Chapter 196 The Root of Despair in the Dark Universe
As soon as the words fell, the owl doll seemed to come to life, began to flap its wings, and hovered in the air.
"Your Majesty!"
The doll bowed its head and swore allegiance to Katoom.
"Connect your senses with me now," Katoom instructed carelessly, "and then go scout this bat cave."
"Yes!"
Katum III was very respectful and shared his senses with Katum, then he flew out from the gap in the railing and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Diana saw the whole process of the owl's domineering behavior and felt extremely novel.
"As expected of Minerva's Owl!"
She said, "Did you make this puppet by magic?"
"It's just a little trick," said Katoom. "If you go to Hogwarts, you'll see these moving props everywhere."
Diana wanted to nod immediately, she really wanted to see Bruce's school.
But she soon thought of what Bruce had said, that Hogwarts had been destroyed by the God of War.
pity.
Diana was in a low mood. From what Katum said, she felt that Hogwarts was a very interesting place and Bruce should like it there too.
Bruce must have been sad when the school was destroyed, right?
Katum saw the change in Diana's expression, and while admiring the speed at which Miss Wonder Woman's expression changed, he naturally changed the subject.
"The Merciless Iron Fist has an evil plan."
Katoom said, "He wants Bruce to choose between you and me."
"what?"
Diana's attention was immediately drawn to this plan, and she said in disbelief, "Doesn't this put Bruce in a dilemma?"
“It won’t be a dilemma.”
Katum resumed his upside-down pose and said, "You are Bruce's fiancée. He will definitely choose you. Otherwise, it will be unjust."
"But the engagement was fake," Diana said.
"that's not important."
Katum is very self-aware. "What's important is that Bruce once swore to fight alongside you and protect you together."
There was such a vow, Bruce made when he put the ring on Diana's finger.
For a moment, Miss Wonder Woman didn't know how to react.
Katum's judgment makes sense, but wouldn't it be too cruel to the owl?
"no!"
Diana suddenly said, "In this case, we can't let the Merciless Iron Fist's plan succeed!"
She is not a delicate little girl, she is an Amazon warrior who has the ability to save herself!
"I don't want to embarrass Bruce, and I don't want to see you sacrifice."
Diana was full of pride at this moment, "We don't need Bruce to save us, we can get out by ourselves!"
As soon as this bold statement came out, before Katum could say anything, a merciless and iron-fisted voice sounded on the other side.
"Ambitious."
Heavy footsteps were heard, and the figure of Wumin Iron Fist, wearing heavy armor, appeared at the end of the dungeon.
He walked slowly and stopped at the prison door.
"You're awake, Diana."
He bent down and handed the food tray in his hand into the cell through the food delivery port.
The food on the plate was not very rich, just a pickle sandwich, two chocolate-flavored donuts, and a small cup of espresso.
Katum was immediately dissatisfied: "Where's mine?"
Wumin Tiegan ignored him.
On the other side, Diana frowned: "What are you doing? Do you think I will eat such food with unknown ingredients?"
"It's up to you whether you eat or not."
Wumin Tiegan said calmly, "I just want to experience the feeling of cooking for Diana again."
Katoom couldn't help but comment, "That's rare. Normally Batmen can't cook. They'd blow up the kitchen and order takeout."
It’s different if you have a girlfriend.
"I won't eat it."
Diana shook her head, "And I have to say, these things you served are totally not to my taste."
"I know."
Wumin Tiegan did not continue speaking.
But Katum mercilessly exposed him: "This is what Batman likes to eat!"
The owl had traveled with the little bat for so long that it was naturally very familiar with his taste.
Pickle sandwiches are Batman's favorite of all the food Alfred makes, along with baked lobster.
As for chocolate donuts, they are the only enjoyment Bruce has left after overcoming all sweets. He is willing to eat chocolate, probably because chocolate is black.
Finally, there’s espresso. As a bat-freak who hides during the day and comes out at night, it’s generally difficult to survive without this.
It makes sense that Wu Min Tie Quan cooked for Diana and ended up making all of his own favorite foods.
Diana hesitated for a moment, then suddenly looked up: "You and Diana from your world are lovers, right?"
"So what?"
Wu Min Tie Quan said, "Don't expect me to hold you back. My Diana is countless times better than you."
"But I feel like you don't love her."
Diana said, "From what you have done, it can be seen that you are imposing your will on her. This is not love!"
Miss Wonder Woman's words made Owl's eyes light up.
Oh? I didn't expect that Diana had only been with them for a few days, and she had already learned how to kill people and destroy their hearts?
It seems that I am really learning from him.
Of course, Owl didn't expect these words to cause any real harm to Merciless Iron Fist, but it was a good start.
Sure enough, after hearing what Diana said, Wumin Iron Fist remained unmoved.
"you're right."
He said, "But love is mutual. She loves me too, so she is willing to eat the food I cook."
These things are already the limit of Batman's culinary skills.
After experiencing cooking for Diana for the last time, Wu Min Tie Quan felt his wish was fulfilled. He turned around and was about to leave, but Diana stopped him.
"Why did you betray justice and become like this?"
