He's in Marvel, working behind the scenes.

He's in Marvel, working behind the scenes.

Chapter 202: Crown of Snake God

Despair?

That's not the case.

Before becoming Lady Viper, Ophelia Sargisian often teetered on the brink of death and experienced countless desperate dangers... Rising to the top in Hydra is far more brutal and difficult than in any other organization.

Although the situation is serious, it is not quite hopeless; it is at most a desperate situation.

Furthermore, Gu Qing didn't use his precognitive abilities to find her. Instead, he had others investigate slowly, trying to torment her through psychological and mental pressure, thus reducing the urgency and giving her a chance to turn the tables.

However, although he could accept the current situation, he could not accept the result, and he was so angry that he was going crazy.

She expended enormous energy and time, withstood internal pressure, overcame dissenting opinions, and risked launching a nuclear missile at the city, even sacrificing five superhumans, all to kill Gu Qing, simply because she feared the existence of Hydra would be exposed...

Hydra was destroyed during World War II.

It is only through the shell of S.H.I.E.L.D. that it has been able to gradually recover, be reborn, and even grow stronger.

However, thanks to its reputation during World War II, Hydra has become a global enemy. If it were to be exposed before it had acquired sufficient public resources, it would inevitably face devastating attacks from countries around the world.

At that time, Hydra's decades of efforts will all be in vain.

Now, Gu Qing is going to expose the existence of Hydra, so that countries around the world will fight against and destroy Hydra, thus depriving her of the power to resist retaliation.

Everything went in the opposite direction of what we had hoped for.

However, even though he was furious and wanted to tear Gu Qing to pieces, he couldn't do anything about it.

They have already lost their chance to kill Gu Qing.

Gu Qing, however, possessed intelligence that would determine their life or death.

"...Gu Qing, there's a misunderstanding here."

After a long silence, Lady Viper smiled, as if nothing had happened.

Yes, there is a misunderstanding.

Gu Qing's smile widened as he said self-deprecatingly, "I knew what kind of people you were from the beginning, yet I still had expectations of you, thinking that you wouldn't attack me after understanding my strength and stance... Sorry, I misunderstood you. I should have told Fury everything from the start and let him take you down."

I'm sorry I did something unpleasant to you.

With a sincere expression, Lady Viper said, "Everything in this world is negotiable. Even after something like this has happened, there is a price to be paid to make amends. Please give me a chance."

“You’re right, everything in this world is negotiable.” Gu Qing nodded in agreement, then said regretfully, “But everything I want, Hydra can’t give me.”

Hydra has a long history and is rich in both advanced technology and special artifacts, even surpassing S.H.I.E.L.D., which has the support of the UN Security Council.

Unfortunately, Gu Qing has a system.

He could easily obtain ordinary extraordinary items and didn't care about them at all. As for those powerful and special items, Hydra didn't have them.

"That's hard to say."

Lady Viper smiled confidently and said, "I also have some understanding of destiny."

Leaving aside those who are loved by the world from birth, those who are chosen by the world and blessed with destiny in the middle of their lives... Although they will also receive the same treatment as the children of the world, they will also bear responsibilities accordingly, just as you said before: everyone plays a corresponding role and has a corresponding mission.

You are from another world, so the first scenario doesn't apply to you.

Therefore, you who are favored by the world must also be facing a mission equal to or even greater than this favor, and you need help.

Does this guy know about destiny?

Gu Qing blinked, somewhat surprised.

The concept of destiny is invisible and intangible, somewhat similar to the luck or fortune in fantasy and cultivation novels from the past.

Only those with extensive knowledge who can grasp the laws governing the operation of all things and whose level of understanding reaches the point of contact with the laws of the world can comprehend this.

Lady Viper, by all accounts, doesn't qualify.

Unless, she came into contact with something related to it.

Thinking of this, Gu Qing also became interested.

Marvel's Earth is different from his previous Earth; it has a civilization history spanning millions of years or even longer, and even the ancient gods lived on this planet.

Over millions of years, and even longer, wars have erupted, including wars between ancient gods, wars to the extinction of dinosaurs, wars between the descendants of gods, wars between the eternal race and the abnormal, and wars to breed demon gods...

This planet has seen too many wars.

Therefore, it wouldn't be too much to leave behind any kind of divine artifact.

As for things that involve destiny... whether it's notes left by a master or items that are inherently related to destiny, they all belong to a certain level.

However, I'm not very interested.

Firstly, this is the UC multiverse.

It is the weakest of all the Marvel multiverses, with all people and things severely weakened, far weaker than other universes. Even the artifacts related to Destiny are not particularly powerful.

Secondly, destiny itself is just that.

