Chapter 9 Past History, Wrong Time

Night, eleven o'clock in the evening, Gotham. Gotham, which has been devastated by the heterogeneous W combined with Thomas Elliott and the clown, and its henchmen, also began to rise from the darkness under the leadership of Ke Wen and Batman, and ushered in a new life. The bosses of several underground forces in Tan were imprisoned in Gotham Black Gate Prison, and the upper classes belonging to Gotham were also cleaned up in the riot that triggered it, and many positions were vacated.

Those careerists and politicians who are underappreciated are given a chance, and an undercurrent of newcomers replacing the old is unfolding in the city of Gotham, but these people understand that the citizens of Gotham today are no longer the casually used people they used to be. A guy who can be dismissed by public opinion. Batman serves as a banner, allowing them to learn to question the government's so-called truth, and the promulgation and implementation of those policies and regulations will be watched by these people.

Under the spontaneous monitoring of citizens like this, Gotham, a sinful city, seems to have ushered in a turning point. When people go out at night or go home, they don’t have to worry too much about a few men with knives or even guns coming out of dark alleys. Wicked people, because of the police cars patrolling the street from time to time, the flashing police lights will make them feel at ease. The bat lights shining on the night sky also softened in their eyes.

Because they knew that the dark knight who belonged to the city of Gotham would always watch those bastards who wanted to do evil things in the dark and lock them firmly in a dark cage. Even if they didn't know, the dark knight hadn't been active in the night of Gotham for almost a month, only the light was still on in the night of Gotham.

That's good. When Batman gradually becomes a symbol and a spirit in people's minds, no matter what kind of crime and darkness exists in this city, it will not be like the past, making people see no hope. Can't see the sun. And the newly born Gotham City, after enjoying the sunny weather for nearly a month, also returned to the previous weather atmosphere on this day.

Dark clouds shrouded the sky over Gotham City, and the lightning flashed its teeth and claws in the clouds. The accompanying light outlined the clouds as a beast that would choose to eat people, and the thunder that followed was the roar of the beast. Bean-sized raindrops hit this newborn city, like the saliva dripping from wild animals. In such an environment, no one wants to go out, including those who like to do things in the dark.

Like the citizens of Gotham, they are all listening to the radio or watching TV in such a thunderstorm, pouring themselves a glass of wine or coffee, and watching the storm outside through the window. This kind of weather was basically once a week in the previous Gotham City, and I have long been used to it. But in the past month, after feeling the warmth of the sun, when seeing this kind of weather again, both the citizens of Gotham and the criminals felt a sense of contradiction.

On the one hand, they do miss Gotham at that time. After all, the sun has not been seen all year round, and Gotham has always been cloudy, rainy, and foggy, which is all they used to live. On the other hand, I feel that the weather is too depressing, especially after enjoying the warm sunshine. The storm came too suddenly without any warning. Even the Meteorological Bureau is commenting on the storm, which makes life in The people in this city felt that the shadow of Gotham, which had been let go, was catching up again.

Trying to shroud this reborn city and make it return to the same Gotham it used to be.

But in this stormy weather with thunder and lightning, in an apartment building in Gotham, there is a different scene. The floor-to-ceiling windows of the balcony are opened, and a shadow is elongated under the light of lightning. Wherever this elongated shadow reaches, there are splashes of blood on the walls and on the floor. In the dark room, with lightning flashing from time to time, it directly pulls people to the set of a horror movie.

Under the light of lightning, the shadow moved in this room. As the shadow moved, he also saw the source of the blood splashed on the wall, a dead elderly couple. The female was stabbed in the heart with a knife, and the fatal injury of the blow did not match the fatal injury of the blow.

It was the expression of extreme fear on her face, the bulging veins, and the wide eyes, as if she saw something unacceptable before she died.

The man was beside her, the same way of death, but the difference was that his face was peeled off, and all he could see was his unrepentant eyes, just like his wife's, filled with terror. The muscles under the face were also tensed. He was the face that had been peeled off while he was still alive and conscious, and between the couple, there was still an empty space, a silhouette of a body. Someone once slept between them.

