bioinnovel Chapter 671 The Dawn's Ghostly Lamp, You're the Commander of the Dark Knights!
Chapter 671 The Dawn's Ghostly Lamp, You're the Commander of the Dark Knights!
Chapter 671 Dawn's Ghost Lamp, You're the Commander of the Dark Knights! Dawn's Ghost Lamp: Me?
"What?"
The current situation is completely unexpected.
Chen Tao had not anticipated such a situation in his initial plan, and it came to his surprise that things had turned out this way.
At this moment, the first Lantern Knight had already captured Chen Tao, or rather, Chen Tao had captured him.
His long-planned, furious murderous intent, along with the implanted fear, surged into Batman Dragon's mind—
Then, Chen Tao used the Alfred Protocol to transmit this fear to the Bat Who Laughs.
At this very moment, within the crucible of the world, the Bat who laughs's expression changed drastically.
He originally planned to connect with the will of the Dawn Lamp, thereby driving it to break free of its cage, take out his lower body, and then piece his body back together. When Barbatos returned, he would calmly and elegantly announce his victory and power to him, and then, as planned, regain Barbatos's trust and reclaim his position as the leader of the Dark Knights.
After doing all this, he will then launch the next phase of the plan to continue advancing towards his ultimate goal.
But now, he has made such a huge mistake in the simplest of problems—controlling the Dawn Lantern.
But what left him speechless, even more than taking the place of Batman Dragon and bearing the fear implantation of the first Genie, was:
"Was all of this part of your plan?"
The Laughing Bat was able to sense Chen Tao's willpower within the Dawn Lantern's mental world. The fear implantation of the First Lantern was like a sharp cone piercing the Laughing Bat's brain, while Chen Tao's consciousness crouched beside it, watching.
"You planned everything! You planted a backup plan in the mind of the Dawn Lantern, some kind of ability I don't know about. You foresaw that I would use the Dawn Lantern to escape?"
Chen Tao squatted silently to the side.
Would you believe me if I said I didn't expect this either?
No, oh no.
This was a complete and utter accident.
But Chen Tao readily admitted, "Hehehehehe, that's right, all of this was part of my... cough, I, Bat, no, I, the Laughing Bat's plan!"
When he finished saying those words, Chen Tao even felt a little touched.
This time, the roles have reversed. This time, it's not you, Batman Who Laughs, who's in the middle of everything, but me, Batman!
The Batman Who Laughs took a deep breath; he wasn't angered by Batman's deliberate use of his own name.
The more he reflected on his failures, the colder he felt. He…
He immediately activated his other backup plan.
Far beyond countless trans-temporal streams and spacetimes, those mages who had previously been driven by Chen Tao and ultimately controlled by his maniacal laughter all raised their heads.
The Batman Who Laughs was using them to cast a spell that would teleport him away, but then...
"The magic failed..." The Bat of Laughter looked at Chen Tao: "Was this also part of your plan?"
Chen Tao opened his mouth.
This was actually part of his plan. He didn't know what the Laughing Bat wanted the mages to do, but now he seemed to know, and the Laughing Potions did indeed work.
A sharp pain shot through the Batman Laughing's brain. He knew this wasn't the time to dwell on how Batman Dragon had done it. He had an opponent he needed to face now, one even more formidable than Batman Dragon: the first Lantern.
He had to forcibly construct false memories to deceive the first Lantern Man in order to prevent the other party from actually finding the moment he was most afraid of deep down.
The first Lantern Man's attack was essentially implanting fear, but you know, no, that's right, monsters don't experience fear.
They are twisted, disordered, insane, unpredictable, and utterly evil.
No one knows the Batman Who Laughs's plans, and no one can predict his actions. That's what makes him a monster, and that's what makes him terrifying.
But if the Batman Who Laughs is discovered by Genie A.J. in his moments of fear, is he still a monster?
But the Laughing Bat couldn't understand it at all. He couldn't understand how he had ended up in such a predicament.
The execution of any plan can never leave no trace. Even the Bat who laughs knows that his actions will inevitably leave a mark. He simply calculated that Barbatos would not find it, or that he would not care at all.
