nyslfriends Chapter 706 You're an Empty Shell, The Emperor's Clown's Question, The World Forged
Chapter 706 You're an Empty Shell, The Emperor's Clown's Question, The World Forged
Chapter 706 You Are an Empty Shell, The Emperor Clown's Question, The World Forger's Unease
"Can't you answer?"
The "Time Trapped" saw that Batman didn't answer him.
"Then let's change the question," he said. "Look, I've traced back through the timeline to the past. At some point, you transformed from a classic parallel version of Bruce Wayne in the Dark Multiverse into what you are now."
Then he said:
"So... before that? No, no, I'm not talking about what Bruce Wayne was like before, but you. The newly born you. Human memory, behavior, and logic are inevitably influenced by the past; past memories form the cornerstone of our personality."
"That pain, sorrow, and anger shaped Batman and gave him his power. So tell me, what is your past?"
no respond.
Then he said, "How about we play a game?"
He waved his hand in front of Batman, instantly creating a lifelike dummy.
That's the third Robin Tim Drake.
Upon seeing Batman before him, a look of astonishment crossed his face. Instinctively, he drew his twin batons from behind his back and swung them at the "Time Trapped." The next moment, he floated in the air like fine sand, then transformed into Alfred's appearance before dissipating once more.
Bane, the Joker, the Scarecrow, and even a miniature Barbatos—one by one, these puppets are reconstructed under the power of the fifth dimension. It's nothing more than a shadow play, yet it feels so real, at least to those who haven't mastered the power of the fifth dimension.
These were merely false creations, not life itself. But in the end, the "Time Trapped One" removed his cloak and pulled a rabbit out of thin air from it.
This is a real, living, pregnant female rabbit.
He used fifth-dimensional divine power to modify the rabbit, causing it to give birth quickly. The newborn rabbit was then rapidly matured by the fifth-dimensional divine power. Then, in front of Batman, the "Time Trapped One" wove a small, false memory of a rabbit eating grass and stuffed it into the mind of the prematurely matured rabbit.
Then, in front of Batman, he put the rabbit on the ground. The rabbit stood bewildered in the pile of garbage, as if it didn't understand why it had suddenly come here from the Great Plains.
He sniffed around on the ground, anxiously searching for the peace and ordinariness that he could easily obtain on ordinary days.
But no. This isn't the vast prairie from that fabricated memory; it's a garbage dump beneath Gotham City.
What memories make you so resilient?
What drives you to never give up?
"What has planted such an imprint in your heart that you have never doubted?"
Or perhaps...
"The Time Trapped" walked up to Batman, lowered his head, revealing a mask identical to that of Superman, and whispered:
"Beneath that resilient shell—is there nothing but an empty soul?"
"Who is your father? Who is your mother? Have you really seen them? How dare you say they really exist?"
"Where are you from? How do you know so much? Are those memories real?"
"The Trapped One" suddenly became urgent, his question rising and falling in a rhythmic tone that resonated with the listener.
He is an expert in psychological manipulation and a master of persuasion. The Scarecrow in Gotham City was able to persuade others to commit suicide through language, and the skills of the "Time Trapped" are only more profound.
He will make you genuinely agree with him and believe that what he says is absolutely correct.
"Attribution theory once told us that behavior can influence attitudes and cognition, even when the behavior is forced."
"The feeling that 'I helped others because I am a helpful person' will make you more inclined to help others again, until you completely shape yourself through repeated actions, self-attribution, until you destroy yourself."
"The Time Trapped" said, "Have you ever considered that you're not actually Batman?"
"I know what you're thinking—"
"Oh no, without me, the Earth will stop spinning?"
"Is the universe about to be destroyed?"
He opened his arms wide: "But have you ever thought about this? The multiverse is a vast concept, with countless superheroes acting as immune cells, protecting the entire multiverse and fighting against all the crises it encounters."
"In this entire immune system, no immune cell is irreplaceable. How many near-destruction crises has the entire multiverse experienced? Too many, too frequent to count."