"Master Bruce, I thought you would enjoy your time with Mrs. Diana in this stormy weather where pedestrians and cars cannot travel, but it seems that you missed the appointment. Mrs. Diana is doing fighting training in the watchtower. With you as a training object."

Lightning pierced the night sky, and also showed the owner of this shadow. It was Batman who hadn't been active in Gotham for a long time. Now that the order in Gotham is getting better, the frequency of his active time as Batman is compared to Before, it was much less. Only this time, he had to appear at the murder scene, just observing Batman at the scene, and also received Alfred's communication and ridicule in his words.

Only this old man who raised Batman can contact Batman in the first time, and know where Batman is at the moment. Sitting in front of the Batcave computer in the underground of Wayne Manor, Alfred looked at the location displayed on the computer and said there.

"No. 16, Diamond Street, is there anything you should notice there, Master Bruce?"

"Nothing, Alfred, just a murder case." Walking in the room, Batman looked at the layout in the room, which can explain the living conditions of the couple, childless, DINK couple, And Alfred in the Batcave was also puzzled by Batman's answer. As for a burglary murder case, as for Batman to be dispatched, it is not disrespect for life, but according to the frequency of cases that happened in Gotham before, Batman Heroes have a priority.

"So, the method of this murder case, and the murderer are very special?"

"Yes, the deceased were an elderly couple with no children, good people and good living conditions. They were killed, nothing was taken, they were just killed, and the murderer just slept in their bed , just to enjoy the feeling..."

Listening to Batman's analysis, Alfred also frowned, because of this description, and through the shared vision connected to Batman's mask, he could also see the scene. As Batman said, the murderer just slept in the bed, between these two old people, like a young child sleeping next to its parents. Alfred had only seen this kind of unpredictable killing motive and random killing method on one guy.

"Sounds like the stuff of clowns, some pathological copycat?"

"No, he did it, I'm sure of it."

At this time, Batman also found a ghost card painted purple under the pillow, his eyes narrowed slightly, this ghost card, he also had exactly the same one in the Batcave.

"The clown did it? But he..."

"Dead, I know, you and I were both there, watching him die with our own eyes, but as he said at the end, I still don't know his name, he is now, maybe somewhere watching me , waiting for me to step in."

At this time, the lightning pierced the night sky, and a black shadow also appeared under the brief light of the lightning. Batman turned his head, but what he saw was an owl flying in the storm. At this time, it opened its sharp claws and caught a The only prey that also comes out to feed in stormy weather, a bat. The owl that preyed on the prey just stopped on the balcony of this murder case, looking at Batman with glowing eyes in the dark, while enjoying the prey it caught.

Seeing the owl eating the bat that he symbolized, Batman also felt a little unhappy. Seeing the murder scene caused by the clown, he said to Alfred: "Notify Gordon, let him come over , In addition, Alfred, don't tell Thalia or Dick about this matter, about the clown."

"But Master Bruce..."

"I don't want them to be implicated, this is a matter between me and the clown!"

Batman, who cares most about his family now, doesn't want to involve his family in a dispute with the Joker, especially when he knows that there are two other Jokers active. He has already lost once, and now, his son, daughter, lover, friend, these are all he cares about, and he cannot lose the second time, and Alfred, who communicated with Batman in front of the computer, also understands why Batman is so Said the reason, after a while of silence, also agreed.

The communication was interrupted, and Batman was about to leave after ensuring that the scene was not destroyed by his own entry, and just when Batman was about to leave from the balcony. Another flash of lightning flashed across the sky, but this lightning fell on the area where Batman was, to be precise, it was behind Batman, the owl that was eating, the lightning fell, and directly turned the owl into ashes , and the shock wave brought Batman to the edge.

"Bruce..."

Just when Batman was puzzled by the sudden lightning, the lightning that fell behind him did not dissipate, but a voice came from inside, directly saying Batman's name.

