Furthermore, thinking deeper, what accident caused Outsider and Atomica to drift into another World?
Dane hadn't really thought this question through before, because the spatial barriers of the DC Universe are extremely unstable, and any experimental accident could theoretically lead to spacetime traversal.
But if we consider this logic now, is there a possibility that Outsider and Atomica were deliberately exiled to Dane's World because Owlman was testing his parallel World theory?
"Alfred coming to our World wasn't an accident, was it? You arranged for him and Atomica?"
Owlman smiled: "In the first year of the Syndicate's establishment, I solved the problem of quantum decoherence. In the second year, I created the quantum initiator..."
Smart people don't need too many words. With just this information, Dane understood that Owlman indeed knew about the existence of parallel Worlds long ago.
So he followed Owlman's words: "You used the quantum initiator to experiment on Outsider and Atomica, and successfully sent them to our World, it's just... why?"
Why not choose some stronger characters? Outsider has no superpowers at all; any accident could kill him.
As for Atomica, she is more suited for infiltration than combat. She is quite suitable, but a different partner could have been chosen.
However, it's important to note that Atomica is not Owlman's subordinate, so her partnering with Outsider is illogical. Would Johnny Quick allow it?
Also, why didn't Owlman tell the rest of the Syndicate about this?
Owlman did not speak.
But Dane understood with a moment's thought. Owlman's goal was to blow up that World, but for the Syndicate, the allure of conquering that World was clearly greater than destroying it.
If the other members knew, they might even become an obstacle to Owlman.
No, that's not right. For Owlman, even if he wanted to test the power of the Quantum Ontology Bomb, he didn't necessarily need to use a parallel Earth as a testing ground.
In the entire Solar System, there are many celestial bodies that could be used for experiments. The asteroids orbiting around the galaxy could also serve this purpose.
If they were too far, using the Moon wasn't out of the question. There was no need to specifically use another Earth for verification, unless... Owlman's target from the very beginning was Earth.
"You were aiming for our World from the start?" Dane suddenly asked.
"You react faster than I imagined," Owlman said, acknowledging Dane's previous statement.
But why? Could it be that he holds a grudge against the Earth of the positive matter Universe?
Dane felt that he might have missed some crucial information. He decided to stop asking questions, as it was too inefficient. He directly activated his mind-reading ability on Owlman.
In less than three seconds, he had read through Owlman's entire life. After a few more seconds to compose himself, Dane finally understood everything.
Why did Owlman become a nihilist? Why did he send Outsider and Atomica to the Earth of the positive matter Universe?
Why did he insist on destroying the Earth there?
All of this traced back to one person, a man named Metron.
Before the Syndicate was established, one night, Owlman was, as always, fighting crime in the streets and alleys of Gotham.
At that time, he hadn't yet mercilessly killed all evil criminals as he would later. Like Batman, he only apprehended and combated criminals, but spared their lives.
Of course, his methods were more ruthless, and he didn't object to using firearms, so serious criminals who survived his hands were essentially either dead or severely injured.
But at least, he still had a bottom line then, even if that bottom line wasn't very clear, it was fundamentally different from the current Owlman.
Then, that man appeared.
A strange man dressed in a black bodysuit, sitting on a floating chair made with unknown technology.
He said to the Owlman of that time: "Little Thomas Wayne, do you want to know why the evil in Gotham City can never be eradicated?"
Like Batman, Little Thomas Wayne had always been searching for this truth.
Even Dane had thought incorrectly due to his own force of habit. Little Thomas did indeed kill his parents, but it wasn't out of personal vendetta, or to seize the Wayne Family's property.
The original story claimed that Little Thomas Wayne killed his parents because he feared the The Waynes would squander the Wayne Family's assets, and Bruce Wayne was accidentally killed by Little Thomas in a moment of desperation.
But the truth Dane saw in Owlman's memory was a different version.
Little Thomas Wayne had known about Gotham City's dark secrets for a long time. As the eldest son, the Wayne Family's fortune would eventually be inherited by him.
Therefore, Little Thomas was told the truth by his parents early on: the Wayne Family was one of the important reasons why Gotham City was so full of crime and darkness, and the The Waynes were a pair of disgusting evil capitalists.
From the moment he understood all of this, Little Thomas swore that he would eradicate the evil in Gotham City, starting with his parents!
Dane was shocked when he saw this memory, not by his young age and his determination to murder his parents, but because Owlman was actually on the side of justice from the very beginning!
Owlman, like Batman, came from darkness but yearned for light, yet the paths they took were completely different.
It's just that Owlman's methods were indeed too cruel; he started with his own parents.
After he and Alfred teamed up to kill the The Waynes, he once wanted to tell the truth to his younger brother, Bruce Wayne.
But to his surprise, the The Waynes had given Bruce the same education.
They had exposed Bruce to the darkness of Gotham City long ago, and Bruce's choice was the exact opposite of Little Thomas's. He chose to conform to the Wayne Family's way of life; he chose to collude with darkness and evil.
When Little Thomas discovered this, he realized he had to make a choice.
Should he leave Bruce alive, only for him to grow up and become a new evil capitalist, continuing to poison Gotham City, or should he kill him, ensuring that the Wayne Group would be in his hands, and reshape Gotham according to his own ideas?
Little Thomas chose the latter. He didn't accidentally kill Bruce; he meticulously planned his brother's murder to prove his path, choosing what he believed to be the path of justice.
But as Little Thomas emerged as Owlman in Gotham City, he increasingly felt that something was amiss.
No matter how he cleaned out the rats in the city, there were always more hidden in the sewers than he caught, and so he gradually felt lost.
It was at this moment that Metron appeared. He claimed that if Owlman sat in the chair behind him, he would gain the truth that had always perplexed him.
Owlman, half-believing, half-doubting, sat in that chair, the chair called "Mobius."
The moment he sat in that chair, he saw all things in the Universe.
He saw the origin of Gotham, a city built by the Wayne Family, the Kanes, the Elliots, the Crowns, and the Cobblepots.
These five families were, from the beginning, the most notorious criminal families in All America. They traded slaves, trafficked arms, cultivated opium, incited wars, plundered populations... they had done almost everything related to evil.
And a city built by such a group of people was dark, evil, and unjust from the very beginning, with no hope whatsoever.
Every brick and tile of this city flowed with the dirty blood of sin, and the people living there were like walking dead.
Gotham was not blessed by hope. Everything Owlman did was just a futile effort!
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