The world gradually returned to normal after nearly 72 hours of shutdown due to war.

There was no such thing as liquidating the capitulationists, but Mason didn't care about it.

In the process, he even uncharacteristically put aside his plans for the future and those plans that could never be completed, and instead helped the injured recover from the injuries in Dr. Leslie's clinic.

This battle not only shocked the world, but also made Mason more deeply aware of the impact of chaos.

The sight of seven cities in the blue plume of neutron extermination came back to me at midnight, giving the captain a deeper understanding of the cause he had been advancing.

He didn't want to see the same thing happen again.

At noon on the third day after the war, in the observation ward of Leslie Clinic, Mason, wearing a white coat, handed a sealed box of potions to Oliver Quinn, a handsome uncle in casual clothes in front of him.

The latter came to pick up his girlfriend home.

The black canary Dinah he was holding on to still had gauze on her face, which was the scar left by Staro, a starfish who had been kidnapped by the Skrulls.

It should have been a difficult injury to deal with, but Mason used alchemy to help her save a face that was important to the heroine.

"After you go back, take care of your injuries, and remember to continue to use the beauty potion for at least half a month to allow the scar to completely dissipate."

Mason looked at the middle-aged uncle and old aunt in front of him, who were similar to the old man and Catwoman, and he advised:

"I understand that you two have just experienced a life-and-death parting, but in the next three days, try not to engage in strenuous activities."

"We're not young people who don't know anything!"

Green Arrow felt that Mason was long-winded, and he meant something.

But he was also embarrassed to lose his temper, so he could only thank Mason very bluntly. If it weren't for the young man in front of him, whom he once regarded as a dangerous person, he and Dinah would have been separated forever.

The black canary thanked him vigorously, and was sent away by his rich and dashing boyfriend in a luxury car.

"That's the last superhero patient, the rest are ordinary people, we can handle it."

Dr. Leslie's voice came from the door of the clinic, and Mason glanced back to see Dr. Lylith, who was in her fifties but maintained like a young woman in her thirties, standing in the doorway, a little tired.

With coffee in her left hand and her right hand in her pocket, she looked at Mason with a gentle smile peculiar to an elder, and the feeling in her eyes was like looking at a junior who had finally become a talent.

"I've heard you've done a lot of great things since you left here."

The doctor who took Mason in laughed and said:

"Even the whole world owes you a favor this time, Mason."

"I'm more curious where you heard about what I did after I left, as far as I know, I rarely move around this world."

Mason pushed the frame on the bridge of his nose and squeezed his eyes to tease the doctor.

The two of them get along in a similar way to the past, and Mason has deep respect for the old aunt in front of him who taught him how to deal with wounds and sutures.

Still, the smile on Dr. Leslie's face disappeared from the hint of implication, and she straightened up and said:

"From your adoptive father, of course! Every time Gordon eats with me, he talks about what you did with Barbara as if he were reporting work, and I'm not interested in it.

Hey, that old man is really hopeless. ”

"Don't say that, doctor, Gordon saved a lot of people this time."

Mason shook his head, took off his lab coat and folded it to Dr. Leslie, and said:

"The city is spreading the prestige of Sheriff Hero, and he will also have a dual identity in the future, and you and his reunion are destined to encounter many twists and turns.

Maybe the next time Barbara and I come home for dinner, he'll introduce you to us as the hostess of the Gordon House. ”

"The stinky boy just can't speak, who wants to be the mistress of that broken house?"

Dr. Leslie blushed, twisted his head, and said rather coquettishly.

But when she turned around, there was no Mason beside her, like those legendary superheroes who turned their stories, just turned around, and a certain old man who was still beside her just now disappeared like a ghost.

"It's really hard to learn well, and if you learn badly, you slip away!"

The old aunt, who had been busy for several days, stretched her body in place, planning to leave work early, so she dialed a number and said that she wanted to eat home-cooked food tonight, so the sheriff had to return home early to prepare a candlelight dinner.

And in the alley across the street, Za Kang, who was smoking a cigarette, said very unhappily to Mason, who was reshaping the water body next to him:

"You're going to play this Batman's disappearance game with your future legal adoptive mother, why do you have to call me over? Did you know I'm busy? ”

"I know, I can see it."

Mason glanced at the red strawberry around Zakang's neck and said:

"Excuse me about your and Xiaozha's good deeds?"

"Hey, I think it's beautiful, Xiao Zha is in retreat to learn magic, just now I was renewing the front edge with Xiao Jing, and I was just about to come to the second shot when I was called by you, you bastard!"

