"The birth of a new Celestial God will inevitably lead to the downfall of that Planet of Life."
"But to prevent the new Celestial God, it's necessary to keep the life count on the Planet of Life below the critical point."
"So..."
"With the birth of a new Celestial God, Griss will completely replace this section of the Cosmos."
"To prevent the new Celestial God, a massive loss of life is needed, and the more lives lost, the more he can enhance his control over this section of the Cosmos by leveraging those lost lives."
"A double-edged strategy."
"A win-win!"
"For him."
After hastily saying these words, Thanos' purple face had turned into a pale one, with perhaps even some golden drops trickling down his body like a tiny stream.
Hawk felt a bit darkened as he listened to Thanos' words.
"So, you're saying I was almost used by him as a pawn?"
"Yes."
Thanos' voice became more urgent: "That's also why I wanted to meet you, Earth won't do, I am within his time, so no matter what, I can't go to Terra Star, only you, who exist in this cosmos' time but not in this cosmos' time can come find me. Unless he removes himself from time again and fights you to prevent you, but that obviously is impossible."
After all, in his heyday, Griss in his six-cylinder state was already suppressed by Hawk like a street fighter under the pressure of the Cosmos.
Trying again?
Pure suicide.
"So, he came to find me."
Thanos' mouth cracked in a grin as his body trembled uncontrollably due to excessive blood loss: "Unfortunately, he forgot, I have the Power Gemstone and the Space Gemstone, and he just got beaten by you, so he miscalculated, and I held on until you arrived. Unfortunately, I am dying too."
Hawk looked at the completely pale Thanos with a silent expression.
"One last question."
"What?"
"Where can I find this Griss."
It's undeniable, Thanos' information, contained a lot.
A massive amount.
Hawk even began to doubt whether the main cosmos he transmigrated into was indeed the numbered 616 Marvel Cosmos, also known as the Marvel Cinematic Cosmos.
After all, in the Marvel Cinematic Cosmos, the Eternal might not have shown up, but Death has appeared.
In Witch Agatha.
But all of this no longer matters.
Information given by Thanos, was substantial but amounted to just one point.
Hawk's wife, Gwen, the instigator is this Celestial God Griss.
That's all that matters.
He just had to find this Celestial God Griss, and then, while fighting, ask the questions again, but this time, if this Celestial God Griss doesn't return his Gwen back to him intact, he would use everything he's learned in his lifetime to entertain this Griss with torture.
Hawk really wanted to know.
Whether the will of the Celestial God was unmatched, or his ten tortures were more superior!
But...
"You can't find him."
"What?"
"He has already replaced this cosmos' time and space, he can appear in any space of this cosmos at any time."
With a face as pale as a pale yam, Thanos shook his head and said: "If you weren't independent of this cosmos' time, he couldn't have temporarily left the universe's time to fight you because if you were in this cosmos' time, he could have completely used time traps to drag you into his time, and from the root, kill you without even needing to show up."
Hawk frowned upon hearing this.
"So, I can't find him?"
"Yes, but not for that reason."
"Then what?"
"He is no longer in this cosmos."
"..."
Hawk said nothing, looking at Thanos.
Thanos could no longer maintain his seated posture now, his body weakly leaned to the side, with a voice carrying an irreversibly deathly tone.
"After being beaten by you once, he tried to stop me from speaking, forcibly replenishing his origins, and I counter-killed him once. He can no longer occupy this cosmos, so he abducted Bruce Banner who somehow came from some multiverse and left this cosmos."
"..."
Hawk stared intently at Thanos.
Now he was a bit suspicious that Thanos summoned him here just to mess with him.
Don't believe it?
Having just said a circle about how amazing this Celestial God team called Griss was, both about this cosmos' time and its space.
Hawk was already prepared to explode this cosmos.
And the result?
Goodness gracious.
He has already left this cosmos?
What a twist of fate, no, this is already more like the twists and turns of a mountain road.
"So... you called me here just to tell me, you counter-killed Griss?"
"No."
Thanos shook his head, laboriously raising his left hand, pointing to the Space Gemstone in the Infinity Gauntlet that Hawk had been keeping suspended in the air: "When I knew you killed him once, also knew he already knew I knew his truth, the next step after silencing me was, I thought after you killed him once, and then I killed him once, he would completely lose control over this cosmos, so I thought about that Bruce Banner from who knows where, and set a trap for him using this Bruce Banner."
