Shadow of the Beautiful World

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At dusk, New York, in a warehouse in the Bronx.

The black shadow rotated like a spinning windmill, rapidly spreading from a black point into a ring that stayed in the air.

The swirling black light lingered for a few seconds before the shattered, bloodied cloak shattered what appeared to be a rather weak arc of light.

Like a heavy object falling into the water from a height.

With a heavy impact, the seriously injured superhero cape smashed onto the empty warehouse floor with something in his arms.

He was covered in blood.

The iconic wide cloak was broken into strips, cut off by some kind of sharp weapon.

The left arm of the cloak was cut off together, and red blood gushed out from the open wound along the shoulder, and there were other fatal wounds on his body.

It was like a broken container pierced by a sharp weapon. Even though he tried his best to call out the shadows and try to seal the bleeding wound, judging from his current situation, he had no hope of surviving. .

But Cloak didn't despair.

He lay on the ground, raised his arms with difficulty, and released the girl he was hugging in his arms.

The short girl who was held in her arms by the cloak and teleported from California to New York in an instant looked a bit disheveled. She had an ordinary appearance, nothing outstanding, and she didn't look like a superhero.

But as soon as she stood up from the shadow wrapped around her by the cloak, the appearance of this ordinary girl began to change rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, she changed into another look.

He has a slim figure, wearing a white combat uniform and a small white cloak, long blond hair, and a blue moon emblem on his cheek.

She becomes Cape's girlfriend, Dagger, a superhero who specializes in healing and saving.

But she's not really a dagger.

This form was just one of the hundreds of shapes she remembered. She was half kneeling on the ground, her hands were surrounded by white light, and she seemed to be preparing to heal the cloak's wounds.

Go! Go!

Blood spewed from the mouth of the cloak lying on the ground, and knowing that he was dying, he reached out and grabbed the dagger by the wrist, and said:

Those hounds will catch up soon... Go, Your Majesty, go... to the star port of .b, where we left the spaceship, go! Leave... Leave this world!

I won't abandon you.

Queen Skrull Vilank, who has just experienced two thrilling battles, is not in perfect condition either. After changing several forms to fight, her face is also a little pale.

Fury had really gone to great lengths to catch her.

Kama Taj's battle mages were in charge of the raid, while Asgard's most valiant gatekeeper, General Heimdall, personally led the Golden Palace Guards to participate in the hunt, as well as the sage Adam of the Mechanicus Cult and a group of specially modified mechanical pioneers.

This combination is horrible.

But the Queen still escaped, at the cost of 4 of the 5 high-ranking Skrulls responsible for protecting her died, and the last Pretender Cloak who desperately took her out of danger was also dying.

Walk!

The weak cloak saw that the queen was unwilling to leave, he grabbed the blood-stained dagger at his waist with his remaining right hand, and pressed the sharp blade against his neck.

Under the blood-stained hood, the swarthy face was full of stubbornness.

He said to the Queen:

We can die, you can't.

We can fail, you can't... go, leave this world! You are the last hope.

puff

Holding a knife, the Skrull slashed across his neck fiercely, cutting open his throat.

Blood spurted from his wound, his body twitched twice, his eyes slowly lost their luster, but he was still staring at his queen, and at the last moment of his life, he was still urging her to leave quickly .

The queen with blood on her hands looked at the guard who committed suicide.

At this moment, she was a little dazed, although the fake Professor Charles repeatedly told her that this might be a trap before leaving, and asked her to be ready at any time.

But the Queen never expected that the human counterattack would come so quickly.

In less than an hour, the communication channels of the Skrulls were completely dead, and their brethren scattered around the world were attacked almost at the same time.

Most of the Skrull pretenders didn't even send out the warning message, and those who escaped the surprise attack immediately entered a cruel game of cat and mouse.

Those hunters pursued closely, and no matter how the Skrulls changed their appearance, they could not escape their hunting eyes.

Humans have some way of pinpointing them.

It's like marking the prey before the hunt starts, and letting them run around in the concrete forest can't escape the sharp eyes of a good hunter.

But how did those humans do it?

The queen couldn't figure it out.

The Skrull have subverted countless worlds and civilizations in the past, and they had never suffered such a fiasco until the Cree created an instrument that could disable their camouflage.

It's not that the Skrulls are weaker, no.

They underestimated the world and fell into a long-woven net because of their overconfidence. They did not realize the dangers in the shadows. At least in this world, the shadows do not only love them.

In the shadows of this world, there are other things, more cunning and more dangerous beings than them.

In the warehouse, the queen stood up, she glanced at the corpse on the ground, she no longer hesitated, turned around and rushed out of the warehouse.

Under the setting sun, Empress Vilank kept changing her appearance and blending into the city, but she didn't have any intention of escaping.

She has no intention of running away.

Those who planted this death trap in the shadows will not let her escape so easily.

To leave this world safely, she must hold enough chips.

She needs a hostage in her hands.

A few minutes later, Kama Taj's unique portal with bright sparks opened in the warehouse.

The mage king, who was wearing a dark red monk's robe and holding a staff with animal heads on both ends, and General Heimdall, who was wearing armor and holding a sharp sword, jumped into the warehouse.

Behind them, a group of heavily armed Golden Palace guards and demon hunters also rushed out.

Then they saw the body lying in a pool of blood.

The cloak has changed back to the Skrull state after death. In order to protect the queen from leaving, it was injured so badly that almost all the blood flowed out of its body.

Death time did not exceed 10 minutes.

Heimdall glanced at the corpse, his amber eyes looked at the door of the warehouse, he waved his hand, and the soldiers and witchers behind him rushed out of the warehouse and spread out in all directions.

The general of Asgard knelt down, looked at the corpse, and said to the mage Wang beside him:

Queen Skrull is in this city, and she has nowhere to escape.

