Knights of DC

Chapter 809 It's always been like this, isn't it?

In Central City, Ke Wen, who was brainwashed by Barry with sage power, is also looking for the truth.At this time, he was still in a stage of doubt. Although the post-it notes were his own handwriting, and the colleagues around him were indeed acting very wrong, but his memory would not lie. All his memories from childhood to adulthood were in his mind. It is not false. The memory Barry fabricated for Ke Wen with the sage power can be said to be perfect, so that Ke Wen can't find a doubt.

So so far, the only thing Ke Wen can be sure of is that this post-it note written in his own handwriting will tell him the truth, or it may be a prank. Everything must be found by himself. Nora Allen, this It takes a woman I don't know at all to get the answer.And this day passed quickly, with a sports car instead, Ke Wen quickly ran all over the central city, visiting all the Nora Allen he knew.

There are only four Nora Allen in the entire central city, one is 70 years old, the other is only three months old, and the other has already been visited by himself, just like his colleagues in the newspaper office.They are all chatting with themselves with a mask called a happy smile. There is no information that they can understand. After chatting, Ke Wen only feels that the muscles on his face are almost stiff from laughing. It is also a technical job to keep smiling.

At this time, Ke Wen was sitting in the Saitron chariot, looking at the house in front of him, which was the location of the last Nora Allen on his list.That is, Barry Allen's mother, Ke Wen, who has been brainwashed by Barry to change his memory, did not feel that he would bring any danger to approach Nora Allen rashly. After confirming that this is Nora Allen's residence, Just got out of the car and walked over.

Standing at the door, ringing the doorbell, Ke Wen waited quietly there.Just standing at the door for almost 15 minutes, Ke Wen still didn't hear anyone coming to open the door.

"Hey, I picked the wrong time? I should be home at this time." Looking at the watch on his wrist, Ke Wen wondered why no one came to answer the door. In this case, wouldn't his doubts deepen?
"Excuse me, what's the matter with you?"

A suspicious voice sounded behind Ke Wen, and when he turned around, Ke Wen saw Barry Allen standing there in casual clothes, looking at him with doubtful eyes.I have to say that Barry Allen's acting skills are very good. At this moment, Barry shows that he doesn't know Ke Wen at all. He is simply curious why a young man appears at the door of his parents' house. Even if Ke Wen , can't see any clues.

He couldn't see it before he was brainwashed, and it's even more impossible for him after brainwashing.

"Ah, sorry, I'm a reporter from the Central City Daily, and I'm writing a headline about the changes in Central City during this time. I just happened to be out to collect information recently, and I want to know what people in this city think of Central City. This is not passing by after work. , thinking of visiting. But it seems that the owner of this house is not at home."

In desperation, Ke Wen also said a lame excuse, but with the recording pen Ke Wen was holding at this time and the camera bag he was carrying, the doubtful Barry also dispelled his doubts.Immediately, he smiled and said, "Then you came at the wrong time. My parents are taking care of my wife at my house now. If you want to know what the people of the central city think of this city, do you know if I'm suitable?"

"Your parents? So you are?"

"Barry Allen, Central City Crime Scene Forensics."

"Ke Wen, a reporter from Central City Daily."

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Ke Wen also gave up his plan to visit Nora Allen, and started negotiating with Barry who appeared here.At this time, he didn't know that it was because of the strangeness he showed in the Central City Daily that Barry appeared here.Because Barry didn't understand Ke Wen's situation at this time. According to the level of sage power he has mastered, Ke Wen should be enjoying this utopia created by himself like other citizens of the central city at this time.

He will smile when chatting with himself, and will be satisfied with the current life, a decent job, and a generous salary. When the last stage of his life is completed, he can compensate for the identity he wants. At that time, no matter what Whether it is myself, Ke Wen, or other people in the Justice League, they will all be happy.It’s just why Ke Wen, who was supposed to enjoy life under such brainwashing, embarked on the path of finding the so-called truth again, and when did he post those post-it notes.

Barry couldn't figure it out. Even with the addition of Speed ​​Force and Sage Power, Barry didn't know when Ke Wen wrote those sticky notes. If he hadn't seen Ke Wen's abnormal behavior in Tieshan Prison, what happened Might turn out to be like a worse aspect.

