Chapter 296 94. Batman: The Return of the Vengeful Knight
The world transfer operation lasted for a full 32 hours, and Mason almost watched Barry Allen run for 32 hours in the time maze. To be honest, this process was quite boring.
He witnessed Xiao Shan from exhaustion to panting, then from panting to gritting his teeth, and finally from clenching his teeth to using his hands and feet.
This guy has indeed reached the limit, the whole person is running in a trance, his steps are vain, and his eyes are dull. If this continues, he will be drained of life just like Barry Allen in this world to maintain the speed force matrix The energy that works.
But it's not all bad.
During these hellish 32 hours, Mason, an outsider, could clearly feel that the connection between Xiao Shan and Speed Force had changed from "proficient" to "perfect".
He must ensure that every ounce of speed force generated by his running can be properly used and not wasted. Under such extreme pressure, his progress is indeed rapid.
Of course, it is impossible for Mason to spend the entire thirty-two hours in vain. While Barry was running, Mason was also hurrying to practice his tailoring and enchanting skills.
Finally, before the last moment, through the production of nearly 200 elementary magic bags, I improved my tailoring skills from Lv1+1 to Lv3+1. Although it is still terrible, at least I can sew up the severely damaged sorting hat to a barely satisfactory level.
"Mason, the last person in the city has just passed the transfer gate."
Jack Kang's voice sounded from the Eye of Hell pin on Mason's collar, and he reported:
"Our colleagues are about to evacuate, and that big Morgan told me to tell you that you can call it a day and look forward to seeing us next time, oh, and that old aunt who still has a charm after hearing that you also have a bar under your name said she would Send someone to help you run it.
Tsk tsk, the charm of this hot old aunt is really not comparable to those young girls.
I was almost moved. "
"You'd better hold back. If you offend Aunt Rogge, be careful that she will blow up your little brother with a single shot."
Mason sat cross-legged on the ground of the time labyrinth, and passed the black magic thread through the sorting hat in his hand driven by an enchanted sharp sewing needle. While sewing it carefully, he exhorted:
"Retreat, wait for me at Osborne Tower, I'll be there in a while."
"receive."
Jackson let out a nasty laugh and said:
"Be careful yourself, call when you encounter trouble, the door to the world is always open here."
"This stitch is crooked! I'm just saying you can't be on the phone and work at the same time, look how badly you sewed me up, it's embarrassing to go out and face the cruel world."
The Sorting Hat protruded a fuzzy human face from the outside, and complained fiercely to Mason:
"You are no longer a novice! Therefore, such a stupid mistake does not deserve to be forgiven generously, do what you should do!"
"I understand, I understand, this will be dismantled and resewn, okay?"
Mason rolled his eyes, and quickly unwrapped all the crooked stitches. While threading the needles with his hands and feet, he looked up at the top of his head. He was as tired as a dead dog sticking out his tongue and panting and rolled his eyes. Little Flash with the strange way of running said:
"Hey, Barry, start slowing down. We're done transporting people, and our work should be over."
"I think I can hold on."
Xiao Shan originally wanted to say something on the scene, but before he could finish speaking, he staggered and almost fell to the ground.
Now I don't dare to talk big, I can only honestly start to slow down the entire Speed Force Matrix.
Mason originally wanted to keep some samples of the Speed Force Matrix.
But it was later discovered that this thing was completely bound to this dead world. Once the time axis stopped, the world would collapse immediately, and the twisted and weird Speed Force network would also dissipate, so they had to give up.
But just when Mason was about to sew the sorting hat, Xiao Shan suddenly said:
"Mason, I can collect some free Speed Force and make them into Speed Force Bricks. This is the knowledge left by the Flash in this world. Part of the core of this matrix is made of Speed Force Bricks.
I'm going to take most of it away and take it back for research, but I can share some with you as energy reserves, lest you need me to 'charge' your Speed Force ring every time. "
"This relationship is good!"
Joy appeared on Mason's face, but he was so excited that another stitch went wrong and he was scolded by the sorting hat. Fortunately, this picky hat is not an ignorant "carry-on grandfather".
It can understand that Mason is already very tired, so he generously stated that there is no need to re-sew this time, and also expressed preliminary approval of Mason's craftsmanship.
In particular, Mason ingeniously sewed a circle of special fabric from Paradise Island as an ornament on its hat body to embellish a small bat pattern, making the Sorting Hat feel "younger" for many years.
"Sigh, it's still impossible to achieve a perfect repair, and there is a long way to go."
Mason stood up, and put the Sorting Hat, which was much more beautiful after re-stitching, on his head, and the hat changed its shape back into a Panama hat with satisfaction.
