Night, eleven o'clock in the evening, Gotham. Gotham, who has experienced the destruction of the alien W with Thomas Elliott and the Joker and his henchmen, also began to rise from the darkness under the leadership of Cowen and Batman, ushering in a new life, after the boss of several underground forces in Gotham was imprisoned in the Gotham Black Gate Prison, and the upper class belonging to Gotham was also purged in the riots that caused it, and many positions were also vacated.

Giving those careerists and politicians who have never met with talents a chance, an undercurrent of new people replacing old ones is unfolding in the city of Gotham, but these people understand that the citizens of Gotham today are no longer the people who used to be dismissed by casual public opinion. Batman, as a banner, has taught them to question the so-called truth of the government, and the promulgation and implementation of those policies and regulations will be watched by these people.

Under the spontaneous surveillance of such citizens, the crime city of Gotham seems to have ushered in a turning point, when people go out or return home at night, they don't have to worry too much about a few evil people with knives and even guns coming out of the dark alleys, because the police cars patrolling the streets from time to time, the flashing police lights will make them feel at ease. The bat lantern shining on the night sky softened in their eyes.

Because they know that the Dark Knight, who belongs to the city of Gotham, will always be watching in the dark those bastards who want to do evil things and keep them firmly locked in a dark cage. Even if they didn't know it, the Dark Knight hadn't been active at night in Gotham for almost a month, and only the light was still on in the Gotham night.

That's good, when Batman slowly becomes a symbol in people's minds, a spirit, no matter what kind of evil exists in the city, darkness, it will not be like in the past, people can't see hope, can't see the sun. And the newly-born Gotham City, after enjoying nearly a month of sunny weather, also returned to the weather atmosphere it once again had on this day.

Dark clouds hung over Gotham City, lightning flickered its teeth and claws in the clouds, and the accompanying light outlined the clouds as a beast that chose to devour, followed by the roar of the beast. The raindrops of beans fell on the nascent city like drooling from a wild beast. In such an environment, no one wants to go out, including those who like to do things in the dark.

Like the citizens of Gotham, they were all listening to the radio or watching TV during such thunderstorms, pouring themselves a glass of wine or a cup of coffee, and then looking through the window at the storm. This kind of weather in Gotham City in the past, basically back every week, has long been used to. But after feeling the warmth of the sun for nearly a month, when I saw this kind of weather again, both the citizens of Gotham and those criminals had a sense of ambivalence.

On the one hand, they do miss Gotham at that time, after all, they don't see the sun all year round, and Gotham is always cloudy, rainy, and foggy, which is all they have lived in. On the other hand, I feel that this weather is too depressing, especially after enjoying the warm sunshine, this storm came too suddenly, without any warning, even the Meteorological Bureau is commenting on this storm, so that people living in the city feel that the Gotham shadow that has been asked has caught up again.

Trying to shroud the reborn city and turn it back to the Gotham of the past.

And in this stormy weather of thunder and lightning, in an apartment building in Gotham, there is a different scene, the floor-to-ceiling windows of the balcony are open, and a shadow is stretched under the light of lightning. And everywhere this elongated shadow reaches, on the walls and on the floor, there are splatters of blood, and in the dark room, with lightning flashing from time to time, it directly pulls people into the set of horror movies.

The shadows moved around the room in the light of lightning, and as the shadows moved, they also saw the source of the blood that was splattered on the walls, an elderly couple who had died. The woman was stabbed straight to the heart, and the fatal injury of a blow was only inconsistent with the fatal injury of this blow, but the expression of extreme fear on her face, the bruised tendons, and her eyes widened, as if she had seen something unacceptable before she died.

The man was beside her, and he died in the same way, but the difference was that his face was peeled off, and he could only see his unblinded eyes as his wife, with the same horror. The muscles under the skin of the face were also tense, he was still alive and conscious, the skin of the face was peeled off, and in the middle of the couple, there was an empty seat, a silhouette of the figure, there was once someone, sleeping among them.

