Chapter 89: The enemy's opportunistic attack in the final battle was disgusting, but the teammates...

"Show me the dungeon surveillance footage of the maniacal laughter." Giving Batman a reassuring pat on the shoulder, whose face was grave, Wen Yue moved to his side and took over the only computer chair.

Batman pulls up the surveillance footage, and the player, nestled in a chair, observes the maniacal laughter under the camera's lens.

His listless demeanor seemed perfectly normal; upon noticing someone watching him, he even had the leisure to give the person behind the screen a slight smile.

Wen Yue's expression remained unchanged: she laughed wildly. "Watashi's lifelong nemesis, the acting beast player, has finally met his match."

"Damn it, that's another happy version of me. I'm not unique after all." The maniacal laughter swirling around the player was indignant, but then his tone changed a second later: "But I don't mind, come join us, Bruce."

"..." Wen Yue revealed an indescribable look.

You really deserve credit, playing two roles all by yourself, that must have been quite a feat!

"Beep beep beep..." Batman's communicator rang.

Under the bewildered gaze of the players, Batman ran to the other side of the Batcave to make a communication call, far away from the players, seemingly as far as ten thousand miles away.

Wen Yue couldn't hold back any longer. The enemy's opportunistic attack was disgusting, but her teammates' disdain was even more heartbreaking.

Dude, do you really need to be this wary? I haven't been possessed by that evil Xiaoxiaozi yet.

Batman opened Dick's video call. Dick, Tim, and Jason, at the rear, were running through the dark, shadowy sewers, enacting a high-speed escape. Dick, panting, said in a hoarse voice, "Batman, we successfully destroyed the Dark Metal, but it seems to be a trap... We're surrounded by Claws and Robin the Laughing..."

“Our weapons are useless against them; only Jason’s knife can really hurt them…” Tim added from behind Dick.

Players can solve this problem; there's a solution within three steps: "Find a raven to enchant your weapons."

Wen Yue called out from afar, and Batman nodded calmly to Dick: "I think you heard me too. Do as Bruce said. And I've planted a bomb in the sewer passage where you escaped. It can be activated in a critical moment. The command code is..."

As the saying goes, "Walk the villain's path and leave the villain with nowhere to go," players realize they're still a piece of cake compared to the real Batman. Indeed, Batman is Robin's greatest enemy.

Batman hung up the call, and Wen Yue hesitated before saying, "Batman, I also have some bad news."

Batman glanced at him questioningly.

"...Laughter has revived beside me." Wen Yue made a joke to ease the tense atmosphere.

"?" Batman didn't quite catch the player's joke, but he understood what the player meant: "He escaped, and he's here?"

"A portion, I suppose."

The air became still and silent as the figure on the chair leaped into the air.

The dazzling brilliance clashed with the abruptly revealed enemy; the clear holy light and the inky darkness were clearly distinct and clashed head-on. The confrontation was completed in a few breaths, and Wen Yue retreated to Batman's side.

In an instant, his maniacal laughter, which had been fading into reality, turned back with regret: "Well, well, ha, I thought you already believed me... Bruce, are you always so wary?"

"Batman, I have a question. Is your dungeon designed by the same architect as Arkham's?"—Neither of them can hold people. Nightwing, the vampire king, escaped silently, and now the Laughing comes and goes as if nothing's wrong. It's just like Arkham's—they can't keep people in, it feels like they're coming home.

At some point, the dungeon in the surveillance footage was no longer occupied.

Batman's face is dark, and he was responsible for the design of the Batcave dungeon and Arkham.

"Bruce, don't wrong Batman, this is clearly your fault." The Batman Who Laughs defended Batman, pointing at the player and grinning, "It's because of you that I'm so powerful."

"Then let me see just how powerful you are." Wen Yue activated her ultimate move, the Omega Ray drawing a dazzling trajectory in the air as it hurtled straight toward the Laughing Bat.

The laughing bat didn't move; instead, it spread its arms to receive the ray attack, revealing a strange and expectant expression.

The Omega Ray paused abruptly just before hitting the Laughing Bat, then changed direction and charged towards the player without hesitation.

"Huh?" With light steps, Wen Yue dodged the Omega Ray that was difficult to identify, and landed gracefully. The ray that had just brushed past her spun around and attacked from behind again. Wen Yue turned slightly and glanced at her head in time to avoid it. The ray grazed her side and was only an inch away, creating a gust of wind that ruffled the stray hairs on her cheek.

"Why are you chasing me to kill me?" The stolen weapons are unreliable. Darkseid's stuff is no good. His ability to judge people needs a lot of improvement.

“Look at it, and then look at yourself. The truth is obvious, isn’t it?” the Laughing Bat said slowly and jokingly. “Because I am you.”

"No, that's not it." The player resolutely defended his honor, resorting to the same tactic as before, using the power of the Black God to suppress the distorted recovery ray.