It tried to collect the free magic power, and said to Mason:
"It's okay this time, because the improvement of craftsmanship and skills has accelerated the speed and quality of my magic power absorption, and now I can release some high-level magic, but the forbidden magic of the great wizard level still can't be used."
"Let's have a try."
Mason pushed his hat and said something. The next moment, a circle of blue light flashed across his forehead, and Mason immediately felt as if an invisible armor was covering his heart.
"Occlumency."
The old hat **** said:
"With this thing, you don't have to worry about your thoughts being sensed by mind readers. As long as the magic power is sufficient, I can keep this magic effect forever.
Do you need me to arrange another Fiendfyre spell for you? You can burn all the people who approach you with malice! "
"This will not be used for the time being, good things should be reserved for critical moments."
Mason touched his forehead and nodded in satisfaction.
Then there was a loud noise behind him, and the speed force matrix that had been in operation for seventeen years was slowly stopping.
This "one-time" doomsday self-rescue device has completed its mission, and countless dazzling yellow flashes are flying wantonly in this confined area.
Barry Allen, who was embarrassed in the flickering light, was thrown by a huge force, rolled a few times and landed at Mason's feet before being pulled up by him.
He was really trying to hold on before, and now Mason could feel the young man's weakness while holding his hand, which was not just the extent of his body being hollowed out.
In the words of Chinese medicine, this is called "the oil is exhausted and the lamp is dry" or "the exhaustion of energy is exhausted", depending on which description you like.
"Drink!"
Mason took out a tube of epic healing potion and threw it to Barry, then took out the materials and clasped his hands together to activate the formation. In a flash of red light, he took out a bottle of vitality supplement on the spot and poured it down to Barry, who was covered in cold sweat. This guy will not be weak and faint.
At the same time that the speed force matrix stopped, the time maze used to hide the core of the matrix also began to collapse rapidly. Mason supported Barry as if he was fleeing in a temple, avoiding several collapsed time vortexes in a row and fled back in embarrassment. the real world.
Their landing point is Paradise Island.
But the place is already empty. After the rapid transfer of hundreds of thousands of Amazons, Zha Kang took the kite man, catwoman and Talia to scrape the land here for three days, and took all the valuable things here. Take one empty.
So the landscape of Paradise Island is terrible at this time.
The original magnificent temple was blasted, and the huge stone statues were also swaying on the island, but this has little to do with the looting behavior of the K team. It is purely because the speed force matrix has stopped and the entire world is being quickly thrown from the closed time axis. into the normal timeline as a result.
This world died 17 years ago.
Once it returns to the normal timeline, it will immediately enter the state of star core destruction, and it is completely irreversible.
In short, the end of a world is imminent, and Mason and the group of people who are waiting for him on Paradise Island at this moment will be the last witnesses of the last remaining days of this world.
"Why are you here?"
Mason handed the weak Barry Allen to the vigorous Halle, asking her to help take care of it, and looked up at Hal Jordan who was standing beside the old man in front of him.
He said in surprise:
"You're just an ordinary person, Hal, you should go to Garden World with your girlfriend to enjoy yourself."
"This hapless girlfriend is having **** with his best friend. He has a green hat on his head. It seems that he is born to be a Green Lantern."
"Your eye for picking people is really good, Mason, you can always pick these weird players."
"Yeah, I have recruited you, a little crazy, into my team. Who else can't stand it?"
Mason rolled his eyes and retorted, causing Damian to clenched his fists, but he glanced at the silent old man beside him and finally chose to endure the tone.
Of course, the attitude of the old man is only one aspect.
At this moment, Mrs. Martha, who has changed into a normal-style skirt and a lady's hat, is also watching him quietly not far away.
Mrs. Martha felt that certain behaviors of her little grandson did not meet her requirements for etiquette, so she was planning to "personally" educate her grandson in the next period of time.
Beside her is the double-faced lady who covered her cheeks with her hair, her two sons and daughters, and the butler Oswald who was dragging a suitcase and getting ready for a long journey.
He wants to follow the old master to the new world.
As a loyal steward and second-in-command, he never thought of leaving alone.
Wearing a bomber jacket and carrying a shoulder bag, Hal Jordan regretfully looked at the doomsday scene in front of him. The fire clouds like dusk had spread all over the sky, but it was not just a beautiful afterglow, but also a certain phenomenon caused by changes in the earth's crust. A bad sign.
He could even feel the world disintegrating under his feet.
This process is not gentle at all, it is frightening and full of sadness.
"Who else are we waiting for?"
The young man touched the green ring hanging around his neck and asked Mason a question.
The captain of the K team gestured to him to be calm, then took out the suitcase and activated the traceless extension spell, and threw the two biological cabins out of it.
