What bad intentions could Batman have?

Fiji.

The violent volcanic eruption has completely destroyed this place's function as a tourist city. With the destruction of the livelihood industries, the population here has plummeted in just a few days.

At this time, among the ruins, a blue passage opened again, and the voices of Time Master Richard Rip Hunter and Golden Pioneer Michael Jon Carter also came from behind the portal at this time. Sent out.

"I'm really convinced, we are still in Fiji. Why are your operations...wait, this doesn't seem to be an operational problem."

Time Master was halfway through speaking when he suddenly realized something. He seemed to have been hit hard by something: "We can't change it. This can only mean one thing. As time goes by, Batman's timeline has almost solidified." ——”

"What's the meaning?"

It was obviously the voice of the Golden Pioneer, and he asked: "Explain."

"We missed an opportunity. Batman's timeline is like a bucket of cement paving the way. He's been at it for a long time, and when we want to shovel it down from where it's drying out, the best way to do that is Do it now."

Time Master explained:

"But now the cement road has begun to solidify. Do you understand, even if you shovel it down hard, a thin layer of solidified cement will be left on the ground due to the loss of moisture. His timeline is close to solidifying, The cost of shoveling it down is higher than we thought!”

"So there's nothing we can do?"

"No, of course there is a way, but that requires a time traveler who is far stronger than us. We need, for example, Barry Allen or Wally West (Note: Note, this refers to Wally White, the third generation The Flash, not the black Wally after the New 52, ​​the white Wally at this time was trapped in the Speed ​​Force because Doctor Manhattan stole DC's ten years and did not exist in the main universe, so the main universe automatically generated a The black version of Wally. So the Time Master refers to him as if a dead man can help us lift this stone.) Our machine is disturbed and difficult to jump to the right place."

"Then what's the use of this? We still have nothing to do now."

The two of them were silent for a while, staring at the time when they couldn't interfere with Batman's current situation.

"So the future cannot be changed?" Golden Pioneer asked.

"The future is not unchangeable. Even the past can be changed. Why can't the future be changed?" Time Master replied in an almost groaning voice:

"But Batman single-handedly reshaped his future, and we can't change that future, at least not by us."

"Then don't change."

"What's the meaning?"

"Don't you think it's cruel? The Batman of this parallel universe has spent so much time and energy trying to change everything that their universe may experience in the future, but we have to sacrifice this just for the balance and security of the multiverse. The lives of everyone in the universe?”

"Damn it, Golden Pioneer, you better not give up—"

"I'm quitting, Richard. It's not a heroic thing to do."

"Damn, I'm going crazy. Listen to me, Golden Vanguard, they are dead people who should have died in history. We are not sacrificing them, we are maintaining the normal operation of the timeline and hypertime flow. ”

The Time Master took a breath, then his tone became slightly calmer, and said: "I know what you think, I understand you, Michael, I once made the same mistake as you, I once tried to save Pompeii."

(Note: Pompeii was an ancient Greek city that was submerged by volcanic ash) I once tried to save the thousands of innocent people in Pompeii who were destined to be buried in volcanic ash. "

"But my actions led to terrible consequences. Because the people in Pompeii did not die, countless heroes who should have appeared in the downstream timeline were submerged in the long river of history. The battle that should have been victorious failed, and the timeline fell into a great collapse. Instead, More people died. I had to go back and stop my former self, and then watched Pompeii destroyed by volcanic ash."

"I have returned to Pompeii countless times, before it was about to be swallowed up by volcanic ash." The Time Master said sincerely: "I walked on the main road with the vendors hawking on the street, and breathed the fresh morning air with the residents."

"But I damn well know that I can never tell them when they're going to die, which is the most basic professional quality of a time traveler."

"My job is to maintain the operation of the original timeline on the infinite timeline, and prevent countless changes that may cause history to deviate in different directions and affect the downstream changes of the timeline, from the groom driving a nail for Charlemagne to nailing an extra nail to Hitler. Was his personal doctor bribed by the British to prescribe poison to end his life prematurely?”

"Batman interfered with the development of the timeline of the main universe. The changes he made to the timeline seriously jeopardized the development of the downstream of the hypertime flow. From a macro perspective..."

"That's not macroscopic." Golden Pioneer said.

His tone was more serious than ever before: "Batman is saving the world, do you want us to stop him? This is the natural development of the timeline, and we cannot maintain the stability of the hyper-temporal flow by extinguishing the development of the timeline. "

"But in this case..." Master Time couldn't help but choked up, and then he heard the voice of the Golden Pioneer.

"You remember that quote from Superman, right?"

"There is always a way, there is always a choice."

The Time Master was silent for a while.

"But we are not the only ones trying to interfere with Batman's timeline. The Anti-Monitor in this universe is also trying to reshape his own timeline of victory."

"It's still unclear whether the timeline Batman is trying to shape can truly be solidified... What qualifications do you have to say that this is a timeline choice?"

"Perhaps soon we will find out that the unsettled timeline that Batman reluctantly created was quickly erased by the Anti-Monitor, redirecting the future back to his victorious ending. I told you not to deify the timeline. Or personification, the self-regulation ability of timelines and hyper-temporal flows has limits, and he is not a god with a specific personality. "

"So since we can't interfere with Batman now, we should focus on solving the problem at hand, rather than solving the person who caused the problem..."

A new round of argument broke out between the two of them, and the argument gradually began to develop into a quarrel. Soon, the blue portal disappeared.

