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Chapter 921: Recruiting Amazing Teammates
Chapter 921: Recruiting Amazing Teammates
It was a peaceful Saturday morning. On the top floor of the Baxter Building, Peter was about to travel through the multiverse portal to the Wasteland Universe, where he would first find Logan the Old Wolf, and then head to other universes to find his teammates.
But Peter didn't set off immediately; instead, he chatted with Johnny the Human Torch, or rather, he didn't know who to chat with.
"To put it simply, your relationships with the two girls have finally taken a turn for the better, one after another, but this has put you in a moral predicament."
Johnny, sipping his canned soda, listened to Peter's account and then burped: "Well, uh, I don't think you did anything wrong in the whole thing. Your biggest mistake was not rejecting any girl, whether it was a confession, a date, or the final step. In short, you neither took the initiative nor refused."
"—Is there a next line to that statement?"
"Irresponsible? That's Batman's style, well, maybe it could be me and Tony Stark, but it's not for you."
Johnny picked up another can of Coke as he spoke: "So the problem now is, if you don't want to hurt both girls, you have to figure out a way to either reject one of them and draw a line—of course, you can't do that. If you could, you should have rejected them in the first place. Isn't that a character trait? Spider-Man can't refuse anyone's request, even if that request is for them both to be your girlfriend?"
Peter glanced at Johnny speechlessly: "I'm actually grateful for Secret Warfare right now, at least I can run away first. Although I don't think it's a good idea to ask you, but—"
"Indeed, I can't give you any good advice. I don't think coming to me will get you anywhere."
Peter was speechless. "I was just saying that, buddy, how come you're actually not doing anything?"
Johnny looked at Peter's resentful eyes, smiled helplessly, and shrugged. "Our situations are different, brother. I'm like the old Tony Stark; I just played around with those girls, and we all knew it was just for fun. It's completely different for you; these are two different situations, two different problems."
"Simply put, if I just show that I'm the Human Torch, I'm Johnny Storm, and with my face and my considerate personality, I could find a lot of girls to date. But do I really want to date a girl like that? That's impossible. Your problem is the complete opposite of mine."
"That's fine. At least I have to fight a secret war for a while, and then I can leave this problem to my future self."
Speaking of Secret Wars, after Johnny finished his second can of Coke, a sudden idea struck him: "Yeah, Secret Wars, Secret Wars is a great opportunity, Peter!"
"—You mean I should seek guidance from the predecessors of the infinite multiverse?"
Johnny rolled his eyes at Peter: "Of course not. Think about it, you're going to a dangerous battlefield where you could die at any moment, your fate unknown. Every day that passes, your girls will worry about you more and more. When they're so anxious they're practically pacing around in circles, they won't care that they have the same boyfriend anymore."
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At this point, Johnny, for reasons unknown, added a stab in the back: "That is, assuming they really love you."
"—That trick didn't work. Cindy can sense my physical condition and location; she can tell if I'm healthy."
"It'll at least work on the other girl." Johnny added after saying that, "Of course, you can also get injured or go into a coma to affect them. If you can get some kind of way to come back to life, maybe you can try dying? If dying once can make both girls not care about this, I think it's a pretty good deal."
Peter rolled his eyes at Johnny again, feeling that there was no way to communicate with him, so he shook his head and prepared to leave. It was about time, and it was time to set off.
It was at this moment that Johnny noticed something was amiss.
"Wait, you're about to embark on your journey, aren't the two girls planning to see you off?!"
"My initial plan was to leave suddenly. I felt that saying goodbye would be very difficult in this situation, and it would be easy to make some strange mistakes."
""
Johnny laughed. "And now?"
"Now it's even less likely that I'll say anything."
Peter sighed helplessly, "Alright, I'm off."
"Yeah, it's nothing. Remember to tell me what fun things happened when you get back."
Peter left Earth 616 amidst Johnny's completely devoid of sadness. His first stop was the Spider-Man League headquarters, where he needed to discuss the situation with the Spider-Men.
In fact, Peter had already come once before and confirmed that Miguel's 2099 universe would participate in this secret war. In addition, many Spider-Web Alliance members, including the 1602 Shakespeare universe, had received invitations.
He came to check the situation. Although the Beyonder didn't allow Peter to recruit other Spider-Men, he didn't say they weren't allowed to communicate and form teams in advance!
"The list is all here, it should be complete. The Spider-Men who have joined the universe have basically notified their respective teams. We just need to determine a common code, and we can quickly form a huge alliance."
As Miguel shared the data with Peter, he added, "Do you think it's that simple?"
"It's hard to say. I think the Transcendent must have prepared some big project for us. He doesn't care at all about our private interactions."
Peter glanced at the file containing thousands of names and nodded. "Alright, I'll go recruit Logan now."
""
Do you think it can work?
"Of course," Peter said confidently. "After all, we've fought side by side before, and I believe he'll be willing to fight alongside us."
No, I refuse.
Logan, who was farming at home in the wasteland, refused Peter's invitation, much to Peter's surprise. Logan answered Peter's question with a very simple reason: "The answer is obvious, kid. I don't need anything right now, and I don't need to fight for anything. I think my life is pretty good right now."
"But the One Who Transcends Says—"
"I know that an omnipotent being can grant a wish. Regardless of whether it's true or not, I've already let go of the past."
Have you let go?
Logan, leaning on his hoe, looked at Peter: "Compared to that, can't you find other old men? In any universe, there are old men who haven't met you, right? Not everyone's fate is changed. Go find them."
"You don't need to come looking for me."