civilwarnovels Chapter 2697 Hollywood Rhapsody (55)
Chapter 2697 Hollywood Rhapsody (55)
Chapter 2697 Hollywood Rhapsody (Fifty-Five)
Dinner was over quickly and everyone was looking for activities that interested them and participating in them. It was not a very stressful social scene because it allowed people to sit there and do nothing but drink juice and stare at the sunset.
Schiller was one of them. He did not play poker or board games, and had no interest in swimming or surfing, let alone fishing and beach volleyball. So he just sat there, drinking juice, watching the sunset gradually approaching the horizon.
Surprisingly, Stark did not participate in these activities. Like a middle school student addicted to novels, he kept flipping through the things Natasha sent him that looked more like novels than information. His facial expressions were very interesting, and he would look up at Strange and Loki from time to time.
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 in trouble all along, right?"
Schiller knew that Stark was referring to Loki, he really knew it, but he soon realized something else about the incident.
Thor's attitude towards Loki is the joint 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 using a method that Schiller was very familiar with, that is, being a hostage and then training a kidnapper. In the years when Schiller didn't know Loki, he had actually been doing this, and he was very successful, firmly grasping most of Thor's attention.
In fact, the one who was most familiar with this method was not greed, he had just heard of it, because his other younger personality trait always kept this in mind and he practiced it himself with good results.
Loki, who traveled back in time, added fuel to the fire. He used Strange as a tool to test Thor and put this theory into practice to the end. Obviously, the identity of a kidnapper is inherently very exclusive, and he would never allow his prey to be coveted by others.
Loki's attempt was successful, but also a complete failure.
Because he created a terrible possibility in that time stream - Thor went crazy.
According to Hela - it was Hela who brought Loki back from that timeline, and it was obvious that he was unable to escape on his own - something very terrible happened between Loki and Thor, or to be more precise, Thor did something very terrible to Loki, which was the root cause of his unpleasant expression.
From Loki's expression, it can be seen that he must have experienced a long period of imprisonment, and it was the kind that was not modern and inhumane. This was easily noticed by a psychologist because Schiller had seen many victims with similar experiences in law enforcement agencies.
It was unwise, 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 was he always easily angered by superheroes?
It's not like Schiller is actually always angry, and he always has a habit of taking revenge on certain superheroes, spinning a big ball of yarn to make them suffer, and he doesn't expect anything in return.
The key point is not to consider returns. In fact, he has no need to do this. Everyone knows that this is a completely losing business. Greedy is not a person who will ignore benefits just to vent his emotions.
But he has been doing this all the time. There are obviously better and more efficient ways to gain profits, but he insists on taking a big detour and involving everyone, calling it revenge.
For example, this time Strange, Greed discovered that Superego and Pride had deleted part of his memory. Although he still doesn't know what exactly was deleted, it can be inferred from the time of the time travel that Strange, who was in the same school as him, is the most suspicious.
Then of course he wanted to take revenge on Strange. After seeing the traces of Strange's time travel in the Time Management Bureau, he went to find Loki to stop him and let Loki play with his feelings.
But really, Schiller thought, God, why would he do this? Just to see Strange's ugly face now?
Of course, he couldn't say that he was bored right now, but was he going to include Loki in the timeline just for this little bit of fun? This wasn't like his style.
Simply put, greed is different from arrogance. Greed has requirements for the ratio of resources invested and fun output. It is always about making the most of a small investment, and trying to get the most fun with the smallest investment.
But when it comes to superheroes, he rarely does that. Most of the time, he puts a lot of effort into a lot of things, and the final reward is just a few ugly expressions. Although it is not boring, it is not a lot of fun.
Arrogant, on the other hand, always saw some genuine fun in the people around him, and lately the fun had been getting bigger and bigger.
Greedy was thinking about why all this was happening, and then from what happened to Loki and Thor he realized that he was a bit like Thor when he was angry. He could completely ignore all the consequences and just make himself feel comfortable and happy at the moment.
