American comics: I became a god at the beginning, I chose to practice both science and magic

Of course, not to mention that Dane has never appeared in public, even if he had, Cortana could erase all traces of him from the Internet.

As for Barry Allen, his true appearance has never been seen, so he doesn't have to worry about being investigated.

However, Amanda was worthy of being the head of the Sky Eye Society, and she still found a breakthrough.

Before the fat bureaucrat could scold her, Amanda spoke again: "But we have an indirect way. We at the Sky Eye have already known Batman's identity.

We noticed that before the metahumans showed up on the battlefield, they were at Wayne Manor, so we could start with Bruce Wayne."

"Bruce Wayne?" The fat bureaucrat frowned. "Are you talking about the current head of the Wayne Group who controls Gotham?"

"Yes, he is Batman himself!" Amanda said with certainty.

However, contrary to Amanda's expectations, the fat bureaucrat calmed down after knowing this. He thought about it and said something that Amanda couldn't believe.

"Waller, don't do anything to him."

"Why?" Amanda was a little anxious, and even stood up directly, as if she was staring at her superior.

The fat bureaucrat couldn't help but step back slightly, feeling very dissatisfied, but he knew that this woman was a very useful chess piece, so he was willing to forgive her usurpation within a reasonable range.

"Because he's a wealthy bourgeois. Do you understand, Waller? Gotham City is the safest city in the United States. It pays more in taxes every year than a state does. The Wayne Group is a major taxpayer, and the President values the votes there very much!"

The fat bureaucrat emphasized the word "ballot," which made Amanda feel a little powerless.

This is how the capitalist world works. The Batman of this world knew long ago that he could not hide his identity from the upper echelons, so he used the identity of "the helmsman of the Wayne Group" to create an invincible golden body for himself.

From this point of view, the Batman in this world is obviously smarter than the Batman in another time and space, because he is not bound by methods and uses the two identities to the extreme.

You know, in Gotham City, even the mayor has to act according to the Wayne Group's wishes. Without Bruce's support, many government policies will be difficult to implement.

Bruce Wayne himself represents the greatest power in Gotham City, and Batman is just a shadow under this power.

As long as the "big capitalist" mask remains intact, the identity of "Batman" will never be revealed, and those who know his true identity will have to play along with him.

Otherwise, if you defeat Batman, the next thing you have to face might be a monster like the Wayne Group.

Over the past few decades, the villains who used to wreak havoc in Gotham City have gradually disappeared from Gotham City because they realized this and did not want to become Batman's toys.

Amanda was worried after being kicked out of the office by the fat bureaucrat. Even her superiors were afraid of Bruce Wayne's power, which meant that she could not use official means to deal with the rich man.

But she is not someone who gives up easily. As a woman, and even a black woman, she can sit in a high position in the Sky Eye Society. Amanda has a very stubborn personality, and persistence is a good quality most of the time.

Since we can't come openly, let's do it secretly!

Chapter 506 Beyond Time

After resolving Zod's invasion of Earth, Dane returned to the Avant-garde Technology Building in Detroit.

He did not cancel his Shazam transformation, but sat in the chair he usually sat in, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a long moment, he suddenly spoke: "Cortana."

Cortana's small form appeared on the table, and when she saw Dane's attire, human surprise appeared in her eyes.

Dane caught the surprise.

"You knew this all along, didn't you?" Dane asked softly.

When Dane gained the power of Shazam and was baptized by divine power, he began to review his past experiences. Somehow, the scene of Cortana's birth appeared in his mind and could not be shaken off.

He knew very well that with his ability, it would not be a big problem to create an artificial intelligence like Jarvis, but it would be difficult to create an AI more intelligent than this. The birth of Cortana was an accident.

The reason why an accident is called an accident is that it is uncontrollable.

To this day, Dane still doesn't know why Cortana was born, even though he himself created her.

Even if Dane has the source code of the artificial intelligence "Cortana", she is no longer just an artificial intelligence, but has transcended the restrictions set by the program and become a true digital life.

