In Marvel, people are slime Chapter 099

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Laimu ()

Laimu sat at the head of the conference table, reaching out to bring up the projection system.

What was displayed on it was New York – Stark Tower. Over a hundred kilometers away, a small red blinking dot was continuously approaching. Its historical trajectory confirmed its target was directly Stark Tower.

Stark frowned, “What is this… Oh, damn it!”

Intelligent as he was, he had already guessed that Loki had chosen his building as a toy.

Laimu kept zooming in on the image, and the Stark Tower sign was clearly visible. “That’s right, through gamma signal tracking, we’ve locked onto the location of the Cosmic Cube.”

“It’s on the newly completed Stark Tower in New York. Dr. Selvig is bringing his machine, planning to use the energy from a large reactor to open a portal…”

Before Laimu could finish, Thor, the God of Thunder, stood up with a whoosh, clutching his hammer, looking impatient. “Then what are we waiting for? Let’s go now and get the Cosmic Cube back! Everything will be over!”

Currently, Thor was as impatient as his lightning.

“Calm down, listen to me.”

Laimu just smiled, pressing his hand downwards.

“What I’m thinking is, since the Chitauri can attack us… why can’t we attack them?”

Hearing this, Nick Fury instinctively snorted. He had retreated to the end of the table because there was nowhere else to sit, so he was directly facing Laimu. “Are you kidding me? Humans who haven’t even left Earth are going to fight a civilization that has developed in the universe for who knows how many hundreds of years, and can launch attacks across space?”

“Are you overestimating us humans too much?”

It wasn’t just Nick Fury; many people present also looked incredulous. Counterattack? Are you kidding?

Laimu calmly surveyed the room, finally meeting Nick Fury’s gaze.

His calm and firm eyes had a reassuring power, making everyone instinctively quiet down, wanting to hear what he had to say.

“That’s you being too self-deprecating, Fury. You don’t understand the Chitauri, so you’ve prematurely assumed they are invincible. And because of this lack of understanding, you will indeed be at a disadvantage when facing the Chitauri.”

“In fact, the Chitauri army is universally recognized as the most garbage army in the entire universe.”

“If you don’t even dare to face such garbage, then what good is it for your S.H.I.E.L.D. to research more and more powerful weapons with the Cosmic Cube? How can you talk about resisting threats and protecting humanity?”

Laimu looked at the other party with shining eyes, questioning Nick Fury until he was speechless.

He then reached out and swiped across the projection, changing it to a beehive model.

“Humans have two reasons for certain victory against them.”

“There’s an ancient saying in the East: ‘Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated; know yourself but not your enemy, and you will win one battle and lose another; know neither yourself nor your enemy, and you will be defeated in every battle.’”

“The Chitauri army is a typical hive mind. Its advantage is that it can coordinate the overall situation and be flexible. But its disadvantage is also obvious: as long as the queen bee, which is their mothership, is destroyed, all soldiers and biological weapons will shut down completely.”

“This is our first key to victory: knowing the enemy.”

Dr. Banner stroked his chin, nodding thoughtfully. “If that’s the case, it is indeed feasible.”

“So, how do we destroy their mothership? Their mothership probably won’t fly directly to Earth, right? Do we need to fight in outer space?”

Laimu raised an eyebrow. “We have nuclear bombs. Nuclear bombs are a treasure for humanity to stand in the universe, and also the second key to victory: knowing ourselves.”

Stark tapped the table, looking directly at Laimu. “I find it hard to agree. If humans who haven’t even left Earth can research nuclear bombs, why wouldn’t aliens have them? Maybe their technology is even stronger than ours?”

Coulson weakly raised his hand. “I have the same question.”

Laimu sighed… He had thought that anyone might question him, but he never thought Stark would be the first… All these years of friendship, and you don’t even give me this much trust?

He pointed his staff at Thor. “You ask Thor, does Asgard have nuclear bombs or nuclear weapons?”

“What? What’s a nuclear bomb? I’ve never heard of it.”

Thor, who was bored and playing with his hammer, looked up blankly. He didn’t want to listen and didn’t care about any of this; he just wanted to fly over and beat people down, then take the thing.

Laimu spread his hands. “So, if the development paths of civilizations are different, the fruits they bear will also be vastly different. Asgard is a civilization with highly developed magic, but they don’t even have the concept of nuclear bombs.”

“The Chitauri’s biotechnology is extremely advanced; their cultivated beasts can even fly in space, but they also don’t have the concept of nuclear bombs.”

“Nuclear bombs, to humans who follow physical science, are almost self-evidently existing things, but those who play with magic and biology don’t think so.”

“Although all things eventually lead to the same destination, humans picked up the technology of nuclear bombs as soon as they set out, while civilizations on other paths need to cross countless mountains to find this shell on a distant beach.”

“For example, biological civilizations can easily develop hive minds, and magic civilizations can directly use energies from various dimensions. These are things that humans can’t even touch the edge of.”

This theory, which was contrary to intuition yet very likely to be true, silenced everyone present.

After a long while, Captain America was the first to snap back to reality. “You mean the Chitauri don’t have nuclear bombs, and don’t even understand them?”

“Of course!”

“No, my gut tells me… it won’t be that easy.”

Captain America frowned, lost in thought. “Would the Chitauri just watch something they don’t recognize like a nuclear bomb fly right at them? Would they have no ability to intercept it?”

Laimu smiled confidently. “I have a complete plan.”

“Gentlemen, observe.”

He waved his hand, and the projection on the conference table turned into a model of the universe.

“War in space will inevitably be deep and highly three-dimensional. With humanity’s almost zero maneuverability in space, it would normally be difficult to participate in this level of war—but this time might be different.”

“Based on energy calculations, the portal opened by the Cosmic Cube won’t be too large, insufficient to accommodate a full landing of a space fleet.”

“Therefore, to quickly pass through the portal and reach Earth, their fleet will likely crowd near the portal to release forces. There’s another crucial point: the Chitauri underestimate Earth and humanity, thinking ‘humans are just some natives who can’t even leave their planet,’ so they won’t be overly prepared against us.”

“At this time, if our small force breaks through the portal and reaches the other side, it will only attract a large number of Chitauri squads to encircle us. They won’t use large-scale destructive weapons because their own soldiers and fleet are also within the coverage area.”

“All of the above provides the possibility for us to deliver nuclear bombs near the Chitauri mothership.”

“As long as we get close to their fleet and then detonate the nuclear bomb, a loud boom will bury them all—pure energy overwhelming is difficult for any defense system to resist.”

Everyone exchanged glances, seemingly convinced, but then another concern arose.

“So, we need a small team to launch a suicide attack?”

“Me, let me go.”

Banner raised his hand, a smile on his face, as if he saw hope of release.