What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 950 A false identity brings a tidal wave of love; this is proof of my existence.

Everything happened so abruptly.

The first Lantern Man didn't even have time to linger on his mother's, or rather, his clone's, face for long. He only felt a stinging pain, as if a sharp blade was scraping his face, making a teeth-grinding sound.

Then he felt that sense of being controlled, the icy seawater surging up from the ground, soaking over his ankles, and Huo Rong felt a bone-chilling cold, as well as a buzzing in his ears.

Then the sea continued to surge upwards, spreading over his calves, lower abdomen, and finally reaching his chest, giving the first Lantern a feeling of suffocation.

At first, he didn't even realize who was attacking him, then a winding, resonant feeling came over him, and he realized who was trying to control him.

Foolish, utterly foolish. Even if you hadn't done that, I never intended to betray you, nor did I ever think of rebelling against you for the sake of my cloned mother… For the sake of my cloned mother, she was just a copy, understand? I saved her before only out of a sense of compensation after realizing I could no longer save my true homeland. Do you know, if I could truly save my true homeland, if you could truly change everything as you promised, creating an indestructible home from the upstream of the trans-timeline…

I can back down! I've already done it before! Why don't you believe me? Oh well... it doesn't really matter to me anyway.

Wait, wait. If I surrender now and let you completely distort and possess my will, will you restore my Earth 15?
You won't go back on your word, right?

He knew he had to resist.

But it seems like it doesn't matter anymore.

Life is meaningless, everything he pursues is meaningless. Even a dog chasing after a piece of meat should be exhausted by now.

The first Lantern felt too tired. Sometimes, he almost wanted to let himself fall and let the will of Perpetua devour him. After all, the entire DC multiverse originated from Perpetua. Now it was just a matter of returning everything that God had given him to God, wasn't it?

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Superman felt he was already too tired.

The area where the first Lantern Man was attacked is already starting to ache slightly.

Even a superhuman as powerful as Superman Supreme is not inexhaustible in terms of power.

In the DC multiverse, there is only one Superman who can acquire power out of thin air without paying a price, and that is the Superman of the main universe, because without him there would be no multiverse.

The others are no match. Even though they share the same name as Clark Kent and the same title as Superman, after experiencing so much, Superman the Younger is much weaker than many people think.

After taking the attack from Genie No. 1 without moving, Superman felt he should catch his breath, and then he sensed the invasion of Perpetua.

Compared to Genie 1, who is weaker than Genie, Genie is able to sense Perpetua's intentions more clearly.

She wanted to first control the willpower of Genie A.R. and Superman Superman, preventing their resistance, and then rewrite reality from the upstream of the timeline, turning them into soldiers 100% loyal to her, Papetua.

This was exactly the expected action; the so-called Mother of All Things who created the DC multiverse is nothing but a coward.

Superman laughed wildly, but despite this, he knew very well that he had no room for resistance.

Almost at the same moment that Papetua attacked him, a tremendous sense of weakness washed over Superman's body, shattering his golden form, and in an instant, all was silent.

This was not Papetua's action, but rather common sense.

His strength is about to run out.

All of this is because a long time ago, or rather, not long ago—given the current chaotic state of the timeline in the hyper-time flow, does the past and present really have any meaning?
In short, he had just killed the World Forger, and there was a price to pay for completely eliminating him. The chaos and turbulence of the time flow gave this little superman a chance to breathe, allowing him to barely retain his invincible status for a while longer, but this would not be permanent.

What a coincidence, it just so happened at this very moment.

The end of the world for Superman arrived at this moment, overwriting the time he had luckily borrowed.

When the time-traveled history finally slows down, the Supreme Superman will face the backlash of being synchronized with the time-traveled history. He will be forced to reveal his true form and will no longer be able to stand invincible in the heavens.

Papetua noticed this immediately, and so when he invaded the mind of Genie 01, he also cast the same misfortune upon Superman Supreme.

A massive surge of energy erupted, draining the energy from the last cell in his body, causing the golden energy within each of his cells to wither and disintegrate rapidly.

Power does not arise from nothing. Even if one temporarily escapes the inevitable price by exploiting the chaos of space and time, the final outcome will still be the cold, inevitable result.

Superman began to feel disoriented. How strange, who would he see in this final moment?

Is it the old Superman from Earth-2? Or his lover Laurie? Or the disappointed look in his parents' eyes? Or the whole family from the Golden Age? Or perhaps...?

The last hero of the Golden Age that he saw?

Wait a minute, wait a minute, doesn't Batman: Dragon have any contingency plans for this situation? He's always like that.

Supreme Superman had a little expectation, but in the end, he still didn't get any results.

That's true. Batman Dragon couldn't have predicted his current power collapse; after all, even he didn't know when the limitations of the Hypertime Flow would hit him. Strictly speaking, almost no one in the entire DC multiverse is a match for Perpetua; everything they're doing now is merely postponing their predetermined fate.

Superman closed his eyes.

So, will all of this really make sense? Will they really win? And what will happen if they do win?

In this imperfect world, could a victory be the beginning of a new tragedy?
"It will win."

The Supreme Little Superman opened his eyes in surprise.

On his retina, illuminated by the dissolution of cells, he saw a luminous figure speaking to him.

In the shadows, he could see the bone spurs growing from the other person's body and the sharp horns on their head.

The Supreme Little Superman's eyes widened.

Then he saw the familiar horned monster behind the gray-haired Superman.

I'm so sorry... to you all...

In the end, I neither became a hero of the golden age nor created a perfect era.

