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Chapter 746 Who Influenced the Shadow Calamity? The Idea King, Yu Xiao

Chapter 746 Who Influenced the Shadow Calamity? The Brilliant Plan of Idea King Yu Xiao

"boring."

Several tens of minutes later, the first Lantern left Capitol Hill, which had been transformed into an evil stronghold by the Batman Who Laughs.

Behind him, villains lay sprawled on the ground, beaten and lying haphazardly.

Atomic Skull, Bombshell, Gorilla Grodd, Cheetah Woman...

In fact, the first Lantern didn't really understand why the Batman Who Laughs recruited these villains. To be frank, these guys were somewhat...

too weak.

No, it's not that they're really weak. In fact, some of them are definitely tough opponents for their rivals.

But the first Genie knew all their weaknesses, while they knew little about the first Genie himself.

But even when their weaknesses were exploited, the fact that they were defeated so quickly suggests that these characters from the main universe, when facing the Time Trapped, can probably only serve a restraining effect. Saying that is already being lenient with these characters.

If things are really as the Batman Who Laughs claims, their enemies are Batman Dragon, the Fool of the World, and Superman Supreme...

That guy called the Foolish Owl doesn't have any superpowers, so he's out of the fight.

So the final result is that Time Trapped and Lantern Man #1, the two of them, will fight against Superman Supreme and Batman Dragon.

Two against two.

But think about it: two superheroes fighting each other, flying and disappearing into the ground.

What particularly important effects can characters like Cheetah or Gorilla Groud have?

Should I jump up and hit Superman's knee?

And, to be frank, the Batman Who Laughs has been too lenient with these villains.

When they first arrived at the Flashpoint timeline, the Time Trapped was, in the "past history" written in this timeline, at best, a rather tyrannical and terrifying villain, the kind that left the government helpless, similar to the Superpower from Earth 3.

But under the command of the maniac laugher—who has now entered the presidential palace, one can imagine what they have done.

Those who oppose me, kill them.

Anyone who questions me will have their whole family die.

They arrived on this timeline not long before Batman: Dragon, but soon the reputation of the name Superman had turned into a slippery slope that couldn't be touched.

After they had swept through the House and Senate and utterly destroyed the Army, no one could stop the "Democrat" from running for president, because all the other candidates were dead.

Moreover, the way the Mad Laugh governs the country is extremely simple and brutal. Wherever chaos and riots occur, he sends the Time Traitors to carry out massacres. If there are still riots, it means that not enough people have been killed. Once everyone is killed, there will be no more riots.

Great riots, great famines, and great chaos all vanished without a trace due to the forced reduction in population size.

The world is at peace for now, though it's a cemetery-like peace, where no one dares to cry out.

This behavior seems to be completely damaging the reputation of the name Superman.

The villains he had subdued with his maniacal laughter were all turned into a bunch of lunatics by him.

The gorilla Grodd likes to eat human brains. Well, he used to eat them too, but he's never been eating human brains five times a day like this.

The leopard woman needed to perform a magical ritual on a living person, and she couldn't control her bloodthirsty urge to kill—so she simply didn't try to control it, and the maniac gave her a license to kill.

The Frost Killer enjoys absorbing the life force of living people. The Mad Laugh arranged for a dozen of them to be given to her. She had almost given up this urge to kill, but under the Mad Laugh's guidance, she recklessly rushed towards her darkest side.

Bombshell, Egghead Brothers...

Even ordinary villains who originally had no urge to kill were completely unleashed by the maniacal laughter, releasing their dark desires.

When you discover that even if you were just a minor villain robbing a bank, as long as you have the name of a supervillain, the Laughing Man will recruit you, and then you won't pay any price for what you do.

How could this not make you transform into an even more evil person?

Ordinary people's lives are as worthless as grass. The reason why social order has not completely collapsed is entirely because those who are trapped in the times will kill all living things in places without order.

The idea that "no order = everyone must die" is too twisted, too simplistic, and too brutal.

Thanks to the maniacal laughter and the villains' vigorous promotion, Superman's reputation in everyone's eyes is even more terrifying than Hitler's.

What was the purpose of all that he did?

The first Lantern Man returned to his temporary residence.

