dmims Chapter 1008 Bewilderment
Chapter 1008 Bewilderment
Chapter 1008 Bewilderment
Chen Tao was brutally kicked out of the curled dimension by death. Death is usually gentle with everyone, but today she was really a little...
Can't wait?
Chen Tao was somewhat bewildered.
He didn't know what had happened; he just stared blankly at the sky, as if it were all just a dream he had just finished having.
Chen Tao knew very well that death seemed to give him two choices, and he only needed to choose one person to go to death, but in reality, he only had one choice from beginning to end—himself.
Or it could be other people, referring to those closest to the realm of death, such as Sean and Boris, whom no one remembers.
Death takes others in the order of their approach to death. Who is closer to death? This is not something Chen Tao can decide; that unknown person could be anyone.
If Chen Tao were to attempt to evade his duties, it would turn the situation into a completely random killing.
Perhaps he was an unknown nobody, and his first death went unremembered.
Perhaps it's someone who has come incredibly close to death, only to escape its clutches again, like the famous superhero "Dead Man" Boston Brand, the most famous living dead—
No, it won't be Boston. Even near death, Boston is still remembered by many, and he retains an important role in the DC multiverse. Therefore, the DC multiverse won't let him be taken away by death. He's not a character easily forgotten, just as—
Like Chen Tao.
Whether they were ordinary people or the living dead, none of them had ever come closer to death than Chen Tao.
Most people in the DC multiverse only see two sides of death: birth and utter annihilation.
Most people will only meet the Black Death Emperor or some other representative of death after they die, but Chen Tao not only escaped death, but twice.
Therefore, whether from a moral standpoint or from the ridiculous logic of "queuing," Chen Tao is the best candidate.
But Chen Tao did not die.
From the perspective of the DC multiverse, whether you are easily taken away by death is determined by how close you are to death, while whether you will actually be taken away depends on whether the DC multiverse needs you.
If the DC multiverse forgets you, even if you have never been famous or ever come close to death, you may very well return to the embrace of death in a sudden death during a cosmic reboot, and there will be no place for you in the new world after the reboot.
Then Chen Tao gradually realized everything that the first Lantern Knight—or rather, the DC multiverse—had done.
The first Lantern Knight became the Nameless Old Dragon, and Chen Tao then took over the Nameless Old Dragon.
Therefore, the first Lantern Knight essentially equated himself with Chen Tao in terms of the trans-time flow.
The equation "First Lantern = Nameless Old Dragon = Chen Tao" allows the First Lantern to replace Chen Tao's departure, and also completes a cycle of "low-value assets being consumed instead of high-value weapons" for the DC multiverse.
The low-value weapon was the first Lantern Knight, while the high-value one was Chen Tao himself.
He's safe, temporarily. As a weapon of the DC multiverse.
Chen Tao proved to the DC multiverse that even though he often used malicious methods such as cardiac pacing, he could ultimately achieve excellent results.
His plans were bold and highly successful, trapping most people in their schemes. Even the historical loop that Papetua created for him could not hold him back; he was able to break through it.
The DC multiverse will instinctively tend to seek out fighters who can help him fight against cosmic crises with less effort and without having to pay a price to enhance himself, and frankly speaking, Chen Tao is just the right person for the job.
As long as the outcome is good, the process is meaningless to the DC multiverse. A world without independent consciousness and in a state of ignorance will naturally choose a good outcome.
But Chen Tao himself knew that he was not the superman who could bring hope to people.
He was born in the Dark Multiverse, and his plans are built on the darkest and most sinister suspicions of human nature.
His plan treats everyone as a potential traitor and all the vicious and terrifying villains as potential exploiters.
Chen Tao has tried his best to stay true to himself and would never put his life above that of others, but he still knows clearly—
His methods are by no means those of the greatest superheroes.
He is not suited to lead a hopeful world; his sense of justice deep within him is as profound as the malice he harbors towards everyone.
Death is right.
He's so useful.
As Lex Luthor said, Superman can't put humans in a glass bottle.
And Chen Tao is doing just that in a practical sense.
Like Doraemon, he constantly provides Nobita Nobi with shortcuts to solve problems in the DC multiverse by utilizing various magical gadgets.
The Void Hand, Dr. Manhattan, and even Perpetua himself and the Bat who Laughs, he uses all sorts of villains to fight each other, luring their crises to erupt together, and then forming alliances and betrayals within them.
He didn't use the methods of a righteous superhero to solve problems at all; he has, in effect, transformed DC...
The multiverse was locked inside a glass bottle he created.
When Papetua created the DC multiverse, in order to make it a world that continuously produced soldiers and energy for him, he actually designed a mechanism for the DC multiverse to constantly experience crises and resolve them.
X-Metal, the Power of Connection —
It's no exaggeration to say that from the very beginning of this universe's creation, Papetua left this multiverse with the means to defeat himself. The DC multiverse was supposed to be a universe where the stronger the villain, the stronger the hero's counterattack.
However, Chen Tao's existence has caused the DC multiverse to increasingly rely on external forces such as the Void Hand and Dr. Manhattan, which is definitely not a good thing, Chen Tao thought to himself.
When he suddenly awoke and broke free from the narrative of "I am the guardian of the multiverse, and I need to protect the multiverse at any cost," he observed his actions and the entire multiverse from the perspective of a higher-dimensional deity.
He suddenly realized the hidden dangers his actions posed to the multiverse.
He has been using operations that go against the instincts of the DC multiverse to achieve his goal of saving the multiverse, thus suppressing the potential of the DC multiverse.
At the same time, this operation is constantly triggering bigger crises, such as the Earth-15 incident. It is equivalent to bleeding the DC multiverse while simultaneously performing surgery on it and injecting it with adrenaline.
This is torture for anyone.