Unbeatable luck...

It sounds incredibly powerful; even the gods would shy away from it and dare not offend it lightly.

But this cataclysmic crisis comes from Sithon... an ancient god who transcends the limits of a single universe, capable of rewriting reality and editing the rules himself.

The destiny of a universe is really nothing.

Since Gu Qing has decided to compete for the position of savior, he has to face Sithon.

Naturally, they wouldn't be very interested in anything related to destiny.

"That's definitely an incredibly powerful artifact!"

Seeing Gu Qing's lukewarm expression, Lady Viper quickly explained, "That's a crown I obtained from an ancient ruin. As long as you wear it, you can gain powerful mental strength and easily control other creatures."

"Then why don't you wear it to control me?"

Gu Qing froze as soon as he finished speaking his sarcastic words.

As if remembering something, he asked, "Did you find a crown with many snake carvings?"

"You know about that thing?"

Lady Viper paused for a moment, then asked in return.

"It really is that thing..."

Gu Qing fell silent.

If Lady Viper wasn't lying, then the crown in her hand must be the ancient artifact, the "Crown of the Serpent God."

That belongs to the serpent god "Set".

Set, the Serpent God, emperor and destroyer of the Serpent Sea, father of all monsters, serpents, dragons, and lizards, and the first killer...

It is also one of the four ancient gods of our time.

The "Ancient Gods" were created by human legends and the Creator. They were the first and most numerous gods to take shape on Earth and ruled the Earth for millions of years.

In a chance encounter, Seth killed another god and discovered that he could absorb that god's life energy to become stronger.

And so, Pandora's box was opened.

Seth relentlessly hunts down other gods, devouring their life energy to grow stronger, hoping to use this to dominate the world.

Seeing this, other gods followed suit, leading to an unprecedentedly fierce war of god-devourers. In the end, only four ancient gods remained: the Earth Mother Goddess Gaia, the Serpent God Set, the Underworld God Sithon, and the Dawn Goddess Oshutu.

The Earth Mother Goddess Gaia is a kind goddess, and she cannot tolerate the behavior of Set and Sithon, who seek to become stronger by hunting down other gods.

However, although she was the first ancient god to be born and her divine power was greater than that of Sithon and Set, she was not good at fighting, but rather at creating and protecting.

Ultimately, she summoned the Creator, planted a new kind of life within her, and nurtured it at the center of the Earth—he was the savior of the world, "Atum," and the first of the three generations of gods, wielding the power of the sun.

The extremely powerful Atum obeyed his mother's orders and began to kill those fallen gods who hunted gods to satisfy their own desires. Like those fallen gods, he devoured the power of the gods he killed and transformed into a God Eater.

His power was irresistible; even Seth and Sithon, working together, could not defeat him and were eventually banished from Earth's latitudes.

Seth created an entrance to the Netherworld to escape.

Atum, meanwhile, dispelled the plundered power and reverted from his God Eater form to his Sun God form. This dispelled energy, combined with human legends, ultimately gave birth to the other three generations of gods, the various pantheons familiar to people today.

Seth possesses a desire to dominate the world.

From a short time after his birth, he longed to surpass all the gods, to become the god of gods, and to rule over everything.

He's a more dangerous guy than Sithon.

Even after being banished from Earth's latitudes by the God Eaters, it has been lurking in the Serpent Sea latitudes, eyeing Earth with predatory intent.

However, because of his actions, he was rejected by the Earth's latitudes, and he would have to use special methods to enter the Earth's latitudes again.

The Serpent God Crown was his method.

Around 20,000 years ago, the Eternals and the Deviants waged war for dominance over Earth.

At that time, the Abnormal beings held an absolute advantage and ruled over all places except Atlantis.

However, within the Aberrants, there exists an organization of normal humans plotting to sabotage them; their leader is a powerful alchemist.

He joined forces with the snake people to create the Snake God Crown, attempting to use Set's power to destroy the abnormal beings.

Wearing the crown can instantly grant one powerful mental strength and greatly enhance the body, even granting immortality, a body that is immortal, and various extraordinary abilities.

But the Serpent God's Crown is linked to Set.

Wearing it also means becoming Seth's servant and follower, becoming the sacrificer who summons it to Earth.

Of course, Earth's latitudes resist Set much more than Sithon's, making it much more difficult for him to descend to Earth than for Sithon.

You need to accumulate 777 Serpent God Crowns.

Lady Viper possesses the Serpent God's Crown, which means that this Earth has also been targeted by Seth...

This is something worth mentioning.

Because of its self-replication and splitting mechanism, many beings in the Marvel Universe have different versions of themselves in other universes.