Chapter 261 The Key to Controlling Superboy-Prime: Red Lantern Ring
People often say that they despise in strategy and value in tactics, but when it comes to the little blue men of Oa and their Green Lantern Corps, contempt turns directly into neglect.
They ignore Atrocitus and his five-member rebel gang, ignore the Blackest Night, and ignore all kinds of crises that have been foreshadowed in strategy, but they are particularly serious in trivial tactics.
Since the establishment of the five-member rebel gang and the beginning of the rebellion against the Guardians of the Universe, and after making a certain noise, the appearance and relevant information of the three generations of Atrocitus, the leader of the rebels, have been found out and stuffed into the Book of Oa, which is regarded as part of the enemy information and is open to every Green Lantern to view.
Therefore, the Green Lantern Ring is recognized as one of the most powerful weapons in the universe, because it is not only a weapon, but also a set of encyclopedias that can be accessed at any time.
Even if the Tear Star Empire established by Atrocitus's five-member rebel gang was completely destroyed by Green Lantern Abin Su, this authority is still the level that as long as you have a Green Lantern Ring and are one of our Green Lantern Corps, you can check it if you want.
But...
This Green Lantern automatic query system obviously has not considered the question of "whether the Green Lantern ring of the parallel universe can be connected".
The Green Lantern version of Batman [Dark Knight] that Chen Tao had synchronized before was not a modified ring like the Dawnbreaker or the Earth-3 Woe Ring, but a legitimate and authentic Green Lantern ring, with a built-in lantern furnace, and it happened to be the one of the parallel universe Green Lantern Abin Su, so there was no need for identity authentication.
The only problem was that after he synchronized with the Dark Knight, the Green Lantern ring could not connect to the Oa planet in this universe. This was also easy to solve. He only needed to connect it with Sinestro's Green Lantern ring and copy the frequency of Sinestro's Green Lantern ring connecting to Oa planet.
So this was Chen Tao's plan.
He couldn't detect everyone all the time, even if he had already planted surveillance for Black Manta, after all, he was just Batman, not Brainiac. But when he has locked Black Manta as a suspect, all his actions have been exposed to Chen Tao's surveillance.
At this time, his other surveillance target, Atrocitus, also came into his sight.
That's why Chen Tao used Mud Face and water-avoiding magic to disguise himself as Atrocitus' wife and daughter with Supergirl.
Yes, yes... It seems that we have encountered a problem. What would ordinary people do with Black Manta and Atrocitus?
Defeat them, and then return to the Justice League with Aquaman and the Mother Box?
It looks easy, and it is indeed so:
Even if we don't talk about the fact that he and Atrocitus mixed enough deadly nanorobots into his flesh and blood when they first met, just slightly affecting the opponent's actions can change the situation; and even without these means, Atrocitus can't win him with hard power alone.
Even the Mites and the Outsiders knew this, so the task they gave Atrocitus was to distract Batman's time and energy as much as possible, giving the Mites time to absorb magic power, rather than "You go kill Batman".
However...
Chen Tao never forgot another person worth noting:
Prime Superboy.
Prime Superboy is very strong, too strong, but it also means that no one can control his behavior.
He is almost the Superman with the strongest magic resistance, not like Clark in the main universe, who would be broken and infected by a bite from Wonder Woman's villain Cheetah (the villain is a magic villain) (see the New 52 Justice League comics).
Mental manipulation is ineffective against him, and kryptonite is ineffective against him, unless Chen Tao can find the kryptonite of the original universe - this is simply funny, this universe has been destroyed.
The only thing that can slightly restrain him is the light of the red sun, but this thing is also obviously impossible to affect the brain of Prime Superboy.
If Superboy-Prime is conscious, the first thing he would do after escaping from the cage would be to kill the entire Justice League.
In fact, Chen Tao thinks that Superboy-Prime is very similar to Uchiha Obito in Naruto, which he had seen in his previous life.
