Chapter 189: Strange's Happy Life (Part 1)

New York, a sunny morning, not yet 7 o'clock, the streets of Manhattan were already busy. Wall Street elites in suits and leather shoes held reports in their hands, spitting out a bunch of professional terms while walking and talking on the phone. The owner of the coffee shop was struggling to move the magazine rack to the door. The drive-thru lane of the fast-food restaurant was lined up in a long queue. Various vehicles were like parts on an assembly line, head to tail. The sunlight reflected by the rearview mirrors and the glass curtain walls of high-rise buildings shone together.

Summer was coming to an end, but iced coffee never went off the market. In front of the nursing home on the street corner, many young people gathered, drinking coffee while reading magazines. Shiler leaned against a lamppost in front of the nursing home gate, holding a cup of coffee in one hand and a mobile phone in the other, making a call.

"... Yes, it is indeed me who forgot, but I am the dean, you can't let the dean be locked out of the nursing home, right?"

"You say you have something to do, what can you have to do? Didn't the resignation procedures for the Presbyterian Hospital have been handed over long ago? It's been several months, besides the work of the nursing home, what else do you have to be busy with?"

"You became a specially appointed doctor at the Presbyterian Hospital? Hey, you didn't get my consent as the dean, and you went out to find a part-time job?... You can't find me? Then you are justified? The contract clearly states..."

"Alright, alright, I know you are a person with professional pursuits, don't worry about so much, come and send me the key quickly..."

"A madman who broke into a private house found you? Like me? I am not... Then why don't you call the police? Don't you know the phone number of 911?"

"Who? A bald head in yellow clothes? Then it's fine, you can take a day off today, bye!"

"Oh, one last thing, it's best to be polite to her, come to work alive tomorrow!"

After Shiler finished speaking, he hung up the phone quickly. He took a sip of coffee and thought happily, just returned to Marvel and heard good news, a good start.

At this time, in Strange's apartment, Gu Yi waved her hand, and light spots like stars in the sky surrounded her, as if shrouded in endless starry sky behind her.

Strange looked at all this in shock. In an instant, these magical brilliance disappeared. Except for Gu Yi's slightly fluttering robe, everything seemed to have never appeared. Gu Yi looked at Strange and asked him: "What do you think?"

Strange opened his mouth wide, immersed in shock and did not answer. He hadn't seen Shiler use magic before, but Shiler at most floated a ballpoint pen or something, where was such a big scene of the universe descending?

Little did he know, Gu Yi also sighed in her heart. The development of things really exceeded her expectations.

This matter has to start from the so-called Batman god descending at that time.

At that time, the so-called Batman god guard who descended from the Morlun family was actually just a shameless stowaway, no different from a mouse sneaking through a hole.

Because of the existence of Odin and Gu Yi, this territory of Earth is not something anyone can come to. Odin gets angry and even the god of symbiotes is struck by lightning. Gu Yi doesn't need to mention it. Every day, she is either beating creditors or on the way to beat creditors.

The demons who attacked with great fanfare were all struck into dumpling stuffing when they walked through the front door, and those who walked through the side door were beaten into even more broken dumpling stuffing. Most of the rest learned to be smart. Although they coveted this place, no one dared to act rashly.

But the front door and side door were blocked, which means someone doesn't mind being dirty and loves to drill mouse holes.

In the long history of Earth, the ritual of summoning evil gods has a long history.

In the era when the position of Supreme Sorcerer did not exist, that era when humans had just formed tribes, got rid of drinking blood, and began to build civilization, many tribes would have wizards and priests using witchcraft to communicate with this world.

Most of them were just psychological comfort, but a small part successfully found the right owner.

At that time, the tribal wizards used some rituals to summon a part of the evil god's power to Earth, using living sacrifices in exchange for evil power to attack other tribes.

At that time, some evil gods would leave their own marks and exclusive channels to facilitate the summoning of their believers.

After Gu Yi became the Supreme Sorcerer, he didn't check for omissions and fill gaps, solving these historical legacy problems. The demons who dared to do this also paid the price for their youthful recklessness and became fertilizer for Earth's defense system.

"Envy Origin"

Although Gu Yi followed the network cable and killed most of the careless demons, there were also some cunning demons. The channels they buried were relatively hidden. Although Gu Yi carried out several sweeps of magic and anti-magic, there were always a few fish that slipped through the net.

