Mason got the second diary, and instead of rushing to start reading it from the beginning, he turned to the last page, and then unsurprisingly realized that the thing wasn't over yet.

This means that at least one copy of Rorschach's diary is missing.

This made the captain feel a certain sadness and malice, it was as fucking cumbersome as a collection mission, and maybe he wouldn't be able to move forward to the final mission without unlocking the next branch.

Hey, this little trick to kill time is so damning! Maybe we should have renamed it "Rorschach's Green Hills" or something.

It's so complaining, but shouldn't it be harmful?

With this in mind, Mason turned on the light and sat down in a chair after returning to Old Luther's office, and opened the diary with a humming Harley in his arms and a small fist on Quinn's back.

The content is not exactly a continuation of Rorschach's last note, it is believed that the thing was destroyed when it was torn open, but fortunately, the story recorded in it can barely be connected, and the missing parts do not affect reading.

"Things went round and round back to the death of the laughing man, and all other attempts failed, and although I had received a lot of covert help to circumvent the newly formed arbitral tribunal, the 'Last Star' was clearly the best protected of all their dark secrets.

I want to enter the Theory Verification Lab and I need permission.

I want access to the exclusive logistics depot, I need permission.

I want to sneak into the apartments of some of the scientists involved, and I still need permission.

The hell authority is like a rusty chain, locking all the secrets that shouldn't be made public in a stinking safe, and the guy who designed the system must be a very clever man, who seems to have blocked all possible channels for leaking secrets in advance like a prophet.

It's like a whirlpool.

I was inhaled into it and couldn't extricate myself.

I knew I couldn't go on like a headless fly anymore, and my covert investigation might have caused some unwanted attention, so I had to be a little more cautious.

On a tired night after completing the conquest, I somehow ended up at the tombstone of the laughing man, I don't know why I came here, but it turned out to be the right choice.

Looking at the cold tombstone, I suddenly realized that I had ignored this guy who had made his life and that of others a joke.

If I'm not mistaken, the laughmaker was very close to those people before he died.

Maybe it was because he had more access to that secret than I did, and the cruel and terrible truth drove him crazy to jump from a tall building in the rain?

Well, it's a new way of thinking, and I know what I'm going to do.

Also, today, while I was attacking the Tin Can Knights in a strange world who only wanted to protect their existence, the dull witcher and his witch wife were exiled to a star core that was about to be extinguished.

It was a cruel new punishment.

Death was reinterpreted in a way that had never been done before, and the Pharaoh told me that there was no pain in it, but only for a moment and I could see the most magnificent scenes in the universe.

Hehe, we've always been so gifted at hurting our kind. ”

There doesn't seem to be much material on this page of the diary.

But Mason didn't turn to the next page for a long time, he stared at the words that Rorschach had left behind more than a decade ago, and although it didn't seem to be out of the ordinary, the captain could sense a rather peculiar sense of doubt from the descriptions.

He suspected that Rorschach felt the same way then, just as he did now.

The Star of the End is like a black hole, the closer you get to it, the more you study, the more you can feel the mystery hidden in this plan, but the information left is very, very small, making it difficult for people to get a glimpse of the whole picture.

Old A said that he proposed the plan, but Mason is not sure now.

Maybe Fury's memories have also been altered? Maybe the Star of End, which is now being shaped, has broken away from Fury's original design and has become something that even Old A feels afraid of?

Otherwise, it's hard to explain why that guy left this diary specifically, not necessarily to make a time-wasting joke with Mason, right?

With such doubts and feelings, Mason turned to the next page.

To his surprise, this page of the diary had nothing to do with the Star of the End, instead describing the story of a man who was very important to Mason more than a decade ago.

"I saw that kid!

She was still as gray-haired as ever, she put on the Cloak of the Stars, held the sword left by her father, she was silent and cold, and she led the members of the Stars Society to clear the way for our actions.

I had heard stories about the child from dreary witchers, and I have to say that the experiences that had been bred in that fantastical world made it difficult for me to form a clear perception in my mind.

But one thing is for sure, that world is not pretty.

Just like where I came from, it was as filthy as a gluttonous pig that devoured the pale reality and excreted it into a mass of colorful feces to cover the stench within.

