Chapter 252: Is there a timeline that was ruined by Ancient One? Absolutely!
After losing Christine again, Doctor Strange's obsession obviously deepened, and he took another big step towards the path of evil.
When Stephen Strange, who was outside the screen, saw this scene, he felt a little fortunate. He had previously thought that losing both hands was a burden he could not bear, as it meant that he could not gain a foothold in upper society.
All the benefits currently enjoyed by the elite middle class will all turn to ashes.
But now thinking about it, compared with the horrific consequences of losing Christine, it is still much better now.
Everything is afraid of comparison. Once compared, all the results will come out.
Then everyone saw how Doctor Strange reversed time again and again to save his girlfriend.
The second time, Doctor Strange returned to the beginning. This time, he didn't plan to take this road. Since this road was so dangerous, he decided to take another one.
But this time, his wish did not come true, because after changing the road, although he was not rear-ended, he was directly hit by a large truck in the city.
But the result was the same. Although he was fine, Christine was dead.
This was the third time, the third time he saw his girlfriend die in front of him. Faced with all this, he had gone a little crazy, and it was obvious that his mental state had begun to become a little abnormal.
And Doctor Strange Strange also cast the spell again, for the third time.
This time he was different from before. Since no matter how he went or which road he took, it would be the same in the end, he might as well not go, so as to avoid all those messy things.
When faced with his girlfriend's doubts, he simply said: "Let's stay home. We can order pizza and crème brûlée to go!"
"No, no, I don't want to get the oil on this dress!" But obviously, his girlfriend Christine didn't want to have dinner at home after dressing up for several hours. "Let's go out and dance to our heart's content. Believe me, we're going to have a lot of fun tonight!"
Faced with his girlfriend's insistence, Doctor Strange had no choice but to agree and came to the party this time. However, while dancing, his girlfriend still got into trouble and died in his arms.
So Doctor Strange Strange once again activated the power of the Time Stone. This time, he successfully made his girlfriend Christine not go to the dance, but go to the pizza shop to eat pizza instead.
But no one expected that a gunman would suddenly appear in the pizza shop and kill Christine directly. The whole thing was completely unprepared.
Well, although this incident is not considered very strange in the United States, after all, it is a free America where shootings happen every day.
Shooting itself is a beautiful landscape in the United States.
But combined with all these fancy ways of dying, everyone felt like they were being tricked and arranged.
Then everyone saw Doctor Strange activating the Time Stone again and again, but no matter how many times he tried, the final result was always the same. Even though he deliberately did not pick up his girlfriend and left her in the hotel, his girlfriend was still burned to death in the hotel.
Time and time again, even a person with the best mentality would almost explode at this time. This is fate.
If he had not launched rescue operations again and again, perhaps he would not have been so obsessed and would not have fallen into the evil path, but he had tried too many times and the obsession had penetrated deep into his bones.
Everyone even felt a little reluctant to continue watching. If they had watched Doctor Strange fight Dormammu before, that was the thousand and one ways for Doctor Strange to die.
So now seeing him constantly trying to use the Time Stone to save his girlfriend, that's one hundred and eight ways for Christine to die.
No matter what method is used, Christine cannot be saved.
Some people are destined to die here, so no matter how you save them, it will be useless.
Everyone felt so heavy that they couldn't breathe. Is this the so-called feeling of fate?
Especially they also thought about themselves. Christine's fate cannot be saved, so can their fate be saved?
In the future, do they also have to follow the so-called fate and die like that?
At this moment, they felt a sense of suffocation.
Not suffocating for Christine, but suffocating for his own destiny.
In the game of fate, they are all pawns and have no say in their own choices.
"When I look at Doctor Strange, I wonder if the Ancient One was like this too. She also tried every possible way to save her life and protect herself, but she still died in the end!"
Hill said with emotion.
When everyone thought about it, it was true. Both of them had great magical powers and possessed the Time Stone, which could reverse the past and the future.
It would make sense if Ancient One had also tried to save himself, rather than just watching.
What does this mean?
This means that Master Ancient One may be an experienced person.
Does anyone know if there is a timeline that was ruined by Master Ancient One?
Although Lin Feng didn't say it, they always felt that it was very likely!
Some things, perhaps the so-called absolute time points, cannot be changed, especially at the beginning, when it was obvious that Doctor Strange had avoided the most dangerous head-on collision.
However, he was suddenly rear-ended, as if someone was watching this closely from behind, making sure it would happen.
If the Ancient One might be behind Doctor Strange, then who is behind the Ancient One's inevitable death?
Just thinking about it makes one feel like the hairs on one's body stand on end and one falls into an icy cave.
No matter how the people outside lamented their fate, the plot in the picture continued. Doctor Strange in the picture was also tortured to the point of mental breakdown. He came to his lover Christine again and let out an angry and low roar: "Why do things like this always happen? Don't we deserve happiness?"
Of course, he was not asking the person in front of him, he was asking the heavens, asking fate. If there was a God, he also wanted to ask God why he gave him such a fate?
