In The DC World With Marvel Chat Group Chapter 186: Street Lamp and God (Part 1)
"The Days of Being a Spiritual Mentor in Meiman"
, the days when I was a spiritual mentor in Meiman
The thinking and behavior of most human beings are regular and logical. What kind of thoughts and actions a person will have depends on the situation he is facing now.
It is not surprising that Strange has such a bold idea. At this time, he is a successful and rich man, not only rich, but also very rich.
In the months before he came into contact with Ancient One, his daily life was dealing with the richest and most powerful people in the world.
And he came into contact with magic, not because of setbacks that made him have to ask for help from magic. The invitation to learn magic from Gu Yi was more similar to an invitation to an academic exchange meeting in a new field.
Therefore, Strange at this time has no reverence for magic. His point of view is similar to that of Stark. Magic is just another kind of energy that can be used. What magic is depends mainly on people. How to use it.
And Schiller helped him do an elimination method, letting him block Wang's so-called self-cultivation, Zhongzheng and peace, and let him find that sometimes, although solving problems by violence is simple and crude, it is very effective .
Under such circumstances, Strange will inevitably start to think, trying to find a simpler and more effective way than burying himself in Karma Taj.
This is the thinking that will inevitably arise from the scientific education of human beings. The ultimate goal of all experiments is to improve efficiency and speed up production.
And it is not surprising that he will find Stark. Although the two had some conflicts before, but things have developed to this point, and they are more of a common interest. Obviously, in the matter of magic, they will have more great common interest.
Stark sat behind the experimental bench, propped his elbows on the table, put his hands on his temples and said, "Having said that, it's just an idea at the moment, and it lacks too many necessary conditions for execution."
He waved his hand and said: "You walked in here, showed me what your magic is, and then the two of us started thinking about those powerful aliens."
"If you want me to say, dude, if you are not looking for me, or Stark who is full of genius and creativity, others will definitely throw you out as a psychopath."
"Humans have not even built a spaceship, and we start thinking about borrowing money from aliens. This is really a bit crazy."
Strange sat on the other side of the experimental table, he folded his arms and said: "This idea is indeed bold, but it is not impossible to realize, it just takes some time."
"It takes a lot of time." Stark said to Strange: "I haven't touched the threshold of magic yet, and you, you are just a magic apprentice, and you haven't even used magic formally."
"It seems that we really want to treat this as a long-term plan. By the way, have I reminded you? You can't talk about magic casually, so don't tell too many people about this plan."
"Don't worry, even if it's not because of magic, I will prevent some people from knowing about your wicked plan, and they will definitely chatter about it. The silly boy who is swinging around in the sky, and..."
Strange said: "I don't know who this plan is to guard against, but..."
Then he looked up at Stark, and Stark also looked at him with a tacit understanding, and said, "...you must know that this plan must not prevent anyone."
In the S.H.I.E.L.D. office, the light bulb above the head was flickering on and off. Below the light bulb was a square table with four corners, and a person was sitting on each of the four sides of the table.
Nick and Schiller looked at each other, and Nick said, "So, are you going to rob aliens?"
"Don't say it so ugly." Stark denied: "This is essentially borrowing, borrowing, do you understand?"
"Okay..." Nick opened his mouth to say something, but there seemed to be too much to say, and he couldn't say it for a while.
Pausing for a while, he put his hand on the table, made a calm gesture, and said, "I understand what you just said. There are some powerful creatures with magical energy in this universe. Creatures, ordinary people call them aliens, while magicians call them cosmic demon gods.”
"They can lend power to humans through some method, allowing people to perform magic, so the essence of magic is the power of the cosmic demon god."
"Now you plan to borrow some strength to arm yourself, refuse to repay the debt, and then borrow more strength."
"It doesn't matter if it's technically feasible..."
As soon as Nick said this, Stark interrupted him and said, "I know this is a bit wicked, but he came up with the plan."
As soon as Stark pointed at Strange, he betrayed his teammates without any psychological burden. Strange was taken aback, and then glared at him.
Nick was also stunned, and he said: "What's so wicked about it?"
Nick and Schiller both looked at Stark and Strange suspiciously, Stark and Strange looked at each other, and then Stark said, "Well, we shouldn't overestimate you Two moral levels.”
Nick was very surprised and said: "It turns out that after putting aside technical issues, the first issue you considered was moral issues. This really surprised me."
