Chapter 154

Lin Yu didn't know; he was a guest who had broken through the boundaries, and the chat group had been in a countdown state of being opened, so even the past and future of the same timeline would maintain the same time flow rate because of this.

But Lin Lie was different; he was a group member of this world and didn't need to keep the chat group open all the time.

To know what exactly influenced the time flow rate, he would have to wait for him to return...

Thinking this, Lin Yu took out the Time Stone and returned it to Gu Yi as promised.

"It looks like things went very smoothly."

The female Gu Yi smiled as she took the Time Stone and placed it into the Eye of Agamotto.

Lin Yu shook his head and sighed softly: "It went abnormally smoothly."

"Very normal." White-bearded Gu Yi chuckled, "Those who play with time will surely be played by time... except for you!"

The four group members gathered around one after another, asking about what happened in the future.

Seeing this scene, White-bearded Gu Yi smiled and said: "Since things have ended, I should also return. Lord Lin Yu, don't forget the agreement between you and me..."

After speaking, White-bearded Gu Yi's body bloomed with golden light and soon disappeared into a small dimensional portal.

Lin Yu glanced at the direction he disappeared in and chuckled: "Rest assured, I won't forget!"

Afterward, he and the group members stayed in the New York Sanctum, chatting about what happened in the future universe and their thoughts on using the six Infinity Stones to snap their fingers, while waiting for Lin Lie's return.

After about two hours, Lin Lie finally appeared on the rooftop of the New York Sanctum.

Lin Yu waved his hand, moved him to the living room, and then asked: "How was it?"

A smile appeared on Lin Lie's face: "I didn't fail the mission!"

The four group members looked at each other, surprised: "Natasha was really resurrected by you?"

Lin Lie emphasized: "Not me, it was the future me!"

After speaking, he began to recount his experiences with the future Lin Lie.

After listening, Lin Yu clicked his tongue in wonder: "Your system really has something; it actually managed to bypass the rules of the Soul Stone and exchange Natasha's soul back!"

"It's just taking a shortcut; it's still not as good as the chat group."

Lin Lie shook his head; exchanging Natasha back required the Soul Stone, and Vision and Gamora, who had no stones, couldn't be resurrected. To a certain extent, this was still within the rules of the Infinity Stones.

And the chat group was not affected by world rules; no matter how it split, there was only one, which showed that its status was far higher than his system.

Fan Xian laughed: "Low numerical values don't mean weak mechanics; at least this Revival Coin is quite something!"

Lin Yu changed the subject: "By the way, there's another question; the 2014 universe you went to has been significantly changed, it should have also become an independent parallel universe, right?"

"That's right!"

Lin Lie nodded and said: "Three timelines, only 2013 was unaffected, the other two are parallel universes."

Su Haoming said thoughtfully: "Since it's a parallel universe, then losing the Infinity Stones shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"..."

A smile appeared on Lin Lie's face, then he flipped his right hand and took out a purple stone from the system inventory.

Su Haoming's eyes lit up: "I knew it!"

Lin Lie turned his head, handed the stone to Lin Yu, and said with a smile: "I chatted with my future self, and we unanimously decided to keep this Power Stone. Anyway, 2014 has already become a parallel universe, and Thanos also died in 2023. Rather than leaving it to the future accuser Ronan, it's better to bring it back and give it to Brother Yu."

Speaking of this, Lin Lie paused and said regretfully: "It's just a pity that I couldn't tell the future Avengers about this, so I had no way to find the future Tony to build an Infinity Gauntlet..."

Lin Yu smiled slightly: "It doesn't matter, I have a better container!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and took the pendant off his neck.

As silver light bloomed, the finger-sized pendant transformed into a thick sacred codex.

The Longlongyan relief on the cover also twisted and dented, revealing six holes.

The next second, the three stones bloomed with light and slowly embedded themselves into the codex, perfectly matching the holes.

At this point, Lin Yu had already collected the Space Stone, Mind Stone, and Power Stone, leaving only the Time, Reality, and Soul stones.

Looking at the three stones surging with power on the cover, Lin Yu revealed a satisfied smile, immediately raised his hand, flipped it, took out a copied dimensional secret technique, and handed it to Lin Lie.

"What is this?"

Lin Lie took it curiously.

Lin Yu laughed: "This is a dimensional secret technique copied from the original 'Darkhold,' which can cross different dimensions to find parallel universe counterparts in the multiverse."

"If you can learn this secret technique, perhaps you can make cross-dimensional contact with yourself in parallel universes."

"What do you call this again, simultaneously traveling through the Marvel multiverse?"

Hearing Lin Yu's slightly teasing words, the group members looked at each other and couldn't help but complain: "System flow, chat group, simultaneous travel; turns out you're the real protagonist!"

"Not quite, not quite!"

