Chapter 67
Messiah closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the sky was dyed golden again. The code floating above the city also accepted the new instructions input by Messiah and shone again.
The golden film that once covered the earth expanded rapidly with Messiah as its center, and once again enveloped the entire earth. Beams of light shone over the slums and famine-stricken areas, illuminating the emaciated faces.
They almost thought they saw the holy light from heaven and knelt down to pray uncontrollably.
The Justice League is rushing towards Gotham. Superman is flying the fighter plane carrying the league members at full speed, while Batman is sitting in the driver's seat of the fighter plane with a serious expression.
Can you catch up?
Can you catch up before the Messiah takes action?
The beams of light projected over the impoverished and famine-stricken areas suddenly brightened, and the dilapidated brick huts turned into dust amid the residents' screams, and then condensed into clean white houses.
Identical white houses appeared one after another all over the world. Those impoverished and famine-stricken areas were all transformed into identical white communities. The residents also received a few identical new clothes, and boxes of food were piled up like mountains.
Messiah gently moved his fingers, and space channels were connected between those pure white communities and the Garden of Eden. The guardians of the Garden of Eden walked out of the space channels one by one and appeared out of thin air in these pure white communities.
The guardians wore identical pure white uniforms and held guns or medical equipment in their hands. Some stayed inside the community, while others went into the newly built medical room in the community.
The indigenous people of those communities carefully observed the newly built buildings and the guardians of the Garden of Eden who moved in, with fear and hope in their eyes.
This situation is not limited to areas of poverty and famine.
In a certain wealthy area, a similar scene unfolded. The magnificent buildings crumbled to dust, replaced one by one by white houses and skyscrapers, transforming the entire area into a world of white buildings.
A series of exclamations and screams rang out, and the guardians of Eden rushed into the former wealthy area and took over the current Eden community.
Whether it was a wealthy area, a community for ordinary people, or a slum, all were transformed into identical pure white Eden communities under the power of the Messiah.
The scope of Eden's takeover expanded from prisons to residents' homes.
But this is just the beginning.
The people whose homes were taken over trembled and avoided the guardians of Eden in pure white uniforms, not daring to look up at the golden code in the sky.
The Messiah did not open his ears to listen to the voices of the whole world. He did not care about other people's feedback and only wanted to bring happiness to everyone.
After all residential areas were transformed into identical white buildings, the golden codes floating above each city began to carry out the Messiah's orders.
All bank accounts were blocked, properties were repossessed, and prices around the world were forcibly aligned...
Can the Justice League arrive before it's too late?
The answer is no.
They might be able to stop the Messiah, but they could not stop the codes that were placed over every city and had pre-programmed instructions.
Outside the former Arkham Asylum, now Gotham's Garden of Eden, Superman comes into contact with a group of superheroes and Messiahs who can fly or possess super speed.
Messiah looked at them expressionlessly, withdrew his gaze from the "elimination of inequality" decision that was being implemented, and allowed the built-in program of the code to continue operating independently.
Before the Justice League's fighter plane had completely landed, Batman and Nightwing jumped out and rushed towards Messiah without hesitation.
But when Batman saw the Messiah's emotionless and indifferent face, he stopped in his tracks, and the Hell Bat armor seemed to turn into a clumsy giant at this moment.
Unlike Batman who seemed to be homesick, Nightwing did not hesitate at all and rushed directly towards Messiah.
"Nightwing!"
"Dick!"
"He's in danger, come back quickly!"
The Titans watched Nightwing nervously as he pounced on Messiah. Superboy was ready to rescue Nightwing. In their eyes, Messiah was a dangerous enemy who suddenly went crazy and wanted to rule the world.
Even though Nightwing and Batman both said that Messiah was a member of the Bat family, and Batman took the initiative to take off his mask to vouch for Messiah, this attitude that was not at all Bat-like instead aroused suspicion from many people who cared about them.
After all, there is no evidence to prove that Messiah was once Wayne's adopted son or Bat's bird, although according to Batman, these evidences were deliberately erased by Messiah. But what if these evidences did not exist in the first place, and the people whose memories were erased were not them, but Batman and Nightwing were instilled with false memories?
Under everyone's nervous gaze, Nightwing threw himself on Messiah and hugged him tightly.
A ripple appeared in Messiah's emotionless golden eyes. He did not open his arms to hug Nightwing as he did in the past, but he did not refuse Nightwing's hug either.
"Xiao Mi, I miss you so much. Do you miss me?"
Nightwing placed his palms on the back of Messiah's head, resting his chin on the top of Messiah's head, and pressed Messiah tightly into his arms: "I brought you a gift, it's on the Titan spaceship. Come back with me and we'll open the gift, okay?"
He didn't mention the Messiah's world rule or all the things he had missed, but just acted like nothing had happened.
