During the fall, there was just enough time for a conversation. Instead of using the cloak to fly, Su Ming jumped down himself, intending to ask some questions during these moments.
At this moment, Hel was still waiting for Su Ming's answers, asking him how he knew her secrets, but this was destined to be left unanswered.
"Does it matter?"
Su Ming asked the same question again, but the different context left Hel speechless.
Feeling the strong wind sweeping past his head and shoulders, Su Ming sighed slightly and asked, "Is it worth it?"
Hel remained silent.
The decisions of a god are hard for ordinary people to understand. Over a long life, doing something often isn't because it's worth doing.
One wants to do it, so one does.
"Your story was poorly written by Loki. Don't you plan to change it?" Su Ming asked another question, although the whistling of the airflow was incessant, he knew Hel could hear him.
Hel finally weakly answered; her body couldn't even cope with the feeling of weightlessness brought by the rapid descent. She felt she really was about to die, everything seemed to become light and airy.
"Isn't he changing it now? You think you won, but his goal has been achieved. The moment you defeated me, history was changed."
"I certainly know, because I shouldn't have existed in this universe at all. Actually, when I arrived, everything should have changed. It was Loki who forcibly continued this contradictory story."
Su Ming responded calmly. He had long since made judgment about such things.
As for winning or losing?
As long as he gets the benefits, he doesn't care who you think won. Mercenaries don't care about that.
If Hel is willing to provide Su Ming with a sufficient and stable supply of Death Spore Flowers, and other Netherworld specialties of undead creatures for trade, they could cooperate again next time.
Life is inherently a process of constantly losing time. For ordinary people, time is limited, and someday it will all be lost, lost to the world.
It's just that some people lose quickly, while others lose slowly.
And what these times are exchanged for, that is the meaning of life's value.
From Hel's words, Su Ming understood Loki's thoughts.
Indeed, if we consider time continuity, Wade is not Loki's opponent, because even if he won this one, another time segment's Loki may emerge.
Manipulating timelines often results in two outcomes depending on the manipulator.
One is to change the future world, creating a time paradox like the Terminator, or rewriting history to achieve the desired outcomes.
For example, Loki, Secret Guest, and Doom manipulate timelines, more like jumping along the original time to the upper reaches to rewrite the origin again and reap the results in the future.
The other is to make changes at key points in time, thereby creating a completely different timeline, like creating a parallel universe.
Representatives of this are Conqueror Kang and Barry, The Flash.
Su Ming relied on Secret Guest for his time-travel journeys, so the continuity of time necessarily affects him, meaning changing the world is destined.
Even though Loki seems to have achieved his strategic goals, he also lost because the house always wins in the end - the God of Gods.
He must have realized this in the future, which led to today's actions, attempting to escape the cage of the Marvel World.
Inexplicably, Su Ming recalled a line from a book.
'People inside the city want to get out, and people outside want to rush in.'
Many people think that Marvel's world is light and easygoing, but the truth is that Marvel's darkness is just hidden deeper.
They only see the white star on Captain America's shield shining brightly, but who remembers how the red star on Baki's arm came to be?
On the DC side, the villains are more apparent. Except for a few individuals, their motives are mostly intuitive and understandable.
For example, the Penguin Man, who sells arms and runs gangs just to make money; Zod, who wants to conquer Earth; Darkseid, who wants to rule the cosmos; and the Joker, who just wants fun...
For these purposes, they may perform various cruel or mad actions, but readers can understand because these are straightforward concepts, shadows of which we always find in life.
At most, one might exclaim how dark it is.
But Marvel is different. Villains often act for an intangible greater good, or it's hard to judge whether their actions are right or wrong.
For example, Hydra's ultimate ideal was to bring Earth into a fully ordered society, where everyone follows the law, building a utopian era together, and in the comics, Red Skull achieved that with the Cosmic Cube.
Not only did he make everyone have a good life, but Earth saw no more crime, wars, or famines. He even generously published Captain America comics and sold Captain America figurines.
But Captain America, for 'free will,' shattered the reality formed by the Cosmic Cube, returning the world to the 'right track' full of freedom and chaos.
Considering this matter, who is really the villain? Presumably, those who died from war or hunger would have a different view from Steve.
Then look at Little Spider's villain, Doctor Octopus, who sought new energy sources for humanity but ended up losing his wife and going mad himself.
Doctor Lizard, who developed a serum for disabled people worldwide, ended up meeting a tragic fate.
The Vulture was a small contracting boss forced onto a dead end by Stark Enterprises.
Even Striker, who researched Sentinel Robots, originally aimed to maintain human dominance over Earth.
From this, one can deduce that if the world indeed has its own will, the will of the Marvel World must have a dark and sinister nature.
Here, no matter how good an action's starting point is, under its influence, it will slide towards the most tragic direction, and from a certain angle, it appears like a comedy.
The darkness hides beneath these comedies, and if you 'just watch without thinking,' you'll never recognize it.
However, the 199999 Universe, that is, the MCU film universe, really is quite relaxed.
Over there, they're sheltered from the wind and rain. Even if the outer All-Powerful Universe becomes chaotic, it remains a Peach Blossom Spring. The multitude collisions seem not to involve them.
Regrettably, that's just wishful thinking, the power level of the film universe is way too low, utterly meaningless to Deathstroke.
However, some details in Loki's story do resemble the film universe, leading Su Ming to think he might have learned something.
Given that the Loki at the end of time mentioned knowing Deadpool, it's very likely that these outer universe affairs were indeed disclosed by Wade, the big mouth.
Could it be that Deadpool and Loki's friendship actually began now?
The two keep changing back and forth, ultimately unable to do anything to each other, leading to mutual respect and an involuntary attraction? Ending their feuds with a kiss?
Su Ming shivered; that was a bit nauseating.
"Do you know about the Multiverse theory?" He asked Hel, shifting the topic.
"I know, but how is that related to our current situation?" Hel lay weakly, carried on his shoulder, her long hair hanging down as she questioned.
"There's a Multiverse where many Otherworldly Transmigrators entered, and they all love another version of you, wishing to marry you," Su Ming said as a joke, even though Hel probably didn't get the gag.
Sure enough, Hel didn't understand. She let out a cold laugh, speaking intermittently, "That world must be naïve, naïve enough to make someone willing to fall in love with a decayed corpse."
Su Ming shook his head, who knows if the MCU version of Hel is alive or dead, but the odds are higher for a living corpse. Anyway, his only interest in corpses is... scavenging their treasures when they were alive.
And it's not just naivety that makes people do such things, madness can equally drive them.
Like Deadpool.
If you tell him that half of Hel's body is alive and half is dead, possessing an icy and fiery nature, their cousin would be delighted. Even if the Netherworld aura might corrode his dingding, doesn't he have self-healing ability?
But if making Hel surrender depends solely on Deadpool, that's certainly impossible.