Lin Lie was a bit embarrassed, but still excitedly accepted the dimensional secret technique.

He was just worried that time was too short and he hadn't been able to ask his future self for more sword technique knowledge!

With this thing, let alone asking his future self for sword techniques, even building a small Lin Lie group with himself from every universe wasn't impossible!

About forty hours later, the four group members including Su Haoming returned to their own worlds.

Lin Yu wasn't in a hurry to go to the universe next door, instead planning to stay here for a while.

The reason was also very simple; Spirit Flower No. 2, whom he had named 【Goddess of War】, had already taken control of the mothership and had returned to the Chitauri home planet while Lin Yu was traveling to the future, preparing to recruit troops and replenish their strength.

But unfortunately, the current supreme leader of the Chitauri, The Other, had long since sworn allegiance to Thanos.

Without Lin Yu sitting in command, Spirit Flower No. 2 didn't dare to rashly provoke his authority.

To support Spirit Flower No. 2, Lin Yu arrived in person and took out the Magic God Codex embedded with three Infinity Stones.

In just an instant, the mothership The Other was riding was engulfed by the purple light of the Power Stone and completely turned into nothingness.

Witnessing the terrifying power of Lin Yu and the Power Stone, those Chitauri nobles not controlled by the hive network rebelled one after another, choosing to offer their loyalty to Lin Yu.

Such a drastic change in power naturally couldn't be hidden from Thanos, the Chitauri's former master.

Detecting the Chitauri's rebellion, Thanos was furious and immediately brought his army to suppress the rebellion.

But before setting off, he finally received the intelligence sent by his lackey The Other before death.

At this time, Thanos already knew the outcome of the Battle of New York and had also obtained intelligence on that strange cosmic god on Earth.

When he discovered that the one who had taken action against the Chitauri was Lin Yu, who held three Infinity Stones, Thanos's expression changed, and after hesitating for a moment, he decided to follow his heart's choice and terminated this suicide-like suppression.

Anyway, the lackeys under his command weren't just the Chitauri; what did it matter if he gave them to Lin Yu?

Compared to these cannon fodder who were only worth mentioning for their numbers, he didn't want to face a cosmic god under these circumstances.

Just like that, Lin Yu easily conquered the Chitauri and let Spirit Flower No. 2 become the sole hive consciousness, leading the entire Chitauri race to start a brand new development and journey.

During this process, the other group members of the chat group weren't idle either, all busy digesting the gains from this trip.

Among them, Li Shimin, who didn't participate in this event, was actually the one with the biggest harvest.

The reason was also very simple; as the Emperor of Shu Han, he had the ability to change the country from top to bottom, and doing things was far more convenient than those group members who were unwilling to claim the title of king.

Not only that, after the Battle of New York, group members including Fan Xian and Yun Ye had captured quite a bit of black technology.

Among them, just the Chitauri folding energy rifles exceeded four digits, which could be called a full harvest.

Such a huge quantity, and being black-tech energy weapons from the Marvel world, would naturally eliminate all the modern firearms they had previously procured in the "Under One Person" world.

But elimination didn't mean they had to be destroyed; the group members looked around and found that they could only be given cheaply to Li Shimin, who was also a group member.

With a windfall from the sky, Li Shimin laughed from ear to ear and naturally accepted everything.

In the end, he accepted all the firearms at an extremely low price, and coupled with the armor he had customized from He Jingfeng, he finally armed a thousand-man Black Armor musket army.

The so-called Xuanjia was actually modern armor made of titanium alloy and modern special steel.

The joints were made of cloth surfaces of modern fibers like Kevlar, and the built-in soft armor used a composite inlay of modern fibers and rubber sheets, plus non-Newtonian fluids and artificial cartilage as buffers, which was enough to absorb part of the impact of blunt weapons while defending against sharp blade attacks.

Paired with the Xuanjia was a combat helmet made of titanium alloy and fiberglass; not only was it light and tough, but it also wouldn't block the field of vision, and it had terrifying defensive power against volleys of arrows.

Such a set of armor, placed in the Three Kingdoms era, was simply a dimensionality reduction strike.

Except for direct hits from bed crossbows and being poured with molten gold during a siege, Li Shimin couldn't think of any way to break it.

Even without firearms, he had the confidence to lead this steel army to sweep across the world.

Even if Wei Wu were resurrected and the eighteen feudal lords gathered, they would be nothing but clay chickens and pottery dogs before him!

Facing the good things the Emperor kept bringing out, Zhuge Liang and the ministers of Shu Han were naturally incredibly shocked.

But for some reason, everyone tacitly kept silent, just receiving the divine artifacts, arming the army, and preparing for the second Northern Expedition in the coming spring.

However, deep in their hearts, everyone including Zhuge Liang knew very clearly.

The result of this time would definitely be completely different from the last!

(End of chapter)