Chapter 1750: S: The Apocalypse Event (Part 53)

The atmosphere in the room dropped to freezing point instantly, as if everyone thought of some terrible things at the same time, while Schiller continued as if he hadn't noticed.

"For some reason, one Joker is not enough. There must be three Jokers, and their backgrounds, abilities, and personalities are best to be different. They have had hostile relationships, but also have deep bonds with Batman."

"I, Jack, and the Joker from another universe formed a combination of three Jokers. Then the next step is to let the experimental subjects enter the game."

"Don't tell me the experimental subject you chose is..."

"It's Darkseid."

At the same time, a confrontation that surprised the vast majority of people occurred in the main universe.

Darkseid's army and countless Lantern Corps members unfolded a massive confrontation in the universe.

The thing is, after several people entered the dream, Harley Quinn, who received the Joker's message, incited Cat Getan's villains to drive Cat Getan to the top of Apokolips.

At this time, the vast majority of Apokolips' main combat power was dead or injured. Besides that, they were all pulled into the dream, and there was almost no resistance. Following the villains were the Robins in the air fortress. This group of people had a great time on Apokolips.

The scientific research level of the Robins couldn't be considered high, but they had just experienced the guidance of all Earth scientists from other universes, so they could at least distinguish which things were good things. Now, the property of an entire high-tech planet was in a state of no one guarding it. Shouldn't they help them protect it well?

What else is there to say? Start moving.

It was impossible to use an entire city to hold the property of an entire planet, but they mostly took data and documents and only moved very few large instruments, so they could barely fit them.

The one controlling the time flow of the dream world was their accomplice, so the time flow didn't exaggerate to the point where months passed in the dream world while only seconds passed in the real world. The theft gang had enough time to visit all the most important research facilities on Apokolips, and the harvest was quite rich.

After everyone woke up, Batman took his fan group and the entire Cat Getan to withdraw from the crime scene neatly. Darkseid, who had just woken up not long ago, didn't have time to chase them and could only face the mess and be speechless.

But this wasn't the most important reason why he would launch a massive invasion of Earth after gathering all his armies later.

Looking back at the experience in the dream world, when Batman was saving Cat Getan, Bruce was leading the Mexican revolution, and the children were struggling at the bottom, what was Darkseid doing?

He was playing games with three Jokers.

At this time, Schiller, Jack, and the main universe Joker all came to the dream world. This obviously wasn't a coincidence. Just like the three Batmans, their arrival was planned, and the target was Darkseid.

After Darkseid adapted to the human body, he barely survived. After all, he didn't know what human morality was at all. Grabbing things was a natural and primitive behavior engraved in the genes of every intelligent species. Darkseid's rise to power originally came from him grabbing the power of ancient gods. After adapting for a period of time initially, he barely wouldn't starve to death.

Just when he was proud that he could reverse the situation despite a hellish start, reality gave him another head-on blow.

If it was said that the children fell into a sunset bully shrimp breeding pond, then Darkseid was almost parachuted into the sunset bully shrimp summit and crushed the president of the sunset bully shrimp.

Three Jokers found Darkseid.

Playing games with the Joker in Cat Getan, and three Jokers who had evolved into complete forms, they even coordinated and helped each other. That was truly a "great blessing" that even Barbatos would sigh at.

Darkseid wasn't weak. In the DC system, he also belonged to the intelligent villain type, but the Joker didn't talk about martial arts at all. Not only did they occupy the home-field advantage, but they also super-doubled it. This was a bit too advanced for a cosmic overlord.

At this time, the best way to defeat the Joker was to listen to nothing and punch directly. But the tragedy was that in this world, no one could punch harder than anyone else. The three Jokers didn't fight one-on-one with you. With similar physical fitness, three against one, Darkseid couldn't even run away.

At this time, Darkseid should have used his super wisdom to turn enemies into friends, but unfortunately, these three Jokers were here to make things difficult for him. How could you turn enemies into friends with three super pranksters? The only way was to turn yourself into a prank.

When other participants had their own things to do, Darkseid became the biggest prank in Cat Getan. Every choice placed in front of him was the Joker's trap, and according to the Joker's law, the Joker's choices never had a correct answer. Every path was a dead end.

Can you imagine? Every decision made was a trap carefully arranged by others, and not making a decision and staying in place was inevitable to starve to death. He couldn't run, couldn't fight, and even if he died, the other party would soon find him.

Any counterattack means would be identified at the first time, and any counterattack measures would have no effect. If you had to give a title to Darkseid's life in these few months, it would probably be a thorough "Cat Getan Bullying."

But even the best layout had loopholes. That was what Darkseid thought. After experiencing what seemed to be a few months but was actually decades of torture, Darkseid finally caught a flaw in one of the Jokers and asked the truth of this world from his mouth.

Of course, this was also part of the plan. Schiller saw the situation on Apokolips through the Book of the Dead, and naturally, he could follow suit and fuse the memories of the creatures on Apokolips into a new dream world map.

Three Jokers teamed up to perform a play, letting Darkseid catch the flaw and at the same time learn that Apokolips still existed in the dream world. Through many coincidences, Darkseid finally returned to his hometown.

