Chapter 109: The Beginning of the Reset
This night, Kewen met with the alien Drive, and also found the key point to crack the weirdness of Canterlot, but when the person standing behind the alien Drive, a person who even Kewen couldn't think of appeared in front of him, everything returned to the original point, and his memory was blocked. Simply shielded his memory with a power that Ke Wen didn't understand at all, and at the moment of confusion, the memory of Drive, the memory of being able to become an alien W, all disappeared.
Looking at Ke Wen, who was unconscious and fell to the ground, Drive, an alien transformed by the turtle man, also looked at the figure that appeared behind him, revealing a smug laugh.
"Tut-tut, it's you, and only you can control these two powers."
"You promised me that you wouldn't kill him."
"Yes, how could I have killed him, he just wanted to find the truth, and you have given him the truth, but he has forgotten. Don't worry, I'll give him a chance to reintegrate into Canterlot, and you, keep enjoying it, isn't the city exactly what you want it to be? ”
The figure standing behind the alien Drive did not respond, he had already left, and the alien Drive looked at Ke Wen, who had fainted on the ground, and picked it up at random, disappearing into the night. The night passed like this, whether it was the commotion in Iron Mountain Prison, or the contact between Cowen and Wally, or at the door of the Flash's house, this brief confrontation between Cowen and the alien Drive did not cause waves in Canterlot.
When the sun rose the next day, the citizens of Canterlot still went about their daily lives, greeting everyone they knew or didn't know with smiles, as if nothing had happened last night. Orderly, no thieves, no violations, no crimes, the police patrol daily is like watching the scenery on the street, and the citizens chat with each other and praise the Flash, who has not appeared for a long time.
While Curvin is being sanctioned by the alien Drive and another unknown mystery man, the story of the Justice League and the rest of the Teen Titans continues. With Curvin's activity in Naxinno City and Gotham City, such a big movement, even if the members of the Justice League were blocked by the Apocalypse Star for various reasons, coupled with Dr. Manhattan's memory modification with the alien knight seizing the power of the Curwen knight as the trigger point, this anomaly could not be concealed.
At least in Naxino City and Gotham City, Dick and the others, who had long sensed that something was wrong, and Batman had already taken action. Gotham, after the citizens of Gotham united for the first time to save the city, Batman's figure began to fade in the city, because at this time Gotham was still under the control of the city government and the army, and the citizens of Gotham, who had just experienced a nightmare, also cherished this hard-won peace.
In this city, which once had a high crime rate, the level of law and order has skyrocketed in the past month. Even without Batman's appearance, it's the same. Catch what should be caught, what should be closed, except for the bat searchlight that will still light up at night, maybe one day, this searchlight that illuminates the night in Gotham and guards the city will also be turned off, of course, it is more likely that it will be on all the time, as a city custom.
Like the Gotham Windmill Tower under construction, it is a symbol of someone being rescued from the abyss when the city is about to fall. And in Gotham City, Bruce Wayne, the richest man with the most reputation, disappeared from the media after taking over most of the construction plans in Gotham City, and with Dick, the two entered the bottom of the Gotham Windmill Tower, an underground vault under the foundation that had been laid.
And Dick, who was in the Gotham turmoil caused by the silent and clowns, reunited with Cowen and transformed into an alien W, also followed his old father, Bruce Wayne, and watched him lead him into this secret room that was arranged under the Gotham windmill tower at some point. Looking at the surrounding architectural traces, Dick's only certainty is that it was built much earlier than the Gotham Windmill Tower.
It can even be said that his father chose the location of the Gotham Windmill Tower here, and there is also an element of concealment in this underground secret room. Following in Bruce's footsteps, Dick took the elevator leading to the underground, and after nearly three minutes of ascending and lowering, he reached the bottom, and Bruce, who was the first to come out of the elevator, also turned on the lights of the underground secret room hidden under the Gotham windmill tower.
As the lights turned on, Dick also saw the true face of this secret room hidden underground.
"It's a bit too big for your other little room."
Standing there, Dick looked at the secret room hidden underground, and said that the secret room was a bit too general. But what Dick saw in front of his eyes, rows of instruments connected to the lines were lined up like this, almost as far as the eye could see, and at the end of these precision instruments was a huge reactor, of this scale, Dick had only seen one place, and that was the Star Lab in Canterlot, the device called the Particle Accelerator.
