Chapter 713 11. Do you have a good friend named Hemet?
Mason got the second diary. He didn't rush to read it from the beginning. Instead, he turned directly to the last page, and then as expected, he found that this thing was not over yet.
This means that there is at least one Rorschach diary missing from the outside world.
This made the captain feel a certain sadness and malice. It was as tedious as a collection mission. Maybe he couldn't proceed to the final mission without solving the next branch.
Hey, this little trick to kill time is so abominable! Maybe this thing should be renamed something like "Rorschach's Green Mountain".
This is a complaint, but shouldn’t it be a shame to watch it?
With such a mood, Mason turned on the light and sat on the chair after returning to Old Luther's office. He opened the diary while holding the groaning Harley in his arms and receiving Quinn's small fist on the back.
The content is not completely continued from Rorschach's last note. It should have been destroyed when it was torn open, but fortunately the story recorded in it can barely be continued, and the missing parts do not affect reading.
"Things went round and round and returned to the comedian's death. All attempts in other areas failed. Although I received a lot of secret help to bypass the obstruction of the newly established arbitration tribunal, 'The End of the World' Star' is apparently the best protected of all their dark secrets.
I want to enter the theory verification laboratory and I need permission.
I want to enter the exclusive logistics supply station, and I need permission.
I wanted to sneak into the apartment of some of the scientists involved, and I still needed permission.
That damn authority is like a rusty chain, locking all the secrets that should not be made public in a smelly safe. The guy who designed this system must be a very smart person, he seems to predict the future. All channels that might leak secrets were blocked in advance.
It's like a whirlpool.
I was sucked into it and couldn't extricate myself.
I know I can't keep running around like a headless fly. My secret investigation may have attracted some unnecessary attention, so I have to be more cautious.
On a night when I was feeling tired after completing the conquest mission, I came to the comedian's tombstone inexplicably. I didn't know why I came here, but it turned out that it was the right choice.
Looking at the cold tombstone, I suddenly realized that I had ignored this guy who treated his life and the lives of others as a joke.
If I remember correctly, the comedian was very close to those people before his death.
Maybe it was because he was more exposed to the secret than me, and the cruel and terrible truth drove him crazy, so he jumped from a tall building in the rain?
Well, this is a new idea and I know what I should do.
In addition, today, while I was attacking the tin-can knights who only wanted to protect their own existence in a strange world, the dull demon hunter and his witch wife were exiled to a star core that was about to be extinguished.
It was a cruel new punishment.
Reinterpreting death in a way that has never been done before, Pharaoh told me that such a death would be painless, only momentary, and would allow one to see the most magnificent scene in the universe.
Haha, we are always so talented at hurting our own kind. ”
This page of the diary doesn't seem to have much information.
But Mason didn't turn to the next page for a long time. He stared closely at the words Rorschach left more than ten years ago. Although there seemed to be nothing unusual, the captain could feel a rather strange sense of doubt from these descriptions. .
He suspected Rorschach felt the same way then, as he does now.
The Star of the End is like a black hole. The closer you get and the more you study it, the more you feel that there is a mystery in this plan. However, there is very little information left, making it difficult for people to get a glimpse of the whole picture.
Old A said that he proposed this plan, but Mason is not sure now.
Maybe Fury's memory has also been modified? Perhaps the Doomsday Star that is being shaped now has deviated from Fury's original design and become something that even Old A feels afraid of?
Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain why that guy kept this diary specifically. He couldn't necessarily make a joke with Mason to waste time, right?
With such doubts and feelings, Mason turned to the next page.
To his expectation, this page of the diary rarely had anything to do with the Doomsday Star. Instead, it described the story of a person who was very important to Mason more than ten years ago.
"I saw that kid!
She still had the same white hair as before. She put on the cloak of the Society of Stars and held the sword left by her father. She was silent and cold, leading the members of the Society of Stars to clear the way for our actions.
I had heard stories about this child from the dull witcher, and I have to say that the various experiences fostered in that fantasy world made it difficult for me to form a clear perception in my mind.
But what is certain is that that world was not a beautiful one.
Just like the place I came from, it was so filthy that it looked like a gluttonous pig had eaten up the pale reality and excreted it into a ball of colorful feces to cover up the stench inside.