It was just an ordinary hotel, and the basic hotel staff were still there, but they trembled like quails when they saw him.

When Lanternman returned to his room, he saw Shadow Calamity sitting on the bed, waiting for his return.

As soon as they met, they started talking nonsense, and then began communicating via telepathy.

This is a method to prevent the Laughing Bat and the Time Trapped from eavesdropping.

"Did the Bat of Mad Laughter say anything?"

"No, he accepted it calmly."

The first Lantern Man told Shadow Calamity, "Furthermore, he also had the Time Trapped record the other's heartbeat in his memory. No matter how much we let him off the hook now, Reverse-Flash will definitely be caught."

"So what if he's caught?" Shadow Calamity said. "At least no matter where he goes, The Laughing One will only get the parents and relatives of one of the Justice League members. And our people are ready. Once we determine where he took The Laughing One and the others, our people will move all the targets in the remaining locations."

The first Lantern knew that the members of his Third Legion were all very intelligent.

They can do these things.

"The Batman Who Laughs has now excluded us, and we need to accumulate some leverage for ourselves that may come in handy at any time."

Then he heard Shadow Calamity say, "Whatever the Laughing Ones may do, as long as we gain enough power, we can change that day."

"Hmm." The first Lantern Knight nodded, and the two of them fell silent for a moment.

Then, the first Lantern Knight heard Shadow Calamity pause before continuing, "And... the Laughing and the Time Trapped are ultimately not on our side. His allowing those villains and the things he made the Time Trapped do was meaningless, purely an act of malice. We just want our homeland and our mother back, not a madman like the Laughing."

In fact, the first Lantern knew that he wasn't much better than the Laughing Ones when it came to killing.

In the past, when he was dealing with Lantern Man and trying to reboot the universe, he was no slower at killing people than the Laughing Man and his ilk.

But he did these things to advance his own goals, not to enjoy them like he was laughing wildly.

"We're not like the Maniac Laugh. If we could, we'd much rather be superheroes on Earth-15," Shadow Calamity said. "We're only cooperating with them temporarily, so don't feel too guilty."

Actually, there was no psychological burden at all; the first Lantern Man simply didn't care.

He wasn't as righteous as Shadow Calamity claimed, but after hearing the other's words, the first Lantern Knight seemed to have some psychological burden, and so he did indeed have some.

But what the first Lantern didn't realize was that if Shadow Calamity was the first Lantern from the future timeline, how could he not know that at this moment, he actually didn't have any burden in his heart?

Why would he deliberately say things like "don't feel guilty" at this time to induce the first Lantern Man to believe that he really has a "conscience"?

Or rather...

Whether it's the first Lantern Knight or those future scourges disguised as members of the Third Legion...

They didn't realize that at a certain moment...

Some subtle changes occurred in Shadow Calamity that none of them were aware of.

At this moment, no one realized who was responsible for this change.

The future remains shrouded in mystery, but at least...

At this point, after being influenced by Shadow Calamity, the first Lantern Knight genuinely felt that he was different from the Batman Who Laughs and the others; this was at least a small change.

Social psychology clearly points out that the attitude system consists of four factors: cognition, emotional response, behavioral intention, and behavior itself.

Cognition is the primary factor that initiates a change in attitude.

A villain who never thinks he is doing evil will never repent.

Just as Superman the Primal doesn't see himself as indiscriminately killing innocent people and destroying the world, but rather as restoring the glory of the Golden Age.

However, at this point, under the gradual guidance of Shadow Calamity, the first Lantern Knight began to accept that his actions in order to save Earth 15 were objectively evil.

He had no choice but to do evil for the sake of Earth 15.

In this respect alone, he is already more rational than the current Superman.

But this doesn't mean he'll abandon Earth-15... His obsession runs too deep. Saving Earth-15 is his life's goal, and that goal won't disappear...

It can't disappear either, God, please.

……

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"I have a plan."

Before Chen Tao could figure out how to stop the Supreme Superman and the Trapped One from fighting in the city, he heard the killing machine beside him say this.

Chen Tao glanced at him sideways.

What are your plans?

They were currently in a makeshift camp amidst the city ruins. The unfortunate survivor that Chen Tao had found earlier was dragged away from Superman by Chen Tao and Killing Machine to prevent him from being terrified by Superman's face.

