American comics: You're asked to fish, but you catch a Superman template?

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Just as Xu Fu brought up this matter, Gabriel's expression stiffened, and he said, "Have the Void Worms found Earth's coordinates?"

Xu Fu opened his mouth, a pained expression on his face, but in the end he only whispered "Mmm".

Gabriel frowned and thought for a long time before saying, "In the most glorious era of Heaven, the Seraphim once led an army of angels to confront the Void Worms in a region deep within the universe. These worms were driven out and sealed away in the dark void!"

Gabriel's voice was so calm, as if it contained no emotion whatsoever.

But it was precisely these words, as simple as daylight, that caused a new shock in Xu Fu's heart, because the information they contained was so terrifying.

In the most glorious era of Heaven, Salaf, one of the seven archangels under God, established a fully armed angel base that could not defeat these insects in the void for seven hundred years.

What the hell does that even mean?

It's worth noting that just recently, at a meeting in the Dark City, Gabriel arrived with his fallen angel legion. He terrified three cosmic empires, plus almost 90% of the cosmic powers, forcing them to compromise with Xu Fu and take a desperate gamble, occasionally providing resources to Earth, Asgard, and the fallen angels.

The Shi'ar Empire, one of the three major space empires, was built by Salaf over a thousand years and only has a portion of the Angelic bases.

If the Void Beetle is Dias like this, how will Earth deal with it?

Sensing Xu Fu's frustration, Gabriel said, "The Void Beetles aren't as strong as you think. The Beetle Queen is already the highest combat sequence that the Void Beetles can develop. It can only be considered a pseudo-existence at the Celestial Venerable level, and it can't reproduce in large numbers!"

"The truly formidable aspect of Void Worms is that these creatures live in the void, and no one knows how many individual Void Worms exist, or how many hind legs they have left behind!"

"Even God can only sever the coordinates of these insects, sealing them away in the infinite void." Sealing them away in the void, yet unable to completely eradicate them!

After hearing Gabriel's less-than-comfortable assurance, Xu Fu was unsure of his own feelings.

The good news is that the hollow worms are not as powerful as Xu Fu imagined and cannot be compared with the angel legion. But the painful thing is that even God cannot get rid of the hollow worms, so what can earthlings do about them?

Xu Fu thought for a moment before speaking: "I've heard that planet devourers are a mutated species of these Void Worms, and these Void Worms even appeared in the cosmic dome of the Seventh Era!"

This message was reported by Silverhawk, but Silverhawk only overheard a few scattered words from the planetary cannibals and was not certain.

Gabriel nodded and said, "You're right! After God banished the Void Worms, people hypothesized that the Void Worms themselves were a legitimate race, born from the laws of the universe, their purpose being to devour and purify the excess in the cosmos!"

"However, the universe itself is constantly evolving. With each era of the cosmos, the rules of the universe become more refined. Planet devourers are life forms chosen by the will of the universe. In this cosmic era, they clean up the excess fragments in the universe. They are more intelligent, more orderly, and more perfect than the original Void Worms!"

Upon hearing Gabriel's words, Xu Fu also touched it, realizing the connection between the Void Worm and the Planetary Cannibal.

Both are insects, and are themselves scavengers of cosmic waste. They originate from the laws of the universe and are what ensure the balance of the universe, because the universe cannot grow and produce matter forever, otherwise one day even the universe will not be able to support this huge material load.

This is why there are creatures like the Void Worms, who only know how to devour, thus easing the burden on the universe's development.

These Void Worms are simply primitive, lacking any intelligence. They merely follow their instincts, devouring whatever they can. They are too old and have become obsolete.

Planetary cannibals are a new generation of intelligent, manipulatory scavengers, chosen by the will of the universe for this era. They do not devour everything unconsciously, but rather select and devour lifeless, abandoned planets, leaving behind living, more evolved planets.

However, the emergence of a new generation of cleaner fish does not mean that the older generation of cleaner fish has been completely wiped out.

Even during the destruction and rebirth of the universe, some insects survived the changes in the cosmos. These insects developed the ability to hide in the void during the cosmic cycle, becoming more vital and aggressive void insects.

Essentially, Void Worms are a group of unlicensed space scavengers.

Chapter 525 Projects Given by God

A group of former space scavengers, without licenses or permits, plundered and devoured everything without principle. Over a long period of time, they became a mob, abandoned and hated by all living beings.

