"Oh my god... here... here..."
Two small figures hovered above a massive planet. Besides them, many debris floated in space, most of which were so damaged it was hard to recognize them, emitting a heavy atmosphere of decay and destruction.
Kara slightly opened her mouth, staring at the cities on the surface. Even though they hadn't entered the planet's atmosphere, her Super Vision already showed her the ruins of the cities.
"No ti for nostalgia," Clark said, "Oliver sent a ssage, Hai'er is attacking the sun like crazy. We need to find a way to stop him before the Shield's energy runs out."
"Let's go down," Kara said.
The two of them flew towards the surface of Krypton.
Krypton was much smaller than Earth, and there weren't as many oceans as on Earth. Just from the topographic conditions, it was more like Mars.
The Kryptonian civilization was quite advanced as well; they had already reached the stage of alien colonization, and the entire ho planet had been transford into a massive city, serving as the capital of the entire civilization.
Even so, it's obvious that there was a more prosperous central area on this planet. Kara tried hard in her mind to search for mories of when she lived here, and finally pointed in a direction, saying, "Over there, over there is the Breeding Center."
They flew towards a tower-like building in the center of the bustling area. Clark also searched his brain for the details of his mories.
Kryptonians have mories from birth; even as infants not long born, they can rember certain things and store them in the depths of their super brains.
After coming to Earth, Clark lived a very happy life, so he almost never thought about how he got here. But thinking back now, he could still retrieve so scattered fragnts of mory.
He couldn't help but start talking to Kara:
"I rember lying on a platform, with two very bright lights overhead. Soone grabbed my hand, then wrapped in fabric and carried out hurriedly."
"He... he seed to be wearing a protective suit without exposing his skin. He ran with for a long ti, then put in a seat. I slled a scent, felt very sleepy, and then fell asleep."
"When I woke up again, my father was holding . My mother ran out from the house, but at that ti I couldn't understand them. They took into the house and placed in front of the fireplace..."
"It seems your foster parents treated you well," Kara smiled and said, "Your parents made the right decision. At that ti, many wanted to send their children away, but most failed. Even the successful ones, like , got swept into so mysterious space, unable to co out for decades."
"I always feel like they knew a lot," Clark said, "It's definitely not a coincidence that I managed to escape."
Kara thought carefully and then said, "True. How did they know the exact coordinates of Earth?"
"Kryptonian civilization was so advanced, they might have discovered Earth long ago. But there's no reason to send so far away. In the sector where we landed, near the Green Lantern Base, there are clearly many other civilizations and it's not far from here..."
"This indeed seems odd. Let's check out the Breeding Center first, then take a tour of your ho, we might discover sothing."
The two arrived at the entrance of the Breeding Center. In the long-term absence of use, every place was piled high with dust. Clark took a deep breath and blew it out violently, dispersing the dust, and the two walked in.
There was nothing notable on the ground floor, mostly so operation rooms. The machines had long since been destroyed and were of no use.
Finally, on the top floor, they saw the core breeding facility—a massive circular hall. Against the walls were several pieces of equipnt, with a transparent chamber in the middle of the equipnt. What might have contained so kind of liquid there was now empty.
Both noticed two pieces of equipnt were missing. Clark walked to the empty space, pointing at the severed cables and irregular equipnt interface said, "Looks like it was dismantled violently."
"This proves Zod wasn't lying to us," Kara said, "He likely was the one who dismantled these two breeding facilities, and it seed quite dangerous."
Clark moved towards an intact facility next to it. Just as he was about to check if there was anything left inside the transparent chamber, the panel near his arm lit up.
Clark quickly pulled his hand back. Kara walked over, glanced at the text on it, and said, "You've activated it, but it shows insufficient power supply... wait, how's there still energy here?"
The two exchanged a glance, realizing sothing was amiss.
Logically, after Krypton's destruction for so long, with nothing supplying power to the machines here, they shouldn't have reacted at all.
"Why do I feel like these devices were just activated by soone?" Clark looked around the room, but indeed found no signs of recent activity and could only step back, standing still to ponder.
Kara tried another machine. She placed her hand on the machine's panel, but it had no reaction. She then called Clark over, and when Clark placed his hand on it, the machine lit up.
Though it still showed insufficient power supply, it was clear only Clark could activate the machine.
"Why is it like this?" Kara furrowed her brow, looking puzzled.
"Could it be related to the 'Central Treasure' I carry?"
"No," Kara said, "it's just a book. You can think of it as a reference manual. Do you need to carry a manual with you to start your fridge?"
