The Death Knell

Barry had no intention of going into the house for a cup of tea or anything with Deathstroke. He had to hurry back to the Hall of Justice for a meeting with Batman.

So when Su Ming walked down the damp and dark stairs alone, he only saw Harley and Ivy having a 'celebration party'.

It's just a bit shabby, because all the food has been soaked in water, and now there is only an apple on the table with a small candle on it.

Fortunately, there is enough beer.

"You're back. There's a power and water outage today." Harley grabbed the wine bottle and put it against her chin, her two ponytails hanging listlessly.

"The aircraft is on the roof of the building. There is electricity and water there. You can go there to take a shower." Su Ming pointed to the top of the head and sat next to the round table.

The table was also very small, like a high stool. The three of them sat around the small table and looked at the candles in the darkness.

"We'll go after the celebration. Let's cut the cake first."

Harley pointed to the apples on the table, clasped her hands together and put them close to her face, and kept twisting and turning, as if she was coming to life again.

Su Ming drew his sword with his backhand, and the God Killer instantly split the apple into three parts, leaving the pillar-shaped part with the apple core in the middle standing motionless on the table holding the candle.

Ivy shrank her neck, she always felt unsafe being too close to the death knell.

"Oh~ are you having dinner, Xiaohong?"

Harley picked up her piece and thrust Ivy's piece into her hand.

Harley is very smart, and she has always known that she is only safe if she is with Deathstroke or Batman.

In view of the difference in personal strength and the unpleasant memories of the past, she still chose Deathstroke.

Su Ming could feel that Harley was very relaxed, but Ivy seemed very nervous, as if she was a small animal, always afraid of him.

But it doesn't matter, Su Ming's plan is to clown or laugh wildly, and Ivy is just a gift to lure Harley.

Just like when you buy brand-name rat poison, a small piece of sausage or a small piece of cheese will come with the box.

The bait's attitude doesn't matter.

Su Ming knew that there would be no problems in the recent days. When the Justice League was idle, Kuangxiao would not be so determined to rush forward and confront them head-on.

It also takes time to shape other freak bats.

He is another Batman. Bat tactics are to divide and isolate enemies, and then defeat them one by one. He will choose a time when everyone is too busy to leave.

So Su Ming prepared to set up a trap and hide in the grass far enough away.

He ate apples and drank beer. After chatting with the two of them for a while, he played poker by candlelight.

Late at night, he returned to the bedroom he was assigned to, locked the door and lay on the bed.

Indeed, as Harry said, this room is like a large closet. Maybe it used to be a cloakroom. It has no windows at all, which fully meets the requirements.

It was pitch dark, except for some cockroaches moving around in the corner.

Things on Earth have almost been dealt with. Su Ming wants to go to the Kingdom of the Dead, so he might as well borrow some information from dreams.

In view of God's abnormal reaction recently, he had a bold guess that God was deeply involved in mutation, which required all the remaining members of the Endless Family to hold a meeting, and he needed more information.

The Sandman himself should be fine, but the sky in the dreamland represents the countdown to the destruction of the universe, and the problem is also serious.

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Having a meeting with a group of cosmic concepts is obviously not a very pleasant process. In addition to having a good attitude towards death and fate, destruction, desire, nightmares, and fanaticism all seem to be indifferent.

The concept of personification is just personification. They are not people, they are just like a program controlled by the DC world.

Su Ming called out the Upside Down Man. This magical concept from outside the wall was more like a human being.

When the slippery figure with white scales appeared hanging upside down, followed by the magical image of the ancient god's attendant.

All concepts retched.

Yes, Su Ming felt that he had read it correctly. Even if it was an anthropomorphic concept, with no need to eat at all and no human organs, these guys still retched.

The product of Wade's artistic processing is indeed a causal weapon.

Su Ming once again demonstrated the power brought by his ten light rings, and then calmly got to the point.

Alberta went to look for Lucifer and Sandman, based on Su Ming's suggestion, but there is currently no news, and some changes have occurred in God.

Although the Endless Family is strong, they are still far behind God. The only creator of the DC world is no joke.

So in the end everyone's opinion was that everyone should go back to their respective homes and wait for the opportunity.

Destiny said that the body of God is being transformed, and now it is like an insect egg floating in the world of gods. At least until it hatches, everyone will know what happened.

God’s destiny is not controlled by ‘fate’, so there is nothing destiny can do about it.

If Sandman and God are in everything, then everything will be revealed only in the end.

Su Ming had a vague feeling that this date was probably related to the countdown to the multiverse. God was probably reshaping himself and preparing to create a new century.

Then this is a bit painful.

However, this is not a failure of his mission, it is just a briefing meeting during the execution of the mission. By the way, I would like to introduce the upside-down man to these old concepts. Everyone has anthropomorphic concepts, which are easier to communicate than intangible concepts.

