togophonebook Chapter 647 1 Was everything part of the Laughing Man's plan?
Chapter 647 1 Was everything part of the Laughing Man's plan?
Chapter 647 Was everything part of the maniacal plan?
Barbatos placed his prison in the very center of the world's furnace.
The Bat Who Laughs is imprisoned here. This servant, who angered his master, has fallen to this state, yet he hasn't died. The reason is simply that Barbatos is now busy with what he considers more important matters. The Bat Who Laughs' life or death is utterly insignificant to him, so whether he dies sooner or later makes no difference to Barbatos.
Barbatos didn't really restrict the actions of his servants much, always letting them do as they pleased. But the Bat Who Laughs disappointed him, seeing this autonomy as weakness, which had crossed Barbatos's line.
But right here in this prison, which should have been impenetrable to anyone, the Bat Who Laughs crossed his legs and chuckled as he watched the shadow made of light appear before him.
"This is all part of my plan," the Bat Who Laughs said slowly. "I had long anticipated the consequences of my potential failure."
Chen Tao knew this was a trick by the Laughing Bat.
He knew he was seeking the Batman Who Laughs's cooperation for his own purposes.
Under normal circumstances, the Bat of Laughter is completely uncontrollable by him unless Chen Tao forces him into a desperate situation where he will be questioned by Barbatos.
The metal he stole from the Laughing Bats' cave, the weapons the Laughing Bats had stockpiled there...
For a moment, Chen Tao's mother began to suspect that the Bat of Laughter had deliberately let him steal that sum of money.
"No, no, this is just a waste of time. What's the point?" Chen Tao shook his head. He was once again disturbed by the laughing bat. What a clever tactic.
"Shut up, stop laughing." Chen Tao said, controlling the face formed by light. "Do you think anyone else besides me would want to cooperate with you? Do you really think this is all part of your plan?"
Chen Tao said, "When you were being forced into a coffin by the Emperor Clown to save your life, I..."
"You've laid the groundwork for communicating with me. Please, buddy, without my permission, your avatar has no right to appear before me. The power of the fifth dimension is indeed formidable, but this is the World Forge, Barbatos' lair. Do you really think you can enter this place with the power of the Mischief-Maker or the Bat Mite?"
"That's what the Bat of Laughter said."
He looked at Chen Tao leisurely:
"My friend. There are 26 ways to escape Barbatos's clutches, but I prefer to choose the only one: cooperating with you."
The Bat of Mad Laughter roared with laughter, "I think that's what humor is all about!"
Chen Tao fell silent.
He always planned ten steps ahead for every one step he took, but when faced with a scoundrel like the Batman Who Laughs who could forcibly explain everything into his own plans, he was utterly helpless.
The Bat who laughed was telling the truth. The miracle of the fifth dimension that was displayed in Barbatos's World Forge was indeed inseparable from the Bat who laughed's help. But the Bat who laughed took the credit for it and shamelessly said that everything was in his plan and that he had foreseen that Chen Tao would come to him for help, which is ridiculous.
The Laughing Bat made a terrible move. His words did not intimidate Chen Tao; instead, they made Chen Tao realize his weakness.
However, he did not yet realize why the other party would be so foolish as to expose this weakness to him so directly.
"I need your help to smelt those metals from the dark multiverse," Chen Tao ordered him. "I need you to forge them into a precious sword."
"To fight against the Emperor Joker?"
Chen Tao remained silent.
The Bat of Laughter was right again.
He needs someone to help him smelt these metals to keep the Joker in check, otherwise the Joker will only become more powerful and difficult to control.
The troublemaker's power is not enough to completely subdue this monster; the trap of this power is so obvious that the clown will surely notice it.
But before them stood the laughing bat...
He repeatedly put on this facade of strength while being weak inside; he's trying to manipulate me...
But why?
Chen Tao frowned.
He mentally reviewed his actions once more. The Batman Who Laughs was putting on an act; he knew that if he acted like a stray dog, it would arouse Batman's suspicion.
So he deliberately acted like a useless coward trying to save face, repeatedly reciting that everything was in my plan. He deliberately mentioned the name of Emperor Clown in front of Chen Tao, pretending to be profound to cover up his true self.
He knew that Chen Tao would definitely see through his feigned weakness.
He thought this would make Chen Tao lower his guard, but for Chen Tao, he had already made his decision.
No matter what the Bat of Laughter wants to do or what generous conditions he offers, he will not let the other party handle even a single piece of that metal.
With his plans with the Laughing Bat falling through, he had to temporarily change his mind.
"If you want my help..."
The Laughing Bat was still stating his terms when he suddenly noticed the phantom before him rapidly disappearing.
Chen Tao did not choose to cooperate with Kuangxiao.
This is a trap, and he sensed a threat.
He needs to find another way.
Even if it costs more.
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As Barbatos maneuvers the killing machine through the river of time, while Parallax Morhal struggles desperately on it, in some corner of the timeline, another hooded figure quietly observes everything unfolding before him.
"We were almost discovered by the World Forger. Luckily, his attention was completely focused on Batman Dragon. It was a close call."
The hooded man was deep in thought, his face hidden in a deep, almost solidified shadow beneath his hood, making it impossible to see his features clearly.
His appearance is exactly the same as the World Maker. For schemers, their actions are always in sync. Patience and darkness are their camouflage. Once they choose to be rats, no matter how powerful they once were, they will eventually become what they refused to be.
For example, the person in front of you.
If anyone could peek through that deep hood and see his true face hidden beneath, they would be astonished, for his face looks exactly like Superman, except that he appears infinitely older and has a long beard.
