wjnovel Chapter 598 The head of the Laughing Bat was chopped off, the mad stealing...
Chapter 598 The head of the Laughing Bat was chopped off, the mad stealing...
Chapter 598 The head of the Laughing Bat was chopped off. The Mad Thief Bat, Tornado destroyed the Laughing Bat's home!
The first thing we need to be clear about is that the power that the Emperor Joker can project is not as strong as many people imagine.
This gave Chen Tao room to maneuver.
To be honest, making a deal with the Emperor Joker was like selling yourself a noose to hang yourself, but we had no choice but to do it.
Chen Tao forcefully pried open the coffin of the Laughing Bat.
This is the universe of The Batman Who Laughs, Earth-22. If it weren't for the Emperor Joker's power to distort reality, Chen Tao wouldn't dare to come here in his true form.
This world, sheltered by the outstretched wings of Barbatos, is the stronghold and kingdom of the Laughing Bat.
If the Bat of Laughter hadn't fallen into its current predicament, the moment Chen Tao stepped into it, he would have been discovered by Barbatos immediately, and then he would have faced a siege by Barbatos himself and the entire Dark Knights.
If he were to actually fall into that situation... Chen Tao didn't even dare to say for sure that he could escape.
But he came anyway, because the chance to kill the Batman Who Laughs was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Even though he knew the Batman Who Laughs always had a backup plan, and that even if he were killed here, the Batman might not die a full-blown death, he still wanted to take the risk.
Moreover, the Emperor Joker would never want Barbatos to know that his interference in reality far exceeds that of the Anti-Monitor and Parallax Morhal, and the Batman Who Laughs would never summon Barbatos unless he truly had no other choice, because that would expose his disobedience to the other's orders.
Therefore, there is no better opportunity than now.
Chen Tao and the Emperor Joker did not communicate directly. He merely activated a portion of the Dark Multiverse Dragon's dimensionality, using his incomplete divine power to modify reality to interact with the Emperor Joker's five-dimensional power that distorted reality... Yes, no further words were needed; just as in a illicit affair, often only a glance was required.
Don't say it.
Saying it out loud would expose the truth, and saying it would be too embarrassing, too shameful, and too unlike Batman and the Joker.
"Brother Emperor Clown, I'll be able to pry open the coffin right away!"
Boom!
The Laughing Bat heard the noise outside the coffin and gritted his teeth.
Chen Tao finally began to openly acknowledge the unspoken cooperative relationship between him and the Emperor Joker, in an attempt to undermine the Batman Who Laughs's resolve.
Although he kept calling the Emperor Joker "Big Brother," he actually made two preparations.
First, Chen Tao is using the power of one-quarter of the Dark Multiverse Dragon to build an escape route for himself. If things go wrong, he will have to make a quick getaway.
Secondly, once the Laughing Bat emerges from the coffin, Chen Tao must kill him immediately.
As his abilities changed and he attained a higher divine position... albeit an incomplete one, he was no longer like he was when he first transmigrated, needing a specially made crystal coffin to murder the clown to prevent potential contamination. As long as the Laughing One emerged from the coffin, he would die no matter what.
Even if he kills the body of the laughing maniac now, the other party may be able to revive in some other way, such as by changing bodies, but none of this will be without cost, so Chen Tao's goal will be achieved.
But there was one thing: Chen Tao would never dare let the Laughing Bat fall into the hands of the Emperor Clown.
The Batman Who Laughs knows too much and has many plans and preparations. If these things fall into the hands of the Emperor Joker, they will only cause greater danger and destruction.
He must eliminate any possibility of the Batman Who Laughs and the Emperor Joker collaborating, or at least delay it as much as possible if he can't stop it completely. And another objective...
As Chen Tao pried open the coffin, a mechanical tentacle of the Bat Leignac extended from his back and connected to the Bat-computer of the Batman Who Laughs.
Come on, buddy, he can't have come all this way for nothing.
let me see……
Even if the Batman Who Laughs doesn't leave the truly core and important things on his computer, it's still a rich treasure trove.
What? The Robin King Recruitment Plan... What disgusting and rotten stuff! We absolutely cannot let the Batman Who Laughs put this thing into the main universe.
What? The Barbatos Legion is expanding its recruitment... I'll make a note of this, I'm going to compete with Barbatos for manpower!
