redvbooks Chapter 725 The Foolish Owl's Superman Resurrection Plan
Chapter 725 The Foolish Owl's Superman Resurrection Plan
Chapter 725 The Foolish Owl's Superman Resurrection Plan
I am……
What am I again?
This is a question that requires no thought for anyone. From the moment they are born, they define themselves; they are given a name, and then they construct themselves based on it. This is usually a very lengthy process.
But I am different; I was created suddenly. My existence precedes my definition.
I am a foolish owl, or so I will call myself for now.
After his mental breakdown, Night Owl voluntarily relinquished this body, willingly becoming my alternate personality and refusing to fulfill the definition of his own existence. Thus, I was born.
I inherited his body and all his wisdom and courage, and therefore I must bear the responsibility—
The fate they set for me.
When Fool's Owl made his decision, both Night Owl and Joker vanished from the screen.
He stood up, took off his mask, and revealed a smile that was completely different from that of Night Owl or the Joker, revealing the handsome face that belonged to Thomas Wayne.
"For a glorious mission."
"Foolish Owl said."
The next moment, a portal opened in front of him, and what appeared before Foolish Owl's eyes was a strange man wearing a green hood, holding a crescent-shaped scepter, as if a crescent moon had been embedded in an iron rod.
"Oates," the Foolish Owl called out the name of his new collaborator.
"What I asked you to do before is no longer necessary," the Foolish Owl heard the mysterious man named Oz say to him. "Stop worrying about the troublemaker and let him stay inside the Emperor Joker until he dies. All previous plans are immediately terminated. We have a more serious problem now."
Although he tried his best to appear calm, his deep voice still betrayed how uneasy he was.
"No rush, please have a seat." Yu Xiao's tone was calm. He gestured for him to sit down and walked to the smooth wall next to the spaceship with an indescribable elegance.
He knocked on the wall, and a hidden cabinet appeared. He took out a glass of red wine and poured one for the mysterious visitor named Oates.
An oval-shaped intelligent robot floated in and used nanobots to construct a bar for him. He placed his cup on it, then crossed his legs and sat down in the chair that appeared out of thin air.
This pose looks very clownish.
But this mysterious visitor named Oates clearly had no interest in appreciating any of this.
"No need for drinks, our plans need adjusting. Superman from the main universe has been kidnapped, we need to rescue him..."
But he was interrupted halfway through his sentence by the foolish owl.
"It's simply impossible. At first, you only asked me to kidnap Superman, his son Jonathan, and his wife Lois. That was easy enough; I could bring him to you for the sake of our deal, after all, you've helped me a lot. But now—"
"The simplest question," said Foolish Owl. "Do you know who kidnapped Superman from the main universe?"
"I could try to track him down and then rescue him," Oates said.
The Foolish Owl remained noncommittal: "Alright, since you say so, let's change the subject. How should I address you? Oates, or—"
He put down his wine glass.
"Joel?"
(Note: Jor-El, Superman's Kryptonian father, during his rebirth, in Action Comics Volume 987, Jor-El was taken away by Dr. Manhattan before Krypton's destruction. He was manipulated and brainwashed by Dr. Manhattan, which triggered the Oates Effect.)
Previously, in Volume 976's "Rebirth of Superman" event, he used the troublemaker to cause the fusion of P Super and N Super. However, neither of these events occurred in this book.
At the end of the Oates Effect, after Dr. Manhattan had used Superman's father, he threw him back to the moment before Krypton's destruction—a somewhat hellish joke.
Oates, or rather Joe El, took two steps back. He never imagined that he, who had been manipulating the main universe from behind the scenes, would be so abruptly exposed here.
The other party's tone was so certain that he knew there was no point in denying it at this point, and besides...
Even if we knew, what could we do?
"It seems you've really gone to great lengths since our last meeting."
He walked fearlessly to the other side of the bar and confronted the foolish owl standing opposite him.
He said, "But if you think..."
But before he could finish speaking, countless metal chains suddenly emerged from the bar in front of him and bound him tightly.
The foolish owl suddenly fell backward, tumbling and leaping away. Immediately afterward, the oval-shaped intelligent robot standing next to him transformed in front of Jorel into a Batman with a pointed head. The bar in front of him also quickly transformed into a large number of nanobots. These nanobots formed a humanoid shape, which was none other than the image of the butler Alfred.
"What can I do for you?"
More metal tentacles sprouted from the mechanical Alfred, which was made of nanobots, binding Joel tightly.
His hood fell down, revealing Joel's half-disfigured face and the green light shining from one of his eyes.
"You didn't think—ah!!!"
He let out a scream as the kryptonite energy beam that was about to shoot from his eye was burned by the red solar rays emitted by the nano-Alfred in front of him. He took a deep breath, but before he could exhale, a metal tentacle pierced his throat all the way to his stomach.
With a clang, his moon scepter fell to the ground. Foolish Owl took three steps at a time, picked up the scepter, and quickly retreated, hiding behind the bunker that had risen from the floor of the room.
He had thoroughly investigated all of Joel's methods and abilities and prepared countermeasures. It was an elaborate trap, and his enemies were completely unprepared for this betrayal, even lagging far behind him in intelligence.
Therefore, despite possessing the energy granted to him by Dr. Manhattan, the powerful physique of a Kryptonian, and even the ability to manipulate Kryptonite energy, Jor-El was still subdued by Foolish Owl in a single encounter, completely losing his last bit of power to resist.
puff!
With the injection of the superpower suppressant, Jorel was completely weakened and powerless.
"Well done, killing machine."
The Foolish Owl emerged from behind the bunker, holding the Moon Scepter, and stood before Jorel, looking down at him.