Unfortunately, even the ancient gods, and even the infinitely aggressive abyss, could not completely annihilate this race of Void Worms.

In the infinite void, no one knows how many traitors lurk within a Zerg, how many nests there are, how many hidden eggs there are, or how many spaces they are scattered throughout.

Xu Fu believed that the enormous star-shaped hive Tony discovered was the headquarters of the Voidlings, but it wasn't. It was merely one of the Voidlings' most powerful hive bases.

As far as Gabriel knows, at the border between the Hell Universe and the Abyss Universe, on one side of the battlefield of the Abyss, there is a huge Zerg hive, but in the years of war between the fallen angels and the invaders of the Infinite Abyss, the Zerg dare not flaunt their greedy, devouring nature.

After every battle between the 11th Legion of Fallen Angels and the Infinite Abyss, Void Worms would scatter and sweep across the battlefield like a tide.

Otherwise, when the fallen angels are on the battlefield in the abyss, the battlefield will be littered with corpses, and neither the fallen angels nor the abyss legions have the habit of cleaning up the battlefield.

The beings and forces are powerful enough to know of the existence of these insects, but no one has the courage to truly wipe out these individual void insects, because everyone knows it is impossible to kill them all.

The Void Worm race has existed through several eras in the cosmos, and even in other major worlds, unknown to the real universe and the Abyss universe.

Even if they are wiped out, as long as they are not completely eradicated, given the Void Worms' reproductive capacity, they will eventually return.

It's like killing all the flies and mosquitoes on Earth, no matter how disgusting they are.

Xu Fu obtained a lot of information from Gabriel, but it was not entirely what Xu Fu had imagined; the situation that humanity would face on Earth might be even worse.

When Xu Fu returned to the Avengers' base, the truce with the insectoid race had lasted less than four days.

The physical protective perimeter of the ruined factory was meticulously constructed, and a large number of mages from advanced holy sites even set up a massive mirror world buffer zone at the edge of the battlefield.

This mirror world may not be able to completely prevent insect attacks, but if the protective barrier is breached, having such a buffer zone would allow the US government to react in time and relocate the entire population of New York.

Time passed day by day.

The coalition government and military became aggressive, amassing an unspecified number of troops, resources, and new weapons, and converging on the outskirts of the ruins-controlled zone.

Meanwhile, the Avengers and SIT were completely absorbed in their divine plans.

Unfortunately, with today's technological capabilities, it is difficult to find a large number of fragmented worlds in an infinite dimension. Even if we sometimes determine the coordinates of some fragmented worlds and spend a lot of effort searching for them, we will find that their circumference is only a few kilometers, and the largest is less than 30 square kilometers.

Not to mention the large-scale migration of people to the fractured world, the subsequent cultivation of believers, and the guarantee of the emergence of God, these miniature fractured worlds cannot even achieve the most basic ecological balance.

Through dozens of experiments, Tony, Nick Fury, and others discovered that only fragmented worlds spanning more than one hundred kilometers could be inlaid with celestial energy transfer maps to achieve the most basic ecological balance for the God-making project.

However, in four days, the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. spent countless resources and only found two scattered worlds about 100 kilometers apart in the infinite space.

Such a fragment of a world can never compare to the fragments of Mindy, Peter, and Harry's world. It can accommodate a group of a few hundred people, but any more than that would easily lead to the collapse of the ecosystem, unless the master of the world is able to continuously invest resources within it.

Otherwise, a world that is at most about 100 kilometers wide could create a "demigod," that is, a being who came to the world halfway through life.

It is stronger than the second stage of life evolution beings, but not as strong as the true third stage.

Undoubtedly, this result is far below the expectations of the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D., but having Godfather-level beings like Xu Fu and Carol search through endless dimensions every day to find fragmented worlds would come at an even greater cost.

Seeing the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. members looking somewhat frustrated and discouraged, Xu Fu sensed that their thinking was rather skeptical, so he said, "You don't want everyone on Earth to become a near-apocalypse, do you, or even God the Father?"

"Don't be silly. Even the God of Infinity from hundreds of years ago, one of his most elite angel legions was only at the third rank. It was this legion that held off the entire Abyss Battlefield for countless years!"

