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Chapter 638 Ways to Express Love and the Bat's Evil Plan
Chapter 638 Ways to Express Love and the Bat's Evil Plan
"Wait, the Emperor Joker isn't finished?"
Barbatos suddenly realized an important problem. He had been distracted by looking up at the upstream of the Hypertime Stream, especially at the location of Parallax Mohal. The last time he fought with them, Barbatos still felt lingering fear when he thought about it. He didn't want Parallax Mohal to perform another magic trick in front of him.
But now, as he shifted his gaze slightly away from Brainiac, he realized that the Emperor Joker had not been completely defeated by Parallax Hal as he had imagined. Instead, he had absorbed the power of the Mischief and was now confronting Hal.
"Don't worry," Brainiac said beside him. "Instead of that, you should focus on the Black Death Emperor's Darkest Night. He might need our help at any time."
"Batman needs Parallax Malfurion to come down from the Hypertime Stream to help him right now. The Emperor Joker and Batman are natural enemies, so having him help us stop Parallax Malfurion is perfect. You just need to stop Malfurion from coming down and let them fight it out in the Hypertime Stream."
Barbatos nodded. He felt something was amiss, but couldn't quite put his finger on it. Finally, he said:
"I don't need you to teach me."
He paused, then continued, "But something still feels off. Did the Mischief appear there by accident? Or was it because he finally sensed the Emperor Joker? But the Emperor Joker is saying something about Batman giving the Mischief to him, could this be another of Batman Dragon's tricks...?"
Hearing Barbatos say this, Brainiac took it a little more seriously.
He turned his head, and Barbatos could see rows and rows of data flashing in his pink eyes.
"Regardless of Batman's intentions, there is no doubt that the Joker now harbors twisted and fanatical feelings for Batman."
"So he'll help Batman get Hal out of the timeline and make him his ally?"
"No, the Joker expresses emotions in a different way." Brainiac shook his head. "I've analyzed the Joker. For the Joker, hurting Batman is the true way to express love."
He said, "Based on this, we can judge the Joker's behavior logic, and right now, as long as Hal can't get off the timeline, it's the biggest damage to Batman."
"The Emperor Joker will help us stop Hal."
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Trying to use the Emperor Joker was definitely a risky option. To be honest, Chen Tao thought deep down that the move he was making was quite dangerous.
After all, before connecting with the fully awakened William Hand, Chen Tao's intelligence was very limited, and the plans he formulated based on this outdated intelligence were naturally full of hidden dangers.
Based on the new information he had acquired, especially the fact that he had never considered Brainiac before—surrounded by wolves, the only ally Chen Tao could find and control was probably Emperor Joker. Otherwise, what should he do? Go find Barbatos?
Like the real Joker, the Emperor Joker harbors special feelings for Batman.
This description may sound strange, but in fact, the Joker's emotions are different from those of normal people.
Chen Tao thought silently. He hoped things would go smoothly with the bat mite. If the troublemaker absorbed all of the Emperor Clown's power and then ran away, Chen Tao would be out of luck.
In short, if nothing goes wrong, the Emperor Joker should have already replaced the Mischief's niche as planned and become a legitimate fifth-dimensional being in the current timeline.
When it comes to tricking troublemakers, the bat mite immediately perked up, and Chen Tao vaguely sensed that for a five-dimensional being like him, they wouldn't truly... how should I put it, perish.
They are products of imagination; their existence is not based on whether they possess five-dimensional power or are killed by something.
Their power comes from imagination, and their essence is also imagination.
Even after having all their power taken away, they weren't so easy to kill. Otherwise, the first thing the Emperor Joker should have done when he took 99% of the Mischief's power was to kill the Mischief, instead of locking him up and having Superman release him to chatter on like an NBA commentator.
In short, Chen Tao speculates that the Emperor Joker's current mindset is:
Ah, Batman deliberately sent this troublemaker to me so he could play with me. I have to do everything I can to make him miserable and express my love for Batman by hurting him!
