LRAB Chapter 549 I, the Anti-Monitor, am truly saving the multiverse!
Chapter 549 I, the Anti-Monitor, am truly saving the multiverse!
Chapter 549 I, the Anti-Monitor, am truly saving the multiverse!!! Why don't you believe me???
The first Lantern Knight is in jail, but in a different place.
It was no longer the Shadow Cabinet created by the Guardians of the Universe, but inside a massive purple lamp furnace.
The Shadow Cabin was merely a shell imprisoning him; inside the Shadow Cabin, what truly sealed the first Lantern was a giant, furnace-shaped building.
(Note: Please refer to the New 52 Green Lantern Annual, Issue 1 for the specific format.)
Batman will be thrown out by Brainiac's shrinking light and Shadow Cabinet to attract the attention of the Anti-Monitor, but the first Lantern remains firmly under his control.
He was hidden inside Batman's body in an alternate dimension created by the Metal Spirit. The first Lantern didn't know what was happening outside, and he could do nothing but wait quietly.
Then he saw Batman.
The first Lantern Man didn't show any hatred. He wasn't stupid. As a prisoner, the one thing the first Lantern Man, Calamity, had in abundance was time.
After being rejected by Batman without any reason, he was naturally furious. However, during his time in the Shadow Cabinet, he easily figured out that Batman's unusual attitude at the time was not intentionally making fun of his suffering, but rather that there was some reason why he could not be released.
After reaching this conclusion, the original Lantern Man's hatred for Batman dissipated.
So his current goal is to figure out why Batman won't release him, and then find a way to resolve that reason, or have someone else release him in Batman's place.
He wasn't in a hurry at all. He had already wasted so many years in the Shadow Cabinet; even if things got worse, they couldn't get any worse, could they?
He saw that within the metal space before him, countless tiny nanobots were stacked on the silver ground in front of him, forming the shape of Batman.
"It's rare to see you come to visit me, Batman," said Genie A.R.
Batman's unexpected appearance in front of him made him sense something.
Before this, when Batman was face to face with him, he would not say a single word of nonsense. He would start doing things almost as soon as he appeared, taking him out of the Shadow Chamber from his seal, and then shrinking the Shadow Chamber and taking it away out of thin air...
But this time, Batman appeared in front of him for more than a second without doing anything, and the first Lantern Man's heart was pounding.
He tried to keep his tone as calm as possible.
He looked at Batman and turned his head slightly, remaining silent like a statue.
The next second, he couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"I intend to release you."
Batman's very first words made the first Lantern feel like crying, even though he had cried all his tears many years ago.
He suppressed the surging emotions within him and asked in a low voice, "What do I need to give in return? How can I repay your kindness?"
He knew very well what Batman needed.
He will definitely try to seize something from himself.
"I removed the shrinking gun component from the Brainiac spaceship. The energy you draw from the emotional spectrum is enough to power this kit. Brainiac technology is energy-enabled and highly compatible, capable of absorbing any type of energy. There are no obstacles to using it in that respect."
Batman did not give a direct answer to the first Lantern.
He continued, "There's one more thing you'd like to know?"
Then the first Lantern saw Batman turn his head.
"I've found Earth 15, your home planet. Although it might not be yours."
Batman telepathically transmitted a wealth of information about the Dark Multiverse and its current state, as well as how to operate the Shrink Gun, to the First Lantern.
Then Chen Tao said, "But if you can save this Earth 15, then the projection of this disaster onto the Dark Multiverse will be erased. Conversely, as long as this event exists on the timeline in the material universe, it will be repeatedly projected onto the Dark Multiverse, that is, it will happen there and be irreversible."
"You asked me if I have any requests, Huo Rong. I do have some, listen carefully."
"I have only one request: I can release you and let you go to save your world. But you must remember..."
"You can try any method to save your world, but you should never sacrifice other people's worlds to save yours. Once you try to harm innocent people to save yourself... then you're no different from a villain, do you understand?"
Chen Tao said this.
He knew he was using Genie I; he was using Genie I to threaten the entire Time Stream to help himself. He was despicable.
But he still gave the first Genie a sliver of hope... a chance to save his world.
If it weren't for him, due to the causal laws of the hypertime flow, no Genie 1 in thousands of parallel universes would have been able to come here, even if a portal to Earth-15 appeared in front of Genie 1.
