Chapter 808: The First Lantern is dead, but not completely dead, a bigger mystery

Superboy-Prime decided to end this farce. He shot a beam of heat vision at Lantern

1 not far away, trying to stop him from rushing into the light gate again and starting his endless journey of pain.

But once again, Batman's dragon stopped him.

He turned his head and saw the other party holding his arm, so he showed a dangerous smile:

"Let go. Lantern No. 1 is consuming the energy in the cosmic tuning fork. That's all my energy."

"No, don't get carried away, Superboy-Prime. Take a closer look."

Chen Tao said: "The energy hasn't decreased at all. Did you notice?"

Superboy-Prime also calmed down.

He finally discovered that this fact... was true.

Just now, the first Lantern Hero went back once, but the old Huo Rong didn't believe in evil and went back again.

According to common sense, they must have appeared at the right time and swung their swords. Even if nothing happened in the end, the energy should have been consumed.

But no, nothing disappeared, everything still exists.

"This is……"

"The people of Earth 15 are dead." Chen Tao said, "They have returned to the embrace of death. Do you understand? Eternal annihilation. They will never come back."

He said: “I only now realize that when I interfered with the history of Earth-15 before, I always thought that it was my existence that made it possible for Earth-15 to be saved, thus causing the paradox.

But in fact, what caused the paradox was not [being rescued], but [the fact that Huo Rong died before he could escape from Earth 15].

"The death of Earth 15 has become an established fact. No matter how much energy is used to cut, it is impossible to cut this piece of history from the super-time stream, because this piece of history does not exist at all!"

“It’s like sharing an orange. You can share the orange with as many people as you want, but you can’t share it with the air.”

"So," Chen Tao said, "Let him keep trying. He is trying something he cannot do. He will never stop until he reaches the end of the road."

Chen Tao said: "He will die on the road of desperate struggle, on the road of chasing his hometown, and he will not stop until he dies."

He pressed Superboy-Prime's shoulder: "You don't need to kill a dying man. Let him die on the way to chasing his goal. Otherwise, all this..."

"Otherwise it would be too cruel," he said. "He can't change anything anyway, so why don't you show mercy?"

Superboy-Prime stared at Chen Tao.

Chen Tao was really a little afraid that Superboy-Prime would just ignore the situation and get carried away, and he insisted on fighting Lantern No. 1 right now.

Come on, he is almost going crazy because of his fate, and the most important thing is that even if he is crazy, he now has the control of the cosmic tuning fork.

If you push him into a corner, he will try his best to use the crisis energy of the tuning fork to hit you and you will be obedient. Who said that the crisis energy of the tuning fork can only be used to restart the universe and not to hit people?

Superboy-Prime did not respond, so Chen Tao immediately struck while the iron was hot and chose a slightly risky method of persuasion.

"He wants to go home. Even though it's a long shot, we have to at least let him die with hope, right? Die with hope, not with despair."

Chen Tao said. Then he looked at Superboy-Prime's face, waiting for his response, and hoping that this response would be what he wanted.

Superboy-Prime also wants to go home, he wants to return to the Origin Universe, but he is luckier than the Original Lantern. As early as the Final Crisis, if Chen Tao had not intervened, Superboy-Prime would have been able to return to the Origin Universe at the end of the Final Crisis Three Realms Legion.

As a world that was also destroyed in history but remained in the super-time stream, the Origin Universe did not involve the two critical factors of the Green Lantern Corps and the Time Trappers like Earth-15, thus becoming an important node in history. Therefore, it was not taken away by the second sister of the Endless Family.

But even so, the desire to go home is common, and Chen Tao hopes that Superboy-Prime can empathize with each other because of this, and he can be considered one.

Successful.

Superboy-Prime nodded slowly.

"Okay," he said.

"Consider it my mercy."

Chen Tao watched Lantern No. 1 disappear behind the light gate, and his shouts seemed to echo in his ears.

This time he didn't come back for several minutes.

Is this...is this right?

Chen Tao almost doubted that he had made a wrong judgment. The world they were in would collapse in the next second and the timeline would be reset.

He was a little stunned, but the next second, he saw...

A first-level Lantern came out of the light gate again.

He is really a little too old. This time he is no longer wearing the somewhat old face of Terry, the future Batman, but the first Lantern himself.

The meridians on his translucent body, which were once shining with colorful colors, now seemed to have faded, and his translucent body could not hide the wrinkles on his face.

He was dejected.

Chen Tao stepped forward.

"Are you okay? You seem a little bit off, do you need help?" x2

As soon as Chen Tao opened his mouth to say something, the other party immediately said the opposite of what he was about to say, which showed that this scene had happened many times.

But in the end, nothing changed, right? Chen Tao didn't know what to say, but before he could continue, he heard the old Huo Rong, no, now he should be called the first Lantern Man, the only first Lantern Man, say:

"I see. You want me dead."

Oh my god, you discovered it in an instant? It’s so magical and so fast?

Chen Tao was still thinking about how to respond to the other party, but then he heard Lantern Man No. 1 say:

"Fuck you, you bastard, I will never give in to you!"

He stood up again, staggering to his feet.

He stared with hatred focused on Chen Tao's face:

"You will regret this. I curse you. You will have to go through all the pain that I am going through now. You will never get what you want like me. You will always end up with nothing you ask for like me. Hahahaha, hahahaha!"

He uttered a few wails that were not like human voices, and Chen Tao was horrified by his sudden curse.

He didn't understand anything, the First Lantern didn't reveal anything to him, and he didn't know what excessive things his possible future self might have done to the First Lantern.

He just felt confused. Suddenly, the hatred of the First Lantern towards him was about to explode.

