Marvel Magic Event Book

Chapter 1725: The Kree Experiment

Hammurabi no longer had to worry about Hydra.

Most of the parasites and hosts were burned by the expeditionary force with Molotov cocktails. Even though Hydra's proliferation rate was fast enough, it could not intervene before the emperor killed all the Kree. The Guards now faced a more difficult problem. He forced all mortal soldiers to retreat, at least away from the thick fog. The vision of the creatures in the material universe could not see what was in the thick fog, but Hammurabi knew very well that the outer dimension anomalies of the material universe meant that the outer dimension spiritual entities had come here, which was what humans called demons.

The temperature around them was dropping rapidly. After receiving simple treatment, some of the wounded who were unable to evacuate in time took up their weapons and established a defense line in the back, intending to use their remaining few hours of life to stop those irresistible enemies. The thick fog soon engulfed the village, and the slowly descending flares quickly went out, leaving only the burning reeds and the bodies of the Inhumans.

The several fires that could have illuminated the entire village seemed to be tightly grasped by some invisible force. Even the firelight could not illuminate more places. The mortal soldiers could only barely see the tips of their shoes. The places farther away were all filled with thick fog and night. "Don't move." The voice of the guard emanated from the neck loudspeaker, and even the last trace of humanity was wiped out. "Stay alert."

"There's something in the mist!" Caspar muttered nervously.

He and other soldiers who had not yet evacuated stayed beside a still-burning reed fire, using the firelight to drive away the thick fog. They nervously watched the huge black shadow slowly passing through the thick fog under the firelight. The huge black shadow was as tall as several elephants, and a few thin legs hung down from the huge body, making a sticky sound when stepping on the ground, as if rotten muscles were slapping each other. The strange human figure revealed in the thick fog slowly followed it, like a walking corpse summoned by an evil wizard. The suffocating stench accompanied the thick fog, and only the fire could drive away this smell.

Unspeakable fear pressed tightly against the brains of every mortal soldier. The sounds made by those terrifying and bizarre figures were like stepping on feathers covered with filthy grease, and the stench-filled cold smell gently rubbed the edge of their rationality. Caspar found himself shivering, and the incomprehensible fear penetrated deeply into his body like cold air. He didn't know why the things in the thick fog were more terrifying than the monsters created by aliens. Even though he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, the terrifying intuition that seemed to come from the depths of the memory of his ancient ancestors was awakened.

Human ancestors relied on fire to avoid the ghosts that roamed the night. Fire gave mortals courage and strength. The instinct deep in their genes urged the soldiers to get close to the fire, even if their skin was dried and burned, it was better than being preyed on by monsters in the thick fog. Caspar only felt his face burning from the fire, and sweat running down his back, but he felt the other side of his back facing the fire was extremely cold, as if the river in the distance had frozen, and the cold wind covered with water vapor was slowly approaching with an irresistible force.

If the Guards had not asked them to shoot after receiving orders, coupled with the long-standing strict military discipline and the courage given by the Guards' powerful strength, the mortal soldiers would have opened fire long ago. "We can't get through the radio, sir." A squad leader took off the receiver, his face pale. What came from the receiver was not the sound of electricity, but an indistinct roar. He could vaguely hear the voice calling his name. But he did not tell the other soldiers about it, because it would only make others more terrified.

"I know."

Hammurabi stared at the huge black shadows crawling slowly in the thick fog with vigilance, and did not turn his head even when talking to the expeditionary soldiers. The mortal soldiers did not know that the eyes under the ruby ​​lenses of the guards were also watching. He knew the things in the thick fog very well. They were lying behind the curtain of reality and absorbing the soul of this world. In every war, psychics and large-scale deaths were likely to cause extra-dimensional anomalies. This thick fog and the things in it could not really harm humans, but the mental pollution they left behind was enough to drive a normal human crazy.

"Stay here, take cover, and build a fire."

"The fog is so thick everywhere, sir, that our fires can't help it."

"They fear fire and light, Caspar." Hammurabi held the Spear of Guard upside down and looked vigilantly at the huge black shadow that slowly passed by in the thick fog. Before the time jump, since the emperor took over Kamar-Taj, the Guardian Order has also expanded its capture and management of psychics to the entire planet, regardless of countries and regions.

During the capture process, there were very few cases where psychics triggered extradimensional phenomena or caused extradimensional spiritual entities to cross the border. Only the demon-possessed "Louise and Clark" spacecraft and the Attilan energy base on the moon reached a true extradimensional invasion. But in this era, the Guardian Order often encountered real extradimensional invasions during the capture of psychics in the Mesopotamian Plain. Demon possession or extradimensional spiritual entity possession incidents were far more frequent and serious than in later generations. It seemed that in this era, the dimensions of reality and illusion were very thin, and monsters in nightmares could easily escape from dreams and come to reality. In this era, casual curses could become real, and the monster under the bed could stretch its sticky claws towards children's necks as long as it was fed enough fear.

