msmithbooks Chapter 563 The Joker Returns, the Laughing Little Girl, and the Justice League's Siege of the
Chapter 563 The Joker Returns, the Laughing Little Girl, and the Justice League's Siege of the
Chapter 563 The Joker Returns, the Laughing Little Girl, and the Justice League's Siege of the Joker? (6800 words)
The chaos and mutations across the Earth have gradually been smoothed over with the return of those two-headed monsters. Amidst the ruins caused by their sudden transformations, people get up from the ground, looking completely bewildered.
They completely lost themselves; memories of their time as two-headed monsters faded from their minds, as if they had woken up from a dream but forgotten why they had fallen into it in the first place.
They only had a vague feeling in their minds that they had once fallen in love with someone and then turned into beasts for him.
Most of the people felt pain all over their bodies, as if they had been beaten by ten burly men in turn. Those who found themselves back in their original positions were okay, but the unlucky ones were the drivers of their cars who were now ruins and were completely unharmed.
While driving, they suddenly transformed into two-headed purple-light monsters, then ran out of the car and flew into space to recruit Batman's crew. Their beloved car, naturally, was left unattended and crashed into the road, becoming a complete scrap metal.
Having transformed into two-headed monsters, they returned to their original positions and squeezed the car, which had long since turned into a metal disc, into a large enough hole for them to fit inside. They then successfully trapped the two, who had returned to their mortal forms, inside the metal lump.
"Good heavens, what on earth is going on?"
Amidst the wailing, people spotted Batman standing beside the bewildered crowd.
"It's Batman..."
"What's happening around us?"
"Oh my god, has anyone died?"
"I don't think so... Hey, Katie, I clearly remember you being hit by a car and dying before..."
"Damn it, I'm not dead yet!"
Amidst the chaos, Chen Tao first tore apart several unfortunate people trapped in the rubble of vehicles with his bare hands, then stood there, pondering how to explain things to the public.
He could have simply flown away, but he felt he should say something to the people to explain his actions, because no matter what, he had indeed turned them all into batteries and free thugs without their knowledge.
But he didn't know how to talk to the people. To be honest, Chen Tao was always busy with his own affairs, and the issue of communicating with the people was usually left to the Martian Hunter or Amanda Waller.
He was worried that he wouldn't be able to answer the questions the public asked, and his battle with Superman the Supreme and the Anti-Monitor, which went on and on like an hourglass or a ladle, was clearly not something that could be explained in a few words.
"Fellow citizens, we have experienced an alien invasion..."
So he could only describe what he wanted to say as briefly as possible, but fortunately, his words were quickly accepted by the people, and then a cheer broke out.
"Can we take a picture with you?"
Some members of the public even came up to try to take photos with Chen Tao. Their affection for Chen Tao was so great that it made him feel a little uncomfortable.
Damn it, could this be some kind of aftereffect of the purple light?
Amidst the jubilant crowd, Chen Tao delivered a long speech that was a complete rip-off of Homelander's speech, including phrases like "And you, my friends, are the real heroes!" He finally left the crowd surrounding him and flew away, surrounded by cheering crowds, which made Chen Tao feel utterly terrified.
Despite losing Purple Lantern, the public's affection for him has vaguely increased, and coupled with his status as a famous superhero, this has created such a fervent fan effect.
However, now is not the time to be a citizen of the motherland on Earth; Chen Tao has many things to do.
He flew out of Earth.
The two universes have gradually merged into a single fortress, and Chen Tao has many things to do before the Justice League wakes up.
He first freed Parallax and Ion Shark from his body. Since he had been unable to use the power of these two luminous beasts, he had been using the techniques of Calona and the first luminous man to forcibly tie them to his body and use them as two bulls.
He first sealed both lamp beasts back into the green lamp furnace he carried with him, then shook his body, and the form of the purple lamp beast, the predator, appeared on his body.
After losing more than 3000 heroes, his appearance was no longer that of a massive dragon from the Dark Multiverse. However, after unleashing the power of the Lamp Beasts, his dragon-like appearance grew even larger again, sprouting various purple keratinous layers.
As he took flight, all the purple-lighted two-headed monsters in both universes raised their heads and began to scream in unison:
"Aaaaaaah, Batman, I like you!!!"
"Bat Commander, we love you so much!!!"
"Batman! Batman! Get inside my body now!"
"Oops, I fell down! I need a kiss from Batman to get up!"
The entire multiverse was in chaos, with countless brainwashed two-headed monsters behaving hysterically and viciously. In a short period of time that Chen Tao didn't notice, some of them even underwent a mutation for some unknown reason, growing large mouths filled with sharp teeth on their stomachs and emitting cackling laughter.
