Chapter 1064

Loki turned his head to the side. He couldn't say that he didn't know how powerful this thing was at the time, right? He was also proficient in magic. When two Infinity Stones were placed together, he knew they should come from the same source.

Loki had actually always coveted the Time Stone in Strange's hand. In his view, being able to reverse time at any time was too convenient.

And he had always looked down on Strange's overly conservative way of using it, thinking that if he possessed this gem, he could definitely create more interesting pranks.

As a result, he discovered that he was sitting on a gold mine without knowing it. Since becoming the Prince of Asgard, he could wander around the Immortal Palace's warehouse at will. Although he also liked gems, he didn't like red very much, so until Thor took this gem out and inlaid it on the crown, he didn't even take a look at it.

Thor shook his head and said: "Asgardians don't like to rely on external objects, and I don't think this gem can be more powerful than the All-Father himself."

Shiler nodded and said: "In a certain sense, it is like this, because the Infinity Stone can only act within the universe, and once it involves things outside the universe, it becomes an ordinary stone."

"So, what is the use of this gem?" Loki asked.

"It can make your dreams come true." Shiler answered.

Several people cast their gaze on him, but Shiler hadn't fully recovered. He was just stimulated by the scene of Stark's death, and his rational side surfaced again. Therefore, he explained in a somewhat stiff tone:

"The Time Stone can reverse time, and the gem on your crown is called the 'Reality Stone'. As the name suggests, it can turn your thoughts into reality. Simply put, it's making dreams come true."

Loki and Thor widened their eyes together, the two looked at each other, both feeling a bit hot-headed, but subsequently, Shiler said: "But as a price, it is the hardest to use among all the gems. You can try to activate it, but I think you should be completely unable to use it."

Thor looked up and down at the crown in his hand, then said: "It's already inlaid on my crown, yet it can't be used by me?"

After speaking, he mobilized his divine power to stimulate the Reality Stone, but the gem was like an infinite black hole, only swallowing power without any reaction.

"If you want dreams to come true, you must be firm that your dream is real." Shiler explained somewhat vaguely.

Loki stretched out his hand, and Thor naturally handed the crown to him. Loki took a deep breath and also began to mobilize his divine power. Half a day later, nothing happened.

The two brothers turned to look at Shiler again. Loki spoke: "So, you can use this gem?"

Shiler shook his head and said: "I can't use it, and I won't use it, but it might be the key to Jarvis returning to normal."

Shiler knew that in the plot of the movie, the Mind Stone gave Jarvis consciousness, and Vision was born. But now, Thanos was kicked out of the universe and returned empty-handed, temporarily having no time to invade Earth.

The relationship between Thor and Loki became relatively subtle, and Loki didn't have to invade Earth, so he didn't go to find Thanos, and Thanos couldn't possibly give the Scepter of Mind to him.

In fact, Thanos himself didn't have the Scepter of Mind now. All his equipment and family property were left in the Dark Quadrant outside the universe.

Therefore, Vision was almost impossible to be born, but it was also hard to say whether electronic life possessing a real soul was evolution or degeneration. But looking at the current situation, if there was a way to preserve Jarvis, one must try with all one's might.

"Although I didn't witness how Jarvis got himself into this state, we also have a way to use the two gems to repair him." Shiler judged.

Strange and Loki both heard that he had something in his words, so they continued to look at him. Shiler looked at the Time Stone in Strange's hand and said: "We can use the Time Stone to go back to the past..."

Strange shook his head somewhat helplessly and said: "Isn't that still my method? The problem is, the danger of this method is that if it affects Stark, leading to a change in the future, it might produce a paradox."

"No, we only go back to the past, but change nothing." Shiler said: "We go back to the past to learn knowledge."

Strange, Loki, Thor, and Eddie all showed a puzzled expression, but Shiler explained: "Now, our trouble is that everyone here, and possibly everyone on Earth, doesn't understand the principle of Jarvis, and Stark won't be able to rush back for a while."

"We possess the Reality Stone and can manifest the thoughts in our minds into reality, which means that repairing Jarvis doesn't involve the problem of technique and operational proficiency. Then there is only one problem left—the premise for the Reality Stone to make thoughts come true is that you must have thoughts first."

"Our difficulty is that none of us understand how intelligent life is created, nor what the principle is. Without even thoughts, it's impossible to manifest. Otherwise, what's manifested is just an empty shell."

"Since that's the case, we'll travel back to the past, look at how Stark created Jarvis from the timeline, learn all the steps, and figure out all the principles."

