What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 575: Dark Multiverse Resistance Army is established, leader: Laughing Bat

"As you can see, I'm a Bruce, too."

The Laughing Bat had thought many times about how to trick Bruce in front of him, and he reminded himself many times in his heart...

Never treat the Bruce in front of you as one of those defective products struggling to survive under his command.

This Bruce is already about 1/4 of the Dragon of the Dark Multiverse. The Laughing Bat has to admit that he is very likely the strongest Bruce ever born in the entire Dark Multiverse.

This places some limits on the plans that the Laughing Bat can take.

To be honest, at the beginning, the Laughing Bat did think about fabricating a character that had never appeared in order to gain the other party's trust.

For example, the Trenchcoat Fighter, a third-rate character in the dark multiverse gradually grows into a warrior who fights against the crisis of the entire dark multiverse. How about this script?
Or... another Bruce who rebelled against Barbatos? As long as the Laughing Batman puts away the smile on his face and takes off his dark metal goggles, he is the real Bruce. He was once the Batman who upheld justice in their world. No one knows how to play the role of a righteous Bruce better than him.

Oh, by the way, Bruce, the perfect justice in the dark multiverse, is a little unreliable...

It could also include some other elements in its story besides the death of both parents, such as Bruce surviving a destroyed world?

He could express it in various ways, whether it was resentment or sadness. He could weave a well-crafted lie to make the Batman Dragon believe from the bottom of his heart that he and he shared the same fate.

But in the end, the Laughing Bat did not carry out these plans. Instead, he chose to meet 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 small number of Bruces did not inherit the mantle of Batman. Except for some individual cases, most of the Bruces who became Batman were true performance experts and interrogation masters.

Batman even operates several different identities to cover up his superhero career, such as the most famous identity, Matchstick Malone.

Two masters of disguise get together. If the Laughing Bat is really stupid enough to try to create a fake identity in front of the Batman in front of him like he did with Matchstick Malone, he might be able to fool people for a while, but over time, even if it's just a dozen minutes, he will eventually be at risk of being exposed.

What is even more worthy of vigilance is that the other party has already seized 1/4 of the authority of the Dragon of the Dark Multiverse, which means that the other party already has the most basic ability to interfere with fate.

Maybe I can't weave my own destiny as arbitrarily as Barbatos, but I can slightly deviate from the destiny woven by others, or add some tiny variables... maybe I can do it?

Simply put, the other party has the ability to do so, but cannot do it now, and simply does not know how to do it.

Just as humans with normal IQ can learn basic mathematics if they study hard, cats and dogs with insufficient brain capacity cannot understand the nature of numbers no matter how hard they try.

This is a change in life form, and the Laughing Bat has no intention of betting on the extent to which the other party has developed the abilities of the Dark Multiverse Dragon, and whether he can look back at his past from the grand perspective of the Dark Multiverse.

Therefore, as the predecessor of Batman who knows Batman best in the entire multiverse, the way of deception chosen by the Batman Who Laughs is -

"…I am Bruce, and I used to be Batman…I accidentally killed the Joker, and then got infected…I tried to save myself, but the Joker virus that was unfortunately leaked eventually destroyed my world…All of this is the fate created by Barbatos, and it is also the inevitable result of our broken universe. I was confused and threw myself into Barbatos's service…"

"But you...you!"

Chen Tao watched the Laughing Bat take off his metal goggles.

One corner of his mouth was raised, while the other corner was drooping, as if he was neither crying nor laughing. He looked like a savior who was sad and sorrowful, had experienced many vicissitudes of life, but finally saw the dawn of hope.

Much of what the Laughing Bat said was true—literally.

The best lie is a partial truth.

Did the Laughing Bat lie? Strictly speaking, no.

He did explain his origins to Chen Tao, and the destruction of his universe was completely true. He said that his Justice League died, but he did not say that he killed them with his own hands.

