On a sunny morning in New York, before 7 o'clock, the streets of Manhattan were already busy. Wall Street elites in suits and ties were holding reports in their hands and spitting out a lot of professional terms into the phones as they walked. Coffee shops
The boss of the restaurant was struggling to move the magazine rack to the door. There was a long queue in the driveway of the fast food restaurant. Vehicles of all kinds were arriving from beginning to end like parts on an assembly line. The sunlight reflected by the rearview mirror and the glass curtain wall of the high-rise building complemented each other.
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Summer is coming to an end, but iced coffee will never go out of the market. In front of the sanatorium on the corner of the street, many young people gathered while drinking coffee and reading magazines. Schiller leaned on a lamppost in front of the sanatorium, holding a hand
Holding a cup of coffee and making a call on a mobile phone in one hand.
"...Yes, I did forget it, but I am the dean. You can't let the dean be locked out of the nursing home, right?"
"You said you have something to do, but what can you do? Haven't the resignation procedures at Presbyterian Hospital been completed long ago? It's been several months. Apart from the work in the nursing home, what else do you have to be busy with?"
"You became a specially appointed doctor at Presbyterian Hospital? Hey, you went out to look for part-time jobs without my permission as the dean?...You can't find my person? Does that make you right? It's clearly written in the contract...
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"Okay, okay, I know you are a professional person. Don't worry about it. Come and give me the key quickly..."
"A lunatic who broke into a house found you? Like me? I'm not... Then why didn't you call the police? Did you not know the 911 phone number?"
"Who? A bald man in yellow clothes? That's okay. You can have 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 took a sip of coffee and thought happily that he had heard good news just after returning to Marvel. It was a good start.
At this time, in Strange's apartment, Gu Yiyi waved his 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, these magical brilliance disappeared again. Except for Gu Yi's slightly fluttering robe, everything seemed to have never appeared. Gu Yi looked at Strange and asked him: "You
What do you think?"
Strange opened his mouth wide, immersed in shock and did not answer. He had never seen Schiller use magic before, but Schiller could only levitate a ballpoint pen or something. How could there be such a big scene of the arrival of the universe?
Unexpectedly, Gu Yi also sighed inwardly, the development of things was really beyond her expectation.
This matter also starts with the arrival of the so-called bat god at that time.
At that time, the so-called bat god guard who came from the Morlun family was actually just a shameless stowaway, no different from a rat sneaking into a hole.
Because of the existence of Odin and the Ancient One, not everyone can come to Earth. Even when Odin gets mad, even the gods of symbiotes can attack him. Not to mention the Ancient One, he is either beating up his creditors or going to the bank every day.
On the way to beat the creditor.
The demon gods who attacked with great fanfare, those who walked through the main entrance were chopped into dumpling fillings, and those who walked through the side door were beaten into even smaller dumpling fillings. Most of the rest learned the lesson, and no one dared to do so even though they were salivating over this place.
act rashly.
But the main entrance and side doors are blocked, that is, there are people who are not too dirty and like to dig into mouse holes.
In the long history of the earth, the ritual of summoning evil gods has been around for a long time.
In an era when the position of Supreme Mage didn't even exist, when humans had just formed tribes, got rid of their hair 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 right owner.
At that time, the wizards of the tribe used some rituals to summon part of the evil god's power to the earth, exchanged living sacrifices for the evil power, and attacked other tribes.
At that time, some evil gods will leave their own marks and exclusive channels to facilitate the summoning of their followers.
After Ancient One became the Supreme Mage, he constantly checked for deficiencies and solved these problems left over from history. The demon gods who dared to do so paid the price for their youth and frivolity and became fertilizer for the earth's defense system.
Although Gu Yi hacked to death most of the careless demons along the network cable, there were also some cunning demons, and the passages they buried were relatively hidden. Even though Gu Yi had carried out several attempts to eliminate demons and illegals, there were always a few that slipped through the net.
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What the vampires use is a passage for fish to slip through.
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, and they sent a signal directly into the deep space. A member of the Morlun family happened to be hunting in this universe. Like a hound that smelled blood, he quickly locked onto this place.
He came to Earth silently through this smuggling channel, and planned to take advantage of the chaos to hunt Spider-Man.
