What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 436 The enemy will not give us time, and the bat will not cry

"Your vital signs are stable and there are no problems, Arthur."

The fish-headed Sea King sat among a lot of instruments and heard Lucius's words. His fish mouth spit out a series of bubbles, and those bubbles came out of his mouth in an unconventional manner. He blew them up into the sky, and then exploded to pieces on the ceiling.

"Arthur asked what happened to him." Mela translated at the side.

The fish-headed Sea King stared at him with his dead fish eyes, shaking up and down in agreement.

"...can you understand what he said? Well, in short, you can look at the experimental data for yourselves." Lucius crackled on the computer next to him for a while, and soon sets of data appeared on the big screen. On the screen: "On the left is Aquaman's current physical data, and on the right is what he showed on the training ground when the Justice League was established. In the past, even on land, Arthur was able to face Superman for a short time. Competing, and now his physical fitness is showing a significant upward trend."

At this time, Chen Tao and Neptune were in the Justice League's laboratory in Gotham, with Chen Tao and Lucius accompanying them.

"So frankly, having a fish head probably makes you ugly and adds to the public perception of Atlantean stereotypes. But in terms of experimental data, you ask me. Conclusion? My conclusion is Arthur, you are stronger than before."

"So can you find out the reason for this change?" Mela continued to translate for Neptune: "Although he looks like this, his strength has increased, but you know..."

"Arthur's identity as the Crown Prince of Atlantis is more important than his combat effectiveness." Chen Tao said from the side: "It is a bridge connecting humans and Atlanteans. Think of a way, Lu Xiu "

"If you don't consider the impact of appearance on Arthur's life, I think it is a good thing." Lucius said: "Of course, this is just my opinion."

"Arthur also possesses part of the red power of all living beings." Chen Tao added
"Yes, so his innate ability to talk to fish has been greatly enhanced, so much so that his appearance has become alienated." Lucius said: "It's the same as the change in the appearance of the man-bat. ”

"And he was indeed almost out of control in the Great Trench. He slaughtered a large number of Trench Tribes - Batman knew what they were. These guys had attacked ordinary people on the shore before, but Arthur and I teamed up to drive them back. "In the trench." Mela said, "Then Arthur found that he had recovered from this power, so he came back to me."

He tapped on the screen, and then more green branches popped up from the Plant Master on the screen. If he was originally just a monster composed of vines and trunks, now he is like a walking tree, even with a nose. Green leaves grow on everything: "It can absorb the tubers dropped from the body of the swamp monster, the master of the green of all things, thereby greatly increasing its own strength, but at the cost of this, the power of the green of all things will alienate his body , making it even less human, very similar to what’s happening with Neptune now.”

"So is this situation a good thing or a bad thing?" Mela asked, "Will he have to stay like this forever?"

"Who is this guy?"

"Let us, the Justice League, be very anxious." Chen Tao corrected: "And I will solve this matter."

"The life force in Arthur is particularly strong. It is unusually strong. You know, Bruce, his state reminds me of a person."

"But you remember he was able to eat the tubers from Swamp Thing's body," Lucius said.

Sea King Arthur stood up, opened his fish mouth, and spit out a series of bubbles: "Boo-boo-boo-boo! Bobo-boooo-boo-boo-boo-boo!"

"An enemy I have faced before." Chen Tao explained to them: "The low-level spokesperson of the Green of All Things, his own authority is under Swamp Monster and Poison Ivy. Poison Ivy and I defeated him, but because Killing him would reduce the power of All Green, so Ivy temporarily sealed him away."

As Lucius spoke, he touched his head, then typed on the computer for a while, and pulled up a person's information.

"According to Arthur, he was suddenly controlled by a powerful life force on the battlefield. In order to prevent this power from manipulating him to harm other people, and to prevent being controlled by the eclipse, he relied on his last bit of sanity. , rushed directly into the trench. "

"Plant Master, Jason Wood."

Mela and Neptune looked at each other.

"……Thanks."

