Chapter 23 The Savior Ke Wen
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A broken, lifeless earth is floating in the universe. According to Dr. Manhattan's observation, this lifeless earth will not have any celestial impact on the current earth. It can be understood as a relatively large meteorite , floating in space, with time, this lifeless earth will also leave the solar system, and it will also slowly split apart on the way out, turning into a small meteorite area.
But all this made Dr. Manhattan confused. He couldn't understand what was going on in the second branch future he entered, and why he could see the epitome of the Watcher universe he was in, but it was different from his own Watcher universe. very different. In the mouths of his former comrades-in-arms, why did he call Ke Wen the savior. The impact of human emotions made Dr. Manhattan almost do not know how to think, especially since he stepped into this branch of the future, everything he said and every step he took was in the expectation of the savior Ke Wen.
"Relax, Joe, your appearance is much different from the one we are familiar with now. Do you still remember when I did something wrong in Vietnam? You never lost your composure like this."
On the side, among the members of the watchmen, the name is the laughing craftsman, whose real name is Edward Morgan Frank. A bad guy. In the history of the watcher universe, he committed numerous crimes while participating in the Vietnam War, but was tortured because of his actions. That is, when he saw familiar people again, he was able to calmly Tell me about the mistakes you have made, and still make fun of Dr. Manhattan.
"Frank, you..." Watching the grey-haired laugher tease himself, Dr. Manhattan, who recovered from his astonishment, watched all this and began to force himself to return to a rational state. He wanted to restore the truth from it.
"Okay, Joe, let me talk directly to save everyone's time." On the side, Pharaoh also interrupted Dr. Manhattan's backtracking and began to explain the ins and outs of all this. "Do you still remember the layout? You put all the blame on you. Because of your strength, the whole world began to let go of their prejudices and unite against the enemy just to deal with you. For this reason, you chose to compromise and leave. And killed Rorschach."
"Yes, since then, I have been completely disappointed in humans, and I don't think I am a human being."
This is what Dr. Manhattan has experienced, and he will never forget it, and it is also the last thing Pharaoh will forget, because he did plot against a god and succeeded in making him compromise. Even if the price is that this god will never trust humans again, for him, it is something worth bragging about until he dies.
But Pharaoh also showed a wry smile at this time.
"Yes, I won at the time, but I also lost. Although the false peace is also peace, it is false after all. Once the veil is pierced, it will be a storm. For this truth, you killed Rorschach, leave the universe we are in. But things will always exceed your imagination, Rorschach died, but before he died, when he and Ye Xiao came to the Arctic base to find me, he left a book of life, Luo Xia In Xia's diary, a series of inferences and clues from when Frank was killed by me are described in the tone of a diary.
It stopped until he and Ye Xiao came to the Arctic base, but it was enough. This diary was left by Rorschach in a newspaper, and it just happened to be published. That fat-headed editor only thinks about popularity, gimmicks, sales, and traffic. I didn't expect what would happen once this matter was exposed, or what kind of impact it would have so early. "
When he said this, the Pharaoh's expression became ferocious. Even though it has been more than ten years now, from a middle-aged son to a sixtieth old man, he still can't forget this matter.
But through Pharaoh's explanation, Dr. Manhattan also understood the subsequent ending. It is nothing more than this false peace being exposed. It was too early to expose. After the two superpowers who had finally given up nuclear war because of their powerful threat realized that they had been tricked,
The curtain of the Cold War has once again opened, peace will be shattered at the first touch, and war will come at any time. Everything is like a prank, a joke played on them by God.
"Yes, as you can imagine, when this Rorschach's diary was exposed prematurely, everything I planned became a joke. I have nothing and I am wanted by the whole world. While they wanted me, they did not forget Start preparing for battle, when the world was really on the verge of destruction."
Speaking of which, Pharaoh's expression is also indescribably wonderful, all his plans are perfect, whether it is to calculate Manhattan, or to let the two superpowers cease fire, he has done it. But he, like Dr. Manhattan, calculated everything accurately, but he did not calculate human nature, a diary, and a truth that came too early, making all these calculations come to naught.
