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Chapter 493 The Unknown Truth Between Night Owl and Batman
Chapter 493 The Unknown Truth Between Night Owl and Batman
The monkey personality of the Supreme Little Superman has reached its climax.
Suspicious sap gushed from the sharp end of his tailbone, and his bones cracked and popped.
"Wow, that's powerful! That's strong!"
It said:
"Knock them all to the ground, then use my tailbone to burrow into their anuses and make them spit out their shit!"
"Then string them together like a human centipede, shoving them from the anus all the way to the mouth, and then..."
Chen Tao couldn't stand the monkey anymore, so he pinched the Supreme Little Super Monkey's neck hard and tried to shut it up, but he failed.
Then he tried to use the power of the Crimson of All Beings to force the monkey, and then once again he crashed his head against the monkey's mind, which was connected to the Supreme Superman's original consciousness.
The Supreme Little Superman is almost immune to all mind control. If Chen Tao hadn't already implanted obedience to his commands into the underlying logic of the personality's creation when he was creating this monkey personality, how could this monkey be so obedient?
Chen Tao eventually gave up trying to stop the Supreme Little Super Monkey from saying strange things. It was an instinctive reaction, like breathing; even he couldn't command the other to stop breathing.
He turned his attention back to communications. Just as he had expected, Night Owl was keeping a close watch on Superman. When Chen Tao did something that Night Owl hadn't anticipated, he immediately noticed something was wrong.
In fact, the control of the Supreme Superman is divided in two.
Chen Tao used the power of the Crimson of All Beings, the power of the Eclipse suppressed by the heart of the Anti-Monitor, and the ability of telepathy to create a beastly secondary personality tailored for Supreme Superman. This, along with the primary personality of Supreme Superman controlled by Night Owl using unknown means, allowed the two personalities to merge and work together to completely suppress the rebellious consciousness of Supreme Superman within these two bodies. This was all done under the premise that Supreme Superman had not been exposed to the sun.
Although Night Owl claimed that his method of controlling Superman Supreme was through the use of some kind of magic and the power of the Father Box, Chen Tao knew that it was complete bullshit.
Magic? That's a joke. What kind of negative magic could work on Superman Supreme?
Of course, Superman isn't immune to magic. He can accept some magic that increases his power if he wants to. For example, the combination of the evil power of Eclipse and the Crimson Magic of All Beings might provoke his anger, but it can strengthen his Blood Slaughter Bull.
For Superman's body, these are purely beneficial effects.
But control magic? Chen Tao doubted whether that thing would work on Superman.
Therefore, today's events were both a test and a cover-up—helping Luther conceal any potential loose ends and variables in his plan.
Everything started moving forward the moment Chen Tao asked Night Owl for the right to use Supreme Superman.
Of course, the first thing to do is to force the owl to tell itself...
How did he control the main personality of the Supreme Superman?
"The Anti-Life Equation, Starro's mind control abilities also played a part," Night Owl said. "Only something like this can work on Superman Supreme."
Chen Tao grinned: "The Anti-Life Equation originates from the Anti-Monitor. Aren't you worried?"
"Come on, Batman. Let me just tell you straight, Batman, I've sat on the Möbius Chair before, I know the connection between the Anti-Life Equation and the Anti-Monitor very well, but I know even better how powerful Superman Supreme is."
"You turned Greer to your side. We both know very well what you offered Greer, and I tacitly approved of that offer."
(Note: What specific bargaining chips Chen Tao used to obtain Greer's full support will be mentioned later.)
"Greel reported so much to you, you don't think I trust her that much, do you? You really think I only sat in the Möbius Chair once? The Möbius Chair knows almost all the secrets of the multiverse—although I couldn't figure out what you were thinking with it, nor could I read your past, it knows almost everything except you."
"I've read through the first half of Superman's life through this chair, and I know very well how powerful this monster is, especially after he's been in the sun."
Night Owl said, "Once Superman Supreme is exposed to the sun, my control over him using the Anti-Life Equation will immediately fail, and he will immediately return to his peak condition. At that time, although the beast personality you control will not disappear, you will no longer be able to control Superman Supreme."
You can't control me, I can't control you, so how can anti-surveillance agents control me?
If the Anti-Monitor is capable of controlling Superman Supreme using the Anti-Life Equation, wouldn't controlling the two of us, who are far weaker than Superman Supreme, be even easier? If he can do that, then what's the point of this battle?
