What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 859 Drown in your ideals, die, First Lantern Knight!

Chen Tao opened his eyes.

Time has restarted again.

This should be the 601st time.

He thought silently.

Perhaps he will begin the next 100th cycle.

He has been playing for a while now...

He is trapped in this era, trapped in a future he neither wants to nor dares to break through.

When you were reincarnated for the first 100 times, you were full of ambition and tried every possible way to break the curse.

Do you want to bypass the dilemma set up for you by the World Forgers, that damn moral predicament, or do you want to find a way to speed up your progress and avoid direct confrontation with the heroes?

You can use your silver tongue to persuade those superheroes to obey you and defy the ideas of the World Makers.

Do you want your teammates from the Dark Multiverse to impersonate you and scatter to distract the heroes?
You want to use mud on your face, to exhaust every means at your disposal. You think this is just a dispute between you and those heroes. You want to stand on the dry shore, pure and clean, like in the past, with your hands unstained by blood. You still feel that you are the protagonist of the era, the trendsetter of fate, and that you can "always have choices," just as you once claimed.

You've done that before, haven't you?
Even though the anti-monitor calls Earth-15 the source of all evil, claiming that it's the root of all problems, you never believe him, and you scoff at the anti-monitor's arguments about Earth-15.

You're just pretending to say things like "you're right".

Creating the Earth 15 incident was the biggest and proudest thing you ever did in your life. You survived the impossible and always thought you could do it again.

You were too young then, believing that anything is possible if you set your mind to it, and never believing that human effort can be limited.

But now you believe it.

Actually, you are not without ways to solve the problem at hand. You remember, on Hero's Day, you once...

Eh.

What method was it again?

Chen Tao frowned. He felt as if a piece of his memory was missing. He vaguely remembered that he had a trump card, a trump card that he had never wanted to reveal, which was in Hero Day. It could help him to unexpectedly and severely damage the World Forger. But what exactly was this trump card?

He forgot.

This...this doesn't seem right.

"...No rush, you need to rest...have some coffee..."

After skillfully calming down the first Lantern Knight, Chen Tao sat down and continued to ponder deeply.

Having reincarnated so many times, the first Genie is like a corrupted heroine in a dating simulation game who has been completely conquered and played like a fool by him.

He was getting to know Genie Number One better and better. As long as he followed the fixed solution, he could easily manipulate Genie Number One to do whatever he wanted when he wanted, using the simplest of excuses, and Genie Number One himself would not even be aware of it.

Huh?
How did my thoughts wander off to this point again? Before thinking about the first Genie, what was I thinking about again?

For a moment, Chen Tao even forgot what he had been thinking.

Never mind, it shouldn't be anything too important.

Given Chen Tao's normal intelligence, he should have become alert when he discovered his forgetfulness about something, which might have made him realize that he had tampered with his own memories...

But all these thoughts evaporated in Chen Tao's mind like steam.

When taking action, Chen Tao would never allow himself to think about any of this. He wasn't Batman, capable of consciously lowering his IQ, so he could only resort to such external means.

Chen Tao never overestimated his willpower. When he realized that the normal path was blocked, it was perfectly normal to want to take a shortcut.

But he can't do that.

Before he reached the throne of the World Founders, he had no idea what he would face.

He couldn't expose himself so early. He had to forget those shortcuts, even if it would cause him pain.

The first Lantern Knight was testing him again, and Chen Tao was in a dilemma.

This is not the first time that the first Lantern has tested himself.

Okay, this sounds a bit strange. Let's make a long story short. Next, the first Lantern Knight will deliberately create a mistake, or something, and then unleash his emotional spectrum energy to test Chen Tao.

But no matter which option Chen Tao chooses, he will be wrong on this issue.

If you ignore these emotional spectrum energies and let them wreak havoc, you will be immediately exposed by Lantern Man #1. He will say, "You must have reincarnated more than once, you've reincarnated hundreds of times, right? You clearly saw my flaw, but you pretended not to see it!"

