What bad intentions could Batman have?

When Reverse-Flash Swann stopped, he saw Batman dressed in black sitting on top of a hangtag on the street, the cape behind him fluttering in the wind with the dim light of the morning sun.

The morning light penetrates the air, passing through countless dark dust, and casts shadows on Batman's chiseled jaw, making him look like a night elf who has strayed into the light.

Even the reverse-flash Albert Swann has to admit that Batman is very handsome, even better than his father Thomas Wayne. If paired with the muscular body that looks like an ancient Greek demigod, It adds to the divinity.

The street was quiet. It was clearly afternoon just now. Batman even shot a little girl on the street and resurrected her. But now the timeline has strangely returned to morning. Facing the dawn, there was only a sparse traffic on the street. people.

Reverse Flash saw the invisible speed force in the air dragging time, like a dilapidated old truck, trying to move forward.

Both he and Batman know very well that the timeline of this universe has begun to become disordered. Now it's just a small disruption because Batman restarted the timeline, causing time to suddenly fast forward to the morning of the second day, but this kind of thing is like a cockroach. After you find out that there is a first time, it is very likely that you will immediately You will find more.

Reverse Flash has never missed Time Ghost and Black Lightning as much as he does now. Although these two old friends scream and desperately want to kill him every time, at least being able to see the two of them proves that the timeline still has self-healing. The ability to heal, unlike now, when everything is just despair.

Reverse Flash appears next to Batman. He sat down next to the billboard and asked, "I guess you're Bruce Wayne."

Then he vetoed the statement himself: "No, I think you are the savior."

"There has never been a savior, Swann." Then he heard Batman beside him say in a gentle voice: "We create life with our own hands."

"You are the savior." Reverse Flash insisted: "For the sake of the Speed ​​Force, don't deny this identity, please, even if it means deceiving me."

Reverse Flash's posture was very low, even a little too low. This is very weird.

Either he has ulterior motives, or he feels guilty. Another possibility is: both.

Chen Tao was noncommittal.

He listened to Reverse Flash and continued: "I believe you have understood the problem of this universe. I am about to restart the entire universe. By then, the situation of this universe will further deteriorate, and it is very likely that it will no longer be possible. Suitable for life to survive, so I..."

But his words were interrupted by Chen Tao.

"Why restart the universe?"

"Don't you understand?" Reverse-Flash said.

"This universe is going to be destroyed!"

Chen Tao turned his head to look at the quiet street. As they were talking, the city began to slowly wake up.

First, hurried pedestrians appeared, and then sporadic vehicles drove past on the road.

Then there were more and more of these pedestrians.

The owner of the corner burrito shop rode his motorcycle to the front of the store and pulled down the roller shutter. Customers who had queued up in advance rushed in to buy their breakfast today.

The birds singing softly in the sunshine, the dim street lights, and the feeling of smoke from fireworks hitting your face, all of this is so real.

"Soon the war between Atlantis and the Amazons will be destroyed. This time is coming soon, and I must restart the world before then." Reverse Flash said: "I must be fast, otherwise I will have no chance."

"Have you ever tried to prevent the apocalypse?"

"Of course, I..."

"No, I mean this time, this time try to stop?"

Reverse Lightning stopped talking. He was silent for a while, and then he spoke in a solemn voice.

"I can't stop it at all. I've tried many times. I can only restart the universe. I have no other way. I have no choice."

Then he met Batman's eyes.

This made him slightly annoyed for no reason.

Why do you look at me like this? Why do you think so? Have you been through what I've been through? Has your world ever experienced an unchangeable doomsday? Have you ever tried your best but could only helplessly know that the future cannot be changed?

I know what you're going to say, I know what you're going to say. But why can you stand there so glamorously and say anything to me casually asking me to try to save the world?

Have I never tried that? Am I just a coward who refuses to give it a try? Just you never give up? And everyone else is just a mediocre person who just lies down and languishes when they find it’s not working?

It's so hard, it's so hard.

His world is hopeless.

Parallax Demon Hal Jordan was right, he had to do it.

In that perfect world, as long as Hal can do it, everything will become perfect again.

When the bustling sounds carried the morning breeze and caressed Albert Swann's face, the world's greatest hero, Reverse Flash, had never felt so deeply that the world in front of him was so false.

"Haven't you ever tried to save your world this once?"

really.

When Reverse-Flash heard Batman say those words, he felt extremely disgusted.

He ignored what Batman said.

"I have a plan," he said dully.

"The Ark Project. Just like Noah's Ark." He saw Batman put on a listening expression and stretched out his hand to signal him to continue, which made him even more disgusted.

He felt tingling, he felt guilt, but there was a hint of relief mixed in with those emotions, and there was a hint of malice mixed in with them.

Albert Swann, who became the great hero Reverse-Flash, hasn't harmed anyone in years, but he's still very good at it.

After all, he was once a villain, and it doesn't hurt to be a villain now, right?

He lives too long in the past, and he structures his life around the past.

He has been through so much that no one can expect him to be truly righteous.

He still has the weight of a world on his shoulders.

"When I realized that the end of the world was inevitable, I began to consciously prepare for a cosmic escape for all the people in my world."

When talking about the inevitable doomsday, Reverse Flash deliberately emphasized it.

"How did you do it?"

"I stole the time of my universe."

Good guy, are you Dr. Manhattan too?

