"Oh, bat...my bat. You haven't seen me in a long time, so cold."
The Batcave is not a single-story building. Perhaps no one except Batman knows how many levels of darkrooms he actually has.
And by going down the steps of the Bat Cave, crossing several portals that require authentication and hidden secret passages, we can reach the bottom of the cave——
The cell where the Joker is imprisoned.
At this moment, Chen Tao appeared here. He hasn't visited here for a long time, and even the food is taken care of by robots.
For him, there is no obligation to feed the clown well, he just needs to not starve to death.
"Don't pretend like you have been fighting me for so many years, clown No. 33, codename: Martial Arts Master."
He slowly walked to the transparent cage. The clown was tied up with countless iron chains, tied like a rice dumpling. There was no emotion or anger on Chen Tao's face, which was covered by a mask.
"You are nothing more than a manufactured defect, a pathetic stand-in used to maintain the myth and legend of the real Joker when he cannot fight me."
Chen Tao said: "But we all know what is going on. It is nothing more than an antelope relay race."
Antelope relay racing means that antelopes with the same appearance pretend to be the same one in front of the hunter, and then race against the hunter in relay. When one gets tired, it hides behind a stone, and then another antelope pretends to be on top of the previous one. Achieve the visual effect that the antelope seems to have unlimited physical strength.
"Antelope relay? No... no no no, bat, you've got it all wrong."
But he heard the clown in front of him sneer.
"Don't you understand? A clown is a clown, and there is never a copy or identity. Every clown is a clown, and we are a whole. Whole, do you understand?"
He spoke a little garbledly: "Every clown is part clown."
Chen Tao pursed his lips.
These have nothing to do with him. He is not here to compete with the martial arts clown in front of him for status among clowns.
He has more important things to do.
clown? The clown is out. In the face of Darkseid or other multiverse crises, it is obvious that the Joker is not as important as them.
To be honest, this is not because he wants to deliberately anger the clown. The important thing is that this is the fact: he has forgotten the clown.
If it weren't for the Joker's loading requirement of "a clown", he would never look at the Joker again, or even have contact with him again, unless one day he needs to use the Joker's thinking like Brainiac did. Disgusting opponent.
He pressed the button on the transparent ball cage, and then the door opened. He walked openly in front of the clown and looked at the chains on the opponent's body.
He had previously loaded a vehicle (Batmobile, Class F) and a live dinosaur (Batosaurus, Class E) but never a living person.
This is simply unreasonable! Is he going to fuse with the Joker like he merged with a car dinosaur?
What exactly is Alfred Protocol doing?
An image popped up in Chen Tao's mind involuntarily: He was wearing a Dragon Ball-style combat uniform, and then he bent his waist 90 degrees, intersecting the two index fingers of the clown who made the same movement, and then shouted fusion, and then like Like Gotenks in Dragon Ball, he merged into the Laughing Bat in a burst of dynamic light effects.
"..."
This is too nonsense.
Although he was thinking this, he still put his hand on the clown's shoulder.
…
?
Alfred Protocol didn't respond at all. If it were normal, he would have said something like "Dear Batman No. 52, you have found a Joker".
But now the other party seems to be dead.
This actually made Chen Tao breathe a sigh of relief. He was very confused when he came here before. After all, the clown is not the dinosaurs and cars he loaded before. Even if the other person is crazy and perverted, he is at least a living person. A living person!
If he loaded the opponent without hesitation like before and allowed the opponent to blend into his body like a wax solution, then who was he, the Batman version of Dr. Cannibal Hannibal?
Did the joke I made to the Red Hood that I wanted to eat people come true?
Even the Laughing Bat can't do anything so heavy.
Now it was obvious that he had made a mistake in loading, which actually avoided the ethical issue and he no longer had to worry about it.
However, how to load the Joker has become another problem. He also plans to load up the Joker before going to Atlantis.
Among the countless Batmans he has synchronized with so far, the Joker is undoubtedly a strange existence.
Not just because he is the only synchronization object related to the Joker, not just because of the bug that Alfred Protocol repeatedly said "Error, error, Laughing Bat, error——" during synchronization, just Tell me the most important question.
