novellhall Chapter 775 You want to etch our meeting into your mind forever.
Chapter 775 You want to etch our meeting into your mind forever.
Chapter 775 You want to etch our meeting into your mind forever.
When you are experiencing the warmest, happiest, and gentlest time of your life.
You will at some point, in some instant.
With a slight smile, I looked around at everything with a deep gaze.
You'll desperately try to memorize everything around you, because you know...
Happy days like today are few and far between in your life, and you want to remember this feeling forever, and this feeling...
It's enough to illuminate and warm your cold, biting life.
What can heal us is not present satisfaction, nor material possessions, but memories.
The more beautiful memories we have, the greater our hope.
"I will always remember this day."
Upstream in the infinite super-time stream, here is Earth 15 before its destruction.
The first Lantern was surrounded by his friends in the center; this was his world. His mother was beside him, and they raised their glasses together.
Upstream in the Flashpoint timeline of the main universe, today is Bruce Wayne's eighth birthday.
Martha Wayne and Thomas Wayne were celebrating his birthday. At the party, Bruce said he wanted to see the recently released movie "The Mask of Zorro," and Thomas promised to make time for the three of them to go see it together.
In the current timeline of the Super Time Stream, Hero Day is having dinner with his friend, Supreme Little Super Monkey. Supreme Little Super Monkey somehow got hold of a disposable plastic cup and filled it with freshly squeezed juice.
This is the best of times. Whether it's Little Super Monkey or Hero Day, they actually have some understanding of their situation, or at least some premonition.
But today, this morning, at least at this moment, when we meet, we should raise a glass.
Different timelines and histories intertwine as the first Lantern, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne, and Hero Day simultaneously raise their drinks and say in unison:
"Cheers!"
boom!
Amidst the intense flames, the first Genie watched as his world vanished in the inferno.
He saw a massive meteorite fall from the sky and crash into the city; skyscrapers collapsed like weeds, and countless ordinary people perished like insects. Many were completely unaware of what was happening.
The earth cracked open, and thick smoke billowed up. Lantern Man saw his mother desperately pushing him into the laboratory. The two of them ran together across the once-smooth floor. Just a few days earlier, his colleagues had held a birthday party for him here.
His mother placed the shuttle light in his hand.
"Disaster, hurry..."
His mother gave him a hard shove, and so Huo Rong became the last surviving member of Earth Fifteen.
Martha Wayne stood there, holding her child in a daze, her hands stained with the tiny child's blood.
Her husband, Thomas, was beating Joe Cher, leaving him covered in blood, but what was the point of it all?
It's all Martha's fault.
She shouldn't have led everyone down that dark alley.
She killed her own child.
then……
just now.
"No, you're not my Bruce..."
"Yes, a parallel universe version. Sorry, I'm not your son."
In the space of the Metal Spirit, there is a room that Chen Tao used to imprison Martha Wayne.
Under the lights.
Chen Tao stood there like an iron tower, the light shining on his pointed bat ears and slender body, casting his shadow as a bat-like silhouette.
Martha the Joker in the Flashpoint timeline stopped going crazy the moment she saw Chen Tao, which can be described as the fastest treatment for mental illness in the world.
Chen Tao reached his hand into the void and then performed a trick commonly used by magicians: drawing cards out of thin air.
But this is no simple trick.
The magician's trick was to hide the card on the back of his hand without any material, but when Chen Tao took the card, the clown Martha saw countless material particles appear in his palm and finally condense into a complete and real card.
"The application of fifth-dimensional energy is a more basic kind," Chen Tao said.
He walked up to Martha Wayne, and with a gentle wave of his hand, an iron table rose from the ground beneath their feet.
Chen Tao placed the King of Spades playing card in front of Martha the Clown.
"I don't really trust you, young man," said Martha the Clown, sitting there.
Without any restraints or shackles, her green hair and pale face were hidden in the shadows.
"Even with all that you've instilled in my mind, I still find it hard to believe you, my dear friend. So many things... so many people have tried to control me with the trauma of my son, but they all failed in the end."
Chen Tao remained silent.
He pulled down his mask and showed Martha his face.
Martha could tell that it wasn't a clone.
"What do you want me to do?"
Martha the Clown's face, which should have been filled with a maniacal smile, was now full of sincerity. She stared blankly at the face under Chen Tao's mask, even though she knew it wasn't her child.
"Let me explain to you, madam."
Chen Tao said, "I hope that I have told you my story clearly by transmitting my memories, with efficiency that surpasses human language."
Long ago, after I had just mastered the fifth-dimensional power granted to me by the bat mite, I was able to look down upon history from a perspective that transcends that of fourth-dimensional beings.
He paused, then continued, "The power of the fifth dimension is an extension of imagination. This power is essentially magic, extremely powerful, but it always comes at a price."
He told Martha Wayne, "It's alright for someone like me who only possesses a portion of the fifth-dimensional divine power, but for someone like the Emperor Joker who possesses almost 100% of the divine power, these imaginary forces will gradually corrupt him, transforming him into a true fifth-dimensional being."
"I don't quite understand what this means," said Martha the Clown. "Explaining this in human language is too complicated. Why can't you just input these thoughts into my head like you did before?"
"I'm sorry, I can't, madam," Chen Tao said. "Only those who have mastered the power of the fifth dimension can understand what I'm saying, but I can't share the power of the bat mite with you. Doing so would contaminate you and make you potentially incompatible with the power of the troublemaker."
"So please allow me to use language, this lowly means of communication, to try to explain all this to you."
Chen Tao said, "In English, 'next' can be directly translated as 'immediately following,' meaning that in English, Westerners view time horizontally as before and after, i.e., →."
