Chapter 1398 The Call of the Stars (Twenty-Four)

Schiller took a sip of wine and sighed slowly.

For a long time before, he was busy making all kinds of people unlucky. From wanting Valhalla and paying attention to death, until OAAA hung this universe outside the big world, he was busy with long-term planning and ignored a very thorny problem at the moment, that is, the growth of young heroes.

A little thought about the current situation on Earth shows that what human civilization lacks most now is talent, not superheroes.

The scope of talent not only includes scientists who master knowledge and technology, but in fact, there is not much shortage of technical and inventive talents. What is lacking now is mainly the backbone of leaders with good organizational skills, a sense of justice, and sufficient physical strength and energy for serious work.

To a certain extent, how much water a bucket can hold depends not only on the short and long boards of the wooden barrel, but also on the density and hardness of most other boards. If most of the other boards are leaking and lacking screws, it is meaningless to discuss how long the long board is and how short the short board is, because it is bound to leak.

The problem facing mankind is that, apart from Schiller, almost no one could have imagined that the times would develop so fast, and young heroes represented by the interns of the Avengers, the students under Matt, and the independent youth hero teams like the New Warriors were still trained as superheroes for a long time.

They are just and energetic, and under long-term guidance and training, they also have good military strength and strategic minds. The only problem is that there are too many muscles in their brains.

Again, although education is people-oriented, what individuals can develop into depends on their own talents and efforts, but it is not impossible to find problems from the social level.

Schiller almost single-handedly pushed human civilization forward a big step, but after pushing this big step, he was busy winding a ball of yarn. As a result, this group of young heroes who could have become the best talent reserve are still limited to upholding justice on the streets, punishing evil and promoting good, and fighting with enemies.

Among them, those with strong organizational skills can at most pull together a team of several people like a night thrush, and can barely make the team run without too much trouble.

And those with poor organizational skills are even more bizarre. Some are eccentric and solitary, some wear masks and are chatterboxes, too soft to take off, hesitant, and believe everything others say.

It sounds like a character defect, which seems difficult to correct, but in fact, it is just that in the educational environment they are in, their teachers, elders and peers do not realize that the responsibilities they need to bear in the future will require them to have better judgment, the courage to make decisions in time, the concentration to focus on the goal from beginning to end, and the willpower to execute to the end.

Because becoming a street hero does not actually require these traits, you just need to be kind and good at fighting, but the times are changing too fast. Now street heroes can no longer solve the problem, or it is too wasteful to use them to solve the problem of street security, so they naturally have to learn these traits.

Therefore, the fundamental contradiction faced by young heroes now is the contradiction between the growing demand for leadership talent reserves on Earth and the lack of education for young heroes with potential.

After a little more free time, Schiller also discovered this, but because he had not paid attention to these young heroes for a while and did not know what their level was, he found Matt in advance, hoping to understand the level of the young heroes.

But Matt showed him how good these young people were, which made Schiller realize that the problem of insufficient education in some aspects was not the students, but the teachers.

The teachers' concepts have not changed, and they still hope that everyone can have strong force, a peaceful state of mind, and a kind concept. This is not wrong, but it is not suitable for the current era.

Then the education around these aspects seems a bit backward, and the Daredevil Matt, Captain America Steve, who is responsible for this education, and even Stark, who teaches Spider-Man knowledge and technology, are not good at sociology. They can't weave webs, let alone entangle wool balls.

Obviously, in this era, it is unrealistic to solve problems by brute force alone. The wheel of history rolls forward, and the tide of the times washes away the sand. Many contradictions are not right or wrong at all, but just conflicts between the new and the old.

Therefore, the idea of ​​distinguishing good from bad first, and then retaining the good and defeating the bad, will inevitably give birth to a metaphysical way of dealing with things. If it is not restrained, it will only do bad things with good intentions, turn justice into dictatorship, and fall into another trap of zero-sum thinking.

Schiller knew this clearly, but he knew even more that he could not rush up and say to everyone "You taught wrong" or "You learned wrong". Strong force and justice are important at all times, but Schiller is more concerned about the missing part.

So, Schiller sent Hydra agents to the Bronx where the protests broke out, but these agents did not deliberately intensify the contradictions or stop the riots. Instead, they let it go and observed what methods the young superheroes represented by the New Warriors team took when facing this matter.

This can be said to be a test to find out the bottom line. Although Schiller does not care whether they do well or not, he just needs an evaluation result, but the final result can still be called terrible.

