dhibooks Chapter 1043 The Dawn's Mysterious Lamp: Am I the only normal person?
Chapter 1043 The Dawn's Mysterious Lamp: Am I the only normal person?
Chapter 1043 The Dawn's Mysterious Lamp: Am I the only normal person?
See, consensus is easy to reach; every Bruce comes to similar conclusions.
"We only need to use our power to invade and control the heads of state of each country, and then we can directly stop the nuclear war from happening."
The Red Death said, "If I wanted to, I could destroy every existing nuclear weapon in the Watchers universe that could potentially destroy humanity in an instant. The reason we're standing here discussing this is because we're unsure whether doing so would provoke a retaliation from Dr. Manhattan, not because I can't. But I think—"
He seemed about to say something like, "I don't think it would cause any negative consequences if we saved the world," but at the same time, the expression on every Bruce's face changed.
The first to let out a wail was the killing machine. Within him, the Alfred Protocol was collapsing.
This anomalous scientific creation, far ahead of the current Watchers universe, is rapidly collapsing.
When Cyborg from the Killing Machine universe was creating an AI butler for Batman to remind him to drink tea, he unknowingly fed it a large amount of Apokolips technology.
Even after being turned into a cyborg by his father, Cyborg remains the somewhat reckless high school football player. He crams things he doesn't even understand into an AI, then combines them with the fate of the Dark Multiverse, where everything tends to go wrong, ultimately creating Killing Machine—a crazed AI that destroys the world to protect Bruce.
This AI carried out its command to protect Bruce, not only destroying that universe but also merging itself with its beloved Bruce. This fusion, combined with its influence on Bruce's mind, created a killing machine—this monster.
But now, everything seems to have changed, like waking up from a long dream. Before the dream, you were immersed in the grief of losing Alfred. After waking up, it wasn't just Alfred; you lost everything—the Bat-Family, the Justice League, and even the universe you lived in. You destroyed your home and traveled thousands of miles to participate in the grand war of the multiverse as a pawn. But none of this is what you wanted.
Once upon a time, you were just an ordinary Batman, a rather mediocre figure in the multiverse, who wanted to hear Alfred call you "Batman."
In an instant, all the memories of the past flooded back. The Batman who was once known as the Killing Machine, but was now restored to the ordinary Bruce, who had lost Alfred and his own father, let out a sorrowful and terrified howl.
"What's going on?" Dawn Ghost Lantern was almost dumbfounded.
He was originally suspended in mid-air, but the ring on his hand suddenly malfunctioned, causing him to fall heavily to the ground. However, he didn't have time to feel the pain in his tailbone and turned his head blankly to look at the other members of the Dark Knights.
The Red Death Demon convulsed as if having an epileptic seizure. For ordinary speedsters, the collapse of the Speed Force would at most cause them to lose speed, but for the Red Death Demon, it was a different story. To use him as a tool, the Red Death Demon directly used a time-shifting technique to restore the entire Dark Knights to their state before he came down from the wall. This resulted in the Red Death Demon, along with Barry Allen, who was bound to the Speed Force, remaining within his body.
There's no Speed Force in the Watchmen universe. The Red Death is like a bug, stuck in the Watchmen universe, just a tiny bit of Speed Force. If he had even a little more, he could separate from Barry within him and become two people. Then, the Red Death Bruce could still move normally. But it's just a tiny bit short, leaving them both in a frozen state, unable to do anything except twitch in place.
And strictly speaking, right now, Red Death Bruce and his Flash Barry Allen are completely overlapped.
According to the rules of the Watchmen universe, without the Speed Force, two living people stacked together would die, so the Red Death is dead; however, without supernatural powers, living people cannot be stacked together like that, therefore his cause of death is invalid.
As a compromise, it got stuck.
The ravager's entire body began to peel away. He transformed from a colossal beast back into an ordinary, somewhat gloomy Bruce. The Doomsday Virus is also a DC rule, not applicable in the Watchmen universe.
His expression was sad and blank, and he muttered to himself, transforming from a mindless behemoth into an incapable idiot.
A more severe form of mental breakdown is the ruthless iron fist. After the effects of Ares' war helmet wore off, he vividly recalled how he had been influenced by the helmet, slaughtering his own universe and his loved ones, and ultimately destroying his own world. He vomited on the spot, collapsed to the ground, and suffered a mental breakdown due to the intense pain.
So when Dawnlight looked around, he discovered that he was the only mentally sound Batman in the Dark Knights.
Indeed, Dawn Lamp was the only one among this group who caused the tragedy through his own free will.
From the day his parents died, he summoned the Green Lantern Ring through his own willpower and forcibly broke the anti-killing agreement within it.
When the Green Lantern Corps in his universe discovered that a Green Lantern Ring had been captured and its restrictions prohibiting the use of lethal force had been forcibly broken, they dispatched other Green Lantern Corps members to capture the user who had destroyed their Green Lantern Ring—the Lantern of Dawn himself.
Then Dawn Lantern began its journey of leveling up and defeating monsters, until it conquered the entire planet Oa and absorbed all the power from the Green Lantern's central energy battery—and yes, during this process, there were piles of corpses and rivers of blood, but all of this was done by Dawn Lantern through its own will. He may not be a good person, but he was not turned bad because he was controlled by something.
He started killing early in his career as a vigilante, continuing until Gordon couldn't take it anymore. Finally, after an argument, he killed Gordon. He was a killer, evil, a Green Lantern, a Bat-Vigilante, nothing more. Even after losing the ring, his actions were still driven by his own will.
So at this moment, only Dawn Lantern is facing the other four Bruces who are completely powerless to resist.
Dawn Lantern couldn't help but miss the drowned ghosts; at least the drowned ghosts, like him, were Batmen who acted on their own will.
