"My flame can burn you to ashes."
"But my sword can prevent you from being burned to ashes."
Fang Mo merely spoke these two sentences, and the surrounding Kree soldiers couldn't help but start trembling.
They looked at Fang Mo in horror, feeling an indescribable malice emanating from him, as if he had shed a layer of human skin, revealing a terrifying entity beneath.
Even their leader, Ronan, probably wasn't as frightening as Fang Mo by a ten-thousandth.
But that was not all.
Soon after, Fang Mo cheerfully drew another sword.
"This sword of mine can accelerate the flow of time around you," Fang Mo explained. "But I don't think it's fast enough, so I'm going to do something big for you..."
As he spoke, Fang Mo opened a blue portal with a thought.
On the other side of the portal was a world of inverted cognition, where skyscrapers hung upside down in the sky, and a few people were leaping between buildings, fighting with a bald woman in a yellow robe.
Clearly, this was the Mirror Dimension, as Doctor Strange's timeline was nearing, and the Ancient One was fighting Dormammu's followers. But Fang Mo was not in the mood to chat with them, so he pointed at the Mirror Dimension and said, "Reverse Super SHINRA TENSEI."
A gigantic spherical force field quickly formed and shrank rapidly inward.
The Ancient One immediately reacted, hastily opening a portal and jumping next to Fang Mo. The remaining Dormammu's followers, however, were not so quick. Before they could react, buildings, air, and debris were all squeezed together, and they died without even having time to scream.
"Have you returned from the outside world?"
The Ancient One dusted off her clothes and looked around the environment. "So, where is this? Why did you suddenly look for me?"
"Lend me the Time Stone for a moment."
Fang Mo said.
"What are you going to do with it?" The Ancient One was startled. "Have you collected all the other Infinity Stones?"
"I'm in the process of collecting them."
Fang Mo shook his head. "Just lend it to me for now, I'll return it to you after Strange has his car accident."
"You..."
The Ancient One was about to say something more but then noticed the humanoid flame at Fang Mo's feet. "Wait, what's the deal with this guy?"
"He insulted my mother."
Fang Mo said indifferently.
"..."
The Ancient One fell silent for a moment, then tentatively asked, "Is Earth... alright?"
"This guy is an alien."
Fang Mo said.
Hearing this, the Ancient One didn't say much more. She even seemed somewhat relieved, quickly forming a spell. The Eye of Agamotto slowly opened, and then she handed the Time Stone to Fang Mo. "Do you need me to teach you how to use it?"
"I shouldn't need it."
Fang Mo weighed the gem in his hand, "It's probably similar to the Space Stone."
"I'll head back first then."
The Ancient One said, "Kaecilius has been trying to dismantle my sanctuary lately. I need to keep an eye on it..."
"Okay."
Fang Mo nodded, and then the Ancient One opened a portal and left, the entire process lasting no more than a minute.
"Hehehe, now we're going to have some fun..." Fang Mo fiddled with the Time Stone in his hand, revealing a spine-chilling smile: "Don't worry, we have all the time now."
In summary,
Under the power of the four Infinity Stones.
Fang Mo finally gained torture capabilities rivaling those of a grand marshal.
With the Time Stone and the Sword of Time, ten minutes of burning caused the dark-skinned being to suffer thirty years of pain on the ground. The combined efforts of three Agni still owed him six years.
Burning, just keep burning.
Mental breakdowns were useless, the Mind Stone could bring him back in minutes.
After ten minutes, even the subordinates of Ronan around him were terrified by Fang Mo's methods. Since he possessed the Mind Stone, he unconsciously amplified the emotions of those around him. At this moment, these soldiers were trembling and willing to offer everything to Fang Mo, just to avoid such torture.
Not only that, they also explained why their officer was so foolish.
Their officer, named Korath the Pursuer, was originally a brave Kree, but suffered a head injury after joining Ronan years ago. Ronan then replaced part of his brain with a bionic one.
This bionic brain could assist in computations but also caused him to lose some emotions. In his gratitude to Ronan, he hard coded 'absolute loyalty to Lord Ronan' into the core algorithm of the bionic brain, resulting in his blind loyalty to Ronan.
Though fearless and brave, his intelligence was somewhat lacking.
However, this metal brain was technically an external object and vaporized once Fang Mo burned it. After regenerating, he regained emotions like fear and began crying and begging, completely losing his previous toughness and pleading in various ways.
After burning him for over ten minutes, Fang Mo had almost had his fill of fun, so he simply started inquiring about the Orb.
After questioning.
Fang Mo discovered that these people indeed did not have the Orb.
To ensure the reliability of the information, Fang Mo even used the Mind Stone as a lie detector and asked again, but it turned out they really didn't have it. When they arrived, the Orb had already disappeared.
"I really got screwed over..."
Fang Mo rubbed his temples with a headache: "Star-Lord didn't have it, Ronan didn't have it, surely the Power Stone didn't just grow legs and run away, right?"
"That, sir."
Just as Fang Mo was feeling a headache, the Kree soldiers suddenly spoke up: "Actually, we already had some clues, we just weren't certain yet."
"Oh?"
Fang Mo looked at the Kree soldiers with some surprise: "Go on."
"Actually... we received information before that besides us, others also wanted the Orb." The Kree soldier hesitated: "The other party seems to be Taneleer Tivan from the Void, offering ten billion to collect the Orb, and has already cooperated with the Ravagers."
"That's right, sir."
Another Kree soldier spoke up: "Actually, before we came here, we encountered a fleet of Ravagers nearby. The fleet was so massive that even we didn't dare to provoke it..."
"The Ravagers?"
Fang Mo frowned, so Yondu had been here too.
And the Ravagers were hired by the Collector, which means this damned Tivan was still after the Infinity Stones, and doing so behind his back.
"This greedy old dog... he truly deserved his death in Infinity War 3."
Thinking about this.
Fang Mo was so annoyed that his teeth itched.
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