But Dick was sure that the thing in front of him was not a particle accelerator, but something bigger and more terrifying than that.
"I don't think this is a Gotham new energy project."
"No, it's a superphoton particle collider that cost me $2 billion."
Standing there, Bruce also succinctly introduced the price of his new toy to Dick, and the ease in his words felt like it cost 200 yuan instead of 2 billion.
"And what does it do?"
"Prevent an existence from interfering with the future, reality, or in the same way as the being interferes with the process of this reality, so that he is in a hurry."
Standing there, Bruce, who was himself a top intelligence, was also there to activate this backhand that he had already laid out, and with Bruce's debugging, this thing called the Superphoton Particle Collider began to operate. On either side of the giant reactor, the panels that had been prepared began to glow with electric light, illuminating the entire underground structure, but Dick still didn't understand what his father had brought him here for.
"Remember what I told you before, staying in Gotham won't help him, there's not much time this thing can buy, it can only affect that existence for a moment, or make him lose control of interfering with reality for a while, if you want to help him, you should leave now, go back, there is a bullet train to Naxino City waiting for you."
Controlling this huge reactor, Bruce also said there, at this moment, Dick also understood the purpose of Bruce bringing himself here, for Cowen's matter, Bruce has always been in mind, and this building is the weapon that Bruce used to deal with someone who caused all this to happen, Dick wanted to leave like this, but he couldn't rest assured that Bruce was here alone.
"Then it's okay for you to be here alone!"
"Don't worry about me, I'm Batman, hurry up, he'll be waiting for you to remember his name."
Without any more insistence, Dick also guided himself through the road guide given by Bruce to a bullet train with a vacuum track built in this building, and after entering the coordinates, the train took Dick through the Gotham underground, and in a few minutes, it left the confines of Gotham City. Bruce, on the other hand, sat there and watched the $2 billion superphoton particle collider in action.
Soon, fifty meters below the unbuilt Gotham Windmill Tower, the reactor, which had gathered a lot of resources from the Wayne Group, released a blue light. The dazzling light filled the entire underground, unnoticed by the people on the ground, and Bruce, who was sitting there at the beginning, did not know when he changed himself into a Batman uniform and took out a bloody smile medal from his universal belt.
"Is this the enemy you're talking about, Katsuyashi, I'm looking forward to my first encounter."
After that, under this dazzling light, Batman's figure also disappeared into this underground structure. This is his counterattack as the father of DC's plane against Manhattan, the quantum god, although under the influence of Dr. Manhattan, Batman and these people have modified their memories of Cowen, but Dr. Manhattan has only modified their memories of Cowen, but in this DC universe, there is not only Cowen, a Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider, who has passed by in all the universes with knights, has stolen a bunch of limelight from Cowen before.
also fought with Batman, the father of the plane, and it was also in that fight with the Gate Arrow that Batman also understood that the universe he was in had been disturbed and restarted. This universe that has been restarted, Batman can't change it, and for now, just because of Kewen's chaotic life, many story trajectories have long been different, at least for Batman, he cherishes his current life.
He saw the hope of Gotham's rise, saw that he would take off his bat cloak one day, and he didn't want Dr. Manhattan to restart the universe again for some reason, and then repeat a tragedy that happened to him. But for the strength of Dr. Manhattan, even the Moya can't explain it all, and people can't describe how powerful the all-knowing and all-powerful god is, so this is Batman's first tentative confrontation against Dr. Manhattan.
"I don't know how far you have to go, but this cycle of reincarnation, I will break it, and everything should end here."
Looking down at the bloody Smile Medal, Batman sat down in his Batcart, taking one last look at Gotham. Today's Gotham, for the time being, doesn't need Batman, then, he has to do something as a member of the Justice League, thinking like this, he started the Batcar and left Gotham.
Similarly, while Curvin was in the midst of the crisis brought about by Canterlot, those involved in the Darkseid Godhead Project were also doing their own thing. Philadelphia, because of the exposure of his real age, the superhero who almost made the Justice League charged with child labor, the city of Thunder Shazam, although the real age of Thunder Shazam is now eighteen years old, but the elders of the Zhenglian still threw it into the organization of the Young Titans as a reserve.
