"Hey! What's the warning about? Finish your sentence before you pass out!" Peter shook Star-Lord vigorously, but he was completely out cold.
Peter turned to Strange and Hulk, who were walking over, and complained, "Are we in a TV drama? Someone suddenly shows up, leaves a vague sentence, and keeps us and the audience on edge."
Strange wiped away a nonexistent sweat. "He should be seriously injured."
"But there's no major damage visible on his body," Peter confirmed.
He'd just had Karen roughly scan Star-Lord's body. Aside from being very tired, there were no serious injuries. Logically, he shouldn't have passed out.
Strange shook his head slightly. "If I'm not mistaken, he wasn't injured physically, but spiritually!"
"Spiritually!"
"Yes, his soul is severely depleted. He probably won't wake up until he recovers," Strange said.
Peter's mind was racing: "The Soul... Could he have been injured by the Soul Stone? You said the Soul Stone is the most mysterious of the six, and even you don't know where it is, right?"
Strange frowned.
He suddenly felt that Peter's train of thought actually made a bit of sense.
Now, the Time Stone was with him, the Mind Stone was in Wakanda, and the Power Stone and Reality Stone, along with the Infinity Gauntlet, had been sent to the New York Sanctum.
The Space Stone was still in the Tesseract, but only Loki knew exactly where it was hidden.
Because when leaving Asgard, Thor had entrusted the Tesseract to Loki for safekeeping.
But now Loki was dead, and the Tesseract was lost.
However, no matter what, the Tesseract certainly wouldn't be left out in the open; Loki must have hidden it somewhere.
Thus, only the Soul Stone remained.
It seemed to have never revealed its location, and no one knew where it was.
Actually, there were ways to inflict soul damage, but wasn't this the Infinity War? The successive high-frequency appearances of the Infinity Stones had already triggered a stress response, directly leading them to associate it with the only remaining Soul Stone.
"I'll go see if there's anyone else on the ship. Aren't there several people in the Guardians of the Galaxy?" Peter handed Star-Lord to Hulk.
Hulk pouted, "This skinny kid dares to call himself a Guardian of the Galaxy?"
But he still caught Star-Lord.
Strange nodded, reached out, and touched Star-Lord's forehead. Perhaps he had a way to help Star-Lord stabilize his soul injuries.
After all, the Sorcerer Supreme was also a master of manipulating souls.
Peter entered the spaceship, his Spider-Sense radar expanding. Soon, two faint life signatures appeared in his perception.
Peter quickly walked towards the direction he sensed.
Soon, he saw the two targets.
It was a bit strange.
One of them was actually a withered branch, small, not even as big as Peter's palm, lying on the floor.
A living branch?
No, this was the "tree person" Groot from the Guardians of the Galaxy!
According to the intel, Groot came from Planet X and was a member of the Flora Colossus, the tree-like race on Planet X.
The Flora Colossus on Planet X were brutal, known for conquering nearby planets and enslaving the inhabitants, even using them as fertilizer.
However, this was all information Strange had read in the library of the Sorcerer Supreme on Earth.
He didn't know if the Groot in front of him was the same as the rumored Flora Colossus.
Peter looked towards the other side, which was probably the co-pilot's seat of the ship.
In the co-pilot's seat, a young boy was slumped.
The boy looked to be about Peter's age, wearing a dark green jumpsuit, overlaid with some kind of metallic yellow armor, and a helmet with a red, four-pointed star embedded on it.
At this moment, he was also in a severely injured and unconscious state, just like Groot on the ground and Star-Lord outside.
"Is this also a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy? Why didn't Stephen introduce him? Did he join later?" Peter was a bit puzzled.
At that moment, Groot suddenly raised his head.
"I am... Groot."
Peter squatted down and picked up Groot from the ground.
He then noticed that Groot, whose body was no different from a tree, actually had a pair of adorable big eyes.
However, there was no light in these eyes at the moment, and he looked like he wouldn't last long.
Peter looked around and saw a tipped-over flower pot on a nearby table, with a lot of soil spilled to the side.
So he put Groot aside and scooped up all the soil, putting it back into the flower pot.
Afterward, he buried Groot's lower half in the soil.
Since he was a plant, it should still conform to some basic principles. Burying him in the soil might make him feel better, right?
Peter also found a watering can nearby.
Because the sprinkler was sealed, although it had been smashed to the ground by the crash of the spaceship just now, not a drop of water had spilled out.
Peter picked up the sprinkler, and after opening the switch on top, water flowed out from the outlet, drizzling onto Groot's roots.
After a while, Peter felt that Groot's life force had become slightly more vigorous.
It looked like he'd managed to hold onto life.
Peter tucked the little boy in the seat under his arm, and with his other hand, picked up the flower pot in which Groot was planted, and walked out of the spaceship.
"There are only these two people in the spaceship. It seems that the Guardians of the Galaxy have indeed encountered some problems, and they aren't at full strength," Peter said.
"This... shouldn't be a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy," Strange said, looking at the little boy being held by Peter.
"No? He was sitting in the co-pilot's seat of the spaceship," Peter said, looking down.
Strange frowned, carefully sizing up the little boy.
After a long time, his eyes lit up, and he said, "I remember now. This should be the Nova Corps uniform from Xandar."
"Xandar? Nova Corps? Sounds like the army of a civilized planet?" Peter said.
"Yes," Strange nodded. "Xandar is a very powerful force in the universe. They have always been open to the outside world, embracing tourists, merchants, residents, etc., from different civilizations and races. Because on Xandar, there is the protection of the Nova Corps."
"And the Nova Corps is a powerful armed organization that can directly compete with the Kree Empire. Their protection covers the entire Andromeda Galaxy, so they are also called the Xandar Interstellar Corps."
"So why is he here? A lost child? Where can we find an interstellar broadcast to send a message so his parents can pick him up?" Peter asked, lifting the little boy.
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