Superman

"of course."

Barry nodded affirmatively, this is not the first time he has used the cosmic treadmill.

In terms of traveling through time and space, apart from Reverse Lightning, no one should be more professional than himself.

"Trust me, Luke, you'll see another Clark soon enough."

There were only him and his Kryptonian cousin in the apartment. Batman Thomas Wayne didn't show up. The other party just reminded them to remember the letter that was properly handed over to Bruce.

And Kal-El, who was thin and thin, was sent away and happily stayed at the Flash's mother's house, waiting for dinner.

The truth behind this distorted time and space is too cruel.

After careful consideration, Luke and Barry chose to hide.

"Then let's get started."

Luke touched his chest, where there was a photo of him and Diana.

This is the only trace of his being in this world.

As long as the Flash breaks through the barrier of time again and returns to the time and space of the main universe.

Everything here will come to naught, crumble.

"We'll see you again."

The corner of Luke's mouth raised. He and the proud Amazon princess had said their final farewell.

Barry nodded, and looked out the window with eyes full of nostalgia and reluctance.

"Goodbye, mother."

Compared with Luke and Diana's affectionate parting, The Flash's inner feelings are more complicated, and the choices he faces are more cruel.

Cousin Krypton and Wonder Woman can still meet each other in the main time and space, but Barry's mother will never come back, and her fate is firmly fixed at the moment of being murdered by reverse lightning.

"Need another farewell?"

Seeing the sad expression on Barry's face, Luke couldn't help but patted him on the shoulder.

"Don't think too much when running, the more you hesitate, the slower your speed will be."

The Flash shook his head, this was his mistake, and he deserved to correct it.

"Thank you, Luke, but... this responsibility belongs to me."

After making a decision in his heart and abandoning his redundant feelings, Barry turned on the power of the cosmic treadmill and began to run hard.

Strands of tiny lightning seemed to be connected to an illusory space, forming a substantial force field that enveloped the entire apartment.

Luke felt the strong surge of the Speed ​​Force, like a surging tide, releasing energy continuously.

Soon, the rapidly expanding force field of speed enveloped him, leading the two figures in the apartment out of this wrong time and space that shouldn't exist.

boom!

"Ah! This is... I saw three timelines, why?!"

Barry breaks through the barrier of time and opens a wormhole that rolls like a cloud.

However, three different time and space appeared in his eyes.

It's like a fork in the road!

"This is the...reality that once existed."

Luke didn't fall into doubts. The three timelines, one is the flash point of distortion and collapse, one is the former main time and space, and the other is the new 52 parallel universes in the future.

"Barry, don't hesitate, follow your heart! Just focus on yourself, and you will return to the right time and space!"

A firm and powerful voice clearly entered The Flash's ears.

In his heart, he must continue to accelerate and frantically advance along the "channel" where the past and the future, history and reality run side by side!

Flickering, constantly flashing, that is all kinds of memory fragments.

next moment!

Barry saw himself!

The one who opened the wormhole, prepared to change the established facts, and save the mother himself!

The self who caused all these mistakes and caused countless tragedies!

"I understand how you feel, but you have to stop, you have to... stop!"

All the energy of the Speed ​​Force burst out, supporting the Flash to accelerate again and break through the limit.

He grabbed the "self" violently and threw it to the ground.

Flashpoint, rewrite it here!

Boom!

The invisible loud noise echoed endlessly, as if the long river of time and space collapsed, triggering an endless chain reaction.

Earth, the multiverse, superheroes, the Justice League...

The trajectory of fate keeps changing, as if being moved by a pair of invisible hands.

"Barry..."

The energy tide of the Speed ​​Force hit Luke, and he was separated from the speeding Flash, entering a completely different time stream.

……

……

"Barry, what's wrong with you?"

The Flash, whose consciousness fell into darkness, suddenly woke up and saw the dark face of his adoptive father Joe.

"Are you too tired recently? If you can't hold on, go home early and rest."

