What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 576 Make the Dark Multiverse Great Again!
During the short time that the Laughing Bat and Chen Tao were communicating, although the two of them were talking, their minds were like super-fast computers, running a lot of content.

Chen Tao was thinking about the content he had left for the Justice League when he thought he was going to die. Although he deleted the content that the Justice League should not know as soon as he reforged this cosmic fortress, there were still many people in the Justice League who read all the content.

Except for Thunderbolt, Sleepyhead Hal Jordan, Barry Allen, and Arthur Curry, the Talking Fish who was busy healing his fish head, the other Justice League giants including Lex Luthor have basically read all the content. Among the other four, except for the Flash who was lying dead in the hospital and Thunderbolt who didn't even think of reading it, the other two also read part of it.

The plan to improve my teammates must be put on the agenda...

Chen Tao thought silently in his heart.

But in the final analysis, the overall policy for the Dark Knights and Barbatos in his previous suicide note has always been to escape.

What a joke, if he died at the hands of the Anti-Monitor, then how could he have any plans of his own Justice League to fight against the Dark Knights?

When faced with a multiverse-level crisis like Metal, of course he would shrink in concealment, leave everything to fate, and take a gamble on whether he would die first or the main universe's Justice League, the most powerful "immune system" in the multiverse, would take care of Barbatos.

Chen Tao knew in his heart that his Justice League was not capable of taking over, and he also considered the issue of leaks - what if he just left the entire plot of "Metal" to the Justice League, and his Justice League was captured by the Dark Knights, allowing Barbatos to know the plot in advance, wouldn't that be a disaster for the main universe?
So even though he left behind the plot, he did it in a second-layer hidden way. Only after his Justice League found the Justice League of the main universe, the second layer of the magic trick he left behind would be removed.

Now, even though his Justice League had read the information he left behind, they were only limited to the first level of the secret bag. They only knew something about the Dark Knights and part of the story, but did not fully understand the story of Metal.

So there is no need to clear the memory yet.

Moreover, his Justice Leaguers also need crises and the responsibilities they are supposed to bear.

Don't be a babysitter. Don't be a babysitter. Don't be a babysitter...

Chen Tao suppressed the bad thoughts in his mind.

He turned his attention back to the present.

He had the upper hand over the Laughing Bat, and at this point, whether the Laughing Bat refused or agreed, it would be beneficial to him.

Chen Tao didn't know what the Laughing Bat was going to do specifically, but if he used the butt of a random skeleton on the roadside in the Dark Multiverse as an example, he would know that if he didn't want to turn into a dry skeleton, he should never be led by the Laughing Bat.

As for the Laughing Bat, as soon as he heard what Chen Tao said, after a brief moment of shock, he realized what the other party was thinking:
Is trust not enough?

Although he knew he was suspected, the Batman Who Laughs was not too worried. It was Bruce who knew too well what was going on in Batman's mind. If someone like Batman trusted him just because of a few words after their first meeting, the Batman Who Laughs would suspect that the other party was planning to do him a big trick.

He knew very well that after he first met Superman, it took him a long time to gradually trust him. Of course, he killed him in the end, hehe - but this incident also became one of the many things he regretted.

(Note: In the publication of Batman Superman v2, the Batman Who Laughs explicitly mentioned that he regretted hastily killing Clark Kent, the Superman of his universe, which is why he tried to attack the Superman of the main universe.)
But this buff of suspicion that Batman possesses is a huge obstacle for the Bat Who Laughs at this moment, making it impossible for him to easily manipulate the other party.

To be fair, the Batman Who Laughs' acting skills are good enough, and this kind of rhetoric can at least establish a certain degree of trust no matter which Batman he is facing, unless it is the one from the main universe.

The Batman Who Laughs can naturally use subsequent means to strengthen this sense of trust little by little, but the Batman in front of him proposed a damn dark multiverse resistance army, and then gave him the position of leader, which clearly shows that he has no trust at all.

This is just like when Batman tacitly agreed to Superman becoming the leader of the Justice League, and then hid in the dark and spied on him.

So the Laughing Bat directly chose:

Point it out to his face.

