The middle-aged man stood on a silver star shuttle that looked like a skateboard. His hair and beard were slightly grayed by time. It was obvious that he was of a certain age and was entering the old age stage of his life.
The door of Star-Lord's starfighter opened, and Quill, fully armed and wearing an oxygen-supplying protective helmet, jumped out of the cockpit of the fighter with two guns in hand. He looked at the middle-aged man who had parked the shuttle on the lake with full vigilance, and asked in a cold voice, "Who are you?"
"Quil, after all these years, I finally found you."
The middle-aged man sighed, turned around, his eyes bright as the starry sky, and stared at Quill with deep affection.
When their eyes met, Quill's heart seemed to be shot, and his hand holding the gun trembled violently. He said in disbelief: "You are..."
The middle-aged man nodded gently and smiled, "Yes. I am your father, Ego."
"How could it be..." Quill murmured, subconsciously putting down the gun. Seeing this, Igo showed a kind smile on his face, "I'm sorry for making you suffer, my child."
After Quill was stunned, his eyes became fierce, and he growled like a wounded beast: "Where have you been all these years? Do you know that when my mother was dying and holding my hand, she was still calling your name!"
"I had no choice but to leave." Igo sighed.
Quill took a deep breath, calmed down, looked at Ego, and said in a deep voice: "I have a lot of questions to ask you, about my mother, and about me!"
"No problem, but this isn't a good place for a family reunion." Egg looked around the forest wilderness, pointed at the star shuttle under him, and suggested: "I'll take you to my territory planet, where I can answer you everything you want to know."
Quill had too many unanswered questions in his mind, such as his father's mysterious disappearance, his mother's sudden illness, and himself being taken away from the earth by aliens when he was a child. When he met Ego, who had been confirmed to be his biological father, he naturally had no reason to refuse.
Quill looked at the shuttle, then at the interstellar fighter, and said hesitantly, "Of course you can, but I have some friends on nearby planets."
Igo smiled and said, "It's okay. Come with me. You can come back in a day to arrange for your friends. Or you can ask them to go to our planet together."
"Okay then." Quill hesitated, but finally nodded in agreement.
Soon, Ego's star shuttle led the way, carrying the interstellar fighter piloted by Quill, and they jumped through the sky one after another, heading far away towards galaxies outside the Galactic Alliance.
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At this time, Kyle was still flying in outer space. Since he didn't know his exact location and the tracker was only effective in the same galaxy, he could only move forward in the direction where the signal disappeared.
Superluminal flight is far beyond the most advanced interstellar fighters and spacecraft. Sometimes even fighters need to fly for several months, but now Kyle can complete it in just a dozen minutes.
After crossing countless galaxies, finally, as the green light of the tracker flashed, a cursor in the shape of a fighter plane reappeared on the screen.
Kyle looked at the screen while flying and said to himself, "The fighter plane has stopped. Has it arrived at a planet? The location... is not far ahead!"
Following the navigation instructions of the cursor, Kyle began to slow down gradually, and soon stopped in the space outside the destination planet. His body was still shining with scorching colorful light, but when he saw the scene of the planet in front of him, Kyle still gasped with a tingling scalp.
What I saw lying in front of me was a planet no less big than the Earth. It was a mixture of green and blue that contained a strong breath of life, but its overall shape resembled the head of a middle-aged man. The mountains and rivers also made the contours of its eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose come alive.
"This is... God. Is he still a step too late? What a coincidence that guy just happened to find Quill."
Kyle narrowed his eyes, thought for a moment, and activated the stealth skill that he had not used for a long time. The dark fog enveloped his glowing body, and then he landed on the Skull Planet at the normal speed of a fighter plane.
After passing through the atmosphere, Kyle's flying speed dropped to a lower level. He looked like a giant eagle soaring in the sky and looking down. The planet was filled with green mountains, clear waters, and blooming flowers. It was a beautiful scene full of vitality at a glance.
But when he thought that beneath the ground of this beautiful scene were buried the remains of countless creatures, probably including the bodies of Lucy and Logan, Kyle's eyes became colder than ice.
