Peter Quill looked at the newborn planet formed by the convergence of thousands of meteorites, and miraculously formed an atmosphere, ocean, mountains and plains in just a few hours.
Like all the marauder mercenaries and the soldiers of the "Phoenix Legion", they are immersed in the magnificent shock and creation process from scratch.
They waited in the spaceship for many days, and every once in a while, the planet becomes more perfect, and a diverse ecological environment for species evolves.
The evolution process of the planet for hundreds of millions of years, under the influence of the fire of life and the power of the phoenix that are finally combined in one place, the fields will be transformed in a moment, and thousands of good fortunes will be created.
James Howlett and Jean Gray, who could perform all these miracles, never appeared again. Until the two starships slowly approached the planet, carefully trying to detect something.
Two close-by points of light soar up from the mysterious and magnificent continent, suspended in the dark vacuum, like two immortal stars.
"This star field does not have a suitable star and galaxy structure. Without the influence of our power, it will slowly turn back into a dead planet without life"
Qin held James's arm, looking at the world born under their influence, a trace of maternal tenderness shining in her emerald green pupils.
James looked around a few times, seemed to find a certain direction, and took Qin's hand.
"It's very simple, let's find a suitable 'home' for it."
At the position where the palms of the two people met, the blazing light gushed out and engulfed their figures, turning into a group of silvery glare, shooting a beam of light towards the surface of the planet.
Part of the power of James and Qin to become the "son of the universe" is full of "gentleness", and the flame of brilliant power did not cause any damage to this newborn planet, but pushed it forward to the nearest star system.
Suddenly, the distance of more than ten light years was completed overnight, and James and Qin settled down and found a new home for it.
"It's almost there. This position can receive the energy of the star moderately, and the newly born vegetation species on it can also continue to multiply."
"Let's give it a name! Although it's a bit strange, but somehow" Qin pursed her lips, looked at James with some embarrassment, and frowned thinking.
"Of course you can choose a name you like, but this name only belongs to you and me. It will be truly named by the civilization and intelligent race that will be established in this world in the future."
Qin nodded lightly. She stared at the nameless planet of life. She finally thought about it and still didn't leave a name. She returned to the place where the Phoenix stopped with James.
A few days later, passing through several wormhole nodes and space turbulence, Yondu drove the Predator starship and finally brought James and Jean's spaceship to an extremely remote star field.
This is a region hidden in the cracks of several star clusters, with few planets, and the light cast by the dying dim sun is as beautiful and weak as the setting sun.
"My lord, this is the Vormir planet. I mobilized the star maps of all the predator legion systems to finally determine the location. It is almost a 'non-existent' planet."
Yondu's gaze was always fixed on the ground on his toes, and he didn't dare to look up again.
When this rebellious, even lawless leader of the interstellar mercenaries saw the "miracle" accomplished by the "Wolf Emperor", his respect for this lord rose to the extreme, and he only had to recite his taboos day and night. , enshrined as faith.
"Very well, give the order to land, and you don't need to trouble the rest."
"It's a lifetime honor for Yondu to serve you!"
James waved his hand casually, looked out the porthole at the Phoenix, which was also starting to land, and strode towards the hatch.
Vormir is a very "weird" planet.
Not only because of its hidden and hard-to-find coordinate position, but also because this planet has a perfect atmosphere and a moderate gravity and temperature structure, but there is no sign of any life.
Both spaceships have carried out basic detection of biological traces on Vormir, but not to mention living creatures, not even the corpses of dead and decayed species were found.
This planet is about two-thirds the size of the earth, and its environmental values are very similar in all aspects. Although the sun in its stellar orbit has entered its twilight years, it is far from the period of mass extinction.
Under the dimly glowing sky, the rolling barren mountains and the vast plain, except for the rustling sound brought by the breeze, there is only a maddening extreme silence.
James took out the original soul stone that had been inlaid on a vibrating gold necklace from his arms. The original stone shone slightly, as if he had sensed something.
Nightcrawler with Cyclops, Archangel, Secret Guest and others lined up under the spaceship to wait for James' order. Yondu, who was also standing in the team, grabbed the restless Peter Quill who was walking around, sternly He warned him not to run around, and smacked the corner of his mouth uncomfortably in front of the Phoenix Legion.
I saw James shook his head slightly to Kurt and others, and looked at Qin beside him.
"You all wait here, don't follow."
As soon as the words fell, Jean Gray followed James' figure and turned into a stream of light and rushed up, flying towards a certain place in the mountains of Vormir Star.
Soon, a huge peak with obvious traces of artificial construction stood between the mountains and the wilderness.
Hundreds of meters high, there are only simple vertical stripes on the dark brown sword-shaped bifurcated stele tower, and it is impossible to tell which civilization left it.
The tall tower stands on an already vertical and steep cliff, and spreads up from the steps of the valley with strange rocks at the foot of the mountain.
James and Qin fell from a high altitude, and the mind stone in his hand became a little warm. The two looked around the mountain, knowing that they had found the right place, but they couldn't start.
"Joan Gray, daughter of John Gray."
A gust of cold and strange wind blew, and a ghost-like figure in a tattered robe suddenly appeared from nowhere, and James didn't even detect it in advance.
The voice of the black-robed figure was hoarse and erratic, chanting Qin and her father's name sullenly. As the mysterious person hovered and gradually approached, a bright red skin under the mottled hood, without a nose and ears, was exposed in front of the two of them as a blood-colored skull.
Qin subconsciously used her mind to control the movement of the figure, but the other party was like a phantom without material form, and was not affected at all.
"Red Skull? John Schmidt!" James hesitated for a few seconds and asked softly in doubt.
