novellhall Chapter 575 The Dark Multiverse Resistance Army is Established, Leader: Mad
Chapter 575 The Dark Multiverse Resistance Army is Established, Leader: Mad
Chapter 575 The Dark Multiverse Resistance Army is Established, Leader: The Bat Who Laughs
"As you can see, I'm a blues too."
The Batman Who Laughs had thought many times about how to trick Bruce before him, and he had reminded himself of this many times...
Never mistake this Bruce for one of those defective products that struggled to survive under his command.
This Bruce is already about a quarter of the Dark Multiverse's dragons, and The Batman Who Laughs has to admit that he is very likely the strongest Bruce ever conceived in the entire Dark Multiverse.
This limits the plans that the Batman Who Laughs can take.
To be honest, at first, the Batman Who Laughs did consider creating a character that never existed to gain the other party's trust.
For example, the trench coat fighter, a third-rate character in a dark multiverse who gradually grows into a warrior who fights against the crisis of the entire dark multiverse, how about this script?
Or... another Bruce who rebels against Barbatos? As long as the Batman Who Laughs puts away his smile and takes off his dark metal goggles, he is the real Bruce. He was once the Batman who upheld justice in their world, and no one knows better than him how to play the role of the righteous Bruce.
Oh, by the way, Bruce, the righteous figure from the perfect world in the Dark Multiverse, is a bit hard to believe...
It can also add other elements to its own story besides the death of its parents, such as Bruce, who survived a destroyed world.
He can express it in all sorts of ways, whether it's lingering resentment, or resolute sorrow. He can weave elaborate lies to make the Batman Dragon before him genuinely believe that he shares his suffering.
But in the end, the Batman Who Laughs did not adopt any of these plans. Instead, he chose to appear in his true form without any disguise, and he didn't even take off his dark goggles. There was a reason for this.
In the infinite dark multiverse, only a very few Bruces have failed to inherit Batman's mantle. Those who have become Batman, with a few exceptions, are mostly true acting experts and interrogation masters.
Batman even maintains several different identities to cover up his superhero career, such as his most famous identity, Matchstick Malone.
If the Batman Who Laughs were truly foolish enough to try and create a fake identity for Batman like he did with Matchstick Marlon, he might be able to fool him for a while, but in the long run, even if it's only for ten minutes, he would eventually be exposed.
What's even more alarming is that the opponent has already seized a quarter of the Dark Multiverse Dragon's authority, meaning they already possess the most basic ability to interfere with fate.
Perhaps one cannot weave destiny as freely as Barbatos, but to slightly deviate from the destiny woven by others, or to add some minor variables... perhaps one can manage to do so?
Simply put, the other party has the ability, but can't do it now; they just don't know how.
Just as a human with normal intelligence can learn basic mathematics by studying hard, a cat or dog with insufficient brain capacity cannot understand the essence of numbers no matter how hard it tries.
This is a change in life form. The Batman Who Laughs has no intention of betting on how far the other party has developed the abilities of the Dark Multiverse Dragon, or whether he can look back at his past from the grand perspective of the Dark Multiverse.
Therefore, as the former Batman who knows Batman best in the entire multiverse, the Batman Who Laughs chose to deceive—
"...I am Bruce, I was once Batman...I accidentally killed the Joker, and then got infected...I tried to save myself, but unfortunately the leaked Joker virus ultimately destroyed my world...This was all a destiny woven by Barbatos, and an inevitable consequence of our broken universe. I stumbled into Barbatos's ranks..."
"But you...you!"
Chen Tao watched as the Laughing Bat removed his metal goggles.
One corner of his mouth was raised, while the other drooped, a look that was neither crying nor laughing. He looked like a redeemer who had experienced sorrow and grief, yet also saw the light at the end of the tunnel.
Most of what the Bat Who Laughs said is true—that is indeed the case.
The best lie is to tell only part of the truth.
Did the Bat Who Laughs lie? Strictly speaking, no.
