So, how to investigate?
For ordinary people, it might indeed be a bit troublesome.
But for a cheat like Clark, things are incredibly simple.
He only needed to use his super hearing, collect sounds from around the world, and listen. That's all.
"As expected of Doctor Strange, he even cracked Iron Man's skull!"
"Captain America's super serum is actually leaking, no!"
"Damn, Rune King Thor is awesome!"
In an instant, the relevant sounds were filtered out.
Clark immediately became uneasy.
It's true!
Their world does indeed have works from the Marvel dimension.
Then, correspondingly…
What Tony Stark told him, that there were works about himself in the other world, shouldn't be false either.
Why is this happening?
Why would works based on characters from other dimensions appear in his own world?
Or, from another angle, why would characters from a certain world be presented in other dimensions in the form of certain works?
What's really going on behind all this?
Could it be that some big shot who can freely travel through various dimensions wrote or drew stories of his travels through various dimensions?
Clark didn't know what was really going on.
However, Clark couldn't quite contain his excitement.
He quickly put away the chaotic thoughts in his mind, greeted Martha, and left Kent Farm.
Where did he go?
Without a doubt, it was naturally to the source of the sound related to the Marvel superheroes that he had detected.
Boom! With a sonic boom, Clark's body vanished.
And not long after, Clark appeared inside a bookstore.
Just like the other customers, he casually strolled through the various bookshelves, Clark's steps finally came to a halt.
Found it! The story of Iron Man!
Naturally, there's nothing more to say after that.
Clark carefully searched through the store and bought all the Marvel comics he could find.
"Clark?"
Martha was surprised to see her honest son bringing home a huge stack of comic books.
She had watched Clark grow up, and never knew he liked reading comics.
"Everyone, I think we need to meet."
"Immediately!"
When Clark was back at Kent Farm, clutching a stack of comic books and frantically catching up on his studies, Tony had already set up a group chat for the Avengers and started addressing everyone.
"It's about Clark, isn't it?"
Nick Fury had also briefly spoken with Clark, and naturally, he immediately guessed Tony's intentions.
Even if the playboy hadn't brought it up, Nick Fury had been considering it himself.
There was a reason.
The issues revealed after their interactions with Clark concerned the very essence of their world, and they couldn't afford to take it lightly.
"Clark? You mean that seventh guy?"
"What's wrong with him?"
Thor, who hadn't read any DC comics, was completely baffled.
He had greeted Clark, and the guy was very polite, seeming like a pretty decent fellow.
Why was everyone else reacting so strongly?
"It's not something you can explain in a few words."
"Thor, if you have time, come over too."
Tony didn't explain anything further to Thor in the diary, he just solemnly invited Thor.
"Although, I don't understand what's going on yet."
"But it does seem very important."
Thor agreed directly.
The other Avengers were the same.
After half an hour, everyone gathered at the Avengers Base.
"I don't know if you've all communicated with Clark, but I'll briefly explain the situation."
After a simple opening, the playboy spoke to the Avengers with a serious expression.
"First is the identity of the seventh diary holder."
Thud!
Speaking of which, Tony threw a Superman comic book onto the table.
"The person we're dealing with is the protagonist of this book, Clark Kent, also known as Superman."
"Of course, the Superman series has many parallel universes. We don't know which universe the Superman we've contacted is from."
Nick Fury already knew about this, so he didn't say anything more.
Black Widow's face showed extreme surprise.
She hadn't talked much with Clark.
So she had always thought that the name Clark Kent was just a coincidence and hadn't thought much of it.
But she hadn't expected that it wasn't a coincidence, but the real deal.
The other party really was Superman.
"So, you're saying Superman is real?"
"I have to say, even after everything, that's still pretty crazy to hear."
Black Widow couldn't help but sigh.
"What?"
Thor's voice rose several octaves. "You mean Clark is a person from that book? That's ridiculous!"
This was unheard of.
"It is ridiculous, but ridiculous doesn't mean it's impossible."