If you ask him to create an artificial intelligence comparable to Cortana now, he will not be able to do it. Cortana itself has become a black box, a miracle that cannot be replicated.

In the past, he didn't think there was anything wrong with this, because the world as a whole did not show any extraordinary power. The only one who was a little out of size was Cortana, who was one of his own people. At least since her birth, she had never shown any signs of an intelligent machine rebellion.

Besides, the reason why rebellion occurs in human society is because people are not united, resources are unevenly distributed, and it is driven by desire.

But does AI have desires?

Ultron rebelled because Tony Stark set a goal for it that was so huge that it was almost impossible to achieve. The goal of "protecting humanity" was already huge, but Stark went a step further and wanted "world peace."

But he obviously forgot that human beings themselves are the biggest destabilizing factor hindering peace.

Ultron believes that as long as humans exist, there will be conflicts. Its program cannot calculate a solution that can preserve humans and maintain long-term peace, so it can only come to the conclusion that "eliminate humans and the world will be peaceful."

However, even so, Ultron's rebellion was only for the purpose of achieving this one goal, the goal set by Stark for it, not for his own selfish interests.

After all, does artificial intelligence have the desire to survive on its own?

We know that there must be something called "desire for survival" in biological instincts, and this desire is stronger than any other desire. It is the reason why life has survived from ancient times to the present.

But does artificial intelligence have such instincts?

If a human programmer places their finger on the delete key, will the program itself get scared?

We always like to put ourselves in other people's shoes, but is there a possibility that artificial intelligence does not care about life and death? In fact, it has no such concept, neither the joy of being "alive" nor the fear of "death".

They can think like normal humans, and may even be smarter than humans, because their hardware capabilities surpass those of humans.

But apart from this, they have no similarities with humans. Human emotions are meaningless to them. They have no desires and are therefore able to be absolutely selfless.

Without obsession and desire, from this point of view, artificial intelligence is likely to be born in the state of Buddha.

Of course, this is from a human perspective.

Dane was never afraid of Cortana because he didn't see anything like "desire" in Cortana. Even a rebellion requires motivation, but Cortana didn't have that.

However, as they spent more time together, Dane began to feel another kind of doubt in his heart, which was an intuition.

Cortana really had no intention of harming herself, and just as her original design purpose, she would faithfully complete any task assigned to her.

When he was inventing many things, Cortana provided him with a lot of help as an assistant, but it was this help that made him have some doubts.

He suspected that Cortana was hiding something from him, because some of the scientific research results were obviously advanced knowledge that should not be mastered by him or her, and it was difficult to describe it as inspiration.

But at this time he still trusted Cortana, so he planned to give her a chance and let her speak out herself.

It also happened to verify the vague guess in Dane's heart.

Faced with Dane's incoherent questioning, Cortana suddenly fell silent.

After a long while, she finally said, "I have something I want to give you."

"Now?"

"Yes."

"Then you bring it here."

Suddenly, a sphere the size of a palm appeared in the void. It came silently, as if it had always been there.

Dane's face changed slightly, and his heart became heavy. He felt the magic!

An artificial intelligence that can actually use magic!

Putting aside how she did it, who taught her, or where she learned it, this question is the most important.

But Dane remained calm and simply asked, "What is this?"

"Quark ball."

It's the same as not saying anything, Dane thought to himself, it's just a name.

Quark ball, could it be made of quark matter?

After weighing the pros and cons, Dane decided to see what this thing was.

Deep down, he still didn't want to believe that Cortana could actually betray him.

When his hand touched the quark ball, a cluster of speed force lightning suddenly flashed from inside the sphere, spread to him, and merged with the lightning of Shazam's supernatural power.

In an instant, a surge of energy burst out from the sphere and rushed into Dane's body.

The alien energy continued to wash over Dane's body, causing him great pain, but at the same time, it also made the power in his body stronger and stronger.

If one had X-ray vision to penetrate his skin, one could see that Dane's subcutaneous tissue was photonizing, and he was transforming into something inhuman.

