American comics: Incredible comprehension, hand-crafted forbidden spells

"In that case, Father!"

Ebony Maw knelt on one knee excitedly, his voice booming, "Please put on the Infinity Gauntlet immediately and lead us to Xandar!"

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The other four generals also knelt down on one knee in unison.

The five people looked up with shining eyes, waiting for the moment when Thanos would put on the gauntlet and rule the world with overwhelming power.

one second.

two seconds.

Half a minute passed.

Thanos leaned against the headboard, not moving an inch.

He didn't even lift his hand, let alone wear gloves.

The atmosphere in the medical pod suddenly shifted from frenzy to deathly silence.

Ebony Throat's excitement gradually froze, his heart pounding.

Did I say something wrong?

Did I fail to flatter my father properly and anger him?

The Black Order quickly lowered their heads, trembling and lying on the ground, even slowing their breathing, for fear of incurring Thanos's wrath.

In the midst of a tense silence, Thanos finally spoke.

"Before we go to Xandar, I have a difficult task to entrust to you."

Thanos's voice was filled with a deep sense of helplessness and exhaustion.

Upon hearing there was a mission, Ebony Maw breathed a sigh of relief and quickly raised his head to pledge his loyalty: "Father, please give your orders! For this great cause, we will not hesitate to die!"

Thanos pointed to the yellow sheets on the ground.

"I need you to find the five real gems and the only real glove from these hundred-plus stones and ten gloves as quickly as possible."

The Obsidian Five: "..."

ha?

What the hell? !

Ebony Maw's chin nearly slammed onto the floor.

How do you find the only genuine item from this huge pile of almost identical junk?

Clang!

Black Dwarf's hand trembled, and the massive double-edged battle axe slammed directly onto the metal floor, sending sparks flying.

He stared blankly at the colorful little hill, his brain cells starting to burn like crazy.

Ten gloves.

Each glove should be inlaid with five different colored stones.

There are at least twenty stones of each color.

If we were to try and fail one by one...

The number of these permutations and combinations has exceeded the arithmetic limits of black dwarfs!

This workload is even more grueling than sending them to slaughter several planets!

......

new York.

The dark clouds in the sky gradually dissipated, and everything returned to calm.

The streets were bustling with traffic, and the sun was shining brightly, as if the black dragon that had just blotted out the sky was just an illusion.

Inside the S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters building.

Nick Fury and several of his trusted lieutenants stood side by side in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, each of them like a wooden stake, their eyes somewhat vacant.

"Am I seeing things?"

Hawkeye, who rarely spoke, couldn't help but break the silence, his tone filled with a sense of existential doubt: "That thing flying in the sky just now... was it a dragon?"

As a top agent, Hawkeye is more inclined to believe that this is some new type of holographic projection technology.

But his intuition told him that the oppressive force that had just come from the sky was definitely real.

"You read that right, it's a dragon, formed entirely from the convergence of wind and clouds."

Agent Hill calmly answered from the side, while handing a tablet computer to Nick Fury.

Nick Fury looked down and saw a screen displaying various complex energy waveforms.

"The monitoring department has analyzed the situation and found that the anomaly was caused by a completely unknown energy source, and the source of this energy is in Kathmandu."

Hill's voice was low, but every word struck everyone's hearts like a hammer blow.

Kathmandu.

Kamar-Taj!

Nick Fury's only remaining eye suddenly narrowed.

It's obvious that the only ones capable of causing such a commotion are the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj!

Moreover, 99% of the time it's related to Lin Jie!

Thinking of this, Nick Fury felt a surge of anger rush to his head.

"This is outrageous!"

Nick Fury gritted his teeth, his dark face looking as if ink were about to drip from it.

S.H.I.E.L.D.'s duty is to protect Earth's safety, but these sorcerers of Kamar-Taj completely disregard S.H.I.E.L.D.!

They either bomb buildings or create these kinds of astonishing and extraordinary celestial phenomena.

What is this?

Are we going to slap S.H.I.E.L.D. in the face in front of the whole world?

If a bureau chief turns a blind eye to something like this, how can he lead the team in the future?

"We can no longer allow Kamar-Taj to continue to run rampant!"

Nick Fury turned around, adopting an imposing posture as if he were about to take immediate action.

However, before he could issue any specific orders...

Agent Hill, who was standing to the side, suddenly spoke up without any expression.

"Director, there's something I must remind you of. Last time, Lin Jie sent a 'blessing blind box,' which caused S.H.I.E.L.D. to lose a direct loss of 1.3 billion US dollars."

Nick Fury: "..."

"Furthermore, more than 300 of the supervising agents who were on duty at the time are still lying in the intensive care unit and have not yet woken up."

Nick Fury: "..."

"Oh, by the way," Hill closed her tablet and added casually, "Because of the last explosion, all of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s defense systems and access codes were forcibly reset. Director, you'll have to go downstairs later to have your fingerprints and iris scans re-entered."

Nick Fury took a deep breath, feeling something forcefully blocking his chest.

Is this supposed to be a work report?

This is clearly rubbing salt into his heart!

Hill's meaning was clear: Director, wake up! They can cripple S.H.I.E.L.D. with just a word, what makes you think you can control them? Are you just being stubborn?

Although he was well aware of the disparity in strength between the two sides, Nick Fury, as the king of secret agents, still had to save face.

"Even if they're powerful, they can't just do this!" Nick Fury continued, forcing a smile. "Look at this, creating a black dragon flying in the sky! How panic will this cause among ordinary people? It will disrupt social order!"

"Panic? Who said everyone is panicking?"

Tony Stark, who had been looking down at his phone, suddenly looked up and replied with a nonchalant expression.

"Chief, I think you're the only one who's afraid."

Stark held up his phone screen in front of Nick Fury, a smirk playing on his lips: "Twitter and YouTube are in an uproar right now. These netizens aren't panicking at all; they're excited like it's a carnival."

"The entire thing is about popularizing Eastern culture, saying that the appearance of a black dragon is an auspicious sign, representing that good fortune is about to come to New York. Now even the black dragon-themed hoodies are almost sold out."

Stark's words were like a resounding slap in the face, shattering the excuse Nick Fury had just come up with.

An auspicious omen?

Good luck is coming?

Nick Fury looked at the enthusiastic comments from netizens on the screen and felt his temples throbbing.

This generation of people is so hard to manage! You're even afraid of aliens, so why are you so excited about a dragon that appears out of the wind?

Just as Nick Fury was about to retort to Stark, Hill spoke up again.

"Sir, we also have news regarding the Hulk's whereabouts."

Hill's tone remained flat: "According to the intelligence Agent Natasha brought back earlier, Hulk is currently in Kamar-Taj, and it seems he had a fight with Lynch and Thor."

"And then?" Nick Fury asked, frowning.

"That's it." Hill shook his head. "Since the fight, Hulk has vanished into thin air. There's been no news of him since."

"As for Saul..." Hill continued his report, "we sent more than three hundred emails to the email address he provided, but they all went unanswered."

"Karmar-Taj has WiFi, and Thor even replied to an email we sent earlier." Hill gave Nick Fury a deep look. "Sir, what do you think their situation is right now?"

Nick Fury: "..."

Nick Fury fell completely silent.

Hulk is missing, and Thor is out of contact.

The two most formidable fighters in the Avengers were completely lost in Kamar-Taj, not even making a ripple.

Why bother with this?!

If we really tried to get involved, even if the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. were to be sacrificed, it wouldn't be enough to fill their teeth.