29. The war that determines the future in the past is the way time travelers fight
Ciri soon takes Empress Gollum to Mason's area.
But when the two of them jumped out of the silver crack, they were shocked by the sight in front of them, the original ecological zone was gone, and only a terrifying "sinkhole" remained.
Everything that stretched in all directions from the center of the circle three hundred meters underground was decomposed and annihilated by the power of the rampaging phoenix, and the rubble was suspended in the shape of a broken star ring, and one after another of dangerous forces devoured everything.
The scope is still expanding, like an invisible gluttony feeding on the world.
Ciri stood at the edge of the area affected by the power of the phoenix and looked down, the energy of Madeleine's body had dug through the ground and extended to the center of the earth, and the hot magma was spraying, but the devastating thing would still be engulfed and decomposed by the power of the phoenix.
And her little lover was now in the center of the burning black-red flames, pressing Madeleine's shoulders in a restrained posture, the latter was struggling frantically and letting out a beastly roar, but could not break free from the hands of the ultimate form Mason, the super energy brought by the Star Emperor's Heart processor made Mason look like a superman standing in the solar corona.
But that's where only he can set foot.
(How did this happen?) We're late.)"
Corrupted Iron-Blooded Gollum, who had been quietly brought over when Mason had come to the appointment, but had been waiting in the ruins around him, looked at the scene in despair.
Even if she doesn't know much about the power of the phoenix, she knows that her best friend has entered irretrievable self-destruction.
"I've heard Mason talk about what happened in Utopia."
Ciri grabbed Gollum and retreated to safety, and in the midst of the increasingly heavy rain, she whispered:
"You shouldn't have let her run away at the time, as far as I know Mason, it was his last chance for Madeleine, and she clearly didn't take it."
"Gollum! (That's not her fault.) Wait a minute! Look at him! He's not in the right place! )”
Gollum tried to argue, but then she realized something wasn't right, and she grabbed Ciri's wrist with her backhand and exclaimed at Mason, who was holding Madeleine.
When the hunter looked up, his face changed drastically.
Mason's body is "flickering" in a strange way, like a soap bubble about to burst, constantly changing in solidity and illusion.
Even the light around him would pass through his body at some point, as if it was about to disappear.
"It's Kang the Conqueror!"
Ciri gritted his teeth and said:
"It's a vicious attack on the time plane, and I knew that the bastard director wouldn't miss this opportunity, and they knew they had no chance of winning, so they were going to kill Mason in the past to seek victory in the present.
What a bunch of crumbs! ”
"Gollum? (But isn't Mason's future constant?) )”
The Empress's eyes widened and she said:
"Gollum! (Will people who are already beyond their destiny also be affected by time?) )”
"He's just the only one, he's not detached yet."
Ciri clenched the hilt of the sword in her hand, and glanced back at the sneaky gods who had quietly gathered in the clouds behind her, and she said in a cold voice:
"Don't let these bastards get close! They might want to choose Madeleine to be the wielder of the Black Death Sword, and we're not here to see the excitement, Gollum!
Above! ”
——
In the yellow sand of the spatial aberration zone of the planet Utopia, Kang, a berserker armed with a high-tech cold weapon, is engaged in a deadly struggle with Wally West.
Beyond the battlefield between the two, there was a blinding light streaking through the area of extreme visibility, where Lady Janet was attacking several other Kangs who had come to assassinate them, and farther away there were flickering and twisted tunnels of time slowly closing, and several cunning Kangs had retreated to the edge of the tunnel, ready to run away with oil on the soles of their feet.
This area has been extracted by the world with a special power by the Divine Monarch Doom, which has caused the spatial distortion to be very severe, so that the battle between Berserker Kang and Wally will always be sent into a completely disrupted spatial structure after each movement.
However, this does not prevent the two guys who have a deep understanding of time from continuing to fight.
A few kilometers away from them, there would be a golden arc of light erupting in the sky, and the gray smoke and dust could not hide the dazzling light at all.
"Wally! Mason had just drunk an incomplete million-star potion at this point in time, and was about to enter his weakest moment, and must hold out until Doom was repelled and the horde was released. ”
Lady Janet's shouts rang out in White Wally's helmet, putting some pressure on the Speedster.
