svetikya Chapter 589 Batman and the Batman Who Laughs: A Two-Way Race
Chapter 589 Batman and the Batman Who Laughs: A Two-Way Race
Chapter 589 Batman and the Batman Who Laughs: A Two-Way Race
How did things... turn out like this?
When Chen Tao finally punched the Kryptonite-enhanced figure until his eyes rolled back and he collapsed to the ground, sweating profusely, a whole bunch of superheroes were already lying haphazardly in the Hall of Justice.
Not far away, Bain stretched out a finger, and a small wooden sprout lit up on it.
A small flame suddenly burst into flame on the twig, and the Martian hunter of this universe let out a scream.
More branches sprouted from Bane's body, followed by countless flames burning at their ends. Martian Manhunter, despite his many transformations, could not escape the fiery trap.
Chen Tao's eyelids twitched as he watched from the side. "You're a telepath, and you're afraid of Bane?"
Huh? Controlling his brain? What are you doing? This is ridiculously weak!
Chen Tao shook his head, barely ignoring the blood pressure-raising "If I catch you, I'll...hehehehe" nonsense that was causing chaos, and then picked up the idiot Hu Chao, whose eyes were rolling back, from the ground.
A blush crept onto Fei Huachao's face.
?
Chen Tao slapped him twice: "I'm a good person."
"Yes, I can feel it. I can feel the justice in your heart, even if your methods are a bit brutal."
Chen Tao was a little confused.
To be honest, after losing control and resorting to violence, he was already considering how to clean up this mess.
He originally thought he would soon fall into a series of clichéd "we are all good people, but there is a misunderstanding between us" nested doll-like situations that would raise his blood pressure, but Superman seemed surprisingly easy to talk to.
Feihua Chao put a hand on Chen Tao's shoulder: "I can... I can feel the kindness in your heart. It's an intuition, and it has never been wrong."
Fei Huachao's eyes were so determined, like he was about to join the Party, that Chen Tao finally realized: "You can sense a person's righteousness or evil? A special ability?"
"I told you it was intuition."
"That's a special ability."
Chen Tao suddenly realized that he had been too presumptuous. He had been standing outside the situation and arbitrarily defining everyone present, which made him overlook many details.
If the Superman of this universe had the intuition to judge good and evil, it wouldn't be hard to explain why the other party would have such an absurd habit of talking nonsense. Because for Superman, he knows exactly who he is talking nonsense to, so his verbal persuasion is always effective.
Unfortunately, he later encountered Queen Hecate, who possessed two souls in one body. This led him to overestimate Wonder Woman's ability to retaliate, ultimately causing the situation to completely collapse.
At this point, Chen Tao no longer needed to worry about not using telepathy to connect with the brain. He quickly transmitted all the information to Hecate that she had completely taken over the heroine's body and just how powerful she was.
"From this moment forward, the entire Justice League will be under my command."
Chen Tao asked, "Is there a problem?"
"You're a good person, but you can't hurt Diana," Chao said. "She..."
Then Chen Tao chimed in on what he was saying.
"She is our comrade; our goal is rescue, not murder."
"That's true," said Nonsense Chao. "So what should we do next?"
"How did I end up fainting on the floor?"
The idiot Guy Gardner got up from the ground and immediately spotted Batman standing next to Talkative Superman: "Well, you actually dared to—"
Then, with a loud bang, he was knocked unconscious again by Fei Hua Chao's punch.
"It's simple. We'll go find the Dark Justice League. I have a complete plan for coming to your universe this time."
Chen Tao breathed a sigh of relief. In any case, the goal of uniting this universal justice alliance had been achieved, and the next step was even more crucial:
Capture the legendary Pokémon, Queen Hecate.
Chen Tao was certain he had a plan, a damn, brilliant plan.
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On the scorching planet, countless souls wailed in agony.
The Justice League in this dark multiverse is being burned into charred corpses under scorching flames. Flames burn in the eyes of the Lantern Horror, who holds a flaming greatsword in his left hand and a ring containing endless green lantern energy in his right.
