pertwk Chapter 703 The final solution is to escape into the main universe?
Chapter 703 The final solution is to escape into the main universe?
Chapter 703 The final solution is to escape into the main universe?
"Well done, ventriloquist."
Lex Luthor said so.
At this moment, Lex Luthor was sitting in the Luthor Group's secret base in Antarctica. Beside him, a ventriloquist dressed as a maid sat normally in the center of a huge machine, covered in strange tubes.
The next moment, he screamed, "Oh! Batman! Oh! That's awesome!"
A few hours earlier, Luthor and the entire Justice League realized that someone was trying to drag the Flashpoint world of Reverse-Flash away from Batman's cosmic fortress, and then they observed Brainiac's attack.
No one could stand idly by and watch this happen. The Justice League team has already begun to act, entering the Flashpoint universe to stop them. The helmets created by Martian Manhunter and Lex Luthor can help them become immune to the control of this new Brainiac, but clearly, Lex Luthor has other plans as well.
This invading Brainiac is far more powerful than the one that invaded Earth before. It is precisely because of this that Luthor has discovered that while the Brainiac is dragging away the Flashpoint world, it is also constantly absorbing all the spiritual power of every creature in the Flashpoint world.
Immediately afterwards, the balding old man dressed as a maid began to breathe heavily. The next moment, his head began to swell as if an inflated balloon had been blown up, with large amounts of blue and pink flesh growing from the top of his head, making his head bigger than a balloon.
This is some kind of human modification; Luther copied the abilities of Starro the Conqueror of the Universe, the giant starfish in the universe, into the ventriloquist.
The Justice League would never allow Lex Luthor to do such a thing, but simply put, he is Lex Luthor, and he won't let anyone know.
Batman is always busy with matters outside the universe, while Lex Luthor saves the world—a perfect script.
The ventriloquist's voice was already beginning to distort under his increasingly enlarged head:
"More...more Batman..."
As he spoke, the back of his head completely blossomed, transforming into a five-pointed starfish. His face replaced Staro's original giant eye, positioned in the very center of the starfish, connecting to the maid's body below his neck.
Meanwhile, the ventriloquist uncontrollably spread his legs, and between his legs, a small Brainiac doll grew out from below him.
When Chen Tao's version of Brainiac was defeated by Chen Tao, he left behind a small clone in the place where Bane imprisoned Chen Tao's Joker.
This thing, along with Starro the Conqueror of the Universe's body cells, was taken into control by Luther, who ultimately used the Ventriloquist's schizophrenia to synthesize this freak with telepathic abilities.
"More Batman! I love it!" the ventriloquist shouted uncontrollably, his mouth agape.
A ventriloquist's mental illness allows him to infinitely multiply his alternate personalities, but the problem is that, limited by the normal processing power of a human brain, a ventriloquist cannot be "infinite," otherwise his brain would inevitably crash.
Now, thanks to Luther's actions, the Ventriloquist finally has the ability to create an infinite number of split personalities. These infinite personalities are then distributed by Luther into the infinite bodies created by Mudface, and some creatures that appear to have thoughts and can act autonomously are thus created.
"Absorb, absorb as much as you want..." Luther manipulated the creatures he had created, constantly throwing them into the Flashpoint world through teleportation channels, and then feeding them to Brainiac via a mental link.
But he knew that the situation here wasn't the most critical. Brainiac couldn't invade the two universes that had formed a fortress. The fortress that Batman had originally built with the two universes was like two solid rocks, while the Flashpoint world was just a lump of mud pasted on top of it.
But if they have already been attacked, that means...
What about Batman?
……
……
……
Chen Tao let out a long sigh of relief.
At this moment, he is joining forces with Barbatos to fight against Black Lantern Corpsehal.
Logically speaking, even if Barbatos was seriously injured, Chen Tao thought that Lord Barbatos should be able to contend with the creator of this world. However, the current situation is somewhat like a complete defeat, and Chen Tao can't understand why.
"Are you even capable, Barbatos?" He was a little exasperated, squeezing Barbatos's waist and abdomen tightly with his legs from behind. At this moment, Black Lantern Corpse Hal was carrying the first Lantern, while Barbatos was carrying Chen Tao. The two facing each other head-on were surprisingly symmetrical.
"He is my master." Barbatos was already speaking without thinking. Normally, he would never say such a thing as "my master," and he would not even mention his history with the World Founders.
But now, he has been pushed to his limit.
Chen Tao gritted his teeth and used Barbatos' power to extinguish a portion of the light-extinguishing program on the emotional spectrum energy swung by Black Lantern Corpse Hal, turning off the colorful dazzling light. Immediately afterward, more energy and Black Lantern Corpse Hal's heavy punch came crashing down.
"Do something, Barbatos," he said to Barbatos.
Chen Tao took a deep breath. The situation was worse than ever before, but even under these circumstances, he had prepared three solutions in advance.
He had already decided to use Plan B. Barbatos was even more incompetent than he had imagined. When facing the World Forger, his former master, he couldn't even unleash 1/10 of his power.
Moreover, he could already sense that Barbatos's power was spinning more and more slowly and stagnantly, and that he could not delay any longer.
The World Forgers are constantly using their power to infuse the dark matter energy within Barbatos's body, attempting to reclaim the power that once belonged to them.
Of course, Barbatos wasn't going to be trifled with. Chen Tao was 100% certain that after devouring its master, Barbatos hadn't been idle. These powers had been taken by Barbatos for so long that they had become etched into its very being.
Even if the World Forger possessed him, it wouldn't be possible to reclaim all his power in an instant. Moreover, if the World Forger's feigned death had been too obvious, it wouldn't have fooled Barbatos, his pet with whom he spent every day. Therefore, Chen Tao could roughly deduce that it would take the World Forger a considerable amount of time to completely control Barbatos.
