Chapter 56: Ch.55 Abduction

Chapter 56: Ch.55 Abduction

"Yes, Barry, I will help you all, but first, we have to safeguard Earth Negative 11. Otherwise, none of us will have a place to stand."

Su Ming raised his glass and clinked it with Barry's. Compared to Cindy and Batwoman beside them, the two men seemed to have become new friends.

He deliberately picked topics that Barry liked to hear, making the simple-minded Barry feel like he had found a kindred spirit.

"Bryce and I have made some preparations, but unfortunately, Earth 11 doesn't have Nth Metal. If Barbatos and the Dark Knights arrive, we won't even have weapons."

"Then let's not let them come!" Su Ming said bluntly. "In the Dark Multiverse, there aren't just 52 fully formed worlds; there are countless unformed ones, like fragments floating in space, with no life and no environment. Those worlds were originally destined to be destroyed. Barbatos deceived the Dark Knights, those Batmen. Their worlds were destroyed either by themselves or by Barbatos."

Barry turned the teacup in his hands, suddenly understanding, "So that's it? I always had a similar suspicion, but I couldn't prove it."

"We will prove it, trust me." Su Ming was also guessing, but once he reached the main universe, he would have much more room to maneuver. "Earth Negative 11 hasn't shown any signs that would catch Barbatos' attention. As long as we eliminate the Court of Owls and remove the hidden threat of war between the Amazons and Atlantis, Earth Negative 11 can survive under Barbatos' nose, just like the other dark worlds, hidden in the inconspicuous Dark Blood Sea."

At least this way, Barbatos might target another Earth, not theirs. As long as they didn't stand out, the chances of being chosen were not high.

Barry agreed after listening. "Maybe. Because I come from the future, I know there are seven Dark Knights. But right now, Barbatos doesn't know if there are six or seven, nor does he care. He sees himself as a god, above all mortals."

"Uh, technically, he is a god, but he's a dark god, not a god of time. He can't see the future, but we can. That's why we have the confidence to protect Earth Negative 11 and the entire Light Multiverse."

Su Ming didn't really see it that way. The Dark Knights were seven because the Batman Who Laughs arranged an opponent for each member of the Justice League, one resembling each of them. It was all part of his plan.

But as long as Su Ming could keep Earth Negative 11 safe and survive, he didn't care which other dark universe took the fall.

So he didn't correct Barry's understanding and instead replaced all the "I"s with "we." His words made Barry nod repeatedly.

"It's a shame about the other Bruces. Their universes might still have a chance." Barry began to fantasize again.

And since they were comrades in the Justice League, when they said it was an accident or done out of necessity, what could the others do? Start an internal fight?

They could only accept the apology, have a meeting to reflect on their shortcomings, do a bit of self-examination, and then everyone went home to eat and sleep as usual.

"I don't smoke." Barry could only weakly say this.

Su Ming laughed and patted Barry's shoulder affectionately. "You're a forensic expert, and you studied physics, so you must know about Schr?dinger's cat. Right now, they're Schr?dinger's people."

"People..." Barry seemed to understand something, his expression becoming a bit strange.

"Yes, you know there are people in the house, but until you enter the house and see them dead with your own eyes, they're in a superposition state. As long as you don't open the door, they'll always be in an unknown state, neither alive nor dead. Isn't that right?"

"Um..." Barry instinctively felt something was off, but it seemed true. If you didn't see Deathstroke kill someone, how could you be sure they were dead?

Seeing that Barry seemed to be getting confused by the "folk science" explanation, Su Ming immediately handed him a glass, poured it full of strong liquor, and, with a smiling face, held his hand and clinked glasses with him.

"Come on, let's toast to our agreement. By the way, have you and Bryce been to Egypt?"

"Oh..." With the glass pushed right in front of his face, Barry had no choice but to drink it down. Talking business, he forgot all about Schr?dinger. "Yes, we've been to several places. The Amazons have only ruled this world for 600 years, but there were various nations before that. We started from the pyramids of the first dynasty of ancient Egypt and searched almost everywhere, but we didn't find any Nth Metal."

"Nth Metal has limited use, and the Dark Multiverse seems not to have it. We'll discuss it in detail once we're out of here, but I found this."

He took out a small flashlight emitting a dark light and placed it on the coffee table. The black glow was incredibly deep, absorbing everything around it, like a miniature black hole, devouring the firelight from the fireplace and filling the room with a chilling atmosphere.

"Black Lantern!"

Barry immediately recognized it. This object left a deep impression on him.

When the Black Lanterns ravaged the main world, countless former comrades crawled out of their graves, becoming zombies under the Black Hand, wanting to eat his flesh and brain. It was a nightmare.