newbobooks Chapter 922 The Laughing Bat is such a great teammate!
Chapter 922 The Laughing Bat is such a great teammate!
Chapter 922 The Laughing Bat is such a great teammate!
That's amazing...
The Laughing Bat was almost ready to pounce.
The Nameless Dragon and he are now allies, but the Batman Who Laughs still can't resist the urge to sabotage the Nameless Dragon, even though he knows it will do him no good. For example, he could give the Anti-Monitor a chance to retaliate, so that when Batman Dragon's attempt to temporarily borrow the Anti-Monitor's position fails, he will suffer a fatal counterattack.
The Anti-Monitor will not accept being trapped back upstream in the Hypertime Stream. When that happens, Batman Dragon and the Anti-Monitor will fight for their positions, and the Anti-Monitor will definitely suffer a great loss. Then what will happen?
The Bat Who Laughs calmed down. He stopped laughing and banished these untimely plans from his mind. His eyes flashed with malice, but then he fell silent.
This is the difference between the Batman Who Laughs and the Joker, and it's also why the Joker hates the Batman Who Laughs. If it were the Emperor Joker here, he would not hesitate to swing his blade at the nameless old dragon from behind, and he would do so simply because he could.
But the Batman Who Laughs wouldn't do that. He's full of calculations, yet he insists on putting on that clown's... how should I put it, playful attitude? Anyway, that kind of demeanor.
He became something that was neither Batman nor the Joker many years ago, which made him a bastard—and that's not an insult, it's a fact.
His advantage lies in his ruthless attitude and twisted tastes, coupled with a wealth of information that ordinary DC multiverse beings and even Perpetual do not possess. With this intelligence advantage, The Batman Who Laughs has always been invincible. In essence, he is a cruel version of Batman. Apart from his fondness for committing cruel acts of torture and creating human tragedies, his design philosophy is no different from that of Night Owl.
This is why the Joker so despises the Batman Who Laughs. Having a specific goal means that all your actions, no matter how they are distorted, revolve around that goal. Oh dear, you're no longer like a dog chasing a bus; you've become a wild dog chasing a bone. Then your actions can be predicted.
After finding the bone, it happily lay down and put it in its mouth, chewing it with a crunching sound, and then made happy whimpering sounds, resonating with the sound of the bone.
A villain like you, once predicted, my dear friend...
The Laughing Bat ultimately did not attempt to stab the nameless old dragon in the back, as that would have been detrimental to him.
The maniac tried to do something, not something destructive, but something with some aftereffects. However, he quickly sensed that the two timelines they had swapped were about to react, so the maniac immediately stopped. The nameless old dragon wouldn't leave such a big loophole for the maniac. If he wanted to do anything to the nameless old dragon now, then everything they had done would immediately be revealed in the two timelines they were holding together.
They each held leverage over the other, thus preventing any deception in the transaction. Forget it, the Bat of Laughter is not a complete sixth-dimensional god; he cannot possibly know what is happening on that external timeline at all times, only vaguely perceiving it belatedly.
As for the nameless old dragon, although it is not a six-dimensional god, it is a five-dimensional being. Five-dimensional beings have the same characteristic as six-dimensional gods: they can exist at any point in time. Although the nameless old dragon only has a portion of the five-dimensional divine power, combined with the position it has mastered, it can perceive far more than the laughing bat.
"The Bat of Laughter, could you please stop secretly helping me seize the position of Anti-Monitor while you were doing so, and instead secretly attaching Mandrak's energy to me? This is making things very difficult for you in my Outer Path timeline."
The man laughed without any embarrassment, abruptly stopping his preparations. He didn't even try to deny that he had intended to do it; after all, they were all seasoned shrewd old foxes, and there was no point in rehashing old stories. Everyone knew who was who; it was just a failed attempt on the first try.
Then the next second...
"Trying to utilize the Anti-Monitor's planetary brain is futile. Do you think I would use more Anti-Monitor power, even going so far as to implant someone else's brain into my own skull?"
