bookmarkrole Chapter 568 Are you stupid, Joker! You're not the only one who's like this.
Chapter 568 Are you stupid, Joker! You're not the only one who's like this.
Chapter 568 Are you stupid, clown! You're not the only one who laughs.
This is Earth-22, a special place.
Like other dark multiverses, it is an incomplete world, a terrible place destined for destruction.
Due to the dual consequences of this inherent flaw and the influence of Barbatos, generally speaking, a dark multiverse like this will produce a monstrous creature on its own. Perhaps it's an ancestral Superman who says, "I fucking do whatever I want," or a tyrannical Wonder Woman who "rules the world from the Amazons," or a family member Martian Hunter who says, "I turn the world upside down just to straighten the reflection of my family."
However, the fate of the Dark Multiverse brought about a strange coincidence to this universe, a subtle or even terrifying change that even Barbatos himself had not foreseen:
Batman on Earth-22 killed the Joker and sucked the last bit of Joker gas from the Joker's spine.
He was transformed into a hybrid of the Joker and Batman, and also Barbatos's top lieutenant.
But it's clear... this general doesn't seem to be that loyal.
The Laughing Bat walks through Earth-22, which has been reduced to ruins.
After slaughtering the entire Justice League in his own universe, the Batman Who Laughs turned the entire world into ruins.
This is now the Batman Who Laughs, the place where he created his own knights. He traversed the entire Dark Multiverse to bring the Batmen here.
The members of the Dark Knights and Barbatos all thought he had casually killed those unqualified Batmen... such as War Bat, and those Batmen he had tried to recruit into the Dark Knights but were ultimately deemed "too weak," as well as many Batmen in the Dark Multiverse who had not yet fallen into evil, and some Bruce Wayne who simply never became Batman.
These Batmen were strapped to crosses by the Batman Who Laughs, one by one, and the Batman Who Laughs observed whether they possessed the qualities necessary for victory; some had them, and some did not.
Barbatos and the Dark Knights had no idea what he was doing. He was deliberately collecting these Batmen to carry out his various experiments. Everyone here was a Batman, and there was no better experimental site than this place.
Not far away, in front of its newly built green portal shaped like a bat and a skull, there were a large number of Robin Hounds, grabbing innocent teenagers captured from various dark multiverses.
They will be taken to the lower levels of the Batcave and then transformed into Robin Hounds of the Batman Who Laughs in Venom. The Batman Who Laughs will also bestow upon these Robin Hounds the dark matter energy that Barbatos gave him, making them invulnerable to conventional weapons except for metal.
The Batman Who Laughs originally planned to take some time to visit a Dark Multiverse he had previously led the Dark Knights through, to recruit a Dark Multiverse monster he found appealing. That monster called himself King Robin, and although he was Bruce Wayne, he was not Batman.
But he now has to abandon his original plans and deal with the Emperor Joker problem first.
The Batman Who Laughs always has a plan, and everything is within his plan. However, his plan does not appear out of thin air. Like the real Batman, the Batman Who Laughs's plan requires a lot of preparation time and a little bit of luck, so his time is very tight.
He was almost always busy, which is probably why he was able to pull out all sorts of trump cards and mobilize a large number of people during "Death Metal," ultimately causing the multiverse's mother, Papetuatu, to suffer a crushing defeat. It was the result of a long period of accumulation.
But right now... the Batman Who Laughs is still very weak. Although he is indeed in danger, he is far from being the mastermind who will dominate Death Metal in the future.
Therefore, the Bat who laughs should have kept a low profile as much as possible, and especially avoided doing anything that was particularly against Barbatos's interests.
Because once you do that, no matter how small, there's a chance it will be discovered, which is a risk for the Batman Who Laughs.
But this time, the Bat Who Laughs may have no choice but to take action.
The Batman Who Laughs hates the Emperor Joker, not just because the Joker is a grinning idiot like Batman from the Dark Multiverse, but because their existence disrupts the Batman Who Laughs' plans, and the Batman Who Laughs hates surprises, just like Batman.
