69novels Chapter 506 Confident Loser, Unafraid of Difficulties, Batman: Please
Chapter 506 Confident Loser, Unafraid of Difficulties, Batman: Please
Chapter 506 Confident Loser, Unafraid of Difficulties, Batman: Please Stop Planting Your Flag!
As soon as Luther finished speaking, he saw Batman's expression turn to horror.
Then he heard Batman ask, "What did you just say?"
"Everything is ready," Luther said.
"No, no, I meant the one after this sentence."
"The owl has no feelings for me whatsoever..."
"Oh my god, shut up."
Before Luther could finish speaking, Batman raised his hand and used a large mass of nanobots to seal his mouth shut.
"Listen to me, Luther. Rule number one for success: never plant a flag."
"Gugu wo wo wuwuwuwu..."
In half a second, Luther used a small electrical device on his wrist to disable the nanobots' mobility, then threw the large clump of nanobots on the ground: "No, that's all you wanted to say?"
Chen Tao said, "You're asking me? You're like a general with flags all over his back."
"Come on, success or failure depends on preparation, wisdom, hard work, and a bit of luck, not on whether you're a jinx."
I'm begging you.
"Okay, okay, you're right."
They only discussed the jinx, and then Luther said:
"I just wanted to tell you that I've almost completely figured out how Night Owl escaped with the universe," Luther said. "The Heart of the Planet, an energy core with almost limitless magical energy, is perfect as an engine."
He said, "But trying to install such a good engine on Earth, the center of the universe, is like putting a thruster on a cell nucleus and then pushing it out of the cell wall, causing the cell to die. Therefore, the Night Owl needs a cosmic overlord like the Galactic Golem or Lady Styx to help him distribute this propulsive force throughout the universe."
"Therefore, he built massive propulsion towers in different corners of his universe. These towers spanned hundreds of sectors, stretching all the way to the edge of the single universe," Luther explained.
"Darkseid is responsible for acting as the central energy processor, using the Omega effect to distribute the vast magical energy gushing from the Heart of the Planet to several cosmic overlords, who then further subdivide it."
"Night Owl killed Nataza from their universe, a sorcerer who rebelled against the crime syndicate, and then unfortunately ran head-on into the nemesis of magic, Superman."
Night Owl took Natazar, whose jaw had been crushed by Superpower, then severed her limbs, destroyed her brain, and through superb medical skills and miraculous modifications, turned her into a flesh-and-blood puppet capable of casting ironic magic.
Luther paused, then said, "The scene is brutal, but in my opinion it's completely unnecessary. Natazar's purpose is to use irony magic to forcibly alter reality, distributing the magical power of the Planetary Heart completely into every Propulsion Tower."
"And those cosmic overlords recruited by Night Owl are responsible for balancing the vast area they are in charge of, ensuring that all the balancing towers receive a sufficient amount of magical power, rather than having the universe sliced apart like tofu by a taut fishing line because one tower bears too much power."
"But for us, the solution is simple. We can use the Crimson of All Beings as a channel to transfer these magical powers without having to use irony magic to forcibly transfer them. In fact, according to my calculations, the magical energy that can be transferred from this other world, which originally contains a lot of vibrant magical power, is even greater than that that can be forcibly modified using irony magic."
Luther's bald head seemed to be gleaming, and a cunning expression appeared on his face.
Chen Tao gave a simple explanation: "Using irony to transmit the magical energy of the Planetary Heart is like WiFi, and using the Crimson of All Beings is like installing a network cable, right?"
"You can understand it that way. It's very simple and straightforward, correct, but it has some minor issues," Luther said. "The only drawback is that I secretly took some samples of the Planetary Heart's magical energy and then went to Killer Croc to compare it with the magical power of the Crimson of All Beings. I found that the two are not particularly compatible."
Therefore, I can confirm that there will inevitably be losses during transmission, and these losses will be significant. It's like using wires made of the wrong material—they're not unusable, but they still have problems. However, we don't have time to find alternatives right now.
Chen Tao remained indifferent.
Luther is right. He knows about the Heart of the Planet; in his past life's comics, the Heart of the Planet actually originated from the Guardians of the Universe.
Millions of years ago, they waged a war to wipe out all magical creatures in the universe. They then sealed the remaining magical energy of the war into the core of a planet. In the main universe, this core eventually shattered and flew to Earth, transforming into the first magical green lantern ring.
This ring gave rise to Alan Scott, the Green Lantern hero of the Justice Society. He is also likely the only one among the many Green Lantern ring users who has no direct connection to the Guardians of the Universe. Therefore, he has never had a yellow defect because his ring is unaffected by the parallax monster in the Green Lantern Central Power Cell on OA.
Alan Scott is the embodiment of the green of all things. In essence, Alan Scott is a magical figure who represents the life force of plants, which is why his lamp ring cannot work on wood.
Therefore, for the heart of the planet, perhaps the green of all things would be a more suitable wire than the red of all beings.
However, this brings us back to the problem he mentioned earlier: he doesn't have time to refine his approach and further address the issue of the "Green of All Things." As long as the "Red of All Beings" can be transmitted, that's sufficient. As long as it works, there's no need to consider anything else.
"But even if we don't find the best conductor for the magical power of the planet's heart, it won't affect the plan," Luther said.
"When the two worlds intersect and overlap, Owl will think that he will only move all the humans on Earth, just like using duct tape to remove dust from a phone screen, but he is wrong."
"I have secretly tampered with all of his mobile towers. The so-called transfer of all the people in our world is just a large-scale interstellar journey accomplished using the Heart of the Planet and Father Box technology. But things will not happen as Night Owl thinks."
