Trajectory of Dawn in the World of American Comics

Chapter 737 35. Like rolling dice is a disease!

"This place is going to explode! Look at these lights extending from the ground. We are like standing on a sun. Maybe we will be melted in the next second."

Harley complained fiercely as she pressed the detonator and blew open the closed door in front of her.

With a loud bang, the little cutie rushed in carrying the X metal war hammer, followed closely by Rorschach and several other Masons.

They were fully armed and ready to deal with any enemy, but they rushed in aggressively but did not find any danger. Only Mason was waiting for them in the corridor ahead.

The captain was smoking a cigarette in a rather melancholy manner. With the smoke rings flying, he looked at his companions. When he noticed that a few people were missing, he asked:

"Where are the others? Did the other Masons finally make up their minds to abandon me and escape alone?"

"Hey, you think you have a sense of humor, but actually this joke isn't funny! Masons are always loyal!"

Engineer Mason scolded and said:

"They have brought antimatter bombs that can blow up the structure of the star to various places on the star. They will be installed in a few minutes. At that time, you give the order and we can blow up this ghost place.

Although I don't know what's going on here, I can probably guess from the rising energy level and chaotic fluctuations in time that this terminal star is about to enter a damn startup process. "

"Yes, it has entered the 'set sail' procedure."

Mason flicked the cigarette butt from his hand, clapped his hands, and said to the others:

“When the resonance between this place and the divine timeline is completed, the first cycle of the entire universe will begin, and we on this planet will be sent to a moment before everything has happened, experiencing the beginning of the doomsday era from the beginning.

If I'm lucky, I may even see myself being put into the biological cultivation chamber of the Weapon X program. "

"What are you waiting for?"

Harry's eyes widened and he said:

"Then let's go, we have to stop this from happening. I don't want to wait for my little sweetheart to grow up. By the time you turn eighteen, I will already be in my forties."

"You hesitated!"

Rorschach next to him understood Mason's hesitation at this time.

An angry expression gathered on the dark fluid mask on his face. He stepped forward and grabbed Mason's collar with both hands, and said hoarsely:

"You think the beginning of this cycle is a good thing? Do you think you can get a 'perfect ending' by repeating what you did in the outside world before everything happened?

That’s what they think, and so do you? "

Rorschach's actions triggered reactions from others. Seeing that he was about to hurt Mason, Harley and Quinn immediately swung their weapons, but were stopped by the captain.

Mason stared at the dark mask in front of him and said:

“I won’t deny it, I do have this idea.

I came too late.

When I opened my eyes in this era, what I saw was a broken sea of ​​stars. Many tragedies and disasters had already occurred before I intervened in this situation.

If we could do it again, maybe we could save more people.

Extinguishing the flames of a crisis before it happens may be a better way to end the crisis. "

"madness!"

Rorschach scolded fiercely:

"They think so too! They also hope to go back to the past to solve all the problems and make up for all the regrets before everything happens. This is why they created this cyclical system, but you have already seen their end.

The idea of ​​going back to the past is an escape in itself, and trying again and again will only make things worse.

The past and the future are beyond our control!

Only now!

I didn't work hard to come here just to change the past, Mason. I never had such arrogant thoughts. What I wanted was simple. I just wanted this damn conspiracy to end before my eyes.

I heard from Harley about what you guys are doing out there.

That is the right thing to do. Facing reality and not escaping, reshaping the future in the midst of desolation is what we should do.

Those who keep saying they want to bring a perfect ending to everyone have chosen shortcuts, but facts have proven that shortcuts do not exist. I tried to stop this but I failed. You cannot repeat the same mistakes.

You cannot create the future by dwelling on the past! Don't make things worse. "

"There's no such thing as 'perfection,' Mason."

The engineer also advised:

“If you allow the cycle to happen, you are putting your destiny in other people’s hands, and the things we have seen along the way have taught us enough lessons in this regard.

Relying on the kindness of others will never lead to good results. Your destiny must be in your own hands.

They've tried simulations thirteen times, and I don't think the guy behind the scenes who's running this has really learned anything from those failures, otherwise the council wouldn't be where it is now. "

"I'm not naive enough to beg him for mercy."

Mason whispered:

"We will get rid of him and make Dr. Bluebird pay for what he has done, but maybe we can lead the cycle this time."

"You mean that you will replace Dr. Bluebird and become the invisible person in the council? You will lead all this so that the council will be born and the stars will appear?"

Are you serious? Sweetie? "

Quinn stepped forward and stared into Mason's eyes. She asked:

"Are you going to make yourself the mastermind behind what you've been fighting? You're denying your own existence and all your past efforts. Listen to me, honey."

She took Mason's hand and whispered:

"I know you have always had a lot of regrets. Although you have given everything along the way, you still feel that these are not enough. You want those who died in the disaster to have a happy ending. Those who have seen you All tragedies will never happen again.

But now this is the best we can get, and Doom says he wants to create a future but is unwilling to make the present better.

