deltrittennovels Chapter 696 Chen Tao: The Laughing Bat was assigned to me as his subordinate?
Chapter 696 Chen Tao: The Laughing Bat was assigned to me as his subordinate?
Chapter 696 Chen Tao: The Laughing Bat has been assigned to me as his subordinate? (Happy New Year!)
The countersurveillance agents have discovered the energy that Barbatos and Batman Dragon left inside Hal.
But he had no other choice.
He and Barbatos have now entered a vicious cycle of purely competing for control, which is the worst possible outcome for the Anti-Monitors.
Clearly, the current timeline of the Hypertime Stream is the era of Barbatos, and this old monster from the upper reaches of the Hypertime Stream simply cannot compete with Barbatos in terms of endurance.
He now appears to be able to rival Barbatos, and even subtly suppress him, but this is merely a temporary burst of power. It is also because Barbatos always harbors the idea that "I need to keep some trump cards up my sleeve to deal with the World Forgers," and therefore dares not use his full strength.
But the counter-surveillance agents have no other options now; they have to keep going in this tug-of-war, not wait for a quick victory...
It would be a complete defeat.
and so.
Work hard!
bang bang bang! ! !
Hal raised his iron fists and punched himself repeatedly in the face, leaving him a bloody mess and his eyeballs almost popping out.
What's most incredible is that his energy continues to repair its damage, making this terrible torture endless.
Currently, within Hal's body, the three wills—Barbatos, the Anti-Monitor, and Hal—are divided into three factions.
They are playing a grand game, but Hal is the chessboard.
Both of them tried to suppress Hal's will by attacking his central nervous system, thereby plundering Hal's control and taking more energy to attack each other. Hal's body was like a gold mine, constantly being exploited by both sides and then transformed into weapons.
"Awoooo ...
Hal was screaming in agony.
During this stalemate, both sides began to look for ways to defeat their opponent outside the chessboard.
"You'll have to help me hold off the Anti-Monitors' allies." Barbatos turned to Chen Tao and warned, "Black Death Emperor, Time Trapped, Brainiac, don't underestimate them. Even if you possess my power, it doesn't mean you won't be overwhelmed by their combined attack."
Then he said, "If you die, I will suffer a backlash from using energy at such a high intensity to fight against the Anti-Monitor, which could very likely cause Hal to lose complete control..."
Barbatos was speaking when he suddenly interrupted himself:
"I have a plan, a really great plan."
Chen Tao glanced at him sideways:
and many more.
Should you say that word?
Regardless of what Chen Tao was thinking, the fact was that the dragon's rationality was slowly returning. When Chen Tao pointed out a feasible goal for him, Barbatos regained his senses.
"The Anti-Monitor Dragon can't fight me for a long time. Don't you possess the ability to transform a single universe into a multiverse fortress-like universe?"
Barbatos said, "I've seen those cosmic fortresses you built. They're incredibly tough, indeed, even capable of withstanding my attacks. After the modifications, I wouldn't be able to directly enter those universes."
"Now, if you transform Earth 1 into this fortress as well, I will assist you with dark matter cosmic energy. Didn't you have my energy back then to create this fortress? Now I will provide you with the same energy, guaranteeing that you can build it even faster than when you merged with the Anti-Monitor."
Chen Tao felt something was off, as if Barbatos's intelligence had suddenly improved, like a computer suddenly having an external graphics card plugged into its head to boost its computing power.
After becoming a dragon, does it still help provide brain computing power?
"To sum it up, your task is a very simple problem: block all the interference so I can win this protracted battle; the anti-surveillance agents can't escape!"
Chen Tao nodded: "Okay, I..."
But before he could finish speaking, both Barbatos and Chen Tao became wary again, because a portal opened not far from them.
Barbatos swung his body, blocking Chen Tao's path.
This caused his enormous body to temporarily block Chen Tao's view, preventing the person emerging from the portal from seeing Chen Tao immediately.
