Marine Corps, Third Branch Base, Commander's office.
Lin Fan examined the Tesseract in his hand; this blue cube could manipulate spatial power and represented supreme Divine Power in the Marvel Universe.
However, Lin Fan was not clear on how to use the Tesseract, which was quite embarrassing.
Of the many powerful beings in the Marvel Universe who possessed Infinity Stones, only Thanos knew how to use them; he gained infinite knowledge through the Infinity Well to unleash their power.
Legend has it that the Infinity Stones—Space, Time, Soul, Reality, Power, and Mind—were the earliest beings in the Universe; at that time, only it existed, and all things were it, and it was all things.
Later, loneliness led it to choose Death, and its body transformed into the entire Universe, with the six stones being the essence of its being.
Whoever could master these stones could possess the Divine Power to rule this Universe, a Divine Power capable of killing any living being in the Universe, or resurrecting them, or rewriting history; in short, it was omnipotent.
However, there were not only six Infinity Stones.
In Asgard, the Heavenly Palace, in Odin's treasury, there was also an Infinity Gauntlet, on which six Infinity Stones were embedded.
This proved that while there were only six types of Infinity Stones, their quantity was far more than just six.
However, even if Lin Fan could not unleash the Tesseract's full power, he could still use it for spatial teleportation.
The next second.
Lin Fan appeared 12,458 meters underground; the vast underground palace had been continuously transformed day and night by Diggers.
The next second, Lin Fan appeared inside the Initial Zerg Base, which was very convenient.
The Supreme Queen Izsha respectfully said, "Dominator, your actions in the Blood Orchid Ecosystem have once again unlocked a new technology. You can immediately proceed to the Evolution Pit for study."
"No rush, Izsha." Lin Fan teleported to the throne, pulled Izsha to his side, and chuckled, "You have the Zerg database; search it and see if there's a way to make it useful for the Zerg."
"Dominator, please wait." Izsha sat in Lin Fan's arms and touched the Tesseract with her jade hand, then closed her eyes, only opening them a few minutes later: "Izsha has found a way to utilize the Tesseract. However, with the current capabilities of the Initial Zerg Base, only 0.1% of its potential can be utilized."
"Only 0.1%..." Lin Fan fell into contemplation.
Izsha spoke again, "This 0.1% can provide the Zerg with 1000 energy blocks daily as resources, but the Tesseract needs to be fixed within the Initial Zerg Base's technology tree as its Origin."
"This means the Initial Zerg Base can be upgraded. Immediately place the Tesseract into the technology tree." Lin Fan embraced Izsha and teleported to the Evolution Pit.
Izsha smiled, "Dominator, since the Tesseract is embedded in the technology tree, you can use teleportation within the Base without consuming energy."
Handing the Tesseract over to Izsha to handle, Lin Fan touched the technology tree, intending to learn the second technology.
God's Eye, though only an auxiliary technology, was quite useful and applicable in many situations.
He wondered what the second technology would be?
At this moment, multiple information streams poured into Lin Fan's mind.
Damage Sharing!
This was another passive technology; once you learned it, your life would be linked to all your Zerg units.
When your life strength dropped to 60%, all damage you sustained would be distributed based on the number of your Zerg.
Just speaking of Splitters now, Lin Fan had thirty to forty thousand of them; with these basic Zerg sharing the damage, no one could kill him under normal circumstances.
However, as consumables, the basic number of Zerg always fluctuated, and if damage sharing occurred during Zerg combat, many unit types might die as a result, leading to significant resource loss.
But conversely, the Dominator's life was above all else; as long as the Dominator lived, the Zerg would exist forever.
Lin Fan then exited the technology tree, and Izsha came to report that the Tesseract had been placed in the technology tree. After one day, the Tesseract would gather 1000 energy blocks of resources for the Initial Zerg Base, at which point the Zerg Base could be upgraded.
After understanding, Lin Fan returned to the surface.
At the same time.
Fury Nick sought help from Professor X, hoping he could use the Cerebro to find the mysterious force that took the Tesseract!
In the underground Base's surveillance, Zerg emerging from blind spots brutally killed and devoured the guards, and a mysterious black-robed figure wearing a mask easily took the Tesseract.
More than half a day had passed since the incident, yet S.H.I.E.L.D.'s intelligence network had no leads whatsoever. Eventually, they traced it to Stark Tower.
Tony confessed to having contact with the black-robed figure. The first time was near a national forest park, where satellite images showed a huge thermal energy reaction at the time, but it quickly disappeared and hid. The second time was when his drone armor was headshotted by the black-robed figure with a barrett, which was something even the mainstream media knew.
Professor X attached great importance to a Divine Artifact like the Tesseract and immediately accepted Fury Nick's request. Using Cerebro, he could see every Mutant in the World, read their thoughts, and even control them.
But the situation was very complex; the black-robed figure was not a Mutant, and Professor X did not find a brainwave identical to the black-robed figure among the registered Mutants.
This meant Professor X had to conduct another screening among ordinary people.