The Supreme Little Superman was persuaded to wait, and then sat aloof and cold on a high place in the ruins not far away, gazing blankly at the clear sky.

Supreme Little Superman: Stunned...stunned...stunned...

Meanwhile, Chen Tao and the Killing Machine huddled together nearby, creating an energy barrier to prevent the Supreme Superman from eavesdropping, and then continued their heated discussion.

Chen Tao was still somewhat wary of the other party; he always felt that the other party was up to no good.

However, he couldn't come up with a concrete plan for the time being, so he decided to listen to what the killing machine had to say.

"Simply put, if this guy's intelligence is correct, the Time Trapped has now become the recognized Superman in this timeline, despite the infamy. But that doesn't matter. As long as Superman, the Justice League, and the invading Barbatos are added, the formula for creating crisis energy is complete."

The killing machine said, "As long as we create crisis energy, we can power the cosmic tuning fork."

He paused here, without mentioning what they were going to do after driving the cosmic tuning fork.

He knew that Batman Dragon probably hadn't given up on saving Super P, and that it wasn't convenient for him to tell Batman directly about his plan to lure Superman Supreme and then use Super N's ​​life essence to possess him.

But in any case, as long as the cosmic tuning fork has enough energy, it has the option to either vibrate to find the location of the World Builder and then storm its door to reclaim P-Super, or directly attempt to possess it.

Their interests were aligned in energizing the tuning fork.

"so?"

"Therefore, there is absolutely no need for Superman Supreme and Time Trapped to fight each other. When the two of them tear each other apart, spanning the sky and smashing Eurasia with one punch, the whole world will know that there are two Supermen fighting above their heads, making them forget that having two Supermen is another troublesome matter."

"So since the Time Trapped and Superman look exactly alike, it suddenly occurred to me, why don't we just have Superman impersonate the Time Trapped?"

The Foolish Owl, controlling the killing machine, conceived a brilliant idea: "Whatever the Batman Who Laughs's plan is, there are only two outcomes. First, he will either side with Perpetua and try to bring him down from the wall, in which case the fully charged Cosmic Tuning Fork would greatly accelerate the process. Second, he will either side with the Void Hand, in which case obtaining the fully charged Cosmic Tuning Fork would be a crucial driving force in achieving this goal."

"So whatever he wants to do, the Cosmic Tuning Fork is a lure that can induce him to act."

"We can use Barbatos to make a deal with him, and then, outside of Earth, use the Cosmic Tuning Fork as bait to set a trap for the Time Trapped and the Bat of Laughter."

"If they pounce on us and try to take the tuning fork away, could we try using some kind of spatial teleportation to trap them in the Dark Multiverse?"

"They don't need to be locked up for too long, just for a while, until they crawl out of the Dark Multiverse, and then it will all be over."

"Well……"

Chen Tao was deep in thought.

By having Superman the Ultimate directly impersonate the Time Trapped, he had roughly deduced from the survivor's words how much the Batman Who Laughs and the Time Trapped had done under the name of Superman on this timeline.

Now, in other people's ears, the title of Superman means the worst of beasts, even more terrifying than "I don't eat beef." The Supreme Little Superman has directly taken over the position of the Trapped One; won't this make the Supreme Little Superman a little...

Chen Tao couldn't quite put his finger on what was wrong, but he felt that the Supreme Little Superman should be doing good deeds instead of playing the scumbag who was trapped in the current situation.

Moreover, the Time Trapped One was originally the future Supreme Superman, and he was supposed to be punched into a time paradox by the Supreme Superman during the Three Realms Legion era.

How exactly did he escape the effects of the time paradox?

Is there still a causal connection between him and Superman?

(Note: There is a causal connection between them. When Superman Supreme is injured, the victim will also be injured because he is essentially the future Superman Supreme. This is also why Superman Supreme could kill him with one punch; the past cannot attack the present, as that would create a paradox.)

"Besides this method, do you have any other methods?"

The killing machine's question left Chen Tao speechless. He frowned and reluctantly agreed to the plan.

But he felt something was amiss, and he slowly began to think about it.

He may need to prepare some countermeasures while carrying out this plan.

(End of this chapter)