What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 860 Anti-Monitor: I'm begging you, please stop giving up.

The world's forgers smiled slightly; look, he succeeded.

When the Anti-Monitors tried to pull Batman's Dragon into the game, and the little monster readily agreed, the World Maker knew something was wrong.

This little monster...

Some people must be wondering where the World Maker got the name of this little monster.

Okay, that's what the anti-surveillance advocates said.

This is the World Maker's Infant Multiverse, and on the central throne of this universe, the World Maker is busy monitoring the constantly restarting hypertimeline, searching for the exact location of Batman Dragon.

—Then he guided Superman Supreme, leading him to kill Batman Dragon time and time again.

And what the Anti-Monitor created—a powerless projection—incessantly chattered in the ears of the World Forger:

"Useless Alphaus, Batman Dragon will teach you what invincibility is. That guy loves to spout this kind of nonsense."

He said, "Superman Supreme is just a giant baby who misses his mother, but Batman Dragon will help me..."

“If you keep spouting this nonsense next to me, I’ll cut off the communication, Möbius,” the World Founder warned him. “This isn’t an ordinary dispute; our game is a matter of life and death. Don’t mistake me for Mar (the Watcher).

The anti-surveillance agent fell silent, while the world-maker continued to repeat his work.

Soon, the downstream timeline of the hyper-time stream restarted, and the entire hyper-time stream trembled.

The cement, which had just been poured but had not yet hardened, was lifted again by the power of a sixth-dimensional deity. The crane, named DC Multiverse, was forced to continue covering the current reality with cement, intending to create a road after it hardened.

“The way we’re doing this will only weaken the Hypertime Stream,” the Anti-Monitor said beside him. “And even if we keep stirring it up, we can’t stop the Hypertime Stream from solidifying in the future.”

“Then just stop stirring things up.” The World Forger glanced at him. “Stop your actions and accept my proposal to create a new, perfect world instead of thinking about devouring your brother’s power. In particular, you should understand the fact that unless you devour the power of all of us, it will still be difficult to contend with her.”

The Anti-Monitors knew the World Forgers were right: to fight against their mother, the Multiverse Mother Papetua, they needed to gather the power of the three brothers; otherwise, if they were controlled by their mother, everything the Anti-Monitors had done would be meaningless.

Especially... especially since the World Forgers have poured a great deal of their power into the Infant Multiverse, which is equivalent to breaking free from the self-circulation within the DC Multiverse.

Simply disrupting the multiverse's integration among the world's creators is not enough; at best, it prevents the creators from using the flesh and blood of the DC multiverse to make a baby bottle for the infant multiverse.

If the Antimonitor wants to gather the power of all three brothers, it must destroy the Infant Multiverse as well, so that the energy that was taken out of the DC Multiverse by the World Forger can return to the DC.

The World Maker once again reminded the Anti-Monitor that this was all a zero-sum game, and neither he nor the Anti-Monitor could back down.

But the same thing.

Neither he nor the counter-surveillancer had the power to overturn the chessboard; they were both forced to abide by the final outcome of the game.

The World Maker manipulates the Superman Supreme as a pawn, and with Superman Supreme's help, he can inflict devastating damage on Batman Dragon and all the power in the hands of the Anti-Monitor.

With the sixth-dimensional deities absent, Superman Supreme is practically the number one being in the current DC multiverse, although there are indeed characters like Ion Man and Sodam existing beyond the timeline...

However, most of Superman's defeats were due to being surrounded and attacked.

If we had to name one, the only character currently capable of challenging Superman Supreme is Parallax Morhal, but he is now completely controlled by the Worldmaker. The Worldmaker stole this piece from the chessboard, causing the Anti-Monitor immense trouble at this crucial moment.

But the Anti-Monitor said: "It's no use, my old friend, it's no use. Batman Dragon will punish all those who underestimate him, even Superman Supreme. If you think you can subdue Batman Dragon with repeated massacres, then you are very wrong."

