Marvel's Spider-Man: Web of Destiny

"Wait, wait, what do you mean? Are you saying I'm a traitor?" Xinxing widened his eyes and looked at Peter and others in disbelief.

He couldn't imagine that these people, whom he considered the most reliable, were now speculating about him with such malicious intent!

"Oh! Of course not," Peter walked forward and patted Nova's shoulder, "There is one thing you have to understand. We will always be your best friends, and what we are discussing now is to protect you from the threat of Thanos!"

"I, I see," Nova looked at Peter and lowered his head, ashamed of his doubt.

Peter pulled Nova aside and quietly asked him about the thing in his mind.

At the beginning, after Nova was attacked by the Skrulls and fell into a coma, he accidentally activated something called "Worldmind" hidden in his mind.

This Worldmind was originally a supercomputer that stored the data of the entire Xandar civilization, and was related to a "digital life plan" that the Xandar civilization had been carrying out.

In this plan, they preserved the consciousness of the outstanding members of the Nova Corps throughout the ages and stored them in this supercomputer, hoping that they would reappear in another form one day.

For example, special biological organisms.

When the Nova Corps was destroyed by Thanos, Adora, the mother of Nova Richard Rider and the Queen of Xandar, transferred the supercomputer to a space fighter and transmitted the consciousness of as many Nova Corps members as possible.

Adora's original intention was to have Richard rebuild the Nova Corps somewhere else.

However, during Richard's escape, he was attacked by an unknown entity. Not only was his space fighter destroyed, but his own soul was also severely damaged!

What is surprising is that after he woke up, his soul was unexpectedly strengthened and merged with the consciousness of the Worldmind and its Nova Corps members, as well as some mysterious energies that existed in outer space or other dimensions.

After these were combined together, a special power belonging to the "Nova" Richard Rider was formed, and Richard named it: the power of the Nova.

It was this nova force that drastically changed Richard's body, allowing him to drift in the universe until he was picked up by Star-Lord and Groot.

For a period of time after being brought to Earth by Peter and Stark, Richard's personality has been changing, which is the influence of Worldmind.

Originally, because there was also an advanced artificial intelligence like Ultron on Earth, Peter and others did not find it too strange that Worldmind had developed independent consciousness.

It was preconceived and included in the category of Ultron.

However, thinking about it now, there are actually quite a few doubts.

First of all, in Richard's memory, the supercomputer on Xandar did not reach the level of Ultron on Earth.

So theoretically, it is impossible for intelligence to evolve all of a sudden to a level where it could even attempt to dominate Richard.

Secondly, although the Nova Corps of Xandar is well-known in the universe, its members are not actually like the Green Lanterns of DC next door, where everyone is a superhuman.

The Nova Corps relies primarily on their technology.

However, all this began to change with Richard.

This is mutation!

He has transformed from an ordinary Xandar into a "Super Xandar", and his body has integrated a large amount of the combat consciousness of the former elite Xandar.

The root cause of all this is Worldmind!

"What exactly does it want from you?" Peter asked.

After hesitating for a moment, Nova told Peter that Worldmind had been urging him to rebuild the Nova Corps on Earth and turn Earth into a new Sandar.

But Xinxing does not approve of this behavior.

So I kept rejecting him.

Although Worldmind, as an intelligent machine, has autonomous consciousness to a certain extent, it is still unable to directly go against the will of Nova, the highest authority.

"That's easy," Peter nodded.

If the suspicion level of Worldmind was 50 before, then now its suspicion level in Peter's mind has reached 80, or even higher.

He decided to check this guy out!

After Peter's explanation, Nova's trust in Worldmind plummeted.

He soon agreed with Peter's approach.

Afterwards, Peter took Nova directly to the headquarters of the Holy Spider Alliance in the pocket dimension space.

He asked Spider-Man 2099B for someone - "Byte Spider-Man" Margo Case.

This is a female Spider-Man from the earth22191 universe.

In their universe, technology has developed in a rather strange way, and people spend most of their time in cyberspace as virtual avatars.

Byte Spider-Man is such a masked vigilante who exists in the Internet and specializes in helping people prevent cybercrime through community service.

——Actually, it’s just a remake of the good neighbor Spider-Man.

After being invited by Spider-Man 2099B to join the Spider-Man Alliance, she spent most of her time appearing in the headquarters of the Earth-928B universe in the form of an avatar projection, and helped the Spider-Man Alliance coordinate the spider web system of their headquarters.

When it comes to dealing with intelligent life, I'm afraid no one is more professional than her.

Of course, to be on the safe side, Peter also informed Vision when he found Byte Spider-Man.

As the reincarnation of Ultron, Vision can indeed act as a mechanical intelligent life form at certain times.

When everything was ready, Peter entered the astral projection state, and under Nova's guidance, he took Byte Spider-Man and Vision into the Nova realm inside Nova's body where Worldmind was stored.

Worldmind was very stubborn at first and denied everything.

But Peter and others still found something strange in his actions.

Too smart!

Intelligently doesn't even look like an AI!

Instead, it looks more like a real living being!

Peter and others directly took action to capture him.

Worldmind wanted to resist at first, and even tried to instigate Nova to fight Peter and others together.

But the rising star was not moved at all.

As a result, Worldmind unleashed his immense power, forming an image very similar to Nova's after entering combat mode.

Looks like a promax version of Nova.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't defeat Peter, Vision, and Byte Spider-Man at the same time on Peter's home turf.

It wasn't long before he was controlled by Peter and others.

Worldmind was very disappointed with Nova, believing that Nova had betrayed him and the people of Xandar.

