Although Russell had discussed this matter with Eileen before, and Eileen also agreed.
But Erin has now changed her mind, which doesn't surprise him.
"It's not that I don't want to go to Earth with you, it's just that I'm not mentally ready yet."
"When you come back next time, I will go to Earth with you."
Erin lay on Russell's chest and said softly.
"Well, it doesn't matter. Whenever you want to go to Earth, I will take you there."
Russell said while stroking Irene's hair.
After playing Ludo with Irene, he did not leave Xandar immediately. Instead, he stayed on Xandar for two days and spent some time with Irene.
On the third day, he used the portal to return to the Void Land.
Then, he called Gamora and others to the living room of the suite where he lived.
"I told you a few days ago that I have a new mission for you."
"The task I want to give you is very simple, which is to ask you to go to Xandar to protect a person."
Russell said to Gamora and others.
"Who to protect?"
Gamora asked quickly.
"Irene Nikolai, the only daughter of Xandar's current Rising Star Supreme!"
Russell said calmly.
The only daughter who protects Nova Supreme?
After hearing his words, Gamora and others all showed incredible expressions.
It's not that they don't know the relationship between Russell and Irene, it's just that they don't understand the significance of Russell's arrangement.
As Russell just said, Erin is the only daughter of the current rising star, Supreme George.
On Xandar, Irene is not 100% safe, but her life is not in danger either.
If he couldn't protect his only daughter on Xandar, then George, the new star supreme, would be too incompetent.
"Can I ask, why do you want us to protect Irene Nicola?"
Gamora asked doubtfully.
"It's very simple, just in case."
"Although Irene's father, George, is the current Nova Supreme, this does not mean that Irene is absolutely safe on Xandar."
"I'm going to return to Earth for a while, and it's not convenient to take care of Irene at any time, so I plan to arrange for you to go there and protect her."
Russell said calmly.
Although this reason sounds very reasonable, Gamora and others are still a little confused.
Even if Irene may be in danger, with George's current power, he can still protect Irene's life.
Unless someone within the Nova Corps wants to deal with Irene.
This guess quickly flashed through Gamora's mind.
Although she had doubts, she did not continue to ask Russell.
Although Russell's tone is very calm now, Russell obviously will not tell them the real reason.
In fact, Russell planned to arrange for Gamora and others to protect Irene not to prevent people within the Nova Corps from threatening Irene, but to prevent Xandar's super life computer "World Consciousness".
Although "World Consciousness" is not a normal life and may not have emotions like humans, no one can guarantee that when No. 3 attacks "World Consciousness", "World Consciousness" will take some drastic revenge actions.
Russell will not forget that the Nova Corps' unique Nova energy is under the control of the super life computer "World Consciousness".
If "World Consciousness" intends for people to harm Erin, it doesn't need to use people from the Nova Corps at all.
It only needs to open up the authority of the Nova Domain to others to get a large number of killers with Nova energy.
Russell had not considered telling George about this, but considering George's current status, he decided to ignore George and arrange his own secret protector.
And it just so happened that Gamora and others had recently taken refuge with him.
Russell may not be a very qualified leader, but he is definitely a very experienced hands-off manager.
Since Gamora and others are here, the matter of secretly protecting Irene can be left to them.
Of course, in addition to the secret protection of Gamora and others, he will also leave some other means of self-protection for Irene.
For example, leaving a divine clone on call.
For him who is already a heavenly father-level god, this is not a difficult task.
He only needs to leave a divine power identity on standby in the Kingdom of God, and then give the method of contacting the divine power clone to Irene, and Irene can contact the divine power clone when encountering danger.
Although the strength of the divine clone is not as good as the original one, it is enough to deal with the possible revenge of the super life computer "World Consciousness".
Of course, he would not tell George about Gamora and others' secret protection of Irene, nor would he tell Gamora and others about the divine clone.
Although Gamora and others have become his subordinates and have proven their loyalty with actions, they still have no need to know the existence of divine clones.
"The Nova Corps is still looking for us. If we want to go to Xandar to protect Miss Irene, we may need some preparation time."
"Otherwise, we won't be able to appear in Nova City."
Gamora continued.
"Don't worry, the wanted warrant on you was canceled a few days ago."
"Even if you arrive in Nova City, the Nova Legion will not want you."
After hearing Russell's words, Gamora and others were stunned for a moment.
However, when they thought that the Erin they wanted to protect was the only daughter of Nova Supreme George, they came to their senses.
Although the Nova Corps is not the official representative of the Nova Supreme, it is not difficult for George to lift the wanted orders of several fugitives.
"Then when do you want us to leave?"
Gamora asked Russell.
"The more open the better."
"If you have nothing else to do, you can set off now."
"By the way, this money will be used as funds for your activities while protecting Irene."
Russell took out a crystal card from the system space and handed it to Gamora.
The second he took out this crystal card, Gamora recognized it as the reward originally given by the Collector.
To be precise, half the reward.
This crystal card is a "bank card" produced by the Tivan Group. It can be used to exchange the Tivan coins in it into local currencies in proportion to civilizations such as Xandar or the Kree Empire.
Russell will return to Earth soon, and this crystal card has no value to him.
More importantly, as a hands-off shopkeeper, he knows one thing very well, that is, when asking his subordinates to work, he must not let his subordinates work in vain.
Not only that, if conditions permit, they can finally give their subordinates an expensive reward that they did not expect.
"good!"
Gamora did not refuse and directly took the crystal card handed over by Russell.
"By the way, you went to Xandar to protect Irene secretly. If it's not necessary, you don't need to contact Irene, just protect her secretly."
