20demayo Chapter 608 You saved them not out of courage, but out of grace.
Chapter 608 You saved them not out of courage, but out of grace.
Chapter 608 You saved them not out of courage, but out of grace and compassion (He came back to life after sleeping for a day)
When Reverse-Flash Swann stopped, he saw Batman, dressed in black, sitting atop a street sign, his cape billowing in the morning light.
The morning light filtered through the air, sweeping past countless dark dust particles, casting dappled shadows on Batman's chiseled jawline, making him look like a dark elf who had strayed into the light.
Even Reverse-Flash Al Bernard Swann had to admit that Batman was extremely handsome, even more so than his father Thomas Wayne. Coupled with his muscular physique resembling that of an ancient Greek demigod, he possessed an even more divine appearance.
The streets were quiet. Just a moment ago it was afternoon, and Batman even shot and killed a little girl in the street before resurrecting her. But now the timeline had strangely returned to morning, with only a few people on the streets as the dawn broke.
Reverse-Flash saw the invisible Speed Force in the air dragging time along, like a dilapidated old truck struggling to move forward.
Both he and Batman were well aware that the timeline of this universe had begun to become disordered. This was just a small disruption caused by Batman restarting the timeline, resulting in time suddenly fast-forwarding to the morning of the next day. But these kinds of things are like cockroaches; once you discover one, you're likely to discover many more.
Reverse-Flash has never missed Time Ghost and Black Lightning as much as he does now. Although these two old friends always roar and desperately try to kill him, at least seeing them proved that the timeline still has the ability to heal itself, unlike now, where all that is left is despair.
Reverse-Flash appeared beside Batman. He sat down next to the GG card and asked, "I guess you're Bruce Wayne."
Then he denied it himself: "No, I think you are the savior."
"There has never been a savior, Swann." Then he heard Batman beside him say in a gentle voice, "We make our lives with our own hands."
"You are the savior," Reverse-Flash insisted. "For the sake of the Speed Force, please don't deny this identity, even if it's deceiving me."
Reverse Lightning was positioned very low, almost too low. This was very eerie.
Either he has ulterior motives, or he feels guilty, or there is a possibility that he has both.
Chen Tao neither confirmed nor denied it.
He listened as Reverse-Flash continued, "I believe you've understood the problem with this universe. I'm about to reboot the entire universe, at which point its condition will further deteriorate, potentially becoming uninhabitable. So I..."
But Chen Tao interrupted him.
Why reboot the universe?
"Don't you understand?" Reverse-Lightning said.
"This universe is going to be destroyed!"
Chen Tao turned to look at the quiet street. As they spoke, the city began to slowly awaken.
First, hurried pedestrians appeared, followed by a few occasional vehicles driving across the road.
Then more and more pedestrians appeared.
The owner of the taco shop on the street corner rode up to the shop on his motorcycle and pulled down the shutter. The customers who had lined up in advance rushed in to buy their breakfast for the day.
Birds chirped softly in the sunlight, the streetlights were dim, and the smell of cooking fires wafted onto my face—it all felt so real.
"Soon the war between the Atlanteans and the Amazons will end. The time is almost here, and I must restart the world before then," Reverse-Flash said. "I must hurry, or I will have no chance."
"Have you tried to stop the end of the world from happening?"
"Of course, I..."
"No, I mean this time, this time try to stop it?"
Reverse Flash fell silent. He remained silent for a moment, then spoke in a hoarse voice.
"I can't stop it at all. I've tried so many times. The only thing I can do is restart the universe. I have no other way. I have no choice."
Then he met Batman's gaze.
This inexplicably made him slightly annoyed.
What gives you the right to see me that way? What makes you think you can see me that way? Have you experienced everything I have experienced? Has your world ever experienced an unchangeable apocalypse? Have you ever tried your best only to helplessly know that the future is unchangeable?
I know what you're going to say, I know what you want to say. But what gives you the right to stand there so glamorous and casually tell me to try and save the world?
Have I never tried? Am I just a coward who won't even try? You're the only one who never gives up? And everyone else is just a mediocre person who gives up and gives up when things don't work out?
This is so difficult, this is so difficult.
His world is beyond saving.
Parallax Demon Hal Jordan is right; he has to do it.
That perfect world, if Hal can do it, everything will become perfect again.
As the bustling sounds, carried by the gentle breeze of dawn, caressed Alberdeswan's face, Reverse-Flash, the world's greatest hero, never before felt so acutely how illusory the world before him truly was.
"Haven't you tried to save your world this time?"
really.
Reverse-Flash felt utterly disgusted when he heard Batman say those words.
He ignored what Batman said.
"I have a plan," he said sullenly.
"Project Ark. Like Noah's Ark." He saw Batman adopt a listening expression and gesture for him to continue, which only fueled his disgust.
He felt a sting, he felt guilty, but these emotions were mixed with a trace of relief, and a little bit of malice mixed in.
Alberdeswan, who became the great hero Reverse-Flash, hadn't harmed anyone for many years, but he was still adept at it.
He was a villain before, so it's okay for him to go back to being a villain now, isn't it?
He has lived too long in the past; he builds his life around the past.
He has been through too much; no one can expect him to be truly righteous and awe-inspiring.
He still has a world to shoulder.
"When I realized that my world was doomed, I began to consciously prepare for a cosmic escape for all the people in my world."
When Reverse Flash said that the end of the world was inevitable, he deliberately emphasized that point.
"How did you do it?"
"I stole time from my universe."
