American Comics: Multiverse of Madness.

Chapter 709 Sacrifice Taboo!!
"Welcome, Batman."

Zhang Ye raised the corner of his mouth and stared at the bound Batman opposite him.

"Or I can call you Bruce Wayne."

Batman looked at the other person with cold eyes. He did not answer, but silently observed the other person's figure and paid attention to the surrounding scene with his peripheral vision.

In addition to the piles of corpses, Batman also saw a man in a red battle suit hanging against the wall. His suit was torn to pieces, his body was covered with scars, and his arms were bent at a strange angle and looked broken.

Batman didn't know the identity of the man in red, but he recognized the older man with a moustache standing next to him. This man should be the 'father' mentioned by the young man behind him.

And it was these two people who attacked the Batcave.

"It is said that the most dangerous place is the safest place. Your friends would never have thought that we did not take you to other places, but kept you in Gotham, in the Arkham Asylum that you built yourself."

Zhang Ye clasped his index fingers together and said with a smile.

"Oh no, it was built by another person, the older and more decrepit old bat. I originally wanted to get rid of that guy, but I have to admit that I underestimated you. I didn't expect your reaction to be so quick."

"I didn't expect you to be so suicidal." Batman said calmly.

"What do you mean?" Zhang Ye was stunned for a moment and asked in confusion.

Batman stared at him with a look full of mockery, as if he was looking at a clown. "I wanted to say this when you used the face of 'Zhang Ye'. You even dared to call yourself 'Zhang Ye'. How should I evaluate you?"

Hearing this, Zhang Ye's expression changed obviously, but he quickly hid it and smiled and shook his head.

"You are the world's top detective, so I thought you would know me very well. But in fact, you don't seem to know me very well. How can you be sure that the Zhang Ye you knew before is the real Zhang Ye?"

Batman's eyes narrowed, and a trace of uneasiness arose in his mind, but he quickly reacted. Looking at the chair the other party was sitting on, Batman returned to his calm state again.

"Your words won't have any effect on me, but you should be affected by this chair. The Mobius Chair is not something that everyone can use."

'Zhang Ye' looked Batman up and down, and moved the Mobius Chair a distance closer to Batman.

"Yes, you have sat on the Mobius Chair before, so that's why I spared your life."

"I should have thought of it earlier. The demon-like creature under the special substance and infected by the special energy is the spy you sent out on your own initiative. I always felt that the energy of that thing was very familiar - the antimatter universe."

Batman has roughly guessed the other party's plan at this moment, but what he didn't expect is that the other party is so crazy.

When Batman was controlled by Darkseid and sat on this chair, he gained almost infinite knowledge, including the reality of the antimatter universe.

At that time, Batman truly felt the horror and oppression of the antimatter universe. He could not imagine that there was such a strange universe in the world, and that universe was so close to reality.

"I know what you want to do, but you will never succeed no matter what." Batman said in a cold tone.

"is it?"

'Zhang Ye' was not frightened by Batman's threat, he just looked at Batman calmly.

"Who do you think will stop me? Your dear comrades have a bigger crisis to deal with right now, and I have found the last piece of the puzzle for this plan."

After saying that, Zhang Ye slowly stretched out his hand, and the next moment, an energy that was invisible to the naked eye suddenly emanated and spread towards Batman.

Instantly, a low whisper echoed in Batman's ears. His pupils shrank, and he immediately knew the source of this energy. Batman knew very well that this was the sound of the Anti-Life Equation.

Loneliness, despair, rejection, fear, ridicule, condemnation, misunderstanding, guilt, shame, failure, judgment, lies, death.
The dark side of human nature and life rose up rapidly, and the voice that sounded like the whisper of an ancient god invaded Batman's brain in the blink of an eye. Even though he had tried his best to resist the invasion of this energy, it still had little effect.

"You, how could you?"

Batman didn't understand why the fake Zhang Ye in front of him could control such terrifying power.

"Don't you understand?" Zhang Ye sneered and looked directly at Batman. "The secret of this Earth, the key to the collapse of this universe, this is not a normal universe to begin with, the anti-life equation engraved on the surface of this planet is the key to everything."

The energy that corrodes will spread, and all life that hears this equation will lose their self-identity and become puppets of the user, driven at will.

"This power is wonderful, isn't it? Although it is not in its complete form, this power that is enough to destroy a universe is enough to redefine the world."

There were dots of lava starlight emanating from Zhang Ye's surroundings. The light was very faint, but the energy contained in it was extraordinary. Anyone who saw this light would feel that their sanity was slowly slipping away, and would gradually fall into extreme madness.

"Don't you miss the feeling of being controlled by Darkseid? The feeling of having your will ruled by someone else? Give up resistance, Batman. You are an indispensable part of my plan."

"Uh"

Batman gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, trying to keep his crumbling sanity stable, but the invading equations hit his mind like a storm.

This is a past he doesn't want to recall in his life, and it is also a scene he doesn't want to experience again in his life.

"Your knowledge will help me open the door to the antimatter universe. I need your brain, Batman."

"Uh ah. Aaaaah."

Batman felt a splitting headache at the moment. He wanted to cover his head, but his hands were tightly bound and he had no way to break free. Veins on his arms bulged and every cell in his body was resisting the erosion of the anti-life equation.

But under the opponent's continuous bombardment, Batman's brain and reason became precarious.

Finally, after the anti-life equation reached a threshold, with the sound of a heartstring breaking, Batman's brain went blank in an instant. He stiffened for a moment and drooped his head weakly.

