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The moment the words left his mouth, beams of eerie blue energy shot out from the cracks in the walls at both ends of the corridor, weaving together to form two impenetrable walls of light, completely sealing off their escape route. Immediately afterward, dozens of smooth, square hidden compartments slid open in the ceiling and floor, from which rows of pure white drones, shaped like mechanical spiders, emerged and silently landed on the ground and walls.

They were small, only about the size of a basketball, but incredibly agile. Eight sharp metal limbs supported their rounded bodies, and a single blue, eye-like lens in the center lit up, simultaneously locking onto the three uninvited guests in the corridor.

"Damn it!" Talos cursed under his breath, reacting with lightning speed. Almost the instant the drone appeared, he drew a uniquely shaped Skrull energy pistol from his waist, pointed it forward, and crouched slightly, assuming a standard combat stance. As a general who had fought in interstellar battles for many years, he was extremely familiar with this kind of automated defense system.

Carol's reaction was equally swift. Her hands were instantly enveloped in golden cosmic energy, emitting a sizzling sound. The temperature in the air began to rise, and a powerful energy wave spread out from her. She was ready to unleash two energy shockwaves at any moment, melting all these troublesome lumps of iron into molten iron.

Only Chu Hang remained standing in the same spot, without even changing his posture. He had his hands in his pockets, listlessly examining the drones. There was no tension in his eyes, but rather a hint of curiosity, as if he were visiting a science museum.

"The energy output is stable, the joints are flexible, and the firepower system is a standardized pulse beam—it's well-designed." He even had the leisure to offer his comments: "Dr. Lawson is quite talented in weapon design."

"This is not the time to talk about this!" Carol hissed. She could sense the drones charging up and about to launch an attack.

"Don't rush." ​​Chu Hang raised a hand and waved it lazily at her and Talos. "There's no need for that."

Almost at the same time he spoke, all the drones' single-lens cameras blazed with blue light, and dozens of high-energy pulse rays intertwined into a net of death, shooting towards the three from all directions and sealing off all space for evasion.

Talos's pupils contracted sharply, and he instinctively tried to turn to the side for cover. Carol's golden light also surged to its peak, preparing to withstand the attack head-on.

However, Chu Hang simply raised his hand casually, facing forward, and lightly clenched his five fingers.

A bizarre scene unfolded that defies description.

Before him, the seemingly empty space transformed into a soft curtain, which was suddenly pulled inward by an invisible hand, forming a small, constantly rotating depression.

The dozens of pulse rays, powerful enough to melt a spaceship's armor, disappeared without a trace after entering the area, like a clay ox sinking into the sea.

The next moment, the same spatial region behind those drones also warped. The vanishing pulse rays shot out from the warp, striking their own backs precisely with the same speed they had come from.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

A series of rapid explosions rang out, and flashes of fire and electric arcs flickered wildly in the corridor. In less than a second, the dozens of menacing defensive drones were all reduced to piles of black-smoking scrap metal, scattered all over the ground.

The whole process was clean and efficient, even carrying a kind of absurd artistic feel.

Talos stood frozen in place, gun in hand, his mouth slightly agape, unable to close it for a long time. He had fought half his life and seen all sorts of powerful warriors, some capable of tearing apart warships with their bare hands, others able to control energy storms, but he had never seen such a bizarre and unreasonable attack method.

This wasn't power, this wasn't energy; it was more like... like a god rewriting the rules of the world. He felt that his prized combat experience had become a joke in front of the man before him.

Carol lowered her hands, which were still burning with golden flames, and looked at Chu Hang's retreating figure with a complex expression. She knew Chu Hang was strong, but every time this man displayed his strength, it refreshed her understanding. He seemed to have no limits.

"Alright, the road is clean now." Chu Hang clapped his hands as if he had done something insignificant, and continued walking forward.

When he reached the dark blue energy wall, he didn't stop; he simply walked straight past it. The instant his body touched the wall, he encountered no resistance, as if passing through a holographic projection and emerging directly from the other side.

This scene nearly made Talos's eyes pop out of their sockets again. He cautiously reached out and touched the wall of light. A powerful electric current instantly surged through his body, making him shudder and his hair stand on end.

"This is... the laws of space?" he murmured to himself in an almost delirious voice. In the ancient legends of the Skrulls, only those creator gods who had touched the very origin of the universe could manipulate space in this way.

"Keep up." Chu Hang's voice came from ahead.