Hawk, at the moment Thanos snapped his fingers, had already taken the Space Gemstone from the Infinity Gemstones and held it in his hand.
As Thanos' words fell, Hawk also sensed something unusual from the Space Gemstone.
Hawk turned his head to look at Thanos, who was now completely lying down.
"This is..."
"Multiverse coordinates."
Thanos lay on the sandy gravel, his voice slightly wheezing, like a leaking bellows.
"I have already used the Space Gemstone in advance to record the coordinates of the universe where Bruce Banner is. As long as you can find the universe where these coordinates are in the endless multiverse, then you can find Griss, and if you can find Griss..."
"I can find my wife."
Hawk looked at the Space Gemstone in his hand storing a multiverse coordinate, his eyes shining.
Hearing this, Thanos tugged at the corner of his mouth.
"Yes, and Griss has already left this universe, and the time instinct of this universe has returned, so you are still in the time of this universe but independent of the universal time, so you don't need to worry about the trap of time."
"...Thank you."
Touched, Hawk stored the Space Gemstone and the Power Gemstone together in his Little Cosmos, and after the Reality Gemstone confirmed that these two Gemstones came from the same source, he got up from the ground, hands in pockets, and looking at Thanos lying on the ground, said thank you: "Is there anything you need me to do for you?"
With his eyes already lifeless, Thanos looked at the earnest Hawk and wasn't pretentious.
"When I die, just bury me here; this was once my home."
"Okay."
Without hesitation, Hawk listened to Thanos' dying request and nodded, demonstrating subjective initiative: "Don't worry, once you're gone, no one will disturb you and your homeland."
Thanos, hearing this, looked at Hawk, didn't speak, but focused his gaze on the sky of Titan.
In a trance.
He seemed to see the long-lost Titan starry sky, twinkling with countless stars.
Then...
Like a final flare of life, Thanos forced himself up from the ground, then looked towards the direction of the once glorious city of Titan and closed his eyes.
And thus!
Thanos came to a close.
And at the moment Thanos closed his eyes and passed away, a spaceship landed not far away, followed by the towering and fit Gamora and a modified Nebula, both roaring Thanos' name, charging at Thanos who chose to die standing.
Hawk's eyes narrowed.
"Eye Blast!"
"Boom!"
Gamora was instantly knocked away.
"Thud!"
Nebula crashed on the spot.
"Crash!"
Star-Lord, who was running behind, was in worse shape, flying backward and crashing back into the spaceship he had just run out from.
But with this commotion, everyone realized that Thanos was indeed dead.
Hawk, after standing up, looked at the few people in surprise next to Thanos' body and laughed: "You're late."
Gamora looked at Thanos' body in disbelief, then at the suit-clad Hawk beside it.
"Mr. Phoenix, was it you who…"
"No."
Hawk, knowing what Gamora wanted to ask, glanced at the distance at the Celestial God-like corpse of Titan Mountain: "Thanos perished together with that thing."
In fact, Thanos was already done for, but he held on until he'd said everything he needed to say, only then dying without regret.
As for any regrets.
Of course, it was regrets about the Celestial God Team.
In some way, Thanos regarded him as his spiritual heir.
Because both of them had a common enemy.
The Celestial God Team!
While Hawk's mind was somewhat drifting, Gamora just glanced at the distant Celestial God corpse and then refocused on Thanos' standing corpse.
She didn't recognize any Celestial God Team.
But she knew Thanos, and Thanos was not just her adoptive father but also her Zehouberi Race's sworn enemy.
So...
"Mr. Phoenix, can you give me Thanos' body?"
"No."
Hawk, snapping back to reality, hearing Gamora's request, decisively refused: "I promised Thanos I would ensure he's laid to rest and that no one would disturb him and Titan's peace."
If you ask, it's a man's promise.
Once more.
He had no grudge against Thanos. On the contrary, it could be said he got his first pot of gold thanks to Thanos.
Thinking about it, if Thanos hadn't sent the Chitauri Soldiers to invade Earth, he wouldn't have obtained Chitauri weapons, naturally wouldn't have been looking for buyers online, and subsequently wouldn't have met Anna...
So!
For those beings whose lives were indiscriminately halved by Thanos, Thanos was a tyrant.
But to Hawk, Thanos was considered a decent guy.
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