"How did you end up here?"

A voice that was much hoarser than usual echoed through the empty and dark room.

Helen just stared at Strange quietly, and Strange raised his head and repeated his question, but Helen insisted, "You have to answer my question first, Your Excellency Supreme Mage, are you okay?" ”

"I'm fine, I couldn't be better." Strange stood up with his feet on the ground, looked at Helen condescendingly, and asked, "Why are you here?" ”

Helen raised the suitcase in her hand and said, "We have researched a machine that responds to the call, and you just happened to summon the evil god, and we responded to your call, so naturally we came here." ”

Helen looked up at Strand and asked, "Then why did you summon the evil god?" ”

"You seem to know me well." Strange narrowed his eyes and said.

"You're our professor and dean." Harley stepped forward, rubbing her still churning stomach and said, "You're not just a Supreme Mage in another universe, you're also the head of Kama Maj School of Magic and a professor at Gotham School of Magic, we've all taken your class. ”

"Another universe? Is that what you call a parallel universe? ”

Helen nodded and said, "That's right, we're coming from another parallel universe and we're tracking down a guy who did something bad. ”

Before Helen could finish speaking, Strange stepped forward, he half-knelt down, pressed his hands on Helen's shoulders, stared at her with burning eyes and asked, "What about Christine in that universe?" Is she still alive? ”

"Who is Christine?" Helen asked, looking at him a little blankly.

"You don't know Christine? Have you never seen her before? Strange squeezed Helen's shoulder with a slight force, he instinctively noticed that the little girl's body was hard like a rock, but he didn't have time to pay attention to it, he just wanted to know Christine's whereabouts.

Helen, Hallie, and Barry, the three children, you look at me, I look at you, shaking their heads in unison, Helen looked at Strange's expression and said, "Is she important to you?" She's your wife? ”

"She's my girlfriend." Strange withdrew his hand in some despair, stood up and turned around, and said, "This is an independent dimension, there is no murderer you are looking for, get out of here." ”

Helen looked at Strange again and speculated, "I want to ask, how old were you when you were still the chief surgeon at Presbyterian Hospital in New York?" ”

Strange walked to the side of the futon and sat down on his knees, closed his eyes and began to meditate, without replying.

But Helen didn't give up, and she continued, "Stephen Strange of our universe became the Supreme Master when he was the chief surgeon at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York. ”

Strange's eyes suddenly opened, and he stared at Helen tightly and said, "What did you say?" I became a Supreme Master when I was working at the Presbyterian Hospital? I was in my early thirties at the time. ”

"Yes, quite young." Helen nodded and said, "But he's already a world-famous surgeon." ”

"It's too far off." Strange's face turned serious, and he said, "I was just getting famous at that time, and I hadn't met Christine yet. ”

"Then I'm afraid you won't have a chance to meet it, I'm talking about Dr. Strange of our universe, and then you became the spokesperson of the immortality factor, and then you went to the ancient gate and established the Holy of Holies, and since then you haven't had a moment of leisure, and I've never heard of you falling in love or anything."

Strange fell silent again, as if remembering a certain time, but soon he spoke again: "That's fine, the two of us won't cross paths, Christine won't die, she can continue on the path of medicine, she's the best surgeon in the world." ”

"What about you?" Helen took two steps forward, put the box on the ground, looked at Strange's pale face and said, "What the hell is going on?" Dr. Strange, you look very bad, like you're dying. ”

"But I'm not dead." Strange's expression stiffened like a zombie, he shook his head slightly, his eyes were blank and said, "It's not me who died, it's Christine." ”

With a whoosh, the three children came together, and Hallie rolled her eyes and glanced at Strange and said, "Very typical PTSD, stupor, which indicates that he has experienced repeated stimulation before, and is in a long-term period of continuous and slow onset. ”

"Is there any medicine?"

"There's no play, and he won't eat it if he gives it to him." Harley crossed her arms and said, "I've heard that the Supreme Mage is able to go back in time, and if it's really his girlfriend who died, he will definitely try to go back in time again and again to redeem the tragedy." ”

"But the way he is now, he must have failed to redeem himself, but as Professor Schiller said, these people have always been accustomed to underestimating the power of psychological trauma, and going back in time again and again to witness the death of their loved ones will cause great mental stimulation, and now it seems hopeless."

"If you are not saved, you will be saved." Helen glanced back at Strange and said, "Didn't you hear my dad say that the universe collapsed later?" I suspect it has something to do with him. ”

"Although I'm not a superhero, we still have to find clues to the murderer in this universe, and if he destroys the universe, won't the clues be gone?"

