Chapter 255: Aquaman and Tuna (5800 words long chapter, I wrote so much, I am awesome!)
Antarctica.
In a secret base that no one knows about.
"Hahaha, Black Manta, are you kidding me?"
"... You seem to be fantasizing that after joining N.E.M.O., you will have a say in the action?"
Black Manta sat on his seat with his fingers crossed.
At this time, all his weapons had been stolen, including his famous diving suit armor and the helmet that could fire destructive lasers like a fly's head.
Almost all the soldiers around him were armed with guns from the N.E.M.O. There was a mocking look on Black Manta's scarred face.
Cowardly rats...
"Why can't I?" He asked back.
The fisherman was a burly old man with white hair and beard. He wore cowhide boots and a wide sailing jacket.
"Black Jack told me you were reckless, sir. N.E.M.O's schedule has been arranged for decades, and we have carefully designed it to achieve global control." The fisherman said, "Unless they are very talented newcomers, we will not allow them to adopt new ideas or disrupt our carefully designed plans." He looked at Black Manta: "It is obvious that you have nothing but revenge in your mind. You can't be a decision maker, but only a tool for our plan." "I have never served anyone." The fisherman heard what Black Manta said, he laughed dumbly, and then waved his hand nonchalantly: "Get used to it slowly, you will like it here, otherwise... Okay, let's stop here." He waved his hand to signal his men to send Black Manta away, but he didn't notice the increasingly cold look in his eyes. His stupidest thing was to let Black Manta appear in front of him. This was definitely a huge mistake. Black Manta stood up, and the next second, in a burst of golden light, he suddenly disappeared from his seat. This is not a description or metaphor. He really stood up and fell backwards in a golden vortex, disappearing from his seat.
"What...what? Where did he go? Why did he suddenly disappear...?"
The fisherman suddenly stood up from his seat. He looked at the place where Black Manta had just sat in surprise, and turned to look at the woman who brought Black Manta into the base.
"Black Jack, what is going on?"
Black Jack seemed even more surprised and panicked than the fisherman: "I...I don't know, Black Manta never told me-"
"Ah!" Before Black Jack finished speaking, the fisherman suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart and screamed.
"Ah!"
He lowered his head and saw a knife tip coming out of his chest with his eyes that were almost bulging out, and the bright red blood soaked his shirt bit by bit.
"You...you..." He turned his head with difficulty, but only saw Black Manta's helmet, which was like a fly's eye, flashing a scarlet light.
How could it be possible? When did he retrieve his equipment? He... He just flashed and disappeared in the golden vortex. Was that teleportation?
He teleported to a certain place, took his equipment, and then came back...?
Sizzle!
The blade was pulled out, and blood sprayed on Black Manta's helmet.
Everyone was stunned by this unexpected result.
Black Manta's fly-like helmet might have been very funny and funny when others saw it for the first time.
However, at this moment, when the helmet was stained with the blood of their former leader "Fisherman", it was indescribably hideous and terrifying!
Black Jack was the first to react. She originally thought that she had been in an evil organization like N.E.M.O for so many years that she had long forgotten what fear was. But when she looked into Black Manta's deep red eyes, she still trembled uncontrollably.
"You...what did you do? Oh my God, what did you do?"
"The king is dead, Black Jack." Black Manta's voice came from his fly helmet, hoarse, dark, and with an inhuman sense of horror.
He sat directly in the seat where the fisherman had just sat, and then crossed his legs.
"So long live the new king."
Black Manta pursed his lips under the helmet: "Any questions?"
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Before entering the tavern, Chen Tao disguised himself. He covered his face with a pair of sunglasses and a mask, and wore a hat on his head. Supergirl and Superboy had biological positions as a means of covering their appearance, so there was no need to do anything extra.
"Okay, let's go." Chen Tao said.
They walked in, and there was a lot of noise inside. At this moment, a...
Uh, Chen Tao didn't quite understand, a performance?
A handsome young man. He stood on the stage, holding a trident of Aquaman that looked like a prop, but was obviously made of metal.
