Fighting an Invisible Enemy

Chen Tao had already made his decision before Old Huo Rong began his speech in front of Chen Tao and Supreme Superboy.

The reason was simple: Chen Tao had learned the other party's identity.

Old Huo Rong had concealed his identity from Supreme Superboy, but directly revealed it to Chen Tao through the telepathy of an Emotional Spectrum user.

That identity alone was enough for Chen Tao to quickly determine the other party's objective.

Throughout this long-drawn-out war, Chen Tao had constantly been at a disadvantage. He was like an exhausted hound, repeatedly driven to repair burning thatched huts while fleeing in all directions, pursued by hurricanes and lightning.

If the difficulties Chen Tao had faced before were like one towering mountain after another, or one tangled mess after another, then what he felt now was nothing but a blank expanse.

There was nothing at all.

But that was not the most frightening part.

The most frightening part was that when he first saw Old Huo Rong, he saw his own shadow in the other man.

That was right—his own shadow.

Chen Tao knew himself far too well.

Although they were all Batmen who made plans, every Batman was slightly different.

The Batman Who Laughs' plans were web-like. He also enjoyed luring people into ruining his apparent objective, thereby achieving his deeper objective and completing his signature "everything is going according to plan" buff.

The Prime Universe's old Batman, on the other hand, leaned more toward adapting to circumstances, but he prepared a countermeasure for every possibility.

For example, he had once planted bombs in every major building in Gotham, so that if he ever fought an enemy in one of those buildings, he could use the bombs to break the deadlock at any time.

As for variant Batmen like