The Knights of the DC House

Night, eleven o'clock in the evening, Gotham. After experiencing the destruction of the alien W by Thomas Elliot and the Joker and his henchmen, Gotham also began to emerge from the darkness under the leadership of Ke Wen and Batman.

After the bosses of several major underground forces in Gotham were imprisoned in Gotham's Black Gate Prison, and the upper class in Gotham were also purged in the riots caused, they were also vacated.

many locations.

Giving those unappreciated careerists and politicians a chance, an undercurrent of new people replacing the old began in the city of Gotham. But these people all understand that today's Gotham citizens are no longer the casual people they used to be.

Guys who can be dismissed by public opinion. As a banner, Batman has taught them to question the so-called truth of the government. The promulgation and implementation of those policies and regulations will be watched by these people.

Under such spontaneous surveillance by citizens, the sinful city of Gotham seems to have reached a turning point. When people go out or return home at night, they don’t have to worry too much about someone with a knife or even a gun walking out of a dark alley.

Evil people, because the flashing police lights of police cars patrolling the streets make them feel at ease. The bat lights shining in the night sky also become softer in their eyes.

Because they know that the Dark Knight who belongs to the city of Gotham will always watch those bastards who want to do evil things in the dark and lock them tightly in a dark cage. Even if they don't know, that Dark Knight

The Dark Knight has not been active at night in Gotham for almost a month. Only that light is still burning in the dark night of Gotham.

This is good. When Batman slowly becomes a symbol and a spirit in people's minds, no matter what kind of evil and darkness exists in this city, it will not be like in the past, and people will not see hope.

There was no sunshine. The newly born Gotham City, after enjoying sunny weather for nearly a month, also returned to its previous weather atmosphere on this day.

Dark clouds shrouded the sky over Gotham City, and lightning bared its teeth and claws in the clouds. The accompanying light outlined the clouds into a beast that chooses people to eat, and the thunder that followed was the roar of this beast. A big bean

The raindrops hit this newborn city like the drool of a beast. In such an environment, no one wants to go out, including those who like to do things in the dark.

Like the citizens of Gotham, they are all in such thunderstorm weather, either listening to the radio or watching TV, pouring themselves a glass of wine or a cup of coffee, and then looking through the window at the storm outside. This kind of

In the past, the weather in Gotham City basically returned once a week, and I have long been used to it. But after feeling the warmth of the sun in the past month, when seeing this kind of weather again, both Gotham citizens and criminals

, all have a sense of contradiction.

On the one hand, they really missed Gotham at that time. After all, the sun was gone all year round, and Gotham was always cloudy, rainy, and foggy. That was all they had lived in. On the other hand, they felt that such weather was too much.

It's a bit depressing, especially after enjoying the warm sunshine. This storm came too suddenly without any warning. Even the Meteorological Bureau is commenting on this storm, making people living in this city feel that it has already happened.

The shadows of Gotham are catching up again.

Trying to cover this reborn city and turn it back into the Gotham it once was.

But in this stormy weather with thunder and lightning, there was a different scene in an apartment building in Gotham. The floor-to-ceiling windows of the balcony were opened, and a shadow was elongated under the light of lightning. And in this elongated shadow

Everywhere it touched, there was blood splattering on the walls and floors. In the dark room, coupled with flashes of lightning from time to time, people were directly transported to the set of a horror movie.

The shadow was moving in this room under the light of lightning. As the shadow moved, we also saw the source of the blood splattered on the wall, a dead elderly couple. The woman was stabbed straight into the heart with a knife.

The only fatal injury that did not match the fatal injury was the extremely frightened expression on her face, the bulging veins, and the widened eyes, as if she had seen something unacceptable before she died.

The man was beside her, dying in the same way, but the only difference was that his face was peeled off, and all he could see was that his eyes were not closed, just like his wife, with the same fear. Under the face

His muscles were also tense. His face was peeled off while he was still alive and conscious. There was still an empty space and the outline of a body between the couple. Someone once slept between them.

