The Death Knell

Quantum space is not Su Ming's first time here. He had a close relationship with Dr. Manhattan when he entered the DC universe. This place is no stranger to him. Lan

Although he has always wanted to deal with this blue fruit man in the past, now it seems that Manhattan is still better than blank. If you can choose, it is best to let this blue man live.

However, it is no longer possible. The unobserved Manhattan may still exist in an unstable state for a while, but now that he appears in everyone's field of vision and is observed, his story and time must 'move forward'.

"I originally thought that blank space would be your opposite, another independent existence, but it turned out to be a concept born out of you, the successor of the quantum concept..."

Su Ming took a puff of cigarette. Under the starlight, he looked at the tall blue man in front of him and felt a little emotional:

"I was chosen by you to stop the 'future you'. I've heard before that some people choose their own executioners in order to have a smoother departure. Now I can see it."

"No, I just hired a mercenary for myself, and I have already paid for it." The doctor looked into the distance calmly, and his eyes gradually moved to Superman: "But I also have a question, how did you know that Superman Is it crucial?"

There is no wind in the universe, and there is naturally no wind in the quantum space. This space can be regarded as a small pocket woven by Dr. Manhattan himself to accommodate his own embodiment. Lan

So it was quiet around, Deathstroke didn't answer the question, he just smiled.

People say that Dr. Manhattan is a man-made God who is almost omnipotent, but he is not after all. He does not have omniscience and omnipotence, and will still be deceived and will still have doubts.

But what can Su Ming tell Dr. Manhattan? Said that he had watched "Doomsday Clock" in his previous life and knew that Superman was the key to the multiverse "Rebirth"?

It's not necessary. There is no need to say too much about the current situation. Let's state another fact.

"You can go and die. I will cooperate with you to prevent the birth of Blank. But doctor, do you have anything to regret?"

After hearing the words, the blue giant looked at the death knell, with no expression on his face. There was only a light in his eyeless eyes: "I don't have that kind of emotion, but I can understand it, because I have had it before, and now Memories from the past are more like faded photographs to me, I know they exist but they don’t enter the picture.”

In order to make it easier for the mercenaries to understand, he even gave a relatively easy-to-understand example. Lan

"Okay, if I'm not wrong, our total time is only 11 minutes and 57 seconds. What else do you want to say, just last words or something." Su Ming took a deep breath of the cigarette, put out the butt and put it away: "No matter what How do you view yourself? I still think you are a human being, and a person should get some time of his own before he dies."

This time, which has odd parts and whole parts, is meaningless to most people, because this is multi-dimensional 1, and there is no real doomsday clock.

But this number has meaning to the blue man, like a countdown to his inevitable fate.

"As Dr. Manhattan, I have nothing to say. You have already guessed my plan." The blue giant nodded, and he stood steadily on the smooth surface: "But there is one person, Jonathan Osterman, He has a story he wants to tell you.”

Deathstroke glanced at the three women not far away. They were trying to rescue Superman, but their efforts were in vain.

Superman's state is that he fell into a long sleep after inhaling a large amount of the Sands of Time. For normal creatures, this is death; but as long as he asks the Sandman to deal with it afterwards, Clark can still "wake up".

Of course, only the Sandman can do this. Although Su Ming can use the Sands of Time to send people to sleep, he does not have the ability to wake people up from eternal sleep. That is the scope of the Sandman's functions. Just like many people can 'send' others to death, but there are almost no people who can bring people back from death. Lan

Whether Superman survives or not is related to the starting point of the universe after the events of "Rebirth".

Originally, Dr. Manhattan had despaired of humans and human stories, and planned to destroy everything.

But in that battle shrouded by the doomsday bell, he felt hope from Superman, so he changed his approach, only making what Su Ming called a "soft restart" on Earth 0.

Therefore, Superman has a close relationship with the universe, and the concept of "hope" he represents is the origin of the new story.

Dr. Manhattan's vision can penetrate the timeline and observe many things, so he will also see this scene today - the scene where the real Superman on Earth 0 is dying, and Hope is also dying at the same time.

If Superman is really dead, it means that Hope is dead. Does this mean that Doctor Manhattan made the wrong choice on the night when the Doomsday Clock rang?

This constitutes a logical contradiction and a time paradox. Lan

On that day, Dr. Manhattan believed that the hope represented by Superman gave people the meaning of existence. He also recognized the value of hope and believed that hope has no end.

But if Superman dies here, does it mean that the path of hope is a dead end, and Dr. Manhattan himself is wrong?

As far as the existence of Blue Man is concerned, he can't make mistakes, and neither can quantum. He will make things go on the development path that he thinks is the 'right'.

So today, the choice he made must keep Superman alive, which also means that the cause of Superman's near death, this death knell, must exist.

Because the current timeline is the timeline without Deathstroke. Everyone has seen what it looks like. The Superman here has long been dead.

Angel Statue all knew that turning the original Clark to this timeline for experimentation was just an activity carried out by Blank for the smooth birth of himself.

And this also led to the Blue Man having to get a person from the past timeline and another world who knew a lot of things to become the death knell that could allow Superman to live to this day and poison Superman today. Lan

It sounds strange to work backward from effect to cause, but this is quantum mechanics, and time doesn’t mean much.

"Jonathan Osterman, he, okay, let me listen to what he wants to say." Su Ming nodded, turned his head a few times, then took out a small horse from his pocket and sat down on the spot. : "But just say your last words in the first person. I know that Jonathan Osterman was your past name, your name before you became a god on earth."

Su Ming knows this, and Manhattan also knows that Su Ming knows this, so the communication between the two will skip some consensus, and often sounds like a riddle to outsiders because of the lack of a lot of information.

The blue giant nodded. He raised his hand to turn the castle complex behind him into an open space again, and then said:

"All things must come to an end, nothing lasts forever, and I am mortal. As you say, Deathstroke, I was Jonathan Osterman, and in August of 1959, I fell in love with I am so lost that I can’t keep my soul all day long..."

The blue man told stories about his past, and the thing that impressed him most deeply in his memory was, in other words, his regret.