What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 1001 King vs. King: Batman: Chen Tao Returns

The first Lantern Knight has entered my dream.

He was the second person to enter the dream, after the Laughing Bat.

He didn't know why he was there, nor did he know that he was dreaming.

He had just seen another beautiful dream, and so he succumbed to it once again.

That's how things are in this world; hard work doesn't always guarantee a reward, and things often don't turn out the way you want them to.

Things often declare our failure in a mechanical or even cruel way, from small things like exams, job hunting, and relationships, to even death.

The old friend had not been in contact for a long time, and when I heard of him again, it was already his death; the old man who was so vivid in my memory slowly faded with the passage of time.

All of this is like the newsstand I used to frequent as a child, which has been removed when I went back, leaving only two iron nails embedded in the paving stones of the sidewalk...

Then a few years passed in a flash, and even the iron nails embedded in the ground disappeared, leaving only a stark white patch. Often, many strangers would sing and dance there, and no one remembered who had ever been there or what stories had unfolded there.

In the end, everyone else embarks on a new journey in life, but you are trapped in the shadows of the past, struggling and crying out in despair. Even though you now possess the power you once longed for but could not obtain, your heart is not free.

Will you bring back what you considered the meaning of life yesterday? But in the end, you're just looking for a reason to live; it's all just a dream.

But there's nothing wrong with dreaming. At least in dreams, you can relive the warmth of the past and forget reality. Isn't that the meaning of dreams?
But dreams eventually end. Even if you can live in a dream for countless years, you will know clearly in your heart that the moment will come, and then you will have to face the reality that you do not want to accept once again.

Therefore, we can understand that dreams are only suitable for rest, while only death is true sleep.

"But dreams are ultimately beneficial, calamity."

The first Lantern Hears the voice. He looked up and saw the God of Dreams appear before him like mist in a stream of silvery light.

The first Lantern ignored him, and simply gazed at the houses in the distance.

That was the house in his dream, but he could only see it in his dream.

"You are a time traveler, Calamity."

The Sandman from the Endless Family walked up to Calamity and stood beside him, shoulder to shoulder.

"You should know very well how you're going to end up."

"The ending..."

Huo Rong remained silent.

He had imagined his fate many times.

As the Sandman said, he was a time traveler, and almost no one could predict his fate.

If he truly dies one day, it must mean that it was the ending he chose for himself.

It's all very strange. The Calamity from the upper reaches of the timeline is a future tense for the Calamity of today, but a past tense for Batman Dragon.

The reason why Calamity can accomplish what he did in the future is because of the influence of the past on Batman Dragon.

He knew in advance that he would die, and then chose to follow the trajectory of his fate, facing the reality of his death with equanimity.

"I don't understand, was all of this orchestrated by Batman Dragon? Did he plan all along to use my three trips back to the upper reaches of the timeline to pierce through the history of Papetua?"

“No, my friend, don’t you understand?” said the Sleep Demon. “I am here only to inform you that the turning point of choice has been born at this moment. And all that you have experienced in the past is created by the choices you make now.”

"The fact that you are going back three times in the timeline is determined by your present actions."

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The laughing bat struggled.

But he found himself unable to move.

He opened his mouth, his eyes blazing with fury.

He did escape from Batman: Dragon's plan to capture him and use him as fodder, a plan that would kill both Papetua and him with a single punch, but this...

"Hehehehehe, all of this is still part of Batman Dragon's plan, eh~"

The Laughing Bat was unable to move, glaring furiously at the two five-dimensional beings jumping around in front of him.

They are the bat mite and the troublemaker.

"Oh my god, after all this time, Batman Dragon should finally give me back my five-dimensional energy!" Bat Mite exclaimed, jumping around.

"Yes, the Emperor Clown."

The Bat of Laughter muttered through gritted teeth, "You've used the Emperor Joker as an anchor to hold me down!"

Damn it! Even though he had already escaped the DC multiverse, the Batman Who Laughs now felt an unparalleled siphon effect from the DC multiverse's hypertime flow, trying to pull him back into the DC multiverse.

