socalfunplaces Chapter 803 What harm is there in letting you win this round?
Chapter 803 What harm is there in letting you win this round?
Chapter 803 What harm is there in letting you win this round?
Chen Tao swore that he did it simply because it was something he did on a whim.
Or to put it simply, his control can't really be called control; at most, it's... physical control.
After discovering that Barbatos has once again broken free of Chen Tao's mental control, Superman the Supreme will raise his fist at him. Barbatos is forced to reluctantly relinquish Chen Tao's control over his body, and then, as if having an epileptic seizure, he falls to the ground with a thud.
"Huh?!" Superman raised his fist again.
Chen Tao quickly stopped him.
"No, stop hitting him. Lord Barbatos isn't resisting, it's just that I'm not very... not very good at controlling his body."
Exactly! Even if I let him control me, he still can't completely control me! His position is too low, and his power is too little, do you understand?
An elephant can be forcibly moved by a crane's powerful arm; this is called control. You wrap ropes around my limbs, but you can't pull me at all. Did I resist? No!
"Um?!"
When Supreme Superman heard Chen Tao say "I can't," he aimed his fist at Chen Tao.
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"It will be soon," Chen Tao immediately reassured him.
Barbatos was left standing to the side, letting out two sobs.
Then he heard Batman's voice:
"His two whimpers now are indeed a form of resistance."
What?!
With a loud bang, Barbatos' tongue was knocked out.
His injuries worsened. Superman used brute force to ensure he couldn't even scream.
"Alright, Lord Barbatos' injuries are severe enough now," Chen Tao said.
"We need to..."
"Cosmic tuning fork."
Chen Tao paused.
He heard Superman the Magnus repeat his request.
"Control of the cosmic tuning fork."
"I need a part of it—"
"I need it all," said Superman.
At some point, the neck of the previously invisible Foolish Owl suddenly appeared in the hands of the Supreme Little Superman.
"The Foolish Owl has voluntarily transferred control of the Cosmic Tuning Fork to me."
"Supreme Little Superman said."
"How will you control it?" Chen Tao said, "Okay, I think you must have a way."
He raised his hands to Superman: "Look, there's no need to be so tense. I didn't say I wouldn't give it to you. But I need to know who you are... oh, wow."
Before Chen Tao could finish speaking, he felt that he had been deprived of control of the Cosmic Tuning Fork by the Supreme Little Superman.
This is quite unexpected.
The Superman who only knew how to swing his fists has now taken control of the cosmic tuning fork.
Without the help of the World Forgers, Chen Tao would have stuffed the Foolish Owl's head into his own ass.
but……
Chen Tao glanced up and down at the elderly scoundrel beside him out of the corner of his eye.
Whether it's him or the Supreme Little Superman, Chen Tao actually knows very well...
This scene before my eyes must have been replayed countless times from the perspective of the elderly scourge.
When you restart time once, you're just a player who's played the game once, but still stumbling along; but when you've restarted it millions of times, everyone becomes an NPC to you.
You understand their actions, thoughts, and ideas; you know what choices they will make in what situations. None of this has any meaning or secret for you.
You meticulously plan the exact moment when Batman's Dragon will come knocking, exposing you to the light of day, and ensure that the most dangerous and troublesome character is precisely targeted and eliminated by other NPCs according to your plan.
For example, the anti-surveillance agents, the surveillance agents, and the laughing bats—Chen Tao knew very well that they were all now in the palm of the old evil spirit, the knives in his hand.
The old scourge has already wielded their power to sever three people. They might have succeeded in the original timeline, or caused all sorts of terrible consequences, but now...
They're all out.
Perhaps there was no wild laughter, but Chen Tao believed that this must also be part of the old man's plan to bring disaster to the enemy.
He twitched the corner of his mouth.
True to the Batman Who Laughs's nature, he would surely try to hide quietly when everyone thought he was leaving, and then jump out at the end after reaping the rewards, saying to everyone, "Everything went according to plan."
But if all of this was part of the old man's plan, it becomes a classic case of the nesting doll being trapped by the nester.
