UGB Chapter 677 Batman Enters the World's Furnace!
Chapter 677 Batman Enters the World's Furnace!
Chapter 677 Batman Enters the World's Furnace!
To be honest, Chen Tao didn't really trust his intuition.
According to unofficial historical accounts, during World War II, Hitler relied on his intuition and won nine out of ten bets, only making a few mistakes.
But people always find it hard to believe things they've never experienced.
So-called intuition has no rules to be summarized, nor can it be activated on its own. In Chen Tao's view, isn't it just like the self-hypnosis I've been thinking about?
So when Chen Tao, who was busy dragging the universe, suddenly had an intuitive reaction similar to Spider-Man's "Peter Pan" moment, he simply shook his head and completely deleted all the messy thoughts that came to mind.
What? He has to go back to the battlefield and fight again to save the multiverse? Is that a joke?
Barbatos, hiding in the World Forge, was able to fight two opponents at once, forcibly sending Parallax Malfur and Superman Supreme back to their timelines. However, once outside the World Forge, he fought Parallax Malfur to a standstill.
The advantage of terrain plays an absolutely crucial role in their battles. It would be foolish for Chen Tao to give up his advantage based on a mere intuition.
In short, he has now gradually pulled Reverse-Flash's universe back to the two universes he had previously built.
He had previously used his own and Nite Owl's universe to create a formidable fortress capable of withstanding Barbatos's attack, and now he needed to plaster Reverse-Flash's universe onto it like a lump of mud.
Forgive him for describing it that way, but in reality, the Reverse Flash universe was really terrible. He didn't believe it at first, but no one knew better than him how torturous it was to carefully drag the Reverse Flash universe all the way here.
The muscular female knight had gone into the goblin's lair to train countless times, and even her iron muscles had become soft.
Just ensuring the survival of this universe from shattering is already a challenge for Chen Tao.
Despite these circumstances, he still managed to bring this tofu-like universe to the fortress before him, and he felt he had done enough.
Chen Tao carefully piled a muddy universe behind his own universe, protecting it and making it quite safe.
When he was building this fortress composed of two universes, the hypothetical enemy he intended to face was Barbatos. His goal was to create a hard rock that would break Barbatos's teeth if he came, and place it as a fortress in the dark multiverse.
He knew that the Emperor Joker and his allies would never let Reverse-Flash's world go. So what he needed to do now was to quickly strengthen his defenses and prepare to face the Emperor Joker and his enemies.
He still had William Hand, who was hiding inside the Black Death Emperor, to play his card. He wanted to maintain the appearance of hiding in a turtle shell. He had long anticipated that the Emperor and the Joker might use innocent people from outside the universe to morally blackmail him into leaving the territory, which was exactly what Chen Tao wanted.
He had already devised a plan to feign leaving his cosmic fortress, but with William Hand's help, he was prepared to lure the enemy into his own fortress for a counterattack. And all of this stemmed from...
"Come forth, Infinite Batman! My Bat Army!"
This is the Justice League Hall in Chen Tao's universe.
Chen Tao, who had already transformed into a giant dragon, opened his mouth wide, and then hundreds and thousands of Bruce were vomited out of his mouth as if he were vomiting.
Chen Tao could have opened the portal to the Metal Spirits here and released them, but he felt that spitting them out directly would be faster, like pouring something out.
The bewildered blues were tossed to the ground by Chen Tao like beans being poured out of a bamboo tube. They lay there haphazardly, and many of them got up, wandering around in confusion, asking, "What the hell is going on?"
The Justice League from Chen Tao's universe, along with all the friends and family members who were transformed into living people by the bat mite and sent to the battlefield, were also spat out of Chen Tao's mouth along with these members. Chen Tao pulled them out of Reverse-Flash's universe halfway there and stuffed them into his own mouth.
With a loud thud, Chen Tao saw the penguin-man, head down, shove its pointed nose into the rear end of one of the mud-face's clones...
Why is Mudface upside down, waiting for Penguin to fall down?
