amaotonovel Chapter 764 Is Our History Meaningless?
Chapter 764 Is Our History Meaningless?
Chapter 764 Is Our History Meaningless?
With a bang.
Thomas Wayne from the main universe was thrown to the floor.
After his failed escape attempt, he was captured by Lantern Rider Evangelion, and he had never felt so out of control as he did now.
He curled up as much as he could and looked the room up and down.
It was a room of about 30 square meters, but I didn't know where it was or what windows it had.
There was a chandelier overhead, the kind with long light tubes commonly found in shopping malls.
Then there was nothing left in the room.
As for where this room is?
do not know.
The first Lantern was moving too fast, and unlike Reverse-Flash, it didn't have the Speed Force to envelop both of them—
The Speed Force erases all physical rules, so anyone carried by a speedster is not affected by rules like friction. Of course, otherwise, every time the Flash carries someone, he would just turn that person into a giant fireball that rubs against the air.
So when Thomas was being carried away by Reverse-Flash, his thoughts and actions were also accelerated by the Speed Force, just like how the Flash could chat while carrying his wife Iris.
This is why, when Thomas realized that Reverse-Flash had thrown Martha to Genie 1, he was able to punch Reverse-Flash and then take Martha's place.
The residual Speed Force definitely played a part in this; otherwise, given Tomas's mortal speed, he probably wouldn't have even been able to touch Reverse-Lightning.
In short, Thomas now knows that he has become a new prisoner, but this time it is not like before, where they are simply thrown into an unguarded base.
"Ah, don't even think about it."
With a wave of his hand, the multi-purpose belt around Thomas Wayne's waist flew up and landed directly in the Lantern's hand.
"I'm not stupid enough to let you have the all-purpose belt in this cramped cell."
Thomas Wayne's heart sank. He had curled up as much as possible just now to make the other person ignore this.
Unfortunately, this did not have any effect.
"What do you need me to do?"
Thomas asked in a deep voice.
He needed to figure out the other person's purpose. He was Batman, he was Thomas Wayne. All the other person had to do was speak, even just a word, a single syllable, or a small gesture, and he could deconstruct a large amount of information from it, and then deduce information that ordinary people could not perceive.
But I won't give you that chance.
The first Lantern Knight originally intended to say that, but to prevent the other party from making any bizarre deductions from those words, he ultimately chose to remain silent.
Who knows? Batman can't be judged by normal human standards.
Then he beckoned to old Thomas, and immediately all the magical gadgets hidden under the man's boots, in his arm armor, behind his mask, in the layers of his cloak, in his spare armor, and in the layers of his limb armor were brought out.
Did you think that by taking Batman's magic belt, the other party would lose all their gadgets?
As we all know, Batman is like Doraemon, able to pull things out of his body at any time, even if you think it's impossible to fit them in.
What are all these things? They're so numerous that even the first Genie couldn't understand their purpose. Although the first Genie has traveled through countless parallel universes and has a long lifespan, he is not omniscient or omnipotent.
Never mind, confiscate them all!
Thomas Wayne looked ashen-faced.
His face looked extremely pale.
"You win," he said coldly.
The first Lantern Man remained silent, then waved his hand again, and Thomas Wayne uncontrollably vomited.
He vomited out some kind of miniature locator and distress communication device from his stomach.
"You planted a tracking device on your wife Martha, and that device can connect back to the communicator on your hand. Did you think I didn't notice the little trick you were doing while Reverse-Flash was carrying you?"
The first Lantern Knight shook his head slightly: "You don't understand who I really am at all."
In an instant, Thomas Wayne was suspended in mid-air in a starfish shape, his entire body began to convulse wildly, like a game character model that had encountered a bug.
The timeline began to rapidly reverse around him; he quickly became younger, transitioning from middle-aged to middle-aged, then to youth, adolescence, and finally childhood…
Then, as the first Genie twisted his hand, everything quickly returned to normal, like a videotape.
The first Lantern Man gently fiddled with the device repeatedly and soon found two spare communicators in Thomas's anus and rectum.
If Thomas has something in his body that's different at a certain age than at another age, there's definitely something wrong. A somewhat clumsy, but foolproof, screening method.
"You're really something, I almost didn't find it."
"The first Lantern Man said."
Still not convinced, Lantern Man turned the timeline back and forth, and picked up old Thomas and shook him repeatedly.
After clattering and collecting a whole bunch of magical items, this time it was really over.
The first Lantern Knight searched carefully three more times.
Finally, he threw the clothes back to Thomas, only allowing Thomas to keep the Batman costume.
A Batman who wears nothing but his uniform.
This is less a garment to cover one's shame and more a mockery of old Thomas by the Lantern.
Then he made several thick iron chains on the ground. Without his magical gadgets, Batman only needed a few iron chains to restrain him.
With a loud creak, the first Lantern Knight quickly left the scene.
Before leaving, he gave old Thomas a blow, and he quickly passed out.
After an unknown amount of time, Thomas slowly woke up.
There was complete silence all around, with only a soft buzzing sound in my ears.
Thomas knew it was just tinnitus in his ears.
He felt dizzy and all his strength had vanished from his body.
He knew he should find a way to leave and escape this prison, but his body was in too much pain.
Moreover, even if he were completely safe, he would not be able to break free from the heavy iron chains binding him.
Thomas tried to break his finger bones, or some other bones, to break free from the chains, but to no avail.
He realized that the chains seemed to be controlled by some kind of emotional spectrum energy. When he slightly contracted his body, the chains contracted with him, and when he opened his mouth to exhale and stretched his body to prevent himself from being strangled, the chains stretched with him.