Chen Tao was waiting for this scene.
As for Chen Tao...
He wasn't actually that opposed to the plan for the first Lantern.
Look, he's figured out what the first Lantern Man wanted to do.
Isn't it just about cutting off Earth 15 from the timeline to save your family?
If Chen Tao could stop it effortlessly, he might choose to stop the other party with regret, because strictly speaking, this action would inevitably lead to the further weakening of the time-lapse.
If Chen Tao could easily stop the old man's evil deeds, or only pay a small price, then he would also take action.
But now he realizes that Genie Number One will never give up. No matter how many times he fails, he will always try to come back and reload his save file until the end of his life.
Now, let me ask you a question.
The self-proclaimed Batman Dragon, renowned as the Supreme Bat in the Fifth Dimension, do you still have the need to go to any lengths to stop a wanderer trying to save his homeland?
Huo Rong has done enough. He promised Chen Tao that he would replace the real Earth 15 with a fake one, so as not to affect the overall time flow.
Yes, the removal of Earth 15 will certainly weaken the Hypertime Flow, and it will certainly be a certain harm to Chen Tao, who is trying to protect the Hypertime Flow.
But if we're talking about damage, Chen Tao's Earth 15 event, created to counter the Anti-Monitors, was a truly devastating blow to the Hypertime Stream.
Chen Tao himself is a master at disrupting the time flow. You can't disrupt the time flow just because you can save your own universe, yet you won't allow others to save their own universe and also disrupt the time flow.
Regarding the disruption of the trans-time flow, what standing or qualification does Chen Tao have to stop Huo Rong?
He has been doing everything he can to avoid a direct collapse of the time-travel system, and he has indeed found a way to do so. Chen Tao still doesn't understand how that fake Earth-15 was created. (Chapter 793)
That's good enough.
Why not let you win this round?
The crisis of time travel can be gradually mitigated by exploring other methods.
But as for the calamity...
All that you have prepared, all that you have begged for.
I'll let you have your way.
Chen Tao lowered his head slightly.
I will no longer be an obstacle in your way.
Chen Tao knew that his current idea was exactly right, the optimal solution based on the current situation, but all of this was probably achieved under Huo Rong's adjustments.
If he returns enough times, then Huo Rong will probably have figured out his current thoughts through countless rewinds.
From initially being patiently guided, to later revealing his true intentions directly through Luther, and finally voluntarily exposing himself to Chen Tao.
And now, Chen Tao and his team have dealt with the anti-surveillancers and the surveillancers.
The timing was extremely clever; at any other time, Chen Tao would probably have stopped him.
But now, Chen Tao has reached a balance between the two factors of "not wanting to stop it" and "it would be too exhausting to stop it now," which has led him to take the action of not interfering with the old man's evil forces at all!
This was extremely advantageous for Huo Rong—the right time, the right place, and the right solution to the problem. "You really found the perfect opportunity," Chen Tao himself hadn't expected; the other party had arrived at such a perfect time.
Even the slightest deviation could lead Chen Tao to make a completely different decision.
But only now.
"Now, to control Barbatos' invasion of the main universe, we need to create Dark Night Metal."
The Supreme Superman said, "Once those crisis energies flow into the universe and the tuning fork reaches the amount I need, I will begin to reboot the entire multiverse."
Chen Tao nodded.
There's nothing more to say; now it's time to watch the old scourge's performance.
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what……
The elderly Huo Rong was slightly dazed.
We've finally reached this point, so close to success.
Every move he makes now is a review of the previous game.
However, some seemingly hopeless moves are so difficult that even the most skilled players may not be able to find a solution even after playing them hundreds or thousands of times.
But he's close to solving it. This difficult problem, in the end, isn't without an answer.
Infinitely close.
In this cycle of reincarnation, Huo Rong asked himself a million times: Could he really accomplish all this? Could he really bring back that era that had already been set in stone and reverse the source of all the tragedy...?
Could someone like him really accomplish all this? To achieve a feat that only a handful of people across the multiverse have accomplished in countless years, even if it's just a simple act of deception?
