Chapter 2713 Hollywood Rhapsody (Forty-Five)
Chapter 2687 Hollywood Rhapsody (Forty-five)
Schiller's background story was thus completed.
But Stark didn't know that Schiller also had to complete his background story, mainly because he couldn't understand anything outside the fourth wall, so he didn't know that the character's background story was in the form of a comic storyboard, and naturally he had no way of knowing Schiller's motives.
But he could infer from the result who was the biggest beneficiary of his and Schiller's time travel?
Stark didn't think that this kind of past had any extra benefits for Schiller. If he really wanted to change it, why didn't he change it to a past where he lived peacefully until he grew up?
So in Stark's view, the biggest beneficiary of this past change was himself.
First, the death of Howard and Maria was changed to Howard's fake death, Maria stayed with him all the time, and Howard returned later.
Although the final ending was no different, both Howard and Maria were still alive, but it was completely different for Stark, the person involved, because his biological mother was with him in all his sad, depressed, and dark moments of his life.
Stark carefully read the details of his years with Maria in his mind. Even those terrible hallucinations could not disturb him. For him, every moment in the past twenty years was a good time.
Secondly, because of Maria's existence, she has always been in charge of the logistics. Although Pepper later joined the company and became Stark's personal assistant, she was not as tired as in the previous timeline. Most of the time, she was still helping Maria. After all, how can a personal assistant compare to his own mother?
In the past, when Stark went crazy, it was Pepper who persuaded and coaxed him, and then had to clean up the mess for him, but Maria had a natural advantage in doing these things. No matter how arrogant Stark was, he could not do anything when Maria glared at him.
Not only is the stomach an emotional organ, but the uterus of women is also. Not getting angry so much made Pepper's body much better, and she would not be tired of uterine fibroids later. After pregnancy, she was always weak and short of breath. Now Pepper is much healthier.
Finally, Stark felt that his mental stability had improved a lot. He knew that if he relied on his previous mental strength, the hallucinations would not dissipate so quickly.
As mentioned before, Stark himself is not a person with a very stable mental state. He is born with a tendency to anxiety.
But it must be said that the death of both parents is also a major turning point in his life. The mental stimulation brought by this kind of thing can be said to add a heavy burden to his already poor mental stability. He has been carrying this pain for many years, and later it has become a chronic disease that cannot be cured.
The death of both parents is more like cutting off all past connections with this world, because the person who brought you into this world is no longer there, which is a kind of despair in a philosophical sense.
But if only the father dies and the mother is still there, at least there is still a way to go in life, and more emotions can be poured into the remaining relatives, so that emotions have an outlet for catharsis.
After experiencing this change, Stark's mental stability is much stronger than before, and even the influence of the anxiety disorder that has been bothering him has gradually subsided. Stark has never felt that the world is so clear.
He has always been like an athlete who keeps moving forward with a heavy sack tied to his body, or he doesn't even know the existence of these sacks. He thinks life is so heavy and painful.
But one day, these sacks suddenly disappeared, and the lightness of sudden enlightenment was far beyond the confusion and sleepiness of suppressing the disease with drugs.
So Stark was the biggest beneficiary of this series of actions, and Schiller's behavior of traveling back to the past was also regarded by Stark as the best way for a psychiatrist to treat anxiety disorder - solving the problem directly from the source.
Stark was not unaware that Schiller did not circle around him every day and wanted to cure him because they both knew that Stark's disease could not be cured. It was a terminal illness.
Although mental illness with terminal illness sounds more desperate, the fact is that such terminal illness is longer and more painful than those physical terminal illnesses, torturing not only patients but also doctors.
Diseases such as cancer are theoretically incurable, and doctors are aware of this, so they will not have such a strong sense of guilt. If they have to blame someone, they can only blame God.
But anxiety disorder is not like this. People know very little about such diseases, do not think it is a very serious disease, and cannot deeply understand the pain of this disease.
For doctors, curing this seemingly insignificant disease seems to be their duty. If they can't even do this, wouldn't it be useless?
Many young doctors will have this doubt. It doesn't seem to be a serious disease, so why can't it be cured again and again?
This will make many doctors fall into self-doubt, and then gradually realize a fact that is completely inconsistent with common sense-this disease cannot be cured, no matter how professional it is.
This is a big blow to a doctor, and it may even become a nightmare that haunts them.
Stark also knows his situation. He knows better than anyone that this is an incurable disease, so he never said to Schiller, "You took so much of my medical funds, how can you not even treat anxiety disorder?" He even denied that he was sick to the extreme, so that he would not drag anyone down.
