Fear Laughing Demon (Part 2)

Q: What could be more terrifying than waking up to find yourself transported to another world?

That is, when I opened my eyes, I found myself transported to Gotham.

So what could be more terrifying than waking up to find yourself transported to Gotham?

That is, you open your eyes and find yourself transported to Gotham, where Batman and the Joker are fighting in front of you.

What could be more terrifying than discovering that Batman and the Joker are fighting right in front of you?

That is, you find two Joker fighting in front of you.

What could be more terrifying than discovering two Joker fighting?

That is, they discovered that three Joker were fighting.

What could be more terrifying than discovering three Joker fighting?

That is, he found three Joker fighting, while Batman just watched.

What could be more terrifying than discovering three Joker fighting while Batman watches on the sidelines?

That is, Batman is found teaming up with two Joker to beat up another Joker...

Because when this happens, it usually means the editor's real father, Wei Yixiao, has arrived...

On the edge of Batman's consciousness, such a battle is taking place, but they are not facing the Batman Who Laughs, but a monster that resembles the Joker, yet is not quite the same.

Its limbs are all thin and long, seemingly only able to barely support its body, yet it stands upright. Its head is a gray egg with a terrifying smiling face on it.

At this moment, the gaping mouth was covered in blood, and on the other side, Jack was covering his hand, blood flowing down his hand.

Just now, the monster broke free from the operating table and bit Jack.

Jack wasn't seriously injured, only having a tooth mark-shaped wound on his wrist. But this foreshadowed something very dangerous: the dangerous thing deep within Batman's consciousness might not just be the Joker.

The fact that he was able to escape from the combined attack of Schiller the Joker and Jack the Joker, and even kill Jack, suggests that he is likely stronger than he appears. Most importantly, he is currently only an embryo.

Everyone had a bad feeling about what this Laughing Man embryo would hatch into, including Batman himself. He had never realized that such a terrible thing was hidden deep inside him.

At the edge of Batman's dream, Gotham remains pitch black, where a relentless storm rages through the night. The rain intensifies, the thunder grows louder, and the night deepens. Two Joker, the Laughing Egg, and Batman himself stand above the city.

The battle was intense. Joker Jack wielded his dagger, leaving deep, bone-revealing wounds on the Laughing Egg's slender limbs with each strike. Joker Schiller, on the other hand, fought more like a sorcerer, using an invisible force to control the Laughing Egg's movements.

Batman stood still, but he wasn't just watching; he was fighting the monster for control of the dream.

That's right, this monster with deformed limbs and a huge mouth on its head has almost the same authority as Batman in the dream world. Batman has to do everything he can to resist its struggle for control of the dream world.

Originally, before Batman learned the Truth and before the Laughing Egg was unearthed, both Joker Jack and Joker Schiller possessed some power to control dreams. However, once the two main figures appeared, control of dreams completely returned to them. Now, the two are still clashing in the unseen realm, trying to completely control dreams and the space of consciousness.

To Batman's surprise, it seemed as if he was not fighting an enemy, but himself. Every time he exerted force, he had an awkward feeling of arm wrestling with himself, as if his left and right feet were tripping each other, and his left and right arms and legs were tangled together trying to strangle each other.

Batman had never faced this situation before, so he initially suffered a great loss. Gotham, and several bolts of lightning nearly struck the other two Joker. Clearly, the Laughing Egg was using the power of dreams to interfere with their actions.

Fortunately, perhaps because this terrible embryo had not yet hatched, although he was crazy and violent, he did not have much rationality. He was like a newborn acting on instinct, or rather, a weak and premature baby. Even the young Batman quickly regained the initiative.

A Batman and two Joker began to press closer and closer to the deformed monster, which was clearly struggling to withstand the attack of two Joker and a Batman.

The cold wind howled in the night, and the sudden rain lashed against his body like a barrage of bullets. Even Batman struggled to stand in such strong winds and rain, his cape constantly being pulled back and fluttering in the wind and rain.

He seemed to hear a childish voice wailing, interspersed with faint, manic laughter. This voice echoed in Batman's mind, filling him with sorrow and grief, as if he himself were walking towards death.