The sassy mage slammed the cigarette butt from the corner of his mouth on the ground and stomped on it, scolding:

"If your good deeds are interrupted, you can't look down on others, right?"

"What are you talking about?"

Mason was surprised and said:

"I'm okay with Harley."

"I know you're okay with Hallie, but I'm not talking about Hallie."

Za Kang rubbed his hands and said cheaply:

"It's Lord Ciri, there's gossip that a certain innocent-looking little bastard almost killed his distracted female boss in the hospital room, and even took off his pants.

Okay, Mason, don't you see, you still like to play this hand? Do you want your buddy to give you some tips? ”

"Who is this news from? Ciri and I are innocent! ”

Mason scolded angrily, but then remembered that the witness that night was a swordsman who had always been unreliable, so he reached out and covered his eyes with a headache.

It wasn't the gossip he was worried about, but the fact that Harley wasn't easy to explain.

"Send me to Rome."

Mason said very tiredly, Zakang was stunned for a moment and then reacted, he peeked at Mason's expression and reached out to open a portal to the city of Rome.

When the captain stepped into it, Za Kang, who had re-lit a cigarette, patted him on the shoulder behind his back and whispered:

"That's not your fault, don't put any more pressure on yourself. This is war, and casualties are inevitable. ”

"I know, I've convinced myself."

Mason didn't look back and said:

"I just want to go there before I leave and let everyone know that there will be a meeting in Osborne Tower in three hours, everybody has to be there, and the plans and policies for the next phase need to be discussed."

"Damn, I'm really full to comfort you, but you turned around and threw me a notice of meeting, you have no conscience!"

Za Kang scolded.

Mason stood in the portal and glanced back at him, and said:

"Three hours isn't enough for you to finish a friendly cannon?"

"Of course not enough!"

Konstantin snapped his fingers and calculated:

"Crystal has another time, Colypso owes three times, and my little pet Emilia has been in a manic period of thirst recently, and I'm going to take the opportunity to hook up with Storm Girl

Why don't you give me eight hours? ”

"Xiao Za, that thunder is really light."

Mason spoiled, turned and disappeared into the swirling curtain of light amid the lewd laughter of Zakcon, and in the next moment crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the outside of Rome in Europe.

The city in front of me is still in ruins.

Black Strange is not a volunteer repairman, so it is naturally impossible for him to repair the war losses of the entire world, and the location of the city of Rome is special.

The city was one of seven destroyed by the Warlocks with neutron extermination, and the lives lost in the beams were the most horrific casualties in this lifeless place, compared to the loss of the city's buildings.

The residual radiation from the neutron killing was still there, and no one could get close to the ruins, so someone erected a monument outside the city, and the bottom was already filled with mourning flowers.

Mason stands in front of a monument made from the wreckage of a crashed Trail Explorer spacecraft.

He reached out and took a bouquet of white flowers from his bag and placed it on it, closing his eyes for a moment of silence.

He didn't know what to say, but the dead life in front of him seemed to be watching him from the air, and the heavy pressure made Mason's spine bend a little.

"Are you posturing? Or do you want to use this method to express your joy at victory and fear at defeat? ”

A strong woman's voice rang out behind Mason.

He didn't look back, and after a dozen seconds, another bouquet of flowers was placed under the monument, which was laid down by a dark-skinned woman in a formal suit.

She looks majestic in her sunglasses, and the Tianyanhui logo on her chest represents her identity.

Amanda Waller, Head of the Secret Forces of the Eye Society.

Of course, the real Waller would have died in the crash ten minutes before the neutron extermination arrived in Washington, and Mason was no more than a pretender.

"Don't talk to me with this skin, Brother A."

Mason didn't open his eyes, he whispered:

"It makes me feel like I'm talking to the dead, and besides, I think you should hurry, the survivors of the whole world are angry with you war initiators.

Once they knew that there was a remnant of the stars hiding here, the wrath of the whole world would follow. ”

"Anger without strength is only a sign of impotence, and therefore I am not afraid of your revenge, which is your victory, not of this world.

They are still weak. ”

The "devouring" beside him trembled as he spoke, and in an instant, he reverted back to the gloomy appearance of Alex Mercer's emaciated young man with a black hood.

With his hands in his pockets, he stood with Mason in front of the war memorial, and said:

"Did the red of all things bring? And my real body. ”

"It's all here."

Mason patted his bag, opened his eyes and glanced at the person beside him, and said:

"But you want me to give them to you, at least give me a reason, right?"

