Trajectory of Dawn in the World of American Comics

Chapter 736 34. The one who wrestles with God

"I saw with my own eyes in Utopia that Doom used a special method to extract the remains of Krakow Island. At that time, I thought I had seen the full picture of the Doomsday Star. I thought you were using the essence of each dead world to build an unstoppable building. The stars are used to protect the core members of the council through the change of eras.

It turns out that I thought this was too simple.

In other words, I can't imagine why so many of you would choose this kind of project that seems safe but is actually extremely risky.

I still have many doubts about this. For example, you have circulated in the fighting world thirteen times. Has this final star been reshaped here thirteen times?

I know from Doom that this thing is actually a marker core used to retrace the divine timeline, right? "

In the facility where the Terminus Star has been activated, Mason stood next to Tony Zero, looking at the tens of thousands of various data lists that appeared on the large optical projection screen in front of him. That was what they had set up in the Terminus. Functional monitoring of the circulation device on Doom Star. These data are constantly beating, which means that the entire device has entered the second half of activation.

It will be difficult to stop, unless Mason can destroy the entire planet in an instant.

To be honest, it's not impossible, but simply destroying it is meaningless. The council's plan has never been based on the star in front of them but on a powerful guy hiding in their shadows.

If the commander-in-chief wants to solve the problem completely, he can't rudely blow up everything he sees in front of him.

Faced with his question, Tony Zero stopped being the Riddler. He held a coffee cup, looked at the various data that kept beating in front of him, and said:

"Your original guess is actually not wrong. Although the sacred timeline was still relatively complete when the theoretical basis of the entire cycle system was proposed, we thought of the worst case scenario when setting up this system.

Once the sacred timeline is broken or is too fragile to withstand such a large-scale time regression, then this Doomsday Star will indeed be used as the doomsday ark to survive the change of eras.

It is strong enough and has the dual characteristics of death and rebirth on a symbolic level, which makes its probability of surviving the end of the cosmic era much greater than that of other worlds.

At this point, you do guess part of the truth, but that's not how it works under normal circumstances.

The end world you see has collected the world characteristics of more than 500 dead stars. Its world power system has a minimum rating of A, which is the best of the best in the parallel world system.

Having these world characteristics can ensure that after the cycle is actually started, these essence worlds can be restored to their 'alive' state, just like when you complete a computer system reinstallation, you have to transfer important files to a safe partition in advance. .

So the End Star was actually only cast this once.

What you see now is its true complete form, and only such a complete final star can withstand the ability to pull the entire universe back to its origin on the timeline level.

The previous thirteen cycles were just simulations of reality. Although in the fighting world, there is not much difference between falsehood and reality.

I watched the Hope Council fail thirteen times. The only difference is that the first twelve times I committed suicide, and the last time I was defeated in reality by you, who represents hope and the future. "

"Um?"

Mason blinked in surprise and said:

"So, your technology actually has loopholes, and packets may be 'randomly lost' during this cycle? That's why you use the End Star as the cycle anchor for important stars?"

"almost."

Tony Zero took a sip of coffee and said:

"Although the previous thirteen cycles only occurred in the Doujie, each time the cycle is started, it will still cause huge space-time disturbances at the entire cosmic level.

In this process, it is inevitable that the rules of some edge planes will be disrupted, causing them to disappear instantly like deleted data. Occasionally, some 'outside things' will be involved in this system.

For example, the Spartan interstellar nomads in the Tenth Fleet, or the Laughing Bat you once faced, were accidentally pulled into our closed universe when a certain cycle was started.

There are quite a few things like this. After all, you can always see strange and small-probability events after thirteen consecutive cycles. From these past experiences, it is not difficult to conclude that once the universe-wide retrospection takes effect, the entire sacred timeline will suffer heavy losses or even Leading to space-time chaos at the cosmic level, so the Doomsday Star must be cast to this scale.

The characteristics of more than 500 essence worlds are enough to maintain the entire parallel world system from collapsing too much when the cycle starts.

But I really didn't expect that such a small probability event would actually bring hope of truly breaking the situation. The cosmic tuning fork hidden by the Laughing Bat completely reversed the bad situation we faced.

The Council actually has the key, but they are unaware of it, leaving the key to hope in your hands. "

"You can be more clear."

Mason rubbed his eyebrows and said:

"Dum has just announced with confidence that he will adopt my method after the launch of this first big cycle, and rationally use the cosmic tuning fork as the new plan subject from the beginning.

If his idea can come true, then perhaps when the first impact occurs, the entire parallel world system will be able to survive this universe-covering disaster without any danger.

There is no need for a second impact at all. With the wisdom of you people, maybe it will take a few months to reshape the universe until the era changes. Then everyone will join hands and sing songs to enter the new world.

I hate Doom though.