Hammurabi did not think that the extradimensional creatures that came were the will of the evil gods, but some strange animals and plants living in the outer dimension. Although they were not driven by the will of the evil gods, they also longed for the souls of the material world. If it was the will of an evil god, then these would not be the only minions they sent to the material universe, after all, their great enemy was in this time and space.

"Sir?"

Hammurabi walked straight into the thick fog, and his shining golden armor blurred into a halo.

The halo of light rushed towards the huge black shadow rapidly. Human figures like zombies fell down in the thick fog. The giant monster, which was supported only by a few slender legs, stretched out several tentacles downwards in an attempt to stop Hammurabi, but the slender legs were chopped off after a few seconds. The monster fell down with a wailing, and the earth began to tremble because of its fall.

Caspar gritted his teeth and glanced at his companion beside him.

After a few seconds of whispered arguments, Kaspar and another companion picked up a burning piece of wood from the campfire and followed Hammurabi into the thick fog. The firelight penetrated the fog a few steps in front of them. The expeditionary soldiers saw nothing at the location of those huge beasts and tall and thin zombies, as if those shadows were just phantoms reflected by the light, just like a child fiddling with his fingers in front of a lamp, leaving exaggerated shadows on the wall.

"There's something here." Caspar looked around warily. They couldn't see Hammurabi, and even the sound of gunfire and footsteps disappeared. They only felt that there was something invisible waving its claws and limbs around them, and the supernatural stench permeated every inch of the air, making them more convinced of the danger here.

"Go forward! We need to find the Guards!"

—————————— The Kree’s electromagnetic deflection shield exploded under the impact of stellar-level energy. The light distorted by the shield once again entered the Kree’s research base. The spaceship parked in the base for several kilometers was seen by humans for the first time. The heat storm caused by the psychic explosion almost overturned this mountain-like steel behemoth.

Next to several experimental bases built with composite materials, hundreds of Kree headhunters armed with weapons and wearing armor gathered together to form a line of defense against the human cavalry led by the emperor. Even with the courage given by the emperor to the expeditionary soldiers, using backward weapons to fight against an army that can cope with space environments still has to pay a huge price. The bullets fired by the expeditionary soldiers using lever rifles hit the Kree armor and only turned into a piece of twisted steel fragments. On the contrary, the Kree plasma weapons can easily burn through a human soldier and horse, causing huge casualties to the expeditionary army in a few seconds.

In just a few seconds, the expeditionary force suffered more than four hundred casualties, and nearly half of the entire charging formation was lost.

The Emperor grabbed the reins and urged Pegasus to charge at the shelter made of plasma cannons and alloy low walls of the Kree. The plasma ball fired at the Emperor exploded at Pegasus, and then Pegasus's iron hoof stepped over the Kree soldier. The armor of the Kree soldiers was developed to cope with the space environment and the weapons of other races. It has good bulletproof and high temperature resistance, but when the several tons of Pegasus hit and stepped on it at a very high speed, even the Kree soldiers with complete protection were crushed into meat paste.

After the gap in the defense line was opened, the emperor immediately ordered Pegasus and the accompanying guards to turn around and attack the Kree soldiers who were using plasma machine guns on the alloy bunkers. The burning holy sword was like a sickle mowing grass, cutting off the armor, weapons and bunkers of the Kree soldiers. The subatomic hydrogen tank exploded violently after being damaged. The Kree's firepower immediately became sparse. They tried to stop the attack of the emperor and the guards, but more and more expeditionary soldiers rushed through the defense line, chasing and killing the Kree who tried to charge head-on or escape with their spears equipped with explosives.

Despite this, many expeditionary soldiers died at the hands of the Kree in battle. It often took more than a dozen expeditionary soldiers to cooperate with each other to pierce the headhunter elites wearing light armor. These death warriors raised by the Kree nobles were too arrogant to bother with protection. Instead, the Kree soldiers wearing full-environment armor had to wait until the Guards arrived before they could be killed, because the expeditionary soldiers' weapons could not break their defenses.

On the other side of the battlefield, the Kree people in anti-gravity individual assault boats formed the vanguard and launched a counterattack against the cavalry.

These Kree deliberately avoided the emperor and rushed towards the middle of the cavalry composed of mortals. Some mortal soldiers who failed to dodge in time were crushed by the anti-gravity generator, leaving only a sticky mess of flesh, pus and blood on the soil and rocks. Just when the Kree headhunters thought they had defeated the expeditionary cavalry, they saw a golden team rushing towards them at a speed close to the speed of sound. Hannibal and the other four guards rode on anti-gravity jet motorcycles, holding the Garrison Spear to form a mobile force, like a fired cannonball smashing into the Kree headhunters' counterattack team. Hannibal pulled the trigger on the handle, and the double-barreled bolt machine gun installed in front of the vehicle spewed out flames, smashing the Kree anti-gravity assault boat in front and the alien alien on the vehicle into pieces.