"So how did he do it, Bruce? Mr. Arthur's powerful life force reminds me of a kind of power, the redness of all living things." Lucius said.

"An unimaginable life force strengthens Neptune's body."

"Arthur said he was fine, but even though the people of Atlantis follow the primogeniture system," Mela translated: "His current appearance is very likely to become an attack by others for not being able to succeed Atlantis." Evidence of the Throne of Thys."

"His brother Lord Orm has returned from traveling." Mela said: "Lord Orm is a staunch conservative. Arthur has been promoting the normal establishment of diplomatic relations between Atlantis and humans, but Orm is opposed to this. And his return also gave all the Atlanteans who opposed this matter a backbone and leader. There was another Atlantean attack recently, and we faced inquiries from the Department of Defense, despite Mars. The hunter’s guarantee and help still made Arthur very anxious.”

"There is no need to say such things." Chen Tao waved his hand, then touched his chin, and then said slowly: "Your state is indeed a problem."

He sat there, holding his chin in his hand, and fell into a state of contemplation. Both Mela and Arthur held their breath, looking expectant.

After a while, Chen Tao stood up, and the silver-white particles on his body flashed, appearing like a bat mage.

He stretched out his palm towards Arthur, the King of the Sea: "The human-like head turned back to Seiya!!! (Arthur's head turned back into a human!)"

With a burst of white smoke, the fish head of the Fish-Headed Sea King turned into a human head with a pop. However, this head was as colorless as a dyeing plate that had not had time to be dyed, and it also looked like a piece of plasticine that had been kneaded haphazardly. The kneaded shape only lasted for a few seconds before disappearing again with a pop.

"This is purely due to insufficient mana." Chen Tao touched his chin.

Although Bruce Wayne in the Dark Multiverse has learned irony magic, there is a difference between irony magic and irony magic. For the Bat Mage, the most powerful thing is that he knows a little bit about all magic. Just like Constantine, he can face almost any situation, rather than his proficiency in a single magic.

The Bat Mage's level of irony magic was quite capable of creating two magic books against Chen Tao himself, but when it came to the advanced deformation of Neptune's head, it seemed a bit stretched. What made Chen Tao fail was not only his level of irony magic, but more importantly, the powerful life force in Arthur, the King of the Sea, hindered the operation of magic. Arthur needed a more powerful mage to help him with his head. area to construct an advanced transfiguration spell without physically affecting his brain.

So Chen Tao used irony magic to create a magic invitation on the spot. "This invitation can help you find Zatanna Zatara." Chen Tao said: "She is a master of irony magic and will definitely solve your problems. Martian Manhunter will accompany you, and so will you, Mela. A mage, it should be easy to tell who Zatanna is."

"Wow, the style of painting has quickly turned to magic now," Lucius said.

"But be careful." Chen Tao said: "Even with Zatanna's advanced transformation technique, it is very likely that it will not be able to maintain your appearance when Arthur chooses to unleash all your power and fight fiercely. You are powerful When the life energy explodes, it will inevitably destroy the magic circuit, causing your head to turn back into a fish head. "

"We will continue to investigate the circumstances that led you to look like this, but you have to be mentally prepared... You may be forced to stay like this for a long time."

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A few minutes later.

Lucius and Chen Tao watched Arthur and Mela, who were grateful, disappear behind the gate not far away.

"Supergirl has woken up." Lucius still kept looking at the door, and then said: "Are you going to see her later? And General Zod, the green light planet Mogo is still hanging on Stopping on the outside of the Earth, and Superman's surgery."

"Yes." Chen Tao said, "Crisis surrounds us."

"Although Neptune has turned into a fish head, he is fine and everything is going in a good direction." Lucius comforted:
"As long as your experiment is successful, Superman's combat power will also rejoin the Justice League. Aquaman should also be able to convince Atlantis to establish diplomatic relations with humans, and then pull all the Atlanteans over to help you through the Speed ​​Force. A medium for sharing pressure.”