The next moment, the two biological cabins were broken at the same time, a tall blonde girl jumped out of them angrily, and beside her was a tall man who lost his left hand.
Diana Prince, Queen of War, and Arthur Curry, King of the Seven Seas.
Mason didn't kill them, but the condition of these two people in front of them is indeed worse than when they were in their heyday.
Diana, who was swallowed by Kevin with one-third of the body of the divine clay puppet, has "degenerated" to an 18-year-old state, not to mention Arthur Curry, whose hand was chopped off.
They rushed out of the **** and roared towards Mason, but the next moment there was a cold muzzle aimed at them, and the big sister Selena, who was hiding in a high place after taking pictures, descended from the sky like a hunted beast, completing the venom in the air Possessed, when it landed, it spread its claws to protect Mason's side.
The little lunatic Damian sneered and pulled out the devil's head sword. Halle chewed gum and grabbed the golden baseball bat. The two dogs under her feet kept barking.
Everyone moved, only Mrs. Martha was still looking at the boiling sea in the distance.
She has no interest in these crap.
Holding the makeup mirror and eyebrow pencil in her hand, she planned to put on makeup for herself. After all, she was about to meet her son who had been away for nearly thirty years, and she had to dress up to attend.
"I advise you two to calm down."
Mason didn't draw his gun.
In the wind of doomsday, he sat on the stone next to him, letting the wind blow his gray windbreaker, leaning on the penguin umbrella in his hand, he looked at Diana and Arthur who were gnashing their teeth explain:
"You have already lost, you have to accept the fate of the losers! Your country no longer exists, and your people are now living in my territory.
I think they might be better off without you guys.
But I will not stop you from going back and leading your people to survive in a new world.
However, this is not without cost. "
Mason paused and gave Barry a wink. Barry Allen, who had recovered somewhat, stood up, took a deep breath and ran forward to open the Speed Force channel, tearing a channel along the path and direction he came from. A rift to another world.
Like a mirror, the light floating on it can also reflect a gloomy but brightly lit city.
Upon seeing it, the old man and Mrs. Martha held their breath at the same time.
They know where it is.
"You can go with us and win a new chance in the new world."
Mason pointed to the crack, and said to the blackened versions of Diana and Arthur:
"You can also stay here and go to perish with your world. I am really tired now, and I urgently need to rest, so there is not much time left for you to think."
"Do you want a queen to be your dog? Do you want a soldier to kneel and surrender in humiliation? Do you want a descendant of God to give up all his dignity?"
18-year-old Diana Prince clenched her fists as she yelled:
"No! Never! I'd rather die here!"
"It's not impossible to discuss."
The reaction of Arthur, the king of the seven seas, was not so violent.
He caressed the wound of his broken arm, and looked back at the boiled ocean behind him.
He knew that staying here would be a dead end, and he who advocated pragmatism could not accept the choice of humiliation and survival, not to mention that his people were still waiting for him in another world.
"I don't have that much time to convince you."
Mason stood up and said:
"Your future leader is not me either! So you don't have to pledge allegiance to me. Talk to him!"
He pointed to the gloomy old man and said:
"Thomas Wayne, he will be your commander and superior."
After finishing speaking, Mason stretched out his hand to Harry, which made Harry feel elated for a moment.
She rushed up and hugged Mason's wrist, joyfully took her dog and followed Mr. K into the door of the world opened next to her, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Damian, Selena, and Thalia followed closely behind. Hal Jordan glanced at the three who were still confronting each other, then turned and walked into the Speed Force rift behind him.
He knew Mason was going where he couldn't go.
At least not now.
The last one to get up was Mrs. Martha.
After finishing her makeup, she pressed down her black lady hat, and the moment she approached the crack with the double-faced adjutant, she said to the old man:
"Thomas, hurry up! He's waiting for us! Is there anything more important in this world than making today's appointment?"
"You go first, I will come later."
The old man did not look back, but he promised:
"It won't take more than five minutes!"
"You broke your promise last time and we lost him."
Mrs. Martha said hoarsely:
"I don't want to go through it again."
"Boom"
These words stimulated the old man, he activated the key, and a huge black power armor suddenly appeared behind him. As he raised his arm, this Fenrir armor enhanced prototype presented by Mason also imitated like a shadow Raise your left arm.
Above the terrifying muzzle, the spark of the energy rail is ready to go.
Thomas stared at the two in front of him while the black sawtooth cloak was swaying, and the revenge knight said in a hoarse voice:
"Did you hear that? I don't have much time for the appointment, so, do you obey yourself? Or should I teach you to obey?"
(end of this chapter)