In a room on an abandoned farm outside New York City, Li Chuan and Skye instantly appeared.
"Don't be nervous. Just do as I say later. I'll be there soon after you arrive."
Seeing Skye's nervousness, Li Chuan smiled and comforted her.
Skye took a deep breath and nodded: "It's fine, let's begin!"
"Alright."
Li Chuan opened the S.H.I.E.L.D.-provided briefcase. Inside lay a silver, irregularly shaped object covered in Kree writing—the obelisk used by the Kree to store terrigen crystals.
When his hand touched the obelisk, the Kree technology within it immediately recognized that he had no Kree bloodline and began to attack, attempting to petrify him with the power contained in the terrigen crystal.
Some spiritual magical artifacts in the Immortal Cultivation World have the functions of recognizing a Master and binding to a Master. If someone other than the Master tries to take them, they will suffer a backlash.
Kree high-tech items are actually similar. The metal casing enclosing the terrigen crystal contains advanced Kree alien technology that can identify Kree genes. Anyone without Kree genes who touches it will be attacked.
Inhumans are not attacked because they possess Kree genes.
Therefore, different civilizations like technology, magic, and immortal cultivation have no fundamental difference in their essence; they are all applications of different energies in the World, and their ultimate destinations are the same.
The seemingly incredible abilities of magic, Daoist techniques, and Ninjutsu can actually be achieved once technology develops to a certain level.
If it can't be done or explained, it just means civilization hasn't reached that point yet.
The spatial abilities like Apparition in magic, the Minor Teleportation Technique in Daoist arts, and the Flying Thunder God Technique in Ninjutsu—aren't they incredible?
But technology also has wormholes, quantum entanglement, and so on.
Sometimes, one cannot underestimate the power of technology. The Kree Empire's ability to dominate a part of the Universe and suppress the Skrull civilization and other civilizations speaks volumes about its strength.
However, the energy attack intensity launched by a small obelisk is naturally no problem for ordinary people, but it is still far too weak to deal with him.
He didn't even need to activate Sage Mode; just channeling the true essence from his dantian to his hand was enough to block the obelisk's petrification.
"Crack!"
Li Chuan exerted force, directly crushing the obelisk's outer shell and extracting the terrigen crystal inside.
What allows Inhumans to awaken their abilities is not the outer obelisk but the clear, translucent terrigen crystal inside.
When terrigen crystals encounter water at an appropriate temperature, they produce a special vapor called Terrigen Mist.
When individuals with Inhuman genes come into contact with this mist, their Inhuman genes are activated, thereby granting the Inhumans various incredible abilities.
However, the activation of Inhuman genes is not entirely positive. If they were all so stable and useful, the Kree would not have abandoned the Inhumans and left.
Only a small fraction of Inhumans can gain abilities without altering their appearance.
Most Inhumans, when passing through the Terrigen Mist, either have some of their organs mutate, or their entire body mutates, becoming monsters in the eyes of normal people.
Even more, some lose their sanity, lose self-awareness, and are left with only biological instincts.
This is why, in Afterlife, there are so many members with Inhuman genes, but it takes a long time for one to awaken an ability, and they even have to queue.
Because they undergo extensive observation, research, and screening to ensure that normal Inhumans awaken as much as possible, while eliminating those with hidden dangers.
Li Chuan already knew what Skye's Inhuman ability was and that she wouldn't mutate, so he didn't have to worry about those things.
After taking out the terrigen crystal and placing it in a basin filled with warm water, he watched a large amount of Terrigen Mist rise from the basin. Only then did he use the Illusion Charm to conceal himself and hide to the side.
In the mist, Skye's body began to rapidly petrify. After the mist dissipated, Skye had transformed into a black stone statue.
Li Chuan knew that unlike ordinary people who are completely petrified and die upon contact with terrigen crystals, Skye was only superficially petrified. Her body was internally activating her Inhuman genes and acquiring abilities.
After about half an hour of waiting, the black stone layer on her surface began to show cracks and then shattered loudly.
At the same time, at the Inhuman Base, Afterlife.
Gordon, who had no eyes, suddenly stiffened:
"A new Inhuman has awakened!"
With a flash, he had already arrived at the door of the house where the leader, Jiaying, resided.
After knocking and entering, he informed the scar-faced Jiaying of what he had sensed.
Jiaying pondered for a moment after listening, then instructed:
"Go and see, but be careful it's not a trap. Whitehall has been searching for our traces."
If it were peacetime, she wouldn't be so cautious. With Gordon's complete mastery of his abilities, he was simply not someone ordinary people could deal with.
However, her plan was set to begin in a week, and Gordon was a crucial part of the plan. Any problem with him would be very troublesome.
But she also couldn't abandon a newly awakened Inhuman, because that Inhuman's ability might be very useful for her upcoming plan.
Originally, she had planned to wait a few more years, until more Inhumans had awakened and she had more confidence, before carrying out the plan. Since her life was infinite, waiting a few more years didn't matter.
But the alien invasion last year, and the superheroes who cooperated with S.H.I.E.L.D., made her feel immense pressure.
If she waited any longer, she feared that by the time she initiated her plan, S.H.I.E.L.D. would find more superheroes to stop her, and then the chances of success would be even slimmer.
So, she decided to take a risk and launch the plan ahead of schedule, no longer slowly screening for powerful Inhumans through safe methods.
Instead, she would use Gordon's teleportation ability to raid the capitals of all countries on Earth, turn all terrigen crystals into mist, and spread it as widely as possible.
This would petrify and kill all humans without Inhuman genes in those capital cities, while simultaneously mass-producing as many Inhumans as possible. Then, she would lead these Inhumans to fight against the remaining humans.
With capitals destroyed, all nations on Earth would plunge into chaos, which would buy them a significant amount of time.
She wasn't worried that those Inhumans wouldn't side with her, because she knew that with humanity's terrible tendency to reject anomalies, she wouldn't even need to incite them; they would actively push those Inhumans towards her.
At that time, with her leading an army of Inhumans possessing various abilities, would she still fear not being able to defeat humanity, who loved infighting?
She called her plan the "Human Extinction Plan"!
"Don't worry, their technology isn't mature yet; it won't affect me much."
Gordon nodded, activated his ability, and instantly vanished from his spot, following the sensed location.
His teleportation ability allowed him to instantly reach any location on Earth, and it was because of his existence that Afterlife achieved its current prosperity.
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