socalfunplaces Chapter 497 A Future Formed Like Cement, Like a Tide
Chapter 497 A Future Formed Like Cement, Like a Tide
Chapter 497 A Future Formed Like Cement, Purple Lantern Rings Flying Like a Tide
Earth.
The wreckage of Fiji.
This once bustling tourist destination has now become a completely deserted wasteland, devoid of any living creature.
But what no one knows is that at this very moment, inside a cavern of an active volcano in Fiji, the light of a blue portal is still shining brightly.
Immediately following the portal, a man's voice came from behind:
"Damn idiot, Golden Vanguard, you got the timing wrong. We jumped to a few days after we came last time, and we're still in the same spot."
"Never mind all that, hurry up and see if history has changed?" said the man this man called the Golden Vanguard, followed by silence behind the portal.
"This is fucking unbelievable! The future hasn't changed at all, and Batman isn't discouraged at all; in fact, he's even more motivated than before."
"ha?"
"It failed, so what's so great about that?"
"Come on, I know you're about to pin everything on me. But I've told you before, the idea of trying to make Batman fail to change future history was a complete mistake!"
"This is the least costly method, damn Golden Vanguard. If you weren't my ancestor, I would have blown your stupid head off long ago. You're unprofessional, ignorant, and full of emotional thinking. I shouldn't have partnered with you."
"If you dare to curse me again, I'll cut off my little brother right now, and then you'll never be born again."
"..."
Why are you rolling your eyes?
"I rolled my eyes in anger."
"Um, okay, I apologize."
"Phew... that's enough. In short, Batman was supposed to be inspired by his beloved butler Alfred while on vacation in Fiji, resolutely leaving Fiji to fight the Anti-Monitor with high spirits. But because of our interference, Fiji exploded, and Batman still fought the Anti-Monitor with high spirits—damn it, haven't we changed nothing?"
"That's why I've never understood it. I think Batman did a great job, look at this historical record..."
"But this history is like cement that hasn't hardened yet; it can be changed at any time! They should give you some basic training, Golden Vanguard. How can you not even know this?"
"...So what do we do now?"
"My ancestors, we failed to intervene in Batman in Fiji. We cannot intervene a second time. We must find other ways to resolve the current crisis."
"What method?"
"...Of course we should go find him...and have him come..."
As the blue portal closed, their voices quickly vanished without a trace.
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Chen Tao lied to some extent, or rather, he didn't tell the whole truth.
He claimed to Night Owl that he was fully capable of using the remaining five days of Speed Force to stuff Superman Supreme into the sun and then accelerate it by several thousand years, but in reality, much of that Speed Force had been used up when he stole the Anti-Monitor's memories, and it wasn't as plentiful as Night Owl thought.
But this didn't stop Chen Tao from using this fabricated account to convince Night Owl, especially since he wasn't completely lying: he would indeed throw Superman into the sun, and even if he couldn't withstand thousands of years of direct sunlight as he claimed, he could still do it for about a hundred years.
But he still has one more thing to do: make sure that Superman the Supreme loses consciousness completely before being thrown into the sun. Otherwise, given Superman's current conscious state, he would break free of his restraints as soon as he is exposed to sunlight and kill everyone.
Night Owl quickly raised the same question.
"I was only able to suppress the dominant personality of Superman Supreme by using the Anti-Life Equation. Although he seems to have no reaction at all, he is actually still conscious, but he just can't show it."
"If Superman Supreme were to be exposed to the sun, all the cells in his body would be activated in an instant, and then strengthened to almost his peak condition. My pitiful, incomplete anti-life equation is completely useless against Superman Supreme in this state."
"Just now, in order to avoid being tortured, Supreme Superman, under your control using the Anti-Life Equation, actively connected his mind with his beast personality, breaking your silence on him."
Therefore, he and the Beast Personality are now intertwined, each influencing the other. If I hypnotize the Beast Personality and put him into a deep sleep, then Superman Supreme will also fall asleep. Moreover, for Superman Supreme's body, this sleep is a natural process of "the body choosing to sleep," not a negative buff that needs to be overcome.
