The moon was bright and the stars were sparse, the neon lights on the street were colorful, shining like a starry river.
At the hotel entrance, Susan withdrew her hand from Samuel's arm, tousled her golden hair, and said with a smile, "I was very happy today, and it was also a pleasure to meet you!"
"Me too."
Samuel smiled and nodded, "Shouldn't I invite you up to sit and have a cup of coffee?"
Susan smiled playfully and shook her head, "Too early, but I will consider accepting your second date invitation."
The Three Dates Rule?
The first date is to confirm each other's feelings and impressions. If it goes well, you can look forward to the second date. If not, you each go your separate ways and won't meet again.
The second date is to deepen your understanding of each other, reconfirm and solidify your feelings, and weigh whether you are suitable to be together. If it goes well, you can hold hands, and maybe have a farewell kiss when you part.
The third date requires some thought and is the most crucial. Whether you can confirm your relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend and take things further depends on the outcome of this date.
Note, the Three Dates Rule does not strictly mean three dates in number, but rather the goal and progress of each date.
Ineffective dates are not counted, as the relationship between the two people makes no progress and is just treading water.
Of course, dates with certain other purposes are not within the scope of the Three Dates Rule!
It seems Susan is taking this seriously.
Samuel smiled and nodded, "I will look forward to it."
"Then I'm going back to my dorm. Goodnight."
"Goodnight."
Susan waved goodbye, and Samuel watched her figure disappear from sight, then smiled lightly and turned to enter the hotel.
Love?
Two strangers who have never met can be passionately involved because of a game at a drinking table. Some love is disgustingly cheap.
Some people spend hundreds of thousands to marry the love of their life, while others spend a few hundred yuan on alcohol, or even just with their words, experience someone else's lifelong love.
Tell me, what is love?
Love at first sight is easy, but growing old together is difficult.
Compared to love, Samuel believes more in affection.
To be honest, Susan's departure didn't disappoint him; instead, he was a little happy, because she was considering things seriously, unlike himself, who was simply attracted to her beauty.
Getting off track.
Samuel's main purpose for coming here was to find Reed to fix the Time Controller. With Reed's talent, fixing it shouldn't be a problem, but the problem is after it's fixed --
Most of the time, whether a person is powerful or not is mainly determined by the strength of their abilities and their combat power.
Those on the technological side are usually not considered very strong, but very troublesome.
The simplest example is Kang the Conqueror's variant, He Who Remains.
Anyone who saw him being stabbed to death by Female Loki would think he was weak, but was he really weak?
Ending the Multiverse war, ruling the Multiverse timelines, creating the Time Variance Authority, and controlling the free will of all living beings in the Multiverse - is that called weak?
Perhaps he was a mortal without superpowers, perhaps he was a five-point combat scum who was stabbed to death with one blow, but he did things that many 'powerful' people couldn't do.
Mister Fantastic Reed, he and Kang the Conqueror, or rather He Who Remains, are the same type of person.
His ability is just that his body can stretch and contract freely like rubber. Purely in terms of ability, it's not strong.
But this guy is smart!
In the comics, Reed, like He Who Remains, formed the [Council of Reeds] with countless versions of himself from within the Multiverse.
The purpose was to eliminate all threats.
They even imprisoned many Dr. Dooms from various Multiverses.
What's more, in some Multiverses, many Mister Fantastics have already collected some top-tier artifacts from their respective Universes, for example, some Mister Fantastics directly obtained the Infinity Gauntlet!
When the Reed Council learned that Galactus from a certain Multiverse wanted to invade Earth, they directly dispatched 7 Mister Fantastics, and each Mister Fantastic was holding an "Ultimate Nullifier"!
Although the current Reed has no powers and has not become Mister Fantastic, he is definitely smart enough!
If he can fix the Time Controller, he will most likely be able to replicate it, and he will definitely use it to cause a lot of trouble.
Samuel didn't want to leave this World only for him to create a Time Controller and run rampant throughout the Multiverse right after.
This conflicts with his plan.
Moreover, Maria Hill's side is eagerly waiting; they need more than just one Time Controller fixed by Reed. So many large-scale resources are waiting to be revitalized by his intelligent brain.
Therefore, Samuel needs an ability that can make Reed his reliable tool.
That is, Mind Manipulation Ability!
When it comes to Mind Manipulation Ability, the first person Samuel thought of was Professor X: Charles Francis Xavier!
Samuel planned to go to a World with Professor X to obtain his ability before letting Reed come into contact with the Time Controller.
If he's lucky, the round trip won't take much time.
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PS: The Professor X storyline won't be too long. I'll try to go and return quickly to avoid plot fragmentation. I'll write more in-depth about the Mutant series later.
Currently, the protagonist's actions are highly purposeful. Going to [The Boys] was to test the serum and gain abilities.
Coming to [Fantastic Four] is for Reed, this tool who can fix the Time Controller and other resources. Only with the Controller can he ignore the Ancient One's Time Stone loop and go to other timelines and Parallel Worlds, such as finding Female Loki.
Finding [Professor X] is for his ability, so that Reed can be his tool.