Chapter 24 Missed Plot
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Indeed, in Dr. Manhattan's perception, there are still traces of this new universe that merged with the Watcher universe he once was in, and restarted the incomplete new 52DC universe due to his own intervention. Whether it is the city of Metropolis, the city of Gotham, the city of Central City, or the city of Atlantis under the sea, they all exist. But in the Metropolitan Daily Planet, there is only one editor-in-chief named Clark Kent and his wife, Louise Lane.
In Gotham, there is only a billionaire philanthropist named Bruce Wayne and his three adopted sons, a son and a daughter, and there are also some sideshows with several outstanding ladies. In Central City, a crime scene investigator named Barry Allen was taking his wife to dinner at his parents' home, and he bid farewell to his parents after eating. And the underwater Atlantis civilization is protected by a layer of water and remains isolated from the world.
Human underwater detectors will not see them, and they will not appear in front of humans and cause a sensation. But it shouldn’t be like this, even if the two universes are merged, there shouldn’t be any trace left. The reason why they are all dead is because of the perceived individuals in the metropolis, Gotham... these cities It's just a single individual, without dual identities, and without any superpowers, just a purely normal person.
When he perceived all this, Dr. Manhattan was puzzled. He still didn't believe the words of the savior Ke Wen. His perception extended again, extending to Mars, and saw the vanished Martian civilization. Extending again, extending to the beginning of everything The end, the ruined Krypton. He saw that Krypton had been blown into an asteroid belt, but there was no trace of civilization left on it.
Dr. Manhattan still does not believe in evil, and his perception continues to extend. Since Krypton exists, there also exists Apocalypse, and he has also seen it. The planet that hosts the dark power of the universe is now just a dilapidated, lifeless death star. With the return of perception, Dr. Manhattan looked at Ke Wen, the savior who was still indifferent, and was completely confused.
"What the hell happened..."
"A crisis that I missed because my wife and I wandered through the universe, from the Dark Multiverse, where the fallen Seven Dark Batmen attacked the Justice League, trying to subvert the Light Multiverse and the Dark Multiverse, the most terrifying of , is the existence called the Laughing Bat. That is a guy who is afraid of even Batman and the Joker, and these seven Batmans who have completely broken the bottom line and become crazy have slaughtered more than one universe.
I don't know where they know about me. When I left the earth and explored the universe, I was attacked, from Apocalypse. And my wife, Lena, was one of those who attacked me. In other words, she was one of them who was brainwashed at the time. She was caught off guard by backstabbing. Although her brainwashing was lifted, in order to protect her, she and I were sent into the Phantom Zone, which is where Krypton is used to detain prisoners. In the area where there is no concept of time and space, I stayed for nearly fifteen years.
By the time we return to Earth, a decade has passed since the crisis that dealt with the seven Batmen. Six Batmen died, and the Bat of Laughter behind the scenes disappeared. When I saw him last, it was Batman, the Joker, and the Bat of Laugh who fell into the sun together. Presumably, he was probably dead. "
Listening to the savior Ke Wen talking about things that never happened in another timeline, Dr. Manhattan also made a comparison. In the future branch line of the Apocalypse War, King Kewen did not enter the universe to explore. He just had an encounter with the Justice League, Titan and others on the earth passively with the Doomsday Legion that descended on the earth. Step by step to the present.
But the timeline of the savior Ke Wen is different. He went to the universe, was attacked by Apocalypse, and finally lost to the phantom zone and escaped. These twists and turns in the middle are not mentioned,
But because Ke Wen entered the universe, the Doomsday Legion that was supposed to appear in the future branch of the Apocalypse War did not appear. s attack.
This can be regarded as an alternative big event to make up for, but compared to this, Dr. Manhattan is more curious about whether there are any serious sequelae of this attack launched by the dark multiverse.
"Ah, if you think about it, you have noticed that this is the difference between me on this timeline and the timeline on the Apocalypse War. I think it was a question of whether I chose to go to the universe or not. I chose to go to the universe." The universe becomes my timeline, and staying on the earth is the timeline you went to, so the branch point was born."
The savior Ke Wen also gave the answer to Dr. Manhattan's thinking, but Dr. Manhattan is more curious about how Ke Wen, who chose to go to the universe, eliminated the crisis of destroying the Japanese army invisibly.
"About the Doomsday Legion, did you find out what you chose to go to the universe?"
