Chapter 1059: Shocking Ordinary Person (Part 36)

Eddie hesitated, seemingly thinking about how to express his point of view so it wouldn't seem too extreme. This was also Eddie's occupational disease as a reporter. Thor wouldn't care about these.

Thor directly knocked on the back of the chair next to him with the spatula and shouted loudly: "Schiller! You must be crazy! You aren't going to tell me that all of this was planned by you, are you?!"

Before Schiller could admit it, Thor roared again with a bit of anger, "What do you take us for? We aren't without hands and feet, and we aren't incapable of doing anything. Why do you have to arrange everything?"

"Thor... Thor! Don't be like this!" Eddie hurriedly stopped Thor's somewhat radical remarks, but Thor didn't buy it at all. He said very straightforwardly: "You say superheroes, oh, that is Tony, maybe including me, have all kinds of annoying things, but isn't this very normal?"

Thor revealed an expression that was a bit absurd and said: "Quarreling between friends because of old grudges, having trouble with classmates, couples deciding whether to have children, are these trivial matters worth you treating them???"

"If you are really too idle, just run 20 laps around the Nine Realms, guaranteed all diseases will be cured!" Thor put one hand on his waist, one eyebrow high and one low, and said: "You humans always feel Asgard is too rough... Alright, I also admit, we are a military state after all, and sometimes, we can't take care of those children's love."

"However, are you humans thinking a bit too much?" Thor frowned, appearing somewhat confused. He looked at Schiller and said: "You even have to manage this kind of trivial matter?? Why don't you just manage their eating, drinking, and pooping?!"

"If they quarrel, let them quarrel! At worst, just have a fight. If they have trouble, let them have trouble. They aren't without mouths, can't they explain it themselves? Things between couples can only be left to nature. If they want children, they will naturally have them. Is there anything worth managing here?"

"And, I feel the most outrageous thing is, you actually resurrected Tony's parents???"

"Of course, I'm not saying you shouldn't do this, but the reason you resurrected old Stark. It's actually to give Tony a perfect ending?!"

"Schiller, how do you know Tony wants to resurrect his parents? How do you know his parents want to be resurrected? And how do you know that in the perfect ending he has in his heart, his parents must be there?"

Before Schiller could speak, Thor waved his hand and said: "Don't tell me, you are a psychologist, you saw it all. Did Tony tell you clearly? I don't believe he would say that!"

"Would he really cry and say to you, 'Please, help me resurrect my parents, I miss them too much!' If he really did this, I must go and scold him for being a softie now!"

"If he really wanted to resurrect his parents, then he should think of a way himself. Isn't his technical strength very powerful? Study more, invent a time machine, or go outside the universe to find a world where his parents are still alive, wouldn't that be it?"

"And Peter Parker, are you serious about wanting to resurrect his parents? I heard that kid say that he has no impression of his parents passing away too early. Are you sure he really wants to see his biological parents?"

"Stephen goes without saying. You underestimate the Sorcerer Supreme too much. If all the energy mastered by Kamar-Taj now is poured into his body, allowing him to briefly ascend to above the universe, it's not impossible. If he really couldn't accept his father's death, he would think of a way himself."

"But what if the method they thought of brought danger?" Schiller asked.

"Then they will bear it themselves." Thor spread his hands and said: "Otherwise? You aren't going to even want to bear the danger for them, are you? You aren't their father,

Shiler shook his head, as if he had nothing to say to Thor. Thor shrugged his shoulders and said, "I know, it's precisely because you want everything that you end up doing these things."

"You want the superheroes' mental states to be stable, you want their abilities to grow, you want the overall environment to be positive and upward, and you want everyone to be happy. Shiler, don't you think you're too greedy?"

Thor sighed, looked at Shiler, and said, "Of course, I know you are very capable. Without you, humanity wouldn't be where it is today. But you cannot always live in the fantasy that you can perfectly handle everything. That is impossible."

Thor used both hands to support the backs of two chairs and said, "Loki also used to suffer from this illness often. When conducting tactical command on the battlefield, he would want the enemy to suffer heavy losses while wanting our side to suffer none, and at the same time, the wear and tear on equipment, shells, and even weapons had to be less than the opponent's..."

"If you guys took all the good things in this world, what would others play with? Even if there were one or two opponents who let you achieve such a victory, it's impossible for everyone to reveal such huge flaws."

Thor shook his head and said, "I still stick to my point. Sometimes, Loki just thinks too much, and you are the same. This is a common ailment of you scholars who come out of ivory towers."

"In theory, everything is feasible. Of course, I don't deny this point. In an ideal situation, it is like this. If your ability is sufficient, it is very possible to make things develop in this direction."

"But you don't have an expectation of 'imperfection' in your minds. You don't allow any loss or sacrifice, and once something outside your plan appears, you have to formulate another incredibly complex plan to eliminate this budding trend."

"A truly excellent strategist must accept sacrifice." Thor explained, enunciating every word: "You might think, 'I'm not the one being sacrificed, so I can say this,' but in reality, I firmly believe that on the road to achieving my results, I won't sacrifice any less than him, and I won't have extra sympathy for him, because we just have different divisions of labor."

"You will be a great king." Shiler commented, but Thor shook his head and said, "No, I'd rather be a good brother."

