LRAB Chapter 852: From the Past to the Future! I have no power.
Chapter 852: From the Past to the Future! I have no power.
Chapter 852 Back to the Past, Soaring into the Future! I am... a powerless, foolish madman!
"Wow, wow, you've come, little monster."
Everything came to a standstill.
Chen Tao saw...
Chen Tao saw himself.
In his own universe, he faces the anti-monitor.
...Puppets created by the anti-monitors downstream in the hypertime stream.
Chen Tao saw his past self raising his hands high, as if he were holding some kind of light or distorted space.
He held a small section of distorted space as the hammer handle, while the hammerhead...
That is the entire universe.
It's really weird, like a long handle growing out of the ceiling of a house, and you're grabbing that handle and trying to swing the whole house like a hammer, even though you're standing inside the house yourself.
In short, Chen Tao knew what was about to happen. He was going to wield the entire universe as a hammer to forcefully smash the Anti-Monitor's puppet from the gap between the Dark Multiverse and the Normal Light Multiverse into Earth's 15 timeline...
This led to the Earth-15 event, which would have caused the collapse of the multiverse.
Chen Tao carefully examined himself, who was wielding the universe.
He is so young.
Chen Tao means...
It all feels like a distant memory.
But now everything has stopped, and Chen Tao sees the anti-surveillance agent naturally walk down from the spot where it was about to be hammered into the gap.
Yes, he stepped down. Like a paused videotape, a person who was originally in the video stepped down from their original position, revealing the cosmic rift that had been blocked by their body, while the others remained frozen in place.
During this paused time, the anti-surveillance agent walked to Chen Tao's side, stood shoulder to shoulder with him, and looked at the Chen Tao whose past had been frozen in time.
"You were quite cute back then," the anti-surveillance agent said.
"What did you do?" Chen Tao asked him.
"Hey, wait a minute, I get the feeling you already guessed I'd twist the hypertimeline, reverse the downstream hypertimeline from when you were killed by the World Forger, and bring you here? You seem a little surprised, but not really astonished?" the Anti-Monitor said. "Come on, you're not that omniscient."
"Everything that happened was just part of your script."
"What? No, you think too highly of me..." the Anti-Monitor said, "but I am indeed a sixth-dimensional god."
He said, "All of this... how should I put it, it's not just all of this that's like a script to me."
The anti-surveillance agent looked at Chen Tao: "Instead, everything that has happened in the past is a script for me, a script that I can try to change."
He said, "When you pour cement on the road, I may not be able to decide how it will be laid. But before it's laid and dried, I can easily alter the undried cement—does this analogy make sense to a lower being like you?"
Chen Tao grinned.
"Low-level life is not a derogatory term. Little monster, almost all life in the entire multiverse is 'low-level life' to me."
"Okay. What are you planning to do?" Chen Tao asked.
"Please. You are, after all, a servant god of Barbatos. Do you know that Barbatos can also easily observe the past and future of the trans-time stream? He is also a master at weaving fate, adept at using molds to outline the direction he wants the cement to extend before it is even poured out."
The Anti-Monitor stated, "While the framed history can be easily torn apart by other sixth-dimensional gods, it's undeniable that that adorable little dog does possess some of the abilities of a sixth-dimensional god… a generous gift from the World Forger." The Anti-Monitor continued, "As his attendant god, don't tell me you haven't learned it yet…"
"Pause time."
"I can only pause or restart time within a single universe," Chen Tao said.
"Oh ho, then I think you'll have to practice. If Barbatos could firmly believe that he could do it, he should also be able to temporarily stop the flow of time, but he's never tried it... But to be honest, I originally thought that with your intelligence, you should have learned it much faster than that stupid dog Barbatos... or at least temporarily mastered it."
The anti-surveillance agent said, "However..."
He reached out his hand towards Chen Tao's past not far away: "Before we start talking formally, that past you is blocking my view a bit, so perhaps I should just..."
He gently waved to the past Chen Tao, and then, as if a mask had been used to erase the person in a video, the past Chen Tao vanished from the spot.
Chen Tao stared blankly at all of this.
He didn't understand how the counter-surveillance agents managed to do it.
"Oh, let me guess, poor Batman, thinking he was fighting the whole system and could defeat that person, and then—"
"Alas."
The anti-surveillance activist spread his palms: "He's right here."
"What exactly do you want me to do?"
"How about this, you practice a few thousand more times to clarify your direction, okay?"
"You want me...you want me to extinguish Earth-15 myself. You want me to submit to you at this point in time, thereby preventing Earth-15 from happening, thereby preventing all of this, preventing the World Forger and his Multiverse Fusion, and even the stolen Superman of the Main Universe!"
"But I would never do that," Chen Tao said. "There must be other ways, I can..."
"I already told you, practice a few thousand more times."
The Anti-Monitor shook his head, then rubbed his hands together. Immediately afterward, the previously vanished Chen Tao returned to his original position. Then, the Anti-Monitor walked towards the cosmic rift, lay down, and returned to his original position in the script—the supervillain who was about to be smashed into the cosmic rift by a heavy hammer.
"Edward Nigma the Riddler is one of your men; he has partnered with you," Chen Tao said.
"Hmm, clever little monster."
"Lex Luthor from the main universe, he also..."
"No, Lex Luthor just asked me some questions, and I didn't mind answering them, but the truth is, Luthor doesn't intend to cooperate with me. He's a bit of a troublesome little guy, but from the macroscopic perspective of the Hypertime Stream, he's just a speck of dust, isn't he?"
Chen Tao fell silent.
Then he witnessed the anti-surveillance agent snap his fingers... and Chen Tao saw history begin to move forward again.