He said he worked for Barbatos, but instead of saying he enjoyed it, he led people who heard him to think he was forced into it.

Once some key information is hidden by the Laughing Bat, the whole thing will be led to something completely opposite to the truth in the ears of the listeners.

This is just the most basic means for the propaganda machine to fool the public, but in the hands of Kuangxiao, it is played to perfection, making people involuntarily led by him.

"I originally thought that all this was the fate of the dark multiverse, and I had already accepted it!"

Tears flowed from the eyes of the puppet made of remotely constructed stone by Kuang Xiao. Chen Tao sympathized with him and took out a tissue from somewhere and handed it to him, although even he didn't know why a puppet made of remotely constructed stone would need a tissue.

The stone puppet Laughing Bat naturally took the tissue that Chen Tao had transformed from the Green of All Things, and then naturally wiped the non-existent tears on his cheeks with the tissue: "I lost my composure..."

He said: "I originally thought that the destruction of my universe was just the work of Barbatos, so I wanted to take revenge on Barbatos, but then I realized that our universe was incomplete from the beginning, so whether there is Barbatos or not, the tragedy of our world will happen."

He said: "This made me desperate. For the first time, I lost the one I could take revenge on. I was corrupted by Barbatos and did a lot of bad things."

Chen Tao, who was listening nearby, nodded repeatedly. What he said was so true.

There's nothing wrong with doing a billion bad things.

The Laughing Bat was still feeling grief-stricken, and Chen Tao was quietly watching him pretending.

"I deeply hate myself for who I am now, but I can no longer escape the clutches of Barbatos, so I can only make the best of things and live in a daze. But your existence proves to me that even if I was born in the dark multiverse, I can still change my fate!"

Chen Tao was almost persuaded by what he heard. The Laughing Bat was really capable. If Chen Tao hadn't read the comics and knew what a beast the Laughing Bat was, based on his story of "being inspired and returning to justice", Chen Tao estimated that there was still a chance that he was deceived.

After all, it is human nature to persuade bad guys to change their ways and drag good people into trouble. "Even if our world is inherently imperfect, we can still make up for the imperfections and save the world!"

Good! Well said, so fucking passionate.

Chen Tao nodded repeatedly as he listened.

Look at him laughing wildly, he is so enlightened, what he said is so powerful, there must be enlightenment, there must be redemption, the character of the prodigal son who returns is so great that Chen Tao wants to stand up and applaud him.

"For millions of years, no one has ever been able to truly resist the power of Barbatos in the Dark Multiverse. You are the first person to do so, and the first person in the Dark Multiverse to save your own broken universe. It's like you have destiny."

The Laughing Bat's flattery is becoming more and more shameless, and he still calls it destiny.

If the other party hadn't been talking to him remotely with a stone man puppet on his head, Chen Tao would have wanted to kill him directly and get rid of this trouble.

It’s a pity that Kuangxiao was extremely cautious. He only controlled a pile of stones remotely and did not reveal his true identity in front of him. It was really a pity.

As the leader of the Dark Knights, Barbatos certainly gave the Laughing Bat some ability to modify reality, so manipulating these stones was a piece of cake. For a long time, the Laughing Bat would continue to possess this strange superpower given by Barbatos until Barbatos was completely overthrown.

The Laughing Bat talked for a long time, and finally got to the really important point: "Be careful, that's why I risked being discovered by Barbatos to warn you. The clown in front of you is not your biggest threat."

Although the Laughing Bat was grinning, his voice was serious, and he really sounded like a righteous companion who was worried about Chen Tao from the bottom of his heart.

"Your actions have shaken the hyper-time stream. On a certain timeline in the hyper-time stream, our greatest enemy, the Joker, has undergone an ultimate evolution."

"If you've heard of the King of the Fifth Dimension [The Trickster], you'll know that he's Superman's main enemy."

