What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 775 You want to engrave our meeting in your mind forever
When you are experiencing the warmest, happiest and most gentle time in your life.

You will at some point, at some moment.

With a slight smile, he looked deeply at everything around him.

You will desperately reflect everything around you into your mind, because you know...

There are only a few happy days like today in your life. You want to remember the feeling of today forever, and this feeling...

Enough to illuminate and warm your freezing life.

What can heal us is not the satisfaction of the moment, not material things, but memories.

The more good memories we have, the greater the hope.

"I will always remember this day."

In the upper reaches of the infinite super-time stream, this is Earth 15 before it was destroyed.

Lantern No. 1 was surrounded by his friends in the center, this was his world, his mother was beside him, and they raised their glasses together.

Upstream of the Flashpoint timeline of the main universe, today is Bruce Wayne's eighth birthday.

Martha Wayne and Thomas Wayne were celebrating his birthday, and at the party, little Bruce said he wanted to go see the recently released new movie "The Mask of Zorro", and Thomas promised to take time to go see it with the family of three.

In the present timeline of the Super Time Stream, Hero Day is having dinner with his friend Super Monkey Supreme, who got a plastic disposable cup from somewhere and filled it with freshly squeezed juice.

This is the best time. Whether it is Little Super Monkey or Hero Day, they actually have some understanding of their situation, or at least some premonition.

But today, this morning, at least at this moment, we should raise our glasses when we meet.

Different time and space and history intertwined, the first Lantern, the Wayne couple and Hero Day raised their drinks at the same time and said together:
"Drink victory!"

boom!
The flames were fierce, and the first Lantern saw his world disappear in the flames.

He saw a huge meteorite falling from the sky into the city, the tall buildings fell like weeds, and countless mortals disappeared like insects. Many people didn't even realize what was happening.

The ground cracked and thick smoke rose. Lantern saw his mother desperately pushing himself into the laboratory. The two of them ran across the originally smooth floor. A few days ago, his colleagues had held a birthday party for him here.

His mother pressed the shuttle light into his hands.

"Huorong, hurry up..."

His mother gave him a hard push, and Huo Rong became the last orphan of Earth Fifteen.

Martha Wayne held her child in her arms blankly, her hands covered with the blood of the little man.

Husband Thomas beat Joe Chel again and again, until his face was covered in blood, but what was the point of all this?

It's all Martha's fault.

She shouldn't have led everyone down this dark alley.

She killed her own child.

then……

just now.

"No, you're not my Bruce..."

"Yes, a parallel universe version. Sorry, I'm not your son."

In the space of the Metal Spirit, there is a room where Chen Tao imprisoned Martha Wayne.

Under the light.

Chen Tao stood there like an iron tower. The light shone on his pointed bat ears and slender body, dragging his shadow into the phantom of a bat.

Martha the clown in the Flashpoint timeline stopped being crazy the first second she saw Chen Tao. This can be regarded as the fastest treatment for mental illness in the world.

Chen Tao reached his hand deep into the void, and then performed a common magician's trick of taking cards out of thin air.

But this is no simple trick.

The magician's trick was to hide the cards on the back of his hand with his bare hands, but when Chen Tao took the cards, Martha the Clown saw with her own eyes countless particles of matter appear in the palm of his hand, and finally condensed into a whole real card.

"The use of the fifth dimensional energy is a more basic one." Chen Tao said.

He walked up to Martha Wayne and waved his hand gently, and an iron table rose from the ground beneath their feet.

Chen Tao placed the Joker playing card in front of the clown Martha.

"I don't quite trust you, young man." Martha the Clown sat there.

Without the straitjacket or the shackles, her green hair and pale face were lost in shadow.

"Even though you've put so much into my mind, it's hard for me to believe you, dear friend. So many things... so many people have tried to use the trauma of my son to control me, but they all failed in the end."

Chen Tao said nothing.

He pulled down his mask and showed Martha his face.

Martha could tell it wasn't a clone.

"What do you want me to do?"

The face of the clown Martha, which should have been filled with a crazy smile, was full of sincerity. She stared blankly at the face under Chen Tao's mask, even though she knew that was not her child.

"Let me explain, ma'am."

Chen Tao said: "I hope I have told you my story clearly through the transmission of memory with an efficiency that surpasses human language.

Long ago, soon after I mastered the fifth-dimensional powers granted to me by the Bat-Mite, I was able to see history from the perspective of a being beyond the fourth dimension."

He paused, then continued, "The fifth dimension of divine power is an extension of the imagination. This power is magical in nature and very powerful, but it always comes at a price."

He told Martha Wayne: "It's still okay for someone like me who only possesses a portion of the fifth-dimensional divine power, but for someone like Emperor Joker who possesses almost 100% of the divine power, these imaginary powers will gradually alienate him and transform him into a true fifth-dimensional creature."

"I don't quite understand what this means." Clown Martha said, "It's too complicated to explain this in human language. Why can't you just input these thoughts into my brain like you did just now?" "I'm sorry, I can't, ma'am." Chen Tao said, "Only those who have mastered the power of the fifth dimension can understand what I say, but I can't share the power of bat mites with you. Doing so will pollute you and make you incompatible with the power of the troublemaker."

"So, please allow me to use this humble means of communication, language, to try to explain all this to you."

Chen Tao said: "In English, next can be directly translated as immediately following, which means that in English, Westerners view time horizontally in terms of before and after, i.e. →."

"But in Chinese, time is expressed as [next week]. Do you understand? From an Oriental perspective, time is not a horizontal line, but a vertical line, ↓."

