Chapter 270: Fear Laughing Demon (I)

In DC Comics, there are many origins about the character of the Joker, and initially, when the Joker was not yet popular, he was just an ordinary acrobatic troupe actor, that is, a clown in the true sense of the word.

Later, there was a version of falling into the pool of chemistry, and of course, the most famous is the deadly joker Joker, who turns anyone into a clown maniac if he has a bad day.

One of the more controversial is the setting of three clowns in the universe, in which the clown is no longer the only character, and the three clowns start killing each other.

Appealing gimmicks aside, it's possible to have multiple clowns in one universe, after all, Gotham is the most lacking in crazy people, and it's not impossible for some of them to imagine themselves as crazy clowns.

On the night of Schiller's first arrival in Gotham, he was sure that there should indeed be multiple clowns in this universe, because it was on this night that the personality of his body had undergone a certain degree of mutation.

At first, this mutation was not obvious, but when Bruce appeared in front of him and looked at him, Schiller became one of the chosen clowns, and as such, Bruce was interested in him, and he was also interested in Bruce, which was an inevitable mutual attraction between Batman and the Joker.

Schiller quickly perceives this anomaly, and his "superego" creates another personality to replace Schiller the Clown, and throws Schiller the Clown into the lower levels of his mind palace and makes him climb up the floors in order to suppress the danger that this crazy personality may pose.

The evolution of the Joker is irreversible, so this personality eventually becomes one of many Clowns, but because he is trapped in Schiller's palace of thought and has not yet climbed up, he is not harmful for the time being, but he is indeed a Clown.

When it comes to the Joker, we have to mention another controversial character, and that is the Laughing Bat.

When this character first appeared, his origin story was very interesting, that is, the Joker of a certain universe had amazing combat power, not only killed Catwoman, Gordon and other people who were very important to Batman, but also captured the parents of all the only children in the entire city, and re-enacted the tragedy that happened in Crime Alley again and again in front of Batman.

This inhumane behavior eventually drove Batman into madness, and he twisted the Joker's neck with his own hands, but at the same time, the Joker's inner laughter virus infected Batman.

In other words, the laughing bat is actually a combination of the Joker and Batman, and the story can be called a rather creative plot so far, because many DC viewers have thought about what will happen if the Joker and Batman become one?

But later, this setting began to deviate more and more, in order to show how powerful the combination of Batman and the Joker is, the screenwriter began to unscrupulously add many settings to the laughing bat that can elevate his compulsion.

One of the most disruptive storytelling and DC Comics style settings is that the Laughing Bat is a last resort.

In fact, whether it is Batman or Joker, their intelligence settings are quite high, especially Batman, as a planning maniac, he has a backup plan against almost everyone, and the implementation process of Joker's crazy jokes one after another also reflects his wisdom and execution ability beyond ordinary people.

In order to show the effect that one plus one is greater than two, the screenwriter made the laughing bat almost omniscient and omnipotent, but unfortunately, the plot that shows this ability can be called far-fetched, and the plot of the laughing bat's wit can basically be summarized as, the laughing bat expected something the other party did, the other party expected the laughing bat to expect something he did, and the laughing bat expected the other party to expect him to do something......

In short, I prejudged your prejudgment, I prejudged your prejudgment, I prejudged your prejudgment, I prejudged your prejudgment and I prejudged my prejudgment, and then carried out infinite matryoshka dolls.

Therefore, here, I have to introduce to you ceremoniously-

The crazy destroyer of DC's combat power restraint system, the super dragon Aotian in the American comic setting, the God of wisdom and combat power who is amazing but never forgets the original goal and its simple wisdom, the great sage prophet who is always one step ahead and almost never misses but just doesn't do the right thing, Zhuge Kongming's soul mate, Edogawa Conan's divine friend, and the only designated father of the DC editorial department - the laughing bat, Wei Yixiao!

Before, some people always joked that the bat master was the father of the DC editorial department, but now, Wei Yixiao's setting lets people know that the editorial department is probably just Robin raised by Batman, and the real father has just appeared.

You can't say that the character of Laughing Bat is bad, because its origin story is really interesting and satisfies many fans' fantasies about the relationship between Batman and the Joker, but as the setting is supplemented more and more, the plot is getting more and more outrageous, and the character of Laughing Bat is gradually detached from the most attractive style of quiet black humor in DC Comics, and turns to the route of cool writing.

