Chapter 548 Those Bruce Waynes in the Basement

"What does this universe look like?"

young Bruce Wayne asked as he lay on the lawn of the manor.

"Look up, you can see." Thomas replied, having not talked like this with his son in a long time.

Bruce Wayne raised his head. Above the dark sky, there were lush light spots and nebulae twinkling. Bruce knew that it was an explosion ten thousand years ago, and the light spread into his field of vision from a distance that he could not imagine.

He couldn't imagine what kind of civilization or scene it was, but in the end, it just turned into a flash.

"So, what about the invisible places?" he asked again.

"can not see?"

"Yeah, what you can't see is like over there." Bruce Wayne pointed to the edge of his sight in the distance, where there were blurry shadows, obscured by invisible clouds, leaving only nothingness: "Or more Far away, beyond those stars.”

Thomas Sr. was silent, as if he knew something, but he was hesitant to tell his son these things.

He looked at the sky and after a long time said: "It's another universe."

"Other? Universe?"

"Yes." Old Thomas smiled: "Far, far away, there is another universe, and through that universe, there are more universes."

"how many?"

"Just like a pot of water, each bubble after it is boiled is a universe. In infinite time, they grow, then burst, and are finally replaced by other bubbles. Those universes are called [planes] .”

Bruce Wayne nodded in understanding: "So, are those planes any different from ours?"

Thomas smiled: "Of course they are different, but they are also the same. For example, there may be countless you and countless Gothams in countless planes, but... each of them is different."

"It's so interesting!" Bruce sat up excitedly: "If I have a chance, can I meet them?"

Thomas looked at the sky, and another star point disappeared. He didn't know what he was thinking, and the night wind blew through the ends of his hair.

"Yes, my son."

He responded calmly.

At that moment, young Bruce Wayne had deep expectations for other planes. Of course, there were good ones in these planes, and there were also planes full of stories that should never be staged.

They are twisted, misshapen, desperately struggling to survive under the light of their corresponding benign multiverse, but will eventually perish.

Perhaps this terrible universe is one of them.

Somewhere far away.

This is also called Gotham.

Elderly Bruce Wayne sitting at the window

During a certain battle, he could no longer lift his legs, and his eyes could no longer adapt to the dark light, so he could only sit in a wheelchair and wear reading glasses.

As the days passed, Bruce felt more and more old and slow. This kind of aging made him feel helpless.

then. He turned to The Flash for help, hoping to use the Speed ​​Force to "catch up with Gotham's corruption."

However, The Flash rejected him.

Because Barry has experienced it personally, he knows better than anyone else: Under the control of the despair and grief that may come, the Speed ​​Force will be a very dangerous drug for Bruce.

Bruce Wayne is a smart man and he knows that Barry is right.

So he readily accepted Barry's words.

But maybe he didn't even notice it. This idea just sneaked into his heart and was hidden.

In the following years, Bruce Wayne gradually adapted to being an old man. He read the newspaper and watered the flowers every day. He raised many flowers and would place a bouquet on his parents' graves on time.

Of course, gradually, he got used to placing the same flowers in front of Alfred's grave. The old man was too old, so he would definitely leave first, and he might be leaving soon too.

Bruce Wayne begins to wait for death.

However, suddenly one morning, he woke up and found himself in a strange cell! ?

Where is this place?

He didn't know, but gradually, he was surprised to find that in this cell, he was the only one locked up! Various Bruce Waynes.

This was really unbelievable, but he could only choose to accept it.

In this way, Bruce Wayne sat in this cell, waiting for a future he didn't know. After a long, long time, he even felt that he was going to die here. Finally one day, the cell door was opened.

A young man sat alone on the lawn of a huge manor, looking up at the stars.

However, what he was thinking about was not the vast universe, but his parents.

The sound of gunshots when he was 8 years old has always echoed in his ears. The sound once made him unable to sleep well for several years. Although he can sleep peacefully now, it is just adaptation, not forgetfulness.

"Hi, young man."

Suddenly, a green light opened in front of the young man, and a man radiating green light appeared in front of Bruce Wayne.

The man stretched out his hand, and in his palm was a ring emitting green light.

"You have been chosen, my child."

Everyone who overcomes fear may be selected by the [Light Ring] and become the guardian of the Green Lantern Corps.

Bruce Wayne trembled and picked up the ring

No one knew that he had not actually overcome his fear, that fear was just covered up in anger and adapted to in the long memories.

This time, the ring went to the wrong person

Many years later, a green planet far away from the edge of the universe lost its luster with an explosion.

The entire planet is full of erupted and torn earth, ruined walls, and corpses everywhere. Only the grown-up Bruce Wayne stands on the top of a mountain, looking at the planet that is about to be destroyed below his feet.

His whole body exuded a kind of light yellow, which was the color of the green light of the lamp ring mixed with blood.

It was he who destroyed it all.

"The dark night is vast, extinguishing the light! The day is gray and will soon be overthrown! The morning light flickers, but the midnight is forever! The strange lamp always shines, and the black light breaks at dawn!"

Bruce tampered with the Green Lantern Corps' oath. He didn't want to be Bruce Wayne, nor did he want to be a Green Lantern; he stood in the shining light of the blood-stained Green Lantern energy, but felt as if he had been immersed in shadow; he had never escaped from the one under his parents' old house. The cave, he was still in it, with the darkness and the bats.

He angrily took off the light ring, all of which had no meaning.

"Come on, punish me!"

he shouted to the sky.

The next second, he was surprised to find that he was already in a cell.