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Kitahara Iori said, watching Peter being picked up by the spaceship.
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"Did the aliens take Rudeus away to turn Peter into some kind of super soldier or something?"
Saitama wondered curiously.
"The possibility is very small. If we look at the entire universe, there should be individuals who are more suitable than humans on Earth."
Genos began, "Take the Chitauri, for example. Aren't they more suitable than Earthlings?"
"Only aliens know the answers to these kinds of questions; how could we possibly guess them?"
King said, arms crossed.
Twenty-six years later...
A small spaceship slowly approached an area that appeared lifeless and filled with deathly silence.
The small spaceship then slowly broke through the planet's atmosphere, approaching its landmass, and finally came to rest in a dark, smoke-filled canyon.
[A man named Rudeus, wearing a mask with glowing red eyes that looked like it was made of bionic flies, and dressed in a dark brown trench coat, stepped off the spaceship.]
In the low-visibility world, Rudyus's mask glowing red, coupled with his slow gait, made him appear as a very unfriendly visitor.
A light drizzle fell on Peter. Rudius walked to an arched bridge, took out a strangely shaped device, and shook it. A blue light shone from the top of the device, illuminating the massive stones of the arched bridge.
[Soon, the giant stone arch bridge formed a vast 3D graphic. Rudius looked at this graphic and knew that it represented the planet before it became a wasteland, and it was also the purpose of his visit.]
"The function of this device is similar to that of Iron Man Zhuge Cong when he was investigating the Extremis virus."
Otosaka Hayato looked at the blue light emitted by the instrument in the man's hand on the light screen and said, "It's a 3D image that was formed at the end."
They all recreate past scenes in 3D.
[Then, within the blue 3D graphic, a striking red road appeared, extending all the way to a similarly red building.]
Then an icon with a prominent yellow annotation appeared before Rudeus's eyes; clearly, this was Rudeus's target for this operation.
"Oh, this is just like the route guidance function in a game."
Doma Umaru watched as the man's instrument not only pointed out the route map but also marked the target with a yellow icon, which reminded her of the automatic pathfinding function in online games.
Rudeus followed the red path through the archway and entered a ruin. As he stood before the massive rubble, a 3D graphic appeared depicting a girl teasing a dog.
"Do aliens look just like us Earthlings?"
As Riju Ogata watched the scene of the girl teasing the dog on the light screen, the 3D girl's image was clearly that of an Earthling.
"Um...maybe Rudeus designed it to look pleasing to the eye. How could aliens look like us Earthlings?"
"Wei Wo Cheng Xing said, "Thor and the others can understand, after all, they are characters from mythological epics."
Logically speaking, aliens should all look like the Chitauri, with all sorts of strange and unusual appearances.
"What about the dog?"
Rizu Ogata continued to ask.
"Um, an alien pet, I guess."
Rudius turned off his device after reaching the doorway, and Peter pressed the earpiece of his mask after entering the ruins.
[Rudeus's mask also began to shrink, the nanotechnology mask retracting from Peter's head to behind his ear, forming a tiny button.]
[Then Rudius took out his headphones and the MP3 player he had when he was eight years old. After pressing play, Peter clipped the MP3 player to his waist.]
This MP3 player was the only thing he took with him when he left Earth, so Rudeus valued it highly, and it also held a deeper meaning.
"When you're on the move, do you still have the leisure to listen to music? Aren't you worried about unexpected situations?"
Gin looked at Peter, who had pulled out an MP3 player, and said that if it were one of his men listening to music during an operation, Gin would bet he would shoot him dead.
[As soon as the music started, Rudius began to shake his head and nod, his hands clenched into fists and swaying from side to side in time with the music.]
[As the music began, the title of this special light display appeared on the screen: Guardians of the Galaxy.]
"Guardians of the Galaxy!?"
Looking at the title, Light Yagami knew this was no ordinary title.
"Does 'Galaxy' refer to the Milky Way galaxy? Then the Guardians must mean they are heroes of the Milky Way who prevented a huge disaster."
