Chapter 1401 The Call of the Stars (End)
On the first floor of the cafe, a small pot on the flame was bubbling with fragrant vegetable soup. The tomatoes had been melted, and the sweet and sour aroma permeated the fibers of other vegetables. Xu Shangqi brought out a plate of fried noodles, Riley was still heating up his semi-finished pizza, and Wanda had already sat down at the table and was ready to eat.
"I'm sorry, I'm not very good at cooking." Miss Witch shrugged, and then she felt a pair of hands around her neck and tied a napkin for her.
"Thank you, Jarvis."
"Don't be sorry, Miss, everyone's life experience is different, I'm afraid you don't have so much free time to study cooking, right?" Jarvis said with a smile.
Wanda propped up her face with one hand on the table and said, "Yes, I remember that in my childhood, I was either moving or on the way to move. There was rarely any stable time. Meals made of fresh ingredients that were not semi-finished products? That was really a luxury."
"Although it is incredible, I can't help but talk about this. I always feel that Eric brought me and Pietro with him for some compensation, even though it made us all very painful."
Several people set up the dishes, and Xu Shangwen's gentle voice sounded in Wanda's mind: "Didn't you try to talk to him?"
Wanda was shocked and trembled, then regained her composure and said, "I'm really not used to your ability. I always thought Professor X was here."
Xu Shangqi shrugged and said in everyone's mind: "But I'm sorry, I can't read minds, I can only transmit voices. Didn't you also gain special abilities?"
"I still don't know what this is about Good or bad. "Riley walked to the innermost of the dining table and sat down, moving the stool forward, putting his hands on the table and said: "My spider sense is too sensitive. I tried to use it in cooking to control the heat of the dishes, and the effect is not bad."
"Honestly, Xu." Riley looked at Xu Shangqi again and said: "Before, I thought that only I could hear the sound of your voice. I thought it was my special ability. Later, when Jarvis said that he could hear it, I was really shocked. "
Xu Shangqi smiled and said: "Thanks for only giving me the ability of "Thousand Miles of Sound Transmission". If I really can read minds, I'm afraid I will scare myself to death first."
Wanda peeled a part of the fried noodles with a fork and put it on her plate, and said: "I really don't know how Professor Charles can bear to read Eric's mind. Will he really not be angry to death?"
"Honestly, we should diverge from the previous argument again." Riley said while slurping noodles.
"Which one? Dream or evolution?"
"We can't study dreams for now. Didn't we just try? We couldn't fall asleep even when we were lying on the bed, covered with a quilt, or even listening to a lullaby. To be honest, who can fall asleep under such circumstances is a ghost... Of course, our extraordinary superpowers mean that we don't need to sleep so frequently. We are used to it."
"That's 'evolution'." Jarvis kindly distributed soup to everyone and said, "Creating wounds and then creating new abilities at the location of the wounds can only be said to be evolution in a broad sense, very broadly."
Wanda frowned tightly, Jarvis turned his head to look at her and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I have reservations. I don't like to call it evolution because it sounds like a good word, but in fact..." Miss Witch put down the cutlery, spread her hands and said, "Did anyone get my consent? I Can't you like my original eyes? "
"Okay, okay, I used the ability I gained later to defeat Sithorn, but do you know what this reminds me of? Eric!"
"Yes, that irritable, unyielding control freak, he is like this every time, I said I want to go to New York University, he said you didn't even finish high school, no university will accept you, I said I want to start a family in the future, he said no man can stand me, I said I like children, he said you take care of yourself first. "
"Every time I am ambitious and want to do something, he must be beside me and sneer, saying that I can't do this or that. There are several times when I completely collapsed and said, "Then what do you think I should do? '."
"Guess what he said?" Wanda leaned forward and put her hands on the edge of the table, and the others also made curious gestures.
"He said, 'You should stay here honestly and finish the work you have on hand!' Yes, he asked me to do the things like blowing up the factory today and playing tricks on FBI agents tomorrow!"
"What makes me even more angry is that he actually claimed that this was to exercise my abilities. Yes, frequent fighting did make my connection with the power of chaos deeper, but is that what I want? Of course not!"
"I like children and pet dogs. I hope we can live in an independent house with a yard for activities and no neighbors rolling their eyes. I think I don't need to be good at fighting to have all this."
"But he must stab my heart with a knife to create a wound, and then when I am angry and sad, I can only use the opportunity he gives me to fight to vent my anger, and then use this to train my magic to a superb level. Even if I choose to be a kindergarten teacher, I will never use chaos magic in my life!"
