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Chapter 214 Igor's Treasure Trove

"Please follow me, everyone." At Igor's command, Mandis timidly gestured to the crowd to follow her.

Seeing this, Li Wei waved his hand smugly, signaling everyone to follow.

“Don’t worry about such trivial matters, kid. You’ll soon have a new perspective on life!” Ego said to Star-Lord, who was still feeling annoyed as he watched Levi and his group.

"Oh, yes, I'm looking forward to it!" Star-Lord replied, though he was quite annoyed inside.

……

"Are there only the two of you on this planet?" Carroll, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly asked Mandis as they walked down the street.

“Yes, this planet is Ego himself. Just as a dog wouldn’t invite fleas to live on its back, Ego doesn’t allow anyone else, or even any life, to live on him. So, all along, there has been no one or even any life on this planet except me,” Mandis answered truthfully, without trying to hide Ego’s identity.

However, this metaphor is really...

Carol didn't even know what expression to wear when facing this silly little guy.

So he could only look to Li Wei.

"I know what you're planning to do. Go now, and come back as soon as possible." Li Wei shrugged.

Carol nodded, and in a flash, she disappeared from the spot.

"Where are your friends?" Mantis exclaimed in alarm upon seeing this. "Don't wander around the planet. If you're discovered, Ego will be furious."

"Don't worry, she's just going to take a short look and will be back soon. By the way, Mantis, is the place you're taking us to now Ego's treasure vault?" Levi asked with a smile.

“Yes,” Mandis nodded in response, seemingly puzzled by Levi’s question.

Having gotten the answer he wanted, Li Wei and Tony exchanged a glance and chuckled.

"What do you want to do?" Mantis had a bad feeling and waved her little hand, trying to touch Levi.

But before it could even touch Li Wei, it was blocked by a magical light shield.

“Look, Mantis, I know your capabilities. If I find out that you have touched me or my teammates without permission, then something unfortunate will happen. Trust me!” Levi warned with a smile.

Although he intended to recruit Mantis into the league.

But at least for now, their camps are still "hostile".

In the original storyline, Mandis was moved by Drax, a complete idiot.

But they didn't have a simpleton like that in their team—well, maybe they did, maybe not. Levi glanced at Jessica, who was laughing along with him and Tony for some reason, without saying a word.

However, no matter what, Mantis remains an uncertain figure until Ego is officially dealt with.

It's better to be careful.

After all, her abilities are quite extraordinary in some ways.

"Alright..." Faced with Levi's threat, Mantis, like a wronged wife, withdrew her hand and cautiously continued to walk forward.

"Igor's treasury must contain many treasures, right? After all, I heard he's lived for millions of years, so he must have collected some good things," Li Wei continued to ask.

“Yes, the wealth inside is enormous, but Igor wasn’t very interested in those things, so after bringing them back, he basically just threw them in casually, so we haven’t done any specific inventory,” Mandis said, tilting his head.

Upon hearing her words, Levi, Tony, and Yelena, who knew what they were planning, were practically whistling with excitement. They simply couldn't imagine how much wealth accumulated over millions of years truly amounted to.

Thinking of this, Li Wei couldn't help but think of the Guardians of the Galaxy who had entered the treasure mountain from the original timeline.

Well, let him make up for this regret.

"Wait here for a moment, I'll go get the money for you right away." Arriving at a side hall outside the Igor Treasury, Mandis told everyone to rest there, indicating that he would go back and get the money.

Although she was all alone.

But ten million Niues can be a lot or a little.

Just like in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1, when the Collectors were preparing to pay Star-Lord and his crew, the enormous reward of four billion was just a few small metal ingots to be taken from a drawer.

Those small metal ingots were Niue's highest denomination currency.

One is worth 100 million—and the collector's drawers are almost full.

This is interstellar trading; the value can be very small or very large.

"I don't think it's necessary to go through all that trouble. Why don't we just go get it ourselves?" Li Wei said with a slightly malicious smile.

At this point, even if Mandis was slow-witted and lacked social skills, he would understand what Levi and his group wanted to do.

“No, you can’t do that. Igor will be angry. You don’t want to face the wrath of a god!” Mandis said timidly, but the fear she showed was not directed at Levi and the others, but at Igor.

If Igor gets angry, she doesn't know how much effort it will take to calm him down.

The reason she's been kept by Igor until now is because of her ability to soothe emotions.

But you can imagine how enormous an undertaking it would be to appease the emotions of an entire planet.

"A god? Igor doesn't deserve that title. He's just a thing that looks like a remnant of a god's brain tissue." Levi disagreed when he heard Mandis refer to Igor as a god.

If Ego is a god, then what are Tiamat, Arithm, and the other gods?
Compared to them, Igor is nothing.

Furthermore, considering Ego's initial form in the movie, and linking it to the Void, which is actually suspected to be the head of a god.

Li Wei had reason to believe that Igor was likely a brain tissue or something similar from a dead god, which had been revitalized and given birth to consciousness.

"If Igor knew you said that about him, he would go crazy!" Even the usually calm Mantis couldn't help but swallow hard when he heard Levi so disrespectfully insult Igor's origins.

"Alright, Mantis (Mantis is a mantis in English), now's not the time to talk about that. Take us to the treasure vault quickly. We need to move as much as possible before that brain monster realizes what's happening!" Tony said impatiently.

Having been a millionaire since childhood, this was the first time Tony had felt a strong desire for wealth.

Suddenly, I realized this feeling is actually quite nice.

“Alright, come with me, but I don’t think you can take too much with you,” Mandis said, after all, there were quite a lot of things in Igor’s vault.

However, when she led Li Wei and his group into the treasure vault and saw them taking out one spatial bag after another, and inside each spatial bag was another spatial bag—a nested doll-like arrangement—she immediately realized that she had been too hasty in her thinking.

These people came fully prepared.

(End of this chapter)