The Knights of the DC House

In the miniature universe created by Brainiac, Ke Wen, who is located in the Hall of Justice on Earth, listens to the old 52 Superman telling the truth about this universe. He only feels like he has been struck by lightning, especially when he looks at the man in front of him who is over half a year old.

A hundred-year-old Superman cannot be connected with the so-called remnants of time at all. All this is too unbelievable.

"Do you know what you are talking about, Superman, time remnant? Can time remnant burn down your power? Will time remnant age with the passage of time? This is not a joke, right? Also, why?

Is it the Flash’s sacrifice to heaven again?”

Sitting there, Ke Wen's drinking hand began to tremble. Even so, he raised doubts and questioned the old 52 Superman's statement. He had to do this, because only in this way could he convince himself that he would not be

The terrible fact before my eyes shattered all my views.

"It's really strange. You obviously guessed it, but when I said it, why did you use all kinds of doubts to overturn your idea?"

The old 52 Superman did not feel uncomfortable about the fact that he was a remnant of time. Instead, he looked at Ke Wen's performance and teased him.

"You can guess as much as you want about this kind of thing, but if the thing you guess is real, everyone will be scared, especially what you are talking about now is the planet under my feet, including you.

All lives in my life are remnants of the past. I have to slow down. There are so many exciting things on this journey to the multiverse that I can’t bear it anymore.”

Compared to the dullness of the old 52 Superman, Ke Wen covered his face with his hands and took a deep breath. Starting from bringing the old 52 Wally back from the Dark Multiverse, several major events in succession made his brain almost unable to bear it.

Although they didn't happen all at once, and there was a break in between, it was a bunch of historical problems from the past universe, which was really difficult to deal with.

The old 52 Superman was also sitting there, looking at Ke Wen with interest, drinking coffee and silently counting the time.

"How's it going? Is it slow enough?"

"Well, that's enough. Since you keep me here, there are some things that only I can do. Tell me about everything here, the reasons why you use it as a remnant of time, and what you want me to do."

"The psychological quality is good, but the newborns in the newborn universe are different."

He praised Ke Wen for being able to adjust his mentality so quickly and snapped his fingers. The artificial intelligence installed in the Justice League's headquarters, the Hall of Justice, also made Ke Wen a cup of hot tea, so that Ke Wen could calm down and listen to him tell all this.

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"I know you find it strange, but that's the truth. I think you should learn from Wally what happened when the universe restarted. There was no warning, everything happened so suddenly, me, Batman, the entire league, the Earth

Without any resistance at all, it was turned into fragments during the restart of the universe. I can tell you that what Wally saw was not an illusion. At that moment, all of us did die.

Only Wally, protected by some kind of power, was sealed into the Speed ​​Force, wandering in the gap between the restart and rebirth of the universe. In fact, none of this was accidental. At that time, we were indeed dead, but you who possess the Speed ​​Force

It should be understood that for most beings, death is a matter of an instant, but for speedsters with the Speed ​​Force, it is a process that can be extended indefinitely."

Ke Wen also nodded to the old 52 Superman's statement. It's not like he has never experienced this kind of thing. The reverse lightning he met in the Flashpoint timeline was when he was headshot by Flashpoint Batman.

Did he use the speed force to prolong this process, and then separate the time remnants in an attempt to reverse the fact that he died?

Reversible Lightning itself is a speedster who has thoroughly studied the speed force. Ke Wen is not surprised that he can do this. Now in front of Ke Wen, the entire earth has been used by the Flash.

By prolonging his death process indefinitely, he could really do whatever he wanted as the producer of the Speed ​​Force.

"It's not as crazy as you think. As you can see, Barry paid a price. He completely assimilated himself with the Speed ​​Force to fix us, the remnants of time."

The old 52 Superman, who understood what Ke Wen was thinking at this time, also made the situation clear and continued to talk about the next thing.

