I'm in an American comic book, and all my teammates are main characters and bosses.

Chapter 64: The Flashpoint Event

After hearing Victor's words, Ron stared at these people whose body temperatures were below freezing, just like Victor's, for a while.

It can only be said that the nature of arcane powers is truly diverse. When Ron saw Captain America awaken from the ice, he couldn't understand why his cell membranes hadn't expanded due to being frozen, becoming harder and more angular, and the cell fluid hadn't pierced through them.

Now, let alone being revived after being frozen, both people with SLE and these emasculated versions of SLE have body temperatures below freezing.

"I even suspect that you might be distant relatives of the Frost Giants. With body temperatures below freezing, not to mention blood vessels, even bones and connective tissues would be frozen solid, right? Yet you can still stroll around the streets as if nothing's wrong."

Frost Giants? Noticing Ron's words, Victor's eyes flickered slightly, and he casually asked, feigning nonchalance, "They are indeed similar to Frost Giants. What's wrong? It's been a while since I've seen them. Do you know where they are?"

"Oh."

Although Victor doesn't show any physiological fluctuations when he lies, Ron won't be fooled by such appearances—no matter how much Victor strengthens himself by scavenging in this world, he can't possibly have any connection with the frost giants of other universes.

"The transaction you're asking about is a different one."

Tsk.

Victor clicked his tongue in annoyance, but wasn't angry that his attempt to deceive him had been exposed. He simply snorted and said:

"So what do you want to know?"

"Tell me everything you know."

"oh."

They led Ron to a large house at the very back of Frozen Alley. Although it looked dilapidated on the outside, a closer look revealed that the house was actually well-maintained.

The outside was a jumble of filth and debris. To enter the room, one first passed through a heavy alloy gate, and then into a laboratory constructed of a special alloy. Inside the laboratory, numerous columnar petri dishes were displayed, filled with organic liquid, and submerged in these dishes were large numbers of corpses.

Of course, the corpses displayed in the laboratory were no ordinary people. At least, along the way, Ron recognized many villains, including Killer Croc, The Calculator, the Mad Hatter, and Bane.

"What's wrong with these guys?"

"Dead people will come back to life after a while, but it's useless once they come back to life. They've lost their self-awareness and are left with only the most basic instincts. Living is just like being cannon fodder at the front."

Sitting down, Victor casually poured himself a glass of dark blue, low-temperature liquid. He gestured for Ron to sit wherever he liked, then said, "To be honest, I don't really know much about this stinky bat. He's got decent skills, but frankly, his strength is just so-so. But this guy is like a devil; he always appears at the most opportune moment."

"I think it was more than ten or twenty years ago when I first appeared? I don't remember exactly, because I was teaching at Gotham University at that time, and the students thought I was pretty good."

"Stop talking nonsense, or you'll get your pay docked."

"You deserve to die." After taking a sip of the blue solution, Victor recalled for a moment and then said:

"That guy is a freak. He was somewhat restrained at first, but after the Joker started leading Gotham down a path of no-holds-barred crime, this guy called Batman lost all sense of decency."

"Broken bones are just commonplace for him. To intimidate the Joker's criminal organization, this guy personally hanged the Riddler from a lamppost. He stabbed him in the stomach, and when he pulled it out, the hook on the blade ripped out his intestines, which spilled all over the ground."

"At first, I didn't pay much attention, because that's how Gotham is, and I'm used to it. Until later, I don't know why, a group of underwater people came out of the water and declared war on the land people, saying that they wanted to avenge their queen."

"At first, nobody paid any attention because no one had ever heard of underwater people before. But who would have thought that those guys in tight suits weren't some circus perverts, but a real underwater empire. The first landing war took place in Europe, and more than 100 million people sank to the bottom of the sea along with Western Europe during the Atlantis landing war."

"Then came an Amazonian group led by Wonder Woman who took over Britain and renamed it New Demscala, during which approximately 30 to 40 million people were massacred."

Upon hearing this, Ron reached out, signaling Victor to pause, and took out a small pinch of white frost, about 0.2 grams. Although it was very little, Victor quickly took it and placed it in a container beside him.

"Let me pause for a moment and catch my breath."

Rubbing his temples, Ron roughly understood what kind of world he was in.

Flash point.

One of DC's most famous events. To illustrate its significance, the Flashpoint event is that it was through this reboot that Superman abandoned his tradition of wearing his underwear on the outside. This demonstrates the immense importance of the Flashpoint event to the DC Universe.

The story begins with Barry Allen, the Flash. During a confrontation with his nemesis, Reverse-Flash, Barry is provoked by Reverse-Flash's words. His speed, fueled by his emotions, reaches its limit, allowing him to alter the history of the original universe using the Speed ​​Force. However, due to Reverse-Flash's premeditated interference, Barry travels back to the moment his mother was murdered in his childhood and saves her.

With Barry's mother's survival, the entire world underwent drastic changes due to the shift in the timeline. Besides the aforementioned simultaneous wars of Aquaman and Wonder Woman to rule the world, another significant change was that Batman in this timeline wasn't Bruce Wayne. Or rather, on that day, after watching the movie, the person who died in Crime Alley changed from Thomas and his wife to Bruce Wayne.

Since then, Bruce's father has become Batman in this timeline.

Whether you call it chivalry or venting your anger, Thomas Wayne avenges his son in his own way, intending to change the Gotham that killed him... Following the normal trajectory, the world should eventually end with Thomas unleashing his powers to ambush and kill Reverse-Flash, then returning the world to its original state, correcting and restarting the entire universe, thus arriving at the familiar DC New 52 era.

But this world...

While it is indeed the Flashpoint event, if Ron remembers correctly, the main mission in the early stages of the Flashpoint event seems to be to stop Aquaman and Wonder Woman from starting World War III and destroying the world.

Although many cities in the Flashpoint event suffered varying degrees of damage due to the war, none had ever been isolated from the outside world by building high walls in order to protect themselves like they are now.

Is it the work of a global virus?

(End of this chapter)