Marvel's Great Old Ones

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Time flies very fast, and we arrive in May 2008. This is a crucial turning point for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the real starting point for the popularity of Marvel movies.

In the banquet hall, celebrities in luxurious clothing held cups and talked and laughed with officers in high-ranking officer uniforms.

This is an awards ceremony held by the U.S. Department of Defense. Tony Stark, a man of the hour in New York newspapers and the playboy in charge of the behemoth Stark Group, is also on the list of awards.

He is the chairman of Stark Industries, an American billionaire and arms manufacturer who inherited the huge family business from his father. He is famous for his unique lifestyle, intelligence and genius inventors.

The Tony Stark that many people see in the media is just a self-centered playboy. Tony almost always fights with pride and is a well-known talent.

Tony Stark is the financial backer and editor-in-chief of most of the media in New York and even the United States. As long as those people know about Tony Stark's appearance in that public place, they will know that a gossip that can ignite everyone is about to appear.

There is never a shortage of these eye-catching topics with huge traffic around Tony Stark.

He once promised to sleep with all the cover girls of Playboy magazine for a whole year, and it came true.

He is so arrogant, even though he is already in his thirties, he still has the unruly attitude of a young man in his heart.

"Hey, Tony!" At the entrance of the banquet, a black man wearing a major's military uniform looked around and suddenly raised his hand to signal.

The men hugging each other on the high platform, surrounded by large swaths of red faces and breasts, looked back.

"Rhode! I thought you died on some desk. Long time no see. Oh, brother, are you okay?"

Tony looked up and saw the tall and strong black man. A smile appeared on his face, he walked forward quickly and opened his arms.

"Hey, what are you talking about? You thought I was you and my body is so weak. How do you feel now?"

Rhodes showed his big eight-petal snow-white teeth and hugged Tony forcefully.

"Ahem... Oh, man, do you want to kill me here?" Tony was choked with force and coughed.

"How do you feel?" Rhode let go of Tony and picked up two glasses of wine from the waiter next to him.

"How should I put it? I don't think I should have come. Those fat pigs have never thought about what you have done. They only care about what you can bring to them."

Tony took the wine that was handed to him with a look of disdain on his face, as if he was very proud of those who presented the awards.

"OK, let's not talk about those guys. I came here to ask you about your trip to Afghanistan to test weapons." Rhodes lowered his voice and took Tony to the booth in the corner of the hall.

"I heard that you were going to go when the weapons were tested?"

"Yes, that's right, it should be the day after tomorrow. What's wrong?"

"Nothing, I just heard some superiors discussing your security issues. There is our base near the weapons testing site. Where should we transfer people from? And I seem to be responsible for local information transfer and processing. Come and talk to you. Making sure."

"Leave the security issues to those who are fighting. Why do you, a civilian, care about so much?" Tony looked nonchalant.

"Hey, I was transferred to a civilian job because I didn't think of you!" Rhodes punched Tony on the shoulder, "You also said that you want me to deal with you full-time. What's the difference between me and those operators?"

"Hiss... there is still a difference, you are my operator, who am I, Tony..."

"Tony Stark is a genius, right?" Rodme said angrily, looked at Tony, and suddenly laughed.

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At ten o'clock in the evening, in the storage room of the Church of Fools, Li Xiu opened the creaking door, and Daniel turned on the light inside.

"Oh Richette, what is this?" Before Daniel could see what it was, a pungent smell hit his face.

In the center of the storage room was a blood-red object wrapped in layers of foam paper.

"Oh, dear, you didn't put a body here, did you?"

Daniel stared dumbfoundedly at the thing that, even though it was thickly wrapped in foam, still showed a vague humanoid figure.

He couldn't help but shrank behind Li Xiu, and his height of about 1.8 meters showed the appearance of a quail.

"Bingo, you answered correctly, but unfortunately there is no reward." Li Xiu pushed Daniel away and stepped forward to check the sealing situation carefully.

"You...you wrap him up like this and leave him here, don't you want to marinate him before eating him?"

Daniel's face turned a little blue, and he suppressed his nausea. He knew that Li Xiu had the habit of cannibalism, but he didn't expect that Li Xiu would wrap a body and bring it back to the church.

Is it really necessary to pickle that person before eating it?

Thinking of the softened and pus-filled flesh and blood rolling around in his mouth like mud, the desire to gag instantly reached the top of his throat.

"Hey, I told you not to come, but who told you to follow me?" Li Xiu knew Daniel's expression without even looking back. He took out a pocket from somewhere and handed it to him.

"No... no need, I can still hold on." Daniel barely suppressed the feeling of nausea and waved his hand.

He did know that he didn't have to follow him, and he didn't have to suffer this kind of sin. But this time he was sent to the Department of Theology at Manhattan University to audit, which made him understand one thing, and that was his identity.

