What bad intentions could Batman have?.

"Do not."

Chen Tao said: "This is not true. My plan is..."

Chen Tao saw the feet of death.

There was a body lying there, Chen Tao's body.

The enormous burden of lifting up a universe crushed his body and drained the life out of it, but the corpse in front of him did not die in a tragic way. He just fell there face down quietly, as if he was sleeping.

The girl who called herself Death said nothing.

"My plan failed." Chen Tao said.

He grabbed his own body.

He said to himself, "My plan went awry. A dead man can't swing a hammer."

Then he asked, "Where are we?"

"We are outside of time," Death answered. "I am waiting for you to look around and ask me why I am not holding a scythe or wearing skis."

The girl said happily:

"And then I have to say 'I'm sorry to disappoint you, but this is just who I am.'"

Death said that, and then looked at Chen Tao expectantly.

"That's the symbol of the Black Death Emperor and the Black Runner." Chen Tao said, "They are the spokespersons of death... but you are different... you are death itself."

Death pursed his lips.

"Well," she said, "you are right about my duty. I am death."

She stretched out her green fingers and lightly touched Chen Tao's nose. The next moment, the deadly green color spread all over Chen Tao's body, and then it returned in an instant.

"Right, it's me, right?"

"Then now I..."

Death turned around and slapped Chen Tao on the back of his head.

"Let me show you what I can do. Sometimes that helps put your situation into perspective."

The girl squatted down and saw a butterfly flapping its wings desperately in its cocoon among the flowers.

"I usually call this a life flashback."

Death said.

"You know how when you're dying your whole life flashes before your eyes? This is a lot like that, except..."

The butterfly struggled to break out of the cocoon, it flapped its wings and stayed on the fingertips of death, quietly enjoying the close proximity to death, looking directly at death with joy.

"A little late, usually."

Did you know that about 70% of insects will die when they break out of their cocoons?

"I...I don't want to..."

"Don't be afraid, you will enjoy it," said Death.

"Well, there are so many to choose from, I can see your entire life from here, and he looks just like I thought..."

"What do you mean by that?" Chen Tao asked, "I don't want to see...!"

Then he saw the palm of death glowing, and countless illusions appeared before him.

A lackluster past, a battle with Bane, holding that nuclear bomb, fighting General Zod and Brainiac, and fighting alongside Superboy-Prime and Darkseid.

Chen Tao began to realize what he was facing.

"Wait, it's not impossible to revive after death. Many people have been resurrected through various methods, although they have flaws. The Lazarus Pool, the Black Lantern Ring, the Black of Decay... I am a low-level spokesperson for the Black of Decay! I should not have died! I also control the spirit of metal, and the demise of metal should not be so fast..."

"Uh……"

The young girl named Death showed a somewhat embarrassed expression.

Then he looked a little embarrassed and said: "Yes, I noticed that, and it seems that they are all doing well."

"Then why can they come back to life, but I can't?"

She said, "Well... I was a little busy at the time."

Chen Tao wanted to say something, but he heard Death say:

"I understand, I'm very understanding... but listen, I meet 15 people a day, and that's on a relatively non-chaotic planet like yours, not counting cats, fish, or goldfish."

"You humans will always die from something. No one is immune. Some people die and come back to life. This is normal. You know, people come back from the dead. It's no big deal."

She said:

“It all happens, but in the end they all come back to me.”

Chen Tao wanted to be angry, he knew that his anger came from his fear.

But he finally said:

"Well, this isn't doing me any good, and it's clear that being angry isn't going to help the situation, so... what's the price for changing this? What do you want?"

"A pony. A magic pony, the kind that sings."

Chen Tao was stunned by this strange answer.

"…literally or some other creature or something?"

Then he saw Death burst out laughing.

"Sorry, I was just kidding. I've seen many magical ponies, even ones that can sing."

Death said, "I have seen it all."

The girl shrugged. "I mean... is there anything else I need? If so, that would be great. Sorry, I always find the bargaining stage to be the hardest to handle."

"Phase?" Chen Tao said, "You seem to be following a certain procedure."

He felt his legs going weak, so he held onto a tree nearby.

He turned his head away, not wanting to pay attention to the person watching him die.

When death was so near, he didn't even have the courage to look it in the eye.

"You've done this many times before, it's obvious. Every move I make is anticipated because there is no other way."

He sat down blankly, guarding his dead body.

His nose smelled of the forest and the grass, in which his dead self lay sleeping.

And all this seems like an illusion.

"This... this is happening, this is how I feel."

He looked at Death, and he finally had the courage to look at him.

"I felt helpless... I never feel helpless."

Then his IQ tried to regain the upper hand: "I'm actually experiencing the funniest physiological reaction right now... It's so ironic."

He looked sad and gloomy.

"I...I've been in a lot of dangerous situations in my life, but I've never been this scared."

Death showed a sympathetic look. She squatted in front of Chen Tao and gently took one of his hands.

"Shh, it's okay."

"Can you...can you help me? Please help me."

A gust of wind blew between the two people who were looking at each other, like a cool evening breeze on a summer night.

Death placed his delicate gloved hand gently on his chest.

"You know, I've been doing this for a while, and I've seen all kinds of different reactions, and you're not the first person to try to arouse my sympathy—"

"—this doesn't work?"

"No, it always works, but it has no effect," said Death.

"You are getting over the pain phase very quickly, and the next phase... will be to accept it calmly? Then..."