Marvel: Apocalyptic Beginning, a High-Level Game!

Chapter 53 One Chance! Make a Wish!

"It's over."

As the Avengers, who had already retreated under the leadership of Icarus and Valkyrie, gradually returned to the Raft Prison, the once bustling hall was now deserted.

Fortunately, Zemo had a backup plan before he went to "stir things up" with Loki—

Because of Shang-Qi, Zemo also unexpectedly discovered that there are still some places on Earth that have not yet been truly discovered.

With the mage's help, they opened a portal to the Tarot Secret Realm dimension and transferred most of the people inside beforehand.

As the three mages deployed the teleportation arrays one by one, sending the remaining hundreds of human warriors and support personnel to the raft hall, everyone began to quietly await the final news.

The minotaur mage standing at the very front of the crowd suddenly twitched his distinctive ears.

A puff of white breath escaped from his nose ring-adorned nostril. He turned around with delight and shouted to everyone:

"They won!!"

As the familiar golden portal opened, bathed in warm light, several heroes who had fought for humanity to the very last moment walked back with their heads held high.

In an instant, cheers and applause erupted like a tidal wave. People greeted their heroes with the warmest respect.

The little spider, who was originally feeling down, was instantly moved to tears when it saw the huge glove that Hanlu was holding—especially the six dazzling gems embedded in the glove.

Finally...

They finally managed to salvage everything.

"So, shall we move on to the next step?"

Hanlu and her group were surrounded by everyone.

If he hadn't waved his hands repeatedly and kept his distance with the protection of the two ship girls beside him, he probably would have been tossed high into the air by the crowd like John and the others.

More than celebration, Hanlu (the Cold Dew solar term) cares about what she has in her hands.

He didn't even dare to touch the six gems, which had reached a state of near "completeness," with his bare hands. These gloves, forged from Uru metal by the Dwarf King, now displayed an extraordinary suppressive power—

Even the energy of the Infinity Stones can be perfectly imprisoned within it.

When Hanlu first forged it, if it were just one or two gems, he might have been able to try to control it; but when all six came together, the backlash and burden it brought were not simply additive, they were not even multiplicative, but rather squared.

He dared not wear it.

Moreover... he had a secret he couldn't tell anyone.

This time, they need to think everything through.

……

After all the cheers subsided, the heroes gathered together once more.

Just then, Hanlu dropped a bombshell that shocked everyone.

"What?! The Infinity Stones can only be used once?!"

Thor was so excited that he stood up and slammed his palms heavily on the table, leaving two dents.

He only took a half step back after being reminded by the Valkyrie's elbow, but the shock on his face had not faded.

The others also looked astonished.

Hanlu scratched her hair in frustration, her eyes filled with exhaustion, and her gaze fell on the center of the table—the Infinity Gauntlet that everyone was watching.

The gems remain dazzling, but only those who forged them with their own hands truly understand how "empty" the power they contain is.

"I tried, but I found... there was a problem. I can't explain it, but the only thing I'm sure of is that the energy left in these gems is only enough for us to snap our fingers once."

Hanlu's words sent a chill down everyone's spine.

He was the same way.

He was convinced that they were usable when they were created—he had even used them to power meteorites.

But the problem is...

Hanlu hugged herself and leaned back in her chair.

Something went wrong in one of the steps.

The steps were absolutely correct, but the gem's energy recovery speed was just too slow.

It was so slow it was as if... the universe no longer had enough power to sustain the "miracle" of the Infinity Stones.

But there's no reason for it.

"It's okay, one wish is enough."

John, who was leaning against the wall, nodded after listening to Hanlu's words. "We've resolved the crisis. Now we need to discuss what to wish for and who should snap those fingers."

He is a pragmatic person. He cares more about seizing the opportunities in front of him than what will happen when the gems run out.

"I can do it. Let me do it."

Thor was about to step forward when he spoke.

He still can't forget his people who turned into zombies and turned against him, he can't forget the half of his people who were slaughtered by Thanos, and Asgard, his father, his mother... there are too many things that need to be redeemed.

The reason he maintained peak performance throughout this disaster was that the burning desire for revenge and the urgent mission compelled him to concentrate fully.

Now, only this final step remains.

At this moment, Zemo, who had been reminded by Hanlu earlier, gave Shangqi and the Red Guard a wink, and the two quickly stepped forward and gently restrained the agitated Thor.

"Calm down, buddy. We're all here, it's not going to run away."

Everyone was a little nervous to prevent Saul from ruining this one-time opportunity in a fit of emotion.

Fortunately, after looking around, Thor realized that something was wrong with him and quietly sat back down.

But his eyes remained fixed on the gloves.

"John is right, one wish is enough. But we need to think carefully about what we want to wish for."

"Well, we're facing a lot of problems right now," Matt Daredevil said, frowning slightly. "If we wish for 'the people who turned into zombies to come back,' will they appear as zombies, or will they revert to human form—and if they're human, what will happen to their bodies that were injured when they were zombies?"

His eyes could actually have been cured with the help of Attorney Ma, but after this bloody battle, the blind lawyer refused treatment.

He discovered that when his vision returned, his extraordinary sensory abilities also disappeared.

He felt that it wasn't the right time yet.

"Actually, I was thinking... maybe we could just make a wish and go back to before the zombie outbreak. Wouldn't that solve all the problems? Everyone would be back, and there wouldn't be any more trouble."

Spider-Man rarely displays the speed of his thinking as a high achiever, and his tone is equally urgent.

He longed to see Aunt May again.

"Everyone,"

Hanlu also raised a concern: "If I remember correctly, Captain Marvel came back from outer space."

How was she infected before her battle with Icarus? Or... were there already zombies in the universe?

What if Captain Marvel had already spread the virus in space before returning to Earth? What if that monster quietly descended upon Earth again...?

He really didn't want to experience another war like that.

Icarus shook his head upon hearing this, unable to explain it either, since he had been attacked by someone who came to his door.

"We need a wish that can solve all the zombie problems at once and restore everything to its original state."

Discussions erupted one after another, some even becoming quite heated.

Fortunately, everyone's attention was no longer solely focused on the glove, but they began to pool their wisdom and efforts to come up with a truly comprehensive solution.

However, while everyone was discussing it enthusiastically, a faint green light quietly flashed in a corner.