He had just said those words when he heard a soft snort from the World Forger.

So the talkative but terrible chess player lowered his head, looked at the chessboard, and then stared blankly as he realized...

Oh no, my own pieces have been wasted!
This is the first time in hundreds of cycles that Batman Dragon has not accompanied Genie I. He has abandoned him, allowing Genie I to recklessly enter the Multiverse and be killed like a chicken by Superman Supreme.

He just watched indifferently.

"Batman Dragon will definitely find a way, he can..."

"Oh, Batman: Dragon has started traversing through time."

The anti-surveillance agent became excited again, telling the World Founder, "See, I told you he would..."

Then he fell silent.

He saw Batman Dragon return to the upper reaches of the Hypertime Stream, to his Dark Multiverse.

No, the counter-surveillance advocates don't understand, what use would it be for the other side to go back to that time?

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"You see, I've always been curious. I'm so busy, but you never see me, and it's like you're afraid of bothering me, so you don't come to see me."

Chen Tao said.

At that time, he was in Fiji, of course, Fiji before the explosion.

He is still downstream in the hyper-time stream, but has returned to the past of his timeline.

This may sound a bit convoluted, but the super-time flow is about "when we repair the road," while the past of the timeline is the other end where the road has been repaired.

Chen Tao couldn't stop the main universe's timeline from extending into a hyper-time-flowing future that would be more advantageous to the world's creators, so he simply went ahead and made his move.

You can just dump cement under the road with your crane and then mold it into a road that any founder in the world wants. Can't I just leave it alone?
I just want to rest for a while on the other side of the timeline.

Immediately afterward, Chen Tao suddenly realized something: his old butler, Alfred, hadn't seen him for a long time, and Chen Tao seemed to have forgotten about the old butler. He had wondered why the other party seemed so indifferent to him, but all of this was put aside in the busy battle.

But now he suddenly realized...

This is a historical cycle.

"So, Alfred, you can't see me any longer, understand?"

Chen Tao said, "In order to prevent any impact on history, and in return, whatever we do will not affect history, Wuhu! Of course, I can't tell you anything either."

He said.

“Okay, but I’m still worried,” Alfred said. “Are you sure you’ll be alright going to deal with Darkseid this time?”

"Don't worry, look, I'm here perfectly fine." Chen Tao had just finished saying this when he realized that his old butler, Alfred, suspected that he was Batman from a parallel universe timeline, rather than his own Bruce Wayne.

So Chen Tao said:

"The golden cup may be emptied, but old dreams are hard to hold onto... right?"

He said this to Alfred and Robin shortly after he arrived in this world, when he told them he was going to retire, but to this day he has not been able to retire.

"What are you..."

"Rest, Alfred, you understand, a rest before solving the problem."

Chen Tao said, “I’ve been so busy that I’ve missed out on so much. The Joker once said that he was like a dog chasing a truck, but he didn’t know what he was supposed to do after he caught up. He was just doing things for the sake of doing things. Sometimes, I think I’m like that too.”

“You…” “I’m fine, I’m great, I’ve never felt this good.”

Chen Tao stood by the window, gazing at the birds flying in the distance. The sea was vast and the landscape was picturesque.

He opened his arms and took a deep breath of the humid air carrying the sea breeze. If Chen Tao could, he could even rub his hands together to create an ocean, but strangely enough, even if he did, none of that would impress him as much as it did now.

Chen Tao turned to look at Alfred.

"Alfred, I'm hungry. When shall we eat?"

The old housekeeper happily went to cook, and Chen Tao watched his retreating figure.

If Chen Tao didn't want Alfred to know something, then the old butler wouldn't know.

Chen Tao comforted Alfred for a while; he had spent many years with Alfred.

Then he traveled back to an even earlier period.

Beginning with the era of Brainiac's first invasion.

