Chapter 185 Strange's Happy Life (Part 1)

New York, a sunny morning, before 7 o'clock, the streets of Manhattan are already busy. Wall Street elites in suits and ties hold reports in their hands and spit out a lot of professional terms on the phone while walking. The owner of the coffee shop is struggling to move the magazine rack to the door. The driveway of the fast food restaurant is lined up with a long queue, and various vehicles are like parts on an assembly line. The sunlight reflected by the rearview mirror and the glass curtain wall of the high-rise building complement each other.

Summer is about to pass, but iced coffee will never go out of the market. In front of the sanatorium on the corner, many young people gather while drinking coffee and reading magazines. Schiller leans on a street lamp pole in front of the sanatorium gate, holding a cup of coffee in one hand and a mobile phone in the other.

"...Yes, I did forget, but I am the dean, you can't let the dean be locked out of the sanatorium?"

"You said you have something to do, what can you do? Didn't the resignation procedures of the Presbyterian Hospital have been handed over a long time ago? It has been several months, what else do you have to do besides the work in the sanatorium?"

"You became a specially appointed doctor of the Presbyterian Hospital? Hey, you went out to find a part-time job without the consent of me, the dean? ... You can't find my people? Then you are right? It is clearly written in the contract..."

"Okay, okay, I know you are a employed doctor "If you are the one who is pursuing me, don't worry about it. Come and give me the key..."

"A lunatic who broke into a private house came to you? Like me? I am not... Then why didn't you call the police? Don't you know the phone number of 911?"

"Who? A bald man in yellow clothes? That's fine. You can take a day off today. Bye!"

"Oh, one last thing. You'd better be polite to her and come to work alive tomorrow!"

After Schiller finished speaking, he quickly hung up the phone. He drank a sip of coffee and thought happily that he had just returned to Marvel and heard good news. It was a good start.

At this time, in Strange's apartment, Gu Yi waved her hand, and the sky was full of star-like light spots surrounding her, and the endless starry sky seemed to be shrouded behind her.

Strange looked at all this in shock. In an instant, the magic light disappeared again. Except for Gu Yi's slightly fluttering robes, everything seemed to have never appeared. Gu Yi looked at Strange and asked him: "What do you think?"

Strange opened his mouth and was immersed in shock without answering. It's not like he had never seen Schiller use magic before, but Schiller could only float a ballpoint pen or something, how could there be such a grand scene of the universe descending?

Little did he know that Gu Yi also sighed inwardly, the development of things was really beyond her expectations.

This matter has to start with the so-called Bat God descending at that time.

At that time, the so-called Bat God Guard descended from the Morlun family was actually just a shameless stowaway, no different from a rat that secretly drilled a hole.

Because of the existence of Odin and Gu Yi, not everyone can come to the earth. When Odin gets angry, the God of Symbiotes will chop him without hesitation, not to mention Gu Yi, who is either beating the creditor or on the way to beat the creditor every day.

The demons who attacked with great fanfare, those who went through the main gate were chopped into dumpling fillings, and those who went through the side gate were beaten into more broken dumpling fillings. Most of the rest learned to be smart, and no one dared to act rashly despite salivating over this place.

But the main gate and the side gate were blocked, which means that some people don't mind the dirt and love to drill rat holes.

In the long history of the earth, the ritual of summoning evil gods has a long history.

In the era when the position of Supreme Mage did not exist, when humans had just formed tribes, got rid of the raw meat and blood, and began to build civilization, many tribes would have wizards and priests using witchcraft to communicate with the world.

Most of them were just psychological comfort, but a small number of them successfully found the real master.

At that time, the wizards of the tribe used some rituals to summon part of the power of the evil gods to the earth, exchanged living sacrifices for evil power, and attacked other tribes.

At that time, some evil gods would leave their own marks and exclusive channels to facilitate the summoning of their believers.

After Gu Yi became the Supreme Mage, he did not stop checking for deficiencies and solving these historical problems. The demons who dared to do so also paid the price for their youthful frivolity and became fertilizer for the earth's defense system.

Although Gu Yi killed most of the careless demons along the web, there were some cunning demons. The passages they buried were relatively hidden. Although Gu Yi conducted several demon-sweeping and anti-crime operations, there were always a few fish that slipped through the net.

The vampires used a passage that slipped through the net.

