Perhaps after becoming the Supreme Mage, Stephen has a way to solve the crisis that the world is encountering, but for Stephen, who is just an ordinary doctor, he does not have any methods or abilities that can change the world.
Even he couldn't even help the poor kid Peter Parker.
As Stephen expected from the beginning, Peter's hand was hopeless.
Even if he removed the rotten flesh from Peter's arm and treated him as much as possible, it would only delay the treatment for a while longer.
In the end, the ulcer on Peter's arm spread to his whole body, making his whole body swollen like a piece of rotten flesh. It looked particularly oozing, and at the same time, it also caused him to lose all sources of income and his original life.
Peter Parker in this world is more miserable than all other worlds, because in other parallel worlds or timelines, Peter Parker will always have uncles and aunts who love him no matter what. It is just a matter of which one of them will die.
But in this world, he does not have uncles and aunts who love him, but only an old poisonous woman who needs him to provide drug money.
After Peter lost the ability to earn money, he was kicked out of the house and turned into a corpse waiting to die on the street.
When Stephen last saw this poor child, he had swollen and festered into a highly decomposed corpse. Although he might still be alive, the New York Police chemical protection team was already wearing chemical protective suits to collect his body.
Because his face was severely ulcerated, Stephen did not recognize that this was the poor child from before, but the bandage wrapped around his arm still allowed Stephen to identify him.
That was the bandage that Stephen tied by himself when Peter came to him for treatment for the last time. That kind of bandage was his unique habit.
However, even if Stephen recognized that it was the patient he had treated, he could no longer do anything for Peter. His corpse or body would be burned directly, and not even the ashes would be left.
This is a new policy recently introduced by New York City. Due to the excessive accumulation of corpses and the spread of various strange diseases, the New York City Municipal Government was overwhelmed and had to implement mandatory measures to incinerate all unclaimed corpses.
, and no ashes will be left for burial, only a monument will be erected as a tribute.
This policy is of course very unacceptable, but at this moment, New York citizens are unable to organize marches and protests. After all, at least 40% of the people in New York have been infected with various diseases, and more than 5% of the people have been infected due to lack of food.
Death or dying due to treatment, 10% of people are at the stage of gradually approaching death due to medical shortage.
It can be said that New York City today is literally like a living hell, and everyone is trying their best to survive, even though it is very difficult.
In fact, even the situation of the rich is not much better. They did consider escaping the city, but a superhuman incident occurred at one of New York's main airports. It is said that a superhuman named Raven Darkholm
Human beings suddenly turned into a pile of rotten flesh in the airport departure hall, causing the airport to be closed for a whole week.
Although there are still rich and powerful people leaving the city, in fact the situation has not improved much, because the whole world is the same at the moment, the same bad, the same hell.
Watching Peter Parker's body being put on the corpse truck, the traces of his last presence and the stains left on the place where he lay just now were sprayed with disinfectant and disinfected.
The traces were completely erased.
Stephen was a little sad and confused. His sadness was naturally lamenting the death of Peter Parker and his inability to do anything about it.
As for confusion, it was because he really didn't understand why the world turned out like this, especially when he watched Peter Parker's rotting and swollen body being put into a body bag and put on a corpse truck and other corpses.
When the bags were piled together and pulled away, Stephen seriously felt that something was wrong. The world should be better.
Stephen had an inexplicable feeling that the current world was all wrong. Peter Parker should have a better life. He should be a more useful hero to the city and the world, instead of being like
It's worthless to die in a bag like this.
But Stephen couldn't tell what was wrong, as if this feeling was just a kind of unfounded doubt, which made Stephen even think it was an illusion caused by his despair about the bad reality.
But when he felt that something was wrong with the whole world, he recalled his forgotten memories and always felt that there was some inexplicable connection between the two.
But this time, the man wearing a monocle didn't smile weirdly at him. He thought about everything carefully and finally noticed something was wrong.
When did the time change to 1980? How did I come up with the idea of going to a small clinic to practice medicine? What was the purpose of going to a small clinic to practice medicine? What opportunities did I miss? Why do I clearly remember that I should have come into contact with some incredible things?
, but can’t even remember what he has been exposed to?
All kinds of questions popped up in Stephen's mind, causing him to fall into a whirlpool of questions.
With his medical attainments, even if he is not operating on the operating table, he can still teach at a university or engage in academic research. There is no need to go to a small clinic to treat neighbors and gangsters with a meager salary.
Living a shabby life with low income!
If he had a serious university teaching position or academic research job, he would have been married to Christine long ago. How could they still be living together now?
In my memory, Iron Man is a superhero who saves the world, and the Avengers are also a superhero group that everyone admires. Why has it become a separatist organization now?
And who is President
Should he be voted out in the election?
The world shouldn't be like this! The world should be better! We can make this world a better place!
No, this is how the world is, this is what the world is like. The darkness and depravity in human hearts make them more and more rotten, and the whole world will enter the end.
Two different voices echoed in Stephen's mind, and two completely different images flashed before his eyes.
