HBWnovel Chapter 611 The Strongest Booster, Parallax Demon Hal, The Bat Who Laughs Plan
Chapter 611 The Strongest Booster, Parallax Demon Hal, The Bat Who Laughs Plan
Chapter 611 The Strongest Power Booster, Parallax Morhal, The Emperor Joker in the Batman Who Laughs' Plan
For Chen Tao, Parallax Mohal was less an uncontrollable tiger and more a train stubbornly following a predetermined path.
To view the suspicious glances of others as flickering will-o'-the-wisps and walk one's own path in the dark with confidence—this may sound like the life motto of a successful person, but for Parallax Morhal, it has become a complete obsession.
Disregarding reality and human ethics, and attempting to place himself above all others, his statement, "I think this is good for everyone," has crossed the line of heroism, turning him into a complete villain. However, even so, one thing remains certain:
Hal Jordan still considers himself a good guy, which is the most fundamental difference between him and the Emperor Joker and the Batman Who Laughs.
Therefore, although Chen Tao has always been very clear in a factual sense that he will one day face off against Parallax Mohal, at least for now, the conflict between them is not that sharp.
Chen Tao had every reason to suspect that the Bat of Laughter was once again using him to carry out his plan.
This is exactly what the Batman Who Laughs loves to do. Chen Tao can say that in this world, before the Batman Who Laughs's name resounded throughout the multiverse, no one understood him better than him.
He knew this was his first real confrontation with the Laughing One, a true first-meeting kill. He knew a lot about the Laughing One, which was his greatest advantage.
The Batman Who Laughs always likes to use heroes to get what he wants. For example, in Death Metal, the heroes spent a lot of time trying to persuade Superman Supreme, Gandharva, and the Anti-Monitor, but all the Crisis Force they collected was swallowed up by the Batman Who Laughs, who had tampered with the Mobius Chair. This instantly transformed the Batman into one of the most powerful beings in the multiverse!
Everyone stand up, everyone! See that? From head to toe, everything the heroes have done is part of the madman's plan! He's become a god!!! Hahahahahahaha!!!
It was because he had read the comics and knew about the Batman Who Laughs's past that Chen Tao was able to try to predict the Batman Who Laughs might do based on this behavioral pattern.
Chen Tao's previous actions...
The signs of being guided were not actually very obvious.
The Black Death Emperor's invasion requires spirits of existence. Since entering the world controlled by the Black Death Emperor is impossible, a sorcerer is needed. Then, the Batman Who Laughs suddenly recruits the Lantern Horror and others to invade...
The development of these events all seem reasonable. No matter how a normal person's thinking is twisted, it is impossible to steer it in the direction of what the Bat Who Laughs is going to do. However, if Chen Tao presumes guilt beforehand and reverse-engineers the fact that "everything is within the Bat Who Laughs's plan," it is easy to see some of the irrationalities.
For example, he really did infiltrate the Batman Who Laughs' lair so easily, then rescued so many Bruces by chance, and then so coincidentally used their emotional energy to summon the Bat Mite.
This is such a coincidence, it's like a jigsaw puzzle.
Although the Batman Who Laughs seemed completely unprepared for the Emperor Joker's ability to invade reality and did look quite disheveled, could it be that he was acting?
Chen Tao was completely caught up in conspiracy theories, but he was actually mistaken about this: The Batman Who Laughs never expected that the Emperor Joker would still have so much power left, let alone that Chen Tao would be so quick. Taking advantage of the extra time caused by this accident, he not only rescued those Bruces, but also swept away his entire Batman Who Laughs Cave, leaving it completely bare.
Fortunately, the pool that produced the Laughing Robins was embedded in the ground. The Batman Who Laughs had sent those Laughing Robins out to do other things beforehand, and the pool was a source of flowing water that couldn't be taken away. Otherwise, the other party might have even moved the pool, leaving the Batman Who Laughs with a mud pit to use as a bathtub.
At this moment, Chen Tao was still making pre-existing inferences.
The Batman Who Laughs is ruthless. He risked his life to trick me. If the Emperor Joker catches him, the dark energy that Barbatos injected into him can indeed protect him from being killed, but if the Emperor Joker buries him upstream in the Hypertime Stream, what difference is there between that and being dead?
