Chapter 706: Epilogue (End)
Earth.
The mutation of time and space has risen to the extreme, and the foundation of the entire world is in turmoil. The sky was crumbling, and the sun behind the black clouds was unprecedentedly dim, as if every second could release endless energy to engulf the galaxy.
Between the shattered streets, golden currents suddenly flickered in the space, forming the shape of a whirlpool. White arrows shot out from the whirlpool, and the invisible air pressure brought out was like countless sharp blades cutting through the ground covered with rubble, and the wind pressure caused the glass fragments around to explode one after another.
After rushing out of the distance, the car finally stopped, and several white lights dragging a long afterimage condensed into a human form and stopped on the broken street. Brad was half-kneeling on the devastated ground gasping for breath, and Roy and Barbara were just a step or two behind him, also collapsed and in worse condition than he was.
Not long ago, the three of them won an unprecedented decisive battle at the zero o'clock in time, and it felt like half a foot dangling back and forth in the ghost gate countless times, and it was definitely an experience you won't want to try for a second time in your life. At this moment, the three of them felt as if they had collapsed, as if all the energy stored in every cell of their bodies had been released.
The three of them gasped silently, the air filled the air with the smell of gunpowder smoke and the smell of burnt food.
A faint layer of green light seemed to emanate from the void space. In an instant, the heavens and the earth were shrouded in a pale green veil, and the ruins, flames, and smoke of gunpowder all became illusory, and everything seemed to be imprinted on a huge canvas.
"The self-correction of time." Brad whispered, "He did." The power of the mother box is all integrated into the timeline itself, and if Sean is compared to a tumor, then the power of the mother box has helped the space-time itself to completely eliminate it. Now, time is healing itself, clearing the timeline of all anomalies...... Soon the world will return to the way it was before it was modified by him. ”
At this point, Brad's voice gradually became distant. His body seemed to disintegrate into countless white particles, as if attracted into the air by an invisible gravitational force, gradually turning into a translucent color.
Roy asked, "Are you ......?"
Brad smiled slightly.
"It seems that the time of this world still judges me as 'an outlier who does not belong to this time.'" He said softly, "But it doesn't matter, I've done everything I need to do." ”
Roy nodded, and said, "Thank you." Without your words...... We can't do it. ”
Brad smiled and shook his head.
"I should thank you." "I've been away from where I'm supposed to be for too long, I've forgotten who I am, what matters most – I've always been human, and I've always had to make choices from the perspective of a human being," he said. I think...... It's time to end the trip. ”
Barbara also smiled, "Well, I'll see you again." ”
"Ah, definitely."
Half of Brad's body had disappeared, and he stretched out his hand that was almost a ball of white light, and Roy smiled slightly, holding it tightly until the white flash completely turned into a starry white light and dissipated from this space.
Then he turned to Barbara.
"This time...... Thanks to you. He said.
Barbara smiled proudly and happily as she gently leaned into Roy's arms.
The world is shrouded in green light, everything is dissipating, and the color of the sky is fading. In an instant, everything in heaven and earth lost its color, and the dust and smoke were still in the air, and it seemed that only two people were left in the world.
But this is not the end, but a new beginning.
"If that looks like that...... It's spectacular, this view. Barbara snuggled into Roy's arms and said, "To be able to share such a view...... Maybe it's just us. ”
"Ah, yes."
When time is reset, no one will remember that the world was on the verge of destruction, only the two who experienced the decisive battle at the zero o'clock of time will remember.
This is also an adventure that only belongs to the two of them, and it is an absolutely irreplaceable memory.
"Finally...... It's over......"
As if relieved, she was already angry when she said the last sentence. Roy felt the girl in his arms slide limply, his eyelids closed heavily, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep.
"Barbara! Barb!? ”
......
Gotham Hospital.
Doctors and nurses come and go as busy as they always do every day. The sound of footsteps, the cries of the patient's family and the cry of the child mingled, and as on every ordinary day, no one remembered what the world had experienced not so long ago.
At this moment, Roy was anxiously pacing in front of the emergency room door, like an ant on a hot pan. The sign with a red light in front of the emergency room was glaring, and it seemed that he was not so anxious when he experienced the change of time and the destruction of the universe not long ago.
It felt like a century of waiting for the emergency room door to finally open, the doctor striding out, and Roy couldn't wait to catch up.
"Doctor, she'...... What do you think? ”
"It's not a big deal, I may have experienced excessive strenuous exercise just now, and my nervous state is a little too nervous, but now I am just out of strength. Other than that...... There is one more thing to congratulate. ”
Roy didn't feel like he heard the next words...... Or maybe his brain couldn't analyze the meaning of this sentence for a moment, as if the computer was stupidly stuck in place when it encountered a program that could not be parsed. The doctor looked like he had seen too much, smiled slightly, patted him on the shoulder and walked away quickly.
Roy couldn't remember how he got through the door, and it felt like the spirit had only come to his senses when he saw Barbara smiling at him from the hospital bed.
The doctor said...... That's mine...... Child? ”
Barbara didn't speak, but answered him with a big smile.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"You didn't ask." Barbara pouted mischievously, and then her tone softened, "And didn't you say it, there will be a surprise when you come back~"
Roy sighed: "Defeated to you." ”
But I always feel relieved.
It's like the world has accepted his proof, right?
Time in this world had just been reset, and all the people who weren't supposed to exist in the plane had been cleared out, but he stayed.
Roy sat on the edge of the bed and held Barbara's snow-white, slender hand tightly.
You're right, Bishop...... This is where I belong.
He smiled easily, like he had never been so relaxed in his life. (To be continued.) )