"Who are you!"

Batman asked directly, because at this time, he could see a person in the lightning, but this person was wrapped in lightning, making it impossible for him to see the whole picture.

"Bruce, I need your help..."

"You know me, but I don't remember that there is a person who controls lightning in my circle of friends. Even Shazam, lightning is just an ability."

"I'm not riding lightning, you know me, I'm just getting younger, help me, I'm Wo..."

Before the words were finished, another thunderbolt fell from the sky, and the person who was wrapped in the lightning and tried to seek help from Batman was taken away, and everything disappeared. It seemed that nothing had happened, except for the owl that turned into ashes under the lightning, which showed that everything was not an illusion, and Batman stood there, looking at the owl that turned into ashes, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"Wo...isn't a simple restart, some things were erased, some things were replaced, and some things were preserved, isn't that right, clown."

Batman, who has confirmed before that the universe he is in now has experienced a restart, just from the lightning and the words of the mysterious person wrapped in the lightning just now, he concatenates in his mind all the Part of the information you want, but it's just information. Even if he understands, he has to focus on the present now, and there are two clowns at large, who will put himself, his family and friends in danger at any time, and he has to find the clowns.

Batman left, and the storm that raged in Gotham all night slowly dissipated when the sun rose in the morning. The citizens of Gotham feel relaxed physically and mentally. And the murder scene that Alfred notified Gordon to go to was just an episode in Gotham life, after all, accidents happen every day.

No one cared about the storm that happened in Gotham last night. As for Batman, he didn't tell Alfred that he checked the murder scene created by the clown last night. dialogue between. It's just that Alfred can feel that after telling himself that the clown is still alive last night, he can feel that the Batman buried in his heart named Bruce Wayne is returning, and Bruce Wayne, too will be the mask.

And in this plausible New 52 universe, everything is going on. Dr. Manhattan temporarily left this multiverse to do his own experiments after watching Ke Wen experience the Darkseid War. And the mysterious person who appeared on Gotham's stormy night and had a conversation with Batman was also carried by lightning at this time, wandering outside this universe, watching everything on the earth today from the perspective of a bystander. The planet he lives on, but everything has changed.

In the dimension surrounded by lightning, he watched all this. There is no concept of time here, only the pain when tearing his own body. And he is enduring this kind of pain, trying to get rid of it, he needs someone to remember his name, but his appearance, everything about him, is restricted and blocked by the lightning that surrounds him, he saw the Flash, But he couldn't even utter a complete sentence, and couldn't even show his appearance.

"I need someone to help me, Batman failed, but there must be something different in this world, I'm going to find out!"

Dissociated outside the universe, after meeting Batman, he murmured, and then, the lightning that enveloped him brought him back and forth across the timeline of this universe, to five years ago, when the Justice League was founded. period. That sudden extraterrestrial invasion was also the reason for the establishment of the Justice League. The powerful dark lord Darkseid, the superheroes who fought on their own were defeated, the Man of Steel was arrested, and then the superheroes united and defeated defeated the Dark Lord and regained the sovereignty of the earth.

Then at the General Assembly of the United Nations, the birth of the Justice League was announced. He, who was wandering outside the universe, saw all this, but fell into doubt.

"No, the Justice League didn't come about because of Darkseid's invasion. You, like me, are getting younger, but you've also changed. The Justice League wasn't established because of Darkseid, no..."

After reading the history of the birth of the Justice League, he wanted to jump out from this point in time to tell them that there was a problem with the timeline, but the thunder and lightning pulled him back again, back to the dimension outside the free universe. Then, he continued to jump in time.

Then, he saw the scene where Atlantis declared war on the land, and also saw a simple confrontation between Batman and Superman before the establishment of the Justice League. Everything was different from what he remembered, but it was not over yet. He knew that those disappearing things existed, but they were just hidden in another way. Thinking of this, he traveled through time again with his thoughts, and came to the present time point, Central City.