But it's also possible that this is her destination.

Wang leaned on his staff and looked around with his face full of flesh, searching for remaining clues. He said:

Maybe they have made arrangements here in advance, maybe the queen can escape here, such as a spaceship prepared in advance, or some kind of mysterious teleportation circle, etc.

According to Fury, there is only one place in this city where the spaceship can take off and land quickly.

Heimdall stood up, he stroked the hilt in his hand, the general who was good at fighting said in a low voice:

And that cunning and cunning Earth commander has already set up a trap there. If the Queen really goes there, our hunt will end early.

On the other side, in the .b New York headquarters, in the large underground space of the Bridge and Tunnel Authority, an internal purge has just ended.

The tired Agent J sat on a futuristic white chair, with a loaded ray gun ready to fire at his hand, and beside him, K was treating the wound on his arm.

The golden pair had just had a fight with a group of released alien criminals. Before their eyes, the .b hall, which was originally orderly, was already in chaos.

The shattered display screen was still emitting sparks, the damaged firefighting device was spraying water in an unpleasant smell of blood, and the ground was covered with shattered corpses.

Those green, blue, red liquids are flowing on the ground.

The potbellied Agent Z is in a higher office, reporting the war here with Fury.

J's eyes were fixed on those ruthless omnics wearing heavy robes and holding weapons in their hands. Without the help of these killing machines from hell, no matter how mighty he and K were, it would be impossible to rely on the firepower of two people, Clear out the entire New York headquarters.

Agent K with a bandage on his arm had a sad expression.

He looked at the body of the Skrull whose head had been smashed under his feet. The guy was still wearing .b's iconic black suit. Judging from the curves of his body, he was a lady.

The identity plate on her chest was stained with blood, but a capital m could be vaguely seen.

That's Agent M.

The commander of the New York branch of the Men in Black, the successor of Z, the secret lover of K, and the cold boss of J.

In the chaotic battle just now, the alien prisoner was released and she tried to escape, but was shot in the head by her old lover K.

what's next?

J grabbed his water bottle and drank the chocolate milk in it. He rubbed his sore arm from shooting for a long time.

Looking back at the silent K, he took up his weapon and said:

We took back the headquarters and killed the lurking Skrulls. What should we do next? Support the European branch?

We don't need to worry about that over there.

K picked up the silver pistol in his hand, he stretched out his hand to grab the tie a little irritably, he said:

Demon hunters and wizards will help restore order in the European branch. The identity of the old T has just been confirmed. Fortunately, he is not a Skrull in disguise. Unfortunately, it is more dangerous to pretend to be him. Star Raider...

It sucks!

K, who has worked in .b all his life, shook his head.

He stood up and replaced the ray gun with a new energy magazine. There was a murderous look in the eyes of this cold-faced old villain. He said to J:

Next we will go to Xinggang. If we are lucky enough, we can catch a 'big fish' there.

Honestly, I wish the empress had thrown herself into the trap.

K stepped on the corpse of the alien and walked out of the lounge, he said to J behind him:

So we can kill her with our own hands, and kill the culprit who caused all this.

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The agents of the men in black with murderous intentions came to the blocked star port with hell omnics, but they were very disappointed.

Because Queen Skrull did not come here.

Where is she?

She's in Queens.

She hid in the underground garage of an office building. After confirming that all Skrulls were secretly marked with special marks, Queen Vilank made the most correct choice.

She didn't take the risk of using the best method of the Skrulls to hide herself in the crowd, but chose a sufficiently remote place to hide.

She has her own escape plan, but before executing it, she must warn those compatriots who have entered the star sea and are about to assassinate Ronan.

This is her duty as empress.

The Earthlings launched a counterattack, and our army was almost wiped out.

The queen hid in this secluded garage and entered this message on her communicator.

Her nose was a little sour.

Perhaps at this time, on the surface more than ten meters above her head, there are trackers hunting her.

What a humiliating situation.

She hides here, and every occasional noise in the empty garage makes her heart skip a beat.

Like a mouse hiding in the dark, this embarrassing situation made the Queen sound the day when the Skrull civilization fell.

The Kree destroyed the world they lived in, and in the flames of despair, she led the last of her people to escape the doom of destruction.

At that time, she was almost exactly the same as now.

After coming to Earth, she thought that such a bad experience would never happen again, and she would lead the last tribe to rebuild civilization in this world.

But just over a year...

The situation deteriorated again, even harder than the previous blow.

The Milky Way is so big, is there really no place for the Skrulls to live?

Fu...

The queen took a deep breath, and let out those unnecessary despair and negative emotions from her mind.

She continued typing into the communicator on her wrist.

I can't predict the outcome of your actions, maybe it's just another trap prepared by the cunning Earthlings...

But if you are lucky enough to survive, then don't respond to this message, our communication system is likely to be infiltrated, don't respond! Don't come back! Earth has become our death place!

Leave this group of stars, as far away from the earth as possible!

If we are lucky enough, we can meet again among the stars. Bless you, my people.

The queen pressed the send button, and a few seconds later, a sign that the transmission was completed flashed on the screen of the communicator. Vilank reached out and took off the communicator, threw it on the ground, and then threw a ray of white light from his fingertips, sending It shatters completely.

The unique communication system of the Skrulls has probably been deciphered by the people on Earth, and keeping this thing can only dig their own grave.

In the dark garage, the queen followed the shadows and left quietly.

It was already very close to her destination and target person.

It was the Rileys who had driven them this far, but that family would also be an escape hope. Although most of the people in the Riley family are monsters that cannot be easily theorized.

However, ordinary people also live among these monsters.

With enough luck, the Empress will have a perfect hostage...

Well, or two...