"That's not something that makes people feel comfortable."

Brother A said in a stiff tone:

"Why don't we waste this time pretending to be friends, play these games of sharing the past, you give me the things, and I promise that they will not appear in your sphere of influence in the future."

"What? Are you in a hurry? ”

Mason said teasingly, and pressed it on his watch.

More than ten seconds later, Wonder Woman's stealth fighter roared from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, hovering over the vicinity.

Wonder Woman, dressed in classic costumes, and a shrunken version of the Queen of War in black armor jump out of the stealth fighter one after the other, and Diana still clutches a large pocket that is constantly struggling.

The two of them landed not far away, blocking Brother A's escape route from two directions, but Devouring didn't care about it, and the A-class officer said in a relaxed tone:

"Killing this creature clone won't give me anything to lose, but once the Black Light Virus breaks out on a large scale, the world you've just captured will be plunged into the next round of chaos in an instant.

Mason, you're not going to bet on this kind of thing, are you? ”

"I won't."

Mason stared at the monument in front of him and whispered:

"But my friend probably isn't as sane as I am, you see, you're asking me to give you two very dangerous things, and I think I need to know what you're going to do with them.

Isn't that a very reasonable request? I don't know what you're resisting.

Say, we've got three hours left. ”

Alex Mercer fell silent, and after a few minutes of confrontation, he sighed, reached out and pulled the hood on his head down, completely covering his eyes, before he spoke:

"I'm the Black Light Virus Aggregate, the real Alex Mercer died a long time ago, I just chose this name as my code name, just like the Batman of your world.

So to be precise, 'I' isn't a biological concept, I'm more like a fusion of viruses and biological consciousness, a monster that I don't know how to classify. ”

"Tell me something I don't know."

Mason pointed to the time on his wrist, Brother A was unmoved, and he explained briefly in a short tone:

"I devoured all the life in my world, including humans and animals and even microbes, but it wasn't out of malice or madness.

That's just a sign that the plan was successfully completed.

Mason, we pioneers have seen many, many worlds trying to save ourselves from the apocalypse, and most of them have died quietly.

Only a handful of them have the time and luck to complete their plans to save the world, and even fewer survive to make it to the end.

Luckily, I made it to the end, and it was the last swan song of a C-class world.

They created me in the lab, and they hesitated to use it until the impact occurred when they realized they couldn't hesitate any longer, and 'I' was sprinkled all over the world, devouring and preserving the life of the world in 18 hours.

My world is dead.

In the shadow of the apocalypse, I survived and joined the Stars Society under the guise of Devouring. ”

Brother A told the story of his birth with an expressionless face, and his tone was so calm that it seemed to be telling other people's tragic pasts, without the slightest emotional fluctuation.

As the clouds overhead covered the sky, he continued:

"The civilization that created me did not have the advanced technology to complete the protection of the entire world, so they took a desperate gamble to adopt a program called the 'World Completion Project'.

I am a 'surrogate' made at the cost of the extinction of the entire world's life signal groups.

The body you took is the 'world gene pool' that I must keep.

All the characteristics of life in the whole world have been carved into the genetic information of the bones in the form of living beings, and they have set up quite complex procedures to ensure that I can complete the revival of the world at some point in the future. ”

"World recovery?"

Mason narrowed his eyes, he looked at Brother A, and said:

"The black light virus on your body alone can't complete this operation of resurrecting the devoured thing in reverse, so you are eyeing the red of all beings? Do you feel that power can help you? ”

"That's Wesker's research."

Brother A no longer concealed it at this time, he explained:

"Wesker helped me with the second half of the project at the cost of helping to resolve the perfect black light virus sample, claiming that I would need to go through a 'sowing of the source of life' to complete the world's recovery, and that the price would be the collapse of my existence.

I gladly accept that. ”

He paused, stretched out his hand, and let the pale sunlight shine on his palm.

Obviously, the light is in the hand, but I can't feel a trace of temperature.

Under Mason's gaze, he closed his eyes and whispered:

"This era sucks, and the next won't necessarily be great, but no matter what the future holds, I'm sure there's no world left for a monster like me.

Rather than die and beg to live, it is better to fulfill the mission given to me as a tool, and exchange my demise for the rebirth of my hometown.

That was the path I had chosen for myself, and that would be the end of Alex Mercer's destiny.

That's my story, are you satisfied? ”

Ps：

After finishing the work, keep the monthly pass first, and when it doubles, I'll add a signal!

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