On the outskirts of the central city, the original Flash, in the old 52 era, as the earliest superhero organization, Jay Garrick, a member of the Justice Society, was cooking dinner at home. And when the old man Jay was busy in the kitchen, thunder and lightning appeared in his home. The sudden sound and movement also shocked Jay, and then, the person wrapped in lightning appeared in front of myself.

"Jay Garrick, remember, you were once a hero..."

"Yeah, I know that, but I'm just Jay Garrick now. So, who are you?"

The original Flash responded that Jay was not wary of the mysterious person in front of him who could not see his true face, on the contrary, he felt familiar. But the super speed power on his body has been entrusted to Ke Wen. He is just an ordinary old man who has turned back into a mortal.

"You're just Jay Garrick? You don't remember me either? Your Speed ​​Force, your hat that symbolizes your identity!"

The mysterious man was also surprised when he heard Jay's narration. The jumping progress was too fast, so that he didn't see everything that happened in the past five years, but he understood that the universe that excluded him was not only different in some places. , and there are more things that I don't know.

"I entrusted it to the future, a future that moves forward instead of repeating itself. I can't help you, but you can go to the future I entrusted. He can help you. His name is..."

Before Jay finished speaking, Lightning pulled the mysterious person who appeared in front of him again, making him disappear in front of him. But Jay was able to recognize the lightning that pulled the mysterious man. It was the power he had obtained, the speed force.

"Speeder? Who did I forget?" Jay murmured there.

No one could answer Jay's question. The mysterious speedster who appeared in front of Jay was dragged away by the Speed ​​Force again, and continued to sink in the Speed ​​Force barrier, but he finally got some important information. Everyone can't remember him, including Jay, a former member of the Justice Society, the earliest superheroes in history, but he mentioned the future in the words he told himself, and he entrusted his power to the future, a A future that moves forward, not a future that is cyclical.

"I have to find this future, the future that Jay entrusted, I want to start before they become superheroes!"

Whispering in a low voice, relying on the ability to control the speed force at this time, he crossed the long river of time again, and came to the members of the Justice League before they became heroes. OK Then, as a bystander, he once again looked at the place where it all started, the destruction of Krypton, and the baby named Kal-El took a spaceship and came to the small town of Smallville, Kansas, becoming Clark Kent. , under the education of the Kent couple, he began to think about the significance of his own power to the world.

Then came Gotham, Crime Alley, accompanied by two gunshots, the boy looked at his parents lying in a pool of blood, and the seeds of hatred grew.

On Paradise Island, the girl looked at the sky by the sea under the admonition of her elders, thinking about what was outside this barrier.

In the seaside city, the young boy and the pilot's father are sitting in the hangar, looking up at the starry sky, thinking about what lies beyond the earth.

The lighthouse in Port of Grace, the boy looked into the distance and thought about the same question.

Everything is the same as in my memory, including the younger King of the Sea, Arthur, who proposed to the Queen of the Sea, Mera, in the Port of Mercy. The difference is that the boy with the power of the six gods replaced another visitor from Mars, and then, The boy's true identity was revealed and he was kicked out, and the revision of the timeline allowed the Martian guest to return to the Justice League. But this time, he also discovered the difference.

"No, in my memory, Shazam is not a member of the Titans. Is this the difference? Then, is the entrusted future hidden in this anomaly?"

At this time, he has been sunk in the speed force barrier for too long, and he is about to lose control and completely become a part of the speed force, so he can only gamble. Following the time point when Shazam was kicked to the Teen Titans, he jumped directly to Nasino City at the current time point. After ignoring everything, he finally saw the existence that he had no impression of in his memory.

His good friend Ye Yi, Dick Grayson, was having drinks with another Chinese young man in a bar, chatting with each other. And when he focused on this young man of Chinese descent, he could feel the speed force contained in him, echoing with himself from afar.

"This is the future that Jay entrusted? Can he help me?"

With the last hope, he once again broke through the speed force barrier and made a final fight.

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