The Death Knell

Luther's time machine looks like a large cylindrical glass jar. There are some invisible ports on the upper and lower ends, connected to dense cables, and connected to the giant host nearby.

Su Ming couldn't understand how high the technology content was, but he just thought it was very powerful.

"Adjutant, start entering the password and debugging." Deathstroke stretched out his hand, and a thin black wire emerged from his fingertips, transformed into a cable, and connected to the computer host nearby.

As the adjutant's countdown voice sounded in her mind, the computer was started again. After the self-test was completed, she entered a long password, and then started debugging the time machine.

Just like what the Sheriff said, the deputy first brought a chicken, threw it into the glass jar of the time machine, and then teleported the confused animal to two and a half years ago.

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Su Ming, who was waiting with his arms folded, was also a little curious. After being transported to two and a half years ago, before the big event of "Rebirth", what would happen to this chicken?

Ten seconds later, the adjutant started the machine again and brought the chicken back.

Unfortunately, all that was left of the chicken that came back was a dried skeleton. Judging from the tooth marks on the bones, it might have been bitten to death by a small canine, maybe a teddy?

This was undoubtedly a homicide, so this equipment should be fine. Being able to go there and come back already meets the basic needs.

"Rest in peace." Su Ming clasped his hands and nodded to the chicken's bones: "You sacrificed your life for mankind. I hope you can be reincarnated as a human in the next life. It would be good to be an idol trainee."

"What are you talking about? I don't understand it at all." Diana sighed, rubbing her nose with her hand: "But it doesn't matter, can we take action now?"

"We need to go to the moment when Dr. Manhattan died and blankness was born." Su Ming took out Rorschach's mask from his pocket and prepared to put it on his head, but after smelling the strong smell of someone else's irritation on the mask, he His hand paused for a moment: "Adjutant, bring me a small automatic washing machine and a bottle of the most fragrant laundry detergent."

One day, a wealthy old man was hit by a car and died. She left a will to distribute her inheritance to the following four people.

An honest politician, a kind and good cop, a tragic homeless man, a superhero.

But when it came time to divide the money, the lawyer had to give all the inheritance to the homeless man.

Because the other three do not exist.

People live in this city and are full of complaints about it. Everyone says it is because there are too many crazy people here, making them homeless, but is this really the case?

The shining display screen on the roadside is constantly changing the screen, and advertisements are played continuously in a loop. Similar projection screens occupy almost every part of people's perspective, and a huge amount of information is filling people's nerves.

There was a faint stench in the air, which was probably the exhaust of the flying car, and the people around him had been transformed by implants. Everyone seemed to be laughing and falling into inexplicable ecstasy.

"Welcome to the happy city of New York." Su Ming, wearing a jasmine-scented Rorschach mask, looked up at the slogan on the station sign and smacked her lips: "Tsk, even though I had thought about this possibility in advance. , but I didn’t expect it to be true.”

"This is not the past, right?" Diana tugged on her cloak to cover up her equipment, but there were many people in strange clothes on the street, so she actually didn't stand out.

People carry various portable terminal devices, including glasses and headphones, which project a large number of things they are interested in on their retinas, so they don't care much about the things around them.

"No, Xiao Dai, this is the future for us." Su Ming reached out and tapped the stop sign on the side, where the time was displayed: "In 2077, Rorschach's mask guided us to this era, which is Manhattan. The year when the Doctor died.”

As for how to do it specifically, it is actually a bit metaphysical.

Su Ming put on the mask after cleaning it, then went to the control computer of the time machine to choose a random time, leaving everything to chaos and luck.

He could feel that there was some connection between this mask and a distant place, an indescribable resonance, so he guessed that maybe drifting with the tide would lead to the shore instead.

Next, a group of people entered the time machine and were sent to this point in time. As soon as they landed, Su Ming felt a breath, which was indeed the trace of Dr. Manhattan's existence.

You asked him to provide any evidence, but he didn't have it, but as someone who had seen the blue man, he was sure that the feeling was that of Manhattan.

With Su Ming's current level of strength, sometimes his instincts on a whim are extremely correct, not to mention that the Comedian's badge and Rorschach's mask brought him here, so there should be nothing wrong with him.

It's just that I appeared in an obviously futuristic New York City, which was a little unexpected, so I had to come up with a backup plan.

In fact, Su Ming thought that he would go back to the night of "Doomsday Bell", or a certain day in "Dark Metal", and even made a plan to deal with Perpetua and the Laughing Bat again, but it seemed that It's no longer useful.

Dr. Manhattan died in the future for everyone.

He has the ability to time, because quantum is everywhere, and he can even appear at every point in time at the same time, so this is not a problem in the first place.

Assume that the time point where Su Ming and others are at is A, and the time point when Dr. Manhattan died is B. From a common sense point of view, when people see this letter, they will think that B must be ranked after A.

But is it really so?

When the person who made the alphabet changes, is B really still behind A?

The power of rules is reflected in this, so if Dr. Manhattan dies in the future, he is dead in the past, also because he is everywhere.

Su Ming couldn't explain these words to Diana. She was confused enough now. In the neon lights and deafening electronic music, she looked like a country girl who had just entered the village. She could only open her eyes wide. The ground spins in circles.

"I like it here, haha." Harley looked at the people walking around, especially her eyes fell on the implants and mechanically modified body parts: "They look very happy, did you see it, honey?" , they are all laughing, haha!"

"This is electronic bliss, just like chemical bliss, it's just a way to control society." Su Ming touched his chin, and the feel of the mask fiber passed into his palm: "Let's understand the situation first, I feel, Doctor Manhattan seems to be in a strange state right now."