The meditation room of Kama Taj is always dimly lit, but when the sun sets, the golden light that falls on the Himalayan ridges is reflected in the white snow into the circular meditation window.

There was some silence at the two people sitting in front of the window, and after a while, Stark was the first to speak: "Do you think that the owner of the notebook is right when he says that 'absurdity has absurd beauty'?" ”

Strange frowned, he looked into Stark's eyes, his eyes were very serious, and said, "I may not have the answer you want here, in the eyes of the mages, whether it is a fragile body or a thin and fragile soul, it cannot be called useful, and it can even be said to be a drag." ”

"You're like a complete dark mage."

"I am."

"You know what? Stephen, you've changed a lot. Stark tilted his head to look at Strange, as if trying to put pressure on him with his gaze, but Strange shook his head and said, "You don't have to play this trick with me, that doesn't mean you haven't changed." ”

"We're all exploring the future of humanity, so there's a lot of thought that isn't humane, and of course I've thought about how we can sublimate the human soul into a more powerful being, and don't tell me you didn't think about doing this to their body."

"You used 'them.'" Stark opened his eyes slightly, as if he was dissatisfied with the word, but Strange shook his head very bluntly and said, "You and I both understand, it's not that you haven't been promoted to the Iron Demon God, you are really exactly the same as those ordinary people who work on the ground, this is impossible, Tony." ”

"Whether it is physical or psychological, what we see, hear, think, and think, we can no longer be completely consistent with ordinary people, because we have to walk ahead of them, explore the path for them, and walk behind them, drive them forward."

"If we are too much in the pursuit of standing with ordinary people in a humble way, it will only lead us to narrow-mindedness and thus make a mess of everything, we are not those young people, and no one can afford to pay for our bad decisions and the wrong direction of humanity."

"So why should you be ashamed of your lofty perspective and the thoughts in your head that might be evil to the average person?" Stephen stared at Stark and said, "You didn't really catch them for experiments, and neither did I." ”

Stark was a little silent, he seemed to be going through a shift in thought, and then closed his eyes in some pain, and said, "Even if I think that the most precious thing about human beings is their intelligence, is such a monster form acceptable?" ”

"Or have I never abandoned my superficial sense of belonging and affection for human appearance, and can't accept that when a group of monsters have human intelligence, they should enjoy the same civilized society as us, rather than be destroyed?"

"I'm not a psychiatrist." Stephen shook his head and said, "But I can guess that after you saw the truth revealed by the owner of this notebook, you didn't feel any sympathy for the destroyed monsters, and you didn't have any reproach for the people who destroyed them, which contradicts the theory that you insisted on the supremacy of wisdom and reason." ”

"Exactly." Tony gave a wry smile and said as if jokingly, "You should go for a psychiatrist's license." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, I don't have a degree." Stephen shrugged his shoulders and poured Tony another cup of tea, who took a sip from the cup and said, "My sanity is telling me that the transformation of humans into monsters is nothing more than evolutionary pains, and that they may have just taken a different path." ”

"It's like I once wondered, can ordinary people take the road of mechanization? And now think about it, what's the difference between turning on a circuit in a certain part of the human body and growing tentacles? ”

"Of course there is, you will have their consent."

Tony was stunned for a moment, but Strange leaned back on the back of the armchair, raised his chin slightly, and said in an extremely arrogant manner:

"Humanity will never accept any fate at the mercy of others."

It was like a bell ringing in the bottom of my heart, shaking Stark out of those trivial and tangled philosophical thoughts.

"Perhaps, the abandonment of some limbs and the growth of tentacles and mucus is an option in the evolution of the flesh, to abandon the existing achievements of civilization, and to destroy them in one fell swoop, and to be transformed into another life form without even realizing it, is this evolution? No, this is a large-scale kidnapping and illegal rehabilitation that has affected all of humanity. ”

"Tony, you're always arrogant, but not arrogant enough." Strange put a new leg on his lap and said, "It is up to humanity to decide in which direction humanity is going to evolve, and humanity only recognizes humanity as a savior, not as an ethereal god." ”

"No matter how beneficial and great this evolution may be, it cannot be without the consent of the subjects of evolution, and if they do, and even require us to regard it as a gift, then think of your old profession - how mankind used the Industrial Revolution to kill the gods who blessed the wind and rain."

Tony smiled, looked at Stephen and said, "You should get a psychiatrist's license, I'm serious." ”

After saying that, he picked up the teacup again, took a sip of tea, lowered his eyes and said: "I think what you said is right, human wisdom and reason do determine that they have the right to choose and decide, we are a kind of intelligent beings who can choose and take responsibility for their own choices, not blindly kneeling on the ground waiting for someone to give gifts." ”

Strange leaned on the armrest on the other side in a different direction, and said, "Schiller and I share the same view that the dark side of human nature is the driving force behind the development of civilization." ”

"I think that if God himself came down now and announced that mankind must do as he says, and his command really touches the interests of some people, then they will dare to take a gun and kill God."