This is simply because the Emperor Joker exists within the Batman Who Laughs.

The Batman Who Laughs wanted to expel the Emperor Joker from his body as soon as possible, but the Emperor Joker had become one of his many personalities.

These numerous personalities tore at the Batman Who Laughs's consciousness, preventing him from abandoning his physical body and escaping, as well as from driving out the Emperor Joker.

—And even if he could transfer his consciousness, he couldn't escape the siege of two five-dimensional beings, the bat mite and the troublemaker!

The more critical issue is that the Joker within him essentially created an absolute reality in the timeline that "I will definitely be there at that point in time," and Batman Dragon reinforced this reality after it was established.

Now the Bat of Laughter has no choice but to go back!

Just like when the Death of Superman event happened, before Superman set off to attack Doomsday, he could be pulled into countless battles by the timeline, including but not limited to the Earth-15 war in Batman: Dragon, etc...

Once he finishes fighting these battles, his memories will be erased again, and he will return to his original position. Then, he will be killed by Doomsday as in normal "history," maintaining the normal occurrence of the Superman's death event in the hyperchronic timeline, thus giving the hyperchronic timeline its most basic stability.

The stable time-travel flow is maintained by events like the death of Superman. If someone fails to return as required, it becomes a huge problem for the time-travel flow.

For example, if Superman left but didn't want to come back and obediently died at the hands of Doomsday, then countless subsequent major events would be affected.

Therefore, the only way to stabilize the time-travel narrative is to temporarily set the premise that "although he is not back now, he will return someday." Only when the derelict Superman returns to the "Death of Superman" event can the stability of the time-travel narrative continue.

But the Batman Who Laughs is now facing a slightly different situation.

The Emperor Clown's mother is a five-dimensional being, although not a complete five-dimensional being, but she still possesses the characteristics of such a being.

Five-dimensional beings exist simultaneously at every node of the hyperchronic flow. In other words, if the Superman who died was a five-dimensional being, he would be able to simultaneously feel the sensation of sleeping with Louise in the morning and the sensation of being pierced through the body by Doomsday at night.

Both feelings will appear in his consciousness at the same time, and there is no such thing as him being pulled in to be a thug, and then coming back after the fight.

He will simultaneously feel the sensation of doing his job (referring to being brutally killed by Doomsday) and the sensation of being dragged to work; he will exist in both states at the same time.

But when applied to the Batman Who Laughs, the result becomes...

"No! Damn it!" The five-dimensional life features that emanated from the Emperor Joker appeared on the Batman Who Laughs.

The Emperor Joker is one of the Batman Who Laughs's personalities, therefore the Emperor Joker = The Batman Who Laughs.

The Emperor Joker once existed in Gotham City on the main timeline. This event was a self-inflicted, time-traveling reality that the Batman Who Laughs could not destroy.

Therefore, due to the five-dimensional characteristics.

The Emperor Joker exists both inside and outside the DC multiverse.

And the laughing bat...

It also exists both inside and outside the DC multiverse!

(Chapter 636, Chen Tao gives the Mischief to the Emperor Joker; Chapter 659, the Mischief successfully cuts off from the Emperor Joker in the timeline; Chapter 700, the Emperor Joker once appeared in Gotham City in the main universe timeline.)

"Ah!!! Damn it!!!"

Batman Dragon's move rendered any attempt by The Batman Who Laughs to escape meaningless. No matter how far he was from the DC multiverse, the characteristics of a five-dimensional being meant that he would exist both inside and outside the DC multiverse simultaneously.

The scene shifted, and the Laughing Maniac's consciousness and body found themselves still within the DC multiverse. A chill ran down his spine; this wasn't the worst-case scenario. If he were Batman: Dragon, the worst-case scenario would be…

"Hey buddy."

The Laughing Bat turned its head expressionlessly and saw a clown dinosaur head with a bright, sunny smile growing on its shoulder.

The Bat of Laughter's eyes, hidden behind his dark goggles, were filled with both shock and rage.

Batman Dragon's favorite and most proficient trick is the double-headed trap. If he can't break into the opponent's mind, he will physically deprive them of control over their body.