She looked at Wu Min Tie Quan's pale hair. He looked like a middle-aged man, but he had aged so prematurely.
"Would she be happy if she saw you like this?"
"Diana, you seem to have made a mistake."
Wumin Iron Fist had a blank expression on his face and said coldly, “I always knew that my Diana would not support me, but I still wanted to take this path because it was the right thing to do.
“I come from a dark universe, and there will never be a bright future for me. This is the way the world is, and this is also the way my love is.
"Even if Diana and I continue to hold on, it will only be more painful in the end, because our happiness will only flow to you!"
Having said that, Wumin Tiequan's face had become as gloomy as water, and the look in his eyes as he looked at Diana revealed endless hatred.
"Why do you think my Diana died? Was it because I killed her? No! That's not right!
"It's because of our origins! The moment Diana was born in the Dark Universe, the ending was already decided! She will suffer forever, and then provide for your happiness!"
All Wonder Women in the bright universe are merciless and iron-fisted enemies.
Because they took away the happiness that should belong to their loved ones!
"Diana Prince!"
Wumin Iron-Fisted roared, he stared straight at Diana and spoke out his truest thoughts word by word.
"Why do you think you represent justice?"
These people in the dark universe have suffered endless despair and just want to take revenge on the multiverse. Is that injustice?
"I'll kill you in front of Bruce."
Wumin Iron Fist said coldly, "I will make him feel everything I have ever felt, until he kneels before me and begs me to kill him!"
After saying this, he turned around and left the place without any reluctance.
Diana stood there in a daze. She had originally wanted to punish Wumin with an iron fist, but now her own worldview was almost overturned.
She had no idea how to respond.
"Katum..."
She turned her head and looked at the owl that was swinging itself upside down like a swing.
"Have I really caused so much evil?"
Diana was at a loss and began to question everything she had experienced in the past.
Were all her happy memories built on the pain of countless Dianas in the dark universe?
If so, what is the difference between her and the criminal?
"Ugh!"
Katoom stopped swinging and sighed deeply.
Diana was indeed inexperienced and her faith was broken by just a few words.
As expected, I still have to rely on myself in the end.
"He's lying to you."
Katum suddenly said, "Think about what he said to you not long ago?"
What did you say?
Diana couldn't think of it for a moment. Wumin Iron-Fist had said a lot of things. Who knew which one it was?
“Many things in this world have nothing to do with love or hate.”
Katum imitated Wuqing's iron-fisted tone and repeated what he had said.
"He said what he did had nothing to do with love or hate, but if you think about the way he looked just now, the hatred was simply beyond words."
"But so what?"
Diana shook her head, "As long as he didn't lie about his experience, I did rob Diana of her happiness."
"What does this have to do with you?"
Katum asked back, "Look at Bruce. He is the Batman of the main universe. He is the biggest beneficiary, but do you think he feels guilty? He still eats and drinks as usual." "But this is wrong."
Diana still insisted, "We do enjoy the happiness brought by the dark universe."
"So what are you going to do? Die to atone for your sins?"
Katoum said, "Dividing the multiverse into light and dark will definitely lead to such a result. If there is any guilt, it should only be on those who created the dark multiverse."
That person is none other than the Lord of the Dark Multiverse, Barbatos.
The root of all this is actually very complicated.
The first person to be mentioned is Perpetua, the goddess of creation of the multiverse.
When she created this world, she intentionally divided it into three parts: the material universe, the antimatter universe, and the dark universe.
The purpose is to make the DC multiverse a system that is constantly in crisis and capable of self-regeneration, so that Perpetua can continuously absorb the crisis energy generated in the DC multiverse.
To this end, she also gave birth to three high-level lives to supervise these three areas.
The Monitor, the Anti-Monitor, and the World Forger.
Later, the three filial sons discovered their mother's conspiracy. After a show of filial piety, the Goddess of Creation was imprisoned in the Wall of Origin.
The multiverse begins to function normally.
In fact, there was no life in the original dark universe. It was the place where the world forgers created the world, which could be understood as a workshop.
The World Forger hammers and pound in his workshop, creates a qualified world, and then sends it into the material universe to make the world start to operate.
Unqualified worlds will be destroyed directly.
The one responsible for destroying these worlds is his pet Barbatos.
Everything was designed well, and there would be no pain or misfortune.
Until Barbatos backstabbed the World Forger and took the Dark Universe into his possession.
From then on, he called himself the Lord of the Dark Multiverse, preserved those worlds that should have been destroyed, and put them into operation, in order to cultivate the power to counterattack the main world.
This is why there is pain and misfortune.
If Dark Batman really wanted to avenge their world, he should have just killed Barbatos.
But they didn't.
"It would be fine if ordinary people couldn't see through it, but these guys are all Batman."
Katum said, "Do they not know who their enemies are, or do they deliberately not want to know?"
After all, among those dark Batmen, how many pure victims are there?
By the time Katum finished speaking, Diana had fainted.
What is the material universe and the antimatter universe? These terms seem extremely unfamiliar to her.
It may take some time to figure out the relationship here.