Well… actually, it’s a very old-fashioned idea. If the Joker didn’t possess fifth-dimensional powers at this moment, this kind of damage might just be kidnapping a few hostages and sending Batman a few bombs as a small gift, or some kind of crazy piranha trick. But now the Emperor Joker is a fifth-dimensional being, and they’re not in Gotham City.
The first obstacle Emperor Joker has to face and cannot get around is Parallax Mohal, who wants to run back to play with Chen Tao.
The Emperor Joker's attitude toward him was somewhat ambiguous.
Chen Tao's eyes gleamed.
As you can see, on the surface, Chen Tao and Parallax Mohal are already allies.
He must have hoped that Parallax Morhal, this living Yama, could come down from the timeline, and then that divine warriors would arrive in reality, and then utterly crush Barbatos, Brainiac, the Black Death Emperor, and all those other monsters and demons.
Especially once Hal comes down from the Hypertime Stream, the main battlefield will no longer be the World Forge. Barbatos has neither finished devouring the corpses of the World Forgers nor gained the advantage of home ground, so what's the point of fighting?
Based on Chen Tao's understanding of Barbatos, even if this dark multiverse dragon had the ability to fight Hal, he wouldn't expend that power.
He would rather temporarily escape and then weave his own destiny, using schemes and tricks to trap Hal back in the upstream of the trans-time flow, than have a real fight with Hal again. The last time, Chen Tao directly sent Hal into the World Furnace, and Barbatos had no choice but to fight, which is another matter entirely.
However, if Barbatos really wanted to make a move, he once single-handedly defeated Parallax Morhal and Superman Supreme, sending them both back to their hometowns.
Even without the advantage of the World Forge, and facing an enhanced Hal with the power of a fifth-dimensional god, Chen Tao still believed that Lord Barbatos would not be defeated!
Ah, great Barbatos!
Chen Tao was mentally planning the great task he would entrust to Lord Barbatos: to fight against Parallax Mohal.
However, he wouldn't fight under normal circumstances. He would most likely turn around and leave the moment he sees Hal. If that's the case, and he doesn't participate, Chen Tao, the Black Death Emperor, is capable of banning him, leaving Brainiac alone and helpless.
Chen Tao wasn't stupid. If he couldn't win by force, then he couldn't win by force. A battle doesn't necessarily have to have a winner and a loser. At least he now possessed the divine power of the bat mite. Although he would have to return this divine power later, it wouldn't matter if he used it temporarily for now.
He could easily use his status as a dragon of the Dark Multiverse to pull Reverse-Lightning's universe back to his own, like pulling a campervan.
He used his own universe and the Nite Owl's universe to build a fortified fortress in Barbatos's dark multiverse, so it seems that adding another universe to this fortress wouldn't matter.
Even if Brainiac has ideas about Reverse-Flash's universe, does he still have the ability to come and forcefully attack Chen Tao's cosmic fortress?
The fortress Chen Tao built using several universes is already very sturdy. Barbatos might be able to bite through it by force, as his teeth are sharp enough to prevent any breaches. However, it's hard to say about Brainiac.
Moreover, even if he had the ability to take action, where would he find the energy? Wouldn't the multi-faceted integration project be abandoned?
In this way, the crisis of the destruction of the Reverse-Flash universe was resolved, the Darkest Night that the Black Emperor tried to unleash disappeared with his defeat, Barbatos fled, and as for Brainiac, Chen Tao had the energy to figure out what exactly the Multiverse Fusion he had prepared was all about.
The information obtained by Black Death Emperor was also incomplete, and Chen Tao had to figure out what made Brainiac's multi-dimensional fusion so different from the history he knew in the comics.
This plan sounds very feasible and wonderful.
Chen Tao laid bare his plan to "bring Hal to the reality of the downstream of the super-time flow" on the poker table, making it known to everyone playing the game.
So, from a normal person's perspective, Chen Tao had prepared this plan. If the Joker wanted to hurt Batman to express his love, he only needed to prevent Parallax Morhal from coming to reality, which would directly ruin Batman's plan.