A friendly and familiar voice rang in Barry's ears, everything seemed so far away, so vague, like a dream.

"Come on, we've spent eighteen hours on this case, and sometimes it's not a good thing to be too nervous."

Joe reassured.

Barry looked down at the document at hand, where words such as "Rogue Gang" and "Captain Cold" were vaguely revealed.

"Joe, do you know Superman?"

he asked hesitantly.

"Of course, Superman in Metropolis, who wouldn't know! He also made the front page of the Daily Planet last month because he saved a crashed plane!"

Joe looked at Barry with a strange face, completely unable to understand why the other party asked this.

"Now all kinds of superheroes and super criminals are emerging in an endless stream. The world is changing so fast that our police will be useless."

Hearing Joe's chatter, Barry clenched his fists excitedly.

He succeeded!

This is the correct time and space of the main universe!

"Luke, where is he?"

Barry, who had calmed down, frowned, as if remembering something.

He touched the pocket of his jacket, there was a letter across time and space.

The "gift" given to him by Dr. Wayne is still there, but what about the Kryptonian cousin?

……

……

"Here is the ten years that you stole?"

Luke didn't make it to the main universe, or more accurately, someone stopped him.

A naked man with blue skin and no clothes.

"You know...a lot."

The naked man sat cross-legged in the air, his eyes were indifferent, without any emotion.

Behind him is a huge palace like a clock, with mechanical gears meshing and rotating, full of a kind of absolute coordination and extreme perfection in mathematics.

"Aren't you going to introduce yourself?"

The naked man with blue skin stared at Luke calmly, no one could see what was going on in his heart.

"Luke Cavill, Superman's big cousin... Is this answer satisfactory to you, Doctor Manhattan?"

Luke worked hard to restrain every slight mental fluctuation, to prevent the other party from perceiving the mind and reading thoughts.

"You're not a Kryptonian."

The man called "Doctor Manhattan" shook his head and said.

"You are someone who came to this universe from... somewhere else, just like me."

Chapter 4 Watcher Universe, Quantum Observer

Dr. Manhattan, formerly known as "Jonathan Osterman", was born into a watch family.

During World War II, his mother was killed by the guns of the Germans, and his father brought the young Jonathan to New York to seek a living.

This is where it all started.

At that time, Jonathan was obsessed with the precise turning of the hands and the click of the gears.

Holding a clock is like holding time.

Incomprehensible abstract concepts become clear.

If nothing else, Jonathan will, like his father, inherit the family business and become an excellent watchmaker.

But the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Neon, which not only ended the war, but also changed Jonathan's father's mind.

He realized that atomic science was the power the world needed, and watchmakers couldn't change anything.

As a result, Jonathan became a physicist as it should be.

Fast-forward to the age of 30, when he was doing research, he fell in love for the first time in his life.

Under the introduction of his colleagues, Jonathan met a beautiful girl named Jenny.

The two quickly established a relationship and developed into lovers.

The trajectory of fate turns precisely like a clock that is wound up.

It will come not one second earlier, nor one second later.

A month later, an ordinary day as usual.

By coincidence, Jonathan left the watch in the room of the intrinsic force field generator.

Because of a miscalculation of the time, the door closed automatically, locking him inside.

24 seconds passed.

A human dies.

A god is born.

That's the origin story of Doctor Manhattan.

He is a quantum life and an existence too strong to comprehend.

In the comics of "Doomsday Bell", the Justice League assembled almost all the superheroes on Earth, went to Mars to stop Dr. Manhattan's plan, but was easily defeated by him.

"What are you thinking?"

Dr. Manhattan's alienated, indifferent voice interrupted Luke's thoughts.

The latter looked around the surrounding environment, the reddish-brown desert, the thin and cold atmosphere, the main component of which is carbon dioxide...

If I didn't guess wrong, this should be Mars.

"I'm thinking about how to avoid being killed by you, Doctor."