Chapter 2014: A Finger With Endless Implications
A crisp metallic snap rang out.
Without any hesitation, Luke snapped with his thumb and index finger.
Why didn’t he use his middle finger like Thanos? Because Thanos had cut off his middle finger earlier, and it hadn’t grown back.
As soon as the sound rang out, Thanos’s body suddenly went limp and he crashed dozens of meters away from Luke and Tony.
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All of Thanos’s troops fighting Earth’s allied forces stopped, and the gunfire stopped.
They could sense the descent of a mysterious power, which was telling them that the outcome was already decided. There was no way to resist or escape it.
Thanos struggled to get up from the ground, and his fierce expression suddenly calmed down as he slowly scanned his troops.
In the sky, a huge worm battles.h.i.+p lost control and was about to crash on the little racc.o.o.n Rocket that was firing at it.
Rocket screamed and covered his head as he dodged.
But the moment the big battles.h.i.+p touched it, it disintegrated into black ash and disappeared like sand.
Rocket, who had escaped disaster, put his hands down and looked around.
All of Thanos’s air units lost control and fell like flowers.
But there were no explosions or collisions. Like a dream, they turned into black dust which scattered.
So did the huge drop s.h.i.+ps.
The four-armed monsters, the giant beasts, the foot soldiers, the heavy tanks, and even the gargantuan Thanos began to disintegrate into black mist and dust.
Everything that belonged to Thanos was “taken away.”
Proxima Midnight was dozens of meters behind Thanos.
At that moment, her face was full of despair and sadness. She took one step forward and fell into Corvus Glaive’s arms, and stroked his face.
Corvus Glaive looked into her eyes, and could only murmur, “I hope… we will meet again…”
His face and her hand turned into black dust almost at the same time.
Reluctant to part with each other, they quietly turned to dust. The black dust mixed together for a few seconds before they disappeared without a trace.
Looking at everything, Thanos gasped and took two steps back to sit on the remains of a building behind him.
Stabbing his broken blade into the ground, he wiped his face heavily with both hands and heaved a long sigh.
After that, this tyrant of the universe didn’t say anything, and disintegrated like all his subordinates.
Only Earth’s allied forces and the Avengers were left.
Their eyes were filled with the joy of victory, but looking at the bodies of their comrades everywhere, they couldn’t smile.
Sacrifices were inevitable, but the tragic casualties in front of them couldn’t be treated simply as numbers.
At that moment, a dazzling comet-like light streaked down from the sky in the direction of the battlefield.
Looking at the situation, Tony asked nervously, “Friday, what’s that?”
Luke’s heart jumped. Holy sh*t! Had Thanos been hiding some boss at this late stage?
Suddenly, he remembered something, and his face darkened as he looked at the Sorcerer Supreme, who was still holding back the water. D*mn, did your finger just now mean “Another one behind you?” Or… Knight has another arm?
Luke grimaced and sucked in a cold breath. That sounded very possible.
The Sorcerer Supreme had always been this crazy, and would definitely do something like that.
Thinking that, he patted Tony’s shoulder and stretched out his right hand in front of the tyc.o.o.n’s eyes. “How about you make a left-handed version? I should be able to use it one more time.”
Hearing this outrageous request, Tony’s eyes widened and he turned around. “Do you have to… work so hard?”
Tony was mortal.
He was arrogant, proud, sensitive and sharp-tongued. He liked beautiful women and research, and was obsessed with being the boss.
Now that he had a daughter, he was even more hesitant about sacrificing himself, although he would still step forward in the end; he had experienced a lot of this hesitation and dilemma in the last few days.
But this Dark Knight from another world had nothing to do with this world, and was the number one superhero there.
What kind of mental fort.i.tude could make this Knight say “switch hands and do it again” so naturally after half his body was burnt?
Luke patted the dazed tyc.o.o.n’s shoulder unhappily. “Don’t waste time. That thing will be here soon.”
Tony woke up from his shock and quickly shook his head. “No, don’t worry. That’s our reinforcements.”
Luke: ??? WTF! Don’t tell me it’s some cosmic SWAT team, the kind that cleans up after you’re done!
The moment Tony finished speaking, the ‘reinforcements’ that looked like a falling comet finally took shape.
Sensing that something wasn’t right, Luke’s mouth dropped open. “Your reinforcements… is a person?”
After receiving Friday’s reply, Tony, who was half-kneeling, leaned back against the rubble with a complicated expression. “That’s right. If she had arrived sooner, your arm might’ve been saved.”
Luke cursed inwardly. What kind of ‘person’ was this to make Tony say that she was better than Knight?
If she could take care of it, then do you even need me?!
Hm, wait! Luke looked at the Sorcerer Supreme again. Could it be that this guy had held up one finger to say, “hang one for one more minute,” or “we still have reinforcements”?
On the other side, Strange called a few Kamar-Taj sorcerers over to open a portal so that the water in the gap could be sent back into the lake, thus freeing him from the predicament of being unable to move.
At that moment, he realized that he was being watched.
Strange followed his senses and saw that the strange Dark Knight was looking at him again with an expression that wasn’t right.
The Sorcerer Supreme couldn’t help but mutter to himself. This plot wasn’t right! This guy never appeared in all the 14 million possibilities! Why was he the one to snap his fingers in the end?
He had held up one finger to remind Tony that he only had one chance.
Now, the way Tony was lying against the debris behind him was exactly as he had predicted.
But… in the one outcome where they won, half of Tony’s body had been burnt and he had been dying as he sat against the rubble.
Also, as the wielder of the Time Stone and having experienced 14 million possibilities, Strange knew the precise time points in this victory.
Based on his calculations, Captain Marvel did indeed arrive at the right time.
The reason she seemed late now and hadn’t been able to do anything was because of Knight, who ended the battle several minutes earlier.
Tony had survived, and so had even more of the allied army soldiers, which utterly baffled Strange.