Chapter 634: Hidden traitors
"Zero Hour" timeline.
The battle between Hal the Parallax Demon and the five-dimensional creature Emperor Joker spread throughout the universe.
Some of the strong superheroes present rushed forward to help Hal, while some weak characters hid to prevent themselves from being affected by the aftermath of the fight between the two sides.
But among those weak people who hid, there was a strange misfit.
His name is Mocun.
Mocun, a super villain. During the "Zero Hour" period, Hal the Parallax Demon created a crisis that almost restarted the entire DC universe, but in the early stages of the matter, he had been hiding behind Mocun and silently controlling the other party's actions.
Mocun was called Hal's ally, but in fact he was just his puppet and subordinate.
But even so, the relationship between Mocun and Hal cannot be simply estimated as superiors and subordinates. For Mocun, whether Hal the Parallax Demon loses or wins, it is not worth it for him to risk everything.
Therefore, it is natural that in such a high-intensity confrontation, he, Mocun, would naturally find a corner to hide and preserve his strength. There is nothing to blame morally, but...
"Crazy, Hal, this mad dog."
Mocun wiped a non-existent sweat and hid in a small alien space built by himself.
The flow of time here is different from that of the outside world. Rather than being a simple hiding base, it is better to say that it is an accelerated shuttle that jumps to the future faster on the timeline.
Mocun is also a villain who masters the power of time. He can do this easily.
But just when he was about to completely start and close this e-space, he suddenly found a blue face suddenly appeared at the edge of the white space.
A tall, muscular man holding a huge reverse pointed hammer suddenly invaded him. In the privately cast space, Mocun felt the danger at the first time, and he launched an attack on the other party.
In an instant, he accelerated the age of the sturdy man in front of him to several hundred years old. Under normal circumstances, this sturdy man should immediately turn from a strong man to an old man, the kind that can't even walk.
But the sturdy man just stiffened slightly, then shook a little, and then raised the hammer as if nothing had happened, and fell towards Mocun.
Mocun shook his body frantically, trying to escape the attack of the hammer, but the hammer seemed to be very slow, but it seemed to cover his entire body. After struggling with all his strength but no response, Mocun finally realized what he was facing.
He could only watch the heavy iron hammer wielded by the tall blue man getting bigger and bigger in his world.
And before being completely hit by the iron hammer, Mocun opened his mouth and asked the question he wanted to ask most at the moment.
"Who are you?"
But he didn't have the chance to hear the answer. The iron hammer that covered the sky like the sky fell down, like raising a fist and smashing ketchup.
Unable to dodge or escape, Mocun could only roar in despair:
"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!"
Poof!
With a slight sound, Mocun's head was hit by the hammer and sunk into his shoulder, forming a standard "righteousness" shape. His body fell to the ground with a plop. In his brain, which still retained a little consciousness, he heard the last words of the blue giant.
"I am the World Forger. Sorry..."
"I'll borrow your identity for a while."
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I am Albert Swan, the Reverse Flash. People often call me the Reverse Flash, but not now, never again. I am the Flash in my universe, the hero who saves the world.
When Batman, Bat-Mite, the Laughing Bat, and the Merciless Iron Fist who came to my universe to wreak havoc were fighting endlessly in the space forged by the fifth-dimensional divine power, I was running.
I crossed the jungle, ran over the hills, and ran through every place where the dawn of human civilization had shone.
I saved people one after another, on the eve of the end of the world.
I defeated the Amazons who were fleeing frantically in the war zone and the Atlanteans who were chasing them. After these Amazons learned the news that Paradise Island had been captured by the Merciless Iron Fist, they retreated in full force.
I saved countless civilians in the center of the battlefield.
I gathered the civilians on an abandoned train, then wrapped the train with the Speed Force in the center of the war zone, and then pulled the train back to the center of New York City.
But I knew that all this was meaningless. I could use the Speed Force to save lives at a speed that humans could not imagine, but even if I ran faster, I could not catch up with the pace of the world's destruction.
I knew clearly that the civilians I saved in front of me were meaningless. I stood in the middle of the crowd and was thanked by everyone.
