deltrittennovels Chapter 799 Hmm, the World Forger, this is not something Batman would like.
Chapter 799 Hmm, the World Forger, this is not something Batman would like.
Chapter 799 Hmm, the World Forger, that's not something Batman likes.
As philosopher David Hume said in "A Treatise of Human Nature": Reason is, and should be, the slave of the passions.
While the Supreme Superman and the Anti-Monitor were ganging up to beat up the evil powerful like punching bags, Chen Tao and Hero Ri were enjoying this rare moment...
Uh……
Leisure time?
The Bat of Laughter has already been carried away; he fled in disarray. Meanwhile, the Superman Supreme and the Anti-Monitor over there will kill the Evil Nobles and then use the Dark Night Metal to create enough Crisis Energy.
Their fragile alliance will crumble immediately, followed by a dogfight where they'll fight tooth and nail until their brains are spilled.
Interestingly, everyone in the entire league knew about this.
"Batman, we've caught Barry, but he's behaving strangely. The Maniac took Cyborg's half of his metal body, and he's been carrying it with him ever since. We couldn't get it."
"Um."
Chen Tao pressed his temples. Lex Luthor and his men had achieved their goal, or at least part of it.
"Hmm... If the Batman Who Laughs has given Barry enough drugs, you should settle him down first, and also regarding the World Forgers..."
"I see."
Chen Tao and Luther didn't talk much. Luther knew that Batman now had to focus all his attention on dealing with the troublesome guys around him.
After sharing information about the Old Man Calamity with Luthor, Luthor also began to implement his own plans. As for Cyborg…
Chen Tao stroked his chin for a moment, then glanced at Yu Xiao, who was standing beside him.
"What, you're afraid to drink what I gave you?" He handed over a pot of tea, as if he hadn't mixed in any of the messy, unhealthy methods he used to control it.
"I'd be an idiot to drink it," the Foolish Owl bluntly stated.
Chen Tao curled his lip:
"Speaking so ruthlessly, that's not something Batman likes."
Somewhat sullenly, he took the tea back, then drank it himself, destroying evidence of his attempt to control others.
Hero Day sat with Chen Tao.
Chen Tao turned his head away, and then he heard Hero Ri speak:
"Research on prosocial courage tells us that altruistic motivations can inspire extraordinary courage. Am I participating in this chaotic conflict out of some psychological reason that I'm not even aware of?"
Chen Tao sensed something was amiss when he heard Hero Day's words. He had previously shared some of the power of the Corruption Black with Hero Day, and then shared the Green of All Things, the Red of All Beings, and the Spirit of Metal with him.
His original intention was to use these magical energies to control Hero Day's body, but Hero Day used these powers very well.
Before he fully realized that he might not be a real person, he had never used these powers. But now, after Buzz Lightyear saw the TV die, he began to abuse the Metal Spirit powers that Chen Tao had given him, secretly connecting to the Internet and stuffing his head with all sorts of random philosophical theories.
Simply put—
Heroes' Day, learn how to use the internet!
Philosopher Hadler believed that feelings of inferiority arise when individuals feel powerless, weak, or unappreciated. To compensate for this pain, they may do so by excessively displaying power or trying to control others.
Hero Day said, "It's like I came here to follow you guys and participate in this terrible brawl that only heroes participate in, and where there's a high chance of dying, to cover up the fact that I'm not actually a hero at all."
Chen Tao, who was listening nearby, turned green with rage.
Brother, please, stop worrying about it!
When Hero Day can no longer find the right to explain himself from within, he seeks a way to articulate himself from the outside world.
Even with a super brain, philosophy cannot fully explain life and living; otherwise, philosophers wouldn't have been arguing so much over the years.
Heroes' Day is still spent chanting sutras:
This behavioral pattern is called overcompensation, but this overcompensation is not...
"That's enough!"
Chen Tao interrupted him. He opened his mouth, instinctively wanting to use his all-powerful sophistry to brainwash Hero Day or create some inspirational quotes to force into the other person's mouth, but looking into the other person's blinking eyes, he ultimately said nothing.