Chen Tao ignored the first Lantern Man. He had already learned from the Anti-Monitor how to escape from the time flow at will, but he didn't need that to see Alfred.

I can even go back to the day the road wasn't repaired (super time travel), so what difficulty is there for me to simply walk from one end of the road to the other (timeline travel)?

From the time of Brainiac, all the way to the time of Daxed, and then to the first encounter with the Anti-Watcher.

Chen Tao seemed to realize something, yet also seemed to realize nothing at all.

He had cut off a piece of his consciousness, which didn't leave him in a daze, but...

He still managed to achieve the same effect as Batman in the main universe.

But in any case, he was simply indulging in these things, wanting to drown in his dream with the first Genie.

Unfortunately, Chen Tao knows a dream god named Sleep Demon. If he were to ask the god for permission to suffocate in a dream, he would surely be refused. This is perhaps the source of his tragedy.

He also did many other things, such as picking Damian up from school and listening to him talk about the Teen Titans...

He just did that.

He wanted to do that.

Do things he's never done before.

And after this long period of time...

"See you tomorrow," Chen Tao said.

One afternoon, he stretched and went out onto the balcony, where the surveillance cameras and other means he used to protect Alfred were functioning as usual.

Only Chen Tao truly understood himself and knew how to deceive himself while simultaneously living a normal life with Alfred.

He didn't need to sleep, nor could he sleep. The quiet of the night made him too anxious. Therefore, normally he would skip bedtime and see Alfred the next morning.

But today, he didn't manage to leave as successfully as before. He heard Alfred's voice in his ear.

"Bruce."

"what happened?"

Chen Tao turned his head, a smile on his face.

Chen Tao hadn't laughed in a long time, not the kind of laugh that imitates maniacal laughter.

"There won't be a tomorrow, will there?"

Then he heard Alfred's voice.

The smile on Chen Tao's face disappeared.

"What do you mean?"

"This has happened many times today."

Chen Tao heard the old butler say.

“I know you have become a time traveler. For a long time, you have wanted to make amends to me, so you keep coming from the future to the present to meet me.”

“But you won’t spend the same day with me repeatedly,” Alfred said. “You don’t do that.”

“You’re just coming to me while the current you in the timeline isn’t here, but you don’t really know what happened to me on this day.”

"But today, when I was making coffee in the kitchen, I saw your eyes."

"You knew all along that I would use saccharin instead of white sugar, and you also knew all along that I would add too much saccharin, which would make the taste slightly bitter."

"But you still drank it, and then said things like, 'It's really bitter.'"

“But you know all of this. You’re just going through the motions, pretending you don’t know. You can’t fool me, little Bruce. Tell me, what’s going to happen tomorrow?”

Chen Tao heard the old butler's voice tremble slightly.

"Tomorrow is my death day, isn't it?"

"My life will end tomorrow, won't it?"

No, this is not your death day, but mine.

Chen Tao remained silent. The old steward had misunderstood; Chen Tao had revealed too little information to him, and he had kept his mouth shut for a long time, which had given the old steward a false impression.

He was an old man in his twilight years, with his days dwindling.

What made his little Bruce abandon his busy work and choose to make up for the time he hadn't spent with him?

The old butler from Brainiac's time only speculated about this, but as time went on, and he heard more and more from others about the enemies his little Bruce would face, he gradually became certain of his guess.

Of course, it's my own death.

He must have died someday, and his grieving little Bruce plans to come back to see him again and make amends.

But Chen Tao knew that this was not the case.

Tomorrow is the day Chen Tao will meet the first Lantern Knight.

The following timeline is a future before the hyper-time flow has taken shape, which he can no longer control.

He wasn't some hero who longed for the past; he was just a knight who ran away.

As he thought this, at the same time, he heard the voice of the anti-surveillance agent in his ear:

"Damn it, I'm begging you, please stop giving up, okay?"

(End of this chapter)