Volume 7: Da Mu Da Mu Chapter 58 Hey, you, the Devourer, are so noble that it’s abnormal!
After the whole world was shut down for nearly 72 hours due to the war, it gradually returned to normal.
This inevitably involves the liquidation of the surrenderists, but Mason doesn't care about that.
During this process, he even went against his usual practice and temporarily put aside his thoughts on future plans and those never-ending contingency plans, and instead helped the injured recover in Dr. Leslie's clinic.
This battle not only shocked the world, but also made Mason more deeply aware of the impact of chaos.
The sight of seven cities being reduced to ashes in the blue plume of neutron annihilation came back to the captain in his midnight dreams, giving him a deeper understanding of the cause he had been promoting.
He didn't want to see the same thing happen again.
At noon on the third day after the war, in the observation ward of Leslie Clinic, Mason in a white coat handed a sealed box of medicine to Oliver Queen, a handsome man in casual clothes.
The latter came to pick up his girlfriend and take her home.
The Black Canary Dana, who was supported by him, still had gauze on her face. Those were the scars left after she was kidnapped by the Skrulls and parasitized by the big star Starro.
This injury should have been difficult to treat, but Mason used alchemy to help her restore her appearance, which is very important for a heroine.
"After you go back, take good care of your wounds. Remember to continue using the beauty potion for at least half a month so that the scars can completely disappear."
Mason looked at the middle-aged uncle and old lady in front of him, who had a similar relationship with the old man and Catwoman, and he said:
"I understand that you two have just experienced a life-and-death separation, but for the next three days, try not to engage in strenuous activities."
“We are not young people who know nothing!”
Green Arrow felt that Mason was being long-winded and had some hidden meaning.
But he was too embarrassed to lose his temper, so he could only thank Mason in a very stiff way. If it weren't for this young man who he once regarded as a dangerous person, he and Dana would probably be separated forever.
Black Canary kept thanking him, and was put into a luxury car and driven away by her rich and handsome boyfriend.
"That's the last superhero patient. The rest are just ordinary people. We can handle it."
Dr. Leslie's voice came from the door of the clinic. Mason looked back and saw Dr. Lalis, who was in her fifties but looked as well-maintained as a young woman in her thirties, standing at the door with a slightly tired look.
She held the coffee in her left hand and put her right hand in her pocket. She looked at Mason with a gentle smile that only elders have. The emotion in her eyes was as if she was looking at a junior who had finally succeeded.
"I heard you did a lot of great things after you left here."
The doctor who had taken Mason in smiled and said:
"This time the whole world owes you a favor, Mason."
"I'm more curious about where you heard about what I did after I left. As far as I know, I rarely move around in this world."
Mason pushed the frame of his glasses on his nose, squinted his eyes and teased the doctor.
The way they get along is similar to before, and Mason has great respect for the old lady who taught him how to treat wounds and suturing techniques.
However, this hint still made the smile on Dr. Leslie's face disappear in an instant, and she said with a stern face:
"Of course it's from your adoptive father! Every time Gordon has dinner with me, he always talks about what you and Barbara did as if it were a work report, even though I have no interest in it at all.
Tsk, that old man is really hopeless."
"Don't say that, doctor. Gordon saved a lot of people this time."
Mason shook his head, took off his white coat, folded it, handed it to Dr. Leslie, and said:
"The reputation of Sheriff Xia is spreading throughout the city. He will have a dual identity in the future. Your reunion with him is bound to encounter many twists and turns.
Maybe he will introduce you to us as hostess of Gordon House the next time Barbara and I go home for dinner."
"The stinky kid just can't talk. Who wants to be the mistress of that shabby house?"
Dr. Leslie blushed, turned his head, and said in a rather proud tone.
But when she turned around, Mason was no longer by her side. It was just like the twist in the story of those legendary superheroes, where she just turned around, and the old man who was by her side just now disappeared like a ghost.
"It's so hard to learn good things, but it's so easy to learn bad things!"
The old lady, who had been busy for several days in a row, stretched her body and planned to leave work early, so she dialed a number and said that she wanted to eat home-cooked meals tonight. So Sheriff Xia had to leave early, which was unusual for her, and go home to prepare a candlelight dinner.
In the alley across the street, Zha Kang, who was smoking a cigarette, said unhappily to Mason who was reshaping the water body beside him:
"You can play this Batman disappearing game with your future legal adoptive mother all you want, but why did you have to call me over? Do you know I'm busy?"
"I know. I can tell."
