2. Hope and despair
Cyber casually threw away the burning corpse in his hand, snorted a little unpleasantly, didn't even look at Strange, turned around and left, and walked to his car, Strange hurried to pack his bag, he watched Cyber get into the car, the car started, and he slammed out with his bag on his back.
He stretched out his hand and spread it out, unable to open his eyes by the shining lights, but stubbornly stood in front of Cyber's car.
"Click"
The unpleasant sound of brakes, the wheel slid far away on the icy road, and it stopped on the ground less than 30 centimeters away from Strange, Cyber opened the car door and walked down angrily, he was very unhappy now, so in the face of all emergencies, he subconsciously adopted the simplest way to deal with it.
He moved his fists and walked towards Strange, his eyes shining with a malicious light that made the former surgeon's scalp tingle even if he looked at it, unlike the brave and ruthless young man before, just from Cyber's eyes, Strange saw absolute indifference.
This is definitely a murderous character who doesn't blink.
"I... I'm looking for Kama Taj too!"
Just before Cyber's fist landed on Strange, the surgeon desperately shouted, "Maybe we can exchange information! We're from the same place, aren't we?"
"Bang"
The fist that was not heavy, not too light, landed on Strange's cheek, and smashed the poor man into the air, and the surgeon was dizzy from the blow, and he fell to the ground in embarrassment, dizzy, and the next moment he was lifted from the ground by Cyber, and he saw those eyes, those dark red pupils, and suppressed an unimaginable anger.
"I have nothing to trade with you! You don't even know the names of Kama Taj and the Ancient One! You're just wasting my time! My time... Now it's precious, disappear from my eyes!
"Bang"
Strange's body was thrown to the ground, and he watched in despair as Cyber turned and walked towards the car, he knew that this was his last hope, and the instinctive wisdom of the surgeon was also influencing him, he had just heard Kama Taj and another name from Cyber's words... From this point alone, he could be sure that the murderous guy in front of him knew more about the Holy Land than he did.
And he never seemed to suspect the existence of Kama Taj!
It's like a flash of light shot into the darkness of despair, even if it's extremely faint, Strange must catch it!
Because that was his last hope! It was a desperate man whose whole world had been destroyed, the last hope!
"Bang"
Hearing a voice from behind him, Cyber's footsteps slowed down, and behind him, Strange lowered his head, kneeled on the ground, and supported his body with trembling hands,
"Please... Please take me there!"
"I have nothing, I have nothing more for you, but please... It took my last hope to get here, but I don't know how to go on, please, take me to Kama Taj! I have to go there!"
Cyber took a deep breath, he turned his head and looked at Strange who was kneeling there, and in just a few minutes, he could see that this should have been a very proud person, but in order to go to Kama Taj, in order to see the ancient side, he could actually abandon all his pride and let himself be as humble as dirt.
At least Cyber knew that he would not be able to do it, even if the result of not doing it would be death.
He's not the kind of person who would drop everything to survive.
"Why?"
Cyber asked, "Why do you have to go to Kama Taj and even give up your dignity for it?"
"These hands!"
Strange's voice trembled, his weak body almost froze in the cold wind, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I must find a way to recover these hands!"
"Why?"
Cyber asked the same question, and Strange took a deep breath,
"Because without it, there is no life... There is no meaning, there is no value, there is no everything... It's all pointless!"
"Nothing in this world is meaningless. ”
Cyber turned around and continued to walk towards his car, "There are always other things in the world that fill your life, not just your hands, what you need is not Kama Taj, what you need is a new way of life, a new meaning of life, you can find those things anywhere you want to hell, you don't have to try your luck at Kama Taj." ”
He still hasn't said a word,
"Only someone like me needs to leave everything behind to find the last hope... You're so much luckier than I am. ”
"No!
Strange got up and shouted at Cyber, "No, I don't want to see them pity me! I don't need them to pity me! I don't need anyone to tell me... Look, this is poor Stephen, how pitiful! I need them again, another social outcast needs them, come, enlighten your mind, and then face life again!"
Like a madman, Strange opened his hands and shouted in front of Cyber's eyes, who had already twisted the engine,
"Shit! It's all shit! I don't want to see them singing with joy, I don't want to see them! These hands are the only value in my life! I've lost it now, I promised my sister that I'm going to do something that shocked the world, I've lost her, and now... I'm going to lose even my promise to her!"
"Shit! I don't believe it! I don't believe it!"
"Buzz"
The engine sounded again, and Cyber's deep voice said, "It has nothing to do with whether you believe it or not, this world is like this, it has never been gentle, do you feel that honor to make it more gentle to you?"
"Hehe... You're afraid that your brain is broken, the world doesn't revolve around you, it has never been... Go back, Stephen, go back to your world, the world you're going to is too cruel to you, you're going to be eaten by the bones!"
"Go back?"
Strange raised his hands, his eyes filled with an almost insane stubbornness, "Go back? Why?"
"Because then at least you can save your life..."
Cyber stepped on the accelerator and ignored Strange, the car slowly moved forward, past Staranch's body, he could only look at the car in despair, his last hope in life was getting farther and farther away from him, the surgeon finally couldn't bear the blow, he collapsed on the ground, looking at his hands, as if he was frozen there.
