amaotonovel Chapter 753 Dreams Within Reach
Chapter 753 Dreams Within Reach
Chapter 753 Dreams Within Reach
Chen Tao was deep in thought.
"So..." Bain said, "what do we do next?"
Chen Tao is currently lost in thought, wandering through space.
"bat?"
Bain called out to the other person again, but found that the other person did not respond at all.
So he jumped up and smacked Chen Tao on the head hard.
The member of the decaying Black Council next to him tiptoed away, trying to escape.
Both of them are terrifying.
In fact, all the original council members of the Black Decay were captured and imprisoned by Akane for a long time, and were eventually slaughtered like chickens. Akane also took away all control of the Black Decay.
But the Corrupt Black Council is a position, not a specific person.
Just like at the end of "New 52 Animal Warriors", after the entire Totem Council of the Crimson Clan was slaughtered by the villain Blood Lord, Goat Head, who originally served as the ferryman in the "Bone Garden" of the Crimson Clan's underworld, inherited the identity of the Totem Council. This position will not disappear.
Of course, the power that was previously seized is gone forever, so this new member of the Corruption Council is very weak. He was just an ordinary Corruption warrior in the past, like the ordinary totem warriors with beast heads and human bodies in the Crimson of All Beings. Then, a windfall pushed him into a position he should not have been in.
He hadn't run far when Chen Tao caught up with him and smacked him flat.
Chen Tao flattened the newly appointed council member, who resembled a combination of a giant fly and rotting flesh, then rolled him into a ball and temporarily subdued him.
He's still in the intelligence-gathering phase, so he absolutely mustn't expose himself.
"So what should we do next?" Bain continued to ask.
"I...I haven't decided yet," Chen Tao said.
He had just searched his memory for the character who called himself Hero's Day. He must have seen this thing somewhere in his past life.
At first, he couldn't even remember who this guy was. Even if he was very familiar with comics, it was impossible for him to recognize every character.
Finally, Chen Tao was forced to use his telepathic abilities to carefully examine every corner of his memory. After staring blankly for a long time, he finally found an impression of this character who seemed to be from Hero Day.
A doomsday where someone becomes a superhero on the wrong timeline of the main universe?
Could it really be him? No, doesn't this seem a bit too much of a coincidence?
Bain didn't need to talk to Chen Tao; he could understand Chen Tao's concerns just by looking at Chen Tao's expression.
"You don't trust this character who suddenly appeared? You think he might be someone's trap?"
"It's very likely a trap set by the Laughing Bat." Chen Tao nodded.
When you suspect you've fallen into a conspiracy, the first thing to suspect is the Bat Who Laughs.
Chen Tao arrived at what he thought was the correct answer almost directly using a bat-like thinking pattern. He directly imagined and presupposed the entire conspiracy of the Laughing Bat as a premise, and then worked backward to verify it.
Chen Tao's awareness of countering the Bat of Laughter is top-notch.
Although the Laughing Bat was unaware that Chen Tao had attributed all the misdeeds of the Foolish Owl and the World Forger to him, this did not affect Chen Tao's logical reasoning.
He paced back and forth in front of Bain.
Then he suddenly said:
"I see."
The newly captured member of the Decaying Black Council raised his head.
What do you understand now?
Then he turned his head and saw Bane next to him taking off his black and white hood.
What does this mean? Are you taking off your hat in salute?
Then he saw Bain give him a look that said, "I knew you could do it."
To some extent, Batman's unique superpower is the ability to directly deduce something close to the truth using a reasoning method devoid of any logic.
Chen Tao then began his performance: "A so-called Hero's Day can't bring me any substantial results, but my biggest weakness is that I like to shift my responsibilities to others and then intend to retire."
He shook his head somewhat obsessively, tapping his own head: "So if I were the Batman Who Laughs, I would try to give Batman Dragon the perfect hero in his mind, because I, the Batman Who Laughs, know that once Batman psychologically becomes dependent on someone..."
Chen Tao paused for a moment, then said:
"It was the prelude to his downfall."
He rambled on and on, spouting a bunch of his own wild guesses.
His smile stretched from the corners of his mouth to his ears as he paced back and forth like a madman, making "hahaha" sounds. Then, suddenly, all the expressions on his face vanished, and his face turned cold, as icy as a glacier that had never melted on a snow-capped mountain.
He silently looked at Bain, then gave him the order.
"Our enemy has seized control of the Corrupted Black, and he must be trying to deceive me."
"Whether he's strong or weak, I've already devised a plan to deal with this situation. I'll draw his attention, while you subdue him from behind."
Chen Tao said, "The reason I asked you to take action is because only you, with your equally profound mastery of the Corruption Black, can temporarily sever his connection with the Corruption Black, understand? But there's one more thing to note: I want him to be completely unharmed and under our control."
He added at the end that although he had by then subjectively regarded this so-called Hero Day, whom he had never met, as an enemy, he never drew conclusions directly without verification.
He was simply acting prematurely based on his own guesses, and as it turned out, his guesses were always correct.
"Then……"
He said, "Let's go, let's go and meet this so-called Heroes' Day."
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The first Lantern has finished the task that the Batman Who Laughs assigned him.
But in reality, he always felt that the Batman Who Laughs didn't care about him enough, as if he could do without him.
Of course, this feeling can also be summarized by another word:
The Laughing Bat did not trust him.
Whatever the Batman Who Laughs's plans may be, Lantern One is certain that he has been excluded. He has already used his power and skill to subdue the Flashpoint timeline villains who previously dared to mock him, but now he has been assigned the job of representing the Time Trapped and negotiating with the government of this universe.