"So as you just saw, everyone survived in this way, but Barry did not. Of course, not all, as far as I know, the clown in our universe did not appear as a time remnant

On Earth, it is obvious that Barry also made his own choices when recruiting people. Perhaps it was to compensate for Barry's assimilation with the Speed ​​Force, so Wally was able to survive and stay alive."

"I know these things, but there are still some things I don't know. I'm very curious. If the Flash from the previous universe extended your death process indefinitely in this way, allowing you to exist as a remnant of time, then, you,

Will everyone on this earth be resurrected at some point in the future?"

At this point, Ke Wen's expression also became serious. The example of reverse lightning was in front of him. The death process was infinitely stretched. As long as he found a way to go back to the past and change the ending of death, he would naturally be resurrected. 1

With so many superheroes on the entire planet, what kind of methods and powers are needed to do this?

"This is the second key point I want to make. The answer is that none of us can be resurrected." In response to Ke Wen's question, the old 52 Superman also calmly stated his current situation, with a bit of freedom and ease.

"You should know that one of the conditions for resurrection is that the future where you died still exists, but our universe has already become the cornerstone of the birth of a new universe. This is an irreversible process, even if the new universe you are in is lightning.

Xia sacrificed himself again and restarted the universe, but what he got was just another new universe, so the us you see now are, to a certain extent, ghosts from the past."

"Then how do you explain your current situation, age, and everyone's condition?" Pointing to his temples, Ke Wen continued to ask.

"For this, you have to ask Brainiac who locked you up."

Having said this, the old 52 Superman also pointed to the top of his head. The artificial intelligence that once made him and many superheroes busy, possesses the most advanced wisdom in the entire DC universe and can interfere with multi-dimensional operations, Brainiac.

"In the entire process of restarting the multiverse, even after Barry sacrificed himself and brought many of us back from the past time point in the form of time remnants, we actually did not understand the reason why Barry did this, because the established ending is irreversible.

Even if we exist as time remnants, it only prolongs the process. At the specified time, we will still disappear. But at this time, Brainiac appeared."

"He used a certain kind of light to bind you, just like he contained the cities that contained the essence of civilization, he took you, the remnants of time, into the spaceship. Then he created a miniature universe and a miniature solar system inside the spacecraft, allowing you to

Did he survive in his spaceship?"

Taking over the words of the old 52 Superman, Ke Wen also finished telling the next development of the story, and the old 52 Superman nodded.

"Yes, Brainiac is worthy of being a robot with level 12 intelligence. Well, it's not right to call him a robot. He can already exist as a creator. This miniature solar system is no different from the earth we lived on before.

Thanks to the protection of Brainiac's spaceship, we can exist in this life form and experience life that we have never experienced before, as ordinary people who just want to do good things.

There are not too many super-powered criminals, nor are there those alien visitors that have always troubled us, the Justice League is just an international third-party organization, watching over the current order."

When he said this, the expression on the face of the old 52 Superman also became a little abnormal, including emotion, nostalgia, reluctance, and finally determination. This series of expressions were all displayed on the face of the old 52 Superman, which made Ke Wen even more unhappy.

Got it. If the old 52 Superman didn't lie to him, Brainiac has done a great thing. He allowed the disappeared old 52 universe to survive in this form, and also allowed the old 52 Superman and the others to enjoy it.

The life you should have.

"Ha, you still don't know how to hide what's in your heart, it's all reflected on your face. I know what you're wondering about. We survived, isolated from the already determined ending of death, and exist in this miniature universe.

But that’s not how it works, see.”

After teasing Ke Wen, the old 52 Superman's eyes also turned red, and the heat vision to adjust the power was released from his eyes, hitting his palm directly. And Ke Wen also saw such a scene, the heat vision pierced the old 52

There is no bright red blood flowing from Superman's palm.

In his scratched palm, there was only nothingness.

"See, this is the way we exist now. No matter how much self-deception, we can't change the fact that we are all ghosts who have passed away. Thanks to Brainiac's miniature universe, we have the same home.

, but what is false is false, we are already dead, and the laws used in biology no longer apply to us, whether it is injury or the passage of time, the reason why I am like this is because I want to be like this."

