Me and countless me.

Chapter 642 The Entertainment of Death

Li Ke could no longer tolerate the stupidity of Black Canary and Batwoman, so he covered his face.

"It seems I have to teach you what a hero is!"

Li Ke opened his eyes wide, and in his slowly lowered hand, two bright red Sharingan eyes appeared at this moment, revealing a bewitching scarlet color.

The ominous look in those eyes sent a shiver down the spines of both Batwoman and Black Canary, while Selena, standing to the side, asked curiously.

"what is this?"

Li Ke answered every question.

"This is called the Mangekyou Sharingan. It has all sorts of superpowers and can completely hypnotize a person, making them act according to your wishes. Although the person is conscious, they are completely unable to resist!"

Upon hearing this, Selena instantly became alert and instinctively covered her chest.

"you will not……"

She thought about it and felt that something was not quite right. After all, Li Ke didn't seem to have shown her those eyes before, but the next moment, a not-so-bright expression appeared on her beautiful face again.

"You don't mean to..."

Selena's face was full of certainty, and Li Ke spoke decisively at that moment.

"Yes, that's exactly what I'm going to do—train them!"

"You want to hypnotize them and turn them into your weapons?!"

Li Ke: "…………"

Black Canary and Batwoman: "…………"

The next moment, Li Ke looked at Selena speechlessly, while Batwoman and Black Canary struggled desperately, no longer feeling the relative relaxation they had before.

"You useless cat..."

Li Ke sighed, then suddenly opened his eyes and pointed them at Black Canary and Batwoman!
No god!
The Sharingan mark instantly appeared in the eyes of the two fledgling superheroes, causing them to stare blankly. It was at this moment that Li Ke spoke.

"Alright, now listen to me. Before I deem you qualified superheroes, you must spend all your free time here with me every day to receive my training. This includes the skills required of a superhero, such as reconnaissance, counter-reconnaissance, physics and chemistry, criminal psychology, combat, and various driving skills. And you cannot disobey! You must also stop all entertainment and unhealthy routines that I do not allow!"

After giving the order, Li Ke felt that it was a bit strange to give such an order to two superheroes who were curvy and wearing tight-fitting clothes, and who could be locked in the basement without anyone coming to their door, but it also seemed not so strange.

"You actually used that ability in this way... Don't you think something's off?"

Selena covered her face speechlessly. She had known for a long time that Li Ke was a lecher, but she never expected that his obsession with superheroes would make him not to be lecherous. It was really baffling to her.

However, the two girls did not share her thoughts and nodded in agreement.

"clear."

Black Canary felt something was off. She should have immediately told her mother, and then together with her partner Batwoman, told Commissioner Gordon and had this psychopath arrested. But she just couldn't bring herself to do it, because it would make her unable to accept Li Ke's training.

Batwoman felt the same way. She couldn't understand why Li Ke would do this, or why he had such a strange and terrifying ability. Even now, she felt she should tell her father, who was the bureau chief, but she just didn't think she should.

This awkward feeling was perfectly normal, making her feel like she was going crazy.

But she couldn't help but ask Li Ke a question.

"Are you sure your abilities are okay? I'm not talking about hypnosis, but fighting or something..."

Li Ke sighed, and a cloak suddenly appeared on his body. He then spread his cloak like a bat, revealing a dense array of academic certificates inside, which immediately silenced Batwoman and made Black Canary nod.

"Okay, we're all set."

So Black Canary and Batwoman left Li Ke's house, but their superhero costumes were left behind as spoils of war, because Selena wanted to use them.

Use it together with Li Ke.

However, compared to everything going smoothly for Li Ke, Batman's situation was much worse.

Batman was unable to stop the holder of the Book of the Dead from continuing to kill. In just one night, in addition to Maroney, dozens more members of his gang died, some of whom were only slightly famous and not gang leaders, and then died inexplicably.

Also killed were some high-ranking government officials, all due to various accidents. And most importantly, the piranhas of Gotham also smelled blood and, under the cover of the Book of the Dead, began to take advantage of the chaos.

After all, faking an accident to commit murder is not a new thing in Gotham.

Therefore, Batman is faced with a vast number of victims, but apart from the Maroney family, he has no way of distinguishing who was killed by the Book of the Dead and who was killed by the darkness of Gotham.

Even the most suspected Falcone family suffered heavy losses in Maroni's subsequent revenge, with many members dying, and some even being assassinated by other gangs.

Batman slammed his fist on the table in frustration, feeling increasingly troubled.

"Damn it, there are still no clues. Who got the Book of the Death?"

Looking at the various high-ranking members of the Maroney family who have died, as well as other high-ranking members who have died, Batman wonders who obtained the Book of the Dead that he burned and who continues to kill.

For this reason, he had to spend several days traveling to various murder scenes, investigating and searching for people who might have been killed by the Book of the Dead, as well as those who were not killed by the Book of the Dead.

However, his suspicious nature meant he couldn't completely rule it out, so by the time he felt powerless and needed help from others, a week had already passed.

Ironically, during the time Batman was unable to identify who the victims of the Book of the Dead were, Alberto, who had obtained the Book of the Dead, did not use it to kill anyone again. Because of Maroni's attack, he was moved to a safe place by Falcone.

At this moment, Alberto was in a hotel, looking at the beautiful woman in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Is Father angry with me?" He thought of the fact that Maroni had miraculously survived despite having written his name on it, and how Falcone had ordered him to retreat without saying a word. He couldn't help but think that this was the reason his father disliked him after he had messed things up.