At one moment, it was the doomsday scene in front of him where the ground was full of garbage, dust and dirt, and then there was another scene of bright sunshine and lively and prosperous scenery. The constant intertwining of the two made Stephen dizzy and made him feel like he wanted to vomit.
.
But the voice in his head kept knocking on his nerves, forcing him to make a choice.
Do you choose to insist that the world could be better and return to the technologically advanced, prosperous and lively world you originally lived in? Or do you choose to believe that this is the way the world is, and then just go with the flow, muddle along and follow the whole world to its end?
?
Stephen didn't know how to choose. When he wanted to make a choice, the discomfort and pain caused by the constant interweaving of the two images in his mind made him unbearable. It not only affected his thinking, but also affected his behavior.
, leaving him with no way to make any choice.
But Stephen knew clearly that only by making his own choice could he get rid of all this pain.
Whether he chooses to believe that the world is better, or chooses to accept the ending of the world's imminent destruction, he must make a choice and fall towards the outcome of his choice.
The severe dizziness and the pressure and pain transmitted by the nerves greatly affected Stephen's thinking. He was almost unable to think and could only rely on his own instinct to judge and make choices.
Although this caused him to lose a lot of room for maneuver and consideration, it also made his choice closer to his true heart.
Stephen doesn't want to choose the worst outcome. The world shouldn't be as bad as it is now. It can get better!
However, just when Stephen wanted to choose to believe that the world could be better, and thought about returning to the world he was familiar with and had lived in, a great sense of crisis suddenly emerged. His instinctive feeling was that if he chose
You will regret this for the rest of your life, and it is not a good choice.
What's going on? Why do I feel like going back to my old life is a bad choice? What do I have to lose by choosing this?
Stephen temporarily stopped making a choice under the warning of a sense of crisis, and tried hard to think seriously.
But the more he thought about it, the more it felt like someone was driving a red-hot iron nail into his brain, making him feel like his brain was about to boil.
However, of course Stephen's brain cannot boil. Everything he feels is still squeezing his nerves and brain, forcing him to make a choice.
"No, that's not right! Neither of these two choices is right!" Stephen suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and he suddenly shouted to the sky: "I choose to stay in this world, but I believe that this world can become a better place."
Beautiful, if not, then I will make it better!”
As Stephen shouted, all the discomfort in his mind as well as the pressure and pain on his nerves disappeared.
However, the whole world came to a standstill, as if someone suddenly pressed the pause button and everything came to a standstill.
The falling snowflakes and dust in the sky were frozen like this, the water vapor and thick smoke filling the street corners seemed to be frozen, and even the fires lit by homeless people in gasoline barrels were paused, even if they put their hands in
You won't feel any burning sensation.
The whole world paused, even the movement of molecules and heat exchange.
People stopped, cars stopped, wind stopped, snow stopped, sound stopped, light and heat stopped, time stopped, and the whole world stopped.
Everything stopped when Stephen yelled and he finally made his choice.
Even Stephen himself stopped, only his mind was still running.
What is going on? What is happening? Can anyone help me or tell me what is going on?
Just as Stephen was thinking this, a voice sounded and asked him again: "You made a choice, but did you really choose to stay in this bad world and try to save it?"
Hearing the voice's inquiry, Stephen felt as if part of his body had been unfrozen or stagnant. He could think and speak, but his body was still unable to move.
"I choose to stay. I want to make this world a better place. I don't want Kristen to live in such a hellish world." Stephen spent a moment, or maybe a long time, thinking about it, and finally insisted.
made your own choice.
He waited for feedback from the other party, but it seemed that because time had stopped, Stephen could not sense how much time had passed.
It may be a moment, or it may be a century.
But in short, after a long wait that made Stephen feel desperate, the voice finally sounded again: "Even if you choose this path, you will experience all difficulties and obstacles, just like stepping on thorns with bare feet through red-hot charcoal. This is destined to be
A painful and torturous choice.
Even so, do you still choose to save this world? Even if you have no ability or possibility to save it, do you still want to save this world?"
"I want to save this world. Kristen should have a better life. She should not fall into hell and die with this world, but should live in a world full of sunshine and happiness." Stephen told the voice.
When telling his choice, he did not use any lies.
To deceive this voice with empty words or passionate words, it seems that his heart is telling him that he must tell the truth: "I love Christine, and I can give everything or sacrifice everything for her, even if this choice means that I will go through
I am happy with the pain and suffering."
Yes, what made Stephen make the choice to save the world was not the kindness and compassion in his heart, nor his pursuit of a better world, but his love for Christine.
"It sounds quite selfish, but... let's consider you a pass, even if you just save the world just to love one person." As the voice said these words, the whole world returned to flow again, but that destruction and
The fallen world finally disappeared, and what appeared in front of Stephen was the lively and prosperous New York he was familiar with, and Chen Mo standing in front of him with a monocle.
Leaning the cane inlaid with five gems on the ground, Chen Mo smiled at him, but this time, the smile was no longer weird.
Stephen's growth process has accelerated here. It's not that it can't be written, but I just feel that there is no need to waste so much pen and ink on the supporting characters.
