Chapter 82: Supreme Mage Doom?
"Welcome to my country!" Inside the Castle of Doom, Doom prepares a grand banquet to welcome Lee Jay and Banner.
These include a variety of meat and dairy products, as well as fresh seafood that is not so common in landlocked Eastern Europe.
It looks like Doom is going to make a lot of effort. Even Li Jie felt that he could hear a hint of genuine welcome from Doom's welcoming tone.
"You're welcome, please feel free to eat. After visiting my country, you can taste the food of my country. Wearing the Destruction Armor, Doom motioned to Li Jay and Banner not to be polite.
Banner looked at Li Jie, and Li Jie frowned slightly, because Doom had mentioned a key word several times, that is, [my country].
This does not bode well, if Doom treats the state and its citizens as his private property, will he extend dictatorship and one-word rule to the whole of Eastern Europe?
Imagine, if you were to go to an Eastern European country in the future, and you would hear an over-the-air announcement after you got off the plane: "Dear passengers, Dom Airport No. 13 has arrived, please bring your salute and prepare to leave the cabin." ”
Or when you arrive at the train, you will find that the stops along are all the stops: Doum 1, Doum 2, Doum 3.
Even the name of the bus stop will change: "Dondum station has arrived, passengers who get off the bus hurry up and get off." The end of the train is to East Erdum Station. ”
Then everyone's usual chatting may also become strange. For example, Aunt A asked Aunt B, "Where did you buy this Doom brand sweater?"
Aunt B replied, "I bought it at the Doom mall." ”
Aunt A continued to ask, "Which Doom mall?"
Aunt B replied: "The newly opened department store on East Forty Doom Road, the third Doom department store." Now people are doing activities there! As long as you shout DOOM 30 times in a row and pronounce it standardly, you will be given a 20% discount! Go quickly, if you go, it will be gone!"
Aunt A slapped her face and said, "That's right, you have to hurry up, just get on the bus from the Seventh Doom Primary School at our door, right?"
Aunt B: "That's right, let's go quickly!"
If the above dialogue becomes the daily routine of the people of Eastern Europe, Li Jie feels that it is too cruel. East 30 Dum Road, East 31 Dum Road, East 32 Dum Road............ How many people must be lost!
And based on what he saw and heard on the road today, Li Jie felt that Doom did this kind of thing. Perhaps Doom has done a very good job of covering up a fact that no one is paying attention to, with his insidious cunning and dictatorship.
In fact, Doom himself is a hopeless narcissist! Li Jie doubts that Doom will say to himself in the mirror when no one is around: "The word handsome was invented for me." ”
So after drinking the aperitif, Li Jie was not in a hurry to eat, but looked at Doom and asked at the same time, "Mr. Doom, you just mentioned [my country] several times?"
Doom uses a silver knife and fork to cut the sausages that are served on a golden plate, and the sausages are dipped in a bit of chixican sauce, a taste that Doom kept from his time studying in the United States.
He put a cut piece of oily sausage into his mouth and chewed it before he spoke: "Is there any problem?"
Li Jie tapped the entire table top made of red shirt wood with his index and middle fingers, and made a knocking sound: "Regard the country as an individual's private property, and the people as one's own property?" ”
"Huh. Doom let out a somewhat sarcastic laugh: "Do you agree that everyone's worth is different? ”
"Do you know how chaotic this country was before I ruled it? There was war and famine, children and women were used as food, and men were fighting frantically. I have given these people a peaceful and happy life now, so is there anything wrong with me managing them from above?"
He didn't feel at all that there was anything wrong with what he was doing.
"I have provided food and jobs to more than 10 million people, and I owe them a debt of gratitude to them for keeping them alive," said Doom. ”
"It's like you see two strangers, a scientist who can create all kinds of inventions, and an ordinary beggar. Both are poisoned, you only have a bottle of antidote, and you will definitely choose to save the scientists, not beggars. The value of life is different, isn't it?" continued Doom after taking a bite of sausage.
Dr. Banner frowned and said, "I don't agree with you, I don't think the value of life can be simply quantified. ”
Doom glanced at Dr. Banner and said after a while, "Dr. Bruce Banner, well, you're qualified to say that." I know what you became the Hulk for. During the gamma bomb test, an unemployed wandering singer breaks into the blasting test site. ”
"You saved him, but you were irradiated by a gamma bomb. You have the right to say that, but I still think you're making a stupid choice. Doom said mercilessly.
"Your life is much more important than a wandering singer, although you became the Hulk, in a sense, a blessing in disguise?"
Banner blushed and said, "I don't think it's a blessing. ”
As soon as the conversation began, the atmosphere between the two had already become very tense, and Li Jie was afraid that Banner would kill Doom directly in anger, so he chose to come out to play a round: "Okay, two." Today is not here to discuss the value of life. ”
"Mr. Doom, can you remove these ironclad guards around you? Truth be told, it doesn't really mean much if they're not here. Li Jie looked around at the surrounding idlers, there were guards, and there were waiters.
Doom did not refuse Li Jie's request, he nodded and motioned for the idlers to go out. Because some conversations are very private.
"First of all, Mr. Doom, about what you said earlier. First of all, I disagree with the idea that the state is owned by individuals. This makes the conversation we want to have difficult. And secondly, the most important thing about us meeting you should be clear, we want to find out why you want to do this?"
"Eastern European integration, and even the Eurasian integration to global integration that may come later, I don't see any huge benefits for you. "Li Jie still didn't believe that Doom would suddenly be kind.
Suddenly one day when he woke up, Doom decided to change his face, and while looking in the mirror, he said to himself: "Change the world to make the world a better place!"
Well, this kind of thing can't be, it can't be.
Li Jie believes that Doom has a deeper reason, and that's why he and Banner came to see Doom.
After Dom finished eating a sausage, he wiped his mouth with a white napkin before he said: "I can answer your questions, number one: Latvian as my personal belongings, I don't want it anymore. To put it simply, you don't need to worry about this, I will step by step out of the management of Latvia. ”
Doom said this in a playful tone: "But I don't know what will become of Latvia after I leave. Maybe worse?"
As for the second question, I believe it can be better answered. I gave up on Latvia, and I wanted to pursue the path I didn't finish back then. I want to be a mage, and I've heard that you and Kamataki are familiar with Nightcrawlers. Can you introduce me to the Supreme Master, and maybe I will be the next Supreme Master!"
Li Jie, who was drinking fruit wine, listened to the first half of the sentence and was fine, but after listening to the second half of Dum's sentence, he couldn't help but squirt out a mouthful of wine, spraying all over the table.