Marvel: Awakening the Universe.

Chapter 403 I'm Not a Savior, I'm an Accomplice (Third Update!!!)

Titan!
Thanos's planet Titan is not Saturn's moon Titan in our solar system, but rather located in the Milky Way galaxy.

Titan once had its glory days.

But right now?
Hawke stood in a boundless desert, but the sand beneath his feet was not sand, but metal dust crushed to the extreme. Looking up, the sky was not blue, but a dying star, like a huge orange eye, coldly watching the land it had once nourished.

Giant fragments of a city float in the air, telling the story of this planet's past glory.

Countless skeletons lie buried in the endless desert. Occasionally, a strong wind blows by, revealing a corner of the skeleton that has managed to escape weathering, telling the story of a civilization that once existed on this planet.

The Eternals once built a highly developed and orderly utopia here, with flawless city planning, free from poverty and strife.

pity!

The past was before and the present is now.

When Hawke found Thanos, the latter sat in front of a seabed, covered in blood, as if he had just survived a brutal battle. He stared blankly at the ocean that had once flowed with golden liquid, but now only a cracked, endless plain remained.

Bruce Banner was nowhere to be seen.

but……

Not far away, a massive, mountain-like structure, consisting of five cylindrical tubes, lay motionless, dripping with golden liquid.

The Heavenly God Group consists of three-bamboo characters who are minors and six-bamboo characters who are adults.

As for the five bamboo tiles?

Soon to be an adult?

Hawk glanced at the now-silent Five-Tube God, then looked away and walked straight to Thanos's side, sitting down on the ground as well, looking at the dry, cracked seabed before him.

"I heard you want to see me?"

"Yes."

"I am coming."

As Hawke spoke, he glanced sideways, his eyes calmly surveying Thanos, who looked remarkably like a purple sweet potato come to life.

"You can say it."

"The Destruction of Titan".

Thanos's voice was devoid of any emotion, and regardless of Hawke's wishes, he began to recount the origin and destruction of the planet before him.

Hawke knew how Titan was destroyed.

Poor Thanos, manipulated by Death, personally slaughtered his own Titan in order to win a smile from Death.

The results of it?
He treated Death like his first love, but Death saw him as a clown. Thanos then turned his attention to Deadpool and, feeling fooled, granted Deadpool the ability to be immortal.

Yes.

This is the origin of Deadpool's immortality. It wasn't given by Death, but by Thanos, because as long as Deadpool is immortal, he can't meet Death.

But this is Thanos from the comic book version.

Not here.

As Thanos recounted his story, Hawke learned the origin of the destruction of Titan beneath his feet.

Titan did not die at the hands of Thanos, nor even from resource depletion as depicted in the movie; it died from self-destruction.

That's right.

Self-destruction: the descendants of the Eternals on this planet collectively chose annihilation.

As for the reason?

Hawke's seven senses, covering the entire planet Titan, rapidly descended, exploring the interior of the planet where life had been completely destroyed and rotation had ceased.

then……

He saw a member of the Celestials whose form had taken shape, but was not yet fully formed.

It is said to be complete because it has grown limbs and a torso.

It is said to be unformed because it is only superficially complete, and its internal organs are all in an unfinished state.

The members of the Celestials were nurtured by the life energy of the life-bearing planet. When the life-bearing planet was destroyed, the planet also stopped rotating, and naturally lost its source of life energy.

and so!
This Celestial being, conceived within Titan, was, in other words, stillborn.

"Tsk!"

Hawke clicked his tongue subconsciously, then looked at Thanos, his voice tinged with curiosity.

"When did it happen."

"long long ago."

Anyway, starting from Thanos's memories, the people already knew that there was a celestial seed being conceived inside their planet.

but……

"They chose the default option."

"I chose to pretend I didn't know."

"I chose to just get by."

"After all, Titan was never an Eden, much less a utopia, just a self-proclaimed refuge."

Well known.

The Eternals of Titan were rebels. They were infected during the battle against the Aberrants, but did not die. Instead, they regained their memories, which had been formatted by the Celestials, due to a mutation awakening.

When the ancestors of the Eternals on Titan learned of this, they were enraged and then made a choice.

They betrayed the Eternals, fled the life-bearing planet they were responsible for, and came to Titan, thinking they had escaped the Celestials' watchful eyes, where they settled down and began to thrive.

and so……

They rebelled, but their way of rebelling was to become cowards.

Our ancestors were.

