Chapter 85 :The Eternal Stone

The dark knight opened his heavy eyelids, and his eyes dazzled with the bright white light. When his gaze gradually adjusted to the light and finished focusing, the first thing he saw was his familiar old friend.

Superman stood expressionlessly not far in front of him, with his hands around his chest, his eyes cold but dull, like a puppet without a soul.

Gradually regaining his sense of the body, Batman quickly understood the current situation. He is now in a metal-covered room with his hands hung from a beam under the ceiling in handcuffs. There is a white door and a rectangular window in the front, but one-way glass should be used, because he can see nothing in the window except himself, who is hung in the center of the room, and the superman standing next to him like a stone sculpture. .

His mask has been removed, and the universal belt is no longer around his waist, but this is not surprising, most people will do this after stopping Batman.

Finally, his eyes fell on the Superman. The two looked at each other for a long time, and then Batman faintly said: "What? Are you planning to spend a whole day with me here? Since when have you become the exclusive thug of the Assassin League?"

The other party still maintained the posture with arms folded in front of his chest, motionless, as if he hadn't heard at all. Batman knows that the Assassin League has its own way of brainwashing. This Superman is obviously already in a state of hypnotic control, completely deaf to the words other than the higher-level instructions.

The white door was opened at this moment, and Talia Or Gul put on a black ninja costume and walked into the room. The black leather uniform completely outlined the convex curves of her body. She walked in with a tablet computer, closed the door with her backhand, and looked at the suspended Dark Knight with a charming smile.

"Calculate, detective." She took the initiative, "How many times has this scene appeared?"

"Three or four times, even when Lars was still alive," Batman said lightly, "but every time the ending is the same."

Talia shrugged: "I don't deny that. Every time you have successfully escaped and defeated the alliance plan ended, as if these are destined." She paused, and smiled slightly: "This time it won't. "

"For what your father could not do, you seem very confident." Batman's voice was still cold, and he said, glancing at the big blue man standing next to him, "Tell me, Talia, What brought you to this point? Clone Superman? It doesn't sound like your idea."

"Yes, it's not my idea, it's not anyone's idea." She said mysteriously, "This is the future, the detective, the destined future, the way God has shown us."

Batman frowned. "Listen to it."

Talia sighed and said: "You may not know, detective, you may think that after the death of my father, I am completely changed. I know that in your eyes I just become more brutal and vicious. Woman, but you don't know that I also have my own difficulties. I am the daughter of the devil and the destined heir to the alliance. I must inherit my father's will and complete his unfinished business. But things...not so smoothly. .

After the death of my father, all affairs of the alliance were affected. Our development was stagnant and hardly any progress was made in any aspect. I have been working hard for so many years, and have always believed in my father's path forward. Until today, God seems to have finally moved my sincerity and pointed the way for us. "

When she said this, she smiled secretly, and then picked up the tablet she brought with her when she came in. She operated on the screen for a while, then turned it upside down and showed it to Batman.

That seems to be real-time monitoring of a certain laboratory. Batman saw a circular open space in the center of the picture. Several elliptical energy cylinders were neatly arranged around the outer arc of the circle. Each cylinder was filled with dark red energy, which looked like rolling thunder. Some kind of liquid. The bottom of each column is filled with various lines, and a large number of researchers wearing protective clothing do various tests and record data in the room.

"That is what you call an oracle?" Batman asked.

Talia retracted the tablet and said with a smile: "Yes. Do you remember the abnormal weather in the Philippine Sea? These stone pillars are the culprit. We found them on the seabed of that sea area, and our experts call them the'Eternal Stone'. ."

She paused, and continued: "You must be wondering how these columns are related to the big blue guy standing here, don't worry, we will get to that part soon. What we know about the'Stone of Eternity' Still very little is known. At present, we only know that they are very powerful space-time energy bodies, which may not belong to this world. Its operation is irregular, and sometimes it releases amazing energy and upsets the sea. Sometimes it will transmit something that shouldn't have appeared in the temporal and spatial flow of different eras and different spaces, and sometimes they will show the user the future and point out a bright way."

"So that's the future that your so-called "Eternal Stone" shows you?" Batman asked in a low voice, "Clone Superman to conquer the world? Does it teach you how to clone Kryptonians?"

"Better than that." Talia smiled strangely, stretched out her slender fingers and operated on the tablet for a while, and then turned the screen upside down to Batman again.

It seems to be from another surveillance video. In the center of the picture is a two-meter-long training cabin, which can be seen through the light yellow glass. The Kryptonian wearing a blue uniform with an "s" logo on his chest is quietly Lying in it. He closed his eyes tightly, his hands interlaced between his abdomen, as if he was asleep.

"...It sent us a real superhuman corpse."

At this moment Batman felt his brain "buzz" and his breathing was almost still.

Just a few days ago, he had just confirmed that Clark Kent was still alive in the world, but had lost his memory and ability, and became an ordinary human being living happily and happily.

And if Talia is telling the truth, does the scene he saw in front of him indicate that one day in the future, Clark will eventually regain his memory, put on his shirt again, and be destined to be in a fiercer battle in the future Dedicated to this world?

This thought made his brain almost stagnated, and he stared at the closed Superman in the flat screen until Talia pulled the screen away from him.

"Where did he come from?" Batman's voice was low to the extreme. "Future?"

Talia shrugged: "Who knows? The'Stone of Eternity' sometimes sends things from the future, sometimes from the past... It is closely connected to the timeline in a special way. It is completely ignorant of how it works. But what is important is that it gave us a gift at the most critical moment of the alliance. This is the key to our ultimate goal."

As she said, she walked to the superman who was standing like a sculpture, patted him on the shoulder, and smiled: "Look, how perfect he is. We copied the entire memory of Chao's life, the smallest since he remembered. He remembers every detail of him clearly. The only change we made was to remove his ethics and code of conduct, and instilled him the standards of the league."

"You mean removing his humanity and soul." Batman said solemnly.

"I just asked him to do what the previous Superman never dared to do, but should have already done." Talia said, "Superman's power is a gift and gift to this decadent world, and he is too cowardly. Not worth having. But now, the alliance will use this power to achieve the ultimate goal we have been pursuing since its establishment! From now on, there will be no wars in the world, human society will be unified, and crime will be eliminated. Humanity will be in the alliance. Leading to an unprecedented era of perfection, I will lead the alliance to accomplish something that even my father has never done!"

"Then you will be the ruler of that new world, won't you?" Batman asked coldly.

Talia smiled: "If people need a leader, then yes, I will take that position."

"Then that makes you no different from other careerists, Talia." Batman said, "and you will join them in their ending-failure."

"Maybe, but it won't be in your hands this time, detective." Talia said, "The reason why I am waiting for you to wake up is except because you are the person in this world I want to share the most with. , And even more because... well, I have to admit that I still have some feelings for you. I still have a trace of luck. I hope you can join me and build a new world together. I can't treat you too. Brainwashing-your strong will always admires me and my father, so you must be voluntary."

"Then you should know my answer."

Talia sighed helplessly: "Of course, I know. You have to know that I still love you, Bruce, but you leave me no choice. You are the biggest obstacle on the way to the league, and I can't take this risk. .But at least I can let you die in the hands of your once best friend, and I believe you won't feel any pain. I only hope that maybe in some parallel time and space, we finally have the chance to get together Right."

She put away the tablet, opened the door of the room, before leaving, winked at the Superman standing in the room: "Kill him."