After losing Christine again, Doctor Strange's obsession clearly deepened, taking another huge step towards the path of darkness.
Stephen Strange, watching from outside the screen, felt a bit relieved. He had previously thought that losing his hands was the heaviest burden he could bear, as it meant he couldn't get ahead in high society.
All the elite middle-class treatment he currently enjoyed would turn to ashes.
But now, thinking about it, it was much better compared to the terrifying consequences of losing Christine.
Everything is about comparison. Once you compare, all the results become clear.
Next, everyone saw how Doctor Strange reversed time again and again to save his girlfriend.
The second time, Doctor Strange went back to the very beginning. This time, he didn't plan to go down this road. Since this path was so dangerous, he would change it.
But this time, things didn't go as planned. Although he wasn't rear-ended after changing routes, he was directly hit by a large truck in the city and sent flying.
The result was still the same: he was fine, but Christine was dead.
This was the third time. He had seen his girlfriend die in front of him for the third time. He was already a bit crazy, and his mental state was clearly starting to become unstable.
Doctor Strange also cast his spell again, for the third time.
This time, he was different. Since no matter how he went, no matter which road he took, the result was the same, he might as well not go at all, to avoid those messy things.
When his girlfriend asked why, he just said, "Let's stay home. We can order pizza and crème brûlée to go!"
"No, I don't want to get this dress dirty!" But obviously, his girlfriend Christine didn't want to eat at home after spending hours getting dressed up beautifully. "Let's go out, dance to our hearts' content, trust me, we'll have a great time tonight!"
Faced with his girlfriend's persistence, Doctor Strange had to agree. This time, they went to the party, but while they were dancing, his girlfriend still had an accident and died in his arms.
Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) once again activated the Time Stone's ability. This time, he successfully prevented his girlfriend, Christine Palmer, from going to the dance and instead took her to a pizza shop.
But no one expected a gunman to suddenly appear in the pizza shop and shoot Christine dead, completely without warning.
Well, this kind of thing isn't even that strange in America. After all, it's the land of the free, and there's a shooting every day.
Gun violence itself is a beautiful landscape of America.
But coupled with these various flashy deaths, everyone felt played, set up.
Then, everyone saw Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) activating the Time Stone again and again. But no matter how many times he tried, the final result was always the same. Even when he deliberately didn't pick up his girlfriend, leaving her at the hotel, the result was still that she was burned to death in the hotel.
Again and again and again. Even someone with a good attitude was about to explode at this point. This was fate.
If he hadn't launched these repeated rescue attempts, perhaps he wouldn't have been so fixated, wouldn't have fallen into the Demonic Dao. But he had tried too many times, and the obsession had seeped into his bones.
Everyone was even a little reluctant to continue watching. If watching Doctor Strange fight Dormammu before was Doctor Strange's one thousand and one ways to die,
then watching him constantly try to save his girlfriend with the Time Stone now was Christine's one hundred and eight ways to die.
No matter what method he used, he couldn't save Christine.
Some people are destined to die here, and there's nothing you can do to save them.
Everyone felt a heavy, suffocating feeling. Was this the so-called feeling of fate?
Especially since they also thought of themselves. If Christine's fate couldn't be saved, could theirs be? Would they in the future also have to follow this so-called fate, and die in that way?
At this moment, they felt a sense of suffocation.
Not suffocating for Christine, but suffocating for their own fate.
On the chessboard of fate, they were all pawns, unable to make their own choices.
"Looking at Doctor Strange, I wondered if the Ancient One was ever like that? She also tried every possible way to save her own life, trying to protect herself, but in the end, she still died!"
Hill sighed in emotion.
Everyone thought about it, and it was really like that. Both were powerful magic users, and both possessed the Time Stone, capable of reversing the past and future.
If the Ancient One had also tried to save herself, and not just watched, then it would be very reasonable.
What does this mean?
It means that the Ancient One might have been through this before.
Who knows if there's a timeline that the Ancient One messed up?
Although Lin Feng didn't say anything, they all felt that it was very likely!
Some things might be at the so-called Absolute Time Point, unchangeable, especially at the beginning. Even though, this time, Doctor Strange had already avoided the most dangerous head-on collision.
Yet, he was still suddenly rear-ended later, as if someone was staring at this event from behind, ensuring it would happen.
If Doctor Strange had the Ancient One behind him, then who was pulling the strings in the Ancient One's inevitable demise?
The thought alone sent shivers down one's spine, as if plunging into an icy abyss.
Regardless of how others lamented their fates, the plot in the picture continued to unfold. Doctor Strange, in the picture, was now driven to the brink of mental collapse by the torment. He once again stood before his lover, Christine, and let out an angry, low growl: "Why does this always happen? Don't we deserve happiness?"
He wasn't asking the person in front of him, of course. He was questioning the heavens, fate. If there was a God, he would want to ask God why he was given such a destiny.
"Let me drive, okay?" Christine sensed her boyfriend's unusual state. Not knowing what was happening, she could only suggest that she take the wheel.
But the outcome remained unchanged. Even when the driver switched from Doctor Strange to Christine, the result was the same. The car plunged off a cliff, and Christine died, while Doctor Strange was unharmed.
He had experienced this too many times, too many times to bear. In a fit of rage, he finally couldn't hold back and roared, "NO!!!"
At that moment, a portal materialized, and the Sorcerer Supreme, the Ancient One, appeared in mid-air. She calmly asked, "Good evening, Doctor Strange. Did your car break down?"
Seeing his own teacher appear, Doctor Strange wasn't happy. Although theoretically he should be overjoyed to see his teacher again, he was completely consumed by rage at this moment. Hearing the Ancient One's words, he immediately knew she was aware of everything he had done.
His actions probably looked like a monkey show in her eyes.
She must have watched him fail again and again before finally appearing before him. He roared, "What are you doing here?"
"To help you!"
The Ancient One's expression was calm as she spoke, "This is the beginning of your journey. After the death of Dr. Christine Palmer, you were deeply affected, and you sought answers in magic!"
"You sought answers in me!"
Hearing this, Stephen Strange finally came to his senses. He felt he might not be able to do it with his own strength, but what about his teacher?
Although they were both Sorcerer Supreme, there was obviously a huge difference in their strength!
He could only place all his hope on his teacher, hoping she could bring Christine back. He hurriedly said, "Help me bring her back!"
"I'm sorry, I can't. No one can!" The Ancient One shook her head slightly, facing her disciple's plea.
She knew very well what her disciple was thinking. She had experienced such things herself at one point. She had also tried to save things that were fundamentally unsavable, and she had also tried to change certain things, but it was all useless.
Now, it was time for her disciple to understand this principle as well. She paused and then said, "Her death is an Absolute Time Point on the timeline!"
"Absolute?" Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) heard the concept of the Absolute Time Point for the first time. For him, this was also a field he had never been exposed to before.
Although he had become Doctor Strange and even the Sorcerer Supreme, standing at the pinnacle of the world's magic, he was still far from it.
Although they were both Sorcerer Supremes, the gap in knowledge reserves between one who had become Sorcerer Supreme for a few years and one who had become Sorcerer Supreme for hundreds of years was naturally very obvious.
For example, the Absolute Time Point was a concept Doctor Strange had not encountered. If it weren't for his girlfriend, Christine Palmer, dying right in front of him, he might never have thought of modifying the timeline, nor would he have been able to come into contact with this matter.
Even more so than the Doctor Strange on another timeline in the picture, even the people outside the picture all looked bewildered, even Odin, who was at the level of a Skyfather, was no exception.
What's an Absolute Time Point?
They'd never even heard of it!
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