Anti-invasion of the heavens: water drops in the beginning

Chapter 189 Dao Shengyi
It is not surprising that Dr. Manhattan appeared in the flashpoint universe, after all, this is also part of the plot of DC's official comics.

Chen Guang remembered a long time ago that the reason why the Flashpoint universe can exist at the same time as the new issue of "Metal" is obviously because someone deliberately preserved this universe.

This person is of course Dr. Manhattan...

The purpose of Dr. Manhattan's doing this is curiosity and research.

After he left the Watcher universe, he came to the DC world, where he could see the future Manhattan and immediately foresee a picture.

Superman's eyes blazed with anger as he flew towards him.

Everything after that is endless darkness, and it will be 100 years later, and it will be 1000 years later, and Manhattan can't see anything.

He was very surprised, which is very rare for Manhattan who has almost become a god. After all, if all information is open to you, then your attention must be locked on the unopened picture.

Manhattan wondered if Superman killed himself with his force-only attack, or if he could be enraged by a mere punch and destroy the universe.

No matter how you look at these two answers, it seems impossible to happen.

So Manhattan, who was full of curiosity in his heart, chose to stay in the DC universe and began to study the supermen in various parallel worlds.

He kept changing the fate of the Kryptonian Kal-El, wanting to see what Superman would look like in different growth environments.And the Superman whose destiny has been changed will let the future he foresees happen...

Among them, of course, also includes the Superman of the flashpoint universe.

"Excuse me, where did you take Superman?"

Manhattan asked curiously.

Chen Guang raised his eyebrows: "Is there anything else you don't know? Could it be that you can't see my answer in the future?"

Manhattan shook his head and said: "No, I can see it, but at least I have to ask, so that I can see the picture of the answer you will give me in the future."

Chen Guang showed an expression of great interest: "Then if I don't answer now, can you still see the answer?"

Dr. Manhattan nodded indifferently and said: "I can see that the future does not end at one end, but infinitely forks like a branch. My inquiry is a necessary condition for getting an answer. The moment I asked, I saw you Answer. Even if you change the future later, it will not affect my vision of another possibility."

Manhattan is not a bloodthirsty person, he just feels disoriented and empty because the mortal mind cannot keep up with this body.

For a creature that can kill anyone, or even any world at will, destruction and fighting are destined to be the most monotonous things he sees.

Manhattan's quantum body frees him from the low-level desires of the mortal body, but the human soul prevents him from really ignoring everything, which leads to dull pain and confusion in Manhattan's heart, so he is eager to know the answer.

As for the answer, it doesn't matter what the question of the answer is. He is longing for the unknown, longing to see things that he doesn't know that can travel through the timeline at will.

So, when he found Superman in the flashpoint universe this time, the picture of his future existence suddenly disappeared...

Completely disappeared, just like he disappeared from the world at this moment.This made Manhattan finally unbearable, interrupted the experiments on other supermen, and came to this universe to seek answers.

But Chen Guang was also quite curious about Manhattan, and he asked, "What's the answer you saw?"

Manhattan said calmly: "I see, you said that you took Superman to other universes, allowing him to play and have fun that is far from human. But I can't understand, you are not biological father and son, why do you do this for him?"

Chen Guang said with a smile: "After all, he has been raised so big, and he still calls me father over and over again. It doesn't take much effort to play with children."

As he said that, he suddenly looked at Manhattan seriously, frowned and said, "But what makes me even more curious is why you suddenly appeared now? You should have been watching everything in this universe long ago, right? Even after I came to this universe Before?"

Manhattan nodded: "Yes... To be more precise, ten years ago was the earliest time when I appeared in this universe. After that, it took three years for you to come into this universe."

He raised his head slightly, his eyes glowed with white light, making it impossible to tell where or even when his eyes were focused.

Manhattan's tone was gentle and heavy: "The reason why I have never appeared before is because you have changed the fate of this Superman, making his future far more and wider than the tree-like futures of other Supermen... This is not true for my experiment. It’s a good thing, so I deliberately didn’t get involved in this Superman’s growth experience, and wanted to see if the Superman who was not influenced by me but changed his destiny could bring me more answers to mysteries.”

Chen Guang nodded clearly: "But now, that Superman has left this universe, and you find that his future is empty, and you find that you are missing an experimental product, so you come to trouble me?"

"It's not a problem, but an answer." Manhattan said calmly, "Besides, I haven't influenced the fate of this Superman, so he's not my experiment."