"What did you find? It's just some past events, but that's not the turning point. Let me tell you about the seven Batmen of the Dark Multiverse. I don't think you've noticed this so-called Dark Multiverse, but I can tell you , this dark multiverse has always existed, whether it existed before or after you interfered with the restarted universe, and the restart is only a unilateral restart of the light universe, and will not affect the dark multiverse, where all the bad things gather There is, of course, a good side, a side that is coming to an end."
"Is it meaningful to meet you and me in the past?" Dr. Manhattan was curious about Ke Wen's narration, but he didn't think these things that had happened in the past could change anything. It is better to directly explain how Ke Wen solved the crisis of destroying the Japanese army during the journey of the universe, so that he can send this information to the king Ke Wen, and let him project information to Ke Wen on the correct timeline.
"Of course it makes sense. When I choose to enter the universe, you don't need to contact me in another timeline, because the disappearance of the Doomsday Legion has become an inevitable event. The most important thing now is how to get there." It is important to influence me on the normal timeline of the past to resolve another event that is about to happen. Because one is bad, and once it interferes too much, there will be another bad consequence. I said, not the third future branch line."
The savior Ke Wen was not surprised that Dr. Manhattan would ask such an overly simple question. The return of part of humanity has already made Dr. Manhattan emotional, and it is difficult for people to have a correct answer when they are emotional. Thinking, the savior Ke Wen can understand, which is why he needs Dr. Manhattan to listen to himself.
And after the savior Ke Wen said that there might be another bad consequence, Dr. Manhattan finally broke away from the extremely emotional state just now, and his expression once again became a sage with no joy or sorrow. After entering the sage mode, Dr. Manhattan, dominated by absolute rationality, also began to understand the words in the words of the savior Ke Wen.
"Assuming that both A and B will happen, then C must also happen?"
"Yes, it's just that what must happen this time is D. After staying with me, you have to go to the third future branch timeline. Similarly, you only need to know the answer. The third future branch timeline has passed What happened, even if I can use cosmic resonance, I can't get much information in this regard, you have to find out, of course, with your past, we in the three branch future timelines can also establish a connection .So listen to what happened to me in this universe."
Listening to the words of the savior Ke Wen, Dr. Manhattan just nodded, and with a thought, he brought the savior Ke Wen into the microscopic earth he temporarily created. The two looked down on this microscopic earth from the perspective of God in the air. It goes without saying that Dr. Manhadu just wanted to deduce the scene described by Ke Wen.
"Wow, it's not impossible for me to create a planet with one thought, but there's no need to create such a big formation. I don't know much. After all, my wife and I have stayed in the Phantom Zone for nearly fifteen years, and everything Things have changed, let’s start talking about it after we come back.”
The savior Ke Wen was not surprised by Dr. Manhattan's actions, but just restored everything he knew in his memory.
"Continue to talk about the previous things. The Laughing Bat is probably dead, together with Batman and the Joker. But the troubles he left behind are endless. In the turmoil of this dark multiverse event, Apocalypse also intervened At first, Dakseid felt that he could sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, but he forgot.
The person making a deal with him in front of him is not Batman, but a laughing bat who is afraid of Batman and clown, an existence that can scare both of them, how could Darkseid be able to play with his mind? ? Soon he suffered a lot, and the backhand left by the Laughing Bat also broke out. "
Speaking of this, the savior Ke Wen also had a look of fear on his face. He and Lena were talking about what happened before he and Lena returned to the earth, but what they are talking about now is what happened after returning to the earth.
"What happened, what you saw when you came back to Earth."
"Clown! No, it should be the clown who combined the anti-life equation and infected the whole world!"
"Anti-life equation, what are you talking to me, Ke Wen?"
"I will project everything. This is the image memory provided by the universe after I merged the two universes. It covers the fifteen years that Lena and I missed."
Speaking of this, the expression of the savior Ke Wen, who had always been calm in front of Dr. Manhattan, became out of control, with anger, fear, and sadness. And in front of the microscopic earth created by Dr. Manhattan, such a picture also appeared.
In the beginning, the Laughing Bat and others from the dark multiverse came to Apocalypse and cooperated with Darkseid to attack the earth together. In order to show sincerity, the Laughing Bat told Darkseid that the switch on how to control the anti-life equation is on Cyborg. As the only human being integrated with the Apocalypse Mother Box and with a perfect posture, Gang Bone fit this requirement perfectly.
So when the Dark Multiverse launched an attack, Cyborg was captured and appeared in Darkseid's hands as a trophy. At the same time, Ke Wen, who was traveling in the universe, was also stabbed in the back by Lena, protecting Lena, fell into the phantom zone together, and was protected by another kind.
