The Strongest Parallax Hal Carry, Emperor Joker in The Batman Who Laughs' Plan

For Chen Tao, Parallax Hal was less an uncontrollable tiger than a train stubbornly moving along a predetermined track.

Treating other people's suspicious gazes as ghostly flames and boldly walking his own path through the night might sound like a successful person's creed, but with Parallax Hal, it had already become a complete obsession.

Ignoring reality and morality, intending to place himself above all living beings, and saying, "I believe this is best for everyone," had carried him past the hero's bottom line and made him a thoroughgoing villain. Even so, one thing remained certain:

Hal Jordan still believed himself to be a good person. That was the most fundamental difference between him and Emperor Joker and The Batman Who Laughs.

Therefore, although Chen Tao had always known that, in practical terms, he would eventually clash with Parallax Hal, at least for now, the conflict between them was not that sharp.

Chen Tao had every reason to suspect that The Batman Who Laughs was once again using his hands to complete his own plan.

That was exactly what The Batman Who Laughs liked doing. Chen Tao could say with complete confidence that in this world, before The Batman Who Laughs' name had resounded throughout the multiverse, no one understood him better than Chen Tao.

He knew that this was his first true confrontation with The Batman Who Laughs—a genuine first-meeting kill. He understood The Batman Who Laughs very well, and that was his greatest advantage.

The Batman Who Laughs always liked using heroes to obtain what he wanted. For example, in Death Metal, the heroes had worked themselves ragged, persuading Supreme Superboy and fighting Darkseid and the Anti-Monitor. In the end, all the Crisis Force they had gathered was swallowed by The Batman Who Laughs, who had tampered with the