But what gives Batman the right?
"This is impossible... When I found the universe of the Dawn Lamp, I never revealed it to anyone, and you could never have left anything on me that could monitor me. You don't have that ability... No matter what you do..."
As the Batman Who Laughs fought off Lantern X, he muttered to himself, but suddenly, he had a sudden realization.
He turned his head, staring fiercely at the avatar of Chen Tao's consciousness in this chaotic sea of minds with the spikes on his goggles: "You can somehow invade the brains of other members of the Dark Knights... You were already trying to do this with the Destroyer and the Red Death Demon, even going so far as to control them to do things that were inconsistent with their usual behavior. You've had this ability ever since!"
Chen Tao listened in awe. To almost guess the truth with so little data—the Batman Who Laughs truly lives up to his name as Batman.
But even if you guessed it... so what?
Chen Tao couldn't stay in this mentally connected space any longer. Although he really wanted to see the battle between the Laughing King and the First Lantern, in the real world, the Emperor Joker had already crossed the darkness created by the Lights Out program and was charging towards Chen Tao like a raging mad dog.
Chen Tao couldn't figure out how the other party had accurately found him and the first Lantern Knight in this pitch-black area, even though he had clearly separated them.
But now that things have come to this, Chen Tao certainly cannot allow the Emperor Joker and the First Lantern to join forces.
While the first Lantern was still battling the will of the Batman Who Laughs from afar, Chen Tao rushed over to stop them.
He originally planned to kill Genie I directly, but he quickly realized that Genie I was the attacker. Since he couldn't kill him with one blow, he shouldn't wake him up from his dormant state. Therefore, stopping the Emperor Joker became his top priority.
"Protecting Lantern Evolution again? That's your enemy! You disgust me! Batman! You have absolutely no sense of humor! I'm going to grind Lantern Evolution to dust, I'll scatter every last bone!"
Chen Tao ignored the Emperor Clown's nonsense.
In short, the current situation of the first Lantern Man battling the Batman Who Laughs in the mental space has been achieved. All he needs to do now is to let the opponent decide a winner, which will be a good thing for him no matter who loses.
As for troublemakers like the Joker, Chen Tao had no intention of letting him get close to the first Lantern Knight.
Barbatos is currently fighting against the Black Death Emperor and Brainiac one against two, which is still manageable for the Lord of the Dark Multiverse. The Emperor Joker and his allies will not let Barbatos escape, so he must now cooperate with Chen Tao.
At this moment, the first Lantern was completely unaware that he had connected to the wrong person. He knew he was looking for Batman and only felt that he had read the correct memories.
The laughing bat is still a bat!
"Let me see..." he whispered.
"What kind of life do you have? What kind of suffering do you endure?"
What caused you to sink into the abyss? Why do you toss and turn at night?
He read the other person's life. Batman, Bruce Wayne, yes, it was him. The first Lantern had read some of the other person's memories from the first half of his life.
Let me see... just as the first Lantern knew.
Although Batman Dragon is Batman from the Dark Multiverse, his life trajectory before that seems no different from the Batman known to the original Lantern in the main universe.
Two gunshots rang out in Crime Alley, killing the parents instantly. A pearl necklace fell to the ground, and then there was Sheriff Gordon, who came over to pat their heads, and Alfred, who was taken home.
What follows is his growth and training, his grudges with Talia and the Ninja Master, his ideological conflicts, and finally, his becoming Batman. Classic, so classic.
The first Lantern is contemplating how to inflict a wound on such a life, a deep-seated, vicious trauma.
He could already feel the other person's struggle... it was extremely intense. One can only say, truly worthy of being called Batman Dragon? The last person he implanted with fear and still managed to struggle so violently was Hal Jordan, Hal Jordan from the main universe.
The first Lantern continued reading, having completed Batman: Dragon's entire life story. Forming the Justice League? A cosmic crisis? And then, the fight against Barbatos?
What an epic life... But the first Lantern Man knew he had to be careful; he only had one chance, and he had to choose wisely.
Last time, after implanting fear into Hal, he used this greatest Green Lantern as the entry point for his willpower energy, extracted the light of creation from him, and then let Hal enter the Death Zone.