Mason glanced at the red strawberries on Zha Kang's neck and said:
"Is it disturbing your and Xiao Zha's good time?"
"Tsk, I wish. Xiao Zha is in seclusion studying magic. He was just renewing his relationship with Xiao Shuijing. I was just about to start the second round when you called me over, you bastard!"
The male wizard threw the cigarette butt at the corner of his mouth to the ground and stomped on it, cursing:
"You can't bear to see others doing well when your good fortune is interrupted, right?"
"What are you talking about?"
Mason said in surprise:
"Harley and I are fine."
"I know you and Harley are good friends, but I'm not talking about Harley."
Zha Kang rubbed his hands and said in a mean way:
"It's Lady Ciri. There's a rumor that a seemingly innocent bastard almost raped his infatuated female boss in the ward, even taking off her pants.
You are so good, Mason. I can't believe you like this trick. Do you want me to give you some advice? "
"Who spread this news? Shiri and I are innocent!"
Mason yelled angrily, but then he remembered that the witness that night was the swordsman who was always unreliable, so he covered his eyes with his hands in pain.
What he was worried about was not the rumors, but the difficulty in explaining to Harry.
"Send me to Rome."
Mason said this with a tired look. Zha Kang was stunned for a moment and then reacted. He glanced at Mason's expression and reached out to open a portal leading to Rome.
When the captain stepped in, Zha Kang, who had relit a cigarette, patted him on the shoulder from behind and whispered:
"It's not your fault. Don't add more pressure to yourself. This is war. Casualties are inevitable."
"I know. I've convinced myself."
Mason said without turning his head:
"I just want to check in there before I leave and inform everyone that there will be a meeting at Osborne Tower in three hours. Everyone must be present to discuss the plans and policies for the next stage."
"Fuck, I was just trying to comfort you, but you turned around and threw a meeting notice at me. You have no conscience!"
Zha Kang cursed.
Mason looked back at him from inside the portal and said:
"Three hours isn't enough for you to complete a friendly fire?"
"Of course not!"
Constantine counted on his fingers:
"Little Crystal still has one payment left, and Collipso owes me three payments. My little pet Emilia is in the manic phase of her blood thirst syndrome, and I'm planning to take this opportunity to flirt with Storm Girl...
How about giving me eight hours?"
"The lightning that struck Xiao Zha was really light."
Mason complained, turned around, and disappeared into the rotating light curtain amid Zha Kang's obscene laughter. The next moment, he crossed the Atlantic Ocean and arrived outside the city of Rome in Europe.
The city in front of us is still in ruins.
Hei Qiyi is not a volunteer repairman, so it is impossible for him to repair all the damage caused by wars around the world. Besides, the location of Rome is special.
This city was one of the seven cities destroyed by the warlock's neutron annihilation. Compared with the loss of city buildings, the lives that disappeared in the particle beam were the most terrible casualties in this dead place.
The residual radiation from the neutron killing is still there, and no one can get close to the ruins, so someone erected a monument outside the city, and the bottom is filled with flowers for mourning.
Mason stood in front of a monument fashioned from the wreckage of a crashed Pioneer spacecraft.
He reached into his bag, took out a bunch of white flowers and placed them on it, then closed his eyes and remained silent for a moment.
He didn't know what to say, but the dead lives in front of him seemed to be still looking at him in the air. The heavy pressure made Mason's spine bend a little.
"Are you being hypocritical? Or do you want to use this method to express your joy for victory and fear for failure?"
A strong woman's voice sounded behind Mason.
He didn't look back. Ten seconds later, another bouquet of flowers was placed under the monument. It was placed by a black woman in formal clothes.
She looked majestic in her sunglasses, and the logo of the Sky Eye Society on her chest represented her identity.
Amanda Waller, head of the secret forces of the Sky Eye Society.
Of course, the real Waller had died in a plane crash ten minutes before the neutron annihilation arrived in Washington, and the one who appeared next to Mason was just a pretender.
"Don't talk to me with this appearance, Brother A."
Without opening his eyes, Mason whispered:
"It makes me feel like I'm talking to the dead. Besides, I think you should hurry up. The survivors of the whole world are very angry with you, the instigators of the war.
Once they know there is a remnant of the Stars hiding here, the wrath of the whole world will follow."
"Anger without strength is just a sign of incompetence, so I am not afraid of your revenge. This is your victory, not this world's.
They are still weak.”
The "Devour" beside him began to tremble throughout his body as he spoke, and in an instant he turned back into the gloomy appearance of Alex Mercer, a thin young man with a black hood.
