What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 992 The Laughing Bat Deliberately Strikes with an Elbow, and the World Forger Closes His Eyes
If the Batman Who Laughs were still conscious, even if you killed him and cut off his head, you still wouldn't be able to make him display this level of ability to contend with the World Maker.

To prevent his own death, the Laughing Maniac prepared many ways to escape unscathed. He has always avoided any form of direct confrontation, and even appeared somewhat disheveled in some places.

It was like a bottomless pool of water; until the very last moment, no one knew what its deepest secret was—as it should have been. And its actions were successful; no one would have thought it could stand against the World Maker, even though the World Maker was very weak from being resurrected after being killed. But the Bat Who Laughs shouldn't have been able to mess with it.

So no one expected the Batman Who Laughs to be able to do this, not even the Batman Who Laughs himself. But it just happened so naturally. The person who believed in the Batman Who Laughs the most in this world was not even the Batman Who Laughs himself, but Batman Dragon Chen Tao.

The Batman Who Laughs always has a plan, and no matter how difficult things get for him, he can always handle it.

Main universe Superman? Main universe Batman? Or Batman: Dragon, or perhaps the first Lantern Man, Hero Sun Supreme Superman, or Superman Chen Tao?
Who is the best candidate to carry out the world's will and deliver a heavy blow to Papetua?
None of them are, understand? None of them are.

Papetua's actions upon descending from the Hypertime Stream were not without underlying reasons. When she chose to destroy the Hypertime Stream, it indicated that she held the upper hand and wanted to prevent others from using the Hypertime Stream against her. However, if she did not destroy it, it would mean that she did not hold the upper hand and needed to use the Hypertime Stream against others.

To put it bluntly, the existence of time travel makes it impossible to dominate the entire game. You might have temporary immense power, and then try to use that power to destroy others and achieve a winner-takes-all zero-sum game? Sorry, time travel can change the history of your recent victory. If you don't have this power, and your recent victory is fixed, you'll still lose the way you always have. Temporary victories are meaningless.

Not only that, but the time-travel also saves you the trouble of actually defeating others. You can directly set a winning outcome and then overwrite it from downstream to upstream. As long as the other party cannot prevent this reality from solidifying, cannot struggle with their own actions and existence, and cannot shake the future you have created like Batman Dragon, everything will be in vain.

The super-time flow forcibly turns the battle into a tug-of-war between overwriting and rewriting. Victory is no longer a matter of one burst of energy, but rather a contest of who can endure longer, be more tenacious, and continuously pull reality in a direction that is more unfavorable to the opponent, even when the opponent's reality is more advantageous.

So you should know just how disgusting this thing is. The Hand of the Void was almost so disgusted by it that he couldn't eat. Under this basic logic of confrontation, the Bat Who Laughs was an absurd accident.

Although he was at the center of the storm, no one thought he was an important figure.

Or rather, everyone's "trouble level" for Maniac Laughter is at the mortal level, not the multiverse level; only Chen Tao knows just how powerful Maniac Laughter is.

Whether it's Superman from the main universe, Batman from the main universe, or Superman the Supreme, any one of them defeating Perpetua in the DC multiverse can enhance the other party, but this enhancement is one-time and temporary.

Perhaps the Superman of the main universe could unleash a punch from all three generations to destroy the baby multiverse of the Worldmaker, but what would that punch mean to Papetua? She could change the reality of being defeated, while the Superman of the main universe could not maintain the power to destroy the baby multiverse with a single punch forever.

This is an outburst of idealism, a bearing of destiny, but not the power of Superman himself.

Against ordinary opponents, such momentary power could nail the Justice League's victory to the timeline of history. Those opponents were not powerful enough to change established facts, nor were they powerful enough to erase the reality of another's victory. But Papetua could.

When Papetua was first brought down from the wall, she was still very weak and was terrified that her three children would work together to create a reality that would put her back in prison. But now she has regained some of her strength. Even without the full union, just by drawing strength from the still unsolidified reality of "Papetua's victory," she already has the resources to start another tug-of-war.

That's where things went wrong. This is why Papetua always knew that the longer the game dragged on, the greater her chances of winning would be. Even though Batman Dragon's dragging the Void Hand into the game was something Papetua hadn't anticipated, it was precisely this move that gave Batman Dragon a lot of extra time; otherwise, the battle would have been over long ago.

But the Batman Who Laughs is different. For the Batman Who Laughs, his power is his own, and the Manifest Destiny of the DC Multiverse is no longer an enhancement for him, but a leash, forcing him to move in a direction more beneficial to the DC Multiverse.

When the Batman Who Laughs regains his senses, he can break free of the leash and escape the destiny of the DC multiverse with his own free will, no longer bearing the burden of saving the entire DC multiverse. But now Batman Dragon has completed the first step of his spiritual infiltration of the Batman Who Laughs. He is mentally confused and is no longer the cunning Batman Who Laughs. Even if he abandons his current body, the spiritual entities that have been injected into him will still follow him like a shadow.

"what!!!!"

The world's forgers were beaten up by the laughing bats, their bodies trembling with excitement.

This is his baby multiverse. Destiny of the DC shouldn't have been here, but unfortunately, Superman Chen Tao, that double agent, opened the door and stole it. The World Builder finally understands why Superman Chen Tao was so conveniently here.

The baby in the multiverse was observing all of this unfolding in a daze. He was originally a clone of the DC multiverse. He understood that if something was detrimental to him, he would infuse the world's will into a certain character and then have him kick the bad thing away!

But the World Makers are no longer able to care whether their infant multiverse has begun to evolve on its own.

Behind the Laughing Bat, a blue bat phantom appeared, as terrifying as a ghostly figure.