"Before several universe restarts, the Poltergeist was active in the main universe, and he would pick a fight with Superman every 90 days or so. But for the Poltergeist, it was just a fun game and a good time."

"The trick-or-treaters would laugh at Superman's mistakes and play games like Superman tricking the trick-or-treaters into saying their names backwards, and then the trick-or-treaters would be sent home, over and over again."

"Although the Trickster didn't know what Superman was thinking, Superman gave the Trickster a lot of new opportunities at that time and made the conservative people accept new things. In other words, the Trickster began to get bored. Then, right after that, he had a brilliant idea - at least that idea looked good on paper."

"Trickster went to meet the Joker at his home, far away from Arkham Asylum."

"At the time, the Joker was dedicated to driving Batman crazy, so Poltergeist thought, just for fun, what if he gave the Joker that power and unleashed it in the main universe?"

Chen Tao listened quietly.

"The Prankster's original intention was just to see how others did his job. But the Prankster was no fool at first. He planned to give the Joker only 1% of his own power."

Chen Tao said: "Then the incident taught the troublemaker a profound lesson, making him realize that although the clown's brain is crazy, it does not mean that he is not smart."

"Yes." The Laughing Bat said, "During that period, the clown in the main universe tricked the Trickster into revealing his secret name. Because of this, the clown took away 99.9% of the Trickster's power."

"About 69 seconds later, the Joker used his imagination to reshape the DC main universe at the time and stuffed the Trickster in a closet on the moon so that he could live a miserable life without any interference."

"He became the Emperor's Joker, and even attempted to erase reality. Although he was eventually defeated and the heroes restored reality, this timeline was permanently preserved in the hyper-timestream."

The Laughing Bat said, "I am here to warn you. Your actions have freed the monsters in the super-time stream, allowing them to escape their own timelines and try to interfere with the current reality through the super-time stream. The three clowns who are now active again in your universe are proof of this."

"But even so, Emperor Clown cannot so easily cross the barrier of the super-time stream and come to the current reality. He still needs the help of the strong people who can take action in the current reality."

The Laughing Bat said with all his heart: "He went to find Barbatos, but Barbatos asked him to come to reality on his own before he would consider cooperating with him. Therefore, we don't need to face the might of Barbatos for the time being."

"But I just got the news that Emperor Clown has now formed an alliance with the Black Death Emperor. Ever since the failure of the Blackest Night in the main universe, the Black Death Emperor has been thinking about continuing to stir up waves of death in many worlds, strengthening his power, and then invading the main world again. Therefore, your world has been in his target from the beginning."

"After the Emperor Clown persuaded him with some unknown method, they have now joined forces. But don't worry, I have already thought of a plan..."

Finally, it comes to this point. The map of Yan State is so long, it’s time to take out the dagger here.

Chen Tao silently waited for what the Laughing Bat would say.

The Batman Who Laughs has no good intentions. He has no intention of joining forces with Batman to fight against the Joker Emperor. If possible, he only hopes that Batman and the Joker Emperor will die together.

His current plan is a similar one.

He needs to trick Batman into fighting the Emperor Joker in his way, and then at the critical moment, teleport Batman directly to the upstream of the hyper-time stream to face the Emperor Joker face to face. Then, 1/4 of the Dark Multiverse Dragon will fight the Emperor Joker, who has the power of a five-dimensional creature on the hyper-time stream. In the end, the Batman of this universe dies and the Emperor Joker loses a lot of vitality, and is no longer able to spy downstream. This is what he planned to do to kill Batman...

"Indeed, the alliance between Emperor Joker and Dark Emperor is a very serious problem."

The Batman Who Laughs' words were interrupted temporarily. He saw that Batman's expression suddenly became serious. Very good, this was exactly what he wanted to see.

"We are going to build a dark multiverse resistance."

Yes, that's right, very motivated, that's exactly what he needs from the other person.

"Senior, why don't you become the leader of the Dark Multiverse Resistance Army!"

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(End of this chapter)