dmims Chapter 687 One After Another, William Hand's Scheme? The Emperor
Chapter 687 One After Another, William Hand's Scheme? The Emperor
Chapter 687 One After Another, William Hand's Scheme? The Emperor's Clown's Defeat?
My name is Hal Jordan, and today is the day I die, right now, right at this moment.
I tried my best to escape the constraints of the trans-time flow, and I tried my best to escape the history that was supposed to fail, but all of this did not save me. Instead, it dragged me into an even deeper abyss.
I once thought that powerful forces could help me change history, change the tragic fate of my hometown, and help me create a more perfect world, but all of this was ultimately just a dream.
Embedded in my chest is a tiny spirit of existence, implanted by Batman Dragon. It is a degraded projection of a spirit of existence in the Dark Multiverse. This thing helped me escape the Black Death Emperor's death summons in a previous battle, allowing me to calmly escape from the encirclement and enter the downstream of the Hypertime Stream.
This thing had nothing to do with my life; it was merely a tool to help me fight against the Black Death Emperor's summoning. My original plan was to remove this gift of the Batman Dragon from my chest after escaping to a safe place, but before I could do so, I was captured by the Emperor Joker and his evil allies.
Now, after being modified by the Emperor Joker, this thing has become a kind of switch connected to my life.
Once this delicate spirit dissipates, my life will also end, and along with my death, all the energy in my body will erupt.
Yes, all my energy. Antimatter cosmic energy, all the energy I absorbed in the Green Lantern's central energy cell, the energy of thousands upon thousands of Green Lanterns absorbed by me…
All the energy I absorb will explode in an instant, and the power generated will be enough to completely destroy the entire universe, turning it into dust on the hypertime stream and forever solidifying it upstream of the hypertime stream.
And because of my immense power, my death will cause a series of tremors in the trans-temporal flow...
In my ghost form, I will be completely erased from the timeline, and all history up to the Green Lantern rebirth event will be shattered. The history that appeared in my mind after I successfully traveled down the timeline will be entirely overturned.
The original timeline shattered, and a brand new timeline was born; the chain reaction was endless.
And there was absolutely nothing I could do to stop it.
I am Hal Jordan, and I have never felt so powerless. I can no longer muster even a fraction of my strength.
There are two people trapped with me right now: the first Lantern Rogue, and Batman's Robin, William Hand.
I had been used to using force to solve problems for a long time, and suddenly losing that force—though this description sounds harsh, it is true—made my brain relearn how to think after losing my power.
For example, right now I'm thinking not about how to escape—I can no longer escape on my own—but about the two prisoners trapped with me in front of me.
William Hand has been abandoned by the Black Death Emperor and is now in dire straits. I'm sure the Joker used me to set a trap for Batman: Dragon, and William was the bait.
But he didn't seem anxious or desperate at all; instead, he had a kind of tranquil waiting quality that reminded me of a lion lying in the tall grass on the African savanna.
William may have a plan, or he may not, but in any case, it is very unreasonable for him to show such an attitude directly to me.
Although I'm not a superhero who acts with precise plans, and I don't know much about his plans, I do know Batman. I worked with Batman before the complete... complete massacre of the Green Lantern Corps on OA.
Batman never reveals his inner plans to anyone until he is truly ready.
William Hand's gesture in front of me was a clear indication that he had a way of doing things.
So I'm someone who can be exploited?
But what exactly do I have that can be exploited?
In terms of power, I am completely outmatched by the Emperor and the Joker. What can a bomb that can't even control when it explodes do?
Unless I die, I cannot escape this control.
There's another one.
The first Lantern Knight.
The Emperor Joker crippled him, and I can almost deduce the general cause and effect... The Emperor Joker must have found me through the antimatter cosmic energy absorbed by Lantern X.
No matter how well he cooperated with the Emperor and the Joker before, he is now nothing more than a remnant of what the Emperor and the Joker used.
Now, none of his Third Army men have gone anywhere, and he himself is in a state of complete waiting for death.
He is now completely powerless to resist. I tried calling out to William Hand twice, and I also tried calling out to him twice, but neither of them responded at all.
But I still have some doubts...
The concerns are quite simple:
I can't understand what the point of his being here is.
There must be something I've overlooked. I'm definitely not the only one trying to save myself here. What are those two thinking? Why won't they communicate with me? Instead, they're hinting at things through their actions without saying anything explicitly.
Wait, calm down, calm down.
The Emperor Joker must have had a purpose. He would never just leave a dying Genie No. 1 here for no reason. He just wanted me to kill him and William Hand together when I self-destructed.
If it were simply a matter of killing, wouldn't it be faster to do it yourself? Besides, the death of the first Lantern Man wouldn't have benefited him much. On the contrary, being taken hostage would only intensify the game between him and Batman, wouldn't it?
Driven by the threat of life and death, Hal's mind became increasingly sharp, and he essentially figured out the twisted relationship between Batman and the Emperor Joker.
If the Joker wants to harm Batman, then Genie I must be involved. Since William Hand is the only hostage here, the rest must be bombs. The fact that he can't see where Genie I is about to explode doesn't mean he isn't!
Parallax Morhal is not brainless, or rather, there are no brainless members in the entire Justice League. They may not be good at planning or have the ability to formulate plans, and most of them are used to using brute force and relying on Batman's brain, but that does not mean they are not smart.
