What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 854: Superboy Supreme, I'm Here to Negotiate

"Well, why don't we be frank."

Chen Tao heard Lantern No. 1 say, "Tell me, what will my future self look like?"

When Chen Tao was still thinking about whether he should tell the other party the truth, he heard Lantern No. 1 say:

"Uh-huh... don't even think about deceiving me."

He looked at Chen Tao, and at some point his face had begun to return to the translucent face of a master of the emotional spectrum.

Chen Tao was silent for half a second.

Other ordinary people in the surrounding taverns were unaware of the strange look on the face of the First Lantern.

Whether it is Batman Dragon or the First Lantern, they are too far away from their lives, and their status and power are so different that they cannot even perceive the face of the First Lantern.

The gap is indeed huge.

Just like the gap between Chen Tao and the god of the sixth dimension.

Chen Tao took a deep breath. He had to make a decision. He was not even sure whether this decision would make him regret it.

He spoke the truth:

"You in the future are dead, at least the you that I saw is dead."

After saying this, he was very nervous because he couldn't predict how Lantern No. 1 would react when hearing this. If a seeker who was desperately seeking something but couldn't get it was suddenly told that he would inevitably fail in the future, what would he do?
Mad? A mental breakdown? What if he refused to help me now?
but no.

Nothing. Chen Tao saw Lantern No. 1 nodded seriously.

"I see."

What? Why is there such a reaction?

"But you have found me now. This means..." Lantern No. 1 reached out and touched his chin, then he said: "This means that you have also experienced that kind of thing."

He looked at Chen Tao: "In the true sense, it is a reversal of the future at the level of super-time flow."

"Yes."

Chen Tao said so.

"I've experienced this many times before. At first, I was just traveling through the main universe timeline." Lantern No. 1 said, "Then, I started to reverse the future."

The First Lantern is very old. In a tavern on Earth Three before the crisis, the very old and twilight-year-old First Lantern told Chen Tao his story.

"Those unknown stories. Can you imagine a future where the Joker Emperor controls the entire timeline? There is also a future where Superboy-Prime and Hal the Parallax Demon join forces to forcibly restart the universe... There are many strange timelines... The Owl, and even a magician named Deimos... Each one is so hideous and terrifying."

The first Lantern drank a glass of wine, and Chen Tao saw the pale yellow liquid flowing through his transparent skin and down his throat.

"They were all once so powerful that they were invincible, but I shattered them all."

Lantern No. 1 said: "In my long life, I have reversed more than once, and the future beyond the time flow, I have experienced things that you can't imagine."

He said this, but Chen Tao felt a chill in his heart.

Those super-time stream futures ruled by Emperor Joker, Parallax Demon Hal, and even Superboy-Prime.

Why were they erased?
It's simple, the gods of the sixth dimension don't like this super-time flow future.

You, the Emperor Clown, won, that's good, but this cement road you created is not what any sixth-dimensional god wanted.

So they can send Lantern No. 1 back to the upstream of the super time stream, and then interrupt the plan of Emperor Joker, and eventually force him into the dilemma of being captured alive by Batman's Dragon.

Any winning plan or hidden tricks, it's all bullshit.

Once you use it...

We know, and then we can erase everything and manipulate you and play with you.

There is no support from another sixth-dimensional god behind the Emperor Clown...so it is ultimately just a supporting role of the times, and the future it created was easily erased, as if nothing had happened.

Even if the other party is a fifth-dimensional being that exists simultaneously in all nodes of the super-time flow...

Emperor Clown He...

Chen Tao's thoughts were a little confused. Some guesses appeared in his mind and then quickly disappeared.

But anyway, let’s take Superboy-Prime and Parallax Hal as examples.

No matter how powerful they are, they cannot secure their victorious future under the schemes of the gods of the sixth dimension.

This is the crushing of mortals by the divine status. Even the two of them are just pawns.

Chen Tao began to realize why Parallax Demon Hal was so powerful, but was besieged by so many people when he tried to escape from the super time flow, and eventually fell into the control of the World Forger.

But…why didn’t Superboy-Prime become the same as Parallax Demon Hal?

The only difference between them is the monkey head that Chen Tao made for Superboy-Prime.

Chen Tao once again clearly realized that he was also a pawn.

A pawn of the Anti-Monitor.

He played against the World Forger, and I...

It is the King on the chessboard.

The first Lantern is the rook on the chessboard, and he chases down the chess pieces that are out of his control.

With the tacit understanding of the two players, the chessboard is pushed to the situation they both want.

He did not say this out loud, but paused, then said: "To be honest, Lantern No. 1, I don't quite understand..."

"You don't quite understand why I am still so confident even though I know I will die?"

Chen Tao heard Lantern No. 1 say.

"Yes, I don't understand."

Chen Tao said, "I'm ready for you to have a mental breakdown when you find out that you've failed and died despite all your efforts. I've even prepared some words to comfort you."

"Death and failure are normal. But I will never be finished."

Lantern No. 1 is drinking again, but he's not drinking to get drunk.

In this unknown tavern, the old Lantern No. 1 raised his glass and drank with the heroism of spending huge sums of money to buy a precious sword.

He once again showed Chen Tao the sword that could cut through time and history.

"As long as I grab enough energy, I can cut off the past and future of Earth 15. In all these years, the path to success has never been more open to me than it is now."

"Whether it's death or failure, do you think I'm afraid? Do you think I'll be terrified or collapse? Who do you think I am? I've been working hard for millions of years in the darkness with no future to see. I've experienced a future of death and failure countless times."

"but."

"Even in my darkest and loneliest days, I never doubted that I had the power to save everything. That I could turn this future around."