He has long ceased to regard all the living people in the current universe as human beings, and he is no longer the hero who saved the world in Infinite Crisis. In his view, the entire world is an object that needs to be corrected, and everyone in this world is naturally wrong.
As long as he restarts the world and restores the original universe, then all the people he killed will no longer exist, so wouldn't he be considered to have never killed anyone?
And the Justice League and Teen Titans who have repeatedly stopped him are definitely the most hateful sinners and need to be criticized.
So the priority of the Justice League being attacked by the other side is definitely higher than Darkseid, and Superboy-Prime is terrifyingly powerful. This is the problem that Chen Tao has been thinking about and worrying about all the time.
What if things really are hopeless and he has to release Superboy-Prime to fight Darkseid? But he is attacked first and beaten to death by Superboy-Prime, whom he released himself? This might be the funniest way a time traveler dies in history.
However, although Superboy-Prime is not afraid of anything and has almost no weaknesses, it does not mean that there are no ways to affect his mental state--
For example, the Red Lantern Ring, which may be the only way to make Superboy-Prime lose his mind.
Except for Atrocitus, every member of the Lantern Corps who wears the Red Lantern Ring will lose their mind and continue to rage uncontrollably. The farther away from the center of the spectrum, the greater the impact of emotional energy on the holder. Therefore, the red light representing anger and the purple light of love have the greatest impact on the holder.
The Red Lantern Ring is not mind control or magic in essence. It is a gift and a power. It can only inspire anger, but not create anger out of thin air. The ring can only turn abstract anger into real flames. Therefore, every member of the Red Lantern Corps must be very angry before joining.
However, a new problem was born. Atrocitus has not yet become the Lord of the Red Lantern. His main means is still blood magic. How can Chen Tao forge a Red Lantern Ring out of thin air?
There are two conditions for Atrocitus to forge the Red Lantern Furnace. One is the bodies of the other four members of the five who turned against him, and the other is the burning anger.
The bodies are easy to deal with. Chen Tao touched the death treasure he took out from Black Manta's arms - the golden ball. When Black Manta took out this thing for the first time, Chen Tao had already taken a fancy to it.
This thing can ignore space and distance for long-distance transmission, and can carry Atrocitus back to the planet where he was imprisoned at any time, and personally send the other four members of the five who turned against him to death.
And the anger...
"No matter who you are, you dare to pretend to be my wife."
Now, at this moment.
Atrocitus said word by word.
"You're dead."
Chen Tao knew that pretending to be his wife would greatly anger Atrocitus, but he was determined to give it a try.
Of course, he still has many backup plans, or other options.
For example, if he met both conditions in the comics, and Atrocitus still couldn't forge the Red Lantern because of a fateful reason like "the war of colors has not yet arrived", he would beat him with a crowbar until he fainted, and try to get the Red Lantern Batman Batnistor; or he could quietly lock up Atrocitus, and if he really needed the Prime Superboy, he would kill him, and then get the Red Lantern Bat Coin...
But such plans seemed too inhumane and radical, and Chen Tao would be excluded unless it was absolutely necessary.
After all, he is a super anti...
super anti-hero.
"Mom - look, it's the Robot Hunter!" The super girl next to him didn't notice that Chen Tao had so many little tricks in his mind in an instant, and she conscientiously said the lines she had just been taught.
The Kryptonian's super brain is easy to use. Although they don't use it often, this brain is absolutely unmatched in memorizing.
She pointed at Atrocitus riding on the back of the chemical waste monster: "Mom, will the mechanical hunter kill us all?"
"Yes, yes," Chen Tao said, "Your father will kill us all together with the mechanical hunter. After all, he is now a murderer and a villain. He is no different from those little blue men who slaughtered all the people in Sector 666."
"Bat, Batman." Atrocitus said word by word: "I know it's you."
He felt the blood rushing from his limbs to his forehead.
"How dare you... say such words to my wife's face?
The chemical waste monster he was riding on seemed to have sensed his roar and attacked the fake in front of him with a claw.
