Chapter 1469: Locals and Outsiders

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This had been a delightful harvest, but things couldnt always be good.

At that moment, there was some intelligence Luke had gleaned after the Battle of New York which made things tricky for him like Lokis scepter and the Tesseract.

He had tried putting Lokis scepter into his inventory out of habit.

The system liked to eat mysterious items, so it was best to let the system have a look at whatever was rare.

A scepter that could mislead and control people and a Tesseract that could open a portal these two items were clearly mysterious.

The result was that Luke almost collapsed.

When he had tried to put the scepter into his inventory, the system suddenly popped up with a blood-red warning:

Discovered dimensional matter. Once this matter enters the inventory, mysterious unknown existences will lock onto the presence of the system. To prevent the host from triggering this serious outcome, the system functions will not be used on this matter.

It was thanks to his determination to save New York that Luke hadnt thrown away the scepter on the spot.

After the battle, Tony had proposed that they grab a bite to eat, but Luke turned him down. There was no way he was in the mood at the time; it was already pretty good that he wasnt scratching his head in agitation.

After closing the s.p.a.ce portal, as the closest person, he had naturally taken the Tesseract, which had lost its protective s.h.i.+eld.

Sure enough, he received a similar warning. The difference was that the systems first sentence was, Discovered dimensional matter, the Tesseract.

That was right, the word Tesseract was added to it.

Lukes heart jumped when he received the warning a second time.

At that time, his clone had still been in s.p.a.ce, and was about to blow up the first mothers.h.i.+p with the nuclear missile. Because of Lukes reaction, the clone had slowed down, and was instantly half-crippled.

Luke, who had been distracted, could only have his clone throw out the nuclear weapon before it quickly turned to dust.

Luke had gradually regained control of his emotions.

It was dangerous to be impulsive and controlled by his emotions.

Thus, after he and Selina switched back to their ident.i.ties as police officers, they went out to save people. His newly resummoned clone was busy wrapping up the aftermath, and Luke didnt dwell on it for the time being.

The systems warning was just a warning. No matter how dangerous these unknown existences were, they hadnt been alerted.

Now that he had pa.s.sed the 40 Dexterity threshold, he mulled over it again.

The last time the system had given him a blood-red warning was during his encounter with Mephisto.

Although that person had already f*cked off to h.e.l.l to sleep, there was no doubting his strength.

Whether it was the Vampire Blood G.o.d, the mutant Blood G.o.d, or the ancient Enchantress, they werent qualified to receive the systems blood-red warning, even though the Enchantress had almost killed Batman and Iron Man at the same time.

Luke recalled how the system had sent Mephisto packing.

At that time, the old man had wanted to pry into Lukes soul, and had said that Lukes soul had already signed a contract with someone.

Clearly, this someone was the system that was bound to Lukes soul.

If Mephisto had checked Lukes soul, he would naturally discover the system, so the system immediately activated a counterattack mechanism.

Now, the system had sent out this blood-red warning once more because of the threat of some mysterious unknown existences locking onto it.

Clearly, the system didnt want to be discovered.

Luke had no idea what Lokis scepter was.

But the Tesseract was also called an Infinity Stone.

There were several Infinity Stones in the Marvel universe, and the scepter which the system had evaluated to be the same as the Tesseract was probably another Infinity Stone.

What Thor had let slip was that the scepter didnt belong to Loki.

Simply put, the Battle of New York began with Loki.

After he left Asgard, he obtained this scepter from who knew where, which was embedded with an Infinity Stone, then returned to Earth to seize another Infinity Stone, the Tesseract.

The implications chilled Luke.

Infinity Stones were very important to Asgard, but two of them just happened to fall into Lokis hands!

The plan was for Loki to give the Tesseract to the Chitauri. He didnt seem to know that the scepter also had an Infinity Stone.

Luke easily concluded that someone was collecting Infinity Stones!

Luke didnt believe that a good person like that existed in the universe. In a universe where the strong preyed on the weak, fools didnt live for long.

This weighed heavily on his heart.

Putting the matter of Loki stealing the Tesseract aside for now, Luke questioned the system for a while.

In the end, he sighed with relief.

The abilities attached to the system couldnt be used on Infinity Stones, but that was all.

It wasnt a problem for Luke himself to touch the Infinity Stones.

Just like when he had stabbed the Tesseract with the scepter, the system hadnt responded at all.

Recalling that, he couldnt help but look down at himself, and a thought suddenly flashed through his mind. Was that why he had become Luke Coulson?

According to the system, it absolutely wasnt possession or rebirth.

In this life, Luke Coulson had been born and raised here for twenty years, and was a local born and bred.

What he got at level 5 was a super learning module, not a super copy module, and he couldnt learn magical abilities.

The super learning module only allowed him to experience big effects until he possessed the ability himself.

This sort of system indeed wasnt very convenient, but it could ensure that the abilities he had were completely his own.

Thus, even after beating up Mephisto for a while, the other party hadnt shown any special reaction apart from holding a grudge.

Thus, even after holding the scepter for a while, the mysterious unknown existences hadnt locked onto him.

That was because Luke Coulson was a local of this world.

The system had prevented Mephisto from looking into Lukes soul because it didnt want Mephisto to find out.

It had rejected placing the Infinity Stones in the inventory because the latter was its ability.

Placing an Infinity Stone inside would be like putting the system face to face with an Infinity Stone.

From how the system called them dimensional matter, one could tell that Infinity Stones were definitely special. It wasnt hard to understand why the system was unwilling for some mysterious unknown existence to lock onto it.

It would be like Luke entering the Federal Reserve Banks vault. How could the American government not go crazy and cause trouble?

An Infinity Stone was equivalent to the vault for the mysterious unknown existences. If Luke dared to let the system swallow it, these unknown existences would come knocking to swallow him up.

More importantly, the system was probably an outsider or a stowaway.

It was like the old games from Lukes previous life.

A stowaway running off to plunder a vault was a complete deviation from the expectation that they would remain in hiding.

Therefore, the system would never use its functions on Infinity Stones, much less eat them.

After understanding everything, Luke dispelled the faint regret in his heart.