Chapter 1607

The signs of human industrial revolution are mostly breakthroughs in the fields of energy and power. Therefore, modern historians believe that human beings must possess new energy sources with higher utilization rates and cleaner sources during the Third Industrial Revolution.

And now, human beings have indeed possessed it. With the further construction of the Mercury base, all countries are putting into production parts and materials related to solar energy extraction. In the era of cosmic development, those who have the ability to fly out first can eat the biggest cake.

When the photos of the Mercury base were released on the official media of various countries, the vast majority of ordinary people felt like a lifetime ago. They thought this was a scene in a new Hollywood blockbuster, or the result of some photographer who wanted to be popular and p-ed the picture.

When the official media confirmed the authenticity of this photo, the public opinion storm swept the world. The article by the French historian was turned out from the corners—he was right, the Third Industrial Revolution had begun.

The sign of the beginning of the Third Industrial Revolution of mankind is that human beings successfully built the first solar energy collection station on Mercury. This is a saying recognized in the circle of mainstream historians at present.

Being able to mine solar energy without pain means many things, but people still only care about two things—how hot can water burn? How far can stones fly?

Facts have proved that the Third Industrial Revolution will be the most important industrial revolution in human history, because this time stones fly too far, about dozens of light-years away.

After confirming this fact, what followed was another kind of confusion. People were not prepared at all to accept the fact that human beings had become an interstellar civilization. The spaceship flew too far, and thoughts had not yet spread their wings.

So, overnight, a fierce ideological change swept the world. Panic faction, reflection faction, radical faction, conservative faction, praising, singing down, for profit, for righteousness, the entire cultural circle of mankind became a mess.

It can be said that all media have become battlefields of public opinion. The craze of punk culture started a good beginning. All the anger and panic that should have been suppressed in the heart turned into intense output text.

And then the public opinion field, with its natural characteristics, washed away the sand. After people got tired of those purely emotional output views, they began to chase information that was more literary and artistic, or simply had aesthetic value.

In this situation, where there is a market, there is creation. Literature and artists began to exert their strength. Newspaper debates that hadn't appeared for over a hundred years rose again. Many new sharp critics emerged, and because of their sharp, satirical, and classic texts, they became the center of people's daily topics.

Afterwards, rock, rap, and other musical forms that pay attention to the era environment made breakthrough changes. A rap album "Running to Death Within the High Walls of the Era" published by a rapper in prison became a hit. Following that was the comeback of an old rock band, and a platinum album titled "Sun" went online and dominated the charts again.

Followed by newspaper columns, interviews, overwhelming news reports, and an endless ocean of views. Only one view was generally recognized by the public, that is—"We seem to have really witnessed history."

Eddie Brock walked into the Spider-Army base located at S. H. I. E. L. D., looked at the empty base, felt a bit dazed, and then walked toward the only figure sitting at the table.

"Gwen, what's going on? Where did everyone go?"

Gwen Spider-Woman didn't look up and typed on the keyboard: "Who are you looking for?"

"Peter Parker."

"You didn't come at the right time. If you shouted like this at this time usually, you would have been drowned by Peter Parker now."

"So where did they go? Alright, what about the Peter of this universe?"

"Borrowed by the editor of Global Times to argue."

"Uh... what about that Amazing Spider-Man?"

"Borrowed by the editor of The New York Times to argue."

"What about Miles?"

"Borrowed by the editor of The Daily Bugle to argue."

"Why do they want to borrow Spider-Man to argue?"

"Because there are arguments everywhere, and they all feel they can win." Gwen Spider-Woman focused on writing her thesis. She hit the enter key forcefully, then turned to look at Eddie and said: "I know you might also want to borrow a Spider-Man to argue. After all, we are publicly recognized as having mouths faster than brains, can argue for days without getting tired, and we are also happy to refute those overly radical views."

