Everyone turned their heads to look at Wanda a little nervously, but Wanda did not show any abnormality, she simply shook her head and said: "My connection with Xeseon has been restored, he just called me, please wait a moment."
Wanda stood quietly there, immersing herself in her own mind's eye, she felt the distant connection of Chaos Power, and then responded to Xeseon's call as usual.
"Wanda, what's wrong with you? Why didn't you answer the phone?" The Great Shadow Cision seemed completely unaware of human courtesies, he just asked directly: "Are you dead?"
"You just..."
Wanda was about to retort, but the sight of Xeseon appearing in her mind's eye made her pause, it was completely unlike the Xeseon she had seen before—a pair of luminous eyes within chaotic dark fog.
She saw how the threads of infinite power constituted such a magnificent creature, and how Chaos was building the entire universe upon him.
Wanda saw a part of the universe's truth, all the truth about Chaos.
It was beyond the comprehension of the human brain.
"Ahhhhhh!" Wanda let out a horrifying scream.
Blood seeped out of her empty eye sockets, Jarvis immediately rushed forward to hold her, but Wanda had no response, she was still immersed in her own inner world.
"Don't stare at me!" Xeseon's angry voice came.
With a "swish", Wanda suddenly came to her senses, as if Xeseon had driven her out, her eyes were full of dazzling brilliance, those horribly complex knowledge seemed to be brutally stuffed into her brain, almost making her lose her cognitive ability of her own thoughts.
"Xeseon, Xeseon, are you there?"
No response.
Wanda took a deep breath, biting her lip, she said in an angry tone: "Don't you dare just spy on me one-sidedly, I command you to respond, Xeseon!"
The name Xeseon that Wanda called out was not pronounced in English, she herself didn't realize it at the moment the word landed, but then, Xeseon's voice came again.
"Who allows you to call me by my real name?!"
"As if the name you called me isn't my real one!" Wanda roared.
"I'm protecting you, humans can't directly gaze upon the truth of the universe, you would go mad!"
"I don't care!"
Xeseon was choked by her words.
Perhaps humans couldn't directly gaze upon the truth of the universe, but an angry human woman certainly could.
Wanda did not heed the warnings. She forcefully contacted Xeseon, then forced herself to look up, directly contemplating the connection of the Chaos Power, and in almost an instant, she became lost in the endless sea of knowledge.
"Leave Wanda!"
Xeseon never spoke in such a tone to anyone, The Great Shadow represents Chaos in the universe, and he is like a cancer of Eternity, he appointed Wanda to be his agent just because Wanda is the only being in the world that can directly communicate with Chaos Power.
Her connection with Chaos is even closer than Xeseon's, but from beginning to end, Xeseon's level of life would always be higher than Wanda's, he is a part of the laws of the cosmos, just like Eternity.
Just like Eternity, even though he doesn't possess emotions as defined by humans, he still has wisdom and feelings. But apparently, he had no idea how to deal with a mad woman.
In the end it was Jarvis who stopped Wanda's suicidal behavior, and Wanda was very angry, she said loudly to Jarvis: "I just discovered that damn Xeseon has completely seen into my soul from his point of view, but I know nothing about him, this is so unfair!"
Jarvis opened his mouth, but the behavior module that Stark implanted in him warned him, if he dared to say "it is stupid to seek fairness from a Demon God" now, an angry Wanda would make him pay.
"He asked me to be his agent, but I can use the Chaos Power without him, so what is his purpose? To sign a contract with me, just as an excuse to analyze me one-sidedly? In his dreams!"
"Xeseon, Xeseon, Xeseon!!!" Wanda kept calling Xeseon's real name without stopping for a moment, not caring about the increasing amount of blood flowing from her eyes.
Xeseon was going crazy.
With a "pop", the connection between them was unilaterally cut off by Xeseon, he must have paid a certain price for it, because Wanda heard a scream of pain - from the mighty Great Shadow Cision.
Wanda snorted, not aware of the blood all over her face and body, but she crossed her arms and said mockingly, "Just wait, I've just taken back a little piece of the price."
She should have a lot in common with Master Ancient One, Xu Shang-Chi didn't know how to comment, he could only think in silence. When he chatted about Marvel movies with his classmates before, they mocked Master Ancient One for burning too much budget, which led to her early offline from the plot.
"Wanda, has anyone ever told you? You really resemble your father." Jarvis was very tactful yet utterly daring, he had grasped the pulse of Wanda.
Sure enough, Wanda hesitated for a moment, touched the blood on her face with her hand, and said, "What did you say... Oh my God! What have I done? Why did I threaten The Great Shadow Cision? Did I really inherit Erik's temperament?"
The others stared at her in silence, but their faces clearly read the answer "yes".
Once calmed down, Wanda felt embarrassed. She desperately sought an excuse for her irrational behavior earlier: "I just... I suddenly saw some truths. Those so-called gods were just too rude. I was just acting in self-defense..."
"So what did you actually see?"