Chen Guang suddenly smiled and said, "Did you see something just now, so you suddenly added the last sentence?"

Manhattan nodded and said: "I don't want to fight with you, that doesn't make any sense. Neither you nor I can be easily killed, our battle will only increase the entropy of this universe, and lose the endless possibilities... "

And seeing the scene of Chen Guang fighting for Superman, it was Manhattan who actually asked, "You are not your own father and son, why did you do this for him?" ' The reason for this problem.

After finishing speaking, Manhattan paused for a moment, and said quietly: "Besides, even if I successfully annihilate you, although there will be no picture of you in the future, considering the disappearance of Superman, I have reasonable doubts that you will not be able to kill this person." Use, you are not the key to the problem."

Chen Guang smiled without saying a word.

However, according to the meaning revealed in the blue bird's words, it is obvious that he has seen the result of the battle between the two.

"So, do you have any questions?"

Manhattan was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked: "What happened in the future?"

Chen Guang raised his eyebrows: "You, a person who can see the future through the flow of time at will, ask me this question, who only dares to travel backwards?"

Manhattan stared at Chen Guang, there was no emotion in his white eyes, not even the so-called coldness, as if he was just looking at a wall with his eyes empty and talking to himself.

"I think you know the answer to the question... But no matter which future, you are unwilling to tell me the answer. This shows that the order of knowing the answer is also very important. If I know the answer before the picture of Superman attacking me appears, the answer is likely It doesn't work for me, does it?"

Chen Guang shook his head helplessly: "You are very smart, Joan, even without this quantum body, you are still very smart. But... even if you have a quantum body, it just transfers your smartness from the clockwork to the entire universe The fundamental particle of the particle, the essence has not changed in any way.”

He looked at Manhattan and said slowly: "You really can't guess what will happen in the future? I don't mean the standard answer, not the exact future picture you can see, but use your brain, don't Always think about the answer to the question, think about the riddle first, and reason logically... I don’t think you will be unable to guess what happened.”

Manhattan maintained his expression from beginning to end without any change.

However, Chen Guang knew that he was looking through the future pictures in countless branches, looking for the one he revealed.

Maybe in some branches in the future, he may even use torture far beyond human imagination...

Chen Guang couldn't help but rolled his eyes: "You lazy bastard, you're right... After all, even teleportation is to move the outside time and space, not the person who moves by yourself. Then I can't give you a reminder, don't go Looking for the answer in the future picture, I will not disclose anything, you will understand when you experience it yourself.”

Of the two people in the room, one can flip through the time at will, view from the past to the future, and even branch off from any different choices.One who has flipped through their manga on the narrative level and knows exactly what's going on in this timeline going forward.

As a matter of course, the conversation between them was so cloudy.

But it's actually not that hard to understand.

The purpose of Manhattan's visit here is, on the one hand, to be curious about the whereabouts of Flashpoint Superman.But the moment he asked, he already knew that the other party was in another universe, and if he didn't participate in the information of this universe, naturally there would be no corresponding future, and he couldn't see anything of course.

It's just that in the process of flipping through the answer, he accidentally discovered from a certain future that Chen Guang actually knew the last picture he saw, so he asked.

He wanted to know in advance why all the timelines later in the future disappeared after Superman attacked him in the future?Can't see it?
In fact, the answer is very simple, but there is a reason why Chen Guang is unwilling to say it.

After all... that might be the only chance to kill Manhattan without using his hands.

This is also one of the reasons why Chen Guang can chat with Manhattan so calmly. There is nothing to quarrel with a dying person, just chat casually.

In fact, if you only consider the information that has already appeared, and think about it a little, you will know that it can only be the hands and feet of the future Manhattan.

After all, no matter what cosmic gods, gods, giant beasts, Lucifer, etc., let alone whether they can completely suppress Manhattan, even if they can really kill Manhattan, it will never be a piece of unknown that doesn't even have time to react.

Only he himself can achieve such a thorough and comprehensive behavior against himself.

It's not hard to guess, especially when the information is limited to Manhattan and Superman.

In fact, what happened in the future was simple: Superman flew into Manhattan and knocked out the attackers behind him.

Afterwards, he looked at Manhattan hopefully, and said, "Why did I kill you, or did you destroy the entire universe?"There must be other options! '

Superman only used this sentence to make Manhattan's repentance, and let Joan, who was still a mortal in his heart, see the hope represented by Superman.

So he actively blocked his past perception of the future, and restored all the changes he had made to DC.

