Knights of DC

Chapter 988 See You Again

The third update of the belated Christmas~
In the Earth Human Survivor Base of Branch Future [-], Dr. Manhattan looked at Superman in this branch future, and fell silent after saying hello.Speaking of it, this should be the first time he met Superman under such circumstances. If there is no guy who is in the way of Ke Wen, then at this time, he should be creating a series of conflicts, leading the malice of the world to Superman After that, he officially appeared in front of Superman.

When Superman was in a state of desperation, he kept stimulating Superman with the so-called truth. Whether it was the death of his adoptive parents, the malice of the world, or the death of his comrades, it was all because of himself, which angered Superman and reached the end he wanted. Angry Superman throws a punch at himself, deciding his future or the future of the multiverse.

But this future no longer exists, and since Ke Wen appeared, the modifications he made disrupted everything he originally dialed in this new 52 multiverse.Some traces of the old 52 universe have been preserved, and Superman's adoptive parents did not die. Although Doctor Manhattan later arranged various accidents based on what happened to Superman, Ke Wen died without a problem.Not only that, Dr. Manhattan also interrupted the experiment on Superman and temporarily left the main universe.

Until this return, after noticing that the future has become unobservable and divided into three future branches, Dr. Manhattan appeared here, and in this weird situation, he was supposed to have a battle with the fateful Superman Meet like this.

To be honest, for Dr. Manhattan, such a meeting is quite weird, and it is completely out of the future he predicted.Since Ke Wen, a big fluttering moth, flapped his wings blindly, the so-called predicting the future has basically become a display.Seeing that Dr. Manhattan fell silent after greeting himself, this future Superman, a branch representing darkness and doomsday, also laughed, and his figure flashed to one side, making an inviting gesture.

"Come in and sit down. Over the years, I have also learned stories about you from Ke Wen, and Bruce also left me a file before he disappeared. I know you, Dr. Manhattan, and I know what you have done to me , but for now, no matter what you do to me, it doesn't affect our conversation, does it?"

It was said that Dr. Manhattan did not refuse Superman's invitation, and walked in first, and Superman followed, the door closed, and the two gods also sat down on the table.Looking at the hot tea that had already been prepared, Superman poured a cup for Dr. Manhattan and said, "I think you should be able to drink this, after all, omniscience and omnipotence."

Superman didn't joke. For Dr. Manhattan, things like taste and smell can exist as long as he wants.Ignoring the temperature, he finished the hot tea that Superman poured for him, and then watched Superman speak.

"I never thought we'd meet this way, or that I'd meet a different Superman."

"Of course, in your imagination, we should be fighting the so-called fateful battle on Mars, or on the ruins of the burning fire, and I will not be wearing casual clothes like I am now, but wearing my War uniform, waving my iron fist, but speaking of it, my hand is also an iron fist."

Showing off his prosthetic limb, there was also an indescribable indifference in Superman's words.

"He didn't lie to me?"

"Little Conan told you that there is no problem with the whole story of this future. Even I haven't figured out how Darkseid obtained the technology of replicating Doomsday in the first place, and I don't know how to create such a legion. Yes. The truth has long been buried in the past. At that time, we were all overwhelmed by sadness and anger. It was our utmost calm not to rush to Apocalypse for revenge. Even so, we paid the price."

When Superman said this, Dr. Manhattan also glanced at the building where Superman was located, and his eyes stayed for a few seconds on the photo hanging behind Superman.Lex Luthor, Diana Prince, Martian Manhunter, Bruce Wayne, Louise Lane... Those familiar photos are placed here, this is a shrine!The photos placed here also represent the people who have been passing away in this future, during this Apocalypse War!

"A heavy price, even now, you are still paying such a price, but you still haven't answered my question. The words of Ke Wen's son didn't deceive me, and you didn't need to deceive me, but he is very concerned about the life before his birth. The matter is not fully informed, at least he is not clear about his own particularity, he is Doomsday, the original Doomsday matrix, right."

The determined tone made Superman, who was drinking tea there, pause for a moment, and continued the conversation with Dr. Manhattan after drinking the tea in his cup.

"How do you see it? Only Ke Wen and I know about this matter. Kara and Conan don't know." When he asked Dr. Manhattan in this way, Superman affirmed this statement. He was just curious in Ke Wen's words, because His butterfly effect has lost the ability to observe the future, how did Dr. Manhattan discover this in the past.

"Ke Wen told you about me, so you should know how I was born, observe the future, look back in the past, including multiple uniqueness, this kind of me. If you only rely on observing the future and looking back in the past to understand the whole process of things, then It's you and him who are looking down on me."

Talking about this, Superman can also feel that the human side of Dr. Manhattan sitting opposite him is also beginning to be strong, but this is not enough.So since Dr. Manhattan asked, Superman didn't mind explaining it to him.

"You're right, Conan, another Doomsday."

"It all started when Batman lost his mind and stormed the Apokolips War, didn't it?"