Who is he? How could he possibly be here? Has the Supreme Superman come down from the timeline again? And when did he come down?
No, he is not Superman the Supreme; his aged face proves his identity.
I'm afraid so—he is a Time Trapped One, the one who destroyed the home of Lantern Man #1 on Earth-15, the future Superman.
During the Final Crisis: Legion of the Three Realms, the Time Trapped attempted to use Superman Supreme, but ended up having their true identities discovered by Superman Supreme instead.
Refusing to believe that his future had become so old, ugly, and evil, the Supreme Little Superman punched the Time Trapped, creating a time paradox that completely erased the Time Trapped from the timeline.
He disappeared into the multiverse, just like the mortal Möbius Antimonitor in the New 52 era.
Meanwhile, the life essence of the mortal Möbius fell into the Dark Multiverse and became the anti-monitor that invaded Chen Tao's universe.
The life essence of the Time Trapped also fell into the Dark Multiverse, but he was slightly weaker and could not maintain his wholeness even after falling like the mortal Möbius.
Therefore, he was torn apart and scattered into all the different individual Superman Supremes in the Dark Multiverse.
Due to the split, the powers of these so-called Superman Supreme are quite weak. In one instance, a Superman Supreme from a dark multiverse was even defeated by Blue Beetle in a one-on-one fight.
But as these incompetent Superman dies one by one, the scattered life essences of the trapped beings begin to gradually come together.
Ultimately, these life essences converged into a Superman Supreme who was accidentally trapped on the Origin Wall of the Dark Multiverse.
Then this Superman was taken down from the wall by Batman Dragon, and was subjected to a whole host of tortures, including being fed blood and slaughtering cows and turning into a two-headed monster.
However, because the super-time flow was intended to balance the accounts of Earth 15, therefore...
Even if these life essences reassemble and create a Dark Multiverse version of Superman Supreme with power infinitely close to that of the Time Trapped in life, the Time Trapped's will will probably never have the chance to be resurrected in this lifetime.
But then, an unexpected event occurred.
A villain known as Batman Dragon tore apart the Time Stream, causing fluctuations in the Time Stream's "Tenfold" history.
Superman Supreme and Parallax Morhal descended from the Hypertime Stream to attack Barbatos, only to be sent back... This further tore the Hypertime Stream apart.
As Parallax Morhal desperately tries to escape the hypertime flow, the Time Trapped finally revives.
Through the body of the Dark Multiverse version of Superman, the Time Trapped's will successfully resurrected in that body.
Upon resurrection, the Time Trapped felt the various things that Batman's Dragon had haphazardly stuffed into his body, which was created from his life essence.
A kind of binding magic couldn't possibly bind the Supreme Superman... Damn it, it turns out it's essentially some kind of positioning magic.
The Time Trapped One is not without magic; he is the Supreme Superman of the future timeline. However, magic has different uses in different eras.
The Time Trapped was wiped out by Superman's Paradox Punch during the Final Crisis era, and Chen Tao's magic level is all after New 52. The key and the lock don't match.
But it doesn't matter, the one trapped in time is the future Superman, and Superman has a special ability called "Miracle by Strength".
So the trapped man punched himself, vomited a mouthful of blood, and successfully removed the binding and positioning magic that Chen Tao had left in his body.
Let me see what else is there besides this magic...
The spirit of metal? The red of all living beings? What kind of mess of powers are being stuffed into my body?
After undergoing a thorough investigation, much like hammering an Anse waist drum, the Time Trapped, who had coughed up a lot of blood, finally expelled all the hidden dangers left by Batman Dragon from his body.
After catching his breath, the Time Trapped decided to interfere with the history of Superman Supreme in an attempt to reverse the established fact that he was killed by the Time Paradox Punch.
But before he could do anything else, he discovered a World Builder squatting there, spying on him in the Hypertime Stream.
Those caught in the trap immediately fell silent.
After squatting for quite a while, the World Forger finally stopped his continuous traversal of the hypertime stream. The Time Trapped One breathed a sigh of relief; he was finally able to…
The person trapped suddenly frowned.
A massive amount of energy rose from his body like smoke from a wolf's beacon. When facing the World Forger, the Trapped One hid like a mouse. This only shows that, as Superman Supreme described him, he was old, cowardly, evil, and filthy, but it did not mean that his power was weak.
In fact, he possesses almost the same power as Superman the Younger, and is also proficient in everything that time and lifespan have brought him.
"Get out here!"
He slightly raised his fist: "You would never want me to pull you out on my own initiative."
He said this, then looked at the curtain in front of him.
"Who do you think covered your body...?"
Then the trapped person saw the person who appeared in front of him...
"Batman: The Dragon"
He slightly lowered his fist: "Guardian of the Dark Multiverse, what brings you here to find me...?"
"No need to think about it."
Chen Tao said, "After you expelled the power I left in your body, you were exposed to my view."
He said, "I want to make a deal with you."
The trapped man waits for Batman to tell him what he's going to do.
Then he saw Batman pour a huge amount of metal out of his pocket like beans spilling from a bamboo tube.
"I want you to use your fists to forcibly fuse these metals together. I know you have no chance of forging anything decent, but I have only one goal..."
"You'd better figure out a way to forge this metal into a hard stick for me. It doesn't matter if it's ugly, it'll do in an emergency, man."
Chen Tao said, "Let me make this clear first, don't think you're so important. If you're not willing to do it, I'll go directly to the Supreme Little Superman himself."
He gritted his teeth: "Even if it costs me a fortune, do you really think I can't solve this problem?"
(End of this chapter)