New York, Talos Building.
Inside the office, a portal shimmering with the glow of electric welding opened. As the Xia Yu of marvel, he was still more accustomed to this traditional Kamar-Taj portal.
After all, this was the first magic he learned in marvel. No matter what it is, people always have a deep impression of their first time.
As Xia Yu walked out of the portal, Gamora followed behind him, her eyes filled with curiosity.
Watching the welding-like portal disappear, Gamora couldn't help but say, "Miraculous magic, it's completely different from my teleportation."
"If you want to learn, I can teach you," Xia Yu replied casually before tapping the desk. A light screen was instantly projected into existence.
"Sir, what are your orders?"
A gray-haired, yellow-eyed emotionless girl wearing high-tech headphones appeared on the light screen.
This was the third-generation artificial intelligence created by The Xia Yus. It combined the red queen from the Resident Evil world, N2 from the Nier World, and naike from the Hungry World, making it the strongest version of artificial intelligence The Xia Yus currently possessed.
"naike, clean up my private slack... lounge, then set it up as a kitchen. Oh, and make sure the dining table is large."
"Yes, sir."
The naike on the light screen bowed slightly in response, and then the projection disappeared.
"Alright, follow me. I don't usually cook for just anyone. My skills are the best on Earth."
"Mm!"
Gamora followed closely behind Xia Yu; she also wanted to know what Earth food tasted like.
When Xia Yu arrived at his private slacking room, the game controllers and scattered snack wrappers that used to be on the floor had all been cleaned up.
In their place was a clean and tidy kitchen, along with a massive dining table.
Inviting Gamora to take a seat, Xia Yu lightly tapped the table with his index finger. In an instant, the table was covered with fragrant, delicious meals.
These were all dishes made by Zombie Xia Yu and stored directly in the group. Since they were all Xia Yu anyway, there was no problem with him claiming he made them.
Seeing this, Gamora looked at Xia Yu in surprise. Although she could manifest food out of thin air using cosmic energy, the person before her wasn't a cosmic deity, but a human from Earth.
"What are you staring at? Eat."
Seeing Gamora suddenly dazed, Xia Yu waved his hand to get her attention.
"Oh, okay!"
Snapped out of her daze, Gamora felt a bit embarrassed. He was being so kind to her, yet she kept spacing out; it felt disrespectful.
However, since he had invited her to eat, Gamora didn't stand on ceremony. She reached out for the piece of meat closest to her and put it in her mouth.
The moment it hit her tongue, she looked at Xia Yu in shock and exclaimed, "This... this isn't food from this universe?!"
Hearing this, Xia Yu was slightly surprised. As expected of a second-generation deity, she could tell with just one bite. However, there was nothing to hide.
Xia Yu nodded, confirming Gamora's observation.
Seeing Xia Yu admit it, Gamora became even more amazed. She added another label to Xia Yu in her mind: a mysterious person capable of obtaining matter that didn't belong to this universe.
Eating food from another universe for the first time, Gamora couldn't hold back. Although it couldn't satiate her hunger, the taste alone was enough to conquer her.
After all, she used to spend all her time on her father's spaceship. When she was starving, she could only absorb energy from the ship. Although she occasionally slipped away to buy specialty foods from nearby planets, those were all made of matter from this universe.
To her, those were just for the taste, though if she ate enough, that agonizing hunger could be slightly alleviated.
But this was the first time she had ever eaten food that didn't belong to this universe, and it tasted so good.
Watching the plates quickly become clean, Xia Yu smiled. Although Gamora ate fast, her manners weren't crude; it was actually quite pleasant to watch.
A moment later, looking at a stack of plates that had already exceeded his own height, Xia Yu silently stopped taking food out of the Red Envelopes. If she kept eating like this, the food in the Red Envelopes would eventually run out.
That was the food source for all The Xia Yus. If he took it all, he would become public enemy number one for the entire Chat Group.
When the last plate was licked clean, Gamora finally realized that she seemed to have eaten too much.
Looking at Xia Yu, who was leaning to the side and hadn't eaten anything yet, she felt a bit lost. She bit her lip and whispered, "I'm sorry, I think I ate too much. It's my first time eating this kind of food, and I lost control a bit."
"It's fine, just some food," Xia Yu waved his hand dismissively. He conveniently pulled out a bottle of Healing Spell Potion and walked toward Gamora. "Since you've eaten so much, have an after-meal drink."
Like Uncle Tun, she had an infinite demand for life energy. Therefore, a Healing Spell Potion overflowing with life energy would definitely be the best drink for her.
After taking the Healing Spell Potion, Gamora looked curiously at the golden liquid inside the bottle. Before the cork was pulled, the life energy was locked inside.
Unable to figure it out, Gamora pulled the cork and was about to drink it, but the sudden surge of life energy made her pause.
Then, with a complicated expression, she put the bottle down and plugged the cork back in.
