northernbook Chapter 1092 Saving the World at the Cost of Stories Never Before Known
Chapter 1092 Saving the World at the Cost of Stories Never Before Known
Chapter 1092 Saving the World at the Cost of Stories Never Before Known
I am Dr. Manhattan.
I am Chen Tao.
When I begin to change the future, I imagine that I am merely altering the future, creating a series of new events and possibilities at the very moment when the two possible outcomes diverge from the actual outcome.
But not so.
Each timeline that splits out will be equally real, but will split into different realities in different directions.
I am the quantum god, and every thought of mine can create a new sub-universe.
And I will cut them all off.
I am Dr. Manhattan, and I move forward and backward simultaneously along the timeline to ensure there is no deviation.
"You're the new guy, the one who's coming to replace Hank Meadows, right?"
I am Dr. Manhattan, and I watch my colleagues sizing me up.
"Really?" I said.
"I guessed it," my colleague said.
Hank Meadows was the person who succeeded me in that position.
You/I know.
I must first obtain that position before I will have the opportunity to escape the experimental accident that will transform me into a quantum god.
In one timeline, I call from Princeton to ask professors about the decay of a certain atom. This call distracts Hank, allowing him to discover that the uranium container behind him is not properly sealed, thus preventing a deadly leak.
He didn't get the radiation he was supposed to get and develop a tumor, so I couldn't take his place.
"For someone who does scientific research, you're really young. There's a picture of him in the back of the bar, the one with glasses, you know, he passed away last fall in an experimental accident."
I am Dr. Manhattan.
I heard my colleagues telling me the story of Hank's death.
I have to make sure that in that timeline, this phone call doesn't save Hank from his death.
I am Chen Tao, and I move forward and backward along the timeline simultaneously to ensure there is no deviation.
In one timeline, I triggered the National Guard's siege of Bane.
While Bane was busy battling the National Guard, I was dealing with the Botanist's plot against Gotham with Poison Ivy.
But Bane prematurely broke through the National Guard's encirclement of him. After killing more than 50 people, the more than 2000 National Guard members realized that they were facing an insurmountable monster and immediately collapsed.
Bane escaped too early, which prevented the Joker and Scarecrow from using the National Guard members to deliver the Joker Gas to Bane. As a result, Bane was unable to intervene in my battle with the Botanist under the influence of the Joker Gas and join forces with me after being infected with the Rotten Black.
Things have completely gone off track.
Poison Ivy died because Bane didn't get involved.
Poison Ivy is dead, so I can no longer hold onto Bane's nuclear bomb like before.
Bane never fought alongside me; his nuclear bomb destroyed Gotham, and we've never been allies since.
My Earth was destroyed by General Zod.
Therefore, I must make sure Bain is held back by the National Guard.
I am Chen Tao.
Therefore, I must make sure there are enough National Guard members to stop Bane.
I altered the governor's will, causing him not to send the originally planned 2000 people, but instead to directly call in 2 National Guard troops.
This practically drained the entire state's workforce.
I equipped them all with tanks and heavy weapons.
Bain was successfully stalled.
I am Dr. Manhattan, and in another timeline, I ask my father to take me to a Brooklyn Dodgers (baseball) game.
The experience made him feel good, so when he heard about the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, he didn't react much.
I am Chen Tao. In another timeline, the Riddler Edward Nigma volunteered, so I chose him, rather than Alfred, to help me find Superman Clark Kent in Metropolis.
Because of the Riddler Nigma's ruthless methods, all of Clark's father Jonathan Kent's hidden tricks were rendered ineffective by the Riddler's dirty schemes.
I am Dr. Manhattan, so I eliminated that option.
I made sure that on that hot, humid Brooklyn morning, we stayed home with the clock, while my father kept company with his memories.
My father reacted extremely strongly after seeing the news about the atomic bomb, demanding that I stop fixing those broken watches and instead direct my attention toward the future he spoke of: quantum mechanics.
I am Chen Tao, so I erased this choice, which in turn destroyed the entire timeline of the Riddler.
I made sure that on that desperate, cold night when I faced Bane, I didn't directly summon Clark Kent and then have Bane try out Brokeback Superman.
Without Superman's help, I had to struggle to defeat Bane, and then cast my light into an even greater crisis: the Zod invasion.
