As the dazzling glow covered the earth, the surrounding undead seemed to be electrocuted, starting to tremble incessantly in place.
So many undead on the plain, the sound of these bones trembling merged into one, converging like the operation of a giant machine.
Su Ming reached out and grabbed a dry corpse nearby, the sensation of strangulation told him this monster was icy cold.
The undead just stared blankly at the sun on the distant horizon, that giant fireball rising very quickly, almost in the blink of an eye it was already high in the sky.
Even when someone grabbed his arm, he still forcefully turned his head, wanting to see that strange yet familiar sunlight.
"Everyone stop... Wade? Photo op when fighting, stop when not, want to deduct your pay?"
Wade immediately hid the knife behind his back, turned his head to one side, and started whistling.
"These undead... their consciousness has awoken, it's really haunting..."
The Secret Guest used her Great Sword to poke the monster beside her, and the monster was just unconscious, not dead, which means they had gained personality.
Her Soul Sword cannot directly harm humans, the gentle side of her heart is reflected in this weapon, if it hits a demon or undead, it will instantly turn to ashes.
But if it hits a human, even if the Great Sword pierces through the chest, they would only fall unconscious, not deadly.
If Lianna needs to kill someone, she'd have to use her fists and feet to finish off the unconscious person, the half-demonization gives her enough strength to crush a skull.
"What's this?! Ciri irritably rubbed her hair, these bizarre creatures are now neither living nor dead, this situation is too weird."
"To prevent me from resurrecting the undead and bringing 'death', Loki changed the form of these beings, their souls still belong to death, but acquired living bodies, and living things can't be resurrected twice."
Apparently, while Su Ming was preparing, Loki wasn't idle either, continuously blocking Deathstroke's plan.
"Can he pull this off?" Deadpool, whistling a little tune, curiously asked, in his impression, Loki wasn't that strong, at least he himself had never been deceived by Loki.
"With 'stories' together with the Stone of Destiny, maybe something else... He can pull it off, the Netherworld and Asgard are actually two sides of the same coin, like the two sides of a pizza..."
"Then which side is the toppings? The one with bacon and cheese is Asgard, right?" Wade chimed in again.
Su Ming pushed away the half-undead he was holding, that fellow's consciousness was gradually clearing, observing the surroundings, looking at Su Ming and others with a puzzled gaze.
"Quite the opposite, if topping is the 'time' concept, then the laden side is instead the Netherworld, its owner is a Time Traveler."
"Time, I hate time's riddles, can I call Cable?" Wade squatted down, fiddling with a little black flower on the ground with his fingers.
He exerted a slight force, pulling the flower from the ground, at its root a white bone was attached, a terribly pitiful scream came from the soil.
"Is this Mandrake? JK Rowling has been to the Netherworld? It's not quite what I pictured." Deadpool fiddled with his ear, the scream from earlier didn't make him faint, but earwax shook out.
Su Ming looked at Deadpool with the black flower: "This is cough... Spore Flower, you can try it, it's a very magical herb, it lets you savor the highest enjoyment in the human world."
Deadpool lowered his head to look at the flower, glancing at his cousin hidden behind a mask.
"Really?"
"Mm, really, dream has it all." Su Ming sincerely said, while his gaze wandered into the distance, seeming to search for something.
"Then I'll try... chew chew..." Deadpool lifted the bottom of his mask, swallowed the black flower in one bite: "The flavor isn't pronounced, but there's a taste like lettuce pizza, however... the aftertaste... upchuck..."
Before finishing the sentence, Wade toppled to the ground head-first, like a sack, motionless, spewing a tongue dyed black.
Su Ming immediately withdrew his distant gaze, quickly came to Wade's side, laid two fingers on his carotid artery, couldn't feel a thing, his body quickly chilling like ice.
"Dead." Hamill blandly said, being able to say thoughts after eating a Death Spore Flower before dying, Deadpool was the first he's seen.
"Mm, thoroughly dead."
Su Ming stood up, took off his cloak letting it transform again into a flying carpet, put the corpse on it, and a few of them relied on the cloak to swiftly advance towards the sunrise location, if nothing unexpected happened, Loki and Hel should both be there.
The Secret Guest silently boarded the flying carpet, found a spot to sit cross-legged, but Ciri showed an exhausted expression.
"Isn't he your cousin?"
"Mm... strictly speaking there's no blood relation, but the world's laws dictated he is my cousin, explaining is quite difficult."
"Then why did you poison him?"