He struck the Berserker Kang in front of him with super-fast speed, but the latter's figure disappeared in place in a shattering light projection, much to Wally's irritation.
Kang is a rather unique villain.
His ontology itself is not particularly powerful, but through the black technology of the future era, he successfully used his own time theory to allow himself to exist at countless points in time at the same time and formed his Kang Dynasty.
Such an enemy is quite tricky even for the Speedy.
Because all attacks against him will be predicted by him in the future and respond to now, even if he misses, it doesn't matter, anyway, every second a new Kang will appear, which means that this guy who has insight into the laws of the divine timeline has reached true "eternal life" in a sense.
And because this guy has experienced countless battles, he is not only good at using black technology, but also knows how to face enemies with different abilities, in Mason's words, this is a guy who fights with his brain, and his cunning wisdom makes him a seemingly low-key but quite difficult opponent.
It's like an inferior version of Batman that can travel through time.
At Lady Janet's urging, Wally replied while relocating the tracks of the assassin Kang in the flow of time:
"It's not enough for us to stop them here, everyone in the Lightning Family has signaled battle, which means we're fighting the same enemy on different timelines.
It's a terrible feeling.
It turns out that Kang has gone completely insane, he has now abandoned the taboo of time, and no longer cares about the bad effects his actions will have on the sacred timeline.
He can be present in every second of Mason's past life, so how can we defend ourselves? ”
"Don't despair, Kang is not invincible, otherwise we will all be dead."
Ms. Janet was very calm.
While chasing down several variants of Kang who were beaten by herself, she said in a calm tone:
"I said before when I assigned the mission area, Kang's own strength is not necessarily his biggest weakness, you have to remember that after stripping away those seemingly cool and terrifying black technologies, he is just an ordinary person, and Mason's advantage in high-tech is not less than Kang's, his superb knowledge in various fields and his own prudence make him not so easy to beat.
Therefore, Kang would never choose to assassinate Mason when he was in his heyday!
The pivotal moment was when Mason was at the weakest moment of his life, when he had no power to fight back, and all it took was a dagger or a bullet to take him away.
I've known Mason longer than you, I know the young man better than you do, and I can tell you plainly that Mason has been avoiding falling into that situation since he set foot on this path.
And he told me all the time periods we need to defend before he left, and the mission range I assigned to you is the most likely time for accidents.
Secondly, although Kang's tandem at various points in time gives him almost unlimited resources and power, he also has his own opponents to deal with.
Kang's rebellion has always been a repertoire, and they don't dare to send more forces to hunt down Mason, which will directly lead to problems in their base camp and be stolen by other Kangs.
There is a limit to the power they can use in this operation.
Defend all positions! Don't be lured into pursuit by the cunning Kang, we are on the defensive and protecting, not to defeat Kang or kill him.
The sacred timeline is still there, Kang won't die, don't do useless work!
Countdown to three seconds.
The last three seconds!
Hold! ”
Janet's shout sent Wally to a wrench, and the next moment he was on the periphery of where Mason was at this point in time.
He hid behind a suspended boulder, and when he looked down, he could see that Mason, who had turned into a golden sentinel, was punching the mysterious white-clothed Doom, seemingly trying to crush Doom's bones and scatter ashes, but in fact, the power of the fist landed precisely on the half-buried biological pod behind Doom in the ruins of the ship.
The moment this punch was punched, Mason's breath obviously slipped.
In Wally's gaze, the three Kangs appeared almost simultaneously to kill Mason, but Wally, who was waiting for the rabbit, swooped down and swept the three assassins Kang into the distance.
"Bang"
The large group of bio tanks shattered, and the freedom of the strongest mutants also meant that Mason at this point in time had the most dangerous moment.
Under the protection of a large group, Kang did not dare to show up and assassinate him, no matter how big his heart was.
"That's it!"
Wally rushed back to Lady Janet's side, and he couldn't help but stick out his tongue as he watched the three Kang who had been beaten away and jumped into the unfolding rift of time, and then at the corpses of several Kang variants lying lying at the Wasp's feet.
Feed!
You just said that it was pointless to insist on chasing and killing these Kang variants, how did you become such a cold-blooded Kang killer in the blink of an eye? And no matter how you look at the gesture of this headshot, it looks like a personal vendetta!