Clark scratched his head, puzzled.
"Wait, Oliver ssaged ." Clark opened the communication panel, and to his surprise, Oliver had sent him a long ssage. After reading it carefully, his expression turned serious.
"What's wrong?" Kara asked him.
"Oliver said Barry hasn't returned for a long ti, and he might have gone ti traveling." Clark shook his head slightly and said, "The Justice League's think tank conducted a rigorous and comprehensive analysis. They believe that Barry might have gone to Hai'er's past."
Kara gasped and said, "Did he go back to Hai'er's childhood? Does he intend to directly kill the child Hai'er to resolve this crisis?"
"That's the problem." Clark looked at Kara and said, "Hai'er wasn't resolved; he just went mad and ramd into the sun. This proves Barry didn't kill him in the past but might have done sothing else that led him to beco what he is now."
"So what did he do?"
"They're still discussing."
About ten minutes ago, Oliver gathered Lex, Harley, and two Batn to a eting in the conference room, to study how the current situation was ford.
"It's known that Barry doesn't kill," Oliver said, "To be precise, he doesn't kill any intelligent life, including aliens."
"Why?" Batman couldn't help but ask, though he also didn't kill humans, he was ruthless against aliens. Alien electronic lives and monsters were never spared.
But from what Oliver said, this universe's Barry kills almost nothing—not even humans, nor highly intelligent aliens.
"There's no why," Oliver said, "He's willing to do that. We don't interfere with his choice. But he doesn't mind if we kill."
"Because his Divine Speed is very special." Lex voiced his speculation, "His Divine Speed is intertwined with the primordial darkness of the world, inseparable. And this dark power can lead one to fall, so he must control his negative emotions as much as possible, not giving himself the chance to fall."
"Alright, understandable." Batman nodded and said, "So, with him not killing, why choose to return to Hai'er's past?"
Everyone began to ponder, because it was obviously contradictory. Jumping to a point in the past was originally to kill a then-weak opponent, making the future powerful opponent disappear.
But without killing, that cannot be achieved.
By not killing baby Hai'er in the past, Hai'er at this point in ti wouldn't disappear. It's all futile.
But Batman grasped the key imdiately, he said, "Jumping to the past to kill baby Hai'er is useless."
Injustice Batman realized this too, he said, "The intelligence you received ntions that Hai'er can exist at every point in ti. So killing Hai'er at a certain past point in ti may not kill him in all ti points."
This sounds a bit convoluted, but Oliver thought of a good analogy. He said, "If he can exist simultaneously at every point in ti, it ans ti is non-linear for him."
"So that ans the past isn't necessarily before the future, the future isn't necessarily after the past, but the past, future, and present are lined up parallelly, existing simultaneously, without affecting each other."
"Every minute and second he experiences establishes an independent tiline, and the developnt on each tiline is independent. This is the root of why he can exist at different ti points at the sa ti."
"The life of an ordinary person is like a dried sausage. If the sausage isn't made, there's no way to dry it. To kill an ordinary person by ti traveling, the best thod is to prevent the sausage from being made, and the drying process naturally won't happen."
"But for Hai'er, his life is like a bunch of grapes. Each grape grows at its own pace, but all are independent. The Hai'er at this ti point is just a grape. To eliminate this grape, it's useless to kill the one that grew first."
"Unless one can directly kill the whole vine, there's no way to eliminate him. Eliminating the earliest one doesn't affect the others. Barry understands the structure of ti better than us, he surely knows this."
"Indeed, Barry must have realized this before formulating this plan. So by choosing to travel back to the past, he must have other intentions," Batman said.
"What does he intend to do?" Oliver murmured, then looked at Lex and Harley sitting on the sa side of the table.
"I rember the information ntioned that Hai'er detests clones, but he himself is actually a clone," Harley thought and said, "I speculate Barry might want to utilize this to strike him. This could also explain why Hai'er suddenly went mad."
The more Harley spoke, the more reasonable it seed. She gently tapped the table with her fingers and said, "No creature is without weaknesses, not even Doomsday."
"Hai'er's body is indeed strong, but after all, he is an intelligent being, not so unconscious cosmic natural disaster. Barry might want to start from this angle and cause him ntal damage."
"But he doesn't seem like the type who would beco despondent after a ntal blow and then hide in a corner to cry." Batman spread his hands and said, "Facts also prove that ntally attacking him only made him more frenzied."
"Barry studied psychology well, so he couldn't have overlooked this. This indicates he might not intend to make Hai'er retreat through ntal stimulation but has other ans."
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