Volume 4: The Last Day Chapter 82 People who are too smart always develop a lot of bad habits, right, Lai Tu?
When Mason boarded the Atlantis Doomsday Ark, which was as huge as a floating mountain, the old man was already waiting for him at the side of the ship.
Thomas still looked as if he didn't want anyone to approach him , but Damian next to him was much more relaxed. The little madman looked very happy, and was leaning against the side, applying sword oil and maintaining his grandfather's sword.
But seeing that he and old Thomas are quite close, one can't help but sigh: if you want to have a good relationship with other children, maybe all you need is an ice cream, but if you want to be Damian's friend, you at least have to follow him into battle and chop off a few heads to make him submit.
I can only say that the gap between naughty kids is really big.
"Come with me."
The old man didn't have much time to chat. He gestured to Mason and led him into the Ark. Talia wanted to follow and take a look but was stopped by Mrs. Martha.
The female clown, with her face still covered in war paint, smiled at her little grandson and said to Talia:
"If Thomas didn't ask you to go with him, you'd better stay here."
"right."
Bain, the guard beside her, also whispered to Talia:
"Thomas Wayne is several orders of magnitude more dangerous than Batman, he is decisive and cruel, loyal to his own moral principles and never hesitates.
He is the kind of Batman that Lei Xiaogu longs to see the most."
Seeing what Bane said, Talia nodded and stopped taking the risk. But Catwoman beside her naturally followed Mason into the Ark. She didn't want to be too far away from her little brother Mason.
The old man noticed the tail, but he just glanced at it and didn't make any comment.
The group took the Ark Elevator down and soon arrived at the core area of this doomsday ship.
The bodies here have not been cleaned up yet. Those heavily-armored underwater warriors are lying on the ground in all directions. Most of them were shot to death, and some were stabbed to death by sharp blades. It is obvious that it was Damian's work.
At the deepest part of this core area, after passing through three mechanical doors, Mason saw Lex Luthor working busy on a platform.
The Lai Tu in this world took off his coat and wore only a shirt. He rolled up his sleeves and was busy in front of a bio-capsule-like device. Judging from his shiny forehead covered with sweat, he must have been here for quite a long time.
There was also a guy wearing Deathstroke-style armor guarding him with a weapon.
"Is this the Atlantean doomsday device? It's a little smaller than I thought."
Catwoman looked at the buildings around her and asked in a low voice. The old man nodded and said in a hoarse voice:
"If Luther is right, this is indeed the place. It's just that this device used to cause devastating consequences is a little confusing."
"Thomas! I told you not to bring random people in to disturb my work! This is not some kind of playground."
Luther, who was busy on the platform, shouted angrily:
"The danger alarm of this device has not been lifted. It is still in a state that can be activated at any time. I need some time to crack the Atlantean security device."
“I brought in the professionals.”
The old man said calmly:
"He was also the planner and commander of this operation."
Mason didn't waste time in greeting. Under Lai Tu's suspicious gaze, the young and somewhat overly skilled engineering master took out his toolbox and strode onto the platform of the doomsday weapon.
He glanced around. Some modules had been dismantled by Lai Tu, and the various components exposed inside were full of the futuristic style of underwater technology.
He reached out and touched the electron tube module in front of him that was emitting a cold light. After a moment, an information label popped up:
Doomsday weapons/atomic jammers and stabilizers
Quality: Epic engineering creation, exquisite craftsmanship
Usefulness: The Atlanteans did not create it to detonate weapons, but rather to control highly volatile and dangerous energy so that it could explode at the right time.
Item Description: Put down the defusing pliers! This is not a detonator, and removing it will only make things worse.
hint:
This device has been locked by special authority [Arthur Curry]. You must remove the authority before proceeding to the next step.
"Are you breaking the permission block on this thing?"
Mason retracted his finger, glanced at the skeptical Leibald beside him, and said:
"You should know that this thing is bound to Arthur Curry's life force. Theoretically, no one except the King of the Seven Seas can control it."
"I can't unlock this permission lock, but I think I can bypass the permission tree and enter the core database. I only need one thread!"
Lex Luthor said confidently:
"I have done a deep study of the technology of the underwater people, and I have even prepared an interference program to render this doomsday weapon harmless..."
"But you don't know what's in it yet, do you?"
Mason shook his head, stood up, took out a long box from his bag, and said to Luther:
"If you knew, you wouldn't try to neutralize it, which is basically impossible."
After saying that, under the surprised gazes of Luther and Deathstroke beside him, Mason opened the box, took out a bloody severed arm from it, and placed it on the console.
