Zombie Marvel? Luckily, I'm Superman!

Xing fell silent after hearing this, her face turning pale. She also thought of the existence of the portal; Lin Yi had mentioned before that the portal that helped them reproduce might come at a price.

The word "cost" unsettled her. Had the cost already been paid, or had it yet to occur? She didn't want to delve into it, because she had more pressing problems to deal with.

The small mechanical life form before them revealed the truth to a problem that had troubled them for countless years in just a few words. The truth they had researched and speculated about for so long was actually so simple?

The idea of ​​cosmic rejection left Xing feeling utterly powerless. It was more despairing than any terrible enemy or disaster. She didn't want to believe it, but the mechanical life form before her was brought by Lin Yi, and he seemed to have no reason or motive to deceive her. Moreover, this explanation perfectly matched all the known facts.

Why does reproductive ability decline irreversibly? Why have all known methods failed? The root cause lies here.

Xing couldn't help but give a bitter laugh, a laugh filled with bitterness and helplessness. Countless of their kind had racked their brains and paid a huge price to obtain resources and unorthodox remedies, but they had never imagined that the root of the problem lay in their inability to be accepted by this universe.

Why were they outliers? She didn't understand, her mind was in turmoil, she didn't know what to say, or what else she could do.

Lin Yi looked at the silent Xing, glanced at the shield on the table with a bit of speechlessness, and thought to himself, what kind of nonsense is this? Why does it feel like I'm going to be involved again?

"What exactly is causing that anomaly? Is there a solution?" Lin Yi asked Shield directly.

If the problem is simple and falls within the scope of a small favor, he wouldn't mind helping Xing solve it. After all, he came here to ask Xing for a small favor, and this small favor as payment wouldn't be unreasonable.

But having just so decisively rejected the three elders, wouldn't it be a little awkward to say now that I have a solution?

Oh well, let it be awkward. What can they do about it?

The shield responded, "Outliers vary greatly in nature. My core scanning function can perform a surface scan of cosmic rules and anomalies. But to figure out exactly what's so abnormal about this particular outlier, I guess my mom would have to come!" It then shrugged, indicating that it couldn't do anything about it either.

"However, while it is difficult to figure out outliers, it is quite simple to resolve them."

"Oh? How do you solve it?" Lin Yi continued to ask. Simple? That's great.

Xing, who had been feeling down, brightened up upon hearing this, looked up at the shield, and waited for him to continue.

"The rules governing each universe are somewhat different. Since the rules of this universe are mutually exclusive, we can simply go to another universe."

"In that new universe, your current abnormal characteristics may no longer be abnormal, and may even be completely compatible, so the problem of reproduction will naturally be solved."

Huh? Xing was stunned. This is what you call simple? Travel to other universes? And the entire race has to go? Where do they get the ability to do that? Doesn't this just mean they can wait to be extinct?

Even Lin Yi couldn't help but retort, "You call this easy? How many beings in the universe can freely travel to other universes?"

As soon as he said it, Lin Yi paused for a moment. Okay, actually, the number isn't particularly small. After all, this is the Marvel Universe, and as long as you reach the level of multiverse abilities, it's still possible. But the entire Qi Yuan Clan combined doesn't even have a single-universe level, let alone a multiverse level.

"Nonsense!" The shield flipped the camera around. "Isn't this simple for you? With your teleporter, and even your own abilities, you could easily take an entire race there, let alone this whole planet, right?"

Lin Yi was taken aback by his words, and reached out to poke the shield's metal head: "Even if I could bring it, what if the next universe we find also rejects this anomaly?"

"Why not just choose another universe?"

"…Holy crap, your method is brilliant! Dragging planets around to try them out one by one, huh?"

The two of them, one human and one lizard, were making a racket. Xing's mood was like a rollercoaster, her eyes shining with hope one moment and feeling hopeless the next.

The conversation between the two allowed her to glean crucial information: what was an insurmountable feat for their Qi Yuan race—cosmic migration—seemed to be a simple matter for Lin Yi? The key was finding a suitable universe?

Xing wondered what price they could pay to get Lin Yi to do this.

The reason she didn't dare to bother Lin Yi before was because she didn't know the root of the problem or how difficult it would be to solve.

But now, listening to what the shield said, it wasn't difficult for Lin Yi, and it was even their initiative to bring up the topic. Xing was inevitably tempted! But after thinking it over, she felt somewhat frustrated; they didn't seem to have anything of equal value to offer in exchange.

"Hey, actually we don't need to test it in every single universe." The shield waved its hand casually. "Aren't there many universes experiencing cosmic virus outbreaks right now? Those viruses are also a kind of erosion and pollution at the level of rules. The original stable rules of universes eroded by cosmic viruses are already chaotic."

"These anomalies are actually less likely to be rejected in a universe with such chaotic rules. After all, those universes are already operating at full capacity to deal with cosmic viruses, so they don't have the spare energy to take care of cricket anomalies."

Lin Yi paused for a moment: "...Is it that simple?"

"Didn't I tell you from the beginning that it was simple?! You just didn't have the patience to listen to me finish!" The shield bared its teeth and brandished its claws.

"...Fine, you're right." Lin Yi pondered for a moment. If the shield analogy was followed, then it would indeed be much simpler.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi looked at Xing, who was still somewhat absent-minded, and said, "Xing, you've heard the situation. I happened to be here because I have a problem... or rather, something that might require your help."

"How about this, you do me a small favor, and in exchange, I'll throw you into another universe?"

"However, there's something you need to know: the universes where the cosmic virus occurs are themselves extremely dangerous. Although I can provide you with a cosmic virus isolation device to protect you from its effects, those universes themselves are not very stable."

"Relocating there only offers a sliver of hope; theoretically, you might regain your reproductive abilities. Whether you can survive and continue is up to you. You need to think this through..."

He could help with the migration itself, but the subsequent development and survival would depend on the Qi Yuan tribe itself. The deal was unequal, but it was simple for Lin Yi, and he had nothing to fear.