But I have to admit, that guy is really good at drawing cakes, and even I can't help but imagine such a future. "

“He has a good idea, but in fact the probability of success of such a plan is basically zero, because it will not proceed according to his ideas or my ideas.

Even if the cycle does start as we predict, I will tell you, nothing will change.

The stars will still be born, your home world will still die, the dark expansion of the Council will continue step by step, and the entire stars will once again move towards end and despair like a tragic fate.

If there really is a creator watching all this, then I guess that this creator probably likes to watch tragedies in recent times. "

Tony Zero snorted.

He glanced at the time. It was already the time when the Doomsday Star set sail, and time was returning to zero little by little. So he put down the coffee cup in his hand and said to Mason:

"You think I'm being alarmist, don't you? Let me tell you what made me determined to personally terminate the ultimate plan for the end of the world that we all have in store.

At the beginning of all this, we were like a toddler, trying to survive the apocalypse step by step.

At that time, everyone was very unskilled.

The lack of technology, resources and experience made it impossible for the End Star to complete the construction of even the core area, which directly led to major problems in the previous simulation loops.

We couldn't even retain complete memories. We could only record important discoveries with difficulty again and again, and then repeated the same mistakes. Relying on fragmented memories, we constantly revised plans and accumulated technological reserves. It wasn't until the fifth cycle that we made the third An effective planetary shield struggled to survive the second impact.

It was also from that time that the construction of the End Star really got on the right track.

We formed the Fox Nest and went to great lengths to build and preserve the database before you to store our collective wisdom.

Starting from the sixth simulation cycle, we have tried to use various methods to preserve the 'data' of the entire parallel world system as perfectly as possible. In fact, if we just survive and enter the next era, we can already do it in the seventh cycle. But it was also at that time that I discovered a serious problem.

A question that can destroy all our efforts. "

Tony Zero sighed, drew a circle in the air with his finger, and said:

"I found that the cycle cannot be terminated. Even if we want to, we can no longer interfere with the automatic operation of the entire system. We are trapped in the cycle of backtracking again and again.

Perhaps there are loopholes in this plan from the beginning that we have not yet discovered, perhaps the sacred timeline has been damaged at key nodes during the continuous backtracking, or perhaps it is simply a punishment from time.

All in all, this cycle has become a nightmare of disaster and doomsday.

Either the council system is destroyed by the impact and forces it to start the cycle again, or we need to find the key to the problem in this cycle and solve it.

Since I am in the core area of ​​the loop system and am responsible for maintaining it, I will not be affected by memory corruption caused by repeated restarts. This allows me to go back to the source and secretly find the problem.

Facts have proved that my worst guess was correct. The loop system code-named "Terminal Star" did have loopholes from the beginning. Once this loop is enlarged to the cosmic level, this loophole will not suddenly disappear.

It just brings everything into a desperate situation.

And by ‘loophole’ I mean Dr. Manhattan.

Or in your words, Dr. Bluebird. "

He looked at the frowning Mason, shrugged helplessly and said:

"We chose Dr. Manhattan as the core of the Doomsday Star Project. He has the ability to change the universe regardless of time, and we made a device for him similar to a brainwave amplifier that can strengthen his influence on the sacred timeline. It is up to him to stay in the End Star to promote the retrace cycle of Doujie again and again.

This is used to accumulate experience for the great cycle that will expand to the entire universe after the final star sets sail.

But we ignore that the doctor is also a living being. Just because he can complete this work perfectly does not mean that he will not change his mentality after witnessing our struggles again and again.

He gradually changed from being conscientious and responsible at the beginning, and began to consciously control the process of the retrospection cycle. The memory loss of others after each Doujie cycle was his fault. According to our design, after the final star was cast and formed There will be no memory loss in the loop.

Someone deliberately erased it and stole our precious self-rescue time.

I didn't tell others this terrible fact, because I was afraid it would affect their motivation to keep trying to find the perfect solution in the apocalyptic era.

In fact, I can't tell anyone, I'm stuck here, and Dr. Manhattan is keeping an eye on me.

I guess I couldn't hide my findings from him at all.

I can only try to convey what happened here to the outside world without arousing his disgust. However, I don’t even know what I am expecting. "

"So, you sent Rorschach's diary away?"

Mason asked:

"Is that your way of asking for help from the outside world?"

"No, my choice was to create Tyrant Tony and ask Doom for help."

Tony Zero shook his head and said:

"I once wanted him to unite those people in the outside world who were unwilling to waste their lives in repeated cycles of despair, and jointly resist the guy who presided over all of this. However, after the tyrant Tony was sent to the outside world, the memory of this place was completely erased. Go and become a free conquering commander.

As for doom

He knew the situation before us but he didn't think it was a problem. He thought we hadn't found the perfect solution yet, and he thought it would all stop if we could find a way.

He trusted his own wisdom too much and thought that I was unfounded. He believed that the first great cycle was both the starting point and the focus, both destruction and rebirth.

