"Is this what you call aftermath?"

The light blond girl tilted her head, she didn't seem to understand the purpose of Batman's questioning.

Bruce's deep voice continued: "Do you have any idea how much panic this will cause around the world?"

But maybe because she was in a good mood, Aya opened her eyes slightly, and replied: "Ah... what does that have to do with me?"

Her way of speaking suddenly became very fluent, as if she jumped directly from babbling to PASS of the Putonghua test.

"I just need to protect Thea."

While speaking, the golden scars on Aya's body flickered with her body movements - the combination of this disabled beauty and her exceptionally naive explanation gave a particularly contradictory sense of in-and-out.

Everyone realized that Aya was not ignorant of how much panic this would cause.

She knew, and even, she was happy, to see the panic.

——In a sense, Aya is Sylvia's container, and her "meaning of existence" is to protect Sylvia.

From sharing most of the power in childhood, to eradicating subsequent threats after the failure of fusion...

She is Thea's shield, Thea's spear, sheltering from wind and rain, and overcoming thorns and thorns.

In this spiritual state, Aya seems to be able to use Thea's power. She "calculated" that the government would trouble Thea, so she used Sylvia's image memory to spread out all the crises Show the world.

"You humans always like to deceive yourself and others."

Aya said slowly: "The crisis has always been there, but they always pretended not to see it, and aimed their swords at the targets they might take advantage of, no matter what those targets were doing with their abilities, good or bad, or not. It's called "preparing for a rainy day."

"Look, you want to protect those people, but those people never want to protect you." The light-blond girl had a particularly indifferent expression on her face, and her tone was light.

"Thea gave up on merging with me, so I can only protect her in other ways."

"After tonight, if those people want to make trouble, they have to see if they can afford it."

In a sense, Sylvia is currently the only person who knows these things and can "say" them - Deadpool's spoilers are restricted by law, but Sylvia's videos are not.

In the face of such a superhuman, does the government want to control her "Two-dimensional" power, or is it more eager for the "world's future" as she knows it?

Compared with the threat of a "power system", it is obvious that the overall situation of the whole world is more valuable and worthy of attention.

"What's more, human beings, don't they have the right to know about the existence that wants to destroy them?"

Should people enjoy protection for granted?Do the people deserve to be kept in the dark without knowing anything?

And then one day, terrified, panicked, and died for no apparent reason? ? ?

There was no smile on Aya's face, but her voice could replace her with a sarcasm:

"—protection with their eyes blindfolded, what kind of protection is that?"

"——What kind of person is a person without human rights?"

……

After these words fell, the thoughts of the heroes froze for a moment.

Only Eric listened, and suddenly laughed slowly, and his smile grew bigger and bigger, like a shark silently opening its sharp teeth in the night.

Attracted by this expression, Aya stared at his shark for a long time and laughed, "Wow".

Charles turned his head and glanced at Eric, but only saw the other party's face of "serious, I didn't do anything".

The blue-eyed professor was speechless for a moment, rubbing the space between his brows: "That's not what you said, Aya."

Aya is sophistrying.

They all know that this is sophistry.

Moreover, it is a kind of sophistry that is particularly inciting and sophistry that is particularly in line with Magneto's style.

It's that kind of...

#Obviously what you said is wrong but it sounds so fucking reasonable#

#Change the content and apply the template, it can be used to incite public riots#

But none of them have a fucking position to refute it—because they're not ordinary people, in every sense of the word.

Aya shrugged and waved her hand again: "Then say whatever you want, I won't refute you."

Charles: Choke.

With the movement of her waving her hand, the Gotham mirror image that originally played the endless universe image entered another screen.

During the time between Aya and the heroes, the international network has exploded.

Discussions, panic, doubts... All kinds of good or bad speeches have shown a blowout trend.

It's not that the U.S. government doesn't want to stop this live broadcast...

But on the one hand, there are more than one country in the media at the scene. Even if they want to stop, some countries, such as England controlled by the "Humanoid British Government", and China, which is always isolated by strange barriers, may not necessarily agree;

On the other hand, when the topic is fermented to such an extent, if you want to completely ban the broadcast...they will definitely be labeled as "violating the freedom and democracy of the United States" by netizens in their country who advocate "freedom of speech" and "right to know" of!

