What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 940 Parallax Morhal, the Green Lantern King!

"I……"

Parallax Mohal blinked, feeling himself swimming in an invisible energy, a jelly-like substance like a tide, swirling around his ears and creating eerie ripples.

He is Parallax Morhal, the one who created the Zero Hour Crisis, a moment when everything vanished before his eyes—but, my friend—

From the moment he escaped from the upstream of the timeline, he had already read all the history after the timeline, including how he failed in the Zero Hour Crisis, and then returned to Planet Or with Green Lantern Kyle Reyna, where he tried to drain Or's energy, only to be stopped by Kyle Reyna...

After experiencing everything, how did he manage to perish together with the Sun Eater, completely saving the DC multiverse and ending the Nightfall?

But actually experiencing and witnessing those historical events are two completely different things. Before experiencing those events, no one can truly empathize.

So Parallax Demon Hal resolutely chose to continue downstream in the Hypertime Stream, restarting his universe to change the fact that his home world had been destroyed. However, things soon began to change more and more unexpectedly.

First, he met his future self, Hal Jordan from the main universe, which made him realize... that it seemed no one remembered or cared about what he had done upstream in the timeline.

In the future, which is a future beyond his own timeline, the DC multiverse regenerates a coastal city, and Hal Jordan, after experiencing several multiverse reboots, also takes on a new form.

Although theoretically, Parallax Mohal and the Hal downstream of the timeline are still the same person, Parallax Mohal can no longer understand this future self, and no one cares about the destroyed Seaside City in the timeline. Anyway, Seaside City has been rebuilt after the reboot, and all the residents are alive, even though those residents are completely different from the Seaside City residents of his own era.

Too many people had their history altered during the cosmic reboot. If your grandparents never even knew you, then you wouldn't exist in this world at all, so how can that be considered murder?
Strictly speaking, murder never exists. Those people from the past are simply preserved in the upstream of the super-time flow. They live forever in the upstream history of the super-time flow. They just don't exist in the history you live in now, and they must die at a specific point in time.

You can go back to the history before they died and chat with them at any time, but you can't bring them back to life because you can't alter the history of the timeline.

No one remembers those events, those things that once seemed like the end of the world for Parallax Morhal; they have no impact on the current universe. Everyone is busy with new crises and new enemies, just as they were once busy dealing with the Antimonitor, the great demon lord who was about to devour the entire multiverse.

It seems that only Parallax Morhal in the whole world still remembers those things, remembers the blood and everything from that day, and that despair.

But such things happen again and again in the DC multiverse.

At one point, Hal clearly felt history collapsing, and the reality beyond the flow of time trembling and shattering.

Like a bolt of lightning striking his heart, Parallax Morhal's gaze transcended the limitations of a single timeline, observing the realities of different timelines with astonishment.

In some realities, he is already dead, killed by Papetua. In others, he follows the nameless old dragon, trying to change existing history... He sees his counterpart in that reality, who seems to have also sensed something, looking at himself in surprise.

In some realities, he ruled the entire DC multiverse, possessing power far greater than Perpetua's, but this power was incredibly illusory, merely a fabrication created by reality—an external timeline created by Batman Dragon. The power derived from such an unstable, created timeline would be significantly diminished in a more stable one.

Then Parallax Morhal saw it.

He saw it, behind the infinite timeline, a pair of golden eyes opening. "Papetua..."

He turned his head and saw another, even more weakened figure, rubbing its claws behind the timeline.

"It's you, Batman Dragon!"

Parallax Demon Hal stared blankly at all of this.

What he loved, what he hated, his hometown, and all the heroic life he pursued seemed like a joke in these distorted timelines.

Everything has lost its meaning; it's just the two of them fighting over their weapons.

The two fought each other across infinite timelines, while Batman Dragon was trapped in some kind of time corridor and appeared increasingly vulnerable. However, the countless beings in the infinite multiverse could only be like ants in front of these higher-dimensional beings, waiting for their fate.

Almost at the same moment that Parallax Morhal observed the existence of Chen Tao and Papetua, the two who were confronting each other on the infinite timeline also discovered Parallax Morhal at almost the same time.

The two were taken aback almost simultaneously.

Stimulated by such a chaotic hypertime flow reality, Parallax Morhal actually possessed the ability to observe other different timelines, similar to that of higher-dimensional beings. Although he had once manipulated timelines by hand during the Zero Hour Crisis, that was a different time. After the Infinite Earth Crisis, the new Earth destroyed all parallel universes, leaving only one new Earth.

But now, let alone parallel universes, even different timelines are almost in chaos. Parallax Morhal can actually see everything clearly in front of him, something even Superman the Supreme can't do.

"I told you, Batman Dragon."

Chen Tao heard Dr. Manhattan's voice whispering in his ear.

"The DC multiverse will save itself; I should not act as an outsider."

Dr. Manhattan looked at Parallax Mohal. Under his observation, the changes in Parallax Mohal were completely random, which further confirmed his research on the degree of self-repair in the multiverse.

Chen Tao took a deep breath.

Damn it, the appearance of Parallax Demon Hal has confirmed Dr. Manhattan's theory that he shouldn't be involved in change, making it even more difficult for Dr. Manhattan to persuade him. But this won't change his actions in trying to win Hal over.

"Hal!" he shouted at Parallax, "Help me!"

But Parallax Morhal did not respond. He lowered his head, and when he raised his eyes again, countless Parallax Morhals across parallel universes simultaneously shed tears.

(End of this chapter)