I’m Really An Alchemist

Lex led them all the way and came under a blue column. He grabbed the weird device under the column and stuck it on his bald head. The whole blue column arced.

hum—

The long beeping stopped.

Lex took off the device, let out a long breath, and his expression became solemn.

"Forgive me for not being able to answer your questions before." He introduced the blue column with a sci-fi atmosphere: "This is a memory storage device. I store the most important memories in it, and only keep a little impression."

Lex's tone was heavy.

"For high-ranking existences, we don't have any secrets at all. I can only use this method to extract the memory, which can only be read at this base."

Constantine frowned, looked around, and said solemnly, "Who gave you these technologies, why did Sandman ask us to help you?"

"I know everything," Lex replied. "I know Bruce Wayne is Batman, and I know you're looking for Superman—all of which I knew three years ago."

The expressions of everyone changed slightly.

"Three years ago, I met a person." Lex waved his arm, and a holographic projection shot out of the void. It was a young, handsome blond man in a strange uniform, like a king who symbolized wisdom.

"His name is Pharaoh, and he comes from another world."

Lex calmly recounted his experience of acquaintance with Pharaoh.

"When I saw him, he didn't have much time. Pharaoh told me that he wanted to change all this, but because he knew too many things, the universe he was in was destroyed."

"Because of what happened to Pharaoh, I did multiple protections to save my memory. In the eyes of high-ranking existences, your thoughts are not secrets at all. Pharaoh did not discover this, and died because of this."

The crowd fell silent.

Even Bruce Wayne was touched when he looked at the pharaoh in the holographic projection.

"As for why I can fight against Skynet, why do I have so much technology—" Lex turned the conversation, and the corner of his mouth rose: "Come and see, the secret weapon that Pharaoh gave me."

A metal column suddenly rose from the ground.

There is a transparent jar on the column.

"This..." Bruce and the others were shocked when they saw the contents in the jar, and could not help but take a half step back.

Inside the jar was a human head.

And it's not an ordinary human head, it's a human head with dark blue complexion, no hair and no hair, lightly closed eyes, and a hydrogen atom symbol between the eyebrows.

The head suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils were all white.

"Bruce Wayne, are you ready?" A low male voice echoed in the air, and the head stared at Bruce Wayne, waiting for a reply.

Bruce Wayne only felt his scalp tingling, as if there was a tremendous force gripping his heart, and even his breathing became rapid.

"What are you going to prepare..." he asked in a low voice.

"Accept your mission." The head said, "Let Batman return."

Lex said calmly: "This is why I am safe and sound and can protect you under the surveillance of Skynet - please let me introduce, this is the core of Lex Group's intelligent computer, the absolute weapon entrusted to me by Pharaoh. "

"Dr. Manhattan!"

PS: Tomorrow will be the last chapter, and then the book will be finished

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Chapter 495 The Fire of Change (End of the Book)

Dr. Manhattan, whose real name is Jon Osterman.

Originally a physicist in the Watchmen universe, in a quantum conversion experiment, the body was annihilated, and the mind entered the non-material realm.

"I reorganized my body and possessed almost divine power."

Dr. Manhattan lays flat, telling his own story.

From He gained the ability to manipulate elementary particles, to the establishment of the Watcher, designed by the Pharaoh and exiled to Mars.

All of these stories are told by Manhattan in a calm voice, as if it did not happen to him.

until--

The Wall of Origin is broken.

"The future that originally had no secrets to me has become blurred." Manhattan's voice was a little lower: "I observed the multiverse and saw them - high-level existences from outside the domain, and they worked together to modify the multiverse. world line."

"I keep the memory of the world line before the modification. The world line of the multiverse has been modified one thousand and one times. The only purpose of their modification is to eliminate Superman."

"Clark Kent." Manhattan's expressionless eyes stared straight at everyone.

I heard that the world line has been modified more than a thousand times, just to remove the traces of Superman.

Even Diana and Constantine, who were mentally prepared, couldn't help but turn pale.

But no one spoke,

Manhattan continued: "I left Mars, went to see the Pharaoh, and told everything. Under pressure from outside, he cooperated with me, with his wisdom and my strength, to deal with the crisis outside the wall of origin."

Speaking of which, Manhattan paused for a long time.

"None of us thought about one thing, that is, our thoughts and memories, the secrets kept in the subconscious - known in their eyes, which led to everything we did was just a funny joke."

"Bruce Wayne." Manhattan stared straight at the frowning, thoughtful man: "Infinite multiverse, infinite Batman, their life forks are all the same thing—you remember being eight years old, in the alley with your parents The gunmen you encountered in the

Bruce was slightly taken aback.

How could he forget such a thing. When he was eight years old, he and his parents met a gunman in Gotham Park. His parents almost died in the hands of the gangster to protect him. Fortunately, a policeman passed by and drove the gangster away. .

"That policeman is me."

Manhattan said.

Bruce took a sharp breath and stared at the blue head in the jar in disbelief.

"I changed your life and made Batman disappear. Only in this way, you won't be targeted by them, and you won't be stuffed into a parallel time and space alone like Barry Allen."

"I did all this for today."

With the sound, light and shadow flowed in the void, and a dark uniform appeared.

Seeing this dark yet gorgeous uniform, Bruce only felt a sense of familiarity welling up in his heart.

"Batman uniform." Diana was the first to recognize it. She had seen other Batman in parallel time and space, and she also recognized this suit.