Wanda made a complicated face and said, "I understood some rules, the rules of the cosmos. Of course I also saw the life these rules have. In those few seconds moments ago, I even saw myself from Xeseon's perspective."
"Naked?" JARVIS certainly did not mean that.
Wanda rolled her eyes, but she still sighed and said, "Far from it. It's completely different from the human way of looking at appearance. Just a single glance was enough for me to see my past, present, and future. In their eyes, our soul is like a compressed packet of information."
"Just one look and everything in my life was laid bare. How I was born, how I grew up, even what I was thinking every second of my life, all of these information was observed at the same time, not according to a linear timeline as we understand it."
"No wonder you overreacted." Riley said quietly, "If he knew that I cursed my boss's car to have a flat tire just because of overtime, I would be so ashamed that I would lose face."
Wanda snorted and said, "It has nothing to do with those trivial matters. I don't care if anyone sees through my thoughts. After all, Professor X can do that too. Every mutant isn't allergic to this kind of matter."
"What angers me is, this understanding and peeping are one-sided, and Xeseon has never told me what he really is!"
"I always thought he was just a regular Demon God, but I didn't expect that he is actually a part of the cosmic chaos rules. This goddamn fraudster! When I get back, I'll complain about him at the Holy Sanctuary for contract fraud!"
Wanda stamped her foot hard to show that Miss Witch was not slightly pissed, but soon their attention was back on the abnormality of the night.
"Riley got the ability to foresee the future with Spider-sense, and Wanda not only contacted Xeseon, but also saw through him in an instant. Do you think this has anything to do with the attack at night?" JARVIS asked everyone.
"I stick to my viewpoint, that wasn't really an attack." Riley said, holding his head in some pain: "I didn't feel their aggressiveness, really."
Wanda also hesitated and said: "I only felt that they wanted to descend, descend on me, but I can't be sure if this behavior is considered an attack, maybe in our view, it is."
Xu Shang-Chi was stunned for a moment, then he picked up a twig and wrote on the sand: "Do you remember the metaphor Master Ancient One told us before we left?"
Everyone recalled for a moment, then JARVIS recited, "You mean, in grafting technology, hurting the plant in order to better stimulate their vitality?"
"Yes." Xu Shang-Chi nodded and wrote.
"You mean, we are those plants?" There was a hint of incredulity in Riley's voice. He said: "We lose our organs and get wounds just to stimulate our vitality?"
"This is absurd!" Wanda exclaimed.
"But the fact that you gained abilities is true." JARVIS's tone remained flat and calm, he continued to analyze, "The first day was an attack, the second day was an attack, so I have sufficient reason to categorize the third day as an attack as well, at least the possibility of an attack is greater."
"So, it's abnormal that you didn't experience an attack on the third day. If it was just the absence of an attack, I could assume that maybe the attacks occur periodically, but since you gained abilities, in the same order as the attacks, then I have no choice but to link the attacks and the gaining of abilities."
Then JARVIS turned to look at Xu Shang-Chi and said, "The sample size is currently insufficient, so we might still have to wait until tomorrow night, to observe your situation tomorrow night, to confirm whether our inference is correct."
"So we are just waiting here?"
"Since we can't confirm whether the attack will come again, it is best to wait here quietly. If all these things turn out to be a bait, and we are caught off guard and blindly carry out actions, it would be bad if the attack really comes."
JARVIS's analysis left everyone speechless again, the remaining three were neither proficient in behavioral science nor understood how to perform logical analysis through behavioral science, so they had no choice but to listen to JARVIS.
They sat quietly on the second floor of the cafe all night, and did not come under attack. When the sun rose, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"The link between the attacks and gaining abilities has grown stronger, but I still think we should act according to the original plan." JARVIS stood up first, then said, "While I was boiling water downstairs earlier, I saw some food ingredients in the storage room. I'll make breakfast for you all, you can take a nap."
Xu Shang-Chi stopped JARVIS, made a gesture to go with him. He also knew how to cook, so they both went to the storeroom on the first floor of the café.
This wasn't a chain café, it was not so professional. They also sold sandwiches in the morning, so they had a storeroom for reserve ingredients. Plus it seemed like the storeroom was new, the cooling efficiency was quite good, so they found some ingredients that could be eaten.
Although the induction cooker and the gas stove could not be used because there was no energy, it was not bad to use the primitive flame with a pot. JARVIS picked up a few packs of vegetables, Xu Shang-Chi took an egg basket, and the two returned to the center of the first floor lobby.
Just as JARVIS was washing vegetables in the sink behind the coffee operation station, he turned his head and found that Xu Shang-Chi was waving at him.
JARVIS put down the vegetables and walked over, and saw Xu Shang-Chi holding a crumpled newspaper in his hand. It was the waste newspaper that was put under the egg basket, but JARVIS saw a familiar face on the headline of the front page immediately - it was the Ancient One.
What surprised both of them was the bold, black headline on the front page - "Upright four-limbed monster kidnaps child, all police forces are gathering at Central Park!"