firm decision.

And at this time, the nanotech-like Infinity Gauntlet was finally finished, and the six stones were all installed on the steel gauntlet, blooming with heart-wrenching brilliant light in the energy barrier.

Lin Yu turned around, looking at the Infinity Gauntlet in front of him with burning eyes.

After Tony awakened the artificial intelligence "Friday" and made all protective measures, Lin Yu finally stretched out his arm and impatiently inserted it into the Infinity Gauntlet.

"Boom!"

In an instant, terrifying energy surged out from the stones, crazily scouring Lin Yu's right arm.

The energy torrent mixed with six colors climbed up along his arm; in just an instant, it destroyed his muscles and nerves, causing his entire arm to become withered and charred.

Whoa!

That intense?!

Lin Yu raised his eyebrows, not surprised at all by what was happening in front of him.

This body was ultimately just a puppet of the Sacred Scripture pendant. Although it could borrow power from his main body, in terms of physical strength, it was still at the Golden Core stage of the magic cultivation system and indeed could not bear the power of the six stones.

However, adding his true clone, which was the Sacred Scripture that carried his main consciousness, that would be different!

Thinking of this, Lin Yu's heart stirred, and the Sacred Scripture pendant on his neck instantly bloomed with brilliant light.

In the next instant, the withered and charred arm quickly recovered to fullness, and the colorful energy torrent suddenly turned its direction, crazily surging into the Sacred Scripture pendant on his neck.

All of the above happened in a split second, so much so that the nervous Avengers didn't notice at all.

In their eyes, Lin Yu just put on the Infinity Gauntlet, hard-carrying the scouring of the energy torrent, raised his right hand with a relaxed expression, and then—

"Snap!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 151 =====