He stood outside of history; the Chen Tao of the past never saw his future self.
Chen Tao witnessed his own roar, and he saw the anti-surveillance agent gripping the edge of the gap with great force.
He heard his own savage laughter and saw his raised fist with the grotesque bone spurs of the ravager on it.
He heard his own roar.
"...I am...a mortal cloaked in disguise..."
"...I was a suicidal person...a willing sacrifice...an incompetent planner..."
"He's... a powerless, foolish madman!"
boom!
With a loud bang, Chen Tao suddenly opened his eyes.
He found himself on the eve of his entry into a multicultural fusion.
Standing before him were Edward Nicholas the Riddler, Hero Day, and a host of others from the Dark Multiverse.
Chen Tao realized that he was currently holding the wrists of both Hero Day and the Riddler.
He involuntarily uttered the half-line from before...
"It's just the three of us, and our friends from the Dark Multiverse."
Then he stopped and did not continue.
"What happened?"
Chen Tao heard the heroes of the Heroes' Day and the dark multiverse residing in the metallic supernatural space within his body asking questions:
"Didn't we say we were going to move towards a more diversified and integrated future?"
"No, we cannot enter into a multicultural integration in this way."
Chen Tao released their hands and quickly said:
"Batman from the main universe will betray us, and once we go in, we'll be besieged by both Superman Supreme and the Worldmaker. It's a dead end."
He quickly said, "All the multiverse fusion solutions provided by the main universe Batman are unusable; entering them means certain death. We need another way to enter the multiverse fusion."
He paused, then said, "The method to enter is simple. The First Lantern also entered the Multiverse... He has a way to enter as well. So now we just need to find the First Lantern and then use his channels to enter the Multiverse."
Chen Tao said:
"So now we need to convince the first Lantern Man, and we also need to find him."
"The question is, how do we find the first Genie?"
Chen Tao turned his head and looked at the riddle-maker, Edward Nigma:
"The anti-surveillance agents must have helped you. The method is right there."
He reached out and grabbed the Riddler, then drew a stream of green energy from the man's body.
At the same time, the Lantern Horror began to resonate with the energy drawn from the Riddler.
"The emotional spectrum that resonates with the first Genie."
"This will help us find the first Lantern Man."
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"You're really putting me in a difficult position, my friend."
In a corner outside the DC universe, there lies the newly born, brand-new baby multiverse.
"My friend, I have advised you many times... Look at all this, I have shown you with facts that a brand new multiverse is far better and more perfect than the original chaotic one."
The world's builders sighed.
Before him sat the main universe's Superman (P Superman), dressed in pajamas, silently sipping milk at the dining table.
He doesn't speak.
"Nothing can subdue you, can it?" the World Forger said.
"I tormented you relentlessly, for a time so long it reached the very end of time. You were covered in wounds, not a single piece of your body was unscathed... but you still did not give in."
"I once seduced you with emotions, I once gave you a new family and new children while you had lost your memory. I reversed your memories to manipulate you, fabricating endless identities for you—rich man, beggar—I created every imaginable happy life for you..."
But none of this can stop you. I have exhausted every method that humans and gods could conceive, yet you remain forever unmoved by any temptation.
"I don't understand what's the point of persisting in all of this... why?"
"The Batman of the main universe has tried to persuade you hundreds and thousands of times, but he can't shake your mind in the slightest."
"Even if I strip away your memories, you can retrieve them; even if I distort your personality, you can eventually recover; even if I erase your memories and rewrite you as a blank sheet of paper, you can still find your past memories and personality, and then try to throw a punch at me again..."
Even the family I created for you cannot stop you from moving forward.
"I truly have no way to help you. For a sixth-dimensional deity, do you know how astonishing this is?"
To be honest, the feelings of the world's foundry workers are somewhat complicated.
If there are truly people in this world who are completely impervious to reason, then Superman from the main universe is definitely one of them, and he is at the core of the universe, so the world's creators cannot distort him.
Just as the Emperor Joker once tried to turn Superman into a clown when he gained fifth-dimensional power to change the world, he was still able to awaken and then break through the Emperor Joker's illusion with his iron fists.
Even if the World Builder were to be replaced, despite his power being far greater than that of a fifth-dimensional being, the outcome would be no different when facing Superman.
Superman still didn't react. After such a long and terrible ordeal, Superman had learned how to conserve his energy, but the World Forger knew what kind of fire the other was brewing.
"It's such a pity, my friend. If you insist on doing this, even I can't help you." The World Forger confronted the other party for a while, and finally, he seemed to have made up his mind.
"The Anti-Surveillance Team has already begun its operation, and there's also Batman Dragon..."
He was somewhat rambling, as if he were trying to relieve some of the pressure while performing some extremely dangerous operation.
Or perhaps he was explaining it to himself, cutting off his last remaining escape route.
"If the Anti-Monitor hadn't escaped, if the Void Hand and our mother hadn't both tried to resurrect... if Mandrak'rak hadn't... if none of this had been so urgent, I would have had plenty of time to discuss all of this with you, little by little. We would have become very good friends, Clark, and we would have found a way that we could both accept and that we could create a beautiful world."
"But it's too late, everything is too late. I really didn't want to erase your willpower, nor did I want to torture you. It all meant nothing to me, there was no fun in it at all..."
The world's foundry said, "But the integration of diversity cannot be compromised, so I had no choice but to do it... I'm sorry."
Then, the World Forger reached out and wiped away all of Superman's memories from the main universe once again. He had done this countless times, but Superman always managed to regain himself and continue his heroic journey.
Superman has developed resistance; the duration he can strip Superman of his memories and personality...
It's getting shorter and shorter.
(End of this chapter)