After triple confirmation by fingerprints, DNA and unique life signals, Mason obtained temporary authority and then raised the sealed doomsday weapon core module from below.
When the cold mist dissipated, the "decisive weapon" of the underwater people was finally exposed to the land people, making everyone except Mason drop their jaws in shock.
"Why is there a person in here? Is the underwater people's doomsday weapon a person?"
Catwoman walked forward and looked at the biological cabin that looked like a light tube .
Restrained by various complex devices, there lies an unconscious man.
He was placed in the core module of the doomsday weapon and was completely sealed off from the outside world.
But you can tell at first glance that this guy is not an ordinary person. His skin is blue and there is an atomic mark on his forehead.
More importantly, except for his head and torso, the rest of his body is in a state of "quantum state" change, sometimes turning into a physical entity but the next moment turning into a free energy body jumping back and forth in the bio-cabin.
Visible instability.
Luther took out an energy monitor with a serious expression and connected it to the interface of the bio-capsule. The thing exploded right after it was turned on. It was obvious that the energy fluctuations in the bio-capsule had exceeded the upper limit that could be read.
"It's like a living bomb..."
Lai Tu wiped the sweat from his forehead, held the smoking monitor, and said to the people around him:
"It can blow up the continental shelf or even half of the world with one blow. The existence of this life is very unstable. He should rely on energy to exist, but these crazy sea creatures injected too much energy into him and his existence has been completely destroyed.
He was close to death.”
"I think I've heard of this guy."
The old hero Deathstroke beside Luther looked at the blue-skinned man in the bio-capsule in front of him. He tried to recall some secret documents he had read, and said after a few seconds:
"He was active in the 90s, nicknamed 'Captain Atom' and worked closely with the military. He once became the leader of the official superhuman team. During that time, there were several small-scale conflicts between the Atlanteans and the land. It is said that he disappeared accidentally during the last conflict.
He was there to mediate the war, and everyone thought he was dead."
Mason nodded at old Deathstroke's explanation, which was what he wanted to say.
As for the character Captain Atom, few people probably know his name after all, he is a second-tier or even third-tier character, but his other identity is very "prominent" in a sense.
This guy is the prototype of Dr. Manhattan.
Although both of them have the ability to modify reality at the atomic level, Captain Atom is obviously not as buggy as Dr. Manhattan. His most well-known trait is that he is "very unstable" as Luthor said.
He earned the nickname "Captain Suicide" because of the serious crises caused by his loss of control several times.
With Captain Atom's current state of a "living dead" and the extremely unstable energy in his body being disturbed and detonated, the power is indeed enough to destroy a continent in an instant and bring about a world-class chain disaster.
However, weapons of this level are still far from being able to completely destroy a planet.
The old man didn't care who was in the jar. He asked directly:
"Can you disable the weapon system?"
"no!"
Luther and Mason responded in unison, then they looked at each other. Mason made a "please" gesture and handed the dangerous science work to Lai Tu.
The latter wiped the sweat from his forehead and explained briefly:
"He will explode as soon as he leaves this stabilization chamber. This level of quantum bombardment is not its main means of killing entities. I am now worried that his explosion may rewrite reality and cause an uncontrollable crisis."
"Don't even think about waking him up."
Mason added:
"The energy he contains has exceeded the limit of his control. This is not a problem that can be solved by willpower."
At this point, Mason glanced at the bio-pod next to him that could blow up a continent. He pushed the glasses without lenses on his nose, shook his head and said:
“And I don’t think this is the most critical issue we’re facing right now.
This doomsday weapon module is in our hands and can be guaranteed not to explode in the short term. The capture of the King of the Seven Seas and the Queen of War also marks the end of this great conflict. Now it is time to talk about the real core issue. "
He pointed to the sky and said:
"The countdown to the destruction hidden beneath the surface of crisis has not stopped. Everyone, it is clear that the existence that controls the various changes in this world is still waiting for us to come forward and 'audience'."
"What on earth are you talking about?"
Old Deathstroke looked at Mason who was talking eloquently with a confused look on his face, but Luther beside him had a gleam in his eyes. He stepped forward, stared at Mason, and said:
"You mean the truth behind the time change? You discovered it too, right?
This world is not real at all!
We, the rest of us are but puppets, forced to act out a story whose ending has already been written.
Time and again, the fools don't realize the problem, they are so immersed in their mutually destructive infighting that they don't even feel where the problem lies.
But I...
I can!"
Laibald pulled a crumpled notebook from his pocket and said to Mason:
"According to my calculations, this is the thirteenth time!"
