What bad intentions could Batman have?.

Fiji.

The violent volcanic eruption has completely destroyed the function of this place as a tourist city. With the destruction of the industries that depended on it for livelihood, the population here has dropped precipitously in just a few days.

At this moment, among the ruins, a blue passage opened again, and the voices of Time Master Richard Rip Hunter and Golden Vanguard Michael Jon Carter came from behind the portal.

"I am really impressed. We are still in Fiji. Why is your operation...wait, this does not seem to be an operation problem."

The Time Master was halfway through his speech when he suddenly realized something, as if he had been hit hard by something: "We can't change it. This only shows that with the passage of time, Batman's timeline is almost solidified—"

"What do you mean?"

It was obviously the voice of Golden Bomber, who asked, "Explain."

"We missed our chance. Batman's timeline is like a bucket of cement that's been paved for a long time. When we want to shovel it out of the way, the best way is to do it now."

The Time Master explained:

"But now the cement road has begun to solidify. You see, even if you shovel it hard, due to the loss of moisture, a thin layer of solidified cement will be left on the ground. His timeline is close to solidification, and the cost of shoveling it off is greater than we imagined!"

"So there's nothing we can do?"

"No, of course there is a way, but that requires a time traveler who is much stronger than us. We need, for example, Barry Allen or Wally West. (Note: This refers to White Wally, the third generation Flash, not the black Wally after the New 52. At this time, White Wally was trapped in the Speed ​​Force because Dr. Manhattan stole ten years of DC and did not exist in the main universe. So the main universe automatically generated a black version of Wally. So when the Time Master mentioned him, it was like saying that a dead person could help us lift this stone.) Our machines were interfered with and it was difficult to jump to the right place."

"Then what's the use of this? We still have no solution now."

Both of them were silent for a while, staring blankly at the time when they could not interfere with Batman's current situation.

"So the future cannot be changed?" asked Golden Vanguard.

"The future is not unchangeable. Even the past can be changed, so why can't the future be changed?" The Time Master replied in a voice that was almost groaning:

"But Batman single-handedly reshaped his future, and we can't change that future. At least not by us."

"Then don't change."

"What do you mean?"

"Don't you think it's cruel? The Batman of this parallel universe has spent so much time and energy trying to change everything that their universe might experience in the future, but for the balance and safety of the multiverse, we have to sacrifice the lives of everyone in this universe?"

"Damn it, Golden Bomber, you better not give up-"

"I quit, Richard. This isn't heroic."

"Damn it, I'm going crazy. Listen to me, Golden Bomber, they are dead people who should have died in history. We are not sacrificing them, we are maintaining the normal operation of the timeline and the super-time flow."

The Time Master took a breath, then calmed down a little and said, "I know what you are thinking. I understand you, Michael. I once made the same mistake as you. I once tried to save Pompeii."

(Note: Pompeii is an ancient Greek city submerged by volcanic ash) I once tried to save the thousands of innocent people in Pompeii who were doomed to be buried and killed by the volcanic ash. "

"But my actions led to terrible consequences. Because the people of Pompeii did not die, countless heroes who should have appeared in the downstream timeline were drowned in the long river of history. The battle that should have been victorious failed, the timeline fell into a major collapse, and more people died. I had to go back and stop my former self, and then watched Pompeii destroyed by volcanic ash."

"I have returned to Pompeii countless times before it was engulfed by volcanic ash." The Master of Time said sincerely: "I walked on the main street with the vendors and breathed the fresh air of the morning with the residents."

"But I know damn well that I can never tell them when they're going to die. That's the most basic professional quality of a time traveler."

"My job is to maintain the operation of the original timeline on the infinite timeline, and to prevent countless changes that may cause history to deviate in different directions and affect the downstream timeline, from the groom who nailed Charlemagne to one more nail, to whether Hitler's personal doctor was bribed by the British to prescribe him a poison to end his life early."

"Batman interfered with the development of the main universe timeline. The changes he made to the timeline seriously harmed the development of the downstream of the super-time stream. From a macro perspective..."

"Then it's not macro." said Golden Vanguard.

His tone was more serious than ever before: "Batman is saving the world. Do you want us to stop him? This is the natural development of the timeline. We cannot maintain the stability of the super-time flow by extinguishing the development of the timeline."

"But in this case..." Time Master couldn't help but feel angry, and then he heard the voice of Golden Vanguard.

"You remember that quote from Superman, right?"

"There is always a way, there is always a choice."

The Time Master was silent for a moment.

"But we're not the only ones trying to interfere with Batman's timeline. The Anti-Monitor in this universe is also trying to reshape the timeline in which he wins."

"Whether the timeline Batman is trying to shape can actually solidify is still unknown... What qualifications do you have to say that this is the choice of timeline?"

"Perhaps soon we will find that the timeline that Batman has barely created and is not yet stable will be quickly erased by the Anti-Monitor, redirecting the future back to his victorious ending. I told you not to deify or personify the timeline. The self-regulation ability of the timeline and the super-time flow has its limits. He is not a god with a specific personality incarnation."

"So now that we can't interfere with Batman, we should focus on solving the problem at hand, rather than solving the person who caused the problem..."

A new round of argument broke out between the two of them, and the argument gradually turned into a quarrel, and soon, the blue portal disappeared.

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Hypertime flow.

Chen Tao thought silently.