Chen Tao's eyes lingered on the halberd for a moment. As we all know, the Neptune Trident has five forks, which is quite reasonable.
He was surprised that the props of a stage play in a tavern were so authentic.
Standing next to him were two actors dressed as Superman and Batman. The props of these two actors were very good, and they were completely different from the one worn by the Neptune actor next to them. They were made of ordinary cloth, unlike the golden scales of the Neptune actor, which had a metallic texture.
When they came in, the actor of Aquaman was just finishing his joke.
"I don't want to play with you guys anymore. No matter what you say, I'm going to sleep with this tuna."
"Hahahaha, Aquaman actually sleeps with fish." The actor of Batman laughed wildly, and then suddenly looked like he couldn't laugh anymore.
"Wait. When he said sleep, he just slept with fish, right?"
"Who knows?" The actor of Superman said, "Let me use x-rays to see."
Then the actor of Aquaman really took a half-dead tuna, walked to the side and began to twist his hips seductively: "Oh! Honey, although you are great, I will still marry an octopus. You know, the octopus will always be Aquaman's official girlfriend! Oh! Honey, 'taste' my masculinity!"
(Note: There is a joke here. In another popular super-British and American drama In "The Boys", there is a spoof version of Aquaman, whose superpower is to talk to fish and even chat with lobsters. His friend is an octopus, and later Homelander forces him to eat his friend alive. )
Then he pretends to have the shrill and thin voice of a tuna: "Oh, it doesn't matter, as long as you are in my heart and mind, I will always belong to you!"
As the Aquaman actor said this, he showed the audience the tuna's deliberately cut body (heart) and the fish mouth (brain) that was deliberately widened with a stick.
The performance seemed quite successful, and the tavern was full of laughter. Thanks to the government's carpet search and Aquaman's increasingly frequent sea rescue operations in recent years and months, in this small borderland of Maine, Aquaman's popularity is higher than inland people can imagine.
Everyone is talking about such a superhero who swims around in the sea and has the superpower of talking to fish. The emergence of such a performance program can be said to be born out of necessity.
"Tsk tsk tsk... This joke is too vulgar." Chen Tao looked at the actor dressed as Aquaman.
He has strong muscles and natural-looking hair that is dyed golden.
Although he wears golden contact lenses, he looks like he really has a pair of golden pupils.
His face is as handsome as a Greek demigod, and even if he is deliberately funny, it does not affect his heroic appearance.
With such appearance conditions, it is a waste of talent to make a living as a comedian in a tavern in a remote area.
Soon, the comedy skit ended, and the three actors packed up and left the stage. A waiter came up to clean up the liquid dripped from the tuna on the stage, and then a white man with a red neck and red scarf holding an accordion took over the performance trio and started playing the accordion.
The previous three actors left the stage, walked to a table not far away and sat down, and also took a few drinks.
Chen Tao moved his eyes away from the stage performance.
"Connor." Chen Tao suddenly called the name of Superboy Connor.
"Well, what's the matter?"
He asked.
"Use your x-ray vision and microscopic vision to scan the man, and then tell me what you find." Chen Tao pointed at the long-haired man.
"What? You can't treat me as a tool in your multi-functional belt." Superboy Connor protested.
"Why not? That's what I did to Superman. Scan quickly, do you think I haven't scanned myself? After the scan, tell me what you analyzed."
Connor realized that this seemed to be a quiz. So he did it, and then answered:
"The perspective eye can't see through his body. Either he wears something to block prying, or he can prevent others from prying into his physical fitness."
"That's all?"
Superboy was stunned, and then scanned back and forth with the perspective eye twice: "Is it true?"
Chen Tao sighed.
"Even if your vision exceeds 99.9% of the people on this planet, you are still a hopelessly blind person."
?
Connor was furious when he heard it.
Chen Tao turned to look at Supergirl: "Did you scan it?"
"Yes, I saw it, it's very obvious..." Chen Tao stopped Kara from saying the next thing, and nodded with satisfaction: "Fortunately, not everyone is as stupid as Connor."
Connor:?
