Chapter 466: Stealing the Anti-Monitor's Memory, the Drained Starfish
I am Batman.
How I wish I could tell you that everything is in my plan.
How I wish I could still guide the development of things as I did in the past, and then when problems arise, I can still come up with a pre-prepared plan.
Unfortunately... I can't.
The power of the Anti-Monitor far exceeds my expectations. I was caught off guard by the defeat of Superboy-Prime and the rejection of the Dark Lord back into his universe.
I have the choice to believe the information revealed to me by Night Owl. Even though what Night Owl said was verified by Grey, I never really believed his negative conclusions about "you can't win".
For the first time in my life, I felt that I was at the end of my rope, like a bottomless cave, and suddenly one day someone used an unprecedented thick iron rod to poke me from the mouth to the bottom of my heart.
As Night Owl said, I still have time...
After being stripped of all the hard shells like a lamb to be slaughtered, I still have a chance to delay time.
According to Night Owl's calculations and deductions...
If his deductions are accurate.
At this point, I trust Night Owl, just like I trust myself.
15 days.
Or restart the same day 15 times.
This is the result of Night Owl's calculation, and I guess the time will be a little shorter.
However, this is only the result of our calculations after all, and the actual effect... no one knows.
At this moment, now.
On Quad.
The battlefield where the Anti-Monitor fights Batman.
[Warning! Warning! It is detected that the Flash Barry Allen has died. Please completely integrate Barry Allen into your body and replicate the birth process of the Red Death. It has been obtained——]
[Batman has integrated the Flash into his body... You have completely synchronized SS-level Batman: Red Death. ]
Chen Tao watched the silver-white font of the Alfred Protocol in front of him turn black, flashing on his retina like bleeding.
"Bruce, I have now completely integrated into your body, this feeling..."
Chen Tao tilted his head slightly, and Barry Allen's face appeared when he tilted his head, and then disappeared.
"Am I dead, Bruce?"
"Not yet."
Chen Tao told him, "I have a way to separate us, but now, go to sleep."
He said, "I will save you. You will separate from me again through the Speed Force."
"I will..."
Chen Tao wanted to say something to comfort Barry Allen, who was a little panicked because the Speed Force became part of Batman's power, but soon his voice fell silent, and he fell asleep completely in the Speed Force that kept pouring into Chen Tao's body.
Chen Tao closed his mouth and thought silently.
I... I will definitely bring you back, Barry.
"You dare..."
In the distance, the voice of the Anti-Monitor was roaring, and the Speed Force, which was dark gold and red and black intertwined with lightning shapes, fell from the sky, like a cage connecting heaven and earth, filling the entire universe.
The land that was originally destroyed in the battle was constantly retreating and repairing under the influence of the Speed Force lightning storm, like a video tape played in reverse, returning to where they should have been.
The huge rock pits and the huge cracks in the ground created by the fight between the Justice League and the Anti-Monitor were also closing, like an eraser, and were completely erased.
The Anti-Monitor was resisting this change... The scenery around him was desperately retreating, but only the Anti-Monitor, he just kept a static posture, neither falling back, but also unable to move as usual.
Even in an instant, the time reversal of an area around him was reversed, and the originally repaired ground turned back to a cracked state, but in an instant it was reversing again by the Speed Force.
But even so, the Anti-Monitor still resisted with his own existence, resisting the change of reversing time, which caused the time around him to flow backwards, and only he stayed firmly in place.
Chen Tao had no time to pay attention to him, he was moving around the Quad Star at a speed faster than the speed of light.
He needed to use the Speed Force to exclude the Anti-Monitor from his universe, that is, to restart the timeline to before the Anti-Monitor entered the universe by reversing the time effect.
However, the speed force of the universe is like a battery, and the speed force consumed to drive away the Anti-Monitor is simply not comparable to the amount that the Flash can consume when running.
The arrival of a monster of the size of the Anti-Monitor is a heavy burden for their entire single universe. Chen Tao has restarted the timeline several times before, just to test how strong the Anti-Monitor's ability to resist the restart of the timeline is, but now it seems that the Anti-Monitor has hardly given his all in the previous resistance.
This is definitely bad news, but...
The heart of the Anti-Monitor appeared in Chen Tao's hand.
He installed the octopus-like sharing device made by Luthor and Lucius directly on the heart of the Anti-Monitor, and a large amount of the speed force burden was completely transferred to the heart of the Anti-Monitor.
Deep in the dark multiverse, a dragon immediately felt that Batman was asking for power from him.
Very good... very good.
Barbatos felt happy, he stretched out his huge wings, and then flapped them gently.
This is the first step of the fall, and the fall of countless Batman began from this time.
When the Drowned Wrath transformed himself into a superhuman for the first time.
When the Red Death armed himself with the weapons of the Flash's enemies for the first time.
When the Killing Machine used the Alfred artificial intelligence made by Cyborg for him, which was only responsible for making Batman sandwiches for him, for the first time in battle.
Barbatos never hesitated to give those Batmen power at the beginning, and the Dark Dragon didn't care about Batman's restart of the timeline.
It's just a delay, so what?
The web of fate has been woven. Although the prey trapped in it is indeed the Anti-Monitor, isn't it Batman? This is the dark multiverse, and all fates are controlled by Barbatos. As long as he has no choice in the end, he will return to his arms.
