What bad intentions could Batman have?

Superboy-Prime accepts Owl's plan.

He agreed to the other party's idea and promised Chen Tao that he would not rush to the Presidential Palace so frantically to fight with the counterfeiters, causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of people.

He knew that Owl's plan was unreliable. From the moment Superboy-Prime succeeded to the identity of the Time Trapper, it was equivalent to him inheriting the huge blood debt caused by those Laughing Maniacs and Time Trappers in the main universe's Flashpoint timeline in a short period of time.

Superboy-Prime is a superman, he just doesn't use his super hearing, it doesn't mean he doesn't have it.

He knew that the malice and hatred directed at the name of Superman would overwhelm Superboy-Prime, and he had to stop it. He had to...

Chen Tao is tired.

After regaining his sanity, his ability to think made him realize that the Laughing Bat must be waiting for his challenge. The game had already begun from the moment he manipulated the ventriloquist and decided to find mercenaries to besiege Bane.

The World Forger, the Time Trapper, the Laughing Bat, Papetua, the Hand of the Void, the Parallax Demon Hal, Superboy-Prime, the Man Behind the Killing Machine...

Chen Tao was surprised to find that he was actually afraid.

So many years, my friend.

This game will never end.

He thought.

He wondered what choice Batman would make in such a situation.

He knew that the bat he imagined was just a combination of all the advantages of Batman, but he still did it. He was used to doing it.

He always finds a way around Batman's actions, but this time...

His knowledge of Batman gave him the answer.

If it were Batman, when he was suffering from the cold and pain, when he pushed the Sisyphus rock again and again but to no avail, he might have poured out everything in front of the photo of his parents.

Despite all the jokes about Batman's parents, we still have to admit that:

Whenever Bruce loses hope and sinks into darkness, the spiritual strength left by his parents can give him the greatest support and make him full of motivation to move forward again...

Just like the dawn light gently brushing across the frozen earth with its slender fingertips, heralding another new dawn.

(Note: Please refer to "Batman: Ego" Bruce Wayne has not never doubted himself)

But Chen Tao...

He doesn't even know who his parents were in his previous life.

The bone-chilling coldness just spurred him on, as if urging him to overcome those difficulties, as if fate was wielding a long whip, hitting his bloody back again and again.

"I can't do it. Not anymore."

In an instant, the pain subsided slightly, and the whip on his back stopped temporarily. Chen Tao seemed to have 20 years of peace...

But this feeling actually only lasted for 20 seconds.

"You idiot!"

The thoughtful Chen Tao was surprised.

He looked up and saw a huge bat-like monster appear in front of him.

"You think you know what pain is, you wimp? I'll tell you what pain is."

My name is Chen Tao.

I stared blankly at the monster in front of me.

A tireless monster.

There is one thing I am quite sure of:

What I am facing is myself.

"Have I caught your attention, Chen Tao?"

The monster said.

"Who are you?"

"Who am I? Don't be silly, Chen Tao, you know who I am and why I am here."

"Haha! You're so sad that you imagine a non-existent friend to comfort yourself and then become sentimental? You're amazing, old man."

"You may still be imagining something falling from the sky? An external force that you can't even imagine will support you, protect you, and assign you a clear task, just like a student taking an exam. As long as he passes the exam, he will get the greatest happiness and joy?"

"This can't happen, Chen Tao."

"You know."

"No one will jump out to help you, and no one can solve the problem for you. All your fantasies are just -"

Well, enough time to lick your wounds.

Next he should think of a way to prepare some plans, and then...

When Chen Tao turned his head, he saw a cloud of smoke emerging in front of him, and the next moment, the huge bat monster stood in it!

He stood there straight, like a giant - human-shaped bat!

"God."

Chen Tao said.

"It doesn't matter whether this happens in the far reaches of outer space or as a thought in the mind.

What you need to know is that I cannot be erased. I am not a coat, nor a character that can be discarded at will. I am Batman, and I am your true heart.

As a teenager, I was sleeping inside you, hidden, staying there silently, but I could hear it... I could feel it."

"Every night when you are deep in thought..."

"When the shadow of failure looms over you..."

"Take one last heavy breath before you step onto the stage..."

"In every dark moment of your life... I am with you. Secretly, subtly, I can feel you, and you can often feel me."

"But this relationship was suddenly changed by external forces. You really came to Gotham City, traveled through time and became Batman, fear took over everything, and I suddenly filled your young heart."

Chen Tao didn't know how to describe the expression on the bat monster's face.

Compassion, or pity?

"From that moment on, we became eternal companions. I watched over you as you moved forward.

I drive you to become that name, to block the root of this world's fall into darkness and evil.

All your travels, all your trials, all your curiosity and desire for adventure are me silently driving you and walking with you. "

"I'm here, I'm inescapable, but you still can't say my name."

"The black robe brought us together. Neither of us had any choice. You prefer to call me Batman, but you can never escape from me because..."

"My name is fear, and I live inside you."

"You knew all along that I was only offering a way. We were willing to take all the pain, all the anger, all the fear you held deep inside, and we shared him, shared what was deserved."

"We are noble, and our awareness drives us like a chariot, crushing giants one after another."

"More evil than they are, darker than they are."

"But now... you think I'm crazy? You think you're Chen Tao, not Batman? You're actually thinking of abandoning your duties and trying to escape?"

The bat monster spoke word by word: "You just thought about returning to Earth 15 in the super time stream, erasing the events of Earth 15, and then escaping with the people you care about..."

"You're thinking of such a cowardly plan, a wimp plan... right?"

Chen Tao stared at this monster. The next second he sneered: "What a joke, I'm just..."

Then, halfway through, he laughed again: "Come on, I'm actually talking to a character that I imagined, a delusional creation? This is really crazy."