He did indeed tell Chen Tao about his origins, and the destruction of his universe was entirely true. He said that his Justice League died, but he did not say that he killed them himself.
He said he worked for Barbatos, but instead of saying he enjoyed it, he led those who heard him to believe that he was forced to do so.
Once some key information is hidden by the Bat of Laughter, the whole story will be steered in the ears of the audience in a direction completely opposite to the truth.
This is just the most basic means by which propaganda machines fool the masses, but in the hands of the Laughing Man, it is played with so skillfully that people are involuntarily guided by him.
"I originally thought this was all the fate of the Dark Multiverse, and I had long since resigned myself to it!"
Tears welled in the eyes of the mannequin remotely constructed from stones, and Chen Tao, feeling sorry for it, pulled out a tissue from somewhere and handed it to it, even though he himself didn't know why a puppet made of remotely constructed stones would need a tissue.
The stone golem, the Laughing Bat, casually accepted the tissue Chen Tao conjured with the Green of All Things, and then casually wiped away non-existent tears from its cheeks: "I lost my composure..."
He said, "I originally thought that the destruction of my universe was just Barbatos's doing, so I wanted to take revenge on Barbatos. But later I realized that our universe was incomplete from the beginning, so the tragedy of our world would have happened whether Barbatos was there or not."
He said, "This made me despair. For the first time, I lost someone to take revenge on. I was corrupted by Barbatos and did many bad things."
Chen Tao, who was listening nearby, nodded repeatedly, saying that what he said was absolutely right.
He did a few bad things, no problem.
While the Bat of Mad Laughter was still lamenting his fate, Chen Tao quietly watched him put on an act.
"I deeply loathe who I am now, yet I can no longer escape Barbatos's clutches, so I can only continue living this muddled and confused life. But your existence has proven to me that even being born into the Dark Multiverse does not preclude one from changing one's destiny!"
Chen Tao, listening from the side, was almost swayed by the story. The Batman Who Laughs really is quite something. If Chen Tao hadn't read the comics and known what kind of monster the Batman Who Laughs was, he probably would have been fooled by the story of "being inspired and returning to justice."
After all, it's human nature to try to reform bad guys and drag good people down with them.
Even if our world is inherently flawed, we can still mend its flaws and save the world!
Great! Well said, that's fucking awesome!
Chen Tao listened from the side and nodded repeatedly.
Look at that guy's wild laughter, how enlightened he is! What powerful words he spoke! He's got the awareness to be enlightened, he's got the redemption to be redeemed. He's really nailed the "prodigal son returns" persona. Chen Tao even wanted to stand up and applaud him.
"For millions of years, no one has ever truly been able to resist Barbatos' power in the Dark Multiverse. You are the first to do so, and the first person in the Dark Multiverse to save his own broken universe. It's as if you were born with a destiny."
The Bat Who Laughs is getting increasingly shameless in its praise of people, even going so far as to talk about destiny.
If the other party hadn't been communicating remotely from a stone golem, Chen Tao would have loved to kill them outright to rid himself of this menace.
Unfortunately, the maniac was extremely cautious and only remotely controlled a pile of stones, never revealing his true form to him, which was truly a pity.
As the leader of the Dark Knights, Barbatos naturally granted the Batman Who Laughs some of the ability to alter reality, making the manipulation of these stones a natural consequence. For a long time, the Batman Who Laughs will continue to possess this bizarre superpower bestowed upon him by Barbatos, until Barbatos's complete downfall.
After speaking for a while, the Batman Who Laughs finally got to the really important point: "Be careful, that's why I risked being discovered by Barbatos to warn you that the clown in front of you is not your greatest threat."
Despite his wide grin, the Laughing Bat's voice was earnest. He truly sounded like a righteous ally genuinely concerned for Chen Tao.
"Your actions have disrupted the Hypertime Flow, and on one of the Hypertime Flow's timelines, our greatest enemy, the Joker, underwent an ultimate evolution."
"If you've heard of the King of the Fifth Dimension, the Mischief, you'll know he's Superman's main enemy."
