The Collection of The End

——AD.2162.8.26——

Sanctuary One.

On the throne of the bridge temple, Thanos was stroking the purple gem on his glove with an incomprehensible expression.

Gray Feng stood elegantly next to his seat, like a bodyguard.

The superstar stood on the other side, reporting on the battle situation in conjunction with the embodied projection.

"The 'Dead Blade General' was killed and will be resurrected in about thirty days through the 'Tal'darin Crystal' he left here."

"Yeah." Thanos nodded.

"In order to cover the escape of Proxima Centauri, 'Black Dwarf' brazenly self-destructed. It will take about two months before it can be summoned again."

"oh."

"'Proxima Centauri' is returning through subspace and is scheduled to return in three days."

"You seem happy?"

"No, Lord Thanos, I am annoyed by their reckless actions."

"Let's just treat it like that. Where's Ebony Maw?"

"He seemed to be afraid of being punished by adults, so he took the initiative to release the water, and was beaten away to an unknown place."

"If someone beats you away, it doesn't count as escaping. It seems reasonable."

"Although this operation did not carry ordinary crew members, our warship was captured by the Star Alliance, and it is likely that they reverse-hacked our technology."

"No, the main universe lacks some kind of 'metal' from the dark universe, so they can't do it."

"Well..." Superstar stopped projecting and reporting, and walked up to Thanos: "Sir, when are we going to take revenge?"

"You want to overpower her by accomplishing what Proxima Centauri failed to accomplish?" Thanos looked up at her.

"...That's it," the superstar hesitated: "They had many opportunities to win, but they all missed it because of their arrogance and underestimation of the enemy. If it were me, I would not give those humans any chance."

"Do you still remember the purpose of their trip? Is it to defeat those humans?" Thanos shook his head.

"It was to seize the [Time Stone]...but their failure undermines your majesty!" Superstar argued.

"You have been following me from the beginning. Haven't there been times when my majesty has been wiped out?" Thanos raised his hand and nodded his forehead: "If I insist on maintaining my majesty in everything, do you think the Dark Order will Is it the current scale and strength?”

"But--"

"Of course we will retaliate, but this 'we' does not include you," Thanos raised his hand to stop the superstar from interrupting: "I will intercept the 'Supreme Mage', and you have to go to the center of the galaxy. You The capabilities in 'virtual maintenance' will be at home."

"Do you want the 'Reaper' to return to your command?" The superstar became excited instantly.

"I don't have much hope for this. Those machine heads have evolved into this ridiculous appearance by themselves when we were fighting in the 'Dark Universe'. It's hard to believe that their underlying logic is still the same as before," Thanos shook his head. : "After arriving at the Galactic Center, you can choose your own camp. The expeditionary force has not had contact with us and will not be too wary of you."

"Then what exactly do I want to do?" The superstar calmed down.

"Don't use your abilities, but use a subtle way to make them believe -" Thanos paused: "[There is no possibility for organic civilization and synthetic civilization to coexist]."

"Huh? But the androids currently used by humans...ah, I understand."

——

"What does that sentence mean?" Gray Feng asked after the superstar left.

"The battle between organic civilization and the Reapers will end with the victory of organic civilization for the first time in this 'harvest cycle'," Thanos said: "Organic civilization will have three options to completely destroy the existing reapers. , completely control the existing Reapers, or assimilate with the Reapers and become a new cyborg race, which one do you think is better?"

"This..." Gray Feng thought for a moment: "If it is destroyed, the future may still be born. If it is controlled, it is equivalent to becoming a new reaper.

It seems that assimilation and integration are better? "

"In that case, this new race will be able to easily understand each other, and there will be no conflicts between each other. Everyone will work hard to make the race as a whole better, so..." Thanos looked at it. Gray Feng, who still didn't seem to understand the situation, continued: "There will no longer be any souls born in the Kingdom of Shadows that can become 'heroes' and 'salary kings'. The whole world will sink into the deep sea, and the abyss of despair will be the same." It is the final destination of all the happy lives in the 'Exhibition World'."

"That won't work!" Gray Feng responded subconsciously.

"Look, that's it. Any 'optimal solution' will become an 'inferior solution' or even a 'worst solution' after adding additional conditions. But in the eyes of anyone who cannot know the existence of the additional conditions, there is no choice. In their eyes, the behavior of the 'optimal solution' is unreasonable, and they may even think that the 'additional conditions' are impossible. If they follow their will and wait for the 'additional conditions' to hit them in the face, They will complain again about why people who already knew about the 'additional conditions' didn't do something earlier, haha." Thanos sneered.

"So, you should ignore any demands of those short-sighted people and do what you think is right. Even if there may be higher-level 'additional conditions' that you don't know about, the same must be true." Gray Wind continued.

"When the time comes, they will blame you for the losses you caused during your actions, even though they know you avoided greater losses." Thanos stood up from the throne, took two steps forward, and extended his hand with the gold The big hand of the glove: "I am going to collect the six [Infinity Stones] and use their power to wipe out half of the population of this universe to save the world. What do you think?"

"The Kingdom of Shadows is full." Gray Wind replied smoothly.

"..." Thanos turned to look at her helplessly.

"Uh..." Gray Feng rubbed his nose: "Is it to solve the shortage of resources? That seems a bit excessive, and only half of it is not useful at all. At least 90% must be killed."

Tsk——boom——

Under Thanos' palm, a bonfire suddenly ignited out of thin air, and the flames of the bonfire entangled and shaped each other, making a burning spiral sword appear on it.

"Don't worry, it won't be that weird reason. If there are no higher-level 'additional conditions', my behavior will be the most legitimate." Thanos held the hilt of the spiral sword and looked at the void in front of him. He kept wandering around, seeming to be looking at some kind of reference book with many entries.

"I think campfire teleportation can only be used after having been to a certain place?" Gray Wind asked doubtfully.

"When I was running around, no one suspected that I was driving a teleportation point." Thanos responded casually.

Following the words, the bonfire suddenly became brighter. Thanos and Gray Wind disappeared from Sanctuary No. 1 at this moment, and appeared in the next moment wearing a blue robe, a red cape over his shoulders, and disheveled hair. , in front of a man with a slender face.

"This is our first meeting, 'Supreme Mage', please hand over the [Time Stone]."