Chapter 453 Who is the Anti-Monitor?
Chapter 453 Anti-Monitor... Who is he? ? ?
"That... that darkness is actually countless shadow demons."
In the Pentagon, Amanda Waller stood up suddenly and stared at the screen.
She had experienced wars, superhuman wars, countless crises that threatened human safety, and many terrible things that even Batman didn't know about. She had experienced things that were enough to scare the bravest souls.
But even she felt terrified before the dark and cold face of death itself, and what she saw in those burning eyes... was the end of everything.
On the street, countless pedestrians shouted and fled, and the soldiers raised their guns and shot at the shadow demons, but in vain.
Gotham.
Chen Tao flew in a dark red sky, his eyes sprayed red hot vision, like a sword piercing the darkness.
"Damn it."
While flying, he gave orders to Hal and Arlene Su, the actual controllers of the Green Lantern Corps: "Take your people and hold up the protective shield!"
The appearance of Shadow Demon cast a shadow on Chen Tao's heart...
The fact is: even though Night Owl took the initiative to reveal a lot of information about the Anti-Monitor to him, Chen Tao still knew very little about the Anti-Monitor.
In the comics he read in his previous life, the Anti-Monitors in different periods and major events had very different powers.
There was the Great Destroyer who almost destroyed the entire DC Universe during the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" period, and the weak period in which half of his body was broken by Superboy-Prime during the "Sinestro Corps War" period, and even after the New 52 "Flashpoint" due to the restart of the timeline, he directly lost his supreme position and became a mortal named Mobius who was just enslaved by the [Anti-Life Equation].
Even in the "Darkseid War" period, he was reduced to a 50-50 fight with Darkseid, and it took a lot of effort to defeat the opponent.
According to the information provided by Night Owl, the Anti-Monitor he is facing now is exactly the mortal Mobius from the "Darkseid War" period, and can be called the weakest version of the Anti-Monitor.
But now this scale of Shadow Demon is obviously created by the strongest version of the Anti-Monitor during the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" period.
Damn Night Owl, he didn't collect such important information? !
Star City.
Green Arrow fled for his life from the attack of Shadow Demon.
Despite the protection of the green barrier in the sky, the dense Shadow Demons outside the barrier are still chilling.
He rolled and jumped across the gaps between the tall buildings.
Some Shadow Demons entered the city before the protective shield was propped up, and he was now exhausted.
He jumped from the tall building, and the rope arrows he shot drove his body flying in the air.
He turned sideways and shot an energy explosion arrow to smash a Shadow Demon.
He fell to the ground.
However, more shadow demons attacked Green Arrow and he was forced to flee again. But when he looked back in the air again, he saw with bloodshot eyes the mother holding her child in her arms under the killing of shadow demons on the street...
He rushed forward without hesitation, but was drowned by more shadow demons in the next second. The rope broke and he fell. At that moment, a green lantern ring flew into his hand...
Los Angeles.
In the city protected by the yellow barrier, Black Lightning burst out a large series of electric currents, turning countless eroding shadow demons into ashes. He was panting, but when he looked up, he saw more shadow demons spreading from the other side of the joint like locusts.
Atlantis.
In the prison.
Lord Orm lowered his head and grabbed the bars of the cage with both hands.
"Tell me."
He asked the Atlantis guards outside.
"What happened outside?"
He heard a rumbling sound under the water, which was the roar of the Atlantis cannon.
"Atlantis has been invaded."
"By the Landman?"
"By the common enemy of the Landman and the Atlanteans, the Anti-Monitor."
Crunch, creak, creak, creak--
Under the superhuman strength of Lord Orm, even the Atlantean cage made specifically for him could not stop his desperate pull.
"Take me to fight."
He told the guard.
"You...you are no longer the king of Atlantis."
"But I am still a warrior!"
The whole world is like this, and the shadow demons are everywhere.
The few heroes on Earth have united, and their great power is only dwarfed by their infinite courage.
Deep in the universe, the Owl spaceship.
"See, Dick. If Batman is willing to accept my plan, this will not happen."
Night Owl sat with Nightwing Dick Grayson. There was a small plate of snacks and drinks on the table in front of them, but Nightwing noticed that the other party had not eaten it at all. This shows that Night Owl is on guard and has always been communicating with him using the Night Owl robot controlled by him remotely.
Night Owl continued, "If Batman is willing to accept my plan, the Anti-Monitor's army of shadow demons will be defeated by the 8 billion fully transformed orcs, which will greatly weaken the Anti-Monitor." He noticed that Dick looked at the tragic scene of the shadow demons wreaking havoc on the screen, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
In fact, the Shadow Demon army has not yet been able to break through the protective shields set up by the Yellow and Green Lantern Corps in major cities on a large scale, but even before the protective shields were set up, a small number of Shadow Demons that entered the city could have already given those heroes a hard time.
Night Owl only intercepted some images of the areas invaded by Shadow Demons and showed them to Nightwing Dick Grayson. He didn't know what he wanted to prove, maybe he just wanted to prove to Dick that Batman led him astray.
"Your plan will turn 8 billion people into beasts. Even if we ignore the casualties caused by their killing each other, I will only say one thing: this transformation is very likely to be irreversible. You have never thought about restoring them to normal people. They are consumables and resources to you, but they are not human beings."
"They are warriors fighting for their own survival." Night Owl said: "Their transformation can increase the probability of victory for this world."
Nightwing was silent, and then he said word by word: "Letting untrained civilians go to the battlefield is not what heroes should do."
"If the world is about to be destroyed, then there is no point in entangled in these things." Night Owl said: "When a world must struggle to survive, considering moral standards is undoubtedly a slow suicide."