But Chen Tao dodged this attack easily. He could have used this to launch a counterattack against Atrocitus, but he simply dodged and didn't intend to do anything at all.
Chen Tao tried his best to make his movements and posture look like a woman, or like Atrocitus' wife. He used various feminine movements and performed various superhuman behaviors:
Good women bend over...Good women pull their children away...Good women jump...Good women kick...
This is the essence.
If Chen Tao completely Pretending to be Atrocitus' wife would definitely make Atrocitus angry, but he would not be too angry, because he knew that his wife was pretended by someone else, and he would be furious because the other party looked down on his intelligence.
If he was just pretending to be his wife, this would also make Atrocitus angry, and the reason for his anger would become that the enemy used his wife to distract him in a despicable way, and he would only feel indignant that his wife was blasphemed.
Both kinds of anger are considerable, but they still cannot reach the peak.
The most ironic thing is that the other party deliberately made it look like someone else, just like deliberately imitating someone else's tone and weirdness. This is no longer blasphemy, but super doubled, but what makes Atrocitus even more furious is...
He is right.
"What do you want to do now, Atros?" Atrocitus said to Batman with his wife's face, "Use the chemical waste monster to destroy Atlantis and poison everyone? So now you start to do the work of a mechanical hunter?"
He twisted his waist and dodged a piece of debris thrown by the chemical waste monster. The thing rolled up the foam in the water and smashed on the building not far away with a bang.
The Atlanteans around had all run away. Now only Atrocitus, Chen Tao pretending to be his wife, and Supergirl pretending to be his daughter were left.
Chen Tao lightly shook his golden steps and dodged the attack of the chemical waste monster again. By the way, he held his daughter's hand tightly like the real wife of Atrocitus.
"You don't understand at all. The blood prophecy told me that only the meditation mite can help me find William Hand and stop the Blackest Night."
Atrocitus waved the cosmic magic wand, and a red energy beam shot out from it. What he didn't even notice was that this energy beam was no longer a simple laser, but a light effect that was faintly similar to burning flame particles.
"You don't understand at all. I am suffering from the burning hatred every day! When everyone is fighting, slaughtering others, and creating evil acts and tragedies, only I am saving the entire universe!"
"Then what is the difference between your behavior and the guardian of the universe? The guardian of the universe can sacrifice 666 sectors, but you can sacrifice Atlantis?"
Atrocitus just watched his wife's face gradually become burnt.
The originally healthy red suddenly faded, and then the next moment, the burnt black color appeared from it, and the same was true for his daughter.
The person pretending to be his daughter raised the small doll in his hand, and Atrocitus once again watched the doll burn to ashes.
"You dare to -"
This scene gave Atrocitus an incomparable stimulation. It was not only about the blasphemy of Batman pretending to be his wife against his beloved, but more importantly, he knew that the words Batman said in front of his wife were correct.
In a way, the role he played was no different from what he hated the most. He had been avoiding thinking about this problem, avoiding thinking about what kind of suffering he had brought to the creatures of this planet.
"You murderer - Atrocitus - you are no different from the mechanical hunter who killed us -"
He heard the two people pretending to be his wife and daughter whispering in front of him.
Although the voice was very light, it still drilled into his ears wave after wave.
Anger at Batman pretending to be his wife.
Anger at himself for doing the same thing as the mechanical hunter, but having to do so.
Anger at the guardian of the universe.
Anger at not being able to find William Hand.
When Atrocitus was filled with anger, he was furious and could hardly feel anything.
His nameless anger isolated him from those terrible memories.
Chen Tao saw scarlet flames like particles gushing out of his mouth and nose.
It's time.
Chen Tao took out the Golden Ball of the Dead King.
The Green Lantern Ring provided him with the location of the planet where the Five Rebels were imprisoned. Soon, the golden vortex lit up, the space portal opened, and the other four of the Five Rebels appeared on the other side of the portal.
They were the sacrifices for the birth of the Red Lantern Corps.