What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 451 Preparation for time travel, Batman’s worst plan
late at night.

Chen Tao appeared in the Interstellar Laboratory in Central City.

This is basically the territory of Barry Allen, the Flash, and it is also a prison for super-powered criminals with security levels no less than Arkham Asylum. In the past, The Flash usually put all the criminals he caught in Iron Mountain Prison, but as he faced more and more super-powered criminals, Iron Mountain Prison gradually became the same as Gotham's Black Gate. It's like a prison - that prison can't hold super-powered criminals at all, and only the Interstellar Laboratory is the place to control these guys.

In addition, there is also a very important object stored in the interstellar laboratory: the cosmic treadmill left behind by the reverse lightning.

Chen Tao used his authority and swerved directly to the door of the room where the cosmic treadmill was stored.

This room has a huge multi-layered hardened steel door. The door is a code lock. This code lock is mixed with some of Brainiac's scientific and technological achievements. It not only has scientific identity verification methods such as a biological information collection system, but also Multiple identifications such as magic to prevent shapeshifters like Clayface or Snakeskin

Well. In addition to requiring permission, entering this room also requires a password that changes every day. Chen Tao had not asked Barry what his password was today, but he had other ways to open the direct door.

He pressed the microphone button on the combination lock, then leaned closer and said:
"Jingle bells are ringing, bats are stinking, Robin is busy laying eggs. The Batmobile is throwing Gollum, and the laughing bat is running away."

It was hard to imagine such a children's song coming from Batman's mouth, but then the door opened.

Chen Tao has always left some backdoors in the things he handles, just to facilitate situations like today, some situations that are not suitable for his teammates to know.

While Chen Tao was thinking this, he stretched out his hand towards the iron door and tried to close it, but at this moment, a communication interrupted his action.

"I'm Nightwing, I'm Nightwing, Nightwing calling Batman."

Chen Tao answered the call.

"how's it going?"

Chen Tao turned around expressionlessly and closed the heavy iron door.

Then he walked to the corner: "Dick, how's the situation over there?"

Dick Grayson across the screen is wearing a crisp suit. Dick is a handsome guy himself, and he looks even more handsome in this suit.

Chen Tao was sure that Ye Xiao raised the other party as a Barbie doll, which was too exquisite.

But at this time, the tight brows on Dick's face slightly ruined the scene.

"Batman, now I find a problem. Night Owl no longer shows his true identity in front of me, and he no longer comes to see me. I still don't know his specific location now, and he is completely isolated in this spaceship. inside."

Dick said: "Night Owl has become wary of me. Now he just treats me as a pretty vase. All my previous routes for obtaining information through other channels have been cut off."

He said: "I have no other way to connect to you. If it weren't for the metal spirit power you left in my body, I would have completely lost contact with the outside world."

"So what do I do now?" he asked. "Do I find a way to get out of here?"

"You stay here for now." Chen Tao said, "When necessary, I will give you a chance to take action."

"By the way, have you collected any information from Ye Xiao?"

"Most of the content is lackluster." Yeyi told Chen Tao: "But there is only one thing that I think is more important."

"What is it?"

"Night Owl told me that it is impossible to defeat the Anti-Monitor with the power of a single universe alone."

"Single universe?"

"I don't know, Night Owl didn't say more." Nightwing said on the other side of the screen: "He also refused to explain to me the meaning of these words. He just used these words to persuade me that you will eventually fail, and then let me Be his Robin.”

Yeyi said: "Do you understand what he said?"

"I think I understand..." Chen Tao said.

He felt a little heavy: "I'll call you again when I get a chance, Dick."

He hung up the communication and walked to the cosmic treadmill.

For a long period of time before, The Flash had been trying to recreate Reverse Flash through the cosmic treadmill - which is what the outside world thinks is the first generation of Flash. Albert Swann reversed time and ran from the 25th century to where they are. method of the times.

That's right, Barry has been trying to practice the Flash's most standard skill: traveling through time.

For the Flash, traveling through time should be as easy as eating and drinking. Many of their skills are based on traveling through time:

For example, time remnants, they in the future can travel to two minutes ago to help themselves in the present, until they are erased by the timeline itself due to a time paradox.

For Barry, he has gradually learned this skill with the departure of Reverse Flash.

In the previous incident against the Eclipse, the Flash even used his ability to travel through time to get a bug in which "Schrodinger's state was controlled by the Eclipse". As early as that period, Barry was already very familiar with the technique of traveling through time.

However, even so, Barry can only travel through time in minutes at most, and cannot even go back to an hour ago.

Barry never knew why...but Chen Tao knew.