Now Parallax Mohal can neither escape nor resist. He is stuck in this place like a nail, waiting to die. More than an hour is enough time for his brain, which has been slow to work, to start working and to figure out the current situation.
and so……
"Where exactly is my way out?"
Parallax Morhal will not die now; he cannot allow himself to fall halfway through realizing his ideals.
By whatever means necessary, he must ensure that he lives long enough to reshape the entire multiverse.
Then, then, that bright and dazzling new world will surely come, it will surely come!!!
As a bomb, Hal could sense the impending explosion every second. The immense pressure weighed on his mind, making his brain feel like it was about to boil. Anxiety momentarily overwhelmed his reason, causing his thinking to break down slightly. He tried his best to rein in his thoughts, which were collapsing due to shock and anger, and bring them back to the embrace of rational thinking.
He kept recalling the process of how he was arrested.
"I was defeated, then fell unconscious... and then someone tampered with the spirit of existence on my chest. But that's not right."
By constantly examining his own state and then deducing, Parallax Mohal suddenly discovered a key point.
"When I woke up, I found that the countdown to my bomb was already about 1 hour and 15 minutes. But the problem is that, according to my deduction, I was completely transformed into a bomb. The time when the spirit of existence was completely transformed into the bomb switch was about two and a half to two hours ago."
"The Emperor Joker couldn't possibly have prepared this bomb beforehand and then gone to the scene, because he couldn't possibly estimate exactly when he needed me to start the countdown to detonate."
"That means that for at least 15 minutes before I woke up, I was unconscious... This means..."
"Yes, what does that mean?"
I don't know.
Knowing too little information, Parallax Demon Hal's brain broke down completely after a short while; Hal could no longer contain his anxiety.
"What the hell is the point of these damn conclusions, damn it!"
He desperately mobilized his willpower, trying to conjure something concrete to help, and even attempted to forge a green light ring on the spot using only his willpower.
But no miracle occurred, and nothing changed despite his constipated groans.
"Ughhhhhh..." Hal didn't give up. He kept trying, but at that moment, he suddenly felt the entire universe shaking.
Space and time were undulating, and then suddenly returned to calm in the next moment.
Parallax Morhal's heart pounded wildly; he realized something.
"Is that you? Batman Dragon?" he asked in a low voice.
Neither William Hand nor the first Lantern made a sound.
"I need your help."
As he said this, he immediately felt a kind of destiny connecting his body, a feeling that revealed to him that the fate of the entire universe was about to change hands.
He immediately began to pray softly, he prayed to fate, and then...
Waiting for a way that will be favored by fate.
That's it.
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"They... I think they've started to take action."
"The Emperor Clown said."
Within the massive spatial turbulence of the hypertimestream, inside a colossal skeleton ship, Brainiac, the Anti-Monitor Dragon, and the Emperor Joker, along with their group, sat at a huge table in a conference room.
Brainiac, with his enormous size, sat at the head, while the Emperor Joker, with his normal human size, sat at the tail, and the Anti-Monitor Dragon sat in the very center.
The three leaders of this evil alliance await their final masterpiece, and so does...
The collapse of allies.
"What? But there's nothing unusual about the feedback from the site," Brainiac said, tapping the table. Immediately afterward, a huge new image appeared behind him, showing Earth 1 running perfectly normal, faithfully following its trajectory throughout the entire positive matter universe in its silent location.
"No, I mean, my gut feeling is that they've already started, you know, I've never felt this connection with Batman so deeply."
The Anti-Monitor Dragon and Brainiac exchanged a glance.
If the Emperor Joker could provide some reasoning to support his views, they might still be able to voice their opinions. However, the Emperor Joker now constantly uses mystical concepts like feelings and telepathy to justify his arguments, leaving them speechless.
"My Batman, oh, my..."
In front of everyone, the Emperor Joker began to go berserk, completely destroying the seriousness of the meeting. Everyone could only stare at him blankly.
The Anti-Monitor Dragon sighed and turned to look at the Black Death Emperor. The giant skeleton holding a scythe had also shrunk in size and sat down next to the conference table, like a statue.
"Let me confirm one more time, our ally—are you sure you've fooled William Hand?"
The Black Death Emperor nodded: "I will only be loyal to death, and more death."
He said meaningfully, and the Anti-Monitor Dragon was very satisfied to hear this. He glanced at the Emperor Joker, who was still going crazy over there. If he could be considered wise and powerful before he completely lured Batman into the trap, after the trap was completed, this madman had completely exposed his crazy nature and completely lost his ability to think logically and organize his thoughts.
The game between Batman and him made his brain seem to have been scalded, turning him into a complete and utter idiot pig.
The Anti-Monitor Dragon turned to look at the Time Trapped in front of it again. The other party always hid itself under the cloak in the shadows, and no one knew the true form of the Time Trapped, or even whether the person underneath was the real Time Trapped. This was exactly the effect that the Anti-Monitor Dragon wanted.
So... let's get started.
The Anti-Monitor shook his head, and the next moment, all the members stood up, surrounding the Emperor Joker and completely enveloping him in shadow.
Just as apes always climb to the highest branches, the Emperor Joker's mission was accomplished once he led them to lay a deadly trap for Batman, and they were no longer compatible.
They need a new leader, a new leader who can reconcile the conflicts between the parties.
And the old one... will naturally be ruthlessly abandoned by them.
(End of this chapter)