Chapter 958 The Disappearance of "Rorschach"

The story of Watchmen took place in 1985. At that time, in the beautiful country, the Internet had not yet been put into use, and the vast majority of people still obtained information through news on televisions and paper media. In this era, hacking or computer intrusion has become a luxury...

"...But why do we use such primitive intelligence gathering methods?"

Zheng Zha looked speechless and glanced at the crooked slogans and slogans on the wall outside the window, as well as the thick stack of newspapers in front of him - just now Chu Xuan led everyone in the Zhongzhou team to pass the news in a normal way. The rooftop descended to the ground and came to a newspaper office in this building. After he casually opened the locked door, he took out countless newspapers from the warehouse for everyone to read.

"Looking for information - everything that may be useful is needed." This is what Chu Xuan said.

"Can't you use the Conferred God List to continue to obtain information..."

"Need to save causal points."

Chu Xuan answered without raising his head. Even without turning on the lights, everyone's eyesight was enough to accurately see the lines of text on the newspaper in the darkness: "And the name of this newspaper and our location make me Very concerned."

"...Daily Planet?"

Zheng Zha remembered the name of the newspaper he saw on the wall before entering: "I know this is the newspaper where Superman works, but the world of Watchmen is a completely independent world, and there are no superheroes like Superman or Batman. , so the two may just have the same name...or maybe it's an easter egg?"

Easter eggs are often foreshadowing in movies. Zheng Zha has watched so many movies, and naturally knows that Marvel godfather Stan Lee is the king of cameos... In his opinion, even though Watchmen is a work of DC Comics, even if it is for the purpose of paying tribute to the original work, it will attract the attention of knowledgeable people. It is quite normal for the audience to smile knowingly.

"perhaps."

Faced with Zheng Zha's opinion, Chu Xuan just replied with two words, and then devoted his energy to the work in hand and stopped talking. But the way he kept his hands moving even when he was chatting with Zheng Zha proved that Chu Xuan firmly believed that the four words "Planet Daily" were the most closely related to the next main mission of the Central Continent Team: "Finding Dr. Manhattan" Direct connection.

——The Lord God will not do meaningless actions. Regardless of the time or place of his arrival, there must be some reason for it.

This is the reason that Chu Xuan has never said, just like the House of Grudge in the world of Grudge, the newspaper in the world of Harry Potter, and the place where the Central-Continent team descended in the world of Red Alert II... And this , which is why Chu Xuan decided to focus on investigating a large number of newspapers.

"That's true, but are we really wasting our time like this?"

Zheng Zha, who has become accustomed to the wise men in the team clearly explaining what they are going to do next, and who has not collected information like ordinary people for a long time, sighed and glanced at the few homeless people huddled in the street alley. Han, even though the outside world is brightly lit, they are still in darkness, as if they are isolated from the world.

Then, Zheng Zha turned his attention back to the newspaper in his hand. Perhaps it was because of the name "Yang Yun" that he always found it difficult to calm down. Moreover, the endless eye-catching headlines such as "Cold War", "Nuclear Crisis", "Third World War" and "The World is About to Be Destroyed" in newspapers, as well as the same endless nonsense, made him even more confused. He becomes more and more irritable.

——After all, no matter which article discusses the world situation, Dr. Manhattan's name will inevitably be mentioned in the end.

Dr. Manhattan, Dr. Manhattan, still Dr. Manhattan.

Compared with the conventional superheroes who wear capes and masks, have their own secret identities on the surface, and most of them serve as "masked vigilantes" rather than "court hawks", Dr. Manhattan has obtained Even after gaining great strength, he still stands on the side of the country, which can almost be said to be a very clear stance.

This superhero with powerful powers had more than one cordial meeting with President Kennedy, and helped the beautiful country win the Vietnam War in three days. After that, he has been working for the beautiful country's government. He is said to be a beautiful country. A flag is not too much.

Since ancient times, when human beings face crises beyond imagination, or difficulties that are completely insurmountable by themselves, they will subconsciously pray to the sky and turn to the gods in their subconscious... And for the people of the beautiful country, luckily In a situation where the two superpowers on the earth are at war with each other and a nuclear war is about to break out, which is almost unsolvable, "gods" once had the same nationality as them before they became gods.

——Having said that... But with the ability shown by Dr. Manhattan, is he really unable to prevent the outbreak of nuclear war and the destruction of the earth?

Zheng Zha couldn't help but become distracted when he looked at the photo of a blue man with a quantum symbol engraved on his head that seemed to reflect light in the newspaper.

Although the movie says that the country where Overlord was born has more than 50,000 nuclear bombs, even if Dr. Manhattan can intercept 99% of them, the remaining 1% will be enough to destroy mankind, and Dr. Manhattan himself has not denied it. But Zheng Zha always felt that that man's strength was much more than that. If he really wanted to be his enemy in this world...

"I found something, Chu Xuan."

Just as he was lost in thought, Qi Tengyi on the other side looked up from the pile of newspapers and held up a newspaper: "I found information about the death of the 'Comedian'."

"Yes." Chu Xuan took the newspaper from Qi Teng's hand, glanced at it and nodded: "We have the target for the next stop."

"…and this."

At this time, although Zhao Yingkong was usually very cold, but after entering this world, she was obviously much more taciturn. She suddenly spoke. She walked up and handed over an old newspaper that was yellowed and the text looked a bit blurry. He carefully placed it on the table, and then pointed to a photo in the center.

It seemed to be a promotional photo for the newly established "Watchmen" organization. Eight young men and women were wearing their own uniforms and facing the camera. Everyone was smiling happily -

——Wait, eight people?

Zheng Zha rubbed his eyes and confirmed the text description about the "Watchmen" members next to him. Dr. Manhattan, Pharaoh, Comedian, Night Owl, Silk Soul, Mothman, Hooded Judge, Hundred Dollar Bill, eight people in total...

"hiss--"

Seeing this scene that was completely different from the one in the movie, Zheng Zha took a breath of air, looked at the people around him who also recognized the seriousness of the problem with a solemn expression, and asked the question that everyone wanted to know.

"'Rorschach', where has he gone?" (End of Chapter)