nyslfriends Chapter 1022 The Laughing Bat: Let's merge into one.
Chapter 1022 The Laughing Bat: Let's merge into one.
Chapter 1022 The Laughing Bat: Let's Become One
When Chen Tao saw the Laughing Bat, his heart nearly stopped.
He almost instinctively tensed up, subconsciously regretting that he had overlooked the other person's presence, and was also surprised by how quickly the other person recovered.
Based on Chen Tao's estimation of the Laughing Bat, the powerful information he had given it was enough to ensure that the Laughing Bat wouldn't be able to cause trouble for a considerable period. However, only a short time passed. It was so short that Chen Tao didn't even have time to completely resolve the issue with the Goddess of Magic before the Laughing Bat reappeared.
He was still wearing his favorite studded punk outfit, grinning with his sickly, bloodied mouth.
In places Chen Tao couldn't see, he was—as if he had completely recovered. Those personalities and the pain of his past years seemed to have left no scars on him. It was as if he was still that cold-blooded, ruthless, laughing bat, as if everything you had done for him was in vain.
Chen Tao began to mentally prepare himself. He should have realized long ago that when the Bat of Laughter returned, it often meant that he had once again possessed and was able to use the ability to pose a threat to him. Otherwise, according to the Bat of Laughter's behavioral logic, he would never have allowed himself to appear before Chen Tao without any resistance.
So now, for Chen Tao, the question becomes: "What do you want to do? Laugh wildly?"
"Oh dear, you're so fierce the first time you see me. It's so disheartening. Why can't I come to see you because I want to?"
"Because you are the Batman Who Laughs, not the Joker," the Batman Who Laughs heard Batman Dragon say. "And every time I see you, nothing good ever happens, never."
The laughing bat laughed.
"Okay, okay, that's certainly true in the previous story."
The witch Cersei, who was standing next to Chen Tao, screamed.
She began to desperately resist the Batman Who Laughs's twisting influence on her, a feeling still unfamiliar to the DC multiverse.
A power that Cersei had never seen before.
Purple flames erupted from her eyes. Thousands of years ago, she was the vessel of Hecate's power. One-fifth of Hecate's power allowed her to directly grasp the essence of magic, and also enabled her to barely maintain her self-control when faced with the twisted power of the Bats Who Laugh.
"You wouldn't want me to be killed by him—"
Before Cersei could finish speaking, twitching octopus tentacles began to appear on her face, and then half of her face began to melt into wax.
Chen Tao watched as Cersei went through what she had been through, but what was even more troublesome was—
He couldn't figure out how the Batman Who Laughs did it.
But Chen Tao was not completely unaware when the Laughing Bat unleashed those powers.
A slight tingling sensation began to emanate from inside his body, like a cold blade pressed against his skin.
That slight, somewhat trembling feeling quickly turned into a throbbing pain in his eyebrows and limbs.
"What's going on?"
Chen Tao asked the Laughing Bat in a low voice. Although he did not expect to get a truthful answer from the Laughing Bat, the Laughing Bat still responded enthusiastically.
"We are linked, Batman Dragon. A being that never existed in the transdimensional flow has been released by us, awakened by us."
The laughing bat seemed to be laughing, yet it also seemed to be chanting a strange lament.
That strange and terrifying feeling was irresistible to the Batman Who Laughs: "Can't you feel it? Darling, the existence of Quantum Batman because of our imagination has become a reality, and it's starting to influence Doctor Manhattan in turn."
When the Bat of Laughter got to this point, Chen Tao hadn't yet realized what he was saying. His mind went blank for a moment, but a creeping, uncontrollable feeling, like an electric shock, coursed through his body.
"The goddess of magic, Hecate, has disrupted the balance of magic in the DC multiverse. My dear bat, my dear bat, now there is a place for an eternal master of magic. This place belongs to Hecate, but it can also belong to this old maid beside you."
The witch Circe trembled even more violently, and all sorts of magic and spells spewed from her mouth like a rainbow, trying to stop the Batman Who Laughs from doing what he was doing to her, but all of it was in vain.
That's enough.
Chen Tao couldn't let the Batman Who Laughs kill the witch Circe, as that would deprive him of a magical assistant who could help him find Zatanna and the Dark Justice League. The young and beautiful old hag Circe might be a bad thing, but her abilities were undeniable. Chen Tao couldn't afford to give her up yet.
"I said, that's enough."
"Oh, you forgot, darling, I am you. This may be a lie, or it may be a bold conjecture, but either way, we can't prove it wrong, can we?"
"What exactly do you want?"
The witch Circe's convulsions stopped. She secretly observed Batman Dragon and the Batman Who Laughs, to see how they would react.
Her physical body was on the verge of collapse from the Batman Who Laughs, but for the witch Cersei, this was far from harming her fundamentally. She deliberately appeared so vulnerable, both to lower Batman Dragon's guard against her and to provoke a fight between the Batman Who Laughs and Batman Dragon. However, the atmosphere between the two did not seem as tense or about to break out as she had imagined—it was more like a mutual probing.
Therefore, for the witch Cersei, the most normal way to survive was to try to stay away from the two people who were at odds.
After Batman Dragon rescued her, restoring Cersei's mobility, she immediately fled. The battlefield where they exchanged blows, with its various timeline distortions, crumbled at the slightest touch. "The Void Hand claims the position of Lord of Magic," the Batman Who Laughs quickly stated. "He not only wants to replace Hecate as the Magic God of the DC multiverse, but he also wants to formalize magic, attempting to transform it into something like Fate or Death—a celestial order. He wants to become a weakened version of the Infinity Family, a bootleg embodiment of magical concepts."
Chen Tao remained silent.
