Chapter 2723 Hollywood Rhapsody (Fifty-Five)

Chapter 2697 Hollywood Rhapsody (Fifty-Five)

The dinner ended quickly, and everyone was looking for activities that interested them and participating in them. This was not a very stressful social scene, because it allowed people to sit there and do nothing, just drinking juice and staring at the sunset.

Schiller was one of them. He did not play poker or board games, nor was he interested in swimming and surfing, let alone fishing and beach volleyball. So he just sat there, drinking juice, and watching the sunset gradually approach the horizon.

Surprisingly, Stark did not participate in these activities either. He was like a middle school student addicted to novels, constantly flipping through the things that Natasha sent him, which were more like novels than information. His facial expressions were very wonderful, and he would look up from time to time to look at Strange and Loki.

Suddenly he realized that Schiller was sitting next to him, so he was eager to share this joy with Schiller. He turned his head and leaned over, then raised his eyebrows and said, "You knew he was going to screw up, right?"

Schiller knew that Stark was referring to Loki. He did know, but he soon realized some other problems from this incident.

Thor's attitude towards Loki was the work of the two brothers. Thor's preference may come from blood ties, but it cannot be said that Loki's temptation did not make this emotion extreme.

He was taking a method that Schiller was very familiar with, that is, being a hostage and then training a kidnapper. In the years when Schiller did not know Loki, he had actually been doing this, and he was very successful, firmly grasping most of Thor's attention.

In fact, the most familiar thing about this method is not greed, he just heard about it, because his other younger personality trait always keeps this on his lips, and practices it in person, with good results.

Loki, who traveled to the past, added fuel to the fire. He used Strange as a tool to test Thor and put this theory into practice. Obviously, the identity of a kidnapper is naturally very exclusive, and he will never allow his prey to be coveted by others.

Loki's attempt was successful, but it also failed completely.

Because he created a terrible possibility on that time branch - Thor went crazy.

According to Hela - it was Hela who pulled Loki back from that timeline, and it was obvious that he was unable to get out of it - something very terrible happened between Loki and Thor, or more precisely, Thor did something very terrible to Loki, which was the root of his ugly face.

From Loki's expression, it can be seen that he should have experienced a long period of imprisonment, and it was the kind that was not modern and inhumane, which was easy for psychiatrists to detect, because Schiller had seen many victims with similar experiences in law enforcement agencies.

It is unwise and even stupid to anger the kidnappers. Schiller felt that he should have said this earlier, but when he thought about it, he suddenly realized a problem-why he is always easily angered by superheroes?

It's not that Schiller is always angry, and he always habitually retaliates against the behavior of some superheroes, making them unlucky, and he doesn't count the return.

The key point is that he doesn't count the return. In fact, he doesn't have any need to do this. Everyone knows that this is a completely loss-making business. Greed is not a person who will ignore the benefits in order to vent his emotions.

But he has been doing this kind of thing. There are obviously better and more efficient ways to grab benefits, but he has to take a big detour to involve everyone, calling it revenge.

For example, this time Strange, Greed noticed that the superego and arrogance deleted part of the memory. Although he still doesn't know what was deleted, it can be inferred from the time point of crossing that Strange, who is in the same school as him, is the most suspicious.

Then of course he wanted to take revenge on Strange. The method was to find Loki to block him after seeing the traces of Strange's time travel in the Time Management Bureau, and let Loki play with his feelings.

But in fact, Schiller thought, God, why did he do this? Just to see Strange's ugly face now?

Of course, his face now can't be said to be boring, but just to see this little fun, he actually put the timeline and Loki into it? This is not like his style of doing things.

Simply put, greed and arrogance are different. Greed has requirements for the ratio of resources invested and fun output. It has always been a small bet for a big gain, a small effort to get the most fun with the smallest investment.

But when it comes to superheroes, he rarely does this. Most of the time, he puts in a lot of things with great effort, and the final reward is just a few ugly expressions. Although it is not boring, it can't be called a happy fun.

On the contrary, arrogance can always see some real fun in the people around him, and the fun has been getting bigger and bigger recently.

Greedy was thinking about why all this happened, and then he realized from the incident between Loki and Thor that he was a bit like Thor when he was angry. He could ignore all the consequences and just make himself feel comfortable for the first time.

This reaction that goes against his instincts couldn't be a sudden change of his personality. If not, then someone deliberately cultivated him.