"Before several cosmic reboots, the troublemaker was active in the main universe, picking a fight with Superman every 90 days or so. But for the troublemaker, it was just a fun game, a good time."
"The troublemaker would laugh at Superman's mistakes and play games like Superman tricking the troublemaker into saying his name backwards, and then the troublemaker would be sent home, and the process would repeat over and over again."
"Although the troublemaker didn't know what Superman was thinking, Superman gave the troublemaker a lot of new opportunities and made the old-fashioned person accept new things. In other words, the troublemaker started to get bored. Then, he came up with a brilliant idea—at least it looked pretty good on paper."
"The troublemaker went to see the clown at his house, the one far from Arkham Asylum."
"At the time, the Joker's mission was to drive Batman insane, so the troublemaker thought, just for fun, what would happen if he gave the Joker his power and unleashed it in the main universe?"
Chen Tao listened quietly.
"The troublemaker's original intention was just to see how others did his job. But the troublemaker wasn't stupid at first; he planned to give the Joker only 1% of his power."
Chen Tao said, "Then things taught the troublemaker a profound lesson, making him realize that although the clown's mind is crazy, it doesn't mean he's not smart."
"Yes," said the Batman Who Laughs. "During that period, the Joker tricked the Mischief into revealing his secret name, and because of this, the Joker took 99.9% of the Mischief's power."
"About 69 seconds later, the Joker used his imagination to recreate the DC universe at that time and stuffed the troublemaker into a closet on the moon so that he could live a miserable life without any interference."
"He became the Emperor Joker and even attempted to erase reality. Although he was ultimately defeated and the heroes restored reality, this timeline was permanently preserved in the Hypertime Stream."
The Batman Who Laughs said, "I'm here to warn you. Your actions have freed those monsters from the hyper-timelines, allowing them to escape their own timelines and attempt to interfere with current reality through the hyper-timelines. The three clowns who are now active again in your universe are proof of that."
"Even so, the Emperor Joker cannot easily cross the barrier of the trans-time flow and arrive in the current reality. He still needs the help of powerful individuals who can take action in the current reality."
The Bat of Laughter explained earnestly, "He went to Barbatos, but Barbatos demanded that he come to reality on his own before he would consider cooperating with him. Therefore, we don't need to confront Barbatos's formidable power for the time being."
"But I just received news that the Emperor Joker has now formed an alliance with the Black Death Emperor. Ever since his failure to unleash the Darkest Night in the main universe, the Black Death Emperor has not stopped thinking about continuing to stir up waves of death in many worlds to strengthen his power, and then invading the main universe again. Therefore, your world has been part of his target from the very beginning."
"After the Emperor Joker persuaded him in some way I don't understand, they are now practically allied, but don't worry, I've already come up with a plan..."
We've finally come to this point. The map of Yan is so long; it's time to pull out our daggers here.
Chen Tao waited silently for the laughing bat to speak.
The Batman Who Laughs never had good intentions. He never intended to join forces with Batman to fight the Emperor Joker. If possible, he only hoped that Batman and the Emperor Joker would perish together.
His current plan is a similar project.
He needed to trick Batman into fighting the Emperor Joker in his way, and then at a crucial moment, teleport Batman directly upstream in the timeline to face the Emperor Joker. Then, a quarter of the Dark Multiverse Dragon would fight the Emperor Joker, who possessed the power of a five-dimensional being in the timeline. In the end, Batman in this universe would die, and the Emperor Joker would be greatly weakened, unable to peer downstream anymore. This was his plan to kill Batman...
"Indeed, the Emperor Joker and the Black Death Emperor joining forces is a very serious problem."
The Batman Who Laughs was interrupted abruptly when he saw Batman's expression turn serious. Good, that's exactly what he wanted to see.
"We must establish a Dark Multiverse Resistance Army."
Yes, that's right, he's very motivated, that's exactly what he needs from his partner.
"Senior, why don't you become the leader of the Dark Multiverse Resistance Army?"
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(End of this chapter)