An anti-gravity assault boat was hit by a nuclear battery under the fierce firepower of the Guard Order. The violent explosion burned the nearby Kree vehicles into molten iron and fragments. The expeditionary soldiers flexibly manipulated their horses to avoid the debris falling from the sky, crossed the low wall, and followed the emperor's iron hoof to attack the Kree headhunters protecting the research base.

The war could be declared a victory at this point, and what remained was to hunt down the Kree who had not had time to escape. Even with the Emperor and the Royal Guards joining in, the casualty ratio between the expeditionary soldiers and the Kree was still terribly high. When the Emperor and the Royal Guards stopped their iron hooves and ordered the expeditionary soldiers to hunt down the Kree, the work of counting the casualties was also underway.

The emperor stopped his iron hoof, and the golden flame on the holy sword gradually disappeared, but the air around him was still as hot as a furnace. He stopped behind the defense line and saw the charred and mutilated bodies of the expeditionary soldiers in front of the defense line falling on the firing range of the plasma machine gun. The straight blood and flesh scorch marks announced the price he paid for this war. The wailing and painful screams were the only sounds on the battlefield now. This was just a guard of a scientific research team. The expeditionary army still paid the lives of hundreds of soldiers to close the gap in weapons with the Kree. If the Kree army came to Earth, even if the emperor and the Guards could kill all the Kree, humans would still suffer extremely heavy losses.

Humans with backward technology have no ability to resist alien races with advanced weapons.

Despite this, humans have courage.

The emperor could feel that there was no fear in the hearts of the expeditionary soldiers.

He didn't need to wait for the damage report, he knew the name and experience of every soldier who died in the expedition. When he rode across the direction, slaughtering the Kree like mowing grass, he read every second from sucking the first mouthful of sweet milk to the star-like high-temperature plasma burning through his body, as if he had experienced it himself. All this happened in the Planck scale of time, and he could empathize with the pain and burning of the expedition soldiers. He could feel their concern for their families, their admiration and trust in him, their anger at the sacrifice of their comrades, and their hatred for the blue-skinned aliens. All emotions filled his soul like fuel, supporting the burning holy sword.

"Now we have enough experimental equipment, Constantine. I believe that the Kree's research on human genes will allow me to skip the initial tedious experiments." The emperor turned his head and looked at the experimental base surrounded by flames, and the several-kilometer-long Kree Empire warship (to be precise, it was an armed scientific research ship). This was his goal. He had to obtain the most advanced science and technology in the Kree Empire. The population raised, the economy developed, and the weapons forged by Eridu for thirty years were all in exchange for these equipment and knowledge. This was a gamble, and he had prepared the chips for this for thirty years.

Eridu’s historical mission has been completed, and the next plan is to lead the people out of Eridu and build a space experimental station.

The productivity and power given to Eridu by the emperor led to the rulers within the economic and military radiation range of Eridu to call themselves "Anunnaki" and claim to be gods. The reason why the emperor managed Eridu was to pull out such an army to seize the biological experimental equipment of the Cree and then conduct his own biological experiments, rather than to create a group of oppressors. As long as the emperor and the army representing the royal power of Eridu leave, the landlords who claim to be gods will lose most of their ruling power. Eridu, which has lost its writing and knowledge, will return to the historical track. Time will smooth out the small disturbances it has caused, and the eyes behind the curtain cannot see themselves hidden in the timeline.

According to the plan, this spaceship will leave the Earth, but before it leaves, he needs to get the Celestial Experimental Data stored in the Earth Machine from the Eternals. So he and the Guards will stay here for a while, and at the same time, they will move the people in Eridu who are willing to follow him to this warship. These people will be the first batch of space residents. After these people have multiplied, he will select suitable young and strong people from them to train and reserve soldiers for the war eight thousand years later.

Next to Constantine's boots lay a still-living Kree, but the emperor paid no attention to the captive. According to the customs of the planet Hala, this Kree with white stripes on his face had a very high status in the military aristocracy system of Hala, and was most likely a Kree official sent to supervise the progress of the slave soldiers. But neither the emperor nor the guards cared about what information or knowledge this Kree could provide. The warship docked in front of them would take them to the Kree's home planet, and the people trained on the warship would become soldiers, and Hala would become the whetstone and arsenal for these soldiers.

"My Lord," Constantine said, "I did not receive Hammurabi's message, but the fire support team blocking Hydra sent out a flare indicating that a psychic anomaly had occurred there."

"I know." The emperor was still looking at the warship. Constantine suspected that his master was discussing how to operate this type of Kree warship. But he was not sure of his guess. No one could fully know the emperor's thoughts, not even the guards. "I will bring Hammurabi back. He has his own mission to complete."