"Click"
Lady Janet didn't care what Wally thought, she slipped a new energy magazine into her causality wrist cannon, pulled the mask of her very "wasteland-style" wasp suit, kicked Kang's corpse at his feet, turned to Wally, and commanded:
"This is only the first wave of attacks, and from what I know Kang, he won't give up.
I want to remind you that Kang will learn from each of his defeats and reformulate his tactics for your mode of action, which means that this defense will only get more and more difficult.
You may be able to travel through time, but that's not enough for Kang, time is his ally!
So it's going to be hard.
But you'll have to stay here, and after each round you'll go back to the start of time and continue defending until I capture the commander of the Kang Legion at some point in the past and put an end to this time chase once and for all. ”
"Won't Kang's body come?"
Wally asked curiously:
"And why are you so familiar with him? You used to be friends with Kang? ”
"You might as well ask more bluntly, you dirty little boy at heart."
The old lady glanced at Wally, then looked back at the unpleasant wasteland desert landscape, and her mind seemed to go back to the past.
After a few seconds of silence, she whispered:
"I don't deny that I had a time with Kang. It was the darkest and most desperate time of my life, and that cunning bastard came into my life at that time, and the despair prompted me to make a decision that I regretted a lot.
Being trapped in the Quantum Realm with him was like two trapped beasts in the same cell, and it was normal for each other to support each other in that situation.
For years, I saw it as part of a dark life that had to be forgotten, and I persuaded myself to forget the details that made me feel sick.
I also don't deny that Kang the Conqueror may have something to do with me, even though the Kang I know may have died in the never-ending battle between them.
Mason knows it all.
I don't know where he found out, but he didn't mention asking me to help him, apparently he knew how that experience affected me.
I thank him for helping me keep this secret, but maybe it's time to say goodbye to the past in a very serious way.
I'm going to end this trip once and for all.
You, stay here! ”
Lady Janet moved her fingers and said:
"I'm going to go back in time to the next Mason's 'fragile life' node, Wally, I don't want to stress you, but here's the thing"
"I understand."
White Wally would have been in a state of guilt, he was a kind man, and from the tone and expression of Lady Janet's voice he knew he had asked something he shouldn't have asked.
He seriously assured that:
"Actually, we also have our own way of judging, you know that Mason provoked Black Lightning, and Black Lightning is the god of death of the speed force, ordinary death can't catch up with the speed of God, so the appearance of black lightning means that we will die at the moment.
That guy holds a grudge.
Mason humiliated it so that it would not allow Mason to die in a normal death, so we unanimously agreed that Mason would be perfectly safe at the point in time when there was no black lightning.
At least so far. ”
"It's really a useful detail."
Lady Janet nodded, and took out a jar of Pym particles and placed them in the "time travel device" on her waist, which the scientists of the Fox's Nest had specially ordered for this operation.
She waved goodbye to Wally, and vanished into the rapidly shrinking point of light, while the Speedy watched the conversation between Mason and the crowd in the distance.
After making sure the two guys hadn't found themselves, Wally took a deep breath and broke into the Velocity Tunnel, reappearing a few seconds later at the previous point in time.
Almost as soon as he jumped out of the Divine Speed Force tunnel, an assassin team of seven Kang 2.0 appeared again.
The leader is still Berserker Kang!
"Phew, red-clad imp!"
The guy was carrying a strangely shaped cannon aimed at Wally, and he shouted:
"This time it's not going to be so easy for you to run, you can win an infinite number of times, and we only need to win once! Fool, time is our domain, and you've broken into this deadly hunting ground.
Suffer death! ”
"Boom"
A cloud of energy that could interfere with the speed force hit Wally in the next moment, and everyone laughed and thought that the bastard had been killed.
But when the light faded, what appeared in front of them was a very cool red and yellow Savita-type speed armor with a personalized adjustment in the details.
Wally, who was wrapped in the armor, moved his limbs comfortably, and he pulled out a digital rate bomb from the armor's weapon slot, and said sarcastically to the dumbfounded assassins in front of him:
"Are you sure you want to compete with the Mason family? Hey, just how deep Mason's gear pool is still a mystery and he's opened up all of his arsenal for us before we set off, bastards!
All I can say is that you picked the wrong opponent. ”
(End of chapter)