this infinite world

“This is a bit too easy.”

It was not difficult to find the Comedian's body.

But when Team Zhongzhou and others entered the police station where most of the lights were turned off and found the Comedian's body in the morgue without any effort, Zheng Zha still felt a little sad.

The Comedian's death was horrific, his bones were broken, his limbs were twisted in strange directions like the broken hands and feet of a rag doll, and there was not a single piece of healthy flesh on his body... It would be better to say that if a person fell from a height of dozens of stories but did not break beyond recognition and turn into a mass of rotten flesh that was no longer a human form, it would be considered a rare talent.

Although Zheng Zha knew that the Comedian was a scumbag, a famous superhero died silently in his own home, died easily and died in obscurity. Except for Rorschach in the movie, no one came to investigate the truth behind his death, and no one came to collect his body. Even his body was casually placed in the morgue of a nearby police station...

"This guy is obviously an important character in the plot..."

Zheng Zha shrugged his shoulders, putting aside the emotion that had arisen in his heart, and covered the bloodstained white cloth over the Comedian's face again. He turned around and asked Chu Xuan beside him, "How is it, Chu Xuan, did you find anything after your investigation?"

"No." Chu Xuan shook his head and replied without even spending a second: "There are no trace elements on his body that are the same or even similar to those on the badge."

"Not at all?" Zheng Zha asked again.

"That's right, not at all." Chu Xuan nodded.

"…That's troublesome. The clues are broken here again."

Zheng Zha scratched his head in annoyance. "What's going on? The Comedian's badge showed the reaction of that trace element, but he didn't have any on his body?"

——Of course, his question did not get an answer from Chu Xuan.

The wise man of the Zhongzhou team was concentrating on investigating something around the Comedian's body, and from time to time he took out some tools from the storage bag for testing... He looked like a forensic doctor investigating the cause of death, or a detective looking for clues.

"What to do next?"

Chu Xuan did not reply, so Zheng Zha turned to look at the people in the Zhongzhou team. But to his disappointment, except for Qi Tengyi who seemed to be thinking about something, everyone else had a gloomy expression on their faces, and they obviously had no direction at all.

"Sigh... that's enough. I feel like the world we've entered this time can't be solved directly with force like before. Instead, we need to become detectives and go through a series of unraveling to get the truth."

Whether it was the deprivation of exchange, or the fog everywhere, the situation of not being able to find a clue, all made Zheng Zha feel like he had returned to the time when he first entered the main god space. He was now like a detective exploring in the dark, and finally saw a little dawn, but when he got closer, he found that it was just a firefly.

"If we can't get any clues from the Comedian's body, then maybe we can follow Rorschach's example and find out what happened with the other members of Watchmen."

Fortunately, Zheng Zha's doubts did not last long, and Qi Tengyi gave his own answer: "For example, Silk Soul Second Generation."

——Silk Soul Second Generation.

Dr. Manhattan's second wife is regarded by the general public, or almost everyone, as the only link between the godlike blue bald man and humans, and the link between Dr. Manhattan's humanity. If she can be found, then there is only one step away from finding Dr. Manhattan.

She also has another identity, that is, the biological daughter of the comedian who has turned into a corpse in front of him.

"Then let's..."

"——No need to go through so much trouble."

Just as Zheng Zha was about to speak, Chu Xuan beside him suddenly stood up and said, "I found the reason. The drop of blood on the badge is not from the Comedian himself." "Huh? Not from the Comedian himself? Then who else could it be..."

Zheng Zha asked in confusion at first, but then suddenly realized: "Oh, I see... It was the murderer who killed the Comedian, Pharaoh."

In the movie, Pharaoh has been studying the energy generated by Dr. Manhattan for a long time and trying to replicate it, so it is not surprising that he has this element. As the initiator of the "Manhattan Threat Theory" plan, Pharaoh is closer to the corresponding truth than Silk Soul II.

"Okay, then our next stop is decided. I remember that the Pharaoh's secret base is in Antarctica."

Zheng Zha pinched his knuckles, and a confident smile returned to his face. "We don't need to do secret operations anymore, right? At our speed, it won't even take a few minutes to reach the South Pole, so we'll just go find..."

——His words froze in his throat.

It seemed like a moment, and also like eternity. Everything seemed to pass by Zheng Zha's eyes, like a fleeting moment, or like an illusion of thousands of suns and stars.

And the next moment, it was still the familiar rooftop and the clock tower that I had seen twice.

"…Pharaoh."

Reluctantly uttering the remaining three words, Zheng Zha sighed: "I didn't expect it to come back again. This is the second time, right? What exactly is the triggering condition?"

"Could it be that every time we find a clue and take a step forward in finding Dr. Manhattan, we have to go through a time loop..."

"what!"

Suddenly, a woman's scream pierced the night sky, attracting everyone's attention. In the middle of the team, Ming Yanwei, wearing the Bagua Purple Immortal Clothes, looked at her side with a face full of shock... and there was nothing there.

"Zhang Heng... Zhang Heng is gone!" Ming Yanwei said in a panic, "He was holding my hand the whole time. He was there just now, but he suddenly disappeared!"

"...Zhan Lan, can you still connect to Zhang Heng?"

Zheng Zha's face turned serious, and he immediately called the Zhongzhou team's mind controller: "Try your best. If it's the light of your mind, it should be possible..."

——No response.

But when Zheng Zha looked back in surprise, he found that Zhan Lan, who had been with him since he entered this world and had never left, had disappeared suddenly just like Zhang Heng.

"Zhan Lan..."

"Zheng Zha, look at the clock tower."

Just as Zheng Zha called Zhan Lan's name in a trembling voice, Chu Xuan suddenly spoke and pointed forward: "The time displayed on the clock tower has changed."

As Chu Xuan said, the first building the Zhongzhou team saw after entering was the clock tower in front of them. The hour hand was still at eleven o'clock, but the minute hand had changed its original direction...

From the exact time, it moved to 11:10. (End of this chapter)