"Let me drive, okay?" Christine noticed something was wrong with her boyfriend. She didn't know what was going on, so she could only suggest that she drive.
But the result did not change at all. Even though the driver changed from Doctor Strange to Christine, the result was the same. The car fell off the cliff, and then Christine died, while Doctor Strange was fine.
He had experienced too many things like this, so many that he couldn't bear it at all. In his rage, he finally couldn't hold it back anymore and roared, "No!!!!!!"
At this moment, a portal appeared, and the Sorcerer Supreme, Ancient One, appeared in mid-air. She asked calmly, "Good evening, Doctor Strange. Is your car broken down?"
Doctor Strange was not happy to see his mentor appear. Although theoretically he should be happy to see his mentor again, he was completely overwhelmed by anger at this time. When he heard what Master Ancient One said, he immediately knew that she already knew everything he had done.
Even what I did was probably like a monkey show in her eyes.
He had to watch himself fail again and again, and finally appeared in front of him, roaring, "What are you doing here?"
"Come help you!"
Master Ancient One looked calm, then spoke: "This is the beginning of your journey. After the death of Dr. Christine Palmer, you were deeply shocked. You will look for answers in magic!"
"Look for the answers in me!"
After hearing this, Doctor Strange finally came to his senses. He felt that he might not be able to do it with his own strength, but what if it was his mentor?
Although they are all supreme wizards, there is obviously a huge difference in their strength!
He could only place all his hopes on his mentor, hoping that he could rescue Christine. He quickly said, "Help me get her back!"
"I'm sorry, I can't, no one can!" Faced with his disciple's plea, Master Ancient One just shook his head lightly.
She knew very well what her disciples were thinking. She had experienced similar things before. She had tried to save things that were simply unsalvageable, and she had tried to change certain things, but it was all in vain.
Now it was time for her disciples to understand this truth, she paused and then said, "Her death marks an absolute point in time!"
"Absolute?" This was the first time Doctor Strange heard the concept of an absolute point in time. For him, this was an area he had never encountered before.
Although he became Doctor Strange and even the Sorcerer Supreme, and has reached the pinnacle of the world's wizard field, he is still far from it.
Although they are all Supreme Mage, the difference in knowledge reserves between being a Supreme Mage for a few years and being a Supreme Mage for hundreds of years is naturally obvious.
For example, the absolute time point is a concept that Doctor Strange has never encountered. If his girlfriend Christine had not died in front of him, he might never have thought of modifying the timeline in his life, and would never have been able to encounter this matter.
Not to mention Doctor Strange from another timeline in the picture, even the people outside the picture looked confused, even the father-like Odin was no exception.
Absolute time point, what is that?
They have never heard of it!
Especially for a scientific giant like Tony Stark, with his knowledge, he naturally knows that time cannot be violated. Once people go back to the past, the past will become the future, and the future will become the past. This is an inverted process.
If you change history at this moment, the course of history will be different, and you will not be able to travel back in time to change history.
That's why there are things like the grandfather paradox. In short, it's basically like this.
On this basis, the concept of parallel time and space can explain many things, especially after Tony Stark learned about parallel time and space, he became more convinced of this.
When you go back to the past, the past you modify is not the past of your own time and space. It can only create a new timeline, but it is of no help in modifying your timeline.
Because everything that happens on your timeline is already destined.
Because of these many destined things, you have become who you are today, and you have become who you are now and who want to change time and space.
However, he didn't know what this absolute time point meant.
"Is this absolute time point what's called destiny?" Bruce Banner asked. "If there is an absolute time point, then there must be times that are not absolute. For example, where Christine died and how she died might not be fixed.
However, the absolute time point may have a decisive influence on your ability to travel through time and change the past. For example, because of Christine's death, he embarked on the journey of searching for magic, and then obtained the position of Supreme Sorcerer and the Time Stone, so that he could return to the past.
If Christine's death was changed at the beginning, then everything that happened afterwards would not exist!"
After Bruce Banner's explanation, everyone seemed to begin to understand what the so-called absolute time point meant.
Another example of this is the death of Ancient One, which may be the key to a series of events that follow. If it is changed, a completely new timeline may be formed, but it will be of no use in changing the current timeline.
"But if this absolute time point is changed, does it mean that, as Lin Feng said, the entire timeline will be ruined?" Hawkeye Patton said.
At this time, he also realized how terrible it would be if this timeline was changed.
"It is very likely that the basic laws of physics have been violated. Although I don't know how the magic side did it, since it has reached this point, it is very likely to become the collapse of the timeline that Lin Feng mentioned!" said Bruce Banner.
"But if this absolute time point really exists, then how can I bypass it? I clearly didn't go to Afghanistan!" Tony Stark said. "But now I also made the Mark armor and became Iron Man!"
"Is it possible that your ability comes from yourself? Even if you were not kidnapped in Afghanistan, you can still make armor. So for you, there is no absolute time point?" said Black Widow Natasha.
