[Comprehensive British and American] Super British can't save the world

"That's okay, I can still give him a friendly price." She smiled.

She was quite interested in what Pietro called "cheap dad".She spoke with Eric on the phone, but hadn't met in person yet.

Natasha sent her back to the Temple and handed her over to Stephen Strange.

Strange didn't have time to greet Natasha, but was busy looking at Alicia, and he was relieved when he saw that she was indeed intact.

"How many days have you been in there this time?"

"Less than 72 hours."

"Is something wrong?"

"It's okay, everything is going well."

He looked at her again, slightly disgusted, "You are too dirty! Go take a shower!"

When taking a bath, I took my mobile phone in, soaked comfortably in the bathtub, and sent a text message to Peter first.

"Peter, I'm back."

Leave a message to Pietro again, "P, I just got back."

And then Tommy, "I just got off the plane and I just got to Manhattan."

Thinking about it, I called Tony again.

"Ellie." Tony answered the phone almost immediately. "everything fine?"

"It's okay, nothing happened."

Tony didn't even ask what they brought out of the ancient ruins, "What are you doing?"

"Take a shower. I'm covered in mud, so dirty."

He imagined her dirty look, as if it was quite amusing, "Are you tired?"

"I'm not tired, but I want to eat something delicious. Stephen will take me out for dinner later."

"I can take you to dinner, too."

"Are you in New York?"

"No. But you can come to Los Angeles."

"No, I'm too lazy to move."

He smiled, "Okay, whatever you want. You can come over whenever you are free. I'm in Malibu and I'm not going anywhere."

Pietro was the first boy to show up.

After all, he is fast.

Strange asked him to stay in the living room and called the waiter to inform Alicia.

"Got it, let him wait." She replied through the door.

Pietro walked up and down the living room, "What is she doing?"

"Lady is taking a bath." The waiter replied.

She is the only woman in the temple, and Lady is used to refer to her specifically, without a first name or a surname—Peter and Tommy only know her surname "Buffy" until now.Pietro knew her surname was "Sith" but wouldn't tell them specifically.

"Is she okay?"

"She's fine." Strange didn't look up, "Sit down."

Pietro sat obediently on the sofa.He had always been honest in the temple. Ever since he was dealt with by Strange once, he knew that no matter how fast he was, he was nothing in the eyes of a magician, and he had better behave himself.

Before Alicia came out, Peter came.

"Doctor Strange, where's Ellie?"

"Sit down and wait." Strange thought that he was not a mentor, but a father.

Peter had to sit down.

"Pietro." He seemed to have just seen Pietro, and he seemed to have just realized that Pietro also came to see Alicia.

I felt uneasy all of a sudden: this guy!

Alicia finally came out of the bathroom, went back to her room, changed into clean clothes, dried her hair, put on a Wulu bracelet, and a platinum necklace with a 50-point emerald pendant.This was the "birthday gift" Strange gave her last year. It was small and delicate, delicate and not too conspicuous.

Seeing her come out, Strange raised his hand and looked at his watch, "It's 3:45 pm, we're going out for dinner at 7:[-] pm." After speaking, he got up and left the living room.

Both boys stood up.

Peter: "Ellie."

Pietro: "Alicia."

"Pietro." She smiled at him, "Why are you here?"

"I want to see you. How long have we not seen each other? Three months? Since the day you went to Kathmandu."

Peter was angry: He actually stole my lines!

"Has it been this long?" She feigned surprise.

"92 days." Peter Parker whispered. "I count every day." For the teenagers in love, it really seems like a century has passed.

"I went to Kathmandu and then to Iceland. There is no wifi in Iceland," she said casually.

Alas, even if she knew she was talking nonsense about the lack of wifi, she wouldn't expose her.

Peter said very seriously: "It's okay, as long as you come back. I'm really afraid that if you go, you won't come back."

"Silly, if I don't come back, I will definitely tell you."

Pietro found their conversation a bit strange.But Alicia said indifferently, and Peter didn't think there was anything wrong.

"Don't go. Or next time you want to leave again, I'll be with you."

She smiled, "OK."

Peter was very happy, "I haven't left New York yet. Tell me, is Kathmandu interesting? Is Iceland interesting?"

Head to head, the two were talking intimately and in low voices.

Pietro suddenly became angry, "Ellie!"

Alicia ignored him, and Peter didn't look at him.

"Want to go for a walk?" Peter asked.

"Okay. Do you come here often?"

"Come here every week, sometimes every day, Dr. Strange thinks I'm annoying."