"Ah, we're really doing something heroic," Hero Day said blankly.
"We come all this way to save a timeline that's destined to be restarted, and then tell them 'this all makes sense,' that's just too much of a superhero thing to do."
He muttered, "That's quite a heroic feat. If I were a superhero, I probably could have done even better."
Chen Tao realized that he had no choice but to intervene.
So he organized his thoughts and, incidentally, used Metal Spirit to search the internet.
Thank goodness, although this place is a mess where the post-apocalyptic future timeline and Flashpoint intersect, the O'Mak brothers have protected the network very well, preserving almost the entire network from before the cataclysm, which naturally includes the content Chen Tao wanted. So after a brief search, he began to try to answer Hero Day.
"The philosopher Sartre believed that existence precedes essence," he said. "For example, if you are already doing heroic things, it means that you already have the qualifications to become a hero, but you are not aware of it yourself."
I know you'll feel this way, but it's a lack of entitlement.
He thought for a moment, then said, "It's like how the outside world always tells you that only those who are smart enough and have a refined artistic sense can appreciate art or nature."
This behavior is essentially no different from thinking, "I'll enjoy life when I'm rich." You can find the same statements everywhere: "I'll be happy when I find true love," or "I'll do this or that when I become smart and powerful," but in reality, you're already doing it.
"Once I finish my work, I can retire," Hero Day said.
Chen Tao: ?
Well, in fact, Hero Day seemed to have taken Chen Tao's words to heart. Chen Tao was happy that Hero Day could continue to crack jokes. In the entire league, he and Chen Tao seemed to be the two most relaxed people, which was especially precious among a bunch of heavy-hearted guys.
Batman.
Chen Tao wanted to continue giving some inspirational messages for Hero Day, but he was only halfway through his sentence when he felt a message from Lex Luthor.
What happened? Did something go wrong when they were settling Barry Allen in?
"Batman, we've run into a bit of trouble here."
Chen Tao slapped himself up quickly, the previous ease vanishing from his face in an instant. Batman mode activated, and "Chen Tao" was forgotten.
He placed the teapot on the table.
"Tell me, what's the problem?"
"It's not about Barry, it's about someone else: the first Lantern Man."
Chen Tao raised an eyebrow. He remembered the intelligence he had gathered before: the first Lantern had reached an agreement with the Batman Who Laughs and was working for him. But what was going on now?
He never imagined that, even in the current situation, the first Lantern would still be so loyal to the Batman Who Laughs, even fighting against Luthor and his crew for him when he fled in disarray.
If the first Genie isn't Luthor's enemy, then the only way Luthor could contact himself now is...
"Has the first Lantern Knight contacted you yet?"
"Yes, they contacted me."
Luther said, "He intends to talk to you."
Chen Tao immediately glanced subconsciously at the elderly scourge who was directing the Supreme Little Superman and his group to beat up the evil nobles not far away.
It seems that the connection between the old man and the first Lantern Knight is weaker than he thought. This old man has been stirring up trouble behind his past self's back, which is quite intriguing.
In fact, Chen Tao had already guessed the identities of the group of Third Legion members and Shadow Calamity Rong beside the First Lantern Knight, but the Old Calamity Rong did not join the "My Past Self Disguised as a Member of the Third Legion to Help You" system.
"Vicious elites" is actually a collective term for many of the Void Hand's subordinates, but the one in front of us is clearly not weak among the evil elites—
But even though he wasn't weak, it's impossible for him to have survived being beaten up by Superman and the Anti-Monitor for so long!
Therefore, the main reason is that the Batman Who Laughs used the evil nobles and the operation of separating the main universe through the three timelines to control the cosmic tuning fork and take away a large amount of crisis energy.
Some of this crisis energy was taken away by the maniacal laughter, while the rest remained entirely within the Evil Aristocracy. The Evil Aristocracy almost entirely relied on expending crisis energy to withstand the attacks of Superman Supreme and the Anti-Monitor.
Not everyone has the ability to survive being beaten for a while by Superman and the Anti-Monitor. The fact that the Evil Power was able to consciously use the crisis energy to protect himself after taking a punch to the head is already quite impressive.