"That's exactly why I left, but why are you here, Frank, Rorschach, and how did you two survive?"
"Hahaha, all of this is thanks to this belated end of the world." On the side, the same old joker laughed, "Because of this end of the world, they who parted ways gathered together again , trying to find you, looking for a solution. But they are short of manpower, but they can only take another way. Adrian made a space-time shuttle, went back to the past when he killed me and saved me. He took Rorschach away, and then came to the universe you went to by pursuing your energy imprint.
A universe full of real superheroes, step into the 21st century. But this universe entering the 21st century, hey, it doesn't look like much, it's not much different from us, really. "
The funny words made Dr. Manhattan instinctively feel something was wrong, and on the other side, Rorschach, who had been killed by himself, also explained.
"We came to this universe following your trail, but maybe we came at the wrong time. Everyone on the earth in this universe is crazy. Everyone is killing each other, and wars can be seen everywhere, including those superheroes. The earth caused the most damage, when we arrived, we happened to be involved in a dispute, if we hadn't been saved, maybe we wouldn't be alive now."
Cannibalism? war? Dr. Manhattan also grasped the key words. Obviously, in this future timeline, there was neither the arrival of the Doomsday Legion nor the Apocalypse War, but a major event that was no worse than the Apocalypse War swept the earth, allowing the earth to enter An all-out war situation. But Dr. Manhattan still doesn't understand, what kind of big event will plunge the entire earth, including superheroes, into a war of cannibalism?
But the members of the watchmen who appeared here couldn’t answer Dr. Manhattan’s questions, because when they came, a big event had already happened, and they just happened to be saved by Ke Wen. Even if Dr. Manhattan didn't ask, he could guess that it was Ke Wen who saved them in that dispute. Compared with this, Dr. Manhattan is more curious about how Ke Wen managed to merge the two universes into one, and what was the big event that caused superheroes all over the world to fall into war.
All this needs to be answered by Ke Wen, and just when Dr. Manhattan was curious about it, the person he was waiting for appeared on the still empty street. Ke Wen in this future timeline is waiting for him at the end of the road, and there is a young man who looks similar to him beside him. Needless to say, Dr. Manhattan can also know that this is also the child of Ke Wen in this timeline , which is different from the one I saw in the Apocalypse war timeline.
In the timeline of the Apocalypse War, the child named Conan is the descendant of Ke Wen and the super girl Kara. The young man in front of him is definitely not. In him, Dr. Manhattan did not feel that he absorbed the core of the mother’s doomsday like Conan , thus sublimated, the innately powerful life fluctuation looks like an ordinary person. Not only Ke Wen's children, including Ke Wen in this timeline, can clearly feel his life level in the eyes of Dr. Manhattan.
Compared with the king Ke Wen whom he had known before, this Ke Wen, who was called the savior by his friends, was too ordinary, as ordinary as all the ordinary people he had ever met.
"Ha, no more, no less, the time is just right, son, I will leave it to you to buy supper for your mother at night, by the way, also remember to take care of my sister, you know."
At the end of the road, there is no Apocalypse Star Wars future timeline king Ke Wen, the savior Ke Wen who ignores all temperament, just stood there, looked at the time on the watch, and joked directly to his son.
And in this so-called savior timeline, Ke Wen's son just rolled his eyes.
"If you want to have supper with this guy outside, just tell me, you are ashamed to make this bet with me, knowing that I will lose, okay, I really convinced you, dad, your bad taste."
"Hey, here comes the problem again, I told you more than once, as a Kamen Rider, the so-called sure loss does exist, but..."
"As long as you have idealism, everything is possible, right? This is not in line with the laws of the universe, but it is in line with Kamen Rider. Then you let me learn so many things." The son of the savior Ke Wen took his father's words and said in That said, obviously, Ke Wen, the savior of this timeline, is idealistic about everything, and he is constantly instilling in his descendants, which makes Dr. Manhattan feel that this is not a savior, but a magic stick.