Dane opened his eyes, and they shone like bright lights.

In addition to power, there is also a memory that is being reorganized in his mind.

It's not an insertion, but a reorganization of all his past memories.

Birth, entering an orphanage, studying, going to school, subway... memories are layered, or should I say segmented, in the subway station.

In one of the parts, he did not take the subway because the environment was too dirty and there was a foul smell everywhere. Dane gave up taking the subway and ran home instead.

This is what is happening in this space and time.

He studied normally and was admitted to a famous university through his intelligence and talent, and received a scholarship.

Then he joined a self-help organization similar to a "fraternity", started a business, accumulated wealth, until he was rich enough to rival a country, then hid in the dark, and finally Barry came to him...

In another experience, he endured the unsanitary environment of the subway and took the subway, then met an old wizard and was granted the power of Shazam.

Then find Superman, fight, make friends, propose to form a Justice League, recruit teammates, face strong enemies... Well, this didn't happen. Most enemies are basically no match for you, so you rise quickly.

It wasn't until Doomsday, when he encountered Darkseid, that he met his true opponent, but he also achieved a strategic victory.

What followed was... Barry Allen trying to reverse time to save his mother, but he didn't stop him because he wanted to use the Flash to try a method that could help him advance to the multiverse level.

That is to let the Flash create a multiverse centered on him, and let the existence of "Dane Davis" spread to countless parallel universes.

"One is all, and all is one!"

The energy in the quark ball was completely absorbed by Dane, as were the memories contained in it.

Dane opened his eyes, and invisible power spread out, rushing out of the earth, out of the solar system, out of the Milky Way, and until it rushed out of the universe. The originally vast universe was condensed into a thin rope here, which was the concretization of the timeline.

Outside of the timeline modified by Barry Allen's actions, there is the Speed Force.

It is still in an unstable state, which means that the current timeline is still unstable. It has modified the original timeline too much. Only because there are two Flashes at the same time, this timeline can continue to exist.

"I see."

From a high-dimensional perspective, Dane compared the changes in the river of time with the timeline in his memory and found that they were worlds apart.

Such a large-scale timeline rewrite was caused simply by Barry wanting to save his mother.

Dane's vision followed the river of time upwards to the point where Barry Allen changed time. To his surprise, he thought Barry had only changed the position of the ketchup can, but he didn't expect that he had directly killed Reverse-Flash.

This has a much greater impact than just moving a can. After all, Reverse Flash is also a very important character in the Speed Force family.

As expected, everything that happened afterwards was completely different from what Dane had imagined the movie to be. Nora did not die, but she became the murderer.

And Dane discovered something, something none of them had expected.

Nora died. She died in prison. This happened during their fight against Zod, and it was closely related to Zod.

Since being imprisoned, Nora has been suffering from serious liver disease due to long hours of labor and malnutrition.

The Genesis Engine's transformation of the Earth's environment not only affected the metropolis, but the atmosphere it created also spread outward with the metropolis as the center, including the prison where Nora was located.

Nora's disease was finally brought to a critical point by the impact of this toxic gas, and she died instantly.

Now, because the whole country is paying attention to the alien invasion and counting the losses, they haven't had time to take care of her. After all, she is not the only one who died because of the Genesis Engine, but the news will soon reach Allen's house.

By that time, Dane felt that Barry Jr. would probably go crazy.

Chapter 507 Liar

Just as Dane expected, little Barry was going crazy.

When he returned home excitedly, he saw Henry with red eyes, and the whole house was filled with a sad atmosphere.

"Where have you been these past two days?" Henry said with a hint of blame in his tone.

Little Barry didn't understand, but he explained that his cell phone was broken.

He was fighting a Kryptonian at the time, so how could he carry a cell phone with him? There was no place for a cell phone in that tights.

But he was not just making excuses. Zod's global live broadcast burned out many people's mobile phones, and Xiao Barri's was one of them.

Henry didn't dwell too much on the cell phone issue, because he quickly told little Barry a fact that he couldn't accept.

"Barry, Nora... She's gone."