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Chapter 2425

~12 min read 2,239 words

Batman was discussing the issue of Superman with Doomsday Batman, but it was soon time for Doomsday Batman to work the night shift, and the two soon parted ways. However, after Doomsday Batman left, Batman picked up the phone and said a few words on the other end.

"Are you sure they have already found the exact location? Good, I understand. Then perhaps it will be tonight."

Doomsday Batman, as usual, arrived a little early at the perimeter of the construction site near the beach. He usually hid in the corner of a room on the first floor of the unfinished building, which could avoid scaring the workers.

Doomsday Batman originally intended to rest here for a while to have sufficient energy to deal with the subsequent work. He closed his eyes slightly as usual, and although his body relaxed, his brain still maintained a high level of vigilance.

But gradually his brain began to go blank, sleepiness occupied his entire spiritual world, and his eyelids became increasingly heavy.

Just on another unfinished building not far from this one, a bald man wearing a white lab coat and sunglasses was operating a machine.

"Look at what I've caught, my baby. There is actually a mutant Batman here." The man narrowed his eyes, adjusted the equipment, and said.

Then he took out the mobile phone from his pocket, found the number at the top of the call log, dialed it back, and said: "There really is a monster, but this guy is too strong, I can't handle it... Alright, for the sake of money, but it's hard for me to ensure a live capture."

"No, no, no, this isn't a question of money. I know you need leverage to sue the Waynes, but this thing is far beyond your imagination. Being able to solve him is already not bad; at most, I'll take a photo for you."

Batman put down the monitoring equipment in his hand. He looked up at the bald figure appearing on the screen monitor in front of him; it was none other than Hugo Strange.

Nightwing stood beside him, his expression somewhat strange. He had just heard from Batman the most... wicked plan he had ever heard from Batman in his entire life.

Simply put, in order not to let this group of messy Batmen gather and make trouble in Wei En Manor, Batman decided to let his number one fan group, the Arkham troupe, "generate electricity for love."

And don't bother with any Batman parts or merchandise; that's too stingy. The big fans will each get one original, authentic, color-changed, full-body articulated life-sized Batman figure. Just go play with that.

Taking advantage of the gap while adjusting the equipment, Nightwing secretly glanced at Batman and muttered in a low voice: "Actually, we also..."

"Batman! Batman!!!"

Soon, a red, irritable big alarm clock rushed in, walking up to Batman with a clatter. Red Robin followed closely behind Red Hood, trying to stop him.

Batman looked at Red Hood with composure. Red Hood opened his mouth, but failed to say anything, his momentum instantly weakening by a notch. Damian walked at the very back, hugging his arms and saying: "I told you earlier, he always favors outsiders."

"You've gone too far." Red Hood finally only managed to squeeze out this sentence, and then added, "You have to leave the Bat-Monster Car for us. We've already agreed with him to change it to a new set of tires."

"Then only leave this one." Batman said: "And it can't be in the manor. You can take him to your base."

"But the Tyrannosaurus also..." Damian immediately raised his tone.

Batman narrowed his eyes, and Damian's voice immediately dropped by 8 degrees. "Fine, but I don't think there is any opponent in this city that corresponds to the Bat-Tyrannosaurus. If you don't find one, you have to leave him to me."

Batman's number one fan was not the Arkham ensemble, or it was the Arkham ensemble, but it was the God Joker among the Arkham ensemble.

Joker's philosophy had always been that Batman could be unlucky, could suffer disasters and become crazy and chaotic, and could even die, but he must never become boring.

Batman had always been Joker's big toy. He had spent his life looking for various ways to make Batman present more reactions. Persecuting Batman and observing his reactions was the greatest pleasure in Joker's life and his spiritual pillar.

So no matter what Batman experienced and what kind of reaction appeared, Joker could accept it. The two things he couldn't accept were: first, Batman didn't play with him anymore, and second, Batman wouldn't play anymore.

Green Lantern Batman clearly belonged to the latter. If he really wasn't Batman at all, that would be fine. If it was just an ordinary child who grew up to be Bruce Wei En, Joker wouldn't bother to pay attention to him.

But Green Lantern Batman used the power of the Green Lantern ring to kill the murderer who killed his parents. This proved that he was still trapped in the death of his parents, and he was still that Batman obsessed with revenge.

But he made Batman's spiritual core too flat, eliminating the contradictions and conflicts that this character should have had, and turned it into the simplest killing whoever he didn't like. This made everything lose its dramatic tension and story, so how could Joker like it?

If you say this was just a coincidence, there were so many middle-aged teenagers in the vast universe, Joker could barely accept it. At most, it was just out of sight, out of mind. After all, thinking about it, there were countless universes, and there were many boring Bruce Waynes. Joker didn't have time to waste on this kind of thing.

But the problem was that Green Lantern Batman was shaped by someone. That is to say, he could have become a normal Batman, but someone changed his destiny trajectory and made him what he was now.

Joker was like a starving ghost watching someone throw a delicious cake into the trash can. He didn't understand how anyone could be willing to destroy a great masterpiece like Batman in this way. This was simply unforgivable.

Many people would wonder, since Bruce Wei En was a powerful scientist, why did the Joker corresponding to him seem to have no scientific research ability?

But in fact, Joker was able to conduct research, but the methods he used for research were usually not very scientific, and were too cruel, more like a completely crazy mental patient, wantonly persecuting and abusing life.