But in the same way, when Barry was full of doubts about Ke Wen's behavior, Ke Wen was also curious about the son of Nora Allen, Barry Allen, who appeared in front of him and he was looking for.Because the Barry Allen who was talking to him at this time made Ke Wen feel real, yes, it was real, unlike those colleagues he got along with in the newspaper office, when each of them smiled at Ke Wen, Ke Wen only felt that they were all is wearing a mask.

The two seemed to be in a show at this time. As the instigator, Barry Allen showed that he had just met Ke Wen, and kept testing Ke Wen with words to confirm whether he was brainwashed by his sage power.And Ke Wen, who has been brainwashed and replaced his memory, played in his true colors. He has indeed integrated into the new identity that Barry created for himself, this new life in Central City.

But these post-it notes that reminded him also made Ke Wen's strong curiosity agitated. He had to find out the truth about why he wrote these post-it notes, and why he felt that the city he lived in was somewhat false. The reason, as well as the colleagues around me, why do they laugh, obviously they can show more emotions, why all they have to do is laugh.

The two people who were negotiating on the street also chatted from six o'clock to the beginning of the lights. As night fell, the peaceful and peaceful central city also entered the nightlife.

"Ah, we've been chatting so late. I'm really sorry for disturbing your time." Ke Wen, who noticed that it was getting late, also said sorry to Barry there.

"No, I think it's okay. I didn't expect that you have only been in Central City for three years. You have more feelings than me who grew up in Central City. It seems that you enjoy life in Central City."

After probing Ke Wen for an hour, Barry finally confirmed that Ke Wen in front of him was indeed brainwashed by himself, it was just the curiosity rooted in his heart, and these conveniences that he didn't know when they would appear The post-it notes made Ke Wen curious and wanted to find out why these post-it notes appeared around him.Such curiosity is understandable, and what I have to do is to make Ke Wen's curiosity disappear. The best way is to follow Ke Wen.

"But then again, I seem to have answered the question about my views on Central City instead of my parents. But I think my parents may have more feelings about the changes in Central City. They are older than me, and they can be regarded as experiences. After two eras, how about the day after tomorrow, I will help you make an appointment with my parents, and you come to interview them again?"

"Is that so? Looks like a good reference too, you're really nice, Barry."

Ke Wen didn't expect that the Barry Allen he knew was so enthusiastic that he planned to help him complete this investigation. After all, this matter is not very glorious, but Barry gave himself a contact with Nora Allen Reason, Ke Wen has no reason to let it go.After receiving Barry's affirmation, he also agreed and confirmed that he would contact the last Nora Allen the day after tomorrow.

"I'm just providing an information channel for a guy who loves Central City. It's a pleasure chatting with you, Ke Wen."

"Me too, Barry, you're so much more real than my colleagues."

Barry, who was about to say goodbye to Ke Wen, also heard this sentence, and when he was about to turn around, he also froze, turned around again, looked at Ke Wen, kept a curious expression on his face, and asked there: "Really? Are you not Maybe you want to say that your colleagues are all fake."

"No, of course they are real. It's just that their coping with life makes me very uncomfortable and makes me feel a little uncomfortable. But in fact, I am doing the same thing, just like them, but I can't continue acting. And they can. So Barry, I think it’s great to meet you today, to talk to you for so long, and it makes me feel like that’s the normal way to be with people.”

Ke Wen's words lifted Barry's heart that had just let go. Looking at the young man who had been brainwashed by himself, he didn't understand why he lost all his memories and only had the new memories and new identities he had woven. , I will still question the city I live in, the life I have adapted to a long time ago.This is very unreasonable, why don't other central city citizens who have been brainwashed by themselves with sage powers not feel this way.

"Normal? Then I'm curious, why are your colleagues getting along abnormally?" Amid doubts in his heart,
"It's not abnormal, I just don't think they need to do this. You know what, Barry, before I met you, I had a terrible day. I almost got into a car accident on the way to work and didn't sleep well all night. But when I went to the newspaper office, everyone I met told me to smile, and to smile to show that we were happy. The problem was, I really didn't have the mood to smile at that time, but in their eyes , I have to laugh, I can't have the right to mourn.

