126 Lincoln March: Love is the most useless thing
Once the space-time channel is built, the transmission speed is very fast, but the people on the other side of the channel are not friendly.
As soon as Night Owl appeared in the flying fortress, Ultimate Man, the nominal boss of the organization, was ready to go, and his thermal vision shot straight at him!
He leaped just in time, as if anticipated, the Ultimate Man's heat-seeking gaze barely glancing at his cape.
The speed is faster than before, Night Owl commented, it seems that the Ultimate Man is really angry this time.
But Ye Xiao has never been the one to give him face.
Night Owl calmly lifted his cloak slightly. The flame-retardant material left only a small round hole in his thermal vision. "What are you crazy about?"
"Why am I crazy?" The Ultimate Man pointed at himself in disbelief.
"You summoned that man dressed like a bat, and now you're asking me what's wrong with me?"
The Super Queen felt that she had to stand up, otherwise there would soon be a fierce battle here unilaterally initiated by the Ultimate Man: "Do you know what he did?"
"He cracked the code and escaped from prison, first contacting the Gotham City Commissioner, then colluding with the United Government's reactionary forces. Now those people are gathering to oppose us." Super Queen recounted Batman's numerous "crimes" in one breath, feeling the urge to sigh: "Don't you have any explanation for this?"
It sounds a lot like a high-energy human vlog, but with Batman as the protagonist, so everything makes sense.
The Ring of Power covered his face. He wanted to escape from this conflict situation, but the Ultimate Man required everyone to be present. He could only look around like a headless fly to avoid angering any of them.
——Then his eyes turned to the back of Night Owl, and the Ringholder's eyes widened.
"It was only temporary, and I controlled the timing."
Night Owl turned sideways to give the crime syndicates a better view. "For the greater good, I believe a brief period of confusion is entirely understandable."
"……who?"
The Ultimate Man frowned, seemingly confused as to why Night Owl had only brought back two ordinary people from the parallel world. In his mind, anyone with superpowers or a threat would dress unusually.
...and they.
The Ultimate Man looked away in disgust.
Apart from their good looks, with a few shopping bags stuffed into their hands, they look like random passers-by picked up from a commercial plaza.
wrong.
"Well, well, well, it seems like Aria." Johnny Quick said. He had just taken the medicine and had not yet fully recovered from his stuttering. However, his memory was better than that of the Ultimate Man who did not like to use his brain much.
The Ultimate Man remembered - after all, this damn woman had once let his blood flow with a small broken sword.
"Remember our previously interrupted plan?" Night Owl lowered his voice, tempting like a devil: "The world we occupy is just an insignificant part of the entire universe, and now we have the ability to explore an even more magnificent blue ocean..."
There is no camaraderie in the criminal syndicate; the only thing that moves them is profit, eternal profit.
"Besides, not every universe has difficult guardians," the Super Queen undoubtedly sided with Night Owl. "We can choose the parts that are easiest to eat."
“…” The Ultimate Man looked a little unhappy, but he knew what choice would maximize his benefits.
"What about this other one? Is this one also from her clan?"
"Oh, that..."
Night Owl replied: "That's a gift."
Lincoln March made a cursing sound.
…
Night Owl had once collected Aria's blood and presented the farmer with a long list of terms she barely understood. Because it was so complex, the knowledge slipped smoothly from the farmer's cerebral cortex.
In short, using her as a template, they could utilize higher-dimensional civilizations to achieve precise transitions. If they took their research a step further, they might even be able to master the technology that the farmers had created out of nothing.
...At least that's what Night Owl had originally planned.
But no matter how much they planned, they didn't expect that the farmer could cheat.
When Night Owl discovered that the farmer had escaped from the laboratory, he only saw a bunch of hot and noisy animals she had bought.
"Moo--" The cow nudged him, and because of the imprinting effect, a group of chicks mistook him for their mother and followed the night owl chirping.
The instigator has completed all the sacrifices and escaped to the next universe.
Night Owl: ...
…
The impact of sacrifices according to the rules and sacrifices with cheating on the world are different. This is what the farmers were taught from the beginning, but it was not until they experienced this antimatter universe that Aria had something to compare it with.
Night Owl named her profile Leafcutter Bee, a nickname that was actually quite accurate. If a sacrifice performed according to the rules meant cutting small discs from the leaves of this world and bringing them back to the hive to help stabilize the foundation of the original world that was supposed to be destroyed, without significantly impacting the current world itself, then a cheating sacrifice meant violently tearing off the edge of the leaf, with a certain probability of damaging the surrounding veins.
When Aria fled to the next universe, she had a vague premonition that the events in this universe were not yet completely resolved.
…
Entering the laboratory again, the farmer became more calm than before.
It is known that she is not fighting alone.
In addition, the situation and the enemy are all clear.
So farmers just need to fight like before in the game.
"You just lied to their faces, didn't you?"
Aria asked Night Owl in the hamster ball: "I guess, in fact, the world is in some trouble, and you are looking for a solution."
With Night Owl's ability, he might have discovered the problem earlier than anyone else in the syndicate, but in order not to cause panic, he had to use this excuse to cover up his tracks.
If that was the case, there was still a lot of room for negotiation - after all, the key to solving the problem lay in the farmer's cooperation. She could first ask him to send Lincoln March back - and considering that this guy was an enemy even without any external enemies, Aria felt that she might be able to take some strong and effective measures later... She had to think about it again.