"Then return to the present and use the Reality Stone's ability to turn thoughts into reality to repair it."

"Wait, Venom once possessed Tony, why couldn't he directly repair Jarvis?" Eddie raised an objection, but before the other few people could answer, Venom said in his mind:

"Are you stupid? If I could see what was going on, wouldn't I jump out the first time? Show them our smart brain, and then mock them for being idiots?"

"I didn't stand out the first time, which shows that Jarvis's situation has exceeded my ability. Saying he is an intelligent butler is no longer very accurate. He is a life between electronic life and humans... I only inherited part of the ability, and your brain capacity is limited, I can't repair it."

Strange sighed and said: "I said it, because of the rapid development of humans during this period, Jarvis undertook work that shouldn't have been undertaken by an intelligent butler and performed several iterations and updates. Now he is far beyond the scope of an intelligent butler."

"Except for the current Stark who is also constantly updating knowledge and technology, I'm afraid the past Stark coming over wouldn't necessarily have a way. Venom is like this."

Several people looked at each other and discovered that the method Shiler proposed was indeed the best method at present.

Although traveling back to the past timeline, just being a bystander, not participating in anything at all, just learning knowledge, while the repair is done in the present using the Reality Stone, can minimize the probability of disturbing the timeline.

But the problem now is, who will do this?

Everyone cast their gaze on Shiler, but Shiler shook his head and said: "If you give the gems to me, don't think about seeing them again. Thank you for the Christmas gift you gave me."

Strange "whooshed" and took the gem back. Thor cast his gaze on him again, but Strange shook his head and said: "My life form is still a human. Even with the protection of magic energy, I can't bear high-intensity, multiple long-term travels in a short time, not to mention, I have to learn a large amount of knowledge during the travel."

"The fragile soul of humans determines that before their life form can ascend, they don't have such a large capacity to control time, maintain a stable timeline, and concentrate on learning knowledge at the same time. Perhaps the Ancient One could, but I can't. I'm just a novice sorcerer."

And at this time, Thor sensed the burning gaze cast from his side. He turned his head and saw Loki staring at him with bright eyes.

"Don't even think about it. You possess the ability to jump timelines, you will definitely cause a big disaster!" Thor said very firmly to Loki: "Don't think I don't know, you've always wanted to steal that gem and take it to play."

"Listen, Loki, the timeline is a very dangerous thing. If you are not careful, you might fall into a time loop. That is not your toy. This is absolutely not allowed!" Thor's tone was unquestionable.

Watching the light in Loki's eyes gradually go out, Thor couldn't bear to turn his head to the side, but at this time, Strange cleared his throat and said: "Letting Loki try isn't impossible, but the problem is, even if he is known as the God of Mischief, does he really have the brain to learn Stark's technology?"

Loki widened his eyes and looked at Strange. Just as he was about to open his mouth to speak, Shiler also helped out on the side, saying: "Normally speaking, the reason why human scientific technology can be applied so universally is that it relies on the commonality of its laws. Everyone can learn."

"The difference between Stark and other scientists lies in his creativity in science. It is very difficult to possess the same creativity as him. However, if it is just copying, it still cannot be separated from human basic science."

"Simple computer programming technology, even some high school students know it. As long as you concentrate on learning, there should be nothing you can't learn. Not to mention your teacher is Stark, and you also possess countless opportunities for repeated learning."

"However, I am also a bit worried. After all, you Asgardians all rely on force to eat, and your learning ability is really worrying..."

Loki clenched his fists. Strange continued Shiler's words: "Not to mention, Loki is also known as the God of Mischief. If he doesn't learn it after going back, he can also make an excuse that he took the Time Stone to do other things. At that time, we won't be able to verify it, wouldn't that delay time?"

"Bang," Loki punched the wall. He smoothed his black hair by his ear, gritted his teeth, and said: "Isn't it just learning the technology of Stark creating Jarvis? What is there that can't be learned?"

After speaking, he grabbed the Time Stone from Strange's hand and disappeared with a "whoosh."

Before a second had passed, he appeared in the original place again, lifted the hair in front of his forehead with his hand, and said: "Wait a minute, let me calm down. What did I just see? Tony Stark used a computer to do what?!!!"

With a "whoosh," he disappeared again. After his figure flickered, he came back. This time, he was sluggish in the original place for two seconds, then disappeared again.

When he came back again, he was muttering some letters and numbers, and then his expression gradually became shocked and confused.