"You don't trust me, I know." He sighed, "You suspect I'm a spy for Barbatos, trying to lure you to death, or a new Trojan Horse."

The Bat Who Laughs knows Batman too well, so he'd better treat all those words Batman says like "I trust you, so I let you be the leader" as bullshit. But that doesn't mean Batman doesn't believe it at all. What he has to do is to deepen this belief.

Crazy Laugh paused, wanting to see if Batman had any intention of talking to him properly, but he only heard Chen Tao continue: "Boss Crazy Laugh! How could I not trust you? I finally found the organization. From today on, I will be your most loyal brother!"

The wild laughter was a bit annoying, which was why he hated Batman who laughed like him the most.

Their speech is not as predictable as that of regular Batman. Although a Joker and a Batman can be combined to form a Batman Who Laughs, the ingredient lists of different Batman Who Laughs are different. Even if Laughing uses two minds at the same time, he cannot immediately analyze what the other is thinking. This is a far cry from the Batman he faced before in other dark multiverses.

So he let out a few low laughs that sounded like crying, and then said: "Be serious, the most dangerous enemies we are facing now are still the Emperor Joker and the Black Death Emperor..."

"Boss Crazy Laugh, I have always had this idea, but I have never been able to put it into practice. Your appearance finally gave me the courage to do so. I want to recruit more people for our organization and then develop it. What do you think?"

Chen Tao deliberately did not say how to grow and become stronger. Some things had to be done before he could run to Kuang Xiao and give him a surprise, especially since what he had to do was not just to deal with the Black Death Emperor.

And Crazy Laughing was getting a little annoyed by Chen Tao's refusal to follow his lead and his repeated irrelevant answers.

In fact, the Laughing Bat is not a fool. He just regarded the other party as the Batman of the dark multiverse who could be led by him at the beginning. Later, the other party was always vague and evasive, talking to him about the dark multiverse resistance army that never existed and would never exist in the future, as well as some ridiculous things like the planning and deployment of the resistance army. The Laughing Bat has realized that the other party is just raising the price, expecting that he, the Laughing Bat, can give a suitable price and then obey his orders.

But the problem now is that the Black Death Emperor wants to invade the opponent's universe, but he, the Laughing Bat, is here to help the opponent. It is obvious that the initiative should be on his side.

He has just revealed it explicitly and implicitly that he has a method that can help the other party defeat the Black Death Emperor and block the Emperor Clown. At this time, shouldn't the other party want to know what his method is?

The other party was clearly at a disadvantage, but he kept his mouth shut and just kept talking to him about irrelevant things: "Our organization is an underground organization secretly opposing Barbatos, and now with me, we can build an open fortress, and then..."

The Laughing Bat could only be patient and keep pondering the hidden meaning in the other party's words, and began to piece together the other party's purpose bit by bit from the other party's Tai Chi-like nonsense.

What exactly does the other party want? Even if he has to hold back from asking questions directly about the Black Death Emperor?
"Our purpose? Our purpose is to make the Dark Multiverse great again! No one understands the Dark Multiverse better than me. Today, I stand here with a message of confidence, strength, and hope. I have never doubted that soon, we will achieve incredible victory and usher in the greatest era in the history of our Dark Multiverse!"

"Barbatos, Barbatos is a liar. No one knows Barbatos better than me. It weakened our universe. It caused all this, and we want to let..."

“…We need to build a wall across the Dark Multiverse, a wall to keep bad guys like Barbatos out of our beautiful home… He’s like a Mexican, you know?
The Mexican, he brings his shitty fate, like white powder, oh, he's so bad, so bad, no one knows better than me how bad Barbatos is.

We're going to build a steel wall, not concrete. Why are we building a wall? It's not because we hate the people outside, but because we love the people inside the wall!" "Stop, stop."

The Laughing Bat got a headache from the noise.

Before coming here, he had thought that he would face an indifferent skeptic and a smiling fraudster...

But he never imagined that he would have to deal with a noisy drake!

"Okay, I will definitely support these." The Laughing Bat put on a smile, looking as righteous as he could.

