What bad intentions could Batman have?

"Hello."

"Hey Batman, it's me, Oswald the Penguin."

Chen Tao, who was sitting on the chair, was stunned for a moment. To be honest, he didn't remember the name for a long time.

At this time, he was waiting for lunch in a Paris restaurant. Not far away, the old butler Alfred was requesting the waiter that he must serve the food himself.

Chen Tao confirmed that the other party had not noticed this, and then he said: "It's Oswald, what's the matter?"

Along the way, he faced General Zod, Darkseid, the Anti-Monitor, Barbatos...

He has been away from Gotham for too long, and in his impression, many people's lives are too far away from him and have been stagnant for too long.

When you leave a place, the people and things there become blurred into a blur, like watching people coming and going on the street behind frosted glass, but you know that you are no longer one of them.

Chen Tao almost forgot when he left an emergency message for Penguin.

"Honestly, old Bat...we haven't seen each other in a long time...I reformed and now I'm the largest burrito distributor in Gotham. My penguin burritos are sold all over the United States...I make a lot of money." Although the money is not as good as selling arms before, it is still good. At least there is no need for the Fire King anymore... I know about those cosmic crises, and you are doing big things now, right..."

Penguin rambled on for a long time, and then said: "I have never dared to call you... To be honest, before dialing this number, I was not sure that the number you left for me could be used. I can’t still contact you…”

Then the Penguin's words stopped abruptly, as if he was suddenly stuck.

"What's wrong? Oswald?" Chen Tao asked.

"You have really changed, Bat." Penguin sighed: "I used to talk so much nonsense, and you would usually interrupt me and let me talk about the important points..."

"But now you are willing to listen quietly to what I have to say. I feel respect, which I have never felt when I was a criminal. I am very grateful to you, Batman."

Chen Tao: "..."

Well, in fact, he didn't interrupt the other party just because he happened to be very free right now, and he didn't think Penguin Oswald could bring him any help or participate in anything that could threaten him.

Even Oswald the Penguin, who has not yet reformed his evil ways, is the most powerful among the second-tier characters in Gotham, but the Penguin will never be the leader of major events.

He was a criminal who was all about making money, that's all, and now he's a black-to-white businessman who's all about making money, that's all.

When Chen Tao was still dealing with Gotham affairs-level issues, under his compulsion, Penguin Oswald might have been a good helper, but once things were magnified to the cosmic level, Penguin...

So when Chen Tao extremely disrespected Penguin Oswald, he just gave him the illusion of respect, uh...

Just leave it at that.

"I have always respected you, Oswald. You have sinned in the past. But overall, you have given a lot to this city."

As soon as Chen Tao's upper lip touched his lower lip, the good words about free money came out of his mouth.

"Okay, I guess I'll get to the point. It's rare that I used to be the best at changing the subject. I'm here to tell you something."

Penguin took a deep breath.

"The clown came to see me."

Chen Tao stood up from the chair in the restaurant and sat down quickly.

"The last time I went to Arkham Asylum was about 43 hours ago." Penguin said: "Some old friends who were unwilling to cooperate with us were locked up there, and Two-Face and I took turns to ensure that no one escaped there. .We were all masters of jailbreaking, and our old friends and new friends may have better jailbreaking skills than us, but it is difficult to hide from our every two days inspection.”

Penguin said: "I...I don't know...but at least the last time I went to check, everything was normal there. And the prison guards also went home normally that night. But the clown was here, he was here just now."

"He turned my lamp and burrito ledger into a smiling saber-toothed tiger right in front of me," Penguin said. "Thankfully I had my umbrella full of weapons."

"Then the Joker told me a story that was even worse than I expected, about a madman holding an insane asylum hostage. The killer was sending the guards home every night with families and forcing them to pretend that everything was fine. Did that mean When I thought everything was normal, the clown had already started to take action?”

"...I didn't tell Jim (Gotham Police Commissioner Jim Gordon) about this. His daughter Barbara is missing and he is worried now. I know that if I tell him about this, he will definitely put his daughter down." Things are busy with official business, but this is too cruel to him..."

No, of course not. Chen Tao realized that Penguin was doubting his ability. He suspected that the normal Arkham Asylum that he had inspected was actually a fool of him by the Joker.

But in fact, Chen Tao already knows that the three clowns seem to have some kind of ability to modify reality. If they have this ability, whether it is to change the perceptions of the prison guards, or to build what he needs to build in a very short period of time, Nothing is difficult.

The Joker said this to the Penguin on purpose. He used this method to intimidate the Penguin, making it appear that he had been preparing for a long time.

It's just a clown's trick.

Chen Tao told this to Penguin.

Oswald was silent for a while. Chen Tao thought he would care about being suppressed by the Joker again, but he didn't think about it. Instead, he continued: "But even so, Arkham is now closed, and no one knows what its interior has been transformed into."

Then he paused.

"But according to the intelligence I gathered, there are about a few miles of wires being brought in, as well as generators and cables, as well as mortar, wall paint and paint."

"My people claim that they heard screams and saw carts carrying bloody towels passing through the hall. There were also the sounds of bodies being thrown into the incinerator. First there was a bang of metal, then a thump from above, smoke, smells and laughter... There was always laughter."

"Whatever he wants to turn it into, he said it was for you, he said he would make that place your castle, your home."

The Penguin said: "I know you have sent the Justice League to handle this matter, and I am also worried that what I say now seems to be a bit too much nonsense, but in fact..."

