The Death Knell

On Earth 19, Gotham is surrounded by industrial waste gas and sewer heat. The lighting provided by gas lamps is very weak, but the residents living in this city are, as always, ready to start a new day of 'nightlife'.

Gotham, no matter what era it is in, is always more lively at night than during the day.

But today was different. Just as the moon rose to the middle of the sky, suddenly everything darkened between heaven and earth. After a few seconds, the moon disappeared, and a huge "destruction" sign occupied the entire sky.

It was originally green, but due to the influence of black smoke in the air, it turned into a strange purple from the ground.

People in the city screamed. They pushed open their doors and windows and ran onto the streets. They could feel the terrifying oppression from the emblem.

"What is this unclean dirt?!"

A fat middle-aged man dropped his glasses and fell to the slippery road in horror. The night moisture quickly soaked through his gorgeous coat.

"The Day of Judgment has come!"

A woman from a poor family knelt down on the spot and began to pray to an unknown god.

Naturally, Inspector Gordon, who was stationed at the Gotham Police Department, also discovered this change. He immediately climbed up to the roof, lit the Bat gas lamp, and then smoked his pipe and waited for Batman's arrival.

"This must be some kind of hallucination, maybe someone poisoned the city's drinking water."

He looked at the sky and muttered to himself.

After catching Jack the Ripper with Batman last time, the tacit understanding between the two parties got closer, but this still did not make him notice the arrival of the black shadow behind him.

"I think it's worse, Inspector Gordon, than you can possibly imagine."

Batman appeared in his black trench coat and cape, with a short sword slung around his waist. The hoarse voice reached the detective's ears, making him feel relieved, but he soon felt a thump again.

"Worse? What do you mean."

However, Batman didn't need to answer him. Just as the two stood talking upstairs in the police station, a tall, thin and deformed blue-skinned woman appeared between heaven and earth.

She was wearing a red dress, and a string of planets rotated around her neck like a necklace. Just by visual inspection, Batman judged that she was about 40,000 meters tall, and she also held a giant torch tens of thousands of meters long in her hand. .

She took a breath, and soon showed a dissatisfied look. She spoke, and her voice echoed throughout the single universe.

"This earth... this universe... is stagnant, stagnant in the primitive industrial enlightenment period, with all kinds of poisonous fog and smoke suffocating all those huddled under the gaslight. But it's It is really sad that residents still cling to a false idea of ​​'transcendence' and a misguided idea of ​​justice."

People on the street raised their heads and looked at the shadow between the sky and the earth. Everyone's mouths were wide open. They couldn't understand why there was such a scene.

"Mom, who is this woman?"

Not far from the door of the police station, a little girl asked her mother that they had come to complain about domestic violence against the child's father.

The mother, who had a bruised nose and face, seemed to have forgotten the pain in her body. She just looked at the sky aimlessly and told her daughter:

"Crazy, our world is crazy..."

Batman would not sit still, he took out a brick-sized device from his belt with his backhand, and quickly pulled out several antennas: "This is the incarnation of Batman Calling Justice on Earth 19. We encountered Perpetua's diverse Invasion, my world is powerless to resist, we need help.”

"Zizzizi..." The communicator's response was only noise.

Batman sighed. The Incarnation of Justice is now on duty 24 hours a day. This situation can only mean that Perpetua has blocked all means of communication and turned this place into an isolated island.

If there is any difference between Earth 19 and Earth 0, the biggest difference is in technology. The technology tree of Earth 19 is crooked and has embarked on a line full of steampunk style, so there is no steel skeleton in their world.

Without Cyborg, there would be no mother box, and without the mother box, there would be no sonic blast channel. Therefore, they were alone at this time.

"No response." Batman looked at the device in his hand and said in a low voice.

Director Gordon's beard moved. He pushed up his glasses and took a puff of his pipe: "May God bless us."

Maybe she heard the name of God, maybe she was searching for Batman. Peppertoa's eyes that looked bigger and hotter than the sun turned to the two people on the roof of the police station. She stretched out her The fingers and pointed nails broke through the atmosphere and descended like Optimus pillars, pointing directly at Batman's position.