The other three people felt a little suffocated. In fact, this kind of person who can't communicate and talks to himself appears in any corner of anyone's life, which is enough to suffocate people.
But Wanda changed the subject and said:
"Actually, I know what he meant was, 'If you want to go to college, go to high school', 'If you want to find a boyfriend, you have to change your willful temper', 'If I want children, at least I have to buy a house and a car first'."
"Yes, he is this kind of person, never speaks well, but sometimes Lorna and I can understand him subtly, maybe because we are really similar, and sometimes there is Professor Charles, because he can read minds."
"Our relationship is not that good, but it is not as bad as you think. I prefer to describe his over-controlling behavior as a kind of 'distorted fatherly love'. He wants me to become what he wants and master the skills he thinks are useful because he has benefited from it."
"He is not living well enough, but he thinks that his lifelong experience can help his children, despite the fact that Not really. "
Wanda sighed softly, and then said: "And the topic of this universe has returned to the starting point. I didn't feel that I was attacked, nor did Riley. This control is more like a distorted love."
"Something thinks that if we become like this, we will live better, so it changes us, and ordinary people may not be able to get better because of their physical functions and mental conditions, but perhaps it only regards this as an insignificant sacrifice in natural evolution."
"So distorted and indifferent, but so grand that it cannot be looked at directly, unobservable, both terrifying and magnificent, like another level of nature."
Jarvis stared straight at Wanda, as if he was fascinated by her. Although the witch's eyes were now completely two black holes, and there was dried blood on her eyelashes, Jarvis just couldn't look away, for Wanda's wisdom and spirituality, and beauty.
"If we compare this force to nature, then I think we certainly have reason to be angry." Xu Shang pursed his lips, and his voice rang in everyone's mind: "No one will thank the earthquake."
"The crustal movement does not want to hurt us, and this force is also the case, but the most infuriating thing about it is that it highlights the weakness of human beings."
"Once humans feel their own weakness, they will become crazy. They will cut off the mountains and cut off the water. This is how our ancestors overcame terrible natural disasters step by step and allowed humans to survive to this day."
"Humans are indeed a very strange species." Riley shook his head and said, "We all desire power and desire to become stronger, but now power has hit us like a pie in the sky. 's head, but we despise it instead. "
"Because the most valuable thing about human beings is the potential for free development, not the power of not being free." Jarvis pointed out objectively: "If the body is limited, develop the brain, if the efficiency is insufficient, upgrade the tools, the way of human evolution is to constantly "discard", rather than randomly draw lucky people to reward an ability."
"Oh!" Wanda said with sudden realization: "I was wondering why it was weird! Why did it evolve my eyes? What else can this ability do besides allowing me to ridicule Sithorn? Do kindergarten teachers need to look directly at the truth of the universe?"
Riley sighed softly and said: "Spider-sensing is my specialty, but I have no interest in predicting the future, and I don't know how to predict the future. For example, if someone prepares a surprise for me at a party in the future, won't I have to act excited? I hate that! "
"Don't look at me." Xu Shangqi shrugged and said, "It makes no sense to give me the ability to speak in other people's minds. I know myself very well. With my eloquence, I can't persuade people with reason as well as with physics."
Then he lamented, "It would be fine if I could fly. I still want to see monkeys!"
Several people fell silent. After a while, Wanda said with a smile, "Tell me, if that mysterious being heard what we said, would he think we were all crazy? Why don't you want the ability that you got for free? Why do you have to pick and choose here?"
"The ability is not free. Is it bitter? "If it's difficult, doesn't it count as paying?" Xu Shangqi's idea is quite simple. He emphasized: "But we suffered and didn't get what we wanted. Isn't it still a loss for us?"
Wanda and Riley were stunned for a moment. They were actually used to suffering. Xu Shangqi spread his hands and said: "Okay, you can say that I am spoiled, but the shitty attack it made hurt us so much, and it's considered compensation to give us some abilities that are not suitable for us? Are you so easy to talk to?"
Originally, Wanda and Riley were not too angry, but there is a saying that goes, if you endure for a while, you will get angrier and angrier, and if you take a step back, you will lose more. It's not terrible to draw a card wrongly, but it's terrible to have a bad friend who keeps saying "You deserve better" in your ear every day.
Wanda puffed up her cheeks and said, "You make sense. Why do you take away the organs we want and give us abilities we don't want? Don't let me know who did it, otherwise I will make it look bad!"