The owl fell silent.
Then he said, "You've planned everything perfectly. You deliberately tormented Superman just now for this... just like I used to be. You must be feeling very smug right now, right? You must think you've got everything figured out, right? Didn't you ever consider that things might not go as you planned?"
"No, I didn't." ×2
Then Batman and Owl said the same thing in unison.
The owl said slowly, "It really looks so much like you..."
Then, in an instant, the complex and regretful emotions in his eyes transformed back into silence.
He didn't ask what would happen to the intelligent life in the Batman universe besides those on Earth if Batman took everyone away. He believed that even Batman wouldn't be so saintly as to think he could save the entire universe.
Taking away the people on Earth only requires a small overlap between the two universes, but to take away the entire universe, the two universes must almost overlap. This would greatly increase the risk of being caught by the anti-surveillance agents. Batman only wants to ensure the continuation of life on his own Earth and wouldn't take that risk. He has abandoned intelligent life in other universes.
To be honest, seeing Batman also abandon those other innocent alien intelligent life forms in his universe, Owl felt that the moral pressure on him was somewhat shared, even though Owl wasn't sure if he had any morals at all.
You see, even Batman would choose to let his fellow citizens on his planet live. So, it's not immoral for him to sacrifice innocent people in the Batman universe to ensure the survival of his universe. It's just human nature to harm others for one's own benefit, isn't it?
Thus, the owl himself was unaware that he was being led astray, further lowering his guard. A conscience, which he himself was unsure if it even existed, distracted him, and he continued:
"I guess you also need Starro the Conqueror of the Universe. I healed him and used some drugs to enhance his telepathic abilities."
The owl paused for a moment, then said in a nonchalant tone:
"Also, I've stabbed Martian (the crime syndicate version of Martian Manhunter). Martian must have always wondered why his telepathic abilities haven't improved since he came to Earth, and have even declined. He must have thought it was because he's old or injured, but that's not the case."
"I administered to him a slow-acting, living toxin that I modified; his counterpart in your universe is a Yellow Lantern."
(Note: Here, Night Owl refers to Yellow Lantern Deathpolus, an intelligent cellular being. However, in Night Owl's universe, there is only one Ring of Calamity, and there is no Green Lantern Corps. Therefore, he did not become Yellow Lantern, but was modified by Night Owl.)
"This toxin has been slowly consuming the Martian Manhunter's growing mental strength and storing this telepathic power in the container I prepared. Although pouring it into Starro the Cosmic Starfish will not permanently enhance his telepathic abilities, it will be enough for a short period of time."
People like Night Owl, once they make up their minds, will not hesitate. They will either oppose it and use various means to achieve their goals, or they will support it and support it to the end.
Batman's proposed solution is a minor modification of his plan; as long as his universe can escape, these are all insignificant issues.
With the support of the Night Owl, many things will become much easier.
Soon, Chen Tao appeared at the center of Green Lantern Planet Mogo.
"So many green light rings..."
Chen Tao quickly spotted his adjutants Fiora and Ek, who were staying behind the area. He appeared behind them in an instant and knocked them unconscious.
After fully merging with The Flash, Barry Allen, Red Death's speed was further enhanced. Combined with the Devastator's physique, the two Kryptonians were no match for him.
He gently pinched Fiora's fair neck, tossed the unconscious female Kryptonian aside like a sickly woman, then kicked aside his lieutenant Ek, who was lying dead on the ground, and walked to the machine they were operating.
A Kryptonian technology that uses planets as spaceships. It seems that General Zod had considered the idea of transforming uninhabited planets into spaceships before Krypton's destruction, in case the highest authority on Krypton did not allow him to build spaceships to serve as Noah's Ark.
This design was never used because he was imprisoned, but it came in handy for Mogo.
