"So, you also have some ability to predict the future?"
Inside the New York Sanctuary, Strange welcomed Lynn in and made him a cup of tea.
"A little bit, but not much." Lynn nodded.
He saw that Strange himself was not drinking tea, but holding a glass of water in his hand.
That may be because the other party does not want to spend money, or his stomach problem does not allow him to drink tea.
"You said you had a premonition that Loki was going to make a move on the Cosmic Cube, or the Space Stone, so you snatched it away, and then you found that you had no suitable means of keeping it... so you thought of me."
"So you already knew that the Eye of Agamotto is the Time Stone."
Unexpectedly, Strange remained sharp and quickly figured out a lot of information from it.
"Yes, you even know about Dormammu's existence. It seems that the Infinity Stones are no secret to you."
Strange muttered to himself, but quickly shook his head and looked back at Lynn.
"So, what do you think?"
Lynn asked.
He didn't come here to let Strange reveal his past.
Theoretically, what he had done had already changed the timeline, and he really wanted to know what Strange thought about this matter.
"I need some time."
Strange did not refuse anything this time. He sat cross-legged on the spot, crossed his hands, and opened the green pendant on his chest, allowing a mysterious eye-like gem inside to float up, emitting emerald green fluctuations.
At the same time, his head began to turn in all directions as if twitching, at an extremely fast speed, leaving behind a trail of afterimages, as if he had entered thousands of different worlds.
Finally, Strange came back to reality, gasping for breath.
"How is it possible..."
Strange stared at the Cosmic Cube, shaking his head continuously, with fear in his eyes.
"There are 10 million more possibilities about the future of the Earth."
Sweat had already appeared on Strange's forehead. As he wiped it, he visualized some scenes in front of Lynn's eyes.
Lynn began searching through these timelines.
In one timeline, Loki did not get the Cosmic Cube, so he began to sneak into the darkness and secretly target SHIELD. In the process, he met Hydra and became the new leader of Hydra. He began to try to communicate with Thanos in outer space in other ways, and eventually secretly teleported Thanos' army to Earth, but SHIELD was completely unaware and was eventually swallowed up by Thanos silently.
Once, because Loki failed, he completely lost contact with Thanos, which made the latter think that Loki had deceived him and hid with the Mind Stone. In a rage, he destroyed Asgard, and launched a large-scale attack on the Earth through secret passages. Finally, he listed the Earth as an unforgivable place and slaughtered all the living creatures here.
Another time…
In short, in all the possibilities that Loki failed to get the Cosmic Cube, the Earth triggered the anger of either Loki or Thanos, causing them to immediately take retaliatory measures against the Earth, causing the Earth to be unable to resist and become a war-torn land.
Not only that, on several occasions, Lin En also saw a strange figure among those possibilities.
A group of people in black clothes were floating in the air, surrounding a leader with a snake-like face...
Next, he saw the appearance of this person in other futures one after another. He brought a very terrifying rule to the earth, and many superheroes were powerless to resist.
Lynn understood that the extra ten million possibilities that Strange mentioned revolved around this person.
As for who this person is, Lin En naturally knows it clearly.
It was Voldemort.
This... one problem hasn't been solved yet when another one arises. Right now the issue between Loki and Thanos hasn't been resolved yet, another thing has surfaced.
"Do you know who this is?" Strange looked at Lynn with a vigilant look.
He had used the spell of predicting the future around the Time Stone before, but from beginning to end he only saw Thanos and never saw the man in black.
And from those future silhouettes, it can be seen that the man in black robe has powerful abilities and many followers.
Lynn could only shake her head.
"In other words, my taking away the Cosmic Cube has brought a lot more uncertainty to the future?"
"Yes." Strange didn't explain much.
"If I return it, will it lead to new uncertainties? What if it suddenly gets out of control, making Loki's conspiracy come true, and the big purple guy comes to Earth ahead of time?" Lynn asked.
"Since you have foreseen the future, you should know that if you set up obstacles on his path, it will inevitably change his existing direction and make things deviate from their predetermined trajectory." Strange said as he thought, as if he was proving something.
"I see."
Lynn nodded.
What Strange meant was that as a witness of time, one cannot personally participate in the changes of time, otherwise things that have been foreseen will inevitably change, and although this change is caused by one person, it will affect everyone on this timeline.
"Can the timeline be concluded?" Lin En asked again.
“Time is like a long river. It moves along the track it has scoured out. Slight changes may occur along the way, but if its own power is strong enough, even if it deviates slightly, it can always return to its original course in unexpected ways unless it encounters a huge rift or an insurmountable chasm. However, it takes sufficient wisdom to guide the water that has deviated from the river course.”
Strange said this seriously, his eyes looking into Lynn's, as if to confirm whether the other party had this wisdom.
Then, he saw Lin En was dazed for a moment, and then his eyes became determined.
"I think I can give it a try."
Lynn took a deep breath.
The timeline he just told Strange did not come from his prophecy, but from his understanding of the original timeline of this world.
His real prophecy was what he saw in the prophecy ball, that Loki opened the space tunnel, and Stark and Captain America confronted each other.
In other words, although taking away the Cosmic Cube caused the change of the timeline of this world, the scene in the prophecy ball was not affected.
As long as I return the Cosmic Cube, no matter what method I use, things will develop smoothly.
As long as Loki opens the channel, the world's timeline will return to its original node.
However, it has only returned to that node, and it is still unknown how the subsequent development will proceed.
This means that things are going to be very tricky.
He must carefully observe every development of things and then make the most correct judgment, otherwise all his efforts will be in vain.