17. The Peacemaker: Barry Allen

Cyborg's fate is tragic, he is absent from the defeat of the Justice League, and his support does not play a role, and in the face of surreal magical forces, the science he believes in cannot be turned around... I can only stand outside the space station and watch my brothers being defeated one by one.

After that, the station's connection with the ground was severed.

The members of the Justice League did not find a way to go back to the space station, but due to their serious injuries and the barrier of the space gem, after they returned to the space station, the building was already empty.

The steel bones are missing... And judging by the tragic experience of Arthur, the king of the sea, he is most likely dead.

But just when everyone's hopes were dimmed, a small meteorite fell from the sky to change this terrible fate, the first little lightning to see the steel skeleton embedded in the small meteorite, his mechanical body has been shattered, even the mysterious mechanical mother box that sustains life has traces of dismantling, theoretically speaking, he is dead.

"Bruce, Clark, come on, Cyborg... I've found the steel bones!"

While struggling to separate his companions and comrades from the meteorite, Little Lightning sent a message to the other members, and soon, the robots and Justice League brains who had lost their life activities were sent to the most high-end laboratory on Earth, and the host of this laboratory was none other than Steelbone's father, Professor Stone.

He is one of the wisest and most knowledgeable people in this timeline world.

"It is clear that our brothers have been treated inhumanely!"

Clark stood outside the heavy glass observation chamber as he looked at the steel skeleton that had been placed on the mechanical test bench, repaired little by little in the beating of sparks and electricity, his fists clenched.

"Not an overlord!"

Bruce stood aside and whispered, "That guy uses more mysterious magical powers, and the steel skeleton's body is systematically disassembled, and it should be done by a guy who is also proficient in technology... There seems to be a cyborg in the Dark Bat, too..."

"It's a killing machine! I've seen that guy!"

Green Lantern Hal said in a deep voice: "He wears a high-tech suit, and usually uses a method called "Alfred Protocol" to attack opponents, which is a nano-scale micro-robot recombination attack program, which appears in the image of old Ah Fu. ”

"There is no doubt that it was my other "dark" brother. ”

Batman shook his head: "It looks like in his world, Ah Fu's fate is terrible. ”

"Bang"

The door to the laboratory was pushed open, and Wonder Woman in a red coat walked in quickly, she looked like she was sober, she grabbed Batman's arm, and her whole body was full of sharp breath, she asked in a deep voice:

"How's the plot of Cyborg?"

Bruce patted Diana on the shoulder and motioned for her to calm down:

"It looks terrible, but Dr. Stone says that the core of Cyborg's mind is only short-circuited and dormant due to intense stimuli, and he will soon wake up. ”

"What did those bastards do to him?"

Diana pressed her hands to the glass observation room in front of her, she looked at the reconstituted steel bones, her eyes beating with a painful light: "What do they want from this poor man?"

"Nobody knows... At least until the Cyborg awakens, no one knows..."

Clark looked at his badly injured friend, and he whispered, "Arthur is dead, Steelbone is badly wounded, it was all done by the dark bat, and just when we were attracted by the hatred of the overlord, we lost two brothers... The Black Hawk lady was right, perhaps, the evil-looking Overlord was not our enemy. ”

"The least is not the most intractable enemy. ”

The Flash continued: "I just made a sneak trip to Gotham, and beyond my expectations, he didn't carry out a massacre in that city, not even a single civilian, to be honest, I think Gotham under his rule is safer than the previous crime city, and the people there seem to have gotten used to the new life..."

A strange expression jumped on the face of the fastest young man in the world:

"He used demons and dark knights to maintain order, but it didn't cause panic among the townspeople, I don't know how he did it, but the current situation there, like a paradise, is much better than other chaotic places, and I'm sure he found out about my incursion, but he didn't do anything to me, it's like... It's like they don't see me as a threat at all. ”

"He looks like we're kids... Maybe as friends?"

Speaking of this, Barry Jr.'s mood was somewhat depressed, while Hal closed his eyes and said in a deep voice:

"Are your friends going to beat you up? Barry, he's still a butcher... The Green Lantern Legion was killed by him! This revenge must be avenged!"

"But that's because of the sudden invasion of the Green Lantern Corps, which caused all the dark bats that were originally caught by him to escape!"

Barry retorted in a whisper:

"I can see very clearly, if it weren't for the undeclared war of the Green Lantern Legion, the Dark Bat would have died there, and there would be no current trouble at all, from this point of view, Arthur's death and the serious injury of the steel bone, the Green Lantern Corps has an unshirkable responsibility... Although I also think they did nothing wrong, it was just a bad accident. ”

In the face of the Flash's rebuttal, Hal instinctively was a little angry, but he didn't know how to respond, just as Barry faintly accused, this time the Green Lantern Legion's actions, even in the eyes of Hal who has now calmed down, are indeed a little reckless, the Watcher Elders seem to be controlled by some dark emotion, and they simply summon all the Lantern Heroes regardless of it...

And if you think about it carefully, that overlord doesn't seem to have done anything terrible since he appeared, and the largest number of deaths under his hands are criminals and wicked people who should have died... Even during the siege of Gotham, he did not kill or injure even a single ordinary soldier.

"So, in this not-so-fun story, we're the villains, right?"

Hal looked at the ring on his finger self-deprecatingly, and he whispered, "So now, who is righteous and who is evil?"

"Bang"

In the midst of a few unpleasant conversations, the restoration work in front of him paused, and Dr. Stone, tired and sad, pushed open the door and said to the other heroes:

"Boys, come here, I've found something in the core of Little Stone's mind... You may be interested. ”

"Doctor, how's Victor doing?"

