Chapter 1838: The Madman's Journey (XVI)
Schiller looked at the notebook and fell into deep thought. Stark, who came from behind him, recognized Peter's handwriting at a glance. After all, the Spider-Man of Schiller's universe spent most of his time in the laboratory of Stark Building. They spent more time together than Iron Man and Spider-Man in any other universe.
Therefore, in addition to the father-son relationship, Stark also attached more importance to Spider-Man as a teacher to an excellent disciple. After a long time, when Stark heard bad news about Spider-Man, he would feel that his heart was pulled up and he was almost unable to breathe.
At this time, the inexplicable anxiety surrounded Stark, making him even less able to care about too much, and he rushed forward to take the notebook.
He first glanced at the content that Schiller was reading, but the passage was inconsistent and nothing could be seen, so Stark began to turn forward.
In this way, Spider-Man, who had not lost his memory in this universe, used a short period of time to record the truth about this universe and presented it to Stark.
First of all, as a witness, Spider-Man has experienced the complete plot of the zombie universe, and the situation is roughly as follows:
Zombie sentinels fell from the sky, and the Avengers came to resolve the crisis, but unfortunately they were bitten by the zombie sentinels, and turned into zombies and ate on the spot, infecting many people.
The first round of heroes who turned into zombies included Captain America, Ant-Man, Wasp, etc., and Ant-Man found Black Panther who came to support later.
At this time, they had already eaten breakfast on the street. Since they were not hungry for the time being, Ant-Man decided to lock up Black Panther and eat when he was hungry.
With such a big thing happening, Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D., organized the remaining survivors and planned to develop an antidote for the zombie virus.
But how can we say that Reed is the engine of universe destruction? Iron Man Stark and Dr. Banner, the Hulk, are doing well in their research, but Reed suddenly had an idea that the zombie virus is a manifestation of human evolution. In this case, why not convert to the great god of evolution?
So he led the traitor directly into the laboratory, causing all the Fantastic Four to be infected.
On the other side, Nick and Iron Man planned to build a portal to leave this universe and save the existing survivors, but the place where the Fantastic Four studied the virus was not far from where they built the portal, and they broke in on the spot.
The bad thing was that the teleportation device had actually been built at this time, and it led to the universe where the Observer was. After the Fantastic Four bit both of them, they happily went to another universe for a trip.
During this period, a series of major events occurred in this universe. In summary, the zombie virus infected the world, the planet devourer came and was eaten by zombie superheroes, the Black Panther survived and returned to Earth, and the zombie superheroes were divided into two gangs to fight.
Afterwards, a person who wanted to seize the throne of Black Panther activated the teleportation device and sent all the zombie superheroes to another universe.
A disaster broke out in another universe, which was so serious that the three major empires of the universe were all destroyed, and some of the zombie superheroes went to the moon and bit the Observer.
Driven by endless hunger, the worse zombie superheroes want to go to other universes to find more food. They found a portal and used zombie sentinels as energy.
But at this moment, Spider-Man, who had been turned into a zombie but still not bad, opened the jar on his back, which contained the sandman's sand.
The huge sandstorm destroyed all the zombie superheroes, and the nanorobots that Iron Man had developed for the zombie virus were mixed in the sand, sweeping away the zombie virus.
The zombie sentinels that were used as portal energy by the zombie superheroes were sent back to this universe by the observer, and thus a cycle began.
The zombie Spider-Man of this universe was also ignorant at first, and kept reincarnating in this cycle, but since Nick in Schiller's universe took actual control of the Time Administration and gradually promoted his multiverse spider mouth trafficking plan, more and more Spider-Mans were influenced by him.
Spider-Man, who was helped by Nick, began to gradually project his faith onto him, which gave Nick some of the power of the Spider Totem, but more importantly, his will began to allow more Spider-Man connected to the Spider Totem to hear his voice, and Spider-Man in the zombie universe was one of them.
The voice from the Spider Totem became louder and louder, interfering with the impact of the time reset of the two universes on Spider-Man, allowing him to gradually regain his consciousness in reincarnation after reincarnation, until he finally woke up completely.
Then there were the five resets after Schiller came here. The traces left by the outsiders made Spider-Man determined to act as soon as possible. He put the long-considered plan into practice and wrote all the facts in his diary, hoping that the outsiders would help him.
Stark silently read all the information, he closed his eyes and digested it quietly, but at a certain moment, the endless murderous intent that came out of the gap in his armor made Schiller turn his head to look at him.