But I, Chen Bat, have seen through everything. No matter how pathetic the Laughing Bat appears, it should all be part of the other side's plan.
If everything is going according to plan, then it means that my kidnapping of these ordinary Bruces and the idea of "using these Bruces to summon bat mites" were also the result of the other party's inducement.
So what was the Bat Who Laughs' ultimate goal? What strategic outcome did he need to achieve with all of this?
Chen Tao felt that since the other party had gone to such great lengths, taking his life was definitely one of their objectives.
So if we try to reverse the process of this highly probable outcome, a 1/4 Dark Multiverse Dragon like Chen Tao is no longer something that can be dealt with by ordinary means, unless the Bat Who Laughs forces him to fight the Emperor Joker to the death.
Chen Tao certainly wouldn't accept this arena challenge. The Bat of Laughter was most likely trying to find a way to bring him before the Emperor Joker in the Time Stream, while Chen Tao needed to ensure...
The person who appeared before Emperor Joker was not him, but a max-level power leveler.
"What kind of scheme are you plotting?" He heard Reverse-Flash's voice: "Sorry, Hal, that perfect world will definitely come. Something must have gone wrong. I'll find a way to make it..."
"I've been waiting for this moment for a long time." But then he heard Batman say to the Hal face that appeared on the building.
"I know you, Parallax Mohal. I know your resolve. I have heard you and seen your ambition to create a perfect world. You have never found me, so I had no choice but to come to you."
Chen Tao could make his voice sound sincere; acting is his specialty, and in that respect, he's as cunning as a clown.
"What do you want, Batman?" Parallax Morhal paused for a moment, then asked quietly.
To be honest, this version of Batman made him feel a little uncomfortable. In his time, Batman was always the most principled person, and like Superman, he had an ironclad rule against killing.
He knew that Batman Bruce Wayne would never agree to his plan to reshape the timeline and create a perfect world, but the Bruce in front of him was showing such unusual enthusiasm for his plan that he almost suspected that the other man did not actually understand what he was trying to do.
"It aligns with your goal: an opportunity to eliminate the filthy, evil villains," Chen Tao said.
"I've been fighting for so many years, so many years! And new crises never leave me alone. They always drive me to throw myself into them, and then it's a never-ending cycle. I've really had enough. My world and I live on the edge of destruction every day."
Chen Tao said, "In order to solve one problem, I created an even bigger one, and then I knew I had to solve it myself. I once thought I could live a quiet life in Fiji, but before long, it exploded like fireworks, and there was never a moment of peace."
"You ask me what I really want? Like Reverse-Flash, I want a perfect world where I can retire."
So far, things are relatively normal.
"Is that how it is? Yes, as long as I succeed..."
Parallax Morhal originally wanted to say: "If I succeed, everything will calm down. All the villains will be imprisoned in a prison from which they can never escape, and there will be no more danger."
But he only managed to say the first half of his sentence before he heard the rest of Batman's words.
"And eliminating those irredeemable villains is the first step in creating a perfect world!"
Chen Tao's eyes widened, and he said in an excited tone, as if he were inspecting Mohal and not entirely approving, "We're going to capture all the villains: the Emperor, the Joker, the Batman Who Laughs, and that Barbatos thing. We'll put them all in a sealed room and fill it with toxic greenhouse gas, so they'll soon experience the pain I once felt."
His expression gradually twisted, from sorrowful resentment to distorted fanaticism: "If there are still any bastards who don't intend to obey our orders, we'll slaughter them all and then enslave the rest!"
"Well……"
Immediately afterwards, Chen Tao began frantically stealing lines from the Punisher in the Marvel universe. The Punisher was an anti-hero who slaughtered criminals, and in terms of values, he was even more brutal than the Red Hood's theories in the DC universe.
At least the core idea of the second Robin is that we can't kill all the criminals, so we need to control crime. But for the Punisher, there's no such thing as not being able to kill them all. As long as someone commits a crime, there's no such thing as trial. Just kill them and that's it!
And what follows are his classic quotes.
"To be honest, I really don't understand how many people don't know such a simple math problem: kill a bad guy and save a good guy."