He raised his gauntlets high as if he were holding a knife or something similar, and then thrust downwards with a standard tactical move. Even when unconscious, the Batman Who Laughs is still Batman, and Batman's physical skills are absolutely top-notch.

A sharp slash, followed by maniacal laughter in a dream.

In the dream world, he plunged his knife into Nightwing Dick Grayson's ribs. Nightwing had no time to react; he tried to swing his twin clubs to block, but before he could even pull them out, he was struck. Laughter punched him in the neck, and he staggered back, clutching his neck, a blank look in his eyes.

With a bang, the World Forger is getting punched.

As the Batman Who Laughs made a punching motion, the blue bat behind him moved in sync. The World Forger tried to swing his hammer to block, but the hammer passed right through the Batman Who Laughs' body. He staggered back, clutching his neck, a look of bewilderment in his eyes.

This is Schrödinger's quantum superposition state. The laughing bat appears to be here, but it is not actually here. Its existence depends on whether it is observed at the moment the hammer hits it. However, even at the moment of light refraction, the probability that the laughing bat does not exist is by no means 0.

Quantum mechanics tells us that God plays dice, buddy.

Thousands of miles away, Dr. Manhattan also looked bewildered. No, Dr. Manhattan is still alive.

No problem. When you, Dr. Manhattan, die, I, the Quantum Batman, will appear. But that doesn't mean I don't exist at this point in time, because the Quantum God exists at any point in time.

Dr. Manhattan attempts to investigate the state of the Quantum Batman. He sees the cause and effect in an instant, but does not understand how he dies, just as he had foreseen his collision with Superman at the beginning of the Doomsday Bell, after which his world went dark.

He knew he had collided with Superman, but he didn't know the outcome of the collision, nor how he disappeared.

Dr. Manhattan continued to study the state of quantum bats.

It's impossible to study because quantum bats don't exist yet.

The second Robin lunged forward, and Jason Todd raised his gun to retaliate, but the bullet was blocked by the Bat Who Laughs. He had regained his powers, and killing mortals was as easy as slaughtering chickens.

The World Maker pounced. He had already sensed that the maniacal laughter was abnormal, but there was no turning back now. Regardless of the situation of the blue Batman behind him, the World Maker had to snatch his Baby Multiverse and leave. He had even given up hope of taking the Anti-Monitor and the Monitor with him.

His demands have been lowered again and again; from initially wanting to reap the benefits, he now only asks to withdraw completely.

But even the Laughing Bat wouldn't be given to him.

A second phantom materialized behind the Batman Who Laughs; it was Batman's Dragon.

Papetua, who was in a world beyond countless dimensions of time and space, had a drastic change in expression.

Batman Dragon is rewriting history; he is creating a history of his victory, just as Papetua once did.

This victory is not a hollow heretical path; it is based on the Batman Who Laughs, on the Ultimate Watcher, on the dead like Superman Supreme or Parallax Morhal, and on most of the main universe that has already fallen into death.

That was a concept, an idea, an era in which new characters would take over from the old ones and temporarily bear the destiny of the DC multiverse.

This era is called 5G. I don't know if it was an era that never took shape in the comics that gave rise to this name, or if this name created a period of history that never existed in the comics.

Papetua tried to quickly erase this newly appeared timeline, but found she couldn't. Looking down, she discovered an event called "[Earl Number One Dies After Traveling Three Times]," which was like a nail driven into the hypertime stream. The entire 5G era was like a chain connecting Earth 15 up to the events of his three deaths, creating an incredibly strong logical causal chain right under Papetua's nose!

damn it!
(Note: In the original manga, the 5G era did indeed appear. Originally, the DC editorial department envisioned this era after Papetua's defeat, but due to various reasons, the plan was scrapped and replaced by the arrival of the infinite era.)
"Alphaus!"

The World Founder clutched his head, hearing his mother's whispers, whispers he wanted to refuse, but his mother remained unyielding, just as she had once demanded of him that all those creatures be transformed into colossal Prometheus, hybrids of Martian hunters and human genes, soldiers of Perpetua.

“You want to leave? I’ll help you!” The World Builder heard his mother say, “Never let the Batman Who Laughs knock you down. Once he does, the future depicted by Batman: Dragon Lock will be complete!”

The World Forger was struck in the chin by the Batman Who Laughs' uppercut and sent flying like a top, his mother's voice ringing in his ears:
"I'll help you escape!"

Yes, if it were his mother, she probably could do it. He could sail away from the Infant Multiverse as easily as he sailed away his submarine, leaving the DC Multiverse like a stray dog, completely avoiding these conflicts. If he accepted his mother's help, even though the Batman Who Laughs is clearly in an abnormal state now, he could avoid facing his opponent directly and then escape calmly.

Yes, yes, that's right, he could have done that. But the problem is, if he had done that...

The World Founder closed his eyes, letting out a long sigh in his heart, his body wracked with intense pain. He saw the dawn of victory, the vision of Batman Dragon defeating Perpetua.

He did intend to escape, he really wanted to escape, he wanted to accomplish the feat of swallowing an elephant whole, he wanted to replace the dark and gloomy world created by his mother, Papetua, with his own perfect infant multiverse...

Like his brother, the Watcher, he disliked the somber and dark aspects. Intellectually, he knew that this somberness and constant crisis would make his baby multiverse stronger. The World Maker knew this and there was never any moral code that would prevent him from using the crisis to make the universe stronger so that he could live better.

But deep down... the World Builder does indeed dislike those painful and profound aspects, but he never lets such preferences influence his judgment or dominate his actions like the Watcher does.

But if given the chance, if it were to be facing his mother, Papetua…

"Do not."

He said.

The world's forgers closed their eyes, and so... the world's forgers closed their eyes.

"This time I'm really done for. I hope he won't die again." The World Forger lamented in his heart.

(End of this chapter)