Coupled with the concealment of the members of the Zhenglian during this time, there are not too many major events on the earth, as an eighteen-year-old high school student who is troubled between heaven and childhood, Billy Batson, is also painful and happy in his own city. He has the power of the six gods, and he was also selected by the new god of the Apocalypse Star as one of the test subjects of the Darkseid Godhead Corrosion Project, and the new god of the Apocalypse Star naturally did not let him go, but compared to the weirdness of Naxino City, Gotham City and Canterlot, Shazam's side is much simpler.
On a sunny morning, a thunderbolt fell, and when the citizens of Philadelphia looked up at the sky, they saw the boyish Thunder Shazam fighting a strange man. This strange man, dressed in red armor, red skirt, and wearing a gemstone mask, silver iron rings outlined on the mask, although the aura is a little terrifying, as for the appearance, after watching Shazam's battles with this self-proclaimed wizard (Wizard) so many times, the citizens of Philadelphia also have to praise it, the appearance is so handsome.
Shazam's battle with the wizard didn't cause much damage to Philadelphia either, perhaps because of magic, and they controlled their battle in a magical barrier. Although there was a lot of movement, to the citizens of Philadelphia, it looked like two magicians performing a big magic show. Such a scene, even the new god of the Apocalypse Star who is ghosting behind his back, did not expect it, compared to the previous two alien knights who made movements, the scene and pattern of this alien Wizard are a bit small.
"What the is going on, the right person you chose, that's it?!"
In the shadows, the new god Steppenwolf and Dissad, who were transferred from New York, also questioned the new god Kand, who was in charge of Philadelphia and the Thunder Shazam Godhead Corruption Plan. Looking at Shazam and the alien Wizard who were trash-talking and taunting each other in the magical space, Steppenwolf and Disard had a sense of immediacy, this thing was really going to be eroded by Darkseid's godhead, and according to this performance, it didn't seem to be able to make much of a storm.
"I'm also confused about this."
For his companion's questioning, the new god of the Apocalypse, Kander, was also a little embarrassed. How could he have thought that the qualified person he chose, the one named Dr. Thaddeus Sivana, was so unpursued, and in the information he knew, this Thaddeus Sivana had participated in the assessment of the power of the six gods when he was a child, but because of his impure mind, he was expelled by the wizard with the power of the six gods, and after that, this Dr. Sivana tried his best to return to the wizard's eternal council hall.
Even if he can't get the sorcerer's approval, he will have another power that is not inferior to the power of the wizard's six gods, the demon of the seven deadly sins that has been suppressed in the temple of the Eternal Council. It was because of this investigation that Kander chose him as a qualified person for the power of the Wizard and gave him the power to control magic, but the subsequent plot was out of Kande's control.
This Dr. Sivana came to the temple where Thunder Shazam inherited the power of the six gods, unleashed the demon of the seven deadly sins, and lodged it on himself. With the power of the Seven Deadly Sins Demon, coupled with the power of the Wizard given by Kander through the mother box, this Dr. Sivana has the capital to fight against Kande, so he began to go his own way and go directly to Thunder Shazam's trouble, in order to take away the power of the six gods from Thunder Shazam.
If it's still the boyish Thunder Shazam from the original, then Dr. Sivana succeeded. It's a pity that this is a new 52 universe that has become plausible with the participation of Kewen, and Black Adam, who was supposed to be an enemy and friend in Thunder Shazam's career, was transformed into a mentor of Thunder Shazam under the flickering of Kewen, with the power of the six gods of Egypt and full of combat experience, under his teaching, Thunder Shazam is no longer what he used to be.
In the past, Shazam would only use transformation as a big move to fight the enemy, shouting 'Shazam' when he didn't agree with him, and at the same time retreating from the enemy with the help of thunder and lightning, he could also escape in the form of a child. But Billy is eighteen years old, and his development is almost over, and there is not much difference between his appearance after transformation and his appearance before transformation.
Under the crazy training of Black Adam, he has learned how to use the power of the six gods in his body, except for the wisdom of Solomon, this point is still unsolved. But it was enough, and Billy's skill in wielding the power of the six gods continued to mature in his confrontation with Sivana, an alien Wizard, as evidenced by unleashing a magical enchantment as a arena.
