What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 935 Earth 15, Where Disaster and Dreams Begin
The nameless old dragon stared blankly at Chen Tao, and Chen Tao stared back at him.

“Oh, no,” said the nameless old dragon.

"Nothing to say? Before I lock you up completely?"

Chen Tao's feelings were somewhat complicated.

He had completely confirmed that the nameless old dragon in front of him was a version of himself from the future; this was the first time he had ever seen a version of himself from the future.

Chen Tao meant that since crossing over into the DC multiverse, he seemed to have always been a special character, like Superman, Batman, the entire Justice League, and even anyone else in the DC multiverse. They all actually had their counterparts in other universes, except for Chen Tao. The Batmen in other parallel universes were all Bruce Wayne; none of them claimed to be Chen Tao.

In the vast sea of ​​people, he saw another version of himself for the first time.

"You're also Chen Tao, right?" he asked. "You're from the future..."

“I am…” Chen Tao saw the nameless old dragon open his mouth as if to answer him, but suddenly became speechless for a moment.

An invisible breeze gently caressed the nameless old dragon's mind, causing him to forget his own name for a moment.

"I do not know."

Chen Tao didn't quite understand.

"I do not know what that means?"

"What I mean is, I don't know what my name is. That concept has been completely erased from my mind. My past self, listen to me, something's not right. You think you've defeated me? No, actually, in my history, I've also defeated a future version of myself. We form a kind of cycle."

The nameless old dragon suddenly clutched his head: "No, why don't I remember this part at all? Someone altered my memory, making me completely forget that I once saw a future version of myself... My history of seeing my future self has even been erased!"

In a split second, the nameless old dragon seemed to realize something. He said quickly and urgently, "Listen to me, now I suddenly remember everything. I once defeated a nameless old dragon that belonged to me, just like you did. My future version of myself did not follow the exact same plan as me."

"My plan is to combine the power of the three brothers to confront the 'pa pic a' head-on, while the future version of myself that I am facing has a plan to change the Earth 15."

"Listen to me, Chen Tao, listen to me. The future version of myself that I saw tried to reboot Earth-15, then hide my own universe from the beginning, and then create a fake one for the mortal Möbius to destroy."

He prepared this plan, but it led to even worse consequences, so he fell into villainy and tried to change everything once again. Then I stopped his plan to change Earth-15, and revived the plan to unite the three brothers' forces to fight against it, but that failed again. Until today, when I tried to restart this plan, and you stopped me again. Don't you understand? Damn it, you are the [future version of me] I once saw!

Chen Tao's head suddenly exploded with a bang. If the nameless old dragon was right, he seemed to have indeed fallen into a time loop, because the nameless old dragon accurately stated the plan he wanted. He did intend to restore the DC multiverse by erasing the Earth 15 event!

He and the nameless old dragon were opposites. According to the nameless old dragon's speculation:
Chen Tao has now defeated the Nameless Old Dragon → begun to execute his plan to change Earth 15 → failed, and Chen Tao aged → then encountered the younger version of the Nameless Old Dragon who had traveled through time → the younger version of the Nameless Old Dragon defeated the older Chen Tao and began to execute the plan for the three brothers to merge → failed, and the Nameless Old Dragon aged → then was stopped again by the traveler Chen Tao…

This was a trap, a trap specifically designed to trap and kill Chen Tao... and those who realized all this...

Then, in an instant, Chen Tao and the nameless old dragon almost simultaneously paused in their minds. The content they had just realized seemed to evaporate directly from their brains like erased pencil marks.

But Chen Tao is already an anti-monitor. Although this power will eventually be returned to the anti-monitor, Möbius, who could so easily alter the perception of a sixth-dimensional god?

Only... ourselves.

"No, wait, we still remember a little bit..." The nameless old dragon and Chen Tao almost simultaneously thought of a way to escape this time loop. "Earth 15 and the power of the three brothers must be used simultaneously, right in this loop!"

In an instant, Chen Tao eradicated the thought from his mind and buried it deep within his consciousness.

You shouldn't ask anyone for help until things are truly successful, not even yourself.

The next moment, he calmly stored the nameless old dragon into the metal-like spiritual space within his body. Their conversation was completely erased from their minds and would no longer appear in the trans-time flow.

As for those standing next to them...

"Ha—whoosh!!!"

Like a drowning person suddenly gasping for air, he coughed as if on the verge of death. The first Lantern opened his eyes and saw a younger version of Batman Dragon appear before him.

"What happened to that nameless old dragon from before?"

"He has his things to do, my friend, and now, we must embark on our own journey."

Chen Tao turned his head and saw the Laughing Bat smiling broadly, waving its cute little hand at him: "Today might be the most well-behaved I've ever been. My friends, I've killed you all a thousand times over in my mind—"

Chen Tao hesitated, wondering if he could try to kill the Laughing Bat directly here using the power of the Anti-Monitor.

But the malice that had been rising in his eyes soon subsided.

The Bat Who Laughs is no easy opponent, and Chen Tao doesn't believe he wouldn't have thought of this. If the Bat Who Laughs had anticipated this, then if the fight between them turned into a tug-of-war, he would lose everything. It would be a case of picking up a sesame seed and losing a watermelon, so it's best not to create unnecessary trouble.

“Oh, my dear, it seems you’ve made your decision,” said the Bat of Laughter.

“It’s time to get out of here, Laughing. You’ve done your job.” Laughing was then met with a cold rejection from Batman Dragon: “The road ahead is only for me and my friends. You, on the other hand, are to find the Watcher’s energy for us.”

“Oh, I thought we were friends, but I was too persistent, wasn’t I?” The Bat Who Laughs shook his head, obediently opened a portal, and stood in the doorway: “See you soon, old friend.”

He simply disappeared without a trace.

As for Chen Tao, he also opened a portal.

"where are we going?"

"The first Lantern Knight asked, but Chen Tao remained silent, simply storing it in his own space and granting it the permission to observe the outside world."

Then he took a step forward, history reversed, and he finally returned to that crucial point in time:

Earth 15, the place where disaster and dreams begin.

(End of this chapter)