James and Qin glanced at each other, and he pressed his heart to the Red Skull's strange name and background for the two, only to hear the Red Skull who was like "re-human" continue to say quietly:
". The space gem banished me to this place. The person who wanted to obtain the original stone became James Howlett, the guide of the original stone who can only look at it but cannot touch it. What you are looking for is here."
The Red Skull turned and pointed to the cliff edge of the giant peak. On the edge of a flat and wide mountain top, under a cliff nearly a thousand meters high was a giant disc with obscure patterns, like some kind of altar.
"Soul gem, how can I get it." James realized that this gem seemed to have a unique way to obtain it.
"The original soul stone is respected and unique among the six infinite gems. If you want to get it, you must pay a price"
Red Skull's rotting robes were windless and automatic, just like his empty voice, slowly drifting. A pair of pupils buried deep under the blood-colored browbones stared at James, and then glanced at the piano beside him meaningfully.
“.Only those who give their treasured ones, in exchange for a beloved soul, can get the rough stone.”
James was silent for a few seconds, walked slowly to the edge of the cliff and looked down. The lines drawn on the huge stone altar were difficult to understand, and the soul gem in his hand became brighter and brighter, as if he could get another rough stone.
"What will happen if I throw you down? Forget it, you already look like a ghost."
The Red Skull looked at Jean Gray with a serious face and was silent for a while. After a while, as if he was very responsible for his job, he just wanted to say something, and saw the two suddenly jumped off the edge of the cliff and fell straight to on the altar.
Plop.
James fell nearly a thousand meters purely in free fall. He didn’t have the energy to fly, and stepped on the altar steadily.
"Do you think what the Red Skull said is true? Maybe we can find two villains with a suitable relationship to get the gems, and we can get them from them. Although it will take a little trouble and delay, it is not difficult."
Qin looked at James and asked suspiciously. He walked around casually, carefully looked at the obscure lines on the altar, and shook his head.
"The response of the original soul stone really proves that this is where the soul stone is, but we can't get it. The conditions for obtaining the original stone should be limited by the power of certain 'rules', not a problem that can be solved by logic or science."
“.It seems feasible for the soul to find two ghosts to replace the dead, but they can’t make them truly long for this gem from the bottom of their hearts and sacrifice the cherished person, even if they modify their memories.”
James looked up at the cliff above, and the Red Skull was standing on the edge of the cliff looking at them.
"Then do you think it is possible for that 'crazy titan' to get this stone? A person like him should have no one to cherish."
Needless to ask, Jean Gray clearly understands that James will not sacrifice anyone he cares about for this stone. This thing is actually of little value to him, if it is not to prevent Thanos, they're not even here.
Only those who really desire to obtain the original soul stone, and are willing to sacrifice the life of the person they love most for it, and exchange their soul for "soul", can get the original stone.
The soul gem may be destined to miss James.
"If I hadn't been with Thanos for a few years, I would have thought he was a ruthless person who had long since abandoned any emotion, but his attitude towards his adopted daughter Gamora, he would have taken her away with him."
James was silent for a while, took Qin's hand and jumped up and flew back to the cliff.
Red Skull watched the two return, and continued to explain with a hoarse voice:
"James Howlett. The soul gem cannot be deceived, nor can it be deceived. Ending the life of a lover and then offering it as a sacrifice is the only way to obtain the gem—"
"It's fine, it's fine, you don't need to sell anymore."
James waved his hand impatiently, maybe when the soul gem is taken away, the soul of the Red Skull bound here can also be freed, and will no longer be tortured by dead silence and empty desires.
"I only have one question. You just called me differently from her. The relationship between William Howlett and me should not be based on blood."
Jin blinked her eyes, and suddenly realized that the history of James and the Howlett family had other secrets.
"It is emotion and inheritance that can form a bond more than blood. For the 'soul', the relationship between flesh and blood is not important."
Red Skull still answers all questions, he seems to have become the "spokesperson" of the soul gem, and there is always a deep meaning behind what he says.
"Inheritance. I understand. Hehe, I should bring Steve here. I don't know if you will still be so leisurely and indifferent after seeing him. Let's go, whoever wants this stone, we have already got half of it anyway. Infinity gems, one more thing...you can wait for Thanos to come and die."
James said to the Red Skull slightly jokingly, and flew away with Qin Gree, and soon returned to the place where the two spaceships landed.
"Kurt, Yondu, you board the ship and leave this planet first, and wait for us beyond Vormir's orbit."
Although it was not clear what Mr. Howlett was going to do, Little Blue Devil and Yondu didn't ask much, and followed the order and quickly returned to the starship.
After a while, the two spaceships that rose quickly got rid of the atmosphere of the planet Vormir, and stopped in the distant vacuum universe, waiting quietly.
"Although I can't get this thing, the possibility of Thanos coming here cannot be ruled out. Regardless of whether it is useful or not, we should give it a try."
James clenched Qin's hand again, and they could still see the golden flame of life and the orange-red phoenix power at the tip of the towering stele tower in the distance, converging into a silver-white flame and igniting ragingly.
Stomping down with one foot, a thunderous roar penetrated through the earth of the planet, and it quickly split with James and Qin as the origin, cutting the continental shelf and mountains and plains
Once again in the spaceship, I looked at a planet that had undergone great changes. This time it was not born, but destroyed.
The young boys and girls of the Howlett family have accepted the unspeakable power of Mr. Howlett and Qin. They watched Vormir star disintegrate layer by layer in the void, peeling off and splitting.
Finally, surrounded by silver-white flames, it exploded into powder!
The planet where the soul gem is located is completely wiped out in this way, only countless planetary fragments suspended in the vacuum become star rings or wandering meteorites under the influence of other gravitational orbits.
Phoenix finally embarked on the voyage back to Earth, and in the distant hometown, who is waiting for James Howlett who has been missing for several years.