These two-headed monsters even developed something akin to a religion in such a short time. Chen Tao controlled these two-headed monsters through the energy of the purple lamp, able to see through the entire universe at a glance. Some of the two-headed monsters were even constantly mimicking the scene of Chen Tao vomiting and having diarrhea with 3000 heroes—
Although they couldn't actually pull people out, they were simply imitating, like priests imitating the dance of their imagined gods.
But things are developing too fast. If he lets these purple monsters grow unchecked, who knows what strange things they'll turn into? What is this, the same kind of thing as the Wolf Warrior universe?
However, these monsters will soon return to their normal form.
As Chen Tao flew by, one by one the purple lamp rings slipped from the monsters' fingers, and then the power of the Crimson of All Beings faded from their bodies.
Chen Tao ordered them all to return to the positions they were in before they were possessed by the Purple Lantern Ring and the power of the Crimson of All Beings. Since the Crimson of All Beings would heal the injuries caused by the possession, many people who were killed but not quite dead even before being possessed would be resurrected, such as the mission targets who were killed by Deathstroke.
This ensures to the greatest extent possible that no one will die because of Chen Tao's act of borrowing their power.
For Chen Tao, this is the most important thing.
As the number of two-headed monsters in the universe dwindles, the resistance of the predator beasts towards Chen Tao increases. Chen Tao was not born with a divine body of love; the reason he was able to perfectly control the predator beasts was entirely due to the two-headed monsters' insane and twisted emotions acting as a leash.
Now that the leash is gone, the predator naturally intends to leave Chen Tao—
Of course, his final resting place is now the lamp stove that Chen Tao had prepared long ago.
After spending some time traversing the two universes and fixing the chaos he had created, the swaying Batman finally returned to where he started:
Earth.
Chen Tao's next stop is the Star Lab.
The entire Justice League should have been moved there by Killer Croc from the newly resurrected Red Realm, including Barry Allen, the Flash, whom Chen Tao had recently separated from using his Dark Multiverse Dragon Authority to weave destiny while he still possessed the power of over 3000 heroes.
He planned to visit everyone and check on their health to see if there were any problems...
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metropolis.
A family is holding a funeral.
Their family's funeral was only halfway through when, before they even had a proper meal, they all transformed into two-headed monsters, laughing maniacally as they went off to save the universe.
Now that they've returned, all the family members are still there, and it seems like nothing else has changed.
Everyone in the world did something together, and then returned to their original positions. Rounding up or down, it's like staying home during the pandemic. On the level of social relationships, it seems that time hasn't flowed at all.
So after realizing this, and after a brief period of commotion, the funeral proceeded as planned.
The deceased was the wife of a couple who died of acute heart disease.
In the cemetery, the body had already been buried, and after being covered with a coffin, it was placed in the grave.
The husband was giving a speech on stage, while the couple's daughter was sobbing softly outside a makeshift memorial hall set up in the cemetery.
The transformation into a two-headed monster briefly interrupted her crying, but she continued crying as soon as she returned.
However, the little girl stopped crying very quickly, because a blue portal appeared out of the void in front of her, and then a strange man wearing a hood walked out from behind.
"?" The little girl looked up and stared blankly at the strange hooded man.
At this moment, most of the relatives were gathered in the mourning hall, and it seemed that only the little girl witnessed this scene of spatial teleportation.
Then another hooded figure emerged from the portal, followed by yet another.
Two of the three hooded men left the mourning hall without saying a word, without even speaking to their companions.
But one of the hooded figures walked up to the little girl.
His hood was pulled down low, so the little girl couldn't see his expression under the hood or who he was.
But the little girl noticed that each of the three hooded men was holding a stick.
At this moment, the hooded man squatting in front of him, holding up the stick, said kindly to the little girl:
"Oh dear, whose funeral is this anyway?"
The little girl was a little scared. Instinctively, she didn't want to answer the strange uncle in front of her, even though his voice was very kind and polite.
She turned her head, wanting to call out to her father, but then the hooded man in front of her gently tapped the stick on the ground. Immediately afterward, the little girl felt as if a hazy mist had risen from the world, or as if some unknown giant had erased a frame from a comic book that it might appear in.
Answering the other person's question doesn't seem like something that shouldn't be done.
So she honestly said, "Waaah, it's my mom, my mom is down there... I put a candle in her box to keep her company, she never liked the dark. I... I wish my mom were still alive, but Dad told me she's dead, waaaah..."
As the little girl spoke, she was overcome with grief and burst into tears.
"Good boy," the hooded man said.
So he gently took the little girl's hand, and strangely enough, once he started holding her hand, she stopped crying and obediently followed behind him, like a leash-bound Robin Hood.
The hooded man then led her into the mourning hall, heading straight for her husband, who was still giving a speech, and the many relatives who were observing a moment of silence.
"Who are you? Are you on the list of relatives...?"
A family member tried to come up and ask, but the hooded man immediately raised the stick in his hand, and the man stood there dumbfounded, not saying a word.
