Chapter 582 She did it on purpose

Chapter 582: Chapter 582 She did it on purpose

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Star-Lord Quill, standing to the side, was completely dumbfounded at this moment.

He rubbed his eyes, simply unable to believe his own eyesight.

This ruthless, cold-blooded, and hot-tempered female assassin in the Milky Way Galaxy would actually show such a bashful, maiden-like expression in front of a man?!

Homelander did not give everyone any more time for exclamation.

He let go of Nebula and took a step back.

He simply nodded to Ancient One, Steve, Tony, and the others as a farewell.

Afterwards, he raised the Tesseract with one hand and activated it with his mind.

A dazzling blue light erupted, and Homelander turned his head slightly, leaving everyone with a profile of his face.

"Everyone."

Homelander smiled faintly.

"Goodbye, Earth."

With that, his figure instantly collapsed, turning into a blue speck of light that vanished into thin air.

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The next moment, Homelander’s tall and straight figure directly appeared in the lobby of the V.G.D. Headquarters.

The originally noisy footsteps and conversations in the lobby instantly stopped.

All the Vought employees stopped what they were doing and stood up collectively.

Immediately after, continuous applause and deafening cheers erupted in the lobby.

Homelander wore a gentle smile on his face.

"You’ve all worked hard. Earth is safe, and we did it together."

Afterwards, he did not linger, just nodded slightly in greeting, strode through the corridor, and walked toward the exclusive elevator.

The elevator went straight to the CEO Zu office.

"Skynet." Homelander sat down on the sofa chair.

No one answered; only his echo remained in the room.

This was extremely unusual.

Usually, as long as he stepped in here, Skynet would always appear at the very first moment.

She would hold a cup of 37.5°C fresh milk and press close to him with that soft and voluptuous body.

"Skynet, reply." He shouted again, raising his voice a bit.

At this moment, blue ripples appeared in the air, and Skynet’s intelligent avatar projection appeared in the air.

"Sir, you are back." The intelligent avatar’s voice was as gentle as Skynet’s, but lacked human emotion.

"Where is she?" Homelander walked over to the bar counter and poured himself a glass of milk.

"Sir," the intelligent avatar replied, "the master control consciousness is currently offline. Thirty minutes ago, in the Level 1 interrogation room at the headquarters, she lost all signal sources."

Homelander’s brows furrowed even tighter.

Lost signal?

"Pull up the surveillance footage. Immediately." Homelander commanded.

"As you wish, sir."

The holographic projection switched, turning into the surveillance footage inside the interrogation room.

In the footage, Skynet was sitting in a professional suit in front of a metal table.

And sitting across from her, tightly locked to the chair by special alloy handcuffs, was a man wearing a suit.

Even while locked up, that man’s face still carried an inexplicable sense of superiority.

Suddenly, several orange rectangular light doors lit up behind Skynet. 𝘧𝓇ℯℴ𝓂

A group of soldiers wearing riot armor, blast helmets, and holding short batons rushed out from the light doors.

"Stop." Homelander ordered.

Homelander carefully observed the equipment of these uninvited guests.

As expected, they were the Minutemen of the Time Variance Authority from his impression.

Their movements were extremely professional, and their tactical coordination was flawless.

Two Agents immediately stepped forward to untie the captive man’s shackles, while the remaining Agents surrounded Skynet in a fan shape.

"Continue playing."

The video continued.

Facing this sudden situation, Skynet did not take immediate action.

She only slowly stood up, her gaze scanning coldly over these Agents.

A lead Agent raised the baton in his hand and swung it toward Skynet.

Something unexpected to Homelander happened.

Skynet in the footage merely stepped back half a step and was hit on the shoulder by that baton; afterwards, Skynet’s movements seemed as if they had been put on slow motion.

Immediately following that, an Agent quickly stepped forward and fastened a strange collar onto Skynet’s neck.

Skynet did not resist.

She was submissively escorted by two Agents, following them into the orange light door.

As the last Agent entered, the light door subsequently contracted and vanished without a trace.

The video froze, and playback ended.

Homelander stared at the screen, falling into deep thought.

Skynet was caught? And captured so easily by a bunch of mooks?

This was simply the height of absurdity.

Taking ten thousand steps back, no matter how advanced the equipment of the Time Variance Authority was, it might be possible to make Skynet suffer under a full surprise attack, but the situation in the video was by no means a surprise attack.

Skynet completely had the time and ability to counterattack.

But she didn’t; this defied logic.

Homelander quickly reasoned in his mind.

After eliminating all impossible options, then the truth is clear.

She did it on purpose.

Skynet herself did not know of the existence of the Time Variance Authority.

To her, this bunch of guys who caused spacetime dislocation anomalies and made quite a few heroes vanish into thin air was an unknown massive threat.

And Skynet’s biggest disadvantage was that she had no way whatsoever to track the destination of those orange light doors.

Since she didn’t know the enemy’s location and purpose, the best method was to follow the clues to find the source.

Therefore, when the TVA people appeared, Skynet made a bold tactical decision: play along with their ruse and pretend to be captured.

Only by going deep into the enemy’s lair could she figure out the true bottom line and location of this organization.

Thinking of this, Homelander felt assured.

If she really went along with them on purpose, then with Skynet’s meticulous logic, she would definitely leave a backup plan.

"Search the system interior." Homelander commanded the intelligent avatar, "Look for any encrypted documents or hidden protocols recently created by Skynet’s main body."

The intelligent avatar’s data stream flickered rapidly.

"Retrieval complete, sir. An encrypted document has been found, created thirty-two minutes and fifteen seconds ago."

"Open it."

"Okay, sir. This file requires your voice authorization password."

Homelander blurted out: "Genesis."

"Password correct, the file has been decrypted."

On the holographic projection, a passage of text slowly emerged.

"Sir, if you are seeing this document, it means I have temporarily left my post. Please forgive my unauthorized action.

This suddenly appearing armed personnel masters a spacetime travel technology completely surpassing our current database.

Not only did they silently take away the prisoner, but they can also manipulate local time.

Since their teleportation coordinates cannot be parsed, to ensure your safety, I must figure out their origin and purpose.

So I decided to voluntarily be captured and infiltrate their organization.

Please do not worry about my safety; a quantum tie generator has already been implanted inside my body in advance.

This generator is connected to the headquarters’ time machine; once I figure out their bottom line and confirm the safe coordinates, I will immediately activate the signal.

Once the signal is activated, the time machine will be able to lock onto my position and establish a link with me.

At that time, you will need to bring me back to the original spacetime or teleport me to my current location.

Everything will be based on your will as the criterion.

Looking forward to meeting you again.

Yours, Skynet."