In the office of Arkham Sanatorium in New York, Schiller had just picked up a cup of fragrant coffee to enjoy a rare morning leisure time, when a black bald head squeezed in through the crack in the door.

"Schiller, please."

"I'm sorry, but we don't accept guests without a reservation." Schiller rolled his eyes and sat back in his office chair, took a sip of his coffee, and let out a comfortable sigh.

He looked at Nick Fury, who was standing by the door, holding coffee in one hand and supporting his face in the other, and said, "Didn't I explain it to you on the phone?" I can't help it. ”

Nick held out three fingers, Schiller then shook his head, Nick added five more fingers, Schiller blew on the coffee, and Nick had to clench his hands into fists.

Seeing that Schiller hadn't reacted yet, Nick reached out and adjusted the position of his blindfold, and said with a serious face: "Doctor, I order you as the head of the Hydra Americas Region, you have to think of a way, my base will not be enough!" ”

"There's nothing you can do." Schiller shrugged his shoulders and said, "You have piled up too much experimental garbage yourself, what can I do?" But speaking of which, how did you deal with them before? ”

"Throw it into the sun." Nick replied simply, "It doesn't matter what kind of mutant animal, mutated plant, ghost, or alien it is, just launch it directly into the sun." ”

"Oh, I see, Tony won't let you do that, will you?"

"How dare I let him know." Nick closed the door with his backhand, sat down in front of Schiller, lowered his voice, and said, "These experiments are top secret, and those superheroes won't let me do that." ”

"Then you really shouldn't do that, what's the use of you studying those alien monsters? I'm afraid they can't even beat the current young heroes, right? ”

Nick put his hands on the table, looked at Schiller seriously and said: "I need to approve a scientific research fund to study them, and if the research is unsuccessful, I need a follow-up fund, and if the research is successful, I will secretly release them, and they will fight with superheroes, and I will sell successful experiments to the military, and at the same time ask Congress for superhero logistics funds, otherwise how do you think my more than 700 bases came from?" ”

"And how do you usually deal with the aftermath?"

"Find a place to lock it up, and then launch it into the sun in turn to destroy, but this damn solar system development plan makes them watch the sun too closely, and by the time I react, there are too many failed products piled up in the warehouse, if I can't destroy them quickly, my base will be blown up!"

"So what are you going me to help you with?" Schiller put down his coffee, moved his chair forward, and said, "You're trying to convince Tony to throw that mess into the sun, do you?" ”

"Nick, you have to understand that these scientists are unreasonable in this regard, they will only tell you that the variables you throw into the sun will affect their series of experiments, and the experimental readings will run one wrong number and they will ask you to come to see them, what can I do?"

"But that's just ...... for the sun"

"Go tell Tony that." Schiller turned his chair to the other side, took a sip of his coffee and said, "What's more, now that every country is staring at the sun, you have to make sure that no one finds out what's in those jars from beginning to end, and once the monster you created is exposed, Congress will let you see it first." ”

Nick sighed deeply and said, "Is I the only one in the world who not only can't enjoy the benefits brought by the progress of the times, but also bothered by it?" ”

"Is there no other way but to throw it into the sun? Can't you just destroy them in their place? Schiller asked.

"What can be destroyed is destroyed as soon as the test fails." Nick spread his hands and said, "I'm not idle, I'm going to lock them up, they take up the space in my warehouse because some things can't be destroyed by conventional means, or because they are too tenacious to rely on the sun." ”

"Oh my God, they took away my access to the sun, it's so unfair that I can sue them for racism?" Nick couldn't help but wail.

"Okay, stop acting, I'll have to pay on time if I continue to be verbose."

"I can't hide anything from you, my good doctor." Nick grinned, showing a row of white teeth, smiled, and then said to Schiller, "Just keep them away from my warehouse and don't take up space." ”

"You don't think ......"

About half an hour later, in the dimly lit Temporal Authority's office, Nick in a leather jacket and Schiller in a trench coat stood at a crimson desk.

Nick pointed to a golden magical projection and said to Schiller, "We observed the anomalous movement of this part of the temporal stream about two months ago, look at this. ”

Schiller frowned and looked at the place where Nick pointed, where there were two small points of light that were now circling and rotating with each other in a very regular trajectory, while most of the other points of light around them had hurriedly swept across and disappeared into the screen, only those two points of light, although moving around each other, would hardly move forward.

"Is this a binary star system?" Schiller recalled some of the astrophysical phenomena he had seen in the universe.

Nick propped his hands on his desk, stared at the image, and said, "This is the monitoring device for the Time Authority's cosmic timeline, and each point of light on the map represents a universe. ”

"The universe does not exist forever, they also have a lifespan, and the vast majority of the universe will gradually age due to the passage of time, just like the water droplets in a river inevitably flow downstream, and at a very fast rate."