He then jumped onto the makeshift stage and kicked his husband, who was still speaking, off the stage.
This caused quite a commotion, throwing the entire funeral into chaos. Many young men from the family rolled up their sleeves and jumped onto the stage, wanting to teach this crazy person who was causing such a disturbance a lesson.
For such a large family to be able to hold such a grand funeral, they must not be ordinary people in the metropolis; they are a family with considerable influence in the community and neighborhood.
The young men were swearing, but they soon stopped.
The hooded man released the little girl's hand, leaving her standing there blankly, and then raised the wooden stick in his hand, pointing it directly at the coffin in the grave pit not far away.
"roar!"
In the blink of an eye, a chilling roar erupted. The wife, who had just been buried, kicked her own coffin lid away. Her once beautiful face had turned a zombie-like blue. The zombie wife crawled out of the coffin upside down and then hopped and leaped towards the many relatives present.
"God!"
Chaos erupted at the scene. Only the people of Gotham carried guns. In the metropolis, no one would carry weapons, especially not at a funeral. They weren't a Mafia family.
The wife pounced on her husband, pinned him to the ground, and began kissing him wildly, leaving blood everywhere, spurting like a small fountain.
The little girl was so frightened by the sudden turn of events that she burst into tears. As if she had broken free of some kind of control, she jumped directly off the stage, but her legs went weak and all she could do was cry.
"Let me think..." The hooded man stood there, making a thoughtful gesture, then he raised the stick again and pointed it at the little girl.
"Drink! Maniacal Laughter Technique!"
The little girl immediately stopped crying and started laughing.
In just one second, the little girl experienced complete happiness.
She laughed wildly, then, out of fear, desperately fled out of the mourning hall, laughing as she ran:
"Hohohohohohohohoha ...
The little girl ran away laughing maniacally, with her mother, the wife who had been turned into a zombie, following behind. The hooded man kept chasing them, and when he saw the relatives with mournful faces nearby, he swung his stick, unleashing what he called a "laughter spell" on them, laughing maniacally as he did so.
"Hahahaha, your mom really came back to life! Aren't you happy?"
Surrounded by the laughing little girl and her many laughing relatives, the hooded man's hood finally fell down, revealing his true face with green hair and pale skin.
"Hahaha, everyone, be happy! Why not have a laugh!"
As he held up the stick, the sunlight reflecting off it revealed to the crowd, who were completely captivated by his manic laughter, that it was no ordinary stick, but a weapon resembling a scepter.
Most of them knew who the owner of the scepter was.
For a time, the Joker was practically synonymous with Batman's greatest adversary in Gotham City. But after the Bane incident, the Joker disappeared from Gotham City and remains so to this day.
"Oh my goodness, dear audience members! Being away from center stage for so long has really made my elbows ache. Oh, and please note, it's not the sour smell you all give off."
Meanwhile, most of the guests below the stage had collapsed to the ground, laughing hysterically until their jaws dislocated. Many guests had also been bitten by their wives' zombie wives and turned into zombies themselves, standing there dumbfounded, watching the clown's manic speech.
"But with our return, a grand banquet will begin! We will no longer hide ourselves on the world stage, making everyone the best comedian!"
The clown who called himself "The Laughing Clown" stood on the stage, screaming and laughing maniacally. Then he jumped off the stage and splashed the concentrated sulfuric acid he had prepared beforehand onto the crowd, until...
"Time to get out of here, hehehe, hehehe, hehehehe!"
The clown, having taken the hand of the innocent little girl who was still laughing wildly, quickly disappeared behind the street corner.
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"surprise?"
Chen Tao tilted his head, looking at all the Justice League members in the ward with a puzzled expression.
Most of the Justice League members were fine after their bodies were repaired by the Red Force. Only Barry Allen, who had merged with Chen Tao, was still bedridden due to the Speed Force and was even weaker than those who had died.
"What surprise?"
Chen Tao asked, and then, without waiting for anyone to reply, he suddenly frowned.
brush!
His expression suddenly darkened, and he instantly teleported in front of Wonder Woman, who was still smiling, and reached out his hand, piercing her chest with a single palm strike!
"Who dared to switch my alliance with these fakes... Mudface???"
Chen Tao never imagined that he, who had always used a mud face to fool others, would one day be fooled by a mud face himself.
He turned his head and looked at the other Justice League members whose faces were frozen, and immediately realized that something was wrong.
He turned to look at the muddy face on the table: "Want to explain yourself?"
He confronted the mud-faced man, demanding an explanation, but soon he heard his own voice coming from inside the ward:
"Now recording, Batman's secret file. Code name: My Last Will and Testament. To everyone who sees this will, if my planned scenarios have not gone wrong, all surviving members of the Justice League should..."
