What bad intentions could Batman have?

Late at night.

Chen Tao appeared in the Interstellar Laboratory in Central City.

This is basically the territory of Barry Allen, the Flash, and it is also a prison for superpowered criminals with security levels no less than Arkham Asylum. In the past, the Flash would usually put all the criminals he caught in Iron Mountain Prison, but as he faced more and more superpowered criminals, Iron Mountain Prison gradually fell to the same level as Gotham's Blackgate Prison - that prison couldn't hold superpowered criminals at all, and only the Interstellar Laboratory was the place to control these guys.

In addition, there is also a very important object stored in the Interstellar Laboratory: the cosmic treadmill left by the Reverse Flash.

Chen Tao used his authority and went around and around and came directly to the door of the room where the cosmic treadmill was stored.

This room has a huge multi-layer hardened steel door with a combination lock at the door. This combination lock is mixed with some of Brainiac's scientific achievements. It not only has scientific identity verification methods such as biometric information collection systems, but also multiple identity verification methods such as magic to prevent shapeshifters like Mudface or Snakeskin.

Well. In addition to authority, entering this room also requires a password that changes every day. Chen Tao had not asked Barry what the password was today, but he had other ways to open the direct door.

He pressed the microphone button on the combination lock, then leaned in and said:

"Jingle bells, bats are stinking, Robin is busy laying eggs. Batmobile, Gollum, the laughing bat ran away."

It's hard to imagine such a nursery rhyme being sung by Batman, but the door opened immediately afterwards.

Chen Tao always leaves some backdoors in the things he handles, just to facilitate situations like today, some situations that are not suitable for his teammates to know.

As Chen Tao thought about this, he stretched out his hand to the iron door and tried to close it, but at this moment, a communication interrupted his action.

"I am Nightwing, I am Nightwing, Nightwing calls Batman."

Chen Tao answered.

"What's up?"

Chen Tao turned around expressionlessly and closed the heavy iron door.

Then he walked to the corner: "Dick, how is the situation over there?"

Dick Grayson on the other side of the screen was wearing a neat suit. Dick was a handsome guy himself, and he looked even more handsome in this suit.

Chen Tao was sure that Night Owl was raising him like a Barbie doll. He was raising him too delicately.

But at this time, the frown on Dick's face slightly destroyed the picture.

"Batman, now I find a problem. Night Owl no longer shows his true identity in front of me, and he no longer comes to see me. I still don't know his specific location and am completely isolated in this spaceship."

Dick said: "Night Owl is wary of me. He is now just raising me as a beautiful vase. All the routes I used to obtain intelligence through other channels are broken."

He said: "I have no other way to connect with you. If it weren't for the metal spirit power you left in my body, I would have completely lost contact with the outside world."

"So what should I do now?" He asked: "Should I find a way to leave here?"

"You stay here first." Chen Tao said: When you need it, I will give you the time. "By the way, do you have any information about it from the night?" "Most of the content is lacking." Ye Yi told Chen Tao: "But I think it is more important." "What is it?" "I don't know, Ye Yan didn't say more." The night wing on the screen said: "He also refused to explain to me. "Dick" he hung up the communication, and then walked to the universe treadmill. In the previous long period of time, the Flash has been trying to repeat the lightning through the cosmic treadmill -that is, the original Flashman who believes that the original Flashman, Elbert Swan, came from the 25th century to their era. That's right, Barry has been trying to practice the most standard skill of the Flash: traveling through time.

For the Flash, traveling through time should be as easy as eating and drinking. Many of their skills are created based on traveling through time:

For example, the time remnant, they can travel to two minutes ago to help their present selves in the future, until they are erased by the timeline due to the time paradox.

For Barry, this skill has gradually been learned with the departure of the Reverse Flash.

In the previous incident against the Eclipse, the Flash even used his ability to travel through time to get a bug of "Schrödinger's state being controlled by the Eclipse". As early as that period, Barry was already very familiar with the skills of traveling through time.