"But what I want to say is not a moral issue, but a logical issue."
"First of all, according to what you said, the cosmic demon gods are intelligent and can communicate, which proves that they are not stupid."
"Just like the human credit system, if you take a loan from a bank for the first time and refuse to repay it, then the bank will not be able to lend you any more. If the amount is huge, other banks will also block you."
"I know that this kind of behavior is more like robbing a bank than borrowing a loan, but the bank is immovable. If you have enough force, you can indeed rob it repeatedly, but it's not that the Cosmic Demon God has no legs. They found you If you refuse to repay the debt, and you can't beat you, can't you just run away?"
Nick asked Strange rather puzzled: "According to what you said, your teacher just borrowed strength and refused to repay it, and then beat all the creditors to the ground. Doesn't that mean that all the cosmic demon gods will run away when they see him?" How can he borrow more power?"
"Is there a possibility?" Schiller looked at Nick and said, "If you don't want to use his strength, you can't run away."
Strange gave a more reasonable explanation: "The cosmic demon gods are not wandering in the universe. Some powerful cosmic demon gods often have their own territory, such as... what is it? What dark dimension , and the Crimson Dimension, which I heard from the king, these are equivalent to the territory of the Cosmic Demon God."
"That's a bit feasible." Nick touched his chin and said, "But there are still many problems, especially at the technical level."
Then, the three of them began to discuss how to borrow money to buy a gun, and then used the money to rob.
"I said..." Schiller knocked on the table, and said as if he couldn't listen anymore: "Why is your thinking always so limited? Why are you always thinking about violent robbery, so you can't be a little flexible?" A little?"
The other three people all looked at him, and Schiller said helplessly: "This is why you and I are always at odds, do you know? Your speech just now was like gathering in a farm warehouse while playing poker and talking loudly." Yelling red neck."
"Give up your straight-forward violent thinking, that is the most inefficient method. It is not popular to rob banks in this era. It's too troublesome to make escape routes and so on."
"Just tell me if you have any plans." Nick looked at Schiller and said, "I see you have been holding back for a long time."
"Compared to robbery, we can change the way."
"What?"
"Cheat."
Schiller spread his hands and said, "What is the highest record of a bank robber? Millions of dollars? And what about the crooks?"
"That depends on what kind of liar you are talking about. If it is the kind of successful liar..." Nick looked at Strange and said, "You have to ask him."
"What are you looking at me for?" Strange said angrily, "Compared to some people, what kind of successful liar am I?"
He looked at Stark again, Stark stared and said, "What are you looking at me for? I'm an industrialist, I don't engage in financial fraud, and I didn't make the immortality factor..."
After finishing speaking, he looked at Schiller, and the other two looked at Schiller together. Nick said: "At present, you can ask yourself and answer this question. I haven't seen a more brilliant record than yours yet." liar."
"Well, I have a plan. The routine of borrowing money and not paying it back is outdated. Let's change it to a fashionable term."
"Like?"
"Such as investing."
Schiller put his hands on the table and began his narration:
"Look, the Cosmic Demon God's trading methods are one-on-one now. This trading mode is really very crude and primitive in the eyes of humans."
"They are still at the level of bartering and face-to-face transactions, but modern finance has completely broken away from this level."
"The first step is to break away from the one-to-one transaction model. We can completely conduct one-to-many transactions, or many-to-many transactions. Simply put, it is to let the Cosmic Demon God invest their power in us. "
"And then? The investment must pay off, right?"
"Cosmic Demon God..." Schiller moved his hand to the right.
"... Invest your strength..." He put his hand in the middle again.
"...Give it to us." Finally, he put his hand to the left again, indicating that this is three stages.
"More cosmic demon gods, invest more power in us." Schiller made three more moves.
Under the curious gazes of the other three, he suddenly sped up his speech and spit out a long paragraph:
"We use the investment power of other cosmic demon gods to feed back to other cosmic demon gods as a return on investment, and tell them that the more you invest, the more you earn."
"Set up a ladder system, formulate promotion ranks, and increase rewards layer by layer. If you pull one Cosmic Demon God, you can draw 3 points from the transaction amount as a reward. If you pull two Cosmic Demon Gods, you can draw 7 points. By analogy, the more people you pull, the more you earn..."