"But in Chinese, time is expressed as 'next week,' do you understand? From an Eastern perspective, time is not a horizontal line, but a vertical line, i.e., ↓."
He said, "But whether it's a horizontal or vertical line, Eastern or Western, all people are essentially human. So, in the human way of thinking, no matter which direction we are facing, time is a straight line. This is our human understanding of time."
But for beings of the fifth dimension, they are not human at all; their perception of time is completely different from ours.
"From the perspective of beings in the fifth dimension, time is a circle, or ○."
"Time on this circle is constantly changing; the past and the future are happening and changing simultaneously. This is an extremely abstract concept. Can you understand it?"
"I..." Martha the Clown frowned slightly.
"It's okay if you don't understand, I can give you an example."
Chen Tao said, "For example, you may not be able to read Arabic now, but one day in the future, after a long period of study, you will learn how to read and write Arabic."
He said, "So now, by reflecting on your learning process through your future self, you now understand Arabic."
Okay, things are even more chaotic now.
Chen Tao covered his face: "Actually, even I don't have that ability. Unless I'm willing to completely master the power of the bat mite, I would become a fifth-dimensional being and ascend to the fifth dimension at some point, only able to come to the material universe once every three months. So I don't plan to do that."
"But the Joker did it," Chen Tao said.
"The Joker in the main universe timeline transformed himself into a fifth-dimensional being and stole the Mischief's divine power."
"The troublemaker did regain his power in the end, but the Joker's corruption of him did not disappear."
Chen Tao said, "After briefly becoming a fifth-dimensional being, the Joker possessed the characteristics of a fifth-dimensional being, and his mind participated in the Mischief Maker's circular timeline. His history overlapped with that of the Mischief Maker."
Chen Tao conjured a circle in mid-air, and then drew a straight line that overlapped one side of the circle.
Then he snapped his fingers, and the ink that made up the two symbols began to swirl in mid-air.
The Joker's horizontal timeline is in red ink, while the Mischief Maker's circular timeline is in black.
Then Martha the Clown watched helplessly as the red line on the bar slowly flowed and was continuously drawn into the black circles.
Chen Tao touched his chin.
"For the Joker, whose timeline is a horizontal bar, becoming a fifth-dimensional being is just a small episode in his long history. After he loses his power, his timeline continues to extend."
But for the troublemaker, this unexpected fusion with the clown became a huge torment, weakening his power.
Chen Tao said, "The fact that the Joker once stole his power is like a point on this black circle where the red line intersects. The history of the troublemaker gets tainted with each cycle."
Actually... if it's just about sharing a portion of the power of the fifth-dimensional gods, or like the bat mite is doing now, distributing that power to different people, it won't matter to fifth-dimensional beings.
Because although they may seem to have shared their power with you now, this power will still belong to them in the future, so they haven't lost their power yet...
Okay, I won't go into such convoluted details. I hope you understand, ma'am.
He brought the topic back on track and then said, "So, for the troublemaker, all of history is happening at the same time, and he's been trying to solve this problem but can't."
Then Chen Tao said, "So I gave him an idea."
He waved his hand, and then Martha the clown saw that the place where the circle and the line intersected in mid-air seemed to have been cut by invisible scissors. With a snap, the circle was cut off, directly severing its contact point with the horizontal line.
Then the broken half of the circle reconnected end to end, becoming a new circle, which then grew a bit larger and returned to its original shape.
"This was the troublemaker's original plan. He asked me to create a fair chance for him to fight the Emperor Joker. If he could sever his connection with the Emperor Joker, he would be able to get rid of him."
"So I had the Emperor Joker find the Mischief and fight him fairly, giving the Mischief a chance to fairly reclaim his power."
I made a bet with the troublemaker: if he could defeat the Emperor Clown directly, he could separate the line and the circle without my help; but he couldn't, so my plan continued as it was.
(Note: Foreshadowing can be found in Chapter 637, where Chen Tao deliberately sent the troublemaker to the Emperor Clown.)
"The connection between the Emperor Joker's and the Mischievous One's timelines is too tight, like a circle and a line stuck together, neither of them can separate them," Chen Tao said. "With the Mischievous One's own plan failing, it's impossible to pull him apart by force, but I can guide the Emperor Joker's timeline onto you."
To see from Masha another slender horizontal line created by Chen Tao, it flies to the first red line created by Chen Tao.
"This thick red line represents the Emperor Joker, and this thin line represents you."
Chen Tao waved his hand, and then the thin thread suddenly plunged into the red thread. He twisted it continuously until it covered the red thread, replacing it and connecting with the circle.
Then Chen Tao waved his hand again, immediately severing the part of the thin line and the circle that were in contact. It was as smooth and fast as a scalpel, and most importantly, the red line did not offer any resistance.
"Look, now I don't need to cut the circle in half anymore; what was originally a major surgery has been turned into a minimally invasive procedure."
"But it will still hurt a lot, ma'am."
Chen Tao said, "But believe me, you will gain great power in a short time, enough to help me solve the problem, and also to help the troublemaker solve the problem."
"I can never promise you that you and Bruce Wayne will both live, but I can tell you that as long as you follow my plan, in the end, Bruce Wayne will be the one who survives, and you will definitely have the chance to say goodbye to him."
"So I'm asking you to be prepared... for the Emperor Joker's backlash."
"You can definitely do it, ma'am."
Martha lowered her head slightly.
"it is good."
She said.
"I'd do anything for Bruce."
Then she paused suddenly, and said with a complicated expression.
"Can I see your face again? I know you're not him, I just want to see it."
(End of this chapter)