I comforted them and told them that everything would be fine, telling lies over and over again that I did not believe myself.
Well, I guess this is not a lie. They will indeed be fine. They will experience the resurrection of time restart after death.
I was treated like a hero...
No, I am the hero. Well, after so long, I still can't forget the days when I was a villain. I always subconsciously think that I am a villain who stole the hero's treatment.
But it doesn't matter.
I have been treated like this hundreds of times, and I am always trapped in Groundhog Day where I can't move forward.
After several reincarnations, I gradually realized that my universe was incomplete. My universe was born with a disability, so this painful reincarnation would never end.
And if I want to truly turn the tide, I'm afraid I have to find another way.
In order to end this forced reincarnation, I took refuge in Hal, the Parallax Demon.
A demon king from the upper reaches of the hyper-time stream. He is a master at playing with time and is the most powerful time traveler I have ever seen.
He painted a blueprint for a perfect world to me. As long as he modifies history in the upstream of the super-time flow, my universe will no longer be incomplete at the beginning of its birth.
I no longer have to restart the universe over and over again to avoid a destructive future.
Of course, he told me that the Flash would be reborn, but he promised me that even if he resurrected the Flash in my universe, Barry Allen would only have a father and a mother, and he would live with his happy family for the rest of his life. Among all mediocre mortals, I, Reverse-Flash, am still the Flash who is admired by everyone, and that’s good.
When that day comes, I will make Barry Allen the conservator of my museum, responsible for promoting my greatness to everyone.
Jie Jie Jie Jie...
It's all perfect, at least in depiction. But there is only one thing that worries me.
I will never forget the answer Parallax Hal gave me when I asked him if he could save my universe from destruction in the present timeline.
"It's completely unnecessary." Parallax Magic Hal said: "When I restart the entire timeline of the hyper-time flow, all history since the arrival of zero hour will be reset. By then, all pain and sadness will be gone. exist, and everyone can experience all their perfect lives in the perfect reality I create.”
Reverse Flash shrugged his shoulders involuntarily.
There was a violent explosion, and the Atlantean soldier who was grabbed by his ankle did not hesitate to detonate the bomb on his body in an attempt to die with him, but the bomb only turned him into a flesh and blood firework.
His death was meaningless, even funny.
"Everything you are experiencing now is false, do you understand? A false world, a wrong world. As long as I restart the super-time flow, everyone we kill will be resurrected. Even the villains will get a perfect childhood, thereby ensuring that they do not turn to a criminal path.”
Reverse Flash Elbird thought.
"Perfect childhood", what does that mean? He couldn't imagine it. People cannot imagine things they have never experienced out of thin air.
"So what should I do in my world?"
Reverse-Flash asked Parallax Hal at that time.
What the other person said made him confused and panicked.
"Just forget about destroying your world. Anyway, I will be able to resurrect you then."
He remembered what Hal, the parallax magician, said to him:
"Why, are you a little scared? To be honest, Swan, you are also a person who often travels in time - you have never seen a mortal crying because of his family, even if you clearly informed him that he was restarting After entering the universe, will his family be resurrected? "
"The perspective of a time traveler is different from that of ordinary people. As a time traveler, I thought you could understand the connection."
Yes, Reverse Flash can. So he stopped raising questions.
Reverse-Flash accepted Parallax Hal's theory. Immediately afterwards, he worked for him wholeheartedly in order to exchange for the blessings that he and his universe could have in the new world created by Hal.
But according to Hal's theory, it makes no sense for him to save people now, as the reversible lightning is still saving people.
He was just relaxing, pretending to be busy, and reducing the time he spent thinking in order to reduce some emotions that he couldn't even explain.
But suddenly, Reverse Flash stopped.
Because he found that the battlefield he was on was quiet and there was no sound at all.
The Speed Force allows him to distort most of the laws of physics while running, so even when running at close to the speed of light, he can still hear or make sounds, and even speak clearly.
Therefore, it is impossible for him not to hear the sounds of the battlefield. It is so quiet now, which can only mean one thing:
Someone tried to attack him.
"Get out of here," Reverse-Flash said.
He was already looking forward to who it was.