He said: "But no matter whether it is a horizontal line or a vertical line, whether it is an Easterner or a Westerner, all people are essentially human beings, so in the human way of thinking, no matter which direction it is, time is a straight line. This is our human cognition of time.

But for fifth-dimensional beings, they are not human at all, and their sense of time is completely different from ours."

"From the perspective of fifth-dimensional beings, time is a circle, or ○."

"The time on this circle is constantly changing. The past and the future are happening and changing at the same time. This is an extremely abstract concept. Can you understand it?"

"I..." Clown Martha frowned slightly.

"It's okay if you don't understand. I can give you an example."

Chen Tao said: "For example, you can't read Arabic now, but one day in the future, after a long period of study, you will learn how to read and write Arabic."

He said, "So now you, through your future self, start to recall your learning process, and now you know Arabic."

Well, it's even more confusing.

Chen Tao covered his face and said, "In fact, I don't even have such ability, unless I am willing to completely master the power of bat mites. But then I will become a fifth-dimensional creature and completely ascend to the fifth dimension at some point. I can only come to the material universe once every three months, so I don't plan to do that."

"But the clown did that." Chen Tao said.

"The Joker in the main universe timeline transformed himself into a fifth-dimensional creature and took away the Trickster's divine powers."

"The Poltergeist does get his powers back in the end, but the Joker's taint of him never goes away."

Chen Tao said: "After the Joker briefly became a fifth-dimensional creature, he possessed the characteristics of a fifth-dimensional creature, and his mind participated in the circular timeline of the Poltergeist. His history overlapped with that of the Poltergeist."

Chen Tao formed a circle in mid-air, and then intuitively drew a straight line so that the straight line overlapped with one side of the circle.

Then he snapped his fingers, and the ink that formed the two symbols began to move in the air.

The Joker's horizontal timeline is in red ink, and the Troublemaker's circle timeline is in black.

Then the clown Martha watched helplessly as the red color on the horizontal bar slowly flowed and was constantly drawn into the black circle.

Chen Tao touched his chin.

“For the Joker, whose timeline is a horizontal bar, becoming a fifth-dimensional creature is just a small episode in his long history. After he lost his power, his timeline continued to extend.

But for the Poltergeist, this unexpected fusion with the Joker became a huge torment for him, weakening his power. "

Chen Tao said: "[The Joker once took away his power] is like a point on this black circle that intersects with the red line. The history of the Troublemaker is polluted every time it goes through a loop.

Actually...actually, if we only divide a part of the fifth-dimensional divine power, or divide the power among different people like Bat-Mite is doing now, it won't matter to the fifth-dimensional creatures.

Because they seem to have given you their power now, but in the future these powers will still belong to them, so they still have not lost their power now...

Well, I won't talk about this in a roundabout way. I hope you can understand, ma'am."

He turned the subject back around and said, "So, for the troublemaker, all of history is happening at once, and he's been trying to figure it out, but he can't."

Then Chen Tao said: "So I gave him an idea."

He waved his hand, and then the clown Martha saw that the place where the circle and the line intersected in the air seemed to be cut by invisible scissors. With a click, the circle was cut off, directly interrupting the contact point with the horizontal line.

Then the broken half of the circle was connected again, forming a new circle, and then it grew a little bigger and returned to its original shape.

"This was the original plan of the Troublemaker. He asked me to create an opportunity for him to have a fair fight with the Emperor Clown. As long as he can cut off the connection between him and the Emperor Clown, he will be able to get rid of him."

“So I asked the Emperor Clown to find the Troublemaker and have a fair fight with him, giving the Troublemaker a chance to fairly take back his power.

At that time, I made a bet with the Trickster that if the Trickster could defeat the Emperor Clown directly, then he could separate the horizontal line and the circle directly, and naturally he would not need my help; but he couldn't do it, so my plan went ahead. "

(Note: For foreshadowing, please refer to Chapter 637. Chen Tao deliberately gave the Troublemaker to the Emperor Clown.)
"The two timelines of Emperor Clown and Trickster are too tightly connected, just like the circle and the horizontal line in front of us are tightly attached together, and neither side can untie them." Chen Tao said: "With the failure of Trickster's own plan, it is impossible to pull it out by force, but I can guide Emperor Clown's timeline to yours."

To see from Martha another thin horizontal line was created by Chen Tao, it flew to the first red line created by Chen Tao.

"This thick red line represents the Emperor Clown, and this thin line represents you."

Chen Tao waved his hand, and then the thin wire suddenly inserted into the red line. Then he kept twisting it, directly covering the red line, replacing the red line to border the circle.

Then Chen Tao waved his hand again and immediately cut off the contact part between the thin line and the circle. It was smooth and fast, as precise as a scalpel, and most importantly, the red line did not resist at all.

"You see, now I don't need to cut the circle in half. The original major surgery has been turned into a minimally invasive one."

"But it will still hurt, ma'am."

Chen Tao said: "But believe me, you will gain powerful strength in a short period of time, enough to help me solve the problem, and also help the troublemakers solve the problem."

"I can never promise you that I can keep both you and Bruce Wayne alive, but I can only tell you that as long as you follow my plan, at the end of everything, Bruce Wayne will be the one who survives, and you will definitely have the opportunity to say goodbye to him."

"So I ask you to be prepared... for the backlash of the Emperor's clown."

"You can do it, ma'am."

Martha bowed her head slightly.

"it is good."

She said.

"I'd do anything for Bruce."

Then she suddenly paused again, and said with a complicated expression.

"Can you let me see your face again? I know you're not him, I just want to see."

(End of this chapter)