Wow, you're Dr. Manhattan too?
"I used the Speed Force to capture some time. This is an advanced technique of the Speed Force. I have used this technique to perform moves that make people age by decades in an instant. But if I use this technique in a more macroscopic field, it will have a different effect."
Chen Tao nodded repeatedly as he listened, but for no apparent reason, he thought of two other villains in the DC universe who were skilled at manipulating time.
Parallax Morhal and his henchman, Mo Cun, once used a moment during "Zero Hour" to instantly age Wildcat and a group of heroes from the Justice Society by decades, thus stripping them of their fighting ability.
Chen Tao knew this was a somewhat crazy and unreasonable association, but that's what he thought anyway.
But he quickly refocused his attention on the present situation.
"If we drain the Speed Force from a region for a short period of time, all living beings within that Speed Force region will be trapped inside, like amber inside a gel, unable to move."
Reverse-Flash said, "And according to my plan, I can use the Speed Force to encompass the entire Earth through the time I stole."
"Once the timeline on Earth freezes, it will no longer obey any physical laws or rules of time. It can be safely taken away from this universe. As long as a new universe is found before the time I stole runs out, and a suitable orbit is found for our Earth, all of us Earthlings can start a completely new life."
Reverse-Flash said, "Of course there are no Atlanteans, nor Amazons from Paradise Island. I won't leave them to die in space. They will have a Jurassic-era Earth, where those superpowered lunatics can freely cause massacres and bloodshed until the end of the universe or time."
Reverse-Flash said, "But if I want to achieve my plan to escape the universe, our planet needs a powerful power source to carry our frozen Earth through the cosmos, and of all people, only you can do that. So I beg you, I implore you, great savior, I implore you..."
Chen Tao thought for a moment, and then he was about to speak, but at that moment, he suddenly felt a strange vibration coming from under his feet.
"What is this?"
He asked in a low voice.
The next moment, he suddenly turned his head and his extraordinary vision saw that on the distant horizon, the sea, which had been calm with the ebb and flow of the tide, suddenly began to rise high and form a towering wave in about 20 seconds.
The giant wave formed too quickly and in too short a time, far beyond what a normal tsunami could take, but then the sky-covering waves crashed down on the entire city.
One minute it's a leisurely workday, the next it's a spring tsunami sinking the city to the bottom of the sea. The transition between these two is so rapid that it creates a sense of unreality and illusion.
Never... never before have I felt the unreality of reality so strongly.
Chen Tao rushed forward immediately, transforming into a red blur as he sped along the coastline.
Ion sharks emerged behind him, becoming a green afterimage as he moved at high speed.
Endless nanobots erupted from Batman's body, and as Batman ran, a steel canopy rose up on the edge of the city.
Before anyone could react, the rain began to pour down. The drizzle turned into a torrential downpour in just a few seconds, mixed with the chilling breath exhaled by Chen Tao as he ran, using his high-speed bullet ability.
Reverse-Flash Elberdswan also ran to the shoreline, but he didn't help.
He stood there quietly, watching Batman struggle for a long time before finally turning the towering wave into an ice sculpture almost taller than the city itself on the edge of the city.
"Phew... It's not a big problem. The ice sculpture will melt slowly, and the water will be released back into the ocean little by little. It won't pose a risk to the city." Chen Tao appeared beside Reverse-Flash, muttering to himself, then turned around and looked at Reverse-Flash with a scrutinizing gaze.
"It's all meaningless," Reverse-Flash said.
"Time will always restart, the universe will always restart, and after the next cycle, all the dead will be resurrected, and they won't even remember that you once saved them."
"History is being rewritten, and this disaster could very well become something that never happened. Time keeps resetting, like the marks on the beach being constantly wiped away by the water, until only nothingness remains."
Reverse-Flash said, "You're just wasting your time."
"But at least those who were rescued will remember."
He heard Batman say that. He saw the survivors surrounding him. The ignorant masses didn't even understand who had saved them, but confused the two of them. They cheered around Batman and Reverse-Flash, and mothers held their children, crying, unable to tell whether it was relief or fear.
People laughed and cried, trying to calm themselves after the intense fear, counting the number of missing people, and finally discovering...
There were no casualties.
"But none of this mattered."
Reverse Flash shook his head. His disgust had reached its peak; those foolish worships could no longer stir any emotion in him.
He considered this world his possession, and now that possession was scarred with unsightly, irreparable marks. So, for Reverse-Flash, all he wanted was to smash this broken pot and create a perfect one, and only the perfect pot would belong to Reverse-Flash Alberdeswan himself.
"Let's go, I still need to tell you about my plan..."
"Have you ever bled, Swann?"
"What do you mean?"
"It's nothing."
Chen Tao has received Reverse Lightning's answer.
He pondered slowly.
Reverse-Flash Elberd has become completely accustomed to solving problems by restarting the world. He has completely lost empathy for life and ordinary people. Although he is still a mortal, his heart has risen above all living beings. He no longer sees life as a living being, but as an NPC that can be reset.
Theoretically speaking, Reverse-Flash never fails. If he fails, he can restart the world. He's used to this. When he finds that restarting the world doesn't solve the problem, he plans to create a new world and then use time restart to solve the problem.
But the problem is...
If you never fail, you'll always be able to travel through time to find the answers to your questions; if you never bleed, if you never let anything hurt you...
Then your courage is fake.
You saved those people not out of courage...
Rather, it is grace and mercy.
(End of this chapter)