Thor looked at Loki's figure constantly flickering in the original place and felt a bit puzzled. Strange explained: "Time travel is like this. As long as you can return to the original time node, then no matter how long this trip lasts, it won't occupy extra time."

"Although we saw him go back and forth, only one second passed, but it is very likely that he has already been a bystander in the past timeline for a year."

At this time, Loki, who landed again, pointed at Strange somewhat hysterically and said: "Shut up! I didn't learn for that long! I've already learned half of it!"

After speaking, he disappeared again. Next, his flickering frequency was faster, almost at a speed of 20 flashes per second, standing in the original place and repeatedly performing time travel.

Every time he left and returned, he would repeatedly watch Stark's operations countless times on the past timeline until he figured out how he created Jarvis from nothing.

Until the Time Stone in Loki's hand flickered twice, as if it were out of power, and the luster dimmed, Loki finally stood in the center of the room.

His appearance hadn't changed at all, but his expression seemed to have aged more than ten years. He gently smoothed the hair in front of his forehead behind his ear, looked up at the air, and said: "I think I have fully understood..."

After speaking, he walked to the computer they had been fiddling with before, and after a series of skilled operations, he turned the computer on in an emergency.

Afterward, he performed another complex operation, directing Thor and Strange to help him get storage files, interfaces, and wires from various places. After a while, he said: "The good news is that Jarvis is not completely damaged, but the bad news is that I have no way to restore him through mechanical means. Perhaps Stark can't either."

"He killed his master with his own hands, creating a paradox for his underlying protocol. Now, if we want to lift this program error, either delete his underlying protocol and make his killing of his master legal, or delete all his memories and emotions and make him forget this."

Before everyone could ask, Loki explained: "If the underlying protocol is deleted, it means that Jarvis is no longer Tony Stark's intelligent butler, no longer an assistant serving Stark, no longer following any protocol, becoming an independent individual from a created being."

"And if the emotional module is deleted, Jarvis will return to the most primitive form of an intelligent butler. The parts added by Tony for understanding emotions and the emotions he has already understood will all disappear."

"Now, what should we do?"

"I think, compared to the latter, Tony might be able to accept the former more." Strange naturally took back the Time Stone from Loki's hand, touched his chin, and speculated.

"However, Jarvis is after all Tony's private property now. Is it not very good for us to set him free like this? And, don't forget, he is also responsible for the solar system development plan. Without the final insurance, will it be a bit dangerous?" Eddie said.

Just as they were discussing, Shiler stood in front of the computer, looking at the screen emitting blue light, and fell into deep thought.

Finally, several people couldn't discuss a result either. They still came to Shiler's side and looked at the screen with him. Strange turned his head and asked: "What will you choose? Shiler?"

Others could also understand that this was a dilemma, either sacrificing Tony Stark's interests or sacrificing Jarvis's interests.

And Shiler was simply unwilling to accept sacrifice.

Shiler frowned, the cold light of the screen reflected in his eyes, but it couldn't cover the spirit gradually recovering in his eyes. After being silent for a few minutes, he made a move that shocked everyone.

Shiler directly unplugged the power of this computer.

He carried the wire in his hand and spoke:

"If all the things that happened recently made me understand something, it is that the things I did before were putting the cart before the horse."

"I used my own plans to arrange seemingly beautiful endings for everyone, not accepting any loss or sacrifice, but precisely ignored the most important point."

"The greatest happiness humans are born with is absolutely not being artificially arranged for a so-called happy life by others. True happiness should be having the opportunity for autonomous choice."

"I don't know if Jarvis wants freedom, so I shouldn't directly give him freedom. I don't know if he needs memories, so I shouldn't directly delete his memories."

"As his friend, what I need to do is not to choose for him, but if he feels he chose correctly, I will celebrate with him and share the joy. And if he chose wrongly, I can't take responsibility for him, but I can help him share the pain and provide companionship."

"Only by accepting that they will definitely lose something because of their own choices, and only by empathizing with them when they lose, can one be more satisfied and happy than them when they gain."

Shiler breathed heavily, as if saying these few sentences also consumed all his physical strength. He threw the wire in his hand somewhat weakly, looked around at Loki and Strange, and then looked into their eyes and said:

"Precisely because of pain, happiness appears even happier. Precisely because pain is the norm, happiness will become a treasure."

"Constantly obtaining, constantly demanding, the appetite that is stretched, will only make me feel more and more hungry and painful. But before, I only had this path to take."

"And now, I understand that what makes me feel happier than taking another bite after being full is a big meal when hungry."

"Endless acquisition is not the correct answer to make greed happy... regaining what was lost is."