Someone Wants to Control Me? Then Kill Me (Many Thanks to the Alliance Master-5,000 Words Today)
Chen Tao had a dream.
People like him did not often dream, and dreams often foreshadowed the future.
In that dream, he had returned to the eve of the Earth-15 crisis he had caused.
He saw a planet being destroyed.
The world collapsed, and everything was as fragile as a fortress built from sand.
He struggled desperately, thrashing about in the center of the storm vortex. He found himself unable to escape, while far away on the horizon, flames and lightning brewed within the clouds, flickering in and out.
Then Chen Tao turned his head.
Suddenly, he felt his body grow light.
He saw a gigantic, damnable Buzz Lightyear toy. Yes, it looked like an enlarged cartoon character that had stepped out of the animated film Toy Story.
It was incredibly strong. It grabbed him by the back of his neck and pulled him out of the vortex like a cat, but no amount of strength was enough. Before long, the Buzz Lightyear toy not only failed to save Chen Tao from the vortex, but got dragged in as well.
Chen Tao did not know what to say, but the toy suddenly clamped a hand around his neck and squeezed until he stuck out his tongue and flailed wildly.
What kind of ridiculous mess is this?
Chen Tao had realized he was dreaming. He wanted to wake up.
But then he turned his head and saw First Lantern... leaping from the shore into the vortex.
Chen Tao noticed that the First Lantern in this dream looked somewhat different from the Lantern he had witnessed in reality.
He looked extremely... old?
There was some gray-white stubble on his chin, which clashed with his translucent skin. That skin was wrinkled as well, and even the Emotional Spectrum energy radiating from his Seven-Colored