Facing the attack of his old enemy Captain America, the Red Skull didn't even move, letting the shield attack him.
"Huh?"
Only then did Steve realize that the Red Skull was in a wrong state. The shield passed through his body, but it did not cause any damage. The red skull and the black robe on his body were blown by the strong wind brought by the shield, like light smoke. As soon as the shield passed by, in the blink of an eye, the hole it passed through was immediately filled up. The current Red Skull is obviously a soul body.
"It's useless!" Red Skull looked devastated and spoke with a ghostly tone. "The weight of the soul gem exceeds all existing rules. No conventional method can harm me."
"Why are you here? What conspiracy are you planning?" Steve's expression was a little confused. He had fought with the Red Skull for several years and was very wary of him. "I thought you were already dead."
"I also wish I had died that day, but the space gem seems to be alive. He sent me here. I was bound by the soul gem here and became what I am now."
"Steve, can you imagine how I got here after all these years?"
"There is not a single intelligent life on this desolate planet. Even if I want to find someone to chat with, I can't."
"There is no food, no drinking water, no opera, no movies...even because of the passage of time, not even a book has been left."
"For the first ten years, I tried various means to get out of here, but they all failed."
"I spent the next decade trying to scientifically analyze the stone, but to no avail."
"In the third decade, I tried to destroy this altar by using Yu Gong's method of moving mountains, but this altar seemed to be alive and could control the wind and sand to repair the damage on its own."
"In the fourth decade, I confessed to God, prayed to the devil, cried, and wailed...but no matter what I did or what I did, there was no feedback."
"In my fifth decade, I tried various methods of suicide, but unfortunately, I am still alive."
"After that, I was completely desperate and gave up. I have been a lonely ghost on this planet, completing the tasks assigned to me by the soul gem."
Although Steve and the Red Skull are old enemies, seeing him in such misery makes me feel pity. But he paid more attention to the information leaked from the Red Skull's words.
"Mission? What mission?"
The Red Skull turned around and floated towards the top of the mountain. His gentle words followed the mountain wind and fell into everyone's ears, "To all those who want to obtain the soul gem, explain the method of obtaining the gem...and the price."
Everyone hurriedly followed him to the top of the mountain, and asked at the same time: "How can we obtain the soul gem?"
The Red Skull seemed to be leading the way slowly but quickly, without looking back, but his voice clearly appeared in everyone's ears, "It's very simple, just exchange souls for souls."
"What do you mean?" An ominous premonition suddenly surged in everyone's minds.
"If you want to obtain the soul gem, you must sacrifice your lover and use your beloved soul in exchange for the soul gem." Red Skull's voice was still ghostly, but everyone could hear the full meaning in his voice. of malice.
Passing between two huge long pillars, the Red Skull led everyone to stand on the top of the mountain, pointing to the ravine formation below the cliff and said:
"This is the place of sacrifice. As long as you sacrifice your beloved life there, you can get the soul gem. The method is very simple, just jump from here, or... you can also throw it down."
Everyone's hearts skipped a beat, and they were all shocked by the method of obtaining this soul gem.
"Don't believe him! He is the Red Skull! The leader of Hydra!" Steve was the first to react and warned everyone loudly. Everyone was aware of this and became more vigilant.
"Haha..." Red Skull smiled coldly, not hiding his gloating mood.
"The soul gem gives me responsibilities, but it also gives me abilities. Anyone who comes to this planet, I can know his origin."
"Thor Odinson is the son of Odin; Nebula is the daughter of Thanos. Tony Stark is the son of Howard Stark; Natasha is the daughter of Yin Fan; Clint is Yin Deng’s son…”
Red Skull told the story of everyone present one by one, even the number of the little raccoon Rocket's father, who was a laboratory animal at the time.
This shocked everyone, and there was silence.
But no one is willing to accept sacrificing one's own people in exchange for soul gems. Especially, everyone didn't know that Clint and Natasha were already in love, and thought that they were comrades-in-arms. Obviously, according to the rules stated by the Red Skull, the comradeship relationship is definitely not enough to exchange for the soul gem.
But they have to get the soul gem. Is it possible for them to return to earth and bring their beloved here to sacrifice it? Not to mention that they are unwilling, even if they are willing to sacrifice their beloved, now that the earth is gone, there is no one available to sacrifice!
Steve is the person most wary of the Red Skull and the person who least believes his words. He gripped his shield tightly and yelled loudly:
"What do you want to prove? Just because you can tell the origins of everyone, can you prove that soul gems must be exchanged for souls? Is there any inevitable causal relationship between the two? Stop lying here! No one will believe it your!"
"Jie Jie..." Red Skull looked at the angry people and smiled strangely. Years of lonely life have made him completely crazy. Being able to see others hovering on the edge of reason and emotion, struggling in pain, but helpless, is his only pleasure now.
"I don't care whether you believe it or not. Anyway, my duty has been completed. Now it's up to you to choose. You don't have to believe what I say, but I can assure you that if you don't do this, you will definitely not get it. Soul Gem."
Steve really wanted to seal the Red Skull's mouth, but as for the soul body, everyone present was helpless. He turned around and encouraged everyone:
"We don't need to believe his lies. This planet is not big. We have enough time to search for it. Tony, get a detection device. The energy spectrum of the infinite stones must be the same as other ordinary ones." Materials are different.”
"Okay, leave it to me!" Tony agreed without saying a word.
Everyone was quite confident in Tony's skills. Seeing that he was full of confidence, their morale naturally improved. However, Xingyun suddenly interrupted: "What he said is true."
