Chapter 190 Father and Son
"So you went to see Odin?"
"Don't mention it, I didn't see it at all." Strange leaned against the desk in the Arkham Nursing Home office, saying: "I don't understand why the teacher is so anxious."
"We didn't make an appointment, so we just drew a circle and went to Asgard. As a result, Odin went out and had to wait for a while before we could come back."
"You've had an interstellar trip in just a few hours?" Stark said on the sofa next to him.
"If you are jealous, just say it." Strange retorted without hesitation.
But he still said helplessly: "I just said we shouldn't have told my teacher about this plan so early. She is a little too excited now."
"We returned to Kamataj. During the period before I left, she asked more than a dozen mages to call the universe demons she had traded, and she kept calling the ones that couldn't get through. The earliest response was Mephisto..."
"You saw him? That so-called Lord of Hell?"
"No, but I heard his voice, but they used an ancient language that I couldn't understand."
"How does that sound?" Stark asked curiously: "You actually heard the devil's voice."
"What's the matter? When I went to Asgard, I saw the World Tree." Strange said proudly: "There are also the horses flying in the sky and the elves in the spring."
"Then have you seen the gods in those myths?"
Strange shook his head and said, "We went too suddenly. Asgard did not arrange for anyone to entertain, and many people left with Odin. The only person at home was a god named Loki, the prince of Asgard. He received us, but I had a very ordinary impression of him."
"Why?"
"It's hard to say that since I started learning magic, my intuition has become more sensitive. I always feel that he is not like a good person."
"Then your intuition is right." Schiller said to Strange: "The big fool we picked up a few days ago said that his brother is the god of lies and fraud."
"By the way, I'm sure this time. The alien who fell on Earth is indeed Odin's son, because I heard that Odin went out just to deal with the trouble he caused."
"Where is that Thor now?" Stark asked Schiller.
"At present, we can cooperate with a physical examination at SHIELD and we should be released soon."
"Nick is really willing to let him go? As you said, he had caused a big trouble at his home before, which forced his father to come forward to settle it himself. How big a disaster would he cause on earth?"
"Steve has tested it before. Apart from his incredible strength than ordinary people and his health, he has no special abilities."
After saying that, Schiller looked down at his watch and said, "So far, Nick should have asked what he wanted to know. The next step is to use S.H.I.E.D. to find him a house and another job, so that several agents can stare at him 24 hours a day and observe the behavior of aliens..."
"I always think that such an approach is a bit dangerous. Even if he does not have the power beyond ordinary people, his values are completely different from those of humans, and it is equivalent to a mental illness that has been on the rise..."
"You don't have the final say whether he is mentally ill." Schiller said with a smile.
"You wouldn't have taken Nick's black money to give him a diagnosis?" Stark stared at Schiller with wide eyes.
"You have to make all this kind of money?"
"You'd better take care of yourself first." Schiller looked down at his watch and said, "Miss Pepper has finished his work lately. You're going to have trouble. Mr. Stark, who understands women's hearts best."
When Stark heard that Schiller was about to talk to him about this topic, he almost ran away. After he left, Strange glanced outside the door, then walked over and closed the door, and said, "You just let him continue like this?"
He pointed to his chest, indicating that he was pointing to the energy problem in Stark's chest.
"It seems that learning magic has indeed changed you a lot, and you will actually care about Stark."
"I just think he is the guarantee of our R&D capabilities. After all, we still have many problems that have not been solved, such as energy conversion and storage. If he dies, the subsequent matters will definitely become very troublesome."
"Didn't you notice?"
"What?"
"We know that the reactor on his chest is a time bomb and may have killed him within a year, but we are not in a hurry."
"So why?" Strange tilted his head and stared at Schiller.
"Did you see the model on his lab last time?"
Strange frowned and thought for a moment, saying, "I seem to see it. Is it the one placed next to the bookshelf?"
"Yes, that's the model of the Ark reactor."
"You mean, he has already made a replacement? Then why didn't he change it?"
"Because that's the technology from his father."
"Okay..." Strange shook his head, obviously feeling incomprehensible, "He is even more childish than I think if he is angry with his life."
"It's not entirely for anger. He thinks there is room for improvement in this technology. He wants to directly make the perfect finished product and then go through it once and for all. More importantly, this can prove that he is better than his father."
"Stop talking about him, let's talk about you. I heard from the nurse that you didn't go home last Christmas or Easter?" Schiller asked Strange.
"That has nothing to do with you." Strange's tone fell down, and he said, "I am not your patient and you don't need your guidance."
"That's what every patient of mine said."