Tony's voice sounded, and he solemnly said to everyone, "All the clues point to this being true."
"Do you remember how Zhou Cheng, the owner of the diary, used terms like 'plot' and 'part' to describe our story?"
"And why does he know so much about parallel universes? Could it be that he just read our story, Marvel's story?"
"What he wrote in the diary, in reality, all came from Marvel works in other worlds?"
As Tony spoke, the expressions of everyone present began to turn grim.
Because what Tony said made a lot of sense, and they couldn't refute it at all.
"So, the diary updates we've been desperately waiting for are actually just Satan's movie reviews?"
Black Widow used a more vivid, but also more cruel, way of putting it.
"Now, do you all understand why I urgently summoned you?"
The playboy shrugged.
"Stark."
Nick Fury spoke at this moment, "I want to know what exactly you talked about with Clark."
Tony naturally wouldn't refuse such a reasonable request.
With a thought, he entered his diary.
He copied the chat logs with Clark and sent them to all the Avengers present.
Nick Fury did the same.
He also sent out his chat logs with Clark.
As for Thor and Black Widow.
They didn't delve deep in their conversation with Clark, so there wasn't much value in analyzing it, and they didn't bother.
Everyone then started to study and analyze the chat logs between Tony and Nick Fury.
The logic here wasn't complicated, it could even be said to be very simple.
So, it was no longer in question that Clark came from DC Comics' Superman.
Correspondingly, the owner of the diary had read Marvel Comics related works, which everyone thought was highly probable.
"In other words, our world is actually a book?"
"And we are just characters in some exciting stories?"
"That Satan, is he a reader?"
Like Tony and Clark, Black Widow, who realized this for the first time, wasn't so calm either.
After all, this matter was indeed quite a shock.
"So, Satan didn't just get reborn into a certain world, but into the works he read?"
Nick Fury added.
This made the atmosphere in the room even more tense.
"I have two theories."
After a moment of silence, Tony's voice rang out again.
He spoke eloquently under the gaze of the Avengers.
"Firstly, the Box Theory."
"Our world is indeed a world within a box, and the diary owner, Zhou Cheng, comes from outside the box."
"It's like the movie Dark City, where the programmers entered the world of the computer…"
"Thor, don't interrupt me. I hate it when people interrupt my analysis."
"And I know what you want to ask. I'll have Jarvis play Dark City for you afterwards. By the way, it's a good movie."
This theory is currently the most widely accepted.
After all, the DC Comics books are right here, a solid piece of evidence.
"This might explain the existence of such a miraculous diary."
Black Widow added, "It's just that Tank tapped on the keyboard for Neo."
Tank and Neo are from the classic movie, The Matrix.
When Neo and the female lead needed a lot of weapons to save their companions, they just had to call out to the operator, Tank, who was sitting in front of the computer.
"I need guns. Lots of guns."
Tank just tapped a few keys, and sent Neo a whole world of guns!
This movie is very well-known. Both Fury and Tony had seen it, so everyone understood what Black Widow meant.
"So, what's the second theory?"
No one objected, and Nick Fury stared at the playboy again.
"I call it the Creator Theory."
"The comics from DC, and the comics from Marvel, were all created by a certain creator."
"I don't know what that creator's identity is. They could be someone who has traveled through countless dimensions, so they know a lot of things, including the many parallel universes of DC and Marvel."
"So they created these experiences, using their own experiences to create. This isn't a rare thing."
"Maybe, for that person, replicating the story of another world in this world is a very interesting thing."
"It's also possible that the creator is like a god of stories."
"Because they transcend time and space, they know what happened in countless dimensions, and then, for some motive, whether it's boredom or the inspiration of creation, they carried out a series of creations."
"In short... it doesn't matter. What's important is that such a creator exists!"
"So, we're not creatures inside a box, and neither is the world of DC. The reason our world has DC works is simply because some creator knew about DC and then used it as a blueprint for their own creations."
