American comics: What kind of evil intentions could Batman have?

Chapter 1032 The Smartest Person

Chapter 1032 The Smartest Person

"I still don't understand why you brought these two criminals, the marionette and the mime, along."

Rorschach, or rather, the second Rorschach, asked the Pharaoh in a low voice.

The original Rorschach exposed to the world the plot by the Ozymandias and Manhattan to massacre millions in order to maintain world peace.

This caused him to be blown to smithereens by Manhattan, turning him into a cloud of blood mist. The Watchmen universe doesn't have a time flow like the DC multiverse.

In this universe, Dr. Manhattan is very likely the only superhuman.

(Note: Actually, no, the other superpowered person is the supervillain Mime.)

Death and time are unique and unchangeable in this world, so when the original Rorschach died, he was gone. He could no longer be like the DC multiverse, where he could do sit-ups anytime and anywhere and be resurrected as easily as eating and drinking. This is the most significant difference brought about by the rules of the universe—and to some extent, it is also the most significant feature that distinguishes the DC multiverse from the normal multiverse.

"Those two criminals will be useful. Pass me that screwdriver over there, I'm almost done fixing it."

Rorschach handed the screwdriver to the Pharaoh.

"I know Jon (Dr. Manhattan's real name) very well, both physically and mentally. I once plotted to force him to leave Earth, and now I need to persuade him to come back." Ozymandias said, intently fiddling with the instruments on the control panel that Rorschach couldn't understand. "You know, many years ago—Mime and Marionette used to go on robberies together, hmm, a common story, a loving criminal couple, right? For them, guards were like butterflies."

He tightened the last screw, then worked on the keyboard for a while, and then the surveillance video from that time began to appear on the spaceship's display screen in front of him.

Pharaoh showed the video to Rorschach, then went back to doing his work with his backside sticking out.

He stuck out his rear end as he said, "Oh, back then, the marionette cut off a poor guy's finger with the cutting string. Who told that guy to try and fight back because the mime was threatening the clerk with a non-existent gun?"

Luo Xia stared intently at the contents of the monitor.

He saw the criminal couple storm into the bank and then start threatening everyone.

He saw the marionette swing her golden hair, chopping off people's fingers as if dancing, then grabbing them by the neck and threatening them to open the safe.

He saw blue lightning flashing in the void.

He saw a blue light flash and saw Dr. Manhattan appear in the video.

At that time, Dr. Manhattan was shirtless and wearing only underwear. He was slightly different from his current self in the DC multiverse.

"Wow," Rorschach heard the puppet in the video say, "not bad underwear."

In the flickering blue light, the marionette sees her husband, Pantomime, raise a non-existent gun at Dr. Manhattan.

Rorschach saw Dr. Manhattan slightly raise his palm. He could have easily destroyed the mime's body in an instant without even being there, just like he had destroyed Metron and Earth-3's Night Owl in the DC multiverse, making the other party unable to even see him before being obliterated.

But he did not launch an attack.

He saw the marionette blocking his husband's pantomime.

"Wait, don't kill him! You'll have to get past me first!"

Rorschach almost stopped breathing.

The Pharaoh was still working with his back to Rorschach, but even with his back to Rorschach, the Pharaoh was fully aware of his mental state.

Rorschach saw Dr. Manhattan on the screen, still in that outstretched hand gesture, and then he tilted his head.

"What? What are you looking at?"

Sizzle s ... —

The surveillance camera footage did not show what happened next; instead, it skipped a short while before showing the SWAT team arresting the pantomime and marionette couple.

The Pharaoh climbed out from under the spaceship.

He casually tossed the screwdriver into the toolbox, wiped his hands, and walked over to Rorschach.

"A total of 37 people died before this farce ended."

95

He said.

On the screen, the SWAT team is still confronting the criminal couple.

"You're surrounded! Make a single move and you two clowns are in body bags!"

"Dr. Manhattan moved the others to reduce casualties, that's the key, Rorschach."

The Pharaoh said, "The Marionette once appeared in Dr. Manhattan's past life, and we later learned that she was pregnant at that time. Dr. Manhattan spared her because of her pregnancy, which is proof of his humanity. That's why we need this couple, a couple whom Dr. Manhattan spared because of his humanity. We can use this to remind him of who he really is."

(Note: Ozymandias is a complete liar and never tells the truth. Long before Doctor Manhattan spared the Marionettes, he allowed another superhero, The Comedian, to murder a pregnant woman in front of him. Doctor Manhattan had long since lost his humanity and was entirely divine by this time. He had other reasons for sparing the Marionettes.)

"Uh..."

The screen in front of the Pharaoh began to display static. "Something is interfering with the playback system. Has the four-hour countdown ended? Have all the world's nuclear missiles been launched?"

"Sorry, my watch is slow," said the second-generation Rorschach. "I'm not sure."

"I thought you'd fix your watch the moment it broke," the Pharaoh said. "Well, even if the screen has a minor malfunction, we can still get to work."

He opened the spaceship's hatch, and Rorschach turned his head to watch the criminal couple skip and hop into the hatch.

"There are billions of people on this earth, and each living being has a unique intrinsic field. When their atoms come together, it is a quantum fingerprint composed of the four fundamental forces of nature."

boom!!!

The world is roaring.

The people heard the sound, and a small disturbance broke out in the street. No one knew what they were hearing.

"Electromagnetic force, strong interaction force, weak interaction force, and gravity."

"Dr. Manhattan's true field disappeared twice. The first time was due to an accident in his experiment, and the second time was caused by me. I later discovered that his blue skin was caused by the release of electrons from his body. These electrons left a trail that we could track."

The Pharaoh kept operating various devices, with the marionette couple standing behind him.

"I'm sorry, there wasn't time to add extra seats. Modifying the spaceship to withstand quantum tunneling will take longer than I anticipated."

He said, "Everyone, sit tight, this journey is going to be bumpy."

He stretched out his finger and tapped the trigger button.

"Nothing happened. It—it didn't work?"

"Press it one more time, before the nuclear missile falls on our heads," said the second-generation Rorschach.

The Pharaoh did as he was told.

Then came a deafening roar that filled everyone's ears.

boom!