The hope of saving his world that the first Lantern Knight pursued never existed, but Chen Tao has placed that hope in front of him today, which can be considered as barely settling the score for using the other party to force the time-traveling self to fight back.
What happens to Earth-15 next... that's up to the first Lantern Knight himself.
I'm trying to save my world, and you're saving yours too, Horror.
I wish you all the best, though I know the chances are slim.
But what else can I say?
If I am able to help you, I would be happy to lend a hand.
But I can't do that now.
I'm very sorry.
Chen Tao watched as the first Genie disappeared into this space, and at the very moment the first Genie officially landed on Earth-15, the entire multiverse trembled.
"Aaaaaaaahhhhhh, Batman really did that!!!!"
In Fiji, the Time Master is holding his head.
"Don't worry, buddy," Golden Vanguard said from the side.
As the massive tremor shook the area, the Anti-Monitor watched with utter disbelief as a large number of superheroes emerged from behind the portal.
The superheroes were completely bewildered.
"My God!" A Superman dressed in a tattered costume flew out from behind a portal, clutching his head in confusion. "Where am I now?"
Having traversed the hyper-time stream and the multiverse, Superman was feeling dizzy. He looked around at the various portals and the strange and wonderful creatures emerging from them, and he was almost dumbfounded.
"I was just fighting a monster that fell from the sky. The Justice League just named it Doomsday... It wiped out most of the Justice League. I was evenly matched with it, but then it punched me and sent me flying. And here I am?"
The Superman seemed to finally come to his senses a little: "No, no, I have to go back. Only I can deal with that big guy, I..."
(Note: This Superman is from the "Death of Superman" era, and he is about to be killed by Doomsday through the chest.)
Then Superman turned his head and saw a Kryptonian with a big beard, wearing a black coat and a red belt next to him.
"???? I thought I was the last child of Krypton."
"I am Superman," said the Kryptonian with the big beard.
"????"
"????"
The two superheroes looked at each other in bewilderment.
"My name is Clark Kent."
"My name is Hernán Zod."
"Your father is General Zod???"
"I'm afraid so, but I'm Superman too."
Then Superman turned around and saw a short-haired female Kryptonian whose breasts were as big as her buttocks.
"Kara???"
"It's Wonder Woman, from Earth 2, but yes, it really is Kara."
(Note: This Wonder Woman is from Earth 2 before Crisis on Infinite Earths, and is not the same place as Earth 2 after New 52!!!)
The Superman was completely confused, then he turned his head and saw something even more incredible:
A Superman dressed entirely in red and a Superman dressed entirely in blue flew in together from another portal, both of them utterly bewildered: "What's going on?"
(Note: Red Superman and Blue Superman universe. An alternate world before the Crisis on Infinite Earths, specifically pre-crisis universe 162. Superman built a machine that could increase his intelligence a hundredfold, but the machine split him in two, creating two Supermen, Red and Blue. In this world, Red Superman married Lana Lang, who was also Superman's first love in the main universe, while Blue Superman married Lois Lane.)
Superman, his clothes tattered from fighting Doomsday, turned around and saw a new Superman standing before him. He looked uncertainly at the symbol on the other's chest: "Wait, is that a hammer and sickle?"
(Note: Red Son Superman's spaceship did not land in the United States, but in the Soviet Union, where he was educated to be a communist fighter.)
Superman quickly turned around and saw a Superman with a Chinese face flying to his side: "Hello, my name is Kong Kenan, I'm the Chinese Superman, where is this?"
The person in tattered clothes couldn't understand half of what Kong Kenan was saying, because the first four words, "Chinese Superman," were spoken in Chinese!
"Something must have happened." As the Supermen looked at each other, puzzled, they saw a bat-shaped spaceship fly by.
"I had just returned to my Batcave, ready to confront the Angel of Death, when a portal appeared and forcefully pulled me here. If I hadn't injected myself with Bane's venom and then desperately climbed into one of my few Batplanes capable of interstellar travel, I would be a floating corpse in outer space right now."
The bat-shaped spaceship spoke up: "And the strangest thing is that we can still speak and make sounds even though we are in outer space. This is very likely because the opened portal has spread a large amount of air into this area."
(Note: This Batman is the Batman from the Knightfall era. Yes, that's right, the Knightfall from the first volume of this book. In this story, Batman's back is broken, and then his disciple, the Angel of Death, rebels! At this time, Batman has just healed his back, which Bane broke, and plans to return as the Dragon King and beat up his unfilial disciple. However, he is sucked away as soon as he returns to the Batcave.)