Seeing this, Xia Yu was a bit puzzled and asked, "What's wrong?"
"This is concentrated life energy; it must be very precious. I can't drink it."
Uh... Xia Yu looked at the nearly endless supply of Healing Spell Potions in the group's spell potion Red Envelope and fell silent.
How should he put it? This kind of concentrated life energy should be quite precious, but there was a tycoon in the group. Moreover, that tycoon had already upgraded to Town Hall level fourteen and was currently preparing materials for level fifteen.
Not only that, but that tycoon also planned to develop his village toward a future world. It was already very close to modern times, and he estimated it would be fully modernized before long.
Tsk, damn tycoon.
Xia Yu pulled back his thoughts and reached out to pick up the Healing Spell Potion. Seeing this, Gamora breathed a sigh of relief. It really was precious; luckily, she hadn't been foolish enough to drink it.
But in the next second, the opened bottle was placed in front of her again, and Xia Yu's voice followed.
"It's fine, go ahead and drink. I have plenty of this concentrated life energy, don't worry."
Instead of drinking, Gamora asked with a complicated expression, "Why are you being so good to me? We've only just met for the first time."
Well... because I'm greedy for your power, of course, though I'm greedy for other things too.
But he couldn't say that out loud. After thinking for a moment, Xia Yu reached out and patted Gamora's head, explaining:
"There is no 'why.' I did it because I wanted to."
These words were as good as saying nothing, but miraculously, Gamora actually nodded seriously and accepted this ridiculous reason.
However, she didn't drink the Healing Spell Potion immediately. Instead, she suddenly stood up from her seat and stood before Xia Yu.
"May I stay on Earth with you?" Gamora suddenly bowed slightly to Xia Yu and pleaded.
"Huh? Why?"
Looking at Gamora, who suddenly said she wanted to follow him and stay on Earth, Xia Yu was a bit confused.
He was supposed to be the one inviting Gamora to stay on Earth. How did it turn into Gamora requesting to stay?
"Because you are a good person," Gamora said earnestly.
"..."
Question: What should one do when given a 'good person card' by a cosmic-level goddess?
"What you said made me realize something. No matter what, only by moving forward can there be a way out. So I want to stay on Earth, I want to find my own path, so please allow me to stay on Earth."
"And since you are so good to me, I also want to help you. Although my status drops when I'm hungry, I can still do many things. My strength is also decent; I can definitely be of help!"
Xia Yu could hardly control the corners of his mouth from curling up. If he refused such a stroke of good luck falling from the sky, he would definitely be an idiot.
Even though he already knew this girl was quite simple-minded, he didn't expect her to be this naive. To get a cosmic-level enforcer for nothing was a total steal!
A total win!
But on the surface, he had to keep his composure and not show how eager and excited he was.
"Cough, if you don't mind, then it's fine with me."
"Yay!"
Gamora jumped happily on the spot, then reached out her hand to Xia Yu: "My name is Gamora, daughter of Galactus."
Seeing this, Xia Yu also smiled and reached out his hand: "Xia Yu, an Earthling, and one of the Guardians of Earth."
The sorcerers of Kamar-Taj were all Guardians of Earth, so there was no problem with him saying he was one of the Guardians. Yeah, he definitely wasn't trying to flatter himself.
"So you're actually a Guardian, Brother Xia Yu."
"Cough cough cough! What did you call me?"
Xia Yu looked in shock at Gamora, who seemed not to understand what was wrong. Brother? He was actually called 'brother' by a cosmic deity whose age was unknown?
"Brother Xia Yu," Gamora called out innocently. "Is there something wrong with that title?"
There's a huge problem. If you call me that, I'm afraid that if Uncle Tun ever finds out, he'll slap me into molecules.
"Just call me by my name. I'm not older than you... well, let's skip the age for now. You should just call me Xia Yu."
"Is that okay? Brother Xia Y..."
"Cough, use my name."
Seeing Xia Yu's strong insistence, Gamora couldn't refuse. After a moment of hesitation, she nodded.
"I understand."
"Good, then cheers."
Xia Yu picked up the Healing Spell Potion from the table and handed it to Gamora. This time, she didn't refuse and reached out to take it.
Just as Xia Yu was about to pour himself a glass of rich cola to toast with Gamora, naike's projection suddenly appeared and said:
"Sir, the Iron Man armor fireworks display you asked me to monitor has already occurred."
As she spoke, naike projected an image, which was exactly the final scene from Iron Man 3.
Watching the armor fireworks in the video, Xia Yu sighed slightly. These were probably the most expensive fireworks, as a single firework was worth over a hundred million dollars.
However, his goal wasn't those armors, but the Extremis Virus. Although from the current perspective of The Xia Yus, the Extremis Virus was no longer impressive, as a 'hoarder' type player, he might not use it, but he had to have it.