"Master Bruce, I thought you would enjoy your time with Lady Diana in this stormy weather where pedestrians and cars cannot travel. But it seems that you have missed the appointment. Lady Diana is conducting combat training in the watchtower. With you

As a training object.”

Lightning cut through the night sky and revealed the owner of this shadow. It was Batman who had not been active in Gotham for a long time. Now that the order in Gotham is getting better day by day, the time and frequency he has been active as Batman are compared to

Before, it was much less. Only this time, he had to appear at the murder scene. Batman, who was just observing the scene, also received Alfred's communication and the ridicule in his words.

Only this old man who raised Batman could contact Batman immediately and know where Batman was at this moment. Sitting in front of the computer in the Batcave underground in Wayne Manor, Alfred looked at

Looking at the location displayed on the computer, he also said there.

"No. 16, Diamond Street. Is there anything worthy of your attention there, Master Bruce?"

"Nothing, Alfred, it's just a home invasion and murder." Walking in the room, Batman looked at the layout in the room. These layouts can illustrate the living conditions of the couple, childless, Dink couple,

Alfred in the Batcave was also puzzled by Batman's answer. There was a home invasion and murder case. As for letting Batman take action, it was not a disrespect for life, but based on the frequency of previous cases in Gotham, Bat

Everyone has an order of precedence.

"So, the method of this murder and the murderer are very special?"

"Yes, the deceased were an elderly couple with no children. They were well behaved and had good living conditions. They were killed, nothing was taken away, they were just killed, and the murderer just slept in their bed

, just to enjoy this feeling..."

Listening to Batman's analysis, Alfred also frowned, because of this description, and through the shared vision connected to Batman's mask, he could also see the scene. Just as Batman said

, the murderer just slept on the bed, between the two old people, just like a young child sleeping next to his parents. This kind of unguessable murder motive and random killing method, Alfred is only one guy

I've seen it on my body.

"Does this sound like something a clown would do, some sick copycat?"

"No, it was him who did it, I have no doubt about it."

At this time, Batman also found a ghost card painted purple under his pillow, and narrowed his eyes. This ghost card was exactly the same as the one he had in the Batcave.

"The clown did it? But he..."

"Dead, I know. You and I were both at the scene and watched him die with our own eyes. But just like what he said at the end, I still don't know his name. He may be looking at me somewhere now.

, waiting for me to step in."

At this time, lightning pierced the night sky, and a black shadow also appeared in the brief light of lightning. Batman turned his head and saw an owl flying in the storm. At this time, it opened its claws and caught an owl.

The only prey that also comes out to look for food in stormy weather is a bat. The owl that caught the prey stopped on the balcony where the murder was committed, looking at Batman with glowing eyes in the dark, and at the same time enjoying what he had caught.

prey.

Seeing this owl eating the bat that he symbolized, Batman also felt a little unhappy. Looking at the murder scene caused by the clown, he said to Alfred: "Inform Gordon and ask him to come over.

,Also, Alfred, don’t tell Thalia or Dick about this matter about the Joker.”

"But Master Bruce..."

"I don't want them to be implicated. This is between me and the clown!"

Batman, who cares most about his family now, does not want to involve his family in the dispute with the Joker, especially when he knows that there are two other clowns active. He has already lost his son once, and now,

Daughter, lover, and friend, these are all he cares about, and he cannot lose them a second time. Alfred, who was communicating with Batman in front of the computer, also understood the reason why Batman said this. After being silent for a while, he also

Agreed.

Communication was interrupted. After making sure that the scene was not destroyed by his own entry, Batman prepared to leave. Just as Batman was about to leave from the balcony, another bolt of lightning flashed in the sky, but this lightning struck where Batman was.

The area, to be precise, was behind Batman, where the owl was eating. The thunder and lightning fell, turning the owl into ashes, and the shock wave caused Batman to roll to the edge.

"Bruce..."

Just when Batman was confused by the sudden lightning, the lightning that fell behind him did not disperse. Instead, a voice came from inside and directly said Batman's name.

"Who are you!"

Batman asked directly, because at this time, he could see a person in the lightning, but this person was wrapped in lightning, preventing him from seeing the whole picture clearly.

"Bruce, I need your help..."

