Over the course of four years, the Land of Nihility had also undergone drastic changes.
Serving as the headquarters for the Guardians of the Galaxy and Yondu's subordinates, this place had now been crafted to feel very cozy.
However, the dark red spaceship docked in the center of the stronghold ruined this cozy atmosphere.
Clearly, this was Adam Warlock's spaceship.
Peter closed his eyes to roughly sense the surroundings, quickly locked onto the locations of Star-Lord and the others, and immediately led Gwen and the others to hurry over to where they were.
At the entrance of the stronghold, Gamora was waiting anxiously.
The moment she saw Peter appear, the nervous expression on her face instantly relaxed, and she immediately spoke up,
"Thank God, you're finally here!"
What Gamora didn't notice was that behind Peter, Gwen and the others exchanged glances and subconsciously let out a long sigh of relief as well. Peter wouldn't accept this green skin, right?
Seeming to notice the emotions of Gwen and the others, Mantis softly spoke up from the side to introduce,
"Um, this is Gamora. In fact, she's my brother's girlfriend..."
"Huh?!"
Hearing this, the faces of Gwen and the others blushed first, feeling the embarrassment of having their inner thoughts exposed, but immediately that embarrassment was replaced by a strange feeling.
Stephen Strange even looked up and down at Gamora, clicking his tongue in wonder inwardly.
Mantis's brother... has quite a unique taste, huh.
Lives were at stake, so Peter naturally didn't have time to joke around with Gwen and the others, instead directly having Gamora lead him to the operating room.
Inside the operating room, Star-Lord and the others were gathered around Rocket trying to figure out a solution. Seeing Peter walk in, everyone's eyes lit up.
Peter nodded at them as a greeting, then immediately shifted his gaze to Rocket on the operating table.
On the operating table, the little raccoon's entire body was densely covered with tubes and monitoring electrodes. His chest cavity was covered with a specially made transparent medical film, allowing one to clearly see a small device slowly flashing with red light inside.
That device was no thicker than a thumb, but dozens of hair-thin metallic threads extended from its edges, tightly intertwined with Rocket's heart, main blood vessels, and surrounding vital organs.
Because they had fused for too many years, the metallic threads, organs, and main blood vessels had completely grown together; it was simply not something that could be removed by brute force.
After glancing at the general situation, Peter didn't hesitate and directly kicked Stephen Strange, who was looking around like a bumpkin entering the big city:
"Come on, Little strange show everyone a trick~"
Stephen Strange cast a resentful sideways glance at this guy, but then still obediently stepped forward and activated his ability:
"Room~!"
Noting the spherical space opened by Stephen Strange, Star-Lord and the others were stunned at first.
But immediately following that, noticing Stephen Strange yank the Wolf Song from his neck and enlarge it into a greatsword over two meters long, everyone could no longer stay calm.
"Don't think about hurting Rocket!" Drax, who was always clumsy and thick-skinned, let out a loud roar and lunged towards Stephen Strange.
Stephen Strange glanced sideways at him, a flash of blade light in his hand, and Drax was instantly cut in half at the waist. His two halves fell to the ground crawling about wildly, letting out pig-slaughtering screams from his mouth.
Uh, well, not just him; in fact, Star-Lord, Groot, and the others were all scared pale at this moment, screaming in various ways.
In the end, Peter couldn't stand the noise anymore and simply shot a glance at Wanda.
Wanda understood tacitly and stepped up with the "mouth-covering ultimate technique". With that, the World became completely quiet.
Once these people quieted down, Stephen Strange's actions were what you call simple and brutal.
First, he carved out Rocket's heart with a single blade strike, then grabbed the heart in his hand and began dismantling the destructive device on it bit by bit.
Seeing this scene, Star-Lord and the others were so scared their souls nearly flew away, letting out bursts of muffled whimpering sounds from their mouthless throats.
But right as they were letting out bursts of muffled whimpering from their throats, with a click, the self-destruction device was completely stripped away by Stephen Strange.
He pinched the little gadget in his hand and couldn't help looking at Peter to ask,
"Such a small gadget, even if it blows up, its lethality probably won't be much bigger than a firecracker, right?"
"Want to try it?" Peter asked.
"Let's try it then." Stephen Strange casually spoke while putting the heart back into Rocket's chest.
"Alright!" Peter didn't hesitate as he spoke, raising his hand to cast "The World".
The moment time stopped, he carried this small self-destruction device and quickly flashed out of the operating room like Quicksilver, rushing all the way to outer space.
After placing this self-destruction device properly, he returned inside the operating room.
As time resumed, just as everyone was still looking dumbfounded, a loud boom echoed.
Half the sky by the window was dyed red, and even the ground beneath everyone's feet trembled three times accordingly.
Peter pointed at the explosion in the air and shrugged at Stephen Strange:
"See, as you can see, trying leads to dying..."
Stephen Strange's face turned pale, and he no longer dared to question alien technology.
Just at this moment, on the operating table, Rocket—having completed the surgery—opened his eyes with a blank expression, cursing and muttering in his mouth:
"...Are you motherfuckers trying to steal my battery while I was asleep?"
But immediately following that, he noticed the waist-cut Drax, as well as Star-Lord and the others who had no mouths, and then...
Ahhhhhhhh!!
Wanda rolled her eyes and simply made this trash panda's mouth disappear as well.
When they heard Peter introduce on the way here that this was a group of comic reliefs, they hadn't taken it seriously. Now it seemed Peter's summary was truly... hitting the nail on the head!
After this group of people calmed down somewhat, Wanda lifted the Chaos Magic.
The comic reliefs of the Guardians of the Galaxy glanced at her, and just as they wanted to open their mouths, they saw crimson Chaos Magic light up on Wanda's hands again, so they each covered their mouths with their hands once more.
A moment later, several of them exchanged smiles, finally embracing each other and speaking,
"Man, it feels so good to see you wake up again."
This guy Rocket also spoke venomously at this moment:
"Seeing you guys lose your mouths, get split in two by someone, and only be able to crawl on the ground—that feeling is also quite great~!"
Just as everyone here was getting along like a loving family, another deafening loud noise suddenly came from outside the Base.
Immediately following that, the entire Land of Nihility violently shook once more.
Outside the window, a dazzling golden light soared into the sky from outside the spaceship.
Within the light, a tall figure with bulging muscles gradually reflected.
It's just that guy's face—no matter how you look at it... felt somewhat dorky.
This person was naturally Adam Warlock.
He had previously been backstabbed by Gamora at a critical moment, and then hit by Star-Lord's tranquilizer dart.
Ordinarily, he should have been able to sleep a bit longer.
But the aftermath of the explosion from Peter just detonating the destructive device had jolted him awake.
After waking up, Adam Warlock, realizing he had been knocked out by someone, was naturally furious and kept shouting outside,
"Which bastard is launching a sneak attack on me?"
Peter glanced at this guy's wise-looking face and couldn't help commenting in his mouth:
"This guy is so riled up~!"
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