The Martial God of the Marvel World

Chapter 342 Psychic Shock
Seeing the earth explode from information and seeing it with your own eyes are two different things. The latter will have a greater impact on the human mind.

Seeing a planet as big as the Earth explode like a rotten watermelon, spraying the watermelon pulp everywhere. Magma gushed out from the depths of the earth, and quickly solidified into gray-black stone when it encountered cold, which was not much different from the coagulation of human blood. Sound cannot be transmitted in a vacuum, but everyone's ears rang with the phantom sound of countless lives wailing.

The Earth is dead!

In front of everyone's eyes!
They didn't know what exactly happened on the earth, but they could clearly see that most of those who finally survived from the remains of the earth were Hydra's magnetic field warriors, and among those they were familiar with, only a few survived.

In fact, there are also magnetic field warriors among other S.H.I.E.L.D. warriors, but because of the previous Hydra purge, those S.H.I.E.L.D. agents "suspected of being Hydra" were suspended, and their strong magnetic armors were confiscated.

In the absence of the protection of strong magnetic armor, those ordinary soldiers who only have one level of magnetic field rotation will not be able to survive the destruction of the earth.

Everyone on the spacecraft soon realized this.

"If we had stood up against Hydra when they started the purge, perhaps..." Tony muttered to himself.

"No maybes!" Steve interrupted Tony rudely, "We've discussed that we must put the overall situation first! We don't have any chance to make mistakes, and we must not let anything else happen!"

Steve turned to Rocket and Nebula in the driver's seat and yelled, "Get out of here now!"

Rocket and Nebula are both aliens and have no special feelings for the Earth. They immediately obeyed orders and launched the spacecraft.

"Captain, where is the target?"

"Which is closer, Vormir or Morag?"

"It's all the same. It will take several months to get there through multiple space jumps. My suggestion is that we can split up into two teams, each going to one place."

Steve hesitated and refused. "No, this universe is much more dangerous than ours. It is safer to unite and act together. We have plenty of time, there is no need to rush."

He glanced at the people around him, trying to seek the group's opinion, but everyone's eyes were fixed on the scene on the other side of the earth and they couldn't move their eyes away for even a moment.

"Now the Earth is gone, and everyone is dead! My wife, children, friends, colleagues... everyone!" Clint's face was gloomy, and his whole body was trembling. "I have no idea. If we just sit back and watch our loved ones die, what's the point of saving our universe!"

"This is not the first time that the earth has exploded in this universe. They have the Time Stone, which can turn back time and resurrect all the dead people! We all know that!" Steve was also very angry and yelled at everyone in a vicious voice.

"That's different! Steve, we all know that it's different!" Rod's eyes were dull and he muttered to himself.

"Nothing different!"

"We all know, Steve, that not everyone can be resurrected by time travel. They will only go back to a certain point in time. Those who died before that point are truly dead and will not have a chance to be resurrected. After we came here, we found that many familiar people were gone, even a powerful superhero like Captain Marvel."

"So? Abandon our responsibilities and fight against evil like a superhero?" Steve yelled sternly, "Don't I want to? But I can't! We are responsible for half of the lives in the entire universe! We must put the overall situation first!"

Scott, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly interrupted and said, "I don't know what you think, but for me, I only care about the friends around me. As for those aliens... Sorry, whether they live or die is none of my business!"

Seeing Steve glaring at him, Scott hurriedly explained: "This is just my personal opinion. You know, I have never been a qualified superhero. I am just an ordinary person. If the people I care about hadn't disappeared, I wouldn't have run to this dangerous alien universe to save the world."

Steve was shocked and angry, and turned to look at everyone else.

Rocket Raccoon sat in the driver's seat, without even turning his head, and waved his little paw, "Me too! I just want to get back my companions, the little tree man, the mantis, the big fool, the green-skinned girl, and even the annoying male dog who is in heat all day. But as for the rest of those guys who are chasing us around in the universe all day, who cares if they live or die?"

Xingyun had a blank expression on her face. "I just want to find my sister back."

Steve looked around at the others. Although they didn't say anything, the expressions on their faces betrayed their thoughts.

In fact, the people they want to save the most are only the people on Earth, their relatives and friends living around them, rather than aliens who are countless light years away.

If Thanos had avoided the Earth when he snapped his fingers, perhaps they would have simply pretended that it never happened. The only one who cared about life in the universe would probably be Steve Rogers.

Steve's face turned pale. Everything he saw almost overturned his understanding of the superhero team.

Faced with a natural disaster of the magnitude of the earth explosion, everyone finally chose to face the darkness in their own hearts and no longer continue to be hypocritical.

Human hearts are complicated. Before making the final choice, no one knows what they really value. But now, facing the psychological shock of the destruction of the earth, they are very sure:
If they have to choose between cosmic creatures and earth creatures, they will choose earth creatures.

If they have to choose between the creatures on Earth and their loved ones, they will choose their loved ones.

But this does not affect their ability to become superheroes, because if they have to choose between the creatures on Earth and themselves, they will choose to sacrifice themselves without hesitation.

Being willing to sacrifice does not conflict with distinguishing between close and distant relatives.

They sacrifice themselves, not the ones they love!
Steve's mind was in a mess, not knowing whether to continue with the original plan. However, Rocket Raccoon was already impatient. He patted the control console and shouted, "Captain, where are we going? Give me a word!"

"Then let's go to Vormir." Steve replied absentmindedly.