On the earth, after the end of the dark multiverse time, the steel bone disappeared, and it has been used as an experimental material for Darkseid to study, allowing him to try to control the powerful force called the anti-life equation, which can enslave all life. The previous one in the Blackest Night event was just a counterfeit, but this time, it is the real thing.
But what Darkseid doesn't know is that all the research he has done on the anti-life equation is in the plan of the Laughing Bat. In the memory screen of Ke Wen's fusion of the universe, Dr. Manhattan can see that he already knew the location of the Anti-Life Equation long before the Laughing Bat approached Darkseid to cooperate, but he did not go to contact it, but Showing his big white tooth smile, he added a clown's unique toxin into it, which can infect the person who killed him into another clown's toxin after his death.
Until the big event in the dark multiverse, when Batman and the Joker hugged him and drove the spaceship into the sun together, the Laughing Bat did not forget to say to Batman and the Joker: "All of this is planned~"
Then, a year before Kewen and Lena returned to Earth from the Phantom Zone, the virus broke out. It was Dakseid who was first recruited. When he thought that he could completely control the anti-life equation through the steel bone, it was also when the Laughing Bat was put into the anti-life equation and the clown toxin broke out. Being counterattacked by the runaway anti-life equation, Darkseid, who was infected with the clown toxin, lost control in an instant, stumbled and opened the explosion channel, he wanted to return to Apocalypse, and use Apocalypse's technology to control his own situation.
But he thought too highly of himself. After entering the Apocalypse, Darkseid also completely lost control and began to become a lunatic. The clown toxin was also cultivated and enhanced with Darkseid, the strongest carrier, and began to infect other newcomers. god. In an instant, Apocalypse fell into a flames of war and turned into a civil war. And the steel bone, whose consciousness finally recovered, also opened the sonic boom channel, and returned to the earth. At that time, the first person who came to pick him up was Superman who had regained his strength.
Of course, without any accident, Superman was infected and became a new source of infection. The chaos also started here, and the clown toxin infected on Superman was not as violent as that on Darkseid. It is more like an extremely emotional virus, which allows people to break their restrained side, the bottom line, at a certain moment. The first thing to break is when Superman, the president, is about to step down safely after being re-elected three times. riot.
Superman himself doesn't have too much emotion about stepping down, but in the past ten years of development, he has enjoyed the policies brought by Superman during his tenure, and the citizens who recognize Superman as the president's achievements have been poisoned by clowns during this period of time. Infected. They began to follow their inner voice, why should President Superman step down and let him be re-elected until the end of time?
It must be the guys in Congress who know how to make money without doing anything after eating! We have to be kings and let them understand who is the master of this country! The citizens under the influence of the clown toxin also made an unprecedented move. They stormed the Capitol, not only that, but also massacred the congressmen in the Capitol. From this moment on, the whole world is in chaos.
The clown toxin that had been silently infecting the entire earth erupted completely, and everyone chose to release their thoughts, from humans to beasts, and began to kill each other. When Ke Wen and Lena returned to the earth, they actually happened to collide with everyone in the Watcher universe, and they were rescued together. But this dispute can no longer be stopped. Even though they know that all of this is wrong, they have made a start, and there is no turning back.
Among them, Ke Wen and Lena also met people from the past. Kara, who was completely infected by the clown toxin when seeing Ke Wen and Lena return together, and the Titans who were also infected in the first wave of virus infection crisis, The blue beetle, the magical girl, etc., the hunting group formed by these people is constantly chasing and killing Ke Wen and Lena, as well as the new members of the watchmen. At that time, Ke Wen, while resisting the pursuit of everyone, had to protect himself and others from the infection of the clown toxin, and had to find a way to crack it.
But this time, time did not give Ke Wen too many choices at all, especially after that, the out-of-control Superman began to wreak havoc all over the world, and the only rationality ended after he exiled himself into space and failed to commit suicide. Then, the whole world was completely out of control.
I used to be the chase of friends, the helplessness of finding a way to rescue, until the end, I couldn't do anything, I could only take Lena, and the watchmen of the watcher universe, and leave the earth again, waiting for the end of everything . This is Ke Wen's helplessness, because in that big environment, Ke Wen on this timeline simply doesn't have enough time to do these things, so he can only keep fighting, then fleeing, and then fighting.
His combat strength has risen, but how can he kill his former friends? He can only be beaten and defended passively. When all the dust fell, Ke Wen returned to the earth with the members of the watchmen. But the earth they saw was already in ruins, the traces of civilization disappeared, and the former comrades-in-arms turned into dry bones. Only a very small number of people escaped the catastrophe and survived the disaster. Facing this earth that has no hope at all, their living is like dying.