The Joker is not the Batman of the parallel universe at all! ! !
The Joker is the good version of the Joker on Earth 3. The Joker in that world fell into chemical raw materials and it did not make him evil. Instead, he continued to stick to justice and fight against the evil version of the Justice League Crime Syndicate in that world.
Logically speaking, if Chen Tao wants to synchronize with the Batman of that parallel universe, the object of synchronization should obviously be the evil version of Batman [Night Owl], not the Joker.
Alfred Protocol was often convulsed and confused when dealing with things related to the Joker. He had gotten used to it after coming here twice, but it was different now. He wanted to load the Joker, and he urgently needed Alfred Protocol to give him a clear loading method. Rather than an abstract description like "find a clown".
Now that he has found the clown, he still can't load it. Is he just stuck like this?
Alfred Protocol is not a question-and-answer robot that is smart enough to easily respond to Chen Tao's doubts in real time. It is impossible to answer him, so the scene suddenly reached a deadlock, so...
So why not ask the magical sea... Well, of course he has other ideas.
"goodbye."
he said to the clown.
"Bat, are you leaving now? Sit down for a while!"
Chen Tao walked away expressionlessly.
"Hey, Bat! You can't just leave!"
He stretched out his hand and the transparent cage closed again.
"The Joker will come back! I will come back! Don't even think about leaving me behind - you know, Batman's greatest enemy is always the Joker!"
Ignoring the other party's yelling, Chen Taocheng took the elevator and slowly ascended into the cave.
He walked over to the Batcomputer.
Soon, the silver-white particles began to stir, and Chen Tao's appearance changed into that of a bat mage.
He pulled out Shazam's magic book.
"Where is the place where I can load the Joker?" (Where is the place where I can load the Joker?)
That's right, for problems that science cannot explain, just leave it to magic. He wanted to see where the divination magic would lead him.
The divination that combines Shazam magic and irony magic will at least not deviate too much in terms of accuracy.
"Um……?"
Chen Tao lowered his head and frowned.
"Why does Loading Clown have anything to do with this place again?"
He stood up.
On Shazam's magic book, there are a few big words written:
Cellar of eternity.
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I am...Superboy-Prime.
I was born in the original universe.
That was an era that was extremely far away from the present, which is often referred to as "a long time ago" in many stories.
At that time, the timeline had not been restarted as many times as it is now. It was a glorious golden age with many heroes and hundreds of flowers blooming.
I was raised by adoptive parents, Naomi Kent Jerry.
In the universe I live in, heroes are just characters in comics, and I was just an ordinary person... mediocre until I was 15 years old.
But when I was 15 years old, [Crisis on Infinite Earths] happened.
An unprecedentedly powerful villain [the Anti-Monitor] relied on the anti-life equation he mastered to devour the positive matter universes one after another, until only 5 positive matter universes were devoured.
The opposite side of the Anti-Monitor, the "Monitor", recruited the heroes and villains from the last five universes to fight the "Anti-Monitor" in a decisive battle.
It was at that time that the elderly Superman from Earth 2 accidentally traveled to the original universe where I existed. Halley's Comet passing through the sky also triggered my power and gave me superhuman abilities.
Old Superman invited me, and at that time... I was so excited that I suddenly gained strength, and I readily agreed to go save the universe with Old Superman.
However……
Just after I left, the Anti-Monitor devoured my origin universe, and my parents and girlfriend all died...
I lost everything. But [Crisis on Infinite Earths] is over.
I saved everything, right? Although the price is that countless universes merge into one, and I can only survive in the [Paradise Latitude] and cannot come to the new universe...
But I saved the world, I'm a hero!
But what?
What did that new world give me in return? !
Look, Robin was beaten to death by the Joker (Death in the Family incident), Green Lantern Hal Jordan almost destroyed the world because he was bewitched by Parallax (Emerald Twilight incident), and Wonder Woman hanged criminals in front of the whole world...
Zero hour... identity crisis... one tragedy after another!
I originally thought...I originally thought that after we sacrificed so much, we would create a paradise where everyone could live and work in peace and contentment, but this new universe is simply hell!
