What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 524: Bat Good Teammate Anti-Monitor

Ok……

Chen Tao fell into deep thought.

This unexpected change made him feel a little overwhelmed for a short time.

"I understand." Shazam said beside him.

He covered his face, which had just come into close contact with the Anti-Monitor's fist.

Green Lantern Hal was glaring at him.

You know a hammer.

"So we've been fighting the Burning Legion for a while, but they're actually the good guys?"

He told a World of Warcraft joke, but no one reacted.

Chen Tao signaled with his eyes, and the Anti-Monitor—or should we call him Mobius—continued.

Mobius didn't speak at first. He stood there for a while. Chen Tao guessed that he might also be thinking and weighing the pros and cons, but in the end he continued to say what he originally wanted to say.

"My name is Mobius."

"As far as I know, I am the discarded remnants of the Anti-Monitor after the timeline was rebooted."

Green Lantern Hal and Thunderbolt Shazam looked at each other.

They didn't know this and were about to ask when Chen Tao waved his hand to stop them.

He let Mobius continue:
"Go on. I know everything you're talking about. If I'm not clear, I'll ask you."

Mobius nodded.

"After the crisis caused by the Flash Barry Allen, the Anti-Monitor's existence was modified to an ordinary mortal Mobius, but soon as the universe restarted again, this part of history disappeared into thin air... Only I was left."

(Note: The two timeline restarts mentioned by Mobius here are "Flashpoint" and "DC Universe Rebirth")
"A soul that doesn't want to disappear...if I really have a soul."

This paragraph seemed a little too difficult for Hal to understand, and they all frowned, but this was not the case for Chen Tao.

Mobius's voice was still ringing, hoarse and low, like the sound of iron scraping across a metal pipe.

He could see that Batman understood what he was saying. He seemed to know everything about the world outside the single universe.

Mobius didn't know how the other party's understanding of the world could compare to his own, who inherited the memories of the mortal Mobius, but he didn't have time to delve into this now, okay?

“I am a person without a past.”

He said:
"I'm not like you. I don't have a real origin story. I just appeared out of nowhere and I thought I was forgotten by everyone."

"I inherited many memories, from the Watcher and from the mortal Mobius, but no matter how many memories I have, I cannot change one thing:

My past is just a blank.”

"I know very well that I am essentially a non-existent person, a person erased by the universe, and even my fears, loves and hates are just the result of the universe restarting, so these have no meaning to me."

"For example, I hate the Anti-Life Equation. That thing only brings me pain, but I know that this hatred comes from the Anti-Monitor Mobius who once existed and has been erased, and I am just an insignificant projection of his history of being demoted."

He said slowly: "I don't have my own love and hate, and I don't have my own goals to move forward. Everything that ordinary people pursue is meaningless to me, but for me, there is still one thing that is important:
"Live. Become stronger."

This sounded a bit heavy, and the members of the Justice League fell silent.

Mobius thought silently. There were some things he didn't say.

if you can……

I am also the Anti-Monitor, I am also a part of him. Why can't my will encroach on the real one?
In conclusion, he concluded, and then continued:
"I wander the dark multiverse, increasing my power by consuming the dark multiverse."

"I have collected a lot of information. I found Barbatos and discovered that the World Forger is dead..."

"A good death."

He expressed his opinion clearly and concisely.

"Otherwise I wouldn't have had the chance to wander around for so long."

"Originally, the energy contained in these dark multiverses should have been destroyed by Barbatos, and then returned to the World Forge to be forged into a new world."

"But now that all this energy has been absorbed into my body, I feel like I've become much stronger. This continued for a while, but I soon realized that all I was doing was competing with Barbatos for food."

The Anti-Monitor carefully observed the expression on Batman's face. He wanted to see what the other party would do after learning about the existence of Barbatos, but to his disappointment, the other party seemed to know about the existence of Barbatos as well.

How did Batman get this information?

He thought silently in his heart but did not show it.

"I was discovered by the Dark Multiverse Dragon, but he was busy gnawing on the corpse of the World Forger, which was the most important thing for him, so he had no chance to spare his hands to deal with me."

"However, this does not mean that he can't do anything to me now."

"He created a destiny specifically for me that he manipulated. I will be killed and devoured by the Batman of a dark multiverse, and that Batman will become the Dragon of Barbatos."

"I got this prophecy, and I also know how Barbatos plans to deal with me."

“So I decided to strike first.”

When the Anti-Monitor said this, everyone present looked unhappy. However, Mobius did not care. He continued:
"I plan to kill the Batman who will kill me in the script prepared by Barbatos, and directly break the fate he has prepared for me to kill me, thus completely breaking free from the shackles."

Mobius said, "I originally thought this was the best solution I could come up with. As long as I kill Batman, it will be difficult for Barbatos to weave a new destiny to deal with me. I can buy myself a lot of time. By then, whether I want to escape from the dark multiverse or make other plans, there will always be room for maneuver."

"But I soon realized I was wrong, because even if I killed Batman, I would still die."

"What do you mean?"

he heard Batman ask.

"In my body, there is a second force controlling it. I should have thought of it earlier. I am a part of the Anti-Monitor. Even though I always call myself a remnant, a remnant still cannot change the fact that I am a part."

