Chapter 3802

"Alright, I'm not saying I'm coming to participate in anything. I just... you know, I invested money in this movie. Before, I don't know if it was the producer or someone else, called me and asked if I could invest another sum. I have to come over and inspect it..."

"Then what do you plan to inspect?" Strange was not polite. Now that the person has come to him, can he let him run away?

Stark spread his hands, turned around in place, looked at the office and said: "Mainly to see your working state. Are those dear little guys okay?"

"You'd better not be referring to Batman."

"Of course not, I mean the little mages," Stark dropped his shoulders, frowned and said, "What kind of person would call Batman 'dear'? Anyway, I wouldn't. I'm not interested in them at all. I'm just here to see if this movie is worth my additional investment."

"Then look." Strange said.

"Hey, what kind of attitude is this," Stark was very dissatisfied, he walked to Strange's desk and sat down, tapped the desktop with his hand and said, "I am an investor. Shouldn't you flatter me?"

"Do you know how many people are waiting in line to invest in this movie?" Strange rolled his eyes and said, "If you dare to withdraw your investment at this juncture, I guarantee you will be thrown off the top floor of Stark Tower by Pepper."

Speaking of Pepper, Stark's eyes turned, and he said: "Ah, yes. It's Pepper, she asked me to come over, she asked me to tell you: if you want me to add investment, then you have to let the representative products of Stark Group show their faces in the movie."

"Representative products of Stark Group? Do you want us to fire magic missiles at someone? Or let mages attack your arms warehouse?"

"Hey, I've already shut down the arms business. And do you think those vulgar arms can represent the technological level of Stark Group?" Stark said while pointing his finger at his mech display, as if waiting for Strange to say something.

Strange was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, he said: "Whether you can show your face in the movie is not up to me. All plots must be approved by Director Chris. You have to find him."

"I didn't intend to get your consent in the first place," Stark hummed and said, "Where is Schiller? I'll go see him."

"Should be in the school infirmary," Strange flipped through the lesson plan at hand, and then said, "But I don't suggest you go find him at this time, otherwise your medical budget for this quarter will rise shockingly again. I just saw Director Chris post a message in the group, you should be able to go find him and talk now."

"Alright," Stark stood up and said, "My requirements are not high, just shake around wearing the mech. He will definitely agree."

Stark flew all the way to the shooting base. Chris and the others were indeed not asleep, and were even eating barbecue and drinking beer. Seeing Iron Man descend from the sky, the entire director team was shocked. Everyone surrounded him very enthusiastically, taking pictures of the mech and chatting with Stark, instead making Stark a bit shy.

Chris also walked up to shake hands with Stark and said: "Nice to meet you, Mr. Stark, why did you come at this time?"

"Uh, I just... I heard you need additional investment, so I came over to see..."

Chris's eyes lit up, and he said: "Ah, yes, I must explain this to you: the investment originally used for props was enough, but some problems occurred during the shooting process, the ones made before couldn't be used, and now everything has to be torn down and restarted. This caused the budget for the set to rise greatly, we expect to need an additional investment of about 20 million US dollars..."

"20 million?" Stark repeated this amount, he personally felt it wasn't too much, but regarding money, he had to discuss it with Pepper. So he said: "I think it's no problem, but Stark Group is not my one-man show. I have to discuss it with them. However, you don't have to worry, even if the group doesn't approve, I can invest personally."

"That couldn't be better," Chris was radiant, shook hands with Stark vigorously again, then stepped back two steps to look at Stark's mech, and said, "I have also heard about your news of appearing as the Iron God back then. I think the magnificent image of the Iron God fits the tone of this magic movie very well, and in the final battle of the New York Sanctum, it can act as an important role..."

Stark immediately showed a smile, but felt it was a bit unreserved. He tried hard to restrain his happy emotions, cleared his throat and said: "I don't want to affect the shooting of your movie. The movement of the Iron God is still a bit too big..."

"It doesn't matter, then you can show your face in the final battle with the image of Iron Man. I heard from the Sorcerer Supreme that one of your mechs also uses a magic core?"

"Yes, in fact, all my mechs can use magic cores now. Are you planning to add some plots based on this?"

"Of course, you can appear in the final battle as foreign aid, and we will arrange for the protagonist little mages to find the magic core for you. However, the final shot effect might not be able to fully reflect your combat power."

"Oh, it doesn't matter. I understand, everything serves the plot," Stark finally grinned and laughed.

"However, there is another problem, that is, all participating actors must be trained. Now the training period has passed, but in order to ensure the performance quality, it still has to take up some of your time, let you have a basic understanding of the magic world and the movie worldview."

"No problem," Stark stomped his feet on the spot and rubbed his hands and said, "What should I do?"

"As far as it looks now, the best way is to stay in the magic school for a period of time. Of course, since the role you play is not a student, I think you can consider being a visiting professor for a period of time."