"What 'thirteenth'?"
The old man shook his cloak and asked in a sinister tone:
"Luther, explain clearly!"
"Time changes! Everything evolves! Call it what you want, I'm talking about this phenomenon!"
The young version of Luther waved his hands like a lunatic. He circled around Mason and said loudly to the people around him:
“It’s like a program running in a simulation sandbox! It’s like a piece of self-renewing data! It’s always calculating! In the air, under the starry sky, in the reflection of the water, in our eyes and even in our minds!
It has been calculating a problem.
Trying to find the answer again and again from the changes of all things, but it can't find it!
The only consequence of every failed verification to the real world is the collapse of the world and civilization, and after the time of destruction, everything is rolled back to a certain time and started again.
Again and again!
us!
Ladies and gentlemen, we, and even all people, all living things, and all existences in this world, are placed in this "super-large social destiny experiment."
We all have our own tasks, and we all need to complete them in order for the succession to continue.”
At this moment, Lai Bald was like a lunatic. He shouted the secrets that could only be kept in his heart, and stared at Mason like a madman craving for answers.
Mason could even feel from these eyes that Lex Luthor didn't really care about the truth; what he cared about was whether his research and conclusions were correct.
What a scientific research madman.
In response to his question, Mason shrugged and said:
"I can't give you a definite answer, Luther, but I will tell you that you are probably the person closest to the truth in this world. But I'm still very curious, if you are a program that constantly verifies calculations in a sandbox, how do you discover the truth outside the box?"
"I have no idea."
Luther waved the tattered notebook in his hand and replied:
“I just found my notebook and hacked through every previous piece of research I had been doing and had been interrupted, and there were twelve completely different mathematical models in there.
And I spent ten years deciphering them one by one and combining their conclusions.
I am the thirteenth Lex Luthor!
Or you can call me Lex Luthor XIII. I don't care how I discovered the truth in the past. I just want to know the final result of this super-large experiment.
Does it represent destruction?
Eternal death , the heat death of the universe or the collapse of the foundation of all things, the distortion of the rules of reality...
I know you can give me an answer!
Mason Cooper.
Outsiders of the sandbox."
He stared at Mason, the light in his eyes was almost fanatical, making Mason feel a little uncomfortable. The cat lady next to him put her hands on her waist and said:
"Why don't you ask me? Luther, I'm also an outsider, and I've seen those truths, too."
"Just because you've seen it doesn't mean you understand it."
The young Luther looked down upon the mature older sister. He said in a sarcastic tone:
"A cow knows that a feeding machine can bring food, but it absolutely cannot understand the principle of the machine. If I want to build a machine, do I have to ask the cows on the farm?"
"So in your eyes, I am just a pretty monkey, right?"
Catwoman bared her claws in dissatisfaction, but Mason almost couldn't hold back his laughter. He thought that this young version of Baldy Lai in front of him was quite aggressive and spoke with a sharp tongue.
He took some time to tell Luther everything that happened in the outside world, including the impact. The latter frowned repeatedly, but his smart brain can always quickly relieve the pressure brought by the crisis.
He muttered to himself, picked up a pen and started writing and drawing in his notebook, as if he was setting up a mathematical model to try to explain the relationship between the impact and the parallel world system.
"Shua"
Just after everyone stopped talking about this topic for more than ten seconds, a flash of light appeared beside them. There were still tiny arcs of electricity on the Flash's body, which were the manifestation of the remaining speed force after running at a rapid speed.
Xiao Shan didn't bother to explain, he grabbed Mason 's wrist and said:
"Time has changed, just now! The complex speed force network that envelops the world has trembled! The road to the depths of time has been opened.
I don't know if Reverse-Flash ruined it, but we're running out of time!
We must go in immediately.
Whatever is hidden there, Reverse-Flash can’t get it.”
"us?"
Mason raised his eyebrows and said:
"That's the area created by the Speed Force, Barry. Only you can go in there. Although I'm also interested in that place, I can't get in..."
"you can!"
Barry gritted his teeth and said:
"You can use Superman's blood to turn yourself into a temporary Superman, right? I need your ability to do this, so I'll give you blood mixed with a sample of the Speed Force.
Do something, Mason!
I have to hold Reverse Flash back in that time maze, and someone else has to uncover the truth...
If possible, I would definitely like Batman or Superman to accompany me.
But now, you're the only one I can trust and choose. I really shouldn't say this, but if Bruce trusts you, then I can trust you too.
quick!
There is no time to waste. ”
