The Death Knell

Galactus looked at the humans around him with some surprise, looking squarely at such a small creature for the first time.

"You seem to know a lot of things?"

His rough voice echoed in the empty bridge, and the dark cabin showed how much space there was in the darkness.

This human being not only knows that he needs life energy, soul energy, and cosmic energy, but he even knows about eternal existence. This is not like the people on such a stupid planet.

I always feel like I have some impression of the earth. Have you been there before?

...I can’t remember, I’m so hungry.

Su Ming patted Yan Xing's thigh, and the high-tech armor made a dull sound: "Wu Lang, the person who knows you best is me. I know everything you want, because I am... Yin's mother !”

Several black lines seemed to fall on Yan Xing's head. Isn't this the same as not saying anything?

But forget it, you're just a human being anyway, a little secret doesn't hurt.

"Where is the food you mentioned?"

Galactus pressed a few buttons on his purple throne, called up the star map and prepared to change the route. He was tempted by the fast food that would be available in 'five minutes', and seemed to have completely forgotten that there was a fallen person outside. thing.

Dead Fish Eye's voice became a little weird: "Goro, our target is in Andromeda. The human naming method may not be universal enough, but there is a pair of 'eclipsing stars' in this galaxy, and the food is there."

This has changed from 'you and me' to us. Unknowingly, he seems to be standing in the position of Galactus and thinking about eating the world.

An eclipsing binary star, also known as an eclipsing binary star, a luminosity binary star, an eclipsing variable star, etc., refers to two stars that move around a common center of mass under the influence of mutual gravity, orbiting each other and occluding each other.

From the perspective of the planets in this planetary system, the two suns will constantly replace each other, causing regular and periodic changes in brightness.

The light change period of a binary star is their rotation period. The shortest light change period is only a few hours, such as UX Ursa Major, which has a light change period of 4 hours and 43 minutes; the longest light change period, such as V644 Centauri, is as long as 65 Earth year.

The Skrull Empire's home star, Skrullos, is located in the Andromeda S planet system with an eclipsing star system. The period in which these two stars alternate is a Skrull year, which is a few days longer than an Earth year.

Galactus activated the battleship scanner and almost instantly completed the exploration of the entire Andromeda constellation. The floating projection jumped out, showing a planet.

It was a highly mechanized planet, as if it had undergone planetary urbanization. Everything that caught the eye was covered with metal, shining brightly under the light of two stars.

Yes, this is the home planet of the Skrulls. Their technological level is very high, and they even created a Cosmic Cube 'World Shaper' to transform their homeland, forcing their old enemies the Kree to create supreme intelligence to compete.

The World Shaper took the form of a ghostly blue glowing Skrull, and its first trial operation destroyed two-thirds of the colony of the Skrull Empire.

In fact, it's not to blame. The Skrulls created the Cosmic Cube in order to transform the planets of their empire, making them more livable, capable of supporting a larger population and providing more resources.

But the Skrulls, including the plastic surgeons themselves, have not yet understood that other needs are easy to say, except for things like life and soul, which cannot be created out of nothing with their level of power.

Therefore, this great transformation plan is equivalent to destroying 75% of the colonial stars in the Skrull territory and transferring all the resources above to the remaining 25% of the colonial stars. There is nothing we can do about the population. If it dies, it will die.

At this time, Skrull almost didn't return to primitive society, because even the lucky ones living on 25% of the planets still face the problem of "resources dropped from the sky".

Trillions of tons of various metals and an ocean thousands of times the size of the original planet were suddenly 'transformed' onto the surviving planet.

Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, mutated creatures, etc. followed one after another. The Skrulls had been trying to survive the doomsday for hundreds of years, and their population dropped by 90%. Even if the size of the planet increases, the sudden increase in gravity is not something ordinary people can bear, let alone the dangers lurking in the apocalypse.

The Skrull Empire was almost killed by its own creation. They wanted to destroy the World Shaper. Of course they had to escape. They don't know where they are hidden in the universe yet.

The plan was made by the Skrulls, and the Shaper just carried out their orders, but it was blamed for the trouble. The Skrulls went too far, so it ran away.

Fortunately among the misfortunes, the Kree also produced supreme wisdom during those tragic years.

The Supreme Intelligence secretly carried out power seizure and purge plans within the Kree Empire. It was busy with internal fighting and could not spare any effort to deal with Skrull. It was also a turbulent era for the Kree.

However, good times came after the Skrulls survived those years. The rich resources allowed them to complete the transformation of planets one after another. The relatively small but extremely rich colonial stars also allowed them to not need too many troops to defend, and they could free up more Many people were sent to deal with the Kree.

What Su Ming and Yanxing are looking at now is the modified Skross, a half-natural, half-artificial giant celestial body, one of the wonders of the universe.

The planet in the projection is slowly rotating, and various spaceships are coming and going in the busy airport. Even on the dark side, the planet is still brightly lit.