"Okay, if you want to chat, you have plenty of time, but I think meeting him is what you need most now. I won't disturb the conversation between you, and we will go to have supper with our students first. "
Behind him, among the members of the watchmen, the second-generation night owl Daniel Dreberg also joked there. Instead, it was Dr. Manhattan who asked in confusion because of his friend's words.
"student?"
"Yes, Ke Xue, his son's name, last year his daughter was also born, named Ke Lan."
Hearing these two names, Dr. Manhattan also fell into deep thought. And my friends in the watcher universe also surpassed myself and followed the young man named Ke Xue. On this timeline of the savior, Ke Wen's son left first, leaving Ke Wen and himself in this timeline. Watching his son leave, the savior Ke Wen turned around, looked at Dr. Manhattan, and said hello.
"Yo, looking at your expression, you should have seen me in another timeline, well, I guess I have also seen my son in another timeline, otherwise you wouldn't stay like this."
"...I have to say that you are quite casual in naming your children."
"Ha, whatever you want is fine. After living for so many years, I'm tired, so I want to be comfortable casually. Tell me, what happened to me on another timeline."
With his hands in his pockets, the savior Ke Wen, who was over half a century old, but did not look old, just walked up to Dr. Manhattan and asked.
"Actually, I am more curious about your current state than telling you about another timeline. In my perception, you are just an ordinary person, but everything you do, including predicting my arrival, is arranged in The emergence of the earth should not be possible for you as an ordinary person, what are you now, Ke Wen?"
Regarding Dr. Manhattan's curiosity, Ke Wen just spread his hands and said helplessly: "As you perceive, I am an ordinary person, but I, an ordinary person, can mobilize the power of the universe, and even through resonance, I can obtain the same Part of the information about yourself similar to the universe. Although it is not very specific, it is enough. When you leave another timeline and prepare to go to another timeline, I made a move and asked you to come to my side first, because some things need you help."
"Being able to make my hands and feet unnoticeable, calling myself an ordinary person, is modest."
But through the words of the savior Ke Wen, Dr. Manhattan also understood the state of the savior Ke Wen at this moment. As Ke Wen said, the savior Ke Wen in front of him is just an ordinary person, but this ordinary person has created a new universe, a new universe that integrates the new DC universe and the watcher universe, that is to say, the savior Ke Wen in front of him is just an ordinary person. Wen can be said to be the creator of the universe, so what if he is an ordinary person.
As long as he is still in this universe, no matter what kind of attack or conspiracy wants to target Ke Wen, even if it is a series of chained traps, for Ke Wen, it is within his perception. He doesn't even need to act himself, he just needs to think, and the power from this universe will arrange all kinds of accidents in the dark, so that some so-called conspiracies and tricks, or the abortion of wars, those who make small moves behind the scenes Nobody knew what was going on.
In other words, as long as Dr. Manhattan is still in the future branch of the savior, he has no ability to kill Ke Wen in front of him. Of course, Ke Wen can't kill him.
Dr. Manhattan, who understood the reason, also told the savior Ke Wen about the whole story of the future timeline of the Apocalypse War branch. Listening to Dr. Manhattan's recounting of several major events in the timeline of the Apocalypse War, the savior Ke Wen's expression was sometimes surprised, sometimes It is also expected, even when it comes to the self in another timeline, when the son named Conan merges with the core of the mother's doomsday and appears as a brand new empty self, he is not too surprised. On the contrary, after the narration , also thoughtfully there.
"Well, is that really the case? Then I probably understand what will happen to the third branch in the future."
"So, this future, what happened to your universe, the Justice League, the Titans, what happened to those people you care about."
When Dr. Manhattan asked what he cared about, the expression on Ke Wen's face was also stagnant, and then he looked at Dr. Manhattan and said: "They, they are all here, but they are all dead, only me is left. I have my wife, Lena."
The understatement made Dr. Manhattan feel like he was struck by lightning, and he couldn't believe the words of the savior Ke Wen. The perception expands instantly, covering the entire earth. He saw Metropolis, Gotham, Central City, and underwater Atlantis. I also saw those who had died in the words of the savior Ke Wen, but as Ke Wen said, they were all dead!