"After making the basic market bigger, start to use later stage investment, as the return of early stage investors, the investment income will increase, and the return on investment will increase. When the difference reaches an ideal value..."
Schiller spread his hands and said: "...the industry is facing some difficulties caused by force majeure, and we can only bid farewell to everyone temporarily. We deeply regret this."
After he finished speaking, the meeting room was quiet for a minute, and it was Stark who spoke first: "It's really a very creative concept... Shit, isn't this a Ponzi scheme???"
Nick also looked at Schiller and said: "Although I have estimated your moral bottom line as low as possible, its flexibility is still scary."
Schiller suddenly said seriously: "I have always believed that what humans need to go to the universe is not only the essence of human civilization, but also some dross."
"Garbage is just misplaced resources, the essence is the driving force to the universe, and the dross is a weapon. After all, I am afraid that no cosmic civilization has as much dross as human beings."
"Of course, this is just an entry-level method." Schiller shrugged and said, "After expanding the concept of one-to-many or many-to-many transactions, we need to change the status quo of bartering. Those are things from the primitive man period, and there is no general equivalent, so they still have the nerve to call themselves powerful and developed aliens?"
"With the general equivalent, there is the concept of currency, followed by the market, supply and demand, crowdfunding, companies, stocks, futures..."
"What human beings want to do is not to be a buyer who does not pay back their debts, nor is it a villain who violently treats creditors, but a banker with a good reputation and image, praised by the whole universe, fair and conscientious."
"Force is only a necessary means to ensure justice. We can even promise that we will never use the Supreme Mage first."
"And if they refuse to join, let the Supreme Master go to his house and knock on the door, right?"
"Don't say that, the supreme mage has gone to knock on his door, and he even has a chance to live. This is already a great improvement. We are simply a cosmic anti-violence vanguard organization."
"When we have both force and reason, we can start to establish a trading system, formulate trading rules, and then carry out class division and subdivision layer by layer, which is justified and logical..."
The other three looked at each other in blank dismay, but Schiller behaved very flatly, not at all like a conspirator who intends to capitalize the entire universe.
"Of course, these things are for later. Let's talk about the first plan first. There are many benefits to doing so."
"Actually, this cannot be regarded as a scam, because at the later stage, those early investors will know the truth, but they will not stop. For their own sunk costs, they will help us keep this secret, not only keeping the secret, but also Will take the initiative to help us find more people."
"This solves the problem of Earth's information occlusion. Although we don't know the Cosmic Demon God, the Cosmic Demon God must know the Cosmic Demon God."
"You don't need to explain the principle of the Ponzi scheme, we all know it, but the biggest problem with this scheme is that when you take the money and run away, you must have a way to hide yourself and launder the money."
"If this is an individual, it may be easier to hide and change identities, but the earth cannot escape, we can't just give up the entire solar system just to get the wool of the Cosmic Demon God?" Nick proposed a question.
"If we really start trading, it may be difficult to hide ourselves, but there is another way of thinking, that is to find a strong enough backer, promise him benefits, and ask him to help us stop money from running away Trouble afterwards."
Speaking, Schiller looked at Strange, and he said, "Before you said that your teacher, the Supreme Mage, once mentioned to you, what is she busy with recently? A new **** is born?"
"Yes, as I told you before, it seems that a mysterious existence has been dealing with him, telling her that something is about to be born near the earth, and she is preparing for it."
"The mysterious existence behind her, are you interested in participating?" Schiller moved his elbow supported on the table, and then said: "With the reputation of the supreme mage as the guarantee for the opening, the one behind her Existence is the host, first recruit a few little demon gods into the group, use their investment power to make a show, and pull out a positive model for publicity."
"Wait until there are more people joining the group and more strength has been accumulated, then focus on attacking a big demon god, spend money to open the way, promise him a high rate of return, let him enter the field first, and then taste some sweetness, so that Fool a few more great demon gods."
"Wait until these powerful demon gods join the group, and then propose the principle of pulling people, let them help us squeeze those smaller demon gods, and we will give them a commission."
"When we were about to run away, the big fists were returned in full. Everyone who was close to it chopped up and ate the meat together. Some of them were paid protection fees to the existence behind the supreme mage, and we kept the other part for ourselves."
"When the little demon **** in the universe grows longer, he can use this part of his strength as capital to make another wave."