“Yes, yes, that’s it, I felt it!” The chains on the Batman Who Laughs’s hands clanged with a dull, hoarse sound, and the other end of the chains appeared on the player’s wrist. “The moment you sealed off Gotham, I knew you were so wary of me, practically keeping a close watch on me. If you could, you wouldn’t be far from me, and that’s exactly what I wanted, hahaha…”

"Bruce, you can no longer use that power. Your connection is deepening..." The detection device in Batman's hand beeped with a warning.

"It's not like I can just not use it..." Wen Yue struggled with the heavy chains on her wrists, the iron rings splattered with scarlet spots like dried blood, the skin they touched stained with rust. The chains transmitted an unstoppable force, pulling her body towards the direction of the maniacal laughter. The player could only use the power of the Black God to suppress and stop the situation, the two were evenly matched.

“Even if we don’t use it, the connection between us will deepen over time… In that case, we might as well go all the way.”

Wen Yue entered the world through the Black God, and so did Kuang Xiao.

Given the precedent in the DC event Death Metal where the Batman Who Laughs stole divine power and possessed divine bodies, players understood his intentions the moment they learned the chains left behind by the Batman Who Laughs couldn't be broken. Therefore, the current situation didn't surprise them too much.

Whatever the madman's intentions, the player should just oppose him. If your belongings are stolen, of course you should take them back. If you can't take them back, then destroy them along with the robbers.

“Great, let’s get right to it in one step, let’s become one, hahaha…” The Laughing Bat tilted its head and pointed at its head, laughing as it spoke.

"There's one thing I hope you understand: don't be too arrogant in the face of the Fourth Calamity!" Players are called the Fourth Calamity because they are unattached to the game world and cannot be threatened by any temptations or benefits. The divine body left behind by God is nothing more than an empty shell, a game prop. Whether the character is a mortal or a god, it makes no difference to the player. They'll even tear up UR cards for you to see.

The darkness, like an abyss, rises from its source, carrying endless malice and deep-seated resentment and madness that permeate the entire being, creating a suffocating feeling and a chilling killing intent that sends shivers down one's spine.

Space shattered like a kaleidoscope pieced together in disarray, reflecting the surging undercurrents of the endless void, the empty, void-bound cage, the sacred place where the divine body slumbered in the abyss of this hidden universe. A drop of thick ink intruded into this pure space, spreading wildly in wisps, and the divine body fell into the darkness that spread like a tidal wave.

In contrast, Wen Yue was enveloped in a hazy halo, and the Great Caste Blade in her hand shone with a clear holy light. All her power converged and condensed into a deadly sharpness that fell down, unleashing boundless light that slashed towards the heavens with the momentum of splitting the heavens and earth.

While they still have the power to summon the Black God, the players maxed out their strength and set their sights on the mastermind behind Barbatos.

Beneath layers of darkness, a despairing universe on the verge of sinking into darkness and multiverse was suddenly illuminated by a ray of light. Accompanied by the fall of a supreme being's sword, the sea of ​​swords shattered the darkness, and the intense light poured out in an instant, almost engulfing everything. All things in the world, in their myriad forms, became both insignificant and magnificent under the holy radiance, endlessly sinking into the boundless whiteness. This world returned to its purest origin...

Barbatos, who had sealed this world from the outside, howled in the extreme white light, turning into a tiny speck. Countless brilliance condensed into a dark shell, sealing Barbatos within, and a black opal appeared from the void, falling into the player's palm.

Barbatos's power split into three parts: one part restrained the world's consciousness, intending to invade the player's world; one part invested in the Laughing Bat, intending to seize the divine body; and the other part was used to seal off the universe the player currently inhabited. In the player's unrestrained and all-consuming use of God's power, amidst the glorious holy light that consumed everything, Barbatos was utterly powerless to resist.

Barbatos, who wanted everything, ended up with nothing.

A faint cracking sound, like porcelain, emanated from Wen Yue's fragile body. Her body, modeled after an ordinary person, could not withstand the impact of a high-level power, and countless cracks spread across her surface.

The player's ability to destroy bases was comparable to that of his own bat squad. With a full-force strike, the sharp edge of the blade shot into the sky, and Wayne Manor was razed to the ground by the player's devastating attack. The warm light pierced through the shrouded night, and even a faint wisp of white appeared in the sky.

In the center of the battlefield, Batman stands unharmed beside the player, holding the Mother Box that the player had placed in his hand before making his move. The protective shield in front of Batman, cracked like transparent glass about to shatter, flickers in the air a few times, turns into specks of light, and dissipates into the completely dark Mother Box.

The Laughing Bat's body was crushed to dust by the player's ultimate move, but its soul successfully located the player's energy source when the player used the Black God's power, and traveled up the chain to the location of the divine body.