"If the evil act of murder can turn a good person into a bad person, then if I kill enough people, I will be the only bad person left in the world."
These statements are logically consistent, and actions guided by this theory appear to be quite correct. For Parallax Morhal, it is a somewhat excessive but attractive experience.
What follows is the climax of the plot, where Chen Tao firmly guides the emotions of the inspection of Mohar.
"Listen to me, Hal, I am a mistake, an existence from the other side of darkness, while you are a god with the power to reshape reality, only trapped on the other side of the trans-time stream."
"Only when you come into reality can you help my universe ascend to the positive matter universe, so that it will not have to endure the sorrow brought by its innate defects and the terrifying fate of the dark multiverse."
"Enough, shut your silver tongue," Chen Tao heard Parallax Mohal say.
He hissed, "Who are you trying to use me against?"
These words sounded unusually clear-headed, but Chen Tao knew that Parallax Mohal's attitude had softened somewhat.
This is essentially no different from saying "I don't want you to kiss me" in a coquettish voice during flirting; it's all just saying one thing and meaning another.
But there's one more thing... The language used to evoke emotions is too blatant, and the provocative intent is too obvious. Even though Chen Tao's sincere acting reduced this feeling to some extent, the flaws still remain.
Chen Tao knew what he needed to do to dispel the feeling that Hal was being used.
He retrieved the head that had been removed from the Batman Who Laughs from the alternate dimension opened by the Metal Spirit.
The head of the Laughing Bat was laughing with an unusually bright and sunny smile, and Chen Tao squeezed in next to it, also showing a smile.
"You're a hero, Hal. We've always known you were a hero. People of your time didn't understand you; they couldn't accept your determination to create a perfect world."
He looked at the face that Hal had conjured on the building.
"I'm just a lousy guy with a title but no power. If I could really pull you from the upstream of the transdimensional flow to where you are now, I swear I would have done it long ago. Every single day, I'm working desperately to protect all living beings in the Dark Multiverse, but things never go as I wish."
No one knows how sincere Chen Tao's tone was, or how much of what he said was genuine.
"I feel like Sisyphus, who can never push the boulder up the mountain," he lamented. "Every time I want a good outcome, I have to put everything on the table, or it's just a matter of luck."
"This is so exhausting, so exhausting."
He looked up at Hal.
"If the world were perfect, would I be spared such a heavy burden?"
He paused, and then Chen Tao silently counted down in his mind.
3, 2, 1.
"What do you want me to do?"
New teammates have appeared.
……
……
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The upstream of the super-time stream.
"Hmm, it tastes quite good, my court jester."
The Emperor Joker used a sharp fork to spear the small bowl of fruit that Lex Luthor, whom he had transformed into a courtier, had presented to him.
In fact, if the Emperor Joker wanted to, he could use his reality-altering powers at any time to conjure up a far more lavish fruit feast than Lex Luthor had offered him, but he simply enjoyed seeing Lex trying to do so.
Just like a monkey show in a circus, nobody really wants to know the answer to the math problem the monkey solves; they just enjoy watching a monkey do math problems.
Empress Lois Lane, the queen of the Emperor Joker, sat beside him as they watched on the television screen, where Superman was being hunted by countless supervillains and Bizarro, who had now become the real Superman.
Even in such a precarious situation, Superman Clarke is still fighting back desperately, but for the Emperor Joker, this fight is nothing more than a fun game.
What the Emperor Clowns really wanted to know was how to escape this fixed timeline that had already been set in stone.
The Emperor Joker was unaware of how he was defeated and lost his mischievous powers in this timeline. He deliberately erased and abandoned this part of his memory in order to stay as far away from the point in time of his defeat as possible.
He doesn't have much time left to escape.
When he realized this, even the fruit offered to him by Luther didn't taste so good anymore.
But at that moment, the Emperor Clown sensed someone downstream in the trans-timeline communicating with him using some kind of magical ritual.
There was no time to hesitate. The Emperor Joker responded to the communication immediately. Whoever made the choice to communicate, the Emperor Joker could influence that person, unless the other party was…
"The Laughing Bat, are you summoning me???"
(End of this chapter)