Chapter 4188: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (VI)

And Gwen is completely the opposite: she comes from a world very similar to the real world, where all superheroes are comics—it can be said that she is actually a time traveler. She thinks she knows everything about the comic world.

But precisely because of this, she has a deeper and more real understanding of the "popularity theory" in comics than Deadpool, that is: it is not just low-popularity characters who will die.

The more the audience likes a character, the more they draw that character, so that they can sell more. Then, probably only the fans of those less popular characters will scold comic companies for over-commercialization.

But in fact, it is completely not like this. Almost all character fans are scolding, and the more popular the character, the more fierce the scolding. Because the more popular the character, the more value must be squeezed out. Comic companies rely on these few popular characters to make money.

No matter how popular a character is, if they keep drawing the same story, no one will buy it. However, the attributes that can be depicted on a character are limited. For example, you can't describe Superman working out, Flash jogging in the morning, Batman playing clappers, etc., which conflict with the character's attributes. The things that can be described are very limited.

However, in order for these characters to appear in comics and make money, they have to think of some outrageous stories, using outrageousness as a selling point to seduce fans to watch, wanting fans to pay for it.

It is even for the sake of being able to submit manuscripts on time and achieve the scheduled sales, drawing whatever is strange, drawing whatever attracts attention, completely ignoring the character's original settings, just relying on curiosity to rush sales.

Low popularity will be forgotten, which is a kind of extinction; but if the popularity is too high, the character becomes completely unlike himself, isn't that death?

Gwen, as a time traveler who has read all kinds of comics, is too familiar with these routines of comic companies. Being too prominent and too mediocre are both not working. Not to mention, the probability of a character appearing is not only affected by fans, but also by political winds, investor opinions, media reviews, public opinion, etc.

Precisely because Gwen knows these things very well, she chose the positioning that suits her best, that is: a comedic character.

Comedic characters are invincible. This law applies not only to comics. In the public opinion field, in the mouths of media critics, and in the mouths of other fans, everything she does can be explained as "this guy is just here to be funny, don't care about her."

However, there is still that sentence: once tragic elements are mixed into comedy, just like a kite having a string, she will be controlled and will become that kind of absurd character of black humor—this is not what Gwen wants.

So, she refuses to cover herself in any form: she won't compile any painful background for herself, and refuses to let anyone misunderstand that she has hidden feelings. So she always has to hang "comics" on her lips, meet a character, and poke his lung tube with the story of the other party she knows, firmly not integrating, showing no demand for the collective and society. Because only in this way can she be a kite that flies freely forever, without being tied up by any bullshit background story.

Of course, she also needs to balance her popularity: if it is too low, she has to raise it a bit, and if it is too high, she has to suppress it a bit. Judging from her performance today, Schiller thinks her popularity should be good recently, or a bit too high, so she has to find a way to behave in a way that people dislike, and then throw the shark-dog with higher popularity to him.

If there are no accidents, she will also make trouble in various ways during this journey, behaving like a "troublemaker" who holds back, so as to balance her popularity.

And this is what Schiller wants. The two of them don't need to deliberately make trouble—disliking each other and holding back might cause greater destruction than carefully planning a conspiracy.

More importantly, if you find a very planned person to do this, it actually hits the gun of electronic lifeforms. Because what electronic lifeforms are best at is logical reasoning, and the speed of checking for leaks and filling gaps is faster than anyone else, and they can soon block the loopholes. This not only fails to distract attention, but also belongs to helping them reduce program loopholes, which is really not cost-effective.

But if you find these two comedic characters who can't get along at all to wander around their territory, the series of chain reactions caused by the "bad luck effect" brought by those comedic attributes is enough for those rigid electronic lifeforms to drink a pot. And they can't notice where it is wrong at all, which is not something that can be filled by filling loopholes.

Schiller first bought some raw meat, and then found that Jeff didn't eat raw meat. Schiller grilled meat on the stove in the side yard. After feeding a large piece of pork ribs and half a chicken, Jeff was full, lying on the pavilion in the garden with a round belly, sunbathing, and humming from time to time.

And at this time, the small spaceships and the alien travelers who came to help arrived at the same time. Considering that there were mutants responsible for receiving the goods, Schiller went to see the helpers from the other world.

They were gathering in the arrival hall of the space station. As soon as Schiller walked in, he saw a sea of Robins. This was more shocking than seeing a room full of Batmen, because on average, each Batman had two or three Robins, and it was a lot of people when put together.

Don't look at the Robins' relationship being a bit subtle, but after coming to a strange universe, they were still more willing to stay with their own universe's companions, rather than looking for counterparts, and were whispering to each other in twos and threes at the moment.