"Well, Conan told you that we encountered a whole new group of dark elites there, a Darkseid beyond our imagination, and the real Doomsday, the Doomsday army that came to the earth before, is It was cloned and reproduced using him as a template. In that case, I really can't see any hope. The power of Doomsday has surpassed the understanding of me and Ke Wen, Batman, and he has grown into a complete body. Just in terms of strength, he made me despair, and he also awakened the ability called Doomsday Spores.

Even without doing any damage, just standing there can devour all life, including planets.It can be said that if it weren't for the uncontrollable Doomsday, and the attack regardless of the enemy and the enemy at the critical moment, Ke Wen and I would never come back.Darkseid was also severely injured in the battle, and under the protection of the dark elite, he temporarily left Apocalypse, leaving only Ke Wen and me to fight against Doomsday.

The battle made me and Ke Wen desperate. Even I can hardly get rid of the doomsday spores he evolved. This kind of spores can infect other life forms, and subtly erode them and transform them.Because of the characteristic of overcoming death itself, killing him is useless. On the contrary, the existence that kills Doomsday will be infected with spores, corroded by Doomsday, and reborn through this, becoming a stronger one on the existence that defeated itself. Doomsday! "

Dr. Manhattan was silent, and it seemed that the changes made by Ke Wen himself were more terrifying than his disturbance of the New 52 Universe.At least before he disrupted the restart, the doomsday in the past universe was not so terrible. This is purely an unsolvable monster!But Superman can stand here and be intact, which shows one thing. At that time, Ke Wen killed Doom Day and got rid of the influence of Doom Day spores on him.

"How Ke Wen defeated him." For a powerful creature like Doomsday, Dr. Manhattan also changed the title from it to him.

"That's not a defeat, it's just a trick. He has the three universes of the earth, the same body of the doomsday, and the planet destroyer armor. Although it is not as powerful as the doomsday of the main universe, it also has the same characteristics. , to overcome death. He sacrificed this piece of armor, restricted the invasion of Doomsday spores, and took advantage of the momentary gap brought by this restriction, dug out the heart of Doomsday, and destroyed the armor, Doomsday spores, Doomsday itself coalesced into this heart.

Still full of the consciousness of destroying everything, but as a heart, after being confined in it, and restricted by Ke Wen's destruction armor, he also lost the ability to erode other life forms, but it cannot be destroyed and erased. Even so, we Still paid the price, the lives of Lena Luthor and Zatanna Zatara. "

Speaking of this, Dr. Manhattan also understood.He was also thinking about it before, Conan said before that the reason why he is empty, but in essence there is still a problem.Even as a mixed-race Kryptonian, Conan's life level is above the Yamadam Lingshi. Even if Ke Wen implanted the Yamadam Lingshi into his son, with the help of the energy absorbed by the Yamadam Lingshi characteristics, to repair Kara's injury, and at the same time allow his son to absorb enough nutrition.

But this approach is like filling a sea with a bucket. It is not impossible, but it will take a long, long time.But this Almadam spirit stone had been tampered with before it was implanted in Conan's body. For example, it had been swallowed by the heart of Doomsday, and it was disguised as the Almadam spirit stone, so the effect was different.

"You and him would do this without telling your wife (sister)." Dr. Manhattan still raised doubts, because this is not the style of these two people. If all relatives can be sacrificed, Dr. Manhattan has already won. He has proved that Superman will become like him, or even worse, Ke Wen's persistence is also wrong.

When Dr. Manhattan said this, Superman also smiled bitterly.

"How is this possible? If we knew that the Doomsday Heart had devoured the Amadam spirit stone before implanting it, we would never do it. We would rather implant it in our own body. Under the circumstances that could not be done, it became a doomsday battle with Darkseid. Ke Wen’s idea at the time was to implant a spirit stone, try to repair Kara’s physical injuries as much as possible, and at the same time delay the birth of little Conan, so that he would not have to be born in this world. bad times.

But things backfired. Neither he nor I thought that this heart would devour the most suitable thing for him in Ke Wen’s so-called system space, the Amadam Spirit Stone, and disguised itself as it, fooling Ke Wen and me. Wen, by the time this heart disguised as the Yamadam spirit stone merged with Little Conan, it was already too late.But here is the strange thing. Ke Wen and I were prepared to save Kara at the cost of our lives, but Little Conan, who was integrated with the heart of Doomsday, did not go berserk.

And without turning into a little Doomsday in our perception, he's just himself.Then, in a war against Darkseid, it was born like this. While we were puzzled, Ke Wen and I could only attribute it to the strangeness of life, an unconscious daughter who was being eroded by the heart of Doomsday However, he didn't run away violently, nor did he tear away the protection of his mother's body. On the contrary, he was born as a baby. Perhaps this is also the arrangement of fate.

Seeing Conan's birth, Ke Wen and I were also observing him while keeping a secret, watching him grow up and grow up. Ke Wen is qualified as a father.He was worried that his son would turn into a monster that would destroy everything one day, but before he became a monster, he was still his son, a child born at an inappropriate time, and he had to let him have a normal childhood , although this childhood was accompanied by war, at least he had parents, playmates, and normal education by his side.