"Master Bruce, I thought you would enjoy your time with Lady Diana in this stormy weather where pedestrians and cars can't travel, but it seems that you missed the appointment, Lady Diana is doing martial arts training in the watchtower, and you are the training object."

The lightning pierced the night sky, and also illuminated the owner of this shadow, it was Batman who had not been active in Gotham for a long time, and now that the order of Gotham is getting better, the time he is active as Batman is much less frequent than before. Only this time, he had to appear at the scene of the murder, and Batman, who was just observing the scene, also received Alfred's communication and ridicule in his words.

Only this old man who raised Batman can contact Batman at the first time, and he can also know Batman's location at the moment. At this time, sitting in front of the Batcave computer under Wayne Manor, Alfred looked at the location displayed on the computer and said there.

"Sixteen Diamond Street, is there anything worth your attention there, Lord Bruce."

"Nothing, Alfred, just a burglary." Walking in the room, Batman looked at the arrangements in the room, which can explain the living situation of the couple, childless, the Dinks, and Alfred in the Batcave was also puzzled by Batman's answer, a burglary homicide, as for letting Batman go out, it is not that it is disrespectful to life, but according to the frequency of cases that occurred in Gotham before, Batman has a sequence.

"So, the modus operandi of this homicide, and the murderer is very special?"

"Yes, the deceased was an elderly couple with no children, who were good people and had good living conditions. They were killed, nothing was taken from them, they were just killed, and the murderer just slept in their bed, as if to enjoy the feeling..."

Listening to Batman's analysis, Alfred also frowned, because of such a description, and by the shared vision attached to Batman's mask, he could also see the scene. As Batman said, the murderer just slept in the bed, and between the two old men, it was like a young child sleeping next to his parents. This kind of unpredictable motive for killing, random killing, Alfred has only seen in one guy.

"Sounds like a clown would do something, some pathological copycat?"

"No, he did it, I'm convinced."

At this time, Batman also found a ghost card painted purple under the pillow, his eyes narrowed slightly, this ghost card, he also had an identical one in the Batcave.

"What did the clown do? But he...

"Dead, I know, you and I were there, watching him die, but, as he said at the end, I still don't know his name, and he's watching me now, maybe somewhere, waiting for me to step in."

At this time, the lightning pierced the night sky, and a black shadow also appeared in the brief light of the lightning, and Batman turned his head, but saw an owl flying in the storm, at this time, it opened its claws, and caught a prey that also came out to forage in the storm, a bat. The owl that had preyed on it stopped on the balcony of this homicide, looking at Batman with glowing eyes in the dark while enjoying the prey he caught.

Seeing the owl eating the bat that he symbolized, Batman also felt a little unhappy, and looked at the murder scene caused by the clown, so he said to Alfred: "Inform Gordon and let him come over, and besides, Alfred, don't tell Talia or Dick about the Joker." ”

"But Lord Bruce..."

"I don't want them to be implicated, it's my affair with the clown!"

Batman, who cares most about his family these days, doesn't want to involve his family in a feud with the Joker, especially when he knows that there are still two more Jokers active. He had already lost once, and now, his son, daughter, lover, friends, these are all things he cares about, and he can't lose a second time, and Alfred, who communicates with Batman in front of the computer, also understands the reason why Batman said this, and after being silent for a while, he also agreed.

Communication is cut off, and Batman prepares to leave after making sure that the scene has not been destroyed by his own entry, just as Batman is about to leave from the balcony. A lightning bolt streaked through the sky again, but the lightning fell in the area where Batman was, to be precise, behind Batman, the owl that was eating, and the lightning fell, directly turning the owl into ashes, and the shockwave brought by it also made Batman roll to the edge.

"Bruce..."

Just when Batman was puzzled by this sudden lightning, the lightning that fell behind him did not disperse, but a voice came out from inside, directly saying Batman's name.

"Who are you!"

Batman asked directly, because at this time, he could see that there was a person in the lightning, but this person was wrapped in lightning, so that he could not see the whole picture.