Chen Tao sighed again. This can't be blamed on Superboy Connor. Although he looks like a teenager now, a few months ago, he was even an immature embryo, strictly speaking, a baby less than one year old.
The super brain can make Kryptonians full of wisdom and good at learning, but wisdom does not mean knowledge and experience, and the complexity of this world is far from being fully understood by just reading books.
"Why don't you tell our target about our purpose."
Chen Tao said.
"Eh. Me?"
Superboy Connor's eyes widened, and he pointed at himself in surprise.
"Are you sure!?"
"Yes," he heard Batman's voice: "Go test him."
"Okay." In this case, Connor's super brain turned quickly.
The blond bearded man had been sitting there expressionlessly since the Aquaman and Batman actors were performing a spoof of Aquaman's jokes. He was the security guard of the bar, the suspected target Amanda Waller mentioned in the van.
Connor walked up to him and said, "We need your help."
Chen Tao nodded secretly. Superboy Connor inherited Superman's super brain after all. Although he was a little weak in experience, he was definitely not stupid.
He came up and directly stated that he was here to seek help, instead of talking nonsense and making some riddles there, which would arouse the other party's vigilance or cause more misunderstandings that would raise people's blood pressure.
At the table next to him, the actor who played Aquaman before immediately pricked up his ears. He took the opportunity to pour wine and changed his seat, sitting behind the man with long golden hair and beard.
"Your name is Arthur Morgan, right? Can I call you that, Mr. Morgan?"
Connor felt a little guilty, because he found that the man in front of him just stared at him with a pair of golden pupils, without saying a word.
The atmosphere froze in an instant.
"Hiccup——"
The actor who played Aquaman on the stage before suddenly rudely burped a long and loud burp in the back, breaking the somewhat stagnant atmosphere.
Arthur Morgan, a man with long blond hair and a beard, glanced at the hiccuping actor, then turned his gaze back to Connor's face, with a ferocious expression on his face: "What do you want from me? If you have something to say, say it quickly."
Connor subconsciously wanted to look back at Batman, but finally stopped himself. Chen Tao nodded approvingly from behind.
This is called training, not letting the other party grow wildly like Luthor.
Connor thought for half a second, and finally decided to be a little more tactful and try it first.
"There is a stranger who came to this village from the sea."
Connor's behavior has attracted the attention of several tables of drinkers around. Their chatter gradually became lighter. Connor, who was suddenly watched by so many people, was a little nervous, but he still bit the bullet and continued.
"The stranger is with sharks and dolphins, riding the tide, commanding all creatures on the ocean. He saves ships in distress and brings fish to fishermen. He-"
"That's just a rumor."
But before Connor finished speaking, he was interrupted by the blond-haired strong man.
"There has never been such a person. Please go back."
"The enemy from afar is about to attack." The other party's attitude confirmed Connor's judgment, and he said:
"We need warriors. We need this stranger. There are already many other people like him who have formed an alliance to defend the earth. We must meet this person."
The man with blond beard and named Arthur looked at him steadily.
Then he suddenly started laughing, and then the people at the tables around him also started laughing.
"Hahahahahahahahahahaha——"
The violent laughter burst into a ball, and the whole tavern was filled with a happy atmosphere.
Connor was confused by their reaction.
"You...you guys...what do you mean, this is..."
The blond bearded man named Arthur laughed breathlessly: "Hahahahahahahaha...I'm dying of laughter, that's the expression! I bet you mistook me for the rumored Aquaman or something, and even came all the way here for this."
He laughed so hard that his stomach hurt, and pointed at Connor's confused face: "Yes, that's the expression, hahahaha...but the fact is, everything is fake, just a means for our tavern to attract business."
He pulled the actor who played Aquaman behind him over, and rubbed his forehead wildly while the other party complained, "Hey, don't rub my hair":
"Do you still think I might be fake, and this guy is actually the real Aquaman, and he is standing behind the scenes and secretly controlling me?"
The blond bearded man named Arthur Morgan was overjoyed:
"Wrong, it's fake!"
