Thanos didn't want to be a villain.

Chapter 210 Temporary Return to Marvel - Captured

"Dio actually sold weapons to ordinary people, and such powerful weapons at that! He deserved to die!"

"That's right, that's right. Moreover, equipment with such a powerful knightly aura can make mortals leap into the body of gods. Now it can actually be bought by commoners. It's conceivable that there must be hidden dangers within the empire that we are unaware of!"

"Forcing Dio to do this out of necessity!"

"Haha, with the Knight's Aura, we no longer need to fear those Astartes. Their modification surgeries are useless against us. And with the powered exoskeleton armor, we'll be able to shake the Empire's dominance in the universe!"

"By the way, weren't there new people today? Where are they?"

"I didn't see it. Could they have secretly reported us?!"

"No way, they're really nice people."

"..."

.........

This is a conference of various countries in the universe, composed of an unknown cosmic nation.

The purpose of the meeting was simple: they wanted to discuss the new Knight Aura equipment that Dio had just introduced.

In fact, these meetings were held frequently over the years, with the purpose of discussing how to bring him down. Each meeting was recorded by Dio's spies.

This was another meeting, but with the largest number of participants.

Moreover, one of the forces that Dio was most interested in participated.

Earth's forces!

China and America.

Earth was not the only place where Dio personally came to establish diplomatic relations, but it was the planet with the most military presence and exchanges.

Earth's invitation to this conference was also a coincidence.

The United States shamelessly uses all sorts of resources to exchange for currency from the universe, in exchange for all kinds of resources and technologies.

The handover was handled by Dio's Salamanders, since they were the only ones besides the Skrulls from S.H.I.E.L.D. who had access to the universe.

This group of Skrulls is a pacifist regime within the Skrull Empire. They dislike the United States' unrestrained demands for technological resources and, after a brief collaboration with S.H.I.E.L.D., they no longer pay attention to the United States.

So the United States approached the Imperial Embassy on Earth, the Salamanders, for a resource exchange.

Therefore, in a short period of time, the United States' technological level has surged, once again catching up to become one of the few countries on Earth capable of actively entering the universe.

S.H.I.E.L.D. was merely an organization on Earth and played no role in promoting technological development on Earth. Therefore, S.H.I.E.L.D. was abandoned by the United States after it entered space.

Fortunately, after taking down Hydra, Nick Fury and his agents received their full retirement benefits before leaving. Apart from the younger agents like Black Widow who were dispersed to various sectors of the country to continue working, S.H.I.E.L.D. is now defunct.

The Skrulls, who were cooperating with S.H.I.E.L.D., also left Earth because of this incident. Captain Marvel tried her best to persuade them to stay, but she couldn't. Disappointed with America, she went to space and never returned.

After Tony Stark got married and had a child, he stayed home to take care of the baby. After Captain America left S.H.I.E.L.D., he became a comic book artist. However, because of his status as a World War II hero, the United States allocated a portion of the sales revenue from his merchandise to him, so he was not worried about food and drink.

Ant-Man and his father-in-law's family participate in research on the quantum universe and rescue his mother-in-law. Falcon and Winter Soldier continue to participate in various special missions and clean up messes for politicians.

This is the current state of superheroes on Marvel Earth.

During this period, the United States was in high spirits. After encountering the Chinese forces in the universe, they had been constantly clashing. By chance, representatives of the Chinese and American forces were invited to participate in this meeting targeting Dio.

Listening to the group's constant taunts, the representatives of the Chinese and American forces broke out in a cold sweat.

They had close ties with the Empire and Dio, and were well aware that Dio's men would monitor each meeting and relay messages to the Empire's inquisitors in real time.

Although I don't know when the judge will arrive, if I don't escape, I'll definitely be mistaken for one of these people.

The representatives of the two factions exchanged a glance, then quietly lowered their stance and slowly moved towards the door.

They weren't interested in the new equipment, Knight's Aura, that these people were discussing at the meeting. It was indeed useful, but Dio's methods were the same methods that the five major rogue states had used in the past.

After entering the place and learning the information, the two of them realized something was wrong and quietly tried to slip away, keeping their presence to themselves.

As for this group of people?

Ha ha!

A dead Taoist friend is not a poor Taoist!

What happened next was quite simple. There was no dramatic twist where they ran into the judge as soon as they stepped out; instead, they proactively reported the meeting that this group was holding.

Yes.

To avoid being investigated online, they cleverly made sure their offline activities were real. Well, just when they said they wouldn't be reported, a group of judges, like FBI agents, stormed in.

Wearing neuro-feedback powered armor controlled by the brain's nerves, the judges held explosive guns to the heads of these people, who then raised their hands and threw them.

"Damn it! We've been discovered!"

"That shouldn't be the case. How did the judges know our address?"

"Could it be one of the two new members? They disappeared before the meeting was even halfway through."

"Impossible! They don't seem like that kind of people!"

"...Get out of here!"

Does this have anything to do with what it looks like?

"Isn't it said that... one's appearance reflects one's heart? Could it be that what I read in the novel is... wrong?"

Those who were arrested were utterly speechless.

You said if you trusted them, that would be fine, but you believed them just by looking at their faces. How did they grow to be so big?

Leaving aside this minor incident, such things were commonplace across the vast territory of the empire.

However, what surprised the people of the Empire the most was the release of the Knight's Aura.

Why did they sell this equipment that supposedly strengthens the body without any side effects so decisively?

The price was relatively cheap, and the functions were powerful, making it especially popular among bounty hunters.

Is this considered a form of welfare distribution by the Empire?

In any case, the survival rate of these bounty hunters in some high-risk missions has been greatly improved.

The civilians of the empire did not react much. Thanks to the strictness of the imperial laws, no heinous incidents of awakening superpowers and massacring civilians occurred.

After all, those inspection teams are not to be trifled with. The older batch of inspection team members were from the early days of the People's Republic of China, and they are extremely ruthless once they discover someone who has committed a crime.

To criminals, they're just a bunch of guys who can stop a baby from crying at night.

Secondly, it's about enforcing fair legal provisions.

In such cases, imperial law would decide, depending on the importance of the matter, whether to directly capture the suspect or kill them during the capture process.

Generally speaking, people who are caught will succumb to torture and reveal more evidence of their crimes, thus increasing the number of times they can be granted leniency.

This led to patrol teams throughout the empire trying their best to capture the suspects alive.

When faced with the patrol team, the criminals either resisted to the death or voluntarily confessed in order to reduce their suffering.

Therefore, even though the knightly aura, something that would cause social unrest on Earth, entered the market, the empire remained remarkably calm.

It was as calm as usual.