Duval looked at Coulson's innocent face and felt that this guy was insincere.
"Coulson, although we are not friends, at least I don't want you to deceive me with bad rhetoric."
Duval looked at Coulson with a strange gaze: "You are S.H.I.E.L.D., S.H.I.E.L.D. with a long history and numerous actions that directly affect human history, not an organization established in the last century as rumored outside... So, do I have to make it clear?"
Duval understood this world. If there were no Mutants, it would be fine, but with Mutants, things involving the Eternals and Deviants became even more troublesome.
Looking at the multiverse, the origin of Mutants is the same in most cases: Deviants.
Therefore, unless in very few cases, Duval had reason to conclude that the Mutants in his universe also originated from the extinct Deviants.
The Celestials are conducting experiments on many life planets, creating two opposing groups, the Eternals and the Deviants, and judging them every once in a while. The groups that pass the judgment can survive, and those that fail will be exterminated.
A typical example is the Skrulls. As another branch of the Deviants, they killed the Eternals on their planet and passed the Celestials' review, becoming one of the three major interstellar empires that dominate the galaxy today.
As a result, the Skrulls became arrogant. They and their Skrull gods wanted to do to the Kree what the Celestials did to the Skrulls, but they messed it up. The Kree used their power to rise at an exaggerated speed and became their most powerful enemy.
The Eternals and Deviants on Earth are also made by the Celestials.
Before Ikaris and his Eternals, there were older batches of Eternals and Deviants who dominated the Earth earlier than humans and established a strong civilization 20,000 years ago, directly affecting the history of the Earth! Many years ago, when humans were still primitive, the Celestials had already selected Earth as a large-scale experimental field and created the Eternals with perfect genes—Thanos' ancestors—and the Deviants with infinite mutation genes—barely considered the ancestors of the Mutants.
20,000 years ago, the Earth was an era when Eternals and Deviants ruled everything. At that time, Deviants were intelligent beings, capable of developing technology, building cities, and manufacturing interstellar warships. They were not the same as the "Deviants" that Ikaris and the other 11 Eternals dealt with, who were more like large wild dogs.
The two major races went to war for the hegemony of Earth.
The ending was surprisingly similar to that of the Skrulls—the Deviants with infinite mutation genes won.
The Eternals with perfect genes were defeated and fled Earth to Titan. During the migration, they were also attacked by the Kree Empire, one of the three major empires in the galaxy. A large number of their people were placed on the dissection table by the Kree for live experiments, and another human branch was born as a result—the Inhumans, now located on the moon and led by the Skyfather-level powerhouse Black Bolt.
The Deviants won a narrow victory, but before they could truly enjoy the fruits of victory, they were judged by the Celestials as unqualified products and were tragically exterminated.
But the Deviants were extinct, and their mutation genes were fortunately passed down to the then weak humans. After generations of reproduction, they became Mutants.
This was a major event that happened 20,000 years ago and changed the course of Earth's history. Without this major event, there would be no Mutants today. Conversely, as long as there are Mutants, it means that there must have been Deviants with infinite mutation genes who have become extinct in this world.
As for the series of chain reactions that followed, such as the disappearance of the two races leading to a vacuum of power on Earth, the great demon Zarathos of hell had the opportunity to invade the Earth; in order to fight against the demons, a large number of Spirits of Vengeance fell from the sky with fire rain. One of the Spirits of Vengeance combined with a motorcycle man many years later and became the Ghost Rider...
Major events such as the rise of the Mutant Apocalypse, the gods of the World Tree joining forces to fight against a squadron of Celestials thousands of years ago, Zhang Heng of the Eastern Han Dynasty making a Celestial give birth, Da Vinci building the Sun Armor to kill into the sun and expel the young Celestial, and the separation of S.H.I.E.L.D. China Branch and S.H.I.E.L.D. can all be traced back to the struggle between the Eternals and the Deviants.
Well, Thanos slaughtered Titan and almost killed all the Eternals originating from Earth, which is even more so.
Therefore, when Duval knew that there were Mutants on Earth in this universe, he had already prepared himself mentally and was constantly collecting various information to find traces hidden in the corners of history.
And S.H.I.E.L.D., one of the two major branches of the global extraordinary organization "Holy Shield Brotherhood" established by Zhang Heng and others during the Eastern Han Dynasty, how could they know nothing about the Deviants? Okay, even if S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't know about the orthodox Deviants who were exterminated by the Celestials 20,000 years ago, after all, at that time, humans were still the younger brothers of the Eternals and Deviants, don't they know about the inferior Deviants like wild dogs that were thrown into the Earth by the Celestial named Arishem in the past few thousand years? These 11 Eternals, as the new tools created and repeatedly used by Arishem to deal with inferior Deviants, constantly kill various Deviants. Could it be that S.H.I.E.L.D. didn't monitor it at all and didn't leave any records? Don't be kidding.
Coulson's face changed completely.
"This is not right." Coulson frowned, staring into Duval's eyes, "I don't understand. We have searched all the information and confirmed that you are indeed a somewhat intelligent scientist, but you can't possibly have access to this level of information!"
"Why?"
"Because of the platform, you have never stood on a decent platform. There is no reason to obtain these things buried in history."
"Then, Coulson, is there a possibility that the things you found about me are just what I want you to see?" Duval smiled meaningfully.
Coulson was silent. He still firmly believed that Duval was talking nonsense, but this conflicted logically with the fact that Duval had mastered secret information.
After a while, Coulson determined that he could not dig out Duval's own secrets from Duval's mouth, so he put the probing direction on the Deviants: "If I guessed correctly, Ikaris is not that kind of giant reptile Deviant?"
"If you are talking about the batch of Deviants that appeared in the past few thousand years, it is indeed not the same thing." Duval's answer seemed a little confusing.
But Coulson understood in seconds, and a huge horror surged in his eyes.
Outrageous, Duval actually knew about the Deviants who briefly dominated the Earth? That was all 20,000 years ago. Even their long-standing S.H.I.E.L.D. didn't know much about that period of history! "I will report our conversation truthfully. So this is one of your trump cards. I just don't know if you have a stable source of information, or if you have personally experienced many major events in human history?"
Coulson became completely interested in Duval. He decided to go back and search through S.H.I.E.L.D.'s documents to find clues about Duval in the historical records.
Yes, he suspected that Duval was a historical figure with an extremely long lifespan who had lived to modern society.
This was not uncommon. For example, the demon Mutant Red Devil, who was valued by Magneto, was an old guy who had lived for five or six thousand years, from the Apocalypse era to the present.
Duval shrugged and made a gesture of invitation.
Coulson considered his words: "Since Ikaris is not a Deviant, this is the best result, otherwise things would be troublesome. You know what I'm talking about, right? The real Deviants of ancient times are extinct. Another batch of Deviants that have appeared in the past few thousand years—let's call these reptiles 'Deviants' for the time being, that's good."
Duval nodded knowingly. If Ikaris was really a orthodox intelligent Deviant with infinite mutation genes 20,000 years ago, the problem would be big.
Don't forget, there is also a group of dangerous Mutants on Earth. They will also investigate their origins to prove that Mutants are more noble than humans, and maybe they have already found some clues.
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