Do you still remember how you refuted Old A? Those who always walk with their heads up will stumble. If they don’t care about the present, they are not qualified to talk about the future.

Don't let their lofty ideas pollute your mind. "

"Mason, listen to your wife!"

The hat on the captain's forehead made a vague human face, and the old hat and the old god said:

"Harley is right, you should go to the end on the road you are on now, rather than changing to a track that looks better, that will not make things better."

"But Hogwarts"

Mason said softly:

"Don't you want to see your world get rid of doom? Don't you want to see you who have never been disturbed or affected, and the little wizards and their families in that world don't need to experience an unforgettable destruction?

There is also Osborne Tower, the world of Jack and Elizabeth, the world of the old man and Martha, Utopia and my hometown. Old Peter does not need to experience life and death anymore, Barbossa can enjoy family happiness with his daughter, and Little Flash does not You need to carry the entire world and run until you die of exhaustion, and mutants don't have to go through more than ten years of hostile killings with clones.

All those losses will be made up for and all those regrets will be filled.

We have this opportunity and it's right in front of us. "

"But that also means we won't see you again."

The old hat completed the final blow with a light word.

it says:

"If nothing had happened, then all your stories and ours would have ceased to exist. I know that would be a good thing for many people, but that would mean that you would have sacrificed everything you have now and what we have learned from you. Get everything here.

Mason, no one wants to forget you, don't underestimate your place in the hearts of others.

Listen to your wife, let's defeat Dr. Bluebird, completely end this cycle, and let everything we have now become a ladder to the future.

We have been waiting for you for seventeen years in the apocalyptic era. Don’t you understand?

This cyclical system is not the key at all.

You are the key.

Whoever punched him, this guy's thinking must have been disturbed! The Mason I knew couldn't say such a thing about giving up. "

"Harry, where are you going?"

Quinn called back, but the angry Harley ignored her at all. She just led her dog, grabbed a baseball bat, tied herself full of explosives, and strode towards the end of the aisle.

As she walked, she screamed:

"I'm going to kill that bastard! He bewitched my little sweetheart and wanted her to give up his relationship with us and all his experiences, just so that those guys we don't even know can get the so-called happy and perfect ending.

I do not want!

I will not give up my own happiness. I will beat anyone who dares to stop me. "

Everyone's eyes were on Mason. The captain curled his lips and reached out to push Rorschach's hand away from his collar. Then he appeared next to Harley during the reconstruction of the water body and took her wrist.

The little cutie raised her head, stared at him with red eyes, and said fiercely:

"What? Are you going to stop me from getting happy too? You bastard who wants to leave us behind! Mason Cooper! You are such a big bastard! Don't touch me! I'm angry."

"I have no intention of abandoning you."

Mason held Harley in his arms as she struggled and screamed.

He comforted the irritable little cutie, kissed her hair, and said:

"Well, I was just stupid. Maybe it was the expectation of perfection that never existed that made me ignore everything I already have."

"You also said you would never abandon us, but it turns out you are a liar."

Harry hid in Mason's arms, wiping away tears, and said coquettishly and complainingly:

"You must hate me and Quinn, and you want to use this opportunity to get rid of us. I will never trust you again. You are not allowed to touch those damn things in a while. I will smash them completely with my own hands."

Harley and Quinn took the opportunity at this moment to hit Mason's head from behind and from the front at the same time, causing the captain to shake a few times and then shake his head vigorously.

He wasn't sure if he was really bewitched, but the blow did wake him up a lot.

"Thank you, little cuties, I will listen to you next time."

Mason rubbed his head and looked at the engineer. The latter patted his bag and made an OK gesture to indicate that everything was ready.

"Let's go! Everyone."

The captain let go of his fiancée in his arms, and reached out to hold the pistol at his waist.

The cold handle of this thing made the captain sigh in his heart. The fate should be in his own hands, but he almost gave up the initiative just now.

Although Mason's own persistent pursuit of certain things is certainly part of this, it may be certain that this change in thinking must also be influenced by external factors.

After all, for an omnipotent being, plucking the chords of the soul is nothing more than casual, which undoubtedly made him angry.

Mason looked back at the people behind him, took a deep breath and said:

"Let's get this over with."

Everyone agreed in unison, and everyone walked towards the end of this long corridor.

There is a light blue light shining there, which should be the core of the cycle that Tony Zero mentioned, the flash of energy of Dr. Bluebird that can only be seen after the cycle process is started.

"Ah! Why doesn't this guy wear pants?"

The moment he rushed into the core of the circulation, Harley covered her eyes and shouted, which made the aura of the same enemy become awkward in an instant.

But Harry wasn't wrong either.

The guy who appeared in front of everyone was indeed not wearing trousers, not just trousers, but his whole body was naked, displaying his perfect body lines in front of everyone's eyes. The golden section of muscles formed a complete human body in the blue light system. Suspended in mid-air amid embellishments of energy.

