Superman from the comics: Starting with the Black Robe

Chapter 222 The Split Time Stream

Chapter 222 The Split Time Stream

That's what they say, but Joey couldn't really vent his anger on Wolverine.

Just like how he couldn't take his anger out on the Flash before, Joey's journey started because of time travel, and he was the least qualified to criticize Wolverine. He still had that much self-awareness.

When your world is at its worst, and an opportunity to travel back in time and change your unfortunate situation is presented to you, who could refuse it?

This kind of thing really shouldn't be done by a rough guy like Wolverine, whose brain is as hard as his bones.

Killing Ant-Man, the creator of Ultron, and nipping Ultron in the bud, is as absurd as killing an Austrian art student who is still naked in the act.

If he's lucky, at that point in time or at another point in time, another art student will take over his role, allowing history to proceed smoothly according to its predetermined trajectory. If he's unlucky, Joey, who has only recently escaped the Flashpoint universe, already has a 300% personal understanding of what will happen when things go wrong.

However, there was still one thing he couldn't understand—why did his universe become so strange after Wolverine altered history?

This was the strangest universe he had ever encountered.

The Fantastic Four who traveled from the future to beat him up, Tony Stark who will become Doctor Doom in the future, and Thor, whom he has known for thousands of years—

Moreover, the entire X-Men race never existed in this universe.

Although Dr. Pym played a key role in the formation of the Avengers in the original timeline and created Ultron, a super AI that can never be destroyed, would his death really have such serious consequences?

The deeper one thinks about these questions, the more shrouded in mystery the logical contradictions and doubts become, to the point that even the Nitrogen Star people feel a bit dizzy and confused.

Oh no.

Sensing something was amiss, Joey reached under the tuft of hair on his forehead and precisely pulled out a rampant parasite. With a slight bend of his middle finger, he flicked it away ten meters away.

The tiny insect bounced on the floor, transformed into purple light, reconstructed its body, and huffed at Joey, "You cheapskate! You're not going to lose anything anyway!"

Ganata is secretly absorbing Yang's biofield again.

Now Joey is starting to suspect that Galactus did it on purpose, just tossing Galactus, this super-gluttonous and super-dangerous young celestial being, into the universe so he could live a carefree life, with one person eating his fill and the rest of the family not hungry.

Currently, Ganata only needs a small biofield to be full, but she is still developing and will eventually grow into an existence like Galactus.

By then, her appetite will naturally grow to the point where she will have to devour planets to sustain herself.

"I'm not Galactus; I have my own bottom line!"

As a celestial being whose consciousness spans all dimensions, Galactus could guess what Joey was thinking simply from the slight worry in his eyes:

"Even if I starve to death outside, I would rather die than devour any life-bearing planet like Earth!"

Seeing Ganata's resolute expression, Joey had no choice but to believe it for the time being.

As for fulfilling such a promise, it would probably be quite difficult, as even a fully-fledged celestial being like Galactus would not be able to resist such hunger.

At that point, Joey will probably have to act as the "Gana Tower Messenger" himself, just like that unlucky Silver Slick, and try his best to find a habitable planet without a formed ecosystem for her.

Wait a minute, as Joey was thinking this, she suddenly realized that it would be easier to just kick Ganata out of the house.

Whether she starves to death or not is none of my business.

As one of the supreme gods, would Galactus really allow his daughter to wander the universe and starve to death?

"You dare!"

From her expression, Ganata could tell what daring idea Joey had come up with. She immediately pounced on him like a cat with its fur standing on end, wrestling with him while secretly taking a couple of bites of his biofield.

"I was just about to tell you about my discovery!"

Pshaw, what can you discover from a parasite?

Not right either.

As this idea flashed through Joey's mind, he realized that he seemed to really be treating Ganata as some kind of gluttonous animal friend. She was a parasite, that's true, but she was no ordinary parasite.

This is the daughter of Galactus, who shares the same power and might as Galactus.

"It's easy to explain: time travel tears apart the continuity of spacetime; time is not just a concept, it's alive."

In order not to be destroyed by the massive amount of causality created by your time travel, it will surely choose the most compatible way to eliminate these paradoxes at the lowest cost.

The original universe was thus fragmented, transforming from a smooth, complete mirror into pieces of mosaic glass, just like the universe we inhabit.

Ganata pointed to the ground: "From my perspective, it split at least three times."

After saying all this, Ganata put her hands on her hips, beaming with pride, as if she really wasn't just a freeloader who stole energy:

"So, was I clear enough? Did it help you?"

Regardless, Ganata's words did have some effect, namely, making Joey even more confused.

There were three splits: one was when Wolverine changed the past, another was when the Fantastic Four traveled a great distance to beat him up, and the third was...

Joey glanced at Tony almost imperceptibly.

The perspective of a god is truly different from that of a mortal like him. After listening to all this, Joey had absolutely no idea what she was talking about:

"I'm so fed up with all this time travel nonsense! Isn't there a simple, easy-to-understand, foolproof solution?"

"Yes, my sweetheart."

Ganata offered a solution to Joey, her "sweetheart" in a physical sense:

"Once you become as strong as Galactus, strong enough to annihilate a universe with a single punch and shatter spacetime, you won't need to worry about these paradoxes anymore!"

"Your suggestion sounds like a lie. If I had the power of someone like Galactus, New York City wouldn't have been so razed to the ground!"

This answer made Joey laugh in exasperation. Kryptonians have both a very high ceiling and a very low floor, but this is also subject to short-term limitations.

He can't possibly start bathing in the corona every day from now on, immersing himself in it for 40 millennia without a care in the world, so that most of the people he knows will turn to dust, can he?

Moreover, it's hard to predict what would happen if Kryptonian cells absorbed too much yellow sunlight in a short period of time, and Joey's intuition told him it was best not to do that.

It's unclear whether this part of "intuition" belongs to Doomsday or to the Kryptonians.

"If you think this solution is too slow, let me take another bite, and I'll tell you a new way!"

"Get lost!"

Just as the two were arguing, the ice on Wolverine's lower body gradually melted and dissolved as he struggled to break free. With a snap, Wolverine was freed.

Tony, who was present, immediately prepared to restart the powerful electromagnet he had hastily put together. He had already tried it once before, and this thing was extremely effective for someone whose skeleton was made of magnetic alloy.

"Wait, Iron Man, I have something to show you!"

Having made his point clear, Wolverine didn't extend his claws. Instead, he reached into his chest and, to everyone's expectant gaze, pulled out a pack of cigarettes.

Ignoring the disappointed looks from the crowd, Wolverine nonchalantly lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth:

"What? I'm just Wolverine. Do you really expect me to pull out something of value?"

"You can leave now."

Joey had realized that Wolverine's face was made of iron, just like his skeleton, and he wasn't very bright. Trying to get anything out of him was simply wishful thinking.

Let's just get him out of here for now: "No drinking in bars, no fighting, no hurting anyone. We'll deal with this mess you've made later!"

It's not that Joey doesn't want to figure out what's going on with the timeline of this universe right now, but something more urgent has happened. That bastard Deadpool not only didn't leave, but he's still up to no good and is preparing to kidnap the Peter Parker from this universe!