"I used the Speed ​​Force to capture some time. This is an advanced advanced technique of the Speed ​​Force. I have used this technique to complete some moves that made people age dozens of years in an instant, but if I use this technique on There will be different effects on a larger scale."

Chen Tao nodded repeatedly after hearing this, but for no reason he thought of the other two villains in the DC universe who could skillfully manipulate time.

During "Zero Hour", Parallax Magic Hal and his subordinate Mo Cun once used a moment to make Wildcat and other heroes of the Justice Society age by dozens of years to deprive them of their combat effectiveness.

Chen Tao knew that this was a somewhat crazy and unreasonable association, but he just thought that way.

But he soon returned his attention to the current situation.

"If we drain the Speed ​​Force from an area in a short period of time, all creatures in the Speed ​​Force area will be trapped in it, like amber in a gel, unable to move."

Reverse Flash said: "According to my plan, I can use the Speed ​​Force to encompass the entire earth through the time that was stolen from me."

"Once the timeline on Earth solidifies, it will not abide by any physical laws or time rules. It can be safely taken away from this universe, as long as it finds a brand new universe before the time I stole is used up. And by finding a suitable orbit for our earth, all of us on earth can start a new life."

Reverse Flash said: "Of course there are no Atlanteans or Amazons on Paradise Island. I will not leave them in the universe to die. They will have an earth from the Jurassic era and those superpowers." A madman can cause massacre and bloodshed on that planet at will until the end of the universe or time."

Reverse Lightning said: "But if we want to achieve my plan to escape from the universe, our planet needs a powerful power source to shuttle the time-frozen earth between the universes, and among all people, you are the only one who can do this. A little. So please, I beg you, great Savior, I beg..."

Chen Tao thought for a moment, and then he was about to speak, but at this moment, he suddenly felt a strange vibration coming from under his feet.

"What's this?"

he asked in a low voice.

The next moment, he suddenly turned his head, and with his extraordinary vision, he saw that on the coast at the very far horizon, the sea surface, which was originally calm with the rise and fall of the tide, suddenly began to swell, and in about 20 seconds it began to rise. A huge wave formed.

The speed of this huge wave was too fast, and the time was too short. It was definitely not the time for a normal tsunami to launch, but then the waves that covered the sky and the sun hit the entire city.

A few minutes ago it was a leisurely daily routine at work, and the next moment it was the end of the spring tsunami sinking the city to the bottom of the sea. The transition between the two was so fast that it even gave people an unreal sense of illusion.

The falseness of reality has never...never felt like this.

Chen Tao rushed forward immediately. He turned into a red afterimage and ran along the coastline at high speed.

The ion shark emerged behind him, and was turned into a green afterimage as he moved at high speed.

Endless nanorobots spurted out from Batman's body, and as Batman ran, a sky made of steel also rose on the edge of the city.

At a moment when no one could react, it rained heavily. The patter of raindrops turned into a downpour almost within a few seconds, mixed with the cold air exhaled by Chen Tao while running wildly and using his extremely fast bullet ability.

Reverse-Flash Albert Swann also ran to the shoreline, but he didn't help.

He just stood there waiting quietly, watching as Batman worked hard for a long time, and finally turned the huge wave into the sky into an ice sculpture that was almost taller than the city on the edge of the city.

"Huh... it's not a big problem. The ice sculpture will slowly melt soon, and all the water will be released back into the ocean little by little, without causing any risk to the city." Chen Tao appeared next to Reverse Lightning, He murmured lowly, then turned around and looked at the reverse-flash in front of him with a critical eye.

"This is all meaningless," Reverse-Flash said.

"Time will always restart, the universe will always restart, and after the next reincarnation, all the dead people will be resurrected, and they won't even remember that you saved them once."

"History is refreshed, and this disaster is likely to become something that has never happened. Time is constantly reset, just like the traces on the beach that are constantly erased by water, and in the end only a piece of nothingness is left."

Reverse Flash said: "You are just wasting time."

"But at least those who were rescued will remember."

He heard Batman say this. He saw the people who survived the disaster surrounded him. Those fools didn't even understand who saved them, but confused the two of them. They cheered around Batman and Reverse Flash, and the mother hugged her child and cried, unable to tell whether she was relieved or terrified.

People cried and laughed, adjusted their emotions after the intense fear, counted the number of people who disappeared, and finally found...

There were no casualties.

"But all this is useless."

Reverse Flash shook his head. The boredom in his heart has reached the extreme, and those stupid worships can't make him have any waves.

He regards this world as his property, and now this property has ugly and irreparable scars. So for the Reverse Flash, he will only want to smash this broken jar and then make a perfect jar again, and only the perfect jar will belong to the Reverse Flash Albert Swan himself.

"Let's go, I still have to tell you my plan..."

"Have you ever bled, Swan?"

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing."

Chen Tao has already received the answer from the Reverse Flash.

He thought slowly.

Albert Swan, the Reverse Flash, has become completely accustomed to solving problems by restarting the world. He has completely lost his empathy for life and ordinary people. Although he is still a mortal body, his heart has surpassed all living beings. He no longer regards life as a living life, but an NPC that can be reset.

In theory, the Reverse Flash will never fail. Once he fails, he can restart the world. He is used to this. When he finds that restarting the world cannot solve the problem, he will plan to create a new world and then use the restart time to solve the problem.

But here's the thing...

If you never fail, if you can always travel through time to find the answer to your questions, if you never bleed, if you never let anything hurt you...

Then your courage is false.

You saved those people not out of courage...

but out of grace and mercy.