But Night Owl smiled, a smile the farmer was very familiar with, which often appeared when she answered incorrectly and the answer was too - simple.
"Innocent."
Night Owl seemed very pleased with Aria's eyes widening slightly. "Why do you still think the best of people?"
It does involve the farmer's blind spot.
But Aria really thought about it seriously.
"Maybe because... I'm more of a punk?*"
There was a silence.
She knew that the Night Owl of the Antimatter Universe was a guy without any sense of humor.
Lincoln March, on the other hand, seemed to have noticed the farmer's embarrassment and smiled twice out of courtesy.
"Ha ha."
Two laughs that were very much like those of an old money man. It was obvious that the owner of the voice had put a lot of effort into this aspect.
But it was a bit inappropriate and even increased the awkwardness of the situation.
If the Night Owl hadn't separated her from Lincoln March, the farmer would have wanted to fly over and cover his mouth.
…
Perhaps every villain has a hobby of explaining their conspiracy to the trapped people. Aria understands this very well - if she grows a huge crop one day, the farmer will not be able to help but want the whole town to come and visit... No, not just the people in Smallville, her conversation that day may all start with "How do you know I grew a huge crop?"
"I guessed half right." Ye Xiao said, tapping the screen a few times with his fingertips as he said this, revealing a bit of irritation.
"The world does have some problems... but I don't intend to solve them."
He was different from the Night Owl in her memory. Perhaps time had indeed changed him in some way.
"So what if it's solved?" Although asking, Night Owl didn't seem to be seeking an answer from her: "As long as the world exists, tragedy will continue to occur every day, like Sisyphus pushing a rock up the mountain, day after day, over and over again."
Night Owl took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. Only at this moment did he have a slight sense of being a living being.
This was not good. Although Night Owl tried his best to restrain himself, his desire to express himself was still surprisingly strong when facing the farmer.
"I'm ready to end this."
…
"That's how it is," Superman, the nominal leader of the Justice League, concluded after Batman unveiled his battle plan. "If they cross the line first, you can't blame us for enforcing the law across planets."
"And the people there sound miserable." Flash added, "Now that we know this, we can't just stand by and watch."
The point of this plan is to defeat them one by one.
The members of the Crime Syndicate were used to fighting alone, and their awareness of teamwork was quite poor. Taking advantage of this, the Justice League quickly locked them up one by one.
The Super Queen was furious: "How did you find me here..."
"I copied Night Owl's data." Batman said calmly, "It only takes a little bit of the corresponding body data to reproduce it. Don't be too surprised."
"Ahem." Superman coughed as if he had suddenly inhaled kryptonite powder.
"Okay," Green Lantern, who was taken away on a mission while returning to Earth for vacation, smoothly inserted himself into the conversation: "The Q&A session is over. Madam, although you have lost the opportunity to defend yourself, you still have a choice now..."
Superman held his forehead, as if he had guessed what he was going to say next. The Crime Syndicate members all frowned, but Green Lantern was the only one who was immersed in his own art.
"Would you rather have a green holiday cottage or a green prison with a trampoline?"
"Night Owl is still out there," the Ultimate Man, subdued by the Yellow Sun, looked thinner, making his words sound less threatening and less convincing. "He'll find a way to save us."
…
The good news: Night Owl is indeed trying to find a solution.
Bad news: Night Owl is trying to figure out how to destroy all universes.
"As long as we find the original universe, everything will be reset to zero, and all evil will end."
Of course, he couldn't do that. Otherwise, wouldn't all her hard work for so long be in vain? In an emergency, the farmer took decisive action when the night owl was untied to take a sample.
She clung to the night owl like a giant cocklebur.
——This is also the reason why Night Owl chose to disguise and attack. The farmer who entered the excited state was like an overly agile monkey, and any weapon in her hands would have a knockback effect.
Once Night Owl was touched by the sword, he would take two steps back. It had been too long since he had fought against such an opponent. He went through a brief period of adaptation, then readjusted his strategy and knocked her to the ground.
The farmer fell to the ground, then stood up again immediately - this was the advantage of not feeling pain - as long as Aria controlled his blood volume and did not drain it, she was confident that she could fight him for ten minutes.
However, Night Owl had little time left. After weighing the pros and cons, he dragged his legs, which were held by the farmer, and opened the space-time channel.
…
Origin Universe.
The product with an equivalent power enough to destroy the entire universe is silently counting down. It was not until now that Night Owl felt that he had a moment to breathe.
"Your civilization is too cowardly," he finally found time to express what he had been wanting to say: "The alternation of the old and the new, rebirth and destruction is an eternal and unchanging law. Those who do not want to die, in the name of love, drive you to die for them."
Night Owl took off his damaged mask and lowered his eyelashes, which were surprisingly long, as if they could catch all the falling snow in the world: "Love is the most useless thing."
"It's mass hysteria, a literary epidemic. From the first time I saw you, I knew you were seriously ill."
"A monster who ran for his tribe and was forced to live in seclusion, survived by relying on the shadow of love. And then you think that this kind of love can heal everyone..."
Aria was lying on the ground. She was also covered in wounds from the previous fight and her energy bar was exhausted. But at this moment, she seemed to have finally found the crux of the matter and smiled brightly.
"Is this your confession?" she asked.
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*Play a movie meme
Why is Night Owl so involved? Because Lincoln's HE line requires Night Owl's mouth cannon.
Lincoln March (incredulous): What?
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