Chapter 1371: The Call of the Stars (Part 14)

Schiller took a sip of wine and sighed slowly.

For a long time before this, he had been busy making all kinds of people suffer, from focusing on Death because he wanted Valhalla, all the way to OAA hanging this universe outside the Great World. He had been busy with long-term layouts and ignored a very tricky problem right in front of him: the growth of young heroes.

Thinking about the current situation on Earth, one can know that what human civilization lacks most now is talent, not superheroes.

The category of talent doesn't just include scientists who master knowledge and technology. Actually, technical and inventive talents aren't really lacking. What's mainly lacking now are leadership backbones with good organizational skills, a heart of justice, and abundant physical strength and energy for serious business.

To some extent, how much water a bucket can hold depends not only on the short board and long board of the wooden bucket, but also on the density and hardness of the other majority of the boards. If the vast majority of other boards are leaking water and missing screws, then discussing how long the long board is and how short the short board is is meaningless, because it is destined to leak water.

And the problem humanity faces is that, except for Schiller, almost no one imagined that the era would develop so fast. And the young heroes represented by the intern members of the Avengers, the trainees under Ma Te, and independent youth hero teams like the New Warriors, have been trained as superheroes for a long time.

They are full of justice, extremely energetic, and under long-term guidance and training, they also possess not-so-bad martial power and strategic minds. The only problem is that there are too many muscles in their brains.

Still the same sentence, although education is people-oriented, what individuals can develop into also depends on their own talent and effort, but it's not impossible to find problems from the social level.

Schiller almost single-handedly pushed human civilization to take a big step forward, but after pushing this big step, he was busy tangling yarn balls. As a result, these young heroes who could have become the best talent reserve were still limited to upholding justice, punishing evil, and punching enemies on the street.

Those with stronger organizational skills at most pull together a team of a few people like Nightwing, and can barely keep this team running without making too big a mess.

And those with poor organizational skills are even more bizarre—some are reclusive and act alone, some are chatterboxes when wearing masks but socially anxious when taking them off, some have irritable tempers and can't listen to a word of human language, and some have personalities that are too soft, hesitant, and believe whatever others say.

It sounds like a personality defect and seems difficult to correct, but it's actually just that in the educational environment they are in, their teachers, elders, and companions haven't realized that the responsibilities they need to shoulder in the future will require them to have good judgment, the courage to make decisions in a timely manner, the concentration to focus on goals from beginning to end, and the will to execute to the end.

Because being a street hero doesn't really require these traits; you just need to be kind enough and capable enough to fight. But the era is changing too fast. Now, street heroes can no longer solve problems, or rather, using them to solve street security problems is too wasteful, so they naturally have to learn these traits.

Therefore, the fundamental contradiction faced by young heroes now is the contradiction between the increasing demand for the number of leadership-type talent reserves on Earth and the insufficient education received by young heroes with potential.

After being a little freer, Schiller also discovered this point, but because he hadn't paid attention to these young heroes for a while, he didn't know what their level was, so he found Ma Te in advance, hoping to understand the level of the young heroes.

But Ma Te showed him how capable these young people were, which made Schiller realize that the problem of insufficient education in some aspects wasn't the students, but the teachers.

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The teachers' concepts haven't changed. They still hope that everyone can have powerful martial power, a peaceful state of mind, and kind concepts. This can't be considered wrong; it's just not very suitable for the current era.

Then the education unfolded around these aspects seems a bit backward. And the Daredevil Ma Te, Captain America Steve, and even Stark who teaches Spider-Men knowledge and technology, who are responsible for this aspect of education, aren't good at sociology. They won't weave nets, let alone tangle yarn balls.

Obviously, in this era, it's unrealistic to rely on brute force to solve problems. The wheels of history roll forward, the waves of the era wash away the sand, and many contradictions have no right or wrong; they are just conflicts between the new and the old.

Therefore, the kind of way of doing things in the past—first distinguishing good from bad, and then keeping the good and beating down the bad—inevitably breeds metaphysical ways of handling things. If not restrained, it will only lead to good intentions leading to bad results, turning justice into dictatorship, and falling into another trap of zero-sum thinking.

Schiller clearly knows this, but he knows even better that he can't rush up and tell everyone "you taught wrong" or "you learned wrong." Powerful martial power and a heart of justice are important at any time; it's just that Schiller is more concerned about the missing part.

So, Schiller sent Hydra agents to the Bronx district where protests broke out, but these agents didn't deliberately intensify the contradictions, nor did they stop the riots, but instead let them take their course while observing what methods the young superhero teams represented by the New Warriors took when facing this matter.

This can be said to be a bottom-line test. Although Schiller doesn't care whether they pass or fail, he just needs an evaluation result, but the final result can still be called terrible.

