Chapter 3766

Batman slowly picked up a tissue and wiped the water on the desktop. Laughing's voice echoed in his mind, lingering for a long time. It had been a long time since he had this feeling of not knowing what expression to make.

Batman tried to understand Laughing's thinking. For example, he might be tired of being Batman and wanted to change to another identity, so he could get rid of his notorious reputation and perhaps sneak into the Battleworld to use the Battleworld to contact more universes.

However, Laughing had already contacted the Jason of this universe. Jason Todd in the vast majority of universes is Robin. Most Batmen have a lighter suspicion of Robin, and a little acting can gain people's trust.

Talia is even more so. In most universes, she is Damian's biological mother. The gold content of having a child with Batman goes without saying. For Damian's sake, there is always room for negotiation between the two. As for gender, for Laughing, it is probably the least important issue.

If he felt that the physical fitness of these two people wasn't strong enough, then Dick is also a good choice. The Dick of this universe has undergone the training of the Court of Owls, fears no pain, and has great skills. Getting his body is also not bad.

Why does it have to be Schiller?

Batman changed his thinking again. He thought, could it be that Laughing felt Schiller ruined his good deeds, so he deliberately wanted to find trouble for Schiller, rather than really wanting to seize his body?

But thinking carefully, that's not right either. Laughing's current situation is very bad, and the only card he can use is to use the metal visor to brainwash. But brainwashing is not omnipotent; if someone discovers it, he is dead. Being able to persuade Jason with eloquence is a very precious opportunity; making a deal with Jason is even more so. How could he be willing to waste this opportunity on revenge?

The so-called eliminating all impossible answers, the remaining one, no matter how bizarre, is the truth. Batman finally thought of the answer he didn't really want to think about: could Laughing just have taken a fancy to Schiller's body because Schiller's power is great?

Of course, Batman has a certain understanding of the power Schiller possesses. Arrogance revealed some to him, and he himself can also obtain a lot of information through observation.

Schiller is very thin, and his muscle mass is actually not large; logically speaking, he shouldn't have such power. If such power erupts with this muscle mass, there is only one possibility, and that is that his brain has no restrictions on the use of muscles.

Considering Schiller's bizarre mental state, Batman believes this possibility is very high. And after coming to this universe, Batman became even more certain of his guess, because Schiller has become stronger.

Before at the hospital, in a situation where there was a clear gap in the weight class between the two, even in close-quarters combat, Batman didn't get any advantage. This is of course very abnormal.

But considering that Laughing previously used the drugs in the so-called teleportation device—that is, a large amount of stimulants—to sneak attack Schiller, which allowed Schiller's power to increase significantly again, it shows that the problem is more likely to be in the central nervous system.

The brain is the most important component of the central nervous system. If Schiller's power comes from the release of muscle restrictions caused by brain lesions, and brain lesions come from abnormal electrical waves caused by mental problems, then what is important is actually the brain, not the body.

That is to say, if Laughing swapped his own head onto Schiller's body, it wouldn't be any different from his own body, and might even become weaker. Because Laughing was at least a Batman before, with some training traces; Schiller is purely a white-collar worker.

Could it be that Laughing didn't consider this point? Batman couldn't help but think, he shouldn't be crazy enough not to see that Schiller's physique and his power don't match. Could it be that he felt Schiller's powerful strength came from his body?

There really is such a possibility, Batman thought. The Batman Who Laughs is unwilling to admit that he is inferior to others. Or rather, when facing areas where he is inferior to others, he will subconsciously avoid it and choose self-hypnosis.

He wouldn't be willing to admit that Schiller's brain could bring him such power, because if that were the case, wouldn't that be saying he couldn't even out-crazy others?

This is of course something Laughing cannot accept. Because he can no longer defeat most Batmen in terms of force, what he surpasses Batmen in, and what can embody his uniqueness, is his madness—he is the only crazy Batman in the multiverse.

Still the same saying, a lost uniqueness is also uniqueness. How can stepping on dog shit on the street not be considered alternative?

Laughing doesn't care how many times other Batmen have defeated the Joker virus; anyway, he is the only one infected, he is unique, he is powerful.

Because he can't beat Batman, he can only rely on this to support his spirit. But if someone pops up now who is crazier and more forceful than him, wouldn't even this pitiful hope be gone?

Batman felt that Laughing might just not want to admit an obvious fact—infecting the Joker virus didn't bring him any benefits, but instead made him weaker.

When discussing the original plot, some people have this view, that is, Laughing's power is because he is a combination of Joker and Batman, and he is so strong because he was infected with the Joker virus.

