Indeed, knowledge is power.
While Iron Man and Batman were bestowing wisdom on Shiller, they were also giving the Grey Mist, a unique life form, a portion of human's logical thinking, and giving it the top-notch scientific thinking ability.
Actually, Shiller didn't care much about his scientific thinking ability. To put it bluntly, he was not on the path of a scientist. What would he need such strong scientific talents for?
Therefore, before this, the Grey Mist had no interest in exploring physical laws because Shiller was not very interested in them either. Shiller was more inclined towards a philosophical personality.
The most important part of the thinking that Iron Man and Batman gave to the Grey Mist was not their computing ability, but the curiosity of these two genius, especially their dedication to pursuing the precision of the truth.
Because Shiller himself was not interested in this field, apart from occasionally joining Grey Mist to read upon his invitation, he didn't notice any changes in the Grey Mist. Every day in the Tower, the Grey Mist lived its regular life; it slept, ate and slouched around just like before.
But this was only because material conditions were too abundant. Arrogance and Greed had pretty much taken care of everything, so the Grey Mist could choose to be a lazy dog.
But now, Greed had shut down the canteen, there was no more infinite self-service food, plus it had to face the disapproving looks of Morbid. It couldn't laze around in this high tower any longer.
With the pressure setting in, the Grey Mist had no aches and pains, it even started to roll up the woolen ball, performed the black hand trick behind the scenes, and most importantly, the bulb in its mind lit up instantly.
Because it had been slacking off and not using its brain, the Grey Mist didn't really understand why Professor X suddenly appeared in the high tower, why Greed suddenly stopped working and became Sloth, and even less why Sloth stopped working and became moonlight...
In short, the Grey Mist's feeling was basically like picking up an eraser during class and when it looked up, the teacher had already moved on to the next century.
But its smart little mind allowed it to catch a detail: when Greed finished its shift, it said to him, "Shiller needs to exercise more."
So, when it was tired from scraping with Sloth against the Insect Race, the Grey Mist didn't feel anything was amiss. Isn't exercise supposed to be tiring? It had this common sense.
But the subsequent shift replacement made Grey Mist confused. Greed said they needed to exercise more, but it and Sloth had been working so hard without slacking off, yet it wasn't enough. The Grey Mist couldn't help but think it might have misunderstood.
At this time, its combination of the two super-genius' scientific thinking came into play. Its relative motion to the universe is considered exercise, as well as its relative motion to itself. Physical movement is exercise, as well as particle movement. So why wouldn't it choose the latter?
Just by chance, the Grey Mist was not a pure symbiont. Its existence differed greatly from ordinary symbionts. The biggest difference was that its Grey Mist factor was more independent. If other symbionts were compared to an entire fish, it would be comparable to grains of sand on the ground.
And for this reason, every single grain of sand could be controlled by it independently. The symbionts could also perform actions that others couldn't, like directing the factors to collide with each other.
Exactly, what the Grey Mist had done previously was to imitate the formation process of a Black Hole, so that's why Stark saw some familiar particle movement traces.
However, the Grey Mist was different from physical entities in the universe. It is a type of matter that lies between substance and energy. After the series of movements such as compression, fusion reaction, cosmic supernova explosion and black hole collapse, what it produced was far more powerful than a black hole. Apart from devouring physical entities, it also devoured abstract concepts.
Someone may ask, is the universe itself so fragile? A good analogy can be found in the gaming industry that everyone is familiar with -
After a game was developed, a tester walked into a shop in the game, ordered a coffee while doing a front flip, and the programming was fine. He then ordered a coffee while free-falling from 20,000 meters in the sky, and the programming was still fine. He ordered a coffee while performing a 360-degree rotating Thomas flipping trick, and the program was still functioning well.
The game was released after passing tests, but when a player walked in and ordered a plate of fried rice, the game crashed.
When the universe was constructed, the physics explosion prevention program was fine, the energy level explosion prevention program was fine, there were no bugs in terms of science and rules, no bugs in the direction of magic and mysticism, there were people looking after physical existence, and non-physical existence as well.
But the Grey Mist, an organism that both appeared and actually was a mystical entity, read "The Art of War" instead of a menu.
With its mysterious way of existence, the Grey Mist resolutely took a very scientific path of astrophysics. It perfectly bypassed the universe's bottom-layer security protocol and avoided the jurisdiction of all antivirus software, successfully punching a hole in the program.
If there was only one hole, maybe it wouldn't be a big deal. But it happened that a perfect collaboration between Reed and Doom had already punched a hole in the program. Now, there were two big holes in a single program, leaving the Gods of Universe Rules dumbfounded.
The first to notice something was wrong was Death. She rushed in and stood in the universe space, staring in disbelief at the black sun that was still devouring the insect race.
In the field of view invisible to other lives, this black hole that was still slowly moving had already caused uncontrollable space-time collapse around it. The structure of the universe was being stirred into chaos.