This explains Hal's defeat when he returned in Black Death and cleaved Sinestro, weakened by him, with a single strike.
He knew he couldn't afford to fall into any weakness... Among the members of his alliance with the Emperor Joker was also the Black Death Emperor.
He is a man who has died once, and he escaped from the death zone. This is a mistake for a death advocate like the Black Death Emperor. In his eyes, he is no different from Parallax Morhal. The Black Death Emperor only temporarily chose to cooperate because of the more deaths promised by the Emperor Joker, but this does not mean that if the first Genie falls into a disadvantageous position, he will not "follow his instincts".
So, the first Lantern Man learned his lesson. This time, he would break Batman Dragon's will and then enslave his body, rather than simply killing him.
He had read through the other person's consciousness, and he was going to choose the moment when Batman was most vulnerable.
"Come on..." the first Lantern whispered, "I need to dig into a moment in your life, to find the point in your life when you were conquered by fear."
He sensed that voice, that name... the Joker, coming from the other person's thoughts.
"No, not at that moment," said the first Genie. "It's at another moment."
His mental world flickered, and in a gray room, he half-squatted down.
A boy of about eight years old appeared in front of him, and the first Lantern Man grinned maliciously.
"Hello, dear little Bruce."
"Where's Daddy? Where's Mommy? Where did Mommy go?" The first Lantern Knight crouched down, looking at the little Bruce who was crying and shouting for his parents.
"Your whole family is dead," said the first Lantern.
The first Genie held the child in his arms: "It's okay, there's nothing to be afraid of anymore. I'm your angel, I'm here to help you."
He was already preparing to create the deepest nightmare to deeply wound Batman Dragon... when suddenly he heard the other party laugh.
"What?" The first Genie looked down, then saw the miniature Bruce he was holding tilt his head back, a twisted, cruel smile spreading across his face: "Hahahaha!"
The first Lantern Man tried to throw the little Bruce away, but instead got bitten hard in the chest.
Meanwhile, in the real world, the Emperor Clown, who had been stopped by Chen Tao, let out a sinister laugh.
The next moment, Chen Tao suddenly turned his head to the side.
In the lights-out program's perception, the Black Death Emperor and Brainiac, who had been tightly surrounding Barbatos, suddenly released their hold on him at the same moment.
Chen Tao had underestimated Barbatos's moral bottom line as much as possible, and Barbatos did not disappoint Chen Tao at all.
After realizing he was no longer the target of the siege, Barbatos abandoned Chen Tao, who was still fighting the Emperor Clown, and made his escape immediately!
With his teammates deserting, Chen Tao no longer had the opportunity to stop Emperor Joker.
Therefore, Chen Tao was already prepared. As soon as he released Emperor Clown, he would use the lights-out program to cover his escape.
Anyway, he had already planned to drag Reverse-Flash's universe away, so he could still escape with that universe at will. Besides, he had been keeping William Hand as a trump card, so maybe he could...
Before Chen Tao could finish his thought, he saw the Emperor Joker jump onto the back of the first Lantern Knight, quickly flip his palm to reveal two sharp blades almost half the length of a person, and then plunge them into the other's body.
"Wait, what?"
……
……
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The melting pot of the world.
Barbatos fled back in a sorry state.
As soon as he stepped into the furnace, he saw the Laughing Bat leisurely stepping on the Dawn Lantern, who had just regained consciousness, to greet him.
"Great Lord Barbatos, I am your most loyal servant, the Bat of Laughter."
The Bat of Mad Laughter said, "I..."
But before he could finish speaking, Barbatos waved his hand, and his mouth was sewn shut, so he couldn't utter a single word.
Barbatos then turned to the Dawn Lantern.
The Dawn Lantern crawled out from under the Bat of Laughter's feet, seemingly completely unaware of what had happened. He had failed, utterly and completely, utterly defeated by the Bat of Laughter. Then he saw Barbatos extend a claw and place it on his shoulder:
"Dawnbreaker Lantern, you are now the leader of the Dark Knights!"
"What?"
The Dawn Lantern: "Me?"
(End of this chapter)