"What's that?" Stark asked, wrinkling the muscles in his eyes.
"It's just Dormammu." Strange leaned very relaxed on the back of the single sofa, put his hands on the armrests, crossed his legs and said, "I also have the Great Shadow, the Crimson Lord, the Hell Lord... …Tony, do you really think the existence of these beings is so simple?”
"Actually, just like humans, energy is their tool and also theirs. The importance of energy to them is similar to that of humans. We use energy to drive machines to build civilization, but that is not who we are."
"Aren't they energy creatures?"
"That's just an expression." After the deep darkness in Strange's eyes faded, his eyes were filled with the wisdom of the Supreme Mage. He clasped his forearms inward, intertwined his fingers, and said in front of him: "Every time The core of a great demon is concepts or rules, not energy."
"The dark dimension is Dormammu's property. He regards it very important. In order to make his property more, he wants to corrode the world with darkness, but that is only because of his greed, not the need for survival. .”
"As long as there is darkness in this universe, Dormammu will not completely die. His death is more similar to a deep sleep. Endless sleep replaces real death. Perhaps he will be destroyed only when the universe is destroyed."
"In the long history of the Supreme Mage's dealings with such creatures, we have also encountered even more bizarre and terrifying existences. My teacher, Ancient One, once told me about that twisted and terrifying history. "Strange and Stark put their eyes on the black notebook at the same time. When the focus of their eyes overlapped, Stark turned to Strange.
I heard about the old stories behind the stars as the mages explored them.
"In the ancient Hyperion era, wizards had already begun to be curious about what was behind the stars. They drew magic circles, offered sacrifices, and summoned these terrifying entities hidden behind the stars."
"Modern magicians generally believe that those so-called magic circles and sacrifices are not actually effective. It was the wizards' spying on the stars that attracted the attention of these ancient beings."
"When they projected their attention, the wizards gained unparalleled power, but at the same time they fell into endless madness and pain. Modern magicians generally believe that this kind of power was not given by those beings, and that madness is also Same." Stark shook his head slightly, indicating that he did not fully understand. Strange used many ancient and difficult words, some of which did not even resemble human language, but he still used that indulgent tone. Said: "The power that the wizards gained was just the aftermath of their arrival, and the madness they encountered was only because they looked directly at the madness itself. These beings who came did not want to bless anyone, nor did they want anyone to suffer. Pain, their existence is the ultimate chaos and madness.”
"And when it comes to what they are like, my teacher Ancient One once said that there are no treasures behind the starry sky, only endless blindness and ignorance."
"They are hidden in the formless realm deep within the stars, and when the stars return to their alignment, they will come again."
"Who are they?" Strange looked back at Stark's focused gaze, and then seemed to be in a state of inspiration, spitting out a series of words that Stark did not understand, but this language was A name came together in Stark's mind——
"The Old Ones".
"Please forgive me for only now using a specific word to describe the crazy story I have experienced. If this was a certain one, then I would name it - The Return of the Old Day. But it is not that I am being negligent. , and thus have been referring to them with unclear pronouns, just because the story of finding this name is equally thrilling and thrilling, and I must record it, that has to do with my pursuit of alien fallen objects at the foot of Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. The adventure began. When the sun set, an indescribable sense of excitement pushed my back. Instead of retreating to the base, I took out my flashlight from my mountaineering bag and illuminated the darkness I was about to embark on. The road..." Schiller at the desk raised his pen and looked out the window with sleepy eyes. The sun finally rose, and the blazing light became brighter and brighter. The light suddenly flickered. After the flashlight moved away, what was revealed was Kui. Your face is full of small scars.
He walked through the jungle with difficulty, using the crutch in his hand to push aside the thick bushes from time to time, and walked forward with one foot deeper and one shallower.