After thinking about it for a while, Hallie said, "The best way is to get his girlfriend back, but he didn't succeed in estimating that we are enough to persuade us...... We arrived a little too late, and now the psychological trauma has formed. ”

Helen rolled her eyes and said: "This situation is a bit similar to Spider-Man in the zombie universe, they are all stimulated by repeated reincarnation, which leaves indelible psychological wounds. ”

"Then I think we can also follow Dr. Schiller's method, first find a way to carry out brain wave therapy, let him get better from a long-term illness, and then find an opportunity to create a grand scene for him to turn the tide."

The three of them nodded at the same time, and Barry spoke, "We'd better figure out why he summoned the evil god first?" This is no joke, and perhaps the destruction of the universe will be the way. ”

The three of them dispersed in a "huff", and Harley, who was the most observant, pretended to be curious about her surroundings and began to observe the room, Barry turned her head to look at the magic circle painted on the ground, while Helen leaned over to Strange, intending to ask for information on the side.

Helen followed Strange's example and knelt down on the floor next to the futon, and Strange saw Helen's very standard sitting posture at a glance.

He withdrew his gaze, looked straight ahead and asked, "Did you go to school at Kama Taj?" ”

Helen nodded vigorously, stared at him with wide eyes, and said, "Yes, I'm a good student." ”

"Are you the next Supreme Mage?"

"No, it can't be that thousands of students are the next Supreme Mage, right? I went there because my mom was a professor there. ”

"Who is your mother?"

"Rockie, and occasionally Daddy."

Strange was silent for a long time, as if digesting the news, but Helen dropped another bomb.

"Yes, my dad is Iron Man."

Strange finally couldn't help himself, he turned to look at Helen and asked, "How did he do it?" ”

"Don't ask, I can't tell."

The two fell silent again, Strange closed her eyes in meditation, Helen closed her eyes as well, and after a while, she turned her head to stare at Strange with her glowing gaze.

The sparkling eyes were so present that Strange had to open her eyes and turn her head to look at Helen, trying to get her to stop staring at her.

But the moment Helen opened his eyes, he asked, "Did you summon the evil gods to eat them?" ”

Strange's fist clenched, but Helen picked her fingers and said, "Actually, the moment I landed, I found out that you aimed at the magic array with some kind of absorbing magic, and there was a moment when you wanted to do it, but you gave up." ”

Strange closed his eyes again, and Helen still stared at him with her head tilted sideways, saying, "Actually, you know that I am not human, and you also feel the great power in me, which is what you need." ”

Strange's hand on his lap clenched, and he opened his eyes and said in a deep voice, "What do you want to say?" ”

"Aren't you afraid that we are illusions created by evil gods? Why don't you convince yourself so much and do it? ”

Strange was silent for longer and longer, but his clenched fist never let go, Helen withdrew her gaze, looked at the floor in front of her and said, "You're not that bad, you can't fool yourself, you actually know what's right and what's wrong, but you can't stop at all." ”

"I have to save her." Strange's tone became trembling, and he said, "The Ancient One told me that there must be her to have a future Supreme Mage, and that she died because of me. ”

"So you want to summon evil gods, devour their powers, and resurrect her?" Helen shook her head, disapproving.

Strange's gaze suddenly turned cold, he stood up, his hands lit up with a magical light, looked at the three children and said, "Now, get out of here, I don't have time to mess around with you." ”

"Did you know that this would cause the universe to collapse?" Helen stared into his eyes without fear and said, "Not only will Christine not survive then, but you will die like everyone else in this world." ”

"No way, I ......"

"We are coming from such a future." Helen said categorically: "The universe has been destroyed, so the clues we are looking for are gone, so we traveled back in time to see what caused the destruction of the universe, and then we found you." ”

"You're lying to me." The light of Strange's hands turned into two long golden whips, which roared towards Helen with a breaking sound.

Helen didn't move, and the whip stopped ten centimeters from her hair.

"I've said it all, you know what's right and what's wrong, you know what you're doing is evil, that's why you're in pain and you're making such a mess of yourself."

Strange gritted his teeth and held the whip, and the next second he stretched one of his hands forward, and a whip wrapped around Helen, lifting her into the air.

The expected fear and struggle did not come, Helen's arm squeezed slightly, and with a few "clicks" in succession, the long whip of magical light shattered.

Helen fell to the ground, and Strange looked at his hand in shock, and he was shocked not that Helen had broken free, but that the power he had used to construct the whip was gone.

Helen opened her mouth, and the magic whip in Strange's other hand also turned into magical energy and was sucked into her mouth.

Helen smiled brightly at Strange and said, "You're not far from eating demon gods." ”

"I'm not trying to stop you, but I'm telling you the right way to enjoy the feast of the gods."

(End of chapter)