Batman, who stole a quarter of the Dark Multiverse's Dragon position, was already troublesome and annoying enough, but at least he didn't directly side with Barbatos.
But if the Emperor Joker were to actually come into reality, especially if he were to get involved with Barbatos, the level of disgust would be far beyond anything anyone else could match.
The most troublesome point is that the Emperor Joker's mindset is similar to that of the Batman Who Laughs. This means that many of the Batman Who Laughs's actions can fool Barbatos, but not the Emperor Joker.
This completely and fundamentally thwarted the Batman Who Laughs's plan to develop itself under Barbatos's shadow.
"Help! Help! Please, please let me go..."
The Batman Who Laughs brought a little boy locked in a cage. This boy came from a dark multiverse and had been kidnapped here by the Robin Hounds.
He begged the laughing bat for mercy, but it was no use.
"I want to go home, sob... I..."
Before he could finish speaking, he was immediately submerged in the venom pool along with the cage. When he was pulled out of the venom pool again...
And just like that, a living Robin Dog was created.
"Come on, darling, come on..."
He reached out and grabbed the other person's neck.
Through the spiked metal goggles covering his eyes, the Batman Who Laughs can filter out dark energy and noise with this weapon made of dark metal, allowing him to focus on what he wants to see.
Barbatos granted the Batman Who Laughs bizarre superpowers that even the Joker and Batman never possessed: the ability to alter reality... He could transmit vast amounts of information and messages to the Batman of that dark multiverse, and simultaneously...
Just a quick greeting.
Haha, haha, hahahaha!
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"We've obtained the chemicals."
The oldest of the three clowns, the "Criminal" clown, heard the "Laughing Guy" say.
"And we've had some fun, so what's next?" the clown asked. "What do we do next?"
"Let's do what we've always done: we're going to create a better Joker, and incidentally, give everyone a bath."
The criminal was a stern-faced clown, sitting in the main seat with his fingers interlaced.
"I doubt all of this will work," the Laugher said. "My friend has been observing this Batman and has gathered a lot of information about us Batmen. I feel that our Batman is no longer the one we thought he was. I doubt whether that trauma still has any effect on him. In fact, I'm not even sure if he became Batman because of the trauma."
"That night will always be the key to reshaping Batman," the criminal said. "No matter what Batman becomes, he's not Batman without Crime Alley. No matter what he pretends to be, he can't be indifferent to this."
"Remember... giving everyone a bath is just a side game; what we really want is to create the perfect clown."
The criminal bluntly ordered, "One of you go and build the factory, and the other helps me find actors. It's time to make the clown more meaningful."
"Alright, you've all finished talking, right? You can't set all the rules. My friend, I'd like to give it a try too. Performing is my specialty!" the clown said.
"I have a good eye for talent, but setting traps is also something I enjoy." Laughing Guy ultimately took on the task of building the factory.
"Very good," said the criminal clown. "Then you come with me, and you go and prepare the foot bath."
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As Chen Tao continued to monitor the Justice League's actions, he gradually noticed some strange clues:
The clown perfectly evaded his notice.
This is truly astonishing. How could the Joker possibly do this?
He knew too little information; even with Batman-style reasoning, he couldn't possibly skip the thought process and get the answer directly. Otherwise, it wouldn't be thinking, but magic.
While secretly watching the live broadcast of the scene behind Alfred's back, he also accessed all the surveillance footage he could review from the monitors under his control.
No, there's nothing at all.
Chen Tao shook his head, then reached up and wiped his face.
Instantly, his face began to turn up uncontrollably, and his skin turned pale.
He immediately deduced some information, realizing that the Joker was currently providing the Justice League with false intelligence. The Joker could be anywhere, but the claim that the aquarium stored Joker Venom was likely only partially true.
"If I were the clown..." Chen Tao pondered for a while, but still couldn't grasp anything.
The Joker often claims that he has no goals, but that's a lie.
The Joker does have goals, but his goals are constantly changing and wildly imaginative.