The predecessor of the Haunted Lantern was Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern.
Unlike Hal Jordan's rings, which are directly derived from the Green Lantern's central energy battery, this ring's energy comes from the Heart of the Planet, a collection of all the magical energy gathered by the Guardians of the Universe after their magical wars, possessing inexhaustible power.
The Planetary Heart of the Owl Universe helped Owl develop the Cosmic Propulsion Tower system, enabling him to propel the entire universe through the Dark Multiverse. In normal history, it would have become the ring of the first Green Lantern.
But all of this is meaningless to Alan Scott now, because he is no longer the respected Green Lantern of the Justice Society, but the Horrifying Lantern who destroys the infinite dark multiverse and slaughters billions of lives.
When the fire giant Surtur was no longer bound by the eternal war in Asgard, this executioner of all things, soaked in the blood of the Justice League, and his army caused the Earth to fall instantly.
At the last moment, Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern of this universe, chose to sacrifice his body as a vessel for Surtur, the fire giant, to lead him in invading and destroying other universes in exchange for the safety of his own universe.
The fire giant agreed to the deal, and so now...
The Lantern Horror opened its mouthful of sharp teeth, its eyes no longer filled with pupils but spewing forth flames. Amidst the screams of the cosmic superhero before it, the Lantern Horror opened its mouth wide and bit off the cake's crust in one gulp.
When you bite into the cake's outer layer, the bright red cake interior is revealed first, followed by the sweet, deep red juice that splatters out. This warm juice evaporates instantly on the raging body of the Lantern Horror, but still pleases the fire giant residing within the old Lantern.
"Please..." the superman of this universe groaned, but was met with an open maw of fangs.
"Please..." Superman heard Green Lantern's lament before he died, but neither Superman nor Green Lantern could change anything.
"vomit!"
When the fire giant Surtur finally gained control of the Lantern Man's body and casually tossed the half-corpse he was holding onto the ground, the Lantern Man finally had a temporary chance to control his own body.
He collapsed to the ground, desperately vomiting up the cakes he had eaten under Surtur's control, while clutching the corpses of the Justice League's three leaders, his body trembling uncontrollably.
The signs of gnawing on the three bodies were still clearly visible.
"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry... Please! No!"
His body involuntarily raised his arm, and then a beam of fire as thick as a bucket shot out from his palm into the air, destroying and collapsing a building in the center, killing countless people inside.
But the Lantern Horror couldn't stop anything.
"Haven't you gotten used to it after all this time, old Lanternman?"
Then Alan Scott, the Lantern of Horror, heard the voice of Surtur, the fire god: "You will always belong to me, and we have a long time to spend together. There is nothing more delightful than a tormented soul."
Surtur, controlling the body of the Lantern Horror, took two steps forward and bumped into the corpse of the Cosmic Wonder Woman.
The fire giant controlled the terrifying lantern spirit to pick up the other's sword: "This is already the nth one, I've lost count. To be honest, there are so many of them that I've almost lost interest in collecting them all."
Surtur looked around the ruins with disdain.
"And this world is ridiculously weak. The Justice League only has the Big Three. Where's Green Lantern? Where's The Flash? Where's your counterpart?"
The fire giant said, "My favorite story is when your counterpart, after fighting for a long time, finally discovers that it was your counterpart from a parallel universe who brought them destruction. I could watch that expression on his face countless times without getting tired of it."
"Unfortunately... there have been several universes in a row that haven't satisfied me enough."
The Lantern Horror wanted to say something, but he couldn't utter a single word. He could only watch as his body was controlled by the fire giant and flew off the earth, then a small fireball condensed at his fingertips.
"Oh."
The fire giant controlling the terrifying Lantern let out a soft chuckle. He had just been preparing to control the Lantern to completely destroy this universe, but then he heard a voice in his ear: "Hello."