And appearing beside him was none other than the Killing Machine, one of the Dark Knights.
But at this moment, as a machine, he seemed to have completely lost his self-awareness.
After being captured by the Foolish Owl, he infected him with a virus, then formatted his brain, customized and reinstalled a system for him.
During this time, he accidentally bricked the killing machine several times, but fortunately, he was able to save it by shorting the hardware. After replacing the parts twice, he finally succeeded in driving the weapon with his own custom system.
Aside from the fact that the nanomachines Alfred created constantly repeat "What can I do for you?", which is a hardware problem, the killing machine has become a very useful tool, obeying the control of the foolish owl.
He had just disguised his opponent as an oval-shaped intelligent robot, then used nano-Alfred to construct a bar to launch a sneak attack, and then used his own movements to attract the opponent's attention. Under the combined effect of this entire series of attacks—
"You are now my trophy."
"Foolish Owl said."
"But interestingly, I don't intend to interrogate you."
As he spoke, he picked up the Moon Scepter.
A small group of nanobots crawled up from the floor and helped form a base, allowing the scepter to stand beside Jorel.
"We need to talk. Someone unknown... what should I call you? Unknown evil? What do you think of that name?"
The moon scepter glowed faintly with a blue light, its light flickering uncertainly.
"What are you talking about?" Joel looked at the scepter, then at the Fool of the World.
His brain, which had been brainwashed by Dr. Manhattan, seemed to realize something at this moment, but he couldn't believe it.
He inexplicably started to get irritable: "Who are you talking to? What are you saying?"
"Let me tell you what I want first... You possess the life essence of New 52 Superman and New 52 Louis, and I want that thing."
"Foolish Owl said."
There was no response; the moon scepter was as if it were dead, like a truly inanimate object.
"Ha, are you talking to thin air?" Joel was still cursing or expressing his doubts, but the Fool remained unmoved, staring intently at the scepter.
"The Sandman revealed your existence to me... Whoever you are, your purpose has been discovered by me."
The foolish owl pondered silently.
"So even if you are a god—"
"I can definitely manipulate your actions too!!!"
Beyond the super-time stream.
Dr. Manhattan took in the scene before him, watching with great interest this madman who believed in his existence and was so audacious as to capture his messenger alive.
He did indeed seize the life essence of both New 52 Superman and Louis. After New 52 Superman died, New 52 Louis also died. This was due to the effects of the self-healing behavior of the time flow. It is impossible for two Louises to exist in one universe.
The bodies of the New 52 Superman and Louise are destroyed, and their souls return to the embrace of Lady Death, but their essential life essence remains.
These things carry their past history, all the traces they left in the multiverse, just like the essence of the mortal Möbius.
As long as their essential nature remains in the DC multiverse, their traces will not disappear.
Originally, Dr. Manhattan planned to use Superman's father, Jor-El, to manipulate the Mischief Maker, and then use the Mischief Maker to merge the essence of these N Supers with P Supers, artificially creating a complete Superman for himself.
After witnessing the grand spectacle of Superman's inevitable existence, he needed a complete Superman to conduct subsequent experiments.
After merging P-Super and N-Super, he was not only able to observe how the core of the universe was re-fused, but also able to use the complete Superman to further deconstruct the entire multiverse.
However, the experiment was interrupted midway. Ever since Batman Dragon caused that disaster, a series of events have followed one after another. Now, even P-Super is gone, so there's no way to talk about fusing the essence of N-Super with him.
But this does not mean that the essence of N-superpowers is useless to him.
This kind of thing could only be created by a superhuman; even Dr. Manhattan couldn't replicate it. So why would the Foolish Owl demand it from him?
"Our multiverse has lost a Superman. The only way to save the multiverse now is to create another Superman. And in the entire multiverse, the only one who can be Superman is Clark from N52, because he is an ideal Superman who represents hope."
"No Superman from any parallel universe can replace him, because none of them can bring hope. Or to be more specific—"
"Don't you want to see if P52 Superman can be resurrected? Don't you want to know where P52 Superman will be after he's resurrected?" the fool said.
"Don't you want to try this possibility? Have you ever considered that my demand for its essence from you is actually part of the entire multiverse's process of self-salvation?"
He asked a series of questions, which made Dr. Manhattan fall into deep thought.
He tried to manipulate the timeline to see the future, but then realized that the timeline had been cut in half by Batman Dragon, making it impossible to see the future.
He tried to find precedents in the past of the super-time stream, but found nothing.
He knew that it would be difficult to do this with just an essence, and he didn't know how the other party planned to create a superman who could withstand the multiverse using an essence that didn't even have a soul.
The other party seemed very confident and had everything under control.
But even if the other side could do it, having two Supermen at the same time would cause the multiverse to collapse.
One core dies, so the multiverse creates another core. But the newly created core is suddenly taken away, and the old core suddenly comes back to life. When the new core returns, the two cores will be together.
It's like someone having open-heart surgery to replace their heart. After the surgery, the new heart is gone, and the old heart starts beating again.
What would happen if he forcibly put the new heart back in at this moment?
Does the person's entire physiological structure change, turning them into a freak with two hearts? Or does various problems render both hearts unable to function, leading to heart failure and death?
Or did this person fight back so fiercely that they beat the new heart and the doctor who was trying to put it in to a pulp?
The future of the super-time stream is unpredictable, and the future of the current timeline has been truncated.
At that moment, Dr. Manhattan's curiosity overshadowed his concern for the safety of the entire multiverse.
He was willing to risk the collapse of the entire multiverse in an attempt to understand its mysteries, which was in the very nature of Dr. Manhattan.
So he waved his hand, and soon the Foolish Owl saw two blue shadows appear in front of him.
interesting.
(End of this chapter)