"Bruce, I need your help..."

"You know me, but I don't remember a lightning bolt in my circle of friends. Even for Shazam, lightning is nothing more than an ability. ”

"I'm not harnessing lightning, you know me, I'm just getting younger, help me, I'm Wo..."

Before the words were finished, a thunderbolt fell from the sky again, and the man who was wrapped in thunder and lightning and tried to ask Batman for help was taken away, and everything was gone. It was as if nothing had happened, except for the owl that had turned to ashes under the thunder and lightning, indicating that nothing was an illusion, and Batman stood there, looking at the owl that had turned to ashes, his eyes narrowing slightly.

"Wo... It's not a simple reboot, something is erased, something is replaced, and something, it's saved, isn't it, clown? ”

Batman, who had previously confirmed that the universe he was in now had undergone a reboot, just from this thunderbolt and the mysterious man who was wrapped in thunder and lightning just now, he connected some of the information he wanted in his mind, but this was only information. Even if he understood, he had to focus on what was in front of him now, and there were two clowns at large, who would put himself, his family and friends in danger, at any time, and he had to find the clown.

Batman left, and the storm that raged in Gotham for a night slowly dissipated in the morning when the sun rose, and the sun shone on the ground, and the fresh air brought by the rain and clear sky made the citizens of Gotham feel relaxed after listening to the thunder all night. And the murder scene that Alfred informs Gordon to rush to is just a small episode in Gotham's life, after all, accidents happen every day.

No one cared about the storm that happened in Gotham last night, and as for Batman, he didn't tell Alfred that he had checked the scene of the murder caused by the Joker last night, and the conversation between the two of them who were wrapped in lightning. It's just that Alfred can feel that after telling himself that the Joker is still alive last night, he can feel that the Batman buried in his heart named Bruce Wayne is returning, and Bruce Wayne will also become a mask.

And in this plausible new 52 universe, everything continues, and Dr. Manhattan temporarily leaves the multiverse to do his own experiments after watching Curwen go through this Darkseid War. And the mysterious man who appeared on the stormy night of Gotham, who had a conversation with Batman, was also carried by lightning at this time, wandering outside this universe, looking at everything on Earth today from the perspective of a bystander, this is the planet he lives on, but everything has changed.

In the dimension enveloped in lightning, he watched it all, where there was no concept of time, only the pain of tearing at his own flesh. And he was enduring this pain, trying to get out of it, he needed someone to remember his name, but his face, everything about him, was restricted and shielded by the thunder and lightning that wrapped him, and he saw the Flash, but he couldn't even say a complete sentence, and he couldn't even show his appearance.

"I need someone to help me, Batman failed, but there must be something different in this world, I want to find out!"

Wandering outside the universe, he muttered after meeting Batman, and then, wrapped in his own lightning, took him through the timeline of this universe five years ago, that is, the time when the Justice League was founded. That sudden invasion of the heavens also contributed to the establishment of the Justice League, the powerful Dark Monarch Darkseid, the superheroes who fought separately were defeated, the Iron Man was captured, and then the united superheroes defeated the Dark Monarch and regained the sovereignty of the earth.

Then at the United Nations General Assembly, the birth of the Justice League was announced, and he saw all this outside the universe, but fell into doubt.

"No, it's not because of Darkseid's invasion that there was a Justice League, you, like me, have become younger, but it's also changed, the Justice League wasn't founded because of Darkseid, no..."

After reading the history of the birth of the Justice League, he wanted to jump out of this point in time to tell them that something was wrong with the timeline, but Raiden pulled him back again, back to that dimension outside the universe. Then, he continued to make a leap in time.

Then, he saw the scene of Atlantis declaring war on land, and also saw a simple confrontation between Batman and Superman before the establishment of the Justice League, everything was different from what he remembered, but it was not over yet. He knew that the disappeared things existed, but they were hidden in another way, and thinking like this, he followed his mind and crossed time again to the current point in time, Canterlot.

