Chapter 206: The Green Light Shines Forever, and the Light Shines Forever
Time: 2099
"Wade, Wade Wilson! Come out, I know you're here. A crisp female voice rang out in an old, even a bit run-down, apartment building.
"Don't think I don't know you're hiding, you're here, I can smell you. I can't hide the smell of old people. It's Christmas, come out quickly. With a few days left in 2099 and it was coming to an end, I bought a turkey and we could eat it together. ”
This dilapidated apartment building is located in New York's Old Queen District, which was once second best after Manhattan. But now, over the years, the old Queens has slowly become a decadent. There are many reasons for this, but the most important of them is that there is not enough energy.
Large numbers of Queens moved to New Queens, a new neighborhood to the east of New York. All the residents lived in the tube building (non-Chinese tube building). It's a very tall building, but the interior is very small. The long circular building looks like a chimney or a pen holder, so it is called a tube building.
The living space in the building is very oppressive. Most families of three can only live in a house of about 30 square meters. This minimizes energy consumption for heating, cooling and lighting. Moreover, the domestic garbage in the building will be recycled and recycled as much as possible.
According to Wade Wilson in 2099, "Living in a tube building, the water you drink today is actually the same pee you poured yesterday, but it was filtered once." ”
For Wade Wilson, living in a tube building is nothing short of an insult and a mockery for him. So he preferred to live in a run-down apartment building in the abandoned Old Queens district. At least the place is big enough, Wade said.
However, it is not convenient to live here, because there is no water and electricity here. But Wade will always have a way, and he can always get some energy to generate electricity for his diesel generator. Because he was once a famous Deadpool!
In a room in the northeast corner of the apartment building, where all the windows were sealed to prevent a ray of light from shining through (of course, the light could not shine through), a shriveled old man couldn't help but pout when he heard his daughter Ellie's call: "Why don't I continue to play games and drink Coke here?"
That's right, this shriveled old man is none other than Deadpool. He's very, very old now. As a man born in the late seventies and early eighties, Wade is now in his centennial. In terms of the average person's lifespan, he should have died a long time ago.
But Wade's special ability makes him unable to die, but although he can't die, it doesn't mean that Wade won't age. If the young Deadpool Wade looks like an avocado, the old Deadpool looks like a bitter melon.
Wade didn't wear a mask, and the skin on his face had long since become invisible, as if it was a completely mutated skin cancer. Coupled with the age spots that come after getting older, Wade looks even more scary than when he was younger.
Although the apartment building is very dilapidated, this room is quite good by Wade, at least it has air conditioning, and the lighting is also good, and there is a comfortable large bed and sofa. Some of the skin on the walls of the room began to peel off, and Wade used various posters to paste the walls. Some of these posters are old, yellowed and faded, and probably look as old as Wade.
This is a poster of a superhero from Wade's most glorious era. There are Captain America, Iron Man, X-Men, Avengers, Spider-Man, Punisher, and many more. There are hundreds of different heroes. The best images of their lives are plastered on the wall.
Iron Man flies in the air in MK23, Captain America throws his shield, Spider-Man wanders among the high-rise jungles of Manhattan, and Wolverine stretches out his claws to tear through the steel armor. It was the best era of heroes, the era when everyone was fighting.
There was also a huge poster posted in the living room, which was a group photo. It was taken together on the eve of the introduction of the masked superhero registration bill. In a group photo of more than 100 heroes in New York, Iron Man and Captain America stood in the front and middle C position. And there is a very eye-catching person who directly competes with the two of them for the C position in the way of lying down. The man was wearing a red-and-black uniform, and it was none other than the young Deadpool.
On the poster, Wade marked the names of each hero, Spider-Man: Peter Parker, Iron Man: Tony Stark, etc. The poster is old, but the color of the pen with the name on it is still new.
Wade glanced at the poster he had pasted on the wall as if he suddenly remembered something, he picked up a pen and wrote the words "Laser Eye: Scott" under the poster of Cyclops.
"yes, I remembered. He was supposed to be called by that name. Looks like it's still good to play some games. Wade smiled in satisfaction, then went back to his couch and played games on the TV screen. The game is very, very old, and Wade has only recently acquired it in various ways.
This is a PS2 game, a fighting game called "X-Men VS Avengers", the 2 game consoles have been discontinued for I don't know how many years, and the one in Wade's hand is still assembled by himself with various parts. And the game disc was also burned by i after assembling a recorder by himself.
Even the TV set was modified by itself, because the TV in 2099 did not have a socket for PS2 game consoles at all.
"Hmm, that's stupid. Can Cyclops' trick only shoot shots?" Wade couldn't help but complain while playing with the game console: "Actually, Cyclops has other abilities, and he has ...... He has ......" Wade squeaked for a long time, and didn't say what other abilities Cyclops had.
"Oh yes! Cyclops can also release lightning! Yes, Cyclops can also release lightning storms!" Wade pressed Stormgirl's trick to Cyclops, not feeling like he was saying anything wrong. With that, he picked up a box of Coca-Cola at his feet, opened it, and took a sip.
