Chapter 2101

For anyone, this is a very terrifying thing—you are training with Captain America, trying to get familiar with the powerful strength you just acquired, looking forward to a beautiful future, and then you open your eyes and find yourself back in the apartment in San Francisco, everything starting over.

This is different from time travel. Time travel is at most leaving the familiar environment and accepting a new environment. But now everything is familiar, which makes starting over more like a nightmare you made yourself.

How can Bruce accept this?

Even if he isn't very smart, he can determine that everything he just experienced wasn't a dream at all. Any rational adult wouldn't confuse dreams with reality.

Bruce isn't a mental patient at all. Being a "novice" also has its benefits. He is at most paranoid about the revenge for his parents' death, and hasn't lost himself in the day-to-day suspicion and prudence, becoming a pure mental patient like other Batmen.

So his rationality is enough for him to judge that he was suddenly reborn. What he experienced wasn't a dream bridge appearing in some dog-blood horror movie; he really acquired strength and was reset back to a weak period.

Ask, who can accept all this?

Think about it, you always feel that you can't do many things, but compared to the people around you, you feel this is normal. Who can rely on a few years of accumulation to save a hopeless city? Just take it slow.

But suddenly one day, you came to a game and found that you in other universes are simply powerful beyond words. Yes, other Batmen didn't save Cat Getan either, but how could Bruce not envy the powerful skills of himself in other universes?

It is visible to the naked eye that this isn't something that can be honed by experience. Bruce is the one with the worst talent among all Batmen. It's useless for him to hone for decades.

This will definitely bring another kind of despair: since such a powerful Batman can't save Cat Getan, what is the point of his own effort?

Just give up. Anyway, it's a dead end. Why should he work hard to the end?

It can be said that what keeps Bruce going is his obsession with the unclear death of his parents.

But suddenly, things took a turn for the better. He came to a new world, not only able to acquire powerful equipment through missions, but also acquired incomparably powerful strength in the experience of this world.

Bruce knows this strength is stronger than any other Batman. Other Batmen are strong in intelligence. Great wisdom can indeed bring powerful changes, but who says a strong body can't?

And everything went very smoothly. He acquired strength much stronger than ordinary people almost painlessly, and had an experienced, kind, and upright senior to guide him.

There was also an urgent crisis and many missions to gain benefits in front of him, which could be used to hone the strength he just acquired and the skills he just learned. Isn't everything looking up?

It is imaginable that he would learn and return home, returning home in glory. Even if he couldn't completely save Cat Getan, he could at least make this dark city a little better.

It's really enough to be just a little better. Bruce didn't want much originally. He wasn't as sick as other Batmen, not having to make Cat Getan as bright as Metropolis.

Precisely because he experienced too many failures and recognized that he was a failed man, he felt that it would be good if even one more child's parents wouldn't be shot.

He was about to do all this, everything within reach, right in front of his eyes. Just walk down step by step.

Just at this time, time was reset.

How can Bruce accept all this?

If I had never seen hope, then darkness would be acceptable. But not only did I see hope, I was already on the road to hope. How can I not try my best to grasp that ray of light?

As mentioned before, Bruce didn't feel that he acquired strength because he was bitten by a spider. He also thought it was the Extremis Virus. Through the memories of previous cycles, he knew the Extremis Virus was probably related to the water source, so Bruce started drinking water desperately.

Aisha arrived as scheduled, but unfortunately, Bruce couldn't accept the gap of hope suddenly falling through at this time. As an ordinary person, he started to try to save all this in the way he could as a mediocre ordinary person.

Bruce turned on the faucet, filled his stomach with water, lay on the sofa, and started waiting for his mutation.

Mutation did happen, but unfortunately, the mutation of the Extremis Virus wasn't that powerful. At this time, Superior Iron Man hadn't started the third round of virus release at all.

For those homeless people who had always been ugly and thin, the change was earth-shattering. But for Bruce, who originally possessed an incomparably handsome appearance and a strong figure, this change was negligible.

Having experienced the change from 1 to 10, how could he accept the change from 1 to 2? In fact, the change didn't even reach 2, at most it was 0.1 more.

Bruce simply wasn't reconciled. He remembered his previous experience, so he went to apply for a job at a construction site, and the moment those poisoning personnel came to the construction site, he rushed out, desperately snatched the medicine from their hands, and poured it all into his mouth.

Things got out of control, completely out of control.

The second-phase virus wasn't that stable, which was why it needed a lot of water to dilute it. Otherwise, wouldn't Superior Iron Man just sell the medicine directly?

Because Bruce swallowed an excessive amount of Extremis Virus, he mutated into a monster and completely lost his reason due to the side effects brought by the Extremis Virus.

The subsequent result could only be said: We in San Francisco also have our own Hulk.

Nick, who was squatting in front of the screen, hurriedly pressed the pause button. This wouldn't do. Although Batman becoming Spider-Man might involve copyright disputes, becoming a monster was uglifying the image of an important character, which was also not allowed.