Chen Tao ignored the Penguin who was being helped out of the mud by a middle-aged white ventriloquist dressed as a maid, and he turned to look at the Justice League members who had regrouped. See? That's what you call professional. The moment they landed, they were already ready for battle.
However, this time the Justice League members aren't the key; the more crucial element is...
"Anyone among you capable of fighting, stand up and speak to me!"
Among the sparse crowd, several Bruces got up from the ground, followed by many more.
Even though they are far weaker and less capable than Bruce Wayne, the Batman of the main universe, many people may have forgotten that they are Batman.
There may be differences in wisdom, strength, will, and destiny, but every Batman was undoubtedly a hero among thousands in his own universe.
They simply... encountered an opponent beyond their comprehension. It was like ascending to immortality only to find themselves among the 100,000 heavenly soldiers besieging Sun Wukong.
"Batman..." Diana led the Justice League members over, while Reverse-Flash from the Reverse-Flash universe followed closely behind them in shackles.
"Go find Lex Luthor and have him arrange for all the Batmen to wear the armor he mass-produced before," Chen Tao said.
He turned to one of the Bruces, then shouted to everyone, "Batman, yes, that's right, Batman, I'm talking about you guys. I know you're all Batmen, but there's not much time now, so you'd better listen to me quietly. I have a plan, a damn good plan, created specifically to deal with the Emperor Joker, and it took shape in my mind the moment I met you."
Chen Tao rubbed his hands together, looking at the numerous Dark Multiverse Bruces before him, some full of fighting spirit and others dejected, with a malicious gaze.
These blues were captured by the Laughing and taken to his Laughing Batcave, where they suffered torture at his hands. Some blues forged an indomitable will in such adversity, while others completely gave up and became pathetic, terrified wretches.
But this didn't matter to Chen Tao.
Simply put, Chen Tao had read the comics, and he knew exactly what the Emperor Joker's only weakness was:
The Emperor Joker cannot erase Batman.
His weakness is Batman himself. He can't erase the deep impression Batman left on him. His worldview and values revolve around Batman, like a satellite of Batman.
Towards the end of the Emperor Joker incident, Superman lured the Emperor Joker to discover this and made him constantly try to erase the concept of Batman from his mind.
When the Emperor Joker, who is omniscient and omnipotent in reality, approaches the Joker, he discovers that he cannot even control his own thoughts. The Joker suffers a mental breakdown and then returns all his divine power to the Mischief. Chen Tao tries to use a similar method to deal with the Joker, but he cannot personally take action and gamble on whether the Joker can eliminate him. That is why he needs the help of these Bruces.
The characteristic of five-dimensional beings is that they can restore what they have destroyed at will. Just like the Mischief-Maker and the Bat Mite once fought a great battle that almost destroyed half of the Hypertime Stream, but they restored it with a snap of their fingers.
Therefore, even if Bruce is eliminated or injured by the Emperor Joker during the battle, Chen Tao can use the power of the bat mite to revive him and restore him to his original state afterward.
The key point is that he needs to use these real Batmen to mess with the opponent's mindset. As long as he disrupts the opponent's thinking, he has already won about half the battle.
This was his original plan.
Chen Tao had just assigned a task to Lex Luthor when a severe headache struck his brain again. This pain didn't seem to be pathological, but rather a kind of meandering backlash.
Chen Tao felt as if the world was screaming at him:
"Damn it, hurry back, hurry and help, quick!"
As Chen Tao listened, he felt that the voice seemed to turn into a bunch of random shouts like "Hurry up and go work overtime!" Then, as he thought about it, it gradually formed into a subjective idea like "It feels like now is the time to just rush out and be reckless."
This shift from objective to subjective feeling was truly amazing, but with a thought, Chen Tao swept all those chaotic emotions into his emotional trash can, as easily as clearing away the negative emotions brought on by some parallel universe Batman. Ah, that feels much better; all those noisy, chaotic thoughts are gone.