But if you look at it from another perspective, his behavior had logic. For example, now that he tied Green Lantern Batman to the experimental table, cut open the skin of his hand, and explored deeper, it looked like he was torturing Green Lantern Batman, but in fact, Joker was just looking for the source of the dark power in his body in the most straightforward way.

And precisely because Joker actually didn't understand any scientific research at all, the method he could think of was also the simplest. There were only a few things on this hand wearing the ring: bones, muscles, blood, and fascia. Just take them out one by one and have a look.

The finger that was cut off and suffered the most severe pollution was the top priority, but Joker didn't understand any scientific analysis methods either, so he simply threw this thing into the fire.

The ring was not burned, but the whole finger was burned black. What was even stranger was that after the flames ignited by the paper went out, a pool of dark red marks remained on the ground.

After Joker threw other parts stripped from Green Lantern Batman into the fire, such marks would be left on the ground, so Joker understood that this thing must be very important.

Next, Joker burned more. Green Lantern Batman lost half of his palm from his ring finger to the root of his palm, and finally, Joker got a small jar of dark red blood.

This thing was definitely blood, Joker speculated. However, he didn't know whose blood this was, so he thought of the simplest and most convenient method, which was to put this thing into the mailbox of Wei En Manor.

Batman also received this bottle of blood, but he didn't think it was made by Joker, because his subconscious thought that Joker shouldn't have the ability of chemical analysis and refining. Even if he had this knowledge, he didn't have that equipment. Batman thought this might be a warning from the mastermind to him.

But who was Batman? He wouldn't fear this kind of threat. He turned around and threw the blood into the analysis container. Although he did so, he didn't hold the idea of being able to analyze the results, because the part of the mysterious blood he got from Batwoman before couldn't get any results.

However, after handing the blood to Batman, Joker had new progress here, which originated from an accident.

After feeling that Green Lantern Batman had no use value, Joker planned to abandon him ruthlessly. But with Joker's cruelty, abandonment certainly wouldn't be sending him back to the original place. Joker planned to kill him directly.

The process was also simple and couldn't be simpler. Joker didn't plan to arrange any way of death for him, just walk over and slit his throat with a knife.

Because he was too annoyed by this meaningless execution, Joker was like every wage earner before making a big mess, acting entirely on instinct, without using his brain at all. At that time, one of his arms pinched Green Lantern Batman's neck, and the other hand was ready to swing the knife.

Who knew that Green Lantern Batman, who had inhaled a large amount of anesthetic drugs, could still break free from his clamp, and then bit his arm.

Joker screamed in pain, wanting to pull his arm back, but Green Lantern Batman bit it tightly and wouldn't let

"Superman."

"Will you choose to sanction..."

"Superman."

Hugo slapped the operation panel of the machine. If it weren't for the fact that the results detected by the various instruments were normal, he would have thought that Batman was replying automatically.

There were already many buttons on the machine's operation panel. With Hugo's slap, the machine suddenly beeped. It was unclear where the problem was, but the hypnosis suddenly went out of control.

But Doomsday Batman did not break free from the hypnosis; instead, he was stimulated by the out-of-control hypnosis, and his past resentment erupted all at once.

"When we first met, Superman wasn't Superman yet. I saw that little reporter from Metropolis at a press conference. He was tracking and reporting on the news of Wei En Enterprises' new product line at the time..."

"... Then I learned his true identity that night. I didn't expect him to be the superhero flying over Metropolis, and obviously, he didn't expect me to be Batman."

"Our relationship gradually became intimate, but we would occasionally argue because we could never be sure of our position in each other's hearts..."

"After experiencing this, the Justice League became closer. I talked with Superman for a whole night. We talked about responsibility and the future. At that time, I felt very happy, because in our two visions, we clearly possessed the same future."

"... Precisely because of this, I noticed something wrong, but I didn't take it to heart. But in fact, from that moment on, I should have noticed these anomalies. No matter what, I didn't expect him to lie to me."

"... From then on, things got out of hand. He seemed like a completely different person. I began to be unable to recognize the real him, and also began to doubt whether all of this was a lie from the beginning."

During the gap in adjusting the machine, Hugo heard the entire process of Batman and Superman from meeting to knowing each other, to parting ways and becoming enemies.

How should one put it? If he were Batman, he would also ask "Superman" at every turn. What kind of superhero version of "orchid cause and willow fruit" (fated outcome) was this?

Fortunately, the machine was quickly adjusted back, and the hypnosis returned to the right track. Hugo began to start from the point of hatred, intending to adjust the object Batman hated most in his heart to the Waynes.

Then he discovered that he still underestimated the bond between Batman and Superman.

Any operation like hypnotic induction or memory modification could not be carried out at all once it encountered Superman.

The specific process was probably Hugo saying to Batman: "No, your enemy is not Superman, but..."

Just as he said this, Batman immediately developed a sense of resistance: "How can my enemy not be Superman? When we first met somewhere, how did he join the Justice League later, how did we fight side by side, and then he betrayed me..."

Hugo gave up on the modification. He changed it to: "Although Superman is your enemy, you actually have other enemies too."

Then Batman began: "Although I have other enemies, my greatest enemy is Superman, because after he betrayed me, he not only had no remorse, but also destroyed the entire city, and watched me suffer with indifference..."

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