Chen Tao had a vague feeling that the Joker should have a clear goal this time, or two, but he couldn't quite grasp what it was.
Even Chen Tao couldn't have guessed the existence of the Emperor Clown out of thin air, unless...
Chen Tao's expression suddenly shifted. He sensed something external trying to enter the fortress he had built in the Dark Multiverse. Through this fortress, he separated his two universes from the other Dark Multiverses, ensuring that no one could come and go freely in his world without his permission.
But after realizing what that thing was, he eventually granted permission, just like allowing someone to throw things into the city walls.
He waved his hand, and soon a transparent coffin, specially made for sending clowns to their deaths, was pulled through space and appeared beside him.
Before him stood a child with a mouthful of sharp teeth, pale-faced, with contorted limbs, dressed in Robin's uniform.
Chen Tao knew what this thing was.
This is a Robin.
And in the entire DC universe, only one person can control these modified little monsters:
The Bat of Mad Laughter.
Then Chen Tao heard the Robin Hound say, slowly and deliberately, in a hoarse voice after a long howl, "Don't do anything, Batman, I'm here to deliver information to you."
The voice was mechanical and lifeless, sounding nothing like a child's.
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"Everyone, stay alert, the Joker could appear at any moment..."
"I am the night."
"Uh, at any time..."
Wonder Woman's words were abruptly interrupted. Her face, now bearing a hardened smile, gritted her teeth and decided not to argue with the child for the time being.
The expression on her face was a result of the Joker's potion, which was gradually showing its effects, but Wonder Woman was still enduring it.
She continued, "When you see the Joker again, never kill him immediately. Batman told us that the Joker is very likely to use some method to make the last person who tried to kill him..."
"I am seeking revenge."
Wonder Woman sighed, ignoring Shazam beside her; these kids just got more and more agitated the more you talked to them. She continued with a very clownish smile, "So at most we'll cripple him and hand him over to Hal; his storage space contains the crystal coffin Batman prepared—"
"I am Batman!!"
Wonder Woman finally couldn't take it anymore and turned to look at Shazam.
Under Wonder Woman's death stare, Shazam, with a similarly creepy, smiling expression, finally said:
"I am indeed Batman...until further notice."
"So?" Aquaman Arthur leaned against the glass door next to the aquarium, his head somehow transformed back into a fish head due to a shapeshifting spell.
His enormous fish head grew so large that it pushed Batman's hood off. Among the bizarrely dressed crowd, who would have guessed that the fish-headed Aquaman was actually Aquaman?
"And this one, it's quite fresh." The aquamarine, with a smiling fish head and still dressed in a Batman costume, made a sound as it opened and closed its mouth.
"So we found out where they stored their chemicals, but that's all?"
Aquaman stared at the aquarium's tempered glass, where a shark, now completely transformed into a snarling shark by the Joker's Venom, swam over and met his gaze through the glass.
"Making a smiley-faced shark?"
A smiling shark swam over and looked at the fish with the same smiling face behind the tempered glass. The little shark's eyes showed great confusion.
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Glug glug glug glug glug...
The laughing shark is bubbling.
Glug glug glug glug glug glug glug...
The Laughing Fish Head Sea King was bubbling even more bubbles than him, and they were bubbling up from dry land.
"..." Green Lantern Hal, sporting a healthy smile, didn't know what to say.
"Wait, everyone." Then they heard Wonder Woman's voice.
"The surveillance footage I left at the entrance shows that multiple security doors inside the facility are opening, indicating that enemies are on their way."
Wonder Woman said, "All you Batmen! Hehe... get ready for battle!"
"They've arrived."
Indeed, just as the Justice League members formed their battle formation, they heard a voice coming from behind the door: "Long time no see, everyone, I..."
A clown led a large group of strange humanoid creatures through the door from behind it; he was one of the three clowns, the Joker.
"You all want..."
But before he could finish speaking, he saw the entire Justice League turn their heads 100 degrees to look at him almost simultaneously.
And each of them had a smile on their face that was even happier than the clown's.
The clown's smile vanished instantly.
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(End of this chapter)