He paused, then said, "And even if it were any inferior residue, if the Anti-Monitor wanted to project it downwards..."

Before he finished his words, he suddenly raised his fist without any warning and swung it towards Green Lantern Hal.

Hal was caught off guard. He was blown away like a cannonball after just holding up the protective shield. Then, in an instant, he flew back with a gloomy face: "What do you want to do, you..." Chen Tao stopped him: "Don't do it, he suddenly attacked you just now, it's obvious that he was controlled by someone, not on his own initiative."

Then he turned and looked at the other person.

"Your problem looks a bit big."

"I'm afraid so."

The Anti-Monitor replied.

His other hand grasped his restless right hand.

"There won't be a next time." He said this, and then continued: "I have been trying to control my strength, otherwise the punch just now would have become a sneak attack, and your teammates would not have been able to survive an attack of that intensity. I think this will definitely prove my sincerity."

"I once thought that my birth was an accident, but just now I suddenly felt that this body was no longer completely under my control as it was in the past, and then I realized..."

"I'm just a gift."

"Tell me more specifically."

"Barbatos guards the lower reaches of the hyper-time stream, entrenched in reality. Even the Anti-Monitor cannot shake the foundation of the entire multiverse since the first crisis."

(Note: The first crisis he refers to here is the Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1985, which is when the Anti-Monitor was given the title of the Great Lord of Counterintelligence.)
"Once he did that, it would shake the essence of the multiverse, just like someone trying to tear down the foundation of a huge building."

"It's not that the ground machine cannot be dismantled, but when the ground machine is dismantled, there will be many people living on the foundation to stop him."

"Despite this, the Anti-Monitor is still trying to reverse his own failure."

"So if he wants to influence the present from upstream, he can't get around Barbatos, so do you understand?"

As he spoke, Mobius began to grit his teeth.

"If I kill you, the Anti-Monitor's power will completely turn me into his puppet.

Although he has already decided to throw me, this piece of trash, out to Barbatos to make what he wants, if this thrown thing comes back by itself and becomes useful, then the Anti-Monitor himself will not be polite. "

"And if you kill me, Barbatos' power will completely infuse your body and control you. This was Barbatos's plan in the first place."

After saying so much, Mobius finally paused, and then organized his words as best as possible, trying not to make his voice sound too gritting:
"From the moment I felt the true Anti-Monitor, I understood. Whether the Anti-Monitor wins or Barbatos wins, I will die. There is simply no way to survive. And in this situation..."

"That's why I made an alliance with you without hesitation."

Mobius said:

"I need your help to fight against the demon king who is trying to remotely control me in the super time stream."

Chen Tao interrupted the question that Green Lantern wanted to ask and said, "Okay."

He agreed readily, and under the circumstances, there was no need to refuse.

Are you kidding? Any hesitation for even a second would be disrespectful to his own life. He just wanted to save his own world, and while saving it, he suddenly became teammates with the Anti-Monitor. Is there anything more beneficial than this?

"Then how can I help you fight against the real Anti-Monitor in the upper reaches of time?" he asked. "How did he control you? Even across countless parallel universes and multiverses, he was able to seize control of your body?"

"This isn't control. I was originally one of his. I just... I just... couldn't beat him in the fight for the body."

The Anti-Monitor warned: "I may soon be completely devoured by that person. As I said these words, I could already feel the inner force that controlled me breaking out of my body. He had heard our conversation and realized that I had discovered it, so he stopped pretending and was desperately trying to seize control of my body.

I...I will soon...restart my attack on you. I...

I will shrink my consciousness as much as possible and retain my personality, but my body will still be controlled by him."

He said: "I will help you as much as possible. Our goal now is that neither you nor I can die, and then we can go our separate ways peacefully. This is the way to break their control."

“So, this deal.”

Deal?
he asked.

He could hardly hear the answer clearly. He felt himself trembling all over. He was shocked and angry. The suffocating fear and anger kept rushing into his heart.

In such a situation, he even suddenly felt a little desperate.

At the same time, within the short time he was speaking, that terrible feeling of control once again swept over his whole body more and more intensely, making the situation even worse.

"make a deal."

He heard Batman say, "We're teammates now."

He turned to his teammates and said, "Everyone, get ready, Justice League, the fusion of the Night Owl Universe has begun."

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"I did it."

There was fire flickering in the eyes of the Night Owl.

At this moment, he held a tiny mini starfish in his hand, which he had put in a can, and made a dissatisfied babbling sound:

“Ohh…”

“I really did it.”

Night Owl had an exaggerated smile on his face, and he turned a deaf ear to the little starfish's cries. He almost laughed out loud, but realized that such a laugh was too much of a Joker, so he stopped abruptly, but this action caused the Joker virus in his body to counterattack more fiercely.

"Baby..." He bit his lower lip hard until it bled, to prevent himself from laughing. He carefully examined the starfish in his hand.

"With your help, I can use the energy of the planet's heart to build a shielding network between the two universes."

"Batman thinks he can transfer all danger to my universe through this transformation. He is very wrong."

"My universe will not merge with Batman's universe."

"I'm the one who survived!"

(End of this chapter)