When Schiller walked in, everyone turned their eyes to him. Schiller felt a headache: Batman really didn't treat himself as an outsider. When the main universe Batman sent Robins to the arrogant universe for foster care, he only sent one team, but dozens of teams came here.

To be honest, if it weren't for being too short of people, he would absolutely not let so many Robins come over at the same time—this was more lethal than Batman. Batman is a smart and cautious adult, while Robins are smart, strong, and clever, but all are teenagers.

This means that the first three advantages are all disadvantages: smart means thinking of one thing and another, strong means unstoppable, clever means full of ghost ideas. And now, there is a room full of such teenagers here.

And the reason why Batman would agree to send the Robins over is actually because they might also be a bit unable to stand it.

In the previous multiverse war, most of the Robins did not participate. For various reasons, Batman was unwilling to let them come to fight this war, and some didn't even tell them.

But such things can't be hidden, especially after having the Battleworld, the whole world is discussing the multiverse war, just they didn't participate, and didn't understand, the Robins must have complaints.

Especially after learning that many Batmen sacrificed in the war, or encountered various difficulties, and finally lost the war, the resentment was even greater.

During the period after the war ended, the Bat-nests of various universes appeared to varying degrees of explosions, and the Robins made a lot of noise.

This was also fine, the most terrible thing was those universes where Robins went, but not all Robins went, such as the Arkham Batman universe, Arkham Knight went to the battlefield, while Nightwing and Robin didn't come. Can these two not be angry?

It just so happens that this is the key stage of cosmic transformation, and it is necessary to set up a magic defense network, review the war, and analyze various materials from the next door. Batman is busy with his feet not touching the ground.

Being unable to do anything about the Robins' noise, they could only settle for the next best thing, and also let the Robins have a multiverse trip, so they sent them to Marvel here. But because they were worried about making too much trouble, they were concentrated and sent to Schiller here.

It just so happens that Schiller is short of manpower here. Anyway, catching strong men from anywhere is catching. Robins are good labor, so he received them.

But making a decision and seeing it with his own eyes are two different things. Seeing so many Robins, Schiller sighed. He didn't dare to imagine what it would be like later. God bless the Milky Way.

"Ahem." He cleared his throat and said, "Now everyone take out the mobile phones distributed to you, scan this code, and download the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy software. Everyone read the guide carefully, and then you have one day to form a team. We will start distributing spaceships tomorrow night..."

Just as he said this, the Robins exploded:

"There are spaceships?!"

"Didn't they say it was tourism???"

"Where are we going?"

"What is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?"

Schiller was stunned. Did Batman not tell them? It is estimated that he was too busy to take care of it, so he said: "You are not here for tourism, but to work. We are doing the Milky Way construction plan, and now we need manpower to explore all parts of the Milky Way. You need to form a team of three to five people, and we will distribute the necessary equipment and a small spaceship."

"Cool!!!!"

"Milky Way? Is it the Milky Way I know? Or is it the name of a game hall?"

"But we don't know how to drive a spaceship..."

"Are we going to have a cosmic war?"

"Is it like Star Wars?"

Schiller pressed his forehead with some headache. He thought that after the poisoning of the Spider Army, he could face this scene freely, but in fact, the Robins, who looked much more introverted than Spider-Man, were not inferior, and they were also noisy and buzzing.

"Alright! Alright!" Schiller shouted, "All the questions you want to know are written in the guide, go back and read it carefully, if it really doesn't work, go find Spider-Man and ask..."

"Spider-Man? Is it the Spider-Man I know?"

"Batman mentioned him, did he write a "Gotham Travelogue" or something?"

"I ranked him before, he has a very powerful sense of danger, I fought him for a long time and couldn't hit him."

"That guy is also very strong, he is a very powerful opponent."

"Hmph, Batman likes him very much, you don't know..."

The discussion in the room was more enthusiastic. Schiller took a deep breath and shouted: "Quiet!!!"

Everyone finally quieted down and looked at him. Schiller continued: "Alright, now everyone follow me through the portal and go back to S. H. I. E. L. D. Agents will emphasize the precautions to you. Follow me."

Schiller waved his hand, and everyone followed behind him. As a result, when they reached the portal, there was another discussion, discussing the color of the portal for a while, discussing the mage for a while, and discussing the space station for a while... Schiller felt like he was leading primary school students on a spring outing.

And after passing through the portal back to S. H. I. E. L. D., sure enough, there was another chattering, and while discussing, they took pictures and checked in, completely coming for tourism.

Schiller could only stand aside helplessly, watching them take pictures and upload them to the Internet in the most secret agent organization base in the world, while thinking viciously in his heart: It is Batman who should pay me the labor fee! ===== CHAPTER 4189 =====