Chapter 35: The Three-Date Rule and the Council of Reeds

The moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and the neon lights on the street were colorful, shining like a galaxy.

At the hotel entrance, Susan withdrew her hand from Su Quan’s arm, tucked her golden hair, and said with a smile: "I had a great time today, and I'm very happy to have met you!"

"Me too."

Su Quan nodded with a smile: "Should I invite you up for a coffee?"

Susan shook her head with a playful smile: "Too early, but I will consider accepting your second date invitation."

The three-date rule?

The first date is to determine each other's intentions and feelings. If it goes well, you can look forward to the second date. If it doesn't go well, you say goodbye and won't date again.

The second date is to deepen the understanding of each other, reconfirm and consolidate feelings, and weigh whether you are suitable to be together. If it goes well, you can hold hands and have a goodbye kiss when parting.

The third date requires some effort, and it is the most critical one. Whether you can confirm a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship and whether you can take it a step further depends on the result of this one.

Note that the three-date rule doesn't strictly refer to the number three, but rather the goals and progress of each date.

Ineffective dates are not counted because the relationship between the two has made no progress and is just marking time.

Of course, dates with certain purposes are not within the scope of the three-date rule!

It seems Susan is the type who is prepared to be serious.

Su Quan nodded with a smile: "I will look forward to it."

"Then I'm going back to the dorm, good night."

"Good night."

Susan waved goodbye. Su Quan watched her figure disappear from sight, then turned and entered the hotel with a light smile.

Love?

Two strangers who have never met can kiss because of a game at a dinner table. Some love is so cheap it's disgusting.

Some people spend hundreds of thousands to marry the love of their lives, while others spend a few hundred on alcohol, or even just rely on their mouths, to experience someone else's love of their life.

Tell me, what is love?

Love at first sight is easy, but growing old together is hard.

Compared to love, Su Quan believes more in feelings.

Honestly, Susan’s departure didn't make him feel disappointed; instead, he was a bit happy because she was considering it seriously, unlike him, who was just purely after her beauty.

Getting off track.

Su Quan’s main purpose for coming here was to find Reed to fix the time controller. With Reed’s talent, fixing it shouldn't be a problem. The problem is after it's fixed—

Most of the time, looking at whether a person’s strength is powerful or not mainly depends on the strength of their abilities and combat power.

Those on the technological side are usually not considered very strong, but they are very troublesome.

The simplest example: a variant of Kang the Conqueror, He Who Remains.

Anyone who sees him being stabbed to death by Lady Loki would think he is weak, but is he really weak?

Ending the Multiversal War, ruling the multiverse timeline, creating the Time Variance Authority, and controlling the free will of all living beings in the multiverse—is that called weak?

Perhaps he is a mortal without superpowers, perhaps he is a "battle-five-scum" who was stabbed to death, but he did things that many people with powerful "abilities" could not do.

Mr. Fantastic Reed, he and Kang the Conqueror, or He Who Remains, are the same type of person.

His ability is just that his body can stretch freely like rubber. Purely in terms of ability, it is not strong.

But this guy is smart!

In the comics, Reed, like He Who Remains, formed the [Council of Reeds] with countless versions of himself in the multiverse.

The purpose was to eliminate all threats.

They even imprisoned Doctor Doom from many parallel universes.

What's more, in some parallel universes, many Mr. Fantastics have already collected some top-tier divine artifacts from their respective universes. For example, some Mr. Fantastics directly obtained the Infinity Gauntlet!

Galactus from a certain parallel universe wanted to invade Earth, but after the Council of Reeds found out, they directly dispatched 7 Mr. Fantastics, and each Mr. Fantastic was holding an "Ultimate Nullifier" in his hand!

Although the current Reed has no abilities and has not become Mr. Fantastic, he is definitely smart enough!

If he can fix the time controller, he will likely be able to replicate it, and he will definitely use it to cause a lot of trouble.

Su Quan doesn't want him to build a time controller and run around the multiverse the moment he leaves this world.

This conflicts with his plan.

Moreover, Maria Hill is waiting to be fed, and there is more than just one time controller that needs Reed to fix. So many large-scale supplies are waiting for his smart brain to give them a new lease on life.

Therefore, Su Quan needs an ability that can make Reed safely and securely act as his tool man.

That is, psychic ability!

Speaking of psychic ability, the first person Su Quan thought of was Professor X: Charles Francis Xavier!

Su Quan plans to go to a world with Professor X to obtain his ability before letting Reed touch the time controller.

If he is lucky, it won't take much time to go back and forth.

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PS: The plot of Professor X won't be too long. I'll try to go and return quickly to avoid splitting the plot. I'll write about the mutant series in depth later.

Currently, the protagonist’s actions are very purposeful. Going to [The Boys] was to test the serum and obtain abilities.

Coming to [Fantastic Four] is for Reed, the tool man who can fix the time controller and other supplies. Only with the controller can he ignore the Ancient One’s Time Stone loop and go to other timelines and parallel worlds, for example, to find Lady Loki.

Finding [Professor X] is for his ability, so that Reed can be his tool man.

PS: Recommending my other works: "Marvel: The King Descends," "Zombie Covenant: Strongest Reaper," "Marvel: Door-Door Fruit," "American Comics: Strongest Villain," "KO Ranking: Strongest War God," "I Have a Dimensional Street in Marvel," "In American TV: Spending Money Makes You Stronger!"