"Professor?" Stark hesitated for a moment, and then said somewhat awkwardly, "But in fact, I don't know how to use magic. I mean, my way of using magic is a bit different from mages. Shi Difen and the others say I am a heretic. If I teach the students wrong, won't he fight me to the death?"

"Oh? So the way of using magic is divided into schools? Then which school are you?"

"I... I might be of the engineering school," Stark also didn't know how to explain, he said, "Mages directly output energy, turning it into something according to their thoughts, which is things happen as one wishes; while I build something, and then use magic to drive this thing, using special energy forms, letting the thing I built have different effects."

"Sounds a bit like alchemy."

"This name is a bit old, but it's fine if you have to say so," Stark said, "In fact, the transformation of machinery by magic is more similar to transmutation, that is, not only accelerating or slowing down the operation of machinery due to the injection of energy, but also affecting machinery due to the evolution and transformation of energy itself. And this word was originally evolved from alchemy."

Stark used some professional terms, Chris actually didn't understand much, but he was able to discover that Stark's argument was similar to some things mentioned in the guide he was reading recently. Thinking of this, he asked his assistant to bring the guide over, then handed it to Stark and said: "You look at this."

Stark thought he was holding the script, so he flipped through it casually, but was a bit stunned after reading just a few pages. He picked it up and flipped through it carefully from the first page.

His reading speed is very fast, although he reads ten lines at a glance, it doesn't delay his understanding of the content above. After reading it, he slapped his thigh: "Shi Difen has finally opened up! I said long ago that his kind of god-talking training method wouldn't work. If you want magic to truly be passed down and have better development space, you have to carry out systematic organization and induction. He has always been resistant to this, I didn't expect him to be secretly doing it privately!"

"So this thing wasn't written by you?"

"No, I'm also seeing this guide for the first time, isn't this written by Shi Difen?"

"Maybe he asked his friend to write it," Chris said, "I originally thought that friend was you, I didn't expect it wasn't."

This remark made Stark narrow his eyes. He thought: this kind of thing really doesn't look like something Strange could write. Don't look at Strange not having studied magic for a long time, he was a senior intellectual before stepping into the magic world, but he is indeed an orthodox mage, and his understanding of the world is more inclined to the mystical side. He wouldn't adopt this kind of logical deduction method to analyze the animals and plants in the magic world. But if it wasn't Strange, then who would it be?

Stark suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Wouldn't it be Batman?"

Stark once shared a body with the Prime Universe Batman, and he could be considered to have some understanding of Batman. This kind of thing looks like something Batman could write.

Stark's mood was very complicated: on one hand, he felt that someone was on his side, using scientific thinking like himself to explain these things and contend with the mystery and nihilism that Strange believed in, which was something worth being happy about; but on the other hand, he was also very anxious—he had emphasized this matter to Strange before, but he didn't agree, and as a result, as soon as Batman came, Strange changed his nature. He was no longer the only person around him who used scientific thinking to analyze magic.

Stark immediately felt that his medical budget for the next quarter should rise again.

But he also felt that it was not very good to go find Schiller in the middle of the night. So he asked Director Chris for a copy of this guide, spent a whole night flipping through the content above carefully, made some annotations, wrote some of his own thoughts, and then returned it to Director Chris.

Early the next morning, Stark rushed to Strange's office and told him Chris's idea. Strange pondered for a moment and said: "Then you teach alchemy."

"What?" Stark didn't react for a moment.

"I mean, you teach whatever you know, it's just that this course is called 'Alchemy'. However, I will arrange this course as an elective course, that is, whoever is interested will come. How about it?"

"You really opened up," Stark said with an unbelievable face, "Not afraid that I'll lead your genius seeds astray?"

"Hmph," Strange snorted coldly and didn't speak.

Before, he was indeed unwilling to let Stark intervene in the magic world, and even more unwilling to let him teach students in the school, because most little mages couldn't do two things at once. Strange also believed that only focus could reach the peak, and he didn't want Stark's theories to interfere with the students' thinking.

But times have changed, now the school is full of Batmen, this group of people can not only do two things at once, but four, five, six things at once are no problem, as if every cell in their body is a brain cell.

It can be seen from the lesson plans submitted by the professors that the Batmen's learning progress is too fast. The little things they know will be emptied out before long. If you don't let Batmen do two things at once, they might have nothing to learn after studying for a month.

Not to mention how much trouble Batmen with nothing to do will cause, just teaching for a month and having nothing to teach is also too embarrassing. Strange agreeing to let Batman come over is not just to teach magic for free, he just wants to show the advantages of his universe and show his strength, paving the way for his future leadership position in the human alliance. If he only has this much ability, wouldn't he become a joke in the multiverse?

Stark's theory, although contrary to mysticism, happens to be very close to Batman's thinking. It couldn't be better to put them together for discussion.