In fact, DC's timeline is very strange. Anyone who has never read DC comics may feel confused by DC's messy timeline and have no idea what is going on.

But in fact, if you want to understand the DC timeline, you should follow not the time points in the DC universe, but the nodes where major events occur.

When Papetua, the creator god of the DC universe, created the DC multiverse, he set up DC into a cosmic structure that can repeatedly create crisis forces by constantly restarting its own timeline.

Since the First Crisis, also known as the Crisis on Infinite Earths, major DC events that have led to the restart of the DC timeline have occurred many times.

Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, Zero Hour…

Every time these major events that change the timeline occur, many things that happened on the original timeline will be erased.

For example, during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Batman Knightfall event, in which Batman's spine was broken by Bane, took place in the main universe.

However, with the reboot of the "New 52" universe, the new timeline replaced the old timeline and became the current reality. The major event of "Knightfall" was directly erased from the timeline. A new chapter in DC's history has been opened, but has the event of "Knightfall" disappeared in the DC universe?

not at all!

In the "past" of DC's hyper-timestream, this event still remains in the period of Crisis on Infinite Earths, before the New 52 events caused the timeline to be reshaped.

The present timeline is the present timeline, what does it have to do with the timelines that have existed in the past?

This is also the reason why at the end of the "Diversity Convergence" event, the Parallax Demon Hal was able to run to the main world and fight with the current Hal.

Hal Parallax is Hal Jordan, who became evil after the events of "Emerald Twilight", which led to the deaths of 700 million people in Coast City. However, with the multiple restarts of the universe, Hal was cleansed and became a true Green Lantern again.

In order to hold a multiverse tournament, Brainiac on a certain timeline directly pulled Parallax Mohal from his timeline after the Zero Hour Crisis, and then threw him into the main universe at the end of the event, causing him to come directly to the present timeline from the timeline he had existed in the past through the super time flow.

Each timeline is like a constantly flowing river, and the major events in DC are like digging a new river.

Otherwise, if the timeline has been restarted, how did Parallax Demon Hal come to the current timeline?

Therefore, this is the reason why Chen Tao made this plan now.

He needs help from the super-time stream, and he has to create a final insurance for his plan.

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Hall of Justice.

When the ventriloquist entered the room in a maid outfit, he saw Batman's head and body had transformed into a monster that looked like a dragon.

This is the transformation caused by the purple lantern beast Plunderbeast having completely filled his body, a state of being possessed by the lantern beast, but Batman does not seem to have his mind controlled by the Plunderbeast.

The ventriloquist carefully walked to Batman's feet and crawled to the ground.

Batman's mental control and manipulation of him made him unable to fight back. But before he could say anything, he heard the sound of the brakes falling.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

A large number of weapons and stasis fields appeared, instantly turning the Hall of Justice into a prison for capture.

"Master..." The ventriloquist trembled. He didn't know why Batman did this, but the light ring on his hand seemed to start to disobey his orders and flickered unsteadily. Then he heard Batman's voice:

"I'm sorry, Arnold. For making you suffer for so long. It hurts to carry it with you, I know. But I'll be able to help you with this soon."

He stretched out his hand, and the power of the purple light began to transform into invisible tentacles, and soon lifted the old man in maid clothes from the ground.

"Ah!!! Master!" the ventriloquist screamed. He was suddenly horrified to find that he could no longer control his ring. The ring on his hand materialized into various cold weapons and stabbed towards Batman, but before it touched Batman, it was decomposed by the purple light energy like a breeze.

Chen Tao had no expression on his face. As the tentacles swayed, the expression on the face of the ventriloquist Arnold became more and more distorted.

His face turned red as severe pain eroded him. Strands of green light energy began to spread from the hand where he wore the ring, along his blood vessels, toward his arm, making the arm where he wore the ring look almost like a large glowing light tube.

"Come out, I know you have been hiding in here." Chen Tao said.

He looked at the little old man in a maid's outfit. He needed an insurance policy... an ultimate insurance policy.

And as this last insurance, only the person in front of him can help him.

"Don't want to come out yet?" he said.

A large amount of purple light energy was charged into the Ring of Disaster. He knew that this ring had its own space inside. Although the ventriloquist had reported to him before that there was no other consciousness in this space except himself, and the ventriloquist himself was a strange thing that could not be controlled by mind, but Chen Tao knew that the First Lantern Man must be hiding in it. With the other party's ability, it would be a strange thing if he could be discovered by the ventriloquist.

Chen Tao increased the input of purple light energy. He could not match Lantern No. 1 in controlling the green light power and the seven-color emotional spectrum, but he was already the host of the plunder beast. Even if he used more, he could drown the opponent hiding in the ring.

The Plunderbeast was completely under his control, a control that was no different from the way Sinestro controlled Parallax.

Since the First Lantern cannot corrode his ability to control the power of the Purple Lantern, he can only control the Green Lantern energy inside the Ring of Doom.

Under the pressure of a large amount of purple light power, the living space of these green light energies will become smaller and smaller. If this continues, it is only a matter of time before the first Lantern is discovered.

Sure enough, soon a green figure finally took human form under the pressure of a large amount of purple light power. As soon as he appeared, he stared at Batman with eyes full of hatred.

Yes, that's right, this is what he is looking for.

Currently in the Shadow Cabinet is the creator of Green Lantern and the master of the emotional spectrum.

The man who could never find home:

The first Lantern.

Disaster.