The channel used by vampires is a fish that slipped through the net.

This race lives long and can always get some strange things. They found a way to communicate with the universe in some ancient witchcraft books left over.

The ignorant are fearless. They sent a signal to deep space directly. A member of the Morlun family happened to be hunting in this universe. He was like a hunting dog smelling blood and quickly locked onto this place.

He came to Earth silently from this stowaway channel and planned to hunt Spider-Man while it was chaotic.

The story is still very normal so far, until that huge Venom Batman soared into the sky. After Gu Yi communicated with some higher-level mysterious powers, she got the answer that a new beast totem was being born.

Naturally, she became busy. If a new beast totem is really going to be born in this universe, then Earth's Supreme Sorcerer Gu Yi naturally has many things to prepare, such as collecting debts, chopping dumpling stuffing, and a new round of sweeping magic and anti-magic.

In short, after this major event ended, the busiest person was Gu Yi.

This led to a problem. In such a short period of time, she had no free time to watch her future successor Strange, or rather, the busy Gu Yi simply forgot about this matter.

Who knows, in such a short period of time, Strange's life has undergone huge changes.

One of the most significant and influential changes is that he became rich overnight.

In the past, Strange couldn't be said to have no money. As the best neurosurgeon in the world, his income was quite high, but obviously, earning a dead salary is never as fast as earning money from the side.

Since he became the medical consultant of the Stark-Osborn Joint Pharmaceutical Group, gave speeches around the world on the efficacy of the immortality factor, and endorsed this mysterious drug with his identity as an elite doctor, Strange suddenly found that it seemed like the whole world was busy stuffing money into him.

Stark and Osborn companies would give him a large sum of money as a salary. In addition, S. H. I. E. L. D. would also give him a part of the remuneration, and the nursing home also had a reward, and these were not even the main sources of his income.

There are many people in this world who are poor with only money left, such as Middle Eastern tycoons sitting on black gold, Far Eastern oligarchs who hold the financial power, and monopoly tycoons in certain industries. Do you really think these people don't know the hype component of the immortality factor? Actually, it may not be.

It's just that they are too rich. As long as they spend money to hear a sound, as long as the sound is good, they are willing.

In this case, they are willing to spend a lot of money to buy a top doctor to tell them "it works" every day, even if it is just a placebo effect, it doesn't matter, anyway, money is just a number.

In this case, even the price offered by one of them to Strange could make him dizzy for a long time.

And Strange was indeed smashed dizzy by money.

Essentially, Strange at this time is not a born good person like Peter Parker. His high pursuit of his profession also has a large part because of the generous remuneration and honorary status that his professional level can bring him. This is human nature.

And the sudden wealth almost instantly collapsed his view of money. Strange suddenly found that money is not actually the reward for labor. He didn't pay any actual labor, just being a repeater repeating a few words, and then eating and drinking in a magnificent banquet, talking to the richest people in the world, and money flew into his pocket by itself.

Strange found that the mode of operation of the world's economy seems to be a scam by nature. After jumping from a deceived victim to a liar, he suddenly stopped being so entangled in this.

After all, being a rich person is really happy.

So, when Gu Yi finished her busy time and took the time to look at Strange, she found that Strange seemed to have seen through it.

Just when she intended to explore what happened during this period, she was tripped by a little trouble again. The person in charge of the New York Sanctuary cried and demanded to be transferred. Gu Yi had to go to appease these apprentices and find a way to reconnect the Sanctuary to WIFI.

But what she didn't expect was that the quantitative change of money can produce qualitative change.

Not long after, Pepper finished the important work of the power handover of the Stark Group and began to reorganize these industries related to the immortality factor, establishing the Immortality Factor Foundation, and Strange naturally became a member of it.

When you get shares in such an important industry, everything becomes different.

Simply put, it is from a worker to a capitalist overnight.

Whether Strange really has a heart that cannot be corrupted by wealth, he doesn't know himself, but obviously, Gu Yi, who came back after being busy, thinks he doesn't.

After the Supreme Sorcerer returned, she found that things were running wildly in a completely wrong direction without looking back.

Due to Shiler's absence, Strange became an indispensable important figure in the professional field of the entire immortality factor industry, and his importance was rising step by step, even to the point of being pivotal. He got the credibility of the immortality factor in medicine, and thus had the final right of interpretation.