Kuang Xiao was getting anxious. Nothing seemed to work, and he needed to think of other ways to make Batman Dragon suffer a huge loss in this collaboration.
The man who laughed wildly had virtually no concept of cooperation or win-win situations; to him, all stories were zero-sum games.
For Kuangxiao, anything that doesn't bring profit is a loss, and instinct drives him to keep trying... all sorts of methods are employed in turn.
But after several attempts, the Batman Who Laughs finally gave up.
He looked at Batman with some resentment. No one could borrow the Batman Who Laughs' power or gain an advantage over him. The last person to think he could take advantage of the Batman Who Laughs was Foolish Owl, but now he was the ultimate loser, spending his days in prison and having a portion of his personality controlled by the Emperor Joker.
But this time they were standing at too high a level, and coincidentally, there was a favorable time when two sixth-dimensional deities were weak.
The Bat of Laughter could hardly believe it; this time, he hadn't managed to trick the Nameless Old Dragon. But speaking of which, the Bat of Laughter was rather strange. Why would the other party be called Nameless Old Dragon? He felt the name was a bit… Then he blinked, quickly banishing the thought from his mind, not even remembering having it just now.
"I need to seize the position of the Anti-Monitor, just like Barbatos devoured the Worldmaker. I need to find a time when the Anti-Monitor is complete but at its weakest, and use that time to hurt it, thereby changing history. And that time... and a mature plan that can suppress the Anti-Monitor, making it unable to resist and ultimately only able to be devoured by me. The Bat Who Laughs, you should have made preparations, right?"
"What? Me? I didn't do that at all. I'm at your mercy," said the laughing bat.
Then he saw the nameless old dragon staring intently at him.
In the timeline behind them, the counter-surveillance agent and his mother are locked in a fierce battle, but he gradually begins to lose ground.
Ultimately, even the Ultimate Monitor, formed by the fusion of three sixth-dimensional deities, crumbled upon the moment when facing Perpetua, who had mastered the total fusion. And now, the still somewhat weakened Perpetua, who hadn't yet achieved the total fusion, was encountering the Anti-Monitor who had just broken free from the upper reaches of the trans-temporal flow, yet he was still managing to slowly suppress his opponent!
"What the hell is going on?" Even the Anti-Monitor was somewhat confused. His power was fully unleashed, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't seem to overpower his mother, Papetua. This gradually made him anxious. And he wasn't stupid; he quickly realized the key reason why he couldn't overpower his mother:
Papetua took the initiative to maintain the reality of the "Infinite Earth Crisis," which had lost its two most important supporting pillars in the upstream of the hypertime stream but had not yet completely collapsed.
Simply put, even if the reality of the hyper-time stream no longer has any basis for existence, as long as it has existed for a long time, it will still leave a deep mark on the hyper-time stream and will not be immediately erased.
Just like bridge piers, even if you remove the main beam of the support, the bridge won't collapse immediately because it has existed for so long.
The Anti-Monitor killed the Flash and Supergirl, and removed the bridge pier. As a result, his own mother stepped in and became the bridge pier herself, managing to keep Crisis on Infinite Earths afloat. In the timeline, this created a future where "although the Anti-Monitor did not die in Crisis on Infinite Earths, everything will be set right someday, and he will die back to his original state."
This future helped her maintain the original timeline. By combining the future with her own support, and with the fact that the history of the two old Supermen on Earth was not altered, she successfully suppressed her offspring even in such an unfavorable situation!
"It's time to make a move, Bat of the Laughing. Stop pretending. You must have a plan. Show it to me now."
The laughing bat heard the voice of the nameless old dragon.
"Ha, my friend, don't you have any plans at all?"