Russell continued.
"no problem!"
Gamora didn't think there was any problem with this and answered quickly.
"Okay, there's nothing else to do, you can set off."
"Then we'll leave first."
After saying that, Gamora left the living room with Star-Lord and others.
When Gamora and others left, Russell opened the portal back to Earth without any hesitation.
A circular portal shining with golden sparks appeared in the living room.
Russell walked straight in.
Earth.
Zhenglian Headquarters.
After returning to the Zhenglian headquarters, which he had not been back to for a while, Russell immediately discovered that the amount of cosmic energy that the earth could absorb was pitiful.
However, he didn't pay too much attention to this matter.
Not long after he obtained the secret power of the universe, he had already confirmed this.
He did not use magic or divine power to teleport directly back to the study, but slowly walked towards the study.
As before, the Zhenglian headquarters seemed a little quiet.
Although there are many people who belong to Zhenglian now, there are not many people who are qualified to move and live freely in Zhenglian headquarters.
After arriving in the study, Russell called out the clone of No. 3.
"Did anything big happen on Earth while I was away?"
"No, sir, nothing major happened on earth during your absence."
The clone program on No. 3 immediately answered.
"Then compile a list of all Zhenglian's activities during this period and give it to me."
"In addition, hand over the collected information about the Eternals."
Russell continued.
"Okay, sir!"
The clone program on No. 3 said quickly.
Not long after, all the activity information of Zhenglian during this period and the Eternals intelligence that had been collected were projected onto the holographic projection virtual screen.
Although the clone program of No. 3 is slightly worse than the main body of No. 3 in terms of performance, the clone program of No. 3 still has extremely excellent information processing capabilities.
Russell said nothing and quickly browsed the projected information.
Overall, Zhenglian has become a behemoth that the whole world cannot ignore.
In addition to the core members of Zhenglian headquarters, the personnel currently active outside Zhenglian are mainly divided into two categories.
One type is the Hydra members who have completely surrendered to him.
The other category is former S.H.I.E.L.D. agents such as Captain America and Natasha.
There's not much to say about Hydra.
With the support of Zhenglian, Hydra is now almost the master of the underground world, changing its previous "low-key" style.
Although its strength has become much stronger and its style has become much more high-profile, Hydra is still basically doing its old business, doing some highly profitable things in the underground world.
Of course, Hydra doesn't do everything.
For example, Hydra is not involved in such serious things as drug and human smuggling.
In addition to Hydra, which is becoming more and more high-profile in the underground world, those currently representing the alliance and operating outside are mainly former S.H.I.E.L.D. agents such as Captain America and Natasha.
Some of the core members of Zhenglian are now staying in Russell's Kingdom of God.
For example, Diana and Wanda.
The other part is conducting some scientific research in the Zhenglian headquarters, such as Peter and Banner.
In addition, Gwen and Kara are living in New York as before.
Although SHIELD has been disbanded, Captain America, Natasha and others have not been idle.
However, their main target now is not Hydra, but other organizations.
For example, consider a terrorist organization with little strength but huge ambitions.
Although they were dealing with ordinary terrorist organizations, Captain America, Natasha and others did not underestimate each other and still went all out to deal with these terrorist organizations.
After reading the activity reports of Hydra, Captain America and others, Russell focused on the information about the Eternals.
Although the Eternals are very low-key now, so low-key that most people don't know about them, as long as they are still on the earth, Zhenglian's intelligence network will have a way to find them.
Especially when Russell knew their approximate identities.
Circe, Tina, Ikaris, Ajak, Ginger, Water Elf, Druid...
Looking at the names and photos on the screen, Russell nodded with satisfaction.
The Eternals in his memory.
No, to be precise, most of the Eternals members on Earth have been found.
The only one who was not found was Makari, who was deaf-mute and a speedster.
If he remembered correctly, Makari should be living alone in that triangular spaceship now.
Therefore, Russell was not surprised that no information about her was collected.
After looking at the information from several other people, Russell turned off the holographic projection screen in front of him.
Although the real mission of Cirsi, Tina and others is to ensure the birth of Thiam, the new member of the Celestial Group, they do not know their true mission now.
The only one who knows this is the leader of the team, Ajak.
After thinking quickly, Russell decided to go see Ajak first.
From a certain perspective, his and Ajak's goals are the same.
Although Ajak is the leader of the team, she does not really want the new member of the Celestial Team, Thiam, to be born.
Because the "divine appearance" brought about by Thiam's birth will completely destroy the entire earth.
After living on the earth for so long, Ajak already has some inexplicable feelings for the earth.
No matter what her reasons were, as long as she didn't want Thiam to be born, Russell felt that he could have a chat with her.
As for whether a consensus can be reached, he doesn't really care.
Ajak's superpower is healing and he is not good at fighting.
Even if she fights without permission, she won't have any chance of winning in front of Russell.
Although he knew the specific location of Ajak, Russell did not go to find her immediately.
Ajak won't leave the earth anyway, so it doesn't matter if he goes there later.
More importantly, he still had some other things to deal with before meeting Ajak.
For example, spending time with Gwen, Kara and others.
Since he became a heavenly father-level god, his time with Gwen, Kara and others has become shorter and shorter.
Since there happened to be nothing particularly urgent to deal with right now, he planned to spend some time with Gwen, Kara and others, and fulfill his responsibilities as a boyfriend.
After making up his mind, he teleported directly to the Kingdom of God without any hesitation.
Kara, Gwen and others need some good company, especially Diana.
After returning to the Kingdom of God, Russell came to the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion without looking back.
Then, he discovered that Diana was not in the Kingdom of God now.