This has led to those drones, helicopters, various camera lenses, etc., still dutifully rebroadcasting the images of this three-view subversive, and conveying the progress to all parts of the world.

……

"Invaders from alien planets, monsters rampaging around, or crazy power grabbers..."

The female voice who had been silent for a long time muttered, Thanos had faded from the screen, the panorama of the universe was gradually pulled away, and it returned to the blue earth again.

"For those threats from the dark corners, their greatest threat..."

"...is how to expose them before they explode."

"Our world, which is already trying to stop this process, has produced excellent saviors, but in many cases, saviors have also become part of the shadow of ignorance."

"Fear stems from your consciousness. But you let me see clearly that the greatest threat to mankind..."

"—from your heart."

The flat female voice raised its tone slightly at the last sentence, as if the speaker was smiling at the corner of his lips.

But the content that follows is definitely not the kind that makes people want to smile.

"You thought we were going to heal you?" said a male voice.

Cheerful and weird electronic music BGM appears along with the screen.

A man in a white coat with a tight cut cut occupies the entire mirrored screen. He has good eyebrows and eyes, but the nervousness and sarcasm on his face spoil this handsomeness.

"NONONO~ We'll just turn you into a little monster, a new mutant, and... sell you."

……

In Gotham, Wade stopped eating caramel popcorn with a "squeak, squeak, squeak".

The half of his chin that he lifted up his hood to eat looked like a flesh-colored avocado.

"...Wow." After a pause, he stuffed another popcorn into his mouth, and said vaguely, "This BGM fits Dad's style very well. I will ask the heroine for resources later."

……

The electronic music BGM is getting more and more cheerful, setting off the fish-like man in the picture like a struggling doll in the hands of a clown.

Ajax leaned on the transparent container with one hand, poured the reagent into the already miserable green water, and let the terrified man behind him utter a horrific wail after a moment of shock——before hearing it, no one I would think that a muscular man who is five big and three thick will make such a sharp and piercing cry.

"What a valuable commodity..." The man's words were like Shakespeare's aria, which only made people feel creepy.

The nervous man in a white coat casually opened the plastic leather door curtain, and the picture transitioned between light and shadow, and quickly shifted to another "meeting" in a dark space.

A long shot that zooms in and out, the electronic sound of shaking legs matches the black and white of the picture, one frame of color and one frame of black and white, jumping to give a close-up again - it is a man in a white coat and a woman in a rose red suit facing each other.

The explosive stepping point led to their dialogue:

Ajax gave a philistine smile: "A new batch of gadgets, the government will like them."

Amanda's face was cold and lofty: "This has nothing to do with the government."

Ajax: "I understand, I understand, no subordinate government department = no department exists, I understand~"

Then there was another camera transition. The person who edited this video was obviously very good at using interlaced shots and connecting the previous and the next. After the scene of "Amanda having a friendly conversation with government officials" flashed quickly, everyone who saw this scene would not Suspect, the black woman is not "part" of the government.

……

[If my comprehension is correct... the person in that container is an ordinary person? ]

[…if my brain doesn't short circuit... yes ↑]

[Human trafficking is illegal! ! ! mmp! ]

[Heh, your country has always declared freedom and democracy... I don’t know when it was sold :)]

[... Don't start a war upstairs. ]

[↑Initiate a war?This is a reasonable question, right?Who wants to be remodeled inexplicably and then sold? ? ?Would you like to change you? ? ?Turn into a monster?Basic human rights have been trampled on! ! ! ]

[...The monster is too ugly. ]

[Am I the only one who wants to ask... Is it because you can't sell mutants when ordinary people are transformed into mutants? ]

[There must be an organization for the mutants, Professor X accepts mutant students, and the Brotherhood is a villain organization, but at least it protects its shortcomings...]

[…Thinking carefully. ]

[......]

……

"Shut it off! Shut it off! Where's Amanda Waller?!"