After the meeting, the upside-down man slipped away, and Su Ming went to Death to chat for a few words and then left.

DC's 'death' is more tragic than Marvel's 'death', because one of the core rules of her concept is, 'If she falls in love with someone, she herself will die.' A new anthropomorphic concept will appear , thus replacing her.

Concepts still serve the world, and procedures do not require emotions.

But after leaving the Wuwu Family, Su Ming's affairs are not over yet. There is still one person he must meet.

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It was still the familiar starry sky, and the blue giant was still floating cross-legged not far away. In the vast universe, the stars were moving according to their original laws.

Su Ming took back the x-metal that emerged from his finger, separated it from the comedian's badge, and the cloak floated with him.

"PhD."

"You finally discovered it, much faster than I expected. I have synthesized a lot of sample data from the future, but I can't see the future for you and me."

"You can't see your future because you are already dead." Su Ming floated beside the giant calmly, like an ant flying next to an elephant: "But the ten years lost in the universe have actually always been there. In this badge, right?”

"The reasoning is correct, but not entirely correct. Quantum is everywhere. Even if you die, quantum is still quantum."

The blue giant opened his mouth to answer, and in the universe, his voice was as loud as thunder, just like when he was speaking in the auditorium as a human being.

"Manhattan, does the name still mean anything to you?"

"No, I say 'I' here just to conform to your human language habits. In fact, invisible quantum does not have an individual concept."

Dr. Manhattan looked into the distance calmly, with no expression on his face, only indifference. He continued:

"Using tangible cognition to distinguish invisible things, even I can't explain it more clearly."

Su Ming sighed. If the Comedian's Badge is the entrance to the invisible quantum realm, then the lost ten years and the infinite world that once held the original owner of Deathstroke's body should be here.

In that blue light last time, he thought he was being teleported, but in fact, he was sucked in by the badge.

Su Ming is now in the Xiaojiang's badge, but the badge is still worn on his chest. This means that there is another him in the badge on Su Ming's chest, and then there is the same him inside, also wearing the Xiaojiang. badges, followed by endless others...

Just thinking about it will make you lose your sanity...

It's almost like a Möbius strip or a Klein bottle, an infinite loop of structures forming independent segments on a ten-year basis.

Manhattan didn't even have the concept of concealment or deception. He said that he couldn't explain it more clearly, that is, he really couldn't tell it to a three-dimensional creature like Su Ming.

This is what indescribable means.

"So Doctor, what do you think about the destruction of the universe now?" Su Ming changed the topic and pursued incomprehensible knowledge, fearing that he would not go crazy.

"There is no such thing as looking at it. The present you mentioned is both the future and the past for me."

Dr. Manhattan is not a Saint Walker. He said these words very seriously. He was not trying to be mean, but it was the truth.

However, Su Ming still vaguely understood something.

In other words, in this rolling 'ten-year ball', he can move forward and backward in time relative to the outside world at will, but the ten-year period as the ball itself has been intercepted from 'time' long ago.

In other words, as long as Manhattan is in the 'sphere', time is positive infinity for him.

Compared with the outside world, everything is uncertain because of endless possibilities. Many things look like this for the first time, but if you go back in time and try again, things will change slightly.

After Manhattan tried it hundreds of millions of times and got hundreds of millions of different results, his point of view became that it no longer mattered whether he saw it or not.

Irregular values ​​distributed entirely in chaos have no generalizing value, especially with the addition of a time traveler like Su Ming, things have gone beyond the boundaries of the universe.

As for Su Ming, the last meeting probably happened after this meeting...

"Wait, then the bag of gems you gave me last time..."

"Yes, because you have given me the ten light rings now, and I can give them back to you in the 'past'."

Dr. Manhattan admitted very frankly that those gems, which were considered by Ancient One to be the heart of the universe and contained incomprehensible energy, were exactly the lamp rings that had been quantized to realize the emotional spectrum.

"But they are still there, whether they are rings or gems." Su Ming materialized the ring, and then took out the remaining gems from behind.

Everything is as it was before.

"That's just because they don't exist in any timeline here, and if you choose not to give me the ring, everything in the past will be rewritten."

Su Ming was silent for a while, then took off the rings one by one and placed them in Manhattan's hand. Even the invisible light rings were removed by the blue quantum entanglement.

"Theoretically speaking, if I can return to any later time in this world, I can actually retrieve the ring, use it, and then put it back to you, waiting for a certain moment for our 'first time' When we meet, they turn into gems?”

"Understood correctly, the external timeline is a river that can stagnate or even go backwards, but only in quantum computing."

"...The rings will be kept for you in the external timeline. It just so happens that I won't be able to use them where I'm going next."

Dr. Manhattan just held the ring without any expression. He watched the death knell disappear from the place with no expression on his face.