Chapter 59: First Encounter with Mr. Freeze

The new president, Seldon, is actually quite capable and experienced, and has a wide network of contacts. The only problem is that his luck is really bad.

No, maybe it should be said that it is very bad.

His friends nominated a total of six professors for him, and one of them happened to be one of the future villains of Gotham, Mr. Freeze, Victor Freese.

After checking their files, Seldon planned to hire three of them, including Mr. Freeze.

After the invitation letter was sent out, only one professor accepted the offer from Gotham University, and that was Mr. Freeze.

Gotham University is really unlucky. It has just subdued a few demons and captured a few more monsters. Just as Jonathan the Scarecrow left, Mr. Freeze Victor came.

And Victor seemed to need this job very much. Before Schiller communicated with Bruce to stop Seldon's hiring, the invitation letter was sent out at noon the day before, and Victor arrived at Gotham University the next afternoon. It seemed that he would have no food to eat if he didn't do this job.

Fortunately, just like the Scarecrow, Victor is now just an ordinary scholar and professor.

In fact, Schiller knew that even the later Mr. Freeze was a relatively mild villain in Gotham. He usually liked to freeze Batman and then talk to him about philosophy and art. Most of his paranoia and madness came from his love for his wife, not necessarily against Batman or Gotham.

The Victor Schiller saw was very similar to himself. They both had very typical scholar images. Victor had an upright figure, wore a pair of glasses, and the collar and cuffs of his suit were meticulously groomed. Although he looked a little haggard, he still looked like a well-educated professor.

Each professor has his own independent office, but there are also public offices where everyone sits together for activities and chats. After Jonathan left, his public office was vacant. This time Victor came and sat right next to Schiller, where Jonathan used to be.

During the first chat with Victor, Schiller found that Victor's eyes were always staring at the ring on Schiller's ring finger.

After a while, he finally brought the topic to family, and asked, "You seem to be married. Is your wife also in Gotham now?"

In European and American countries, it is actually not polite to talk about the other party's marriage situation when you first meet. Some people may think that this offends their privacy.

It can be seen that Victor is not in a good mental state now. He seems to be very anxious and wants to seek recognition.

Schiller was stunned for a moment after hearing this question. He didn't know how to answer. He couldn't tell the other party that he had a symbiote who watched too many TV series, right?

Schiller's silence was understood by Victor as another meaning.

People are like this. When they feel insecure and extremely anxious, they will unconsciously look for people of the same kind, and want to find comfort from their experiences like their own.

Victor thought of Schiller's somewhat amazing resume, and he thought that perhaps among those thrilling detective stories, there might be a love story that is more poignant than his.

With this sense of identity of "being the same as the wanderers in the world", Victor and Schiller quickly became familiar with each other.

In the subsequent exchanges, Schiller found that he and Victor did have a lot in common. Victor's favorite topics were ancient philosophy, modern art and religious art, and Schiller also liked theology and philosophy. The two of them had a lot in common, and they could even chat for a whole afternoon when they had no classes.

Schiller didn't expect that the first close friend he found after crossing over was the villain Mr. Freeze.

But it must be said that Mr. Freeze, who has not yet become a villain, is actually very charismatic. He is always gentle, empathetic, gentle and methodical, and has unique insights when discussing some issues. Chatting with him reminds Schiller of his debates with experts in the same field in his previous life, which always sparks countless thoughts.

This moderate villain gives people a very good impression, which is also recognized by everyone in the office.

As the communication with Victor deepened, Schiller also knew his current situation. Victor has used cryogenic technology to seal his wife, but this technology costs a lot of money and requires a harsh site.

The research institute that originally funded his research was unwilling to provide a site for Victor because of insufficient funds, so Victor hurried to Gotham University. In addition to the good salary here, it is for the Wayne family to pay for a cryogenic laboratory built here, where he can ensure that his wife is always in a frozen state and her condition will not worsen.

If we consider the later story of Mr. Freeze, his behavior may seem a little abnormal, but in fact, most of the colleagues in the office can understand Victor. In this era, many people have proposed the theory of freezing people with incurable diseases and waiting for the day when medical technology develops to treat them.

And Victor is just a pioneer among them.

Schiller believes that even if Victor Freeze had not encountered an accidental experiment and turned into Mr. Freeze, he would still be a very reliable ally.

Compared with the little bat who has not grown up yet, Mr. Freeze, who has the world's cutting-edge cryogenic technology and a head full of knowledge, seems more reliable.

If you want to solve Mr. Freeze's troubles forever, you still have to solve his wife's degenerative disease first.