"In this world, dead alive, alive dead are ordinary things, I poisoned him for his own good, if you don't believe, wait till he revives, he'll thank me."
"Uh, I don't believe."
Don't mention gratitude, she doesn't even believe in resurrection.
"I told you to learn more, but you just run around playing crazily every day. If you wish to revive Vesmir someday, then study hard and learn well."
At the mention of the old man's name, Ciri's eyes reddened again. She turned her head to look at the black land and the undead army beneath the flying carpet and remained silent.
Su Ming urged the cloak to continue forward, while in the distant horizon, a World Tree was gradually transforming from illusion to reality.
"Manifestation, story," Hamill pointed to the side.
"To manifest the shadow of the World Tree, it can actually replicate another World Tree using the roots of the Asgardian World Tree." Su Ming frowned slightly; it seems Loki plans to create a peculiar world much like a spinning top.
The boundaries between Asgard and the Netherworld have begun to blur; for this plan, Su Ming has something quite similar...
"Ah!!!"
Deadpool suddenly came back to life; he jumped up from the cloak, almost falling off.
"Alive? You did it kind of fast." Su Ming glanced at him, then continued to focus on the horizon, the new target there.
"Slade, I always thought you just wanted to deceive me, never expected you were so nice to me, thank you." Wade wiped his eyes emotionally, brushing away the non-existent tears: "That was the ultimate pleasure; I never knew skeletons could be so exciting. If I didn't know it was a dream, I wouldn't want to wake up."
Su Ming glanced at Ciri, "See what I mean?"
Loki thought sealing off the soul's path would prevent Su Ming from contacting death, but he couldn't guard against Deadpool.
As long as you toss a tough guy like the little cousin towards death, how could the thirsty scorned woman not be captivated? Death usually has a skeleton face, so Wade's dried avocado mixed with baby vomit face doesn't seem that odd, right?
The first official meeting between Deadpool and Death should have been after the Infinite War, though they actually knew each other long before.
During the transformation process of the X Weapon Plan, Deadpool frequently hovered at the brink of death, and in the haze, he felt a soft yet cold body turning all experimental pain into desire.
That was, indeed, Death.
Death was merely curious about who could dodge death, finding Deadpool an interesting person capable of cracking jokes for amusement; she was delighted, wanting Deadpool truly dead to accompany her.
Unfortunately, by then, the cancer cells had invaded Wade's brain, rendering him mostly confused.
He treated the events as hallucinations, the cold body as Vanessa, enduring the experimental transformation and solidifying his will to survive.
His priority was to survive for revenge.
Death left in disappointment because Wade chose revenge over her.
Additionally, Thanos discovered the affair between her and Deadpool, and the jealous pursuer cursed Deadpool to live forever, never to meet Death.
Despite Deadpool being unaware.
Afterwards, he killed the deceitful Francis for revenge, cohabited with Vanessa, continuing his mercenary endeavors, yet couldn't resist drawing a large group of women with his insatiable cravings.
This was Deadpool's original tale.
Now in Su Ming's 1945, Deadpool should be nonexistent, sending him to Death's presence now changes future Death's pursuit of Wade into rekindling past romance, yet Deadpool probably still won't recognize her.
Can't help it, skeletons appear as pale frames with black sockets, difficult to identify.
A mercenary isn't a forensic expert able to distinguish people by bone structure.
However, Su Ming's plan is just that, letting Wade captivate Death now, thereby Loki's actions inevitably caught by her eyes.
Wade is currently known as the only human able to visit and safely return from the Court of Death; perhaps Su Ming too, though he still prefers DC's Death more.
Marvel's Death vacillates between Thanos and Deadpool, indulging in the benefits brought by the purple-skinned puppy while longing for the joy from the red-black avocado.
The crux is her overwhelming commitment to her profession, trying to hasten death's arrival, with the purple puppy obliging her desires.
Ultimately licking up nothing.
On the DC side, Death's attitude is serene; although also anthropomorphized concepts, she patiently awaits with a smile, never accelerating others' death nor allowing the destined-to-die to live.
Overall, this side feels more human, that side more programmatic, neither better nor worse since both are death concepts.
If given a choice, Su Ming hopes for a normal procedure if he kicks the bucket someday.
Fortunately, the higher the anthropomorphization level, the more exploitable factors arise; regardless of her immense power, she can't guard against Deathstroke's scheming.
When Wade faces Loki or even Odin, whom would Death assist? The answer is almost self-evident, sometimes such unreasonable concepts can be quite handy.