I couldn't sleep all night, and even began to wonder if there was a God, and if so, why did He let us go through all this?

I used to hate sin and see it as Rorschach's job to preach justice, but now I have seen something more terrible than sin.

wish

The desire to exist is driven and fermented by darkness, and in order for us to live, others must die, and in order for our world to exist, other worlds must perish.

But is hope really ugly?

No!

It's not that we want this era to become like this, it's what we do! It is not God who has created this increasingly cruel reality, but we have done the same.

God does not kill, it is we who kill.

But they never realized that the evil they had done for the sake of existence was still evil, and they began to persuade me to give up the investigation, and they used all sorts of reasons to persuade me, insult me, and even try to beat me.

Never mind.

I don't care what they or the world thinks of me, I don't have to rely on those things to survive, it's Rorschach's job to destroy sin and preach justice.

I'm the one who shaped it all, and I'm going to do it to the end.

Back to the girl

I've heard that she's older than my mother, but she's still incredibly young, but when her mask was removed to reveal her cat-like eyes when her mask was stained with blood, I realized that the shell had been filled with something even colder.

She's not as determined as she seems.

I've seen a lot of things like her parents have seen her go the other way, and it's no surprise that the same tragedy would continue in the dark and chaotic times.

This girl has hatred in her hands, and she will surely do terrible things in the future.

It's like a lit candle.

But will there be a pair of hands in the future to protect this fire from being extinguished? Oh, I'm pessimistic about it, I want to give her the badge of the laughing maker, like giving a toy to a sad child.

But she refused.

I had a hunch that this would be my first and last conversation with her.

Tonight, I'm going to go to the favorite place of relaxation when the laughing master was alive, the night has always been generous to me, and I hope it will not abandon me today. ”

"Rorschach has seen Ciri?"

Quinn, who was beating him on the back behind Mason, said in surprise:

"But why have you never heard Ciri mention it? Although she was secretive about everything related to her parents, if Rorschach was really her parents' friend, she wouldn't be unimpressed, right? ”

"Rorschach is dead, darling."

Mason shook his head and said:

"Maybe for Ciri, it's just a strange stranger who doesn't deserve to be remembered, after all, they've only met once, and at that time, Ciri's parents had just died, and she was in the stage of being filled with revenge, so it's understandable to be indifferent."

"But there's another possibility!"

Harley, who was resting on Mason's lap and pretending to be a sleeping beauty with her eyes closed, suddenly spoke:

"What if Ciri doesn't remember him? I mean, what if everything about Rorschach was erased? Perhaps the diary in our hands is the only trace of him left in this era.

Maybe he did discover something terrible from the end that no one else could know, so death was just the beginning for him.

Wow, what a great start to a horror story!

I'm so smart. ”

"It's a little scary clever at times."

Mason reached out and pinched Harley's cheek, but the unsubstantiated conjecture made Mason blink, though it sounded a little unbelievable.

But if you continue to think about it along with Harley's whimsical thoughts, it is not difficult to come up with a vague conclusion that will make people feel frightening.

The captain's eyes narrowed.

He put his thoughts in his heart and then reached out and flipped the diary to the last page, not really the last page, which was missing a lot.

Mason couldn't reconstruct in detail from the records how Rorschach probed the Endstar Project through the line of the Laughing Craftsman, but saw the results directly.

"It's confirmed! That forge was hidden in a place called 'Doujie', and it wasn't there all along, but it was only recently transferred.

Damn it!

I pounced.

In the hollowed-out mountain, only an empty pedestal remains, like a corpse that has been hollowed out of its internal organs and abandoned in the bleak scene of the crime.

The scattered tools that were not taken away were the blood that had been spilled from the shredding of the corpse, and I stood in front of the great void like a belated fool who could only accept yet another mockery of fate.

How many times has this been?

Every time it was just the right late, it was like a pair of eyes staring at me all the time, treating me like a ridiculous puppet chasing after the truth that would never be obtained.

The last joke that the joker made at the cost of his life was cracked by me.

At least part of the crack was made.