The story was normal so far, until the huge venomous bat soared into the sky. After communicating with some higher-level mysterious power, Ancient One got the answer to the birth of a new beast totem.
Of course, she got busy. If a new beast totem was really going to be born in this universe, then Earth's Supreme Mage Ancient One would certainly have a lot of things to prepare for, such as debt collection, dumpling fillings and a new round of sweeps.
The devil is defeated.
In short, after this big event is over, the busiest person will be Gu Yi.
This led to a problem. In such a short period of time, she had no time to keep an eye on her future heir Strange, or in other words, Gu Yi simply forgot about this matter when he got busy.
Unexpectedly, in such a short period of time, Strange's life has undergone tremendous changes.
One of the most significant and influential changes was that he became rich overnight.
In the past, Strange could not be considered as having no money. As the best neurosurgeon in the world, his income was quite high, but obviously, earning a dead salary would never be as fast as making some side money.
Since he became the medical consultant of Stark-Osborne United Pharmaceutical Group, gave speeches around the world on the efficacy of immortality factor, and endorsed this mysterious drug as an elite doctor, Strange suddenly discovered that
, it seems that the whole world is busy giving him money.
Stark and Osborn will give him a large amount of money as salary. In addition, SHIELD will also give him part of the remuneration, and the sanatorium will also receive a share of remuneration, and these are not even his income.
Primary source.
There are many people in this world who are poor and have only money left, such as the Middle Eastern tycoons who are sitting on black gold, the Far Eastern oligarchs who have a financial grasp, and the monopolists in certain industries. You have to say that these people really don’t know the hype about the immortality factor.
Ingredients? Actually, not necessarily.
It's just that they are too rich, even if they spend money to listen to the sound, as long as the sound is good, they are happy.
In this case, they are willing to spend a lot of money to buy a top doctor to tell them "it works" every day, even if it is just a placebo effect, money is just a number anyway.
Under such circumstances, even the price offered by one of them to Strange would make him dizzy for a long time.
And Strange was indeed stunned by the money.
In essence, Strange at this time is not a naturally good person like Peter Parker. His high pursuit of his career is also largely due to the generous rewards and honorary status that his professional level can bring him.
This is human nature.
And the sudden wealth almost instantly destroyed his view of money. Strange suddenly discovered that money is not actually the reward for labor. He did not put in any actual labor, but just repeated a few sentences as a repeater,
Then he went to a splendid banquet to eat and drink, and said a few words to the richest man in the world, and the money flew into his pocket.
Strange discovered that the world's economic operation model seemed to be a scam. After becoming a liar from a defrauded victim, he suddenly no longer was so entangled in it.
After all, being a rich man is really happy.
Therefore, when Gu Yi took a moment to take a look at Strange after finishing his work for a while, she found that Strange seemed to be looking away.
Just when she was about to explore what happened during this period, she was tripped up by a little trouble. The person in charge of the New York Sanctuary clamored for transfer, and Gu Yi had to comfort these apprentices and
Find a way to reconnect the sanctuary to WIFI.
But what she didn't expect was that quantitative changes in money can lead to qualitative changes.
Not long after, Pepper completed the important work of handing over the power of the Stark Group and began to reorganize the industries related to the Immortality Factor, establishing the Immortality Factor Foundation, and Strange naturally became a member of it.
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When you get shares in such an important industry, everything changes.
To put it simply, he went from being a worker to becoming a capitalist overnight.
Strange himself didn't know whether he had the heart to be rich and wealthy but not to be promiscuous, but obviously, Gu Yi, who came back from his busy work, felt that he didn't.
After the Supreme Mage returned, she found that things were running in a completely wrong direction without looking back.
Due to Schiller's absence, Strange has become an indispensable and important figure in the professional field of the entire immortality factor industry. His importance has been rising steadily, and has even reached a pivotal position. He has gained credibility in the aspect of immortality factor medicine.
It also has the right of final interpretation.
This means that in this industry, he has become as important as Stark and Osborne. In order to implement this credibility, the Osborne Group plans to open a company for him to enhance the joint pharmaceutical industry
Level, before Gu Yi came to visit, the process of opening a company was almost completed.