Just like in the "Flashpoint" comics, The Flash himself tells the reason why he couldn't change the completely wrong history as soon as he regained his abilities. His original words are as follows:

"Generally speaking, if I have the maximum amount of energy, I can indeed travel through time."

In other words, traveling through time requires enough Speed ​​Force, and now Barry obviously doesn't have enough.

This means that although he can perform time travel skills like Time Remnant, he cannot truly travel through time like Reverse Flash.

And what is the reason for not enough?

Chen Tao's body began to flash with the power of speed.

Too much of the Speed ​​Force was used by Chen Tao to link his batteries. Even though Barry Allen, The Flash, is like an oil well that keeps producing the Speed ​​Force, the amount he produces simply cannot keep up with the speed Chen Tao uses. .

Chen Tao is like a thief who steals the speed of God, constantly extracting speed from Barry's body, preventing him from becoming faster.

On the other hand, when Chen Tao synchronized with the Red Death, as a speedster, he also permanently occupied a position in the Speed ​​Force of the universe, which further took away the Flash's speed.

Another person has done these things before, that is Reverse Flash.

In the major event of "Flashpoint", Barry Allen, the Flash, went back and changed time, creating a hellish Flashpoint timeline. After regaining his Speed ​​Force, he found that he could not travel through time to correct everything. , because Reverse-Flash Swann is constantly absorbing his Speed ​​Force, making it impossible for Barry to be fast enough to reverse time.

And when Reverse Flash was pierced through the heart by Thomas Wayne, the father of Bruce Wayne, Barry's speed was fast enough, and the Flashpoint timeline was restored.

therefore……

Chen Tao stood on the cosmic treadmill.

Metropolis, the Batcave base is divided into caves.

Gorilla Grodd and Turtle Man live in their own battery compartment, and the gorilla snores loudly.

With the passage of time and technological breakthroughs, their current housing has been gradually upgraded. At first, they were completely restrained in a battery compartment the size of a coffin. When driven, it was like two sections were stuffed in. Not only does the battery need to be tied up, but it is also very inconvenient to eat, drink and defecate.

But at this time, they live in a transparent cage, which replaces the original small battery compartment.

In this way, both of them can now exercise a little in the cage. Even going to the toilet is much more convenient. They even have their own desk and bed.

But at this time, both of them were lying on the bed.

It is late at night after all, and even slaves have to sleep. What's more, they are pulled out and tortured from time to time, and are seriously injured from time to time. Every day they are either injured, injured, or on the way to recuperate, so they need sleep even more.

"Hululu~Hululu~"

Then the next second they were woken up by the sudden pressure on their heads. The golden speed force flowed out from the conduit not far away, carrying the unspeakable Qianjun strange power, and they were still sleeping. The two slaves woke up.

The loud snoring suddenly stopped. Gorilla Grodd and Turtle Man jumped up from the bed and immediately began to stand upright and scream.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch..."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, who is riding a horse, doesn't have to sleep?" Gorilla Grodd yelled, "I'm going to die!!!"

"Who, who, who, who, who, isn't it?"

The turtle man sang along beside him: “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

All in all, with the help of the two men, silver-white particles enveloped Chen Tao's body, and soon the Red Death wrapped around the black-red Speed ​​Force turned into an afterimage on the cosmic treadmill.

One minute, two minutes, Chen Tao kept trying to go back in time, but in the end it was still in vain, as if it was something you could reach out and touch but could never grasp.

Finally he gave up. Chen Tao frowned and got off the cosmic treadmill.

Like Barry Allen, he is also unable to travel through time. He took away too much of Barry Allen's Speed ​​Force, and why didn't Barry do the same?
Both of them had the Speed ​​Force, but not enough to reverse time.

Although he once said to Barry that "it doesn't matter, he has other plans", for Chen Tao...

That lump in the throat feeling never goes away.

If given enough time... whether it's Parallax Monster and Ion Shark, or Superboy-Prime, he has the ability to do better.

But now it's too late, the Counter-Monitor is right around the corner. Chen Tao has made enough preparations in the limited time, but none of these can bring him a sense of security.

He claimed to everyone that facing the Anti-Monitor this time was no different from when he faced Brainiac or Darkseid, but deep down he knew...

Chen Tao shook his head.

Not necessarily. Both Superboy-Prime and Darkseid should be enough to fight against the Anti-Monitor, and the preparations he made for traveling through time through the Speed ​​Force will most likely not be used at all.

High probability.

And now traveling through the timeline is an unattainable fallacy for him, isn't it?
This is just a worst-case scenario, and worst-case scenario doesn't always come true, right?
(End of this chapter)