"Yeah, he talks too much, Dr. Strange probably wants to seal his mouth." Pietro said coldly.

"Pietro, you also walk with me." He held Pietro with his left hand and Peter with his right hand.

In the evening, Alicia came back on time and went out to dinner with Strange as planned.

"Did Tommy come to see you?"

"No, he called me, he's not in New York."

"Theresa said he applied to Columbia."

"Oh."

"What about you?"

"I don't have to go to any college."

"Well, you really don't need it. I discussed it with Wang and decided to start the next course tomorrow."

"Can I study the Book of Cagliostro?" she said enthusiastically.

"You can learn it, but it must be under my guidance."

"The king said that when you studied "The Book of Cagliostro", you learned it secretly."

"I'm not a good example, don't follow me." Strange said solemnly.

She ordered more food for at least two people and ate it quickly.Strange didn't eat much, and kept talking. Speaking of Master Wang, who has been staying in the London Temple for the past two months, most of Karma Taj's magicians have participated in the rebuilding of the London Temple. It took a lot of effort to find a suitable treasure to be used as the foundation of the new temple. On top of this, a lot of magic runes were used to strengthen the temple, and the magic defense shield of the earth was finally repaired.

Speaking of librarians who also participated in the reconstruction work, Cassandra's mathematical calculation ability has been greatly used, and the defense projects of the three temples have been redesigned to ensure that they will not be attacked by betrayed magicians again.

He also said that the person in charge of the NO.13 warehouse reluctantly provided some magic items for defense projects. After all, the temple is extremely important in the magic world, and it bears the heavy responsibility of protecting the earth from being invaded by black magic. Even the library took the initiative proposed that some collections could be provided.

"Jenkins gave a list and said that when you come back, you should go and check what's available according to the list." Strange thought about what the librarians probably knew that he didn't.He joked, "Maybe you can get back the real gun of Longinus."

Alicia also felt a little strange, "Why do I have to look at it? I don't know what is suitable for the temple. Shouldn't I take them all back and let the temple choose by itself? Isn't the temple a self-aware collection? ?”

"It used to be, but not now."

"Because the London Temple was destroyed?"

"Yes. The three temples have been linked perfectly for more than 1000 years. The temples can drive more powerful magic. In modern technology terms, they are compatible and upgraded with each other."

"Now, the New York Temple and the Hong Kong Temple must be compatible with the London Temple."

"needs time."

"So how many patches do you need to use stash?"

He smiled, "That's the principle."

"I'm going to the library tomorrow to see the collection."

"Hmm." He nodded in agreement.

Someone came over to shake hands and greet him, and asked him where he had been in high school recently, and why he wasn't in the original hospital anymore.Strange dealt with it smoothly.

"A former patient?"

"Correct."

"Let me see your hands."

His hands were thin, with long fingers, and scars on the palms and backs of his hands. Because of damaged nerves, he couldn't maintain stability and trembled slightly all the time.

"The doctor's hand is very important, you can't pick up the scalpel now." She checked his palm over and over again.

Even though he had already accepted the facts, Strange still felt a little bit uneasy: years of study in medical school, thousands of dissection exercises, and the excellence after becoming a doctor are now a thing of the past.

"Fortunately, being a magician doesn't require any delicate operations." He forced a smile, "You see, I am already an expert in neurosurgery, and I have performed 7 operations on my hands. Almost all brilliant neurosurgeons have operated on me, and it is impossible to completely repair the damaged nerves, I have already admitted it.”

"If you have super self-healing ability like me, you can."

Strange laughed, "Yes, but unfortunately I don't have one." This girl is really annoying!

"I don't like scars."

"I don't like it either, but I can't help it."

"You had a serious car accident, didn't you?"

"It's serious. But it's all over." He touched his left cheek involuntarily: the car accident almost disfigured him, and he underwent two facial revision operations, and the muscle on the left cheekbone was almost rigid.Before and after the car accident, his appearance was not the same, and he had to give up his hobby of playing the piano.

"What about stem cells? I mean, do you still want to repair damaged nerves?"

He stretched out his hands again, flattened them, and placed them on the table, palms down. "Humans pursue perfection. A person's appearance and body are the most direct self-introduction to the outside world. Only a perfect and symmetrical human body can be sexually attractive. Only a 'person' can be more confident-of course I want to become a' again." Healthy' people, but I have learned not to force things that modern technology can't do." Magic can't solve his physical damage.

