20 · Chapter 20

In a trance, Messiah seemed to hear the sound of something breaking.

Messiah repeated slowly: "Massacre... the city?"

Messiah spoke this short sentence in a halting and difficult manner, as if he was speaking for the first time.

Batman quickly called Zatanna: "Zatanna, take me back to Gotham."

He did not continue to persuade Messiah and Shazam, nor did he ask them to join him in protecting Gotham. He just looked at them deeply, and then walked into Zatanna's transmission channel.

The atmosphere in the cellar grew heavier, as if Batman's departure had taken away all the air.

Until Messiah spoke and broke the silence.

"I want to go back." Messiah said firmly, "Hall of Justice."

This was the first time that Messiah took the initiative to make a decision. Unlike his previous actions of following the crowd and imitating others, this action was entirely based on Messiah's own ideas.

"Yes, let's go back!" Shazam turned abruptly and walked towards the cellar entrance, "Let's go back to the Hall of Justice!"

"No need to go." Messiah shook his head, stepped forward to hold Shazam's arm, and lightly cut through the space with his right hand, "I'll take you."

Messiah gripped Shazam's arm tightly and took a step forward without hesitation.

With just one step, they crossed the distance between London and the Hall of Justice and appeared out of thin air in the control room of the Hall of Justice.

The atmosphere in the control room was so quiet that it was dull. There was no sound of fierce quarrel as imagined. The sudden appearance of Messiah and Shazam attracted everyone's attention.

Except for the Supreme Leader who sat alone at the head of the table.

The Supreme Leader looked at the dense red dots on the display screen with a gloomy expression. Even the return of Messiah and Shazam did not make him bat an eyelid.

Seeing Messiah and Shazam, the Flash, who was standing alone in the corner, suddenly changed his expression and said in horror: "I don't want anything..."

However, he was not faster than Shazam.

Shazam loudly demanded, "Why massacre the city?"

"Clark, tell me why!"

The moment he arrived at the Hall of Justice, the remaining hope in Shazam's heart disappeared. Without words, he could confirm that the oracle had not lied to him.

Superman is really going to massacre the city.

The Supreme Leader finally looked up and looked at Shazam coldly. His icy eyes almost turned Shazam into ice.

"Are you questioning me, Shazam?"

"Yes!" Shazam shouted, "I don't understand why you are doing this. Have you forgotten our original intention?"

Shazam's emotions became increasingly intense: "We set up this government to protect the people, but you're turning the tables and pointing knives at them!"

"Are you crazy, Superman?!"

The Supreme Leader's expression darkened. "I'm crazy? Is that what you think of me?"

He looked at Messiah standing side by side with Shazam, his tone as cold as a poisonous snake: "Do you think so too, Messiah?"

"No."

Messiah answered without the slightest hesitation. The Supreme Leader's expression softened for a moment before it completely collapsed because of Messiah's next words.

"You're not crazy." Messiah said in a cold voice, "You're a liar."

The Supreme Leader's expression twisted for a moment, anger rushing into his mind, sweeping away the remaining clarity: "Liar, what did I lie to you about?!"

Messiah stared at the Supreme Leader, his distorted face reflected in his golden eyes. He said in a calm tone, "You massacred civilians."

The Supreme Leader's breathing hitched, and he quickly remembered the thing that Messiah had helped him hide, but he immediately calmed down.

If it were before, the Supreme Leader would still be worried that this matter would be known by other members of the Justice League, but now he is about to massacre the city.

The Supreme Leader said coldly, "That's what they deserve."

"Shazam can't understand me, and I can also say he can't empathize with me."

"But you, Messiah." The Supreme Leader stared at Messiah's face. "Just for those ungrateful guys, you are going to stand against me? Have you forgotten the millions of lives in Metropolis?"

Shazam could no longer suppress his anger. He took a deep breath and pulled Messiah behind him.

"Get behind me, Messiah." Shazam tilted his head slightly and said solemnly, "Leave everything to me, just rest assured."

Shazam said with a serious face and a firm voice: "Superman is crazy, but I will wake him up and find the Clark we are familiar with."

The Supreme Leader roared, "I'm not crazy! Gotham deserves it!"

"I've given almost everything to protect them, but how have they treated me?" The Supreme Leader's face was ashen. "I've given Gotham and Batman many chances, but they've defied me time and time again!"

Thinking of Gotham, which has almost become the base of the resistance, the Supreme Leader's anger is growing.

"They're ungrateful and ungrateful! They're even trying to trick others into rebelling against me!" The Supreme Leader suddenly stood up. "That's why I have to kill them. To make an example of them!"