Then it was Infinity, who had taken over the responsibilities of Eternal Manager. At this time, he was busy filling in a big hole, which was the super antimatter universe teleportation gate channel created by Reed and Doom.
What's more despairing than a programmer working overtime to fix a bug only to find a more terrifying, irreparable bug on a program left by his predecessor?
Oblivion was happy at first, because he is in charge of all the nothingness in the universe, but soon he couldn't laugh because the premise of him being able to manage nothingness was the existence of the universe. Without the universe, everyone's doomed.
At this moment, two serious structural flaws had begun to make the entire universe teeter on the edge of collapse. And all lives within the universe without administrative rights couldn't feel the entropy that had exploded in an instant, and were still fighting in confusion.
This does not include the other Shillers within the Tower of Thought, especially Greed. So why didn't he intervene earlier? It's because he currently residing in a special space.
At this moment, he is not in his own body, but in the body of the Skrull Shiller in this universe, an extremely risky move. For this body does not have the omnipotent gray mist, and although the Realm of Death would not accept him, once his death and access from a different location are discovered, this alternate persona could easily get banned.
So what is Greed sneaking about now?
He is in the cage constructed by Stark and Thor for Galactus, and through the effects of the Mad Liquor, he has awakened the Planet Devourer.
There was no need for him to explain, as Galactus, one of the pillars of the universe, could naturally sense the state of the universe. He is hungry but afraid of death.
"Your Majesty, if I may speak freely, there is probably only one way out right now." Shiller looked into the eyes of Galactus, saying earnestly, "All life forms within the universe cannot save themselves, including you. We can only rely on the gods even greater than us, and plead to the barrier of the enormous world ..."
Galactus was numbed. With Eternity and Adam now absent, the universe barely survives under the combined efforts of Infinity, Death, and Oblivion. Who else could play a role then? Isn't he the only one left?
In fact, Galactus knew without Shiller needing to persuade him. Without going back to the enormous world, the universe might not be saved. Therefore, he could only sigh and say: "I can act as the engine for the movement of the universe, but I can only be responsible for acceleration ..."
"That's enough, your majesty. I will ensure a smooth landing for the universe."
Galactus breathed a deep sigh and said nothing more. Gathering all the energy he had just consumed, he submerged his thoughts. Once he received the approval of other gods, the universe Shiller dwelled in began to head straight for the wall of the enormous world at high speed.
The wall of the enormous world is not actually a wall, but more like a solid shield. Behind the shield, there naturally lies a detection device that can monitor all external attacks. Therefore, as the universe is flying towards the enormous world, a dazzling light starts flickering outside of its landing point.
"This is the Court of Adam Life, the universe ahead please decelerate immediately, or you will crash into the barrier of the enormous world, causing harm to all universes in the enormous world. Please immediately... "
"Boom!!!!!!!"
"Ahh!!!"
The Court of Adam Life did not expect anyone to dare to crash into him. He didn't even avoid. He was hit directly in the chest by the universe and then "smack" fell onto the barrier of the enormous world.
Adam from the Court of Life was also an Adam, and this crash left him dizzy for several seconds. Then he saw a figure flying towards him with a punch the size of a sandbag smashing into his face.
"Are you Adam? From the Court of Life, right? Screwed up my plan and messed up New York, right?!!"
After several punches, Shiller, who was holding onto Adam's collar, pulled back his hand with a sigh of relief, and remarked: "The momentum has been met, mission accomplished."
Then he looked up at the wall of the enormous world and shouted: "OAA! The universe is going to be destroyed! Save us!!!"
"..."
The barrier of the enormous world appeared to be quiet, as if there is no response, but that was actually a deep silence.
At this time, Adam from the Court of Life had just gotten up from the barrier. He shook his dizzy head, and the moment he saw Shiller, he sprang back into the barrier of the enormous world as if he had seen some unspeakable horror.
Meanwhile, Shiller was still knocking outside.
"OAA, open the door! I know you're inside. I accidentally punctured the universe. Can you help me fill it up, OAA? Or you could open the door and let me in!"
At this moment, all the leaders of the Nine Major Kingdoms, and the gods who were still in the universe, stood in a row inside the barrier of the universe, watching Shiller's silhouette calling outside. Stark cocked his head and said,
"Although I have no clue who he's calling for, I reckon he may not agree..."
Before the sound of his voice fell, a dense light emerged on the barrier of the enormous world, and this small universe re-entered the enormous world through the portal of light.
In the blink of an eye, all the turmoil inside the universe ceased. This was not a reboot, but all the chaos being paused, and then the results were calculated at a speed invisible to our naked eyes and anchored to become a reality, mending the structure of the universe in the process.
When they all witnessed the miracle-like arrival, the same thought emerged in the minds of Shiller and his friends—
"Shiller, the person you are pursuing, is still alive …"
Instantly, Shiller froze. Then from the shocked expression on his face, there emerged some unspeakable fear and restraint that had been frozen in old pictures.