bioinnovel Chapter 621 Chen Tao & The Laughing Bat: Everything is ready, just waiting
Chapter 621 Chen Tao & The Laughing Bat: Everything is ready, just waiting
Chapter 621 Chen Tao & The Laughing Bat: Everything is ready, just waiting for...
The Laughing Bat harbors deep malice towards the bat mite.
Undoubtedly, he knew very well that even if he summoned the bat mite, he would not be able to gain its approval, let alone use its power.
But he did it anyway, so it's quite clear that the Batman Who Laughs's purpose was...
"Don't rush into shouting for war, okay? My dear old friend..."
On the edge of the Reverse-Flash world, aboard the Batman Who Laughs's spaceship.
The Bat of Laughter sat at the table, holding a deck of cards. Another figure at the table slowly handed over a card.
A beam of light shone on their heads, and the Batman Who Laughs, whose body was hidden in the darkness, cast an indistinct shadow over the face of his opponent.
The man was wearing a round top hat, and the light illuminated his white hands as he played his cards.
He didn't answer the Batman Who Laughs, but instead pointed to the card game.
"Alright, alright..." said the Bat of Laughter.
He stretched out his hand with a smile and covered the face-down playing card.
"I guess you don't want to end this game so soon, and the losers who have already left the game will have to pay a price to get back in."
The Bat of Laughter said, "Look at you."
The Bat Who Laughs didn't reveal the card; he merely made the motion of revealing it, and then said, "This reminds me of how I felt when I snapped your neck... though not the same, but the same."
He said, "You've always dreamed of making Batman the way you want him to be, and now I'm standing right in front of you. Isn't this the perfect Batman you've always dreamed of?"
"Hmph, tch." The Bat of Laughter's shameless words caused the person in front of him to spit out a non-existent spittle on the table. The Bat of Laughter's face darkened. He stood up, grabbed the other person by the collar, and pulled the person who had just been sitting behind the table in front of him, face to face.
The light shone on the person's face, revealing that the one who had been playing chess with the Bat of Laughter all along was actually just a robot made to look like a clown.
This robot has pale silicone skin and lifelike hair, but it is still deliberately made not to resemble a real person, as if to distinguish it from real humans.
He looked exactly like the Joker, with the classic pale skin, green hair, and twisted smile, but instead of the Joker's usual purple suit, he wore a well-made Robin uniform that even exposed his thighs.
The only clown element left on the other person besides their appearance is probably that round purple top hat.
"You have disappointed me greatly. An opportunity to break free from the constraints of the trans-time flow was right in front of you, and you just threw it away."
The Bat Who Laughs said, "Do I have to force you?"
"Sizzle sizzle..."
Upon hearing his words, the puppet in front of him, which was being controlled by the Emperor Clown, began to beep.
The roles have reversed; now the Emperor Joker is the one being restricted. He once forced the Batman Who Laughs to jump into a coffin made of dark metal to save his life, but the Batman Who Laughs quickly retaliated.
He designed a system that allowed him to trap the Joker's meager power in the real world within the Joker Robin robot, effectively giving him a decisive advantage.
"I told you, I know you two too well."
The Batman Who Laughs walked over to the still trembling Robin the Clown robot, then placed his hand on his shoulder and whispered:
"What would the Joker do if he encountered a powerful supervillain? It's too easy to guess."
The Batman Who Laughs made a bizarre gesture of "surprise," filled with a chaotic sense of madness: "Trying to join that supervillain's crew and form an alliance with him, then giving him a big gift just when he's about to succeed..."
"I'm not saying this out loud, but this joke has been told too many times. Even the most humorous audience will get tired of it."
He said, "Do you really think you can bypass me, fool that Brainiac, and compete with me for the position of jester?"
He reached out and tapped the robot on the forehead: "You're nothing but a clown, even if you're the emperor of clowns, I am the ultimate Batman."
"You...you...you're just a..."
The Batman Who Laughs sees the Emperor Joker trying to control the robot from a distant, hyper-timeline, making it speak. Despite knowing that what the robot might utter are likely insults, the Batman Who Laughs allows it without a care.
"You're nothing but a talkative bat, you..."
Before he could finish speaking, his words were cut off.
"Come on, Joker. That Brainiac is already prepared for the qualifiers."
"The Bat of Mad Laughter said softly."
"A bloody battle that will sweep across the entire hypertimeline will take place, with countless timelines in the hypertimeline that have already come to an end participating in the fight."
When the DC universe reboots once, the new roads will appear in their original locations, while the old roads will be preserved upstream in the hyper-time stream.
New roads can be painted over and re-poured before they completely harden, but old roads are already solidified and will never see any new changes, or if they do, they are extremely rare.
These old roads are the "timeline of the end." They haven't been destroyed, but if someone can forcibly pull these roads out...
"Who could have imagined that the collapse of the multiverse would originate from an ordinary Bruce trying to protect his world under the control of the Anti-Monitor? A noble wish led to the worst possible outcome. There's no better joke for the Dark Multiverse than this, is there?"
The Batman Who Laughs chuckled twice, then wrapped his arms around the robotic Robin Joker: "This is your last chance."
"According to Brainiac's plan, once the qualifiers begin, this hyper-timeline will be in complete chaos. Under such circumstances, it will be almost impossible to find the troublemaker. You know that the troublemaker is always in every part of the hyper-timeline, except for a brief gap in your timeline."
He coaxed, "Are you really willing to miss out on the troublemaker, only to suffer a crushing defeat in that war?"
The Batman Who Laughs said, "Across countless timelines, the deaths of countless beings will create immense energy and power, especially those heroes who were once the Justice League in the main universe. Brainiac is trying to gather this power and become a god like the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor, but we all know that Brainiac is just an old farmer."