The probe hacked into the Skrull network, read their civilization and knowledge, played some short clips of the Skrulls' lives, and then listed the total amount of energy that the planet could convert and other data in front of Galactus.

With just one glance, Yanxing knew that Yinta's mother was right. The useful energy of this planet was almost ten times that of the earth.

If he could eat the earth and not be hungry for three years, eating this planet would last him thirty years.

"But there is a very prosperous civilization on this planet."

Galactus was not very happy. He hesitated a little. He was more inclined to eat less 'civilized' intelligent beings rather than the capital of such a cosmic empire.

The main engine of the ship projected countless screens, and the bridge, which was dark just now, suddenly became brighter. Screens of various sizes filled the sky like stars, showing the daily life of the Skrulls, their families, and their lives. Society, how they get along with their fellow citizens, everything seems very warm.

The little Skrull's eyes have not yet opened. He holds his mother's hand while sleeping and murmurs childish words. There is a warm smile on his mother's face, teaching him to defeat the Kree Smurfs when he grows up.

The workers were busy on the mechanical assembly line, watching the war machines coming down from above and onto the battlefield of expanding territory. They were pleased with the fruits of their labor.

The old Skrull sat in the beautiful garden and told the young people how he massacred the Kree, with honor and pride on his face.

All kinds of emotions and existences made swallowing star a little hesitant.

He wanted to ask Yin's opinion. Being able to find such nutritious ingredients meant that this human being was already his approved messenger.

The human with dead fish eyes took out a book from somewhere, drooled over it, turned a few pages, and started reading without warning.

"Planet lion head is made of 60% metal and 40% ocean. It is chopped into star mud with onions, ginger, eggs and other ingredients to make meatballs the size of cosmic eggs. It can be steamed or braised, fat but not greasy. Then Add shrimps and crab powder, cook with a planet extractor, put sprouts or bamboo shoots at the bottom of the pot, sprinkle a little salt, and cook over a slow fire. It will be fat but not greasy, melt in the mouth, and have a soft yet firm texture. The soup The juice is wrapped in the filling, and the aroma is overflowing in one bite..."

"Gu!" A sound of swallowing came from the side. Tunxing gasped and suppressed the madness in his heart: "Stop talking, that's it."

Su Ming put away the blank 'Wordless Book' and silently watched Galactus quickly change the ship's course and move towards Skros.

He put away the strangulation, and the backhand he arranged was no longer needed.

Yes, the 'booger balls' that were popped out before are actually some of the miniature tentacles of the strangler, connected to the main body through invisible filaments. If the Swallowing Star can't be fooled, Su Ming will secretly destroy the ship through strangulation.

At that time, it will be a choice between having food in five minutes or having food in a few months.

But it's a good thing not to use the backhand. In three minutes at most, the crisis on the earth will be temporarily lifted.

"Wu Lang, let me tell you a joke before eating. When you are in a good mood, eating will taste delicious." In order to distract Tun Xing and prevent any trouble in these three minutes, Su Ming planned to tell him Joke: "This is a joke in Chinese. It's funny."

"Is it a joke? Is it a way for humans to mobilize other people's emotions through language? Tell me." In order to distract himself and avoid being swallowed by hunger, Swallowing Star consciously stepped into the pit.

Su Ming sat next to Swallowing Star, patting his armor like an old acquaintance: "It is said that in a forest, a poisonous snake met an anaconda, and the two snakes planned to chat... "

"Is the snake another intelligent creature on the earth?" Swallowing Star suddenly interjected and asked.

"This is an anthropomorphic rhetorical device. Don't pay attention to those details. Just think they can talk." Su Ming rolled his eyes. There are indeed talking snake people underground on the earth, but now we can't let Galactus know that the earth is actually It's a 'layer cake', he continued: "The poisonous snake said: 'I am poisonous, just bite the prey and wait for it to die before you can eat it'."

"Yeah." Swallowing Star didn't think anything was wrong. There were poisonous creatures all over the universe.

The counterfeit Yin's mother continued: "At this time, the anaconda smiled disdainfully and said, 'You are too troublesome. I only need to entangle the prey, hang it, and eat it immediately.'" Wulang, guess what the poisonous snake will do next. What did you say when you came down?"

Tunxing sat on the throne and held his stomach. If he had to choose, it would be better to eat immediately. He felt the same hunger.

"So Viper gave up?"

He feels that his means are inferior to others, and it is normal for him to admit that the other party is powerful.

Su Ming sighed. The test results of Galactus showed that he didn't have much emotional intelligence. If his little cousin came, he would definitely understand what his cousin was talking about.

If everything in this world was so realistic and normal, how could there be any jokes?

He sighed in his heart, but he still said the last burden with a smile on his face: "The poisonous snake said to the anaconda: 'If you wrap yourself around it, you are despicable!'..."