This race lives a long time and can always get some strange things. They found a way to communicate with the universe in some witchcraft books left over from ancient times.

The ignorant are fearless. They sent a signal directly from deep space. A member of the Morlun family happened to be hunting in this universe. He was like a hound that smelled blood and quickly locked onto this place.

He came to the earth silently from this smuggling passage and planned to hunt Spider-Man in the chaos.

The story was normal so far, until the huge venom bat took off into the sky. After Gu Yi communicated with some higher-level mysterious forces, he got the answer that a new beast totem was being born.

Naturally, she got busy. If a new beast totem was about to be born in this universe, then the Earth Supreme Sorcerer Ancient One would have a lot of things to prepare, such as collecting debts, chopping dumpling stuffing, and a new round of anti-demon and anti-crime.

In short, after this big event, the busiest person would be Ancient One.

This led to a problem. In such a short period of time, she had no time to keep an eye on her future successor Strange, or in other words, the busy Ancient One had forgotten about this matter at all.

Who knew that in such a short period of time, Strange's life had changed dramatically.

One of the most significant and influential changes was that he became rich overnight.

In the past, Strange could not be considered poor. As the best neurosurgeon in the world, his income was quite high, but obviously, a fixed salary would never be as fast as making money from side jobs.

Since he became the medical consultant of Stark-Osborn Joint Pharmaceutical Group, gave speeches on the efficacy of immortality factor around the world, and endorsed this mysterious drug as an elite doctor, Strange suddenly found that it seemed that the whole world was busy giving him money.

Stark and Osborn will give him a large sum of money as salary. In addition, S.H.I.E.L.D. will also give him a part of the reward, and the sanatorium will also have a reward, and these are not even the main source of his income.

There are many people in this world who are poor and have only money left, such as the Middle Eastern tycoons who own black gold, the Far Eastern oligarchs who control the finances, and the monopoly crocodiles in certain industries. Do you want to say that these people really don’t know the hype of immortality factor? In fact, not necessarily.

It’s just that they are too rich. Even if they spend money to listen to a sound, as long as it sounds good, they are happy.

In this case, they are willing to pay a lot of money to buy a top doctor to tell them "it works" every day, even if it is just a placebo effect, it doesn’t matter, anyway, money is just a number.

In this case, even the price offered by one of them to Strange can make him dizzy for a long time.

And Strange was indeed stunned by the money.

In essence, Strange at this time was not a natural good man like Peter Parker. His high pursuit of his career was also largely due to the generous rewards and honorary status that his professional level could bring him, which was human nature.

The sudden wealth almost instantly destroyed his view of money. Strange suddenly realized that money was not actually a reward for labor. He did not do any actual labor, but just repeated a few sentences as a repeater, and then went to a magnificent banquet to eat and drink, and talked to the richest people in the world, and the money flew into his pocket.

Strange found that the economic operation model of this world seemed to be a scam. After jumping from a victim to a scammer, he suddenly stopped being so entangled about it.

After all, being a rich man is really happy.

So, when Gu Yi took a look at Strange after a period of busy work, she found that Strange seemed to have let it go.

Just when she was about to explore what had happened during this period, she was tripped up by a little trouble. The person in charge of the New York Sanctuary cried and asked to be transferred. Gu Yi had to appease these apprentices and find a way to reconnect the Sanctuary to WIFI.

But what she didn't expect was that the quantitative change of money can produce qualitative change.

Not long after, Pepper finished the important work of the transfer of power in the Stark Group and began to reorganize these industries related to the immortality factor and established the Immortality Factor Foundation. Strange also became a member of it.

When you get shares in such an important industry, everything becomes different.

Simply put. From a worker, he became a capitalist overnight.

Whether Strange has a heart that cannot be corrupted by wealth and honor, he himself doesn't know, but obviously, Gu Yi, who came back after busying himself, thinks he doesn't.

After the Supreme Sorcerer came back, she found that things were running wildly in a completely wrong direction without looking back.

Due to Schiller's absence, Strange became an indispensable figure in the professional field of the entire immortality factor industry. His importance was rising steadily, and he even reached a pivotal position. He had the credibility of immortality factor medicine, and he also had the final right of interpretation.