The clues he left behind were used by me in time, but unfortunately, I was not fast enough, perhaps because the boring thoughts about the existence and death of life and the end of the world kept coming to my mind weakened my ability to execute.

And those conquests that already disgust me.

I'm starting to think that the people above don't care about our work at all, and even almost ignore it, it's not cruel, it's just that ignoring it is like a machine to accomplish one set goal after another.

No one knows when the next shock will happen, but it will definitely come.

However, this failure tracking was not without results, as I found a rather special identifier on a smashed computer, which I put into the computer to give a complex coordinate.

It's like an invitation.

I could feel that the people behind the scenes had clearly spotted me, and this might have been a warning, a last chance for me, and I was faced with a difficult choice just like everyone else.

Do you want to go over?

I returned to the neighborhood where I was born with indescribable exhaustion, and it was still there, even though the whole city was covered with new dirt like a coffin that had been buried, but the dark streets that smelled of rancid smell were still as layered as my childhood memories, stretching from front of my eyes to the end of my eyes.

It's a labyrinth that you can never get out of.

I easily broke the arms of a couple of bastards who were blocking the road.

I should have killed them, but I'm tired, and I'll have to save my strength to get to that coordinate for the end of my long quest.

Yes, I was faced with a difficult choice.

And I was standing on the roof of a stinking abandoned building, and the city in front of me was like a woke cemetery, and under the tombstones stood hanged ghosts who did not want to rest in peace.

I'm going to die, like every time I shake my fist.

But I have nothing to regret.

Rorschach never compromised, so I didn't hesitate to die.

Well, it's getting dark and it's time to go. ”

The last page of the diary on this second fragment furrowed Mason's brow, but he quickly summed up the most crucial information in this page of the diary.

The captain put down the mutilated diary, reached out to prop up his chin, and knocked on the table and whispered:

"The forge of the Endstar has been confirmed to be in the Dou Realm, in Doom's territory, but it is clear that Rorschach means that the place cannot be reached by normal means, and he has found a guide coordinates.

He said it was an invitation.

It seems that he has decided that there is an almost omnipotent guy behind this matter, and he did not hesitate to face the provocation of the other side directly, he should have died in the fighting world.

However, this has nothing to do with our current situation, and now that the target location has been confirmed, there is only one last thing left. ”

Mason picked up a special communicator and informed the other Masons of the conclusions he had found so far, asking them to look for ways around the world to reach the Dou Realm.

But truth be told, Mason doesn't have much hope.

Rorschach is a very good detective, and his accomplishments in this field are even better than Batman's.

He is not inferior to anyone in the search for clues, if even he had to lament being led by the nose more than ten years ago, then it is estimated that it will be difficult for the Mason family to get useful information in the search after more than ten years.

"Let's get ready."

Mason leaned back in his chair, patted Harley's waist, who was about to fall asleep, and said to her and Quinn:

"We've got to go back to the Envoy's Mansion, and we'll be in time for that World Meeting tomorrow and fulfill our agreement with the Resistance, and maybe we'll find something useful in the Headquarters.

There is a small group between Lao A and Doom, and there must be some councillors who have been in contact with them, and perhaps they can also get the direction to the next step.

I'm starting to feel it now. ”

The captain let out a sigh of relief and said to his two cuties:

"Doom may be just an executor, and it seems that my journey to complete this last leg of the road is not as boring as I thought, a huge puzzle awaits us, and we are ready for it."

"Whatever that thing is, just beat him up!"

Hallie jumped up, put her hand on Mason's shoulder, and said confidently:

"Don't be afraid, little sweetheart, we will protect you!"

"Well, I'm not afraid at all with you by my side."

Mason got up and grabbed the shoulders of the two cuties, kissed them on the faces they came over, and gestured to little Brainiac who was manipulating the main power armor of the universe as the door of the dark room behind him opened.

He said:

"I have to prepare a dress for you, to step on the stage that has been prepared for us, to carry out the cause for which we have done everything and to make a final initiative and declaration.

In such cases, it is necessary to dress up.

It's just a necessary sense of ritual and a proper work ethic, let's go, let's welcome tomorrow with anticipation, and we will play the final note of the collapse of the council system with our own hands. ”

(End of chapter)