"But you came a bit late. Now only I am left here, and I still have to rush to finish the thesis. My opening report was sent back for rewriting, and the deadline is tonight. I'm afraid you can only go argue by yourself."

"I came to find Peter for his exclusive interview." Eddie shook his head and said: "I don't have time to participate in their arguments. I still have a documentary to shoot."

"I heard about it. You want to shoot a documentary on the theme of superheroes." Gwen asked back with some interest while typing: "How much have you shot now? Do you have any samples?"

Mentioning this, Eddie sighed deeply and said: "I seem to have been cursed, that is 'the actor I urgently need must have a reason to leave New York recently.' All the clips were only shot halfway. I originally counted on Spider-Man to be the first theme to be completed."

Eddie shook his head and sighed while turning to walk out, muttering: "I have to go find Shiler to talk about this. I know they are very busy, but if no one cooperates with me at all, this film won't be finished even if I shoot for another ten years."

Eddie found Shiler in the office of Arkham Asylum. Before he entered the office, he heard Shiler's voice coming intermittently from the door, as if he was on the phone with someone.

"Work being busy is just a temporary excuse. You can't use this to fish him for a lifetime. Demons usually don't have such abundant curiosity as humans. Maybe she will be more interested at first, wanting to figure out why you are hiding from him, but it won't be long before she gives up."

"Mr. Thanos, you have to understand one truth. Dragging people by your side doesn't count as artificially creating a closed space. She will feel not free and want to leave. And what you need to do is exactly the opposite. You have to make her feel that she is free, and also make her not want to leave."

"Yes, usually speaking, this is a bit difficult, especially when the other party is a cosmic demon much more powerful than you. But as long as it is an intelligent life, there must be something to fear. You have to find the key ball first."

"Of course, if you make progress, you can contact me at any time. The universe gives these gods too much, we should take back some from it. Being able to help is my honor... alright, goodbye."

Thanos hung up the phone. He walked out of the bathroom and saw a woman in a black dress wearing a hood sitting on the sofa in his office.

"What's wrong, honey? Why did you go for so long?"

Thanos said calmly: "My clothes were unfortunately hung on the belt, I spent some effort to untie them. Now I have some time, what favor do you want me to do?"

Death looked a bit surprised. She didn't expect Thanos to find time so quickly. She sat on the sofa, raised a leg, cleared her throat, and then said: "You should know that the faith of humans on Earth has special power, right?"

Thanos nodded and sat opposite Death. Death reached out to gather her hood and said: "One of my old rivals, 'Oblivion', is busy spreading his faith on Earth now. I hope you can stop him, or at least make things not go so smoothly."

"You have a grudge against him?"

"Can't count as a grudge." Death floated behind Thanos, bent down, held his face with cold fingers, and said: "I just hope you can do one thing for me. This is just a small gift for our reunion after a long separation. It's an opportunity for you to express your love to me, honey. You will, right?"

Thanos immediately thought of the content of "obedience test in mental manipulation" introduced by Shiler in class, which is to ask the other party to do a small thing, in order to test the difficulty of the other party's obedience. If the other party does it, then they will fall into the trap of mental manipulation step by step.

Thinking of the most basic solution mentioned by Shiler in that class, Thanos compared his current situation and began to think about coping strategies rapidly.

Usually, many people are clear that when facing this situation, they should decisively refuse, especially when the other party has no interest relationship with you, just say "no" directly. Sometimes they should also emphasize more "I have no obligation to do this for you," which can refuse more reasonably.

But if you want to refuse tactfully without offending the other party, many people will make a mistake, that is, start looking for excuses, such as being very busy, so they can't do it for the time being. Seemingly this is a refusal, but in fact, it is still complying with the other party's wishes and completing the obedience test, because the act of looking for excuses itself symbolizes avoidance.

Thanos's instinctual reaction was also to say he was busy with work so he had no time. One was because he was really busy with work, and the other was because he did harbor some illusions that the other party could understand him. One of the big illusions of intelligent life is that the other party can understand me.

