Chapter 532 Bruce, I am not the protagonist of the story
“Yeah, I understand, Dad, you will save them, right? Save those who are hurt.”

Mark asked his father expectantly but anxiously.

“After we modify the world line, they will all disappear. Do you think they are worth saving, Mark?”

Peter asked his son.

“Yes, even if the world is going to be destroyed in the next second, Dad, I still think that as long as they have survived in this world and fought against fate and never gave up, we should help them.”

Mark said in a firm tone.

Seeing the light in his son’s eyes, Peter touched his hair.

“You’re right, Mark. As long as you fight against fate, even if you see hope a second before the world is destroyed, it is a beautiful thing.”

Hearing Peter’s words, Mark breathed a sigh of relief.

He was really afraid that his father would not support him.

“Um. Dad, do you think sometimes changing the past can really make our future better?”

Mark hesitated, but finally expressed his doubts.

“Barry and Bruce both have their regrets. If the past had been changed, would things have turned out this bad? Shouldn’t we interfere with the past?”

Peter was stunned when he heard Mark’s question.

Then he looked at the farm outside the window. “Yes, we can’t interfere. The past can’t be undone, Mark, and we shouldn’t try to undo it. It’s these scars that made us who we are. Don’t think about repairing them, because they are the testimony of the path we’ve walked. Living in the present is the most important thing.”

Mark listened to Peter’s words, raised his head and asked him, “Dad, what is your regret?”

“My regrets?”

Peter fell into deep thought.

If I hadn’t watched that meteor shower with my girlfriend, perhaps I wouldn’t have traveled far away from home and come here.

But if I hadn’t traveled through time here, I wouldn’t have so many sons and daughters.

“The biggest regret in life is to insist on the wrong thing and give up easily. I shouldn’t reach that point, so I don’t have any regrets.”

Peter thought about it and said this to his son.

Mark listened to what Peter said and nodded.

“I won’t make the mistake of persisting and giving up easily, Dad.”

Mark said to Peter, “But I don’t want to lie, and I don’t want to lie to you.”

He took a deep breath and gave Peter an unprecedented firm look, “Dad, if what happened to Barry and Bruce happened to me, I would definitely reverse time and change it, even if it costs me anything.”

Peter looked surprised when he heard what Mark said.

I had just praised him for his kindness, but I didn’t expect this guy to say that he was willing to pay any price to change reality.

It’s not surprising that A-Zu said this, after all, this kind of words fits his personality.

He didn’t expect Mark to lose his mind like this.

With a warm feeling flowing through his heart, he said to his son: “Then you have killed your ideals and also killed your former self. If that really happens, Dad would rather you move forward on your own.”

Mark bit his lip and murmured in a low voice: “Dad, if you weren’t on the road, my ideal would have died long ago.”

Peter was slightly stunned when he heard this.

His emotions became complicated, he shook his head gently and said:
“No, no, Daddy won’t let that happen.”

He cast his gaze into the night and it seemed that the rain had gradually stopped.

The next day, early in the morning.

Bruce and Barry followed Thomas back to Gotham, and they prepared to use Gotham’s equipment to find Reverse-Flash.

Peter took A-Zu, Clark and Star-Lord to Europe to find out the situation.

On the way to Gotham on a private plane, Bruce asked his father, “Dad, how is Detective Gordon?”

“Gordon?”

Thomas was a little dazed when he heard the name.

“He-he had his throat slit by the Joker.”

Hearing his father’s words, Bruce fell silent.

“I’m sorry, kid, for making you hear this.”

Thomas apologizes to Bruce.

“No, I’m not in a state where I can’t handle any bad news.”

Bruce said to his father: “I know, father, it hurts more for you to talk about this than it does for me.”

Thomas flew the plane in silence for a while, then said to Bruce, “I have to walk out of the darkness. Even though I feel like a walking corpse most of the time, there are some things I have to do. Bruce, I know you have never walked out of that alley, and neither have I. We, father and son, have embarked on the same path.”

“But I hope you can get out of the alley one day.”

He said to his son in a hoarse voice: “I am a man who has been corrupted by the pain that I cannot bear. I am a man who is called a good man even though my hands are stained with blood. I am a man who has no attachment to life. But you don’t have to be like me, Bruce. I am not the protagonist of the story.”

“You can let go of the past. Even if you lost me and your mother, you still have people who love you, Alfred, Peter Padrick. Don’t be like me, Bruce. You deserve a better life.”