Nebula has always had a cold expression. She talks little, rarely communicates with others, and has no sense of presence. But because of this, when she speaks, she must have something to say.
Everyone turned to look at Nebula, waiting for her explanation.
"My father... I mean Thanos, came here with my sister, but in the end, he was the only one who left."
"This doesn't mean anything. Maybe Gamora angered Thanos here and was killed by him."
"No, Thanos never does unnecessary things, let alone kill people out of anger. In other words, when he brought Gamora here, he must have the need to do so, which shows that Gamora has a reputation in his line of work. It plays an important role. Combined with what Red Skull said just now, everything is already obvious."
In fact, everyone probably had a judgment in their hearts and knew that what the Red Skull said was true. However, people are often unwilling to face the facts they hate, and are unwilling to miss any opportunity that may overturn this fact.
Nebula is a cyborg, and his rationality is much higher than that of others. He has no other relatives or friends, so he is the first to expose the truth.
After the emperor's new clothes were stripped off, everyone couldn't help but fell silent.
After a long while, Steve said in a difficult voice: "In other words, before we can rescue our relatives and friends in the original universe, we must first sacrifice our relatives and friends in this universe?"
"Just sacrifice one." Red Skull said sarcastically from the side, "But Steve, you don't have to worry, your beloved has already died of old age, right?"
"Then the question is, whose beloved should be sacrificed? Tony's? Thor's? Or whose?"
The Red Skull was grinning, with a vicious glint in his eyes.
Decades!
I finally got back the feeling of being alive that day!
After decades of living in darkness and loneliness, Red Skull finally has a chance to have fun!
Of course, we must play tricks on these self-righteous guys to make them fall apart and start fighting among themselves!
Everyone had their own thoughts, and the scene was completely silent, with only the howling mountain wind blowing past everyone.
The dying sun was about to set, making the sky on Vormir star dark. Without the light of the sun, the moon is just a dark sphere, not even as bright as the stars.
Natasha took a deep breath and stood up, already determined.
"We must get the soul gem, no matter the cost! Everything is based on the overall situation!"
Everyone was stunned and understood what Natasha meant.
"No, Natasha!"
Almost at the same time, Steve, Professor Hulk and Clint all stopped in unison.
Steve glanced at the other two people strangely and persuaded: "Natasha, this is not about self-sacrifice. It must be about sacrificing the life of your loved one, so don't do anything stupid."
What Professor Hulk and Clint said was: "Natasha, it shouldn't be you!"
After finishing speaking, the three of them looked at each other, perhaps understanding something in their hearts.
Steve shut up and stopped talking, while Professor Hulk and Clint turned their heads awkwardly and looked at Natasha to see how she would choose.
Natasha didn't look at either of the two, but looked at Steve.
"Steve, I made this decision after careful consideration. There are still so many people on Earth waiting for us to rescue, don't stop me. Everything is based on the overall situation!"
"No!" The three of them expressed their rejection in unison.
After another awkward stare-down, it was finally Steve who had to comment.
"Natasha, things haven't reached that point yet. We are still completely unable to confirm the authenticity of the intelligence, and we may also be able to find other solutions. We have plenty of time, so there is no need to be so rash!"
Although Tony already has a crush, he has also had an affair with Natasha. Of course he doesn't want to see her die, so he immediately jumped in and said, "That's right! Steve is right! We might as well try it first. Let’s look for other ways, maybe my technology can solve this problem?”
Thor also said: "It doesn't matter even if technology can't solve it. We can collect the power gems first, and then come back to Vormir. The only thing that can fight against the infinite gems is another infinite gem. At worst, we can use the power gems to destroy this planet." Just destroy it and then slowly search for it in the ruins. This is an uninhabited planet, no one will care. Of course, I was not affected by the explosion of the earth to have this idea."
Everyone was talking about it and came up with a bunch of ways.
Although Natasha had the consciousness of self-sacrifice, of course she was not willing to sacrifice herself if she could survive, so she gave up the idea for the time being.
With the decision made, everyone immediately dispersed, each showing his or her abilities, and began to explore the magic circle below, trying to find a solution. They were very busy and full of passion.
Only the Red Skull failed to instigate, and was extremely angry due to the lack of entertainment programs. But now he is just a soul body. He can do nothing but talk and can only watch in anger.
However, Red Skull is very confident in the Soul Stone. He has decades of trial and error experience in this regard. He believed that no one knew the Soul Stone better than him. He couldn't find a solution, and it was even less possible for others.
He firmly believed that the efforts of this group of people were in vain, and in the end they could only follow the path he guided.
However, he doesn't know that there is a kind of person in this world called a loser, and a kind of Marvel scientist called Tony Stark.
Under the frantic work of Tony Stark and Professor Hulk, it took less than a month for the two to come up with preliminary research results.
"According to our detailed detection, the entire planet is filled with the breath of soul gems. But the soul gems are not found anywhere on this planet."
"You can be sure that the current soul gem has no entity and does not exist in this dimension."
"The function of the magic circle below is not so much to exchange the soul of the beloved for the soul gem, but to use the soul of the beloved as energy to give the soul gem a physical form."
"Just like turning the ether particles back into reality gems through magic, the magic circle below makes the soul gems visible."
"In other words, if we have something that can replace the soul of a loved one as an energy booster, we won't need to exchange any soul at all."
"And as we all know, the energy of any Infinity Stone is pure and unlimited!"
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