However, even so, Barry can only travel through time in minutes at most, and he can't even go back to an hour ago.

Barry has never been clear why this is... but Chen Tao knows.

Just like in the comic book "Flashpoint", the Flash himself explained why he couldn't change the completely wrong history back as soon as he regained his power.

His original words are as follows:

"Generally speaking, if my energy is fully charged, I can indeed travel through time."

In other words, traveling through time requires enough speed force, and Barry obviously doesn't have enough now.

This results in him being able to perform time travel skills such as time remnants, but not being able to really travel through time like the Reverse Flash.

And what is the reason for the lack of speed?

Chen Tao's body began to flash with speed force.

Too much speed force was used by Chen Tao to connect his batteries. Even if the Flash Barry Allen was like an oil well that kept producing speed force, the amount he produced could not keep up with the speed Chen Tao used.

Chen Tao was like a thief who stole speed force, constantly extracting speed from Barry, causing him to be unable to become faster.

On the other hand, when Chen Tao synchronized with the Red Death, as a speedster, he also permanently occupied a position in the speed force of this universe, which further took away the speed of the Flash.

Another person has done these things before, and that is Reverse Flash.

In the "Flashpoint" event, Flash Barry Allen went back to change time, creating a hellish Flashpoint timeline. After regaining his speed force, he found that he could not travel through time to correct it all, because Reverse Flash Swan was constantly absorbing his speed force, making Barry unable to be fast enough to reverse time.

When Reverse Flash was pierced through the heart by the old man, Thomas Wayne, Bruce Wayne's father, Barry's speed was fast enough, and the Flashpoint timeline was also repaired.

Therefore...

Chen Tao stood on the cosmic treadmill.

Metropolis, Batcave base branch cave.

Gorilla Grodd and Turtle Man lived in their own battery compartment, each with a gorilla snoring like thunder.

With the passage of time and technological breakthroughs, their current housing is also gradually upgraded. At the beginning, they were completely bound in a battery compartment the size of a coffin. When being driven, it was like two batteries stuffed in. Not only did they need to be tied up, but it was also very inconvenient to eat, drink, defecate and urinate.

But now, they live in a transparent cage, which replaces the original small battery compartment.

So now both of them can exercise a little in the cage, and it is much more convenient to go to the toilet, and even have their own desk and bed.

But now both of them are lying on the bed.

After all, it is late at night, even slaves have to sleep. What's more, they are pulled out from time to time to be tortured, and they are in a state of serious injury from time to time. Every day they are either injured, or going to be injured, or on the way to recuperation, so they need sleep even more.

"Hululu~ Hululu~"

Then the next second they were awakened by the pressure suddenly assigned to them. The golden speed force flowed out from the catheter not far away, carrying an unspeakable thousand-pound strange force, and woke up the two slaves who were still sleeping.

The originally loud snoring stopped abruptly, and the gorilla Grodd and the turtle man jumped up from the bed and immediately stood up and screamed.

"Ah ... Although he once told Barry that "it doesn't matter, he has other plans", for Chen Tao...

The feeling of being stuck in his throat never goes away.

If there is enough time...whether it is Parallax and Ion Shark, or Superboy-Prime, he has the ability to do better.

But it is too late now, the Anti-Monitor is right in front of him. Chen Tao has made enough preparations in a limited time, but none of these can bring him a sense of security.

He claimed to everyone that facing the Anti-Monitor this time is no different from facing Brainiac or Darkseid, but he knows deep in his heart...

Chen Tao shook his head.

Not necessarily. Both Superboy-Prime and Darkseid should be enough to fight the Anti-Monitor, and the preparations he made for time travel through the Speed ​​Force are likely to be useless.

High probability.

And now time travel is an unattainable fallacy for him, isn't it?

This is just a worst-case scenario, and the worst-case scenario doesn't always become a reality, right?