He put his hands in his pockets, stood with Mason in front of the war memorial, and said:
"Did you bring the Red of All Things? And my real body."
“It’s all here.”
Mason patted his bag, opened his eyes, glanced at the person next to him, and said:
"But if you want me to give them to you, you have to at least give me a reason, right?"
“That’s not something that makes people feel comfortable.”
Brother A said in a stiff tone:
"Why don't we just stop wasting time pretending we're all friends and play these games about sharing the past. You hand over the stuff to me, and I promise I won't appear in your sphere of influence in the future."
"Why? Are you in a hurry?"
Mason said jokingly, clicking on his watch.
A dozen seconds later, Wonder Woman's invisible fighter roared in from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea and hovered in the sky nearby.
The classic-dressed Wonder Woman and the shrunken version of the War Queen in black armor jumped out of the invisible fighter one after another, with Diana holding a big struggling bag in her hand.
The two landed not far away, blocking Brother A's escape route from two directions, but Swallow didn't care about it. The A-level personnel said in a relaxed tone:
“Killing this biological clone won’t cause me any loss, but once the Blacklight virus breaks out on a large scale, the world you just recaptured will instantly fall into another round of chaos.
Mason, you wouldn't gamble on something like that, would you?"
"I don't know how to do that."
Mason stared at the monument in front of him and said softly:
"But my friends are probably not as rational as I am. You see, you are asking me to give you two very dangerous things, and I think it is necessary for me to know what you will do with them.
Isn't that a reasonable request? I don't understand what you are resisting.
Go ahead, we still have three hours."
Alex Mercer fell silent. After several minutes of confrontation, he sighed, reached out and pulled down the hood on his head, completely covering his eyes, and then spoke:
"I am the Blacklight Virus Aggregate. The real Alex Mercer died a long time ago . I just chose this name as my code name, just like the Batman in your world.
So to be precise, 'I' is not a biological concept. I am more like a combination of virus and biological consciousness, a monster that I don't know how to classify. "
"Tell me something I don't know."
Mason pointed to the time on his wrist. Brother A was unmoved. He explained briefly:
"I devour all life on my world, humans, animals, and even microbes, but it is not out of malice or madness.
That's just a sign that a plan has been successfully completed.
Mason, we pioneers have seen many, many worlds trying to save themselves in the apocalypse, and most of them died quietly.
Only a small number of people have enough time and luck to complete their world-saving plans, and even fewer than one in a thousand can make it to the end as planned.
Fortunately, I made it to the end, which was the final swan song of the C-level world.
They created me in the laboratory, and they hesitated whether to use me until the moment of impact, when they realized they could no longer hesitate. So I was scattered all over the world, devouring and preserving the world's life within 18 hours.
My world is dead.
In the shadow of doomsday, I survived and joined the Star Society under the name of 'Devour'. "
Brother A told the story of his birth with an expressionless face. His tone was so calm that it seemed as if he was telling the tragic past of other people, without any emotional fluctuations.
As dark clouds covered the sky overhead, he continued:
"The civilization that created me didn't have the technology advanced enough to protect the entire world, so they took a desperate step and adopted a plan called the 'World Completion Plan'.
I was created as an 'Agent' at the cost of the mass extinction of the world's life signals.
The body you took away is the 'world gene bank' that I must keep safe.
All life characteristics of the entire world are engraved into the genetic information of the bones in the form of biological programming. They set up a very complex program to ensure that I can complete the world's revival at some point in the future. "
"World recovery?"
Mason narrowed his eyes, looked at Brother A, and said:
"The Black Light Virus cannot accomplish the task of resurrecting the things it devoured, so you set your sights on the Red of All Living Things? Do you think that power can help you?"
"That's Wesker's research."
Brother A no longer concealed it at this time, he explained:
"In exchange for helping to analyze the perfect blacklight virus sample, Wesker helped me complete the second half of the plan. He claimed that I needed to undergo a 'seeding of the source of life' to complete the world's recovery, and the price was the collapse and extinction of my existence.
I gladly accept that.”
He paused, stretched out his hand, and let the pale sunlight shine on his palm.
I could feel the light in my hand but I couldn't feel any warmth.
As Mason watched, he closed his eyes and whispered:
“This era is terrible, and the next era may not be much better, but no matter how the future develops, I am sure there will not be a world that can accommodate a monster like me.
Rather than living a miserable life, I would rather complete the mission given to me as a tool and exchange my demise for the rebirth of my hometown.
That is the path I have chosen for myself, and that will be the fate of Alex Mercer.
This is my story, are you satisfied?
