Chapter 86 The Laughter Crisis: The player is Jesus, the laughter is the Bible. ...
Players and the Batman Who Laughs come together, light and darkness intertwine, drawing a clear dividing line.
Dappled light and shadow spilled across the broken glass, casting a hazy glow behind the priest. Jason, caught in the interplay of light and shadow, gripped his twin pistols in a daze.
Batman, hidden in the shadows, slowly curled his tightly pursed lips into a twisted smile: "Alright, alright, I almost forgot about you."
Knowing his identity had been exposed, the Batman Who Laughs dropped the pretense, revealing his true form. He opened his arms to Jason and begged, "Oh, please, Jason, I'm your father. Come to me. I promise I won't hurt you... too much, ha." His self-serving lies amused him, and he couldn't help but throw his head back and laugh.
Wen Yue gripped the batarangs tightly, raised her hand, and fired several more at once. The batarangs sank deep into the floor, emitting a dull, cracking vibration.
The power of the Black God has corrupted the Mother Box, making it incredibly easy for players to use. The Mother Box's material recombination, combined with God's omnipotent authority, makes creating the Batdart from nothing just a basic operation.
"Don't be so rough." The Laughing Bat skillfully dodged all the batarangs, moving away from Jason as the player wished. "Do you remember? You almost killed me just now, Bruce. Your sniping is truly unique, catching people off guard."
"I am another version of you, how could you be so cruel to yourself?" The Laughing Bat covered his face and pretended to cry a few times. When he lowered his hand again, he had taken off his disguise and revealed his true appearance.
The bat, pale-faced and laughing wildly, had an exaggeratedly ferocious smile, revealing jagged, yellowish-white teeth, and wore metal goggles covered in spikes.
The goggles that completely covered half of his face and eyes were made of dark metal. They could filter out dark energy and noise through the membrane of the dark multiverse, allowing him to focus on what he wanted to see: the deepest fears or long-cherished desires in everyone's hearts. All intense desires were exposed under the metal goggles.
At this moment, the Laughing Bat sees the player's psychological weakness through the metal goggles.
"You think you can protect him? No, you've never been able to protect anyone, Bruce Wayne." The player had a batarang, and the Laughing Batman certainly did too, raising his hand and throwing it straight at Jason.
Wen Yue suddenly rushed towards Jason and activated the Mother Box to construct a familiar combat suit.
“I don’t need anyone to protect me.” Jason raised his gun and fired, knocking down the batarangs one by one.
A flash of green light revealed a transparent vial hidden among layers of batarangs. Jason's bullet struck the vial, and green poisonous smoke exploded instantly.
Players locate items in mid-air, and the game's inventory records them regardless of spatial distance. The potion canister, along with the poison, disappears into the void and becomes a slot in the game's inventory.
With her cloak billowing, the soft fabric deftly blocked the remaining two darts that had slipped through her net. Wen Yue flicked her cloak, roughly returning the two batarangs to their rightful owner. The effortless movement carried a kind of freehand beauty.
Before the player, dressed in the Batman suit, could catch his breath and laugh wildly, he drew the Great Caste Blade from the void, leaped forward, and the sword's brilliant light drew an arc of light.
The Laughing Bat dodged the sword to the side, bursting into uncontrollable laughter: "Hahahaha, listen to me, Bruce, you're the worst one, you're a joke, we're all laughing at you."
The bat's joyful noise disturbed the players.
Wen Yue twisted her body and swung her sword, the light swirling and the sword's momentum like a rainbow. Facing an opponent like Kuang Xiao, who possessed high defense, high agility, and high evasion with no scruples, the player remained highly vigilant and launched a full-scale attack.
With a flash, the Batman Who Laughs released Robin Who Laughs, saying, "It's all thanks to you that I was able to enter this world. You accelerated this process; you are the culprit behind the destruction of this world."
The trash-talking player has finally met her match today; this laughing bat is even more talkative than her.
Fighting against the Laughing One is a physical and mental torture. This Laughing One not only attacks the body, but also launches physical attacks. Not only is its physical skill superb, but its verbal attacks are also enough to rival those of the player.
Players never admit defeat, in every sense of the word.
"A strong medicine always hurts, but at least it's not a complete collapse of ignorance." Wen Yue prepared to meet the attack of the Laughing Robin, but they bypassed the players and rushed straight to the rear.
The six Laughing Robins, each wearing a collar around their neck, hissed and charged at Jason like hunting dogs, emitting piercing laughs.
"Jason..." They seemed to still have a basic ability to recognize people, but their eyes were filled with bloodlust and a frenzied desire to kill.
Jason fired his twin bullets, causing blood to bloom on Robin's limbs. However, Robin seemed to have lost the sense of pain and pounced on Jason without any hindrance.
Behind Jason, two Laughing Robins appeared like ghosts, their grinning teeth biting down on Jason's arms as he raised his gun. The sharp teeth had an astonishing bite force, and Jason's armor, which had been transformed into a brittle shark, shattered instantly.
With his fingers loosened, Robin the Laughing, who launched a side attack, knocked the two guns away, and Jason's body, along with the damaged guns, crashed to the ground.