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Hypertime flow.

Chen Tao thought silently.

In fact, DC's timeline is very strange. Anyone who has never read DC comics may feel confused by DC's messy timeline and have no idea what is going on.

But in fact, if you want to understand the DC timeline, you should follow not the time points in the DC universe, but the nodes where major events occur.

When Papetua, the creator god of the DC universe, created the DC multiverse, he set up DC into a cosmic structure that can repeatedly create crisis forces by constantly restarting its own timeline.

Since the first crisis, the Crisis on Infinite Earths, major DC events that have led to the restart of the DC timeline have happened many times.

Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, Zero Hour…

Every time these big events that change the timeline happen, many things that happened on the original timeline will be erased.

For example, during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the major event of Batman's "Knightfall" where Batman had his spine broken by Bane happened in the main universe.

But with the restart of the "New 52" universe, the new timeline replaced the old timeline and became the current reality. The major event of "Knightfall" was directly erased from the timeline, and DC's history opened a new chapter. chapter, but has the event of "Knightfall" disappeared in the DC universe?

not at all!

In the "past" of the DC hypertime flow, this event still remains during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, before the New 52 events caused the timeline to be reshaped.

The current timeline is the current timeline. What does it have to do with the timeline that once existed?

This is also the reason why at the end of the major event of "Multiple Fusion", Hal, the Parallax Demon, was able to run to the main world and fight with the current Hal.

Parallax Demon Hal is the Hal Jordan who fell into evil after the "Emerald Twilight" incident, which led to the death of all 7 million people in Beach City. However, with the multiple restarts of the universe, Hal has also been cleared and became a villain again. The real Green Lantern.

In order to hold a tournament in the multiverse, Brainiac in a certain timeline directly pulled Parallax Hal from his timeline after the Zero Hour Crisis, and then threw it away at the end of the event. Entering the main universe caused him to go directly from the timeline that existed in the past to the current timeline through the super-time flow.

Each timeline is like a river that keeps flowing, and DC's major events are equivalent to re-digging the heart of the river.

Otherwise, if the timeline has been restarted, how did Parallax Hal come to the current timeline?

So this is why Chen Tao made this plan now.

He needs help from the super-time stream. He has to create a final insurance for his plan.

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Hall of Justice.

When the ventriloquist entered the room wearing a maid uniform, he saw that Batman had a majestic head and body and had transformed into a monster that looked close to a dragon.

This is the deformation caused by the purple lantern beast Predator that has completely filled his body, a state of possession by the lantern beast, but Batman's mind does not seem to be controlled by the Predator.

The ventriloquist carefully walked to Batman's feet and crawled to the ground.

Batman's mental control and manipulation of him makes him now powerless to fight back. But before he could say anything, he heard the sound of the gate falling.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

A large number of weapons and stasis positions appeared, instantly turning the Hall of Justice into a prison for arrest.

"Master..." The ventriloquist trembled. He didn't know why Batman did this, but the light ring on his hand seemed to be disobeying his orders and flickered on and off. Then he heard Batman the sound of:

"I'm sorry, Arnold. You suffered for so long. It hurts to live with it, I know. But I'll be able to help you with this soon."

He stretched out his hand, and the power of the purple light began to turn into invisible tentacles, and he quickly picked up the little old man in maid uniform from the ground.

"Ah!!! Master!" The ventriloquist screamed. He suddenly found in horror that he could no longer control his ring. The ring on his hand materialized various cold weapons and stabbed towards Batman, but before it touched Batman, it was decomposed by the purple light energy like a breeze.

Chen Tao had no expression on his face. As the tentacles swayed, the expression on the face of the ventriloquist Arnold became more and more distorted.

His face turned red, and the severe pain eroded him. Strands of green light energy began to spread from the hand with the light ring along his blood vessels to his arm, making the arm with the ring almost like a large glowing light tube.

"Come out, I know you have been hiding in here." Chen Tao said.

He looked at the little old man in a maid outfit. He needed an insurance... a final insurance.

And only the person in front of him could help him with this final insurance.

"Don't want to come out yet?" he said.

A large amount of purple light energy was charged into the ring of disaster. He knew that the ring had its own space inside. Although the ventriloquist had reported to him before that there was no consciousness other than him in this space, and the ventriloquist himself was a strange flower that was not controlled by the mind, Chen Tao knew that the first Lantern Man must be hiding in it. With the other party's ability, it would be a strange thing if he could be discovered by the ventriloquist.

Chen Tao increased the input of purple light energy. He could not match the first Lantern Man in controlling the green light power and the seven-color emotional spectrum, but he was already the host of the plunder beast at this time. Even if he used more, he could drown the other party hiding in the ring alive.

The plunder beast was completely controlled by him, and this control was no different from the control that Sinestro used to control the parallax monster.

Since the first Lantern Man could not corrode his ability to control the purple light power, he could only control the green light energy inside the ring of disaster.

And these green light energies would only have a smaller and smaller living space under the pressure of a large amount of purple light power. If they continued in this way, it would be a matter of time before the first Lantern Man was discovered.

Sure enough, soon, a green figure finally showed up under the pressure of a large amount of purple light power. As soon as he appeared, he stared at Batman with hatred.

Yes, that's right, this is the target he is looking for.

At this time, in the Shadow Cabinet, the creator of Green Lantern, the master of the emotional spectrum.

The man who can never find his home:

Lantern No. 1.

Huo Rong.