"I will never allow the hard-earned peace to be destroyed!"

Shazam yelled, "So you want Gotham to become the next Metropolis too!"

"I can't believe this is what you're going to do." Shazam looked at the Supreme Leader in disappointment, "Clark, look in the mirror and look at yourself now."

"What's the difference between you and a clown?"

The Supreme Leader stared at Shazam's face and said word by word, "How dare you compare me with the clown?"

"Enough!" Wonder Woman stood up suddenly, holding the Vulcan Sword, "Shut up, both of you!"

But it was too late. From the moment Shazam said those words, or even from the moment Messiah and Shazam returned to the Hall of Justice, everything was irreversible.

The scorching heat vision was about to emerge. Messiah noticed this keenly and wanted to help Shazam block the heat vision, but hesitated for a moment.

He only has the power of destruction, can he really protect Shazam?

Will Shazam be as dead as the kitten skeleton he blasted to dust?

Because of this moment of hesitation, Messiah no longer had time to stop the Supreme Leader.

The Supreme Leader did not hold back at all, and used all his strength to shoot his heat vision straight at Shazam's forehead, instantly penetrating Shazam's brain.

No one present was able to stop it in time, and no one thought that the Supreme Leader would attack Shazam.

Shazam's lips opened and closed twice, and then he fell straight down.

With the death of the host, the blessing of the power of the six gods naturally dissipated, and Shazam turned back into Billy Batson.

The thin boy fell backwards on the ground, with a look of astonishment still in his wide blue eyes. His loose clothes almost buried him completely, and the blood flowing from the back of his head dyed his white hood red.

Billy Batson is just a little boy, and the tights and hooded cape that just fit Captain Marvel are way too big for him.

“Billy!!”

The Flash stepped forward in disbelief, but was stopped by the Green Lantern who had turned into a Yellow Lantern.

"Shut up if you don't want to die." Yellow Lantern hinted at the Flash with his eyes.

"What have you done, Superman?" Wonder Woman clenched her fists. "Billy is our companion!"

"He was so young and even saved you more than once. How could you kill him!"

Wonder Woman pointed at the Supreme Leader with one hand and covered the Vulcan Sword hanging at her waist with the other hand: "Are you still the Superman we know?!"

How could you kill Billy? How dare you kill Billy!

The Supreme Leader looked at Billy's body, and unprecedented regret emerged in his heart. His lips moved, but no words came out.

"It's not my fault... I didn't mean to..."

The King tried to defend himself: "I just, I just..."

But for a moment, he couldn't find a suitable excuse.

Messiah stared blankly at the boy's pale face, and the fingers hanging by his side twitched subconsciously.

"Why?"

Messiah murmured, "Why?"

Sadness and anger filled the Hall of Justice.

Cyborg looked at Billy's body and said in pain, "It's my fault... I didn't stop them."

The Supreme Leader suddenly looked up, his eyes lit up as he remembered something.

"Yes, it's not my fault!" The Supreme Leader began to frantically try to excuse himself, trying to shake off the regret that tore him apart every moment. "I knew Billy and Messiah couldn't accept the massacre, so I sent them to London."

"If it weren't for Batman, if it weren't for Batman, Billy and Messiah wouldn't have known about this at all, they wouldn't have returned to the Hall of Justice, and I wouldn't have accidentally killed Billy."

The Supreme Leader strode towards Messiah. He gripped Messiah's shoulders tightly, his strength terrifying. "Batman asked you to come back, right? Batman deliberately led you against me, right?"

Messiah looked at the Supreme Leader, his bright golden eyes were like a mirror, reflecting the Supreme Leader's almost insane face.

In a trance, Messiah actually saw the shadow of "Superman" in the current supreme leader. He seemed to hear the crying voice of Superman who said that we should cherish life and protect others.

"No." Messiah shook his head, "Batman doesn't."

"impossible!"

"You're hiding me for Batman, aren't you?" The Supreme Leader's breathing was heavy and rapid. "I know it was Batman who bewitched you."

The Supreme Leader shook his head again violently: "No, no, it's you who loves Batman."

"You could have teleported to Batman at any time, but you didn't kill him for me." The Supreme Leader's voice gradually rose. "You love Batman, don't you? Just like Batman loves the Joker."

…

Messiah didn't know what to say.

but……

"I was wrong. Superman is not a liar." Messiah murmured, "Shazam is right. Superman is crazy."

Superman did not lie to him. The Superman who wanted to cherish life and protect the people really existed.

Messiah thought he had found the reason why Superman became the Supreme Leader, because Superman was crazy, so he became the Supreme Leader.

