Chapter 69: The Bruce Waynes in the Basement
"What the hell is this universe like?"
Young Bruce Wayne asked, lying on the lawn of the estate.
"Lift your head and you'll see." Thomas replied that he hadn't talked to his son like this for a long time.
Bruce Wayne looked up, above the dark sky, there were luxuriant points of light, nebulae flickering, Bruce knew that it was an explosion 10,000 years ago, and the light came to his vision from a distance that he could not imagine.
He couldn't imagine what kind of civilization or scene it was, but in the end, it was just a flash......
"So, what about the places you can't see?" He asked again.
"Can't see it?"
"yes, you can't see it, like over there." Bruce Wayne gestured to the edge of sight in the distance, where there were vague shadows, obscured by clouds that could not be seen, leaving only nothingness: "Or beyond, beyond those stars." ”
Old Thomas was silent, as if he knew something, but he was hesitant to tell his son about it.
He looked at the sky, and after a long time...... "It's another universe. ”
"Something else? Universe? ”
"yes." Old Thomas smiled: "Far, far away, there is another universe, and through that universe, there are many more universes. ”
"How many?"
Like a pot of water, each blister he boils is a universe that, for an infinite amount of time, grows, then breaks, and is finally replaced by another bubble...... Those universes are called planes. ”
Bruce Wayne nodded as if he didn't understand: "So, are those planes different from ours?" ”
Thomas smiled: "Of course it's different, but it's also the same, for example, maybe in countless planes, there are countless you, countless Gotham, but ...... Each of them is different. ”
"It's so much fun!" Bruce sat up excitedly: "If I have the chance, can I meet them?" ”
Thomas looked at the sky, another star was gone, he didn't know what was going on in his head, the night wind blew through the ends of his hair......
"Yes, my son."
He replied lightly......
At that moment, young Bruce Wayne had deep expectations for other planes, of course, there were good planes in these planes, and there were also planes full of planes that should never be a story.
Twisted and deformed, they struggle desperately to survive in the light of their benign multiverse, but they are bound to perish.
Perhaps, this terrible cosmic ...... Where you are, is one of them.
......
......
Somewhere far away.
It's also called Gotham.
Aged Bruce Wayne sits in front of the window......
During a battle, his legs could no longer be lifted, his eyes could no longer adjust to the dark light, and he was confined to a wheelchair with reading glasses.
As the days passed, Bruce felt more and more that he was old and sluggish, and this aging made him feel helpless.
Thereupon. He turns to The Flash for help, hoping to "keep up with the corruption of Gotham" with the power of the Speed Force.
However, the Flash rejected him.
Because Barry has experienced it himself, he knows better than anyone that under the spell of despair and grief that may be coming, Speedforce will be a dangerous drug for Bruce.
Bruce Wayne is a smart guy, and he knows that Barry is right.
Thereupon...... He gladly accepted Barry's words.
But perhaps he didn't even notice it himself, this idea just crept into his heart and hid it......
In the following years, Bruce Wayne gradually adapted to himself as an old man, he read the newspaper every day, watered the flowers, he raised a lot of flowers, and would put a bouquet in front of his parents' grave on time.
Gradually, of course, he got used to putting the same flowers in front of Alfred's grave, and the old man was so old that he would definitely leave on his own first, oh...... I may be soon, too.
Bruce Wayne, start waiting for death......
However, suddenly one morning, he woke up and found himself in a strange cell!?
Where is this?
He didn't know, but, gradually, he was surprised to find that in this cell, all the locked up was himself! Bruce Wayne of all sorts.
It's unbelievable, but he can only choose to accept it.
In this way, Bruce Wayne sat in this cell, waiting for a future that he did not know, and after a long, long time, he even felt that he was going to die here, and finally one day, the door of the cell was opened
......
......
A young man, sitting alone on the lawn of a huge manor, also looking up at the starry sky.
However, he was not thinking about the vast universe, but about his parents.
When he was 8 years old, the sound of gunfire always echoed in his ears...... The sound had kept him awake for years, though now he was able to sleep peacefully...... But that's just adaptation, not forgetfulness.
"Hi, young man."
Suddenly, a green light opened in front of the young man, and a man with a green glow appeared in front of Bruce Wayne.
The man stretched out his hand, and in the palm of his hand was a ring that glowed green.
"You've been chosen, my child......"
Everyone who overcomes their fears has the potential to be chosen by the Ring of Light to become the guardian of the Green Lantern Legion.
Bruce Wayne shuddered and picked up the ring......
No one knew that he hadn't overcome his fear, which was only covered up in anger and adapted to the long memories.
This time, the ring was chosen by the wrong person......
Years later, a green planet far away on the edge of the universe lost its luster with a bang.
The entire planet was littered with eruptions and torn land, ruins and corpses, and only the grown Bruce Wayne stood on the top of a high mountain, looking at the planet that was about to be destroyed at his feet.
He exuded a pale yellow, the color of the green light of the lamp ring mixed with blood.
He was the one who destroyed it all.
"The night is vast, stifle the glow! The day is blue, and there will be no king! The morning light is shining, and the midnight is everlasting! The light is always bright, and the dawn is black! ”
Bruce tampered with the Green Lantern Legion's oath. He didn't want to be Bruce Wayne, and he didn't want to be Green Lantern; He stood in the glow of the blood-stained green light, but he felt as if he had been submerged in shadows; He had never escaped from the cave under his parents' old house, where he was still in the company of darkness and bats.
He angrily took off the lamp ring, all of which made no sense.
"Come on, punish me!"
He shouted at the sky.
And in the next second, he was surprised to find that he was already in a prison cell......