louisehourcade Chapter 1096 Bats, Bats, Dancing with You
Chapter 1096 Bats, Bats, Dancing with You
Chapter 1096 Bats, Bats, Dancing with You
Deciphering the thoughts of the Batman Who Laughs is perhaps the most difficult thing in the entire DC multiverse.
Even Chen Tao —
He acted as if he knew everything the Batman Who Laughs was doing, but that was just prophetic knowledge achieved through comics.
When he loses the information he gained from the comics, he is no different from any other superhero who has never read the comics when facing the Batman Who Laughs.
You can't predict what the Bat of Laughter will do next. You always try to deduce his actions using rational logic, which often leads you into the abyss.
But you see, while that's one aspect of the matter, from another perspective, when the Laughing Bat looked at Chen Tao, his reaction was the same.
When I want you to see clearly what I'm going to do, we'll be in perfect sync, as if by unspoken agreement.
And when I want to conceal my thoughts and intentions from you, you must never see through me in the slightest.
And now—
It's a situation where you and I both know what the other wants to do.
Both Kuang Xiao and Chen Tao knew perfectly well that this was probably their last collaboration.
With Papetua gone, Dr. Manhattan can only have one challenger, and that challenger can only be chosen between the two of them.
All love, hate, and grudges must be settled at this very moment, but before that—
At least for now, we can still be considered allies, albeit in a perfunctory way.
Therefore, you see, we had better cherish this hard-won era of peace.
So when the minds of the two Batmen meet in an invisible entanglement through the Quantum Bat, the transmission of information happens in that instant, and the outcome of the Void Hand is already decided.
Of course, the Void Hand didn't simply obey the Batman Laugh's commands completely.
He has been building a powerful story, attempting to erode the entire DC multiverse with the anti-death equation.
The Batman Who Laughs was fully aware of all this. He had prepared in advance to ensure that everything he left behind after defeating the Void Hand would be for his own use, not Batman Dragon's. In this respect, he was far ahead of his opponent.
He was certain that Batman Dragon, even knowing he had the upper hand, would still choose to deal with the Void Hand first—all of this was within the Laughing's plan. And he knew what Batman Dragon was thinking. Wasn't it those illusory personalities buried within him?
The Batman Who Laughs admits that he was briefly disrupted by these potentially threatening personalities, but he has now completely regrouped, and even Perpetual has been utterly defeated by his scheme. Does Batman Dragon really think that those lingering shadows of the past can stop the Batman Who Laughs?
The Batman Who Laughs had even tampered with the Miracle Machine so that he could seize it the moment the Void Hand was completely lost, using it as a weapon against Doctor Manhattan.
Yes, he couldn't possibly leave the Miracle Machine to Batman Dragon. He could even give him the Cosmic Tuning Fork, but not the Miracle Machine. The so-called Miracle Machine is a weapon used in the DC multiverse to eliminate bugs.
If we compare the DC multiverse to the human body, the Miracle Machine is like performing surgery directly. If we add the blessing of the DC multiverse's Manifest Destiny, just like Superman used the Miracle Machine to restore the entire DC multiverse at the end of Final Crisis, this combination would become the biggest variable in the Batman Who Laughs plan, which is why he nipped it in the bud.
Furthermore, do you think the Batman Who Laughs is unaware of the deal Batman Dragon made with Death? With his current power and the Quantum Bat's observational abilities, how could he not be aware of what Batman Dragon has become, given that feeling of being a shadow over all Batmen?
From the moment the Batman Who Laughs discovered the deep connection between Batman Dragon and death, he began planning how to counter Batman Dragon's suppression of him on the level of death.
Strictly speaking, the Batman Who Laughs may have made achievements in many fields, but he is almost completely ignorant on the death side.
He must find a way to resist the inevitable deathly threat posed by Batman Dragon, and the Void Hand is the final piece of the puzzle.
Batman Dragon has no idea what he's going to do, and teaming up with Void Hand to kill him would be Batman's biggest mistake.
Regardless, you've already made this mistake.
When the Hand of the Void realized he had been betrayed, he turned and looked coldly at the Bat of Laughter.
"You shouldn't have left me no chance at all."
He looked at the laughing bat.
"You have broken our agreement, you have ruined the integrity of the story, and you have disregarded the most basic justice and morality."
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The righteous hero, the Hand of the Void, declared: "You will pay the price."
Batman Dragon and The Batman Who Laughs worked together seamlessly, one in front and one behind, instantly restraining the Void Hand and preventing him from making any other moves. The Void Hand did not resist, perhaps knowing that resistance would be futile, so he simply gave up.
Or perhaps it was ultimately just an Outer God entrenched outside the DC Multiverse, intending to take a bite out of the DC Multiverse. When it realized it had no chance to get more from the DC Multiverse, it simply gave up on this energy aggregate projected into the DC Multiverse.
The Bat Who Laughs didn't believe it. He was waiting for the Void Hand's counterattack, and the counterattack came just as he expected. This was real enough for the Bat Who Laughs to truly believe that the Void Hand had been completely defeated by him.
The story of the Void Hand's unparalleled power was able to bind Perpetua, and the Bat Who Laughs was aware of his counterattack.
Click!
The enormous black shadow formed by the laughing bat suddenly split in two, and the backlash of the story arrived as he had expected.
Yes, since the Void Hand is going to fail, he will definitely kill the Batman Who Laughs in the story. The Batman Who Laughs expressionlessly pieced together his entire face.
If it were any ordinary creature, even Perpetua, in this state of "you should be destroyed in the story, but you are not destroyed in reality," it would have to bear the backlash of the story head-on. But Schrödinger's state of being endowed the Bat Who Laughs with a magical quantum superposition state.
As Chen Tao and the Laughing Bat suffered the backlash from the Void Hand, they both groaned almost simultaneously, and then—
And that was the end of it.
The Void Hand turned to look at the two of them.
Former enemies become friends, and friends become enemies again—this is the way things always are between friend and foe, and it all comes down to the collapse of his very existence—
Chen Tao and the Laughing Bat were left with only one person to face Dr. Manhattan.