The Secretary of State abruptly broke the pen in his hand. Of course he was watching this broadcast, which was the most synchronized official live broadcast. The moment Amanda Waller appeared on the screen, he decided: even if he violated the agreement with other countries Also cut off the Internet around the entire Gotham area.

Those military-specific signal blockers and satellite blocking devices are not just for fun.

But after they gave the order and all the instruments were turned on, the rebroadcast of the screen was not interrupted at all, as if a WiFi network with an exceptionally strong signal supported the operation of each lens.

Is it a hacker?Or some black technology?

The unknown always makes people uneasy, and being out of control makes him even more irritable. The purple alien in that video seems to indicate the unpredictable things of the unpredictable day.

But compared to this kind of unpredictability, the possible "destruction of the government's credibility" is more important and urgent.

A subordinate reported: "Ms. Waller is in Gotham. She applied to be transferred to the Arkham Asylum the day before yesterday to form a suicide squad. Currently...unable to contact."

Secretary of State: "... Shit!"

The gray-haired man turned around in the monitoring room, and seemed to catch a glimpse of some document on the way, his face turned blue or white for a moment, and then he threw the thick booklet to the ground, "Boom!" sound.

The subordinate turned his head to look, and the title of the "Superhero Registration Act" seemed to be a silent mockery.

……

Aya seemed to hold countless images and materials.

Some are from Sylvia's clips, some are some hidden files of this information age, and some are from surveillance that no one noticed.

Even Sylvia herself didn't know how much information she had "saved" unconsciously. When her AI state was "passing" through those information networks, her body was superior to her consciousness. Without her "knowledge" Recorded a lot of information that is difficult for the human brain to remember.

This point also opened the door for Aya to deal with the aftermath at the moment.

Fortunately, Aya didn't intend to let panic engulf the whole world. Since she had calculated that "the panic should be suppressed with greater panic", she also calculated that "strings that are too tight are easy to break".

——So she planned to add some sweet dates after the slap... In fact, a bigger part of the reason was that she sensed that Sylvia was about to regain consciousness and was afraid of being scolded :)

"In today's world, things are changing rapidly..."

"...any artifact or experiment that seeks to eliminate itself could cause mass casualties."

"...someone has to take on that responsibility."

"—someone has to stop the self-extinction of human beings."

The image mirroring the sky above Gotham was overlaid with new subtitles, the BGM gradually faded, the background faded again, and the 327-square-mile "screen" was suddenly divided into several gray and white freeze-frame images.

The low-pitched female voice said: "This is the past, present and future I see, inside the earth and outside the universe."

……

[The one in the upper left corner seems to be Magneto...but why does it look a little old? ...And he's in the villain camp, right? ? ? ]

[……etc?So the ability of this new hero [Observer] is actually to predict the future?Omniscient? ]

[It’s not just about the future... I’m very comfortable now, I know everything about the past, present and future... Then what’s the meaning of life... Forget about dying like a salted fish_(:зゝ∠)_]

[↑Don't panic, since she released the picture, she must think that we can change the future↑]

[The man in uniform with lightning on his forehead in the lower right corner looks very young...is he a new hero?Why haven't I heard of it?Is it possible in the future? ]

[The upper right corner is Captain America!I finally recognized one!The one before the super serum injection!This scene is not in the documentary!Should it be the "past" she said? ]

[......]

……

First of all, the gray and white image in the upper left corner regained its color, and the figure began to move and speak.

The old Magneto still wore the helmet, but his tone was calm and vicissitudes: "I have a lot of experience in dismantling machines made by humans to kill mutants... There are always many such machines."

——In Gotham City, Eric, who was looking at the scene in the sky, squinted his eyes, then lowered his head and gently brushed the slightly messy green hair of Polaris in his arms, with complicated thoughts in his eyes.

——Professor X in the wheelchair traced the appearance of his old friend on the screen with eyes that couldn't tell whether it was surprise or exclamation. He was obviously very interested in the appearance of this "future old man".

……

After "Old Magneto" finished his sentence, the tone and movement of the image shifted to another frame.

