In New York, in the office of Arkham Sanatorium, Schiller had just picked up a cup of fragrant coffee and planned to enjoy the rare morning leisure time, when a black bald head squeezed in through the crack of the door.
"Schiller, please do me something."
"Sorry, we don't accept guests without reservations." Schiller rolled his eyes and sat back in his office chair, took a sip of coffee and let out a comfortable sigh.
He looked at Nick Fury standing by the door, holding coffee in one hand and supporting his face with the other: "Didn't I explain it clearly to you on the phone? I can't do anything about it."
Nick held out three fingers. Schiller then shook his head. Nick then added five fingers. Schiller blew on the coffee and Nick had to clench his hands into fists.
Seeing that Schiller still didn't respond, Nick reached out and adjusted the position of his eye patch, and said with a serious face: "Doctor, as the head of Hydra Americas, I order you to think of a way, my base
It won’t be enough!”
"There is no way." Schiller shrugged and said, "You have accumulated too much experimental waste. What can I do? But speaking of it, how did you deal with it before?"
"Throw it into the sun." Nick answered simply. He said, "It doesn't matter what kind of mutant animal, mutant plant, ghost, or alien it is, just shoot it directly into the sun."
"Oh, I understand, Tony won't let you do this, right?"
"How dare I let him know." Nick closed the door behind his back and sat in front of Schiller, lowering his voice and saying, "These experiments are top secret, and those superheroes won't let me do this."
"Then you really shouldn't do this. What's the use of studying those alien monsters? I'm afraid they can't even defeat today's young heroes, right?"
Nick put his hands on the table, looked at Schiller seriously and said: "I need a scientific research grant to study them. If the research is not successful, I will need a follow-up fund. If the research is successful, I will secretly release them, and they will fight with superheroes."
Well, while I was selling successful experimental products to the military, I was also asking Congress for funding for superhero logistics support. Otherwise, how do you think I got my more than 700 bases?"
"Then how do you usually deal with the aftermath?"
"Find a place to lock them up, and then launch them into the sun for destruction one after another. But this damn solar system development plan made them look too closely at the sun. By the time I reacted, there were too many failed products piled up in the warehouse. If I couldn't
Destroy them quickly, my base will be destroyed!"
"So what are you going to ask me to do for you?" Schiller put down the coffee, moved his chair forward, and said, "You don't want me to convince Tony to let you throw those messy things into the sun.
Bar?"
"Nick, you have to understand that these scientists are unreasonable in this regard. They will only tell you that the variables you create by throwing things into the sun will affect their series of experiments. If the experimental readings are wrong by one number, they will be punished.
If you come here to see me, what can I do?"
"But to the sun this is just..."
"You go talk to Tony about this." Schiller turned his chair to the other side, took a sip of coffee and said, "What's more, every country is staring at the sun now, and you have to make sure that no one discovers those things from the beginning to the end.
Whatever is in the jar, once the monster you created is exposed, Congress will ask you to come to see it first."
Nick sighed deeply and said: "Am I the only one in the world who not only cannot enjoy the benefits brought by the progress of the times, but also is troubled by it?"
"Is there no other way than throwing them into the sun? Can't you just destroy them where they are?" Schiller asked.
"Those that can be destroyed were destroyed as soon as the test failed." Nick spread his hands and said, "I'm not just idle, so I want to lock them up. They take up space in my warehouse because of certain things.
It cannot be destroyed by conventional means, or its vitality is too tenacious, so we can only rely on the sun."
"God, they deprived me of the right to use the sun. This is extremely unfair. Can I sue them for racial discrimination?" Nick couldn't help but wailed.
"Okay, stop acting. If you keep rambling on, I'll charge you on time."
"Sure enough, I can't hide anything from you, my good doctor." Nick grinned, showing a row of white teeth. He smiled, and then said to Schiller: "Just keep them far away from my warehouse.
Just don’t take up space.”
"You don't want to..."
About half an hour later, in the dimly lit office of the Time Administration, Nick wearing a leather jacket and Schiller wearing a windbreaker stood in front of a dark red desk.
Nick pointed to a golden magic projection and said to Schiller: "We observed the abnormal movement of this part of the time flow about two months ago, look at this."
Schiller frowned and looked at where Nick was pointing. There were two small light spots there, which were spinning around each other in a very regular trajectory, while most of the other light spots around them hurriedly passed by and disappeared.
There are only two light spots on the screen. Although they move around each other, they hardly move forward.
"Is this a binary star system?" Schiller recalled some astrophysics phenomena he saw in the universe.
Nick put his hands on the desk, stared at the image and said: "This is the monitoring equipment of the Time Administration's universe timeline. Each light point on the picture represents a universe."
