Chapter 3759

A cosmic spectacle appeared in the old city—two "Batmen" were being hunted down at the same time.

To be precise, two Batmen who weren't Batmen were being hunted down together. The one running in front looked like the main universe Batman, but in reality, it was Elliott; the one slightly behind, looking like Batman, was actually the Batman Who Laughs, a fusion of Batman and the Joker.

Chasing Elliott was the main universe Joker, while chasing the Batman Who Laughs was naturally Schiller.

Elliott was originally running in the direction pointed by the Batman Who Laughs, and he was just one step away from gathering with the security forces rushing from that direction. As a result, as he ran, he heard footsteps behind him, and when he turned his head, the Batman Who Laughs had also run over.

Elliott really wanted to ask him: "What are you running for?" As a result, he saw the Joker who had been whipped flying before chasing up again. He didn't have time to ask either, so he just ran, whoever runs slow is in the front row.

Fortunately, the main force ahead had arrived. Elliott ran past the crotch of a bipedal robot, not caring whether the Batman Who Laughs had run past or not, pointed at the street he ran over and roared: "Fire! Fire quickly!"

Countless robots, drones, and security forces started pouring firepower. But things clearly weren't that simple; the pursuer was very fast, and Elliott had just arrived when the other party jumped into the formation.

The Batman Who Laughs heard Elliott's order to fire and cursed angrily: "Do you have the most basic tactical literacy?! Why are you firing now?!"

The main universe Batman watching the live broadcast in the office also couldn't help but shake his head—the person chasing you is less than ten meters away, and the speed is particularly fast, basically belonging to the same approach sequence. The only two outcomes of ordering the troops to fire forward are: either you miss, or you hit yourself along with them.

The key is that this order to "fire forward" very well distracted the soldiers' attention. They only cared about aiming and shooting, not looking at what had rushed into their formation. Their reaction slowed down for just this moment, and they couldn't stop the person who rushed into the formation at all.

By the time they put away their guns and went to grab Schiller and the Joker who rushed into the formation, it was too late. Schiller, who rushed into the formation, didn't slow down either, directly knocking the soldier in front of him and the Batman Who Laughs who had just hidden behind this soldier flying.

The first line of defense of the reception force didn't have many people, and the soldiers couldn't even line up in three rows. The Batman Who Laughs was directly knocked out of the first line of defense, and Elliott was also forced out of the formation line because of the Joker's crazy slashing.

The second line of defense did raise their guns, but because the four were already entangled together, they didn't dare to fire. Those big and clumsy bipedal robots didn't dare to approach easily either.

Elliott was stabbed by the Joker again, letting out a scream. He exploded with his last strength, knocked the Joker down, and stumbled toward the outside of the defense line. The Joker still chased behind him.

Just then, a vigorous figure jumped down from upstairs—Talia arrived with the bodyguards of the League of Assassins. Elliott really wanted to shed tears of joy, and he stumbled toward Talia.

Talia hesitated for a moment, then waved her arm forward. The warriors of the League of Assassins surrounded Elliott.

"Sorry." Talia took a step back, opened her arms slightly and said, "Bruce Wei En is back. My father was right, he is better than you."

Elliott froze in place. He couldn't believe what he had heard, looking straight at Talia and saying: "... What did you say?!"

"I know it's hard for you to believe, but Bruce did rely on himself to get rid of the predicament you brought him. Having been trapped in the mental hospital for so many years, it didn't wear down his momentum at all. He is the master of the Wei En Group and Gotham, and also the person the League of Assassins wants." Talia said coldly, "Do it."

Elliott hadn't come to his senses at all, but the assassins were already approaching. The cold light flashing on the blades was close at hand. Just as he was preparing for a desperate fight, another figure fell from the sky.

Elliott was knocked down suddenly, but felt his cape being grabbed by someone, and then was taken flying, quickly breaking away from the encirclement. He looked up and saw the young man wearing the owl eye mask looking at the situation on the ground with a frown while holding the grappling hook with one hand.

The Batman Who Laughs was hit again and was directly knocked flying. The good news was that Schiller had no weapons in his hand, the bad news was that Schiller seemed to have taken a fancy to the Batman Who Laughs' weapon.

He grabbed the chain in the Batman Who Laughs' hand and gave it a fierce pull, and the Batman Who Laughs was pulled back again. Looking at Schiller close at hand, the Batman Who Laughs shivered and hurriedly let go. The chain fell into Schiller's hands.

But Schiller's use of the chain clearly exceeded the Batman Who Laughs' cognition. He didn't use the chain as a long-range weapon to whip people like the Batman Who Laughs, but took a step forward, taking advantage of the Batman Who Laughs climbing up, grabbed both sides of the chain with both hands, bypassed the Batman Who Laughs' head, and gave his neck a fierce choke.

"Uh..."

The Batman Who Laughs only had time to make a short syllable, his four limbs waving constantly, using his sharp fingernails to scratch his neck until it was bloody, but he couldn't resist that huge force at all.

The Batman Who Laughs wouldn't really die of suffocation, but he could feel the pain of suffocation. Feeling the severe pain from his lungs and a burst of dizziness, he kept twitching and jumping like a fish on a chopping board, but had no resistance at all.

In this situation, the only way he could think of was to pretend to be dead.

He pretended to be unconscious and oxygen-deprived, thinking Schiller would loosen the chain choking his neck. The fact was indeed so—he suddenly felt the chain on his neck loosen, as if it were pulling away to one side.