"Every time Loki tells me he has a better tactic, he has a better way, and he can make fewer people sacrifice, I always show an impatient attitude, as if I don't want to listen to him at all."

"But this is actually protecting him. War will definitely have bloodshed and sacrifice. He focuses too much on this point and is always thinking about using plans and tactics to make up for it. At the very beginning, perhaps it can reduce losses."

"But if you always think with this kind of mindset, in the end, the goal of tactics changes from winning to reducing losses. Then, one day in the future, will you give up victory in order to reduce losses?"

"And if you give up victory, wouldn't the sacrifice be valueless?"

Thor tapped the back of the chair with a spatula again and said, "Accepting loss is to achieve the best outcome, not a perfect outcome. Not accepting loss and refusing loss is not the goal."

"What's more..." Thor shook his head lightly again and said, "Loki has proposed several times for the sake of his perfect plan to use himself as bait, and every time, I decisively refused, and he felt I was unreasonable."

"But in reality, when he stood in front of everyone to expound his philosophy, saying that the enemy would definitely lower their guard because of his frailty, what I felt wasn't admiration, but only heartache."

Thor frowned, as if thinking of some bad memories, and said, "I know he has always felt sad about being physically frail and being out of place with the Asgardians."

"Loki is such a proud person. For him to admit this directly in front of everyone is no different from holding a knife and stabbing it into his own heart."

"By the All-Father, how much must he look down on me as a brother to think that I need him to stab his own wound to achieve victory?!"

"So, when I refused him, that disdain and anger weren't acted out."

"Never treat me as someone who needs to sacrifice their loved ones to achieve a goal. I will never be that kind of coward!"

"Ahem..." Eddie cleared his throat somewhat awkwardly and then said, "Shiler, Thor's words are blunt but true..."

"Do you think the superheroes would really be happy if they found out you were hurting your own soul to resurrect their loved ones?"

Eddie pursed his lips, pushed his lips upward, and wrinkled his nose, revealing a somewhat complex expression, saying, "Pardon my bluntness, but actually, in my view, this is a bit terrifying."

"Of course, I know you mean well, but you made a choice for me that I could have avoided making."

Eddie spread his hands and analyzed for Shiler: "Originally, the fact that the dead cannot return to life is an established fact, right?"

Shiler nodded slowly, considering it a confirmation of his answer. After all, before he made a deal with Death, this was indeed a fact, and it was a fact recognized by all humans in the world.

"Then, in the education I received in the first few decades of my life, when people died, they were dead. Although at the time I would feel sad and later feel nostalgic, I had actually accepted this fact."

"Later, I met some friends. They were very good to me, and we built a very deep relationship. And at this time, one of my very close friends wants to sacrifice himself to resurrect my loved ones."

"That's right, I do miss my loved ones, even now, but I also know that my friend has to pay an unimaginably huge price to resurrect my loved ones."

"And when he actually did it, I faced a choice: choose my loved ones, or choose my friend?"

"And I had actually already accepted the fact of losing my loved ones. I originally could have avoided making this choice."

"But I don't want him to choose his friend..." Shiler spoke up again: "Because this is my goal..."

"But there is more to this world than plans and goals." Eddie looked into Shiler's eyes and said, "I know that patients on the autism spectrum sometimes have weaker perceptions of emotions and imperfect expressions of their own emotions."

"However, your wisdom should tell you that Tony Stark cannot help but choose you. He is a superhero, a noble and good man."

Thor also chimed in from the side: "Tony would absolutely never sacrifice a friend to resurrect his own parents. If you made him do that, you might as well kill him."

Shiler pursed his lips and said somewhat stiffly, "So, I shouldn't resurrect his parents?"

"The key is, you shouldn't sacrifice yourself." Eddie emphasized again.

"But that is not a sacrifice." Shiler said again: "I didn't die, and the price I paid can also be taken back. Everything can be redeemed..."

Eddie cast his gaze on the side of Shiler's neck and asked: "... Is that so? Is that also so?"

Shiler instinctively reached out and rubbed his collarbone with trembling fingers. He remained silent and didn't answer, while Thor looked into his eyes and said:

"If I had to pick the one sentence Loki said that I believe the least, it would definitely be 'Trust me, I won't get hurt'."

In Thor's eyes, Shiler saw a clarity and sharpness that were completely different from his rugged temperament. He heard Thor say:

"Perhaps Loki himself thought so too. He thought he wouldn't get hurt, but the truth is, that wound of his has been torn open too many times, to the point where he can no longer feel the pain."

"But this doesn't mean that as his own brother, I can be as indifferent as other strangers, thinking that him stabbing his own wound again is his own fault and therefore doesn't need to be saved."

"I think Tony is the same, isn't he?"

In this instant, in Thor's eyes, Shiler saw surging waves. Amidst the mist rising above the Nordic ice fields, there was also a lot of vivid vitality like lush pine branches.

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The Christmas carols from outside the window still echoed in the room, and in his still somewhat dazed and chaotic thinking, when Shiler thought of his friends again, the plans and arrangements that often appeared suddenly disappeared.

And what appeared in his heart was something that made him feel strange—urgent, sour, appearing inexplicably, and disappearing inexplicably.

When Shiler's gaze appeared on the screen, Steve, standing in front of the screen, slowly closed his eyes and said:

"Perhaps, he is... missing us."