A large number of brightly dressed, unnamed heroes emerged from the portal, filling the area to capacity.
Then, among the many heroes, everyone discovered a Batman who could exist in space without the help of the Batship.
"I am Batman," Chen Tao said. "Listen to me, everyone, I've analyzed the current situation."
Then he pointed to the anti-surveillance agent not far away: "See that guy? He's an anti-surveillance agent!"
"He must have orchestrated all of this!"
A look at Superman during the Death of Superman era and Batman during the Fall of the Knight era.
Damn it! They really are anti-surveillance agents!
（注：《超人之死》发生于1992年11月18号的《超人v2》第75期，这个时期的超人已经经历过1985年的《无限地球危机》，1993年发生的《骑士陨落》同理。大家都认识反监视者这个差点毁灭宇宙的魔王。）
"Wait, let me explain!"
The anti-surveillance agent hasn't figured out how to deal with the siege of over 3000 people, mainly because if he really is the troublemaker, then he won't hesitate.
The problem is that Batman is the "virus" that wants to save Earth 15, thus threatening the multiverse, while the Anti-Monitor is just trying to reverse the outcome of the first crisis (Crisis on Infinite Earths)—well, he's a virus too.
The problem is that, thanks to Barbatos's help, the puppet he controls now has the identity of a "Dark Multiverse Anti-Monitor Projection," and is no longer an unregistered entity in the current timeline. Even if it is a virus, it is a "disguised virus." Therefore, the first thing these "immune cells" summoned by the trans-time flow should stop is not him, the Anti-Monitor, but the Batman of this Dark Multiverse!
"Listen to me first, I am not the culprit behind all this."
Kong Kenan, the Chinese superhero, was almost about to rush forward when he heard what the other party said, and he immediately froze.
"Then who is?"
"Listen to me, the reason you're here is because someone has threatened the safety of the multiverse, so the multiverse itself has summoned you here to save the world. What I mean is..."
Chen Tao whispered to Superman during the time of Superman's death, "I bet he'll say later that I was the mastermind behind the destruction of the multiverse."
The anti-surveillance activist pointed at Chen Tao: "He's the real culprit who destroyed the world!"
The more than 3000 heroes looked at each other in bewilderment.
The anti-surveillance advocate passionately declared, "...he would do anything for his universe..."
"...It was all orchestrated by Batman, that evil guy..."
"...This time, I am saving the multiverse from destruction! I know that although I was a demon king who destroyed worlds before, this time, I am truly..."
"...This man, he is incredibly selfish! He is the mastermind behind the destruction of the world, evil..."
Then the anti-surveillance worker's words were interrupted by Kong Kenan, the Chinese superhero.
"Uh, wait a minute, I'm starting to understand the situation. So you're here to save the multiverse, but how exactly are you going to save it?"
The anti-monitor pointed to the blue Earth not far away: "This Earth must be destroyed! Wait, listen to me first. The reason for destroying this Earth is that this planet will create the Green Lantern Corps, so it must... The cause and effect are complicated, what I mean is..."
The eyes of more than 3000 heroes have changed.
The counter-surveillance agent wanted to explain, but the cause and effect were too complex to be explained in a few words. The more he spoke, the more confused he became, with some preconceived notions, especially since he had created the first crisis and was already stained with blood.
"Batman is the villain of this universe! Listen to me, I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about the Batman who's hiding behind Superman, that Batman is the culprit behind all this."
The anti-surveillance advocates tried to continue.
He saw Batman and Superman whispering and cuddling, occasionally chuckling, and then pointing at him.
He's just like Jia Baoyu, who's always hanging out with his sisters.
A surge of anger rushed straight to the head of the anti-surveillance activist.
"I swear to God, everything I've said is the absolute truth, not a single word of it is false!"
He pointed a sharp finger at Batman: "If you let Batman run rampant, the entire multiverse will pay the price. You and I are on the same side, working to stop this cancer that's creating crisis for the multiverse!"
Then he saw everyone blinking their eyes and looking at him.
"You see, I told you long ago that he would blame everything on someone else."
Then he heard the Batman say something.
"Ha, fucking."
"The anti-surveillance advocate said."
(End of this chapter)