Volume 4: The Last Day Chapter 3: Explosive! Mason's true identity turns out to be...
What Will Turner wants to talk to Mason about is not complicated.
The captain, who had been transformed into a monster by the curse, didn't even waste time on greetings. In the captain's room, which was decorated with all kinds of strange monsters and looked like a madman's ward, he stared at Mason and said:
“Old Teague came and explained to me some things about the Star Society and the outsiders. He also told me the story of the previous Old K. He said that his former partner came to this world to ensure that the female sea goddess would not be resurrected.
A series of mishaps here have led to this situation.
As you can see, he and I have guessed that those cleaners will come to this world to plunder the last treasures, so I am preparing to surround and kill them!
The end of the world may be inevitable, but I would rather spend my last day in battle than praying for salvation from the gods.
I need your help, Mason."
"That's no problem."
Mason was also unambiguous.
He looked at the chair beside him that was covered with strange mucus with some hesitation. After a few seconds of hesitation, he still did not sit down. He looked up at Will and said:
"I'm not afraid of going to war with the Cleaners, and I'm willing to help my friends complete a counterattack in a crisis, but I still have to say, Will, you can actually survive.
Same with Elizabeth and Jack.
If you give me some time, you can even keep your ship and go to our world with us. Don't you want to see your son grow up?
There's no need to stay here and be buried with your world, right?"
"We can't get away, Mason."
Will Turner shook his head, and this action caused a few gray-white crabs to fly out from the strange tentacles beside his cheeks. He picked them up, put them in his mouth and chewed them with a crunching sound.
And in the splashing of juice he said:
"The Flying Dutchman is not only cursed by Collipsso, we walk between the world of the living and the hell of the dead, and as long as the hell remains, our curse will trap us forever.
We are more connected to this world than anyone else in this world.
Anyone can run, except us.
I appreciate your kindness, but our fate has already been sealed.
This would be the Dutchman's last voyage.
We will return to the Hell to bring back the souls of those who refuse to rest in silence, and release them at dusk before the end of the world, to ensure that no one can take away the last breath of this world alive.
My crew and I are ready for this.
I hope you are ready too.”
"All right."
Seeing that the other party had said so much, Mason didn't know what to say, so he changed the subject and asked:
"Can you tell me what the pirates of this world have done in the past half month that we have been away? Is their expansion in North America going smoothly? And where did they hide Colippo?"
“In Virginia.”
Captain Will said in a vague and cold voice:
"The medicine you gave them allowed them to unite to the greatest extent possible. All the survivors on the sea gathered under their command as if they saw hope. It only took them ten days to expand the area of a colony to serve as their base.
Driven by a desire for revenge, towns were recaptured every day, and from beneath the sea, fires could be seen burning day and night as the survivors burned the ghouls.
They seemed to embrace hope...
Barbossa found the Trident of Poseidon ten days ago, and they summoned Calypso seven days ago.
I don't know the specific situation, but the message conveyed by the sea water tells me that they used the power of the trident of Poseidon to force Colepso to reach some agreement with them.
It is said that the first shrine to the goddess of the sea was erected in the harbor of Virginia.
You will find the place easily.
At the speed of the Black Pearl you can reach it in a day and a night at most. But Mason, the Dutchman's power comes from Collipsso and the curse of the sea, and we cannot help you attack her."
"It doesn't matter, just lock on to your target."
Mason waved his hand and said:
"We'll take care of the rest. But, Old J, um, I mean, didn't Old Teague tell you what he was going to do next?"
"That old man didn't say that."
Will Turner gave a hair-raising laugh and said:
“I’m too lazy to ask.
Maybe he has a way to leave, but I don't need it. Mason, about Elizabeth and Henry... Leave the rest of the time to me and my family.
Tell me about their lives with you, don't leave out any details, so that I can take away the good memories before I die.
Just a little bit is enough.”
"That's more than just a little bit. Before we arrived, Elizabeth specially recorded this video for me to bring to you. Your son also has a lot to say to his father.
Don't worry about them.
Even if Team K fails in the end, I can guarantee that your wife and children can live carefree in that city until the last day of their lives."
Mason took out a special video recorder from his arms, placed it on the table in front of Will and turned it on.
Elizabeth Swan's face, wearing a professional suit and with her hair cut short to look neat and tidy, appeared on the screen and immediately attracted Will's attention.
When this half-human, half-monster guy saw his wife, the tenderness that appeared on his ferocious face was truly touching.
While Will Turner's attention was attracted by his wife's video, Mason quietly left the captain's room of the Dutchman. He didn't want to be a light bulb in this warm moment.
The main reason is that he himself is still busy.
It would take another day or two to get to the pirate city, and it would be a waste if we don’t use the time to make something.