Lucius said: "The part of the ion power you gave me before came from the ion shark. I have successfully used part of the power of the Parallax monster to restrain it."

"You researched so fast?"

"It's not so much the method I researched, but the inherent characteristics of the two lantern beasts' power." Lucius explained: "You gave me two puzzle pieces, and I just merged them into Just together."

"With these Atlanteans helping you share, the strength of your own body will be enough, and then you will be able to force the ion shark to possess you through that part of the Dark Father's anti-life equation. This should allow you to The power exerted is several times more powerful than that after being possessed by the Ion Shark. Even if it is still impossible to match the complete state of Ion Man you described, it should be far beyond the semi-possessed state you mentioned before. Based on this, you may be able to control the parallax monster, but the specific method still needs to be studied.”

Chen Tao did not respond. Lucius continued: "One more thing. Luther and I also invented an advanced transmission device before. When Luther was away, I perfected it. This device can allow several people to Share a huge amount of pressure on one person, who then shares your pressure, like a pyramid.”

"Actually, I was thinking..." Chen Tao said: "Can't you create a battery compartment that automatically cuts off power and guarantees life, turning everyone into a battery? I mean ordinary people."

"No," Lucius said, "Because after our research, we found that your sharing of pressure is not simply a physical sharing. It is more of a psychological sharing."

Lucius said: "We once conducted experiments to try to give the turtle man anesthesia so that he could avoid the huge pain caused by sharing the power, but we found that if we gave him anesthesia and made him unconscious, he would not be able to share the pain. Any strength is like a weightlifter who is crushed to death by a dumbbell. It is not just the body that helps you share the strength, but something deeper, not even the power of life, and no matter how weak a person is, as long as he If you resist this kind of help sharing, even if you are stuffed into the battery compartment, there is no way to help share. In other words, it is useless to force others to help share, and mind control is useless. People must help from the heart. "

"Can't it be like forcing Gorilla Grodd and Turtle Man?"

"One of them is the spokesperson of stasis force, and the other is a creature of the speed force. They are born with these two powers. Can ordinary people be the same as them? Compared with ordinary people, their strength is too high, even if If you control them mentally or force them, you can squeeze out enough [sharing quota], but for ordinary people, their own quota is small, and the quota squeezed out by coercion is basically the same as nothing. "

"That said, Gorilla Grodd and Turtle Man are far from being squeezed to their limits."

"That's understandable, but that's not the point."

"The point is, there is a big problem with your idea now, that is, there is no way to detect whether there is a danger to life. Because for people who are helping to share the pressure, light detection of vital signs cannot detect whether he has reached his limit. , because the vital signs are far from reaching the point of killing the person, but something else that is being consumed reaches the limit, causing the collapse and death of the person who is helping to share the pressure.

And there are differences between ordinary people. For example, the magician from the previous gangster gang was the only one in the gang without superpowers, but his persistence was hundreds of times longer than that of ordinary people. Now we have no means to detect the extent to which that abstract thing is consumed. If ordinary people are allowed to go up, ordinary people will die in an instant before they can even stop. But the people in Atlantis are little supermen. They Have the ability to call it quits yourself. "

Lucius said: "So stop asking ordinary people to help. For them, this is not a war they can participate in."

Chen Tao was silent for a while: "I understand."

He seemed to quickly realize that this seemed a bit too tough, so he hurriedly explained: "I don't want them to forcefully participate in the war, but you know what?"

He raised his head and looked out the window.

In the night sky outside the window, there seemed to be an invisible huge black shadow grinning.

"The Anti-Monitor is coming...that giant monster is coming. The enemy will not give us time."

Lucius almost suspected for a moment that he heard cries, but when Batman turned his head, he only saw the blazing fire in the other man's eyes.

He must have seen it wrong... Batman is never sad or panicked.

He is never weak or hesitant. He moves forward firmly towards his goal, like an iron man without emotions.

Because...he's Batman. It was true then and it is true now.

(End of this chapter)