This counterintuitive reaction couldn't possibly be the result of a sudden change in his character, and if not, then someone must have deliberately cultivated him.
Stark also saw the key part - it was completely glossed over, and Natasha exhausted her imagination and could only describe 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 about certain cruel things. But she just pointed out that it is unlikely that Thor would treat Loki like this, even if he was almost angry to death.
Therefore, the female agent believes that there is a high probability that Thor may no longer favor Loki, and treat his restless brother as a normal heir. After all, if he really goes too far, Odin and Frigga will not agree. But even the Queen of the Gods did not say anything, which means that the measures he took cannot be called excessive at all, and it can only be said that it is in line with the will of the people.
But even Thor's more restrained methods were unacceptable to Loki. He simply could not accept that he had lost his dominant position as the Puller, and after losing this position he was completely defeated and became powerless to resist. The mental trauma he suffered was much greater than the physical one.
The story came to an abrupt end at its climax. 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 his mental health sitting next to him, Stark thought it better to forget it.
Stark glanced at Schiller secretly. Schiller was lost in his memories. At this moment, he was recalling the part where Strange's hand was broken. Mr. God's Hand's resolute expression kept flashing before his eyes.
Very good, seems very determined, full of a self-destructive desire against the world, and no matter how you look at it, it seems that if he can't do something, he will feel guilty about it and die.
Schiller also clearly recalled his expression at the time. Not surprisingly, he was possessed, shocked, angry, and incomprehensible, looking like he was on the verge of losing control.
Usually this expression only appears on other people's faces. It is a flower that Schiller carefully cultivated. At a certain stage in his life, it means that he has once again heard the symphony of successful revenge.
But no, Stephen Strange was not one of those people, Schiller realized. He had never been one to turn his destructive desires inward, but rather one to destroy the world if that didn't work.
Countless stories about 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 realized long ago that if someone around him showed a change in behavior, it was most likely related to himself, because he had too many factors in his body that were good at influencing others. No matter which link went wrong, it could completely change the fate of others.
Did I influence Strange?
When? Greed can't seem to find any other answer. The way the superego and arrogance plot is like an open-book exam, eliminating all wrong answers for greed in advance, leaving only one - greed can only find that one memory. What else could it be?
After realizing this, everything connected together. Strange was instigated by himself to choose to be a hostage and try to train himself to be a kidnapper.
What's more pessimistic is that it's not just Strange, many people around him have such tendencies. It's not known whether Strange taught them or they learned it on their own. Schiller believes it's the former, because without him, the relationship between superheroes has never been so twisted and sinister.
Very good, it seems that he has brought this upon himself, Schiller thought helplessly. He even believed that his 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 of Greed's interpersonal logic in Marvel.
The superego succeeded.
He let Greed spend most of his energy on the meaningless work of saving and avenging superheroes. Yes, even though it seems crazy, this is actually Greed's inefficient work mode, which is mixed with too many personal emotions, rather than being completely profit-oriented.
In a way, this saves the world, because if greed runs wild, it's hard to say how long the existing universe can last. Greed is greed itself, and desire never ends.
Schiller is a good kidnapper. He is always under the threat of hostages and has almost gotten used to it. For example, he would go to great lengths to travel back to the past and fill in the blanks in the background story to give everyone an explanation.
But in fact, Schiller does not need any explanation. As I said before, his past does not give him any right to survive in his current state. Nothing has shaped him, so it does not matter whether he has a sad past that meets other people's expectations.
The time he wasted on shaping the past was only because he was threatened by this group of hostages, and he wanted to satisfy them so that they would not cry in panic because they did not get the candy, so he took great pains to make up a reasonable story.
Now everyone is satisfied. Nick has found a basically convincing story. As expected, this story will soon spread among the superhero community. Everything is so reasonable and reliable, and everything Schiller has done is explained.
But no, Schiller thought, he had never been the shadow of some tragic past, nor the mirror of some cruel thing that had happened before his eyes, and no past was worthy of explaining his present existence.
Schiller looked up at Loki. If he had one time stream, there would be a second one.