At this moment, Nightwing and Messiah looked not like a tyrant who ruled the world and his rebels, but like an elder brother and his younger brother who had reunited after a long separation.
Messiah didn't say anything, his head was pressed in Nightwing's arms, so people couldn't see the expression on his face. All they could see was that he didn't resist Nightwing's closeness, but he didn't respond either.
"Messiah, let's go home together, okay?" Nightwing's voice became increasingly low, almost pleading. "Alfred is still waiting for us at home. He must have baked some new cookies. We can sneak home and grab all of Bruce's cookies."
"Before I left Earth, I asked Xiaoba to help book a restaurant. Xiaoba is also waiting for us to have a party together. If we cancel, Xiaoba will definitely be angry."
"Ace must be missing you too. He might be waiting at the gate of the manor right now, holding a Frisbee in his mouth, waiting for you to play Frisbee with him."
Messiah could almost follow Dick's words and outline the scenes he described, which were things that happened frequently in the past.
They would laugh and play together, eat junk food behind Alfred's back, play pranks on Bruce, make Barbara angry and apologize in disgrace, and be happily licked on the face by Ace.
But every scene, every second, every moment, Jason will be with them.
When Messiah was secretly eating junk food, Jason would stand up and lie to Ah Fu with his eyes wandering before wiping the sauce off the corner of his mouth, and then Ah Fu would angrily and amusedly punish him by making him sweep the kitchen for a week.
When playing a prank on Bruce, Jason would secretly lift the tires of other normal Batmobiles while Dick and Messiah were painting the Batmobile pink, and then they would laugh together as Bruce could only drive the pink Batmobile for night patrols.
When Jason made Barbara angry and apologized, he would kick Dick's ass without hesitation, then drag Messiah away, leaving Dick alone to sneer at Barbara with smoldering eyes.
When Messiah was being licked on the face by Ace, Jason would come to save him with a smile, and then be thrown to the ground by Ace with a scream.
And now, Jason is dead.
In these memories, every frame has a figure who was laughing and scolding with them, and the figure turned gray, and these colorful memories also turned gray.
Now that Jason is dead, these scenes will never happen again, and Messiah doesn't want to lose any more.
"I've already lost Jason, and I can't lose any of you again." Messiah whispered calmly to Nightwing. He didn't understand why Dick wanted to stop him. "I just want to create a happy world without death and suffering. Isn't that good?"
"Dick, I don't want to lose again."
Batman watched in silence as his two children clung to each other, without participating or saying anything.
"I'm sorry, Messiah." Nightwing whispered. He gently ruffled Messiah's hair as he always did, but the anesthetic on his gauntlet pierced Messiah's defenseless neck without hesitation. "But I will always love you."
Nightwing knew that ever since Messiah accidentally broke Bruce's ribs, he would soften his body when facing people close to him, and this was the time when Messiah would be most vulnerable to injury.
This anesthetic was a specially made anesthetic. They had created it together with the Messiah in order to prevent him from losing control due to fear gas or other reasons one day in the future.
Today, these weaknesses and vulnerabilities born of love come in handy.
Nightwing took a deep breath. He was the most emotional person in the family besides Jason and was easily moved by emotions, but at this moment his expression was extremely tough.
"Even if you hate me and dislike me, I must stop you." Nightwing hugged Messiah tightly, "It is the brother's responsibility to prevent his brother from going down an irreversible path."
"I'm already late once, I won't be late a second time."
Nightwing's voice was terrifyingly calm, and Messiah's eyelashes trembled slightly. He didn't expect Dick, who was always the most compromising, to do this.
The anesthetic liquid was injected into Messiah's body, but it had no effect.
"But, Dick." Messiah easily broke free from Nightwing's embrace. He took a step back and looked at Nightwing calmly. "In the past, anesthetics worked because I wanted them to."
"But now, I don't want to."
Under Nightwing's astonished gaze, Messiah took off the anesthetic inserted in his neck with an expressionless face. The anesthetic made a crisp sound when thrown to the ground, and the syringe shattered easily.
Broken glass splashed in all directions, and the largest piece of glass reflected the different expressions of Messiah and Nightwing.
Batman finally broke his silence, but the Messiah was even faster.
Messiah looked back at everyone without any emotion, his gaze swept over the superheroes who were ready for battle one by one, and finally stopped at the sky dyed golden.
He raised his right hand and pointed to the sky under everyone's nervous gaze.
"Look," Messiah said calmly, pointing to the fading golden codex. "It's over."
"I have eliminated the inequality in this world."
"You're all late."
【Author’s words】
I hate it... I've been eating too much ice lately, and my gastroenteritis has relapsed. I was forced to go on an IV drip yesterday afternoon because I couldn't stand it anymore. I have to go on an IV drip tonight too. [burst into tears][burst into tears]
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