"If some immune cells cannot salvage the history of the trans-temporal flow, then the trans-temporal flow will seek new ones. If even new ones cannot be found, then stronger ones will be sought..."
"but!"
The "trapped in time" began to slowly pace:
"If an immune cell takes on more than it should be doing, it becomes a leaping, beautiful note in the grand narrative of the multiverse?"
"More problems that should have been solved by other immune cells will appear on him. He has brought countless enemies upon himself until this immune cell completely withers and dies?"
boom!
Chen Tao appeared in front of the "Time Trapped" with almost instantaneous speed. The next moment, his body turned to ashes. Chen Tao used his other hand to grab the Emperor Joker by the throat, lifted him up, and countless pieces of trash exploded everywhere, leaving a mess.
"Oh, so you killed that rabbit, I guess."
Chen Tao heard the Emperor Clown's voice.
He took a deep breath and said:
"That time-trapped dummy constructed by the power of the fifth dimension can't fool me."
"Yes, Batman, so I just wanted to scare you with his image. Did you like it?"
He looked at Chen Tao sincerely: "And I think you must have protected that little rabbit, right?"
Chen Tao remained expressionless.
He waved his hand, and in the garbage heap, the bewildered mother rabbit that the Emperor Clown had somehow found from some unfortunate owner's home in this timeline, along with her baby born just seconds before, trembled together under a blue protective shield.
"Wow, you really did it! You protected the cute little bunny!"
Chen Tao silenced the Emperor Clown by squeezing his neck.
He snapped his fingers, and the mother rabbit flew into the air. Then, the baby rabbit that the Emperor Clown had forcibly matured rapidly shrank, eventually turning back into a fertilized egg, which Chen Tao then stuffed back into the mother rabbit's belly.
I'll put you back in your mother's belly.
Okay, he knew this behavior seemed a bit cultish, but damn it, this was the main universe, and the main universe of the past at that! He absolutely didn't want any butterfly effects to occur!
The pregnant rabbit should give birth normally, just as it has in previous histories.
Then he teleported the pet rabbit back into its original cage, confident that the owner wouldn't notice anything amiss. He even clapped his hands and returned the rabbits' excrement, which they had just excreted after being startled, to its original place.
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He lifted the Emperor Joker by the neck and then walked away.
The World Forger did indeed bind the Emperor Clown like a dumpling, and his fifth-dimensional divine power was restricted by the other party. Although he seemed to have broken free somewhat, he could only support magic effects such as creating an empty shell without combat power or summoning a few rabbits from the air.
Fortunately, we didn't have to fight them, and the worst-case scenario didn't happen.
"Before you drag me away, hehehehe...aren't you going to answer my question?"
The Emperor Joker asked this question, but Batman remained silent.
The Emperor Joker was somewhat disappointed, so he eventually had no choice but to shut up, but at that moment, he finally heard Batman's voice.
"I...I find this question difficult to answer."
The Emperor Clown turned to look at Chen Tao.
But he didn't see that the other person was looking at him.
He ultimately didn't get an answer, but he started muttering to himself in a cryptic way:
"Batman has the most unwavering beliefs. No matter what you say or what you try to use to bribe him, it will be to no avail. No one can shake his beliefs or make him give up his career or his identity."
He was taciturn and wouldn't listen to anyone's nonsense; all he needed to know was whether you wanted to surrender...
He said, "You freak."
As Chen Tao listened to the Emperor Clown's voice in his ear, he looked ahead as if he were looking at a road that stretched endlessly into the distance.
When the sky falls, the tall ones hold it up. Long ago, he tried to become a short man clinging to the leg of a tall person...
But now...
So many people, so many things, those tragedies, those he saved, those who never left, those who should have been destroyed but were not.
All the reluctance, all the destiny, all the history, all the dust that will eventually turn to ashes in the grand narrative, all the enemies—the vicious, the ruthless, the ferocious, the cunning—
They all need a Batman.