I couldn't sleep all night, and I even started to think about issues related to fate. Is there really a God? And if there is, why does He let us go through all this?
I once detested sin and saw it as Rorschach's job to preach justice, but now I see something more terrible than sin.
Hope
The desire to exist is fermented by darkness. In order for us to live, others must die. In order for our world to exist, other worlds must die.
But is hope really an ugly thing?
No!
It is not hope that makes this era become like this, it is us! It’s not God who shaped this increasingly cruel reality, it’s also us.
God does not kill people, we do.
But they never realized that the evil things they did for the sake of existence were still evil things. Some people began to persuade me to give up the pursuit. They used various reasons to persuade me, insulted me and even tried to beat me.
It doesn't matter.
I didn't care what they or the world thought of me. I didn't have to rely on those things to survive. It was Rorschach's job to destroy evil and promote justice.
I shaped all of this and I will carry it out to the end.
Talking about that girl
I heard that she was older than my mother, but she was still incredibly young. However, when her mask was taken off when it was stained with blood, revealing her cat-like eyes, I realized that this body had been filled with something even colder. something.
She is not as determined as she appears.
The death of her parents led her to take another path. I have seen this kind of thing many times, and it does not surprise me that the same tragedy will continue to happen in the dark and chaotic era.
This girl already has hatred in her hands, and she is bound to do terrible things in the future.
Like a lit candle.
But will there be a pair of hands protecting this fire from being extinguished in the future? Oh, I'm pessimistic about this. I want to give her the comedian's badge, just like giving a toy to a sad child.
But she refused.
I had a feeling this would be the first and last time I talked to her.
Tonight, I'm going to take a trip to the comedian's favorite place to relax when he was alive. The night has always been generous to me, and I hope it won't abandon me today. ”
"Rorschach has seen Ciri?"
Quinn, who was beating Mason on the back behind him, said in surprise:
"But why have you never heard of Shirley mentioning this matter? Although she keeps secret about everything related to her parents, if Rorschach is really a friend of her parents, she won't have no impression at all, right?"< br>
"Rorschach is dead, dear."
Mason shook his head and said:
"Perhaps for Shirley, that was just a strange stranger not worth remembering. After all, they only met once. At that time, Shirley's parents had just died, and she was at the stage where her heart was filled with revenge, so she was a little colder. That’s understandable too.”
"But there is another possibility!"
Harry, who was lying on Mason's lap with her eyes closed and pretending to be a sleeping beauty, suddenly said:
"What if Ciri doesn't remember him? I mean, what if everything about Rorschach is erased? Maybe the diary in our hands is the only trace of him left in this era.
Maybe he really discovered something terrible from the Doomsday Star that cannot be known to others, so death is just the beginning for him.
Wow, what a great start to a horror story!
I'm so smart. ”
"Occasionally a little too smart to be scary."
Mason reached out and pinched Harley's cheek, but the little cutie's conjecture without any evidence made Mason blink, even though it sounded a bit incredible.
But if you continue to think about Harley's wild idea, it is not difficult to come to a vague conclusion that will make people feel horrified.
The captain narrowed his eyes.
He put his thoughts in his heart and then reached out and turned the diary to the last page. It was not really the last page. There was a lot missing in it.
Mason was unable to reconstruct in detail from the records the process of Rorschach's exploration of the End Star plan through the Comedian's line, but he directly saw the results.
"Confirmed! The forging workshop is hidden in a place called 'Doujie'. It has not always been there, but was moved there recently.
Damn it!
I missed it.
There was only an empty base left in the completely hollowed-out mountain, like a body with its internal organs hollowed out and abandoned at a desolate crime scene.
The scattered tools that were not taken away were the blood spattered when the corpse was cut into pieces. I stood in front of the huge hollow, lost in thought, like a belated fool. I could only accept another mockery of fate. .
How many times has this happened?
Every time, it was just the right step late, as if there were a pair of eyes staring at me all the time, treating me like a ridiculous puppet chasing me and never getting the truth.
The last joke the comedian made at the cost of his life was cracked by me.
At least part of it was cracked.