But he had to forcibly reverse this instinctual reaction and adopt a more skillful way to dialogue.

"No, I'm afraid I can't do that." Thanos took a deep breath in his heart, trying his best to reproduce Shiler's demeanor in class, and stared at Death with a focused gaze: "Just as you said, we finally reunited after so much difficulty, why waste time on these unimportant things?"

After speaking, he leaned his body forward, reached out and grabbed Death's hand, and said: "I have imagined this day of reunion countless times, but it was only when this day really arrived that I realized that I can no longer endure even a moment of separation."

Death was just about to open her mouth to say something, but Thanos interrupted her, reached out a hand and said: "Of course, I always regard your affairs as more important than my own feelings. Of course I am willing to do this for you, but can't the two of us really go together?"

Thanos was actually reproducing the method of dealing with this obedience test mentioned by Shiler in class, that is, trying to throw the mistake to the other party. I don't do it not because I don't want to or I can't, but because you didn't provide me with certain conditions, so I can't do it.

And this kind of shirking responsibility cannot be too blunt. Using the principle of reverse obedience test, first propose a condition that the other party might agree to. If the other party agrees, then propose a more radical one.

Thanos originally thought that if Death really agreed to go with him, then he would propose to just find Oblivion and have a fight. Judging from Death's attitude, she couldn't find Oblivion directly, otherwise she wouldn't have come to find him.

But Death's reaction completely exceeded Thanos's expectations. Death was stunned first, then shook her head faster than a rattle, and while shaking her head, she said: "No, no, I can't go to Earth!"

Thanos narrowed his eyes slowly. Judging from Death's body movements just now, it was as if there was something terrible on Earth. Could this be the key ball Shiler mentioned?

At this time, in the office of Arkham Asylum, on the single sofa next to the coffee table, Shiler crossed one leg over the other and said to Eddie sitting on the sofa opposite: "... so, in the relationship between you and Venom, it has always been him manipulating you, and this originated from the first thing he asked you to do after possessing your body."

"But I couldn't refuse him at the time!" Eddie explained somewhat excitedly. In the past hour, he hadn't refuted Shiler at all. He was desperately trying to find his way back.

"Can you imagine? An ordinary human heard the voice of an alien, and my mental state at the time wasn't very good either. I felt he would hurt me, so I..."

"Yes, but even after you later confirmed he wouldn't hurt you, you didn't want to reverse this relationship... why not?"

"I, I feel we are friends, manipulation or something, sounds a bit too evil." Eddie said somewhat embarrassedly.

"But I think you have already realized that complete indulgence is not a good thing. You should treat him more as your child. You need enough authority to guide him and let him do the right thing."

Eddie started shaking again, obviously Venom was making a scene in his heart. He pulled Eddie violently to the left, bringing his chair to slide on the floor with a harsh sound. Shiler's gaze instantly fell on the chair leg.

"No, Venom! Damn it, don't do this... Shiler is right, you should be disciplined. Can you be a bit polite?"

At this time, the phone next to Shiler rang. Shiler answered it and said to the other side.

"Hey? Loki, did the method I said that day work? Frigga feels guilty? Yes, that means it worked. No, don't let your mind be shaken by this, isn't there Odin?"

"Right, that's it, just continue according to this line of thought. Alright, if there is any new progress, call me again... no need to thank me, being able to help is my honor."

Loki put down the phone, heard the movement coming from outside her bedroom, and stuffed her phone under the pillow in a swarm.

At this time, Loki was lying on the bed, her black hair hanging behind her ears, her face pale, and she coughed a few times.

Frigga and Odin walked in one after the other. As soon as Frigga saw Loki's pale face, she flew to the bedside and hugged her daughter into her arms, using an angry tone very rarely to Odin behind her.

"You are an irresponsible father! For so many years, you haven't cared about Loki's health condition. You are responsible for more than half of the reason why she fell ill. Odin, I'm really fed up with you!"