Late at night.

Chen Tao appears at the Interstellar Lab in Canterlot.

It's basically the territory of Barry Allen, the Flash, and it's also a superpowered offender prison with no less security than Arkham Asylum. In the past, the Flash would usually put all the criminals he caught in Iron Mountain Prison, but as he faced more and more super-powered criminals, Iron Mountain Prison gradually fell to the same level as Gotham's Black Gate Prison - that prison couldn't hold super-powered criminals at all, and only Interstellar Lab was the place to control these guys.

In addition, there is also a very important object stored in the interstellar laboratory: the cosmic treadmill left over from the reverse lightning of the year.

Chen Tao used his authority, turned around, and came directly to the door of the room where the cosmic treadmill was stored.

The room has a large multi-layered hardened steel door, and the doorway is a combination lock, which is mixed with a bit of Brainiac's scientific and technological achievements, not only scientific authentication methods such as biometric information collection systems, but also multiple identification methods such as magic to prevent shapeshifters like mud faces or snakeskins

Well. In addition to the permissions required to enter this room, a password that changes every day is required. Chen Tao hadn't asked Barry what his password was beforehand, but he had other ways to open the door.

He pressed the microphone button on the combination lock, then leaned closer and said:

"The bells are jingling, the bats are stinking, and Robin is busy laying eggs. The Batmobile, Gollum, Laughing Bat, ran away. ”

It's hard to imagine such a nursery rhyme being sung in Batman's mouth, but then the door opened.

Chen Tao has always left some back doors in the things he handles, just to facilitate a situation like today, some situations that are not suitable for his teammates to know.

"Batman, now I see there's a problem. The Night Stalker is no longer visible to me, and he no longer comes to see me, and I still don't know exactly where he is, and I'm completely isolated in this spaceship. ”

Chen Tao dared to be sure that the night owl was completely raised as a Barbie doll by the other party, which was also too exquisite.

Nightwing said, "Do you understand what he says? ”

"What is it?"

"I'm Nightwing, I'm Nightwing, Nightwing calls Batman."

"So what now?" He asked, "Should I find a way to get out of here?" ”

Dick said, "The Night Stalker is wary of me, he just keeps me like a nice vase now, and all my previous routes to get information through other channels have been cut off. ”

"Most of the content is lackluster." Nightwing told Chen Tao, "But there is only one thing that I think is more important. ”

At this point, however, the furrowed brow on Dick's face slightly spoiled the picture.

"The Night Stalker told me that it is impossible for a single cosmic force to defeat the Anti-Watcher."

Then he walked to the corner: "Dick, how is your situation over there?" ”

"You stay for now." Chen Tao said: "When necessary, I will give you the opportunity to do it." ”

Chen Tao connected.

Chen Tao thought so as he reached out to the iron door and tried to close it, but at that moment, a communication interrupted his movements.

He said, "I have no other way to connect with you, and if it weren't for the metal spirit power you left in my body, I would have lost all contact with the outside world. ”

"By the way, did you gather any information from the night owls?"

"I don't know, the Night Stalker didn't say anything more." Nightwing on the other end of the screen said, "He also refused to explain to me what those words meant. He just used these words to persuade me that you are going to fail, and then let me be his Robin. ”

Chen Tao turned around expressionlessly and closed the heavy iron door.

"Monolithic universe?"

Dick Grayson on the other side of the screen is wearing a neat suit, Dick himself is a handsome guy, and he looks even more handsome in this outfit.

"How's it going?"

"I think I know ......," Mr. Chen said.

His heart was a little heavier: "I'll call you again when I have a chance, Dick." ”

He hung up the comms and walked over to the cosmic treadmill.

For a long time before, the Flash had been trying to replicate the reverse lightning through the cosmic treadmill - what the outside world thinks was the original Flash, Albert Swan's method of reversing time and running from the 25th century to their own era.

That's right, Barry has been trying to practice the Flash's most standard skill: traveling through time.

For the Flash, traversing the timeline was supposed to be as easy as eating and drinking, and many of their skills were created based on traveling through time:

For example, the remnants of time, they in the future can travel to two minutes ago to help their current selves, until the future they are erased by the timeline itself due to the paradox of time.

And for Barry, this skill has gradually been learned with the departure of Reverse Lightning.

In the previous incident against the Eclipse, the Flash even used his ability to travel through time to get stuck in a bug of "Schrödinger's state is controlled by the Eclipse", and as early as that period, Barry was already very familiar with the technique of traveling through time.

However, even then, Barry could only do it in minutes at most, and couldn't even go back an hour ago.