We have indeed achieved a good result, thanks to the effects of adrenaline and Chen Tao's excellent surgical skills. He sutured several wounds in the DC multiverse in one go. The DC multiverse's self-healing ability kicked in, and it looked quite impressive, but in reality, it was full of hidden injuries.
This cannot continue. This pattern of crisis after crisis, using a major crisis to cover up a minor one, and then continuing to incur debt, must be stopped.
Death is right.
Chen Tao began to realize that what Death had said was intentionally meant to awaken him.
The situation in the DC multiverse has become terrible, and if Chen Tao wants to change all of this, he must propose an opportunity that allows him to leave the multiverse and completely teach "Nobita Nobi" to be independent and use his abilities to fight back.
Of course, before that, Chen Tao must find a way to reduce the crises he has brought to the DC multiverse as much as possible. He has already increased the prize pool too much, and the DC multiverse may not be able to cope.
The superheroes in the main universe haven't received enough boosts either.
Thinking of this, Chen Tao felt a darker gloom in his heart. The villain crisis and the superheroes in the DC multiverse are interdependent.
There once was an Earth-51, yes, the universe where Batman, who killed the Joker for Jason Todd, existed. Because Batman slaughtered most of the supervillains on Earth, the superheroes in that universe became weaker as a whole, which directly led to the complete annihilation of the entire single universe when faced with threats from outside the universe.
And that's exactly what Chen Tao is in now.
The entire Justice League in the main universe, along with the Dark Justice League, the Justice Society, and the International Justice League—all these superhero teams that should have played a vital role in saving the DC multiverse—were completely thrown into chaos by the even greater crisis introduced by Chen Tao.
If Chen Tao did not exist, during the rebirth of the DC multiverse, the correct process for the main universe would be Barbatos → World Forger → Papetua.
Aside from Dr. Manhattan's theories, the crisis and doomsday bells he triggered cannot be considered a global crisis in the normal sense; rather, they are more like his large-scale experiment.
Ten years after the New 52 was stolen by Dr. Manhattan, the DC multiverse was undergoing a slow self-healing process, from the fledgling Justice League at its origin, through the Trisolaran War, the Crime Syndicate invasion, the Amojo virus incident, the Darkseid War, and then to rebirth. However, this normal self-healing process, which gradually strengthened the Justice League in the main universe, was abruptly interrupted by Chen Tao.
He jumped directly from Barbatos to Perpetua, where three villains attacked together. He also opened a portal to add another Void Hand. His plan resulted in the deaths of all the Olympian gods in the DC multiverse, which would prematurely release the goddess of magic, Hecate, and consequently attract the Hanged Man.
The Void Hand now lurks in the shadows of the DC multiverse, watching with predatory intent. Miracle Machine and the mind-body Superman in the Time Stream are suppressing him, but this suppression cannot last long. Hecate the Hanged Man is about to make his grand entrance, triggering a magical crisis that will engulf the entire multiverse—and in any case, Parallax Morhal has already escaped the Time Stream, and he and Superman Supreme have disappeared to who knows where—
One thing after another, there were too many things to handle and too much to handle, but Chen Tao already had a goal in mind.
He must draw all the excessive cosmic crises he has caused out of the DC multiverse, and the World Forger and his Baby Multiverse is a good start.
A new plan slowly took shape in Chen Tao's mind. He needed to draw all attention to the Infant Multiverse, then harvest it all in one fell swoop. The DC Multiverse would then have a clean environment for development, like a game with all mods removed, ready to go after the universe restarts.
This will be his gift to the DC multiverse, and something a true superhero should do.
However, before that————
There was still something troubling Chen Tao.
While he doesn't yet need to return the position of the anti-monitor to the anti-monitor.
He has one more thing to do. He's now the darling of the DC multiverse, and Nobita wouldn't refuse Doraemon.
It's what the dream demands.
He wanted to test the limits of this inability to refuse.
Some stories will never have an ending, but he still wants to ask.
The DC multiverse now lets him do whatever he wants. He's like a patient lying in a hospital bed, completely used to Dr. Chen Tao's dissections and needlework.
Chen Tao has repeatedly demonstrated to the DC multiverse that these damages will definitely help solve his problems, even at the cost of triggering a greater crisis.
The DC multiverse has been manipulated by Chen Tao to the point of being completely obedient, so many actions that were originally against the rules and impossible to achieve, Chen Tao feels that if he can do them, then he really can.
Even Superman wouldn't do such a thing.
But Chen Tao will.
He is now the controller who has the DC multiverse contained in a bottle. When Papetua bows his head, Barbatos prostrates himself, the Void Hand flees, Dr. Manhattan falls silent, and the three sixth-dimensional gods weaken, at this moment, no one in the entire DC multiverse can defy his will in the smallest matters. Even you, a member of the Infinite Family, are subject to the dictates of your duties, but interestingly, you can only watch, not change.
When he broke through infinite space and time, he entered the garden of destiny.
As he stood before his fate, bound by chains and holding a huge book, he looked down at the page he had turned to, the one he had stumbled upon.
"You won't get any results by doing this."
Zhan Yun said this, but Chen Tao ignored him.
Chen Tao asked in a low voice, "Station, tell me—the first Lantern Knight actually met his mother, right?"
Did I break my promise?
Regardless of whether he would break his promise or not, Chen Tao had made up his mind to forcefully write a conclusion for the first Lantern Knight.
Death is a knot that has no end, as Chen Tao knows. Death is the complete end, and even death itself does not know what will happen after death.
It's a pipe dream to think about doing anything to the deceased First Lantern. No matter what Chen Tao plans to do, the fact remains: he's dead, and death is the end of life. There's nothing more to say.
But true romance is about writing a story even when you know it's fake.
Hand of the Void, lend me the power of your story.
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