Laura's Beautiful Journey

Unknown star field, Vormir star.

Laura finally reached a deal with Gamora, and based on the general directions provided by the latter, it took nearly three days to find the planet where the soul gem was buried.

"This ghost place, no wonder no one comes here..."

Laura complained as she looked at the orange-red planet floating quietly in front of her.

Why do you say that? Because the environment in the star field around Vormir can be said to be extremely harsh.

The outermost asteroid belt is an appetizer. A small spacecraft like the Milan equipped with a polarization shield can easily shuttle through it, or a large flagship like the Dark Star with a large energy field generator can break through. It's barely feasible.

Even if you are lucky enough to get through the large ring of numbing rubble planetary belt on the periphery, what you will encounter next is a nebula with an incalculable radius and composed of various ionized dust and gases.

The extremely complex and harsh ionization environment in the nebula will seriously interfere with the communication and navigation systems of the spacecraft. Small spacecraft like the Milan can basically only fly blindly. Large flagships should be able to maintain basic communications to a certain extent, but forget about navigation. .

However, losing communication or navigation is not the most terrifying thing. There are also a variety of disorganized small black holes, quasars and other big killers here. Encountering such a trap for a small spacecraft is basically equivalent to a death sentence, even for large flagships. The possibility of being swallowed up and shattered by a black hole or quasar at any time.

To be honest, without the Phoenix Power to protect her body and the space gem to control her position, Laura would really get lost in this ghost place and die.

It’s no wonder that even the most stubborn interstellar pirates dare not go deep into such an extremely harsh space environment. Even if they switch to the Kree fleet with the most complete facilities, they will basically end up in vain. It’s also a credit to Star-Lord and the others that they didn’t dive in head first. Come in, otherwise it would have been completely integrated with this universe in a physical sense.

With some messy thoughts, Laura slowly landed on this remote and desolate planet.

After roughly looking around for a week, Laura found that the terrain on Vormir was severely weathered. Except for the super large temple altar built on the highest peak not far away, there was no trace of any man-made buildings at all.

What’s weird is that such a place without any signs of life and where birds don’t poop actually has its own atmosphere. Although the carbon dioxide and PM2.5 content here is absolutely excessive by the standards of the earth, on Laura’s journey From the other planets we have seen, they are already as poisonous as scorpions.

The other celestial bodies she encountered, whether they were satellites, planets or stars, not to mention their atmospheres, were as desolate and decayed as anything.

Many of these stars are in a state of disintegration and collapse, and the rest are basically the cores that have cooled and solidified and are approaching the end of their lifespan. Lifeless is definitely not an appropriate description.

To sum up, Laura thinks that there is nothing fishy about Vormir, but she doesn't believe it 100%.

To be cautious, Laura closed her eyes and concentrated on the perception of life covering this strange planet, which was not much larger than the moon, and carefully searched and confirmed it several times.

"There is no life signal, but the energy core of the planet is a bit weirdly active... The soul gem really chose a good place in the underworld."

As soon as she finished talking to herself, Laura turned her head with a gasp and looked in the direction where she sensed the surge of energy.

"Daughter of the Phoenix, you shouldn't be here."

After a violent energy fluctuation, the Red Skull wearing a tattered cloak appeared in the direction Laura was looking at, about ten meters away from her.

Different from the cruel, irritable, and crazy image described by Captain America, the Red Skull who quietly appeared here showed no expression on his face, his eyes were very empty, and his words seemed very deep.

Laura ignored his indifferent look that rejected people thousands of miles away, and appeared in front of the Red Skull in a flash. When he spoke, a golden light flashed in his eyes:

"Oh? So who are you waiting for here? John Schmidt?"

The Red Skull was stunned for a moment when he heard Laura calling him by his former name.

"Johann Schmidt...this name...I haven't heard it for many years..."

Laura observed that Red Skull seemed to be awakened by this name. Not only did the expression on his face change, but there was also a trace of reminiscence in his eyes.

"Uh..."

Just as the expression on Red Skull's face became more and more vivid, a puff of smoke appeared out of thin air and enveloped him.

Regarding the strange smoke that suddenly appeared from the Red Skull, Laura did not take any action and just observed quietly.

She noticed that the body of the Red Skull began to tremble violently in the smoke.

After a few seconds, the trembling stopped, and the gray smoke quickly retracted into the Red Skull's body and disappeared. The Red Skull also returned to its original expressionless appearance, looking at Laura again with its dull eyes, and the machine He opened his mouth and repeated:

"Daughter of the Phoenix, you shouldn't be here."

Hearing this, Laura raised her eyebrows, then stretched out her palm and turned it over, and the blue space gem quietly appeared in the palm of her hand.

"Johann Schmidt, are you still impressed by this energy?"

"Uh...Johann Schmidt...never...seen...what is this?"

The Red Skull answered intermittently. Laura pulled the corners of her mouth upward slightly, golden light flashed in her eyes again, and continued:

"Don't you remember it anymore? Johann Schmidt? This is the Rubik's Cube that you were thinking about all the time and were unwilling to let go until the very end."

Sure enough, as Laura expected, the Red Skull soon appeared in the same situation as before, and this time the frequency of his body trembling when surrounded by gray fog was more obvious.

"Ha! I didn't expect it. I thought you could be called a great hero back then, but now you've fallen to this level! I really want to see that guy Steve see his former rival become like this. How do you feel about the appearance of a ghost?"

Laura kept up her efforts, and when she spoke this time, the golden light in her eyes that represented the use of the Phoenix Power became more and more prominent.

"Steve... Steve? Steve Rogers! Ahhhhh!"

Seeing that the Red Skull had completely fallen into madness, and the gray mist coming out of his body was getting thicker and thicker, Laura stretched out her right hand and shook it suddenly in his direction.

The Red Skull's already broken soul could not withstand the erosion of the Phoenix Grip. Even with the help of the thick gray mist, it only lasted for less than two seconds before his spirit body was ignited by the Phoenix fire and his soul was shattered.

"Soul Gem, I have to say that your vision for finding a watchdog is really not that good!"

As the words fell, Laura's golden light flashed and she instantly entered the Phoenix incarnation state. The golden phoenix that covered the sky spread its wings and enveloped the entire Vormir star.

"Hmph! Exchange souls for souls. I wonder if Red Skull's soul, which has been with you for 75 years, is worth enough?"