Chapter 451 Preparation for Time Travel, Batman's Worst Plan

Late at night.

Chen Tao appeared in the Interstellar Laboratory in Central City.

This is basically the territory of Barry Allen, the Flash, and it is also a prison for superpowered criminals with security levels no less than Arkham Asylum. In the past, the Flash would usually put all the criminals he caught in Iron Mountain Prison, but as he faced more and more superpowered criminals, Iron Mountain Prison gradually fell to the same level as Gotham's Blackgate Prison - that prison could not hold superpowered criminals at all, and only the Interstellar Laboratory was the place to control these guys.

In addition, there is a very important object stored in the Interstellar Laboratory: the cosmic treadmill left by the Reverse Flash.

Chen Tao used his authority and went through many twists and turns to come directly to the door of the room where the cosmic treadmill was stored.

This room has a huge multi-layer hardened steel door, and there is a combination lock at the door. This combination lock is mixed with some of Brainiac's scientific achievements. It not only has scientific identity verification methods such as biometric information collection systems, but also multiple identity verification methods such as magic to prevent shapeshifters like Mudface or Snakeskin.

Well. In addition to the permission required to enter this room, a password that changes every day is also required. Chen Tao did not ask Barry what the password was today in advance, but he had other ways to open the direct door.

He pressed the microphone button on the combination lock, and then said after getting closer:

"Jingle bells, bats are stinking, Robin is busy laying eggs. Batmobile, Gollum, the laughing bat ran away."

It's hard to imagine such a nursery rhyme being sung by Batman, but then the door opened.

Chen Tao always leaves some back doors in the things he handles, just to facilitate situations like today, some situations that are not suitable for his teammates to know.

While thinking this, Chen Tao reached out to the iron door and tried to close it, but at this moment, a communication interrupted his action.

"This is Nightwing, this is Nightwing, Nightwing calling Batman."

Chen Tao answered.

"What's going on?"

Chen Tao turned around expressionlessly and closed the heavy iron door.

Then he walked to the corner: "Dick, how is the situation over there?"

Dick Grayson on the other side of the screen was wearing a well-tailored suit. Dick was a handsome guy, and he looked even more handsome in this suit.

Chen Tao was sure that Nightwing was raising him like a Barbie doll, which was too delicate.

But at this time, the frown on Dick's face slightly ruined the picture.

"Batman, I've discovered a problem. Night Owl no longer reveals his true identity to me, and he no longer comes to see me. I still don't know his exact location, and I'm completely isolated in this spaceship."

Dick said, "Night Owl is wary of me. He's just treating me like a pretty vase. All the other ways I used to get intelligence are gone."

He said, "I have no other way to connect with you. If it weren't for the metal spirit power you left in my body, I would have completely lost contact with the outside world."

"So what should I do now?" He asked, "Should I find a way to leave here?"

"Stay here for now." Chen Tao said, "When you need me, I'll be there." If, I will give you the time. "" By the way, do you have any information from the night? " I don't know, Ye Yan didn't say more. "The night wing on the screen said:" He also refused to explain to me. "Dick." He hung up the communication, and then walked to the universe treadmill. In the previous long period of time, the Flash has been trying to repeat the lightning through the universe treadmill -that is, the original Flashman who believes it is, Elbert Swan's reversal time, from the 25th century to their time. That's right, Barry has been trying to practice the most standard skill of the Flash: traveling through time.

For the Flash, traveling through time should be as easy as eating and drinking. Many of their skills are created based on traveling through time:

For example, the time remnant, the future self can travel to two minutes ago to help the present self, until the future self is erased by the timeline itself due to the time paradox.

For Barry, this skill has gradually been learned as the Reverse Flash left.

In the previous incident against Eclipse, the Flash even used his ability to travel through time and got stuck with a bug of "Schrödinger state controlled by Eclipse". As early as that period, Barry was already very familiar with the skills of traveling through time.

However, even so, Barry could only travel through time in units of minutes at most, and he couldn't even go back an hour ago.

Barry never knew why this was the case... but Chen Tao knew.

Just as in the "Flashpoint" comics, the Flash himself explained why he couldn't change the completely wrong history back as soon as he regained his ability.

His original words are as follows:

"Generally speaking, if my energy is fully charged, I can indeed travel through time."

In other words, traveling through time requires enough speed force, and now Barry obviously doesn't have enough.

This results in him being able to perform time travel skills such as time remnants, but not being able to travel through time like Reverse Flash.

And what is the reason for not being enough?

Chen Tao began to flash with speed force.

Too much speed force was used by Chen Tao to connect his batteries. Even if the Flash Barry Allen was like an oil well that kept producing speed force, the amount he produced could not keep up with the speed Chen Tao used.

Chen Tao was like a thief who stole the speed force, constantly extracting speed from Barry, causing him to be unable to become faster.

On the other hand, when Chen Tao synchronized with the Red Death, as a speedster, he also permanently occupied a position in the speed force of this universe, which further took away the speed of the Flash.

Another person who had done these things before was the Reverse Flash.

In the "Flashpoint" event, the Flash Barry Allen went back to change time, creating a hellish Flashpoint timeline. After regaining his speed force, he found that he could not travel through time to correct it all, because the Reverse Flash Swan was constantly absorbing his speed force, making Barry unable to be fast enough to reverse time.

When the Reverse Flash was pierced through the heart by the old man, Thomas Wayne, Bruce Wayne's father, Barry's speed was fast enough, and the Flashpoint timeline was repaired.

Therefore...

Chen Tao stood on the cosmic treadmill.

Metropolis, Batcave base branch cave.

Gorilla Grodd and Turtle lived in their own battery compartment, each a gorilla snoring like thunder.

With the passage of time and technological breakthroughs, their current housing is also gradually upgraded. At first, they were completely bound in a battery compartment the size of a coffin. When driven, they were like two batteries inserted. Not only did they need to be tied up, but it was also very inconvenient to eat, drink, defecate and urinate.

But now, they live in a transparent cage, which replaces the original small battery compartment.

In this way, both of them can now exercise a little in the cage, and even going to the toilet is much more convenient, and they even have their own desks and beds.

But at this time, both of them are lying on the bed.

After all, it is late at night, even slaves have to sleep. What's more, they were often pulled out for torture, and were often seriously injured. Every day, they were either injured, going to be injured, or on the way to recover, so they needed sleep even more.

"Hurululu~Hurululu~"

Then the next second, they were awakened by the pressure that suddenly fell on them. The golden speed force flowed out from the catheter not far away, carrying an unspeakable thousand-pound strange force, and woke up the two slaves who were still sleeping.

The originally loud snoring stopped abruptly, and the gorilla Grodd and the turtle man jumped up from the bed and immediately stood up and screamed.

"Ah ... Although he once told Barry that "it doesn't matter, he has other plans", for Chen Tao...

The feeling of something stuck in his throat never goes away.

If there is enough time... whether it is Parallax and Ion Shark, or Superboy-Prime, he has the ability to do better.

But it was too late now, the Anti-Monitor was right in front of him. Chen Tao had made enough preparations in a limited time, but none of them could bring him a sense of security.

He claimed to everyone that facing the Anti-Monitor this time was no different from facing Brainiac or Darkseid before, but he knew deep down...

Chen Tao shook his head.

Not necessarily. Both Superboy-Prime and Darkseid should be enough to fight the Anti-Monitor, and the preparations he made for time travel through the Speed ​​Force would most likely not be used at all.

Most likely.

And now time travel is an unattainable fallacy for him, isn't it?

This is just a worst-case scenario, and the worst-case scenario doesn't always become a reality, right?