infodatos Chapter 332 All Things Perish
Chapter 332 All Things Perish
Chapter 332 All Things Perish
As he watched the Earth's reflection in the sky, a dark mass obscuring the entire heavens, Kang, piloting the time machine disguised as a Rolls-Royce Phantom, began to feel uneasy.
"We must leave immediately!"
As one of the infinite conquerors at the end of the timeline, "Great Entrepreneur" Kang's main business is running an entertainment company, which seems low-class, but that doesn't mean he's ignorant.
On the contrary, like his other parallel universe counterparts, he knew, even if only through hearsay, what was about to happen.
I've said it countless times—time travel is a delicate task, and from the very beginning, it should only be entrusted to someone as brilliant as Kang.
"It's almost time, get in the car, my business partners!"
As is well known, the multiverse is generally in a state of infinite division, with countless different realities existing.
The existence of this phenomenon is actually a good thing; it is a fault-tolerance mechanism of reality itself, preventing the universe from going completely astray and falling into an irreversible situation.
Until some super idiot who seemed to be from Universe 616 rudely traveled through time, wantonly tampering with the history of Ultron's birth, completely ruining this mechanism.
The multiverse, which was constantly expanding amidst endless "what if" possibilities, may have been severely damaged by this behavior and thus began to contract.
Waiting for each universe to decay on its own would be too slow, especially since many more parallel universes would be born in the process. Therefore, the multiverse itself has chosen a more efficient method: collisions between universes.
Specifically, the Earth's reflection above their heads wasn't a reflection at all; it was a real Earth from another universe.
Two parallel universes are about to collide, and their primary point of intersection is Earth in each universe.
If the two Earths were to collide, it would mark the beginning of the universe's mutual destruction and return to annihilation. This would directly erase everything from existence, and no one could survive such a catastrophe.
The tycoon, Campbell, quickly reached for the driver's side of the Rolls-Royce, ready to open the door and leave this wretched universe.
Realizing that the Earth above wasn't an illusion, but a real object that was constantly approaching, Joey instinctively wanted to take flight, preparing to try and push the Earth away, but was stopped by the tycoon Kang, who grabbed his red cape.
"wrong!"
Kang, who was halfway down to get into the car, suddenly stopped, pushed the door shut, grabbed Joey, and showed him his empty hands:
"Where's my 'X-Men'? We had a deal!"
He poured his heart and soul into the operation of X-Men and mutants, even resorting to scarcity marketing to the point of pre-selling next year's SHF action figures, and he also arranged the legal provisions.
If he really leaves empty-handed, the massive breach of contract fees and the damage to the company's reputation will result in astronomical expenses. It would be better to just run him over!
"You're really obsessed with money!"
Joey yanked Kang off, who was clinging to him. Honestly, he had no idea what kind of promise his future self had made with Kang:
"What do you mean by 'it was agreed upon'? I had no idea about that!"
Joey believes he has always been dutiful and responsible, without ever shirking his responsibilities by "believing in the wisdom of future generations" or pushing all problems into the future.
How could my future self dig such a huge hole for my present self?
Moreover, Joey felt from the beginning that Professor X's behavior was somewhat outrageous:
"Don't you think this is too controversial?"
If a person's body, memories, and personality can be reproduced through cloning and memory modification, wouldn't that prove that there are indeed two identical leaves in the world, and that the existence of this person itself is not unique?
Just think about it—if your existence is insignificant, even if you get sick or even die one day, shouldn't those who care about you replace you like a new product?
The Kryptonians of the Golden Age had already gone through this phase, and the ensuing clone wars were almost bloody, which made them re-establish their attitude towards clones—to show no mercy and exterminate them all.
As a Kryptonian whose core is actually "Earthling," Joey's moral philosophy is significantly different from that of Kryptonians. Although he holds a very cautious attitude towards cloning, he is not as resolute as the Kryptonians.
He had previously been criticized by Kara as an unruly Kryptonian who had poured too much emotion into his clone, the blonde Kara, and was too casual about the technology of cloning itself.
Kang, who possesses an infinite number of parallel universe variants, looked at the somewhat conflicted Superman and immediately frowned, his exaggerated expression almost crushing the monocle next to his eye.
"Are you serious?"
He pointed to the approaching Earth overhead: "Welcome to the multiverse, sir! And speaking of X..."
"It's the professor's business, what's it to you!"
"Cough cough." This time, Professor X, whose head was still in the nutrient solution, wasn't as resolute as before:
"I really want to bring my comrades and students back to life, but then again—"
After listening to the tycoon Kang's statement that "mutants are not human" in order to reduce taxes, Professor X felt that while a world full of racism was indeed terrible, it paled in comparison to capitalism.
In Kang the Conqueror's eyes, the X-Men were not enemies, dangerous elements, inferior races, or demons, but merely objects that could bring him profit. Professor X couldn't say which one was worse.
So his initial eagerness turned into a delaying tactic: "This isn't that urgent, is it?"
"Of course I'm in a hurry!"
Kang looked up at the sky, and it seemed that the other Earth had gotten even closer:
"Professor X should know perfectly well how Ultron obtained the technology and data he left behind. Replicating it is virtually impossible. If the two Earths collide, everything you have hidden in this universe will be completely destroyed. At that time, your idea of cloning the old X-Men will be nothing but a pipe dream!"
Professor X's silence proves the correctness of Kang's statement: Ultron does not consider so-called "humanity" when conducting experiments. The source technology of this cloning facility originating from Ultron is built on the trampling of the blood, flesh, and souls of the deceased.
Having lost this opportunity, it has become virtually impossible to revive all the X-Men so easily.
While Kang and Professor X were communicating through Joey, Joey himself was also thinking things through. Before the two could reach a conclusion, Joey decisively made a decision:
"Let's do it!"
Unsure of what to do, Joey chooses to believe the wealthy entrepreneur Kang, and in turn, believes in the future version of himself that the latter describes.
He handed the nutrient container containing Professor X's brain to Zhang Parker, whose spider-sense was rumbling in his mind: "Go and resurrect Professor X, and those people inside his brain."
"After you've done all this," Joey looked at the cloning facility stretching for kilometers underground, his brow furrowing as he made his decision. "I need you to activate the self-destruct switch and destroy this cloning facility. Leave nothing behind."
Aside from the X-Men, let those superheroes who cannot be resurrected rest in peace.
Then Joey looked up at the sky and saw several figures flying from that Earth towards the Earth where they had landed.
#Wolverine's act of traveling through time to prevent Ultron's birth tore apart the continuity of spacetime, causing upheavals throughout the multiverse.#
#But the waves that rise will not all go in the same direction; as a response to all of this, the aftershocks of the dissipating waves will sweep across the entire multiverse.#
The omnipresent observer within the multiverse also paused to watch at this moment, witnessing that the catastrophe had finally reached this seemingly remote universe.
Because the mastermind behind all of this is beyond the observer's vision and imagination, even he doesn't know how things will develop next.
But he knew the final outcome:
#At that time, all things will perish.#