The future Supreme Mage is about to end his career as a capitalist, never to return.
But Ancient One knew that if Strange really became a capitalist who was as important as Stark or Osborn and controlled the lifeline of the industry, then neither a car accident nor the death of an important relative would be able to free him from the secular world.
The entanglement of fame and fortune leads to seeking answers from mysticism.
Even if he wanted to do this, those who could benefit from him would not allow him to do so.
For example, if Stark were to abandon everything and escape into Buddhism, the first person who would be anxious would be the President of the United States, and his blood pressure would rise urgently.
Once these people are involved, things will become very troublesome. In the position of Supreme Mage for so many years, Ancient One has pursued non-interventionism. Now, Strange's departure or stay is related to the immortality factor industry, and the immortality factor
The industry is related to the Stark Group, the Osborn Group, SHIELD, 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, Gu Yi was very doubtful. With Strange's current will and character, would he really not be corrupted by money?
What if he really becomes an evil capitalist, lying on the pile of money every day and spending every day on the road of getting something for nothing and enjoying himself? What should we do? We can't chop him into dumpling fillings, right?
When things got to this point, in order to prevent the heir he was optimistic about from jumping into the arms of capital without looking back, Gu Yi decided to do something special. Can he omit those testing steps first, or make sure that his Strange would not go astray first?
More important.
So, on the morning when Schiller was locked outside the sanatorium without a key, Strange truly learned about the magical world from the Ancient One for the first time, and received an invitation to study abroad from Karma Taj.
That's right, it's an invitation to study abroad, not a merciful offer to recruit a disciple.
After all, the current situation is not that Strange is begging his grandfather and grandmother all over the world to find someone to treat his illness, but that Gu Yi is optimistic about Strange's talent and does not want him to be dazzled by worldly fame and fortune, so he takes the initiative to come to his door. This
The invitation was naturally much more polite.
Moreover, Ancient One also knew that under such circumstances, Strange could not just walk away. Too many people were pointing fingers at him for making money. If he were to be taken away like this, the newly connected network cable in the sanctuary would have to be dug up again.
break.
Therefore, the Supreme Mage was very open-minded and said that Strange could study on a day trip. For example, after get off work, he could take a few hours of classes through the sanctuary portal and come back in the morning.
Gu Yi also asked Strange to think about it for two days before answering. After all, she also had to think about what kind of car accident would make Strange change his mind and start a new life if Strange didn't agree.
Strange was still in a daze when he came to work in the afternoon, and it was obvious that the magic displayed by Ancient One shocked him even more.
Schiller's floating ballpoint pens are not unheard of in magic. They are more like tricks than magic.
But Gu Yi is a real supreme mage. Every move is honed from thousands of demon gods who have been chopped into dumplings. Experts use it, let alone Strange, who spent the first half of his life studying science.
Ordinary people, even the most creative magicians in the world, will be shocked by the infinite power of magic in her.
"Does everything we do really make sense?" Strange sat on his desk and asked with dull eyes: "I have learned so many years of knowledge and technology, what kind of magic... they just need to wave their hands.
You can do it all..."
Strange looked down at his finger. He pointed at it and said, "When I was chopping vegetables, I got a cut on my finger, right here..."
"Then she waved her hand, and the wound was healed. It didn't require any medical technology, no medicine, no doctor..."
"So what is the meaning of human medicine's existence? What is the meaning of my existence?"
"A certain patient is just lying on the hospital bed. He can go to a group of magicians to wave to him, and then I can get out, because there is no longer a need for more than ten hours of surgery, and there is no need for any post-operative recovery...
"
Strange spread his hands and opened his mouth, but nothing came out.
Then he asked Schiller very doubtfully: "You are all in the same group, right? You magicians, what do you think of ordinary people? Do you think we are stupid and ridiculous? It takes decades to learn
Knowledge sharpens skills, and in the end..."
He smiled self-deprecatingly and said: "Just 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: "Go and try magic and see if it is as easy and easy as you think?"
"What's easier than waving your hands? This doesn't make sense at all." Strange sighed, covered his forehead and said: "I've known since I was very young that some people in this world can easily
You can get things that you will never get in your life."
