American comics: What kind of evil intentions could Batman have?

Chapter 502 What exactly are the anti-cage memories that Batman stole?

Chapter 502 What exactly are the anti-cage memories that Batman stole, and why is he willing to release the first Lantern himself?

I am Chen Tao.

I once thought that the Guardians of the Universe were a bunch of idiots. A dangerous character like Genie Evangelion should stay in the Shadow Cabinet forever as a prisoner, and should not be given even the slightest chance to get out of the cage.

And those guardians of the universe were so stupid as not to realize this. In the comics, they tried to use their own flesh and blood and the power of the first Genie to create the Third Legion, an army of monsters that could replicate themselves by assimilating other creatures in the universe. Each one looked like a silver-white, skinned frog.

This thing, besides being obedient, also wants to replace the Green Lantern Corps?

Not to mention that the birth of the Third Legion directly led to the escape of the first Lantern, which was like picking up a sesame seed and losing a watermelon. No matter how powerful the first Lantern is, trying to use it is like sitting on a powder keg and trying to start a fire to keep warm.

Even if I, Batman, starve to death or jump off a cliff, I would never repeat the mistakes of the Guardians of the Universe and do something as idiotic as they did...

Really fragrant.

Okay, actually things have changed.

Chen Tao's mind was racing with somewhat unorthodox thoughts. At this moment, inside the Hall of Justice, he had already used the powerful purple lantern to force the first Lantern Knight, hidden in the Ring of Calamity in the Ventriloquist's hand, to reveal his true form.

After the Mongo incident, the first Genie divided his power into three parts, with only a portion remaining in the ring he and the sorcerer had conspired to forge. Therefore, he met Batman's gaze without fear, his eyes filled with hatred.

So what if Batman found out? At worst, they could destroy a third of his power remaining in reality. Now that he's been discovered, doesn't he even have that much courage? As long as a portion of his power isn't completely trapped within the Shadow Cabinet, he'll eventually break free. They've survived billions of years; a little more time won't make a difference.

Since Batman has no power to threaten him, why bother trying to persuade Batman like before?

Since we already know that the other party is heartless and will refuse even mutually beneficial cooperation because they are afraid of us, there is no need to negotiate.

Chen Tao organized his words.

"Huorong, I need your help."

The first Lantern didn't speak. He didn't seem to be in a hurry to refuse Batman's offer to let him finish all his requests, and then coldly and ruthlessly rejected him when he thought he had the best chance.

Therefore, he now intends to listen to Batman's troubles as well, and then do the same thing as Batman in the end to satisfy his last little bit of revenge.

"The anti-surveillance agents are going to destroy this universe."

What does this have to do with my First Genie? The so-called Shadow Cabinet, since it's a prison, is obviously not in this universe, but in another dimension. To prevent the First Genie from escaping, the Guardians of the Universe have gone to great lengths; they've even prepared contingency plans so that even if all the Guardians of the Universe are destroyed, the First Genie will still not be allowed to escape.

Does Batman think that the destruction of the universe would threaten him, the First Lantern? Is this overestimating his moral standards as the First Lantern, or underestimating the power of the Guardians of the Universe?

"I need to master the Heart of Greatness, that weapon forged from the emotions of all the Guardians of the Universe, a furnace that grants the power to connect directly with the spectrum of emotions. I also need the Ring of Origin, the ring forged along with the Heart of Greatness."

When the first Lantern Man heard Batman's request, he almost burst out laughing.

That's quite a pipe dream. Is this some new kind of joke? Batman, seemingly oblivious to how absurd his words were, continued:

"Although the Great Heart is filled with the emotions of a guardian of the universe, these emotions include not only positive things like blue hope and green willpower, but also negative emotions such as greed, fear, and anger. Therefore, the best choice is definitely not to stuff this thing into your body, like you did."

"I have been stripped of my greatness," said Genie A. "He is no longer with me. I can now control the emotional spectrum without any external force."

"But you can still feel the location of the Great Heart, can't you? You are able to bring the Great Heart to me."

The first Lantern agreed with Batman's statement. Although the Great Heart had left him long ago, his mastery of the emotional spectrum allowed him to feel the Great Heart.

But his ability to do something doesn't mean he will do it for Batman. He's keeping quiet now, waiting for Batman to finish explaining everything he expects before cruelly rejecting him.

He could almost guess why Batman was so confident and arrogant, bossing him around. Batman must have encountered something, and he was determined to use his own power to deal with the crisis.

He could almost guess that Batman would promise him that he would be released after the crisis was resolved, but such a promise was nothing but a complete lie, just like the Guardians of the Universe had promised to help him find his home.

He once proposed to Batman to work together, but the other party refused. When problems arose, he wanted to come back to him.

Sorry, he doesn't believe any promises Batman made to him under duress. In that situation, anything Batman says is nonsense. He'll just kick you when you've done something wrong. Don't think that First Lantern is the kind of person who would eagerly help you just because someone says they're willing to release you. Do you think he's stupid?

Anyway, thanks to the incident with Mengo, he also had power outside, and finally broke through the change from 0 to 1.

Since he couldn't leave the Shadow Cabinet quickly through Batman, he would try to extricate himself slowly through his own efforts. After being rejected by Batman, he briefly lost his composure but then realized something: he had already escaped some of his power through the ring. Given more time, he could take it one step at a time, and there would always be hope.

This is far better than his previous situation of being forever trapped in the cabinet, powerless to resist. He's survived billions of years already, so why rush things?

Batman then ridiculously continued, "Besides the power of the Heart of Greatness and the Origin Lamp Ring, I also need you to teach me the art of controlling the emotional spectrum."

"I became the host of the Violet Lantern Raider purely through the help of others. My control over the Violet Lantern's power comes entirely from the help of others. In reality, my understanding of the emotional spectrum is extremely limited."