He's been on the run for so long, gone so far, but was Batman Dragon already prepared to trap him back in the DC multiverse a long time ago?
"Look, Bat of Laughter, in the end, let alone the beings of the positive matter multiverse, it seems that only our dark multiverse is the last hope to save the DC multiverse and defeat Perpetua."

The Batman Who Laughs, upon hearing Batman Dragon's laughter, felt as disgusted as if he were the Batman Who Laughs himself: "How about this, I'll just call our group the Dark Multiverse Resistance. I've said it before, you should be the leader, how about that?" (Chapter 574, Chen Tao once said that the Batman Who Laughs should be the leader)
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Papetua felt as if he were shouting in a deserted wilderness.

The hazy mist gathered into waves and oceans, rolling and swirling in the pitch-black night.

She is like an isolated island in the ocean.

Running, jumping, flying, struggling through the vortex of clouds and rain, I thought I would catch a ray of light.

But everything returned to silence.

Wait, what the hell is this?
Papetua suddenly came to his senses.

Before him stood the battered and bruised Batman from the main universe, panting heavily.

The 6th Dimension Armor is indeed a powerful artifact, crafted by the World Maker himself, capable of instantly transforming Batman's combat power from a little girl into WarGreymon.

The power of the story left behind by Batman: Dragon and the Void Hand allows Batman in the main universe to overcome the strong with the weak; otherwise, he would have been turned to dust the moment he met Perpetua, even with his sixth-dimensional armor.

Super Junior and Parallax Mohal were still trying to assist from the sidelines. Although they were greatly weakened and no longer had that invincible power, they were still able to restrain Perpetua and confront him with the power of the story.

And the World Forgers...

Despite the World Founders saying the Penguin's lines are absurd, that's how the story of Batman: Dragon is written.

They can buy themselves plenty of time.

But the main universe Batman was already struggling. Even through the sixth-dimensional armor, he felt several of his ribs break from the simple shockwave.

The fact that Batman from the main universe is still just a mortal being, and that he hasn't been killed by the shockwave yet, is already a testament to the incredible skill of the World Builder.

When will Batman's Dragon return? The main universe's Batman doesn't know. According to his plan, the enemy should have already been resurrected. Why hasn't he?
But right now, there's nothing Batman can do in the main universe; he can only wait.

wait.

And he finally got to that moment.

Papetua suddenly felt a pang of heart palpitation.

And Batman in the main universe sensed it too.

He could no longer sustain Batman's place in the story; he had held on long enough. The massive white armor staggered and, along with Batman's movement, half-knelt on the ground.

"Damn it, get out here!"

Papetua tried his best to avoid any potential impact on the story.

Then she sensed a reality from which she had uttered the last two sentences, overwriting her current reality:
"Face me!"

Why don't you dare—

She was too weak; the power of the story took effect.

Papetua paused, seeing black mist rising before her, and a dragon almost as big as her appeared before her.

That pale clown dragon had only its upper half; its lower half was connected to… a half-dead laughing bat?!
In short, the black mist extended from his back like outstretched wings.

Papetua heard the other party say this:

"Therefore... I have answered the call. Now, warrior... I will challenge the dragon!"

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Boo!
The Death of the Endless Family sat blankly in the curled-up dimension, surrounded by flowers and grass.

The Batman Dragon who had been clinging to his leg just moments before had vanished without a trace.

"Pah!" she said. "That's enough. Maybe I should try to get him to be my attendant god when we first meet, so I can avoid all this trouble."

Like the five-dimensional beings, the death of the Endless Family also possesses the ability to exist simultaneously at every node of the hypertime flow.

So for Batman: Dragon it is the past, but for the death of the Infinity Family it is happening simultaneously.

In short, she immediately tried to get Batman Dragon to do her work.

(Note: That's why in Chapter 542, when he first met Batman Dragon, he expressed his reluctance to part with him and tried to offer generous terms to make him a god.)
Unsurprisingly, Batman Dragon refused.

Death puffed up its face in anger.

(End of this chapter)