Chapter 2696: Hollywood Rhapsody (Part 55)

Dinner ended soon, and everyone was looking for activities they were interested in and participating in them. This was not a social scene that made people feel very stressed, because here people were allowed to sit in place and do nothing, just drinking fruit juice and watching the sunset in a daze.

Shiler was one of them. He didn't play poker or board games, and he had no interest in swimming and surfing, let alone fishing and beach volleyball. So he just sat there, drinking fruit juice and watching the sunset gradually approach the horizon.

Surprisingly, Stark didn't participate in these activities either. He was like a middle school student addicted to novels, constantly flipping through the things Natasha sent him that were more like novels than data, with a very wonderful facial expression, and occasionally looking up to look at Strange and Loki.

Suddenly he realized that Shiler was also sitting next to him, so he very urgently wanted to share this joy with Shiler. He turned his head, leaned over, and then raised his eyebrows and said, "You knew he played off the rails early on, right?"

Shiler knew Stark was referring to Loki. He did know, but he soon realized some other problems from this matter.

Thor's attitude towards Loki was the joint work of these two brothers. Thor's partiality might come from blood kinship, but it couldn't be said that Loki's inducement didn't make this emotion extreme.

He was adopting a means that Shiler was very familiar with, that is, being a hostage and then cultivating a kidnapper. In the years when Shiler didn't know Loki, he had actually been doing this, and he did it very successfully, firmly grasping most of Thor's attention.

Actually, for this kind of means, the most familiar one was not Greed. He had just heard of it, because another younger personality trait of his always hung this on his lips and practiced it personally, with good results.

Loki, who traveled to the past, added fire to it. He used Strange as a tool to test Thor, and practiced this theory to the end. Obviously, the identity of a kidnapper naturally had a strong exclusivity, and he absolutely didn't allow his prey to be coveted by others.

Loki's attempt succeeded, but at the same time it failed completely.

Because he created a terrible possibility on that tributary of time—Thor became crazy.

According to Hela—it was Hela who fished Loki out of that timeline, obviously he was already unable to leave by himself—some very terrible things happened between Loki and Thor, to be precise, Thor did some very terrible things to Loki, which was the root cause of his ugly face.

From Loki's expression, it could be seen that he should have experienced long-term imprisonment, and it was the kind that was not modern enough and not very humane, which was easily detected by psychologists, because Shiler had seen many victims with similar experiences in law enforcement agencies.

Provoking a kidnapper is very unwise, even stupid. Shiler felt that he should have said this sentence earlier, but when he thought so, he suddenly realized a question—why was he always easily angered by superheroes?

It wasn't that Shiler was always angry, but he was always habitually retaliating against the behavior of certain superheroes, wrapping a big ball of wool to make them have bad luck, and not counting the return.

The point is not counting the return. Actually, he had no need to do this at all. Everyone knew this was a completely losing business. Greed was not a person who wouldn't care about interests just to vent emotions.

But he had been doing this kind of thing, clearly having better and more efficient means of seizing interests, but he had to take a big detour to involve everyone, and called it revenge.

For example, this time Strange, Greed sensed that Superego and Pride deleted a part of the memory. Although he still didn't know what was deleted specifically, through the time point of traveling, it could be inferred that Strange, who was in the same school as him, was the most suspicious.

Then of course he had to retaliate against Strange. The method was to find Loki to block him after seeing Strange's traces of traveling through time in the Time Variance Authority, and let Loki play with his feelings.

But in fact, Shiler thought, God, why did he have to do this? Just to see Strange's ugly face now?

Of course, his face couldn't be said to be uninteresting now, but just to see this bit of fun, did he have to drag the timeline and Loki together? This didn't look like his own style of doing things.

Simply put, Greed was not quite the same as Pride. Greed had requirements for the ratio of resources invested and fun produced. It had always been winning big with small, fighting four or two thousand catties, and striving to get the greatest fun with the smallest investment.

But on the issue of superheroes, he rarely did this. Most of the time, he spent a lot of effort to invest a lot of things, and the final return was just a few ugly expressions. Although it was not uninteresting, it couldn't be called fun that made people happy.

On the contrary, Pride could always see some real fun in the people around him, and the fun had been getting bigger and bigger recently.

Greed was thinking about why all this was, and then from the matter of Loki and Thor, he realized that he was a bit similar to the angered Thor, and could completely ignore all consequences, just let himself feel comfortable and happy at the first time.

This kind of reaction that violated instinct couldn't be that he suddenly changed his nature, and if it wasn't, it was deliberately cultivated by someone.