What...wait, no. This seems a bit important.
As Chen Tao lifted the coffin lid, he frowned and made straining sounds like he was constipated.
The Monitor Hunt Plan… Goodness, I get it. Utilizing monitors powered by positive matter energy and stellar brains powered by antimatter energy to generate massive amounts of energy to reboot the universe…
Chen Tao immediately thought of Barbatos's trump card in the comics, and frantically downloaded the data of the Bats Who Laugh using his super computing power.
This was very important to him. In the comics of his previous life, many details were glossed over. How did Barbatos capture the Watcher? How did he find the Star Brain? How was his legion recruited?
These details are hidden behind the glossed-over stories, and what Chen Tao lacks most is this precise information.
Besides stealing information from The Batman Who Laughs, Chen Tao also discovered many unfortunate Batmen inside and outside The Batman Who Laughs's basement.
What crosses? That's too bloody and brutal. Put them all down.
The mechanical tentacles behind Chen Tao stretched longer and longer, gradually extending outside the cave of the Laughing Bat.
Why are there so many unlucky souls? We're all Batman, so let's release them all and rescue them. Then we can find a world to settle them in, and then find an opportunity to slowly send them back to our own universe.
More and more Batmen were hanging from the increasingly long mechanical tentacles, like bunches of grapes.
Huh?
As he searched, Chen Tao hesitated for a moment. A Bruce told him that the cave of the Batman Who Laughs contained a large amount of dark metal, which was the raw material he used to make goggles, as well as a lot of amber gold and n metal.
Amber gold is secondary; the important thing is n metal. Chen Tao's universe doesn't have Hawkman, and he's also lacking this metal.
Soon, the Batman who was leading the way pointed out the approximate location of the hidden door leading to the lower level of the Batman Who Laughs' cave. This Batman appeared to be Bruce, who specialized in forging magic, and thus the Batman Who Laughs had once involved him in the forging of dark metals.
The Batman Who Laughs had made many preparations to conceal the door, including numerous security measures. However, as Chen Tao used the Dark Multiverse Dragon's dimension to alter reality, these ordinary protective mechanisms quickly vanished.
After the lower level of the Laughing Bat's cave was opened, twisted metal tentacles crawled in, revealing a whole bunch of bottles, jars, and computer data that Chen Tao couldn't understand.
Does the Batman Who Laughs actually know anything about potion-making? And what strange gadget did he find in some universe? Chen Tao picked up a sword that was clearly Wonder Woman's and swung it, but this sword was inlaid with animal claws, its style resembling that of Cheetah Woman.
And just from what Chen Tao recognized, there was the Riddler's Hat. Is there any value in collecting that?
"Oh!" Chen Tao pressed the edge of the hat with the metal tentacles, and a laser beam shot out from the question mark on the hat. In a way, this could be considered cutting-edge technology; at least even with the abilities of the metal spirit's master, Chen Tao couldn't figure out where the hat's energy source came from for the time being.
Never mind, I'll pack it all up and take it with me.
Wait, there's another layer?
Chen Tao discovered that the Laughing Bat's cave actually had two levels. It truly lived up to its name, even its storage was nested like a nested doll.
Let me see what other rare materials I have. Wow, liquid Dionysus factor, good stuff. The metal that gives the Joker his healing abilities.
Iron, that's what Deathstroke's armor was made of, such a huge lump of it.
It's mine now.
Deep inside the second level, Chen Tao found the most precious thing he had discovered since then: Bat Gold.
This is the final metal that Barbatos used to transform Bruce Wayne, the Batman of the main universe, into the gateway to the main universe. It was forged in the cosmic fire beneath Gotham City and completely shaped by a giant particle collider, resulting in a luscious reddish-purple color.
Even in the cave of the Laughing Bat, there was only a small bottle of this stuff.
They took all the good stuff.
Wherever the mechanical tentacles went, they swept away anything, whether useful or not, even a pile of shit left by the Laughing Bat. After all, there was enough space in the Metal Spirit's space, and the opportunity to come to the Laughing Bat's headquarters to buy supplies only came once.
But honestly, how could there be so much metal in the Batman Who Laughs' lair, and in such large quantities?
Chen Tao suddenly realized that Barbatos had been preparing to have Batman become tainted with five metals and then become a portal. This plan would obviously use these metals. Could the stockpile in front of him be part of Barbatos' plan?