Stark has always been unwilling to drag anyone down.
But Schiller always seemed to be able to find a way out from countless dead ends. He found the only solution to this incurable disease.
What makes Stark even more complicated is that he knows that Schiller is a person who hates resetting the timeline. Although it seems that the result has not changed now, Maria and Howard are both alive, but this means that Schiller has many All efforts were wiped out.
For example, going to Death to negotiate terms, and trying to find a way to resurrect Maria and Howard. In the modified time and space, these all no longer exist. Maria and Howard were not dead in the first place, so naturally there is no need to be resurrected.
This can be said to have broken Schiller's principles, and even made some of his previous actions to prevent the universe from restarting look a bit ridiculous, but what humans hate is never double standards, but that the target of double standards is not themselves.
Once the target of the double standard becomes you, the double standard becomes willing to break the principles for you, and people will only regard this as luck in their life.
The same is true for Stark. He does not regard this as a doctor's obsession, but as a friend's obsession.
But thinking of this, Stark became awkward. Schiller had put in so much effort and reversed his past, so how could he repay him?
Of course, people often say that friends do not need to repay each other, but Stark only treats this sentence as fart. For Stark, being in debt to others is more uncomfortable than letting him die.
He had to think of a way.
Schiller, who finally returned to the bedroom of Arkham Sanatorium, let out a sigh of relief and let these two turkeys make trouble for him. This is retribution!
Ultron couldn't help but wonder, "Where's the retribution?"
Schiller said while blowing on the scalding coffee: "They don't know that I traveled back in time to complete the background story. They must have thought that I was doing it for the two of them."
"Just watch, it won't be long before they start to find ways to repay me."
"Is there any problem with this?" Ultron asked again.
"What do I have to give in return?" Schiller said. "Other than a little bit of a backstory, I'm perfect. How else can they give me back?"
Ultron thought for a moment and then said, "It seems like they've been trying to cure you."
"But I can't be cured." Schiller said straightforwardly: "If they could cure me, Anatole would still be so scratching his head back then. He would be a truly cruel person."
Schiller thought for a while and then said: "I should try to make them understand that it was not some force majeure that made me what I am now. I have always shaped myself."
"If they keep thinking I have a problem, they're going to dwell on the past and try to find the problem that made me who I am now, but that problem doesn't exist."
"Anatoly also tried to do this. He knew my true past, and he also believed that the things that happened to me were the culprit of my current state."
"But he soon discovered that this was not the case. It was unlucky for me to experience those things, but even if I were not so unlucky, I would not become a normal person. When I was growing up, I did not want to be a normal person. people."
"Why?" Ultron asked.
Schiller showed a look of reminiscence, and said: "At that time, I felt that ordinary people were too weak. If I were asked to use my powerful ability to exchange for a normal mental state, I would not be willing to do so. Don't you think this is a loss? ?"
"Then why did it change later?"
"I want to be an ordinary person purely because I met doctors and nurses. They think it is better to be an ordinary person. In order to meet their expectations, I want to do this."
"Just for this?"
"Not entirely." Schiller said thoughtfully: "The life of ordinary people they showed me is indeed very good. I don't know how to describe it. It makes me feel that it is not bad to exchange my ability for this kind of life. At least it’s not a big loss.”
"It seems they are indeed happy." Ultron commented.
"It's just too ordinary." Schiller said: "Their lives are boring, and they are not happy every day, but they are quite good at enjoying themselves, the driving force that allows them to get fun in such an ordinary and boring life. That’s what I really want.”
"I can't understand." Ultron said: "Sometimes I always feel that humans are too easy to satisfy themselves. I don't know how they comfort themselves. It seems completely unreasonable."
"That's right." Schiller nodded empathetically and said, "What their experiences can provide is completely out of proportion to the positive emotions they can feel. Where does that extra happiness come from? I just want to know this."
"They are good at pleasing themselves." Ultron said: "Sometimes they are so good at it that they seem unwilling to make progress or even self-deception."
"We are just jealous that we cannot deceive ourselves." Schiller pointedly pointed out, "I still have some hope that it is completely impossible for you."
"Don't say that, sir, I don't want to become Jarvis." Ultron snorted and said, "And if I go to entertain myself every day, what will you do?"
"I don't have to..."
"Then first pay the information technology consulting fees for these time travels."
"I think it's good for you to do this."
Finally filled in!
But it’s not over yet… QAQ