Life had no meaning.
No matter what dreams and hopes one held for the future, no matter how happy a life one lived...
The final result was always the same.
Whether one lived out one's days in peace under the protection of superheroes in the Prime Universe,
became a rotting corpse on the timeline of The Rot, was transformed into a mechanical insect on the Doomsday Future timeline, or had one's head chopped off by Amazonian warriors early on the Flashpoint timeline,
the ending was always death.
Chen Tao knew this.
Every person in the DC Multiverse would return to death—complete, ultimate death, an eternal silence of annihilation.
That was the road everything inevitably led toward, an outcome that did not change according to human will.
When Chen Tao and the others obliterated all the corpses of The Black along the entire timeline of The Rot with a single strike, completely saving all the mortals in that world, the jubilant crowds soon vanished. Under the control of The Batman Who Laughs, they were taken to the second timeline.
These beings from the Prime Universe had been abducted by The Batman Who Laughs from the Prime Universe timeline. He placed them in different branch timelines, turning them into all kinds of forms.
After realizing that Supreme Superboy had saved this timeline, The Batman Who Laughs naturally launched a counterattack, dragging these beings to the next Doomsday Future timeline.
If nothing went wrong, this game of clearing one world after another would keep The Batman Who Laughs occupied for half a day, until he had dragged things out long enough to viciously bite off a huge chunk of flesh from the Prime Universe timeline.
But Chen Tao knew he would not succeed.
That was why the entire League was following behind First