Stark also saw the key part - it was completely glossed over. Natasha exhausted her imagination and only described that Loki might have been imprisoned for a long time.

Of course, it's not that the female agent lacks imagination. Born in the Red House, she has a stronger imagination than anyone else for some cruel things, but she just pointed out that Thor is unlikely to treat Loki like this, even if he is almost angry to death.

So the female agent believes that there is a great probability that Thor may just stop favoring Loki and treat his restless brother with the means of a normal heir. After all, if he is really too much, Odin and Frigga will not agree, but even the Queen of Gods did not say anything, which means that the means he took are not excessive at all, but can only be said to be the will of the people.

But even Thor's more restrained means are unacceptable to Loki. He can't accept that he has lost the dominant position of the tractor, and after losing this position, he was defeated and became powerless to resist. The mental trauma is much greater than the physical trauma.

The story came to a climax but stopped abruptly. Stark scratched his head and wanted to rush up to ask Loki what was going on, but considering that there was a psychologist who cared about mental health sitting next to him, Stark thought it was better to forget it.

Stark glanced at Schiller secretly, and Schiller fell into memories. At this time, he was recalling the part where Strange's hand was broken, and Mr. God's Hand's resolute expression kept flashing in front of him.

Very good, it looks very determined, full of a self-destructive desire to fight against the world. No matter how you look at it, it seems that if he can't do something, he will feel guilty to death.

Schiller also clearly recalled his expression at that time. Not surprisingly, he was possessed, shocked, angry, incomprehensible, and looked like he was wandering on the edge of losing control.

Usually this expression only appears on other people's faces. It is a flower that Schiller has carefully cultivated. At a certain stage in his life, it means that he has heard the symphony of successful revenge again.

But no, Stephen Strange is not such a person. Schiller realized that he has never been a person who would express his inner desire for destruction inwardly, but on the contrary, he is the kind of person who would destroy the world if he could not achieve his goal.

Countless stories of Doctor Strange illustrate this point. Strange is extreme, but when his extreme emotions erupt, he will choose to stab the world instead of stabbing himself to threaten the world.

Schiller had long realized that if someone around him changed his behavior, it was very likely related to him, because he had too many factors that were good at influencing others. No matter which link went wrong, it was possible to completely change the fate of others.

Did he influence Strange?

When? Greed seemed to have no other answers. The way the superego and arrogance arranged the conspiracy was like an open-book exam, eliminating all wrong answers for greed in advance, leaving only one - greed could not find that one memory. What else could it be?

After realizing this, everything was connected. Strange chose to be a hostage and tried to train himself into a kidnapper because he was instigated by himself.

And it was not optimistic that not only Strange, but many people around him had such tendencies. I don’t know whether Strange preached to them or they learned it by themselves. Schiller believed it was the former, because the relationship between superheroes without him had never been so twisted and sinister.

Very good, it seems that he has brought this upon himself, Schiller thought helplessly. He even thought that the superego had been waiting for such an opportunity, waiting for him to travel through time, because any slight change imposed in the past could have a huge impact on the future, and even reshape all the interpersonal logic of Greed in Marvel.

The superego succeeded.

He made Greed spend most of his energy on the meaningless work of saving and avenging superheroes. Yes, even if it seems crazy, this is actually Greed's inefficient working mode, which is mixed with too many personal emotions, rather than being completely profit-oriented.

To some extent, this saved the world, because if Greed was at full speed, it would be hard to say how long the existing universe could last. Greed is greed itself, and desire never ends.

Schiller is a good kidnapper, always threatened by hostages, and now he is almost accustomed to it. For example, he would go to great lengths to travel through time and fill in the blank background story to give everyone an explanation.

But in fact, Schiller didn't need any explanation. Again, his past would not give him any right to live in his current state. Nothing shaped him, so it didn't matter whether he had a sad past that met other people's expectations.

He wasted time shaping the past only because he was threatened by the hostages. He wanted to satisfy them and stop them from crying in panic because they didn't get the candy, so he took great pains to make up a reasonable story.

Now everyone is satisfied. Nick found a basically reasonable story. As expected, this story will soon be circulated among the superhero community. Everything is so reasonable and reliable, and everything Schiller did has an explanation.

But no, Schiller thought, he has never been a shadow of a tragic past left to the present, nor a mirror reflecting some cruel things that happened in front of him. No past is worthy of explaining his current existence.

Schiller looked up at Loki. If he had one time branch, there would be a second one.