Chapter 268 Batman: Bane, we are brothers!
"Bane! Old friend!"
Chen Tao put his arm around his shoulder affectionately: "It's been a long time since we last met."
Bane had no expression on his face, not saying a word.
The monks around him, the witch Radama who was half "cursed", and the dead man also followed and watched Chen Tao.
"..."
"Have you seen enough?"
"Come with me, Batman." Bane spoke. His wrinkled face was calm.
He turned around in the manner of a "master" character in a very American Kung Fu movie, and Chen Tao followed him with a strange look on his face.
The monks behind him and the two third-line villains bowed together, clasped their hands together and sent them off. This feeling was really outrageous.
Bane led Chen Tao, walked through the very quaint stone path and wooden structure stairs, and finally arrived at a room.
Bane pulled open the screen, lowered his head that was more than two meters high, and walked into the room first.
There was nothing in this room except a table, two cushions and a few incense sticks.
Oh, and there's a pot of tea.
Chen Tao and Bain sat opposite each other on the futon. Bain used his big palm-like hands and carrot-like fingers to deftly pour a cup of tea for Chen Tao.
The damn tea bowl was so small, not even as big as Chen Tao's palm. Chen Tao grabbed it and drank it all.
Bain, who looked like a brown bear, was still quietly performing the tea ceremony like a girl. Chen Tao couldn't stand it anymore.
"I need your help." He said directly: "You have to help me get out of the Origin Wall--"
"Always so anxious, Batman."
Then he heard Bane's hoarse voice: "Are you in a hurry to save the world again, huh? You never stop. I thought that when we meet again, you will first care about what I have done, instead of thinking about your own things all day long."
Without waiting for Chen Tao to speak, Bane continued to talk to himself:
"I traveled around the world, looking for my biological father everywhere, but found nothing. During this period, I finally gradually realized that my obsession with you is so ridiculous. Whether it is to destroy you or to help you, all this is meaningless to me, and these should not be the direction of my life."
"So please go back, Batman. I won't help you anymore. I've been living in seclusion here for a long time. I've been cultivating myself and have completely let go of all my obsession with you. I won't be obsessed with you anymore."
Bane said, "You know what? When I found out you were visiting today, I even felt a little bit of anticipation. I'm looking forward to completely cutting off all ties with you."
"Uh, Bane..."
"Listen to me first!"
Bane waved his hand:
"You're a stranger to me now. If you want to have a cup of tea with me now, I can still accompany you, but you want to pull me to save the world for no reason? Don't even think about it. I'm just a hermit living in the Himalayas."
"The world and justice need your help." Chen Tao said.
"You need my help." Bane corrected, "If it was in the past, I might be convinced by you and help you without hesitation. But there is no such good thing now." He said with great sorrow: "I once tried to chase you, conquer you, and then suffered every day and night after failure. You don't understand the pain at all." "Then I thought I had let it go, I thought I was relieved, I thought I helped you because I wanted to seek the legal identities granted by the government. I lied to others and myself in the same way, and I lied to myself. But those are all nonsense." "Bane, listen to me first..." "You should listen to me, Batman!" Bane was slightly excited, his eyes were empty, and he was completely immersed in the memories of the past. His childhood, the time when he was trapped in prison. Bane strengthened his ideals and realized his destiny in that era. He forged the boy into who he is today. "I once had that dream. When I was young, I dreamed of my future self. I told myself that I would become a perfect combination of spirit and body, a living example of human superiority to the extreme. I once told myself that the blood of the king flows in my veins, that is the blood of my father. The world belongs to me, and one day I will rule it."
"I told myself that by then, all human beings will bow down in front of me like livestock, and be as weak as sheep."
"I told myself that there are not many people who can stand above ten thousand people, and I am one of them, and I only have one threat left on my way to dominating the world."
Bane stared at Chen Tao tightly.
"Fear."
"The fear hidden in my heart, only fear can prevent me from getting what belongs to me. As long as I conquer the fear in my heart, then I will have everything I deserve, I will be invincible, and become the overlord of all things!"
"And you, Batman, you. For so many years, I have regarded you as the embodiment of my inner fear."
"Even after giving up fighting you, I still instinctively chase your footsteps."
"This meaningless obsession with you is like a reading addiction, which ties me to a comet that revolves around you. In order to overcome the fear, I have become a slave to fear."
"But now, the offense and defense have changed, and the situation is different." Bane trembled and made a declaration of life: "I have overcome my fear, and I am no longer obsessed with you. I, you. We have nothing to do with each other. There is no connection anymore. My life and meaning no longer revolve around you." He said: "So no matter what you ask or plead, I will never help you again. Because I have no reason anymore." "Baine, I said, the world wants..." Bane's expression gradually became indifferent, and he poured himself another cup of tea. Although the ceiling of the room did not change at this time, Chen Tao inexplicably felt that the entire space was much wider. Bane's voice came to his ears: "I am a villain, not a superhero. What happens to the world is something you should find a way to solve." Bane picked up the tea, then sipped it, and raised it directly, with the intention of serving tea to see off the guests. "You can't get any help from me, Batman. I'm in no position to help you."
"You and I are brothers."
"So Batman, you'd better know...what the hell are you talking about?"
Bane, who wanted to continue, got stuck.
He could no longer pretend to be a senior, his eyes widened: "Say it again?"
"I said, you and I are brothers."
Chen Tao said: "My father, Thomas Wayne, had a close relationship with your mother many years ago."
Bane heard Batman say this while taking out a photo from his universal belt and showing it to him.
Bane immediately poured tea on the photo to test whether it was a mud face.
No problem.
This is really a genuine photo, in which his mother is standing with Thomas Wayne arm in arm.
Chen Tao looked at Bane's unbelievable face.
This photo is real, and it is also completely true that Bane's mother has a close relationship with Batman's father, Thomas Wayne.
These are all facts.
In the original comics, such a plot was indeed mentioned. In the original history, of course, it was not Chen Tao who found this photo, but Bane.
This photo successfully misled Bane, making him think that his father was Thomas Wayne, and he even took this photo to Gotham to find Batman to recognize his father.
Of course, according to the usual nature of comics, the final conclusion of this recognition was that Bane was not Thomas Wayne's son, but this matter was still true.
Chen Tao had prepared this photo a long time ago. The original plan was to take out this photo in case there was a mistake in the fight against Bane one day, so that the other party would stop attacking.
But for various reasons, this trump card has never seen the light of day.
And this time when he came to find Bane, Chen Tao deliberately brought this card with him, and it was really used.