Therefore, Alberto did not use the Book of the Dead to kill anyone during this period, because he felt that he was not yet worthy of using it to kill.

But as he watched the news in Gotham, seeing reports of Falcone family members dying in battles with Maronny, he couldn't help but grit his teeth, and his hand involuntarily reached for the Book of the Dead in his pocket.

"I don't believe you can handle it if I write it again."

The moment this thought arose, Alberto suddenly recalled the rules of the Book of the Dead.

Those who commit murder must be prepared to be killed themselves.

But Alberto didn't care about this at all. As long as he could make his father proud and contribute to his father's cause, Alberto felt that he would not be afraid of death.

Therefore, he wrote Maroni's name again with a firm yet trembling hand.

He was extremely nervous while writing, wary of everything around him, fearing that something unexpected might happen and kill him. But he remained calm until he finished writing Maroni's name and slammed the book shut.

He waited anxiously for a while, but nothing unexpected happened. Relieved, he smiled and opened the Book of Death again, his eyes filled with madness.

"This rule doesn't seem so scary after all."

He picked up his pen again and wrote down all the members of Maroni's family that he knew. The black ink flowed out because he was writing so hard, just like blood flowing from a person.

He even wrote down the name of his father's favorite child, his older brother Mario.

But just as he was going mad, a gothic girl sitting in the hall couldn't help but raise an eyebrow and sigh.

"If you don't value your own life and the lives of others, then you will naturally have to pay the price."

The girl named Death felt sorry for Alberto. He had never cherished the lives of others, only thinking about achieving his own goals. Therefore, even without the Book of Death, he never considered others when he did crazy things.

Interestingly, just as Falcone didn't want his son to get involved in organized crime, Maroni also had a descendant he didn't want to let go of, and this descendant was a kind girl.

However, Alberto arranged for them all to die by falling from the building, unaware that the rules of the Book of the Dead had already placed the butcher's knife at his neck.

One must not kill innocent people; a murderer must be prepared to be killed. This is the biggest taboo that Li Ke set for the Book of Death. Furthermore, using the Book of Death with malice will inevitably bring misfortune upon one.

So, in the eyes of death at this very moment, Alberto was already coming to report to him.

As expected, after writing down Maroni's entire family, Alberto fell into a state of euphoria, and the power of the Book of the Dead reached its peak within him, but he was completely unaware of it: he went to the rooftop to find his female companion who was enjoying the view, and wanted to have a thrilling encounter with her.

But just as he threw away the Book of the Dead and headed towards the platform—

The Book of the Dead suddenly appeared at his feet, just as Maroni had stepped on the wine bottle earlier.

He stepped on the Book of the Dead and then slipped!
He tried desperately to grab onto something that could help him, but as he reached out to grasp the railing, the Book of the Dead appeared in front of his palm once again!

Alberto then realized just how terrible the curse of the Book of the Dead being impossible to discard truly was. He showed a look of horror, but his body had already smashed through the railings that should have been insurmountable and was falling towards the bottom of the building!

As the sky receded and the earth expanded, Alberto, in a moment of desperation, thought of writing down his death date to save his life. But the moment he trembled as he opened the Book of the Dead, his eyes were filled with terror!
Because the page of the Book of the Dead that he had opened was covered in black ink from his footprints, and the name Mario that he had written on it was 'coincidentally' transformed into his own name by the footprints because that page had been torn by his own footsteps!

I can no longer change the way I died!

"Do not!!!"

Through the tattered paper, Alberto let out his final cry before falling heavily to the ground, turning into a puddle of Alberto.

At that moment, the Book of Death slowly fell from the sky and landed on his unseeing face.

"I'm very fair, aren't I?"

Looking at the Book of Death, Death felt increasingly that the little thing the man she had her eye on had created could bring her plenty of pleasure.

This is not a perverse sense of humor; the Book of the Dead has no power to entice others. It is merely a convenient tool for killing. However, the various tangled plots that arise from it are what Death finds fascinating.

So instead of destroying the Book of Death, she breathed on it, bestowing upon it her blessing and adding a final rule to the artifact that Li Ke had casually created.

“Anyone who treats life with kindness and who reveres death can successfully discard this notebook.”

At this time, Batman was unaware that Alberto, the holder of the Book of the Dead, had died. He was still in front of his screen investigating various suspects who might have died because of the Book of the Dead, but the more he investigated, the more suspects appeared, making him increasingly anxious.

Looking at those names, Batman felt an increasing sense of responsibility. He desperately needed information from the police, so he thought of a policeman he knew, someone he had worked with a few times but was still assessing to see if he was trustworthy.

“Gordon…”

He needs the other party's help.

So he went to the place where the other man often came to think, a place with huge searchlights where no one usually came, and saw Gordon sitting there, immersed in his own world, deep in thought.

His arrival did not disturb the other person, but the other person's distressed appearance made Batman feel that the other person was also troubled by the same thing, so he spoke softly.

Are you troubled by the recent unusual deaths?

Gordon, lost in his own world, spoke without thinking.

"No, isn't this always the case in Gotham? I'm worried about whether my daughter has a boyfriend, and whether he might have taken advantage of her and my colleague's daughter..."

Gordon realized something was wrong after he finished speaking, then looked up and saw Batman crouching in front of him, revealing—

Batman gave him an approving look.

(End of this chapter)