This quarrel was not in vain. He had gradually figured out the other party's tactics. "You are right. Regarding the problem of insufficient manpower in our organization, and that..."

"We're going to build a wall! I can explain everything in detail. We need..."

"Stop, stop, stop. I get it. Don't repeat it again. I can teach you a method to travel quickly in the dark multiverse. This method comes from Barbatos. You can also use this method to select the Batman you need, or other universes."

Isn't the Laughing Bat's clear idea just asking him for some other help in a roundabout way?
Just give it to him. Everything is within the plan of the Laughing Bat anyway.

The so-called method of fast travel and finding a specific dark multiverse is essentially just a filter.

Before, Chen Tao took advantage of Barbatos's overwhelmedness and traveled in the dark multiverse.

But that was purely a matter of running towards a target point to pick up the bodies of companions, and whatever dark multiverse you came across on the way would count.

Compared to the normal, barely powerful dark multiverse he encountered, there were more bizarre universes that were more obviously incomplete, more chaotic, and more bizarre.

In some universes, even the three giants of the Justice League cannot be gathered together. The world is in chaos, and the only few superheroes and super villains are extremely weak.

Chen Tao even doubted that if they were thrown into the main universe, let alone fighting the mainstream heroes of the main universe on equal terms like the members of the Dark Knights and the Cheetah and Wonder Woman in the Barbatos Legion, maybe third-tier villains like the Sports Master or Black Arrow of the main universe would be able to deal with the Superman or Wonder Woman of the dark multiverse.

Before entering these dark multiverses, Chen Tao had no idea what was going on inside.

The ability taught by the Laughing Bat gave him the most basic screening ability. Just like checking a label, it allowed him to easily screen out universes that were too weak or had other problems, and piece together bit by bit the locations of those powerful worlds he wanted most.

This sounds like looking for a needle in a haystack, but for Chen Tao, having this ability is just like finding someone by reading their ID card.

He couldn't intervene with several future members of the Dark Knights who were targeted by Barbatos. Once he intervened, he might come into direct conflict with Barbatos. However, the Dark Multiverse was so vast, and as far as he knew, he still knew a lot of dangerous characters who had not yet been recruited by Barbatos.

The Horror Lantern, Queen Hecate, Gaia Terra, the Earth Goddess, Omac Blue Beetle...

But not now.

The Laughing Bat had no idea what he had done... Maybe he knew, but to the Laughing Bat, he and Barbatos had never been one and the same.

So what does it matter if you sell out the other party?

"Originally, the Black Death Emperor planned to use Faust and his magical abilities to completely corrupt him and turn him into his own follower. Then, with the help of Laflitz, the Lord of the Orange Lanterns who was influenced by the Black Death Emperor, he would reignite the War of the Seven Lanterns and fulfill the prerequisite prophecy for the advent of the Blackest Night."

The whole plan is well planned. The Orange Lantern King Laflitz will provide adequate cover for Faust. When everyone is attracted to the other party, the real summoner Faust will be able to calmly forge a steady stream of black lantern rings for the Black Death Emperor to allow him to accumulate power in reality and finally come. "

The Laughing Bat said, "But now, something unexpected happened. Faust was killed by you who came before he could play his most important role in the Blackest Night."

"Now, the Black Death Emperor must find another way to manipulate death on Faust's behalf and forge the Black Lantern Ring."

"Want to know what method he chose?"

The Laughing Bat asked.

Chen Tao turned his head.

"Go ahead."

"He has reached an agreement with the Emperor Clown." The Laughing Bat said, "The Emperor Clown will use his own clown spokesperson to replace Faust. Do you think the person hiding behind the scenes and helping [Black Death Emperor and Emperor Clown] will reveal his true identity?"

The Laughing Bat said: "I think you have guessed who is the manipulator behind the scenes."

"…Barbatos."

"correct."

Chen Tao said: "Only he has the ability to join the Black Death Emperor in bringing down the Emperor Clown.

"A new crisis has arrived. You know, this may be destiny."

The Laughing Bat patiently and kindly advised.

And Chen Tao said: "And we will make the dark multiverse great again!"

Laughing Bat: "Be more normal."

(End of this chapter)