What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 1003 I Am Legend: The One Who Followed Death (The End)

Chen Tao had no intention of paying any attention to the Laughing Bat.

Simply put, the Bat of Laughter is no longer useful.

Chen Tao successfully stole the connection between him and the Manhattan Bat. Yes, Chen Tao knew that the Batman Who Laughs would definitely be able to take it back, but now that this thing had passed through his hands, it would no longer be exclusive to the Batman Who Laughs.

What about the Bat of Laughter?
Kuang Xiao was already a bit confused by Chen Tao.

Generally speaking, in most cases, it is the Bat Who Laughs who is the one who uses the advantage of information asymmetry to deceive others.

But this time is different, unlike before.

The Batman Who Laughs cannot disprove what Batman Dragon said. Even if he forces himself to use reason to convince himself that the other party is lying, there will always be a voice deep inside him questioning him.

Really? Are you sure everything Batman: Dragon said was a lie?

That alone makes it impossible for them to escape.

As the Laughing Bat lost its composure due to intense suspicion and terror, Dr. Manhattan also sensed the Manhattan Bat, which existed yet did not exist in a quantum superposition state.

This feeling surprised Dr. Manhattan, and made him smile involuntarily. He had been devoid of emotion for a long time and had not smiled for many years.

This startled even Dr. Manhattan himself.

But there is still a problem: the Manhattan Bat is ultimately a non-existent future. If it weren't for the quantum power that puts it in a non-existent Schrödinger's cat state, neither the Batman Who Laughs nor Batman's Dragon could even borrow its divine power.

Papetua launched an attack on him.

As she raised a universe and an infinite number of lives to attack him, Chen Tao's mind simultaneously echoed with the wails of all life in the past, future, and present along this timeline. The sound was deafening, giving him a splitting headache, as if lightning had pierced his bones.

Even in such a weakened state, Chen Tao clearly understood that he was still no match for his opponent.

"It's true that Papetua would throw planets at people; I've wanted to complain about that for many years."

Chen Tao said he clearly saw Papetua grab an Earth and then shrink it, as easily as sticking a walnut to the ground, but Chen Tao knew it wasn't a walnut.

Earth is the center of every single universe. When Papetova lifted Earth, she was essentially using a universe to hammer Chen Tao.

When Chen Tao created the Earth-15 Incident, he used his single universe to hammer the Anti-Monitor Möbius into the positive matter universe, which almost drained all his strength and power at that time.

This was an almost fatal difficulty, and even the final success was full of luck. However, the current Papetua's basic attack is just like Chen Tao's ultimate move.

But Chen Tao couldn't witness, like the Bat Who Laughs, that monoverse being destroyed by Papetua as a weapon.

He could easily comfort himself by thinking that once he defeated Papetua, he could resurrect these dead people, just as he had promised. He could completely ignore the cries of those lives and simply use other methods to avoid them, you know.

But he can't do that; he'd be stupid.

He must maintain his superhero status; the DC multiverse cannot have the slightest doubt about him…

He was determined to sacrifice himself, and then leave behind a contingency plan that would permanently imprison Papetua.

Then?

Then his task was completed.

He could finally leave. He had arranged everything perfectly.

He could drink a beverage that would never be finished.

Although death has said it won't wait for you if you miss your chance, he believes that death will have a change of heart.

Becoming part of death doesn't seem so bad. No one knows what will happen after death takes you away, not even death itself knows. And that's the part that can be imagined.

Who dares to say that the deceased were not happy?
Papetua struck Chen Tao hard, causing the timeline to reverse.

The super-time flow trembled, and the originally fragmented reality was like muddied water, with various fragments of history and the world floating up and down like sesame seeds.

"You don't understand. My hand, the creative hand of my race, is rushing here. They intend to annihilate this universe because your desires are insatiable!"

Papetua was struggling, and that's how the stories overlapped.

Dr. Manhattan realized it. He sensed that Batman Dragon was calling for his help.