I am Dr. Manhattan. On my first day at work, replacing Hank, a female colleague bought me a beer. It was the first time anyone had ever treated me like that. Her name was Jenny. (Note: Jenny was Dr. Manhattan's first wife, who left him after the experimental accident.)
In July 1959, I went back to New Jersey for vacation and visited old friends from college.
Jenny came from Arizona to join my trip. Her mother also lives in New Jersey. She called home from the station, but no one answered.
In one timeline, an incorrect timeline, I offered to repay her for that night's favor and bought her a beer at the local hotel.
So I eliminated all other options to make sure that in this timeline, I would suggest going to a local amusement park to kill time instead of drinking beer.
In different realities and with different choices, whether I walk fast or slow, left or right, I erase each and every one of them, so that we can reach our predetermined goal at the designated time: the moment Jenny's watch strap breaks.
It had to be at the exact exact moment that a passing fat man would step on the watch and break it. Back at the hotel, Jenny asked if I could fix it, and I promised I could.
I promise to make it look brand new.
An hour later, Jenny and I started making love. While I was touching her, I was already mentally repairing the watch. She was passionate, and I didn't say a word, controlling myself and the moment.
"You can't control this world."
I heard a voice whispering in my heart.
I can, I must, I will, otherwise the world will cease to exist.
An accident is about to happen to me.
"Joan, have you fixed my watch yet?"
"I forgot it in my lab coat pocket this morning when we were setting up the intrinsic field test chamber. You wait here."
I need to go back to the experimental chamber to retrieve the watch; an accident is about to occur during the experiment.
In some realities I walk faster, in others I walk at a moderate pace; in some realities I stop to talk to colleagues, and in others I rush back to Jenny's side just in time.
But I can solve them all at once. Right now, right now.
By applying a small amount of energy to the time lock, I will only have 5 seconds instead of 30 seconds before the door closes, no matter when I enter.
此时是1959年8月20日下午1：15。
I stepped into the original field experimental chamber.
I am Chen Tao.
I first met Wonder Woman when I was fighting General Zod, the Wonder Woman of my world.
We solved a lot of problems together, and we started dating—we started eating together.
In a certain timeline, an incorrect timeline (Chapter 213), I was so focused on Diana's expression that I neglected the supergirl I needed to capture, causing me to be a step late for work. This resulted in our first date being a complete success, a date that changed our relationship and led me to decide to stop my heroic actions someday in the future.
This directly led to the destruction of me and my universe, along with the power of the mortal Möbius, after a period of peaceful life with Diana.
So I erased all other options, making sure that in this timeline, I would ask Wonder Woman Diana to help me capture Superwoman and bring her back alive, and become even busier and take on more work.
I have been following the path I was meant to take. In different realities and with different choices, I have moved faster or slower, or to the right or to the left.
I erased them one by one.
The exchange with the riddle master, a friendship and discipline that never began.
His affair with Diana was a love that never began and was never spoken of.
The father-son time with Damian, a kind of kinship that I have never experienced before.
Time with Alfred, a wait that never received a response.
My trip to Fiji was a dream that ended abruptly just as it began.
I cut them all off to make sure my speed and progress were fast enough to keep up with the enemy's arrival.
This allows us to reach a designated goal within a specified time:
Making Earth 15.
Then things will be deduced all the way to me embracing the quantum bat.
"You can't control this world."
A voice whispered in my heart.
I can, I must, I will, otherwise the world will cease to exist.
I am about to embrace quantum mechanics.
In some realities, I progressed faster; in others, I progressed at a moderate pace; in some realities, I stopped to date and marry Diana; and in others, I rushed to quickly defeat all my enemies, only to trigger an even greater disaster.
But I can resolve all of these at once, right now, right at this moment.
This was a few minutes ago.
I reach out to the world's foundries.
I am Dr. Manhattan.
I am Chen Tao.
The world is unified.
Jenny's watch is working perfectly.
The world's builders have led me in the same direction.
Time continued on its predetermined course, until, in the instant before the energy burst, countless quantum possibilities collapsed into a single reality—
We are all in the same box, becoming Schrödinger's cat.
Past, present, future, live cat, dead cat.
Dr. Manhattan.
Chen Tao.
Don't be afraid.
This is transformation.
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