"Okay, then everyone take a seat, we are off to Vormir!"

As soon as the rocket pushed the starter rod, the spacecraft began to accelerate and quickly reached the critical speed, breaking through the space and entering the space jump channel. Before entering, everyone couldn't help but look back at the earth, only to see that there was a melee there, which had messed up the entire universe. The already broken planet fragments were shaken into powder in the aftermath of the battle and completely disappeared in that space. The spacecraft entered the jump state, and the scene in front of everyone was infinitely stretched, colorful, and colorful, but everyone's mood was only gray. The spacecraft jumped more than a dozen times in a row, and had to jump out of the space channel, otherwise everyone's body would not be able to bear it.

Rocket controlled the spacecraft to enter a cruising state and headed towards the target. Then he stretched comfortably and said to the people behind him, "Let's move freely from now on! After everyone's body recovers, we can make a space jump. Space travel is always a long journey, and we need to learn to relax ourselves."

He jumped off his seat, came to Steve, patted him on the shoulder and said:
"Captain, don't think too much. Even if we don't consider half of the lives in the entire universe, we still have to bring back the six Infinity Stones, so it's right not to make things complicated. Whether our goal is to save the universe or to save our loved ones, the means are the same. Only by collecting all the Infinity Stones can we achieve our goal."

Steve looked up at Rocket and shook his head slowly, "Maybe it's like this for you and Nebula, but for us superheroes on Earth, it's different."

"Our relatives and friends are all on Earth. Even if this world is not our timeline but a parallel world, we still can't sit idly by and watch people who look and have almost the same personalities as our relatives and friends die like this."

"Especially when we had the chance to prevent this from happening."

"If we had not backed down at the beginning and had fought against Hydra at the earliest stage, things would not have gradually deteriorated to the point where even the earth would have been blown up."

Rocket scratched his head, "The Earth in this universe has exploded several times, maybe the people here are used to it!"

Steve smiled bitterly and leaned back in his seat. "I now strongly suspect that the reason why the Earth in this universe has deteriorated to such an extent is because the superheroes at the beginning did not stand up to fight against the evil forces. Then after repeated appeasement, the evil forces became more and more rampant. Finally, when the superheroes could no longer tolerate it, all conflicts broke out, and a war could only be launched, and then the Earth was blown up. However, the superheroes were not able to eliminate all the evil, and after time went back, a new round of vicious cycle began."

"Humanity never seems to learn any lessons from history. It seemed to be the same during World War II. Repeated appeasement eventually led to the bitter consequences of world war."

"Tolerating evil is a crime against goodness, and the bitter consequences will eventually fall on everyone."

"In an avalanche, no snowflake is innocent."

"Everyone who lives on this earth cannot escape responsibility for its destruction."

Xingyun had been listening, and now seeing that Steve seemed to be showing signs of regret, and the attitudes of the others were also very relaxed, she couldn't help but frown and said coldly: "Then what are you going to do? Go back and interfere with them?"

Steve sighed, his face full of sorrow, and smiled bitterly, "The worst thing is that we have lost the best opportunity to intervene. Now the war has broken out, and our military strength is too weak. We are totally unqualified to interfere in their life-and-death struggle. If we go back now, we will not help them, but hinder them."

"This is what makes us most miserable and even desperate."

“There’s nothing I can do!”

"The only way we can go now is to keep moving forward. Collect the Infinity Stones and use their power to increase our overall strength. Once we have enough bargaining chips, we can interfere in Earth's affairs."

Rocket nodded slightly and grinned, "I see! In other words, you guys can just grumble and complain a few words, but you still have to keep going. Everything is still according to the original plan, and we will continue to collect the Infinity Stones!"

"Well... you summed it up very well!"

After cruising for a few hours, seeing that everyone's physical strength had almost recovered, the rocket took over the spacecraft again and started space jumping again.

After repeating this countless times, finally, after a jump, the spaceship appeared in an unfamiliar star field. In the distance in front of the spaceship, a dark brown planet appeared in front of it.

We have arrived at Vormir!

The spacecraft slowly fell above the planet.

There used to be intelligent life here, but for some unknown reason, only ruins remain. However, if we look at the star in the distance that is almost at the end of its life, we can probably tell the main reason why life on this planet is going to be destroyed.

The current Vormir planet is completely unsuitable for long-term life. The lack of sunlight makes the entire planet as cold as winter all year round. Plant and animal life is almost extinct, and there are deserts everywhere, with strong winds and sandstorms sweeping in from time to time.

But for the superheroes who arrived today, it is not difficult to take a short walk here.

Although none of them had been here before, it was not difficult to find the Soul Gem. Because on the entire planet, there was a huge altar, which was artificially carved out on a huge mountain. Even after thousands of years, it still stood tall.

The spaceship landed near the altar, and everyone headed to the top of the mountain fully armed.

They have never been here, so who knows if there is any danger here.

As soon as he stepped onto the top of the mountain, he saw a dark figure floating out from the darkness, shrouded in a cloak, and said in a sinister voice: "Steve Rogers, we meet again. It's been a long time since we last met!"

Everyone was shocked and immediately took out their weapons, ready to fight.

The black shadow floated in front of everyone like a ghost without touching the ground. With the dim sunlight, everyone could clearly see that the man had no skin on his head, like a skeleton, and his whole body was red, not at all like a human.

"Red Skull!"

Steve was shocked and subconsciously threw his shield at him.

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(End of this chapter)