Chapter 3757

Batman admitted that when he saw the Bat-Signal lit up in mid-air, his brain crashed for a moment.

Although in the past, in order not to let people notice his true identity, he would deliberately let Bruce and Batman appear at the same time to create an alibi for himself. But this is not his universe, this universe has never had Batman, and Gordon in this universe is already dead, so who would light the Bat-Signal?

Batman thought for a while. He is sure that there must be the handwriting of a visitor from another world behind this, because the style of this Bat-Signal is very familiar: although the Bat-Signal is slightly different from his, it cannot be made up by the locals of this universe without Batman, it can only be made by someone who has seen the Bat-Signal.

Now in this universe, there are many people who have seen the Bat-Signal. Excluding himself, and excluding the Joker-man from the universe where Night Owl is located, then there are still the main universe Joker, the Batman Who Laughs, and Shiler.

Who lit the Bat-Signal?

All three of them are possible. In order to achieve some goal, they don't mind taking such a method. But Batman has a strange intuition, that is, this matter is likely done by the Batman Who Laughs.

If you have to find a reason for this intuition, it is: adding the elements of the orthodox Batman to this universe is a very boring thing in the eyes of the other two.

Although the Joker is always interested in Batman, what he likes is to conduct in-depth exploration of the element of Batman, rather than using Batman as a puzzle piece to piece together something else. He would feel that it is a blasphemy.

For example, if Batman is a plant, then the Joker is a botanist. He would be more willing to explore what kind of land can grow this plant, what can make this plant grow better, what the fiber veins and structure of the plant are like, occasionally loosening the soil or catching insects for him.

And if Batman is a plant, then the Laughing one is a cook. He is more willing to pluck Batman down and stir-fry him into a dish, treat him as a material that constitutes other things, and doesn't care what Batman will become in the process of making.

Therefore, for the Joker, what he wants to know is what the Batman he is familiar with will do in a strange universe, just like studying whether this vegetable will grow so well if planted in other lands.

And for the Laughing one, he just wants to pluck another leaf and stir-fry a dish with another kind of plant, and this leaf is the classic element of Batman—the Bat-Signal.

Just like every agricultural student who dares to beat the vegetable thief who destroyed his graduation work, the Joker is very disgusted with this kind of thing; it is also like scientists always distrust empiricism, without studying the philosophical thoughts and artistry behind it, just throwing rare materials into the pot, which is simply a waste of heaven.

And Shiler? The main reason why Batman doesn't think it's him is that he doesn't think Shiler has the time to build a Bat-Signal. If he shifts his target to Batman, he should have killed his way to the office by now.

Assuming this Bat-Signal was really lit by the Batman Who Laughs, what is his purpose? To summon himself over?

If it is really like this, then it is not the Laughing one. Batman knows very well that the Laughing one is the kind of person who is mediocre but not reconciled to mediocrity. When he wants to achieve a goal, he will never choose the simplest and most direct method, because he will feel that it makes him look too vulgar. He will deliberately take a detour that he thinks is very cool to show his uniqueness and reflect his seemingly high-level sense of humor.

The Bat-Signal can summon Batman, so what he wants to summon with the Bat-Signal must not be Batman, at least not the kind of traditional Batman like himself.

But precisely because the Laughing one is mediocre in essence, the detour he takes is also the simplest kind, which is far from the real logical humor. Even if it is not used to summon himself, this Batman, it must be used to summon something else, which is likely related to Batman.

Thinking of this, Batman turned on the TV in the conference hall and connected to the signal of Cat Getan TV station. Sure enough, the TV station was reporting that an unknown light pattern appeared above Cat Getan city, and the host called it the prelude to another round of terrorist attacks by the resistance army.

And soon new news came: the Bat-Signal was lit on the roof of the Cat Getan Police Department, but the police failed to catch the person who lit the light pattern. And about two minutes later, a new round of resistance uprising appeared in the old city.

Batman waited for a while. Soon, he saw a familiar figure on TV—Batman.

That's right, a scene like the alibi he once created appeared: Bruce Wei En was with the shareholders of the Wei En Group, but Batman appeared in the old city to suppress the riot.

Batman knows very well that this time it was not arranged by him, but the other party is surprisingly similar to him.

After entering the Battleworld, the main universe Batman knows very well that there are many types of Batman. Even if they belong to the classic Batman of the order side, there are great differences in appearance and temperament. Standing in a row wearing Batman suits, even ordinary people can distinguish them very clearly.