Frail and "petite" blond blue-eyed little man shaking his hands in the dark alley - he had obviously just been beaten up, knocking the garbage can behind him - and the big man who beat him said viciously "don't worry about it No business, boy", Steve gasped: "Icandothisallday..."

Then the little Rogers gradually turned into a big-breasted Rogers, and said to the soldiers in the new barracks: "I firmly believe in one belief, that is: a person with a righteous heart, a righteous desire, and a single goal...'A person You can win a war too.' Give that man a team of like-minded soldiers and it can change the world. Soldiers, do you want to witness history, or do you want to make history?"

——On the banks of the Gotham River, Steve's eyes seemed to fall into the memories of World War II following this passage. I can work like this for a whole day." When he raised his head suddenly, his face showed a look of intertwined pain and bewilderment.

……

The images belonging to World War II cooled down, and without giving the global audience and netizens time to relax, another scene with special Gotham characteristics hit.

It was originally just a black-and-white image of wood grain. When people guessed about these freeze-frame images on the Internet, they forgot about this image, but when the camera moved and gradually zoomed out, they discovered that it was a coffin mound. .

[...Whose tombstone is this? ! ]

[Why I feel like the background is Metropolis...that square...that "S" sign...]

[...Don't scare me, my hands are shaking now]

Then a deep male voice said, "Superman is dead."

It was like a low-pitched sentence.

At the Metropolitan Memorial event, on the floor of the square, there was a line of big characters around the Superman LOGO-"If you want to find his remains, please, look around."

The mourning citizens looked up, their faces filled with grief and helplessness.

——In the metropolis of the real world, the citizens watching this live broadcast almost stood there in a daze.A girl's eyes widened unconsciously, not realizing that her eye sockets were filled with tears.

A handful of black soil particles sprinkled on the surface of the coffin, waking up the sentient beings who were staring blankly.

[No I don't believe it I don't believe it]

[…How did Superman die? !Who can kill him? ! ]

[—How can Metropolis be Metropolis without Superman? ]

[But...Superman also has weaknesses]

[......]

[Why……]

[Do you still remember the second half of the sentence that the person just said: "—someone has to stop the self-extinction of human beings."]

[......]

[......]

In Gotham, looking at the surprisingly silent Dark Knight and Metropolis Superman, Aya snapped her fingers in a good mood: "It's okay, although he died a bit miserable, Superman will be resurrected in the end, but the scene of the resurrection I don't know." I won't let it go."

"After all." The light golden girl smiled and said to Yan Yan, "Godis as good as Dead."

This sentence can be understood as, God is dead.

or……

Just like dead painters have the most valuable paintings.

A dead god is a good god.

……

As if to mourn the death of Superman.

This time the shady delay was extraordinarily long.

Amidst countless denunciations and explosive inquiries and guesses, the excessive color gradually shifted to the next scene.

A voiceover asks, "Why are they protecting the world when they know they have to pay?"

From the beginning to the end, no matter how intense the emotions of the watching crowd were, or how shocking the broadcasted images were, the voice of "Sylvia" who was in charge of the commentary was not tainted with too much emotion.

This kind of calmness may have a soothing effect, or it may be a little hateful.

So there was another, more radical discussion on the Internet:

[Then what have you done?What right do you have to say these words? ! ]

[Is she releasing this unstable factor to provoke the relationship between superheroes and humans? ]

[......]

When some people almost wanted to transfer countless emotions that had nowhere to vent to this new hero who "watched coldly", the voice asked again: "...Why do you want to protect you?"

Countless people: "..."

Voiceover: "I didn't know the answer before, but now I do. I've seen Superman die, and I've seen new heroes born. I've seen the past, and I've seen the future..."

There are teenagers chosen by lightning, who turn into lightning-fast streamers;

A young Robin took over the mantle of the Dark Knight;

There are black leopards piercing the darkness that the night hides;

There is a lively spider picking up a kitten on a tree...

Frame after scene, like the pages of a book.

In the final subtitles, there was only a short question left, and the female voice in the voiceover suddenly softened and let out a soft sigh.

"You are going to witness the future;"

"Or create the future?"

As the voice fell, Sylvia on the Gotham River...

— opened his eyes.

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