Afterwards, he returned to the watcher universe and gave all his abilities to a child named "Clark", making him the "Manhattan Superman" of the watcher universe to guard the world instead of himself.

And Dr. Manhattan himself... just passed away peacefully and voluntarily.

But how to put it, this answer is very unreliable.

Chen Guang didn't want to give Manhattan a spoiler, so as to reduce the impact of future scenes on Manhattan's remaining humanity.

Presumably Manhattan himself thought so, so he blocked his past perceptions. He understood that only after experiencing everything that happened at that time and doing various experiments on the DC universe, he would finally have this perception.

Chen Guang can't help feeling that Dr. Manhattan is a character full of humanity from the beginning to the end... He seems to be able to do everything, but he is unwilling to interfere with human subjective will, but he feels pain because of human actions and confused.

Such an existence regarded as a "god" is actually just a "constant sage mode" brought about by the disappearance of physical hormones.

From a certain point of view, in fact, it is also ups and downs in the domination of one's own body - when the body has no desires and needs for survival, the soul inside does not know what it should pursue.

In the end, Manhattan didn't get any clues from Chen Guang, so he turned and left.

I have to say that it is really easy to chat with a person who can see the future, because he can directly know the final result of any action he takes through the long river of time, so when he understands that there will be no desired gains, just No extra time will be wasted.

However, looking at the back of Manhattan leaving, Chen Guang was also lost in thought.

I am not as powerful as Manhattan, which is caused by passive accidents.Although every step of my own is assisted by extremely heaven-defying resources, in the final analysis, those resources themselves are also actively fought for by Chen Guang.

And the feeling of the physical body is completely within the controllable range, Chen Guang can turn himself into a gluttonous thirst for endless food at any time, or a demon who pursues extreme carnal desires...or at the same time, self-restraint and ritual, full of those desires while acting like a saint without desires.

It just doesn't make sense to do that.

But obviously, in the not-too-distant future, I will definitely fall into the pain of Manhattan, who is tired of everything I have and can only rely on the instinct of intelligent creatures to endlessly pursue new information.

However, Chen Guang smiled casually, and said to himself: "This must be the pain of the short-lived species jumping and growing up?"

He raised his head, his eyes were dark, as if he saw the blue figure in the boundary of the universe through endless time and space.

"Joan, you obviously didn't make it through." Chen Guang whispered to himself, not afraid that Manhattan would hear it.

After all, if a few words could dissuade a self-destructive person from giving up the idea of ​​suicide, there would be no suicidal people in this world.

With the lessons learned from Manhattan, Chen Guang is sure that he will never fall into the abyss of meaninglessness.

Or you can fall into it... After all, it is also a spiritual experience.

There are too many things to experience for a person with an eternal life span.

As long as it exists, it has meaning, and existence itself is meaning.

Thinking of this, Chen Guang only felt comfortable physically and mentally. He laughed three times, and his voice unexpectedly returned to a faint smile. But I can experience any possibility in the world! Then why don't I experience it from the beginning!"

After speaking, his appearance changed rapidly, his hair became white, and his beard became long.Even the original ordinary robes have changed into blue and white Taoist robes.

From the original youth, in the blink of an eye, the whole person has become immortal, as if an old gentleman descended to earth... It is also like the appearance of not being rejuvenated before leaving Xiaoao Jianghu! !
However, his face obviously changed from Jason's appearance to Chen Guang's own old age.

"This should be my real appearance, right? Hahaha~!"

Chen Guang flicked his sleeves, looked up to the sky and laughed loudly and stepped out, leaving this vast universe.

When it reappeared, it was in the sea of ​​void called 'Nothing'.

It's just that the current Chen Guang is not what it used to be.

His primordial dimension suddenly opened up, resisting the endless negative pressure of the void sea.

In the purple primordial dimension, Chen Guang raised his hand, and a ball of pure white light far larger than a star floated in his palm.

It was a power gem that spewed out endless matter.

Chen Guang lowered his head and raised his finger, and a group of silver-white metal clusters appeared on the fingertips of the other hand.

That's the X metal that symbolizes endless possibilities.

Then, with his fingers, he suddenly poured it into the pure white white hole!
Two extraordinary things collided with each other in this void sea bubble created by the primordial dimension!
The big sound is loud, the elephant is invisible.

It represents the infinite matter, energy and possibility in the narrow sense, collapsed into one.

Tao produces one, one produces two, two produces three, and three produces all things.

　it's not over
　　
　
(End of this chapter)