Chen Tao didn't release Mogo from his control; he planned to try it out first. Just as he was about to try, Fiora suddenly looked up at him and said:
"I'm here, Batman. Night Owl sent me to help you." His voice was still Fiora's pleasant female voice, but there seemed to be a hint of resentment in it.
Chen Tao was taken aback, then quickly realized that it wasn't Fiora speaking, but rather the cosmic starfish Staro using its powerful telepathic abilities to remotely control Fiora's mind, which caused the person who had just been knocked unconscious to jump up, looking somewhat terrifying like a zombie.
Chen Tao nodded, signaling him to quickly cross space and reach his current location.
"Night Owl asked Darkseid for a few Mother Boxes, and now I can open the Boom Channel, so I'm outside of Mogok now, but I'm invisible, so no one will notice."
"Wait."
Chen Tao gave the giant starfish Starro orders, and then approached the core of Mogo's planet alone.
After he went a little deeper, he finally left the cavern where the two Kryptonian-controlled consoles were located and reached the true core.
Looking down, countless green light rings lay scattered throughout the cave below, as if they were free, piled up like small mountains, with even more hidden below.
For so long since Mogo became a Green Lantern on Green Lantern Planet, he has spent his free time in his planet's orbit forging Green Lantern rings, while also bearing the important responsibility of issuing Green Lantern rings to others and determining whether they are qualified to become Green Lanterns.
In the comic book "Green Lantern Wars" that Chen Tao had read in his previous life, Green Lantern Mogo was controlled by the parallax monster in the Green Lantern's central power battery through the traitor Calona, and in a short period of time, he expelled all the Green Lantern rings from his body.
Then these rings continuously recruited large numbers of ordinary intelligent beings throughout the universe who were not originally qualified to become Green Lanterns, to form an army to hunt down Green Lantern Hal and John Stewart and their three companions. Eventually, Green Lantern John Stewart had to kill the Green Lantern planet Mogo to stop this constant mass production of enemy troops.
But now, that ability to rapidly build up an army... belongs to him.
"Starro, I need you to lend me some of your mental power."
Three pink dots appeared on Chen Tao's face, a sign that he was activating the bat-like creature, but he still needed the help of the Cosmic Conqueror's even greater telepathic abilities.
"vomit!"
Some distance from Chen Tao, Fiora, who had been lying back on the ground after Starro finished delivering the message, suddenly woke up. She rolled over face down and vomited out a cosmic starfish clone onto her bulging chest.
"What happened?"
She tried to stand up in a daze, and then her eyes met those of the starfish.
The next second, Fiora collapsed to the ground with a thud.
Although the cosmic starfish was small, it moved with lightning speed. It only took it a few seconds to appear next to Chen Tao at the core of the planet Mogo below. Chen Chao communicated with the starfish through his mental abilities and immediately understood how to use it.
He placed the other party on his head like a hat, and immediately the will of Green Lantern Planet Mogo completely submitted to Chen Tao's feet.
"This is a necessary step in controlling Superman Supreme... but I still have to conserve the Speed Force as much as possible."
Thinking this, Chen Tao was very fortunate that there were so many Green Lantern Rings that he had forged before in the core of Mogo in front of him. He was not sure before whether the situation would be the same as the comics he had seen before.
"If I had that many rings, I could save a lot of Speed Force in what I was doing. Modifying is always simpler than forging from scratch."
Chen Tao pulled a purple lantern ring from his pocket and watched him fly towards the core of Mogo's planet. His half-arm transformed into the form of a Red Death Demon, and then some red Speed Force with bat-like appendages spread towards the core of the Green Lantern planet Mogo.
clang!
Accelerated by the Speed Force, the forging process, which would normally take a long time, was completed quickly. A green lantern ring was transformed into a brand new purple lantern ring by Mogo's forging.
Ding ding ding ding ding...
The sounds of violent impact were incessant, and soon, a large amount of purple spread across the green, then surged like a tide.
This is the ocean current formed by the Purple Lantern Ring...
(End of this chapter)