For countless years since the crisis on infinite earths, everything I have done has been nothing but a delusion.

Hey! You guys!
Are you really here? Or is this just a figment of my imagination before I die? ...

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The first Lantern felt a warmth, but it vanished in the bone-chilling cold.

This made the Lantern Spirit begin to doubt whether everything that had just happened was merely his imagination.

No, it shouldn't be.

The first Lantern Knight told himself this, but where did this warmth come from?
But it seems irrelevant now. Perhaps it's just a temporary burst of energy from my body's instincts, which can neither help me fight against Papetua nor change the final outcome.

But this warmth is burning again, like a match burning itself in the chest, bringing a touch of warmth to the heart in the cold winter.

When Genie Ace opened his eyes, he saw that the body of Superman Ultraman in the distance seemed to have been hollowed out in an instant. His once magnificent body was almost turning into a skeleton made of skin and bones.

He sensed the power of Perpetua in the other man. Was Perpetua attacking Superman Supreme in sync? The enemy he couldn't budge even with all his might couldn't last two rounds against Perpetua.

Then he looked down and met a pair of bright eyes.

The first Lantern Knight finally realized where the warmth in his chest came from.

"you……"

The mother of the original Lantern was speechless. She just stared for a long time, and the warmth in her chest suddenly intensified at that moment, dispelling all the darkness!
The childhood dream envelops you once more at this moment, with deep dark clouds drifting across the sky; the outside world is pitch black, with only the crackling of the campfire echoing before the eyes of the first Lantern Knight.

The flickering firelight illuminated the aged face of the first Lantern Man, the warm wind turning his white hair black and smoothing the scars on his aged face. The first Lantern Man looked around and saw countless tears surrounding him. In the leaping and surging firelight, he didn't know if he was seeing his past self or the most beautiful and happiest days of his life.

That was the most important thing he had before embarking on this path, and it was also everything that was destroyed.

A person needs some reason to live, no matter what it is.

The first Lantern Man no longer had that reason. The moment he realized he could never return to his hometown, he lost his reason. All that remained was an empty shell, futilely creating false reasons.

A mere decade or so, and billions of years of unspeakable time—the first Genie wasn't lost in memories; he simply came back to life at this moment.

In the end, all of this amounted to nothing more than two lines of tears.

Even more intense flames erupted from the body of Genie No. 1, scorching the darkness into a raging inferno; and burning alongside this raging inferno was the roar of Superman the Younger!

A dazzling flame, like light, condensed in his palm, forming a wine cup resembling a golden glass. As he raised the contents of the cup, a seven-colored, crystalline tide, like a celestial river flowing backward, poured down from the high sky.

No one knows where the energy comes from, which violates the law that energy can never be created out of thin air. But at least at this moment, all we can see is the wind fanning the flames, the fire raging like oil being poured on a raging river, the surging tide burning with flames, scorching everything black and screaming in pain!
"Aaaaaaah!!! How dare you..."

Papetua finally realized that she had made a wrong choice. It was the rule she herself had written that there would always be hope after a crisis. Millions of years later, this boomerang from back then hit her right between the eyebrows.

After she saw the emaciated body of Superman, she saw two golden phantoms standing there. One had horns on its head and was ferocious and burly, while the other had graying temples and a deep red cape. Following closely behind them was Lantern Rider I, riding on a dazzling seven-colored light. The phantom of his mother behind him was even more illusory, but she held him tightly in her arms.

“You are merely creatures I created… I can create something exactly like you at any time, with all your memories.”

The Mother of the Multiverse declared to the rebels: "Your resistance will not bring about any change. At the end of everything, I will simply need to create a new multiverse—ah!"

The Mother of the Multiverse felt the backlash from Batman Dragon. Her face darkened. Did this weakling really think he could stand up to her head? If it weren't for the threat from Doctor Manhattan, even without the combined power, she could have easily suppressed Batman Dragon with a single move.

Directly controlling Genie 01 and Superman Ultraman is no longer possible; all that's left is to take matters into your own hands.

The moment Papetua's eyes flashed with a fierce light, the darkness pressed down as if the sky were collapsing.

The first Lantern knew this was the final blow, but he was no longer afraid of anything. He had chased for too long, and it was time for him to go home.

Death... is a cool summer night.

Darkness merged with the high sky, and the candlelight flickered and swayed.

However, at this final moment, the first Genie did not feel the fatal blow.

He opened his eyes and saw Superman standing in front of him, facing the first giant wave.

Although this will not change the final outcome, the heroes of the golden age will not see others perish before them.

Then, Genie Ace saw Superman Supreme's body crack like shattered glass under the attack of Mother of the Multiverse, with cracks appearing on Superman Supreme's face, swirling and radiating a dazzling white light.

In that final moment, Superman turned his head and raised the cup-like container in his palm high.

"Raise a glass," he said.

Then he looked at the first Lantern Man.

“Let’s have a drink together again if we have the chance,” he said. “But not this time, because heroes should be the first to charge forward; that’s what makes a hero of the golden age.”

He seemed to want to say something more, but soon a look of realization appeared on his face.

Immediately afterwards, Genie 1 saw Superman's body crumble into dust and dissipate into the air.

Great, he's next.

The first Lantern Knight is already impatient.

Let me go.

But he heard Papetua's cold pronouncement.

"No, you won't die now."

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I only found out today that Jiyu, a popular author on Qidian.com, suddenly passed away in his rented apartment. I felt so sad and scared that I quickly wrote a little something at work and rushed home to finish it QwQ
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