Without Parallax Mohal's help, wouldn't it be dangerous for Chen Tao to face the three giants of the Evil Alliance alone?
But they got it wrong again.
Chen Tao shook his head slightly, slowly reviewing his plan in his mind. The reason why the Bat of Laughter could so easily say that everything was part of his plan, and disgust others, was because the Bat of Laughter always had a backup plan. If the Bat of Laughter could achieve his goal no matter what the situation, then naturally everything would be handled with ease.
In Chen Tao's plan, Parallax Demon Hal's exit from the hypertimeline was merely a means, not an end. He was not Reverse-Flash, a loyal subject of Parallax Demon Hal, who genuinely wanted to save the other party from the timeline and then restart the creation of a perfect world. In Chen Tao's eyes, Hal was just a useful tool. The key point was that Hal's power could counter Barbatos's power, not Hal himself.
If this power can be borrowed, then what does it matter to him whether Hal can come down from the time stream?
He gave Hal 20% of the power of bat mites. Did he really think he was doing charity? Or did he think Hal wasn't strong enough, so that he wouldn't feel enough pain when he was bitten by the tiger, and he insisted on giving the tiger a pair of all-metal teeth?
No, he would only try to put a spiked collar on the tiger and then lie to him that the collar would protect the tiger from being bitten on the neck by other wild animals. He was not lying; the collar did protect the tiger.
But he didn't mention that the collar was connected to a leash, so that it could be used in crucial moments...
But it's a pity.
Chen Tao sighed inwardly.
Deep down, he still preferred the plan to prevent Parallax Morhal from jumping around in reality; he was already prepared for it.
However, Parallax the Demon Hal is not a fool who can be easily fooled. If he rashly breaks his promise to help the other party come to reality without a plausible reason, he will surely incur Hal's fierce retaliation.
Chen Tao was well aware of the current situation of the Time Flow. Since being severely injured by him, the Time Flow had lost its ability to restrain Hal.
In the past, Parallax Morhal has experienced time travel more than once; he even traveled back in time to see himself before the timeline of Emerald Twilight.
But Hal at that time was no longer as violent as he was during Zero Hour. He eventually chose to erase his memories and maintain the balance of the time flow. But the Hal now is no pushover.
During his most explosive period, Hal knew about the future, so it was only a matter of time before he came down from the hypertime stream.
Chen Tao hoped he would come down later, but he also didn't want Hal to come down next time with bloodshot eyes seeking revenge.
Therefore, he was forced to use the Emperor Joker as the reason for saying, "Oh dear, I really tried my best, but you still can't get off, and there's nothing I can do."
This entire plan was packaged under the guise of "Batman needs Parallax Morhal".
In this world, the Emperor Joker is very likely someone who understands Batman as well as the Batman Who Laughs.
Whether it's Brainiac or Barbatos, in their view, the simplest way for the Emperor Joker to harm Chen Tao is to prevent Parallax Demon Howl from coming to reality. However, Chen Tao is certain that the Emperor Joker will understand his true feelings: "I don't want Howl to come down from the Hypertime Stream."
So for the Emperor Joker, the way to hurt Chen Tao was no longer to prevent Hal from coming down from the Hypertime Stream, but to pull Hal, this living devil, down from the Hypertime Stream and deliver him to Chen Tao, like sending a stinky answer sheet to the person who hates Ollie the most.
The problem is that for Barbatos and Brainiac, the worst-case scenario is that Parallax Morhal comes down from the Hypertime Stream.
They thought the Emperor Joker would stop it all, but the Emperor Joker actually pushed it forward... But for Chen Tao, Parallax Mohal coming to reality was just "not the best situation," but it was perfectly acceptable. That was the logic behind the whole plan!
Driven by his fundamental goal of harming Batman, the Emperor Joker's plans clashed with Barbatos's, while Chen Tao simply needed to sit back and watch from the sidelines...
We must fight to reach a conclusion.
Chen Tao believed that Barbatos and Brainiac would soon realize this and then start to act rashly.
(End of this chapter)