The restraint and caution that Matt has always emphasized to these young heroes have become another kind of shackle. Although those impulsive and irritable young people will not cause big trouble due to this constraint, those leaders who are originally decisive will also be timid and hesitant.

This can be said to be the worst result.

Schiller is not actually worried that the young heroes will be reckless, make mistakes due to lack of experience, or be unable to distinguish right from wrong because of being deceived. What he fears most is that the young people will show a hesitant attitude of swinging left and right, neither advancing nor retreating, wanting to say but not daring to say, wanting to do but not daring to do.

Because the former mistakes are only because they are young, they are easy to solve with the growth of experience, but if it is the latter, it means that to some extent their personality is being shaped by an unhealthy environment.

Professor X's evaluation of Lilandra, the queen of the Shi'ar Empire, is exactly like this. He agrees with something but dares not agree completely, and opposes something but will not oppose it to the end. He constantly comforts himself by saying "quit when you are ahead", but in fact he just lacks judgment and courage.

The environment that shaped Lilandra was of course very bad. She grew up in oppression, had no inheritance rights, and was not the most favored. Because she had no one to rely on, she could only be cautious, and over the years she had shaped a conservative, cowardly, and wavering personality.

Perhaps from another perspective, the young heroes on Earth are also in this environment. The higher-level planners, such as the members of the Glorious Alliance, basically will not discuss any layout of human future development with them, and the heroes who are close to them, such as Daredevil Matt and Captain America Steve, are not full-time teachers, but just take time to come and teach them.

And their companions are just as confused as them. In the tide of the times, the short life experience they have spent for more than ten or twenty years is not enough to tell them the answers to all their questions. No one tells them whether they are important, and no one tells them how to make themselves more important.

So, like the blind drifters of the times, they empathize with the hardships of the lower-class people, and feel frustrated because they have extraordinary abilities but cannot change the situation.

The way they deal with this pain and confusion is to think.

Then it has been two months since the protests broke out in the Bronx, and most members of the New Warriors team are still thinking, and they have not thought about the point at all.

The pure Spider-Man is wondering whose fault it is, the Night Thrush from the rich class is wondering which class should bear more responsibility, Speedball Robert is thinking about how to have the best of both worlds without hurting anyone, and Xu Shangqi is thinking about the good and bad of productivity development for ordinary people.

Everyone sat there and daydreamed. They didn't think together, so naturally they couldn't act together, but they knew they couldn't sit and wait for death, so they could only passively slack off and patrol for several months, as if maintaining public order had solved the problem.

From Schiller's perspective, the previous generation's plan had already left them with a large enough margin for error. Even if they really caused a big explosion and killed dozens or hundreds of people, Schiller could find a way to get them back from the kingdom of death.

But they sat there without moving. Although they would not make mistakes, in the long run, their judgment of events, their keenness in grasping opportunities, and the inspiration needed to make plans would be worn away in the long-term waste of time.

In time, there will definitely be a broader stage for the people of the Glorious Alliance. These young heroes will always step forward and lead mankind to move forward. But by then, if they are just a group of leaders who are good at fighting, hesitant when encountering things, and sitting there daydreaming all day, it will really be a disaster for human civilization.

While drinking and eating, Schiller told Matt about his ideas. He mentioned: "I contacted Spider Silk before and gave her a separate task, asking her to find the more special ones in all universes, especially those with danger."

"And in the results she gave me, I found a very special universe. Spider Silk's evaluation of this universe is that she only projected her attention to this universe through the spider totem, and the spider sense sounded like a brain explosion."

"Isn't that dangerous?" Matt said with his eyes wide open.

"It is indeed dangerous, and it is an extraordinary and unimaginable danger." Schiller nodded and said, "The most important thing is that these young heroes have powerful abilities far beyond ordinary people, and I am afraid that they cannot guarantee their survival."

"What?" Matt immediately raised his voice, staring at Schiller with lifeless eyes and said, "Then how can you ensure..."

"Although they will definitely be injured and bleed, and even die to some extent, I will not throw these greenhouse flowers directly into hell without making any preparations."

"In fact, I have already sent people to investigate the examination room, and cleared as many unnecessary obstacles as possible, and even slightly reduced the difficulty."

Schiller drank the last sip of wine, put the glass on the table, looked into Matt's eyes with a cold look that he couldn't understand, and said:

"Don't blame me for letting your close child die. If I had a child, he would definitely be the first to bear the brunt."

Then, Schiller's focused eyes showed that kind of neurotic smile again.

"After all, I have rich experience in torturing my own children."

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