Chapter 7 Winning 1/3 of the Future

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In this mechanically built planetary fortress, Dr. Manhattan, who came to this branch future from the time of the main universe in the past, finally met the person he wanted to see—Ke Wen who had grown into a complete body. He doesn't need to transform himself, and he doesn't need any authority to decorate himself. Just standing there, Dr. Manhattan can feel that Ke Wen in this branch of the future is a powerful existence that does not lose to him.

And unlike him, unlike Superman, Dr. Manhattan gained his powers as an ordinary person in a physics experiment accident. And over a long period of time, with his absolute control over this quantum realm, he gradually lost his humanity and became a perfect and perfect creature, while Superman used a mechanical descending method to survive on this unconstrained earth. Live in your own environment and exist as a god.

But Ke Wen is not. At the beginning, he was just a late-stage patient with secondary disease in university who wore armor and moved clumsily. But an unreasonable time travel brought him from an ordinary world to an ordinary universe full of possibilities. The late stage of secondary school disease, which was supposed to be cured, has also directly become the terminal stage, and finally the disease is hopeless and hopeless.

In such an environment, he also started from the blank board equipped with Kamen Rider G3 armor at the beginning, and struggled all the way. After obtaining his own knight's real name, he fought and grew up in this nearly half a century of war. , he had a process of adaptation. Ke Wen, who grew up in this way, is better than Dr. Manhattan, and is more able to balance the so-called divinity and humanity in himself.

Ke Wen who grew up in this way, even Dr. Manhattan did not dare to underestimate him, and he could not casually invade the library of the consciousness area where Ke Wen was located, and casually say a word, a thought would seriously injure him I can't get up again. If he dares to do this again, Dr. Manhattan can guarantee that when his thoughts invade Ke Wen's consciousness, Ke Wen in front of him will dare to step on his bald head on the floor and beat him up violently.

Similarly, Ke Wen, who grew up in this branch in the future, looked at Dr. Manhattan for a long time, and suddenly laughed, loudly, and Ke Wen's laughter echoed throughout the building.

"I didn't expect that after more than 30 years, the two of us would meet in this way. I am really grateful for this war. Now I look at you and suddenly realize that you are just a perverted little blue man with exhibitionism Well, there's nothing to be afraid of."

The narrowing of the gap between the two also makes Ke Wen no longer need to be timid in incidents involving Dr. Manhattan's intervention as before. He is now standing in front of Dr. Manhattan, mocking how abnormal Dr. Manhattan's posture is every time he appears in front of others. , and don’t have to worry about Dr. Manhattan giving himself a break. In other words, now Ke Wen is eager for Manhattan Bo to do this to himself, so that he can easily catch this move and reply to Dr. Manhattan:

'Surprise! Mother Fuck! '

The backhand is to slap back, to let out the anger that I was targeted by Dr. Manhattan more than 30 years ago. Obviously, Dr. Manhattan will not do this anymore, and he is not the hot-blooded young man who broke out of the second illness after a disagreement. As the core of the Apocalypse War against Darkseid, he also She is slowly becoming the appearance she hates the most, but in her heart, she still retains a warm blood that has not lost its temperature.

"Yes, for you now, I do lose the qualification to scare you, but I think you are very clear about my purpose of coming here." Dr. Manhattan was not angry at Ke Wen's ridicule and ridicule. Said calmly.

"Well, I know very well that you came to announce the result to me. The bet we made before, so now, I won, right?"

With his hands behind his back, the scene of the palace where Ke Wen and Dr. Manhattan were located began to change during the conversation.

Back to the earth, the once prosperous earth, and then, time began to move forward rapidly. A frame of pictures also flashed in front of Dr. Manhattan, the destruction of the Japanese army that fell from the sky, during the year-long defensive battle, the superhero who died in the war, the Apocalypse Assault, broke the bottom line because of heavy blows, anger, and hatred , Batman who collapsed after killing Darkseid's two sons.

The scene of fighting with Superman on the day of the mother's destruction, watching the helplessness and despair of the two girls dying for their own time, until they returned and took over the leadership, and began to fight back against Apocalypse. Among them, there are Warm ones, such as the birth of the next generation headed by Conan, but more blood and fire, flooding every area of ​​the universe.

This is everything that Ke Wen showed to Dr. Manhattan, everything about the future of this branch, it is not difficult for Ke Wen to do this today, it is a matter of one thought. And Dr. Manhattan didn't raise any doubts in this display, and when the scene ended, the two of them returned to their original places. Regarding the things Ke Wen showed, Dr. Manhattan only nodded before responding.

"Yes, you won. The experiment I wanted to do with Superman was nothing more than this. It is the same for you. You have gained everything, but lost everything. You and him, who have been treated maliciously by the world, will you and him? Stick to your own heart. Compared with the experiment I designed for you, the things you will experience in this future are bigger and more desperate, but whether it is you or Superman, in the end, it is still the same as when I met you at the beginning, there is no I have changed, and I have never thought about using the so-called restart, going back to the past to change something.”