If he had followed the other way of acting in a Saiber way, he would have walked away, but perhaps it was Strange's remark, "We are from the same place", that struck him, and his gaze was always focused on the rearview mirror, looking at Strange who had been filled with despair.
They're from the same place, but it's not Gotham or New York... They all came from despair and came here in search of hope... Cyber lit a cigarette irritably, he took a deep breath of smoke, but he couldn't calm down in his heart, the depression seemed to follow him, and he finally slammed the steering wheel viciously.
There was a fragility in his eyes that was hard to hide, and it was impossible for anyone to be indifferent to death, and the same was true for Cyber.
"Well, well, as you wish... Consider it Cyber's last mercy!"
"Bang"
A sound woke Strange up, and when he looked up, he saw that the car was parked 200 meters away, and the co-pilot's door had been kicked open.
Despite the absence of any sound, the surgeon's face was filled with a look of hopeful surprise, and he quickly shattered all despair, and with great difficulty he carried the package behind his back, and ran towards the car in the cold wind, shouting as he ran,
"There's hope! There's hope! Donna, you're sheltering me, aren't you? My Donna... I won't give up, I swear... For your sake, I won't give up!"
"Bang"
Strange will do his best to close the car door, Cyber ignored him, and drove the car by himself, Strange fastened his seat belt, Cyber noticed his trembling hands, his eyes flashed red, and the hands in front of him immediately turned into an image of red and black dots of light, and he could see that the vitality of these hands had been extremely weak.
And black, that's the color of steel.
"Got steel nails on your hands?"
Strange was startled by the sudden question of Cyber, he glanced at Cyber, hurriedly put his hands together, and nodded,
"There was a car accident... 27 steel nails, I used to be a neurosurgeon. ”
A wry smile appeared on the corner of Strange's mouth, "I eat with my hands." ”
"No wonder... Wait!"
Cyber said casually without feeling, but the neurosurgeon and the 27 steel nails were like two key words, awakening some memories in his mind,
"Your name is Stephen Strange, right? Your last patient was a mutant named Kayla and her husband was Logan Hauntley, and you had a car accident before you could have surgery, right?"
"Huh?"
Strange looked at Cyber curiously, "You know me?"
"No, it's not an acquaintance, I'm friends with Logan. ”
Cyber shrugged, "You've disappointed him so much... You'll have to be careful when you meet that big guy in the future, and besides, I'm going to tell you, I don't know where Kama Taj is, the only thing I know for sure is that it's here, it's real. ”
Cyber took a box of cigarettes out of his pocket and threw it on the bridge,
"Come on, we all need luck now. ”
Strange shook his head,
"I'm a doctor, I'm not a smoker, by the way, you look pretty healthy, why did you come to Kama Taj for?"
"Am I healthy?"
Cyber shook his head, and his gaze looked out the car window, where there were no lights of the metropolis, only the most primitive and natural scenery and night,
"Stephen, you just lost a pair of hands, trust me... You've been lucky. ”
"And how are we going to find Kama Taj?"
Stephen saw that Cyber was reluctant to continue on this topic, he nodded, and began to worry about another question, he had not seen the terrifying power of the ancient one, naturally he did not have much fear and understanding of that transcendent world, he was just immersed in false hope.
Cyber looked at Strange, at the joy on his face, he couldn't bear to puncture the illusion, they were still far, far from the truth... The distance on land is not worth mentioning, only the heart, the ancient one will not let them pass the test so easily.
At least it won't be so easy for him to pass... Johnny Blazer was only required to eliminate 999 evil spirits in order to regain the freedom of his soul just by signing a contract with the devil, but what about him?
He's completely starting a crisis that threatens the balance, and he's definitely no easier than Johnny, and if he could, Cyber would rather swap Johnny.
And on the other side, in the distant, distant and earthly land of the Holy Spirit, Kama Taj, outside the meditation room of the Ancient One, a man dressed in simple and serious black clothes was waiting there, he had typical yellow characteristics, with a special temperament on his body, like a soldier, but he was more mysterious by the soldier.
After the ancient one had finished her long meditation, she walked out of the ashram and saw the man standing in the courtyard like a javelin, and a smile appeared on her face,
"Mr. Quan, are you here on behalf of the Heavenly Sword Bureau?"
The unsmiling man nodded, and said succinctly,
"Heavenly Sword Bureau Level 6 Agent Yao Fei disappeared during a mission, this seems to involve some organization in the hinterland of the Himalayas, we are about to launch an operation, and we hereby inform the Ancient One Master that this operation is not aimed at Kama Taj. ”
"Oh... I can trust you absolutely in this regard, but I'm curious. ”
Gu Yi waved his hand indifferently, a trace of curiosity appeared on his face, "Are those shadow martial artists crazy, how can they have the confidence to provoke the Heavenly Sword Bureau?"
Mr. Quan's face also showed a trace of helplessness,
"Maybe we've been silent for too long, and those restless people think of us as S.H.I.E.L.D. kind of goods, but that's fine, the knife always needs to be sharpened to be sharper, and I hope the headquarters of the Shadow Warrior is not as vulnerable as it was decades ago. ”