Carol and Talos exchanged a glance, both seeing deep shock in each other's eyes. They quickly followed, and found that after Chu Hang passed by, the energy light walls automatically dissipated.

"Level 1 defense protocol... deactivated. Threat level zero." The mechanical female voice sounded again, but this time, there seemed to be a hint of gentleness in its tone. "Identity verification... confirmed. Welcome home, Dr. Mar-Will."

Clearly, the space station's artificial intelligence, through the energy fluctuations just now, confirmed Carol's identity, or rather, was "convinced" by Chu Hang's unreasonable abilities.

The walls on both sides of the corridor had somehow transformed into enormous, transparent floor-to-ceiling windows, offering views of the vast universe and the massive blue planet. They felt as if they were walking among the stars.

At the end of the corridor stood a massive, round metal door. As they approached, the door silently slid open to the sides, revealing the scene behind it.

Core laboratory.

This place is much larger than the outside offices, resembling a giant circular auditorium. At its center is a multi-tiered operating platform, with countless holographic screens suspended in the air, quietly shimmering. The laboratory's dome is completely transparent, offering a panoramic view of the entire Milky Way.

In the very center of the laboratory, a massive cube emitting a soft blue light is suspended in mid-air, secured by a complex energy confinement device. This is the energy core of the entire space station.

“It’s it…” Carol murmured to herself, staring at the cube. She could feel the energy within her resonating powerfully with it. Six years ago, this was the very thing that had completely changed her destiny.

Chu Hang's gaze lingered on the Cosmic Cube for a few seconds. He could sense the purest, most primordial spatial energy contained within it. The power within him was thriving because of this, like a child who had found its mother. He forcibly suppressed the urge to rush forward and "copy" it completely. Now was not the time.

"Here it is!" Talos's exclamation drew their attention.

He was standing in front of the central control panel, pointing to a huge holographic screen. Carol walked over and saw that it was a massive star map. On the star map, a clear flight path was marked, the destination being an unknown star field located on the edge of the Andromeda Galaxy.

Next to the flight path was a document. Talos opened it with trembling hands.

That was a list. A list of people.

The book is filled with the names of hundreds of Skrulls, followed by their family relationships and basic information.

Talos's eyes scanned the list frantically, his breathing growing increasingly rapid. Finally, in the middle of the list, he found two names etched into his very bones.

So La, his wife.

Ellu, his daughter.

“They…they’re still alive…” Talos’s body trembled violently. This tough man, who shed blood but not tears on the battlefield, suddenly collapsed to his knees. He gripped the control panel tightly with his hands, his shoulders heaving violently, and a suppressed, beast-like wail escaped from his throat.

Carol looked at him silently, without saying a word. She could understand the ecstasy and sorrow of something lost and then found.

Chu Hang, on the other hand, appeared much calmer. His gaze did not linger on the star map, but rather slowly swept across the entire laboratory. His energy perception had long since formed an invisible net, covering every corner of the space station.

He knew that there were other "people" on this space station besides the three of them.

Below the list that Talos found, Dr. Lawson left a log entry.

“I’ve hidden them. Hidden them in the safest place. A place the Cree would never expect. They are innocent; they just want to survive. If something happens to me, I hope that whoever sees this message will help them find a new home.”

"Hidden? Where are they hidden?" Carol frowned. Although the space station was large, it was easy to see that there was simply no place to hide hundreds of people.

“No, they are right here,” Chu Hang suddenly said.

His gaze fell upon an inconspicuous cargo conveyor in the corner of the laboratory.

"Right here. In a folded subspace."

Chu Hang's energy perception allowed him to clearly "see" a small, independent space beneath the seemingly ordinary metal floor. Hundreds of faint life signals, like fireflies, were gathering in that space.

At the center of that swarm of "fireflies" was a completely different signal source.

An extremely powerful and extremely restrained life signal. Unlike Carroll or the Cosmic Cube, it is not a pure energy entity. Its signal is peculiar, like an infinitely compressed black hole, or a supernova that may explode at any moment.

A barely perceptible smile appeared on Chu Hang's lips.

He knew what it was.

A fully grown Flerken with complete spatial abilities. This is far more valuable than the "Shape Mimicry" he copied from Mystique. It's practically an S-rank ability gift delivered right to his doorstep.

Just as he was about to speak and let Talos meet his wife and children, a piercing alarm suddenly blared throughout the entire space station.