Those heroes of the new world are greedy and evil. They doubt each other and are wary of each other. Their morals are low and they easily start doing evil. They clearly have such a beautiful new world, a new world created by the sacrifice of countless people. ——But I don’t know how to cherish it at all!
Why can I only curl up in the latitude of heaven and silently bear the pain of losing my family? They don't deserve to be heroes at all!
I saved the wrong world. The universe in front of me should be erased, not saved.
Little Lex Luthor, who fell into the Heaven dimension with me, prepared a plan with me...
I'm trying to restore the multiverse so that everyone can live their own perfect lives like in the past.
But the trash who didn't deserve to be called heroes banded together.
They actually besieged me! I just want to do something good! I want to restore the prosperity and peace of the past universe! As long as the multiverse is restored, we can return to the golden age——
(Note: In the era of Superboy-Prime, the heroes were all of high moral character, and good guys were good people. There was no more complex character core. Therefore, all he came into contact with were heroes with high moral standards, and he could not stand the character of the heroes in the new world after the world was restarted. shortcomings.)
In that era, every hero was a moral model!
But those rubbish that didn't deserve to be called heroes thought I was a bad guy and rushed to attack me, causing me to stop and kill one of them, becoming a murderer and a villain!
It's all the stupid heroes of this world who forced me to do this!
I was so disillusioned with the world that I went on a killing spree.
They simply don’t understand that as long as I destroy Oua and cause a big bang to destroy the universe, then I can restart the universe again and create a new world! A perfect world!
My former mentor, Old Superman, is also on the opposite side of me. He knows that this world is so evil and dark, and that our past sacrifices have become meaningless! The golden age will never come back, but old Superman still believes in those idiots! ! !
I beat him to death. But that didn't change my ultimate failure.
I was trapped in a cage... As a monster, I was trapped within the Wall of Origin, to this day. This is the edge of the universe and even I can't break free unless someone helps me.
But this is impossible, no one will let me go.
A few days ago, a little maggot called the Meditation Mite visited my cell, but the damn bastard would rather release those weak chickens that I could crush to death with one hand than dare to look at me.
I'm afraid I still have to stay in this dark corner...
Huh?
Superboy Supreme in the cage raised his head. At this time, half of his body was stuck to the wall of origin, and he could only use his head to see who was coming.
A small iron door condensed in the void in front of him. Behind the iron door was the eternal cellar: a transit station that could lead to unknown places in countless universes. The previous Meditation Mite also passed through the origin wall that imprisoned him from that location.
"Batman?"
The other party was dressed a little strangely, wearing a mage's cloak, but Superboy-Prime could still recognize him.
Seeing a living person again made him excited. Although he knew that the other party would not be able to release him, it still did not prevent him from yelling at the other party:
"Let me go! Let me go! You damn, stupid—"
"Shh! Don't be impatient for a moment."
However, Batman did not turn a blind eye to him like Meditation Mite before.
He saw Batman turn his head and said to him angrily: "Now is not the time to release you. Wait a minute, Superboy-Prime. I guarantee you will be free one day, but now you can be quiet a little bit." Do you want to do that? I have other things to do. Let’s talk about letting you out after I finish it.”
"...?"
The other party said it so seriously that Superboy-Prime was stunned for a moment.
But Batman ignored him. Through the door leading to the eternal cellar, Superboy-Prime saw the other person standing next to a wall and mumbling.
"The door is open...the door is open! I understand, the eternal cellar can connect to the cages of those terrifying monsters in the multiverse, and it can also be used as a transit station to reach other places..."
"Just cast the right magic..."
"found it!"
Then Superboy-Prime watched helplessly as Batman lifted his feet and walked directly into a door that popped out of the wall.
Haha, this is also a pit that has been buried for a long time. When I was writing about the Joker, many readers asked: Hey, this is not Batman at all. Why does such a guy appear among a bunch of Batmans?
In fact, everyone should be aware of it. Now, except for Volume 1, the protagonist is synchronized with a Nightmare Batman from the Dark Knights in every volume. After all, one volume will be synchronized with the Laughing Bat.
(End of chapter)