Superman going crazy, does it have anything to do with whether or not he is human?

——Messiah has long known that Superman is a Kryptonian, but in Messiah's eyes, any race with the word "human" in it is human.

The atmosphere in the control room became increasingly tense, and the struggle was almost imminent.

At this moment, the Supreme Leader's communicator suddenly rang, and the communication from the super-powered troops was automatically answered, and the projection of the soldiers appeared in front of them.

"Your Excellency, the Supreme Leader, the super-powered troops have been assembled and are ready to depart at any time." The soldier saluted the Supreme Leader. "Shall we head to Gotham now?"

The Supreme Leader's eyes lit up, and the pain in his heart finally found an outlet: "Set off immediately."

"I want you to destroy Gotham and make Batman pay!"

Messiah looked at the Supreme Leader. It was obvious that the Supreme Leader had also suffered from the destruction of the metropolis, so why would he take the initiative to create another metropolis now?

Something must have gone wrong.

The Messiah could not understand.

Superman just wanted to bring peace to the world, but why did he fall step by step and become what he is now?

At first, Superman only cleaned up criminals, but later, various countries were rebelling against the regime, so it became a matter of suppressing the governments of various countries and establishing a global regime.

Later, many of Superman's former friends turned against him, so Superman killed Martian Manhunter, Green Arrow, Black Canary, and the Green Lantern Corps...

Then, in order to bring permanent peace to the earth, the regime began to take the initiative to eliminate those dangerous factors, from Apocalypse to the Olympian gods, and finally even Atlantis became that dangerous factor.

Now, Superman is actually going to destroy a city and become the most annoying version of the former Superman.

"Why?"

The Messiah didn’t know whether he was asking himself or God: “Why?”

Is it because Superman is human?

But other humans didn't do that. Lex Luthor also lost Metropolis, but he didn't become like Superman. He was even killed by Superman when he discovered that he was secretly helping the rebels.

"Why……"

Messiah thought of the destroyed Metropolis and the impending destruction of Gotham: "Destruction... destruction..."

This word sounds so familiar.

It seemed as if he had heard this word before the destruction of Metropolis.

Messiah tried hard to recall. Before the destruction of Metropolis, he had never heard the word "destruction" in the game, so where was it?

game?

Messiah suddenly realized something, and the game background that he had quickly skimmed over appeared in his mind.

[…The earth is about to be destroyed, the universe is falling, and the world will eventually come to an end. The player enters such a world that is destined to be destroyed.

You possess the power to change the world, and you will be born as a human. Will you save the world? Or destroy it? Or just be a bystander?

How to use power, how to play the game, is all up to you.

ah.

This world is doomed to destruction.

I see.

Messiah looked up at Superman and whispered, "It's not your fault, Superman."

"It is this world that is destined to be destroyed."

Messiah thought, he understood, Superman did these things because he was influenced by this world.

Superman was right, he certainly didn't mean it.

This is a world destined to be destroyed, but the earth cannot be destroyed for no reason. There must be something that was affected by "destruction" and destroyed the earth.

——It was Superman who was affected.

Superman was pulled down by this world that was destined to be destroyed. He was influenced by the world, so he did so many destructive things, even to the point of destroying Gotham.

Messiah looked at Superman's distorted face, and through the face of the Supreme Leader, he saw the wailing Son of Tomorrow.

"I don't blame you." Messiah raised his hand and touched Superman's face, with compassion in his eyes. "Don't be sad, this is not your fault."

The Supreme Leader thought that Messiah finally understood his thoughts and said happily, "I knew it, you..."

But before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the Messiah.

"I know what to do."

The Messiah said, "Don't be sad anymore."

【Author’s words】

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Three hundred years after traveling to the world of immortal cultivation, Gu Qingyu, under the persuasion of his senior brother, accepted three disciples at once.

The three disciples were good in every way, but Gu Qingyu almost died on the spot when he looked at them.

Isn't this the protagonist of the immortal cultivation novel he read in his previous life?

Haha, it turns out he didn't travel through time, he traveled through a book...

The eldest disciple is the male protagonist of the Qidian novel, Long Aotian, who plays the pig to eat the tiger. He has a revenge script of enduring humiliation and suffering the imminent destruction of his sect.

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Gu Qingyu: Haha, I feel a little dead.

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But ideals are full, and reality is skinny.

Gu Qingyu fell silent as he looked at his three disciples who had gone astray.

The stud male protagonist's eldest disciple transforms into a blackened little wolfdog, trying to seize Gu Qingyu by force every day.

The lively and cheerful second apprentice turned into a green tea master, competing with his fellow apprentices in the art of tea every day.

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