Stark also saw the key part—it was completely skipped over. Natasha exhausted her imagination and only described that Loki might have suffered long-term imprisonment.

Of course, it wasn't that the female agent's imagination was lacking. Coming from the Red Room, she had a stronger imagination for certain cruel things than anyone else, but she just pointed out that it was unlikely that Thor would treat Loki like this, even if he was already angry to death.

So the female agent believed that there was a very high probability that Thor might no longer be partial to Loki, treating his restless brother with the means of a normal heir. After all, if he was really too much, Odin and Frigga wouldn't agree, but even the Queen didn't say anything, which showed that the means he adopted were completely not too much, and could only be said to be the desire of the people.

But even if it was Thor's relatively restrained means, it was unacceptable in Loki's eyes. He couldn't accept that he had lost the leading position of the tractor, and after losing this position, he was defeated and became powerless, and the trauma on the spirit was much greater than that on the body.

The story reached the climax but stopped abruptly. Stark scratched his ears and cheeks, wishing he could rush up and ask Loki what was going on, but considering that a psychologist concerned about mental health was sitting next to him, Stark felt it was better to forget it.

Stark secretly glanced at Shiler. Shiler was immersed in memories. At this time, he was recalling the piece where Strange broke his hand. The determined expression of Mr. Hand of God kept flashing before his eyes.

Very good, it looked very determined, full of a self-destructive desire to confront the world. No matter how you looked at it, it looked like if he couldn't do something, he would be guilty to death for it.

Shiler also clearly recalled his own expression at that time. Unsurprisingly, having, shocked, angry, unable to understand, looked like he was hovering on the edge of losing control.

Usually, this expression would only appear on other people's faces. It was a flower carefully cultivated by Shiler. In a certain stage of his life, this meant that he heard the symphony of successful revenge again.

But no, Stephen Strange was not such a person. Shiler realized that he was never a person who would vent his inner destructive desire inward. On the contrary, he was the kind of person who would destroy the world if he couldn't achieve his goal.

Countless stories of Doctor Strange proved this point. Strange was extreme, but when his extreme emotions erupted, he would choose to stab this world, rather than stab himself to threaten this world.

Shiler had long realized that if the behavior of someone around him changed, it was highly likely related to himself, because he had too many factors good at influencing others in his body. No matter which link had a leak, it was possible to completely change the trajectory of others' fate.

Did he influence Strange?

When? Greed seemed unable to find other answers. The methods of Superego and Pride in arranging conspiracies were like open-book exams, advancing to help Greed exclude all wrong answers, leaving only one—Greed couldn't find such a memory, besides that, what else could it be?

After realizing this, everything was connected. Strange was instigated by himself to choose to be a hostage and tried to cultivate himself into a kidnapper.

And it was very pessimistic that not only Strange, but many people around him had such tendencies. I don't know if Strange preached to them, or they figured it out themselves. Shiler thought it was the former, because the relationship between superheroes without him had never been so twisted and sinister.

Very good, it seems to be self-inflicted. Shiler thought helplessly. He even thought that Superego had been waiting for such an opportunity, waiting for him to travel back, because any small change applied in the past could bring huge influence to the future, even reshaping the logic of Greed's interpersonal communication in Marvel.

Superego succeeded.

He let Greed spend most of his energy on the meaningless work of saving and retaliating against superheroes. Yes, even if it looked crazy, this was actually Greed's low-efficiency work mode, which was mixed with too many personal emotions, rather than completely based on interests.

To some extent, this saved the world, because if Greed was fully powered, it was hard to say how long the existing universe could support. Greed was Greed itself, and desire had never had an end.

Shiler was a good kidnapper, always threatened by hostages, and now he was almost used to it. For example, he would rack his brains to travel to the past, complete the blank background story to give everyone an explanation.

But in fact, Shiler didn't need any explanation. Still the same sentence, his past wouldn't give him any right to survive in this state now. Nothing shaped him, so whether he had a pathetic past that met others' expectations didn't matter.

The time he wasted on shaping the past was just because he was threatened by this group of hostages. He hoped to satisfy them so that they wouldn't make panic cries because they didn't get candy, so he racked his brains to make up a reasonable story.

Now everyone was satisfied. Nick checked a story that could basically be said to be reliable. If there was no accident, this story would soon circulate among the superhero group. Everything was so reasonable and reliable, and everything Shiler did had an explanation.

But, no, Shiler thought, he was never a shadow of a tragic past left to now, nor was he a mirror reflecting certain cruel things that had happened before his eyes. No past was worthy of explaining his existence now.

Shiler looked up at Loki. If he had a tributary of time, there would be a second one. ===== CHAPTER 2697 =====