This means that in this industry, he has become as important as Stark and Osborn. In order to implement this credibility, the Osborn Group plans to open a company for him to improve the industry level of United Pharmaceuticals. Before Ancient One came to the door, the process of opening a company was almost completed.

The future Supreme Sorcerer is about to go on the road of capitalists and never return.

But Ancient One knows that if Strange really becomes a capitalist who controls the lifeline of the industry as important as Stark or Osborn, then no matter whether it is a car accident or the death of an important relative, he cannot get rid of the entanglement of worldly fame and fortune and seek the way of mysticism.

Even if he wants to do so, those who can dig benefits from him will not allow him to do so.

For example, if Stark now plans to abandon everything and become a monk, the first person to be anxious is the President of the United States, and his blood pressure will rise.

Once these people are involved, things will become very troublesome. Ancient One has been the Supreme Sorcerer for so many years, and has been adhering to non-interventionism. Now, Strange's stay or departure is related to the immortality factor industry, and the immortality factor industry is related to the Stark Group, the Osborn Group, S.H.I.E.L.D., the military and Congress. She does not want to conflict with so many forces because of the issue of her successor.

At the same time, Ancient One is very skeptical. With Strange's current will and character, will he really not be corrupted by money?

What if he really becomes an evil capitalist, lying on a pile of money every day, spending his days in debauchery, and running wildly on the road of getting something for nothing and enjoying pleasure? You can't chop him into dumpling stuffing, right?

Things have come to this point. In order to prevent his favorite heir from throwing himself into the arms of capital without looking back, Ancient One decided to do special things. Those test steps can be omitted first. It is more important to ensure that his Strange does not go astray.

So, on the morning when Schiller was locked outside the sanatorium without a key, Strange first truly knew the magical world from Ancient One and received an invitation to study abroad from Kamar-Taj.

That's right, it was an invitation to study abroad, not a mercy to accept disciples.

After all, the current situation is not that Strange is begging for help from all over the world to find someone to treat his illness, but that Ancient One has taken a fancy to Strange's talent and does not want him to be blinded by worldly fame and fortune, so he took the initiative to come to the door, so this invitation is naturally much more polite.

And Ancient One also knew that in this situation, Strange could not just leave. Too many people depended on him to make money. If he was taken away like this, the network cable that the sanctuary had just connected would have to be dug up again.

So the Sorcerer Supreme was very open-minded and said that Strange could go to school part-time, for example, after get off work, he could go through the portal of the Sanctuary to attend classes for a few hours and come back in the morning.

Ancient One also asked Strange to think about it for two days before answering. After all, she had to think about what kind of car accident would make him change his mind and become a new man if Strange did not agree.

Strange was still in a trance when he came to work in the afternoon. Obviously, the magic displayed by Ancient One shocked him even more.

Schiller's floating ballpoint pen and the like were not unheard of in magic. Compared with magic, it was more like a trick.

But Ancient One was a real Sorcerer Supreme. Every move was honed from thousands of demons who were chopped into dumpling fillings. When an expert made a move, not to mention ordinary people like Strange who spent the first half of his life studying science, even the most creative magician in the world would be shocked by the infinite power of magic from her.

"Is everything we do really meaningful?" Strange sat on his desk, his eyes a little dull and asked: "I have learned knowledge and technology for so many years, that kind of magic... They can do all this just by waving their hands..."

Strange looked down at his finger, he pointed at it and said: "I cut a wound on my finger when I was cutting vegetables before, right here..."

"Then she waved her hand, and the wound healed, without any medical technology, no medicine, no doctor..."

"So what is the meaning of human medicine? What is the meaning of my existence?"

"A patient is just lying on the bed, he can find a group of magicians to wave at him, and then I can get out, because there is no need for more than ten hours of surgery, and no need for postoperative rehabilitation..."

Strange spread his hands, he opened his mouth, but said nothing.

Then he asked Schiller in confusion: "You are all in the same group, right? You people who can do magic, what do you think of ordinary people? Do you think we are stupid and ridiculous? We spend decades learning knowledge and honing skills, but in the end..."

He laughed at himself and said, "It's like a group of ants that can only spin in the mud, right?"

"Then why don't you try it yourself?" Schiller sat opposite him and said to him, "Try to see if magic is as easy and simple as you think?"

"What's easier than waving your hand? This doesn't make sense at all." Strange sighed, covered his forehead and said, "I knew from a very young age that some people in this world can easily get things that you can't get in your life. . "

"They don't have to make any effort, just because of luck, this world is inherently unfair."