Now there was truly no way to escape. To be honest, Thomas didn't even know who his opponent was.
In mere seconds, the world changed. Thomas could even clearly remember his journey with The Flash, Barry Allen, to reverse the Flashpoint timeline. His Flashpoint timeline should have been completely erased, but why did he still exist? Did Barry Allen fail?
But the question is, if the other party fails, what about these new memories that are generated in his mind?
Some history was altered, but the biggest change was the memory that suddenly appeared in his mind:
That tyrant who indiscriminately slaughtered innocent people and levied exorbitant taxes actually called himself Superman? This is quite different from the Superman described by Barry.
What about that Superman who was imprisoned by the military and was as thin as a skeleton?
What's even more unusual is that he originally killed Reverse-Flash, but Reverse-Flash didn't die; so now he's back and has taken him away.
Thomas could understand that much, but he knew absolutely nothing about the Lantern Man in front of him. He even deduced the name "Lantern Man" from the Green Lantern that Barry Allen, the Flash, had told him about.
He could sense that the first Lantern Knight must have had some purpose in capturing him. When the other person looked at him, it wasn't like he was just a prisoner grabbed casually, but rather like he was looking at some very useful tool.
He was familiar with that look.
This is very bad, to be honest.
But now he can only wait, waiting for an unknown fate.
"listen to me."
Thomas's head jerked slightly.
"Don't look up, you're the only one who can hear my voice right now."
Thomas Wayne kept his head down, remaining expressionless.
"To answer me, you only need to think about it silently in your mind—it's a telepathic connection. Have you ever experienced it? I don't think so."
But now Thomas feels it.
"Who are you?"
"I am Terry, Terry McGinnas, the future Batman."
Thomas didn't completely lose his mind just because of the name Batman; he had used this tactic himself many times before.
When faced with a prisoner whose mouth needs to be pried open, leave first, then pretend to be his accomplice to secretly rescue him, and then obtain information through deception.
It was a perfectly standard, common tactic; he wasn't so naive as to be fooled by something like that. Thomas remained extremely vigilant, and even then, he didn't forget to extract information from the other party.
"What do you want to do?"
"Uh...do we really have to talk like this? But actually, I'm planning to rescue you."
"Then do it now."
With a clang, in an instant, the chains that the first Genie had created on Thomas Wayne vanished without a trace, as if he had been teleported away using some kind of spatial teleportation device. Then, he himself disappeared from the spot.
Old Thomas himself was taken aback. He hadn't expected the other party to act so quickly. Because of the battle between Genie I and Reverse-Flash, he had already raised Genie I's level infinitely in his mind, but now everything he had left behind was being broken through so quickly.
In the blink of an eye, old Thomas found himself inside a spaceship. The other party really didn't waste any words; he said he would rescue him and immediately did so, without trying to extract any information. He saw a person sitting in the main seat of the spaceship, and when he turned his head, Thomas saw a pointed head and a uniform just like his own.
"Let me introduce myself again." Then he heard the other person say, "I am Terry, the Batman of the future, from a post-apocalyptic future."
"And you, from Flashpoint."
The voice of Terry, the future Batman. He was very young, and dressed in a completely black, fully enclosed suit; old Thomas couldn't immediately determine his age. Terry, the future Batman, quickly answered the questions Thomas most wanted to know:
Who kidnapped me? What does he want to do with me?
"The person who captured you is Lantern Man #1. He kidnapped you, clearly wanting to use you to stabilize the Flashpoint timeline."
Thomas heard Terry's voice: "He's trying to use you to fix the entire timeline in place. He wants an anchor point to manipulate the timeline. His original choice was Reverse-Flash, an excellent anchor point with the Speed Force. But now he can't hold onto him, so he settled for you."
How do you know all this?
Thomas Wayne asked, and then he heard the other person chuckle softly twice.
Thomas had a strange feeling.
Although the voice belonged to a young man, it gave him a sense of weariness and despondency.
He waited for a reply, but was brushed off.
"Because I am Batman."
Terry said.
Thomas sees the future Batman, Terry, remove his mask.
Beneath the mask was an old face, and the youthful voice from before was merely a result of the mask altering the voice.
"I am Terry, the Batman from a post-apocalyptic future timeline, and I want to uphold our history."
"Think about it, you've realized it yourself. In the grand narrative of the world, we're all just wrong characters on the wrong timeline."
"We are like wrong branches growing on a tree branch. Although we have stretched far enough, we should still be reduced. No matter what we give, the love, hate and sorrow of life have no meaning in the grand narrative."
Our history is meaningless, Thomas. Physiologically, you are my grandfather, and I can prove that to you, but none of this should have happened.
(Note: Terry, the future Batman, is a clone created by Amanda Waller after she stole Batman's DNA. He has half of Batman's DNA, meaning he is also Bruce's biological son. His parents were secretly used as surrogates by Amanda Waller.)
"We will all be erased eventually, and what is the difference between being erased and death for us? I tried my best to reverse Ormack's plot to destroy the entire universe, and now I'm just letting my timeline be destroyed, like a piece of cement that's knocked down and a new one is built?"
No, I cannot accept that.
But now is an opportunity. My dear friend. We have the chance to turn our meaningless lives into something real.
"We are all just puppets of error. Our history and the world are all errors. These tragedies were not caused by us, but we are trapped by them all our lives."
The elderly future Batman, Terry, said, "So I spent a very long time trying to change all of this."
"I represent the apocalyptic future timeline, Thomas, and you represent Flashpoint. I need your help so we can project our history onto the main universe's timeline. Don't you want to do that?"
But his proposal was rejected outright by Thomas Wayne.
"What? No!"
(End of this chapter)