This means that in this industry, he has become as important as Stark and Osborn. In order to implement this credibility, the Osborn Group intends to open a company for him to improve the industry level of joint pharmaceuticals. Before Gu Yi came to the door, the process of opening the company was almost finished.

This future Supreme Sorcerer is about to go on the road of a capitalist and never return.

But Gu Yi knows that if Strange really becomes a capitalist who holds the lifeline of the industry as important as Stark or Osborn, then whether it is a car accident or the death of an important relative, he cannot get rid of the entanglement of secular fame and fortune and seek the Tao from mysticism.

Even if he wants to do this, those who can dig benefits from him will not allow him to do so.

For example, if Stark intends to abandon everything and become a monk now, the first person to be anxious must be the President of the United States, and it is the blood pressure rising.

Once these people are involved, things will become very troublesome. Gu Yi has been in the position of Supreme Sorcerer for so many years and has followed non-interventionism. Now, Strange's stay or go is related to the immortality factor industry, and the immortality factor industry is related to the Stark Group, Osborn Group, S. H. I. E. L. D., the military, and Congress. She doesn't want to conflict with so many forces because of her successor's problem.

At the same time, Gu Yi very much doubts, with Strange's current will and character, will he really not be corrupted by money?

What if he really becomes an evil capitalist, eating, drinking, and having fun on a pile of money every day, burying his head and running on the road of getting something for nothing and enjoyment, what should I do? Can't I chop him into dumpling stuffing too?

Things have reached this point. In order to prevent the successor she is optimistic about from throwing himself into the arms of capital without looking back, Gu Yi decided to handle special matters specially. Those test steps can be omitted first. It is more important to ensure that her Strange does not go astray.

So, on this morning when Shiler didn't bring the key and was locked out of the nursing home, Strange learned the magic world for the first time from Gu Yi and received a study abroad invitation from Kamar-Taj.

That's right, it's a study abroad invitation, not a mercy to accept an apprentice or something.

After all, the current situation is not that Strange is looking for someone to treat his illness all over the world, but that Gu Yi is optimistic about Strange's talent and doesn't want him to be confused by secular fame and fortune, so she took the initiative to come to the door. This invitation is naturally much more polite.

And Gu Yi also knows that in this case, Strange cannot just leave. Too many people are counting on him to make money. If he is just taken away like this, the network cable that the Sanctuary just connected will have to be dug up again.

So the Supreme Sorcerer very openly stated that Strange can commute, for example, after work, take the Sanctuary portal to attend classes for a few hours, and come back in the morning.

Gu Yi also asked Strange to consider it for two days before answering. After all, she also has to think about it. If Strange doesn't agree, what degree of car accident can make him wash his heart and reform himself.

When Strange came to work in the afternoon, he was still in a trance. Obviously, the magic displayed by Gu Yi made him more shocked.

Shiler's floating a ballpoint pen or something, he hadn't seen it in magic, it was more like a trick than magic.

But Gu Yi is a real Supreme Sorcerer. Every move is tempered from thousands of demons chopped into dumpling stuffing. When an expert takes action, let alone an ordinary person like Strange who has learned science for the first half of his life, even the most creative magician in the world will be shocked by the infinite power from magic on her.

"Is everything we do really meaningful?" Strange sat at the desk and asked with a dull look: "I have learned knowledge and technology for so many years, that kind of magic... they only need to wave their hands to do all this..."

Strange looked down at his fingers and pointed at them: "Before, when I was cutting vegetables, my finger was cut with a wound, right here..."

"Then she waved her hand, and the wound was healed, without any medical technology, without medicine, without a doctor..."

"So what is the meaning of human medicine? What is the meaning of my existence?"

"A patient just lies on the hospital bed, he can find a group of magicians to wave their hands at him, and then I can get out, because there is no need for more than ten hours of surgery, and there is no need for any postoperative rehabilitation..."

Strange spread his hands, opened his mouth, but said nothing.

Then he asked Shiler very suspiciously: "You are all in the same group, right? You people who know magic, what do you treat ordinary people as? Do you think we are stupid and ridiculous? Spending decades learning knowledge and honing technology, in the end..."

He laughed at himself and said: "Like a group of ants turning in the mud, right?"

"Then why don't you try it yourself?" Shiler sat opposite him and said to him: "Try to see if magic is as easy and simple as you imagine?"

"What is easier than waving your hands? This doesn't make sense at all." Strange sighed, covered his forehead and said: "I have known since I was very young that some people in this world can easily get things you can't get in your life."