On the outskirts of Central City, the original Flash, in the old 52 era, Jay Garrick, as the first superhero organization, a member of the Justice Society, was cooking dinner at home. And just when Jay, the old man, was busy working in the kitchen, thunder and lightning appeared in his house, and the sudden sound and movement also startled Jay, and then, the person wrapped in lightning appeared in front of him.

"Jay Garrick, remember, you were once a hero..."

"Yes, I'm clear, but I'm just Jay Garrick now. So, who are you? ”

The original Flash responded there, not wary of the mysterious man in front of him who could not see his true face, on the contrary, he felt familiar. But the speed power in his body has been entrusted to Ke Wen, and he who has turned back into a mortal is just an ordinary old man, who does not have any ability to think at high speed, so he naturally cannot break through the limitations of the universe on him.

"You're just Jay Garrick? You don't remember me either? Your speed, your hat, your identity! ”

The mysterious man was also surprised when he listened to Jay's story, the jump was so fast that he didn't see everything that had happened in the past five years, but he understood that this universe that excluded him was not only different in some places, but also had some things that he didn't know.

"I entrusted it to the future, a future that moves forward instead of repeating itself, I can't help you with anything, but you can go to the future I entrusted, he can help you, his name..."

Before Jay could finish his words, lightning pulled the mysterious man who appeared in front of him again, making it disappear in front of him. Jay, on the other hand, was able to recognize what the lightning bolt that pulled the mysterious man was, the power he had once gained, the speed of the gods.

"Speedsters? Who did I forget? Jay muttered there.

No one could answer Jay's question, and the mysterious speedster who appeared in front of Jay was once again dragged away by the speed force and continued to sink in the speed force barrier, but he also finally got some important information. Everyone can't remember him, including Jay, a former member of the Justice Society, one of the first superheroes in history, but he mentioned the future in the words he told himself, and he entrusted his power to the future, a future that keeps moving forward, and there will be no loops.

"I've got to find this future, the one Jay has been entrusted with, and I'm going to start before they become superheroes!"

Whispering, with the ability to control the speed force at this time, he once again crossed the long river of time, and came to the Justice League members before they became heroes, if there was anything different from what he remembered, then, it was best to look from the beginning. Then, as a bystander, he looked again at the place where it all began, the destruction of Krypton, and the baby named Carl El took a spaceship to the small town of Smoville, Kansas, and became Clark Kent, and under the education of the Kents, he began to think about the meaning of his power to the world.

Then came Gotham, Crime Alley, and with two gunshots, the boy looked at his parents lying in a pool of blood, and the seeds of hatred grew.

Paradise Island, the girl looked at the sky by the sea under the admonition of her elders, thinking about what was beyond this barrier.

In Seaside City, a young boy sits in a hangar with his pilot's father, looking up at the stars and thinking about what lies beyond the earth.

At the lighthouse of Grace Harbor, the boy looked into the distance and was thinking about the same question.

Everything is the same as he remembers, including the younger Aquaman Arthur proposing to Mera in the port of mercy, but the difference is that the boy with the power of the six gods replaces another Martian visitor, and then, the boy's true identity is revealed and he is kicked out, and the timeline correction allows the Martian guest to return to the Justice League. And at this time, he also noticed the difference.

"No, as far back as I can remember, Shazam wasn't a member of the Titans, is that the difference, so isn't the entrusted future hidden in this anomaly?"

At this time, he had been sunk in the barrier of the speed force for too long, and he was about to lose control and completely become a part of the speed force, so he could only gamble. Following the time node when Shazam was kicked to the Young Titan, he jumped directly to the current point in time in Naxino City, and after skipping everything, he finally saw the existence that he had no impression in his memory at all.

His friend Nightwing, Dick Grayson, was chatting with another young Chinese man in a bar. And when he focused on this young Chinese man, he could feel the speed of his body, echoing with himself.

"This is the future that Jay has been entrusted with? Can he help me? ”

With the last hope, he once again broke through the barrier of the speed force and made a final stand.