“Do you recognize them? Bruce, these are my creations, a bunch of well-behaved dogs.” The Laughing Bat pointed his sharp nails at Robin Dogs, his scarlet lips almost reaching his ears in a wide grin: “Hahaha, bat against bat, Robin against Robin, it’s fair.”
Where's the fairness? At least it should be one-on-one.
Wen Yue was anxious and turned around to prepare to rescue him, but was stopped by the Laughing Bat.
"Don't worry, you won't be here for long, we'll be done soon..." The laughing bat clung tightly to the player, its playful attitude amusing everyone.
With a flick of her wrist, the Omega Ray silently appeared in Wen Yue's hand; the player only wanted to finish off the Laughing Madman quickly.
The Laughing Bat seemed to sense something, a strange smile spreading across its lips as it asked expectantly, "Are you going to kill me, my friend?"
She paused, her expression softening slightly: "No, thank you."
The player retracts one of their special moves.
This maniacal light show pauses for a moment, as players hear the echo of Jason colliding with God, the ceaseless turmoil between a noble soul and omnipotent authority.
"Zheng—"
Like the taut string of fate, a flash of golden light streaked beneath Robin's fallen body. The next moment, a dazzling and magnificent sword aura, like a raging sea, distorted space with its overwhelming power to slay everything, surging forth with the tide of holy light and bursting forth.
Jason, regardless of the world, is indomitable and fearless. His noble character and human brilliance transcend worldly conventions, and he possesses the determination to break free from the shackles of fate, always resonating with the omnipotent authority left to him by players.
Jason has an inextinguishable flame in his heart, refusing to become numb or assimilated, breaking through the tricks of fate, and flying against the wind.
The two swords in his hands shone brightly, their power and form moving at will, the cross embodying the will of its master and transforming into the blades.
Jason swung his twin swords across the obstacle, stepping over the fallen body of the Laughing Robin. His eyes were fixed on the Laughing Batman as he emerged, his gaze sharp with fighting spirit: "Pathetic."
The Arkham Knight armor was torn to shreds by Robin Hound, but Jason didn't care and ripped it off, revealing the camouflage combat suit underneath. He lowered his eyes, pointed his sword, and laughed wildly: "Go on, let me see what other tricks you have up your sleeve."
Wen Yue smiled wryly: When the players gave Jason the authority of God before, Jason refused to admit that the cross was a sword. Now he's proven wrong.
Tim and Dick used their grappling hooks to leap up the stairs and arrived at the office, panting. "Bruce, outside..." The chaotic and bloody scene inside caught his eye, and his voice trailed off.
"What's wrong?" Wen Yue turned around and broke the silence.
"There's a group of people outside laughing hysterically, they seem to be infected with nitrous oxide. There aren't many of them, but they're very difficult to deal with. Tim and I had some trouble dealing with them, and now they're all locked up in a room in Wayne Tower." Dick's eyes darted between the players and the hysterical laughter. Neither of these two seemed to be his Batman. Was the Batman he saw earlier a fake?
"Well done." Wen Yue nodded slightly, then turned her gaze to Kuang Xiao: "Kuang Xiao, I suggest you obediently surrender."
"Alright, alright, looks like I'm not the one who laughs last." The Batman Who Laughs walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked down at Gotham. The traffic flowed smoothly and orderly, as peaceful as ever.
The crazed mob beating Wayne Tower were pawns temporarily infected by the Laughing One, intended only to distract Robin and Nightwing from interfering with the duel between the two bats.
Judging by the timeline, the main event was supposed to be after Robin and Nightwing dealt with the crazed crowd, but now it's obvious that the main event was cut short halfway through and never got to happen.
The show was over before it even began. The Batman Who Laughs angrily said, "Damn it, you're just like me, you can see through Gotham's weak, despicable, and depraved nature, yet you still do futile work, saving them again and again. Do you think they'll thank you? No, they'll only curse you, resent you, and be overjoyed, wishing you would die right now."
"Although I don't know when you and that Batman conspired together, or what method you used to stop him from becoming me, the result is clear: Batman has saved Gotham once again, and my 'Last Laugh' didn't activate." The Batman Who Laughs spread his hands, saying with obvious regret, "This time, you won."
The Batman Who Laughs originally planned to infect Batman, triggering a hidden program in Gotham called "The Last Laugh," which would then release a toxin into the city's water supply, infecting everyone. However, the city remains completely unresponsive, undoubtedly due to the actions of the Batman standing before him.
The players' silence in response was deafening.
Wen Yue pursed her thin lips, her mind blankly typing out a question mark: "?"
Players have followed the protagonist in the adventures of Seer, made their own in Genshin Impact collecting Visions, commanded armies as commanders in Azur Lane, and pursued the truth in Identity V's battle royale... The Fourth Calamity has traveled all over the world for many years and can be considered quite knowledgeable, but today they are really a bit confused.
What on earth is this laughing bat babbling about? What did the player do to win? I advise you not to be so blatant about fixing matches (just kidding).
In this high-level match, the player is Jesus, and the maniacal laughter is the Bible (a sign of madness).
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Author's note: This is the most reliable episode for players.
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