If you try to stop this, the Emotional Spectrum Energy Primal Lantern will say, "How many times have you reincarnated? Go to hell! How many times have you reincarnated? You've reincarnated at least hundreds of times, haven't you?"

Haha, damn it, no matter what choice he makes, the first Lantern Knight will eventually realize that this isn't the first time he's realized Chen Tao.

Having verified all of this, the first Lantern Knight would refuse to remain stagnant. Chen Tao knew what he was about to do: he would recklessly attempt to break into the Multiverse Fusion, only to have both Chen Tao and the other vanish into thin air under the iron fist of the Supreme Superman—

There are never exceptions.

But in fact, after Chen Tao had been reincarnating for so long, he had always been curious about one question: how could the damned First Lantern Knight be able to confirm that he was not the first time he restarted the timeline by answering a single question? It didn't make sense, especially since no matter what he chose, he was wrong. After choosing the wrong option, he could not persuade the other party to change his mind, and could only watch him die with him.

Are they really going to start a massacre?

He can't do that. Even if Genie I wanted to, he has to stop him. He's a superhero, and doing so would violate the most basic identity of a hero, and it would never be a good thing in the entire DC multiverse.

As Chen Tao was thinking this, the classic choice between the two first-generation Lantern Knights came up again. This time, Chen Tao pondered for a moment and did not make a move.

Because he had just made his move. Then he was grabbed by the neck by the first Genie: "You've definitely reincarnated more than once, you've reincarnated hundreds of times, right? You clearly saw my weakness, but you pretended not to see it!"

Chen Tao is really something else.

"Damn it, how did you figure that out? I really don't understand."

The first Lantern Knight paused for a moment, then became even angrier; he was practically going crazy with rage.
"How dare you waste so much time telling me you've reincarnated hundreds of times?"

"Around 600 times, but this is because..."

"600 times?! And you just tried to leisurely drink tea with me?! What's in your head, feces?!"

The first Lantern Knight shouted, cursing loudly, "No, don't even think about it! Time is of the essence, we have to hurry—"

Chen Tao could practically recite the rest of the plot: the first Lantern Knight would be forced to open the portal to the Multiverse Integration.

He has the ability to force open doors, and from the perspective of the first Lantern Knight, he has been hiding this ability from Chen Tao. However, in reality, information about this ability has been completely leaked in several cycles.

In short, Lantern Man #1 will open up an entire area and then throw Chen Tao and himself into the Multiverse Fusion. Chen Tao will then have to use various means to escape in a sorry state. But no matter what method they use, after about 20 minutes, they will eventually be caught up by Superman Supreme and die a miserable death.

Time and time again. Chen Tao has been killed more than 600 times. Of those, 300 or 200 times were when he restarted his timeline prematurely. Several times, he was so fast that he couldn't even react before being instantly killed by the Supreme Superman's fist, which could shatter even the dimensional crystal wall, and then forcibly restarted.

He had confirmed that it was futile, and that his power could not possibly be increased to a level exceeding that of Superman the Supreme in a short period of time.

"Enough! Can't you be a little normal? I'm just trying to figure something out, understand? Charging into the Multiverse like a mad dog and getting killed by Superman Supreme won't help us solve the current situation at all. I'm trying to figure something out, I'm..."

The first Lantern Knight completely ignored Chen Tao. After entering the Multiverse Integration, he floated in the air at high speed amidst the exclamations of the civilians who had been pulled into the Multiverse Integration, with Chen Tao following beside him.

"It's completely useless. Your current speed isn't even half of mine when I'm possessed by the Speed ​​Force, but even though I'm that much faster than you, it still couldn't stop us from dying. Don't you understand? My longest record is 20 minutes. At your current speed, we'll be dead in about 10 minutes."

Chen Tao shouted loudly, "Are you even listening to me?"

"I am listening."

Then he heard the voice of the first Lantern Man.