The same goes for their people. After learning that their planet also had the seed of a god, they were enraged and chose to act as if nothing had happened, continuing to live their lives as they were.

until--

Thanos's emergence, different from other members of his race from a young age, naturally led to a different way of thinking in the universe.

This is similar to the relationship between Baiyue and Li Xiaoyao.

Just as Bai Yue said the planet was round, Thanos similarly called on his people to resist and fight.

The results of it?
Li Xiaoyao tells Baiyue that love is infinite, and the Titans and Eternals also tell Thanos to trust in the wisdom of future generations.

Hawke was already quite engrossed in this part, and seeing Thanos during halftime, he couldn't help but press for more information. "And then?"

"You woke them up?"

"Do not."

Thanos clutched his chest, took a few breaths, then lowered his hand and shook his head: "I made this decision for them."

Hawke raised an eyebrow: "Then you still say they chose self-destruction?"

Thanos nodded: "Yes, they chose self-destruction, but that choice was made by me on their behalf."

The process is very complicated.

Simply put, it's because the Eternals on Titan aren't true Eternals, but rather infected with the genes of Aberrants.

But during all these years of reproduction on Titan, only Thanos truly inherited the complete genes of the Deviants, and he is the only one to inherit both the genes of the Eternals and the genes of the Deviants.

Well known.

The Abnormal Ones have a peculiar ability: their leader, like a queen bee, can control the entire hive.

Thanos, who inherited the genes of the abnormal, is like the Queen Bee.

He considered using words and motivation to inspire his people's will to resist and to stop them from being cowards.

But, it's impossible to carry it, it's really impossible to carry it.

So one afternoon, while gazing at the stars, Thanos, who was sitting right here, finally made an exceptionally difficult decision.

He directly instilled the consciousness of self-destruction into other members of his clan who also inherited the genes of the aberrant individuals, but were only worker bees in the hive.

“After that, I realized that life is numb.”

"Survival is the instinct of life. Even if survival now means losing the future, most people will still choose to be content with the status quo."

"It is wishful thinking to expect them to make a choice."

"Someone needs to step forward and make the choice for them."

"That's why I stepped forward."

"After that, I left Titan and searched for planet after planet that had been parasitized by the seeds of the gods."

"Ebony throat".

"Black dwarf star".

“They are all lucky survivors of the birth of the gods. Their planets were destroyed because of the birth of the gods, so they are willing to follow behind me and make choices for those planets that have no choice.”

"..."

Hawk listened to Thanos's story. Although he had some reservations about some of Thanos's views, he still acted as a good listener, nodding from time to time and giving Thanos the emotional value he was giving as he told the story.

He agrees with Thanos's narrative that survival is the instinct of life.

However, he disagreed with Thanos's view that someone needed to step forward and make this choice for them.

In a word.

Hawke isn't that boring.

Whether you destroy or not is none of my business. I'd rather stay home and lie around than bother with other people's nonsense.

Destroying you is none of your business.

The same is true!

Your destruction is none of my business.

"so……"

Do they approve of you?

After listening to Thanos's story, Hawke looked at Thanos and said calmly, "For example, your adopted daughter, Gamora, do you think she agrees with your point of view?"

As Thanos heard Gamora's name, a barely perceptible trace of sadness flashed in his eyes.

but--

"She will understand."

"Ah."

Hawke chuckled upon hearing this: "Now you're just deceiving yourself again, no different from your people."

Thanos fell silent upon hearing this.

There is something to say.

I won’t shed tears until I see the coffin.

From the perspective of the life forms on those planets that Thanos intervened in, even if they were destroyed, it was their own choice, and had nothing to do with Thanos.

Thanos may have made the choice for their survival, but that does not prevent the life on those planets from hating Thanos, being hostile to Thanos, and even wishing they could kill him.

Hawke's statement does not serve to whitewash Thanos.

He was only looking at things from a third-party perspective, just as he never intended to interfere with Earth's choices.

In a word.

To be or not to be, the choice is yours.

Hawke neither participates nor interferes.

All he could do was continue to be Earth's backup option after Earth made the right choice.

Of course.

If Earth makes the wrong choice, it will move directly to the World Tree.

Far away.

Hawke smiled, looked at the silent Thanos, and said directly, "So, you want to see me to discuss whether or not we should act as cosmic saints?"

Thanos snapped out of his silence and shook his head: "No, I initially thought my path was the right one, but after seeing you, I realized that my path was also wrong."

Hawk's sword-like eyebrows.

Thanos's voice was deep.

"After I saw you, I suddenly realized that I was not a savior, but an accomplice."

"..."

(End of this chapter)