"It's possible, but I think what's more important is that the absolute time point cannot be changed from the future, but it doesn't say that it cannot be changed from the past. Lin Feng didn't come back from the future and want to change the past. He came from another universe, so any changes you have caused by his influence cannot be regarded as changing the past. It can only be said that a new timeline was born on the basis of the sacred timeline!" Bruce Banner shook his head and said.
Everyone thought about it and felt that this explanation seemed more plausible.
"This also explains why the Ancient One died so abruptly. She had to die at that moment. Whether she died fighting with all her might or died casually and hastily, it made no difference. The timeline converged at that point, and that point was the Ancient One's death!" Nick Fury said, understanding a little. "So the absolute time point in this video is Christine's death, but the specific way she died is irrelevant and has no impact on the true course of events. She could have been hit by a car, poisoned, or shot. The key point is her death, and the method of death is irrelevant!"
"That's why we saw the Ancient One being killed so easily and without a care. Couldn't someone who could see the future have seen the crisis that day? No, she should have. If I'm not mistaken, she probably tried all sorts of methods, but ultimately found them useless, so she simply died a simple death. That's why Lin Feng jokingly said she died because of the expensive special effects!" Nick Fury said immediately. "So now a lot of questions can be explained. This is the best explanation we have so far!"
Stephen Strange was also lost in thought. He knew almost nothing about magic now. Basically, he only knew what he saw in Lin Feng's video.
If we follow what Ancient One said, he was able to come back here because he possessed the Time Stone, and he possessed the Time Stone because he became a magician, and even became the so-called Supreme Sorcerer, the most powerful among all magicians, and he became a magician because Christine died.
If Christine had not died, he would not have embarked on the magical journey. If he had not embarked on the magical journey, he would not have become a wizard, nor would he have mastered the Time Stone, and then used the Time Stone to return to this point in time. This is a fundamental problem. His behavior of wanting to change this matter is to overthrow the foundation of his own existence!
Isn't this just a dead end? For a moment, he felt like his brain was about to explode. It was totally inadequate.
If he can't become a magician, he won't be able to do all this. It seems that he can only kill his other selves and then steal Christine from someone else's family?
Doctor Strange Strange thought with his imagination.
But he immediately thought of another point: that was not my Christine. Although she looked the same and had the same thoughts and memories, she was not his Christine.
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In Asgard, Odin and Thor, father and son, were also dumbfounded at this time.
"So what is this absolute time point?" Thor said.
"It's bound to happen. It absolutely must happen. If it doesn't, it could lead to space-time chaos, or even the collapse of time!" said the God King Odin. "I've heard Ancient One mention this once before. What are your thoughts on the timeline?"
"The timeline is just a long river of time that keeps spreading. Everything happens continuously and eventually contributes to the creation of the entire timeline!" said Thor.
"You're right, but not entirely!" God King Odin shook his head. "Timelines are indeed formed by the choices of each individual, ultimately forming a single timeline, from the origin of the universe to its destruction. But unlike what you might imagine, if you look at timelines from a higher dimension, they actually occur simultaneously from beginning to end. In other words, the entire timeline has already occurred. It's not something that hasn't happened yet, it's already happened!"
"That's why there's the concept of absolute time points. In fact, there's no such thing as an uncontrollable future. Every future is already fixed. This is why I can't save Asgard on the sacred timeline. Because Asgard's destruction has actually already happened, we just can't perceive it yet. But if we look at it from a higher dimensional perspective, we can see that Asgard has been destroyed, and even the entire universe is in a state of destruction!"
God King Odin explained. "So, we're upstream in the timeline, unable to see the downstream. But if you look even further upstream, for example, to people in the Middle Ages, our time was an uncertain future. But to us, their time was history that had already happened, they just didn't know it yet!"
"I think I understand a little bit, but it's still too complicated!"
Thor only felt a headache. He felt that things were better before. He didn't need to think so much. He just had to drink, fight, drink, and fight every day, and everything could be solved.
It's better to practice more. When you encounter problems in the future, the best option is to solve them with one hammer.
Just when everyone was confused by the concept of absolute time points, the plot on the screen was still going on.
Facing his disciple's plea, the Ancient One simply said calmly: "It cannot be changed, it cannot be erased. Without her death, you would not be able to defeat Dormammu, and become the Supreme Lord, the Sorcerer Supreme!"
She glanced at Doctor Strange and said, "Become the Sorcerer Supreme, become the guardian of the Eye of Agamotto. If you erase her death, you cannot embark on your journey!"
Hearing this, Doctor Strange was completely furious. For him, saving Christine again and again had exhausted him. He just wanted to live a good life with his beloved. Could it be that he couldn't even do such a thing?
Fuck time paradoxes, fuck absolute time points, fuck the Sorcerer Supreme, fuck Dormammu.
No matter how many reasons he had, no matter how outrageous they were, he just wanted his girlfriend to survive, it was that simple.