What's there to talk about? If Genius Number One wanted to, he could lift the Statue of Liberty upside down and shove it upside down on the Empire State Building, or just rip that damn torch out and shove it into the statue's hole.
This is all meaningless work, merely a tool the Batman Laughs uses to distract himself.
He originally partnered with the Bat Who Laughs because he was trying to work on the Time Trapped's timeline. He had now roughly pieced together the puzzle of his universe's destruction and wanted to figure out why the Time Trapped hadn't been erased but instead became a being without past or future and unbound by the causality of timelines, just like Reverse-Flash.
He appeared with the maniac in an attempt to figure this out.
But things haven't progressed much yet. The Laughing One is keeping a close watch on him, and the first Genie is gradually realizing that this is just a waste of time. But apart from this...
What else can he do to move forward?
At times, the first Lantern even felt a pang of jealousy towards Batman Dragon.
He always seems to have a clear goal to pursue. He is like a runner who never gets tired, chasing his goals anytime and anywhere, achieving his objectives, and then moving on to the next one.
Everything was so clear and straightforward; as long as a certain result was achieved, the plan could be completed. But for the first Lantern Knight…
Everything is nothing but emptiness.
He has only one goal, but how exactly does he plan to achieve it?
The first Lantern didn't know. He never knew.
He felt as if he were standing in a vast, white fog, yet he could only draw his sword and look around, feeling utterly lost.
Ever since leaving his Earth and wandering through the multiverse, Genie E1 has been unable to find a concrete way to save his homeland and mother. Reality is not a game where you complete tasks and get rewards, so Genie E1 has been drifting around aimlessly, trying things here and there, constantly making mistakes.
He created the Ring of Calamity with the sorcerer on Earth-3 and taught the Blue People the Emotional Spectrum in the main universe. Did these things directly help him restore his own universe?
No, the first Genie was just trying.
He wasn't facing a specific enemy or target, but rather a patch of air.
He felt like he was being choked by air, barely able to breathe. He kicked and punched desperately, but only became more exhausted.
Nobody cared.
"Hey, hey, hey, are you snapping out of it? So our conversation..."
When the first Lantern came to his senses, he saw the government official tapping an agreement repeatedly with his fingers on the negotiating table.
He felt that all of this was a complete waste of time.
"...Your actions violate the Constitution..."
With a bang.
The next second, the entire conference room erupted in screams, and then the door opened, with a large number of men and women scattering and fleeing.
The first Lantern Knight sat quietly in his seat, while the head of the pot-bellied official who had just been chattering in front of him rotated 180 degrees.
He lay face down on the table, his head spinning so that his unseeing eyes stared at the first Lantern Man.
The first Lantern Knight reached out and tapped on the table, and immediately all the other people in the meeting who were about to escape ran back from outside.
This was certainly not their choice; rather, it was a massive wall composed of strands of emotional spectrum energy that forced them back in, like caged beasts.
"Alright, it seems everyone's back." Then, Genie Evolution said, "Would you like to discuss the results of our negotiations?"
The first Lantern Knight was lost in thought, speaking without thinking at all.
In any case, no matter what he signs in the end, it will all be a stack of waste paper in the end, and it will not have any effect on saving his mother.
Even the first Genie himself didn't understand why he was here.
He was just mechanically striving in a direction he didn't even know, like a dog without a goal or direction.
But at that moment, he suddenly felt a voice appear directly in his mind.
This feeling is inexplicably terrifying.
Then he heard the other's voice: "I am the World Maker, let's be straightforward... Work for me, Calamity."
"Complete my task, and I will return your mother to you... You can verify my promise at any time, how about it?"
He heard the other person say, "You can confirm whether this is really your mother...."
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Chen Tao had imagined how the other party would try to deceive him.
A great hero should be one who remains untainted by the mud.
Chen Tao silently calculated in his mind what the consequences would be if he were to be deceived by him.
He had already devised a scene that could deceive himself: Doomsday, covered in thorns and bony spikes, dressed in Superman's uniform, standing before a dark and withered throne.
It demonstrates its strength and vitality amidst decay.
Nice design.
but……
Chen Tao did not see the decaying, black palace.
He saw only the ruins of a destroyed palace, and...
Wait, is this sunlight? How can this be in the rotten blackness?
Someone broke through the rotten darkness, letting in a ray of sunlight; he must have...
Chen Tao thought about this for a moment, then he turned around the ruins and saw a huge Doomsday dressed in a Superman suit squatting in the ruins, just as he had guessed.
Then he saw the other person turn around.
"Oh, hello. I was wondering why there was a sound. Looks like you're not some kind of corpse."
"To be honest, my thoughts are a bit jumbled right now."
Chen Tao heard the other person's voice: "I just saved the entire multiverse once, and then I appeared here. I think you'd better not expect me to save it a second time."
Then he saw Chen Tao's face.
"So it was Batman. It brings back memories," he said. "Tell me, warrior."
"In this new era...where does the danger lie?"
Chen Tao fell silent.
he……
No one had ever displayed such confidence in front of him.
The so-called design targeting personality weaknesses is designed to prey on people who know the weaknesses but still harbor wishful thinking.
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"This really is..."
The first Genie almost threw himself onto the mirror. The Founder recruited the first Genie and said he could help the Genie find his mother through the trans-time flow, and he actually did it in front of the first Genie!
The first Lantern was no longer able to speak. Although the World Maker was preventing him from meeting his mother upstream in the timeline, so he could only see the images the World Maker showed him, it was enough to shake him.
Over the long years, the gradually blurring figures became clearer, even though my heart was screaming that this might be a trap.
But emotions.
They have never been reasonable.
(End of this chapter)