The Batman Who Laughs didn't move. He prepared to make a desperate counterattack after Schiller completely pulled the chain away. But suddenly, he felt the pulled-away chain pull back again, accurately speaking, it was moving toward the other direction.

The chain was originally pulling away to the left, but soon started moving to the right again, and then to the left, and then to the right.

A terrifying thought began to emerge in the Batman Who Laughs' mind. He had to give up the plan of pretending to be dead and started struggling desperately again.

He felt a foot step on the center of his back, kicking him down to the ground, and then a foot stepped on his back. The iron chain pulled upward again, and then started rubbing left and right constantly, this time with even greater force than before.

The rough iron chain itself had corners, and compared to a saw, it wasn't much worse. Schiller just held both ends of the chain and sawed back and forth, bit by bit sawing the Batman Who Laughs' head off.

The main universe Joker, who was chasing Elliott and was chased over, only saw Schiller's back. He hesitated for a moment, wanting to turn and leave, but Schiller had already turned around—holding the Batman Who Laughs' head in his hands.

The Joker turned and ran.

"I forgot." Pride said, "If Pathological is all out, the original self might also be out. He likes playing with balls the most."

"Do you think the Batman Who Laughs is still alive?" Greed was obviously more curious about some more practical questions, and he said, "But even if it's just a head, the eye mask will prick his feet, right? And is it okay to just throw the body there like that?"

"I guess Pathological should be verifying one thing."

"What thing?"

"Remember the egg dug out of Bruce's mental world that year, and the one that was later taken to another world by the monster in the Speed Force?"

"You mean the Egg of the Batman Who Laughs?"

"Exactly. Anatoly calculated the Batman Who Laughs, and the Batman Who Laughs naturally would fight back. He left the Egg of the Batman Who Laughs in many places, which is equivalent to his backup. When do you think he will activate it?"

"Of course it's when the situation deteriorates to a certain extent." Agent thought for a while and said, "The Batman Who Laughs can't predict us, but he should be able to predict part of Anatoly's actions. It's precisely because he knows he can't completely stop Anatoly's layout that he made preparations early and saved many backups for himself. Perhaps he anticipated that one day, we would force him into the current situation."

"Exactly, he laid eggs everywhere just waiting for this day." Greed said, "Although he isn't dead yet, just having a head left is about the same as being dead. When he feels that he has absolutely no room to struggle, he should activate those backups."

"Wait." Greed suddenly realized a problem, and he said, "There should only be one Batman Who Laughs in the multiverse, right?"

"I guess Pathological wants to try." Pride said, "Assume, the Batman Who Laughs finds his situation is not good and wants to regain freedom through the means of activating backups. The backup is activated, but the original body isn't dead, what will happen?"

"Is it really possible for this situation to happen?" Agent frowned and said, "Logically speaking, the backup is activated, the original body will die, and only one main consciousness can exist from beginning to end. Any person with a bit of brain would design the program like this, right?"

"It cannot be denied that the Batman Who Laughs is also Batman. In this aspect, he shouldn't make mistakes. So I guess Pathological wants to trigger a bug."

"You mean..."

"In the universe of the Broken Batman before, was the brain placed in the jar alive or dead?"

"If talking about the body, it must be dead... No, if it were dead, the Battleworld mission wouldn't judge that he needs to be saved. Battleworld's source code is very advanced, basically can be said to be the underlying code of the universe. Battleworld judges that he is still alive, which proves that even if only one brain is left, it should still be considered alive."

"This is the problem. If the brain of the Batman Who Laughs is taken out and put into a water jar, in the eyes of the underlying code of the universe, he should still be alive. Since he is alive, he can be saved, but the resurrection code written by the Batman Who Laughs himself is very likely to judge that he is dead, and then activate the backup. By then, if the brain is fished out of the jar again, there could be two Batmen Who Laughs in the universe."

"Oh my god." Pride couldn't help but sigh, "Isn't one enough? And there has to be another one? Can't you give me a few days of peace?"

"No, no, no." Greed immediately showed an interested smile, and he said, "If there is only one Batman Who Laughs in the universe, he is a lump of dog shit that insists on drilling under other people's feet, determined to disgust everyone. But if there are two Batmen Who Laughs, compared to disgusting others, they will definitely eliminate themselves first."

Pride's expression froze, and then he said: "That makes some sense."

"The Batman Who Laughs is the kind of person who would rather die than admit he is mediocre. He will try every means to prove his uniqueness, prove that he is uniquely favored by heaven. This psychology determines that he will not tolerate another self in the world. Once there is one, it will inevitably be a life-and-death struggle between them."

Pride nodded slowly. He understood that when the comic book writer created the character of the Batman Who Laughs, although he said he was a combination of Batman and the Joker, the subsequent plot didn't actually reflect that he had any personality traits of Batman or the Joker. On the contrary, his personality is neither like Batman nor like the Joker, but instead has similarities with other classic comic characters, such as Tomie Kawakami written by Junji Ito.

Tomie is set as a beautiful woman who is extremely beautiful, has great charm, and will arouse everyone's desire for abuse. And in many stories related to her, she is dismembered and split into different selves. And without exception, all these selves eventually walked the path of mutual slaughter.

It can be said that this is the writer's setting, but its essence lies in reflecting that there is a type of person whose personality is built on the intense desire to "pursue uniqueness." Only by being unique can there be meaning to existence.