This is why Chen Tao initially wanted to incite Barbatos to temporarily expel him on his own.
However, Barbatos was too deeply traumatized by the World Forger, and the power within him was of the same origin as the other party's. In this short period of confrontation, he did not retaliate at all, but was simply being constantly drained of power.
Although the dark matter cosmic energy that had been re-imprinted by the World Forger was still inside Barbatos's body, and given time, Barbatos could erase these imprints in the same way as digesting a corpse, Chen Tao had completely given up on the idea of Barbatos spontaneously unleashing its power to defeat the World Forger.
Besides that, he had some concerns... He always felt that the World Forgers couldn't possibly control Barbatos completely by relying on the current slow and inefficient method of influencing and erasing; it was far too slow.
The World Forger has been preparing for so long; he might be casting his execution spell right now. It would be foolish for him to keep waiting here with Barbatos and stubbornly try to force the spell. Having realized the situation was hopeless, it was time to act.
and so……
"Let's run away together, Lord Barbatos."
Barbatos was still somewhat dazed: "Run? Where can we run to?"
Chen Tao cursed Barbatos in his mind. "You call yourself the Lord of the Dark Multiverse? Is this how you talk about losing your fighting spirit? Where did that energy you had when you invaded my universe with the Anti-Monitor?"
"The World Forge is entirely the territory of my former master, and the Dark Multiverse is also entirely his creation. Everything I have is inherited from him. No matter which battle location we change, our final outcome will still be a crushing defeat."
Barbatos said, "There is no place where I have the advantage in fighting him."
"Yes, Lord Barbatos."
"Where?"
"It's very simple," Chen Tao said. "The main universe."
Barbatos suddenly widened his dragon eyes and turned his head to the side.
Chen Tao whispered to Barbatos, "What was the simplest reason you couldn't enter the main universe before? It's simple, because you couldn't enter the main universe; you didn't have a portal. But now the portal problem... haven't you solved it?"
Yup!
The premise of Chen Tao's entire plan to bring Barbatos out of the World Forge, form an alliance with him, and ultimately launch a counterattack against the Anti-Monitor Dragon was that Chen Tao could use Zul'Ah Batman to integrate all the metals needed to open the portal into the main universe Batman's body, and then directly use him as a portal to open the Dark Multiverse Metal ahead of time, right?
Now that Barbatos has no way to return to the World Forge or the Dark Multiverse, and is a stray dog, the Main Universe has become the only place that the World Forgers cannot touch and that Barbatos can only escape to!
And then again—
"The main universe has an obligation to help us, and they are capable of helping us," Chen Tao comforted Barbatos. "We are refugees from the Dark Multiverse, so of course we need the help of the Justice League from the main universe."
"They are the largest immune cells in the entire multiverse, and now your master world's forger clearly wants to weaken the entire hyper-time flow, which means destroying the entire multiverse."
"But we don't know what the World Founders want to do," Barbatos said.
Chen Tao choked for a moment. Indeed, from Barbatos's perspective, he knew nothing about the World Forger's plans. He wasn't stupid. Even if someone were stupid, after discovering that Brainiac was cooperating with the World Forger, they would be able to roughly deduce the other party's trajectory.
However, the way the other party sometimes disrupts the hyper-time flow and sometimes stabilizes it makes people think that the World Maker is schizophrenic if they don't know the World Maker's plan beforehand. They simply can't understand what he wants to do.
but……
"It's quite obvious," Chen Tao said. "It's clear that the World Forger wants to create an infant multiverse, and then, by continuously weakening our hypertime flow, ultimately replace our current multiverse with this infant multiverse to create his ideal perfect world. This fact is easy to deduce from the reasoning."
Barbatos: ?
Reasoning? How can you be so certain of this?
"Whatever the reason," Chen Tao said, "as long as it makes sense. Let's make a decision quickly. No one understands superheroes better than me. As long as we give this reason, those foolish superheroes will be willingly deceived by us."
He assured Barbatos, "The easiest thing to deal with in this world is superheroes. At worst, I'll shed a couple of tears and then rub myself against Superman's pant leg."
"Okay..." Barbatos hesitated for a moment, then said, "So, you've already sent Zul'Ah Batman back to the main universe?"
"I had already made preparations beforehand. While you were talking to me just now, Zul'Ah Batman had already been sent away."
10 minutes ago.
Zul'Ah Batman was surrounded by a large group of Batmen, and he had been stared at like this for a long time. These strange and wonderful figures from the Dark Multiverse seemed to enjoy chatting with him, but when it came to the crucial questions, they all became tight-lipped.
During the conversation just now, Zul Batman already knew when each of the Batmen's parents died and how old they were when they wet the bed, but he just didn't know what would happen to him next.
Then at some point, he suddenly saw one of the Batmen stand up, and then everyone stood up.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
The next moment, he was attacked by Zero Frame and instantly killed.
just now.
"So all we need to do is escape the World Forger, and then we need to rescue some people." Chen Tao said bluntly, "Actually, this escape plan to escape directly to the main universe was originally to escape your persecution. I was worried about how to escape with several universes, but now with your help, everything is perfect."
Barbatos found it somewhat strange. He still hadn't made up his mind to follow Batman's plan. The idea of escaping directly to the main universe and then crying over the Justice League's coattails made him feel uneasy.
Barbatos heard Batman say, "But before that, we need to save my universe, and..."
"And the Laughing Bat?"
Barbatos asked.
"No, we don't want this," Chen Tao said. "Let's go rescue the Emperor Clown."
(End of this chapter)