"You know me, but I don't remember anyone in my circle of friends who can control lightning. Even for Shazam, lightning is just an ability."

"I'm not riding lightning, you know me, I'm just getting younger, help me, I'm Wo..."

Before he finished speaking, another thunder and lightning fell from the sky, taking away the person who was wrapped in the thunder and lightning and trying to seek help from Batman. Everything disappeared. It was as if nothing had happened, except for the person who was under the thunder and lightning.

The owl that turned into ashes showed that everything was not an illusion, and Batman stood there, looking at the owl that turned into ashes, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"W... it's not a simple reboot. Some things have been erased, some things have been replaced, and some things have been preserved. Is that so, clown?"

Batman, who had previously confirmed that the universe he was currently in had experienced a reboot, just from this thunder and lightning, and the few words of the mysterious man who was wrapped in the lightning, he connected everything in his mind.

Part of the information he wanted, but it was just information. Even if he understood it, he had to focus on what was in front of him now. There were still two clowns on the loose, putting himself, his family and friends in danger at any time. He had to find the clowns.

.

Batman left, and the storm that raged in Gotham all night slowly dissipated when the sun rose in the morning. The sun shone on the earth, and the fresh air brought by the clear sky after the rain made the people who listened to the thunder all night

The citizens of Gotham felt relaxed physically and mentally. And the murder scene that Alfred informed Gordon to rush to was just a small episode in Gotham's life. After all, accidents happen every day.

No one cared about the storm that happened in Gotham last night. As for Batman, he didn't tell Alfred that last night, he inspected the murder scene caused by the Joker, and the two of them were together with this mysterious man wrapped in lightning.

The conversation between them. It’s just that Alfred can feel that after telling himself that the Joker is still alive last night, he can feel that the Batman buried in the heart named Bruce Wayne is returning, and Bruce

·Wayne, will also become a mask.

In this specious New 52 universe, everything is going on. Doctor Manhattan temporarily left this multiverse to do his own experiments after watching Ke Wen experience the Darkseid war. And that

The mysterious man who appeared in Gotham on a stormy night and had a conversation with Batman was also carried by lightning at this time, wandering outside the universe, watching everything on the earth today from the perspective of a bystander. This was his life

planet, but everything has changed.

In the dimension wrapped by lightning, he looked at all this. There was no concept of time here, only the pain of tearing his own flesh apart. And he was enduring this pain and trying to get rid of it. He needed someone to remember his name.

, but his appearance and everything about him were restricted and blocked by the lightning that enveloped him. When he saw the Flash, he couldn't even say a complete sentence, and couldn't even show his appearance.

"I need someone to help me. Batman failed, but there must be different places in this world. I want to find out!"

Wandering outside the universe, after meeting Batman, he murmured, and then, the lightning wrapped around him took him through the timeline of this universe, arriving five years ago, when the Justice League was established.

Period. The sudden extraterrestrial invasion also contributed to the establishment of the Justice League. The powerful dark lord Darkseid, the superheroes who fought individually were defeated, the Man of Steel was arrested, and then the superheroes who united

, defeated the Dark Lord and regained the sovereignty of the earth.

Then at the United Nations General Assembly, the birth of the Justice League was announced. He saw all this while floating outside the universe, but fell into doubts.

"No, the Justice League was not formed because of Darkseid's invasion. You, like me, have become younger, but you have also changed. The Justice League was not established because of Darkseid, that's not right..."

After reading the history of the birth of the Justice League, he wanted to jump out from this point in time to tell them that there was a problem with the timeline, but Thunder and Lightning pulled him back again, to the dimension outside the universe. Then, he continued

Jumping through time.

Then, he saw the scene where Atlantis declared war on land, and he also saw a simple confrontation between Batman and Superman before the establishment of the Justice League. Everything was different from what he remembered, but it was not over yet.

He knew that those disappeared things existed, but were hidden in another way. Thinking like this, he followed his thoughts and once again crossed time and came to the current point in time, Central City.