The Bat Who Laughs said, "If the Void Hand can truly use his story power to completely replace Hecate in controlling all magic, and then, imitating the status of the Endless Family, create something like an 'avatar of magical rules' in his story, then he can use his abilities to become a part of the DC multiverse in a de facto sense."
You should know very well what will happen: the Void Hand, the true primordial deity of the DC multiverse and the embodiment of magic, will appear in reality. This also means that from that moment on, the DC multiverse will be completely defenseless against the Void Hand. A body's immune system will be wary of viruses and may even reject the wrong organs, but it cannot distinguish between cancer cells.
As long as the Void Hand still has the capacity to maintain his "story," then the fact that he has become the embodiment of magical rules will be incorporated into reality through the story. Magic has already permeated a large number of superheroes and villains, as well as the DC multiverse, becoming an important part of the DC multiverse. With the help of the power of the story, the Void Hand can bypass you and Doctor Manhattan and completely devour the essence of the entire DC multiverse from within. This feels like injecting your stomach into the body of another creature and then beginning to digest its flesh and blood.
The Bat of Laughter paused. "You must be thinking the Void Hand couldn't possibly do it, because the Dark Side of Magic, the Upside-Downs, is eyeing Hecate. I know what you're thinking. Don't forget, you are me."
He winked at Chen Tao, who was momentarily unable to tell whether the Laughing Bat had already seen through his lie and was being sarcastic, or whether he still believed it.
"But no, my friend, Hecate's role is not just to help him unify all the magic in the entire DC multiverse and create tools that are conducive to his creation of a person, but also to use as bait to lure inverted people after use."
The Bat Who Laughs said, "The Void Hand has dragged all the possible players into his game. He won't overlook powerful beings like the Upside-Down Man, who are also from outside the DC multiverse."
The Laughing Bat generously shared the information he knew with Chen Tao, who listened without comment.
When The Bat Who Laughs shares information with you, it's best to be slightly wary. The Bat Who Laughs will never tell you a completely falsehood; that would be too foolish and easily detected. But if you think he's genuinely so kind as to share intelligence with you, you're sorely mistaken.
He must have some ulterior motive. To achieve this, he will tell you a perfect montage of lies, revealing only part of the truth. Then, at a crucial moment, he will use the information he possesses to stab you in the back.
Never try to obtain information from the Batman Who Laughs and then use that information as the basis for your judgments. Once you do that, whatever judgment you reach will be made by the Batman Who Laughs for you.
Therefore, the right choice is to first figure out exactly to what extent the other party needs something from you.
The secret to Batman Dragon's invincibility when facing the Batman Laugh lies in understanding what he wants, even if it's just something he pretends to want. This involves working backward to deduce the Batman Laugh's behavioral logic and action patterns, and then deducing his true purpose from the subtle clues.
"So, Bat of the Laughing, I'll ask you one more time," Chen Tao said.
"What do you want to do?"
"As the Void Hand painstakingly creates this position within the story, it will also be a moment of unprecedented weakness for the Void Hand. Of course, he is not foolish; he must have prepared a backup plan to protect himself. But such a plan, from the very beginning, is destined to be solved—just as every puzzle has an answer, and the chains are tied to wait for the day they will be opened. So—"
Chen Tao stared coldly at the laughing bat, his true intentions revealed.
The Bat Who Laughs is about to set a trap for him again. As long as it benefits the Bat Who Laughs, he can always repackage something that is more advantageous to him as something that is beneficial to others, just like when facing the Hand of the Void, just like when facing Papetua.
He wanted to see how the Batman Who Laughs could convince himself to help him with the so-called true purpose of this Void Hand, which had been distorted by the Batman Who Laughs.
"So, Batman Dragon—let's become one and take over that throne."
Two people together?
"That way, we'll each have half of this position. I know I may have lied a lot in the past, but this time, for once, I can consider myself honest—"
The Batman Who Laughs, with his hands behind his back, stands in mid-air: "Perhaps you don't know, but we both played a crucial role in the birth of that Quantum Batman. Therefore, we are symbiotic. This isn't a spur-of-the-moment invitation, Batman Dragon, but an act to complete the spatial loop. Our actions now determine the future birth of that Quantum Batman. Everything is arranged so perfectly; this is a fate we both must accept."
What the hell is all this nonsense? But despite Chen Tao’s thoughts, he didn’t actually consider refusing the Laughing Bat.
The Bat Who Laughs is that kind of creature. If he's right under your nose, you might still be able to control his actions. But once he's out of your sight, you'll have no idea what he's done or what mischief he's up to. Then you'll find him suddenly popping up and telling you it was all part of his plan, and your plans and actions have inexplicably failed. All your efforts have turned into working for the Bat Who Laughs.
The maniac had even invoked the concept of fate in order to get Chen Tao to join forces with him, so what reason did Chen Tao have to refuse?
"So, how do you plan to take over this magical slot? And I still need Zatana and the Dark Justice League. That's non-negotiable. Don't even think about using them to threaten me."
The Void Hand curled the corners of its mouth slightly. At this moment, the goddess of magic, Hecate, stood in the realm of the gods and began to spread her control over the entire DC multiverse.
No one in the entire DC multiverse could resist her magic anymore. Using the body of Wonder Woman, one of the greatest guardians of the DC multiverse, to plunder all magic was like ruthlessly cutting into Wonder Woman's wounds. The magic she had borrowed thousands of years ago began to return to her like a tidal wave; the world trembled, and the Void Hand awaited.
His allies await him, upside-down beings from the dark side of magic, emanating from beyond the DC multiverse.
He cooked the goddess of magic Hecate into a thick soup that he could swallow.
Although Hecate, the goddess of magic, is technically his ally, what's that saying again? Allies?
good to eat!
>