What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 608 You saved them not out of courage, but out of grace and mercy (Slept for a day and survived)
When Reverse Flash Swan stopped, he saw Batman in black sitting on top of a sign on the street, his cape fluttering in the wind with the morning light.

The morning light penetrated the air, passing through countless dark dust particles, and cast shadows on Batman's chiseled jaw, making him look like a night elf who had strayed into the light.

Even Albert Swann, the Reverse Flash, has to admit that Batman is very handsome, even more handsome than his father Thomas Wayne. With his muscular body like an ancient Greek demigod, he looks even more divine.

The streets were quiet. It was clearly afternoon just now. Batman even shot a little girl in the street and then resurrected her. But now the timeline has strangely returned to morning. Facing the dawn, there are only a few people on the street.

Reverse Flash saw the invisible speed force in the air dragging time, like a broken old truck, trying to move forward.

Both he and Batman are well aware that the timeline of this universe has begun to become disordered. Now it is just a small disorder because Batman restarted the timeline, causing time to suddenly fast forward to the next morning, but this kind of thing is like cockroaches. When you find it for the first time, you are likely to find more immediately.

Reverse-Flash has never missed Time Ghost and Black Lightning as much as he does now. Although these two old friends scream and try desperately to kill him every time, at least being able to see the two of them proves that the timeline still has the ability to heal itself, unlike now, when everything is left with despair.

Reverse Flash appeared next to Batman. He sat down next to the billboard and asked, "I guess you are Bruce Wayne."

Then he vetoed the statement himself: "No, I think you are the savior."

"There has never been a savior, Swan." Then he heard Batman beside him say in a gentle voice: "We create life with our own hands."

"You are the savior." Reverse Flash insisted: "For the sake of the Speed ​​Force, please don't deny this identity, please, even if it means deceiving me."

Reverse Flash keeps a low profile, even a little too low. This is very weird.

Either he has ulterior motives, or he feels guilty, or another possibility is: both.

Chen Tao did not comment.

He listened to Reverse-Flash continue speaking: "I believe you have already understood the problems of this universe. I am about to restart the entire universe. By then, the situation of this universe will further deteriorate and it is very likely to become unsuitable for life, so I..."

But he was interrupted by Chen Tao.

"Why restart the universe?"

"Don't you understand?" said Reverse-Flash.

"This universe is going to be destroyed!"

Chen Tao turned his head and looked at the quiet street. As they talked, the city began to slowly wake up.

First, there were hurried pedestrians, followed by occasional vehicles passing by on the road.

Then there were more and more pedestrians.

The owner of the Mexican burrito shop on the corner rode his motorcycle to the door of the shop and pulled down the shutter. Customers who had lined up in advance rushed in to buy their breakfast for the day.

The birds singing softly in the sunshine, the dim street lights, and the feeling of the smoke blowing against your face, it all seems so real.

"Soon the war between the Atlanteans and the Amazons will be destroyed. The time is almost up, and I have to restart the world before then." Reverse Flash said: "I have to be quick, otherwise there will be no chance."

"Have you tried to stop the apocalypse?"

"of course, I……"

"No, I mean this time, this time try to stop it?"

Reverse Flash stopped talking. He was silent for a while, then spoke in a hoarse voice.

"I can't stop it at all. I've tried many times. I can only restart the universe. I have no other way. I have no choice."

Then he met Batman's eyes.

This made him feel a little annoyed for no reason.

Why do you look at me like this? Why do you look at me like this? Have you ever experienced what I have experienced? Has your world ever experienced an irreversible doomsday? Have you ever tried your best but could only helplessly know that the future cannot be changed?
I know what you're going to say, I know what you want to say. But what gives you the right to stand there in all your glory and tell me to try to save the world?

Have I never tried? Am I a coward who won't even try? Are you the only one who never gives up? And everyone else is just a mediocre person who gives up when they find that it doesn't work?
This is so hard, this is so hard.

His world is doomed.

What Hal Jordan the Parallax Demon said was right, he had to do it.

That perfect world, if Hal could only do it, everything would be perfect again.

As the bustling sounds carried by the morning breeze caressed Albert Swan's face, the world's greatest hero, Reverse Flash, had never felt so deeply that the world before his eyes was so fake.

"Didn't you try to save your world this time?"

really.

When Reverse Flash heard Batman say that, he felt extremely disgusted.

He skipped over what Batman said.

"I have a plan," he said glumly.

"The Ark Project. Just like Noah's Ark." He saw Batman put on a listening expression and stretched out his hand to signal him to continue, which made him feel even more disgusted.

He felt a sting, he felt guilty, but these emotions were mixed with a hint of relief, and a little bit of malice.

Albert Swan, who became the great hero Reverse-Flash, hasn't harmed anyone in many years, but he is still adept at this kind of behavior.

After all, he was once a villain, so it would be okay for him to be a villain again now, right?

He has lived too long in the past, and he structures his life around the past.

He has been through so much, and no one can expect him to be truly righteous.

He has the weight of a world to shoulder.

"When I realized that the end of my world was inevitable, I began to consciously prepare for a cosmic escape for all the people in my world."

When talking about the inevitability of doomsday, Reverse Flash deliberately emphasized it.

"How did you do that?" "I stole time from my universe."

Hey man, are you Dr. Manhattan too?