"Don't make me and Superman so great, you don't really think that Superman and I don't have this idea. Although Wally is sealed on the wall of origin, Flash still exists. Darkseid thinks more than We are comprehensive, the Speed ​​Force has been broken up, it still exists, but its consciousness has disappeared. The Flash is just the Flash, if he wants to run back to the past with the same thought at the beginning, then he will be driven away by the speed force Forced to death, assimilated into a part of it."

Waving his hand, Ke Wen was not at all unimpressed by the high hat that Dr. Manhattan put on himself. While explaining the reason, Ke Wen looked away and looked at the wall of origin, sacrificed himself, and sealed it with the Destruction Japanese Legion The Wallys on the wall. The expressions of Wally and Thea were vivid on the wall of origin, as if they were asleep. Wally was holding his girl, and Thea was putting his hands on his belly with a happy smile. Looking at the statue of his best friend, Ke Wen's voice became low at this time.

"Also, so what, even if it is really restarted, everything starts again, but after all, some people stay in the past and cannot get out. We have already made a mistake once, should we make it again? What's more, restarting can solve everything The problem? What should have happened will still happen. If we look back at the past, it is undoubtedly that the risk was avoided, and another unknown risk had to be dealt with as a balance. You know the problem better than me. What's more , is this future going to be bad, we haven't lost yet!"

In the end, an unparalleled self-confidence was also released from Ke Wen, giving Dr. Manhattan the feeling that Ke Wen was sure that he would win the next war. This feeling is very strange to Dr. Manhattan, but because Ke Wen has become an existence similar to himself now, Dr. Manhattan can't easily see through Ke Wen's fiction and reality as he did back then. He just looks confident Ke Wen asked directly.

"What is your real body, I mean your real body as Kamen Rider Riki."

"What stands in front of you now is my real body as Kamen Rider Riki."

? ? ? ?

Dr. Manhattan was completely confused by Ke Wen's words. It's not that he hasn't been to the multiverse of Knights, and he has also chased after him in the real world. He knows very well that even as the Showa Glory Seven who created the IP history of Kamen Rider, As the two knights born on the 1st and 2nd, the essential transformation is actually putting on a layer of enhanced suits, but the enhanced suits are also transformations, you just tell me that your current appearance is your real body? So are you a Kamen Rider?

If you told me this more than 30 years ago, I would have dissected you from the inside to the outside immediately to understand thoroughly. But now, well, you are awesome, I may not be able to beat you, I can only ask questions about what you say. At this time, Dr. Manhattan's psychology is so complicated. He didn't even need to say a word before, as long as he thought about it, the secret was hidden in front of him.

But now, well, the other party blocked your perception and spit ink on you, and you were blinded. And Ke Wen, who hasn't met Dr. Manhattan for a long time, also appreciates the expression on Dr. Manhattan's face at this moment. This kind of bewilderment and doubts that come from the heart and directly show through the self, beat him up. Kesaid was still comfortable.

"Hahaha, I've always wanted to see this expression on your face, Dr. Manhattan, as the all-knowing and omnipotent quantum god, finally has the time to not understand, yes, keep this expression, let me appreciate it for a few more seconds Oh, it's normal for you to be so confused, because I discovered another kind of power hidden in me, so I became what I am now. If there were no such things, you should be able to see my real body as Li Qi now, But I can't do it anymore, I have to give up something, to protect something."

Speaking of which, Ke Wen's words are also a little bit lost. The real name he finally obtained, but in the end, he still doesn't have a transformation form that belongs to him. Even if the war is over, he will go to other universes to make cameos by himself The exclusive form derived from the twenty sons of Heisei is not good at all, but if the real body appears on the stage, I say that I am a Kamen Rider, what if the younger generation don't believe it?

Before the war was over, Ke Wen began to think about how he would look like when he appeared as a junior knight in other universes as a cameo. It doesn't matter if you rub your belt with your hands. The important thing is that it is your belt, not a color-changing method. Otherwise, he would become a joke at that time. Although he was full of force, he couldn't stand a Kamen Rider joke directly when a group of Kamen Riders came to a holiday party.

I used to tell you a joke, "Knight's Christmas...hahaha" and so on, now it's good, there is another one, "Do you know Kamen Rider Riki, he can transform... ·" Ke Wen can think of how the born knight descendants will laugh when the war is over. In that case, he will have to continue to be a devil! In order to save his own face, the Demon King of Scraps!

Dr. Manhattan stood aside, looking at the future Ke Wen of this branch. When he turned to himself and looked into the distance, his expression changed from angry to frustrated, ruthless, and happy. He looked like a neuropathy , This kind of expression management makes Dr. Manhattan want to complain, is the clown yourself? ! But he didn't come here for this. It is one thing to admit that this future Ke Wen won, but on the other hand, he has to tell Ke Wen something.

"Your clown expression management can be closed. It is one thing for you to win, but I haven't finished talking. It is you in this future who won. What I admit is what you and Superman did in this future. Everything, not other future you and Superman."