"There must be other ways." Nightwing said. "There is no other way." Night Owl said, "Either use the Red of All Living Things to transform everyone into beasts, and then let them fight with the Shadow Demon, and the price is that they become bloodthirsty beasts, or let them remain helpless civilians, and then watch everyone being slaughtered by the Shadow Demon." He said to Nightwing, "Tell me, what should you choose?" "Batman must have other plans." Nightwing said, "He will save everyone, and no one will die today." "Someone has died." Night Owl said. Nightwing was unmoved and kept talking to Batman. Night Owl did not want to admit his emotions. He continued, "Died at the hands of the Shadow Demon. If he could become a beastman, he could still perish together, but now there is no chance, no chance anymore." Night Owl said, "Batman's moral code poisoned the world, and the world should have had a chance to escape from the clutches of the Anti-Monitor..." Then suddenly, the monitor was black. This made Night Owl's words stop abruptly. He tapped a few times on the keyboard next to him, trying to switch to other surveillance screens, but it was pitch black everywhere. "What's going on?"
He whispered to himself.
Nightwing slowly stood up from the chair.
Nightowl was still switching monitors until he switched to a monitor outside the earth.
Then...then he saw Batman standing alone in the vast starry sky, holding a bottle in each hand.
Wait, bottle?
A blue planet was quietly suspended in the bottle, looking like a light bulb shining in the bottle.
In another bottle, countless shrunken, ant-like black shadow demons were blankly looking for non-existent attack targets.
"Batman... Batman shrunk the Earth and stuffed it into a bottle." Nightwing said, "Using Brainiac's technology."
"This... This is unreasonable." Nightowl paused, then said:
"This is definitely not something that can be done in a short time. I have studied Brainiac's technology. His shrinking ray can shrink a city in an instant, but if you want to do something to a planet..."
"Batman has wanted to do that a long time ago." Then he heard Batman's Dick's brisk voice: "Batman would have anticipated the worst. He... He did it. Always."
Nightowl looked at Nightwing's profile. His bright eyes flashed with a light as bright as autumn water reflecting the stars.
And the sad thing is... this light does not belong to Nightowl.
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“I didn’t expect the Wandering Earth Project to work at this time…”
Chen Tao put the Earth in the bottle into his stomach, muttering silently in his heart: “Help, I guess Luther is going to say something like ‘You can’t protect humans in a bottle’ again. Luther hates this the most… This is also the main argument for his attack on Clark.”
“But if I release everyone after the matter is over, I shouldn’t be scolded by him…”
He took a deep breath while thinking.
Although he has put the Earth in the bottle, it does not mean that the impenetrable position used by the Anti-Monitor to wrap the Earth has completely disappeared. On the contrary, Chen Tao himself is still in this position, like a cricket in a huge trap.
And then…
He guessed that he would soon be able to find the source of evil.
“What a great idea.”
Sure enough, as Chen Tao turned around, in the silent universe, he saw a huge planet breaking through the universe, and the force field that originally only framed the Earth was infinitely magnified, freeing up a large enough battle field.
Chen Tao immediately set off and flew directly towards the huge planet in front of him.
Silver particles flowed on his body, and part of the red body characteristics of the Red Death appeared on his synchronized speed bullet. The biological stance of the Kryptonian's flesh allowed him to abandon part of the speed force used to protect his body from being burned by friction, so as to use less speed force to create a faster speed.
He soon landed on the surface of the huge planet, and there, he saw...
The true form of the Anti-Monitor.
Fortunately, fortunately.
Chen Tao, who was familiar with the comics, saw at a glance that the opponent in front of him was not the Anti-Monitor during the Infinite Earth Crisis, but the Anti-Monitor image during the Darkseid War, which meant that the enemy he needed to face was probably not as powerful as he imagined.
"From the moment you set foot on Quad, you have already sealed your fate. Today is the day of the demise of the universe."
The Anti-Monitor spoke, and to Chen Tao's surprise, he did not seem anxious, or even fierce, but rather leisurely and regretful.
Chen Tao had imagined countless times the first time he and the Anti-Monitor would face each other, but he had never imagined that the other party would have such a strange attitude.
"But speaking of it... your universe is really complete." The Anti-Monitor said: "Forget about the Justice League, which is standard in every universe, but you actually have the Green Lantern Corps. Not only does it have the Green Lantern Corps, but it also has the Dark Lord, and even Superboy-Prime?" He said: "Among all the dark multiverses I have seen, your world is considered to be the most powerful one, especially Superboy-Prime. Among so many dark multiverses, there are only a few dark multiverses with Superboy-Prime. I have only seen two so far, and you are the second one. You know, the Superboy-Prime in the last universe I saw with Superboy-Prime was pitifully weak. But the Superboy-Prime in your universe is so strong - um, by the way, do you know what the dark multiverse is?" (Note: The last dark multiverse with Superboy-Prime mentioned by the Anti-Monitor here refers to the dark multiverse in "Legends of the Dark Multiverse: Infinite Crisis". That multiverse is The dark mirror version of the DC event "Infinite Crisis", and Superboy-Prime is one of the main villains of this event. But he is so weak in the dark multiverse compared to the normal multiverse that he was killed by the blackened Blue Beetle.
Although the blackened Blue Beetle is the second generation Blue Beetle and has been enhanced epically, even so, Superboy-Prime in the "Infinite Crisis" period should still be in his prime, but he died so easily...)
Chen Tao remained silent.
Things are too weird. Even the dark multiverse knows about it. Anti-Monitor knows too much. He wants to figure out - who is Anti-Monitor?