The rest of the Justice League rushed in, and Superman patted Dr. Stone on the shoulder and asked in a low voice, "He... Will you ever wake up?"

"That mysterious mother box protects my son's soul, and now I have to thank for the damn accident, his body was just dismantled and only needed to be replaced with a steel body, but we are not good at soul research. ”

The old doctor was a little sad, he looked at Superman, and a difficult smile appeared on his face:

"Thankfully, he's still alive, but he may need some time to recuperate. ”

"And what do you want to show us?"

Bruce asked, and the old doctor reached out and pressed a button, and some clear projections appeared on the wall on the other side of the laboratory:

"It's memory... Victor himself has made some modifications to his mechanical body, he has stored his memories in the form of pictures in the core of his mind, I think, these memories buried in the deepest part of the core are what he wants you to see..."

"Huh"

The fragmented images swirled back and forth on the projection, and finally converged into a wobbling image, which seemed to be the swaying of the head in pain, but it could be vaguely seen that it was a structure similar to that of a space station laboratory, and in Victor's memory, in front of his eyes, there were two dark figures.

"It's the Laughing Bat and the Killing Machine!"

Barry shouted, "Sure enough, it's them!"

"Quiet!"

Diana reprimanded, and Barry obediently shut her mouth.

"Hiss... Mother box... The tenth metal... That's from... The Crucible of Universe... The core of the origin..."

In the picture, the laughing bat is saying something to the killing machine, but it is intermittent that it is probably because of Cyborg's bad mood at the time, which caused him to have problems receiving sounds, and the picture is also a little torn, but he can barely see it clearly.

"Extinguish the furnace... Extinguish it with N metal... Let the universe be darkened... Barbatos... Wishes, we... Devastationive... Future. ”

As he spoke, the Laughing Bat approached Cyborg, and he stretched out his fingers and lifted Steelbone's head up, revealing a hideous smile:

"Victor... You will be... Devastationive... The starting point!"

"Ahh

"Huh"

With a scream from the steel bones, the picture ends here, but it is only less than 10 seconds of footage, but it makes the heroes of the Justice League look at each other, because the information contained in this simple picture is a little too huge.

"Cosmic Crucible?"

Superman and Batman glanced at each other, both seeing the surprise in each other's eyes, thanks to past adventures, they are no strangers to this concept, which is one of the ultimate forces that maintain the existence of the universe, it exists in a special time and space, and the extinguishing of the cosmic furnace represents the tragic end of all things.

"N Metal!"

Batman muttered, "I've seen descriptions of this metal in Carter Hall's diary!"

"Carter Hall?"

Barry looked at Bruce in surprise, "He has something to do with this?"

"In fact, in the annals of history, Carter Hall is the only mortal hero to defeat Barbatos, and it is because of this victory that he and his wife have the mysterious N metal in their bodies, which has allowed them to be reincarnated for thousands of years... Carter Hall said that it was a mysterious metal, that it did not come from the world, that it was above the laws of physics... It's a weird metal that exists specifically to distort reality!"

"And this thing has the ability to kill the dark forces with one blow!"

Batman clenched his fists, and he glanced back at the unconscious Cyborg:

"Victor woke me up... Those dark bats are collecting N metals! They raided Atlantis for this! Arthur once told me that the original Aquaman had a weird habit of collecting all sorts of weird metals... Damn, they should already have enough metal to extinguish the cosmic furnace!"

"Brothers, we need to get there!"

Superman Clark looked at the others and said in a deep voice, "We need to stop the Dark Bats from doing anything!"

"Wait!

Batman grabbed him, he glanced at the others, and whispered, "There's another possibility... These images may have been deliberately left behind by the dark bats... They want to cover up their original purpose, and they are as cunning as their dark masters..."

"So what to do?"

Hal hesitated, after all, what Bruce said was also very likely.

"The soldiers are divided into two ways!"

Bruce looked back at the darkness on the wall, and he muttered, "Diana and I continue to look for the dark bats, Clarke, you and Hal go to the cosmic furnace to have a look." ”

"What about me?"

Little Lightning Barry looked left and right, pointed to himself and said, "What should I do?"

Bruce looked at the Flash, he stepped forward, put his hands on Barry's shoulders, and said solemnly and solemnly:

"Your task is the most daunting... Barry, this is a mission that could kill you!"

"You have to go to Gotham, contact the Overlord, if we're not enemies, then we should stand together now, whatever he thinks about the world, wait until we repel this wave of darkness... Now he is a force we can unite!"

Bruce's task made Barry's body tremble a little, and he looked left and right, his voice trembling a little:

"For... Why me?"

"Because the Overlord is kind to you..."

Diana whispered, "He didn't hesitate to beat Clarke, almost strangled Bruce, and killed all of Hal's friends, as for me... For some personal reasons, I didn't want to be in front of him... Aren't you very good at making friends? ”

"And as you just said, you can feel that the overlord treats you as a friend who is not a threat, doesn't you?"

Green Lantern hugged his shoulders and sneered, "You still speak for him... Maybe he'll look at it, and maybe he won't break your neck the moment you appear. ”

"Alright, don't scare Barry!"

Bruce muttered, his eyes under the mask staring at the Flash in front of him: "Trust me, Barry! That's not a killer, I can feel that he came to our world with a higher purpose, and out of a certain state of mind, unwilling to explain his intentions to us, but no matter what, good or evil, it's time for the wrong war to end... The hope of peace is up to you now!"

Batman paused, approached Barry, and lowered his voice:

"And most importantly, if he's really hostile to us, there's only your speed to escape his killing... Therefore, this task must be completed by you and only by you!"