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Captain America relayed this scene to Gwen, as if he were showing off something, but Gwen was speechless when she heard it.
"What do you mean by a love that transcends time and space, betraying the entire universe and your friends for love? You can be proud of that? Do you have some kind of misunderstanding about romance? Ian is right, you really are a lunatic." Gwen suppressed the urge to roll her eyes and gave Steve a speechless evaluation.
Captain America retorted indignantly, "That's why I'm so withdrawn! Look at me in that scene, how warm and cheerful I am when I have a wife!"
He nodded confidently, "This must be the boundary between parallel universes. I must be receiving a huge pension in the other world, otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford a wife... Damn it, why isn't Hydra trying to recruit me!"
This guy was still thinking about betraying Hydra and collecting a huge retirement pension. Gwen couldn't take it anymore and turned around to glare at him.
"Can you focus? We need to find a way out!" Gwen was probably the most mentally healthy person in Ian's social circle.
Hearing this, Captain America calmed down a bit, but quickly asked worriedly, "Are we going to be trapped here? Where's Thor? Where's Ian? They promised to provide employee welfare!"
He thought of the contract he had signed.
"You believe in a second-generation god and an evil god? You've really lived a life of your own." Gwen's tone was somewhat amused.
Captain America lowered his head in frustration.
"I just hope they keep their promise and give me a grand funeral... but they might end up like us, stuck here forever." The guy was still muttering things like pensions, retirement pay, and SHIELD should die.
Gwen just wanted to find a way out.
She swam and swam in nothingness.
Captain America quickly followed.
The two wandered among the seeds, occasionally witnessing scenes that chilled them to the bone. Sometimes it was Steve standing in the center of a battlefield, with countless fallen enemies behind him; sometimes it was Gwen and Thor drinking together in an Asgardian palace.
On another occasion, Steve saw himself dressed in a black robe, standing next to Thanos with a strange smile on his face.
“…This is so strange,” Steve muttered.
“Yes.” Gwen nodded, her expression thoughtful. “These seeds… are like fragments of fate.”
"No matter what, we have to find a way out. I've only been receiving my pension for a few years, and it would be a real waste to die now."
Steve started thinking about his meager earnings again.
“The problem is, how do we find it?” Gwen sighed helplessly. “There’s no direction here, and we can’t find the exit.”
The atmosphere became somewhat somber for a moment.
Just as the two fell silent.
A deep and mysterious male voice suddenly rang out from the void.
There's always a way out.
Captain America was taken aback, then looked at Gwen with surprise.
Are you using a falsetto?
His words made Gwen's eyes twitch.
“Use your brain, Captain, I didn’t say anything!” Gwen looked around warily, as if trying to find the source of the sound, but even though she had become a superhuman again, she couldn’t find anything in sight.
"Hiss! I knew there must be something terrifying in this kind of nest!" Captain America was stunned for a while before realizing something was wrong.
He immediately raised his shield and assumed a fighting stance.
"There's nothing here! Damn it, what kind of place is this...?"
Gwen tries to explore the world using quantum spider webs, but the webs, a tapestry of illusion and reality, seem to stretch endlessly.
Her spiderweb couldn't reach the suspended seeds. Just then, a green indicator arrow suddenly appeared in front of them.
The arrow points in one direction, as if guiding them forward.
Steve stared at the arrow and, with another burst of imagination, said, "This could be leading us directly into the mouth of some kind of creature."
He's much braver than Thor, but his paranoia is clearly very severe.
“Let’s go, we don’t have any other way anyway.” Gwen thought for a moment and then made the decision immediately.
With no other option, Gwen and Steve had no better choice but to follow the seemingly friendly arrow. They moved forward, and every so often a new arrow would appear ahead.
It was as if it were guiding them. The two walked in this void, feeling as if they had walked for a long time, yet also as if it had only been a short while. Their perception of time was becoming increasingly faint, which was not a good sign.
Fortunately, they finally saw the end of the road ahead—a dazzling light, as if a crack had torn open this void.
"Exit!" Steve shouted excitedly, quickening his pace as he rushed towards it.
Gwen stood still, looking back in the direction she had come from, the mysterious male voice echoing in her mind.
"Is that you, Tony?" she asked softly.
no respond.
Steve stopped in front of the light and turned back to urge her, "Hurry up! Tony has already been buried on Titan. Did you break your brain? Or is there some mysterious creature in the darkness altering your memories?"
I wonder how many novels this guy has read at home, coming up with one monster-encounter idea after another.