"Now that is no longer important to me. Not only do I have money and status, I also touched areas that ordinary people cannot access. I even took a interstellar trip a few hours ago and arrived at the legendary kingdom of God..."
"Do you know? When you just said this, your expression was exactly the same as when Stark mentioned Howard. Whenever this name appeared in his ears, he would say how brilliant the Stark Group is now..."
"Then what do you advise him to do? Forgive Howard?"
Schiller sighed and said, "Generally speaking, psychologists advise you to let go of something and forgive someone, not because they think that this person is doing the right thing, but because if you continue to worry about it, the only thing that will damage your own emotions and spirit in the end, you should know better than me."
"Well, maybe I shouldn't say that, but I'd love to hear about your background and compare which one is worse than your father or Stark's father," Schiller continued.
Strange snorted coldly and said, "The good people in this world are different, but the bad people are almost the same."
But after a while, he still said: "The drunkard can only drink Mingzhen. He knew that Donna could only use the wheelchair to move, but he refused to spend money to buy her a better wheelchair, so that she fell into the river when she passed by."
Unlike Stark, Strange said that the tone of his voice was very cold and he could not hear any ups and downs during this experience.
"I studied medicine to cure my sister's legs, but on the day I received the scholarship, I called him and his first words were, your sister was dead."
"The second sentence is to ask me to give him the scholarship."
"It seems that your father is worse."
"Just because he's poorer."
"I heard you have a younger brother."
"Yes, brother..." Strange's tone was a little contemptuous, "The drunkard doesn't like Donna, nor does he like me, but he only obeys his youngest son Victor."
"That's why I don't want to go back because it's not my home. They have a deep affection between father and son, so I have nothing to do with it."
After saying that, Strange lowered his head and wrote again. When Strange mentioned his life experience, he did not react as fiercely as Stark. His tone was very plain, as if he was talking about other people's affairs.
"So, Stark is quite lucky. After all, he is an only child and was accompanied by his old butler and uncle in his childhood."
Schiller put his hand on his chin and sighed: "The same is true for that stupid man who fell from the sky, but I don't know if it's Odin really biased or something else."
"I'm different from him. I've always had good grades and have won all scholarships."
"He also fought in battles from all over the country and made many military achievements, but the result was that neither of you could go home now."
"He was thrown out, not me."
Strange's tone still did not change much, saying, "I have received more praise from my father in my life than I have received from my teacher in the past few days."
"Stuck once said that his father always felt that he knew nothing, so he was trying hard to prove that he knew everything."
"It's meaningless." Strange concluded in the end.
"It's meaningless!" Pepper shouted: "When can you let go of your damn arrogance and don't always take risks with your life?"
"Who do you want to prove it to? Are your father? But can you think about it? No father would want to see his son risk his life and be angry with him!"
In the laboratory of Stark Building, Pepper walked up to Stark, looked into his eyes and said, "If I knew that when I was busy cleaning up the mess for you, you were busy seeking death, then I would never care about you! Stark!"
"I'm not seeking death. Listen to me, the thing I made is not perfect. I hope there will be a more perfect finished product..."
"When is it? Are you still struggling with your meaningless standards? You are almost dying!"
"Do you know? Tony, I really can't think of any reason why a person is still struggling with the past and memories even though he knows his life span is less than one year."
After saying that, she covered her forehead and sighed: "I don't know if you should say whether you are brave or arrogant."
"I can obviously do better, it just takes a little time, a year is enough, trust me, Pepper."
Stark walked up, hugged Pepper and said, "Even if you really only have one year of life, at least you will be with me."
"You are always like this, you can only speak nicely and never solve the problem I worry about the most." Pepper sighed tiredly and said, "You are this for all women."
"Don't do this, believe me, I'll solve this problem."
Looking at Stark's eyes that were always a little wet, Pepper still didn't say more accusations.
After Pepper left, Stark sat down against the edge of the laboratory bench, holding the model in his hand.
Stark looked at the model in his hand. When he looked at it like this, he would think of the toy he once liked the most, the car assembled by the father and son.
Howard got the chassis and engine, while Stark installed the shell, tires and seats, and then wrote down their common last name on the door with a pen.
This is a good time he searched in his memory for a long time before he found it.
Everyone thinks that Stark is just unwilling to use Howard's technology, but only Stark himself knows that he just wants to make this technology more perfect, and that's not because he wants to prove that he is stronger than Howard.
He just wanted to make this a work done by their father and son, just like that car, the toy became a memorial for his first half of his life, and the ark reactor would be his hope for the second half of his life.
Chapter completed!