However, at that moment, a real piercing pain finally shot through Chen Tao's mind. Without warning, his eyes rolled back and he fainted. Then, amidst the exclamations of the Justice League members, he quickly fell asleep.
Dream.
A peaceful expanse of clouds.
Various circus members, bouncing and jumping, are walking around.
The dream god "Sandman" Daniel Radcliffe wanders through the strange dreamscape of Batman: The Dragon, searching for a long time but unable to find himself.
He barely made it here through the World Maker's dream. Batman Dragon inherits about a quarter of the Dark Multiverse Dragon's status, and is therefore a servant god of the World Maker. It is through this connection that the Dream God was able to briefly break free from the World Maker's dream's constraints.
But he will eventually be taken back; he's trapped there in the dream, so he has to hurry and find Batman Dragon.
Lazybones wandered around everywhere. The God of Dreams even saw a chubby, super fat man sitting on the ground, eating the pancakes surrounding him with his mouth open.
The pancake was huge, round, and fragrant; there was no way he could finish it, and the fat man ate until his mouth was greasy. It was a beautiful dream, and dreams are usually the dreamer's most cherished imaginings. So, was Batman Dragon's imagination simply to be a fat man eating pancakes? That's ridiculous.
The God of Dreams remained expressionless.
He walked into an alley, expecting to encounter the darkness within Batman's Dragon, but what he found inside was...
The God of Dreams walked out expressionlessly, snapped his fingers, and immediately the massage therapists and dozens of dance troupes who were about to serve him were thrown back into the alley by the swirling ground.
What kind of nonsense is this??
After navigating through seven or eight alleys, he finally found Batman on the beach behind the alley, dressed in a pink mink coat, a Hawaiian shirt, and sunglasses.
This is truly bizarre.
Why would Batman appear in a place like that?
"William Hand is in danger." Dream God walked up to the leisurely Batman and spoke succinctly: "If you don't go save him now, William Hand will die!"
"He was already dead."
The Dream God choked slightly.
"You know that's not what I meant."
Despite this, the God of Dreams still saw Batman Dragon turn over to face him.
As the God of Dreams, he could easily read Batman Dragon's mind and knew exactly what could move him. William Hand had indeed piqued his interest, which was good. He needed to use this as a reason to further deepen Batman's impression and implant ideas into his mind.
This is the deepest projection of Batman's inner self; he only needs to deeply embed these thoughts into the other person's mind.
He shouted at Batman:
"Hurry up and save the world!"
"World, world, world..."
The echoes, layer upon layer, resounded throughout the entire dream space.
Then he saw Batman, the only Batman who seemed capable of influencing the situation, casually turning his head to hand Dream God a cup of milk tea.
Bubble milk tea.
The God of Dreams, radiating a fluorescent glow, fell silent. Why, then, would he react this way?
He said, "Did you hear what I was saying?"
"What exactly should I do?"
Immediately afterwards, the God of Dreams heard the other party's question.
However, the god of dreams could not answer this question; he was only the god of dreams, not the omniscient god.
He only knew, based on his intuition, that the other party was the only member who might be involved in the battle, so he appeared here.
But why exactly was he able to save...?
"You're asking me? I don't know."
"That's what the Dream God said."
"You're the only one I can find."
"I can't do those things."
He heard Batman say that he lay down on the recliner, exuding the air of a lazy bum.
"There is no other choice but you," said the God of Dreams, suppressing his anxiety as he guided the other little by little, intending to inscribe the thoughts of Batman Dragon into his mind within the dream.
In the dream world, Batman doesn't have complete logic and thought. Every word and action he takes here comes from the logic and thoughts deep in his heart, so he appears unusually calm. He doesn't even express surprise at William's capture, but believes it without any scruples.
That's right, he needs to guide him slowly.
Apart from Batman Dragon, there is indeed no one else who can influence the battlefield. As long as he slowly guides Batman Dragon in the dream to acknowledge these things, then Batman Dragon in reality will also have the same idea.
But then he heard Batman Dragon say:
"No?"
"No. I want to go to the World's Crucible."
(End of this chapter)