He thought so, but then he heard the bat monster roaring in his ear: "Shut up, you still think this is crazy, when you become me, how will you feel? Ignore my words, I guarantee you will regret it."

Chen Tao turned his head and saw that the huge bat monster was getting closer and closer to him, with his shadow cast into it.

"You swore to be Batman, you swore that you would devote half your life to your world and justice..."

"And now you want to shut me out. What's your excuse?"

"What do you call life? Fiji?"

In an instant, a large number of phantoms were created by the bat monster.

Under the bright lights, the graceful beauty...

When Chen Tao heard her voice, it was as if she was breathing into his ear: "I know you are rich. Tell me, are you satisfied with this?"

Or the drinking buddies on the golf course, leaning on their golf clubs...

"...Golf is my favorite sport, but you know, that new woman I was dating last week, she likes..."

In the mall.

"...blue, but I prefer dark teal, Bruce, about our honeymoon..."

At the wine table.

"What do you think of the recent election? In my opinion, the loser is definitely..."

In the foundation.

“…the endowment must…”

Chen Tao heard the voice of the bat monster at the end.

"You actually wanted to get rid of me. You broke my heart."

The bat monster had a sad expression on its face.

"I've had enough of this madness."

Chen Tao said.

"crazy?"

The bat monster said.

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"Let me tell you what madness is."

Flames gradually ignited on his body, lighting up the surrounding darkness bit by bit, and finally turning into a raging fire that seemed to devour the person in front of him.

"If you condemn me! If you push me back into the depths of your subconscious, then I promise to torture you until we both die! I promise that you will wake up screaming every night for the rest of your pathetic life. This is the true path to madness!"

Chen Tao was silent.

"You told me I had to make a choice. You said I had to move on without getting rid of you, but I couldn't. Because of all this..."

“It’s just so damn hard.”

He said.

"If it was just me, I would have died a long time ago."

"Lady Death likes me very much. She offered me a good salary...but I...I'm afraid I'll have to refuse."

"So tell me, if you're so smart, tell me, tell me how to proceed."

The bat monster fell silent.

Then he said, "I have an idea that I learned from an old friend in Gotham. Let's talk about Harvey. Two-Face."

"When the sulfuric acid was poured on him, a new personality was born in his body. His situation allowed his unknown half to do whatever he wanted, and his mental state ensured that he did not have to bear any responsibility for the mistakes and actions of one personality."

Chen Tao understood what the bat monster meant.

"What? His situation? He's mentally ill! You want me to have a split personality so I can avoid the pressure of possible failure and the responsibility of being Batman? But this is just a cover-up."

"All right."

The bat monster said, "Perhaps you would be more inclined to accept...another plan."

"You see, even though we share the same body, I suggest that you acknowledge that, in a practical sense, we are two separate entities. You are not responsible for my actions, just as I am not responsible for yours."

"As Chen Tao, you can play with women, do charity and please the public as much as you want, and retire happily in any universe you like."

"And I, Batman the Dragon, or the Supreme Bat, will eliminate your influence and completely transform into the ultimate justice-maintaining machine."

"You have this ability. You can separate us and turn us into two completely different individuals."

"Chen Tao will no longer be tied up and fought by the Supreme Bat."

"And the Supreme Bat no longer has to feel Chen Tao's sorrow."

"What are you talking about? Self-induced psychosis? Voluntary dissociation?"

"I'm talking about freedom of movement to fulfill our respective destinies."

The bat monster said so.

"You...you are extremely cold-hearted. I should know that."

Chen Tao said.

"My power was created based on yours, but I drew out your violent will. I forged you and brought you to a height that even I could not reach."

"But despite this, a Batman without humanity could be anything but Batman!"

Chen Tao said: "So my answer is no!"

"Then you leave both of us no choice."

The bat monster said.

"You will neither yield to me nor to my will."

"You always want to live a normal life, but this desire must be at the cost of driving me away, so..."

Chen Tao found a gun in his hand, and the muzzle of the gun was pointing at the bat monster's head.

"Kill me!"

The bat monster said: "One bullet out of the gun can completely and thoroughly kill me, think about this, a whole new life.

Free yourself from fear, throw away the weight of these terrible responsibilities, free me, free yourself."

Chen Tao and the bat monster looked at each other.

His hand was on the trigger.

"I………"

He said.

"I can't. It would be suicide. Chen Tao can't lose Batman."

He suddenly threw the pistol to the ground:

“Damn it!”

"Yes," said the bat monster.

"This is our fate. You have not had a normal life for a long time. You are powerless to change your past. What we can do is...

It is the chance to guarantee and promise others the happiness we never had.”

“You have to accept this.”

The bat monster said.

Chen Tao wanted to imagine when he would retire. He wanted to imagine what it would feel like to retire, but he...

I can't imagine it.

He couldn't imagine what it would be like then.

He hadn't been to a cocktail party for a long time, and he couldn't even imagine himself drinking.

“The truth is painful.”

He said.

"The truth will set you free. If you hadn't traveled through time, you would never have become Batman."

Chen Tao looked at the bat monster.

"Batman is a symbol. He is almost a symbol of terror for those who are evil, but also a symbol for those who are saved...

A symbol of hope.”

He said: "If Batman can coexist with hope..."

"Then Chen Tao can also coexist with Batman."

“I agree.”

The bat monster said.

Hope was Chen Tao's glue, and he was glued together...at least for now.

Then in an instant, the bat monster disappeared into thin air. Chen Tao opened his eyes and saw the killing machine standing in front of him.

"What's the matter with you? You've been walking around like a madman since a while ago."

"Nothing..." Chen Tao said.

"I mean..."

"Bats strike out."