Chapter 321 The truth that you can never retire (must read, complete, 8000 words)

Chapter 321 The truth that you can never retire (must read, complete, 8000 words)

I have a secret.

I come from another world, a world completely opposite to the one I live in now, a parallel universe.

There, the Crime Syndicate rules the world, not the Justice League of this universe I live in now.

But where we come from is not our secret, you will know soon... but not now.

A few years ago, Earth 3.

Another Gotham.

"Can you hear me, Master Thomas?"

(Note: Thomas Wayne Jr., also known as Nite Owl, is the isomorph of Batman on Earth 3, an evil version of Batman, and the brother of Bruce Wayne on Earth 3, while Bruce has long died in this universe.)

The Outsider was flying the Owl plane, and he checked the position of Nite Owl on the display.

"I'm trying to follow you as best as I can, sir, but it's always hard to keep up when you're flying around."

"Where's the Claw?"

(Note: The Claw in Night Owl's mouth refers to Dick Grayson. In the normal universe, he is Batman's first Robin. After flying solo, he becomes the superhero Nightwing, but in the parallel universe of Earth 3, he becomes the Claw.)

"His communicator didn't answer. You shouldn't tell him about his parents, sir. Just like you shouldn't tell him the truth about Barbara and other things."

The outsider said:

"You should do it the old way: cheat."

"It's just a waste of time to talk about this now. We have to rescue the claws from the hands of the Joker, and then I will kill every unruly person who provides assistance to the Joker. If something happens to Dick, I will cut the laughing clown into pieces."

"Excuse me, Master Thomas, if you hadn't killed the Joker's girlfriend Harley Quinn, maybe he wouldn't lower his bottom line and kill your underage henchmen-"

"Shut up. Contact me when you find him."

"But..."

"Night Owl, call ended."

-You see, Thomas and I have been partners for life, since the day I shot his parents.

That day was the only time I saw Thomas completely out of control, and that day was the only time Thomas cried bitterly.

He never mentioned the experience of that day again, it was his darkest secret. After that, Thomas no longer expected anything, he chose to completely control everything with his hands, control everything, and everyone.

Gotham is just a piece of cake, but what about the people? The people are the problem.

My real name is Alfred Pennyworth, also known as the Outsider, and I live only to serve Nite Owl.

He never asked me why, but he knew he had to know. He knew my darkest secrets, which is why I would never betray him, why I helped him spy on the police station, Arkham Manor, Tompkins Brothel and Harley Circus, and why I could die for him.

The two of us worked together to control the system of Gotham, and the system gave him the right to control. Losing control will inevitably lead to chaos.

Allowing any chaos to spread like a cancer until the entire system dies.

This is exactly what that man wanted. He wanted to break Nite Owl's control over the people. He wanted to liberate Gotham from Nite Owl's iron fist. He was the Joker.

He was the cancer of this city, and he almost killed me.

The Joker was once the person I feared the most. I trembled when I saw the corners of his mouth curled up. That night, Nite Owl killed the Joker, completely ending the only person who resisted Nite Owl.

I thought I would never see that crazy smile again.

However...

At this moment, at this moment.

"Outsider, answer me."

"How did you survey the defense force of that universe? Our situation here is very bad. You'd better hurry up."

In a dark underground nest on the earth, the screen in front of the outsider reflected the cold face of the night owl.

On the machine next to it, the parent box kept turning quietly.

"Master Thomas... I'm sorry. I have been waiting for your arrival, but when I tried to sort out this world... I underestimated the difficulty of this task."

"Just tell me how many people can come through the transmission channel."

"I'm afraid only one person can come at a time. After one person comes, it will take some time to recharge before the next one can come, and... the safety of the transmission channel is still under discussion. I'm sorry."

"But now the transmission channel has been opened, which is good."

The outsider heard the voice of the night owl: "We will send a member over soon."

He thought about it.

"Let's choose Sea King. He is the most useless among us. He knows nothing except talking to fish. It doesn't matter if he dies. Just treat it as a test of the stability of the transmission channel." (Note: Sea King, a member of the Crime Syndicate, an evil version of Sea King.) He continued to ask: "What about the intelligence you collected on the defense forces of this world?" "After establishing contact just now, I have already transmitted it to the Owl Computer in the Owl Cave." The outsider said, and then he wanted to say something, but he hesitated. "Just say whatever you want to say." "Well... Master Thomas, in the history of this earth, your brother Bruce Wayne survived." "You have already told me this information in the contact shortly after you came to this world."

