Extracting the Life Codex

As he stepped out of the hotel, the cold night wind mercilessly slapped against his cheeks.

Barry Allen still had not come back to his senses.

His mind was a mess, like it had been churned into pulp by a blender.

He just kept walking blankly, repeating a few words over and over.

"Clark's cousin, Superman from another universe, Iron Man from Marvel..."

"Wonder Woman is still on the island, Cyborg is still a football player, Aquaman hasn't been born, Batman has become an old man, Superman is dead."

"What have I done..."

Barry muttered nervously beneath the dim streetlights.

His absent-minded appearance resembled Bruce, who had lost his parents in a Gotham alley one night decades ago.

The elderly Bruce Wayne looked at Barry and suddenly thought of his younger self.

With his hands in his pockets, he watched Barry for a long while.

Then he suddenly asked, "In your future, am I Batman too?"

Barry stopped muttering and nodded woodenly.

He had already told Batman this many times back at Wayne Manor.

Before this, Batman had seemed completely uninterested. He did not know why Bruce was suddenly asking now.

"Batman too... Perhaps that is Bruce Wayne's fate..." Bruce said quietly.

His original motivation for becoming Batman

had been to avenge his parents, who had died in a robbery.

Except his enemy was the darkness of all Gotham.

The other Batman was probably no exception.

Perhaps Bruce Wayne was destined to become Batman, and his parents were destined to leave him on that night.

"Barry, you traveled through time to save your mother, so both your parents are still alive, right?" Bruce said casually.

Barry did not know why Batman was asking this.

But he still nodded honestly. "That day, Mom asked Dad to go to the supermarket for