As the old 52 Superman explained, blood began to flow out of the palm that was scratched by his heat vision, and then with his thoughts, it returned to the same state as before. Even the gray temples that had just been shown in front of Ke Wen returned to normal.

It turned black, and the old face became younger, and then turned back to the old look.

Such changes, combined with the demonstration of the old 52 Superman, also made Ke Wen understand. Brainiac used a miniature universe to isolate the connection between the old 52 Superman and their time remnants and the destroyed old 52 universe, allowing them to live in this kind of world.

It exists as an independent individual in the environment. But the time remnant itself is the trace of the original body at a certain time point in the past, and is not a real life of flesh and blood.

The laws of life do not work for them. No matter how prosperous and energetic the earth is, it is just a layer of window paper that will be broken with a poke.

"This really opened my eyes. So, what do you want me to do when you leave me alone?"

Looking at the changes in the old 52 Superman, Ke Wen couldn't help feeling bitter. It turned out that nothing could be changed. He thought there was a way to take them back to his new universe, or to unite with the big guys and use the Speed ​​Force as a weapon.

Standard, opening up a parallel timeline so that they can coexist with the New 52 universe, in the end, it is just their own reverie.

"What I want to ask you for, only you, and only you, can do it."

"What?"

When he heard the old 52 Superman talking to him in this tone, Ke Wen also sat upright, his heartbeat accelerated, his hands were holding his pants, and cold sweat broke out on the back of his hands. The old 52 Superman also breathed a sigh of relief, and then he took it seriously.

said.

"I want you to destroy this world, destroy this universe, and make us die completely!"

After the words fell, the entire Hall of Justice became silent as the old 52 Superman said these words, and even the air seemed to stop flowing. Ke Wen also stopped after the old 52 Superman said these words.

After thinking for a few seconds, after a long while, looking at the serious face of the old 52 Superman, he stood up and lost control of his emotions.

"Impossible! Do you know what you are talking about! This universe, your existing universe, is the only basis for your survival, the proof that you are still alive, and you want me to destroy it?! Why! Why do you do this! Why?

It’s me!”

Ke Wen has no reason to lose his composure. Since he became a Kamen Rider, he has never killed in a real sense. No matter what major event he is in, he always adheres to this principle. This is his bottom line, but now, the old 52

Superman asked him to destroy this micro-universe and destroy the last trace of the old 52 universe in this universe. He couldn't do it, and he didn't understand why he was asked to do such a thing.

"You call this state alive?" He opened his palm, and the palm that had just been scratched by the heat vision and recovered to its original state cracked again, revealing the hollow nature inside. The old 52 Superman's rhetorical question made Ke Wen not sure how to answer the question.

"The reason I'm asking you is because you can only do it. You are special. You are different from Dick and the others. They can't do it. Wally can't do it either, and he won't agree to it. But you can. Dick

They told me that you are a hero who exists in the new universe. You do not exist in the past, but only in this new universe. It is most appropriate and appropriate for you to do this."

"Just because it's appropriate, you let me destroy 7 billion lives on the earth? Have you asked other people, do you think this is not living? But living is a matter of free conscience. Can you cry?

If you can laugh and have your own life, everyone here is like this, then they are living lives, including you, but now you want me to destroy it all? Do you know what you are talking about, Superman!"

Ke Wen's words stunned the old 52 Superman, and then showed his unique sunny smile.

"You can still laugh at this time!"

"Ha, it feels so good to be able to be told by you that we are still living people. I know this is hard for you to accept, so I will give you time. If you have time, go for a walk and tell me your answer.

Yes, I won’t force it.”

Walking forward, the Old 52 Superman, who was a head taller than Ke Wen, looked at Ke Wen's young face. He originally wanted to pat Ke Wen's head like an elder, but after thinking about it, he patted Ke Wen on the shoulder.

Then he just left, leaving Ke Wen alone in the empty Hall of Justice, staring at the statue in a daze.