Looking at his father’s true feelings, Bruce suddenly had an uncontrollable urge to cry.

“No, father, you are the protagonist in my story and my life.”

Thomas shook his head and said to his son: “Your life has just begun.”

Time soon came to night.

Bruce left the desolate and abandoned Wayne Manor and changed into his bat costume, his dark figure moving through the city.

Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar city in front of him, he felt mixed emotions.

The city, filled with fear and violence, now seems to have lost all life.

Everything was filled with an atmosphere that made him feel sad and heavy.

“Whoosh!”

Bruce shot out the hook gun and jumped onto a not-so-tall two-story bungalow.

Just as I was about to get up, I heard a voice behind me.

“Old man, are you finally going to show up?” Bruce heard a familiar voice, turned around, and was surprised to see a figure rushing towards him.

A woman dressed as a clown, with oil paint on her face and a bloody scarlet mouth opened, came at him with a hammer in her hand.

Bruce felt a little weird when he saw the Joker’s appearance and heard the voice he made.

I always feel that the other person gives me a familiar feeling.

A series of thoughts flashed through his mind, and Bruce reacted quickly, stepping back while grabbing the other person’s arm.

With a “bang”, Bruce threw the other person out.

The clown fell to the ground, with a crazy smile on his face, and rushed towards him with a hammer in his hand, laughing wildly.

next second.

Thomas fell to the ground in a bat costume and stood in front of Bruce.

Blocking the clown’s attack, he threw a punch, knocking the opponent back.

“Stand back, Bruce, I’ll handle her.”

“Two Batmen?”

The Joker looked at the two Batmen and grinned in surprise, “I like it. It looks like this city has a copycat of you, old man!”

The clown, with an even crazier expression, rushed towards Thomas.

Thomas turned around and fended off the Joker’s attack.

With a loud bang, he knocked the opponent back heavily.

The Joker stood up swiftly and dodged Thomas’ attack.

She swung the hammer and rushed towards the opponent quickly.

Thomas grabbed the man’s arm and punched the clown in the face.

With a “bang”, oil paint splashed all over the clown’s face.

Thomas tried to continue his attack, but the Joker took a step back and lost his balance.

“Beware!”

Seeing the clown about to fall, Thomas immediately reached out and grabbed him.

Unexpectedly, he had just grabbed the other person, and the next moment he was pulled away by the laughing clown.

Seeing his father falling with the clown, Bruce rushed over quickly and tried to grab Thomas.

But he was too late.

“Bang bang”, the two fell from the second floor and hit the ground.

The clown pinned Thomas down, and asked him while laughing, “Do you know how much of a failure you are, old man?”

Thomas put his hand on the Joker’s wrist holding the axe, “I know.”

“Haha, that’s a lie! How can an angry person have self-awareness?”

The clown stood up, broke free from Thomas’s grip, and took a step back. “But old man, you seem like a romantic. When you fell just now, I thought you were going to use me as a scapegoat.”

Holding the hammer, she laughed wildly and rushed towards Thomas again.

“Oh!”

Thomas held her wrists with both hands. “You want to go back to the past?”

“I want to go back to a world without you!”

The Joker said, glaring at him.

“Really, even if that means no you?”

Thomas looked her in the eye. “Martha, in the past, there was a man and a woman who walked into that alley with their only son after watching a movie.”

As the Joker listened to Thomas’ story about Crime Alley, his expression grew angrier.

“Shut up!”

“They encountered robbers”

“Shut up!”

“Two gunshots.”

“Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!”

The clown closed his eyes, his face twisted in pain, “Stop talking!”

“Pfft!”

Kneeling weakly on the ground, tears streaming down her face, “Don’t say anymore.”

Thomas’s hoarse voice continued, “The man and woman fell, and their son survived.”

He pulled the trembling Martha up and hugged her shoulders. “We now have the opportunity to change – to erase history and make this a reality. This is such a crazy thing. I need to ask you, Martha, should I do it?”

Martha, with tears in her eyes, buried her head in Thomas’s arms and cried, “Promise me you will do it.”

“I promise.”

The two hugged each other.

Martha asked her husband, “Tell me about Bruce. What happened to him after we died?”

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“Did he carry on his father’s business?”

Martha, with tears on her face, asked Thomas, “Is he a doctor?”

“No! Sorry, Mom.”

Bruce stood behind the two of them without knowing when.

He slowly took off the mask on his face, revealing uncontrollable sadness and pain, “I’m sorry, Mom.”

(End of this chapter)