"They don't have to make any effort, just because they are lucky. The world is inherently unfair."
"But..." he paused, and then said: "The degree of unfairness is still beyond my imagination."
Strange smiled, but it seemed that he was laughing very hard. He said: "Now it seems that those rich people are just fools who were kept in the dark. This is the only good thing I heard today."
News."
"Do you know what Stark thinks of magic?"
Strange looked at Schiller. He actually wanted to say that he didn't care what Stark, a nasty fellow, thought, but he did want to know that this group of people had already stood at the top of ordinary humans and had gained the most in the world.
How do people with fame and fortune view such extraordinary things?
"When the vampires invaded, he also thought about this problem. The immortality, even eternal life, that ordinary people dream of, those big bats are born with them. They are very strong and powerful, even well-trained ordinary people.
, you have to form a group to deal with one of them, this seems really unfair, like a biased joke of the Creator."
"But then I thought about it, this kind of thing happened tens of millions of years ago. In the ancient savage era, human body was completely incomparable to those beasts with sharp claws and teeth, but in the end we are still alive today.
and developed such a prosperous civilization."
"But this is different." Strange pointed out the flaw in this view: "The ones who can do magic are still humans, not beasts. They have all the advantages of humans, including wisdom, thinking, and inheritance."
"And she mentioned to me that they are also organized. Just like ordinary people, they work in groups and work together. They have all the advantages of ordinary humans, plus magic..."
"Then why don't they rule mankind? In other words, why have you never heard of them in your previous life? Why don't such a superior and powerful group stand in front of the public and lead mankind to greater glory?"
Strange was silent, and Schiller said to him: "Perhaps there is a possibility that their abilities are indeed completely higher than ordinary people. They are nobler than us and will not use this ability to enslave ordinary people."
"And you and I both know that when humans have wisdom, they will also have ambitions and desires. If they are really so superior and can achieve achievements in an instant that ordinary people cannot achieve in decades without paying any price, then
We will definitely see the tragic wars between them and ordinary people in the history books."
"Humans even want to dominate other humans based on their 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, then why don't you try it?"
"I..." Strange closed his eyes and frowned, looking a little painful. After all, anyone who is denied the skills he has studied so hard for many years will feel very depressed.
But he had to admit that he was very curious about this magical power.
In other words, understanding magic in this way makes Strange more confused. He wants to know where this power comes from and why it is so powerful? Is there really no shortcomings?
Schiller looked at Strange and thought, now, the future Supreme Mage is not actively pursuing magic because of his strong desire to save himself or save others, but on such an ordinary and ordinary morning,
Learned the other half of the truth about this world.
The impact he received was great, but the issues he was thinking about were different. Strange now still had time to think about some philosophical issues, instead of being like a desperate stray dog who could only regard magic as the only life-saving straw.
The change in social status gave Strange a lot of initiative when facing the Ancient One.
Strange still has a way out now. Even if he does not become the Supreme Mage, he can still be a happy and rich man in ordinary society. Even if he still becomes the Supreme Mage later, he can still play an important role in this society.
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This is also Schiller's purpose.
Schiller always believes that a Supreme Mage who is completely detached from human society is not good enough. When they place themselves in a solitary and superior position for a long time, their mentality will gradually change and they will become separated from ordinary humans.
Forget that they were also born in this ordinary society, which is the source of the birth of everything.
And this is likely to make them the biggest threat to human society.
Even if Strange, like the Ancient One, could truly detach himself from the world and stick to his heart, his role would be too small. With the status and ability of the Supreme Mage, he could definitely do more.
If others do more, Schiller can do less and have more time to fish with pay.
Therefore, Schiller chose a money offensive and used pie from the sky to knock Strange, the future Supreme Mage, unconscious, so that he would not stray too far from this society.
Schiller asked Strange: "Isn't it happy to be a rich man?"
"Of course you are happy." Strange replied subconsciously: "How can you be unhappy if you have money?"
"You may feel that being a rich man is very happy now, but after you come into contact with magic and great magic, you will find..."
“Isn’t being a rich man not happy enough?”
"...You will find that being a rich man is really happy."
This chapter has been completed!