"Yes, that's right, Master Thomas, but I have to correct it now. The Batman of this world may be a little... different from what we imagined." The outsider took a breath, and Batman's wild laughter flashed through his mind. "Different? What's the difference?" The outsider heard the voice of Night Owl: "After so many years in Gotham, there is nothing that can surprise me." He said: "No matter what this Batman is like, can he be more disgusting than the Joker?" "..." The outsider lowered his head: "You should take a look at the information I sent you." "I'll go and see it later." Night Owl said: "Night Owl is over." ... ... ... ... ... In many ways, the universe we live in is like a huge jar. This is a place bound and ruled by invisible rules. Some rules are born from science, some are derived from magic, and others are more mysterious. However, all life born in this universe is bound by its own laws, like an airtight glass barrier. However, once upon a time, in a pocket born at the edge of time and space, an incredible vortex was surging undercurrent.

There, the rules in the usual sense no longer apply, it is a space outside the jar.

The creatures here often abandon themselves before they evolve to maturity. Any creatures that appear on the chaotic coast will quickly become extinct. In the end, only one known planet has matured. It is a terrible place. Unlike the simple biological origin and stable evolution of branch variants in the ordinary world, life on this planet has reached the peak of multi-differentiation when it was born.

The weird and wild creatures have already shown the most complete posture in its sea of ​​origin, so when the life on those ordinary planets is increasingly prosperous, in this world, the process is completely opposite.

All species here start from war, and their only goal of existence is to destroy each other. All creatures join the ultimate melee of survival of the fittest, and in this ultimate bloody battle, only the most powerful, most vicious, and most ruthless creatures can survive.

As time goes by, extinction follows extinction.

Finally, the planet selected his masterpiece, a species with endless life that could control any thought it touched.

And in this group, an independent existence quietly rose...

After coming to the multiverse, he destroyed every existence, every planet, every civilization, and every thought that blocked his way.

He has been given many names in the long history and years: Fire Star, Black Star...

And the title he is most satisfied with is Conqueror Starro, because everyone who has seen him personally lead the army... is equivalent to witnessing his death.

In the boundless starry sky.

A huge starfish stretched his body in space.

Its telepathic ability spanned thousands of mountains and rivers and locked onto a new target...

Earth.

"The target has been found: Earth. Conqueror Starro will conquer Earth!"

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"Shh!"

"Batman can't hear us."

Red of all living things.

When many members of the Totem Council dispersed, the antler totem among them was quietly carrying out his conspiracy.

"Listen, the Black of Decay is coming, and no one can help us." He whispered into the void, and through the crimson connection, he saw the two crimson faces. Just as the Green of All Things and the Black of Decay both have dark sides, over the long years, the Red of All Things also has its own side that cannot be shown to the public. "Hiss hiss hiss... Do you know?" "That boy." The Antler Totem whispered: "You really succeeded." He said: "Well done. Well done." The Antler Totem looked around for a while before he dared to continue: "You don't know how Batman bullied us." "He keeps building buildings in the Red of All Things, hiding things, and not allowing any warrior of the Red of All Things to approach." He said: "He even left those robots in those buildings, creations made entirely of metal, neither plants nor life, let alone death. . This is horrible, it goes against nature. "

"He ignored us and treated us as complete idiots."

He whispered to himself: "And Batman will pay the price."

He looked at the two vague red figures: "And you, you have made a great contribution to the Red of All Creatures."

"-Beast Boy."

"It is the only one we have found who can really change into any animal at will." The voice of the Antler Totem was full of excitement: "It will be the key to strengthen the Red of All Creatures!"