The three Jokers didn't follow, and Darkseid knew this planet too well, so it didn't take long for him to get a spaceship. Although it wasn't the most advanced one, it still wasn't something humans at this technological level could deal with. He drove the spaceship back to Earth, full of anger, wanting to take revenge.

The dream shattered at the very moment he fired the cannon; his act of vengeance was interrupted.

Just imagine, in some game, you encounter an extremely difficult dungeon where the NPCs are not only incredibly strong and gang up on you, but are also particularly foul-mouthed. You are trapped inside, tortured by them for several months, until your mind is almost on the verge of breaking.

By a stroke of luck, you finally have the chance to leave this high-difficulty dungeon you stumbled into to grind levels in a simple dungeon, crafting a set of god-tier gear that crushes everything, and you immediately storm back into the dungeon to take your revenge.

Just as you are a second away from blasting these detestable monsters into smithereens with your powerful weapon, the game servers shut down.

Looking at the words "Permanently Offline" on the screen, and then looking at your own home in shambles and your own life of failure in the real world, what kind of mood would you be in?

Of course, in a society ruled by law, players would at most curse the game officials for being heartless, but who is Darkseid? The number one tyrant of the universe—could he swallow this insult?

Originally, if Darkseid had fired that shot in the Dream Realm and blasted the entire Earth to smithereens, he might have vented his anger and called it a day. But having his ultimate move interrupted right after it started meant all that rage was bottled back up inside him; even for Darkseid, it was enough to cause internal injury.

More importantly, during the process of being tortured by the three Jokers for several months, Darkseid realized profoundly that the human race is nothing but cosmic vermin, a germ of chaos, madness, and evil. Even being in the same universe as them felt disgusting.

Darkseid felt he had an obligation to eliminate this group of vermin for the sake of the universe, and it had to be an immediate and complete eradication—for every second humans continued to exist, the universe became even filthier.

Thus, he immediately assembled his massive army, deployed his weapons, and, filled with rage, charged toward Earth.

But the problem lay in his stated reason for mobilizing his troops.

The Green Lantern Corps, under the leadership of the Little Blue Men, shouted a few things at Darkseid. Originally, this was just routine procedure; Darkseid had invaded so many places and the Little Blue Men hadn't interfered, which showed that their talk of maintaining cosmic peace was all fake—they didn't want to provoke Darkseid either.

Such routine inquiries always require asking for the reason for military deployment. In the past, Darkseid never paid attention to the Green Lantern Corps' communication channels, but this time, he spent three and a half hours in the channel railing against the chaos, madness, and evil of humanity, stating that he absolutely had to go and exterminate this group of cosmic vermin and couldn't wait a single second.

The Green Lanterns relayed the information back as usual. They didn't feel there was anything wrong with this statement, but the Little Blue Men were immediately anxious upon hearing it.

You say humans are evil, and you are mobilizing troops to crusade against them—doesn't that make you the righteous one? If you are the spokesperson for justice, then what are we?

If you said you were invading other planets for profit, that would be one thing, but you said you were doing it for justice—and who gets to decide what justice is?

Although the Green Lantern Corps claims to be cosmic police with the duty of maintaining peace, in reality, the Little Blue Men created them to protect their own interests; otherwise, they wouldn't have let the Lantern Corps cause so many disasters.

Since ancient times, the issue of one's position has been the most important issue. We have sat in the position of cosmic messengers of justice for so many years; we say who is righteous, and they are righteous; we say who is evil, and they are evil. Now you jump out and say a certain civilization is evil and you are righteous—if the universe listens to you, wouldn't you be the one sitting in the seat beneath us?

This was the one point the Little Blue Men could not accept.

Therefore, with almost no hesitation, the Green Lantern Corps poured out in full force. To quickly resolve the problem and protect their position, the other major Lantern Corps also immediately gathered their forces and began frantically converging on the front lines.

The greatest combat strength of the Green Lantern Corps is not their system or their strategy, but their almost inexhaustible source of troops.

It can be said that the combat strength of the Green Lantern Corps depends entirely on how much importance the Little Blue Men place on the battle. Once they take a battle very seriously, Lantern rings are handed out as if they cost nothing. The emotional spectrum itself is a naturally existing energy in the universe, and the Little Blue Men don't feel the pinch when using it. If they don't use it to defend their seat of power now, when would they?

Feeling a huge sense of crisis, the Little Blue Men frantically assembled the Lantern Corps' forces and poured them all toward Darkseid's army.

In the comics, Darkseid could be said to have a complete victory over the Green Lantern Corps, but the problem now is that this Darkseid is not the complete Darkseid. Due to a lack of presence, decreased rationality, his subordinates being wiped out, and a hasty mobilization, his strength was weakened too much.

And the Little Blue Men placed great importance on this battle, almost sparing no cost in churning out troops. Before long, the two armies were deadlocked on the front lines.

Batman of the main universe saw this scene through a monitor, and Schiller, who had also seen Darkseid's actions through the Necronomicon, revealed a smile.

Jack reached out and clinked glasses with him, showing a wicked smile that hadn't appeared for a long time.

"It's done."