But no matter what, Owl's words were not without effect. She at least remembered a name.
Barbatos.
He is the source of all suffering.
Not Diana herself.
"Thank you Katoom."
Diana thanked quietly, "At least I don't feel so bad now."
"Small idea!"
Katum raised his head and was about to brag about himself, but suddenly, his whole body was stuck in place and he couldn't move at all.
"Katum?"
This sudden change made Diana's heart rise to her throat. She hurried to the edge of the prison and stretched out her hand to confirm what had happened to Katum.
"Don't touch me! I'm still alive."
Katum used his wings to swat Diana's hand away, he had recovered.
"too crazy……"
He murmured, "Diana, you don't know what I just saw through the perspective of the third life."
……
In the Merciless Iron-Fisted Batcave, there is an unremarkable laboratory.
While Katum III was flying around in the Bat Cave, he accidentally broke into the laboratory.
Everything he saw, heard, and felt, he shared with Katum.
That's why the owl was distracted for a moment just now.
Inside the laboratory, various old books were placed, mixed with chemicals, creating a pungent smell.
Various World War I-level scientific instruments were placed inside, and a man wearing a pig-face mask was busy working.
The missing Pig-faced Professor was actually taken away by the Merciless Iron Fist.
On the central experimental table in front of him, a pale-skinned boy was lying with his eyes closed. The boy's body was covered with suture marks, and he was obviously a man-made zombie.
The boy's face looked exactly like Bruce's, except that there was no sign of life on it.
Not only that, next to him, there was a spliced owl lying, with its eyes also closed and also lifeless.
Katoom had never thought that he would see such a thing in the Batcave.
"What does Merciless Iron Fist want to do?"
For a moment, Katum couldn't guess what Wumin Iron-Fist was thinking.
Want to replace them with these two bodies?
Or let them do something bad and put the blame on Bruce and Katum?
impossible!
Only a fool could fail to see the weirdness of these two bodies; they belong in a thriller, not in the real world.
There is no possibility of confusion with real people.
After thinking for a long time, Katum still couldn't think of a convincing idea to explain the motives of Wumin Iron-Fist.
Moreover, although these two bodies looked curious, they were not a threat at all.
Even if they survived, what would it matter?
"Forget it, no matter what you want to do, I'll just do some damage first."
Katum thought so and directed the III to move closer.
The owl doll had already cast an Disillusionment Charm to hide its figure, and the Pig-faced Professor did not have any extraordinary abilities, so it was impossible for him to detect such a small movement.
Sansheng easily approached the two bodies.
Katoom's idea now is to use the same method as the owl transmitter to implant personality before, and first implant the personality created by Katoom in these two bodies.
The better it is, the more insurance they will have even if they wake up later.
This is a good idea, but the problem is that Katum doesn't have that many personalities prepared.
"Right now, I can use only two personalities besides the third life."
Katoom thought, "But it's all in Voldemort's diary, it's not so controllable."
One is Voldemort at the age of sixteen, and the other is the adult personality of Homelander who was captured in the black robe world.
None of them are good.
As for the personality of the third life, it is not suitable for implantation.
That's just a tool personality, not that functional. When these two bodies wake up, they will probably be killed directly.
"Forget it, Voldemort is Voldemort!"
Voldemort and Homelander, having these two guys as assistants is a blessing for Merciless Iron Fist in his previous life.
The owl thought for a moment and made the distribution.
Voldemort implanted it into the zombie Bruce's brain, and Homelander implanted it into the zombie Katoom's brain.
"Ah, it's a bit hard to say."
Katum shook his head, took out the diary that had not been opened for a long time from the feathers, and instructed the III to start the operation.
After a long time, he finally let out a sigh of relief.
I have done what needs to be done, and I hope it has some effect.
"Are you done?"
Diana spoke at this time. She didn't understand what Katum was doing. This was not something a female warrior should consider.
"more or less."
Katum replied, "If those two bodies really come back to life, the personalities I implanted can be activated. If they can't come back to life, I will lose a lot."
Although it is of little use in normal times, it is still heartbreaking to think about losing two personalities for no reason.
"Forget it, don't think about this anymore."
Katoom took the diary back and asked Diana, "Are you going to eat what Wuqing Iron Fist sent? If not, give it to me. I'm hungry."
"Do you really dare to eat it?" Diana reminded, "This was made by the Merciless Iron Fist."
"The Merciless Iron Fist is reluctant to hurt us now."
Katum said, "With Bruce not here, we are safer than anyone else."
There's nothing wrong with staying in jail. Food and accommodation are provided, and you can remotely control the bat boy without having to fly around everywhere. It's very comfortable.
So what is Bruce's plan?
It is best not to look for teammates everywhere and then form a group to fight the BOSS.
"Don't go looking for Superman, kid!"
Katum murmured in his heart, "The Merciless Iron Fist has the ability to control minds."
Faced with this ability, Superman is always the first to fall victim, and it works every time, which makes people wonder if he does it on purpose.
"Hey wait."
Speaking of mind control, Katum suddenly thought of something.
There seems to be a Magneto helmet in his feathers?
(End of this chapter)