"They don't have to make any effort, just because they are lucky, this world is unfair by nature."

"But..." He paused and continued: "The degree of its unfairness still exceeded my imagination."

Strange smiled, but it looked very difficult to smile. He said: "Now it seems that those rich people are just idiots kept in the dark. This is the only good news I heard today."

"Do you know how Stark views magic?"

Strange looked at Shiler. He actually wanted to say that he didn't care about the views of this annoying guy Stark, but he did want to know how this group of people who had already stood at the top of ordinary humans and got the most fame and fortune in the world viewed this extraordinary thing.

"When vampires invaded, he also thought about this problem. The immortality that ordinary people dream of, even immortality, those big bats are born with it. They are very strong and powerful. Even well-trained ordinary people must act in groups to deal with one of them. This looks very unfair, like a joke of the Creator's partiality."

"But thinking about it later, this kind of thing happened ten million years ago. In the ancient barbaric era, human physique could not be compared with those wild beasts with sharp claws and teeth, but we still live to this day and have developed such a prosperous civilization."

"But this is different." Strange pointed out the loophole in this view: "Those who know magic are still humans, not wild beasts. They have all the advantages of humans, have wisdom, can think, and can inherit."

"And she mentioned to me that they also have organizations, just like ordinary people, acting in groups and working together. They have all the advantages of ordinary humans, plus magic..."

"Then why didn't they rule humans? Or rather, why have you never heard of them in your previous life? Why doesn't such a superior and powerful group stand in front of the public and lead humans to greater glory?"

Strange was silent. Shiler said to him: "Perhaps there is a possibility that their abilities are indeed completely higher than ordinary people. They are more noble than us and will not use this ability to enslave ordinary people."

"And you and I both know that humans have wisdom, they will have ambition and desire. If they are really so superior and can achieve achievements that ordinary people can't achieve in decades in an instant, and don't need to pay any price, then we will definitely see a tragic war between them and ordinary people in history books."

"Humans even want to rule other humans based on nationality and skin color, let alone a truly superior ability?"

"So..." Strange said hesitantly.

"So they must pay the price." Shiler spread his hands and said: "If you still don't believe it, why don't you try it?"

"I..." Strange closed his eyes, he frowned, looking a bit painful. After all, anyone who has been denied the skills learned for many years will feel very depressed.

But he had to admit that he was very curious about this magical power.

Or rather, knowing magic in this way, Strange had more doubts in his heart. He wanted to know where this power came from and why it was so powerful? Is there really no disadvantage?

Shiler looked at Strange. He thought, now, this future Supreme Sorcerer is not actively pursuing magic because of the strong desire to save himself or save others, but learned the other half of the truth of this world on such an ordinary and ordinary morning.

He was hit hard, but the problems he thought about were different. Strange still has the leisure to think about some high-brow philosophical problems, rather than like a stray dog with nowhere to go, only able to treat magic as the only life-saving straw.

The change in social status gave Strange a lot of initiative when facing Gu Yi.

Strange still has a way out now. Even if he doesn't become the Supreme Sorcerer, he can be a happy rich man in ordinary society. Even if he still becomes the Supreme Sorcerer later, he can still play an important role in this society.

This is also Shiler's purpose.

Shiler has always believed that a Supreme Sorcerer who is completely detached from human society is not good enough. When they put themselves in a position of living in seclusion and being high above for a long time, their mentality will gradually change, and they will be separated from ordinary humans, forgetting that they were also born in this ordinary society, which is the root of everything.

And this is very likely to make them the biggest threat to human society.

Even if Strange is like Gu Yi, able to truly achieve detachment from the world and stick to his original heart, the effect he produces is too small. With the status and ability of the Supreme Sorcerer, he can completely do more.

Others do more, Shiler can do less, and have more time to fish with pay.

Therefore, Shiler chose the money offensive, using the pie falling from the sky to smash Strange, the future Supreme Sorcerer, so that he would not be too far from this society.

Shiler asked Strange: "Is it unhappy to be a rich man?"

"Of course happy." Strange answered subconsciously: "How can it be unhappy to have money?"

"You may feel happy to be a rich man now, but after you come into contact with magical and great magic, you will find..."

"Is it not happy enough to be a rich man?"

"... You will find that it is really happy to be a rich man." ===== CHAPTER 190 =====