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"Spider-Man, I remember when I first met you, you didn't really believe in magic." Doctor Strange didn't answer the question directly, but changed the subject.

I rubbed my head. At that time, the whole of New York was controlled by nightmares. Fortunately, Danny woke me up and came to seek help from Doctor Strange. That time, I also saw that the most feared thing of Sam, who was always fearless, was rabbits. However, thinking about it now... I looked at Alan: I didn't see what Alan was afraid of that time.

Doctor Strange went on to say: "The world of magic is far wider than you imagine. Magic is not as simple as a group of wizards and spells. As I once said to Alan Parker, magic weaves the fabric of the world. It can wear Through space and time, so I can enter the dream, in fact, I can also enter the different space."

"Alien space?"

"Yes." Doctor Strange looked at me, "I can touch parallel universes."

This concept that seems to exist only in literary works and film and television suddenly appeared in front of me, which is really unimaginable, but I remembered another person who once mentioned parallel universes in front of me: "Deadpool once mentioned to me Through the parallel universe, he...he seems to be able to..."

"Deadpool is different." Doctor Strange shook his head, "But Deadpool's immortality is related to the one I'm about to mention."

Doctor Strange kept looking at Allen when he said this, but Allen just shrugged: "Don't look at me, I don't remember much."

Doctor Strange had to go on by himself: "The timeline of Deadpool was erased, it was Ulogo."

"Wait." Alan interrupted suddenly, "Didn't he say it was because of his rival's curse?"

I stared at Allen: When did you come into contact with Deadpool?

Allen stares back: There are more important things to say now.

"The cause is indeed the curse of Thanos, but Thanos is not the master of time—not even the goddess of death. There is only one master of time, and that is Ouroboros, who is the executor. He was summoned by Thanos to The frontier of death cuts off all the timelines of Deadpool, allowing him to live forever, and he can no longer step into the land of the dead." A smile almost nostalgic suddenly appeared on Doctor Strange's face, "That's right, Ouroboros, That's the name of the Time Mage."

Allen touched his nose: "Sounds familiar."

But I was startled by Doctor Strange's words: "Ouroboros, Ouroboros is the name of that Ouroboros."

Doctor Strange nodded: "Ouroboros, World Snake, Jormungandr, Earthly Serpent, people give the snake that bites its own tail many names, all of which mean eternity, infinity, and—immortality."

"So," I understood, "Master of Time, he is immortal, right?"

"Yes, and more than that." Doctor Strange sighed, "I have spent many, many years exploring the secrets of time, in order to be able to improve time control, but suddenly I met Uro, in In his hands, time is almost just a toy, he can slow down or speed up time at will, and can travel to any point in time, even, he is not the time mage of this universe, he exists in all parallel universes."

"You mean, there are time mages in other parallel universes?"

Doctor Strange shook his head slowly: "No, there is only one Time Mage, but he exists in all universes at the same time. It's hard to imagine, right, that he can stand here and now and see what is happening in all universes."

I was completely shocked by the mage named Ulo. I stared blankly at Doctor Strange, imagining him in other universes, and then superimposed these countless doctors, but I couldn't do it at all.

"So..." Alan suddenly chuckled and said, "He must be crazy."

"That's right." Doctor Strange sighed with a complex expression, "I am very envious of Ulo's abilities, but I have to admit that he is not so much the master of time, but the prisoner of time. The Ouroboros eats itself .”

A...prisoner of time?

I imagine Ouroboros's life: he will not die, he has been through everything, he knows the past and the future, he may choose to contact someone, but death is destined to separate them, at the end of time In the flow, he is a fixed coordinate... Is he that big snake?No, it should be the big snake that surrounded him and then devoured him.

"Lonely..." I finally found the existence of Ouroboros.

"Yes, loneliness. Ouroboros can see that everyone's timeline, no matter how long or short, has a beginning and an end, but his own timeline is a closed loop. He has not obtained eternal life, Instead, he was caught in a cycle, and in this cycle, he was the only one." Doctor Strange looked at us and said the ending slowly: "This cycle finally drove him crazy."

I looked at Alan, and Alan looked down at his hands.

"When I met Ulo, he was crazy, but from the outside, he is still a very interesting and powerful mage. After I was lucky enough to see his skills, I almost worshiped him. You know, since inheriting the supreme After getting the title of mage, I fell into a bottleneck, and there was no breakthrough in spells, so I really wanted to find the secret about time in Uro." Doctor Strange said, "But Uro rarely mentioned about 'time'. ', during that time he didn't use his abilities very much, but spent a lot of time on things that seemed meaningless to me, he drank heavily, he was addicted to the red light district, and he would suddenly study day and night Greek drama, and finally he actually started to travel around the world to find good watchmakers and ask them how to make clocks."