And in the dark, he always felt that fate was upon him, and at the same moment he started writing poetry, creating a future that was gradually beginning to solidify.

Lantern No. 1 flew into the light gate again. Chen Tao didn't understand why he was so persistent in running into the light gate and uttering such a curse even though he was already so old.

Then he came out again.

This time he looked even more horrifyingly old, almost paralyzed on one side. Chen Tao saw that his lower body had disappeared, and he had suffered some extremely serious injuries.

In an instant, Chen Tao felt all kinds of chaotic powers on the wound. There was everything, so much that he was dazzled. On such a small wound, there were all kinds of residual powers left by others.

Do you serve customers one by one, or in groups?

"I'm running out of time."

Chen Tao heard him say.

"I'm here to say goodbye."

Goodbye. You just scolded me, are you joking when you say this now?

Chen Tao noticed that there was some energy wrapped around the sword in Lantern No. 1's hand.

This energy attracted his attention and made him feel familiar...

World Forger? No, it didn't seem like he had stabbed the World Forger directly from the back. Although Chen Tao really wanted such a scene to happen, the concentration of the World Forger's power was not that high.

If Lantern No. 1 really stabbed the World Forger, it should be full of his sixth-dimensional energy.

There is another way that might create this kind of residual mark, just like the blood flowing on the sword after killing someone...

In other words, before the first Lantern came back with half of his body cut off, he at least swung his sword to kill one or more of the World Forger's creations, just like...

Like Heroes Day?

Damn it, you didn't kill Hero Day in the future, did you? Chen Tao was anxious, but when he looked carefully, he felt that it was not likely.

If a World Forger as powerful as Hero Day were killed, the scar left behind would be a long one, like a sword cutting the throat, with only a little red on the tip of the sword after the kill. Not so much, like being fished out of a pool of blood.

The more Chen Tao looked at it, the more he realized, wait, what kind of murderer are you?

The First Lantern must have slaughtered an entire planet of World Forger's creations. But how could the World Forger create an entire planet of fake creatures for no reason?

From this, we can infer that...

Chen Tao simply thought about it, and soon his clever mind came up with a guess, but this guess made him feel a little cold, and he even felt sad for the first Lantern.

"and many more."

He saw that Lantern Man No. 1 was about to turn around and walk back into the light gate. Chen Tao felt a little reluctant. He vaguely felt that no matter what happened to Lantern Man No. 1 behind the light gate, when he came out again, he...

He might really die.

"You don't have to try again." Chen Tao said, "I mean, I don't know what happened, but you don't have to go in. Your pursuit of all this doesn't have to end with death."

Chen Tao said: "I don't understand, all of this, all of this may not be that important. It's not worth sacrificing your life for!"

He knew after he said it that this sentence was useless. Chen Tao was good at manipulating others, but even so, he could not ignore the facts.

Fabricating and creating false facts takes time, and coincidentally, one of the things he lacks most right now is time.

"No need, Bat."

Lantern No. 1 said.

"I can't say too much to you. This will cause history to fluctuate again, or even be changed."

"But... accept my gift."

Lantern No. 1 said: "This is the last thing I can do for you."

He rushed into the light gate again, and this time he rushed out again after only three seconds.

Half of his body was rotten, but the lower half that had disappeared before mysteriously reappeared.

He stood there holding a sword, with a smile on his face that was both crazy and sacred, like a noble martyr.

"I'm dying, Bat, I'm dying."

He said: "I am returning the sword to you on purpose to complete the circle of history."

"I'm willing to do it," he said. "You know what? I've found a way to see my mother. My real mother, not a fake one."

Chen Tao knew in an instant what the First Lantern was going to do, and also knew what his so-called method was.

"Death." Chen Tao said.

“Embrace death.”

Only the dead can meet the dead...

Chen Tao turned his head slightly.

He felt as if some eyes were secretly watching everything in front of him, but it seemed as if there were no eyes.

He was doubtful.

Is this really his illusion?

He turned his head and looked at Lantern No. 1.

"Yes." said Lantern No. 1.

"I am going to die."

"I will drink a cup of coffee that will never be finished, I will read a book that will never be finished on the beach, I have unlimited time and will meet my family in the eternal kingdom. This is my compensation, the reward for my hard work."

Lantern No. 1 said in a chanting voice:

"And you, Batman Dragon. You are only worthy of continuing to struggle miserably in this world." There was a mocking look in his eyes, as if he was relieved, and also as if he was gloating.

"You can only push the boulder over and over again. This is my curse on you. You can never and don't want to be like me. You don't deserve it."

"Wait, what does this mean? Is Hero Day still alive in the future? Why did you die, and what happened to the Multiversity? The one that exists outside of all timelines—"

Chen Tao hated the kind of people who died halfway through their words, but the death of Lantern No. 1 was inevitable.

His expression was already blurry. He fell to the ground with a thud. Chen Tao rushed over and lifted his head slightly.

"Mom...I...I'm here to see you...I finally found a way...to see you."

Lantern No. 1 said this, and then his body began to break apart piece by piece, witnessed by Chen Tao and Superboy-Prime.

Completely reduced to ashes.

Chen Tao stared blankly at the dust on his hands.

Watch them drift away, dancing like fish and dragons in the wind, in the emptiness illuminated by unfinished words.

Dance wildly.

The first Lantern.

Your story.

This is the moment that marks the end.

Destiny has witnessed it.

In any case, the first Lantern was finally not separated from his mother and his hometown.

They are all dead.

In a way, this is a good ending.

……

……

……

The World Forger stared closely at the sword that reappeared in Batman Dragon's hand.

Hey, the sword is back.

So it's time to take it back into your own hands.