"The debate between the strong and the weak, the offensive and defensive forces... the unknown history..."

He put down his wine glass, stood up from his seat, and opened his arms. It was as if an invisible hurricane swept over his whole body, making the non-existent flags behind him rustle violently.

"I have reversed it countless times!"

"call……"

He exhaled a breath of white air, which shot onto the bar in front of him like an arrow.

Then he said, "Let's go. I have a plan." He told Chen Tao, "In order for the Multiverse to operate normally, the World Forger was forced to reinvest the Prime Universe Superman, who was like a treasure to him, into the Multiverse - without investment, how can there be output. This is also your only chance to take back the Prime Universe Superman. And for me..."

"Superman of the main universe has been recaptured, and the baby multiverse of the World Forger has collapsed, releasing a large amount of crisis energy. This is my only chance to save my universe."

Chen Tao heard him say: "The reason why I can't cut my timeline from the super time flow is not because of my sword, but because of insufficient energy. As long as the energy is large enough, I can force this sword to cut everything!"

Chen Tao couldn't bear to tell him the truth, so he chose to remain silent.

"This time, Batman Dragon, our interests are the same."

He heard Lantern No. 1 say.

He extended his hand to Chen Tao, and Chen Tao held it tightly.

Then Chen Tao heard Lantern Man No. 1 say, "I have already gathered the information."

"In order to prevent Superman from being found in the main universe, the World Forger hid him, and also captured most of the time travelers in the entire DC multiverse and imprisoned them in the Multiverse Fusion."

"Without time travelers and the time energy they possess, no one will be able to find the main universe superman in a short time enough for him to delay time until the multiverse converges and the future of the super time stream solidifies."

Then Chen Tao saw Lantern No. 1 blink his eyes.

"But I am also a time traveler, and you are also a time traveler. The World Forger missed only the two of us. As long as we work together, we can find those captured time travelers, and then find the location of the main universe Superman through the time travelers."

No, the reason the World Forger didn't catch the two of us wasn't because he was stupid enough to miss us, but because we had the Anti-Monitor's protection behind us.

Chen Tao thought silently.

The Anti-Monitor drives us like a knife into the heart of the World Forger.

You don't realize that you are a knife, and I am just willing to be a knife.

that is it.

But he didn't tell this to the first Lantern.

"so……"

He heard Lantern No. 1 continue, "The time is almost up."

He pointed upwards, and Chen Tao knew that he was not pointing at the roof of the tavern, but at the entire city.

Metropolis on Earth-3 before Crisis on Infinite Earths.

"We need to use this city to enter a diverse integration." If my guess is correct, there should be still time left...

As he said this, a drunk next to him stood up.

He vomited on the waiter, causing a commotion.

Chen Tao saw the dinner plate fall to the ground and shattered into pieces, and made a sound——

Bang!

boom!
Chen Tao instantly appeared outside the tavern. He looked up at the sky and saw countless grid-like barriers rising from the ground, directly covering the entire city. Then in the next second, the outside world shifted and took Chen Tao and the others to a desolate planet.

"Diversity has arrived - we..."

Lantern Man No. 1 also came out. He appeared beside Chen Tao and said:
"we want……"

boom!
There was a loud bang and Chen Tao's scalp went numb. He turned around and saw that the tavern where they had just stood had been melted into carbon by the high temperature.

The destructive demon broke through the outer barrier in an instant and landed where Chen Tao and the others had just been.

Chen Tao took half a step back.

"Superboy-Prime..."

"Wait, he found us?"

Lantern No. 1 also took a half step back, his expression became serious: "The World Forger is probably monitoring the entire Multiverse. He found out that we--"

The next second, Superboy-Prime appeared in front of him and tore Lantern No. 1's neck open like tofu, so fast that Chen Tao had no time to react.

He barely dodged the second punch from Superboy Prime, and the next second, Chen Tao suddenly jumped up, his whole body bursting with terrifying power, and then instantly...

He used his neck to control Superboy-Prime's right hand.

"Wait, Superboy-Prime..."

Before Chen Tao could say anything, the next moment, Superboy-Prime's huge fist glowing white enlarged in front of him.

Damn it, Chen Tao is dead.

boom!
The world began to collapse, and the cement road beyond the time flow was twisted again.

Chen Tao saw the dead Lantern No. 1 making a vague sound.

The next moment, he returned to the previous history.

"…but I'm also a time traveler, and you're also a time traveler…"

When Chen Tao heard Lantern Knight No. 1 say this, he suddenly stood up from his seat: "Damn it..."

But the timing of his return was a little wrong, and it was already too late.

He saw the drunkard stand up from his seat and vomit all over the waiter. Before he could talk to Lantern No. 1, then...

With a clang, the cutlery fell to the ground, and with this sound...

With a loud bang, the tavern exploded.

He once again saw Superboy-Prime coming to kill him.

……

……

……

Nite Owl…of course, the Nite Owl from before Crisis on Infinite Earths, we call him Owlman.

The owl man put down his headphones expressionlessly.

He was quietly thinking about what he had overheard.

He was spying on these people because he found out that Quan Jie was dead... and he was curious about who could have killed him.

Then he found the man who called himself the First Lantern, and the man who called himself Batman Dragon...they talked about all those weird things, the restart of the universe, the timeline...

This is ridiculous.

All this is too far away from the current history of the Owl People.

And it's easy to verify what they say.

He looked up and looked out the window at the dusk sky. Countless barriers like grids suddenly rose up...

Frame its city within it.

Intercept time and fall into the chessboard.

This overwhelming power is called:
Diversity and integration.

The Owl Man took a sip of the $2000 champagne.

(End of this chapter)