Barry has never been clear why...... But Chen Tao knew.

Just as in the Flashpoint comics, the Flash himself tells the story of why he couldn't have changed history completely wrong the first time he regained his abilities.

His exact words are as follows:

"Normally, if I have the best energy, I can really travel through time."

In other words, it takes enough speed to travel through time, and now Barry is clearly not enough.

As a result, while he is able to perform time-traveling abilities like Time Remnant, he can't actually travel through time like Reverse Lightning.

And what is the reason for the insufficiency?

Chen Tao's body began to flicker with divine speed.

Too much speed power was used by Chen Tao to link his batteries, even if Flash Barry Allen was like an oil well that kept producing speed power, the amount he produced couldn't keep up with the speed used by Chen Tao at all.

Chen Tao is like a thief who steals the speed of God, constantly drawing speed from Barry's body, causing him to not be able to become faster.

On the other hand, when Chen Tao synchronized with the Red Death, he, as a speeder, also permanently occupied a position in the speed power of this universe, which further took away the speed of the Flash.

These are the actions that have been done by another person, and that is reverse lightning.

In the "Flashpoint" event, the Flash Barry Allen went back to change time, creating a hellish Flashpoint timeline, and after regaining his speed power, he found that he couldn't travel through time to fix it all, because Reverse Lightning Swan was constantly absorbing his speed power, so that Barry couldn't go back in time.

And when Reverse Lightning is pierced through the heart by the old lady, Bruce Wayne's father, Thomas Wayne, Barry is fast enough, and the flashpoint timeline is repaired.

Therefore......

Chen Tao stood on the cosmic treadmill.

Metropolis, the base of the Bat Cave is divided.

Gorilla Grove and the tortoise man live in their battery compartment, and one gorilla snores like thunder.

With the passage of time and technological breakthroughs, their current housing is also gradually upgraded, at first they were completely confined to a battery compartment the size of a coffin, which was like two batteries stuffed in when it was driven, not only did it need to be tied, but it was particularly inconvenient to eat, drink, and Lazar.

But at this time, they live in a transparent cage that replaces the small battery compartment.

Now both of them can exercise a little in the cage, and even go to the toilet much more conveniently, and even have their own desks and beds.

But at this time, both of them were lying in bed.

It's late at night after all, and even slaves have to sleep. What's more, they are pulled out and tortured from time to time, and from time to time they are in a state of serious injury, and every day they are either injured, injured, or on the way to recuperate, and they need sleep even more.

"Purr ~ Purr ~ "

Then the next second they were woken up by the pressure that was suddenly distributed on their heads, and the golden divine speed force flowed out of the conduit not far away, carrying an unspeakable thousand strange powers, and woke up the two slaves who were still sleeping at once.

The resounding snoring stopped abruptly, and the gorilla Grud and the turtle man jumped up from their beds and immediately began to stand up straight and call for spring.

"Whoa, whoa......"

"Doesn't Batman who smits on a horse need to sleep?" Gorilla Grud scolded, "I'm dying!! ”

"Who's who, who's who, who's not—"

The turtle man sang along, "Ahh ”

All in all, with the help of the duo, silver-white particles enveloped Chen Tao's body, and soon the Red Death Demon wrapped in the black-red speed force ran into an afterimage on the cosmic treadmill.

For a minute, two minutes, Chen Tao kept trying to go back in time, but in the end it was still in vain, as if you could touch something that you could touch with your hand but could never grasp.

In the end, he gave up, and Chen Tao frowned and got off the space treadmill.

Like Barry Allen, he is also unable to travel through time. He shared too much of Barry Allen's speed power, and what about Barry?

Both of them had the speed of the gods, but—neither was enough to reverse the time.

Although he once said to Barry that "it doesn't matter, he has other plans", for Chen Tao......

The feeling of being stuck in the throat never lingered.

If there is enough time...... Whether it's Parallax and Ion Shark, or Superman Supreme, he has the ability to do better.

But now it's too late, and the anti-surveillance is just around the corner. Chen Tao had already made enough preparations in the limited time, but none of them gave him a sense of security.

He claimed to everyone that there was no difference between facing the Anti-Surveillance this time and the fact that he had faced Brainiac or Darkseid, but he knew it deep down......

Chen Tao shook his head.

Not necessarily. Both Superman Supreme and Darkseid should be enough to fight the Anti-Monitor, and the preparation he made for traveling through time through the speed of God is most likely not needed at all.

High probability.

And crossing the timeline now is an unattainable fallacy for him, isn't it?

It's just a worst-case scenario, and the worst-case scenario doesn't always come true, right?

(End of chapter)