"Great Lord Barbatos!"
The Batman Who Laughs walked out of the portal with an exaggerated smile, followed by the Dark Knights.
The Ravenous One, whose face still bore traces of pustules, carried a figure in one hand as if it were a dead chicken. The Laughing Bat landed on the lunar surface with a broad smile, then, under extremely light gravity, it leaped slightly into the air and landed in front of Barbatos.
"Lord Barbatos," he gave an exaggerated salute, "I bring good news for your great cause."
The Destroyer knelt directly before Barbatos, as did the other members of the Dark Knights.
The Bat of Laughter had no choice but to grab the figure by the back of the neck and throw him in front of Barbatos.
"Look who we caught? The first Lantern Man."
Shadow Calamity was thrown to the ground by the Laughing Bat like a dead dog, its body covered in wounds.
He didn't know how the Batman Who Laughs had pinpointed his location so precisely, or how he had suddenly captured him before the first Lantern even had a chance to react.
He couldn't understand why this part wasn't in his original historical memory.
Because of the butterfly effect caused by his return, everything is now in chaos, and he has no idea what the future holds.
What's even more terrifying is that his memories are constantly being erased and reset, with all sorts of messy memories mixed together with his original ones, making his mind even more chaotic.
But more terrifying than all that is the reality that he has been thrown in front of Barbatos!
"This is all part of my plan, Lord Barbatos. I have now prepared a completely new contingency plan for your glorious and great cause," said the Bat Who Laughs. "I have reached an agreement with Brainiac. You see, Lord Barbatos, he did not originally intend to be your enemy."
The Bat of Laughter said:
"Ultimately, all Brainiac needs is the Flashpoint world of the Dark Multiverse, the Reverse-Flash world that Batman took away. Once he gets this world, Brainiac will have absolutely no reason to participate in the Anti-Monitor's fight against you. He's even willing to help ambush the Time Trapped or the Black Death for this world."
"If we just give him that universe, wouldn't Brainiac, our enemy, simply disappear?"
The Bat Who Laughs said, "What could be more interesting than this?"
The Laughing Bat talked on and on about his plan, which, to be fair, was quite good and had absolutely no bottom line.
If one could use an entire universe to eliminate Brainiac, a formidable enemy, or even have him help ambush other enemies before he leaves, it would be an incredibly profitable deal.
With such a merit, Barbatos would not be able to harm the Laughing Bat, otherwise things would become "announcing the killing of all tall people, but Guo Jingming was the first to be killed."
The Batman Who Laughs knows that he will be able to use this plan to reclaim his original position and continue the many plans that were temporarily shelved due to Batman's interruption.
Heh heh heh, Batman Dragon had no idea how well he knew Barbatos. Even though he had been locked in a cage by Barbatos before, Barbatos was a pragmatist. As long as he could be useful to Barbatos, Barbatos wouldn't care about his previous offenses and failures.
If he can persuade Barbatos, he will be able to utilize this power for a very long time...
the amount.
The Laughing Bat was halfway through his thought when he saw Chen Tao emerge from behind Barbatos, his arm still clutching Barbatos's tattered cloak, like an innocent little girl clutching her father's pinky finger, her bright eyes sparkling.
"Your plan is excellent," Barbatos said, but immediately felt himself punched by Chen Tao.
Chen Tao's mind raced. He had to figure out what to say to Barbatos next, and he had to speak from Barbatos's perspective, genuinely considering his feelings.
"Your goal is conquest," Chen Tao said. "Brainiac will become our enemy sooner or later; you're aiding the enemy!"
Then, speaking rapidly, he added, "Believe me, I can help you solve your problem. All you need is my plan; we don't need to make a deal with Brainiac at all!"
Barbatos blinked at Chen Tao, and Chen Tao blinked back at him.