Then he has been growing, receiving training, education, until he grows up and is active as Kamen Rider Kuuga.Both Ke Wen and I know that Conan and his group will be the new hope. What he and I have to do is to protect them before they can be alone. If possible, Ke Wen and I hope that their generation It is to rebuild a new earth from the ruins, not to follow us into the battle against Darkseid. "

It is a beautiful and pure wish. Dr. Manhattan cannot criticize the decision of Ke Wen and Superman. If he stood at the perspective of these two people at that time, he had only one idea, and that was to integrate this The baby in Doomsday's heart was taken out and exiled to an abandoned universe, or a black hole.Will not take any risks, compared with hundreds of millions of lives and a life without self-consciousness, it is a simple multiple-choice question.

Just like what he did in his own Watcher universe, the man named Pharaoh, known as the smartest human being, simulated his energy operation at that time, and created a big explosion on Manhattan Island, coupled with the previous attack against own trial.The lives of millions of people were exchanged for the possible outbreak of World War III at any time, affecting the lives of billions of people around the world.

The two poles of the world cooperate to fight against their own powerful enemy. As the saying goes, in the face of an enemy that cannot be resisted by a single force, human beings will abandon their previous mentality of fighting each other and fight against the enemy together to create a false peace. But false peace is also peace.He compromised, and thus left his own Watcher universe.

But in the branch future history restored by Superman and Conan, he seems to understand something, but he seems to understand nothing.

"Then what's the point of your meeting with me, Superman?" Dr. Manhattan, who was lost in thought again, also looked at Superman and asked directly.

"It's nothing, just to let you understand more clearly. At the same time, I also want to know what kind of existence is the Quantum God who once wanted to drive me into a desperate situation in Ke Wen's words in the past. Looking at it now, in fact Like me, you are all blessed by fate but also cursed. We have all become omniscient and omnipotent gods in an environment that does not belong to us. No one can understand our pain and what our troubles are.

But the difference between me and you is that even if there are people around me who don't understand my pain and troubles, when danger comes, they will not give up, and they will not stop their progress because of a god like me, Not around you.I don’t know what your purpose of coming here from the past is. If it’s for a decisive battle with me or Ke Wen, then you don’t have to go to Ke Wen. I’ll just fight with you. I think I should be able to win the fight you. "

In the end, Superman still has that sunny smile, but his aura has become dangerous, a danger that Dr. Manhattan, the quantum god, can feel.

"No hurry, before that, I also want to ask you a question, and I hope you can answer me, and then I will decide whether to start the decisive battle between us."

"Say."

"Do you hate him? Do you hate him for letting you know the truth of the restart cycle of the universe? Do you hate him for breaking this cycle and causing the darkness and doomsday future? Everything you lost could have been recovered through restarting, You start from scratch and you'll never get to a future like this."

The him Dr. Manhattan refers to naturally refers to Ke Wen.In Dr. Manhattan's view, from the moment Ke Wen chose to break and restart, there is nothing wrong with such a doomsday and a dark future.

Superman laughed.

"Hate? Of course I hate him, I hate that he didn't tell me the truth about all this, but with his influence, the butterfly effect step by step made us all at a loss. But why should I hate him, he is from the beginning to the end Did nothing wrong, I wanted a normal life and he gave it, Bruce has been wanting to take off the cape and he's almost there, three wives, six kids, he should be happier than all of us.

Instead of hating him, it's better to say that I hate the impermanence of fate. It's hard to get a future that everyone wants and can go hand in hand, but he made such a big joke for us, making us lose everything like this.Because of this, I will not compromise, nor will I regret it, and I will not choose to turn back time to restart again, that is a cowardly performance, we have to prove to fate, even if this is the case, this is not a A dark, apocalyptic future.

It is a dark future before the dawn of a new era. As long as this darkness is broken through, a better new era is at hand.What's more, when it comes to hatred, as he who has experienced all this and is still unable to stop it, he probably hates himself more than I do. "

Bowing his head, Superman sighed, calmed down and said: "Then let's start, before this new dawn comes, you'd better stop making trouble, I..."

Before he finished speaking, Superman discovered that Dr. Manhattan, who was sitting opposite him, had disappeared and left the building, and a photo remained there where Dr. Manhattan was sitting.Picking up this photo in doubt, looking at the cheerful man holding the woman in his arms and smiling, Superman also fell into doubt.

"What's this?" he muttered.

At the same time, in the confrontation between the wall of origin and the fortress made by Apocalypse, the steel planetary fortress, a blue light flashed, and the figure of Dr. Manhattan appeared in the palace.In front of him, branching into the future, the middle-aged Ke Wen also stood there, welcoming the arrival of Dr. Manhattan.

"I'm here to find you, Kamen Rider Liqi, Ke Wen."

"I'm waiting."

The all-knowing and all-powerful Quantum God has crossed the long river of time. In this unpredictable branch future, he fights against the Dark Lord with his own power. The Kamen Rider No. [-] belonging to this DC multiverse, Ke Wen named Li Qi once again meet.

(End of this chapter)