Schiller followed Victor to see the cryogenic chamber where his wife was sealed. Mrs. Freeze was not very beautiful, just an ordinary white woman, but Victor always looked at her with love.

Schiller asked the symbiote in his mind: "Is there a solution?"

The symbiote said: "The nerves are atrophied, which is very troublesome."

Victor looked at the cryogenic chamber and said: "My wife's neurodegenerative disease is almost incurable. Her nerve cells die too quickly. I only have time to seal her up, and there is no way to reverse it. Even if I can barely control cell death, immune inflammation will damage her brain..."

Victor squatted down, and anyone could hear the despair in his tone. Perhaps he himself knew that freezing his wife and waiting for a solution that might never come was just deceiving himself.

Schiller frowned and thought. He thought that although Victor was a well-known villain in Gotham and was indeed a world-class cryo-surgeon, professional matters had to be left to professionals, such as a top neurosurgeon.

The next day, Schiller returned to Marvel's New York.

When Strange saw Schiller at his home, he threw his coat on the porch next to him and said, "Oh my God, you just showed up in my house so brazenly!"

"I haven't settled accounts with you yet. You sold my information to a certain organization."

"That's what they asked me. I can't do anything about it."

While staring at Schiller, Strange had no choice but to back down. He said, "Okay, but you can't expect me to be like a well-trained agent and say nothing. And it was you who threatened me first."

"Let's not talk about this. I have a way to make a fortune now. Do you want to hear it?"

Strange asked suspiciously, "A way to make a fortune? If there is such a way, would you come to me? I heard that you gave that Stark charged $1 million an hour for the consultation, and he actually agreed!"

"When I heard the news, I wanted to go back to college to study psychology!"

"Now, there is a lady with a very serious neurodegenerative disease, and her husband may have the world's unique low-temperature patent technology, you know, the kind of technology that can make a living from patent fees alone."

"If you can cure this lady's disease, we can share the patent together."

Strange pursed his lips and sighed, "I say again, I am a doctor, not God."

"Do you think you can't cure this disease?"

"But first, shouldn't you let me see the patient first, instead of you, the middleman?"

"For some reason, You may not be able to see her, but I have all her pathological information here. "

Speaking of this, Schiller conjured up a pile of papers out of thin air. Strange took it, glanced at it briefly, and shook his head and said, "Impossible, can't save her, give up."

Just as Schiller was about to speak, Strange said, "This is no longer a matter of neuroscience. If you want her to be completely healthy, the difficulty is almost equivalent to restoring a piece of cooked bacon to a pig."

Then he looked Schiller up and down, and finally his eyes fell on the ring on his ring finger. Strange said, "...Okay, my wording just now was a bit absolute, otherwise you can go find someone else, although I don't think there is a better neurosurgeon in the world than me."

"If you and Stark work together, "

Strange was about to deny it, but after thinking about it, he said, "That Stark may have some research in mechanics, but if he wants to apply his technology to neurosurgery, it will still require a lot of research and transformation. If you can convince him to spend so much effort to study this technology, then I can try it, but you'd better prepare a consultation fee that satisfies me."

Before Strange finished speaking, Schiller had disappeared. Thinking of the ring he saw on Schiller's hand just now, and thinking of Schiller's attitude, Strange obviously misunderstood something. He sighed and said to himself, "Ha, love... is so stupid."

Schiller suddenly appeared behind Stark, scaring him, and then he shouted, "I know you have this magical magic! But this is not a reason for you to walk more than 30 floors without an elevator! Aren't you afraid of being stuck in the wall?"

Schiller said, "What nonsense are you talking about? How can magic teleportation be stuck in the wall? That's too stupid. "

"I hope I won't get a call from a maintenance worker one day telling me that a human-shaped hole has appeared on a wall of Stark Tower."

"Well, I came to you for a serious matter."

Schiller took out the pile of information again.

Ten minutes later, Stark said, "You've found the right person. I know a little bit about neurology."

He walked around the table with a pen in his hand, saying, "You know, I got a lot of information about biomechanics from Obadiah's database last time, and there are some technologies related to the transformation of the nervous system to adapt to mechanical control."

"Although these technologies are dangerous, it cannot be denied that if they succeed, they will allow the human body to control the mecha to an unprecedented level of precision."

"If the machine can receive commands directly from the nerve center, it will eliminate the time required for all secondary operations, and all the armor can be truly controlled as if it were an arm."

"So you can do it?"

"No, not yet. Obadiah's research on this technology has also stopped at a bottleneck period. There is a key technical threshold that needs to be broken through, and we don't have any ideas yet."