For example, the main universe Batman and Arkham Batman have similar body types, but the material of the equipment is slightly different, and the temperament is also different. The temperament of the main universe Batman looks gentler, and compared with Arkham Batman, it can even be said to be elegant and lively; but if compared with the Bat-man, it looks a bit deep and serious.

However, the Batman who appeared in the lens of the TV station is indeed a bit too similar to himself. From the equipment style, the temperament revealed, to some action details, even the style of the Batarangs are similar, which also belongs to high-end counterfeit goods.

Now Batman can be sure that this is the work of the Laughing one.

Now this Batman who suddenly appeared is very similar to himself, what does this prove? Of course, the person who made this Batman wants others to think that the culprit who made the counterfeit is very familiar with the main universe Batman. To put it bluntly, he wants to frame the main universe Joker.

Now the visitors from other worlds in this universe are the ones who deal with the main universe Joker and the main universe Batman the most. Now a fake that is so similar to the main universe Batman has come out, who else could it be?

But the mediocrity and incompetence of the Laughing one lies in the fact that he can no longer understand himself from before, when he was the real Batman, what he was thinking.

Batman stared at the picture on the TV. The flaw in this hand of the Laughing one is obvious—the fake in the old city is using his strong physique, sophisticated equipment, and bluffing appearance to suppress the resistance army making trouble on the street.

The core logic of his behavior is: whoever makes trouble will be beaten. Just like a teacher in a school bullying incident who hits both sides fifty times without distinguishing right from wrong. This is not Batman.

Batman is indeed stopping the chaos in Cat Getan city day after day, but he is not simply and rudely locking all the troublemakers into the mental hospital. He needs to investigate, needs to figure out the root cause of the chaos, needs to take various means to solve the possible various moral choices, such as both are right, or both are wrong, or fundamentally impossible to judge.

If it weren't for doing these things, he wouldn't need to be a street vigilante, to be the greatest detective in the world, and directly crush it with the army.

The Joker deeply understands Batman's behavioral logic. Batman is the representative of both: both stability and democracy, both fairness and justice, both raising the upper limit of development and ensuring the lower limit of survival, both helping good people and saving bad people. If it weren't for him wanting so much, he wouldn't be so strong.

Many of Batman's violent acts do look like suppression. But before he appeared at a riot scene and made some violent moves, he must have gone through a lot of investigation, analyzed the truth of the matter, grasped the core context, grasped the key contradictions, and then thought that applying violence to one side is most beneficial to maintaining justice. Only in this case would he take action, instead of seeing where the fight is, rushing up and beating both of them.

What's more, the fake in the TV is not hitting both sides fifty times, but catching the resistance army and beating them. This behavioral logic of showing very obvious personal likes and dislikes is the exact opposite of the Dark Knight who shapes himself into a machine of fairness and justice.

It is not to say that the resistance army is completely righteous, or that some terrorist attack methods they adopted are not wrong at all. But even after investigating and deciding to stop this uprising, the violent behavior carried out by this fake in the lens is too low level.

Batman watched his movements quietly, and sighed in his heart. This Batman is still quite similar to him in appearance, but once he starts—especially when he makes some continuous attack movements—you can see that he is far from the average level of Batman, and even the last few are not comparable.

Violence itself has a deterrent effect, but normal people can rationally recognize the pain caused by violence imposed on themselves. And Cat Getan usually doesn't have many normal people, and pure violence has very limited deterrent power to this group of lunatics. But Batman can deter the endless lunatics in this city with violent means, which proves that he has a very high level of using violent means.

Is the key to violent aesthetics violence? On the contrary, the charm of violent aesthetics lies in restraint. Batman is the representative who implements this aesthetic. His greatest charm lies in the calm, rational, and prudent heart under his appearance and means full of violent characteristics.

Batman's use of violence is very restrained, not much, not less, just pressing on the line of "the lowest level of violence that can be used to perfectly solve this matter". Even if it is to be deterred, the material added must be accurately weighed, using subtle eyes, movements, and tone to achieve the greatest deterrent effect. If you want to use one sentence to evaluate, it is "so far, it has become art".

It is precisely because of such a high level of using violence that he became the Dark Knight who makes Cat Getan criminals hear the wind and lose their courage, making people who want to make trouble feel frightened when looking at every darkness in the chaotic and dangerous city night.

And this fake, only has a painted skin that looks like Batman, even if it looks more like others, it is too lacking in essence. And it is useless to imitate the appearance, every Joker knows that Batman's appearance is the least important part of Batman's overall shaping.

This kind of typical behavior of catching the small and letting go of the big, losing the watermelon and picking up sesame seeds, is probably only something the Batman Who Laughs can do.