Think about how he struggled in the first year after the injury: he forced his hospital colleagues to test new treatments for him, searched all the neurosurgeons he knew; Because he refuses to accept the status quo.

He didn't want to do it again.

"Bruce and Hank are researching my stem cells. They think there is a lot of room for my super self-healing ability. They have extracted my spinal cord a few times. You can ask them."

Stephen Strange couldn't help but feel that this was so attractive: with super self-healing ability and immortality, her stem cells might really be his savior.She can't feel pain, and has a super self-healing ability. In theory, she can extract the spinal cord an unlimited number of times without causing damage to her body, so theoretically, she can obtain a sufficient number of stem cells.

"Your physical injury only makes you learn to understand the world on a spiritual level. Now that you have achieved it, you don't have to maintain the status quo. I heard that you play the piano well. Don't you want to play the piano again?" Her slender palm Pressing on the back of his hand, gently touching those scars.

midnight.

Tony Stark wakes suddenly from sleep: his anxiety has improved, but he's still prone to night terrors.

"Who?"

Asimov turned up the lights: it was Alicia, in a printed dress, carrying a cardboard box.

He was a little surprised, and sat up, "Alicia, how do you—" Who will teach her not to run into a man's bedroom casually.What a headache.

"I thought you'd bring other women back for the night."

"--What?" He said "You think a little too much".

"I brought you donuts."

"It's late at night." What donuts!He put on his silk pajamas, thankful he wasn't sleeping naked.

She sat by the bed and opened the carton, "What flavor do you want? Almond? Or chocolate?"

"I like it with some hazelnuts sprinkled on top, that's all."

She brought him a donut sprinkled with hazelnuts. "Steven took me to dinner tonight. I like to eat lobster, and the foie gras is also good."

"What else did you eat?"

"Mushroom and clam chowder, lamb chops, cauliflower."

"Are you full?"

"Okay. Are the donuts good?"

"good."

She smiled, "I have to go back."

He couldn't help but ask, "You just came to eat donuts with me?"

"I'm going to be busy again. It's weird that I haven't been so busy before," she seemed puzzled before she realized, "I was just busy trying to kill myself, and now...you, Pepper, Na Tasha, Stephen, Wang, Bruce, Hank, Peter, if you know more people, you will have a connection, 'social relationship'," she made a gesture, "you will no longer be a lonely 'one person', I I can’t say whether it’s good or not. On the one hand, you can’t just leave if you have worries. For example, before I leave this time, I have to tell Peter and Tommy that I have to leave for a while. I have to lie, but I don't like lying. On the other hand, connecting with other people really makes me look at things differently and think differently, so it's probably a good thing."

"It's a good thing. You have become a 'human'." He carefully poked her shoulder with his finger, "I'm sorry about the last time, I should have told you in advance and asked for your permission, my fault."

"There won't be a next time."

"I swear, there will never be a next time."

"Well then, I can forgive you."

Tony now finally feels that this matter can be let go.

"It's my birthday at the end of next month. Generally speaking, I will have a birthday party. Can you come?"

"Okay, I'll come." She put the donut box on the bed, stood up, opened the portal casually, and stepped in.

He looked at the donut box, thinking and forgot to tell her not to come into his bedroom.

Alicia is really busy going forward.Every day during the day, I go to the London Temple through the portal-because the new temple is not compatible, I can only use Karma Taj as a transit point.There is a 5-hour time difference between New York and London, and it was 1 pm when she arrived in London.

She became an official disciple of Kama Taj, and correspondingly, she also had the responsibility of guarding the temple.

I went to the Metropolitan Public Library a few times, the library is very interesting, let her choose the collection at will, of course, the Ark of the Covenant, the Gun of Longinus, and the Holy Grail cannot be taken away, nor can Pandora’s box, but take it away Flynn Carson's little friend: King Arthur's sword in the stone Excalibur.

Excalibur has been playing outside for more than 1000 years, and he is slightly looking forward to returning to England, but he is not very interested, but he obediently followed Alicia away.

After that, some collections were taken away one after another, some were used to strengthen the London Temple, and some were used to improve the defense.

The sword in the stone was placed in the center of the basement of the temple. This time there was no stone, and a wooden table was made for it.

At one time, several deck woods from Noah's Ark were removed and placed in three temples. Cassandra said that this would speed up the process of compatibility between the new temple and other temples.

Although the warehouse always said that the hidden items are dangerous, and the law of energy conservation determines that the hidden items have side effects, Alicia still found a suitable magic item.

At first she didn't know how Jenkins, the library's steward, thought she would know which item was suitable, but it turned out that she could "read" an item's properties and effect.