"The immense power he painstakingly cultivated could certainly be swallowed up by anyone, but it would never be him."
The Bat Who Laughs said, "Are you really willing to miss out, and then become someone else's stepping stone or source of strength in that war?"
"I know we have disagreements, but I think our disagreements can be completely set aside when it comes to truly meaningful issues."
"Think about it, the power of the fifth dimension can't make you forget Batman, but when you become a god of the sixth dimension, you can freely modify reality, and even the entire multiverse, and then reshape it in the way you are most used to."
"You can even change yourself, change your origins, and completely let go of your entanglement with Batman, destroying your only weakness."
"This is your only chance. Become a player, or become dust of the times. Is it possible that your current reluctance to cooperate with me is precisely the reason you can't defeat Batman, that you see Batman as a god rather than a human being?"
The Bat of Laughter said that if the other party still doesn't react after this point, even the Bat of Laughter can't do anything about it.
Fortunately, the worst did not happen.
As the Batman Who Laughs took two steps back, he saw the robot in front of him stand up from its seat. The robot turned its head and looked at the Batman Who Laughs with a very agile and sinister expression.
"You must release me from this constraint."
He said, "Is it a deal?"
His voice sounded perfectly normal, without a trace of his usual joking. Indeed, only another laugh could silence a clown like him. No clown could laugh when they saw the Bat Who Laughs.
The Batman Who Laughs agreed, and as he manipulated the robot, Robin's uniform fell off piece by piece.
After all the clothes had fallen off, the robot's expression became even more animated. It stood still, nodded, and then turned to look at the Bat of Laughter.
The next second, an invisible gust of wind swept past the Bat of Laughter.
The computer next to the table and chairs, the Bat of Laughter, turned an eerie white in an instant, as if erased by an invisible eraser, and then vanished.
As expected of the Emperor Joker, he didn't hesitate to strike the Batman Who Laughs as soon as he had a little bit of ability to fight in reality. This strike was basically aimed at killing him, but everything around the Batman Who Laughs turned to dust, while he himself remained unharmed.
"This is all part of my plan, Joker, and you'd better behave yourself," the Batman Who Laughs said. "You don't think I'm stupid enough to deal with you alone, do you? You really think I would willingly bring your power into reality without having other plans?"
As he spoke, the gaunt face of the Black Death Emperor silently disappeared into the dark, inky night behind him.
"Although the Black Death Emperor's true form cannot enter the main universe, this avatar that has already destroyed an entire dark multiverse is still enough to help me defend against you, Joker."
The Batman Who Laughs chuckled: "I told you you were the Joker, and I was the Batman with a sense of humor. I deleted all the principles except for the last one."
He said, "Batman will always win."
His smile vanished in an instant, and like the Emperor Joker, the Batman Who Laughs didn't actually like the Joker much deep down. In a sense, neither of them liked the other, but the Batman Who Laughs was able to suppress this feeling of disgust.
"I will give you that Batman; it belongs to you."
The Batman Who Laughs said, "I plan to stage a tug-of-war. Batman will think he's trying to save the bat mite from our clutches. But the moment his hand touches the rope, he'll be pulled right in front of you."
He paused. "I hope this toy will bring you joy... but listen carefully, this is something I did for you, so you have to do the same for me. This isn't all without a price."
The Bat Who Laughs looked at the subjugated Emperor Joker.
Everything is ready.
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Look, Chen Tao obtained something extremely important from the bat mite.
A method to break through the divine power of five-dimensional beings.
This was a risky plan. Before the bat mite actually taught him the method, Chen Tao wasn't even sure if the thing really existed.
But he tried anyway, risking a lot of wasted time, and when he finally got the solution, he was able to carry out a plan that no one would have thought of.
Although they don't say it, the Batman Who Laughs and the Emperor Joker often judge Chen Tao's actions by the moral standards of a hero. They think that Chen Tao's outward bottom line is just different from the former Batman Bruce Wayne.
It was precisely because of this deception that when the Laughing Bat discovered he couldn't control the bat mite, he allowed the bat mite, the crop he had already signed a contract to harvest, to linger with Chen Tao.
Although the Batman Who Laughs guessed that the Bat Mite could delay Batman, and although he knew that the Bat Mite wouldn't be so easily defeated by Batman, the essence of this action was still equivalent to handing over a ripe fruit that could be picked to someone else.
Chen Tao knew that he was far inferior to the Batman Who Laughs in his understanding of five-dimensional beings, as the comics never gave much detail about them.
Chen Tao didn't know how to capture or trap five-dimensional beings. In the eyes of the Laughing Bat, he wouldn't touch the bat mite, which was obviously an object that needed protection.
Before you have the ability to subdue five-dimensional beings, this will only cause you to lose their trust and drift further and further away from your goal of protecting them.
But for Chen Tao...
A bat mite that keeps going wrong in his plans is absolutely unacceptable to him. From the very beginning, when the bat mite jokingly pulled off that damned wedding, Chen Tao had already made the decision not to let him get away with it.
He could coax the bat mite, and he was indeed capable of coaxing it, but such a child with an unconventional mind would only become a variable in the plan. Chen Tao had not even spared Hal, so how could he let the bat mite run rampant?
The Bat Who Laughs knew he couldn't control five-dimensional beings, and that was indeed the case. But just because brute force didn't work didn't mean there were no other ways to solve the problem.
"Batman." Facing the enraged bat mite, Chen Tao heard Parallax Morhal's whisper as he traveled through the hypertime stream.
"What are you planning to do?"
He said, "You can't possibly..."
"Stop talking nonsense," Chen Tao said. "You just need to sit and wait for me to obtain the power of the bat mite, and then I'll pull you out of the hypertime stream."
Chen Tao looked at the bat mite that had grown larger.
Everything is ready.
(End of this chapter)