I hope Lucy and Logan are still alive, otherwise, no matter what the Celestials are, not to mention the entire life planet, even this galaxy will be burned to death by Kyle's anger!
Following the tracker's instructions, Kyle found the starfighter where Star-Lord was staying in front of a palace garden on the planet.
Kyle kept stealthing and approached the side of the palace. His ears suddenly moved, and with his super-sensitive hearing, he heard the conversation between Quill and Ego, as well as the voice of a maid.
"Master Egg, Master Quill, tea is here."
"Okay, go down. Don't disturb our reunion without my order."
"yes."
After the conversation, a Snail Star woman wearing a maid's skirt and with two tentacles on her head walked out with the sound of light footsteps. She held a showerhead and scissors in her hands, and went to the garden outside the palace to start taking care of the flowers and plants.
Kyle, who was hiding in the corner of the palace, watched the tall figure of the Snail Star Maid disappear back into the shadows.
The Snail Star maid was humming a tune while watering the flowers. Suddenly, there was a commotion among the flowers, and an orange kitten lazily poked its head out.
"Oh, my God? Little guy, where are you from? I've never seen you before." The maid was surprised at first, then she put her finger in front of her lips, glanced at the palace building behind her, and said worriedly: "Don't make any noise. If the master hears you, you will be in danger."
The little orange cat opened its eyes wide and tilted its head in confusion. The maid from Snail Star was so touched by the cuteness that she put down the shower head, squatted down, and stretched out her hand to the orange cat, "Be good."
Before the Snail Star Maid's hand reached the fur, the little orange cat suddenly opened its mouth exaggeratedly, swallowed the Snail Star Maid into its mouth, and then ran out of the garden without looking back.
A few kilometers away from the Garden Palace.
When the little orange cat vomited the Snail Star Maid on the grass, the Snail Star Maid opened her eyes after coughing continuously. Kyle was standing right in front of her, looking down at her.
The maid from Snail Star hugged her chest in fear and huddled up. "Who are you? An outsider?"
"You are the maid that Howard was talking about, right? Five years ago, you helped him escape from this planet." Kyle spoke calmly. If it weren't for this reason, he would have used venom to forcibly extract the maid's memory.
When the maid from Snail Star heard Howard's name, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Are you an acquaintance of his?"
"That's not important. Now, answer me a question first."
Kyle clenched his fists and asked, "Are Lucy and Logan still alive?"
Chapter 416 Goodbye Lucy
Planet Ego, the other side of the Garden Palace.
Compared to the plains with blooming flowers and plants all over the mountains, the scene here is completely different. The ground is bare without any grass, and the dark brown surface is covered with dry cracks. There are only a few dead trees, and the leafless and withered branches are like an old man's hands reaching towards the sky.
At the end of the wasteland, there is a large active volcano, like a giant beast lying across the earth. The heat in the air can be felt from kilometers away, and the sky above the crater is covered with dark clouds.
No life will set foot on this dead land, only today is a special exception.
"Is this the place?" Kyle looked at the active volcano in front of him, and then glanced at the Snail Star maid standing behind him and twisting her fingers.
"Yes, I don't know if Miss Lucy and Mr. Logan are still alive. But five years ago, after the battle between the master and Lucy and Logan, an active volcano suddenly formed here." The maid Snail Star stepped on the edge of the green grassland, looking at the dark brown dry land with fear, and whispered with a pale face:
"When the master returns to the palace, he must issue a strict order not to allow any living creature to approach this area. If he finds out, he will feed it to the planet as nutrient fertilizer."
"Everything happens for a reason. There must be something fishy going on."
Kyle narrowed his eyes, thought for a moment, then pulled out a creature card and summoned it directly into existence.
A cloud of mist-like organisms emerged from the air, circling around Kyle, and whispered respectfully, "I will obey your orders, Master."
"Arrogant, keep an eye on her until I come back." Kyle pointed at the maid from Snail Star.
"Yes, Master."