The Death Knell

The surrounding environment is no longer the neon-filled future New York, but an ordinary smooth ground, a bit like the metal floor of a morgue in a hospital, but so smooth and shiny that you can still see the reflections of everyone.

In every direction that the three women could see, there were all kinds of celestial bodies, including rotating black holes, stars emitting light, planetary systems that were constantly rotating, and comets streaking across the sky.

These things stay in people's field of vision contrary to common sense, as if they are intentionally showing the magnificent scenery in the universe, or they may just be used as lighting tools.

The skeleton withdrew from the dazed Diana. He raised his hand to signal a pause, because the main character appeared.

Wonder Woman doesn't know why, but she doesn't want a truce. Once the Amazon warriors engage the enemy, what they want is the result of death and death, and they pursue glory unrelentingly.

But before she could launch another charge, the environment around everyone changed again. The metal ground rippled like water, and the keel-like structure of the ship emerged from it. This upside-down keel formed the roof, and then Various walls appeared out of thin air and were quickly put together like tiles. The house was built in the blink of an eye, forming a strange metal castle.

It looks a bit like the Winter Palace, only it is more magnificent.

"You are here after all."

A voice came from behind. There was no emotion in the tone, it was simply stating a fact.

Diana turned around when she heard the noise and saw a blue giant floating cross-legged behind them, looking at her and the skeleton expressionlessly, with black eye circles as if he were wearing makeup.

Who else could it be but Dr. Manhattan?

"Ah, it's not easy to find you, although my plan is to find Blank directly."

The skeleton that was originally thought to be speechless was now uttering human words. He held his black cloth bag and shook his head:

"But you jumped out, it's not bad. You should know where the blank is, right? Why didn't you tell me about her existence before?"

The blue giant had not responded yet. He seemed to be admiring the interstellar light in the distance, but Diana was stunned when she heard the skeleton speak, because she heard a familiar voice.

"Slade?"

"Well, it's me, but don't interrupt. Dr. Manhattan and I need to settle the score." The skeleton sighed, and the tuxedo on his body instantly turned into black and yellow armor, and the bones squirmed and turned into flesh. It's just a calcium structure disguised by strangulation.

Of course, in order to play the role of a skeleton, Su Ming let the symbiote eat all his flesh and blood, and then put a layer of calcium on the X metal skeleton as a disguise.

If he wanted to hide from Blank's sight, he had to find a way from the narrative level, so he disguised himself as an owl in reality before, and then took the opportunity to 'make a joke' with Alfred's remains, that is, using existing things to decorate A blind eye.

"You...Superman...well, okay, I'll wait for your explanation." Diana angrily put away her sword and shield and walked aside. She was going to join Harley and Kara first.

At this time, Kara had a horrified expression on her face and was grabbing her hair as if she couldn't accept the reality, but Harley was surprisingly calm. She just smiled and chewed bubble gum, as if she already knew something...

When Diana looked at her, Jellybean shrugged, saying that he did not tell the secret of the discovery, but you didn't ask, right?

"Quantum is everywhere, I told you." Dr. Manhattan lowered his head and looked at the people on the ground. His blue-white eyes turned to the death knell: "But, blank, she gave herself such a name, and you also The connection between her and me should have been found.”

"Stop playing the Riddler thing and just tell me the answer." As Su Ming spoke, he took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it: "Both the comedian's badge and Rorschach's mask brought me here. At this point in time, they want me to attend the funeral of my former teammates, which is also your... farewell ceremony?"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and touched the badge on his chest. The trace of blood on the smiling face looked even redder under the starlight.

"I am Blank, Blank is me." Dr. Manhattan is indeed not a person who likes small talk. In other words, he has no emotions such as like or dislike at all. All he has is completely rational logic and calculation: "We are one. And when I die, she will rise, because quantum is everywhere and always will be."

"Is there any way to prevent you from dying? You can also maintain a balance." Su Ming also asked directly. Although he wanted to kill Manhattan, if he could avoid the birth of blank, then he could let Dr. Manhattan go and make a deal instead.

"It's useless. The probability of my death is 100%. Your knowledge level is not enough to understand the future I observed." The blue giant calmly spread out a hand, and in his palm was a small multiverse. : "Come, look, what can you see from here?"

"Well, a bunch of quantum?" Su Ming didn't take out his weapon. He wanted to see how the blank was born in the 'future', how it returned to the 'past', and how it was omnipresent.

"You were guessing without evidence, but you got the correct answer. This is why I chose you, and this is why I will bring you into this universe." Dr. Manhattan put his hands on his knees again, holding the The ball was crushed and he said without expression: "What you see is a microscopic 'description' of a world in a quantum way, and what you are doing is 'observation'."

"I understand, what you mean is that Blank actually 'exists' now, but not in this timeline, because you 'exist' here, but at a certain future point in time, she is anywhere in the world. It exists at one point in time, but there seems to be a step missing..."

After blowing out a smoke ring, Su Ming said that he understood, but in the eyes of the other three ladies, he probably turned into a tongue twister and a riddle man.

"Correct, so now that you have found me is the beginning and the end, but it is only my beginning and end, not blank." Dr. Manhattan still had that dead face, but Su Ming felt that at that moment, it seemed that He felt the blue giant's gaze sweep over the Comedian's badge and the black and white mask he was holding in his hand.

Dr. Manhattan did not disappoint. He did give a plan to deal with Blank, but it was not something he could complete. He had to rely on Su Ming to do it, which was 'observation'.

Assume that the quantum space on this timeline is an opaque box, and Dr. Manhattan himself is in an unstable state within it, and no one knows whether he is alive or dead.

But now Deathstroke and Diana have come in and acted as observers, so the story of the blue man has come to a written ending - he can be judged.

This state is death, and his death is a blank life, so from the moment Deathstroke and Doctor Manhattan met, things had already happened.