Chapter 4187: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (V)
Early the next morning, Schiller was awakened by a burst of noise again. He squinted his eyes and walked to the window again, pulled the curtains, opened the window, and then saw a small blue figure jumping up and down, shaking his head and tail in the crowd, with a girl in a pink uniform standing next to him.
"Gwenpool!" Schiller shouted at him, "Come up quickly!"
Soon, Gwenpool came up holding the shark-dog Jeff. Jeff was obviously having a blast. As soon as he was put on the ground, he stuck out his tongue and panted. Gwenpool greeted Schiller very lively: "Good morning, Doctor. I received the email you sent—the strongest mercenary in the universe, Gwenpool, is here to report!"
"Alright, lady, come in." Schiller smiled at her and said, "I called you here because there is an order, the reward is very good, you can consider it."
"Great, I'm just short of money recently." Gwenpool shrugged and said, "Tell me, what order? I can definitely..."
Before she finished speaking, she saw someone jump onto the balcony behind Schiller. She subconsciously took out her gun and aimed, and then heard a scream: "Oh, wait! Don't shoot! You disgusting pink imposter!"
Schiller turned around and saw Deadpool jump in, but his words caused him big trouble. With a "bang," a shot hit Deadpool, but fortunately, what Gwenpool fired was not a real bullet, but an Easter egg.
However, this was only good news for Deadpool, and it was not for Schiller's office—the paint from the Easter egg burst and spilled all over the floor. Schiller sighed helplessly.
"Stop fighting!" He said, "You two clean up the floor before you leave!"
Gwenpool stuck out her tongue, but still put her hands on her hips and said to Deadpool: "I warn you to watch your mouth, I'm not some imposter. Besides, pink is the most beautiful color in the world, wearing all black is disgusting, okay!"
"A good man doesn't fight with a woman." Deadpool snorted and said, "I'm here to take the order."
"What? You are also here to take the order? Don't think about grabbing it from me!"
"Who grabbed it from you, I'm here by ability..."
"Alright, quiet!" Schiller said, "This order is for the two of you, which means you must cooperate. However, the price is very high, and you can settle it with gold and vibranium. If you don't want to, forget it, I can also find Deathstroke..."
"No, no, no!" Deadpool said hurriedly, "My cousin is busy. A few days ago, I heard them say that for some reason, many Batmen are eyeing their swords. If he runs out to take the order at this time, he might be caught, so don't bother him."
"However, to cooperate with this little girl..." Deadpool looked at Gwenpool, pouted, and didn't speak.
"I'm not a little girl, you bastard! Don't force me to expose your old bottom!"
"Don't pretend to be mature, you deliberately dressed up as me just to recruit black for me, you took away my fans and traffic!"
"It sounds like you have a lot of traffic. Don't think I don't know, you make this weird look every day, and hang words like 'fans' and 'traffic' that comic characters don't understand on your lips, isn't it just to attract others' attention? If I were a psychologist, I would tell you that the cause of your illness is—you are always out of place!"
"Alright, Gwenpool!" Schiller's tone deepened a bit, but he still turned to Deadpool and said, "Gwenpool is not trying to copy you, this is just a misunderstanding. When she customized the uniform, the tailor heard the word she said as your name, so he made a uniform similar to yours. This shows that you are popular—any tailor knows what you look like, right?"
Originally Deadpool was still stunned. Hearing this, he came back to his senses, nodded vigorously and said: "Yes, I am famous! Otherwise, you wouldn't have become so similar to me. Besides, knowing that you are very similar to me, you still don't change your uniform, which shows that you are also my fan."
Gwenpool made a vomiting action, but for Schiller's sake, the two of them didn't continue to argue. So Schiller said: "Alright, listen to me about the mission. The Milky Way will be very busy recently. We are going to carry out a series of exploration and construction work, and the three major empires will definitely make trouble. Just defending here is not enough, so I need someone to make some trouble for them."
"Make trouble? I'm good at this!" Deadpool said, "However, I say, don't bring this little girl who holds back—and that dog—do you expect him to pretend to be a shark to scare robots?"
Gwenpool glared at him fiercely again. Schiller shook his head and said: "No, you two must go together, this is the client's request."
"Alright, alright, listen to you." Deadpool waved his hand and said.
"Do you have any other questions? Lady?"
"Although I don't want to do tasks with this guy at all, for the sake of money—alright. But I really can't take Jeff with me, it's too dangerous, it might lead to him being beaten. Do you have any pet foster care centers here?"
"Even if there is, they probably won't agree to foster a long-legged shark. However, if you don't mind, you can leave him with me for a while. He played very happily just now, didn't he?"
"Great! Jeff, be good and stay here, eat on time, don't run to the beach to scare people, do you know?"
Then she stood up and said to Schiller: "Jeff eats meat, and also needs to eat some dog food as a small snack. You can deduct the meal expenses from my reward. Of course, you'd better keep an eye on him, if he breaks anything, I might not be able to afford it..."