——
While Team K was traveling towards Virginia Harbor in the Caribbean world, outside the Gotham world, or to be more precise, in the space orbit far away from the planet, a space station shaped like a unique tower was quietly flying around the earth.
This is the "watchtower".
Justice League headquarters.
It is a super perfect base created with the financial resources of Bruce Wayne and Kryptonian technology sponsored by Superman. Of course, it is not the only base of the Justice League.
They also have a place called the Hall of Justice somewhere on Earth, and rumor has it they have a hideout on the Moon as well.
The old man put on a cape and walked into the conference room under the watchtower with the indifferent and calm attitude that Batman should have. Under the influence of artificial gravity, this place far away from the earth still made him feel as if he was walking on flat ground.
After going through several levels of identity verification, the door in front of us slid open to both sides, revealing a conference table that was already full of people.
There were three empty seats at the round conference table with the Justice League logo printed on it, and Superman, wearing a red and blue uniform, had extended his hand to Batman, motioning him to sit next to him.
The meeting is about to begin.
Today's meeting was attended by important members of the Justice League, as well as a few "friends" who didn't come here often.
The master sat down in his seat, and his eyes immediately caught sight of Zatanna, who was sitting in the audience outside the round table, and the powerful spellcaster next to her, who was wearing a golden full-face mask and exuded a calm and imposing aura.
Doctor Fate...
He comes with bad intentions.
Bruce Wayne thought so under his expressionless disguise.
"Well, let's get started."
As the watchtower's watchman on duty, the Green Arrow, wearing a green cape, a bow and quiver, and a green domino mask, stood up and spoke as the meeting host:
"Let me first summarize and report to you our findings over the past few days..."
"Don't waste your time, Green Arrow."
Sitting on the right side of Superman, Wonder Woman, wearing her iconic armor, waved her hand, drank her coffee with a slightly tired look and said:
"Everyone has been here during this period. Everyone knows what happened. Let's get straight to the point."
"All right."
Green Arrow curled his lips, coughed, and said:
"The Flash has traveled through six parallel worlds in the past seven days with the help of the cosmic treadmill, and the news he brought back is as bad as we expected.
The observers set up in the six parallel worlds detected the same space-time distortion signal almost simultaneously, which means that the "doomsday disaster" that Doctor Fate warned us about before will definitely not only happen in our world.
The Flash encountered a 'block' while traveling through parallel worlds.
According to the last message he sent back, it seemed that other speedsters had noticed him.
He initially suspected that it was some kind of hostile force, so he was chasing them in the reverse direction in the hyperspace flow. The last message he sent back said that he might not be able to catch up with the outbreak of this crisis, but he would be back as soon as possible. "
"That sounds like bad news."
Dachao said in a serious tone:
"Maybe we should go help Flash, that kid is a little shaky."
"Who can enter the Super Time and Space Flow as easily as he does?"
Wonder Woman rolled her eyes and said:
"Let's talk about something useful, Superman. Have you noticed anything unusual while monitoring the world?"
"No."
Superman shook his head and said:
"The whole world is peaceful, even more peaceful than before. After seven days of surveillance, no news worthy of attention was found. The Assassin's League in Nandarbat has also gone underground.
I went to see it with Batman, and their old base was all abandoned."
"There are no ominous signs on the World Data Network either."
Sitting opposite Superman, the half-human, half-machine superhero Cyborg glanced at Batman and reported:
"Except for a mysterious data signal that attempted to invade the Justice League network a few days ago, it was extremely mysterious and its programming structure was something I had never seen before. Ordinary data defenses were pierced through like paper by it.
I noticed it before it entered the Watchtower security network, but was unable to catch it.
The only thing I'm sure of is that the signal came from Gotham!"
"Batman, you don't want to say anything?"
The golden-haired Sea King patted the trident beside him with some dissatisfaction and said in a loud voice:
"That's your territory."
The master glanced at this guy and said in a cold tone:
"Rather than a data signal, I am more concerned about the things left behind by the aliens that you found on the seabed. Are you sure you have dealt with them all?
Their biological virus warhead has been confirmed to be an extremely dangerous threat, so dangerous that we can't even destroy it casually. There has been no clue about the research on that virus, and it is also very difficult to make a vaccine to prevent it.
But fortunately, we already have a downgraded version of the vaccine, so we don’t have to start from scratch.”
"Everything in the sea was dealt with, and a strange door was found on the seabed off the east coast. The Green Lantern took that thing to Oa and tried to activate it with a replica of the Green Lantern Central Battery.
The little blue people who were monitoring him remained silent in response to Hal's questions.
They said it was some kind of damn inevitable fate, and demanded that Green Lantern not get involved as a member of the Green Lantern Corps.