"In that case, their strength must be quite formidable, probably at least at the level of the Hulk, or even Thor."
Light Yagami guessed that this was not just some small-scale operation on Earth; it was within the scope of the Milky Way galaxy.
From the perspective of the Milky Way, Earth is like a snowflake on Mount Everest.
"Does the Nine Realms that Thor and the others mentioned transcend the scope of the Milky Way galaxy?"
Gordon suddenly thought of the Nine Realms that Thor had mentioned.
"It may or may not."
L began by saying that after "The Avengers," "Guardians of the Galaxy" was the second film that attracted him, after all, it had a big reputation.
"Hey~ Hey! Hey~ Hey!"
"What on earth is wrong with your brain?"
Rudius sang and jumped around, even leaping into a puddle and kicking and splashing in the water.
"I feel like this song is describing Peter."
Sakata Gintoki said with a grin, feeling relieved this time, as he was sure he wouldn't see himself embarrassed again.
After all, this time they went to an outer planet. How could an ordinary person like him possibly go to an outer planet?
If he could still embarrass himself, he would never play marbles again in his life.
Three native creatures, resembling velociraptors but only the size of southern mice, squeaked and ran towards Rudeus.
Rudius was also keeping time with the beat, kicking one away with each tap.
Suddenly, Rudius spotted a large rat perched on a nearby rock, barking at him. He grabbed it, put it to his mouth, and started singing.
Rudeus walked in circles, indicating he was all alone. If anyone else saw him, Rudeus would be mortified and have to move to a different star system.
"..."
The NEET man, who had not yet been reincarnated, looked at himself in the light screen and did not feel ashamed. Instead, he felt...envious.
I envy the version of myself in the light screen who can be so happy, and I envy the version of myself in the light screen who can go to outer space and see a different world.
The NEET man had suicidal thoughts, but he quickly dismissed them, because no one knew whether he could be reborn like in the light screen if he committed suicide.
They don't even know if they will actually have the chance to be reincarnated in the future.
Rudeus sang and played, as happy as a thirty-year-old child. Of course, the little animals in the ruins were in a miserable state; if they got close to Rudeus, they were doomed and would get kicked by him.
Rudeus walked to the edge of a very deep canyon, below which lay a bottomless, turbulent current, teeming with ferocious beasts. Another section of the canyon was dozens of meters away, but Rudeus remained completely calm, his feet touching the ground.
[“Pfft!”]
[Rudeus's boots, like Zhuge Cong's steel armor, glowed with light and carried Rudeus safely away.]
Rudeus walked to the front of the hall, hopping and leaping to the left and right until he reached the entrance. Then, he unleashed his signature skill—a lock-picking artifact—and began to pry open the lock with a slight push.
After the bead on the door lock was removed, the door automatically opened to both sides.
Rudius took out a bead and held it in his hand; the light emanating from the luminous bead then illuminated the dim room.
Rudius walked towards the innermost part, towards the object protected by a device emitting a purple glow.
Meanwhile, after Rudius entered the room, two more spaceships landed on the planet.
"Is he a cop or a fellow gangster?"
"What are you saying? What are you talking about?"
Yuu Otosaka looked shocked as she listened to Nao Tomori's words.
"Is there a problem? Either they're here to arrest Rudius, or they're in a police-like role, guarding the ball."
"Or maybe he's like Rudius, someone who came for that ball, a fellow player."
“Um…hesitate.”
Yuu Otosaka also didn't have a good reply, because what Nao Tomori said was indeed very accurate.
The people who disembarked from the spaceship exchanged glances, then picked up their weapons and headed towards the main hall where Rudeus was.
"..."
"..."
I was speechless. Dude, how come you, an alien, look just like a human? Don't you aliens have your own appearance?
"This one……"
Ogata Riju didn't say it explicitly, but pointed to the few guys who came down from the spaceship in the light screen.
"I don't know, or it's just a coincidence. After all, the universe is so big, there must be a few civilizations whose races look very similar."
It was Yui Ichiyuki who spoke.
(Zhuge Cong: Sorry, most aliens in the Marvel Universe look like humans.)