Schiller nodded, took Jeff from her hand, touched his head, and then held the shark-dog and told them about the mission: "Recently, the Emperor of the Spartax Empire opposed certain items in the security regulations of the three major empires in his jurisdiction, which annoyed the General of the Skrull Empire. They have been increasing troops there recently, maybe they want to teach the Spartax Empire a lesson. What you have to do is go to their barracks and make some trouble, the bigger the better, understand?"
"Guarantee to complete the mission!" Gwenpool said.
"Hmph, you grabbed my words! However, what I want to say is—guarantee to complete the mission!"
"Guarantee guarantee complete the mission..."
"Guarantee guarantee guarantee..."
"Alright, go quickly." Schiller waved his hand, drove them both out, and went to buy dog food for Jeff.
Finding Gwenpool and Deadpool to go together is not expecting them to really have any amazing plans to stir up the cosmic situation, but that the two of them are together, they will definitely collide with big movements.
Deadpool and Gwenpool, although they look very similar, are actually two completely different people, and it is difficult to get along. Their understanding of the entire world and the methods they pursue to change the world are completely different.
It seems that Deadpool is a very unreliable person, with no gate on his mouth, daring to say anything, appearing to be weird, and not letting go of bad jokes about shit and urine, although he says he wants to join the low-age grading, he has no achievements in action, always doing some operations that cannot pass the review.
Many people feel very split when they first read Deadpool's story. This personality seems to be completely inconsistent with his experience. Deadpool is a veteran, and although the mutation gave him powerful immortality, this is a tragedy for him. He doesn't look like he should be so lively and weird.
But after reading more Deadpool stories, you will find that his core is indeed a tragedy. All his seemingly unacceptable weird behaviors are actually closer to a performance, a means for him to pursue something.
According to himself, he is pursuing popularity, because only characters with popularity will not disappear. He hangs this kind of words on his lips every day, and his behavior seems to be revolving around this purpose.
But in fact, if a deep analysis is carried out, it will be found that this is contradictory to his whole person. Does Deadpool not want to disappear?
Perhaps so, everyone has a desire to survive, everyone wants to live. But Deadpool is often in a state of not being able to die. No matter how many injuries he suffers, no matter how serious the injury is, he can always recover.
Some people will have a strange behavior, that is, the more he hopes something will happen, the more he will emphasize "it must not happen" over and over again. This belongs to a compulsive thinking, forcing himself to lower expectations to avoid disappointment.
"Over-negation" always reflects the deepest desires in a person's heart. This represents fear, and fear comes from empathy, worrying that the same thing will happen to oneself, but also represents realizing that one may have some trait that attracts the same development of the situation. This makes people panic, prompting them to repeat it over and over again.
Deadpool is not entirely like this, but his emphasis on popularity over and over again is indeed a part of this psychology. He knows that he will die because of lack of popularity, and such death is a complete death, will not be dying and then recover, will not be seriously injured but still lively.
If ordinary death cannot bring him eternal peace, then complete extinction with the disappearance of popularity is the best ending he can find. Perhaps in the fearful impression he built for himself, there is a hint of expectation for "completely ending all this" that he didn't even realize.
And from a behavioral point of view, he is also constantly emphasizing that he is not the kind of monster that will never die that others see, there are things that can completely kill him, and he will also enter death, so he is the same as them.
Deadpool possesses a special, abnormal view of death distorted by his special physical state. He constantly repeats the popularity problem, which is to output this concept, and the reason for outputting this concept is that he wants to be accepted by people.
It seems that immortality is a very powerful superpower, and no one doesn't want to live forever. But when facing people who truly possess this ability, people's attitudes are often not envy. Especially, for this immortal superpower, Deadpool paid too much price, just like what he experienced in his life, this is a complete tragedy. The lack of death is an alternative disability.
So Deadpool is like a disabled person, constantly saying to others: I am the same as you, I am not missing anything compared to you, I will also die, just in an uncommon way. I am not a broken monster, I am an existence the same as you.
And he emphasizes this repeatedly because he wants to integrate. Whether it is proposing some amazing arguments that people don't understand, or making various weird behaviors, it is to attract others' attention. And only people who have needs for the collective and society will want to attract the eyes of their kind. The more you want a sense of belonging, the more you want love, the more excessive this behavior of attracting attention will be.
Deadpool is undoubtedly wanting it. He has been emphasizing that he is very normal. He wants to tell everyone that he is a humorous and normal person, not a weird monster.
Unfortunately, the spiritual core of black humor that is most attractive about Deadpool comes from his inability to integrate forever. He always mutters those crazy words that others don't understand, always weird, always failing, continuing to recover from injuries, continuing to regroup.
And the last person who had the same spiritual core as him and was regarded as a standard was Don Quixote. People mocked his absurdity, but fell in love with his absurdity.
The tragic elements in comedy are like the string of a kite. Without that thin string, nothing floating in the sky can be controlled anymore, and it is no longer useful.
But no one can say that the string is the savior of the kite, because the existence of that string is only beneficial to the owner of the kite. Perhaps, without the string, the kite can obtain true freedom. Without the audience who likes the black humor of absurdity, Deadpool's tragedy will be truly ended—besides this, there is no other way. Only because of this is it a tragedy, only because of this is it fascinating enough. ===== CHAPTER 4188 =====
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