You see, he has to provide energy for Batman's dragon...

"Because if you don't do this, the Watchmen universe will be completely merged into the DC multiverse, becoming a parallel universe on the main universe's timeline."

A vast amount of energy converged at the South Pole of the Watchers universe, then rapidly combined to form Dr. Manhattan's body.

He saw the three gods appear before him in the Watchers universe, the three sixth-dimensional brothers who had disappeared in the earlier explosion. This was utterly absurd; three such enormous sixth-dimensional gods had entered his Watchers universe, yet Dr. Manhattan hadn't noticed.

When he needed to discover it, he instantly sensed that this was the DC multiverse urging Dr. Manhattan to act. It was urging him not to stand idly by and to contribute his power to the entire DC multiverse.

Dr. Manhattan was pondering that the world-builders before him represented the three brothers of the sixth dimension, who, at this moment, all spoke for the interests of the DC multiverse.

This is the DC multiverse overseeing the battle. In fact, Dr. Manhattan had anticipated this situation, and therefore he had considered completing his mission in the DC multiverse before Perpetua came down from the Origin Wall to create all of this, carrying out the ultimate experiment he had designed but never put into practice.

But with the sudden appearance of Batman: Dragon, he temporarily changed his mind.

He wanted to see just how far the DC multiverse could push him; his curiosity overcame his biological instinct to avoid danger and seek good fortune.

He was a diligent learner who allowed the DC multiverse to summon destiny and draw him into it, all to witness how destiny operates throughout the multiverse.

At this moment, Dr. Manhattan finally felt the call of destiny. Through a series of dominoes and unforeseen events, he was now threatened by the gods of the 6th dimension. He had to either fight against Perpetua or witness and try to stop them from turning their Watchmen universe into a single universe within the DC multiverse.

"Look, this is so interesting, but I want to know more."

Dr. Manhattan said this.

"Even if I provided Batman Dragon with quantum energy, I still don't think he could defeat Perpetual..."

"What I mean is, Batman Dragon will die, and the best outcome for him is to perish together with Perpetua, unless he can tolerate the entire DC multiverse being dragged into death, and it's something he orchestrated."

He's essentially created a larger crisis to draw power from death to help himself and Perpetua fight, and he'll be fine as long as he pays his debts to the DC multiverse before it completely collapses... But the question is, can he?

Dr. Manhattan pondered silently, "Two chances to restart the timeline?"

"No, that's not enough. Has Batman Dragon already decided to die? What will happen after he dies? Will the DC multiverse find a new protector? In other words, from the very beginning, Batman Dragon was just a consumable created by the DC multiverse to save itself?"

Dr. Manhattan suddenly had a flash of inspiration and realized why Batman Dragon, rather than Superman, was in charge of everything. If it were Superman, he would undoubtedly be the one to sacrifice himself. Superman is the center of the DC multiverse, and his death would have extremely serious consequences. The DC multiverse already had one superhero, N Superman, who died while serving as Superman in the main universe; he would never allow P Superman to die again.

This has nothing to do with whether the DC multiverse has self-awareness; it is purely a reaction caused by instinct.

Since the DC multiverse had already instinctively planned for Batman Dragon's death, what else could Doctor Manhattan possibly say?
Didn't you see that the three sixth-dimensional gods have joined forces to force him to resign?

Dr. Manhattan could choose to resist or not, but not doing so would result in the destruction of the DC multiverse. What consequences that would have on him, Dr. Manhattan himself could not foresee.

Therefore, as Papetua gradually pushed Batman Dragon to the brink, she saw the sudden flash of blue light from him and knew Doctor Manhattan's choice. "How did you get Doctor Manhattan to help you?"

"Does it matter?"

Batman Dragon countered with a question.

Papetua can no longer use the Cosmic Hammer to strike Batman Dragon.

All the fragments are coming back together.

The present moment, which transcends time, is being rapidly overwritten, like a blackboard eraser wiping away the realities that Tuva fears will write down that are more favorable to her.

