Let me show you a new way Chapter 120

Unfortunately, Stephen Strange’s fate also seemed to be constantly changing. In the Ancient One’s premonition, Strange would lose his agile hands in a car accident, losing his ability to perform surgery.

In order to recover his hands, he kept undergoing various surgeries, and the high surgical fees drained all his savings…

Well, as an American, he didn’t actually have much savings.

But this future was only one possibility; the Ancient One saw more.

For example, Strange decided to drive safely, so he ended the call and drove honestly, thus avoiding a car accident and not losing his hands, living his life as an excellent surgeon.

Or, in a future crisis, he might willingly hand over the Eye of Agamotto to save the world, and ultimately sacrifice himself.

She saw too many possibilities, and how to bring about these possibilities, she wasn’t sure, because she couldn’t clearly see the variables.

“The erosion of the Dark Dimension is getting deeper, and I’m close to dying,” the Ancient One said to Lin Dong.

“If I continue like this, perhaps I truly won’t be able to resist, perhaps I will truly be completely controlled by Dormammu and become his puppet.” The Ancient One’s words reached Lin Dong’s ears, which indeed made him a bit worried. If the Ancient One were truly controlled by Dormammu, and completely merged with the power of the Dark Dimension, then she would be enhanced to an extremely terrifying degree, possibly even surpassing Odin in his prime.

In such a situation, Dormammu’s invasion would be almost unstoppable.

“Then… how much longer can you last?” Lin Dong frowned, asking somewhat helplessly.

“I can’t be sure, perhaps within these two or three years, I will have to pass on the title of Sorcerer Supreme and completely die,” the Ancient One said calmly, drinking the tea in her cup, as if she wasn’t talking about her own death, but some other unrelated matter.

“Alright! Alright! I promise you, if, if you still haven’t found a successor in the end…” Lin Dong took a deep breath and spoke in a serious and formal tone.

“Then I, Lin Dong, heir to Merlin’s magic, will temporarily take over the position of Sorcerer Supreme, and strive to protect this world until a better successor is found!” Lin Dong looked at the Ancient One.

“This is my respect for you, for your nearly thousand years of protecting Earth,” Lin Dong bowed slightly, saying solemnly.

“That’s good… that’s good!” The Ancient One nodded with some relief. “Then, I will guard this planet well in the last moments of my life!”

Saying this, the Ancient One stood up, then extended her hands, fingertips touching. Golden streams of light appeared out of thin air at her fingertips, then slowly condensed into a form similar to the Eye of Agamotto, and materialized into a solid object.

“When the Dark Elves enter Earth, call me, and I will go to battle!” The Ancient One handed the golden Eye of Agamotto in her hand to Lin Dong, saying seriously.

“I will,” Lin Dong also nodded.

“Then, I should also leave,” Lin Dong extended his hand and drew a spatial portal in the air.

“Aren’t you going to say goodbye to the apprentices?” the Ancient One asked.

“Forget it… I have other apprentices to teach!” Lin Dong shook his head, stepped into the spatial portal, and left Kamar-Taj.

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“City-wide evacuation? Do you know what you’re saying?” Nick Fury stood up in shock, staring at Tony Stark in front of him.

Tony lay nonchalantly in the swivel chair, turning it boredly. “Be ready to evacuate at any time, I told you! Something is coming from outer space, humanity must be prepared!”

“Do you know what it means to evacuate everyone in a modern city? Do you know how much economic loss that would cause? Do you know how much that would affect the public trust in government officials?” Nick Fury stood up, looking down at Tony, saying seriously.

“I know, I’m very clear, I’m a businessman, remember?” Tony Stark curled his lip disdainfully. “If there’s no city-wide evacuation, what do you want to do? Let the alien war happen in the city?”

“They won’t agree…” Nick Fury said somewhat helplessly, slumping back into his chair and rubbing his temples in frustration.

“For these officials, the lives of ordinary people are just numbers on paper. They won’t believe something like an alien invasion, or even if they do, they won’t issue an evacuation,” Nick Fury said helplessly. He himself was actually a soldier, not a politician, but as the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., having dealt with politicians for many years, he understood their way of thinking very well.

They didn’t care about the lives of ordinary people; they only cared about the stability of their positions. For an alien invasion, they could easily shift the blame afterward: it wasn’t that our army didn’t try, but that the aliens had spaceships!

As for launching nuclear bombs, that was even easier to push off. Nuclear bombs didn’t exist; they were just collateral damage from superhero and villain battles. It was the superheroes who destroyed the entire city, nothing to do with us wise and mighty officials!

“Evacuating a city, and evacuating a city without any evidence, if your predicted alien invasion doesn’t happen, then the economic losses and casualties will all be blamed on the person who announced the evacuation. Their political career will end then and there. No official is willing to take such a big risk!” Nick Fury tried to explain this to Tony Stark.

“I know very well…” Tony also sighed helplessly. “I didn’t actually intend for those officials to agree to an evacuation. I just want them to be mentally prepared to issue an evacuation order immediately when the alien invasion occurs. We will have foreign aid to help with rapid evacuation.”

In fact, Tony also understood the officials’ concerns. One could even say that even if the government did issue an evacuation, some people would rather die than leave. At the same time, there would be no shortage of idiots who, even if the whole city was evacuated, would take advantage of the chaos to loot stores.

So he knew that there was always no shortage of fools in the world, whether they were officials or ordinary people, fools were never lacking.

“Foreign aid? What foreign aid?” Nick Fury, however, sensitively caught his words and began to probe.

“That’s not important, and it’s none of your business!” Tony waved his hand, saying impatiently.

“Aid for evacuation, foreign aid that can quickly evacuate civilians…” Nick Fury frowned, pondering.

“Did you find a sorcerer?”