As for Rorschach's diary, it was just an accident.

It was an almost impossible miracle achieved by Molecule Man and Detective Rorschach through a strange combination of circumstances. I saw the details and gave a little help.

But Rorschach chose to come alone. He should have brought more people.

Fortunately, there is a fixed time flow in Doujie that is not affected by the outside world, so he did not lose his life. To tell you the truth, I was actually desperate.

I know that nothing can change the continuation of the cycle, and that the Sacred Timeline has become so decayed and broken that it can no longer withstand the pressure of retracing the cycle.

I can only watch helplessly as we continue to repeat all the mistakes of the first thirteen simulations in the material world until at the last moment we perish together with the entire sea of ​​stars in the change of epochs.

But just then, you appeared.

You have brought about change. Can you imagine the excitement and joy in my heart when I discovered you?

It's like a discordant noise suddenly appears when a play has been rehearsed thirteen times and is about to go on stage. It undoubtedly ruins the entire performance, but that's what we need most right now.

You found Rorschach's diary and deduced clues from it. You did not indulge in a simple pursuit but made all preparations in advance before entering the fighting world. "

Tony Zero let out a sigh of relief and said:

"It means we can finally end this."

"But why would he do that?"

Mason asked:

"Dr. Manhattan should have voluntarily participated in your plan. As a person who can see the future at a glance, he should have understood his responsibilities before joining. What exactly made him change?"

"I don't know why he did that, but I can probably guess the change in his mentality. It was the boredom after witnessing the destruction that was bound to happen, and he wanted to let us stay in the process where everything can still be changed so that we don't have to Worry about the harsh reality.

He was like a superior god, observing the collapse of hope and the arrival of doom again and again. He had no interest in the real cycle of retrospection, perhaps because he already knew that it would not work at all. "

Tony Zero said sadly:

“But what’s even more terrifying is that I thought Dr. Manhattan’s indifference and observation were enough to make us despair, but when he really took active steps to help us, I realized that I had already despaired.

Remember what I told you last time?

His god-like continued nonchalance is what is best for us now, which means you can push your new utopian project all the way to the results you want to see.

However, he took action.

He may have seen the changes you brought to the stars, and decided to turn the simulation cycle into reality, expanding your victory into the past and future.

He sincerely wanted to help us solve the problem at its source, but unfortunately this would lead to unpredictable results.

Help from the gods will completely bury the victory that we mortals have worked so hard to advance to this point. I have given up guessing his thoughts.

The thoughts of the gods are too changeable. He can decide to help us because of you, or he may choose to destroy us at a moment's notice in the future. We have no way to check the gods except prayer, so we should not pray to him from the beginning. Intervene and intervene.

I just have one request right now.

End it!

Bury this end star plan that should never have been there in the first place. "

He reached out and patted Mason on the shoulder, and said with a smile:

"And this is the trouble you have to face, Mr. Mason. You have come here and are about to meet Dr. Bluebird. Maybe you can turn around everything in the outside world and pry open his defenses.

I guess he is also looking forward to meeting you now. I have told you the ins and outs of everything, so go ahead, man, and do what you have to do.

Let the entire star sea be truly freed from the torture of the cycle of despair, and proudly move forward into the next era with the attitude you expect. "

Mason nodded.

He glanced at the instruments around him whose computing speed had been increased to the limit. The light emitted by the entire Doomsday Star on the periphery of the star had also reached its peak, like a ignited star.

After thirteen simulation cycles, the real universe-level cycle plan is about to begin.

The characteristics of the world stored on this planet are about to be sent back to the past time, just like the actors taking their places before a performance, performing the last curtain call on the reopened curtain and stage.

"Your cancer was caused by your frequent contact with Dr. Manhattan, right?"

Mason said:

"When you saw Dr. Bluebird's magical existence in a quantum state, you should have known not to get so close to him. After the death of Tyrant Tony, I extracted some biological information and studied it, but this thing can no longer be cured. I'm sorry. ."

"There's nothing to be sorry for."

Tony Zero waved his hand very optimistically and said:

"I'm already dead anyway, and I'll die in your hands seventeen years later, which means I don't do anything, and this cancer can't kill me in seventeen years.

But I no longer wanted to waste the last time of my life watching another script that I was already tired of watching. I concealed his resistance and made my own resistance. I used seven cycles to deliver the message and waited for you. .

Everything I should do and everything I can do has been done.

So if you really want to help me, then stop him. I don't believe in the savior, but it turns out that there are some things that only you can do.

We all have a mission and now it's your turn to complete it.

Be it convincing or defeating.

I have been wrestling with God for so long that I am exhausted mentally and physically. Now it is time for you to end this. I am sorry that I have to leave you with the mess we have created.

But don't worry.

After everything is over, I will die to apologize, well, die again after I die, and then embrace true relief and freedom. "