Compared with the delaying method of restarting time, which cannot change the final outcome, letting Batman get used to relying on the heart of the Anti-Monitor and borrowing his power to solve problems is what Barbatos hopes to happen, and it is also what every Batman in the dark multiverse will experience.
In an instant, the Anti-Monitor completely lost the ability to stay in place. He was uncontrollably dragged back by the Speed Force, like a puppet being forced to be manipulated by pressing his head.
"Asshole, you..."
But he didn't have the chance to say anything to Batman. Batman's speed was getting faster and faster. As time continued to flow backwards, the force field barrier outside the Quad disappeared, and the entire planet continued to reverse backwards. The earth appeared from Batman's chest, and all time was constantly moving backwards.
The Anti-Monitor kept retreating, and then retreated to the side of the crack in space.
Quad Star has been excluded from this universe. It tore a pocket in the void like a huge bowling ball and was thrown out by the Speed Force without mercy. Then came the Anti-Monitor. He grabbed the opening of the space crack with force and stared at Batman viciously.
He knew that he might not be able to stop his fate of being excluded from this universe. Expelling him from this universe was not just Batman's doing, but more of Barbatos provided power behind the scenes, but this could not stop him from making a comeback. After 15 days... or 10 days, the end of this world will come.
Batman has lost his courage. These 15 days are just to delay his time to go to the grave.
He already knows all of Batman's trump cards. In these 15 days, Batman will never be able to find a new force that can compete with him.
Under such circumstances, he...
But in an instant, the Anti-Monitor suddenly saw Batman wrapped in the Speed Force, appearing in front of him.
"What?"
The Anti-Monitor wanted to swing his fist, he wanted to swing his fist and attack Batman viciously, but the violently surging Speed Force was restraining his actions, and then he could only be forced to see Batman put his hands on his huge head in the thundering and lightning Speed Force.
The overwhelming Speed Force was roaring and surging, hitting the entire universe like a wave. In the endless thunder, Batman surrounded by red lightning looked down and viciously pressed the Anti-Monitor under his crotch.
A huge spiritual force rushed into the Anti-Monitor's brain, and he immediately groaned.
Deep in the universe.
Starro the Great Star let out a hysterical wail.
Many people may not have heard how a starfish screams, but the only thing they can imagine is that when a starfish is fatally injured, the violent scream is no less gentle than the screams of humans when they die tragically.
The starfish flesh all over his body swelled up, and then immediately burst, like a pustule full of pus and blood being squeezed out, and then shrank again, turning into a starfish shape like five iron wire worms circling a city.
Hundreds of trillions of clones surrounded Starro's body, and now these clones were quickly extinguished in an instant.
They shrank and exploded rapidly like dumplings, and the huge spiritual energy was completely drained, absorbed, and poured into the Batman who was thousands of miles away, and then he used it mercilessly, like a rag and repeatedly ravaged it.
Damn it, he just connected his spiritual power to Batman, he just lent it to him, borrowed it! But Batman was about to drain it!
"Help!"
The Big Star was trembling all over. For a long time, the telepathic ability of the Universe Conqueror overwhelmed the entire universe. He had never seen a creature that could resist his telepathy, let alone a terrible monster that almost sucked him dry just by reading the other party's memory.
Grel set him a trick. This was not a double bet at all, but a complete trap.
The Big Star wanted to resist this absorption, but he was soon taught a lesson by the Barbatos power contained in the Anti-Monitor's heart.
The Big Star's mental power just touched a little bit of Barbatos' dark power, and Starro was instantly scared.
"Night Owl! Save me!"
He tried to plead with Night Owl, but then he felt his almost drained body filling up again.
The clones that died like dumplings were quickly resurrected and filled with mental power again, as if these powers had never been consumed.
Some kind of time force reset his body's state, but before the big star could be happy, he felt a huge suction coming from Batman's mental connection with him the next second.
"Oh, come on."
With a hiss, Starro was sucked into a wireworm again.
"Are you reading my memory?"
The Anti-Monitor was furious.
This was a situation he had never imagined. Even Bat-Lenyaq had no ability to invade his brain. How did Batman do it?
Even when Batman had previously excluded him from the universe, he was not so angry: "How dare you spy on my birth and my destiny?! You..."
However, the next moment, his eyes showed a blank look. The Speed Force reversed time and deprived him of his memory. The Anti-Monitor was very sure that Batman must have used a lot of Speed Force to do this, and he knew that he would be able to regain his memory after a while...
But now the only problem is.
In this short period of time, at least in the period of time that will come in 15 days...
He doesn't remember what memory Batman stole from him.
This memory was completely deleted by Batman at the cost of more speed. The Anti-Monitor speculated that Batman originally had at least 15 days to go back, but after he did that, these 15 days may be greatly reduced, so that...
Hey, what did Batman just do to me?
Damn Batman, he pushed me out of his universe, he...
As the cracks in the universe disappeared with a pop, Chen Tao used up his last strength to run back to the main conference room of the Justice League Hall, and then his whole body spurted blood, and he fell to the main seat with a thump.
Before he fainted, Batman's mouth... had a hideous smile.
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I am a turtle man, and I am very scared now.
I don't know what happened recently. I always feel that something seems to be wrong, but I can't put it into words.
But in short, Batman is standing next to me now, looking at me with a smile on his face. He told me that he would do an experiment on me to make me a real strong man.
What does "strong" mean?
As you can imagine, this is definitely not a good word.
I am so scared.
Batman is more crazy than before.
Who will save me!