"I used the Speed ​​Force to capture some time. This is an advanced technique of the Speed ​​Force. I have used this technique to perform some moves that can make people age dozens of years in an instant. But if I use this technique in a more macro field, it will show a different effect."

Chen Tao nodded repeatedly, but for no reason he thought of two other villains in the DC universe who were able to manipulate time expertly.

During "Zero Hour", Parallax Demon Hal and his subordinate Mocun used an instant to make Wildcat and a group of Justice Society heroes age by dozens of years in order to deprive them of their fighting power.

Chen Tao knew that this was a somewhat crazy and unreasonable association, but he thought so.

But he quickly turned his attention back to the current situation.

"If we drain the Speed ​​Force from an area for a short period of time, all creatures in that area will be trapped in it, just like amber in a gel, unable to move."

Reverse Flash said: "According to my plan, I can use the speed force to include the entire earth through the time I stole."

"Once the timeline on Earth solidifies, it will no longer obey any physical laws or time rules. It can be safely taken away from this universe. As long as we find a new universe before the time I stole is exhausted and find a suitable orbit for our Earth, all of us on Earth can start a new life."

Reverse Flash said: "Of course there are no Atlanteans, nor the Amazons of Paradise Island. I will not leave them in the universe to die. They will have a Jurassic Earth, and those super-powered lunatics can create massacres and bloodshed on that planet at will until the end of the universe or time."

Reverse Flash said: "But if I want to realize my plan of escaping the universe, our planet needs a powerful power source to carry the time-frozen Earth across the universe, and you are the only one among all people who can do this. So please, I beg you, the great savior, I beg..."

Chen Tao thought about it for a moment, and then he was about to speak, but at this moment, he suddenly felt a strange vibration coming from under his feet.

"what is this?"

he asked in a low voice.

The next moment, he suddenly turned his head, and with his extraordinary vision he saw that on the coast at the far horizon, the sea surface, which was originally calm with the ebb and flow of the tide, suddenly began to bulge high, and within about 20 seconds, a huge wave was formed.

The huge wave formed too quickly and in too short a time, which was definitely not the time for a normal tsunami to occur. But soon after, the waves that covered the sky and the sun hit the entire city.

A few minutes ago, it was a leisurely working day, and the next moment, a spring tsunami sank the city into the sea. The transition between the two was so fast that it even gave people a sense of unreality.

Never…never before has reality felt so fake.

Chen Tao rushed forward immediately. He turned into a red afterimage and ran at high speed along the coastline.

An ionic shark emerged behind him, and was turned into a green afterimage due to his high-speed movement.

Endless nanorobots gushed out from Batman's body, and then as Batman ran, a steel sky rose at the edge of the city.

Before anyone could react, heavy rain poured down. The drizzling raindrops turned into a downpour in just a few seconds, mixed with the cold air that Chen Tao exhaled while running wildly using his super-speed bullet ability.

Reverse Flash Albert Swan also ran to the coastline, but he did not help.

He just stood there quietly waiting, watching Batman desperately trying for a long time, and finally turning the huge wave into an ice sculpture that was almost taller than the city at the edge of the city.

"Huh...it's not a big problem. The ice sculpture will soon melt slowly, and the water will be released back into the ocean little by little. It won't pose a risk to the city." Chen Tao appeared next to Reverse-Flash. He muttered to himself in a low voice, then turned around and looked at Reverse-Flash in front of him with a scrutinizing gaze.

"None of this makes any sense," Reverse-Flash said.

"Time will always restart, the universe will always restart, and after the next reincarnation, all the dead will be resurrected, and they won't even remember that you saved them once."

"History is being rewritten, and this disaster is likely to become something that never happened. Time is constantly reset, just like the traces on the beach that are constantly erased by water, and in the end only a piece of nothingness is left."

Reverse-Flash said: "You're just wasting your time."

"But at least these people who were rescued will remember."

He heard Batman say this. He saw the people who survived the disaster surrounding him. Those fools didn't even understand who saved them, but confused the two of them. They cheered around Batman and Reverse Flash, and the mother hugged her child and cried, unable to tell whether she was relieved or terrified.

People cried and laughed, adjusting their emotions after the intense fear, counting the number of people who disappeared, and finally found out...

There were no casualties.

"But it's all to no avail."

Reverse Flash shook his head. He was already extremely annoyed, and those stupid worships could not make him feel any ripples.

He regards the world as his property, and now this property has ugly and irreparable scars. So for the Reverse Flash, he just wants to smash this broken jar and then make a perfect jar again, and only the perfect jar will belong to the Reverse Flash Albert Swan himself.

"Let's go. I still need to tell you my plan..."

"Have you ever bled, Swan?"

"What do you mean?"

"nothing."

Chen Tao has already received the answer from Reverse Flash.

He thought slowly.

Albert, the Reverse Flash, has become completely accustomed to solving problems by restarting the world. He has completely lost his empathy for life and ordinary people. Although he is still a mortal body, his heart is above all living beings. He no longer regards life as a living life, but an NPC that can be reset.

Theoretically speaking, Reverse Flash will never fail. Once he fails, he can restart the world. He is used to this. When he finds that restarting the world cannot solve the problem, he will plan to create a new world and then use restarting time to solve the problem.

But the problem is...

If you never failed, you could always travel back in time to find the answers to your questions, if you never bleed, if you never let anything hurt you...

Then your courage is false.

You didn't save those people out of courage...

It is grace and mercy.

(End of this chapter)