Peter and the others didn't waste any more words with him. They directly let Byte Spider-Man invade his database and finally found out some clues.

-

The one who attacked the fleeing Richard was indeed a Thanos!

And he is a Thanos who has a pair of Infinity Gauntlets inlaid with Infinity Stones, and holds only one Soul Stone!

Although Richard fainted at that time, Worldmind, as an artificial intelligence, naturally could not faint like that.

His database has been silently recording everything.

In fact, Thanos had no intention of doing anything to Richard at the beginning.

But later, he changed his mind.

He first used the power of the Soul Stone to directly influence Worldmind and create a virtual soul for him.

Although this new virtual soul is fragile, it can grow by devouring the consciousness of the elite of Xandar that were originally recorded in the Worldmind.

In other words, assimilation.

Later, Thanos made modifications to Worldmind's program, adding auxiliary program settings such as "searching for the Earth", "monitoring developments on Earth", and "creating chaos on Earth or even ruling the Earth when necessary".

Although these settings will not appear on the surface, they will subtly influence Worldmind like the human subconscious, and then influence Richard through Worldmind.

If Peter and others did not check Worldmind at the beginning and only checked Richard, they would not have discovered the problem at all.

This is also the brilliance of Thanos's method.

Perhaps he himself did not think that this little trick could cause any big trouble to the earth in this world.

His purpose might just be to create some minor troubles for Peter and the others and distract their attention!

But there is always a loophole.

He would never have thought that Tony Stark's daughter would come back from the future to tell them everything.

And they just happen to have the ability to thoroughly review all of Worldmind's stored memories!

"There's a 90% chance that this guy is the Thanos that Morgan mentioned, who came to their universe from a certain 'past universe' and then embarked on a path of destroying and reshaping the multiverse!"

Peter looked at the image that had been grabbed from Worldmind's memory storage.

The Thanos in the image was slightly different from the ones he had seen before.

Although they look very similar in appearance, the man in front of him is wearing a black hooded cloak, which gives him a sense of mystery.

On the hand under the cloak, a corner of the Infinity Gauntlet was vaguely revealed, and the gems on it were shining brightly.

"It seems that the Soul Stone of our universe has fallen into the hands of this Thanos in black." Peter thought of the Soul Stone that was obviously closely connected with the Infinity War, but the real Soul Stone had never appeared.

Fortunately, their universe had already broken through the norm, from a "peaceful" single universe to a multidimensional universe that is closely connected with the multiverse.

Therefore, even if one of the Infinity Stones is missing, it will not fall into the dark dimension like those universes.

Of course, there is also a possibility that Dormammu does not dare to come to their universe.

After all, it seems that they can really find a few people in their universe who can defeat Dormammu!

And he could call for help.

After obtaining the information he wanted from Worldmind, Peter asked Richard for his opinion and then made new arrangements for Worldmind.

First, they directly deleted Worldmind's "radical personality" that was created by Thanos' influence.

Then, they directly made Worldmind into a system program specifically designed to assist Richard's growth.

That’s right, just like what is written in some online articles.

The system program will often issue some tasks to the host, and the host will receive some rewards after completing the tasks.

This thing is named "Nova System", and the system tasks are generally some tests for Richard, the rising star.

As for the rewards, they are basically some unlocking rights for the Nova System, gifts of Nova Power, and skills extracted from those consciousnesses and the like.

In short, the ultimate goal of everything is to train Richard into a talent!

This is also the initial setting of the Worldmind system, and also the original wish of Richard's mother.

Peter and his men have now put things right.

-

After leaving Nova, Peter sent Byte Spider-Man back to her universe and said goodbye to Vision again.

He then found Strange and told him his discovery.

"So what do you want to do now? The other party seems to be able to evade your spider web system. I'm afraid you won't be able to find him for a while, right?"

"I want to go and take a look around Ego," said Peter.

"Ego? Wasn't it reduced to ashes by us a long time ago? Do you mean that the black-clad Thanos might have appeared nearby at the time?" Strange suddenly reacted.

Peter nodded: "Just think of it as my spider intuition. So, can you still find the coordinates of Ego?"

Strange closed his eyes and sensed carefully.

After a while, he suddenly opened his eyes and slowly drew a circle in front of him with his hands.

On the other side of the portal is a desolate planet.

Peter did not hesitate. After covering his body with a layer of stellar power, he stepped directly through the portal and came to this planet.

Strange followed closely behind.

The two of them still look like earthlings, but in fact they are completely different from ordinary earthlings.

It is not difficult for them to survive in outer space.

"This planet is in the same planetary system as Ego, and the distance between them is roughly equivalent to the distance from Earth to Mars. If he had been here before, the possibility of him coming here is the highest," Strange explained.

He was talking to Peter in the astral state.

Communication in the astral state does not use sound but consciousness, so it is not affected by the vacuum environment.

Peter nodded but didn't answer.

He searched the ground carefully, with his spider-sense radar turned to maximum speed.

His spider sense has a mysterious directional effect, which can sometimes lead him to the answer he wants.

In the absence of any clues, his spider sense is the most reliable means.

After a while, Peter paused and stopped.

He squatted down and soon found some unusual marks on a rock, as if it had been pressed by some heavy object.

This is different from being hit by a meteorite.

The crater created by a meteorite impact is bowl-shaped, but this one is angular and clearly a creation of civilization.

Peter jumped up and soon found several similar traces nearby.

He thought about it carefully in his mind and immediately realized it.

Aren’t the shapes of these holes exactly the same as the landing pad of the spaceship of Thanos’ Black Order that he had seen before?