Chapter 86: Expired Parents (Seeking Follow-up Reading)
"I still have two hostages, two hostages you would never expect."
Bane opened his palms, and the venom began to pour into his body little by little, expanding his already sturdy body little by little.
On one side of his body, green plants grew from under his flesh and blood, breaking through his muscles and skin, causing Bane to bleed bright red.
On the other side of his body, it quickly rotted. A strong stench spread from that half of his body, and his flesh cracked inch by inch, oozing out yellow-brown corpse fluid.
The two forces began to wrestle with each other at the dividing point of his body, as if to tear Bane in half - and then at this time, with Bane's nose as the center, the middle part of his body quickly turned pale with blue veins. Was it the transformation of amber gold?
The venom gurgled into his body, and the three forces actually reached a strange balance, appearing on Bane's body at the same time, making him look like a...
Uh...three-color ice cream?
Chen Tao knew that such a metaphor was inappropriate and impolite, but this transformation did add a dramatic touch to Bane's serious and cruel life.
Bane stretched out the arm that was stained by the black power of decay. He lightly grasped in the air, as if guiding some intangible and invisible power to infuse his whole body.
His half body covered with corpse spots swelled again, but was then suppressed by the amber gold and the green of all things.
"Come on..."
Chen Tao felt a chill.
He heard a hissing sound, as if some giant rat had dug a passage underground and tried to drill into Arkham Asylum.
Chen Tao's mind was suddenly tense.
What is that!
He silently transformed his body into the nano body of Nano Batman, and the drifting black veil gradually condensed in the room.
Chen Tao has made full preparations. No matter what will come out from under the floor later, it will be struck by thunder the moment it emerges.
Black of decay, black of decay!
Could it be that Bane and Black of decay are colluding again? What giant rotten worm would come out from the ground? A giant dead beast covered with corpse spots?
It can't be a dead centipede with various broken limbs sewn all over its body, howling while rushing out of the ground?
Chen Tao's brain was spinning frantically, and he deduced all kinds of ideas in these few seconds. He was shocked that his brain was spinning so fast.
Is the water in the Lazarus Pool I prepared before enough?
Amidst all kinds of crazy thoughts, the sound stopped.
The thing digging underground finally reached under the floor.
A drop of cold sweat dripped from Chen Tao's forehead.
With a click, the floor made a slight sound.
Then the next second, a pale hand pulled the head, directly smashed the floor, and roared to the sky in the room!
This terrible monster, uh...
Wait, what is this?
Chen Tao's eyes widened, and he saw the two zombies crawling out of the floor in disbelief. "Unforgivable..." Chen Tao said. "I feel this power called the Black of Decay." Bane replied, "You may not understand how terrible this power is." "The boundary between life and death has never been as blurred as it is in front of me at this moment. I have been close to death countless times, and I have been ready to embrace death..." "But I never thought that one day, I would master death." "Batman." He said seriously: "I now realize so clearly that... death is not the end of everything, but the beginning, the beginning of everything." "Unforgivable..." Chen Tao whispered to himself. "Therefore, Batman. I solemnly introduce my last two hostages to you." "Thomas Wayne." The slightly taller zombie roared, and the sound like a broken saxophone sounded from his windy throat. "Martha Wayne." The slightly shorter zombie followed with a howl, sharp, piercing, and full of hatred for all the living in the world. A pearl necklace hung around her neck. Intact, pure and flawless.
Chen Tao covered his face and sobbed softly.
"Unforgivable..."
A huge rage brewed in his voice: "How dare you? How dare you do this to my parents--"
Wait.
Aren't these Batman's parents?
A bolt of lightning struck Chen Tao's brain, dispelling all the sadness in his mind.
? ? ?
Why should I be sad? These are not my parents. I am the time traveler Chen Tao. Batman's parents' graves were dug up. What does it have to do with me, the time traveler?
Chen Tao realized why he had never considered Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne, because he had never cared about these two bodies at all. He subconsciously never thought that these two bodies were something that could threaten him.
Then how could he make a plan to prevent them from being robbed?
!
"You think I don't know about the existence of Clayface? You think I'm stupid enough not to take any precautions against Clayface? I'm disappointed, Batman, that you underestimated me... That's why you made a mistake."
Bane slowly walked to the middle of the two zombies: "Although you replaced all the hostages I kidnapped with Clayface, this still surprised me. But I never thought that those hostages could shake your mind." Chen Tao lowered his head, his shoulders twitching, as if he was sobbing. Bane looked down at him. This huge blow, a devastating blow, seemed to make Batman shocked and angry, and lost all his will to fight. The plan was achieved so well, and the great achievements that deceived Batman made Bane feel a little dizzy: "The pamphlet you wrote to me on how to fight the Joker also exposed how to fight you to some extent... This is almost a confession you wrote to me!" "Despicable..." Bane saw Batman covering his face, he stood up from his seat, then covered his stomach, fell to the ground, and slowly bent his body. "I knew that the hostages I kidnapped would most likely be replaced by the Clayface. I knew that even if I kidnapped those hostages, I couldn't keep them in front of you... but I still did it. It's all a trick, Batman!"
"Those hostages distracted your attention, Jim Gordon, Harvey Bullock. You paid too much attention to them, and made you forget to guard against the two most important people in your life!"
"This is all written in your booklet... How to fight the Joker? Distract his attention. How to fight Batman? Distract...his attention!"
"So now... [dying]."
Bane manipulated two zombies to block in front of him.
"In the next battle, if you want to attack me, you must personally grind your parents to ashes!"
Even with Bane's scheming, he could no longer suppress the high spirits in his tone.
The uneasiness of being close to victory pushed his blood straight to his brain - if he still had blood to flow in his veins.
Batman fell to his knees, covering his face, and twitching slowly.
"Woo woo woo... woo woo woo..."
"Oh my god, you're not crying, are you?" Bain said.
"Woo woo woo, woo ha ha, woo ha ha ha!"
"What?"
Bain's expression changed little by little, and his original excitement froze on his face.
"Hehe, ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha ha!"
Chen Tao laughed hysterically, and he laughed so hard that he fell down, rolled on the ground, and pounded the ground hard!
"Ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"