The Death Knell

Janet jumped up from his lap and clung to the ceiling like a spider, melting into the darkness that the fireplace could not illuminate.

Her limbs bent unnaturally, a hissing sucking sound came from her mouth, and disappeared.

Bruce stood up warily, picked up the stove hook from the fireplace as a weapon, and searched the room. He was indeed old, but he could still fight.

"Come out! Barbatos! Face me!"

The fireplace suddenly went out, and the cold voice sounded again.

"What exactly did you see after all this?"

"I didn't see anything!"

Bruce circled in circles, guarding every corner and hiding in the darkness. This was his best tactic.

"Giggle, I know what you saw. The bats and birds in the dark worked together to shape you into what you are now. You also saw you who failed in other worlds, you saw your own powerlessness, and The empty truth..."

Bruce determined the source of the sound, and he slowly approached the window of the study. There was a reflection on the window, which was himself.

It's just that now his body is old and weak, but his reflection is what it looked like in his prime. His eyes are full of evil, and black unknown energy surrounds him.

The reflection looked at him with a sinister smile: "I'm right here."

"You! Barbatos, you are trying to twist my story!"

Bruce tightened his grip on the stove hook and straightened up to face him.

"No, I shaped you. I saw you in the torrent of time." Barbatos spread his hands and tilted his head to answer him: "I have been lurking in the darkness."

Before Bruce could speak, he began to ramble on about his plan.

"I see you dressing up in my image and turning me into a symbol of hope."

"You are a perfect channel, so I shaped the bat tribe, followed by the owls, my dark bird tribe. Together they built you, your family, your history, your story, and your city."

Bruce leaned close to the window: "No! You madman!"

Barbatos smiled, and the smile contained a strange emotion. It couldn't be said whether it was contempt for Batman or the joy of succeeding in his own plan.

"No! I'm a bat!"

Barbatos' phantom instantly turned into a bat, flew at high speed, and hit the glass, leaving only a small pool of red blood.

Bruce raised his fist and hammered the glass repeatedly until his hands were bloody and bloody. The window was still strong, and Barbatos appeared outside the dark window again. He watched Bruce struggling with interest.

"You are nothing, I will escape." Bruce banged on the glass frantically.

"When you used the bat as a symbol, we were inseparable. You couldn't escape it. We've been together for decades in your nightmare, and you had no hope."

Darkness and fear are the power of bats, and he is the god of darkness and the god of bats.

Barbatos reached out and touched the glass and said to him calmly: "I just showed you a few worlds, and there are countless stories in the darkness. You in the Dark Knights are the real you. They are stronger and closer to the door."

"No..." Bruce shook his head, he was unwilling to admit this fact.

"Why not?" Barbatos opened his cloak, which projected the scene of the Nightmare Batman slaughtering their own universe. Each one has powerful power, enough to destroy the world: "Without my help, you will be penniless in the end. "

"No!"

"Look at me! Look at them!"

"No!"

"quack....."

The window was so strong that he could not escape no matter what. He found a way out, but was unable to do so.

He took a few steps back. He didn't want to watch anymore. Batman who had gained power in other worlds were all alive, while those who rejected Barbatos were dead.

He couldn't tell the difference between true and false.

Countless worlds were destroyed, and countless people died. He knew that it was himself who once had an infinite universe, and he felt that this was the truth.

Those universes were destroyed and melted.

He didn't want to see it.

However, just when Bruce was about to feel despair, the reflection in front of him shattered. A huge sword with a thin blade glowing with black light was inserted directly into the head of the reflection, and the glass in front of him disappeared.

Outside the window was wind, rain and lightning, and in the distance was endless darkness. There were no roads and no familiar Gotham. He could only see the garden in front of Wayne Manor below.

"Demacia!"

A strange war cry came from a distance. He didn't understand what the word meant, but he felt that this was an opportunity.

Yes, the window has been opened, and he still has business to do. With a start, the old figure jumped out of the window, unfolded the cloak that suddenly appeared behind him, and flew into the distance.

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"Are you sure you didn't save the wrong person?"

Diana put on a transparent oxygen mask and asked Su Ming beside her. They were all floating in the empty gap of the universe. There were also dark spiers here, higher and bigger than those in the main world. Countless people from different worlds. The heroes are tied to it.

This is the anchor point in the Dark Far Far Universe. Barbatos uses it as the anchor point with the main world of Gotham to shorten the distance between the universe.

"Yes, my sword and armor are vibrating. This is the resonance between metals. He is the Bruce of our world. Only he has excessive heavy metals in his body."

Su Ming answered Diana and told a cold joke at the same time. He continued to use the big sword to destroy other chains on the spire, completely letting Bruce go.

"But he..." Barry tilted his head and thought of a suitable word: "He looks much older."

"Yes, he has spent decades in the nightmare. Under the influence of the dark power, his body will also age simultaneously. These are all minor problems."

Barry showed an expression of disbelief. Is this going to cause him to die of old age, or is it just a minor problem?

Su Ming used his big sword to put down another person next to him. This person, who was also aging badly, was the Superman who was deceived from the main world.

It was clear that Batman had left a warning code to the Justice League, but none of the others were intelligent enough to understand the code. Barbatos took advantage of it, and Superman threw himself into a trap, and was immediately ambushed and hung on the tower.

"Okay, put them on the plane and we evacuate quickly. There are villains from countless worlds patrolling here, and they have all defected to Barbatos."

Su Ming conveniently stuffed a bat oxygen tank into Bruce's mouth, signaling Barry to hurry up.

Their operation on Black Hawk Island was not very smooth, but sometimes they can use fists when the reason does not make sense. The cooperation of Diana and Su Ming, coupled with Barry's speed force, is enough to rival half of the Justice League and the entire Black Hawk Squadron. The captive was knocked unconscious.

Su Ming found the Dome. Detective Orangutan and Raven, who had escaped from the Forgotten Tavern, were studying the spacecraft there, trying to find the truth. With their help, they used the battleship's optical brain to calculate where gravitational waves occurred in the entire dark universe. Su Ming and others obtained the anchor point coordinates of the Dark Multiverse.

Afterwards, they modified a small transport aircraft of the Black Hawk Squadron, added a cosmic treadmill to it, and asked Barry to take them here.

Now that the person has been rescued, it's time to run away. In the far depths of the universe, he has seen several light spots starting to rush towards this direction. Of course, they are not friendly forces.