"That's what I want you to think, this is all deliberately set up to attract business, just to play with you outsiders hahahaha!"
He laughed He pounded the table, and then hooked the neck of the actor who was playing Aquaman on the stage: "Haha, Tom! He believed it, he believed it! This is the first time we have successfully deceived others since we planned this plan. It's so interesting!" The Aquaman actor named Tom also flattered him at the right time: "Le, well done! Arthur is so good!" The blond bearded man Arthur laughed: "You idiots, you always fantasize about superheroes hiding in the crowd, and you just happen to find them. I am so happy!" He pointed to the table of drinks on Chen Tao's table: "But our purpose from beginning to end is just to let you buy this table of drinks. Hahaha, you have already paid for our pub to find the legendary Aquaman, and now you can't refund it!" He turned to the bar owner and said: "Hey, boss, our brothers' plan is good, but it has successfully brought you a big business!" The bar owner who was wiping the cup also laughed too hard to speak, and could only wave his hands. "What...what?" Connor was shocked by this "fact" and his face turned liver-colored. He turned his head and looked at Batman in despair.
"This...this is impossible. The intelligence system can't have such a big mistake." Amanda Waller's voice came from the headset. She was also surprised, but quickly calmed down.
"Our guys can't make such a big mistake." She said: "Even if Aquaman is not among these two people, he may be hiding in a corner of the tavern, or even maybe he is not present today."
Amanda Waller said categorically:
"But no matter what, Aquaman should be near this tavern... or this area. Otherwise, his source of information cannot be explained. We finally tracked it here, which is certain and cannot be false. And this is also completely consistent with the calculation results in probability."
"No, you have been fooled by a juggler in a tavern!" Connor's mentality was a little broken. When he thought of what he had just said to the other party in a serious manner, "enemies in the distance", he felt his face burning.
In the violent laughter, he forced himself to walk back to Chen Tao's table. Chen Tao almost saw smoke coming out of his seven orifices.
"Let's go quickly. I don't want to stay here for a second." He said to Chen Tao.
Chen Tao sighed.
Then he turned his head and looked at the super girl Kara who had been sitting there quietly as a quiet lady from just now.
"Let me test you. Do you know what to do at this time?"
Chen Tao said: "Please, think about it before giving the answer, don't let me down."
"I know." The super girl thought for half a second, and then answered softly.
"What are you talking about? Why don't we leave quickly--"
Connor hadn't finished his words when he saw Kara take off her coat, revealing the S on her chest and the cape behind her.
Connor: ? ? ?
Kara flew straight up and flew in front of the people in the tavern who were a little bit unable to laugh. Then her eyes glowed red and burned the table in front of them into charcoal.
"I'll tell you something. I have something to tell you." Kara seemed a little shy when she was suddenly stared at by so many people.
The little girl flew timidly in the air and said:
"If Aquaman doesn't come out, I'm going to burn this tavern and then kill all of you."
She turned her head and melted the double-barreled shotgun that the boss took out from under the bar into molten iron, scaring the boss to raise his hands.
"I'm really going to kill them all, no kidding. Sorry!"
Batman showed an approving look, and then said: "Well done, but not aggressive enough, watch me."
Then he synchronized with the speed bullet and floated up, staring straight at the man who just performed the Aquaman Day Tuna on the stage and called himself Tom.
The corners of his mouth gradually rose.
"Come on!" said Supergirl.
"?" Superboy Connor turned his head to look at her. He was a little numb now: "What's coming?"
Then the next second Connor heard Batman's creepy laughter: "Hehehe, hehe, hahahahahahaha!!!"
He flew directly to the ear of Aquaman Arthur and laughed wildly in a low voice that only he could hear:
"Arthur! I know your father is buried in Ci'en Port. If you still don't admit it, I will fly to Ci'en Port now, blow up your father's grave, and flush all the ashes into the sea!"
Chen Tao's eyes lingered on the other party's golden scale armor, which was obviously made of metal, and the Aquaman trident, which was placed next to him even when drinking.
Although the trident was called a trident...it did have five points, just like in the comics.