"There is a problem..." Stark frowned and said: "You also know that a very important point of a Ponzi scheme is that there must be something in the early stage to defraud investment. What are you going to use as a way to fool them into investing?" object?"
"Didn't Stephen mention it before? The existence behind the Supreme Mage told him that a new beast totem is being born."
"Speaking of which, what is going on here?" Nick asked Strange: "What is the beast totem? He was born on the earth, will he have any bad influence on us?"
Strange shook his head and said, "According to my teacher, it's a symbol of cosmic power, and it's all mystical stuff. Although it was born on Earth, it has nothing to do with people on Earth. "
Nick touched his forehead and said, "I guess, it must have something to do with the big bat last time?"
Speaking, he looked at Schiller, who gave him a positive look, and then said, "This thing can be used to make a fuss."
"The new totem power in the universe is slowly rising, and we need your help. Give someone a rose, with a lingering fragrance in your hand, and the return on investment during the birth of the new **** is 200%. ?”
Stark and Strange applauded, and Nick commented: "Theoretically speaking, it does work, the great demon **** with the ability to retaliate is also a vested interest, and those little demon gods who have been deprived of power must definitely Can't beat these combined powerhouses."
"Combined with the existence behind the supreme mage, ensuring that no one dares to reach out, the chain of exploitation and harvesting has basically completed a closed loop."
Nick sighed and said: "The plan is good, but the risk is still very high. The disadvantages of the earth are too great. The human beings here are too fragile, and the civilization is still backward. The cosmic forces are playing games, and once they are chased to their hometown, there is no resistance force that can fight."
"I always think..." Stark said firmly: "If one day, the earth is facing a catastrophe and we are powerless to resist, then at least we must have the ability to avenge it, so..."
"Stop!" Schiller directly interrupted Stark's next words, he said: "Don't say such an unlucky thing, and the earth is not powerless."
"Maybe in your opinion, the force of resistance must be force. I admit that there must be enough force to make us eligible to sit on the negotiating table."
"But when we really can't develop enough force in a short period of time, it's not shameful to use other means to accumulate resources and buy time for us, just like what we just planned."
"Actually, I think your thinking is limited." Strange continued Schiller's words: "You think that the nuclear bombs created by humans may not be able to effectively kill those strange aliens, but We can actually change our thinking, for example, use magic to create one.”
"If we can really deceive those cosmic demon gods...I mean borrow enough power, it can also become a weapon for us to defend the earth. The two are actually just different routes, not the same. Essential difference."
Nick sighed again, and he continued: "Everything is difficult at the beginning, but there is a plan, but where do we start?"
"We really know too little about things other than the earth." Stark also said: "Anyway, I don't know those cosmic demon gods."
Strange shrugged and said: "I can go back and discuss it with my teacher, but I always feel that such a wicked plan..."
He also sighed, and then said: "This will definitely seriously lower my image in her eyes, and make her think that I am an ignorant liar."
"And I'm not sure if she will really go to the existence behind him to talk about it, after all, it's a bit too wicked..."
"The most urgent task now is to find someone who has a full understanding of things beyond the earth, especially the demon gods and other forces in the universe ~IndoMTL.com~ to clarify our doubts so that we can filter List the first victims... I mean the names of the participants," Schiller offered.
"It's not that easy. The vast majority of people on Earth don't believe in the existence of aliens. Even space agencies and astronauts can't understand those mysterious things." Nick said while holding his forehead .
"Even if you can find it, you have to make sure that he is not dangerous and can communicate with humans normally." Stark added,
"It's better to have a lower IQ, so that we can use clichés and won't guess our purpose." Strange also added.
The three of them sighed in unison, feeling that they were daydreaming.
At this moment, Nick's phone rang suddenly, and after he picked it up, he said, "Yes, that's right...what's the matter?"
"What did you say?...Are you sure?"
"Really? What else?"
After Nick hung up the phone, he repeated what was reported to him on the phone: "It is suspected that an alien falling object has been found in New Mexico. At the same time, the state also reported that a mental patient who claimed to be a **** attacked staff."
"He claims to be a **** from Asgard, and the fallen alien fallout is his weapon. Since he has been deprived of all divine power, he cannot hold his weapon..."
Speaking of which, the four of them looked at each other and said like Solitaire:
"An alien?"
"A powerless alien?"
"An alien with no power and no weapons..."
A powerless, weaponless, and seemingly insane alien! ! ! "