"For the sake of the fact that I just saved your life, can't you just listen to me?! We should go back to the base now instead of continuing dangerously deep!" Rocket Raccoon, who was holding on to the handle of his mountaineering bag, said to Quill. With shouts in his ears, he said: "You still said you are not afraid of heights? Then how do you explain why you fainted while standing on the top of such a high branch?!" Quill pursed his lips, as if he didn't want to talk about this topic. He turned his head to the side and said: "Thank you for saving me with the hook and preventing me from breaking my spine, but it was actually just an accident. I think I am in good condition." Rocket Raccoon sighed deeply, Without any further persuasion, Quill quickened his pace, and the plume of smoke from the crashed spaceship was getting closer and closer to him.
A few minutes later, Quill finally saw the wrecked spaceship after pushing aside the fallen leaves of a dense clump of broad-leaved plants.
"Oh God. What is this?!" Quill's expression of shock could not be more extreme, because what appeared in front of him was not at all the exquisite, minimalist, fluid-mechanical metal product he had expected in his mind - he had been there before. This is true for all spacecraft wreckage NASA has seen.
It is not accurate to call the spaceship in front of us a spaceship. It is more like a fragment of a palace hanging upside down and inserted into the ground. It seems that a huge palace was cut into pieces and then thrown here casually.
Quill got closer, and he found that his judgment was correct. It should be the spire of the three-quarters main hall of the Gothic palace, which is the kind of spire-style building commonly seen next to the main hall of a Gothic church.
The reason why it is called Gothic is because Quilna's relatively limited knowledge of architecture prevented him from finding any other more accurate style to describe this building. It is completely black and has golden streaks on the walls. The metal decoration is glittering with starry sky patterns.
But at the same time, there is a sense of confusion in the space around it, which makes people feel that it does not really look like this, but the human brain can only understand it like this.
"No wonder the director of NASA firmly believes that there is treasure inside..." In front of the huge building, Quill's figure was so small that he almost disappeared. He raised his head and stared at the magnificent remains.
Then he suddenly reacted, covering his neck and said: "Why didn't I see such a big guy when I was on the mountain? This, this is not scientific..."
"You can still uphold a scientific heart, which can be regarded as a sign of firm will." Rocket Raccoon also stared at the building, and stretched out his paw to pat Quill's shoulder.
"I don't think you'll end up well if you enter here rashly. I think we should leave first and then consider the long term."
"You really don't look like a beast, or the opposite of them." Quill said as he took steps and began to circle around the remains, as if he wanted to find an entrance.
Suddenly, a tremor came from the earth, and Quil was knocked to the ground before he could react. He tried to stabilize his body, but at the same time, a low bell rang.
"Winter...winter...winter..." The world was spinning. Quill covered his ears, but he couldn't stop the bells from infiltrating. He saw that in the shadow of the big tree under the moonlight, those terrifying sticky tentacles began to twist and move again.
The sticky feeling climbed up his ankles, then his whole body, and then penetrated deep into his stomach and intestines. Quill opened his mouth wide and breathed desperately, and his ears were filled with piercing hooks protruding from his eyes. The sound of the skin on your own belly.
"Puff, puff, puff..." The eyes gushed out from the pupa, waving countless sharp limbs, and flew towards the depths of the darkness, and climbed onto the faces of several figures in the darkness, becoming their Eye.
The monster with the eyes comes closer and closer,
"Puff, puff, puff..." Quill waved his arms wildly and shouted: "Don't come over, don't come over! Get away, get away quickly!!"
"Are you okay? Hey! Hey! Guys, wake up! We are not monsters, we are SHIELD agents! Can you wake up?" The bright light shone on Quill's face, and the stimulation of the light made him He suddenly came to his senses, his arms froze in mid-air, and when he moved away, he saw the faces of several young people.
"Are you okay? What's wrong with you?" The face of the young man in charge made Quil feel familiar, and his thoughts were suddenly drawn back to the first day back on Earth, when he called Lisa next to a newsstand. At that time, the newsboy who ran past him had the young man's face printed on the front page of the newspaper in his hand.
"Peter...Peter Parker?"
"Look, let me just say that letting Laili comfort him is effective. Everyone trusts Peter Parker." An Asian young man standing behind the leading young man spread his hands and said.
"Brother, if you're fine, don't lie down on the ground. Isn't it cold? Watch your waist." The Asian young man stepped forward and pulled Quil up. Quil shook his head vigorously, appearing to be not sober.