"You could have joined me and I would have made you a cosmic-level predator and together we could have fought for the eternity of the multiverse... but this universe is rotting from its core and it hears the sound that rings through everything The echo of the destruction of reality, but still insisting on justice, I will not allow it to continue to exist."

"What did she mean?!" Inspector Gordon held down his hat in the strong wind pressure.

"Parallel universes! There are other worlds, Gordon! There are other me and many other worlds of you. There are people there who have fought against many incredible crises and won. This is why I established the Justice League!"

Batman's cape was also raised high by the strong wind. Although he had difficulty breathing, he remained calm.

He knew a lot of information, but he would never tell Gordon that parallel universes and even the incarnation of justice were secrets in the dark.

"Okay! I just want to ask you, have I become the director in other worlds?!" Gordon covered himself with the chimney on the roof, and he also told a British humorous joke, but the howling wind made him He had to yell to communicate with Batman: "Our enemy is bigger than the entire city now! What can you do? Or what should my people do?!"

Batman yelled back: "Do what we can, Detective! Even in the face of the end of the world!"

Perpetua raised the torch in her hand, and the destructive energy gathered from her body toward the flames. She raised it high, and the world became as bright as day.

"It's been too long. It's been too long since I've returned to the multiverse. It's time to get everything back on track!"

After saying that, she turned the torch upside down and thrust it into the ground. Then, centered on the impact point, the ground, sky, and even the world began to shatter like glass.

The cracks reveal destructive energy, and this energy makes the reaction speed even more intense.

In the ear-piercing crisp sound, reality began to distort and shatter. The impact from one end of the torch was melting everything except Perpetua himself.

"Mom, where have you been?!"

The mother of the little girl downstairs fell into a sudden crack in the ground and instantly turned into light and disappeared. The child called out to her mother in horror.

Batman jumped from the roof, took the girl into his arms, and avoided the expanding cracks on the ground.

However, it was already too late. The intense red light rushed down the street like a tide, obliterating the sky and ground wherever it passed.

Batman knew that he could only go so far. He pulled up his cloak and wrapped the child, blocking the direction of the light with his body: "Don't look back! Child, close your eyes! Everything will be fine, everything will be fine." ..."

Before he could finish his words, both Gotham and Batman perished in the light of destruction.

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The scene ended here, and the green face of the ambush bug appeared on the screen again. During the video playback, he kept explaining without any emotion.

He took another sip of coffee and exhaled a piece of hot air: "This is what happened. Batman is dead, Earth 19 is over, and I have to escape. I don't want to be buried with them here... Phew, okay Well, I'm back on Earth 0. Fortunately, I'm an insect and not to the taste of the goddess of diversity. As for why I wasn't optimistic about Earth 19 before? Because I saw it was finished with my own eyes, hahaha!"

The light behind him had almost reached the North Pole at this time, but the next moment it was replaced by a bedroom. The ambush bug pretended to be nervous and wiped his sweat and told a joke.

The director immediately played the recorded laughter to coordinate, making it like recording a sitcom in a studio.

The host also smiled in response, flipped up his long blond hair, turned around from the stool and faced the camera again:

"Haha, a very interesting report, thank you to the frontline reporter. Let us take a short break. After the commercial, we will invite senior experts to discuss a topic that the audience has been concerned about for a long time - Aquaman and Star Man, both wearing capes. A man with strong hair, who has smoother hair?"

During the break, the program stopped playing, and the environment was naturally much quieter. The movement around Deathstroke became obvious.

"Creak, creak..."

From halfway through the video, he had been enduring the sound of Diana grinding her teeth next to him.

Seeing the destruction of Earth 19, Wonder Woman was so angry that her finger bones were crushed by her. She roared in a low voice and asked Su Ming: "You want to seek help from these people? They don't count at all. Man! He is a cold-blooded monster!"

Su Ming didn't expect it to be such an unlucky thing to see such an exciting scene when he arrived here, so he could only give Harley a look.

Harley smiled, and the meaning in her eyes was 'don't you have to rely on me in the end'?

"Xiao Dai, look at me, do you want some candy?"

She took out a lollipop, let it dangle on her fingertips like a pocket watch, and initiated psychological hypnosis on Diana.