That's why I'm here.
I ended up standing here by some strange twist of fate, so I accept it.
I am Batman, and I accept it.
And all that I once wanted... sunshine, beaches, a leisurely life, those beautiful dreams, Fiji.
I will do what I am supposed to do.
Then hug him with a clear conscience.
That's what I think.
"Even though you're a freak, you're still Batman."
Chen Tao heard the Emperor Clown say this.
Chen Tao couldn't discern his true emotions—was it approval? Or a vicious curse?
Wait, is Batman a curse?
Who knows?
In short, Batman is currently on the move.
He needs to bring the captured Emperor Joker along, and then take Barbatos into the main universe.
This is not a problem he can solve right now; he needs help.
For a lone wolf like Batman, asking for help from others might be a curse.
……
……
……
The world's foundries have a bad feeling.
This wasn't just because he couldn't get past Barbatos to figure out what Batman was doing; more importantly, a subtle malice was constantly swirling around him, as if the entire Hypertime Stream was screaming at the World Forger.
The World Forger initially thought the Time Stream hated him, the villain who had harmed it, but now he felt that the scream seemed to have another meaning:
A warning, a warning of danger.
But this doesn't make sense. He was constantly stabbing the time-traveling enemy while simultaneously sucking their blood, and then using that blood to create his own baby.
The super-time flow is too disgusted with him to warn him.
Those intuitions might appear in Batman and Barbatos, but they shouldn't appear in the World Maker.
The two of them are the main force protecting the Hypertime Stream, while the World Maker is the destroyer. If these intuitions appear in the World Maker, it means that the Hypertime Stream believes that Barbatos and Batman Dragon's abilities are insufficient to protect it. Therefore, even when being stabbed in the back by the World Maker, the Hypertime Stream has no choice but to forcibly designate the World Maker as its protector and attempt to issue commands to him.
All of this operates on the instinctive logic of the trans-time flow, regardless of likes or dislikes. The trans-time flow has no human emotions, let alone intelligence.
He was simply protecting himself, and the choice he made must have been the most correct one.
But where does the danger come from?
The World Forger was carrying out his plan. He didn't want anything too serious to happen to the main universe.
The World Forger gradually lost interest in continuing the fight with Barbatos; he couldn't find a point to focus on.
The fact that the Time Stream is in such a hurry must mean that his plan has caused a crisis in the main universe.
The only possibility is a pluralistic integration.
The world's foundries pondered silently in their hearts.
Because Dr. Manhattan stole ten years from the DC Universe, the Flashpoint Crisis severely damaged the Hypertime Stream and the multiverse. As a result, after the Flashpoint reboot, the main universe and the core of the main universe, the New 52 Superman, declined to an unprecedented level.
So at that time, the incident of the death of the New 52 Superman, also known as N Superman, occurred.
To compensate for the death of Superman N, the Supertime Stream had to bring Superman from before Flashpoint Reboot into the post-Flashpoint era.
Simply put...
"Oh no, Dr. Manhattan has been hoarding him for 10 years. After the universe rebooted, the newly created Superman was too weak. He's dead. What do we do?"
"Simple. I'll just find someone from the past and put them in the main universe. He's now the Superman of the main universe!"
In the fusion of multiple universes, Brainiac and P-Super, who traveled to the main universe, are a legitimate time travel created by the Hypertime Stream itself, a legitimate act of pulling characters from the upper reaches of the Hypertime Stream out of the concrete and stuffing them into the lower reaches.
Even legal time travel requires identification. A complete cause-and-effect relationship is necessary for anything to exist. If we must say there's a mastermind behind the multiverse fusion, that mastermind is the self-regulating macro-control program of the hypertime flow. However, the World Forger found Brainiac, and by controlling Brainiac, he gained control of this macro-control, thus controlling the extent of damage to the hypertime flow.
So far, everything is under his control.
but……
It seems an external force has emerged.
(End of this chapter)