After thinking about it, Samuel felt that there were two opportunities, or two choices, to scheme for Dr. Manhattan's ability.
One: Go to the Watchmen Universe to stake out.
This will have three results: success, failure, and assimilation.
Success goes without saying, it's self-explanatory.
Failure means that Dr. Manhattan never appears. Anyway, time has no meaning to him, and he can modify the timeline at any time. If he doesn't appear on his own initiative, it's difficult to find him!
At least for his current self, it's not that easy!
Being assimilated is troublesome. Unless he can transcend the timeline or get rid of the influence of the reboot, otherwise, when he is in the Watchmen Universe, as long as Dr. Manhattan reboots the Universe, he will be trapped in it and easily assimilated by the consciousness of the Universe, thus forgetting his original identity.
Although his past is constant because of the ability to negate time, his future is not!
At other times, Samuel is not worried about this problem at all, just like now in the Justice League Universe, he is not worried at all, because rebooting the Universe is not that simple, and it won't happen so suddenly!
But going to the Watchmen Universe is hard to say. For Dr. Manhattan, rebooting the Universe is really not a troublesome matter!
So this choice needs to be considered carefully!
Two: Follow the major event!
The Doomsday Clock major event tells the story of Dr. Manhattan rebooting the Watchmen Universe countless times but failing to truly find a way to save this Universe. Then he left and came to the Multiverse, and was attracted by the Superman of the main Universe.
He discovered that Superman is the core of the Multiverse, and then he rebooted the Universe and observed Superman.
However, this time he hid deeper. The people who rebooted the Universe on the surface were Flash and Pandora.
Flash's Flashpoint rebooted the Universe, and Pandora also took the opportunity to merge the Vertigo Universe and the Wildstorm Universe into it.
This led to many changes in the Universe after the reboot.
But secretly, Dr. Manhattan made many micro-adjustments, such as stealing ten years of time from the timeline, and changing Superman's fate.
At the same time, he also discovered his own fate.
Either destroy the Multiverse, or be killed by Superman!
Of course, the later events are irrelevant to Samuel's request, so let's not talk about them for now. The main thing now is to figure out the core time point Flashpoint, which Universe's Flashpoint it is, or rather, which Multiverse's Flashpoint?
There is more than one Multiverse.
The Multiverse where the Justice League Universe is located is officially called the Expanded Universe, the one where a series of U.S. dramas are located is the Green Arrow Multiverse, and there is also the main Multiverse of the comics.
It can be said to be very chaotic!
Because every time the Multiverse is rebooted, the Multiverse before the reboot does not disappear by being overwritten.
For example, the New 52 after Flashpoint!
This is considered the main Multiverse, but the Multiverse before the New 52 still exists, it just withdrew from the main stage and exists in another form of Multiverse, it's just difficult to detect.
Samuel knows of three Flashpoint major events, namely the main Multiverse symbolized by comics, the Green Arrow Multiverse, and the Expanded Multiverse, which is the Justice League Universe he is currently in.
He can be sure that the Flashpoint major event in the Justice League Universe he is in should not have happened yet. It is hard to say whether the Doomsday Clock major event happened in this Universe, and even if it did, he cannot let it happen.
Who would put the battlefield in their own home?
Samuel has already regarded the Justice League Universe as his exclusive property. This is because his current means are not enough, otherwise he would have already stripped this Universe out separately.
The Flashpoint event in this Universe cannot happen; let others suffer, not me. Let's mess around in the Green Arrow Universe instead; anyway, the Green Arrow Universe will reboot in the end!
Of course, you have to eat one bite at a time. Planning for Dr. Manhattan's abilities can only be considered a medium-term goal. The current goals are [Doomsday's abilities], [other current abilities], [anti-life equation], and [the abilities of the Seven Lantern Corps].
However, some things can be verified first, or prepared for in advance.
Samuel's thoughts moved, and the Dimension Teleportation abilities of Incredible Man, Magik, and Nightshade, which were stacked, activated.
In an instant, he disappeared.
Then, a few seconds later, he reappeared.
And then, disappeared again.
Following that, he reappeared again.
The time interval between each appearance kept changing, sometimes appearing in a few seconds, sometimes in more than ten minutes, and even the longest time was two hours.
After repeating this countless times, Samuel, who was exhausted and whose spirit had begun to visibly wilt, finally stopped and then let out a long sigh with a strange expression.
"You really are hiding from me!"
Samuel traveled back and forth between the Justice League Universe and the Watchmen Universe countless times, trying countless possibilities.
For example, he would travel through time, pinpointing the 'plot time' when Dr. Manhattan should exist, and the journey itself would be fine, but once he arrived in the Watchmen Universe, it would invariably be a time point before Dr. Manhattan was born!
Or it would be a time point after Dr. Manhattan had already left!
He wanted to accurately travel to a specific time point in the Watchmen Universe, but after traveling, it would be interfered with and changed, yet when he traveled back, it was unaffected.
One time, Samuel was ruthless and directly killed Jonathan Osterman before he became Dr. Manhattan!
Then he traveled through time again!
Jonathan Osterman was indeed dead, and under normal circumstances, Dr. Manhattan would not be born.
But the time interference still existed!
Because Dr. Manhattan has already transcended the timeline and is immune to causality, which means that even if Jonathan Osterman on this current timeline dies, it will not affect Dr. Manhattan; he has already jumped out of the timeline, is not within the five elements, and nothing can affect him!
This test proved two things.
Firstly, Dr. Manhattan was indeed deliberately hiding from him the last time he went to take Second Generation Silk away, directly changing the time point of his travel, but at that time he couldn't accurately travel to a specific time point and thought the time points were random!
Secondly, Dr. Manhattan already knows that he is looking for him, and he should also know that the matter of spying on him has been exposed, that he has been discovered, and his identity has been locked onto, but he still hasn't shown himself.
"This is a bit tricky—it seems I can only choose the path related to the major events," Samuel muttered regretfully.
The current situation is that he cannot find him, and he dares not or is unwilling to show himself in front of him.
He cannot spy on him, but he can spy on himself, but that is only being able to spy; he should not be able to spy on the specific content.
Tsk, compared like this, I'm a bit at a disadvantage, but don't worry, sooner or later I will catch you. By then, your abilities will be mine, and my abilities—will still be mine!
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