On the outskirts of Central City, the original Flash, in the old 52 era, Jay Garrick, a member of the earliest superhero organization, the Justice Society, was cooking dinner at home. While Jay, the old man, was busy in the kitchen, Thunderbolt

Appearing in his home, Jay was startled by the sudden noise and movement, and then, the person wrapped in lightning appeared in front of him.

"Jay Garrick, remember, you were a hero..."

"Yeah, I know that, but I'm just Jay Garrick now. So, who are you?"

The first-generation Flash responded that Jay was not wary of the mysterious man in front of him who could not see his true face. On the contrary, he felt familiar. But the speed force in him had been entrusted to Ke Wen, and he turned back into a mortal.

He is just an ordinary old man. He does not have any ability to think at super speed, so naturally he cannot break through the limitations of the universe.

"You're just Jay Garrick? You don't remember me either? Where's your Speed ​​Force and your hat that symbolizes your identity!"

The mysterious man was also surprised when he listened to Jay's story. The jump was too fast and he did not see everything that happened in the past five years. But he understood that this universe that excluded him was not only different in some places.

, and there are some more things that I don’t know.

"I entrusted it to the future, a future that moves forward instead of going round and round. I can't help you with anything, but you can go to the future I entrusted to you. He can help you. His name is..."

Before Jay could finish his words, lightning once again pulled the mysterious man who appeared in front of him and made him disappear in front of him. However, Jay was able to recognize what the lightning pulling the mysterious man was. It was something he had obtained

Extraordinary power, the speed force.

"Speedster? Who did I forget?" Jay muttered there.

No one could answer Jay's question. The mysterious speedster who appeared in front of Jay was dragged away by the Speed ​​Force again and continued to sink in the Speed ​​Force barrier, but he finally got some important information. Everyone remembered

There was no one like him, including Jay, a former member of the Justice Society, one of the earliest superheroes in history, but the words he told himself mentioned the future, and he entrusted his power to the future, a future that keeps moving forward.

, there will be no cyclic future.

"I have to find this future, the future that Jay entrusted me with, and I have to start from before they became superheroes!"

Whispering in a low voice, relying on the fact that he could still control the Speed ​​Force at this time, he once again crossed the long river of time and came to the time before the members of the Justice League became heroes. If anything was different from what he remembered, then it would be best to start from the beginning.

Okay. Then, as a bystander, he looked again at the place where it all began, the destruction of Krypton. A baby named Kal Al took a spaceship and came to the small town of Smallville, Kansas, and became

Clark Kent, under the education of the Kents, began to think about the significance of his power to the world.

Then came Gotham, Crime Alley, and with the sound of two gunshots, the boy looked at his parents lying in a pool of blood, and the seeds of hatred grew.

On Paradise Island, the girl looked at the sky by the sea amid the warnings of her elders, thinking about what was outside this barrier.

In Beach City, a young boy sat in a hangar with his pilot father, looking up at the stars and thinking about what was beyond the earth.

Cien Harbor Lighthouse, the boy looked into the distance and was thinking about the same question.

Everything was the same as in his memory, including the younger Sea King Arthur proposing to the Sea Queen Mera at the Port of Mercy. The difference was that the boy with the power of the Six Gods replaced another visitor from Mars, and then,

The boy's true identity was exposed and he was kicked out. The timeline was revised and the visitor from Mars returned to the Justice League. But at this time, he also discovered the difference.

"No, in my memory, Shazam is not a member of the Titans. Is this the difference? Then, is the entrusted future hidden in this anomaly?"

At this time, he has been sinking in the Speed ​​Force barrier for too long, and is about to lose control and completely become part of the Speed ​​Force, so he can only gamble. Following the time point when Shazam was kicked to the Teen Titans, he

Jumping directly to Nasino City at the current point in time, he skipped everything in the past and finally saw an existence that had no impression at all in his memory.

His friend Nightwing, Dick Grayson, was having drinks with another Chinese young man in the bar and chatting with each other. When he focused on this Chinese young man, he could feel the hidden meaning in him.

His divine speed is echoing with his own.

"This is the future that Jay entrusted with? Can he help me?"

With his last hope, he once again broke through the barrier of the Speed ​​Force and made a last ditch effort.