They told me that if you just smile, everything will be fine.I know it's going to be okay, but that shouldn't be the reason I have to laugh, should it?So, I'm really not used to this way of getting along. People, cry when they should cry, and feel unhappy when they are not happy. There is no more. "

At this time, Ke Wen didn't know that the person in front of him was the instigator, as if he had found a central city citizen who thought he was as normal as himself, pouring out his feelings of the day there.He, who should have been accustomed to everything, said this after getting to know Barry, a normal person who is almost the same as himself, but every word Ke Wen said had a big impact on Barry's heart.

He didn't expect that even in such a situation, Ke Wen could still detect the abnormality of the central city, and discovered it with the new identity he woven for him, rather than the initial preconceived notion.This situation is easy to solve, but also difficult to solve. As long as his mother passes the test, Ke Wen will gradually adapt to the atmosphere of Central City, and will become the colleagues in his words, facing everything with a smile .

"Well, to a certain extent, I agree with you. After all, in life, things don't always go as you want, and you can't guarantee that you can laugh at everything. But this is also the characteristic of Central City, isn't it? People here will be infected by the happiness of Central City. Here, there will be no common bad luck, no crime, no violation of order, so everyone can smile and say good morning, good afternoon, good night, It has always been like this, Ke Wen, Central City deserves your smile to face him, then, see you the day after tomorrow."

"See you the day after tomorrow."

After saying goodbye to Barry, Ke Wen also returned to his Saitron sports car. Looking at Barry who had disappeared into the crowd and could not be seen, Ke Wen's smile on Barry just now also slowly retracted.At this time, the central city has also entered the nightlife, with heavy traffic, bustling crowds, and colorful neon lights hitting Ke Wen's face leaning against the car window from time to time, making him feel a little bit a little bit about every smiling central city citizen on the street at this time. tired.

"It has always been like this, is it right? If this is the characteristic of the central city, then outside the central city, those living in other cities and other countries, can they also face everything with a smile every day? Speaking of which, how long has it been since I left Central City..."

While whispering, Ke Wen didn't notice that a white light appeared on the Drive driver that had been hanging on the steering wheel and was regarded as a certain instrument panel, like a pair of eyes, when Ke Wen was still looking at the scenery outside the window.The eyes shown by the white light are bent into crescents like this, which seems to be expressing his recognition of Ke Wen's daring to question the city he lives in and what happened around him as a matter of course.

When Ke Wen recovered from his thoughts, the white light on the Drive also disappeared, and Ke Wen did not discover the clues.

"Forget it, what the truth is, you will find out when you see that Nora Allen the day after tomorrow. Next, let's live these few days~"

Ke Wen, who had adjusted his emotions, did not continue to stay on the street, and these central city citizens who still had smiles on their faces could not affect Ke Wen at this moment.As soon as the accelerator was stepped on, this chariot, which combines the black technology of Batman, Lex black technology, and Kryptonian black technology, also equipped with AI Batman, entered the traffic flow, ending the ordinary Citizen Cowen a day in Canterlot.

As night fell, the figure of Barry Allen also appeared in Iron Mountain Prison. At this time, inside Iron Mountain Prison, there was Wally, a speed force tool man, and with the help of a group of villains who were brainwashed by Barry with the power of sages. The base station tower, which had only been in its rudiment before, was completed at this time.The alien Drive who has been staying here, that is, the turtle man, did not take off his disguise, but just stood there with the new God Mantis of Apocalypse, admiring the base station tower.

After Barry appeared in Iron Mountain Prison, the alien Drive also turned around and looked at his old opponent.At this time, Barry was silent, and his eyes were also looking at the established base station tower.But the information revealed in his eyes was doubts. Barry, who had already reached the last step, looked at the base station tower and wondered whether this could complete the brave new world in his heart.

"Don't worry, static power, speed power, sage power, although there is no power, but it is enough. The new world you want will come, but before that, you haven't told me about the fake brainwashed by you. How is the face knight? I remember you arranged a good identity for him, why is he still acting like that, how was the conversation just now?"