The clues he left behind were used by me in time. Unfortunately, my speed was not fast enough. Perhaps it was because the boring thoughts about life, death and the end that kept popping up in my mind weakened my execution ability.
And those conquests that already disgust me.
I began to feel that the people above did not care about our work at all, and even bordered on indifference. It was not cruel, but just ignoring it was like mechanically completing one set goal after another.
No one knows when the next shock will occur, but it's definitely coming.
However, this failed pursuit was not without success. I found a very special identity mark on a smashed computer. Putting it into the computer can give a complex coordinate.
It's like an invitation.
I could feel that the people behind the scenes had clearly discovered me. This might be a warning and the last chance for me. So, like everyone else, I faced a difficult choice.
Do you want to go there?
I returned to the neighborhood where I was born with unspeakable fatigue. It is still there. Even though the whole city is covered with new soil like a coffin that has been buried, the dark streets exuding rancidity are still like me. The memories of my childhood are so layered, extending from the front of my eyes to the end of my sight, and they are still extending and expanding.
It's a maze you can never get out of.
I easily broke the arms of a few mugger bastards.
I should have killed them, but I was tired, and I had to save my energy to go to that coordinate to meet the final outcome of my long pursuit.
Yes, I faced a difficult choice.
And I was standing on the roof of a smelly abandoned building. The city in front of me was like a waking cemetery. Under the tombstones stood the hanged ghosts who did not want to rest in peace.
I could die, like every time I pumped my fist.
But I have nothing to regret.
Rorschach never compromises, so I will die without any hesitation.
Well, the night is getting dark and it’s time to set off. ”
Mason frowned when he read the last page of the second diary, but he quickly summarized the most critical information in this page.
The captain put down the incomplete diary, stretched out his hand to support his chin, tapped the table and whispered:
"The forging workshop of the Star of the End has been confirmed to be in Doujie, in Doom's territory, but Rorschach obviously means that the place cannot be reached through normal means, and he has found a guiding coordinate.
He said it was an invitation.
It seems that he has determined that there is an almost omnipotent guy behind this matter, and he did not hesitate to face the other party's provocation. He should have died in the fighting world.
But this has nothing to do with our current situation. Now that the target location has been confirmed, there is only one last thing left. ”
Mason picked up a special communicator, informed other Masons of the conclusions he had found so far, and asked them to find ways to reach the Doujie around the world.
But to be honest, Mason doesn't have high hopes.
Rorschach is a very good detective, and his accomplishments in this field are even better than Batman's.
He is no worse than anyone else in searching for clues. If he would have lamented being led around more than ten years ago, then it would be difficult for the Mason family to obtain useful information in their search more than ten years later.
"Get ready."
Mason leaned on the chair, patted Harley's waist, who was about to fall asleep, and said to her and Quinn:
"We have to go back to the special envoy's residence. We must attend the regular world meeting on time tomorrow and fulfill our agreement with the resistance. Maybe we can also find something useful in the headquarters.
Old A and Doom have a small group, and some congressmen must have been in contact with them. Perhaps they can also get the next step from their mouths.
I'm starting to get a feeling now. ”
The captain took a deep breath and said to his two little cuties:
"Dum may just be an executor. It seems that the journey I want to take to complete this final stretch is not as boring as I imagined. A huge puzzle is waiting ahead, and we are already prepared for it."
"Whatever that thing is, just beat him up!"
Harley jumped up, put her hand on Mason's shoulder, and said confidently:
"Don't be afraid, sweetheart, we will protect you!"
"Well, I'm not afraid at all when you are by my side."
Mason stood up and held the shoulders of the two cuties, leaving kisses on the faces where the two came closer. Then, with the sound of the door of the dark room opening behind him, he slapped little Brainiac who appeared in the power armor of the Master of the Universe. made a gesture.
He said:
"We have to prepare a piece of clothing for you, to step on the stage prepared for us, to carry out the cause for which we have devoted everything and to issue the final initiative and declaration.
In such cases, one must dress up for the occasion.
It's just a necessary sense of ceremony and the proper professional ethics. Let's go, let us welcome tomorrow with expectation, and we will personally play the final note of the collapse of the council system. "(End of Chapter)