On the other hand, the Supreme Superman was somewhat hesitant to attack. They couldn't use their maximum power to attack the Evil Noble, because the crisis energy within the other party was a piece of cake they could share. The Evil Noble was wasting this cake to protect himself, which was simply the biggest waste!
Fortunately, they still had the old scourge on their side, who kept giving the two men advice. Every time, his advice hit the enemy's weak point, so the evil nobles were being worn down faster and faster.
"Ahhhhhhh!!!!" He let out a piercing scream, his enormous single eye fixed on Superman Supreme and the Anti-Monitor beside him, before uttering an insult:
"Come on, Your Excellency. Superman, you know very well which bastard destroyed your homeland. Yes, it's this guy standing right next to you right now, he killed you..."
The anti-monitor, expressionless, grabbed his jawbone and tore it apart, only to have it quickly replenished the next second with the help of crisis energy.
"You're fighting alongside your enemy, Superman Supreme, you—"
Superman grabbed his horn, then snapped it off and plunged it into his abdomen.
"What am I?"
The wicked and powerful figure continued his tirade: "You actually teamed up with your enemies who killed Earth? You don't deserve to be the Supreme Superman, you idiot, you..."
Despite his cursing, the powerful and wicked were terrified.
Giving up this crisis energy means death, but not giving it up to protect yourself means you'll still die once the crisis energy is depleted. This is probably the most unsolvable problem.
A wicked and powerful person can do anything; he can do anything.
No matter what he did or what he did, it couldn't affect the fact that he was about to be beaten. Once that energy was exhausted, it would be his death day. What a desperate way to die.
"That's enough. Even if you don't consider your girlfriend, you should at least consider your mother—"
The next second, half of his enormous head disappeared. A massive, crimson fist pierced through half of his body, and Superman's eyes flashed red.
He said nothing, but repeatedly tore the body of the evil nobleman to pieces. He seemed to have no reaction to the other party's words, but looked at the counter-monitor with increasingly cold eyes.
Those who tried to sow discord between the anti-monitors and the evil-minded elites of Superman Supreme got another beating.
After being beaten for a while, his consciousness became weaker and weaker. With the help of the old evil spirit, he would occasionally spit out crisis energy from his mouth as he was beaten, which would then be sucked away by the anti-monitor's cosmic tuning fork.
Sitting next to Chen Tao, Yu Xiao had a somewhat gloomy face.
Originally, the Cosmic Tuning Fork was under his control, but his authority to control the Cosmic Tuning Fork came entirely from the Anti-Monitor and the Monitor. Now that the Anti-Monitor himself has appeared here, and the Monitor is hiding behind him and not showing up at all, he himself has directly become the candidate to control the Tuning Fork.
The reason why Foolish Owl, who previously controlled the tuning fork, was still able to sit at the table and eat was entirely because the essence of New 52 Superman's life force existed within him under the protection of Doctor Manhattan's power. Even when helping him stabilize the timeline, he was also monitoring whether Foolish Owl had kept his promise to Doctor Manhattan.
Don't assume that what the bald blue guy gives you is good. Do you think he gives you things without any cost? The bald blue guy is constantly conducting experiments, and he will only let you go if you live so that his experiments can become clearer.
Now that the fool has been completely stripped of his duties, how can he be happy?
"Wait a minute, there's no need to do this."
"Huorong, come here for a moment."
At this moment, Chen Tao temporarily summoned back the elderly Huo Rong. Carrying the Supreme Little Superman and the Anti-Monitor, who were still on the verge of completely annihilating the evil nobles, he frowned and shared the information that Luther had given Chen Tao with Huo Rong:
The information in the first line is very simple:
"The first Genie wants to have a talk with you."
"The first Genie? The first Genie should have already joined the World Forgers by now, which is what I did."
Then he heard the voice of the old man, who spoke of the first Lantern Knight with a... how should I put it? Irony?
In short, this is what he said: "Now he is the lobbyist for the world's foundries."
Hmm, the World Maker? That's not something Batman would like.
(End of this chapter)