"He didn't have any problems, and he didn't have any doubts about the new identity I wove. He was just curious, and with the guidance of those post-it notes, he began to wonder about the source of the post-it notes, but I took care of everything. I arranged for my mother to have a conversation with him to reassure him of his doubts. As for those post-it notes, I have already checked them, and there are none, but you, can you really give me a guarantee. "

Answering the question of the different kind of Drive, Barry also asked back there. There is only one reason why he has come to this point, and the reason why he understands that the world he is in now has been modified by others, and it is his own. Mother.Having experienced the flashpoint incident, he understands that no matter how he changes the past, as long as he modifies the historical reality of his mother's death, a series of timeline chain reactions will be enough to destroy the universe and restart it.

Then I, Superman, Batman or other people I know will repeat this tragic process. This is an unsolvable question. No matter how I answer it, I will be wrong, and I have no choice but to skip it.Until, when he was investigating the escape of the tortoise from Iron Mountain Prison, he ran into this alien Drive, and the battle that should have happened stopped with the person who was differentiated from the alien Drive.

Because Barry saw with his own eyes a robot differentiated from the alien Drive and turned into his mother in front of him. This was the first time Barry saw this situation. The bastard should be taught a lesson with the Speed ​​Force lightning.But when he saw this bionic robot differentiated from the alien Drive, transformed into his mother's appearance, and looked at him, Barry gave up.

Because the eyes cannot be deceived, he misses his mother, and every Mother's Day he travels back to 11 years ago to get in touch with her on the day his mother was killed, so that he is no longer familiar with his mother.So when Nora Allen, whom Barry thought was a fake, looked at him, Barry understood that she was his mother, the mother who loved him.

Barry couldn't do anything to his mother. At the same time, he also understood that he couldn't fight against the alien Drive. He couldn't bear the pain of losing his mother because he couldn't change the past. Watching my mother die.But now, at the moment when he saw Nora Allen appearing in front of him, a thought arose in Barry's mind. If the past cannot be changed, why not the present?
The moment Barry had this idea, Sage Power chose him, or in other words, in response to Barry's intention, Speed ​​Force brought Sage Power with infinite wisdom to Barry.Relying on his control of the Speed ​​Force, Barry quickly mastered the sage power that contains infinite wisdom and can control the thinking of others. At the same time, the thoughts in his heart became concrete.

Since the memory of the reality I live in has been artificially modified, why don't I modify this modified memory more thoroughly, so that the citizens of Central City can completely forget the memory of my mother's death 11 years ago and my father's wrongful imprisonment, and then use the speed force to Destroy all data from that year.In this way, no one will doubt the identity of the Nora Allen in front of him, and then cooperate with the alien Drive in front of him.

With the help of still power, sage power, and speed power to modify the memory of the whole world, the static power stagnates everything, and the speed force is responsible for providing infinite power to assist the sage power to connect the thinking of people all over the world, and finally, the sage power connects people's thinking according to the connection Carry out a comprehensive memory modification and create a beautiful new world with no sadness but happiness by yourself.

In that new world, I am no longer The Flash, but Barry Allen, and my friends, even the darkest Batman, can have a perfect family life.As for Ke Wen, the victim whose reality was modified by Dr. Manhattan at the beginning, can also have a brand new identity in the new world. Hill prison on this base station tower.

This tower will be the hope to end my own nightmare, and make all the tragedies in the world disappear, leaving only the beginning of happiness.

"Don't worry, I can't think of the possibility of failure. You are the fastest man in the world, the greatest Flash. As long as you still think about your family, I think this plan will not fail. It's good to watch your own mother die like this, when you have the ability to change, and it doesn't hurt people, and it even brings happiness."

The words of the alien Drive whispered in Barry's ear, and Barry's originally struggling eyes became firm. Yes, we have come to this point. If we just give up like this, what is the point of doing so much? Soon, everything will be over, the mother will be resurrected, and everyone will be happy.Just like himself before, he can save everyone, in an instant.

"I understand. Regarding the Kamen Rider, you don't need to worry. After the day after tomorrow, everything will be a new beginning."

"Really? I'm looking forward to it."

After getting the guarantee from Barry, the alien Drive also walked towards the base station tower, and the three of them just looked at the tower like this, waiting for the day after tomorrow to arrive.

(End of this chapter)