"Sing praises to what is missing, and human beings are Judas, which is why they fantasize about Jesus."

Strange also took a sip of tea from his teacup, and said in a slightly indifferent tone: "I'm sorry for what happened to the humans in this world, but since they didn't realize the disaster that befell them, didn't have the opportunity to resist, and didn't succeed in resisting, then they deserved the end of destruction." ”

"Don't say anything, they can still maintain the life of a normal order society, before the lamb is slaughtered, it also thinks that it owns the entire grassland, if the entire civilization has no chance to fight for autonomy at all, it is better to sleep forever."

"Rather die than be free?"

"Freedom or death."

"How do you feel?" Jarvis draped Wanda over a blanket he found downstairs and asked.

As the breath of darkness grew thicker and thicker, everyone began to tremble, and the encounters of the first two nights had dealt them too hard.

The young people are never lacking in courage, even a short defeat will not let them down too much, and they can quickly adjust their condition and return to the battle, but the most powerless and panicked thing is that they have not seen who the enemy is, they do not know how they were attacked, and they have already failed.

The so-called scars on the back are the shame of the warriors, and the panicked little lambs have been slashed hard without even knowing where their backs are, and if they do it again, I am afraid that the slaughterhouse will not want them.

Night finally fell.

A few people cowered themselves in the couch, waiting for the judgment to come, and Jarvis made some coffee for everyone, which he found downstairs, but no one was in the mood to drink it, and they were all pale and sluggish.

Soon an hour passed, nothing happened, and the eerie silence was the only thing in the room.

Another hour passed, and the night was already dark and his fingers were gone, and if Jarvis remembered correctly, it was at this time that Riley lost control when the first night came.

"Riley, how are you feeling?" Jarvis asked.

Riley was clearly a little startled, and he almost jumped up from the couch, then shook his head vigorously and said, "I didn't feel anything." ”

"Are your ears okay?"

"I'm ......" Riley paused, then looked at Jarvis with some embarrassment and said, "I know you want us to feel better, but it really doesn't have to be that loud." ”

In an instant, everyone's eyes widened and looked at Riley, Riley blinked, a little confused why they did this, and soon everyone gathered around Riley again, Wanda raised her tone and asked, "Can you hear me?!" ”

"Of course I don't ......"

Riley froze suddenly, then he touched his ear with his hand, shook his head vigorously, but nodded again, got up from the couch in a bit of a panic, and said, "I hear your voice, but, but not by ear." ”

"My ears were still hurting, my eardrums were broken, and I was trying too hard at the time, probably damaging the auditory nerve, I couldn't hear anything before, and the world was quiet as if it was dead."

"But, but just now Jarvis's voice came to my head, and I didn't hear them with my ears."

So, Jarvis turned so that Riley couldn't see his mouth, and lowered his voice and said, "Can you hear me now?" Would you like a cup of coffee? ”

"Of course I can hear it, and I'm not a big fan of coffee." Riley replied instinctively.

He stood there in shock, looking down at himself in disbelief as Jarvis motioned for him to sit down, and began to ask him:

"The voice comes straight to your head?"

"Yes, it's kind of like what I hear when I'm talking to myself in my head, I hear it like my own voice, and the tone and attitude of your voice are all imaginary."

"And what about the song you're talking about?" Wanda leaned over and asked.

"I'm not sure if it's still ringing." Riley frowned and said, "There are so many voices in my head, my spider sense is back online, and it's a little different, I don't know what to say." ”

Suddenly, Riley was stunned, looked at Jarvis and said, "Jarvis, your water is boiling." ”

Jarvis was stunned, he didn't understand why Riley suddenly said this, and a few seconds later, the sound of boiling water bubbling came from downstairs, and he had just boiled a pot of water.

As they walked downstairs together, Jarvis asked, "Did you hear the sound before the water boiled?" ”

"Probably, but the format is a little different than you think."

Jarvis paused, and Riley danced and explained, "I saw a picture of a silver coffee pot hanging from a makeshift stand with a fire underneath it, and its lid was fluttering up with boiling water and falling to the ground on the right. ”

Wanda recklessly rushed past the two of them and rushed down quickly, then turned her head to look at Jarvis who came over, and silently asked if the scene was like this, and when Jarvis held her hand, Wanda understood that everything Riley said was true.

"Incredible." Jarvis commented: "Is this a manifestation of spider induction? Foreseeing the future? ”

"I don't know." Riley shook his head and said, "All I can tell you is that I heard all this, and what I heard made a picture in my head, and I said it. ”

A few more tests were taken, and it was unbelievable that Riley's lost hearing and his spider senses seemed to merge into one, and that he could hear everything around him, even everything in a matter of seconds.

"Ahh

Wanda suddenly exclaimed.

(End of chapter)