"Wade, the lightning storm is the Storm Girl's trick, not Scott's!" A girl pushed open the door of Wade's room, and directly corrected what Wade had just said wrongly: "Your memory is getting worse and worse now." Come home with me. ”
"Ellie. Wade reluctantly glanced at the girl who broke in, and the person who came was none other than his daughter Ellie. It was the daughter he had with his girlfriend back then.
Unlike Wade, who is ugly, Ellie is very beautiful. The light brown skin is smooth and delicate, and the long black hair is like fine silk. There is a sense of heroism between the eyebrows. Ellie didn't inherit Wade's ugliness, but she inherited some of Wade's abilities. A special ability.
Ellie doesn't die either, and it's a little different from Wade's way of not dying. Ellie's abilities awakened at the age of sixteen, and that time period became a watershed moment in Ellie's life. If Ellie dies, then her body will be reset back to the age of sixteen.
So Ellie is actually in her nineties this year, but she still looks like a young woman in her twenties.
At that time, Wade found out that he actually had a daughter, so he quit the heroic civil war halfway through and went into hiding to protect and take care of his daughter. It's just that he didn't expect that he would have to hide for more than 90 years in the end.
Ellie walked into the room and looked at the room full of hero posters and the old games her dad was playing, and she knew that Wade was stuck in the old days again. Although Wade always looked like a cynical bastard when he was younger, and even an anti-hero.
But Ellie knew very well how soft her father's heart was. In fact, Wade was a supporter of the Hero Registration Act back then. And they were the first to sign it. It's puzzling that an anti-hero, a mercenary, actually supports the registration bill. This bill is clearly bad for Deadpool.
Because once Deadpool's information is made public, then countless enemies will come to the door. But Wade still did it without hesitation, because even Deadpool has his own insistence, that is, [public interest first]!
As an anti-hero, Deadpool is a maverick, but he still puts the public interest ahead of private interests. And Wade never refused a child's request.
Ellie is well aware of her father's weakness, but Deadpool has never been so uninhibited in the eyes of others. His superficial ease is just to hide his inner uneasiness. Just like now, he is extremely nostalgic for the past, and he has regrets for his retirement all these years. I should have been more decisive in standing up to stop this civil war.
Wade's mind is actually very heavy now. Ellie knows this by looking at the walls full of hero posters. Wade's memory is declining, and he can't remember a lot of the events of that year. But he was still forcing himself to memorize the names of his comrades-in-arms back then.
If you can't memorize it, write it on the poster with a signature pen. So he can look at the poster and remember who this person is and what he did back then. This history has been destroyed by the Normans. Wade often said that he was probably the last historical truth to be sung, and he wanted to write down the name of the hero. One day, he will correct the names of these heroes who have been smeared by Norman, vindicate their grievances, and erect a monument for them.
Ellie couldn't help but sigh, and just as she was about to say something, she suddenly found the case of Coca-Cola at Wade's feet, and she couldn't help but jump: "You were just drinking Coke?!"
"yes, you need to drink Coke to play games. That's what makes me happy. Wade, who was still playing fighting games, didn't look back at his daughter.
And Ellie is going crazy: "These Cokes are expired!"
"Nonsense, these are the good things I found from a warehouse just last week. Wade retorted.
"Coca-Cola will go out of business in 2059! And don't you think these cokes are weird?"
"Huh?"
"When did Coca-Cola ever come out with a green Coke, don't you think it's strange when you drink it?"
But Wade didn't care and picked up the Coke and took another sip: "It doesn't matter, I can't die anyway." ”
Listening to her father say this, Ellie's heart was a little mixed. She shook her head: "By the way, why did you leave the package you got at the door and not bring it in?"
"What package?"
"This. Ellie raised a small package in her hand, which was not too large.
"Well, maybe I forgot. Wade wasn't so sure. But the reason was right, Ellie thought that her old father had done such a thing.
Ellie: "What's inside?"
Wade: "Forget. ”
Ellie:......
Ellie: "Then I'll help you take it apart." ”
Wade: "Let's tear it down." ”
Ellie unwrapped the small package, and it was tightly wrapped. There is also a lot of bubble wrap inside, and the bubble wrap is a small box. Ellie opened the box and found that it was actually a ring, and the ring surface was made of unknown materials, and it looked very green and beautiful. I don't know if it's emerald or emerald.
Ellie picked up the ring and put it on and said excitedly, "Is this a Christmas present for me? I love it!" In Ellie's opinion, it was likely that this was Wade's Christmas present to himself, but he probably forgot it himself.
Hearing Ellie say this, Wade couldn't help but think about it: he didn't go out to buy gifts. If Ellie hadn't come today, I'd have forgotten that Christmas is coming. Naturally, it is impossible to prepare any gifts on your own.
Wade couldn't help but put down the gamepad and looked back at the ring that Ellie was wearing on her hand, and just glanced at Wade before subconsciously saying, "The green light is always bright, and the light is forever!" (Note)
A green light spread out in the room.
PS: 3,800 words chapter, ask for votes.
Note: The actor of Deadpool in the movie "Deadpool" is the actor of the movie "Green Lantern", and both roles are played by the same person.