The Batman Who Laughs countered with a question to Batman Dragon, only to receive a reply: "I do have a plan. My plan is to force you into an alliance with me, then use your prepared plan to help me seize the Anti-Monitor's position and become the genuine sixth-dimensional god, the Batman Who Laughs—albeit a temporary position and power gained through high-interest loans. To be honest, I've worried about everything that goes according to plan, but I've never worried that you wouldn't be able to come up with a plan, because, you know..."
Even though his voice was calm, there was still a hint of...sarcasm in his maniacal laughter.
"What was that saying again? Everything is going according to the Batman Who Laughs' plan. So it's time for your performance, Batman Who Laughs, everything is going according to plan. How will you help your teammates completely seize the position of Anti-Monitor?"
The Laughing Bat basically agreed with the other party's statement.
After testing the waters twice, he finally realized that the nameless old dragon really hadn't prepared any plan and was just hoping that Maniac Laughter would clean up his mess. To be honest, he was quite...
Clever, huh?
The Bat of Mad Laughter was speechless.
His smile was so forceful that it revealed a row of gleaming white teeth, as well as the torn muscles around his mouth and gums from laughing so wildly.
"Give me your Anti-Monitor Asteroid Brain."
He whispered this request to the nameless old dragon over the telepathic channel.
"What do you need this for?"
"Don't worry about me, what do you need this for? Oh, darling, we're best friends now, aren't we? There's no need to worry about it, after all..."
"The Batman Who Laughs always has a plan, right?"
The Bat of Mad Laughter responded in a similarly sarcastic tone.
He then turned around and said, "We must intervene with these evil and powerful figures. I have a plan."
The nameless old dragon couldn't hear what the laughing bat and the evil noble were saying to each other. They were deliberately hiding it from him. The first Lantern Knight stood next to the nameless old dragon, quietly thinking about the current situation.
Then the Bat of Laughter nodded.
Then he...
Let's start a long phone conversation right away, a new long phone conversation.
In just a few seconds, the anti-monitor celestial brain in his palm vanished without a trace. The nameless old dragon became anxious, worried that the celestial brain might be taken by someone who shouldn't have it, such as the Mother of the Multiverse.
Are you sure...?
"Enough, shut your mouth, and don't say another word while I'm doing it."
The laughing bat interrupted him, then closed its eyes and began to move rapidly.
The nameless old dragon didn't know exactly what he had done, nor did he know whether he had traveled back in that short period of time, or altered a timeline, arbitrarily rewriting reality... or perhaps nothing had changed at all, but in any case...
"So, is it done or not? What's your specific plan?"
When he asked again, Kuangxiao always kept his eyes tightly closed, uttering strange, silent mantras.
"Are you still alive? (Laughs maniacally) The battle is becoming increasingly chaotic; I must intervene quickly..."
The laughing bat opened its eyes.
What followed was a roar and scream of pain from Papetua and the anti-monitors.
The nameless old dragon's incessant chatter, which had been going unanswered for a long time, abruptly stopped, like a duck being choked. Then he slowly said:
"Oh, you really solved it. You weakened both the Multiverse Mother and the Anti-Monitor at the same time, but I don't understand, how did you do that?"
"I told you I would help you solve it."
Then, when the nameless old dragon heard the Bat of Laughter speak, he raised his head. Beneath the dark goggles, sharp like a dog collar, was that radiant smile. That smile…
That smile is like seeing your crush give you a soft, gentle laugh at the end of your youth, so dreamlike that you can't even tell if it's reality or your fantasy.
But upon closer inspection, one would realize that there was no girl he secretly admired, only a pitiful body ravaged by drugs and mental health issues.
Then you realize that it's all true.
The Laughing Bat solved the problem that the Nameless Old Dragon had been struggling with for ages simply by moving his fingers and saying a few words.
It was so easy, so easy, that the nameless old dragon began to doubt his own existence; it made all the effort he had put in before seem like a joke.
In the first half of Wuming Laolong's life, or perhaps for the rest of his life, he may never have seen such an efficient teammate.
(End of this chapter)