He finally realized this, confirming that the terrifying and deformed monster opposite him was actually himself, a personality deep within his consciousness, a facet of himself, and that when this personality faced death, he would feel the same fear.

In the pouring rain, Batman slowly knelt down, the fear transmitted through his consciousness to his mind, causing his entire mental space to tremble.

No one in this world is unafraid of death, especially when it happens to him. A dark emotion begins to surge within Batman.

In the wind and rain, Joker Jack and Joker Schiller's hair was soaked and blown about by the wind. When Schiller looked up, he saw a thin black line appear at the edge of the horizon, then it began to ripple. Jack slapped his forehead and said, "Oh dear! Looks like we're in trouble!"

In just a moment, the thin wavy line was already close in, a vast, terrifying black tide.

The attack and stimulation of the Laughing Egg caused the dark tide deep within Batman's consciousness to surge forth, transforming into an irresistible, raging wave that engulfed everything at the edge of the dream.

Almost instantly, the Laughing Egg at the front was swallowed up. Its slender limbs were no match for the terrifying waves. In a short moment, the monster's limbs were corroded away, leaving only a laughing egg floating on the sea.

Schiller and Jack began to flee until the raging black tide swept Gotham at the edge of the dream into ruins, and the tide slowly subsided. But the world was completely destroyed, the entire edge of the dream was riddled with holes, the Laughing Egg was nowhere to be found.

Standing on the edge of the surging black tide, Jack burst into maniacal laughter, saying, "I told you Batman wouldn't let me down! This is him, this is him! Hahahahahahahaha!"

"This is his darkness, his fear..." Jack spread his arms wide, speaking as if in a dream, "This is Batman, this is his heart..."

However, the Kuroshio Current that swept everything away did not completely stop. Countless whirlpools formed on the surface of the tide, and then spun faster and faster until towering waterspouts rose upwards.

Countless tiny waterspouts began to converge towards the center, eventually merging into a single, enormous tornado that engulfed the entire Gotham City at the edge of the dream world.

The two Joker standing on the edge of the dream could barely withstand this terrifying force.

All the tides of the Black Tide transformed into a giant tornado, rising ever higher until it broke through layer after layer of dreams.

Upward, and ever upward, the tornado formed by the black tide is like a sharp sword, breaking through the dreamscape of deep consciousness layer by layer, until it reaches the barrier separating the surface consciousness from the deep consciousness.

More and more black tides surged upwards, causing the entire consciousness space to tremble. Gotham in countless layers of dreams collapsed almost simultaneously. After a brief silence, the barrier of the surface consciousness was breached.

The black tide didn't stop after reaching Batman's surface consciousness; instead, it continued to surge upwards, rushing out of his body along with his soul.

While Bruce was still unconscious, an invisible, terrifying force surged through his body and into the sky.

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in his office, Schiller suddenly turned his head, squinting as he looked out of Gotham City. At the same time, many mysterious forces in the universe sensed this irresistible, terrifying black tide.

It is a completely abstract force, invisible in reality, but those with special perspectives and spiritual awareness can feel its devastating power.

The tornado formed by the black tide did not stop after it broke through Bruce's body, but instead rushed into the sky.

Over Gotham, over the East Coast, over the entire American continent, until we reached the atmosphere, beyond Earth.

In the vast and mysterious universe, a black sword rises, ascends into the higher reaches of the starry sky, breaks through all barriers, until in the deepest reaches of the starry sky, a mysterious being suddenly senses this terrifying fear.

Just as Bruce's consciousness was gradually breaking free from the black tide, rising from the layers of dreams along the hole created by the black tide tornado, and regaining control of his body, he heard a distant and deep voice in his ear:

"The day is dark and the night is bright."

Evil traitors and treacherous parties fear my divine light.

I will bury you in flames of terror; those who defy me will perish.

Fear is the root of S.H.I.E.L.D. authority!

"Intelligent Life has been locked on. Batman of Earth, you possess the power to instill immense fear in others. Welcome to the Sinestro Corps!"