Chen Tao destroyed the sound-emitting device left in the ward with almost the speed of a Red Death Demon, then grabbed Mudface again:
Tell me, where the Justice League members are now.
"Everyone must have guessed that you would ask that question."
Although Mudface was speaking, his words sounded as if they had been recorded by someone.
At this point, the clay face had multiplied into countless forms, its self-awareness having long since decayed beyond recognition.
"Everyone here in Fiji wants to give you a surprise."
Chen Tao frowned. Fiji? Why there?
Then what's the point? That place is already destroyed.
Thinking this, he took out the Death King's treasure from his pocket: the golden ball opened a golden portal, and then stepped out, appearing in Fiji.
Generally speaking, for teleportation within Earth's borders, he would use this magical artifact from Atlantis instead of the three Mother Boxes, which are slightly slower at creating portals.
Then he saw Fiji, which should have been turned into a white wasteland by the volcanic eruption, and even where the islands were sinking...
They shone brightly in the sunlight of the new century.
All the members of the Justice League are here: Lex Luthor, Hal Jordan, Superman Clark Kent, Wonder Woman, and Shazam.
Countless Amozzo robots and more than 2000 menacing Green Lantern Corps members were helping. Chen Tao flew over and stared blankly at everything in front of him.
Large quantities of sand and rocks were moved over by the Justice League, who were likened to the gods of America, and they carried out this monumental land reclamation project right before Chen Tao's eyes.
More than 2000 Green Lanterns worked together to use their rings to build cranes and suspension bridges, driving massive rocks and steel beams into the seabed to become the island's pillars.
"Batman?"
Hal Jordan flew over: "Ah, I knew Mudface couldn't fool you."
"You guys..." Chen Tao stammered.
"We are rebuilding Fiji."
"No, that's not what I meant," Chen Tao said.
He pointed to a spot not far away, where more than 2000 Green Lantern Corps members, each with a part of the parasite and the characteristics of Doomsday, were on their bodies.
He knew these modifications were Lex Luthor's doing, which was why he felt somewhat guilty.
"Oh, them? They might have changed a bit, so you wouldn't recognize them. They're all Green Lanterns, hey, Kilowog? Kilowog!"
Hal the Green Lantern introduced Kirowog, the Green Lantern Corps' head instructor, to Chen Tao. Originally, Kirowog was an alien who looked like a hippopotamus. Now, he is an alien with sharp fangs, the ability to absorb energy through parasites, and the steel body of Doomsday, and he still looks very much like a hippopotamus.
Chen Tao never expected that their conversation would be filled with such an oddly harmonious and peaceful atmosphere.
"We know what you've done. You're a great man," Green Lantern Instructor Kirowog said. "Luthor originally intended to organize us into the resistance... but in the end, we became the force that protected the universe, and now..."
Not far away, Wonder Woman, Superman, Martian Manhunter, and others arrived together.
"Ah, you found out so quickly..." Wonder Woman said, "We were planning to give you a surprise. Poison Ivy would come over later and use the power of the Green of All Things to replant the green vegetation on these islands, but you found out first..."
She paused, then said in a low voice, "I...we all know you've always wanted to retire, so I brought it up...we all discussed it together and decided to protect the world's safety even without you, and then rebuild Fiji for you as a little surprise, so you can enjoy a well-deserved vacation..."
She spoke, then her voice softened slightly.
"...That's all for now. You can take a break, Batman," Superman Clark said from the side. "No matter what the danger, we can always make a decision. This alliance won't stop functioning without you."
That's certainly true.
When Lex Luthor appeared next to Hal Jordan, and it seemed there was no conflict between them, Chen Tao knew that Lex Luthor had used his extraordinary eloquence to persuade Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern, of the importance of controlling more than 2000 Green Lanterns.
He did a great job, but it was still quite risky. If he hadn't been so eloquent, Chen Tao would be seeing Green Lantern Hal and Luthor locked in a brawl right now.
"We will protect cities all over the world for you. Before, the Justice League members took turns protecting Gotham City, with Nightwing and a few others helping out. It will be the same now."
Superman said, "As for you, Batman, you can rest quietly on the Fiji we created for you until you never want to rest again."
Wonder Woman said, "You won't refuse us, will you?"
Then the Amazon warrior blinked her eyes, the most blatant pleading she could think of.
"Okay, of course," Chen Tao said. "And you won't encounter any trouble recently..."
But then Chen Tao frowned and pressed a finger to his temple.
Almost simultaneously, Superman Clark's communicator rang: "Someone is committing a massacre in Metropolis... It's the Joker, he's back!"
Chen Tao's brows furrowed even deeper. He had to take the Joker, this extremely dangerous enemy, very seriously, and then—
"Don't even think about it." Wonder Woman, Superman, Green Lantern Hal, and Lex Luthor all said in unison:
"We can handle the Joker."
(End of this chapter)