It was not even anger, but just a naked cold murderous intent, a desire to destroy the universe in an instant.
But in less than a second, the gap closed again. Stark sighed silently, flipped the notebook again, and then said: "I have a few questions, you don't have to answer me, I just need to sort out my thoughts."
"From the complete story described by Peter, the whole process is divided into two periods, before Spider-Man awakens and after Spider-Man awakens."
"The watershed between these two periods is that when Spider-Man is unaware of anything, the two universes will complete the complete story process respectively, until the zombie sentinels are thrown back, the story will continue again."
"But after Spider-Man awakens, the universe begins to reset irregularly, and the reset time point is much earlier than the completion of the story."
"I think it may be It was the attention of other universes brought by Spider-Man that triggered a special observer effect, making the cycle of the universe irregular. Even if the cycle is not completed, it will reset endlessly. "
Stark stretched out two fingers and placed them flat in front of his eyes, and then began to rotate them clockwise. He said: "The normal cycle of these two universes is like this, from cause to effect and then to cause, like a single looping tape, playing the end and then the beginning. "
Then he turned his fingers clockwise for half a circle, turned counterclockwise back to the starting point and said: "And the cycle we are experiencing is like this, the universe moves forward, and then suddenly rewinds at a certain point in time, back to the beginning. "
"Then this raises a question, if Spider-Man wants To achieve the effect of his plan, he must restore the universe to its normal cycle, that is, from cause to effect and then back to cause, instead of suddenly rewinding. "
"There is no mention of this part in his plan. I don't know whether he doesn't know or is already prepared."
"There is another point. He wants us to help, but he should have concluded that the time point of our rebirth is getting later and later. How can we go back to the beginning to help him transmit brain waves? "
"Wait." Stark suddenly frowned and said, "Could these two anomalies actually be the same thing?"
"The time point of our rebirth is getting later and later, which means that the time point of rewinding will be getting later and later, so sooner or later there will be The rewind time of one day will come to the end of the story, when the zombie superheroes are destroyed by the Sandman and the Observer is about to throw the zombie sentinel back to this universe. "
Stark glanced at the diary again and said, "I know Spider-Man's plan. He intends to wait until that moment, when the Observer is about to throw the zombie sentinel back to this universe, but only one second away, to replace it with his own brain waves, and then control it to commit suicide during the transmission process. "
"In this way, the zombie sentinel will never land in this universe, and the cycle will be broken. "
Stark raised his head slightly, looking at the photo of the Avengers members hung on the wall of the room by Peter, and his tone became heavy to the bottom.
"He wants to sacrifice himself and completely end the tragedy of the two universes." Stark closed his eyes in pain and said, "Even if I forcibly upgrade and separate the two universes, and even find a way to save his relatives and friends, there is no way to eliminate the terrible memory of countless reincarnations. He will go crazy."
After spending a long time with Schiller, Stark actually understands that when he first met psychology, he felt that this is really a very magical subject that can do a lot of magical things.
But just like every branch of medicine, the more in-depth research, the more you understand that only a few can be cured, and many things are powerless to change.
The fragility of human memory lies in the fact that mental trauma is permanent, the scars will be engraved very deeply, and will completely change someone. This is not reversed by whether the current situation improves or whether the tragedy is compensated.
As the saying goes, some people use their lifetime to heal their childhood. In fact, many people in this situation have had a rich life after adulthood, and many childhood regrets can be made up. However, the reason why they are still deeply affected by this is that some tragedies have shaped their personality and character. At this point, this is no longer pathological, but normal.
Stark believes that there is nothing that cannot be changed by joining forces with Schiller. Spider-Man does not need to sacrifice himself, but what if he does not sacrifice himself? In this terrible reincarnation, he ate Aunt May and Mary Jane again and again.
Stark can't imagine how much trauma this will bring to a person. He is just glad that the Schiller who is floating now does not look like a psychologist, so he can resist asking him and not asking the question that is destined to get a negative answer.
What is even more desperate is that Stark has long known that memory and personality are inseparable. Once the memory is deleted, the personality is likely to collapse, and the mysterious subconscious will defeat all the arrogant people who try to modify the surface consciousness at will.
If Spider-Man loses his memory, the result will only make him suffer from a chaotic mental state and subconscious nightmares. One day he will still remember and collapse.
It seems that no matter what he does, he is heading towards a dead end. At this time, Stark fully understands what it means to save the world easily, but it is difficult to save you.