Seeing this scene, the ferocious smile on Zhang Ye's face became even more intense. He turned his head slightly and looked at the man with a mustache beside him.

"Nolan, wake them up."

Hearing the voice, the man called Nolan nodded slightly, then walked to the man in red who was hanging in the air, stretched out his hand and broke the man's bones.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

The man in red was instantly awakened by the severe pain. He opened his mouth and wailed, but the next moment, Nolan slapped him on the mouth. With a dull sound, the man in red's mouth was cracked, and his teeth fell out one by one with blood, and his screams stopped abruptly.

Then Nolan came to Batman again, held Batman's shoulders and squeezed them gently. As he moved, a sound of bones breaking was heard immediately, which made people shudder.

Batman also suddenly woke up at this moment, but unlike the man in red, Batman did not make any sound, but looked obediently at Zhang Ye on the Mobius Chair.

Looking at this scene, Zhang Ye finally nodded heavily.

"Finally, even Batman has surrendered to me. Marcus, untie him. The next step is the most crucial one."

"Okay." The young man behind Batman responded, reached out and directly tore the rope on Batman.

The restraints on his body were removed, Batman staggered and slowly stood up. His eyes were calm and were always on Zhang Ye.

'Zhang Ye' drove the Mobius Chair to Batman.

"Batman, I need you to open the door to the antimatter universe."

"As you wish, my lord."

Batman's face was a little dull, and he ignored the severe pain in his right arm and shoulder. He shifted his gaze slightly and looked at Johnny Quick who was struggling and whimpering.

"Sir, why don't you open the door to the antimatter universe yourself? We have already confirmed that the speed force formed by the Flash's body can be used as a door connecting the two universes." Marcus asked curiously.

“Not everyone has the ability to conquer this chair. Although this chair has allowed me to gain advanced knowledge that I have never seen before, it has also limited me.”

Zhang Ye glanced at Marcus beside him and explained calmly.

"Batman is right. This chair is affecting me. It is leading me to a state of extreme rationality and loss of humanity. As long as I resist this chair, I will not be able to distract myself from opening the door to antimatter."

While Zhang Ye was explaining all this to Marcus and Nolan, Batman had already begun to act. He walked slowly to Johnny Quick, muttering a language that ordinary people could not understand.

Strictly speaking, it was not any known language at all. Instead, it was more like a song or a melody. Guided by this sound, which was extremely difficult to produce with human vocal organs, Johnny Quick's body responded quickly.

Johnny Quick, who was lying on the ground, was trying his best to resist something, but soon his super speed showed signs of being out of control. Lightning bolts kept emerging from his body, hitting the surrounding walls, making harsh crackling sounds.

Zhang Ye, Nolan and Marcus could not help but take a few steps back. They had deeply felt a force slowly gathering before their eyes.

It was an indescribable strange energy. Even aliens as strong as Nolan and Marcus couldn't help but feel a sense of oppression in their hearts.

Nolan had never sensed this level of energy in thousands of years. He frowned slightly, blocked his son Marcus behind him, and stared at the direction of Johnny Quick.

On the ground, Johnny Quick's body kept twitching in the lightning. He seemed to want to say something, but no sound came out of his mouth, not even a wailing sound.

But from his face, everyone could see that he was under terrible pressure at the moment, and this pressure was splitting his body from within.

Under Batman's whispers, the speed force in Johnny Quick's body was forcibly awakened from the outside and connected to another space.

Johnny Quick stared with bloodshot eyes, his face full of unwillingness and fear. At this moment, he was like a devil from hell. Under the pull of the uncontrolled speed force, his body was instantly lifted into the air by some strange energy.

"here we go"

Zhang Ye's eyes lit up, he could already feel the passage slowly opening.

And the fact was just as he expected. The speed force tore Johnny Quick's body apart, and a scarlet channel quickly appeared. Countless lightning formed a storm, bursting out with brilliant light.

The situation around Arkham Asylum changed dramatically. The building let out a dull roar, and the decayed building was groaning in pain.

But Zhang Ye's smile became more and more crazy.

He has already felt the arrival of that power, and he has also felt the terrifying oppressive force from another world. The energy that is enough to destroy the multiverse is constantly expanding.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha"

Looking at the gaping scarlet tunnel, Zhang Ye laughed out loud. He seemed to have seen the multiverse being destroyed one by one under the influence of the antimatter wave.

“No one, no one can stop this force. This is a great force born from reality and the end of all realities. All life will be truly free under this force.”

".Come on!"

“Anti-Monitor——!!”

Following Zhang Ye's loud shout.

An extremely huge shadow slowly appeared in the scarlet passage, and with it, an indescribable terrifying aura appeared. Just by looking at the shadow, everyone felt a sense of suffocation.

But looking at Zhang Ye, he was extremely excited at this moment. He was so excited that he even stood up from his chair.

Zhang Ye opened his arms, as if he wanted to hug something, and shouted excitedly.

"Break the cage of eternal reincarnation, break this false reality, and all life will be truly free. Facing death will be my last gift to them. I have seen our future."

Suddenly, Zhang Ye's expression froze on his face.

The next moment, the terrifying shadow in the scarlet passage suddenly shrank and turned into a human figure less than two meters tall.

Immediately afterwards, a man who looked exactly like Zhang Ye slowly walked out of the passage.

“What future do you see?”

The man asked calmly.

(End of this chapter)