"But..." He paused, and then said: "Its unfairness is still beyond my imagination."

Strange smiled, but it seemed very difficult to smile. He said: "Now it seems that those rich people are just fools who are kept in the dark. This is the only good news I heard today."

"Do you know how Stark views magic?"

Strange looked at Schiller. He actually wanted to say that he didn't care about the views of Stark, a nasty guy, but he did want to know how this group of people who have stood at the top of ordinary humans and have gained the most fame and fortune in the world view this kind of extraordinary thing.

"When the vampires invaded, he had also thought about this problem. The longevity or even immortality that ordinary people dream of is born with those big bats. They are very strong and powerful. Even well-trained ordinary people have to work in groups to deal with one of them. This seems really unfair, like a joke of the Creator's partiality."

"But then I think about it, this kind of thing has happened tens of millions of years ago. In the ancient barbaric era, the physique of human beings was completely incomparable to those beasts with sharp claws and fangs, but in the end we are still alive today and have developed such a prosperous civilization."

"But this is different." Strange pointed out the loopholes in this view: "It is still humans, not beasts, who can do magic. They have all the advantages of humans, they are intelligent, can think, and can inherit."

"And she mentioned to me that they are also organized, just like ordinary people, working in groups and working together. They have everything that ordinary humans have. Advantages, plus magic..."

"Then why didn't they rule over humans? Or, why didn't you hear about them in your previous life? Such a superior and powerful group, why didn't they stand in front of the public and lead humans to greater glory?"

Strange was silent, and Schiller said to him: "Perhaps there is a possibility that their abilities are indeed completely superior to ordinary people. They are nobler than us and will not use this ability to enslave ordinary people."

"And you and I both know that humans have wisdom, ambitions and desires. If they are really so superior that they can achieve what ordinary people can't achieve in decades in an instant, and without paying any price, then we will definitely see a series of tragic wars between them and ordinary people in history books."

"Humans even want to rule other humans by nationality and skin color, let alone a truly superior ability?"

"So..." Strange said hesitantly.

"So of course they have to pay the price." Schiller spread his hands and said, "If you still don't believe it, why don't you try it?"

"I..." Strange closed his eyes, frowned, and looked a little painful. After all, anyone who was denied the skills they had learned for many years would feel very depressed.

But he had to admit that he was very curious about this magical power.

Or, knowing magic in this way, Strange was more confused. He wanted to know where this power came from and why it was so powerful? Is there really no disadvantage?

Schiller looked at Strange and thought that now, the future Supreme Sorcerer did not actively pursue magic because of the strong desire to save himself or others, but learned the other half of the truth of this world in such an ordinary and ordinary morning.

He was greatly shocked, but the questions he thought about were different. Strange still had enough time to think about some high-brow philosophical questions, instead of being like a desperate stray dog ​​who could only regard magic as the only life-saving straw.

The change in social identity gave Strange a lot of initiative when facing the Ancient One.

Strange still has a way out now. Even if he doesn't become the Supreme Sorcerer, he can still be a happy rich man in ordinary society. Even if he still becomes the Supreme Sorcerer later, he can still play an important role in this society.

This is also Schiller's purpose.

Schiller always believes that a Supreme Sorcerer who is completely detached from human society is not good enough. When they put themselves in a solitary and high position for a long time, their mentality will gradually change, and they will be separated from ordinary humans, forgetting that they were also born in this ordinary society, which is the root of all things.

And this is likely to make them the biggest threat to human society.

Even if Strange, like the Ancient One, can truly transcend the world and stick to his original heart, his role is too small. With the status and ability of the Supreme Sorcerer, he can do more.

If others do more, Schiller can do less and have more time to slack off with pay.

Therefore, Schiller chose the money offensive, using the pie falling from the sky to knock Strange, the future Supreme Sorcerer, unconscious, so that he would not stay too far away from this society.

Schiller asked Strange: "Is it not happy to be a rich man?"

"Of course I am happy." Strange answered subconsciously: "How can I be unhappy if I am rich?"

"You may think that being a rich man is very happy now, but after you come into contact with the magical and great magic, you will find..."

"Being a rich man is not happy enough?"

"...You will find that being a rich man is really happy."