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Chapter 210 The Awakened Darkness

London, England.

After Jane Foster repeated the name of "Bass" ten times to the menu, her first date's male partner finally politely but resignedly proposed to cancel the date.Jane said goodbye to the gentleman apologetically, but it wasn't until she got into the car that she suddenly realized that she didn't seem to even remember the male companion's name.

Thinking of it that way seems to have offended the gentleman, but it wasn't the first time she had done this over the years.She tried to date many times, with male partners from various professions and backgrounds, but the male partner who created the highest record so far has only dated her three times.All in all, none of these attempts have been very successful, and in all fairness it doesn't seem to be the man's fault.Most of them behaved well and were very gentlemanly, and a few were indeed her type, but it didn't always work out in the end.

It was her problem, and she knew it, because she always acted absent-minded.She couldn't put much energy into it, she couldn't even start a new relationship.

It was as if her life, her time, had stopped. Ever since what happened in New Mexico.

It's a pretty old story, too.The god who lost his divine power was demoted to the mortal world, and met a beautiful human female physicist.The two fell in love at first sight and hit it off immediately, so a series of untold stories happened between gods and mortals. It's like those old myths and legends.

But things come and go more quickly, like a thunderstorm on a summer night.They only got together for a few days, and the god left immediately, as if there was some important task of "saving the world".He left with nothing but an unfounded assurance.

And since then he has not been heard from.

Later, Jane saw him once on the TV news, and saw him fighting aliens in New York with other superheroes called "Avengers".So he came back to Earth, but he didn't keep his promise, he didn't come to meet her.

So Jane had to accept this fact.Maybe she is not that important after all, maybe it has been just her wishful thinking all the time.But think about it, he is a god, and she is just a mortal.Those few days in New Mexico meant a lot to her, but to him it might just be a negligible moment in his long thousands of years of life.

But even if that's the case, after all... there's still a bit of regret, right?
But now, things seem to have taken a turn for the better.

Just these two days, several ten-year-olds in London reported that they had discovered an "extremely rare" physical phenomenon in an abandoned building.Jane brought her interns—and the interns' interns—to the scene to investigate.

The situation was indeed exactly as described by those children.First they discovered the abnormal gravitational field, and then some kind of abnormal phase distortion. From the performance point of view, it seems that the roof and the ground floor of the building are connected in some unknown form.For example, a soda can thrown from the upper floor will suddenly disappear before reaching the bottom floor, and then appear on the top of the building with a "snap" like teleportation, repeating the process of free fall again.

If this phenomenon is just "amazing", then the abnormal readings that jumped out of the phaser are like a thunder that pierced the sky, directly hitting Jane's heart that had been silent for a long time.

That was the same reading that was displayed when the prince from Asgard fell from the sky in New Mexico.

Jane Foster herself couldn't explain why, but this change did make her seem completely reborn.She felt that every cell in her body seemed to wake up from years of slumber, and adrenaline stimulated her nerves frantically.She rekindled her motivation and seemed to find her way forward after a long absence.

But what she didn't expect was that her aggressive exploration brought her a whole new set of troubles.

Jane was holding the phase meter in her hand at the time, and she followed the direction where the readings gradually became stronger, and followed the corridor full of messy fallen leaves.That gust of wind rolled up at that time, accompanied by an astonishing gravitational force, it felt like countless transparent silk threads shot out from the end of this narrow corridor, tightly binding her hands and feet, Involuntarily dragging her into an invisible vortex.

She felt that she had crashed into an invisible barrier, like falling into a layer of icy water.When she came back to her senses, she was already standing on the edge of a pitch-black cliff, the wind howled in her ears, and the sound of the wind sounded like a monster howling from afar.

She turned her head, her jaw almost dropping in shock.

The corridor disappeared, along with the entire building.She found herself standing on black rock, barren in every direction, and two massive black rocks stood beside her.The two huge rocks were stacked on top of each other, leaving only a gap that could barely fit a hand.

She vaguely seemed to see something in that gap.Something dark red, churning, that seemed to be moving.

Suddenly, she reached out and touched the black boulder at the bottom.

As if sensing something, the dark red thing suddenly rushed over like an arrow.It entangled Jane's right hand like a poisonous snake locking its prey, and got out of the gap like crazy.Jane withdrew her hand in haste and panic, but it seemed that it was too late.The mass had burrowed under the skin along her palm and arm, and disappeared without a trace.

The boulder above fell heavily with a "bang", and the crack in the stone disappeared.

Jane was still in doubt, and the strong dizziness hit her brain violently before she had time to come back to think.Her mind began to become hazy, and her consciousness suddenly became blurred.She tilted her body, fell on the cold rock, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

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Jane Foster disappeared in that corridor for less than a quarter of an hour, and sparks burst out at the end of the corridor out of thin air.The firelight cut out an arc, forming a circular cut in the space.The blue and black armor walked out of the magic portal stepping on the fallen leaves all over the ground, and the V-shaped eyepiece was rippling with light blue fluorescence.

"Give me visual enhancements, phase data analysis and magic scanning," Michael said.

Shirley complied, and then followed suit, and returned a large amount of data in less than a minute.

"The phase fluctuates strongly, and the end of the channel may be connected to different spaces. In addition, we may not be the first to discover it, sir."

Shirley used conspicuous red lines to mark the footprints from the fallen leaves all over the ground, and combined multiple data to restore the height and body shape of the footprint owner.

"It looked like a lady had gone across the way before we got here."

(End of this chapter)