In front of him was an energy model of the Doomsday Star, which was at the center of a more complex energy system.

He should be monitoring the process.

But it was definitely not the first time he had done this kind of thing.

The core of this cycle itself is a special device embedded in the star of the end. Countless complex parts and modules are like building blocks that are constantly changing and combining in this spherical space, like a super large instrument. The posture when working at full speed.

According to Tony Zero, this is the "energy amplifier" they made for Dr. Bluebird, which allows his exaggerated and god-like abilities to be strengthened to the extent that they can directly affect the origin of the universe. Only in this way can he The level of the divine timeline completes the fine-tuning of the entire universe.

"Please wait."

A calm and rational voice sounded in the spherical space, but it was not produced by Dr. Manhattan's vocal cord vibration. Perhaps he no longer needed that backward and extremely inefficient communication method.

He said in a voice that spoke directly to the soul:

"I still need a little adjustment to allow your influence on the entire system to be traced back to the original state. Only in this way can we ensure that the first reality cycle unfolds perfectly.

I have to say, Mason Cooper, that your external influence on the entire system is very deep and rapid, which makes me have to spend more energy to complete this should be a simple thing.

But I also have to thank you for making me finally make up my mind. "

"Are you rolling dice?"

Mason looked at Dr. Manhattan's movements in front of him and said:

"Do you know that rolling the same dice over and over again in the hope of getting different results is really pathological?"

"Dice? Well, that's a good statement. It not only illustrates my evilness in your eyes, but also uses the metaphor of God to complete a mockery. I appreciate this statement."

Dr. Bluebird turned around.

His white-light eyes stared at Mason and the people around him, pausing for a moment on Rorschach, and then focused on the captain's eyes.

This guy has an atomic mark on his forehead, which is probably the only embellishment he makes on his existence.

And his naked posture is really inelegant, especially the hanging blue fluorescent shirt, which is enough to make this scene into a restricted scene.

"I see disgust in your eyes, but I am not evil. Evil cannot be used to summarize my thoughts and actions. I just accepted their invitation to try to change the past and challenge the future."

Dr. Manhattan explained very seriously:

"This is the job the council gave me and I can do it and I perform it well."

"The Council didn't ask you to delete their memories after every simulation cycle!"

The engineer immediately retorted:

“Their plan was to learn from each failure so that the next try would be closer to the perfect ending they wanted to see, but you pulled a trick.

The experience after each failure will not be accumulated, which causes them to repeat the same mistakes again and again. You just treat them as your guinea pigs.

Trying different options under your control only to get bad results

Use your words to change the past and challenge the future. "

"No, you are summarizing my behavior with your own thoughts, which of course will cause terrible cognitive biases."

Dr. Bluebird patiently corrected the errors in the engineer's words. He raised his hand and projected thirteen flashing pictures in the air. He said:

"I deleted their memories starting from the eighth cycle. Tony Zero didn't tell you everything. Before the seventh cycle started, he asked me to return all the memories to them.

I did.

That's an observation too, but do you know what happened during that simulation loop?

The Council members were unable to learn any lessons from all the recycled memories, and instead, their fragile and short-lived union fell apart within a few years.

They did not use the lessons brought by the first six cycles to better advance their self-rescue plan. Instead, they used those technological reserves to complete the upgrade of force and start a 'great conquest' on a cosmic scale.

Their footsteps crossed the Milky Way and even approached the origin of the universe.

They wanted to control the power of the disaster, but the result was that in the star sea of ​​the origin of the universe, the aftermath of the fleets of various forces attacking each other impacted the already fragile origin of the universe, and the energy that triggered the third impact in advance destroyed everything.

I tried to honor my agreement with them.

But the result was more tragic than any other cycle, so I made a judgment and hoped that the Council could not change this era.

They are not saviors.

Their plan was perfect but they ignored the chain reactions that would be triggered by the superposition of human nature and power. In that cycle simulation, the end of destruction did not come from the will of the universe.

But themselves. "

Dr. Bluebird paused, shook his head and said:

“This is the essence of the simulation cycle, because I can see the ending of the universe, and I can observe everything in all branches of time and parallel planes at the same time, their struggles and resistance.

We should all be grateful that the first thirteen cycles only occurred in simulations and not in the real world. I saw the results, but without exception they were destruction.

This outcome was already destined when the universe was born.

No matter how gorgeous the process is, it cannot change the final outcome. Rather than despair, they may want to reach the final bloom in cycles full of hope.

I don’t repeat this process again and again to hurt anyone.

I don't roll the dice either, Mason.

But now, the situation has changed, because your appearance has created new possibilities for the future, so I am determined, because someone has already held the key to the future! "

Dr. Manhattan tilted his head and looked at Mason.

He stretched out his hand to the captain and said:

"I decided to help them and give everything I have in exchange for a perfect ending. I invite you to join me. Come on, Mason, the savior. Let us solve this doomsday from the source together."