In a villa in New York, a cat-and-mouse game is going on for who knows how long.
A poor little white mouse was already covered in wounds after being chased by three ferocious domestic cats, but it finally escaped again and hid in a mouse hole that the cats couldn't get into.
If you look closely, you will find that the mouse's eyes are full of human agility, fatigue, shame and anger, and the confusion that shouldn't be there after escaping death...
Is this mouse a spirit
Or is it an illusion
No, neither!
In fact, it also has a human name, it is Stephen Strange!
Yes, it has had many identities, including the great Sorcerer Supreme, Ancient One's disciple, the guardian of the Time Stone, Doctor Strange...
But now it is just an ordinary mouse, a poor mouse that is chased by several cats, with nowhere to go and no shelter, and is always hungry.
If you ask him why he ended up in such a predicament, Strange would definitely answer: It's all because of that hateful woman!
A successful sneak attack made him lose the ability to resist and the Eye of Agamotto was taken away from him.
The only reason he survived was because the other party was unable to open the Eye of Agamotto and take out the Time Stone inside.
Strange knew that this was his last bargaining chip.
Once the other party gets the Time Stone, he will lose his final purpose. It is obvious what the ending will be.
So no matter it was for the sake of protecting his responsibility or for the sake of survival, he resolutely refused to let the other party succeed. No matter how the other party tortured him, he persisted.
Before the woman lost her patience and left, she turned him into a mouse, then turned the two teacups into two cats and locked them in the house.
Until now he still doesn't know how that woman did all this!
But this did not stop him from cursing the other person in his heart!
Due to the lack of food and water, in order to survive, he had to fight wits and courage with his two natural enemies, and in the end he might just be fighting for a small bite of bread.
He never knew how difficult it was to survive as a mouse!
Sometimes he would even start to have wild thoughts, wondering what he would do if he could never become a human again in this lifetime
Is to continue to be a mouse, accept this kind of life, and try hard to survive.
It would be better to just die early and be reborn, so as to end this farce of a life as soon as possible.
If he could be reborn, he would definitely write a book. He even thought of a title: "Go Back in Time and Become a Rat."
But soon he won't have to worry about these meaningless things anymore, because that woman... is back!
"Meow~"
Looking at the two cute cats that immediately ran over and rubbed against her trouser legs, the woman's face was full of indifference.
"If you can't even catch a little mouse, there's no need for you to exist."
Buzz...
As a strange red light flashed, the two cats that had been trying to please her turned into two strings of bubbles and disappeared.
Then she turned her head and looked somewhere, only to see that part of the ether particles immediately came out of her body, rushed into the rat hole, and grabbed Strange who was watching secretly.
If he was dealing with those two stupid cats, Strange could still use human wisdom to deal with them, but facing this high-level power, it made no difference whether he was a mouse or a tiger.
"Poor little mouse, look what those two stupid cats did to you. But I'm glad you survived and weren't eaten."
“Squeak!”
Strange's eyes were filled with anger, and he wished he could bite her to death. However, he could only make such pathetic rat sounds, and there was no way he could hurt the other party at all.
"Oh, sorry, I almost forgot, I don't understand rat language."
The woman jokingly stretched out her hand and flicked the mouse on the head. Then the little mouse flashed red and quickly turned into a human, but its body was still tightly bound by ether particles.
"How does it feel to be human again?"
"That's great. At least the view is much wider, and you don't have to worry about a cat suddenly jumping out from behind you and scaring you half to death when you're drinking water. That's terrible! You've left me with a serious psychological trauma. I don't think I'll ever choose to keep a cat at home in my lifetime."
Strange was covered in scars, and although he looked extremely embarrassed, he remained calm.
Because he still has the chips in his hand, it is not time to despair yet.
"It seems like you like your 'second life' very much. How about turning you into a cockroach next time? I think you will like life in the sewer."
The woman smiled and said the most vicious words in the world to Strange.
"It's useless. No matter what you turn me into, you'll never get the Time Stone. If I die, I guarantee that no one in this world will be able to open the Eye of Agamotto." Strange also threw out his own "threat", which was his last bargaining chip.
But... soon not!
"I admit that it is a bit troublesome to open this thing. Maybe it is really like what you said, no one can open it except you, but I believe you will not think so soon, because you will obediently open it for me personally." The woman showed a beautiful smile, stretched out a finger meaningfully and gently stroked Strange's face.
"This joke is not funny. If you could make me surrender, you would have done it long ago. So there is no need to bluff anymore. You can use any means you have, but you will never succeed." Strange said with a firm face, completely unmoved.
Until he saw the jewel ring on the hand of this hateful woman...
He suddenly felt that the gem looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.
"Does it look good? I believe this gem will give me a satisfactory result."
The woman said as she finally placed a finger on Strange's forehead.
At this time, Strange finally remembered why this gem looked familiar to him, because he had seen this gem on the forehead of a man named Vision.
It also has another name, it's called... the Mind Gem!
Is it possible!
Just as an expression of horror suddenly appeared on Strange's face, a yellow halo directly entered his brain, smoothing out the turbulent waves in his mind at this moment.
Then his eyes immediately became extremely empty, as if he had become a robot without any emotions.
The woman took back the ether particle with satisfaction and let him go, "Open this thing and give me the Time Stone."
"Yes, my Lord."
The Eye of Agamotto was opened by Strange himself...