"Universes do not exist forever. They also have their lifespan. Most universes will gradually age due to the passage of time, just like water droplets in a river inevitably flowing downstream, and this speed is also very fast."
"But there are also some universes that are in trouble and are stuck. At this time, the employees of the Time Administration will go to help this universe."
"It doesn't mean that we must let the universe decline, but if the time of the universe does not advance, then the time of the life in the universe will not advance either. It is equivalent to them being solidified in eternal amber, which is no different from being destroyed.
, so the Time Management Bureau will try its best to help them restore order."
"But it's still a spectacle." Nick stood up straight and said: "There are two such universes in the multiverse we live in, and they are trapped in an endless time loop."
"The strange thing is that it is not one universe that is stuck, but two universes that are stuck with each other. They form a subtle causal loop, causing their time to never advance."
"Can you tell me more about it?" Schiller folded his arms and looked at the two rotating spheres on the screen.
"To put it simply, disaster A occurred in universe A. The life inside escaped from this universe because of the disaster and came to universe B, bringing disaster B. In order to survive, the life in universe B tried to solve disaster B, and the solution
It is to send the things that caused the disaster back to the past of universe A, and these things caused the outbreak of disaster A in universe A."
"When the beings in Universe B sent the disaster back, they reset the timeline of Universe A, making the time of Universe A go back to the time when the disaster broke out. The things sent there caused the disaster A to break out, and the timeline moved forward, leading to the disaster.
B, which led to disaster A..."
"In this way, the time of the two universes is completely stuck. Mobius told me that according to surveys by professional explorers, they have not been stuck for long, probably within this year."
"So?" Schiller put his hands in the pockets of his windbreaker, turned to look at Nick and asked.
"To a certain extent, these two universes have built an excellent defense system for themselves. The universe itself no longer participates in the passage of time. The lives of everyone inside are constantly circulating, and outsiders cannot interfere."
"And what I want to say is..." Nick bent down and pressed a few buttons on the table again, and a slightly bloody picture appeared in Schiller's field of vision, making him frown deeply.
"The so-called disaster is actually that the life in these two universes was infected by an extremely rare zombie virus, and almost all life became zombies."
Schiller thought for a moment and remembered which two universes they were. What many people don't know is that the famous zombie universe is actually not one universe, but two.
Earth 2149 and Earth 91126 can be said to be two equally unlucky guys. The general process is just as Nick said - the zombie sentinels of Earth 91126 arrived on Earth 2149 and infected the entire Earth 2149, and then the zombie heroes of Earth 2149
Arriving at Earth 91126, Earth 91126 was infected again. The heroes of Earth 91126 eliminated all the zombies, leaving only the zombie sentries. Someone sent the zombie sentries to a time point in the past of Earth 2149, and then the zombie sentries infected the entire Earth 2149...
…
It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand. Anyway, the result is that the time of the two universes is completely stuck, the cycle continues, and all the superheroes are repeating the tragedy of turning into zombies to save the universe and then turning into zombies again.
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"The most important thing is that the zombies in these two universes have endless appetites. When they are hungry, they will eat everything. Does it sound like an oversized paper shredder?
"
Schiller looked Nick up and down and said, "You don't want to throw your harmful garbage into these two universes, do you?"
"This is completely safe, healthy, environmentally friendly, and pollution-free." Nick stretched out a hand and waved it while saying: "Their time has been stuck, so they will continue to cycle no matter what. These two universes have already
Hopeless."
"But there are a group of zombies with ravenous appetites locked inside. They are very hungry, and I am obviously very worried about the physical condition of my colleagues in other parallel universes. They have paid so much for the safety of the universe, but they can't even get a full meal. How so?
It’s so sad…”
Schiller was quite speechless. Even though he had known Nick's shamelessness for a long time, this damn braised egg could still refresh his understanding of the moral bottom line again and again. Although he knew that he was also refreshing Nick's, he was an outsider after all.
, is it really okay for you, a native, to be so wicked?
Schiller felt that he might have said this accidentally, and Nick immediately snapped his fingers and said: "You have grasped the key again, my genius doctor. When I sent employees from the Time Administration to check before, I found that
They will also be affected by time loops, perhaps because we are indigenous to this world and have timelines in common."
"And you don't have to worry about this problem. You are an outsider, your identity code is different from ours, and you also receive special attention from many powerful gods. You will not be affected by the timeline in the world."
"So Schiller, I'm afraid I have to ask you to take a trip to help me take out the garbage. I promise this is an easy job, and the reward is definitely beyond your imagination."
"10% of all research project funding."
"No, Schiller, you are too greedy. This can't be done at all. I can't even get 10% of it myself!"
Schiller turned and walked towards the door. Nick chased after him and shouted: "5% is negotiable!"
Schiller walked out of the room without looking back.