What bad intentions could Batman have?.

"Your future is going to be tough... Did you know that?"

Chen Tao heard Dr. Manhattan's voice.

Somewhere in the multiverse, the Golden Bomber and the Time Master on some unknown timeline groaned together: "Damn it, where did this blue bald guy come from?"

"What do we do now?"

Golden Vanguard asked the Time Master: "You are not a master in timeline management, so please give the following command. How should we solve this?"

"You can try to attack this blue bald guy."

"Really?"

"Just kidding, better not."

The Time Master lowered his head and kept operating the strange instrument in his hand: "This is really weird. My instrument can't detect this guy's origin on the timeline at all."

"what does that mean?"

"It means he is outside of the timeline."

"so……"

"So if we don't want to die, we'd better not provoke him." The Time Master said seriously: "This will not bring any results except that we will lose our lives."

"So we're just going to watch him change Batman's history? Just watch him destroy the timeline?"

The Time Master smiled bitterly and said:

"I'm afraid so."

“We lost the ability to disrupt,” he said.

The Time Master put down the instrument, which was now useless.

"So we can't do anything now?"

Golden Vanguard asked.

"Do not."

The Time Master gritted his teeth.

"We still have a way to stop it. We can interfere with Batman's history. We must go back to the timeline before Batman created this multiverse crisis and try to erase this crisis."

He said, "Stop looking, let's go."

He looked down at the timeline, "We'll be in the Batman Universe... but which location and which timeline exactly should we go to?"

As they started to act, Dr. Manhattan, who was talking to Chen Tao, seemed to notice something.

In an instant, his gaze crossed infinite dimensions and stared at Golden Vanguard and Time Master within the limited time before they could even notice or react.

As he watched the two men, Dr. Manhattan also learned of their plans.

Because Dr. Manhattan is in the present, past, and future all at once, seeing their past communications is as clear as viewing the lines on the palm of your hand.

Dr. Manhattan raised his hand slightly. He originally planned to slap Time Master and Golden Booster to death with a slap, just like he slapped to death the positive matter universe Night Owl and the New Gods Metron who were aware of his existence during the "Forever Evil" period of the New 52.

He could do this as easily as slapping a mosquito.

Dr. Manhattan raised his hand.

"Strange, this instrument suddenly broke down."

"Can you do it?"

"I don't know! This thing was working fine just now, and can you please stop talking nonsense? I'm concentrating on repairing it."

"Let me operate this equipment."

"Don't even think about it."

Dr. Manhattan thought for a while, and finally gave up the option of murdering others.

Because he suddenly realized that the appearance of Golden Bomber and Time Master here was itself part of the super-time flow's self-rescue operation, an attempt.

If he wanted to conduct his own experiment and observe the feedback of the super-time flow, he should not take the initiative to cut off this attempt, otherwise it would not be an experiment, but a puppet show completely controlled by himself.

But he can't let Booster Gold and Time Master act on his own. Once they interfere with Batman's previous history, they might directly erase the current reality of [Dark Multiverse Batman causing a multiverse crisis].

Wouldn't that be equivalent to destroying all of Dr. Manhattan's experiments?

Therefore, Dr. Manhattan made a decision.

He set an anchor point for Time Master and Golden Bomber, and with just a wave of his hand he tampered with the duo's instruments.

No matter how they repair, modify, or even replace a new device, they can only be fixed in one location as a monitoring probe. This way, they can avoid interfering with the history of the super-time flow and do not block the self-rescue response of the super-time flow.

"Wait, the instrument is working again now."

"So we can just rush over there?"

"Don't be impulsive. We must carefully choose where we land..."

"…This thing is sometimes good and sometimes bad. In my opinion, if you don't get through now, you may not be able to get through later…"

"No, of course not. I'm telling you, you can't just pick a timeline randomly... What are you doing?"

"Let's just go over there and talk."

"…Shit, that would cause the timeline to shatter and reality to collapse…"

"Damn it, Richard, do you think I would? If I could--"

"It seems to be connected... Shut up! Stop talking nonsense, I beg you. Erase all the influence quickly..."

"Why don't you come and try it!"

(Note: Time Master and Golden Vanguard will directly connect

This also explains why, no matter how many times they repaired the machine or tried, they could only probe into different timelines in Fiji, and could not enter Chen Tao's timeline at all! Because Dr. Manhattan had tampered with them!

But readers must have discovered that things were not as Dr. Manhattan thought [no impact]. The actions of Golden Booster and Time Master going back to the past directly led to the destruction of the place [Fiji] in Chen Tao's universe! They still successfully changed part of history! )

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"Look... I know you're wary of me. But I'm here to help you."

"Death offers me a better bargaining chip." Chen Tao said: "Why do you think you have the ability to persuade me?"

"No, it's different."

Dr. Manhattan said.

"Building a utopia in the afterlife is nothing more than a cowardly escape. But if you are willing to accept my help... it will be a journey towards a brand new future."

"You were originally planning to build a fortress in the dark multiverse, right? With about a quarter of your authority."

"Although you have a shallow understanding of this power, and due to the lack of authority and knowledge, you can't even weave your own destiny. But you still have the ability to block the influence of Barbatos... At least you can compete with Barbatos in such a small area. You think you can become the gatekeeper of the dark multiverse, and you think you have the ability and can completely withstand the wave after wave of attacks from Barbatos in the dark multiverse.

