American comics: What kind of evil intentions could Batman have?

Chapter 1094 The Bat's Laughter, Maniacal Laughter, and Chen Tao's Double Laughter

Chapter 1094 The Bat's Laughter, a Double Laughter Between Him and Chen Tao

The relationship between The Batman Who Laughs and Batman: Dragon is quite interesting.

Without the existence of external forces like Perpetua and the Hand of the Void, they would be in a purely antagonistic relationship.

However, the ever-present external threats meant that for a long time they did not regard destroying the other party as their primary objective. Instead, driven by various forces, they gave the green light to the other party's actions.

The Batman Who Laughs needs the Batman Dragon to help him attract attention, while Chen Tao needs the Batman Who Laughs to help him dismantle Papetua from within.

So the two Batmen, like snakes and rats in a den—ah, no, they temporarily put everything aside, cooperated sincerely, and together pushed the situation to its current state.

but----

You know.

The Bat of Mad Laughter thought silently.

From the very first time he saw Papetua, his eyes, hidden behind dark metal goggles, gleamed with greed and malice.

That was the power that created the DC multiverse, the beginning of the world. The Batman Who Laughs couldn't help but fantasize about what he could do if he possessed that power as well.

From a very early age, I knew through hysterical laughter that the world was meaningless.

Love is meaningless, pain is meaningless, change is meaningless. Batman has saved Gotham countless times, only to have it fall apart again under the influence of the world reboot. Batman's parents are destined to die. No matter what happens, Batman will always appear.

You see, what I mean is, if no matter how bad or good things get, once the world restarts, everything will be reset to zero and the counting will start all over again, then what's the point of all our actions?

What will be left of everything you've done when the world restarts?

Nothing will be left.

The stories that have happened have happened countless times, and the tragedies that have been born have been born countless times before.

The Bat Who Laughs saw through it all. Back then—it wasn't the Joker virus that infected him, but rather the cancerous cell that was born from the DC multiverse, the constant iteration and rebooting of the universe.

"It's all over, my queen—"

Papetua struggled, but she couldn't fight herself.

At this moment, they fought their way from the void of the Hypertime Flow all the way to the Heavenly Blood Layer, then fell into the Illusion Zone, and finally returned to the Myriad Heavens Instrument.

Countless parallel universes shone behind them, radiating billions of rays of light.

"How did you do that—?"

"Thanks to you."

The Bat Who Laughs said, "Do you remember the story?"

"My alliance with the Hand of the Void? What's your involvement in that?"

Papetua turned to look at the Hand of Emptiness, where the Outer God with two horns stood silently in the void, and no one knew what he was thinking.

"Idiot, he can betray me, and he can betray you too! You foolish creature, you're leading us to destruction!"

He ignored their wild laughter.

He's telling montage lies again, revealing only a part of the truth, which will always fool people.

While the Void Hand certainly contributed to the backstab, he relied more on the power of the Manhattan Bat.

However, he needed to deceive Perpetua, making him overemphasize the Void Hand's role in this battle. If it weren't for Batman Dragon and the Worldmaker—alas, he wouldn't have needed to go through all this trouble. He could have simply let Doctor Manhattan slowly destroy the DC multiverse, then let Perpetua slowly absorb the crisis energy and anti-crisis energy, ultimately forging himself into the perfect vessel for the Batman Who Laughs.

But the World Forgers created a firebreak upstream in the hyperchronic flow, and Batman Dragon shook Perpetua out of the hidden Baby Multiverse, incidentally gaining access to quantum mechanics and solidifying his own history in the process.

Now that Papetua still has the strength to resist, the Batman Who Laughs has to put in more effort to subdue her.

"Idiot, the moment you destroyed me was the moment the Void Hand attacked you. Why don't you understand?"

"I told you it was all over, my queen. Your power is nearly exhausted, but to keep things interesting, I've left you a little surprise—"

The Laughing Bat is now presented as a huge black shadow.

Dark, shadowy horns appeared on his head, and his lower body was connected to Papetua. No matter how Papetua resisted, it was as if he was being attacked. From the moment the Mother of the Multiverse attempted to absorb quantum divine power, the Bat Who Laughs's plan had already succeeded.

"Don't even think about it. Damn it, what is this now?"

Papetua was not without the will to make a painful decision, but soon she discovered that countless stones had suddenly appeared in the hands of the Laughing Bat, and then bound her tightly.

"They are fragments of the Origin Wall, the Mother Goddess of All Things, the very structure that the giant hand used to imprison you for billions of years."

""

"Damn it, I just want your race to evolve, to become Prometheus giants, which will make you even stronger, and 17..."

Has she become so panicked that she's uttering incoherent words? Mother of the Multiverse?

"I know what you want, but you gods can never understand us on the most basic level."

The Bat Who Laughs coiled around Papetua like a snake: "Beings like you, when you see humans, when you see our dark instincts, you think of saving us, in your own way, but you all make the same mistake, which is to think that we want to be saved, not to be liberated."

"I am the Liberator, the Mother Goddess of All Things. I am the Liberator. I will liberate the entire DC multiverse from its ever-rebooting fate. This world has become a vampire that can only reboot because of your selfishness. It can never die a natural death and can never have a normal lifespan in the multiverse."

The maniacal laugh approached Papetua's stone-covered face and whispered, "The multiverse didn't want to become like this, and neither did we. You think you've saved us, saved us—no, no, in the end, it was you gods who wanted to be saved through us humans."

He laughed wildly and said, "You want to escape your duties through us and then impose all this on us, so remember this as you die: when we see you creatures, yearning for our good side to surface—"

"We'll just laugh out loud!"

"Haha, haha, hahaha!"

The Bat of Laughter burst into wild laughter. He was overjoyed at the prospect of killing Papetua and the success of his plan, but soon he also heard another laugh, hidden within the maniacal laughter, emanating from his shadow.

He stopped laughing hysterically.

"Hehe, hehe, hehe!"

"Alright, Batman Dragon," said the Batman Who Laughs, "I knew you'd get involved."