Therefore, Schiller doesn't have a good impression of this character, if he has to choose between Batman, the Joker and the Laughing Bat, then Schiller would rather be surrounded by ten pairs of Jokers and Batman than run into a Laughing Bat, not because of his out-of-spec combat power and intelligence, but because he is really boring.

Schiller knows very well that once this kind of character with the attribute of an editor's father appears in this universe, his peaceful life will be completely over, although his current life is not very peaceful, but he is surrounded by at least some interesting characters.

Copote's inferiority complex and conceit are like the vines of one twin, the reasons for the emergence and subsequent development of Evans's two personalities, the emotional entanglement between Alberto and the godfather, Victor's undying love, etc., even Jack the Clown, who has no source and is completely unaware of the backstory, also used a stage performance to tell Schiller that he is an interesting enough person.

The Laughing Bat may be strong, but he is really boring, because everything about him is dark for the sake of darkness, and there is no mention of any psychological struggles, black-and-white oppositions, human positions and emotional changes, he is like a piece of paper that can circle the earth for thousands of kilometers, maybe it is long, it may be a miracle, but it is still very thin.

If the villains who are now around Schiller can still add a touch of fun to his peaceful life, then the Laughing Bat is pure and disgusting.

Soon after Schiller arrived in Gotham, he determined that this universe should be a member of the light multiverse, because people here have the possibility of turning for the positive, while the dark multiverse is the opposite, and everyone will eventually fall into the abyss.

Therefore, at the beginning, Schiller did not consider that the Laughing Bat might be born, because there were no conditions for his birth here, in addition to the fact that the universe here was biased towards light, the current timeline was too early, Batman had just finished his freshman year, and the Joker had only appeared a few days ago, and the two of them had only made one move, and the victim was still completely deserving of the owl court, and it didn't even affect too many onlookers.

Batman has not yet become the wise and suspicious old man he was afterward, and the Joker has not used his genius to create all kinds of trouble for Batman, and the two of them are far from being enemies of life and death.

Maybe it's Schiller's arrival that adds more order to the city, or maybe it's that the young Batman matches the one who should be a young Joker, in short, the murderous Joker who killed all villains and decency in the origin story of Laughing Bat is unlikely to appear, so the Batman who killed the Joker after being tortured crazy is unlikely to appear.

This is Schiller's inference, and even if the clown does appear later, he does not waver in this judgment, he believes that there is no soil in this universe that laughing bats can produce.

But when Jack approached Schiller and told him that Batman might have a dangerous thing hidden inside him, Schiller faltered.

The bottom line is that if there's a slight chance that the thing Jack mentions is a laughing bat, then anyone would bet on him, right?

When Jack says he senses something hatching inside Batman, Schiller's vigilance is at its highest, and no matter what, the Laughing Bat must not be in this universe.

When Schiller became suspicious of the Sandman because of his own situation, he had the urge to start a new project, namely "how to reach the depths of people's hearts with the help of dreams".

The purpose of this project is not only to find the Sandman, but also to unearth the possible danger that Jack said.

After getting clues about the immortality factor and successfully creating a mad drink, the Joker and Schiller knew it was time for them to do it.

At the time, Schiller and Mrs. Miller said that the clown had called his personal phone number to make an appointment, in fact, because they needed to confirm their next plan on the phone.

What happened after that, everyone knew, Schiller, who was drinking with the clown in the treatment room, deliberately asked the elevator manager to release Schiller, the clown who was still climbing the stairs, and had the first contact with Jack the clown, although Schiller the clown's first reaction was to trick Jack into the room of Schiller's thinking palace to go to jail for him, but after failing to succeed, he was also sure that this would be a good partner to work with.

The next step is to put the others into his own thinking space, and then drag Hugo in to test the stability of the whole process, and finally dig down as planned to find the Sandman.

There is a more important reason for the Joker to enter the Dream Country, and that is to let the Joker borrow from the Dream Country and enter Batman's dream.

And digging down from Batman's dream, just as Jack expected, on the edge of Batman's dream, in Bruce's body, there is indeed a monster that no one has ever seen.