But that's not what Steppenwolf wants to see, and if the Wizard can't cause real trouble to Thunder Shazam, then it means that there will be a problem with the Corrosion Plan, and God knows what kind of punishment he will be punished at that time. But as extraterrestrial invaders, once they appear on Earth so openly and brightly, then everything they have arranged before will be in vain, and now the members of the Justice League are held back by them because they don't know who their opponents are.
Once exposed, then the Justice League will have a big rally, and they will have to climb back to the Apocalypse. What is happening in Philadelphia now, Steppenwolf is also in their eyes and anxious in their hearts.
However, turning points always come at such critical moments, and Steppenwolf and the others, who were thinking about how to help Kander break the game, also felt the strange fluctuations coming from the city of Philadelphia at this moment, and soon, they locked down the source of the strange fluctuations, and among the citizens who stopped on the streets to watch Shazam fight with the alien Wizard, three familiar faces appeared in front of them.
"Looks like their return is still somewhat useful."
"Who? Oh, it's them, the defeated men. ”
The new god Dissad, who was hiding in the shadows and watching all this, also noticed Steppenwolf's gaze, only to see that in the crowd, the three gods of Zeus, who had made a three-month covenant with Curwen in the Hell Dimension, were also standing there, looking up at Shazam's battle with the alien Wizard.
"Why are we here, Zeus." Behind him, Hades asked, too.
"I'm just looking at the heir chosen by the wizard, who has taken some of his divine power from me to punish evil. But he forgot that what I gave could naturally be taken back, and that I gave this part of the power to let the owner of the power walk in the world instead of me, so that the world would still remember God's authority, but it seems that this guy seems to have forgotten. ”
"And you're going to take it back now?"
"No, let this power stay with him for a while, I have to let him know who this power is for, and only by letting him feel the preciousness of this power can we control him. Besides, there is also the smell of rats here."
With these words, Zeus glanced back at the location of Steppenwolf, and at his level, how could he not notice that someone was watching him. It's just that when he looked away, Steppenwolf and his party were long gone, and Zeus was not annoyed, and disappeared into the crowd with Poseidon and Hades.
It wasn't until Zeus and the others left that Steppenwolf and the others reappeared, looking at the location where Zeus disappeared, Steppenwolf also appeared in his hand The mother box engraved with Kewen's ten knight symbols also appeared. On this, Faiz, W, Hibiki, Wizard, Dragoon, Kabuto, Drive, Ghost, Ex-Aid, these nine knight symbols have been lit up, only the Decade symbol has not been lit up.
"Let's go, let's go find the last qualified person for that Kamen Rider, this Shazam, and when we find the qualified one, we'll solve it."
"Do you have a goal?"
"Don't worry, the mother box will guide us, and the place where the mother box guides us at this time is the metropolis, the mother box, take us over."
As he spoke, the mother box floating in Steppenwolf's hand shone brightly, and the burst channel opened, and he took Steppenwolf and his party from Philadelphia to Metropolis.
At the same time, in the face of the alien Drive and the mysterious man attack of the turtle people, Ke Wen, who was blocked from the memories of W and Drive, also woke up from the coma again. It's still the familiar sound of knocking on the car window, it's still the familiar police greeting, and the scene where Cowen regains consciousness is still on the streets of Canterlot, but this time, he has to start all over again.
"Ah, damn it, why did I fall asleep again, and the greeting just now, how do I feel like I've been through it all over again."
Holding his forehead, which was still a little groggy, Ke Wen looked at the citizens of the central city who were smiling and greeting each other on the street at this time, and the first time he experienced it before, the strange feeling of harmony began to disappear from Ke Wen's feelings. It's as if Kewen has begun to get used to the behavior of everyone in Central City at this time, and everyone is facing everyone with a smile.
"Hey, this is really weird, it's not the first time I've been to Canterlot, are the people here so sunny, no, what time is it today?"
Bowing his head, Kewen took out his mobile phone and looked at the days above, and understood why he was in this situation, this is the second week he has entered Canterlot, and this second week has been cut off in his mind, only his own Zetrand and the Drive transformation drive are still by his side, but Kewen still does not remember this memory.
"Okay, I've already been hit unconsciously, so let's start, second round!"
Opening the door, Curvin got off the Settron again, looked at the eerie Canterlot, and began a new round of investigation.