"But you should know."

"The tragic fate of the dark multiverse was not entirely woven by Barbatos. He just made the dark multiverse move in the direction he wanted. Most of it... was the result of the congenital stunted development of those universes."

"You will go through difficult years. You will have to resist not only attacks from outside the fortress, but also the malice of the universe itself. Your actions have caused severe damage to the multiverse. At some point in the future, you must take responsibility and complete the time loop to save the multiverse. This is the manifest destiny you have forged for yourself, and this destiny is still vague and has not yet solidified."

Dr. Manhattan looked at the confused Batman and whispered:

"If you don't understand, let me make it clearer: the emergency self-rescue of the super-time stream created a mysterious cause and effect."

"Now, the [result] of [the multiverse being saved] has been forcibly set, but the [cause] of [how the multiverse was saved] has not yet happened."

"Once you decide to continue according to the script written for you by the multiverse's super-time stream, you will inevitably face difficulties and obstacles that are still a mystery."

"But I can offer you another option."

Dr. Manhattan said: "I can help you and pull you out of this vortex that you have created yourself."

"By transferring all the creatures in those two universes, you and your universe will be far away from the center of the chaos of the multiverse and become the two most insignificant among countless parallel universes."

Dr. Manhattan gave an example: "For example, the Batman of the Victorian world (see Gotham by Gaslight), the Batman of the Westworld..."

"They still exist in the DC Universe, but they don't need to participate in any critical missions to save the multiverse."

"Although they are also immune cells of the multiverse, they are only the kind that needs to protect their own universe. Don't you want to be this kind of immune cell?"

Dr. Manhattan said: "You want to retire, don't you? The last time you retired, Alfred drove you out of Fiji, which made you regain your determination. But living in Fiji is what you want after all."

(Note: Dr. Manhattan is talking about the history before being changed by Booster Gold and Time Master, but the timeline has been changed by Booster Gold and Time Master, and Fiji has already exploded!)

"And I can help you. If your story is a book, it's time to end it now. Why do you continue to mix your life with endless fighting and struggle?"

"Then...what about the trouble I caused?" Chen Tao realized that the history told by Dr. Manhattan was different from what he remembered, but he did not ask about it.

He raised another question, asking: "If I do as you said...if I become the gatekeeper of the dark multiverse according to my original plan, I can fill the gap of cause and effect and successfully save the entire multiverse. But once I accept your conditions, who can save the entire multiverse on my behalf?"

The blue bald man remained noncommittal.

"You are not special, Batman. Don't you know that no one in this world is irreplaceable?"

Dr. Manhattan said: "If it's not you, it will be someone else, Batman A, Batman B, or even the Justice League. There is always someone who can become the hero. You have thought about it yourself, right? Why do you always have to do it yourself? Why do you always have to go through all this by yourself?"

"Why can some people be born with ease and no worries? Why can some people be born smarter than me and don't have to bear these responsibilities and sufferings?"

Dr. Manhattan said, "And now an opportunity to get rid of these responsibilities is before you. I can't think of anything else you can do to shirk it."

He said: "This is neither using death as an escape nor indulging in irresponsible gaming of life."

"You just carried the burden for too long, and you felt tired and exhausted, so you transferred the burden to another person."

"There's no moral pressure, right? No one will condemn you for this. You just said that it was your fault, but you think too highly of yourself. Since the birth of the multiverse, it has experienced countless terrible crises that are more dangerous than what you did this time. The crisis you caused is not just the possibility of causing the destruction of the multiverse. It seems serious, but it is not the first time it has happened."

Dr. Manhattan said: "The entire multiverse is a petri dish for crises. These crises will always happen with or without you. Don't take the blame for the crisis on yourself."

"You have done a good enough job. You can hand over your work and return the burden to the Justice League of the main universe."

"You have completed your heroic epic and reached the end of your adventure story. But every adventure has an end, doesn't it? It's time for you to return to Fiji and fulfill your promise, to fulfill your promise to Alfred, you..."

“Fiji is devastated.”

Manhattan then heard Batman say.

"what?"

He didn't react for a moment.

Manhattan raised his head suddenly, and then in an instant he read the history of the destruction of Fiji, the history that had been tampered with by Golden Vanguard and Time Master.

Then he heard Batman say: "When things are out of my control, I can't even decide if my safe haven is safe."

Dr. Manhattan was dumbfounded. He was a person who existed in the past and the future at the same time, but he did not see the changes in time and space clearly just now. The causal relationship between the past and the present was so mysterious and wonderful that it was beyond words. This was the first time that Dr. Manhattan saw changes beyond his control. Does this mean that his previous understanding of the entire multiverse will be completely overturned?

Then he heard Batman say:

"Besides, how do you want me to give up..."

"What about the sentient beings in this dark multiverse?"

"You... have you really thought it through? Are you really determined to make such a decision? The reason why you are willing to stay in the dark multiverse... you actually tried to save the lives of the entire dark multiverse? Have you never thought that you will fail?"

Dr. Manhattan asked, the results of the experiment confused and surprised him.

"I'm seeking to control my own destiny," said Chen Tao.

"As for what you said..."

"fail?"

Dr. Manhattan heard Batman say, "Of course I thought about it, but what did that sentence say?"

Dr. Manhattan saw Batman chuckling.

"Bats that love to laugh will always have good luck."