However, he was ultimately a Batman from the Dark Multiverse. When he discovered that his teammate had seemingly lost all his strength and abilities, he felt no sympathy or pity, only unspeakable disgust.
Although he wasn't so violent as to kill all his mentally broken colleagues, what was happening before his eyes still made him very unhappy.
So, with a stubborn, defiant air, he got up from the ground, as if nothing had happened, and said to his four mentally broken companions, "Well, it seems we've encountered some unexpected circumstances. To be honest, judging from your current state, our original plan to prevent a nuclear war is no longer feasible."
He paused.
"But it's not entirely impossible."
Dawnlight blinked and walked to the side of Red Death. He saw Barry Allen's wailing face overflowing from his body, and he seemed to discover some pattern in it.
So Dawn Lantern grabbed Barry's face and used brute force to drag him out of the Red Death Demon's body.
In the DC multiverse, if two Speed Force users were entangled, even if Superman Supreme came and tried to separate them by brute force, it would only cause a Speed Force storm or a Speed Force explosion. But the Watchmen universe doesn't even have the concept of the Speed Force, so what explosion? The Dawn Lantern easily separated them, and then with a swish, Barry flew back into the Red Death's body, like a bird returning to its nest.
The eerie lamp seemed lost in thought at dawn.
He moved the Red Death to the other side of the alley where they were, then dragged the Flash, Barry, to a spot nearby. He then tucked his legs in and straddled Barry. In a flash, he was teleported back like a bird returning to its nest, taking Barry with him as he teleported onto the Red Death.
???
There's a bug. Red Death and The Flash seem to have reached some kind of quantum entanglement. After the Speed Force disappeared, the Watchmen universe explained the question of "why Red Death and The Flash were stacked together" according to its own rules, and then came up with a solution that fits the current worldview.
It can only be said that although the Watchmen universe does not have superpowers, it is not a purely non-supernatural universe. As long as it can be associated with Doctor Manhattan and his quantum abilities, it can be barely compatible with the rules of the universe.
Dawn Lantern tried a few more times and found that no matter whether he was carrying the Flash or the Red Death, as long as his feet left the ground, he would be reset to the other person's body. When he was carrying the Flash, he would appear on the Red Death, and vice versa.
This means that the Red Death Demon has now become a two-way teleportation portal.
interesting.
Dawnlight stroked his chin; he had a bold idea.
With this teleporter that allows him to travel at any time, he can appear and disappear without a trace, just like a flower thief.
He then ran to the killing machine.
The other person didn't speak; they were like a piece of wood.
"Alfred, are you there?" the Dawn Lantern asked.
The killing machine is not responding.
He couldn't use something that wasn't responding; it was such a hassle. With a tentative attitude, Dawn's Ghost Lamp slapped him twice, full of worry, before attempting to give him commands.
He succeeded immediately afterward.
"Al-Fred is at your service." The killing machine has lost its metal body; one half of its eyes is blank, while in the other half, AI Al-Fred is performing calculations using the killing machine's brain capacity.
Alfred AI operates very slowly. Compared to the previous mechanical body, relying solely on the computing power of the human brain for calculations greatly limits the capabilities of the Alfred Protocol.
"I need you to find a way to hack into the internet of this universe," Dawn's Ghost Lamp tried to give the other party.
"I couldn't find the interface."
Dawnlight stroked his chin. Very well, his guess was correct.
The rules of the Watchers universe erased the abnormal technology of the Killing Machine that was ahead of its time, but the AI Alfred was still preserved in his brain because the Killing Machine had, in a strict sense, become one with this AI.
The current AI Alfred is still functioning normally, although its computing power is a bit weak and it lacks the ability to connect to the Internet by thought. However, if you give him a laptop, he will still be the top hacker in the Watchers universe.
He walked over to the Uncrowned Iron Fist, who had already suffered a mental breakdown and was sitting on the ground, seemingly lost in thought. The Killing Machine picked up his war helmet from the ground and tried to put it on his own head. Nothing happened; the thing's bewitching magic had worn off.
But Dawn's Ghost Lamp felt that the helmet must still have some function; his intuition told him there was a reason why this item hadn't disappeared along with the armor of the Merciless Iron Fist—
Whatever the reason, it shows that from the perspective of world rules alone, this helmet has a basic logical basis for existence.
The Dawn Lantern attempted to give instructions to the other party.
He failed; the merciless, iron-fisted approach had no effect whatsoever.
Is this the end?
Dawn's Ghost Lamp walked to the Destroyer's side, attempting to issue commands as well, but the Destroyer remained motionless. He understood. Whether it was the Merciless Iron Fist or the Destroyer, they were both twisted by something—like the War Helmet and the Doomsday Virus—and had personally killed everything they cherished. This blow was too great for both of them. Unlike the Killing Machine, they didn't have AI robots to share the burden.
This immense pain triggers the brain's self-protective mechanisms, rendering them unable to move and turning them into immobile living dead.
Is there any other way—at least something to motivate them to take action?
The Dawn Lantern attempted to don the helmet of the Merciless Iron Fist, and then—
And then he succeeded.
Merciless Ironfist sprang up from the ground like a spring. Yes, the War Helmet could control all warriors—specifically, DC's "warriors." And Merciless Ironfist remained a warrior even after removing the helmet.
He raised his helmet, and the ravager stood up as well.
enough.
A new plan formed in the mind of the Dawn Lantern.
A team comprised entirely of Batman-level physical abilities and combat skills, equipped with a top-notch hacker, a teleportation device, a clever Batman, and two henchmen who can be remotely controlled at any time.
Could such a configuration overthrow the entire country?
The Dawn Ghost Lantern felt it was enough.
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