The Death Knell

Where Deathstroke came from is a secret. In the past days, when anyone asked, he always said that he came from the origin earth.

But this is not the whole truth. He does have the memory of the death knell, but earlier, he lived in an ordinary world without superpowers.

Only two people knew about it, and one of them was himself.

Su Ming was very sure that he had never told anyone about his origins, and he had no habit of talking in his sleep at night, so this information could not be leaked from here.

Then the other person who knows this is the only one.

Dr. Manhattan, it was his intervention that allowed Su Ming's soul to merge with the death knell, obtain a new body, and be trapped in an unknown place for an unknown period of time. Finally, he suddenly bumped into the running Barry and fell into the negative space of the earth. 11. Start your own story.

When this suspect appears in my mind, many things can be said to be explained instantly.

Of course, the second sister had said before that Manhattan was dead, and this information was definitely correct, because death is one of the most real states in the universe, at least much more real than dreams.

No emotion is reliable, and all thoughts may go wrong. However, death is very serious for everyone.

She said that if Dr. Manhattan died, then he must be dead, so Su Ming began to think along this line of thinking.

Doctor Manhattan represents quantum. He gave an important clue when he first met Deathstroke. That sentence was:

"Quantum is everywhere."

Looking back now, maybe that was the reminder he left, and then I think about it. The enemy we need to face now is called "Blank".

Blank literally means nothing. Therefore, compared with the ubiquitous quantum, it is "nothing, so it is not there." Therefore, Su Ming had a guess. The concept she represents should be exactly that of Dr. Manhattan. the other side.

As a person with little education, Su Ming named this concept anti-quantum, but even with his junior high school education, he knew that there was no such thing as anti-quantum in the world.

In 1900, Planck was the first to glimpse quantum in his research on thermal radiation. At the end of that year, he announced his great discovery - the energy quantization hypothesis - at the meeting of the German Physical Society.

According to this hypothesis, during the emission and absorption process of light waves, the energy changes of the emitter and absorber are discontinuous, and the energy value can only be an integer multiple of a certain minimum energy unit. This minimum energy unit is called "energy quanta" ", referred to as quantum.

Since it is the smallest unit, it means that it cannot be divided again, and therefore, it will not be divided into positive particles and antiparticles with different charges like other particles.

Quantum does not distinguish between positive and negative, so Dr. Manhattan, who represents quantum, should not have a negative personality or an existence that is opposite to his concept.

But it is right that it does not exist, because the existence of blank itself is the collection of concepts of "non-existence."

When she thought of this, Su Ming had basically deduced Blank's identity. Coupled with all her other previous performances, it looked more and more like what Dr. Manhattan could do.

For example, help people realize their wishes.

People who are familiar with DC probably know what Dr. Manhattan can do. To put it simply, quantum is almost omnipotent.

The blue bald giant was called a man-made God in the past, so it makes sense that Blank, who corresponds to him, can also do the same thing as God, right?

Another example is to make everyone forget that Superman exists.

Dr. Manhattan has done something similar. Wasn’t it him who caused the big event of the DC multiverse’s “Rebirth”? It’s easy to say that the story has not been restarted, but Superman is the top priority in the Rebirth event. He was killed by Manhattan. Killed and then remade, a new Superman.

Not n52 Superman, nor p52 Superman.

In the previous life, there was a saying on the Internet that the major event of "rebirth" was called a soft reboot, which meant that some character settings were changed within a certain scope.

When this big event happened, Su Ming had not yet traveled through time. He was reading comics. To summarize the story in simple terms, suddenly one day, Manhattan felt that there was no hope for the fallen and dark mankind, and he wanted to destroy the multiverse. In order to prevent humans from being used as weapons by Perpetua in the future, at least death in his hands will not be painful.

So because of this inhumane reason, he clashed with Zhenglian and ruthlessly killed everyone.

However, after he defeated the Zhenglian, he saw the light of hope for mankind in the dead Superman, so he gave up the idea of ​​destroying the multiverse with absolute rationality, and combined all the advantages of all Superman stories in history to create "Rebirth Super, on this basis, we rewoven the story of DC Diversity 1, and also threw the friends of the Watchers into Earth 0 to live together.

Then he erased or modified all the contradictory and unreasonable stories. Many people's stories and memories remained unchanged, while many people were changed without knowing it.

For example, in the story of Diana, in the p52 period, Diana was the daughter of Hippolyta, but her father may or may not have been Zeus. Anyway, it was very vague.

In the n52 period, she became Hippolyta's child kneaded with clay, but was given life by Zeus with thunder, lightning and blood.

But after rebirth, Xiao Dai became the child of Hippolyta and Zeus. Because the scumbag was worried about being discovered by Hera, this illegitimate daughter was always hidden and raised on Paradise Island.

Xiao Dai doesn't remember anything about these changes. She now only remembers the latest "settings" about her life experience.

Even her origin story has changed, let alone Donna. The role of sister-in-law has been changed eight times since she appeared in the story. The character changes are as frequent as those of the women in Gotham. hunter.

A reboot in the conventional sense means starting over again, with all characters losing their memory, and 80% of the past stories and settings being invalidated, while a soft reboot is much smaller in scope.

This is why Su Ming especially likes to talk about Martha.

Because every time the DC universe is restarted, or a character related to Batman is restarted, Batman's mother will die once. Su Ming can't remember how many of the tragedies in Crime Alley he has seen in his previous life. version.

Closer to home, if the rebirth event is really a small restart, then Superman will play a key role in it, and there are only four people who know that the rebirth of Superman is one of the keys to the universe, Su Ming himself, and Batman from Earth 0 and Diana, and Dr. Manhattan himself.

Blank had previously sent her men to attack the Justice League. The first target was Superman, which meant that she believed Superman was the most important. This view was the same as Manhattan's.

At the same time, she made Superman disappear. Can it also be regarded as a soft reboot on a minimal scale?

In short, there are still some details, all pointing to the similarities between Blank and Dr. Manhattan. Under the guidance of these clues, Su Ming naturally locked in Blank's identity, and that's it.