this infinite world

Watchmen, a strange world.

If magic is divided into low magic, medium magic, and high magic, then the world of Watchmen is a very low magic world close to no magic. Although there are "superheroes" in this plane in the 1980s, they are just ordinary people with strong bodies and can die from gunshots.

The good news is that there is only one superhero in this dimension who truly possesses superpowers; the bad news is that this superhero, called "Dr. Manhattan" by others, is so powerful that he is not in the same dimension as the others.

"Although Jon Osterman was just an ordinary physicist, after the experiment on November 1959, 11, if God really exists, he must be an American."

Yang Yun rubbed his temples and introduced the worldview of the Watchers to the Zhongzhou team. In other words, the only powerful person in this world who deserves the attention of the Zhongzhou team is Dr. Manhattan: "A god walking on earth who was born from a wrong experiment... This is Dr. Manhattan."

"How strong?"

Although Watchmen, a comic book written in the 2009s and winner of the Hugo Award, is well-known worldwide, it was not made into a movie until , nearly years later. It is understandable that Zheng Zha and others do not know much about it.

However, although he didn't know much about the background story of Watchmen and was fully confident in his own abilities, Zheng Zha couldn't help but become serious when he heard Yang Yun speak so seriously, especially when he used adjectives like "god" and "God" to describe Dr. Manhattan: "Can you give a brief description?"

"...If we really want to make an analogy, then Dr. Manhattan's strength is probably at least that of a junior saint."

Thinking of Dr. Manhattan's ability to observe time, modify reality, reorganize the body, create life, and teleport to Mars in the movie, the battle-hardened Yang Yun couldn't help but feel that it was quite tricky: "At the very least, he will be stronger than the immortal Non-Face."

"Hiss... Just beat the immortal, now you beat the saint?" Zheng Zha took a breath.

I beat a saint? Really?
"What else? Dr. Manhattan's ability is 'quantum manipulation'. I think you should have a general idea of ​​how powerful this ability is now."

Yang Yun spread his hands and said helplessly: "And based on our current strength and the Lord's usual style, the only person in this world who can pose a threat to us is probably Dr. Manhattan."

"Wait, although I haven't seen too many movies, according to normal logic, since Dr. Manhattan is a superhero, there should also be super villains, right?"

On the other side, Cheng Xiao raised his hand and expressed a different opinion: "Why do we have to fight against Dr. Manhattan? According to the style of our Zhongzhou team and the predetermined position, shouldn't we fight super villains together with Dr. Manhattan under normal circumstances..."

"Because in the world of Watchmen, there are no super villains."

Yang Yun sighed and answered Cheng Xiao's question: "In other words, the villain 'Pharaoh' is just an ordinary BOSS, and the real BOSS is Dr. Manhattan."

——A world where super villains don’t exist?
When Yang Yun said this, some people in the Zhongzhou team were stunned, while others were thinking about it. After a while, Qi Teng asked, "So that's it. It's not black and white, but a gray world..." "Yes, that's right. The Watcher has such a contradictory worldview."

Yang Yun spread his hands and said helplessly: "Except for Dr. Manhattan, the other superheroes in the group are ordinary people without special powers. Perhaps they have undergone genetic modification experiments. Pharaoh, who can catch bullets with his bare hands, has the same strength as the first level, but that's all... In addition, a superhero was even shot to death when he was trying to stop a bank robber because his cloak was caught in the automatic door."

"But this is too weird. Adding a character like Dr. Manhattan to such an ordinary world is like putting a tiger into an ant nest."

Zheng Zha scratched his head frantically. He had just created the phrase "Axe chisels the universe, Xi Huang draws a picture" and firmly believed that the power gained from solid work was the most correct path. It was difficult for him to understand the reason: "And how did Dr. Manhattan become so strong? If according to Yang Yun, he just gained such powerful power because of a wrong experiment, it's too casual..."

"There are many such random characters in American comics. There is a saying that goes, the rich rely on technology, the poor rely on mutations, that's it."

Yang Yun spread his hands and said helplessly: "Superheroes like Spider-Man who gained super powers after being bitten by a mutant spider are okay, but most American comic characters are completely unreasonable."

"The Hulk, who can increase his strength infinitely as long as he gets angry after being irradiated by gamma rays; the anti-hero Sentinel, who gains the energy equivalent to a million stellar explosions after drinking a potion... In comparison, Dr. Manhattan, who annihilated his body in a quantum conversion experiment, and returned to the real world after his mind traveled to the antimatter realm, is already a reasonable person."

"After all, 'when in doubt, use quantum mechanics.'"

——When in doubt, quantum mechanics is a universal excuse, but it is so appropriate when used on Dr. Manhattan.

"…With such a huge gap in power, how did they form a superhero team?"

Even though he had ten thousand questions in his mind, Zheng Zha, who understood the meaning of this sentence, could only accept this "statement that was not really a statement."

It was just like suppressing one problem but causing another to pop up. One question was suppressed, and then the second one arose. Compared with Dr. Manhattan's powerful strength, Zheng Zha found it more difficult to understand the process of forming this superhero team: "Although the Justice League is often referred to as 'Superman and his accessories', at least there is Batman as the intellectual leader, and the others are all capable of standing on their own feet, performing their duties, and possessing powerful superheroes. Such a powerful person who can change the world with a single thought and is comparable to a god is doing some house-playing things..."

Zheng Zha organized his words, as if trying to find a suitable word to describe Dr. Manhattan's idea, but in the end he had to give up and muttered: "...It's too weird."

"Or, it's just playing the game world."

While answering Zheng Zha's question, Yang Yun turned his gaze to Chu Xuan, who had remained silent until now: "Or, it could be that a god who no longer has any emotions and was once a 'human' wants to keep his past self——"

"Thus, let us limit our bonds and memories to anchors, and anchor our own humanity." (End of this chapter)