"By the way." Jarvis pulled them back from their emotional output and said, "Wanda, your point just now is very interesting, that is, the point that 'the mysterious existence makes humans like this, maybe because it thinks it will be better this way'."
"Let's assume that the principle is indeed like this. This power does not want to harm humans, but just thinks that humans may be more adaptable to this world. I don't mean ordinary people who become monsters, but successful products like you who have survived the attack because of their own strength and gained new abilities. So, why does it think so?"
"Why do we have to have these special abilities to better adapt to this world? What's wrong with this world?"
Just as Jarvis finished speaking, he heard a loud noise coming from outside the cafe. With the endless shattering of space in the distance, a male figure holding a little girl in his hands and a raccoon on his shoulders ran towards this side.
"Quill?!" Jarvis shouted in surprise.
But Quill didn't have time to answer anyone's question. He just ran and roared, shouting, "Run! Go to Central Park! Find Ancient One!"
Several people stood in front of the window of the coffee shop, watching the terrifying dark vortex rolling in from the New York skyline. The space was like coffee beans thrown into a coffee machine. With the rumbling sound and tremor, it was completely shattered by the vortex, and the whole world was gradually breaking apart.
Several people ran quickly, and Jarvis asked while running, "What's going on, Quill?!"
"What do you mean? Me or this world?!"
"Both!"
"I touched the truth, and the world was destroyed!"
"What's going on?" Wanda roared.
"This world is a dream!"
"Dream?!"
When they came to the side of the road in New York's Central Park, they saw the shadow of a huge temple. Ancient One seemed to have been waiting for them for a long time, and a huge portal was standing above her head.
"You go." The magic light reflected on Gu Yi's face, which was already full of black patterns. Xu Shangqi was about to say something, but Gu Yi interrupted him and said, "I don't want to die, I just have to face the master of the dream. This is the responsibility and destiny of the Supreme Mage."
Suddenly, a powerful magical force swept several people and pushed them into the portal.
Before Quill took Jennifer into the portal, Gu Yi glanced at them and said, "Thank you for revealing the essence of this world... Forgive me for not being able to do this. I must save my strength to face more truths."
When Jennifer's face gradually disappeared in the magic light of the portal, Gu Yi saw the little girl mouthed to her-"Thank you!"
Endless light burst out from Gu Yi's eyes, and the crack that had not been closed for a long time slowly closed in a dazzling golden light with a strong and irresistible gesture, and no longer left any scars, and the glory was perfect.
"Come on, let me see who dominates fate in dreams!"
Ancient One's robe floated, and her eyes stared at the starry sky, but just when she wanted to touch the truth, an angry roar came from the edge of the portal-
"You blinded my eyes! Do you want me to get out like this?! Dream on!"
Humans cannot look directly at the truth of the universe, but angry women can.
Scarlet Witch's body was full of strong red light, almost illuminating the entire starry sky. The red light in her eyes was like the flame ignited by chaos before the endless universe was born, so powerful that it burned through everything, and her roar echoed throughout the universe:
"Xithorn! I command you to respond!"
Xithorn's voice came intermittently.
"What is that?"
Xithorn was puzzled.
"Behind me!"
Xithorn began to fear.
"Wanda, you can't..."
"Waste!"
Then, Xisong felt that the almost endless chaotic power that constituted and surrounded him was shaken. They began to run to another place at a speed that even Xisong felt terrified. The speed was so fast and the number was so large that even Xisong felt that he was facing death.
"Wanda, stop! You will destroy everything!!!"
When the endless chaotic power and the eternal power from eternity burst out at the same time, the world was completely broken.
And Wanda and Ancient One saw a huge and magnificent scene behind the chaotic and broken vortex at the same time.
Before the universe collapsed completely, Wanda felt the greatest pride and indomitable spirit in her heart, which belonged to mankind, and turned into the ultimate angry flame.
So, the Scarlet Witch, who never understood what tolerance was, ignited all her chaotic power in a way that contained the most malicious hatred and revenge of mankind.
Endless flames burned among countless dream universes, like a prairie fire, burning all these unconscious dreams without leaving a trace.
Wanda, who has almost merged with the rules of chaos, has a sense of revenge in her empty eyes. If I am panicked in the dark night and have no sweet dreams, then no one else can have them.
Finally, the lonely crimson figure stood in the universe, facing the stars, and called out His real name without hesitation -
"Azathoth..."
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