He is the Pope of the Church of Fools. Sooner or later, he will have to face scenes that are several times or dozens of times more tragic than this one. He cannot avoid such scenes every time.

As the person who has been in contact with Li Xiu for the longest time and is still alive, Daniel knows best the cruelty and ruthlessness of Li Xiu's character. To the other party, there seems to be no difference between humans and animals, living and dead things.

Equality, cruel equality that gives and takes away. In Li Xiu's eyes, life and death are the same concepts, and there is no difference between those powerless creatures and gravel.

No goals, no desires, just living, living for evolution,

If one day the other party loses interest in him or he is useless, what will be Li Xiu's attitude? Knocking on the bones and sucking out the marrow is light, and even the soul will be held in the opponent's hands and played with.

Daniel didn't want to gamble, so he could only keep changing himself, strengthening himself, and making himself always useful to him, so that he could never face the other person.

"You said you don't want the bag, don't blame me." Li Xiu saw that the other party was adamant about not wanting the bag, and shrugged; "I hope you won't regret it."

Li Xiu raised a finger. This time, no bones pierced the skin of the finger and gushed out. There was just a touch of white air coming out of the fingertip.

These things were discovered after he devoured Madam Gao and Alexandra, and they seemed to be the Qi cultivated by the other party.

The Qi on his fingertips now is not ordinary Qi, but Gang Qi condensed from Qi, and its intensity is much higher.

A thin stream of Gang Qi instantly emerged from his fingers. Li Xiu moved his fingers and slowly cut through the thick layer of plastic.

A red aura slowly emerged, like ordinary red smoke, which could directly cover the entire place.

"Ugh!" The blood energy almost rushed towards Daniel's nose. It was pungent, unpleasant and made people sick.

After all, Daniel couldn't hold on, and a small ripple completely detonated his rumbling stomach.

"I'll just tell you what you want," Li Xiu rolled his eyes and put the bag over Daniel's head angrily, asking him to go up and vomit.

As the foam plastic was cut open, an astonishing smell of blood filled the small storage room, and the body of an old man was revealed.

The hand and one of the five fingers, Samurai Murakami.

Li Xiu did not choose to devour Murakami last night, but instead kept his body intact.

He is the only one, and it is still too reluctant to maintain power until Li Mo and others grow up, just like this assassination of Li Mo and Heizi.

If Li Xiu had come a little later, their bodies would have been broken into pieces and they would have lost any strength while they were still recovering, and they would have been completely at the mercy of others.

And Heizi, he has not been truly infected by the past, that is, his body has not been completely transformed.

If those killers were more accurate with their marksmanship and hit him directly on the head, then even Li Xiu would have no choice but to go to hell to find Heizi's soul, or else he could fish people out of the river of time and space when he reaches the Old Ones. .

Li Xiu planned to make Murakami into a ghoul, but he wanted to retain Murakami's martial arts strength.

Those original ghouls only had a pair of sharp claws and a body of leather. Although they could tear a liger alive, they were still far behind Murakami's original strength.

Li Xiu opened his hands, and thousands of streams of light of different colors slowly flowed from his eyes. Countless thin tentacles like tree roots emerged from his body and took root directly in the void.

At the same time, among the ten statues arranged around Hell's Kitchen, golden light suddenly appeared in the eyes of three statues. In the invisible field of vision, countless golden streams of light gathered from various places.

The murmur started to sound again, and despite the bright lights, the room was still dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally stopped in an extremely dim background.

Li Xiu raised his left hand. After a while, his left hand exploded without warning, turning into a dense mass of slender tentacles with a small blade reflecting white light at the tip.

Those thin tentacles surrounded Murakami's body, piercing the flesh and blood and getting in.

A creepy chirping sound sounds like there are countless worms crawling across your body.

Daniel, who had finally regained some strength, was almost vomited by the voice again.

"What power and template should I use?" Li Xiu, who had already made preparations, scratched his head and suddenly thought of a classic character. His eyes lit up and he decided it was you!

As for why I haven't moved yet, why is the preparation work about to be completed? Of course, it is because in conjunction with the setting of thinking in the Cthulhu Mythos, several personalities are directly split to control the tentacles, and I can paddle happily on the side. Fishing.

You are already a mature tentacle, and you must learn to do all the work yourself.

The tentacles connected Li Xiu and Murakami, and wisps of golden light suddenly followed the tentacles and spread from Li Xiu to Murakami's body.

The body that was already dead suddenly opened its eyes!

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"I don't understand why you made that guy so thin and tall, like a stick." Daniel muttered while hiding behind Li Xiu.

In the center of the church courtyard, a skinny old man with a height of two meters looked up at the sky. His white beard was fluttering in the night wind. He was holding a long knife in one hand and holding it behind his back in the other hand. He was armed with a long spear, wearing tattered red warrior armor, and a robe that danced in the wind.

"You know nothing about Ashina Isshin..."