If we want to establish a universal "Godfather" hierarchy, these sons of bitches probably won't dare to utter a sound.

Upon hearing Xu Fu's words, Tony, Nick Fury, and the others snapped out of their nonsensical conversation, their faces slightly flushed—though it was hard to tell given Nick Fury's complexion.

After a pause, Nick Fury spoke up: "Joe, what do you mean?"

Xu Fu shrugged and said, "I don't have any problem. I just think you all think too highly of yourselves! Mindy is my goddaughter, Peter is my nephew, Harry's father has helped me a lot, and there are billions of people on Earth; I can't possibly take care of everyone!"

With a frustrated expression, Tony said, "You mean this God's project just can't move forward?"

God's plan is Tony's greatest ambition after he begins his journey into the underworld.

Once the Age of Gods can be widely implemented, I will become the Father of Gods and the King of Gods. The reputation of the Stark family will shine brightly throughout the universe in my hands.

Xu Fu, unaware of Tony's ambition, said with slight dissatisfaction, "You don't think you can't see the level of demigods anymore, do you? Even the strongest giant legion is only a few hundred second-tier giants. Besides, once these demigods appear, they can't keep developing indefinitely. There are infinite dimensions and vast voids here. We can't possibly cover everything, can we?"

Chapter 526 Secret Military Units

The God Project, spearheaded by Tony and with Nick Fury's full support, has finally slowed down.

No new knowledge or technology ever appears overnight; they require a long period of development, continuous investment, and research to mature step by step.

After offering a few words of advice, Xu Fu let the two ambitious men leave on their own.

Only when dimensional search technology truly matures and Earth's resources and accumulation are sufficient can Tony's "Pantheon" truly become widespread.

Just as Tony and Nick Fury were encouraging each other, and Dirk and Clint were feeling slightly disappointed, the Void Beetles' second invasion actually occurred.

Compared to the first attack, which didn't even involve a preliminary strike, this time the Void Beetles were clearly coming on strong.

Instead of sending out cannon fodder to replenish its numbers like the insects it created, the queen in this void hive directly drew a large number of elite insects from the secondary hives of other void passages, launching a real war together with the endless labor-level insects.

Insects lack the evolutionary diversity of intelligent life and are more like products on an assembly line.

Queens are extremely difficult to reproduce. If they do appear, they can turn a Zerg camp into a mother hive like a headquarters. Each one is a terrifying source of power capable of fighting against a Celestial-level being.

The overlords control the secondary mother hives and void passages, which represent the third level of existence.

However, the strength of these individual insects is very flexible: powerful insects at the Overlord level can even fight against and kill the strongest Lesser Heavenly Fathers, while weaker Overlord-level insects may not even be able to defeat the demigods created by Tony.

However, the elite and working classes of insects are highly complex when making selections for evolutionary purposes.

This is because these individual insects are the true foundation of the insect species; they can attack worlds of infinite dimensions, can hatch and modulate at any time and place, and can grow continuously like consumable materials.

The insects that attacked Earth last time were also similar engineered insects, but in reality, these individual engineered insects were sent to the battlefield as soon as they hatched, without time to grow, and fought against Earthlings only as larvae.

This time, all the insects summoned from other void passages were insects.

Every engineer-class insect is a super soldier, like a MiG pilot during World War II, with protective armor. An army of this caliber would be a disaster for Earth.

In the heavily guarded surrounding area, the military once considered a "mopping-up" operation, assembling the world's most elite mechanized troops, tanks, rocket launchers, armored vehicles, and other equipment into a steel torrent, preparing to launch a frontal attack on these insects.

As a result, after being bombarded by mechanized forces, these terrifying insects only lost parts of their bodies, then crashed into tanks and armored vehicles like giant waves, instantly engulfing them, and then converged on the current defensive perimeter in a giant wave.

"Full firepower! Even if the enemy gets wind of our attack, we can't let those damned bugs get past our defenses!"

"Okay, there are 3000 million New Yorkers outside the defensive perimeter. The coalition government has started a plan to immigrate to New York without affecting people's livelihoods. In any case, we will have to get through more than three months!"

"Then let's fire!"

General Ross, War Machine, and other senior military officers gathered in the center of the operations room.

At a critical moment, this group of people, who had been torn apart by power, finally came together and formed an unprecedented cohesion.