It’s fucked up!”
Aquaman stood up and glanced at the silent Doctor Fate and Zatanna. The man, who was already overwhelmed by the situation, crossed his arms and said:
"Let's not play dumb, okay? You all know the problem is in Gotham, but you just don't have the guts to stand up to Batman!
So let me say it!
Batman, you have to tell everyone the important news you have!"
Faced with this question, the master remained silent.
He did not answer Aquaman's question, but raised his head and looked around the crowd at Zatanna, who shook her head slightly to indicate that she was not talking nonsense, but Doctor Fate beside Zatanna stood up at this time.
He floated to the round table of the Justice League and said in a firm tone:
"The time flow I saw was cut off within Gotham. Although I couldn't understand why this happened, I traced it back to its source and found that you were an important part of it.
Batman, the information you have is vital.
Especially at this moment when everything is about to encounter disaster, and you are deliberately hiding your thoughts and don't want others to know them.
I know you don't trust other people, but I'm begging you.
That may be our only chance to see the true face of doomsday in advance.
You have to tell us.
Why did this disaster come? What will it look like? Most importantly, is there a sinister and malicious organization trying to play the role of an ugly god? "
Now, even Superman, who trusted Batman the most, couldn't help but stand up.
Everyone in the Hall of Justice looked at the master. After a silence that made one feel suffocated, he knocked on the table and said:
"This is the 'Third Impact'. The same disaster has already happened twice. It is the destruction and doomsday of the entire parallel world system.
Our world was lucky enough to have a bye and thus avoided the interference the first two times, but this time we have to face it head-on.
The good news is that there is a high probability that we can get through this safely.
The bad news is that it’s accelerating.”
The master stood up, put his hands on the table and recalled the truth and facts that Selena told him last night.
He said briefly:
“The first shock occurred 17 years ago, and the second shock occurred three years ago. The interval between each shock is getting shorter. If we survive this shock, we will probably face a more dangerous situation in a year or even a few months.
This is a kind of 'elimination'.
In my opinion, it is more like a reshuffle, and those worlds that are not strong enough will fall apart in the process, like a fight between worlds.
As to the cause of this, I have no idea at this time.”
"Who told you that?"
Doctor Fate asked:
"I promise I won't harm your 'informant', Batman. I just need to talk to him or her. Perhaps by tracing back to the source of the thread of fate, we can find more information."
“But I’m afraid of this.”
Bruce Wayne said coldly:
" If you also call them 'informants', you should know that the fewer people know their identities, the better. It's not that I don't trust you..."
The master looked around.
He paused, and under the meaningful gazes from all around him, he shook his head and said:
"Okay, I don't trust you, but it's not out of any bad intention."
"Do you trust them that much?"
Wonder Woman complained:
"Even more than trusting us?"
"Don't be provocative, don't find fault, and don't say anything that is not conducive to unity, Wonder Woman!"
Dachao scolded slightly.
This time he stood on Batman's side, put his hand on the old man's shoulder and said to the others:
"For now, it is enough to know this. We should trust our companion. His past actions have proved that he deserves our unconditional trust.
If Batman doesn't think anyone else should know this right now, then we should just shut up and stop asking.
After all, there are more important things at hand.
only……"
"Seven days!"
The master knew what Dachao wanted to ask.
He let out a long breath and said:
"It will inevitably arrive within seven days, and we must prepare for the worst. I propose to release a batch of dangerous items for defense preparations. Let's start the vote now."
After a few minutes, the meeting adjourned.
Zatanna waited until everyone left before coming to the old man. She stared into Bruce's eyes and whispered after a few seconds:
"Who is that guy? Is he really your illegitimate child as John complained in bed? Why would you be willing to do this for him?
It's surprising that you can trust someone so much.
Frankly, it makes me jealous.”
"No, Xiaoza, he and I are not related by blood."
The master sat back in his chair, rubbing his forehead and thinking about what he had found out. He sighed and said:
"Not only do I trust him, you quickly learn that he is a key figure. It is very important not to expose his information in this situation where it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy.
Just for John who is now trapped. "
"It won't be kept secret for long."
The name Constantine made Zuckerberg sigh, regretting that he fell in love with a bad man who always caused trouble for him.
She whispered:
"Time is a clear line in Doctor Fate's eyes. As long as he wants, he will find clues about that person sooner or later, not to mention that your companions have begun to suspect you.
Perhaps Cyborg and Aquaman will also investigate privately."
"I will stop them."
The master was silent for a few seconds, then said in a deep voice:
"I'm ready. No one can get involved until the hidden evil spy is found! As for the two of them... they can't find my informant.
They underestimated my collaborators.”