He bought all these goods for free. How is the Bat of Laughter going to explain this to Barbatos?
Anyway, it wasn't me who confessed, so what does it have to do with me? LOL.
As Chen Tao frantically stocked up on goods, his struggle with the Dark Metal driven by the Laughing Bat gradually came to a conclusion.
He slightly lifted the dark metal coffin, revealing a small crack, just before the Emperor Joker's reality-distorting power and Chen Tao's hand were about to rush into it—
A figure appeared beside Chen Tao.
Chen Tao was startled.
A large number of metal tentacles suddenly vanished without a trace, returning to the metal spirit's alternate dimension, along with everything that had been caught by the metal tentacles.
Chen Tao no longer had a chance to be distracted by stealing the Bat of Laughter's things. He turned around abruptly, ready for anything.
Another hooded figure appeared in the air, followed by the next one, and the next one, and the next one after that.
Meanwhile, the Emperor Joker's distortion of reality was also sealed off by the combined efforts of these hooded figures. Countless colorful rays of light, resembling meridians, were scattered into the air by these hooded individuals, spreading throughout the cave like a spider web.
"Who are you?" Chen Tao asked.
"We are members of the Third Army."
One of them replied to Chen Tao, "You cannot kill the Laughing Bat here, or it will have a devastating impact on the future."
"The Bat Who Laughs must live; it is like a source of infection for a virus, and killing it will cause the pathogen it caused to spread outwards."
Chen Tao ignored their nonsense.
The Emperor Joker's distortion of reality was sealed by these guys who called themselves members of the Third Legion, while Chen Tao's true form was here, ready to kill the Laughing Bat in the coffin.
"You—can't—do that!"
Just a second before Chen Tao's metal tentacles pierced Barbatos's forehead, he was forced to stop. This wasn't because of the Third Legion members' angry curses, but because Chen Tao sensed Barbatos's divine power enveloping the world in an instant, and indeed it was.
After the Bat of Laughter fell into darkness and completely submitted to Barbatos, his world was placed under Barbatos's protection.
If it weren't for the Emperor Joker's secret intervention and the Batman Who Laughs's subtle obstruction of their view, Chen Tao and the Emperor Joker wouldn't have been able to appear in this universe so easily.
Chen Tao knew he had to slip away now; if he didn't, he wouldn't be able to escape.
But he still swiftly swung his knife, and with a soft "thud," the laughing bat's head was severed from the coffin. Chen Tao, holding the laughing bat's head in one hand and opening a spatial portal with the other, didn't even have time to check if the laughing bat was truly dead before disappearing into the laughing bat's cave.
The men in black then flicked their sleeves and vanished without a trace. The Emperor Joker's reality-distorting power disappeared even earlier.
Half a second after Chen Tao's heel left, Barbatos's will descended upon this place.
"What's going on? Bat of Mad Laughter, come out and see me!"
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When the Bat of Laughter crawled out of the coffin, he touched his neck and discovered that he had no head.
"?"
Where's the head?
Then the Batman Who Laughs realized that Batman had indeed cut off his head as he had expected. Heh heh, fool, I, the Batman Who Laughs, had already thought of that.
Cutting off my head won't do any good.
Completely bewildered, the Batman Who Laughs couldn't even see anything. But after calming down a bit, and with the divine power granted to him by Barbatos, the Batman Who Laughs spent a little over 10 seconds regrowing a head.
Of course, his dark goggles were also gone; Batman had chopped off his head and taken them. Luckily, he had a spare.
Backup...
Where are my spare goggles?
Not to mention the spare goggles, the entire cabinet has vanished.
The Bat of Laughter blinked, though his eyes still had a membrane. In short, once his sight returned, he found his house cleaner than a latrine.
Bat computer...
Hilarious, there wasn't even a computer. His Bat computer was taken away.
The Batman Who Laughs crawled out of the coffin. This was truly dangerous; luckily, he had anticipated the possibility of being beheaded and used the superpowers given to him by Barbatos to transfer his consciousness into his body, thus escaping decapitation. The head Batman took was merely an empty shell.
Heh heh, all of this is part of my plan, The Laughing Bat's plan!
Then he turned his head and came face to face with the half-body smoke statue that Barbatos had condensed in front of him.
"The Laughing Bat, what on earth is going on?"
(End of this chapter)