This is a completely result-oriented statement, and there is no very strong evidence to support it. The screenwriter might have wanted to express this feeling, but it wasn't actually drawn out.

Where did the Batman Who Laughs' starting capital come from?

It wasn't calculated by his wisdom, nor was it exchanged for Joker's madness, but Barbatos inexplicably found him. So many Dark Multiverses, so many peculiar Batmen, Barbatos just wanted to find him, and didn't give any very special reason. If one has to say, it's the old routine, feeling he is unique enough to shoulder such a heavy responsibility. To put it bluntly, it's a golden finger opened by the screenwriter.

And the fact is, looking at Laughing's life, there is no performance at all of how the Joker virus strengthened Batman.

Some people say it's the evil brought by the Joker virus that allowed Batman to break the bottom line, and he could use those cruel means, so he became stronger.

But what exactly did Laughing do with these cruel means?

Actually, he didn't do any serious business at all. He did kill quite a few people and did some disgusting things, like turning Robin into a mad dog. But this had no gain for his entire grand plan. Except for disgusting people, the actual damage caused to his opponents was zero.

Of course, the crazy Robins didn't do zero damage. However, if Laughing had used the energy spent on creating them on some more important things, the damage would be more than a thousand or ten thousand times greater.

This view reflects a psychology of many people, that is: I am so dissatisfied now because my inner morality limits me. If there were an opportunity for me to break the bottom line, I would definitely be able to reach the peak of life.

Furthermore, they would think: people who live better than me now must have secretly done bad things. It must be because their morality is lower than mine that they can obtain more benefits than me.

But this contradicts another point of view they promote, which is "human nature cannot withstand the test."

Truly morally noble people are rare. The bottom line of the general public is worthless. The vast majority of people, when facing the choice between huge benefits that could make them soar and maintaining the moral bottom line, will choose the former without hesitation—provided that there is at least such an opportunity.

Pies won't fall from the sky. The benefits that can be obtained must be linked to the person's own value. A person must be useful for someone to promise him heavy profits.

And those who feel every day that "it is my moral bottom line and the rule of law society that limit me" mostly cannot create any decent value and will never have the opportunity to break the moral bottom line.

And even if he is fully prepared mentally, considers himself as pious as a saint, and has imagined countless self-moving dramas of "those who achieve great things do not care about trifles," "I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me," and "there is gain only if there is sacrifice," and finally makes up his mind to break the bottom line, what he can achieve is mostly just disgusting others for a while.

Laughing is such a person. Perhaps when he decided to accept the Joker virus and surrender to the evil in his heart, he was carrying great expectations and was full of anticipation for a better life in the future.

He would feel that those days of being held back everywhere were finally over, and he could finally use his skills unscrupulously to roar unwillingly at the Dark Multiverse and let Batman see what true darkness is.

So when his plan didn't go smoothly, he would be extra broken. He would think: I have already broken the moral bottom line, why can't I still beat Batman?

He couldn't understand at all why nobility didn't become the epitaph of the noble in Batman's case. Batman's nobility became Batman's armor and sharp sword, beating him, a despicable villain holding a pass, into retreat.

Every vermin that had despicably slandered and darkly envied the truly noble people living in the sunshine in dark corners had never been willing to believe that there are some people in this world who can be both righteous and powerful.

The sunk cost of this kind of spiritual victory is sometimes even harder to let go of than the sunk cost of material things.

For example, Laughing is already in such a miserable state, yet he still wants to confront Schiller tit-for-tat.

Never mind missing a piece of brain, even if he only had one brain cell left, he would still do this. He just couldn't accept that he couldn't defeat Batman in the field of normal people, and couldn't defeat Schiller in the field of madmen.

Some people might ask: then what about Joker? In the field of madmen, shouldn't the one Laughing wants to defeat be Joker?

But the key is, at the hospital, Schiller was chasing Joker to kill him. In Laughing's view, this is the performance that Schiller has already defeated Joker. He doesn't want to fight for second place with Joker; he just wants to defeat the first and become the most unique person.

Having roughly analyzed Laughing's psychology, Batman didn't know how to evaluate it. If possible, he would provide Laughing with all support except help: respect his choice, praise his courage, and sing him a "wish you success."

Originally, things would have ended here, and Batman even planned to go do something else. As a result, he heard Jason's voice coming from the bug again:

"Schiller? That agent? Could it be that he was the one who turned you into this? It seems the murder case at the banquet was also related to him... But it doesn't matter, I'll go meet him myself."

Batman slapped his forehead.