This surprised both the Lantern Horror and the Fire Giant.
The fire giant twitched his fingers slightly, and the small sun he was about to throw onto Earth went out in an instant.
There's a reason he's so good-natured... The fire giant Surtur sensed the power of complete, pure dark matter energy emanating from the owner of this voice, a power that only the master of the World Forge or his servant, the Dark Multiverse Dragon, can possess.
The fire giant Surtur looked at Bruce Wayne, who was dressed in a Batman costume. How could a Batman possess such pure dark matter energy?
"Ahem. My name is Batman Dragon, Surtur, Alan Scott, and I'm here to recruit you."
When the Batman Who Laughs no longer displays his manic smile, he looks exactly like any other Batman. Combined with the powers Barbatos bestowed upon him, he can easily impersonate an enemy in front of the Fire Giant, while the Dark Lord controlling the Lantern Horror is completely unable to discern the connection.
Of course, the Batman Who Laughs wouldn't be foolish enough to appear before his opponent. This clone was merely the simplest application of the dark matter energy bestowed upon him by Barbatos. Some stones and dirt helped him conjure this image; the key was to let Surtur sense the dark matter energy. Whether it was made of flesh and blood or not was irrelevant.
"Quick..." The controlled Horror Lantern Alan Scott tried to open his mouth and shout a warning to the Batman in front of him to run. No matter who this Batman was, appearing in front of Surtur was pure suicide.
But he was cut off by Surtur after he uttered only one word. If Surtur hadn't deliberately let him have his way, he wouldn't have been able to utter that word at all. Surtur liked to reveal a little sign to his prey who was about to be destroyed, and then enjoy the other's fearful and uneasy, yet self-deceiving foolishness.
However, the behavior of the character he encountered today was somewhat unexpected.
"Great fire giant, I sincerely invite you to join the Dark Multiverse Resistance and contribute your strength to the fight against the evil Barbatos," said the Bat Who Laughs.
He lied without blinking while secretly thinking to himself.
No one knows the Lantern Frightener better than the Batman Who Laughs. The fire giant Surtur is the mastermind behind this body, and his sole purpose is to drag the world into a raging inferno.
He is a pure destroyer and wretch, and all his actions have only one primal motive: Ragnarok, and his flames will never be extinguished.
He constantly yearns to destroy new worlds, and the more powerful, beautiful, and complete a world is, the more it will attract Surtur's attention and desire for destruction.
All the Batman Who Laughs has to do is amplify these things and then direct them toward Batman, who has usurped a quarter of the power of the Dark Multiverse Dragon.
He needed to weaken his opponent before he could try to continue his plans. The opponent hadn't listened to him before because they believed everything was under their control.
This time, the Batman Who Laughs needs to "deviate" from his plans a little. He will leave the Batman energy in front of Surtur so that Surtur can find him quickly.
"Yes, we formed an alliance to fight against Barbatos."
The Bat Who Laughs said, "The Dark Multiverse will always go down a darker path, and the reason we fight so relentlessly is to change that."
The fire giant Surtur remained noncommittal; what the other had said had piqued his interest. Alan Scott, trapped inside the Lantern of Horrors, wore a look of despair.
"I have a perfect world..." The Bat of Laughter, feigning a brainless fool, said in an excited tone, "My world once faced a crisis, but it was eventually averted, and everyone lives in peace and prosperity."
"My world is a perfect fortress in the dark multiverse, and the reason my world is so perfect is entirely due to my existence! Unless I die, my world will always be beautiful and will never be threatened by any crisis."
As the laughing bat spoke, he secretly curled the corners of his mouth inwardly.
The fire giant Surtur has already begun to be tempted.
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The world of Empress Hecate.
"You said... your name is The Laughing Bat?"
Queen Hecate looked down at Batman, who was being led into the room by the Amazon warriors, a wide grin spreading across his face. He wore goggles covered in spikes.
"So, what exactly is the purpose of the Laughing Bat?"
(End of this chapter)