Chen Tao said, "For example... how do we connect with the Light of Creation through the emotional spectrum? How do we use this connection to control the entire universe with the Light of Creation, arbitrarily reshape reality, and manipulate timelines?"

"Ha! Hahahaha!" The first Lantern couldn't help but laugh out loud. He laughed loudly, and then Batman followed with a chilling laugh that sounded like an owl.

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha..."

The laughter of the two men rang out simultaneously in the Hall of Justice. On the ventriloquist's ring-adorned arm, every vein lit up due to the surge of green light energy. Arnold was in so much pain that he was covered in sweat, which soaked the headband of his maid outfit, which stuck awkwardly to his balding head.

Immediately afterward, the smile vanished from the first Lantern. He looked at Batman with a malicious expression.

"Idiot." The first Lantern Knight mocked mercilessly, "You think you can know the power of the emotional spectrum? You think you can connect to the Light of Creation?"

He heard Batman's voice:

"You won't help me, will you?"

The first Lantern Knight could already guess what he was going to say next: he would promise to help him escape from the cage, but all of those promises would be empty lies.

He wanted to wait a while, waiting for Batman to make those promises that he thought he would definitely agree to before he refused. That way, he could get a little revenge on Batman for refusing him before. Under the first lamp, he had already accepted the consequence that he would continue to serve his sentence in the Shadow Cabinet. This kind of revenge against Batman was one of the few small entertainment activities he had.

But Batman did not say what the first Lantern had originally intended to say.

"For so many years, you've been searching for your home, the coordinates of Earth 15, haven't you?"

Batman's expression turned cold. He admitted that Batman was using his hometown to lure him. This struck a nerve, but he didn't show it on his face; instead, his anger grew even stronger inside.

Over the years, he had tried to travel through countless worlds to gain powerful abilities, wandering at the ends of the timeline and in the past, searching for the location of his hometown at every point in the timeline, but to no avail.

He once possessed power far exceeding that of Batman, and was once the living embodiment of the Emotional Spectrum. He wielded the Space Lamp, an Emotional Spectrum creation that allowed him to traverse the universe as easily as eating and drinking. Yet, even so, he still could not find his home. His home seemed to have vanished from the timeline without a trace.

How could Batman possibly know the location of his home planet Earth 15? He's just deceiving himself; he's trying to make a fool of him. Although he had expected this, Batman's audacity in using his mother and home planet to his advantage only fueled his rage.

As soon as Chen Tao saw the expression on the first Lantern Man's face, he knew what the man was thinking. He was simply worried that if even he couldn't find the location of Earth 15, no one else could either. But that's the saddest thing in the world. Anyone who carefully goes through the timeline, if they really have the ability to travel through time, can find Earth 15. This place is just an inconspicuous brick on the ground to them. Even if they deliberately look for it, they can definitely find it.

But for the first Green Lantern, Earth-15 is an inaccessible place he can never find. He's like a fool searching for something he can't find. To maintain the consistency of the timeline, to prevent the Green Lantern Corps from being erased by time paradoxes, and to prevent the first Green Lantern from changing history again, the timeline automatically blocks the possibility that the first Green Lantern might be able to find Earth-15.

This shielding of the main universe's timeline, along with the shadow of the Light Multiverse, is projected onto every First Lantern in every parallel universe. In the myriad Dark Multiverses and countless parallel worlds, no First Lantern can find Earth 15 or any version of it in the Dark Multiverse. This is to prevent the timeline from collapsing. The self-selection caused by the timeline is something that the First Lantern cannot defy.

unless……

Someone is willing to find the location and then share it with them.

This is precisely the bargaining chip Chen Tao can offer.

Chen Tao gently pressed his temples, and three pink dots of light immediately appeared on his forehead.

In an instant, his thoughts connected with the first Lantern Man.

"I am Batman... I have realized that our world is nothing more than a projection from the Light Multiverse, a sinking, broken world."

The first Lantern Man clutched his head, feeling a flood of information entering his mind as Batman transmitted it to him.

"A Dark Multiverse version of the Anti-Monitor has appeared in our world, and he is destined for destruction. I am seeking a way to defeat him, and before that, I believe I must understand my adversary. Therefore..."

"I chose to invade his mind; I found a way to search for specific cosmic locations in the infinite multiverse and the hypertime stream."

"It was a risky move that cost me a lot of my Speed ​​Force and severely reduced the time I had to continue preparing for the counter-monitors, but it was well worth it."

"And you, First Lantern Knight, have you never considered that it's a time paradox that prevents you from finding your own hometown?"

The first Lantern Man stared wide-eyed. A crucial element was missing from the information Batman had transmitted, making it impossible for him to confirm how Batman had arrived at this conclusion. But his instinct told him it was true…

He saw himself in the Light Multiverse. He didn't care that he came from the Dark Multiverse. All he wanted was to find his home...

But Batman reveals to him that he and their world are merely a projection of the Light Multiverse, and if the fate of the Light Multiverse is not changed, then he will forever live in its shadow...

"And now, I can give you this opportunity, this chance to find your hometown."

"Besides that... how about I offer you a more tangible benefit? I guess you're worried I'm making empty promises, that I might go back on my word like the Guardians of the Universe, but let me tell you, races as arrogant and untrustworthy as the Guardians of the Universe are extremely rare in the universe. Once I make a promise, I will never go back on it."

Immediately afterwards, the green shadow of the first Lantern saw Batman raise his hand, and he threw a large number of the corpses of the little blue men, the guardians of the universe, onto the ground.

"You can use their corpses to create avatars that you can control. This way, even without my help, you'll be able to escape much sooner."

"Is this enough sincerity?"

(End of this chapter)