Chen Tao nodded, acknowledging what Night Owl had said, but he still pressed on, asking, "So how do you control the Anti-Life Equation? It's almost impossible for mortals to control such power."
Night Owl was silent for a moment. He heard Batman say:
"If you want to gain my trust, Night Owl, you must reveal everything you know and all your plans, or we will forever remain trapped in a paradox of mutual suspicion."
"You suspect that I have no intention of saving the people of your planet," Night Owl said.
He sighed inwardly. Batman's judgment was spot on; he truly hadn't intended to waste his precious time saving this group of meaningless civilians.
But now Batman has discovered all this and has driven him to this point as Superman Supreme.
It seems the plan needs to be changed...
As the owl thought this, he spoke.
He began again with a sigh, and then said:
"You think you're the only one who's restarted the timeline, Batman?"
"You think that my plans to reboot the timeline to fight the Anti-Monitor and to use the Speed Force to trap the Anti-Monitor at the cost of destroying the universe were all devised without any testing or verification?"
Night Owl said, "The efforts the person standing before you has made to save his homeland are far beyond what Superman or anyone else in the Crime Syndicate can comprehend."
"I've used Johnny Quick's Speed Force to reboot the universe several times," Night Owl said. "Faced with a formidable enemy like the Anti-Monitor, every Wayne would make the same judgment, and I'm no exception."
He said, "But I failed. No matter how I restarted the timeline, I couldn't defeat the Anti-Monitor. I chose to surrender in order to find a way to survive for my universe, and secretly used the ability to restart time to accumulate power for myself."
"I killed Darkseid from our universe, who was far weaker than Darkseid from your universe."
"That's impossible. If Darkseid in your universe is dead, it means that a piece of the laws governing your universe is missing. Someone in your world must become a god to fill the void that Darkseid created in the universe, unless... unless someone has already become a god, but I haven't seen him yet."
"You've already seen him, yes, I think you've guessed it already—that person is the Queen's son. Her unborn child, but already born."
"That child inherited his father Thunder Zamsa's superpower to absorb the power of the dead. Before I restarted the timeline of my universe, this baby was already born and had completely absorbed all of Darkseid's power, including the Anti-Life Equation."
"After I restarted the timeline, I could consciously choose to retain the realities that were favorable to me, just like you. Therefore, although the baby crawled back into his mother's womb due to the restart, he still possessed the divine power of the anti-life equation, and I was able to manipulate this power through the contingency plan I left on the baby."
Night Owl said, "Alright, Batman, I've told you everything you need to know. So now, what are your terms?"
"I can risk my life to hold off the anti-surveillance agents, but you must risk coming back to save my people. You must take them with you to escape into the depths of the Dark Multiverse."
"Okay." Night Owl's answer was crisp and clean. He had guessed that Batman couldn't let go of the people on this planet. Fortunately, he had made a contingency plan for this situation. After Batman used them to share the burden, he could use the teleportation device to send them all to his own universe. The only problem was that if he did this, the two universes would have to be very close together, which could easily be captured by the Anti-Monitor. But in order to get Batman's cooperation, he had no choice but to take this risk.
Chen Tao continued to haggle with Night Owl, finalizing more details. A detached expression remained on his face.
Bargaining, finalizing plans, and collaborating—these all remain on paper, and will forever remain on paper.
He deliberately bargained with Night Owl, giving Night Owl the illusion that he would actually act according to Night Owl's plan, which meant that no one in the entire universe could disobey Batman's orders.
Such thinking is extremely dangerous.
"Alright, we've reached an agreement, right? Now I advise you to put that beast personality's spine back into Superman's body. You used some kind of ability to physically split the two personalities in two, but this didn't increase their power out of thin air. Instead, it divided Superman Supreme's power into two equal parts."
Chen Tao heard Night Owl's voice: "But even with half of this power, I would have a hard time controlling it."
"Whatever you're planning to do, you'd better act quickly. You need to reinsert that monkey personality and his spine into this body within a certain timeframe before we can reconstruct our three-way balance of power. Once I completely lose control of him and he regains control of his body, he'll go berserk."
"Of course, of course."
Chen Tao said.
He turned around, and the Supreme Little Monkey in his hand made a cracking sound as if bones were colliding.
"It will be resolved quickly."
(End of this chapter)