"Other futures? There are two other futures of IF lines?" After Dr. Manhattan said this, Ke Wen also restrained his expression, and immediately reacted and asked directly.

"you know?"

"No, it's just a guess. When I was here, I sometimes thought about how the current timeline would develop if it was another one of them who survived. I just can't figure it out, and I can't figure it out. But you said that just now, so I think there should be such a possibility, you haven't been there yet, wait, you came here from the past time?"

When Dr. Manhattan asked, Ke Wen also said in a somewhat embarrassing tone, but soon, Ke Wen also noticed something was wrong, and asked directly how Dr. Manhattan came. Similarly, Dr. Manhattan also reacted and asked back.

"You think I appeared directly in this future? In the past, I didn't appear?"

The two asked each other rhetorically, and they also froze at the same time, and the situation suddenly became weird. The two also understood from the words of the rhetorical question just now that in the past time, Dr. Manhattan did not appear or cause trouble. After the big event of the Darkseid War, he disappeared until he had grown into a full body. Ke Wen felt Dr. Manhattan's breath the moment he appeared in the future of this branch.

But Dr. Manhattan is very clear that he returned to the main universe from the past time, and after obtaining the information that happened in the main universe during his absence, he entered this branch future because he was curious whether the future is still that future, Meet Ke Wen. There is no conflict between the two, because Dr. Manhattan observed three unknown branch futures, so he came here, and then returned to the past time of the main universe, as if he had never left, as long as Dr. Manhattan does not do anything Things that affect the main universe.

But this leads to a paradox. The most tangled point for Dr. Manhattan is whether to abandon humanity while becoming a god. If the answer is obtained from Ke Wen and Superman in this branch of the future, then it is impossible for Dr. Manhattan, who can balance divinity and humanity, to ignore everything happening and leave this DC multiverse indifferently. But if Dr. Manhattan can't ignore all this, he will definitely make some changes when he returns to the past, such as finding out the truth about the Doomsday Legion.

Since the doomsday cannot be avoided, let the big event appear as it was at the beginning, which will not affect the operation of the universe. Even if this branch will still exist in the future, in the past, there will be a clear timeline extending out. Instead of three branches in the future as it is now.

The moment they understood this question, Ke Wen and Manhattan also turned their heads sideways and looked to the other side of themselves. At this time, their actions were as if they were looking at a third person who eavesdropped on their conversation. But where they looked, there was nothingness.

"I still can't see the future extending from the past time, it's still a blur, and there are three branches of the future."

"me too."

The expressions of the two were indescribably dignified. Such a paradox should not have appeared, but once it appeared, it meant that above them, there was a black hand behind the scenes who was fiddled with all this, even Dr. Manhattan, who is the quantum god. This effect cannot be ignored.

"I think it's time for me to leave. I have to go to the other two branches to confirm the situation in the future, and then I will return to the main universe time when I returned. Before that, is there anything you want me to say to you in the past?" Dr. Manhattan, who had slowly regained his lost humanity, also understood the seriousness of the matter, and asked Ke Wen directly.

"No, you don't need to do anything, you just need to witness what the future me of the other two branches did. When you reach the future of the other two branches, I will have a way to contact the future me of the other two branches. As for me in the past, you don’t need to do anything on purpose. If someone is really manipulating all this behind the scenes and affecting you and me, then once you send any information, it will lead to the future of the three branches including me. One becomes the established future."

"You do not want?"

"Hehe, if possible, I would rather have a perfect clearance of HE than a choice of one of BE, but all the choices and thoughts come from the past me, we can't and shouldn't interfere. "

"Understood, I will witness how I lost the remaining two-thirds. Before that, I am still curious, who is stronger now than you and Darkseid."

"You are asking a question. What I want to do is not simply defeating a Darkseid, but Darkseid, his father, the new dark god he leads, and the light that may turn against Darkseid at any time." New God, that is, on Xinchuangshi, the guy called Heavenly Father, and his subordinates. After all, they are all new gods. I don’t trust them very much. If they also turn against each other and join forces to bully me If it is, I guess, it is just a little bit stronger than their lineup."

After making a gesture that everyone understands, Dr. Manhattan didn't stay here any longer. "Then, goodbye, Ke Wen." Saying goodbye, Dr. Manhattan also disappeared from the future Ke Wen of this branch.

After watching Dr. Manhattan leave his branch future, Ke Wen also returned to his throne and sat down, resting his chin with one hand, tapping his fingers on the throne, looking at the top of his head, feeling the undercurrents in the universe, Can't help laughing out loud.

"Heh, it's getting more and more interesting. The me in the past, single-choice questions or multiple-choice questions, it's up to you. Now I can't do this question anymore, and the branch can't be erased in the future." , this is an independent line, and no one knows where it will go. But if possible, I want to become stronger than me. You have to have the real body of Liqi. If I can't save people, you can also If it can be saved, now, it is time for me to end the war on my side."

During the speech, the palace regained its calm again.