Ezekiel laughed and called her a card reader. Cassandra wanted her to touch all the collections that could not be classified. Jack was excited to take her to some archaeological excavation site for human identification. Her work schedule was suddenly full. full.

Stay in London for a few hours, come back at 4 pm New York time, between the time you get back and dinner, most of the time Peter will come, sometimes Pietro.

Tommy returned to New York in early May.He was injured, with two deep lacerations in his chest, and was hospitalized for two weeks, with Alicia visiting him every other day.

Lived an exceptionally fulfilling life.

Peter Parker finally realizes that Alicia isn't just his boyfriend.

In fact, she never concealed it, but Peter had a big heart and never thought of anything else.

The love between them is not at all comparable to the love of other children in the school.The boys on those teams were relatively rough and direct, and they liked to find girlfriends in the cheerleading squad, and if you looked at those girls too much, they all wanted to beat you up.

Peter has never been able to understand the behavior of the chauvinistic big man who "maintains sovereignty". You like a girl and of course you want to make her happy. Violent behavior cannot solve the problem.It's not like you're up against a gunman, it's simple: you broke the law and you gotta get punished.

But he really didn't know what to do, so he hesitated to ask Mei.

It begins, of course, with "A friend of mine."

After his difficult narration, May said clearly: "Okay, don't say 'my friend David' anymore, it's Alicia, right?"

Peter deflated, "How do you know?"

"Little fool, of course I know. I can't say anything about this situation. You have to ask her yourself. She may not know the difference." After all, one is only 14 years old and the other is not yet 16 years old. It's all ignorant.First love is beautiful, but it can also be cruel.

Empire State Building roof.

Warm May night, breezy.

Peter is a little preoccupied: usually he is the one who talks a lot, and he will be very enthusiastic about telling her what happened in school.She didn't talk much about herself, and it could be said that he knew almost nothing about her, what she was studying at home, what she liked and what she didn't like.

It's his first love, so there's no way to compare what's "right" between them, but of course, Alicia doesn't just like him, and that makes him unhappy.

"What's wrong with you?" She poked his cheek.He just took off the hood, his hair was messed up, and he looked a little flustered.

"Ellie." He didn't know what to say. "Is that—Tommy? Do you like him?"

"How do you know him? I don't remember you ever seeing him."

Peter was a little guilty, and he didn't dare to say that he followed her to the hospital and saw her kiss the teenager lying on the hospital bed.

"Are you following me?"

"Uh——I saw you going to the hospital by chance, so..." I felt even more guilty.

"Tommy is—well, he's a Grimm. Do you know what a 'Grimm' is?"

Peter shook his head.

Alicia briefly explained what Green is.

"But you still didn't say, do you like him," the boy's voice trembled slightly, "more than me?"

"What do you think?"

"Ah!" he yelled, distressed: "It's not my feeling, it's yours. I like you, Alicia, I think that's love, and if I can, I want to be with you every day. What about you? Do you think so too?"

"I also want to be with you every day, but you are busier than me." The vigilante student who goes out to fight criminals every day does not have much free time.

He lowered his head, "Ben said, 'With great power comes great responsibility', he is doing dangerous work abroad that I can't even imagine, May puts most of her time and energy into social work work, I I also want to help others as much as possible. Mr. Stark must also think so, the strong have an obligation to help the weak, this is our responsibility."

The author has something to say: *Stem cells are used for a lot now, the most common ones are the hematopoietic stem cells used in the treatment of leukemia, which are extracted from the spinal cord, as well as epidermal stem cells, pancreatic stem cells, etc. Autologous stem cells are responsible for the self-repair of body parts after injury , For example, the skin repair of cuts and abrasions is the credit of epidermal stem cells; but the heart does not have autologous stem cells.

*The "Doctor Strange" movie also mentioned that Japanese stem cell therapy should be to extract another kind of stem cells in the bone marrow: mesenchymal stem cells.Mesenchymal stem cells are pluripotent stem cells that can differentiate into functional cells of multiple systems such as liver, brain, epithelium, and myocardium. They have therapeutic effects on chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, nerve injury, and autoimmune diseases.Mesenchymal stem cells can also be extracted from human fat, so in theory, those weight loss and liposuction clinics can sell human fat at a high price. (In "Fight Club", the hero goes to the weight loss clinic to steal fat to make soap 2333)

* The United States and Japan are at the top of the world in stem cell research and medical treatment, and my country should be catching up with the United States and Japan.