Superman from the comics: Starting with the Black Robe

Chapter 340 Fantastic Four Part 1

Chapter 340 One of the Fantastic Four

Upon receiving the news, Joey rushed to the scene. Judging from Batman's description, the other party was clearly the Invisible Woman from the Fantastic Four.

Boom!

Joey, having abandoned Kara, landed on the ground. The low-pressure gusts generated by his bio-field extinguished the raging fire. He looked at the invisible woman, Susan:

"Hello, I don't know if you are—"

The multiverse is in complete chaos now, with hundreds or even thousands of Spider-Men already existing, and Joey has no idea which Fantastic Four this is.

However, since the other party knows me, it's very likely that it's just sex!

Susan slapped Joey across the face: "Liar!"

This was no ordinary slap; it was a strike imbued with a force field, so powerful that even Joey could feel it.

"Oops~"

Now Joey knew which Fantastic Four member the other person was.

"I—you—?" Joey wanted to say something, but when he looked down and saw the slightly protruding belly of the Invisible Woman, Susan, he immediately fell silent.

"Alright."

"Look what you've done to us! Don't you have anything to say in your defense?!"

Faced with the Invisible Woman's questioning, Joey, who had just been slapped, was somewhat speechless.

Normally, even if he got hit by a woman, whether it was Wonder Woman, Kara, or Fiora, he would either talk back or fight back immediately.

But at this moment, the Invisible Woman is pregnant, so he really has no way to deal with her.

Moreover, Joey understood why the other person had slapped him.

In a sense, Joey really ruined the Fantastic Four team.

The apocalyptic future they experienced was a chain reaction triggered by Joey's intervention in Tony's fate within this universe.

This inexplicable slap not only angered Superman, but also left Batman stunned: "Before you two started arguing..."

Completely confused about what had happened, he now only felt an urgent need for a recap:

"Could someone please tell me what happened?"

All Batman could do was use his detective skills to profile the character, and then first nip the rather lowbrow guess that popped into his head in the bud.

The child in the blonde woman's belly is definitely not Joey's.

First, he believed in Joey's character (?), and second, because the way Joey looked at Superman was completely off.

"I think I mentioned it before." Under the Invisible Woman's gaze, which seemed to want to kill him on the spot, Joey felt a little guilty.

He could only bite the bullet and pretend that he had already told Batman, when in reality he hadn't explained the details to someone like Batman at all.

That's roughly what happened.

Not long ago, the Fantastic Four used a time machine to pull themselves into a space between the present and the past and gave themselves a good beating.

Although it was eventually proven to be a misunderstanding—they mistakenly believed themselves to be Doctor Doom, who would destroy the universe in the future—the most crucial point was that Doctor Doom was actually someone else, and it was the person Joey knew best in this universe—Tony Stark.

Joey was about to give him the Amodro core, and this act created the future Destroyer that drove the Amodro robot army.

At the time, Mr. Fantastic Reed's request was simple: they wanted Joey to help implant a backdoor virus into the core of Amozzo, to be activated during the future battle between the Fantastic Four and Doctor Doom, giving them a glimmer of hope in that seemingly hopeless fight.

For rather complicated reasons, Joey was still hesitant and did not do so, but little did he know that the Fantastic Four's time loop had already been completed at this moment.

These four ghosts from the future have come knocking again.

Even if we include the time spent on Planet F, where time flows extremely slowly, it's only been a few months since Reed made that suggestion!

Why does it feel like everything has been accelerated since the Ultron crisis ended?

Why did all this happen so quickly?

He now has absolutely no idea what's going on.

Tony's existence has a clear causal relationship with Doctor Doom, who was previously sealed by the Ancient One, but this causal chain should have been broken after the Ancient One was also imprisoned in the Dark Dimension.

"If you can't figure it out, then ignore the process; at least the result is good."

As the most pragmatic of them all, Batman now has a new perspective on Doctor Doom's actions of erasing universe after universe:

"Maybe he did something bad, but it doesn't necessarily mean he did something wrong."

Doctor Doom, who is known to have annihilated countless multiverses in the future, has created a vacuum zone around this universe as if by precognition, so that even now, the collision crisis has not occurred here.

In stark contrast is the Earth of Namor and the Dark Order, which they encountered earlier. They have already experienced thousands of Earth collision crises, and they are far from the last one.

Beneath these dozens of collision crises lies the process of Namor, a being who can barely be considered a 'hero,' transforming from a hero into a human and then into a beast.

Batman, upon learning of the collision crisis, easily grasped this point:

"Superman, have you ever thought about what our situation would be like now if Doctor Doom hadn't destroyed so many universes?"

Batman's assumptions always consider the worst-case scenario, and upon hearing this, Joey, who had been relatively calm, immediately turned pale.

"That's hard to say."

No matter how complex the definition of a hero may be, one thing remains constant: strong altruism.

Whether it's robbing the rich to help the poor or punishing evil and promoting good, their choices and actions are rarely driven by personal interests, but rather by personal morality and the principle of protecting the interests of others or the collective.

This can be considered the most universally applicable code of conduct for heroes.

But what is happening in the multiverse today is destroying the very foundation of this principle.

Because every universe involved must face a choice with no options. Since heroes protect your world out of morality and ideals, are they willing to destroy another innocent world in order to fulfill this mission and allow their own world to continue to survive?

The multiverse at this moment seemed to have become a gladiatorial arena, with heroes from different universes thrown into the walls to engage in an endless battle.

If all of this happened and there really was a mastermind behind it all, the malice of that person is simply indescribable.

Tony and his universe haven't faced such a dilemma yet, simply because someone else—himself from the future—has already done all the dirty work for him.

The future Tony embarks on a blood-soaked path of destruction. His motives are unknown, but in the end, everything he has done so far seems to be aimed at ensuring that his universe survives this collision crisis longer.

"Perhaps things are far more complicated than we think, aren't they?"

"This is so annoying. If only everything were black and white—"

After discussing Doctor Doom with Batman for a while, Joey rubbed his temples—he felt his brain wasn't working properly.

There are just too many things that need to be addressed, and they are all urgent.

But they aren't all the type that can be easily defeated with a single punch using superhuman strength.

Of course, Yang Yi also felt that this might be because her super strength value was not super enough.

The paradox here is that to increase your stats, you have to go through hardships, but to go through hardships, you need to have a certain stat. Otherwise, you might survive unscathed, but what about the people around you?

Wasn't the very purpose of Superman's existence to help others solve seemingly insurmountable problems and overcome insurmountable difficulties?