"I don't think the Justice League can deal with the Joker. They may be able to guess some of the Joker's actions... But they are not you after all, Batman, they are not you after all."

He said: "Gotham needs you, people need you."

Chen Tao knew that this was Oswald who felt that he could not hold it back, so he wanted him Batman to do it.

"Got it."

He replied briefly and hung up the call. He looked up and saw the old butler Alfred standing in front of him.

Chen Tao sighed.

"Alfred, do you know? When I transformed into the dragon of the dark multiverse and soared between the dark multiverses, I always reminded myself not to forget that there are hundreds of billions of people in this world who have their own lives in different universes."

Alfred did not speak, he looked at Chen Tao, and Chen Tao also looked at him.

"Everyone says that the dark multiverse is a hopeless and broken universe, a defective world where evil must prevail over justice, but this is not the case."

"The truth of life is the same everywhere. There are mothers who tell bedtime stories to their children, three generations living together, and loving old people who support each other."

He looked at Alfred.

"I need to prove that what I have done over the years is not in vain. I believe that my original intention is right and my pursuit is correct."

The voice became louder and louder in Alfred's ears, like the rumbling of a train, and like the sound of gunfire in Crime Alley, deafening.

"The dark multiverse is also part of this secular world. They pursue those simple and common feelings and imagine those unexpected beauties..."

"Alfred." Chen Tao said, "I'm sorry that I can't stay with you longer."

He took a deep breath and said, "But the journey..."

"It's not time to reach the end yet. So you can only rest here, but you can't stay here. I expected it." Then Chen Tao heard Alfred's voice.

The old man's voice was dull, and no emotion could be heard.

But Chen Tao heard him say: "Let me help you put on the Batsuit. I also made you a sandwich."

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"The Joker left us clues in his toxins… The blood thinner he used on those laughing sharks, the company that made it also provides chemicals for water treatment in the reservoir, and the reservoir is also the place where Batman and the Joker first fought, Batman's first real confrontation with him."

"Yes, there Batman saw the Joker for the first time and saw who he really was. There Batman understood the nature of his opponent, and there was also the place where the Joker saw Batman. This place is of great significance to the Joker."

"So, Riddlers, where is our next step?" Shazam shouted: "Climb into the ventilation duct to open the treasure chest?"

"It's the Gotham Reservoir." Diana said: "I have deduced what the Joker will do next."

More than ten minutes later. Gotham Reservoir.

"Hello, dear."

Clark Kent jumped off the Batmobile in Batman's uniform.

He looked at the Joker standing on the bridge not far away, with his hands spread out to him. He didn't know which of the three Jokers in the intelligence provided by Batman was this Joker in front of him. They had previously caught the Joker who was responsible for attracting their attention.

And who could this be?

"Where is Barbara Gordon?"

Clark said, imitating Batman's tone.

"What? No hug? Not even a bat dart to my head?"

Superman looked down at his hand.

"You hold the remote control, and if I move, you will pour poison into the reservoir-"

"Yes, that's what happened last time."

Wonder Woman, who was eavesdropping remotely, kept sweating. It was a pitfall. In the whole set of information Batman gave them, the part about the Joker didn't write about his early career confrontation with the Joker at all!

And the Joker suddenly said last time, which stunned Wonder Woman.

This can't be blamed on Chen Tao. The Joker in this dark multiverse was fought by Batman before the crossing. How could Chen Tao back up such a memory?

"Ah, yes, you remember! We did exactly that last time, when we were still full of energy, two youngsters!"

"What is this? Joker? All of this?"

Then the clown calmed down and raised the explosive controller in his hand and rubbed it on his face: "Look, it's like this. We've been talking about formulas, formulas, formulas lately, so this time I have to deal with everything in advance. things so we can relax and have a nice chat face to face.”

"What did you deal with?"

"Oh, of course it's our business! It would have happened here."

"What did you say?" Superman disguised as Batman asked: "What else do you have..."

Batman, the incarnation of Superman, pounced on the Joker, but then he pounced on a holographic phantom. The conversation he just had was actually done remotely by the Joker using the phantom.

"Hey, in a few moments you're going to get that call you were waiting for, and you're going to make a decision, and you're going to act, right? You're going to throw that batarang you've got behind you, just like last time. !”

The Joker gets more and more excited as he talks, and Clark's Batman does a great job of showing what the original Batman could become if he didn't encounter any problems.

And the clown was still jumping around like crazy.

"Then boom I got hit oooooooooooo but I'm gonna press the remote control really fast and I'm gonna poison the water and then you call your little friend, the one who used to be Robin, Nightwing, right... He It will blow up the bridge."

With a loud bang, Clark turned his head sharply and saw the bridge not far away exploded into two pieces.

The Joker raised his hand. He wasn't holding a stick or anything else.

"Then we'll fight, and you'll save the city, but I'll kill a few more people, just like the handful of people I killed last time who diverted the water back home before it entered the city."

"It's funny, did you know they tore down that generation's affordable housing and built apartments for these arrogant young people who looked like the kind of people I would kill, so I went... ...Well...killed them."

When Clark looked down at the bridge where they were, he saw corpses floating there one after another.

"You disgusting lunatic!"

Then he heard the clown laughing:

"Look, it's all done, the water was poisoned, the aqueduct was bombed, people died, and now we can talk!"