Everything Was Part of The Batman Who Laughs's Plan?

Barbatos had placed his cage at the center of the World Forge.

The Batman Who Laughs was imprisoned here. This servant who had angered his master had fallen into such a state, yet had not died, simply because Barbatos was currently busy with matters he considered more important. Whether The Batman Who Laughs lived or died made no difference to him, so dying sooner or later was the same to Barbatos.

Barbatos actually placed few restrictions on his servants' actions, and had always let them do as they pleased. But The Batman Who Laughs had failed his expectations. He had mistaken this freedom to act independently for weakness, and that had already touched Barbatos's reverse scale.

Yet at this moment, in this prison that no one should have been able to infiltrate, The Batman Who Laughs sat with his legs crossed, grinning as he watched the silhouette formed from light appear before him.

"Everything is part of my plan." The Batman Who Laughs spoke slowly. "I anticipated the outcome of my possible failure long ago."

Chen Tao knew this was The Batman Who Laughs's scheme.

He knew that he had come to seek cooperation with The Batman Who Laughs precisely because of his own plan.

Under normal circumstances, The Batman Who Laughs could never be manipulated by him, unless Chen Tao forced him into the desperate situation of being punished by Barbatos.

The metal he had snatched from The Batman Who Laughs's lair, the weapons The Batman Who Laughs had stockpiled there...

For a moment, Chen Tao seriously began to wonder whether The Batman Who Laughs had deliberately let him take that haul.

"No, impossible. That would be completely pointless. What would the purpose be?" Chen Tao shook his head. The Batman Who Laughs had once again disrupted his thoughts.