"First Lantern was completely finished."
Chen Tao's mind was full of mysteries, but his brain continued spinning nonstop. He thought so quickly that he could even feel the gears inside his head creaking without pause.
"Hero Day." Through the telepathic link in his mind, he issued Hero Day an order: "Get ready. We've already found an excuse. Once Supreme Superboy helps us repair the Prime Universe timeline and tries to use the remaining energy from the Cosmic Tuning Fork to restart the world, we'll drain that energy away. Then we'll tell Supreme Superboy that First Lantern took a little of it, and that we were only a little short."
In any case, Chen Tao now had one principle when facing Supreme Superboy: stall him. Supreme Superboy was far too powerful. Clashing with him head-on would be nothing short of suicide.
Chen Tao knew the multiversal convergence would erupt soon. All he had to do was guide the incident toward the Prime Universe, destroy Supreme Superboy's plan, and lure them into fighting each other again.
He was good at dealing with situations like this, Chen Tao thought silently.
He would definitely pluck the chestnuts from the fire. In the end...
Chen Tao's thoughts suddenly leaped. What about the old Batman from the Prime Universe?
He had just been captured alive by First Lantern, the king of save-scumming. Chen Tao's attention had been entirely focused on First Lantern, and somehow, the old Batman from the Prime Universe had simply slipped away.
He had moved pretty fast. Chen Tao immediately began scanning the entire planet with mental energy. This was some future point on the Prime Universe timeline, but even so, Earth still existed. The old Batman from the Prime Universe was only a mortal. Even if he had fled in advance, where