Papetua's power was waning, and when Batman Dragon received help from Doctor Manhattan, she was no longer able to resist.

Even now, the Queen of the Multiverse still proudly raises her head.

"I will return eventually. You have merely sealed me back onto the Origin Wall; you cannot end my arrival. My existence can only be postponed, not changed. And next time..."

She looked at Batman: Dragon.

"You will have no chance to stop me."

"maybe."

Chen Tao restarted time, and the counterattack that Papetua had just tried to create disappeared.

Chen Tao was meticulously calculating his remaining strength and the time that Papetua could still counterattack.

Just right.

There's one left out of the last three attempts.

As long as the last time doesn't...

"The Void Hand will definitely try to attack. Have you prepared a trump card for this? Leave one of my three offspring alive, or are you counting on Super-Prime and Parallax Morhal? No, neither of them will do."

Papetua said, "They're all too weak, none of them are in their prime. The old Superman of Earth-2? The last remaining mind-controlling robot in the DC multiverse?"

"No, none of them can help you. Once they leave the hyper-time stream, everything you just fixed will risk collapsing again."

Do you have any other trump cards up your sleeve?

Chen Tao closed his eyes.

"Yes. I pray that the Hand of the Void is also badly injured."

Chen Tao thought to himself silently.

Actually, there was something he had been thinking about for a long time.

The Void Hand's power includes something called the Anti-Death Equation, which he has never revealed, along with the Destruction Machine he once attempted to invade the DC multiverse, corresponding to the Miracle Machine of the DC multiverse—

He never revealed this ability or that treasure to Chen Tao, and Chen Tao remained completely unaware of it.

Even when forced into the deepest abyss by Chen Tao, Void Hand never used those two abilities. He was a cunning old wolf; even when locked in a sheepfold and guarded by giants, he never revealed all his trump cards.

Chen Tao prayed that the Void Hand would not appear.

He has tried everything he could.

He had already weakened the Void Hand as much as possible, making it the main attacker. During the battle, the main targets for weakening were him and the Laughing Bat.

As long as the Hand of the Void is now weakened beyond repair, as he has planned, to prevent him from interfering in his final conflict with Papetua—

Chen Tao then won a great victory.

Of the last two opportunities to restart the timeline, he used one against Papetua, and the time difference completely overwhelmed him, leaving Papetua powerless to resist.

Only the Hand of Emptiness remained.

Chen Tao prayed.

He prayed to himself, hoping that his luck wouldn't be so bad, that the destiny of the Time Flow would favor him again, and that he had already completed his entire plan after revealing all his trump cards, completely suppressing the Void Hand to the point of immobility.

He prayed.

Praying for a chance to survive.

Then he saw the Hand of the Void appear in the sky, wreathed in dark story power, and something even more terrifying.

Chen Tao sighed.

“It seems I won’t see you next time I come down from the Origin Wall,” Papetua said. “Perhaps you could try abandoning a part of the DC multiverse and letting it devour it, and tie me to the Origin Wall first?”

Should we give up some of it?
Chen Tao sighed heavily again.

The timeline restarted, and the Void Hand disappeared, vanishing into the horizon as if time had reversed.

The third and final chance has been used up.

Papetua chuckled softly.

Goodbye. Actually, you could have seen me again, but I think you probably won't. So—...farewell forever.

"That's what Papetua said. Then Chen Tao watched her disappear at the pinnacle of time."

You let out a long breath.

Then you fall heavily to the ground.

You hear that ethereal song softly singing in his ear.

"Through me, you will enter the city of weeping...through me, you will enter endless suffering..."

"...Before me, all things were unformed..."

"...O one who comes, quickly abandon all hope!"

So you fell to the ground, scattering your body in the darkness of the wilderness.

You feel a sense of warmth and relief.

You saw death appear before you, you saw her with her arms crossed, holding a small parasol.

"So, have you decided who should come with me?"

(End of this chapter)