"Warning! Warning! Large-scale Kree Empire fleet detected! Approaching!"

For the first time, the mechanical female voice carried a sense of urgency and tension.

The holographic star map on the central control panel instantly switched to a real-time monitoring screen of the space station's exterior.

Against the backdrop of the pitch-black universe, a colossal black warship, as large as a mountain, slowly emerged from the warp portal. Its design was ferocious and domineering, embodying the violent aesthetics of the Kree Empire. Surrounding it were dozens of escort ships, forming an impenetrable encirclement.

The bow of the main ship was engraved with a huge emblem symbolizing death and judgment.

Ronan's flagship, the Dark Star.

A cold, fanatical, and arrogant image of a man was projected onto the center of the laboratory. He was clad in heavy black armor and wielded a massive warhammer; he was Ronan, the Accuser of the Kree Empire.

“The Earthlings hiding inside, and the remnants of the Skrulls.” Ronan’s voice was devoid of emotion, as if he were reading a verdict. “I’ll give you thirty seconds. Hand over the human weapon codenamed ‘Firth,’ and the Tesseract that Mar-Vell hid.”

His gaze seemed to pierce through the screen, fixed intently on Carol.

"Otherwise, this space station, and everything inside it, will be purified."

Carol's face instantly turned icy. She clenched her fists, and golden energy began to surge once more. Facing the accuser she once held in such awe, she now felt only overwhelming rage.

Talos's face was filled with despair. He knew who Ronan was—a madman, a genocide. Falling into his hands meant certain death.

However, Chu Hang seemed not to hear Ronan's threat at all. His attention was completely elsewhere, not on the massive fleet.

His gaze remained fixed on the direction of the cargo conveyor belt with great interest.

Ronan? The Kree Fleet?

That's just the main course.

Before that, he had to enjoy this unexpected yet incredibly tempting appetizer.

"System," he silently repeated to himself, "Lock onto that signal source. Prepare to copy."

Chapter 79 Clearing the Place

Ronan's voice came through the holographic projection, flat, cold, and devoid of any emotion. Like a piece of iron falling.

A subtle but persistent tremor came from the deck beneath my feet. It was the groaning of the space station's structure under the pressure of the external energy field.

Carol's golden light intensified, scorching and slightly distorting the air around her. She stared intently at Ronan's projection, her knuckles white from clenching her fists. She wanted to rush out and smash that arrogant face to pieces.

Talos's face was no longer deathly pale, but a bloodless, ashen gray. He had just found his long-lost family; was he about to watch them, along with him, be "purified" into cosmic dust in the next second? He looked at Chu Hang in despair; this man was his only hope. But Chu Hang didn't even turn his head, his back to Ronan, as if he hadn't heard the countdown to death at all.

"What are you doing?!" Carol finally couldn't hold back any longer and growled at Chu Hang's retreating figure, "We have to figure something out! Break out of here!"

"Don't rush," Chu Hang's voice was so calm it was maddening. "Let's take care of business first."

After he finished speaking, he ignored the anxious gazes of the two people behind him, and also ignored the cold number Ronan had already counted to "five," and walked straight to the inconspicuous cargo conveyor in the corner of the laboratory.

“There’s nothing there!” Talos was on the verge of collapse. He couldn’t understand why this man was still concerned about an empty corner at a time like this.

Chu Hang ignored him. He walked to the seemingly ordinary metal floor, squatted down, and gently placed his right hand on the center of the floor.

He didn't use any force or pry it open; he simply injected a barely perceptible amount of spatial energy into it, like mercury, silently.

The next second, a scene that Talos and Carol would never forget unfolded.

The floor, made of superalloy, was pinched in the middle by an invisible hand and then folded to both sides.

The edges of the metal exhibit a smooth curve that defies the laws of physics. Beneath the folded floor, a constantly fluctuating light gate emitting a soft white glow is revealed.

A subspace portal.

“This…” Talos was completely speechless.

Before he could recover from his shock, a cacophony of sounds erupted from within the portal. There were terrified whispers, suppressed sobs, and the faint cry of a baby overcome with fear.

Immediately afterwards, green, terrified faces emerged from the portal.

There were hundreds of Skrulls, men, women, and children, crammed together like sardines in a small, brightly lit subspace. They looked up at the unfamiliar world outside, their eyes filled with confusion and fear.

“So-ra!” Talos’s body jolted violently. He stared intently at a woman holding a child in the crowd, his voice trembling uncontrollably.