Doctor Strange raised his hand and motioned us to look at the wall: "Ulo made this clock himself. He brought it back from Sweden, and then suddenly told me that he was going to do something interesting."

Judging from Doctor Strange's expression, this should not be very interesting.

"He said he was going to turn back time."

Seeing that we didn't seem to understand the seriousness of this sentence, Doctor Strange's expression became serious: "Although Ulo's timeline is circular, from the perspective of the world, time is still an irreversible straight line, even if It's Uro who can participate in time travel, and can't easily change what has happened—that would cause a universe to collapse."

"Flashpoint incident." Allen said softly.

I also immediately remembered that the Flash almost destroyed the entire planet after he inadvertently saved his mother.

Doctor Strange smiled wryly: "What's more, what Uro wants to do is not just destroying a universe, he wants to go to the origin of time and kill himself."

This is... suicide?

"That's suicide," Doctor Strange asserted, "although Ulo almost seemed to be joking when he told me about it, saying that the end of infinity is zero, and that the only way to break the cycle is to just let the cycle to nothingness."

"And then?" I couldn't help but look at Alan, who looked unclear.

"He was in front of me, tying his own time line to the second hand of this huge clock, and turning it counterclockwise, into time itself. I couldn't keep up with him at all, in fact, I had just entered The time was thrown out, but I saw the white light on Ulo getting more and more intense, and finally I had to set up a shield for him so that he would not be mistaken for a nuclear bomb going off here."

"Did he... succeed?"

Doctor Strange twitched the corner of his mouth slightly: "He arrived at the origin and saw his original self, but when he put his hand around the baby's throat, someone patted him on the shoulder behind him."

We all guessed who that person was, but we couldn't help but ask, "Who is it?"

"Hisself. Just when he was going against time and wanted to kill his past self, he in the future caught up and cursed himself. Then, the Uroboros of the three time points gathered together, Time suddenly collapsed."

"But—this is wrong, if the future him wants to prevent the present him from killing himself, why does time collapse?"

"What if the future self didn't come to stop him? What if the future self came to kill him?" Doctor Strange's eyes in the shadow suddenly flashed a little abnormal light, "Ulo, he's against his own It's wrong to travel in timelines and try to kill your past self - no one can kill your past self - it's a paradox, not even Uro, when he tried to kill that baby , triggered the counterattack of time, so the future Uro appeared, and he counterattacked himself, just like the ouroboros."

The room suddenly fell into silence, and we all listened to Doctor Strange's words with bated breath: "Ouroboros, his suicide was successful in a sense, he was torn apart by the power of time at that moment, Uroboros Uroboros doesn't exist anymore, but," the Doctor paused, looking around at us, "he didn't disappear, the pieces of Ouroboros were banished to the 'Frontier of Nothingness', where all the shattered planes gathered Earth, where Ouroboros remains immortal, in fragments of time, but there are also fragments lost at various points in time in the universe."

Doctor Strange suddenly smiled: "Alan Parker, do you know who you are now?"

Alan kept his head down all the time, but I saw the smile between a mockery and a wry smile at the corner of his mouth, he still raised his head under the gaze of Doctor Strange, and replied with a smile like that: "Ouroboros's Shard, do you want to call me that?"

Doctor Strange nodded: "I searched for many years, but I didn't find any clues about the fragments, until you sent Meera back to me."

Meera, who had been sitting next to the doctor with her head bowed and silent, suddenly trembled, but did not speak.

The doctor looked at Allen: "Meera didn't tell me your ability at that time, but I was too familiar with Ulo, and when I saw you, I sensed the ability of a time mage. Although you are still very weak, you can't compare One ten-thousandth of Uro, but your abilities come from the same source—time."

"So... what are you going to do to Alan?" I asked Doctor Strange's eyes. Obviously, he was very fanatical about the time mage's ability, even to the point of taking a risk and being punished. Then he Why did you call Allen over?

Doctor Strange looked back at me very calmly: "I don't want to do anything to him, although I have thought about using his power to explore the secret of time, but the encounter in the illusion has made me dispel this idea, now I Just want to give Ulo back to him."

"Alan is Alan, not Ouroboros." I must emphasize this.

Doctor Strange just smiled, then looked at Allen.

I also stared at Alan.