Then what else could he do? Start over.

If Schiller and the other three were here, they might stop Nick, because repeatedly resetting the timeline is a very dangerous thing. Many times, the more you trace back time, the less you get the results you want.

But Schiller was busy looking for Spider-Man. He was the one who least believed Spider-Man would commit suicide. Peter Parker wouldn't lose his original heart in any adversity, and even feelings of depression and frustration were rare.

It could be seen from Spider-Man's experience in Cat Getan before that although the language in his diary was humorous, one could see from the details revealed between the lines how dark and oppressive Cat Getan's atmosphere was. Peter was still optimistic, and even the Joker couldn't break his defense.

Also, the zombie universe was already chaotic and desperate to that extent, yet Spider-Man could forcibly awaken his reason by his kind heart. How could such a person commit suicide?

And there was another paradox. If Peter Parker committed suicide when Bruce first came, then where did the Spider-Man who called to notify Captain America's death come from?

He couldn't have died first, then resurrected, and ran to see the dead Captain America and make a phone call, right?

There must be something tricky in this.

But no matter what happened, Schiller had to go and fish Spider-Man and Captain America out.

Hearing that Schiller might go to Death to fish people out again, Loki and Strange were both uneasy, because as everyone knows, every time Schiller and Death meet, it means he is going to pull off some big stunt again.

Loki went back to find Hela, preparing to wait in the Death Realm first. Strange followed behind Schiller, telling him to restrain himself, at least don't make any earth-shattering big things during the Battleworld test.

Others weren't there. Nick watched the direction of this timeline go wrong, and he had to reset it even if he didn't want to.

So Nick could only cut off the future of this timeline and then reset everything back to when Bruce first came.

Now it's good. Bruce, with the memories of two lifetimes of reincarnation, returned to the apartment in San Francisco again.

Can this Bruce not go crazy? Isn't this God going against him?

Other Batmen have everything from birth: genius-like IQ, strong willpower, strong physique, and even a big family that is complex and awkward but still warm. Only he has nothing.

Is this fair?

Once a person starts asking this question, the thought process heading toward a dead end is inevitable.

Generally speaking, Batman wouldn't overly crave strength. There must be a part of his brain warning him that excessive strength represents loss of control.

But unfortunately, once a person's wisdom hasn't reached a certain level, it's very difficult to maintain reason under temptation.

Bruce had already experienced the power of strength. He knew how much he needed this strength. For his responsibility, for his mission, he had to acquire it.

Bruce knew this reset wasn't accidental. Someone must be preventing something, so he decided not to take the original route. He wouldn't go to the construction site to snatch the virus preparation, but go directly to the Osborn Group's research center.

This time he didn't have super strength, so he didn't receive extra attention from Osborn. But obviously, from the previous two resets, Bruce knew someone would contact him to obtain information about the Osborn Group, so he told the Osborn Group about this.

Sure enough, that old fox Norman Osborn was very sensitive to someone wanting to steal his group's information, and everything returned to the right track. People from the Osborn Group brought Bruce to New York.

This time Bruce didn't have spider-sense, and he didn't choose to run away, but chose to face Norman Osborn directly.

As a result, Bruce made a mistake again.

He learned from Osborn's mouth that the Osborn Group was also just investigating the virus in San Francisco. They weren't the culprit, didn't have the original body of this virus, and couldn't provide anyone with powerful strength.

Bruce simply wouldn't give up, because he didn't have the ability to see if Osborn was lying, so he assumed Osborn was covering up the truth and didn't tell him the truth.

He was kicked out of the building by Osborn, but this time Aisha helped him a lot. Bruce proposed wanting to enter the Osborn Group to search. Aisha didn't know why he wanted to do this, but still helped him, helping him shield the Osborn Group's security system for a period of time.

Bruce entered the Osborn Group building during the night. He originally wanted to see if there was any virus original body.

But to his disappointment, what Old Osborn said was probably true. Although the Osborn Group was a biochemical pharmaceutical company, it hadn't conducted virus research for a long time.

However, Bruce's luck was really quite good. Bruce indeed didn't find the Extremis Virus, but he found the symbiote suit—to be precise, the unfinished Green Goblin suit.

Now it's good. Bruce didn't turn into Spider-Man, but turned into his arch-enemy Green Goblin.

Actually, this was a bit better than him turning into Spider-Man, but the bad thing was that the Green Goblin suit wasn't finished at this time, and Bruce wasn't wearing it voluntarily, but was possessed after breaking the isolation chamber, which led to him losing control again.

Nick also found that this wouldn't do. He saw that Bruce's actions were very strange and it was very likely that his memories hadn't been reset, and he had fallen into a vortex of pursuing strength.

But considering that continuing this timeline might cause irreversible damage to Bruce, and it was still infringement, Nick chose to cut off this timeline again and reset everything back to the beginning.