"The same logic applies. If other worlds have works about us, it's because some creator based their stories on ours."
Well, that was indeed a reasonable theory.
At least for the time being, no one could find any flaws with it.
"So, we now have two theories."
"The box theory and the creator theory, and it's clear that these two theories can't coexist; only one is the truth."
"So, the question is, how do we determine which one is the truth?"
"Should we just take a trip to the DC editorial office? Is it really that simple?"
Nick Fury paced back and forth, then stopped and addressed everyone with a serious expression.
Checking the DC editorial department's editors was indeed simple; it was child's play for an intelligence agency like S.H.I.E.L.D.
But the question was, if there really was a super big shot transcending dimensions behind the DC editorial department, could they really find anything?
"Box theory, creator theory, blah blah, it's not important."
After a moment, Thor shook his head, not caring at all. "Anyway, this world, for me, is a living, breathing, real world, and that's enough."
"Someone is telling our story? Some unknown being created our world?"
"Whatever, what does it matter!"
"Come on, guys, why think so much!"
"No, Thor, this is important!"
Tony abruptly cut Thor off. "You know in The Thirteenth Floor, what did the guy who realized he was living in a computer simulation do in the end?"
"He broke out of the computer world and entered the real world!"
And that was that.
The Avengers expressed their views on the potential truth of this world, and a fierce argument erupted.
Some were unwilling and unable to accept the box world.
Others thought that even if it was a world within a box, it didn't matter; it was their real world.
After all, strictly speaking, boxes were everywhere.
Even the Celestials, who created planets and the fundamental structure of the universe, could be seen as "box makers," right?
Of course, some people also believed that the creator theory was more credible than the box theory.
"Let's go play in the DC world again!"
Zhou Cheng naturally didn't know about the Avengers' heated argument.
At this moment, inside his mansion, he had just made such a decision.
A life of wealth and invincibility was simply too plain, too boring.
Feeling bored, Zhou Cheng planned to go to other worlds to relax.
He was going to take a trip across the multiverse.
You could only say that someone with a cheat like him was that willful.
After making a few simple arrangements and informing people within his social circle that he would be traveling, Zhou Cheng contacted the necessary personnel to regularly maintain his mansion.
And so on.
There were other essential matters to handle as well.
Once everything was taken care of, Zhou Cheng wasted no time.
With a thought, his dimensional travel ability activated.
Buzz!
A silent surge of energy enveloped Zhou Cheng.
His form vanished in an instant, reappearing in the DC world.
"It's been a while, hasn't it?"
"Wonder what's changed in this world."
"And what timeline are we in now?"
Zhou Cheng strolled along streets both familiar and foreign, these thoughts running through his mind.
"Intelligence, same as always."
Zhou Cheng instinctively issued the command to the Intelligence.
That's right, Zhou Cheng had already tested it previously; the Intelligence could be brought into this world.
The reward from the diary was beyond the confines of dimensions, and it had to be said, it was very convenient.
"Understood, sir..."
The Intelligence immediately searched for information related to the superheroes and reported it to Zhou Cheng.
Zhou Cheng instantly understood.
So, something major had just happened in this world.
Zhou Cheng subconsciously thought of his diary.
Clark, who was currently busy working on comics at Kent Farm, immediately received a notification in his mind that his diary had been updated.
He also thought of his diary, and sure enough, he saw new content appear on it.
[Superman vs. General Zod. A bit of a pity I missed it.]
[This has to be one of the most classic battles in the DC world, right? And it's so significant!]
[Not only did it transform Clark, the farm boy, into Superman, the god among men,]
[but it also set the stage for the future Batman vs. Superman battle.]
[If I remember correctly, it was during this battle that Batman witnessed the massive destruction Superman caused to the city, which sowed the seeds of his wariness.]
[Otherwise, Lex Luthor wouldn't have been able to exploit this weakness, right?]
[Tell me, Superman, do you bleed? Batman probably wants to ask that question right now, doesn't he?]
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