The Laughing Bat or other subordinates of the Laughing Bat? The basic information given by Batman - are those other Bruces called killing machines or something else? I heard that among them there is Bruce the Red Death, who uses the Speed Force. Will his current opponent be this guy?
Reverse Flash wanted to fight, he had some emotions that needed to be vented. Preferably that speedster Bruce. In the past several reincarnations, he has killed the Wonder Queen Diana and the Ocean Overlord Arthur more than once, but each time he made the situation worse.
He really needs someone to fight with who is free from hidden dangers.
But there was no one around to respond to him.
"Where are you?"
Reverse-Flash shouted.
He climbed over a small hill not far away that was almost flattened by artillery shells, and passed over several corpses of American soldiers lying on the ground. Then he stood on the hillside, looking at the people below in surprise, as if they were frozen in amber. Atlantis and Amazon are at war.
"Time pauses," he said.
"Temporary." Then Reverse Flash heard a voice behind him. He turned around and saw a strange man with a red cape but a black mask appear behind him.
Reverse Flash recognized who the other person was.
"Mocun." He said, "When did you escape the confinement of the super time stream... before Hal?!"
Reverse Flash had met Hal the Parallax Demon several times through the super time stream before, and Mocun followed Hal as a follower, even though he himself possessed great power.
Reverse Flash never thought that one day Mocun would bypass the existence of Hal the Parallax Demon and come directly to talk to him.
He relaxed a little, and the fighting spirit that had just been ignited like a fighting cock disappeared. This was an ally of the alliance, not the one he needed to attack.
He put aside his hostility, and then said somewhat uninterestedly: "It seems that you have succeeded in coming down from the super time stream before Hal thanks to the cooperation between Hal and Batman Dragon. Congratulations. What do you want to talk to me about now? Is there anything I can help you with?"
As he said this, he turned slightly to the side: "If there is anything important, just get to the point. I still have many people to save."
Without waiting for the other party to say anything, Reverse Flash made up for himself: "I know it seems a bit silly to do these useless things before this world is completely trapped in the timeline restart, but I'm just playing, you know? I like doing that."
Conversation. So far, it has been quite casual and ordinary, but soon Reverse Flash suddenly heard Mocun say the first sentence that almost made him fall to the ground.
"Parallax Hal is lying to you."
"What do you mean?"
Reverse Flash turned his head suddenly.
Mocun has been working as Parallax Hal's subordinate for a longer time than him. If he has any information, it is very likely that Hal knows but is unwilling to tell him.
"Mocun" lowered his head slightly.
"Do you really think that the perfect world created by Parallax Demon Hal can succeed?"
Without waiting for Reverse Flash to say anything, Mocun continued to add: "Regardless of whether he can succeed or not, let's assume that his plan can succeed."
Reverse Flash felt that his blood was running cold. He knew that the other party might be lying to him, but his intuition told him that what the other party said was true.
And what the other party said was also the reason why he had been afraid for a long time.
Reverse Flash listened.
He knew that he had to listen...
You have to listen.
No matter how much you don't want to admit it, no matter how much you hope that what the other party said is false, no matter how much you hope...
That hope once really existed.
You took a deep breath.
You heard the other party say in a firm tone:
"Do you know that you are from a dark multiverse?"
"A projection world of the main world Flashpoint world, but you don't understand that in the perfect world created by Hal, there will be no imperfect things like the dark multiverse. Even the main universe "Flashpoint", which Hal thinks is not perfect, will be erased."
"If the Flashpoint event of the main universe disappears, how can you, as a reflection of the dark multiverse, exist? The shadow cannot appear on the ground independently."
"Yes, that's right. Those people in the main universe can still live happily after the Flashpoint event is erased, but what about your universe? Although your universe is a reflection, it has nothing to do with the main universe. Everything in your universe will not appear in the new universe created by Hal-because your universe is not a perfect world!"
You don't want to believe this.
"Your universe will become like it has never existed...completely disappeared in the multiverse, and become a complete timeline error."
You feel like falling into an ice cave.
You heard Mocun say to you:
"Hal lied to you. His plan will only make your universe disappear completely. So, can I understand this disappearance as..."
"Complete death?"