"I'm sorry, sir, but I'm afraid I have to ask, why are you here? What does it have to do with this mysterious building?"
"I am, I am a NASA investigator." Quill gasped and said, "Who are you? I didn't think SHIELD agents would be so young."
"It is true that we are not official agents, we just received temporary tasks from SHIELD. I am Ben Riley. You can also call me Peter Parker, as you like. My friends and I are entrusted by SHIELD. Come to investigate the crashed UFO." Lai Li stretched out his hand to Quill. Quill covered his head with one hand and gently shook his hand with the other hand, and said: "So you are That kind of weirdo with special abilities?" Laili looked back at his teammates. Standing behind him were Scarlet Witch Wanda, Jarvis and Xu Shangqi. Then he looked back at Quill and clicked He nodded and said, "Yes, we all have special abilities, but none of us can be called weirdos."
"After all, we didn't fall down in the bushes and scream in the middle of the night." Laili shrugged his shoulders. Listening to his relaxed tone, Quill looked around and found nothing around him.
There were no twisted tentacles or terrifying mucus. He lowered his head and looked at his abdominal cavity again. There was no monster bursting out of his abdomen. Everything was an illusion.
"It's nothing, I just fell down. My name is Peter Quill, you can also call me Star-Lord, and this is my friend Rocket Raccoon." Riley blinked and looked at the raccoon that jumped on Quill's shoulder. Just as he was about to correct Quill's wording, he heard the raccoon open his mouth and say to him: "Hello, I'm Rocket Raccoon. Take back those rude words you've said. I'm not him." pets."
"Well, okay, I'm sorry." Laili scratched his head, but Rocket Raccoon was a little uncomfortable with such an easy acceptance. He deliberately lowered his eyebrows and made a weird expression and said, "You're treating me like this." Aren’t you surprised that you can speak?”
"Well, I also know a friend. I often go to his house to play games. He is a talking mouse. I think you two may have a common language."
"I don't think so."
"Okay, everyone, please stop chatting, Laili, weren't you still clamoring for a speed pass before you came here? Let's go in quickly. Whatever we find, use magic to pack it up, and then throw it to Nick to give him a headache." Xu Shang Qi frowned and shook his head, feeling a little uncomfortable. Wanda keenly noticed that something was wrong with his mood, so he asked: "What's wrong with you, Xu? Didn't you go to the Divine Spear Bureau for training some time ago?" ? Or can’t you control that so-called ‘qi’?”
"I feel that the flow of Qi is becoming chaotic." Xu Shangqi took a deep breath and said, "I have a little stomachache. Maybe I ate too much at lunch, but in short, I don't feel very well. Let's finish the investigation quickly. Let's go quickly." Jarvis reached out to support Xu Shangqi, but Xu Shangqi gently pushed him away, indicating that he did not need help. At this time, Laili, who was standing in the front, asked Quill to join him. Went in to investigate and expressed surprise.
"I'm sorry, I really don't mean to look down on you, but it's obvious that your current mental and physical condition is not suitable..." Laili hesitated, and looked at Quill. This young man's current condition is indeed not very good. , it can even be called bad, his face is full of scratches, his face is pale, and his body is covered with traces of mud, but there is an abnormal excitement in his eyes.
"I'm in a very good condition. Believe me, just like you, I also need some investigation results to report back. I can help." Laili hesitated, but thinking of his identity as Spider-Man, he looked back Glancing at Wanda, he realized that the capabilities of a few of his own were more than enough to explore a crashed spaceship. It was okay to bring one more person along, even if he was a burden.
So, the group of people began to circle around the spire to find the entrance. Their small figures shuttled in front of the majestic building, almost blending into the darkness.
And on the broken top of the minaret, a huge full moon hung.
"When we were obsessed with the moon, we ignored the inconspicuous stars hidden in the darkness behind this bright star. Too many anomalies reminded me that I should get away as soon as possible, but at that time, I completely ignored them, just like those who were Like the debris caught in the water vortex, it is sliding uncontrollably towards the unknown dark void."