"But there are also some universes that are in a bit of trouble and stuck, and at this time, the employees of the Time Authority will go to help the universe."

"It's not that we have to let the universe go to the end, but if the time of the universe does not advance, then the time of life in the universe will not advance, it is equivalent to them being frozen in eternal amber, which is no different from destruction, so the Time Authority will help them restore order as much as possible."

"But it's still a spectacle." Nick straightened up and said, "There are two universes in the multiverse that we're in, stuck in an endless time loop. ”

"And the strange thing is that it's not one universe that is stuck, but two universes that are stuck with each other, and they form a subtle causal loop that causes their time to never move forward."

"Can you elaborate on that?" Schiller crossed his arms and looked at the two rotating spheres on the screen.

"To put it simply, there was a disaster A in universe A, and the life in it escaped from this universe because of the disaster and came to universe B, bringing disaster B, and the life in universe B found a way to solve disaster B in order to survive, and the solution was to send the things that caused the disaster back to the past of universe A, and these things caused the disaster to break out in universe A."

"When the life of Universe B sends the disaster back, it resets the timeline of Universe A, so that the time of Universe A goes back to the time when the disaster broke out, and what was sent over causes Disaster A to erupt, and the timeline moves forward, leading to Disaster B, which in turn leads to Disaster A......"

"In this way, the time of the two universes is completely stuck, and Morbius told me that according to the investigation of professional explorers, they have not been stuck for a long time, probably within this year."

"So what?" Schiller put his hand in the pocket of his trench coat and turned to look at Nick and asked.

"In a way, these two universes have built an excellent defense system for themselves, and the universe itself is no longer involved in the passage of time, and the lives of all the people in them are constantly circulating, and outsiders cannot interfere."

"And I'm going to say ......" Nick bent down again and pressed the button on the table a few times, and a slightly bloody picture appeared in Schiller's field of vision, making him frown deeply.

"The so-called catastrophe is actually that the lives in these two universes were infected by an extremely rare zombie virus, and almost all lives became zombies."

After a little thought, Schiller remembered which two universes these are, and what many people don't know is that the famous zombie universe is not actually one universe, but two.

Earth 2149 and Earth 91126 can be said to be two unlucky eggs on par, and the general process is just like what Nick said - the zombie sentinels of Earth 91126 arrived at Earth 2149 and infected the entire Earth 2149, and then the zombie heroes of Earth 2149 arrived at Earth 91126 and infected Earth 91126, and the heroes of Earth 91126 eliminated all the zombies, leaving only the zombie sentinels, and someone sent the zombie sentinels to the past time point of Earth 2149, Then the zombie sentinels infected the entire Earth-2149 again......

It doesn't matter if you can't read it, anyway, the result is that the time of these two universes is completely stuck, the cycle continues endlessly, and all the superheroes are constantly repeating the tragedy of becoming zombies to save the universe and becoming zombies.

"On top of that, the zombie-turned lifeforms in both universes have an endless appetite, and when they're hungry, they eat everything, doesn't that sound like an oversized shredder?"

Schiller glanced Nick up and down and said, "You don't want to throw your harmful garbage into these two universes, do you?" ”

"It's completely safe, healthy, environmentally friendly, and pollution-free." Nick held out a hand and waved it as he said, "Their time has been stuck, so it will keep looping no matter what, and these two universes are hopeless." ”

"But there is a bunch of hungry zombies in there, they are very hungry, and I am obviously quite worried about the health of my colleagues in the other parallel universes, how sad it is that they have paid so much for the safety of the universe and cannot even eat a full meal......"

Schiller was quite speechless, although he had known Nick's shamelessness for a long time, but this damn boiled egg could still refresh his understanding of the bottom line of morality again and again, although he knew that he was also refreshing Nick's, but he was an outsider after all, is it really good for you to be a native so lacking in morality?

Schiller felt that he might have accidentally said this, and Nick immediately snapped his fingers and said, "You've got the key again, my genius doctor, when I sent the staff of the Time Authority to check on them, I found that they are also affected by the time loop, perhaps because we are the indigenous inhabitants of this world, and the timeline has something in common." ”

"And you don't have to worry about that, you're an outsider, your identity code is different from ours, and you're under the special attention of many powerful gods, so you won't be affected by the timeline in the world."

"So Schiller, I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to run and help me take out the trash, I promise it's an easy job, and the pay is definitely more than you think."

"10% of all research project funding."

"No, Schiller, you're too greedy, you can't do it at all, I can't even get a percent myself!"

Schiller turned and walked to the door, and Nick chased after him and shouted, "5% is negotiable!" ”

Schiller walked out of the room without looking back.

(End of chapter)