His plan is feasible, and he will succeed.
Throughout the long history of the DC multiverse, it's not that no one has ever done something like this before.
The third Time Slayer once altered the history of the Hypertime Stream, dying in place of the first Time Slayer at the hands of Parallax in the Zero Hour. He did not affect the Hypertime Stream's program, and this substitution was written into the Hypertime Stream's history, permanently fine-tuning the Zero Hour's history.
Now, Huo Rong only needs to change the object of his theft from a person to an Earth, and he has already prepared a substitute, a lifelike fake Earth.
Batman's Dragon has already manipulated Barbatos, triggering the Dark Night Metal.
Large numbers of clown dragons are fleeing from the Dark Multiverse toward the Main Universe, and the legions controlled by Barbatos are also beginning to spread into the Main Universe, directly charging in. These evil members of the Dark Multiverse legions crave a...
Air?
No, absolutely not. There's not a single person there. Everyone is still on the same timeline formed by the three timelines Chen Tao stole from the Laughing Bat.
A crisis occurred, but there were no casualties.
Chen Tao hasn't restored everything to normal yet; he's merely triggered a crisis without any human intervention, creating some crisis energy to test the waters first.
Next, Superman the Primal simply needs to assume the role of Superman in the main universe, and then close the split timeline...
Huo Rong knew that Batman had likely guessed his thoughts and even realized that he had restarted the timeline many times. This did not surprise Huo Rong. The other party was a smart person, and smart people would weigh the pros and cons, and those who weighed the pros and cons could be controlled.
Some external threats, some signals that I'm not someone to be trifled with, some pleas, and some disclosure of the truth were enough to make Batman Dragon make the judgment that Calamity wanted.
In fact, these messages and threats were real; he simply adapted to the situation and found a suitable opportunity.
Crisis energy began to converge towards the cosmic tuning fork.
Batman Dragon is busy manipulating Barbatos, while Superman Supreme is clumsily controlling the Cosmic Tuning Fork.
Foolish Owl is helping Superman, while Hero Day is just standing by, watching others do the work.
Now is the perfect time for the Batman Who Laughs to make his move.
The elderly Huo Rong waited silently, waiting for the story to unfold according to his script.
Based on his past history, Batman Dragon may continue to dominate the entire Dark Multiverse Night Metal Brush Crisis Energy Event.
He will protect the Foolish Owl and pretend to obey the Supreme Superman, using him to create a large amount of crisis energy before turning against him at a crucial moment.
Foolish Owl, on the other hand, possessed the essence of the New 52 Superman. Even after his spaceship was stolen, he kept this essence firmly on his person.
With this essential essence, Batman Dragon and Foolish Owl can suppress Superman Supreme, and Superman Supreme can suppress Barbatos, so in the end the perfect formula is established.
Next, all he needs to do is...
"Wait, why are we absorbing so little crisis energy now? It's even less than what you absorbed before. This... this doesn't seem right."
Then he heard Batman Dragon's voice: "What's going on?"
Just hearing that one sentence, Huo Rong knew that Batman had entered a period of abandoning his brain again. He had now become half an idiot, the kind who couldn't even speak clearly.
Damn, that's how Batman: Dragon is.
He either continues to use his brain, or he sees through it all and completely abandons thinking.
"Someone is stealing the crisis energy we created," he said. "There's a mastermind behind it all!"
As Huo Rong spoke, he was also stealing crisis energy himself, knowing who the so-called mastermind was.
The Bat of Laughter, huh?
But if you go through a conspiracy hundreds or thousands of times, you won't feel that it's a conspiracy anymore, but rather a mandatory storyline mission that you have to complete.
Okay, so this is a conspiracy.
"Move 16 meters to the left in a moment, and launch the attack in 4000 seconds."
Only someone like Jiang Guangtou, who likes to make minor adjustments, would say such a thing, but Chen Tao believed it would be very useful.
He did as instructed.
He waited quietly for a while, then launched an attack into the spacetime void not far away.
Then he heard a hissing sound.
(End of this chapter)