"Night Owl will not only fail to transfer all the people he promised to bring to our world to his universe, but he will also inadvertently transfer the Planetary Heart he prepared and all the powerful beings in the universe who serve as energy sources within the Planetary Heart to our world."
"This means that all the infrastructure he built in his universe will become part of our universe, while Night Owl's universe will become a blank slate."
Luther became more and more excited as he spoke, and Chen Tao felt that he was now completely immersed in the excitement of his plan's imminent success, which was precisely Luther's most common weakness.
However, Chen Tao did not choose to interrupt Luther to discourage him at this moment. Instead, he gestured for Luther to continue. However, it was clear that Luther did not pay attention to Chen Tao's gesture at this time.
"The transfer will also involve the major problem of the Anti-Monitor. Following that, my people, your people, Nightwing, Grell, and Wolf will all be transferred back to our universe at once. We will comprehensively recover all our people left in the Night Owl universe and then complete the next step of the plan."
Luther said, "There's more."
"I've always remembered what you told me before, Nite Owl's trump card, that baby imprisoned inside Super Queen's belly, who has already absorbed his cosmic Darkseid power. If you hadn't reminded me, I would have almost overlooked him. Nite Owl hid this child very well; almost no one knew about him. Well done, Batman."
"But now that the child has been exposed, it's no use transferring the baby to his universe. I've secretly marked the baby, and he will be transferred to our universe in the same way, completely extinguishing Night Owl's last hope."
"And didn't Night Owl order you to build that lightning rod?"
"Speed Force Storm Generator. It's a modified version of technology from Gorilla City, combined with human and Brainiac technology. It's on a completely different level from the ordinary weapon that Gorilla Grodd uses to extract Speed Force from an entire city to enhance himself."
Chen Tao said, "This thing was created to generate a Speed Force storm powerful enough to destroy the universe. It's like a weakened version of the Red Death Demon—you know the Red Death Demon is my Speed Force-wielding transformation."
"None of that matters," Luther said.
"Our universe's Speed Force generator will also be transferred directly into the world of Night Owl during this transfer. Then we will activate it to create a Speed Force storm, completely trapping Night Owl and the Anti-Monitor within it."
Luther paced back and forth, then said, "Next, we'll just transfer the Superman Supreme from the Sun to their Sun, and then watch as the enraged Superman Supreme beats up everyone present."
"Darkseid never helps anyone. He only helps whoever wins. How could he possibly convince Darkseid to let the other party use his Omega Rays to do what he was supposed to do for Night Owl, thus completely triggering their cosmic escape?"
"Are you sure Night Owl didn't discover this whole plan?" he heard Batman ask. "Honestly, this plan is quite complex. I don't believe Night Owl was completely unaware of it."
Chen Tao said, "Night Owl will definitely..."
"You don't understand technology, Batman." Luther shook his head and said, "Technically speaking, it's entirely possible. Listen to me, I've mastered the technology of Night Owl. Those towers that have been built don't lie, okay?"
I was involved in the construction of those propulsion towers; otherwise, do you think Night Owl could have been completed so quickly? I even provided some of the technology, and no one could tell that I had done anything wrong.
Once I control those propulsion towers, it's like holding Night Owl's escape route in my hands. Night Owl will be powerless to resist. And once the two universes merge, everything I've said will become reality.
"Whether Night Owl retaliates or he notices it, all my preparations will trigger this event, without a doubt. Even if he does find out, so what? Can he abandon those propulsion towers that are pushing the entire universe away? — And do you think I haven't made contingency plans for the possibility that Night Owl might discover me?"
Luther blinked. "After spending so much time with you, why do you underestimate me so much, Bat?"
Batman stared at him for a while. Luthor's plan looked perfect, but it was actually quite crude. The preparations were also insufficient, at least in Chen Tao's opinion. Their communication was also not very smooth because Luthor had been staying in the Nite Owl universe for a long time. This was their last exchange of intelligence.
Luther seemed to have an uncanny grasp of everything Night Owl had accomplished. In Chen Tao's view, this was precisely where the danger lay. Luther was undoubtedly a genius, and geniuses are always arrogant. This confidence allowed Luther to always come up with creative inventions, but it also often led to his crushing defeats at the hands of his arch-enemies.
Chen Tao was different. He knew very well that he was an idiot and a Monday morning quarterback. In terms of intelligence, he was far inferior to Luther.
This made him humble, but also anxious and fearful.
He heard Luther say, "Give me a little more time, and I'll be able to..."
Chen Tao sighed.
If he had the time, he would certainly be willing to continue working with Luther to refine the plan, but for now, he had no choice but to accept it.
"Okay, I apologize," Chen Tao said, "but I also have something to tell you."
"We're out of time."
Luther frowned: "But you told me before..."
"I used some of it to prepare for the problem with Superman Supreme," he heard Batman explain. "You want to forcibly extract more Speed Force and extend the time, which isn't impossible, but you know I would never do that."
Chen Tao's implication was simple: what to do when the Speed Force is insufficient? Steal the Speed Force from ordinary people. That's what the Red Death did. His red lightning bats could steal time from ordinary people, turning them all into white-haired old men.
The gorilla Grud did the same thing; his lightning rod, made from technology from Gorilla City, could freeze time in the entire city and then extract everyone's Speed Force to enhance himself.
But Chen Tao wouldn't do that, so he could only accept the outcome of facing the counter-surveillance agents without being fully prepared.
If he could forcibly extract all the Speed Force from the entire universe, what would be the point even if he succeeded?
"The Anti-Monitors will arrive in a few minutes. It's time we end this conversation. I've used up too much of my Speed Force."
"Get ready," he heard Batman say.
"The operation will begin in one hour."
"Right now, right tonight."
(End of this chapter)