The restraint and caution that Ma Te has always emphasized to these young heroes have instead become another kind of shackle. Those young people who were originally impulsive and irritable, although not causing big trouble because of this restraint, those leaders who originally had decisiveness will also be timid and hesitant because of this.

This can be said to be the worst result.

Schiller actually doesn't worry about young heroes being reckless, making mistakes due to lack of experience, or finding it difficult to distinguish right from wrong because they are deceived. What he fears most is that young people present a hesitant attitude of swaying left and right, neither advancing nor retreating, wanting to speak but not daring to speak, wanting to do but not daring to do.

Because the former mistakes are only because they are young, and they are very easy to solve with the growth of experience and experience. But if it's the latter, it means that to some extent, their personality is being shaped by an unhealthy environment.

Professor X's evaluation of Lilandra, the Queen of the Shi'ar Empire, is exactly this: agreeing with something but not daring to agree completely, opposing something but not opposing it to the end, constantly comforting oneself with "stopping while ahead," but actually just lacking judgment and courage.

The environment that shaped Lilandra is of course very bad. She grew up in repression, had no inheritance rights, and wasn't the most favored. Because she had no one to rely on, she had to be careful, and over the years, she shaped a conservative, cowardly, and wavering personality.

Perhaps from another perspective, the young heroes on Earth are also in this environment. Higher-level planners, such as members of the Illuminati, basically don't discuss any layout of human future development with them, and these heroes who are close to them, such as Daredevil Ma Te and Captain America Steve, aren't full-time teachers either, just taking time to teach them.

And their companions are just as confused as they are. In the waves of the era, their short life experience of ten or twenty years is simply not enough to tell them the answers to all questions. No one comes to tell them whether they are important, and no one comes to tell them how to make themselves more important.

So, they are like blind drifters in the era, both empathizing with the suffering of the bottom-level people and feeling frustrated because they have abilities beyond ordinary people but cannot change the situation.

The way they deal with this pain and confusion is to think.

And this led to the protest activities that broke out in the Bronx district two months ago, and most members of the New Warriors team are still thinking, and they haven't thought about the point at all.

The purely kind Spider-Man is thinking about whose fault this is, Nightwing from the wealthy class is thinking about which class should bear more responsibility, Speedball Robert is thinking about how to have the best of both worlds without hurting anyone, and Xu Shangqi is thinking about the pros and cons of productivity development for ordinary people.

Everyone is sitting there daydreaming. They haven't thought about it together, so naturally, they can't act together, but they know they can't sit still and wait for death, so they can only passively sabotage and carry out patrols for several months, as if maintaining order has already solved the problem.

From Schiller's perspective, the planning of the previous generation has already left them with a large enough margin for error. Even if they really cause a big explosion and harm dozens or hundreds of people, Schiller can find a way to fish them out of the kingdom of death.

But if they sit still and don't move at all, although they won't make mistakes, in the long run, their judgment of events, keenness to grasp opportunities, and the inspiration needed to formulate plans will all be worn away in the long procrastination.

In time, there will definitely be a broader stage left for the members of the Illuminati. These young heroes will always have to step onto the stage and lead humanity forward. But by then, if they are just a group of leaders who are good at fighting, hesitant when encountering things, and sitting there daydreaming all day, it will really be a disaster for human civilization.

While drinking and eating, Schiller mentioned his thoughts to Ma Te: "For a long time before, I contacted Silk and issued a separate mission to her, asking her to find some relatively special ones in all universes, especially those with danger."

"And in the results she fed back to me, I found an extremely special universe. Silk's evaluation of this universe is that she only projected her attention to this universe through the Spider-Totem, and her spider-sense was already ringing like her brain was exploding."

"Then isn't that very dangerous?" Ma Te widened his eyes and said.

"It is indeed very dangerous, and it is a danger that is beyond reason and beyond imagination." Schiller nodded and said: "Most importantly, the powerful abilities of these young heroes that far exceed ordinary people are afraid that they cannot become the guarantee of their survival."

"What?" Ma Te immediately raised his tone. He stared at Schiller with his lifeless eyes and said: "Then how can you ensure..."

"Although they will definitely be injured and bleed, and even die to some extent, I won't do nothing and just throw these flowers in the greenhouse directly into hell."

"In fact, I have long sent people to scout the examination room, cleared those unnecessary obstacles as much as possible, and even slightly lowered the difficulty."

Schiller drank the last drop of wine, put the glass on the table, and looked into his eyes with a cold indifference that Ma Te couldn't understand, saying:

"Don't blame me for letting the children you are close to go to die. If I had a child, he would definitely be the first to bear the brunt."

And then, the neurotic smile appeared in Schiller's focused eyes again.

"After all, in terms of torturing each other with my own children, I have rich experience." ===== CHAPTER 1372 =====