"Damn it, don't think the anti-surveillancers' timeline restart is infinite. Every second you waste is reducing your chances of winning, and my chances of winning."

"I know, but what can I do?" Chen Tao turned his head and saw a large number of heroes coming over with apologetic expressions.

"We must stop you." X2
"I'm sorry you'll have to wait here for us for a while." X2
"I'm sorry, Batman Dragon, we have to—" x2
Chen Tao recited each of their lines almost perfectly, word for word, as if he were reading them from memory. Although he hadn't deliberately memorized the dialogue, anyone who had gone through it over 600 times would have some recollection of it.

"You're courting death. What's the point of your actions?"

"He's courting death!"

Chen Tao heard the first Lantern Knight shout. He saw the other person turn around, his eyes wide with anger.

"If my death can help you move forward and increase my hope of saving everything, it's just another death in the cycle of reincarnation, which will be erased by the trans-time flow in no time. I can afford to die!"

It's new lines again. Did I repeat those lines that I've heard countless times, and that triggered the first Lantern Knight?
Chen Tao hurriedly reached out and blocked a beam of light that was about to kill a superhero in front of him.

The first Lantern Knight's body was surrounded by all sorts of colorful emotional spectrum energy spraying everywhere. He wished he could kill every stumbling block in his way and then escape, but Chen Tao knew that even if they were two or three times faster, they wouldn't be able to make it in time.

There were too many heroes, and they were too diverse. Being caught in the middle of them, it was inevitable that they would be caught up by Superman.

The only solution is to kill indiscriminately, carving a bloody path through these superheroes, which is exactly what the enemy wants to see.

"Hey, Calamity—" Chen Tao saw a ray of white light appear on the distant horizon, and his heart sank. He and the first Lantern Knight were running too slowly, and then they were entangled by the heroes, so they were caught up by the Supreme Superman even faster.

“Let me teach you again, damn it. I know I’ve taught this countless times,” said First Lantern.

Then he turned around, facing away from Chen Tao, and glared at the Supreme Little Superman who was rushing towards him.

As the Supreme Superman landed on the ground, Chen Tao knew that the other party was using X-ray vision to confirm that the two of them were real people and not an illusion created by mud faces or some other means.

Yes, that's right, it's me.

The Supreme Little Superman nodded.

“Listen up, Batman Dragon. Time travelers don’t get a chance to stop. Once a traveler stops, he’s already halfway into his coffin.”

"Charge forward, at all costs, charge forward, even if it's to kill, to break your moral boundaries, you have to charge forward—for the greater era you desire, isn't it? For my home planet, Earth 15, for peace for more people. These people you've killed are just the growing pains before peace, they'll pass if you just bear with them, do you understand? They're not really dead, just the minority yielding to the majority for greater happiness, Batman, you have to..."

The next second, the head of the first Lantern Man exploded right in front of Chen Tao.

Chen Tao's eyes met those of the Supreme Little Superman, who had a pair of red eyes.

“Damn it, Superman Supreme, I don’t understand why you insist on helping the World Builder. What has he given you? Tell me, what has he given you? He…”

puff!
History restarts once again, and Chen Tao watches as the first Lantern Knight attempts to break into the diverse and integrated world.

He had exhausted all the ideas he could think of. He advised the other person to stop and think with him about other methods instead of stubbornly persisting in their dead end.

But the first Lantern didn't listen to him.

He still couldn't understand why the first Genie could see through him. Perhaps it stemmed from his experience as a frequent time traveler, but what exactly was that experience?
Chen Tao didn't know; he felt very tired.

He didn't even bother arguing with the first Lantern Man, because in a little while the other would just open the portal again and go to his death, so what was the point of restarting all of this?
He felt his temples throbbing. He really couldn't think of any other way to break through the World Forger's obstruction. Damn it, don't push me!

呲!
He watched the portal close, without following the first Genie... to go with it.

He gave up on the other person.

Go to hell, drown your ideals!

(End of this chapter)