The Laughing Bat was performing "Red Light, Green Light" on the side, not because he wanted to, but because Chen Tao was afraid he would say more, so he simply raised his hand and used his fifth-dimensional divine power to cover the area around the Bat's body with a layer of wood, silencing him.
"But this way we'll have an ally, which is safer. Even if Brainiac gets that universe, he can't convert it into power in a short time, right? We just need to find a way to take it back..."
"No, I refuse," Chen Tao said. "My plan is the most perfect one. Don't you trust my plan?"
His mind raced, carefully considering every word he uttered:
"What I want is an attitude."
Barbatos's attitude did seem to have softened somewhat, and the Laughing Bat next to him was practically bulging his eyes out from under his dark goggles.
He made a whimpering sound. In the past, Barbatos might have taken his advice into consideration, but now the Batman Who Laughs was in a state of probation, so...
"Alright," Barbatos finally said. Then he casually assigned a task to the Batman Who Laughs:
"The Batman Who Laughs, you're Batman's henchman!"
"From now on, you will obey Batman's orders completely. As for what happened before... I'll let it go."
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The upstream of the hypertime stream. The Infinite Earth Crisis Period.
The anti-monitor blocked out Hal's screams in his mind, and he was working hard to analyze the ball of energy he had obtained from Barbatos.
He pondered silently.
The World Forger had been cautious for a long time, faking his death and hiding behind the scenes, but why did he so directly mix his power into Barbatos's body this time?
If he had the ability to use such straightforward control methods, why didn't he just control Barbatos when he died?
There is only one answer: at that time, the World Builder still had reservations. He had to hide his true purpose, and for this he was willing to let himself be killed by Barbatos and completely "disappear" on the level of the trans-time flow.
Wait... Hypertime Flow? What the World Forger wanted to hide was the self-correcting protection system of the Hypertime Flow, not me, who is upstream in the Hypertime Flow.
But now, this real goal has been achieved, or at least partially achieved, so that he is no longer afraid of being known by others, or even if others know, they can't do anything to him.
That's why the World Forger returned and poisoned Barbatos's food, in an attempt to gradually regain control over his dog!
The counter-surveillance agents quickly deduced the behavioral logic of the World Forgers, but now there is still a problem:
What is the real purpose?
not sure.
But no matter what, the anti-monitors instinctively felt that the world-builders also harbored a conspiracy.
All three brothers knew:
Their common mother, the multiverse mother Papetua, will eventually be freed.
In order to deal with this terrifying mother, the Anti-Monitor repeatedly tried to detach his body from the upstream of the hypertime stream, then devour the entire DC universe, and then try to confront his mother head-on.
His brother, the Watcher, chose to amplify the entire multiverse and the Hypertime Stream, using the self-immunity programs of those multiverses—the heroes—to fight against their mother.
What about the World Forgers?
What methods will their eldest brother use to fight against their fierce and cruel mother?
(Note: The World Forger's method is the creation of a new hypertime flow in "The Sixth Dimension".)
As the Anti-Monitor pondered, and as he gazed downstream into the trans-time flow, he sensed that his mortal enemy, his brother the Monitor, was already imposing restrictions on his actions.
That defective Bat that Laughing Bat... The Monitor is using him, and sure enough, he's made his move.
As the counter-surveillance investigators continued their analysis, they finally discovered some clues:
The world's forgers are constantly stealing the power of the trans-temporal flow!
The counter-monitor finally realized that the Forger was constantly draining his resources, even though he knew they had been doing this for so long and were now so aggressive that their plan was probably no longer concealable.
It has also reached a point where even if others find out, they can't stop it.
But in any case, as long as he reveals this information to the Monitor, he will eventually be able to share some of the pressure from the World Founders through his mortal enemy, the Monitor.
As he was thinking this, the Black Death Emperor's call suddenly appeared in his mind.
The Anti-Monitor frowned, and controlling the Anti-Monitor Dragon, he replied, "What is it?"
"I have a plan!"
(End of this chapter)