“I’m not talking about Tony, I’m talking about… hey, where’s Ian? We’re totally on different wavelengths.”
Gwen took a deep breath and stepped forward.
The moment she stepped into the light, it suddenly expanded, completely engulfing her and Steve.
A blinding white light enveloped the two, and when they opened their eyes again, they found themselves in a desolate city. The sky was gray, and the air was thick with the smell of dust and metal.
This is a desolate, post-apocalyptic city.
The city is in a state of disrepair.
The streets were filled with collapsed buildings and wrecked vehicles, and in the distance, there were rows of destroyed skyscrapers.
The world seemed to have experienced an apocalyptic disaster.
"Something bad happened!"
Steve Rogers stood on the edge of the broken highway, gazing at the desolate city ruins before him.
His pupils trembled slightly.
Under a gray sky, collapsed skyscrapers lay like the skeletons of giants across the landscape, their shattered glass and exposed steel bars gleaming coldly. In the distance, wisps of black smoke rose slowly, as if the city were still struggling to survive.
“We may have been in a black hole for thousands of years…” His voice was a little hoarse, with a tone full of wild imagination.
"The Earth...has become like this? Damn it! I missed out after all! Those evil politicians and capitalists got away with it!"
There's no need to ask what Steve is upset about.
Everyone knows this.
“Hmm?” Gwen didn’t answer immediately. Her gaze passed over the ruins and landed on the wandering shadows in the distance—those hunched-over, staggering creatures with festering skin, sunken eyes, and unconscious growls emanating from their throats.
These creatures are zombies.
The zombies Gwen knew very well.
“No, this isn’t thousands of years in the future. I remember this place.” Gwen’s voice was soft but exceptionally clear.
Steve jerked his head to look at her: "What?"
Before Gwen could explain, the roar of an engine suddenly came from afar.
"Saturday! Kill them all!"
A young yet vibrant female voice broke the silence of the ruins.
The two looked in the direction of the sound and saw a modified heavy tank rolling over a pile of rubble, its cannon barrels turning and sparks flying!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The shockwave from the explosion sent over a dozen zombies flying, their severed limbs tracing parabolic arcs through the air. The hatch on top of the vehicle opened, and a little girl with pigtails poked half her body out. She wore exaggerated goggles and held an energy cannon taller than herself, shouting excitedly:
"Yes! A home run!"
Steve stared in disbelief: "That's... a child?"
Gwen's breathing quickened slightly as memories flooded back—she finally realized where she was.
She and Ian had "witnessed" this place before.
“This is the world between reality and reality…” She swallowed hard, realizing that this was the little world Tony Stark had created for his daughter.
perhaps.
The fact that the two of them came to this place can be seen as some kind of divine intervention, a response to Gwen's previous question.
……
In the void.
When Thor awoke in the void, he found himself floating in chaos. Mjolnir was nowhere to be seen; his golden hair drifted like seaweed in the weightless environment.
“Father God?! Gwen?! Ian?!” he shouted at the top of his lungs, but his voice was swallowed up by the eerie space, without even an echo.
With no other option, Thor could only reach out and summon back Mjolnir, then wander aimlessly in the void, searching for something.
He was like a hamster thrown into a fish tank, utterly timid. He didn't know how much time had passed when two blurry figures suddenly appeared in the distance—a tall figure clad in golden armor, and a giant with ice-blue skin.
They were floating motionless.
Upon seeing this, Thor's eyes instantly welled up with tears.
"Father God!!!"
He lunged forward, throwing himself at Odin, his face streaked with tears and snot. "I've finally found you! Are you alright?!"
As Thor frantically called out, Odin remained unresponsive, his eyes tightly shut. The Frost Giant beside him was also unconscious. Thor panicked, grabbed Mjolnir, and began to pound it repeatedly into Odin's chest.
"Bang! Boom! Boom!"
"Wake up! Father God! I'm going to perform CPR on you!"
Lightning raged.
Odin was convulsing from the electric shock.
But the person still didn't wake up.
Just then, the entire void trembled violently! Countless dazzling beams of light erupted from the distance, shooting out in all directions like fireworks. Thor was blinded by the intense light, but he could vaguely see various terrifying beings enveloped within those beams—Mephisto's grinning face.
The Dark Dimension Fragment of Dormammu.
There were even beings like Conqueror Kang, Beholder Shuma Golas, Sithon, and Cytorak who once struck fear into the hearts of the multiverse—when the seal on the Void shattered, countless imprisoned high-ranking beings scattered like meteors.