"I changed your life and took away everything about Batman, memory, skills, responsibilities, obligations." Manhattan looked at Bruce absentmindedly: "As long as you are willing to accept it, you can return to Batman."

Silence.

Bruce was silent, and Manhattan was silent.

Diana looked sad, Constantine breathed smoke, and Lex was expressionless.

Accept it, go back to Batman... easier said than done.

Let a **** accept the memory and responsibility of Batman. Batman is not a superhero in the ordinary sense. The pressure on his shoulders, the darkness he has seen, and the cruelty he has experienced are by no means an ordinary person can bear.

Accepting the bat suit is tantamount to accepting a burden that can overwhelm people.

The atmosphere was dull.

Everyone is waiting for Bruce to make his own choice, and the witcher, who has always been a jerk, doesn't dare to speak at this time and force the other party to make a choice.

Bruce stared blankly at the bat suit.

At this moment, he thought a lot.

Thinking of his lavish and carefree first half of his life, of his strict father and gentle mother, and of the housekeeper who accompanied him growing up, he has countless reasons to refuse.

I'm just a playboy, this kind of crisis facing the earth shouldn't come to me!

Even if Skynet is wanting me, as long as I escape this catastrophe, and as long as I watch the heroes solve Skynet, I can still return to Gotham.

Go back to peaceful Gotham and live your original life.

Bruce took a deep breath, stretched out his hand slowly and firmly, and grabbed the bat suit in the void. He knew that he could choose to escape, but he grabbed the bat suit resolutely.

The essence of Batman is Bruce Wayne.

He is Bruce Wayne, even if he spends half of his life happy and his parents are still Bruce Wayne - he still has the responsibility that Batman should have.

This is also the reason why he can't tolerate the Penguin's chaos in Gotham. Batman's spirit has been sleeping in his soul until today, at this moment, and finally wakes up.

Touching the bat suit, the blue light suddenly skyrocketed, and in an instant, countless information and countless memories poured into Bruce's brain.

His body, which was hollowed out by the color of wine, became full of inexplicable power, and all the skills from Batman's tempering became the instinct of the body.

Everyone nervously looked at the man kneeling on the ground in the blue light.

In the wailing of pain, the blue light gradually disappeared. The man kneeling on the ground put on a bat suit and stood up in silence. His eyes were finally no longer confused and weak, serious and firm.

"Bruce."

Diana spoke excitedly.

Batman nodded lightly, turned to look at the head in the jar, and said in a low voice, "How do I find Clark?"

"Let me explain it."

Lex, who had been silent all the time, showed a sincere smile after Batman returned, as if laying down a heavy burden.

He clapped his hands lightly.

The base roared, the walls flipped, the ground rolled like waves, separated like Moses dividing the sea.

Then, a strange ring-shaped device rose from the ground, dozens of meters in size, and the top was only a line away from the dome.

"Trans-universe teleportation device."

Lex said with a slight smile, "It took me three years to build it successfully with the help of Dr. Manhattan."

"Superman is the core and hope of the multiverse. Dr. Manhattan has observed that the multiverse has undergone many restarts, but the origin of Superman has remained the same. What has changed is the time when he came to earth."

"The origin of the universe comes from Krypton's Destruction Day - the spaceship carrying hope flew out of Krypton, and from then on, the multiverse has a past and a future." Lex smiled slowly: "After the wall of origin was broken, Four beings from outside the realm, they modified a thousand and one times to erase Superman from the entire multiverse."

"The Superman in Universe Zero no longer exists, and neither does the Superman in other universes."

"That's why there is no superman in the infinite multiverse."

Lex was silent for a moment, as if recalling this old rival who could only be seen in Manhattan's memory.

"How do you know that Clark disappeared, not dead?"

Batman asked.

"Superman is the core of the multiverse. If he dies, the multiverse we are in will deviate from the development of the original world. Except for the supreme existence, the past and the future will all disappear."

Manhattan explained calmly: "I have observed the infinite multiverse, and I have not found Superman. There is only one possibility—"

Batman lowered his eyes and said solemnly, "He's in the multiverse outside the wall of origin!"

"That's right!" Lex snapped his fingers and pointed at the ring machine: "This device can lead to other multiverses." He shook his head: "It is thanks to the broken wall of origin that I can create it. Teleporters to other multiverses."

"The Wall of Origination protects us from outsider gods, but it also prevents us from going to outsider worlds."

Lex Luthor sighed softly without knowing what mood to say these words.

Diana looked at the inter-universe teleportation device and said, "In other multiverses, can we find Clark? It's not that easy!"

"That's right."

Lex also looked at the trans-universe teleportation device.

"We don't know what Superman is like in other multiverses. Maybe he's not Clark Kent/Kal-El. He has another name and bloodline. He's no longer a Kryptonian, and he doesn't have the power of a Kryptonian."

"But only one thing will not change." Lex strengthened his tone: "He is still hope."

"Justice and hope are his unchanging essence. No matter whether his appearance changes, his name changes, or his race changes, he is still a hero who brings hope, courage, and miracles to anyone!"

Lex gave the three of them white bracelets.

The wristband is loaded with a cross-universe teleportation program, as well as an intelligent system programmed by Manhattan himself, which can search for life in the multiverse that is close to Superman, so as to determine whether the other party is Superman.

Although no one knows what the other multiverse is like, and whether they have no return, they do not have any hesitation, even the most greedy witcher, in the face of real crisis, will also carry the duty of a hero.

Batman put on the bracelet, took the equipment Lex prepared, and walked to the circular cross-world portal.