The two red figures did not respond, but the Antler Totem did not care. He walked around excitedly: "We can take all the humans on the entire planet-everyone, including superhumans, such as Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, and other superhumans... We can turn them all into beasts, half animals... Then they will be controlled by the Red of All Creatures. "

"Red of All Creatures will be stronger and more prosperous than ever before, and will no longer have to fear the threat of Black of Decay! Those fools in the Totem Council, those ignorant old antiques who don't understand the situation at all, actually injected the power of life into the body of Animal Man Buddy Baker's daughter, and then wanted to wait for the embryo to mature slowly? What a joke." He said: "We have to bypass those idiots-make Red of All Creatures great again!" "And it all starts with Beast Boy, from the Teen Titans!" "Brothers Blood... go and complete our plan, let the whole world feel the horror of the Church of Blood!" ... ... ... ... ... Louisiana. 3 pm. A large number of soldiers with live ammunition are searching for their targets in the vast primitive jungle. "Team Z, report the current situation."

"This is No. 1, we are still tracking the target, but the swamp affects our electronic equipment... The area we are in now is... coordinates..."

"I'm glad you found the right place."

Then Soldier No. 1 heard Amanda Waller's voice coming from the headset: "Don't ask questions until I finish my work. I will try to talk while walking."

The soldiers searched, and No. 1 squatted down. Amanda Waller's voice continued to ring in his ears.

"Captain, I guess you already know what happened in Bellehave, or at least as much as everyone else knows. Riots, attacks, and so on."

(Note: Bellehave Prison is a prison in Louisiana designed to imprison super criminals.)

"I'm not going to tell you the details of the attack, but you need to know that one of the fugitives who escaped in the attack was Leopard, whose real name was Barbara Minerva. She had several aliases, but Barbara Minerva looks like her real name..."

No. 1 nodded slowly, and he continued to listen attentively to Amanda Waller's mission assignment.

"Dr. Minerva spent a lot of effort to work in the Eye of Heaven. It is a department that specializes in researching collected mysterious items. At that time, Barbara Minerva even met Wonder Woman, who had just arrived in the United States, in the Eye of Heaven and became friends."

"However, when she was in the Eye of Heaven, Dr. Minerva came into contact with a thing called the Blade of God Killer. Anyway, she transformed into a leopard girl through various witchcrafts. All her senses were strengthened. Her speed was almost as fast as the Flash. She was even called a speedster without super speed. At the same time, she became incredibly bloodthirsty."

"So your task is not to catch her, but to notify the samurai sword immediately once you find any trace--"

(Note: The samurai sword appeared in the previous chapter. It was a Japanese woman whose husband's soul lived in the sword. She was a government person.)

Squeak!

But before Amanda Waller finished speaking, he heard a light sound in the headset, as if someone was gently stroking the tough cowhide with his rough hands.

However, it was obvious that there would be no cows or cowhide in the swamp.

There was no scream.

There was no sound of gunfire.

Only one "squeak!" after another.

Then there was a creepy chewing sound. Amanda Waller could even imagine a humanoid monster lying on the ground, taking out the contents of his chest and chewing them like tomatoes.

Amanda Waller had no expression on her face.

Then she heard a loud noise, and the communicator was crushed by someone. She answered another call without saying a word: "Hello? This is Amanda Waller, calling Wonder Woman."

On the other side, Leopard crushed the communicator next to the dead soldier.

The communicator in her hand rang with a voice: "Cheetah, the secret society needs you. We think you should have completely gotten rid of Bellehave and are on the way to the rendezvous point... We will release you on condition. The Outsider is waiting for you, and he will introduce you to a group of truly powerful people."

"Yes, I got rid of it. I will go there as soon as possible."

Cheetah said: "But before that, I have some personal grudges to settle."

But just as she was about to turn around and leave the bloody scene, she saw a Japanese woman standing quietly at the edge of the swamp.

The demon sword in her hand glowed with a faint green fluorescence.

"It seems that there is still some work to be done before settling personal grudges."

Cheetah said.

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Louisiana.

Bellehave Prison.

"Black Manta lives up there."

"What is his real name?"

"I don't know. Look here: real name unknown."

Two guards walked in the steel corridor, and a huge robot walked over next to them. This place is heavily guarded and is a prison built specifically for superpowers.

They were chatting, and one of the guards read the words on the paper in his hand:

"Treasure hunter, Aquaman's main rival, it will be invaluable if used to rescue Black Manta from a shipwreck, especially suitable for salvaging the wreckage of a crashed plane, tracking suspects and assassinations - God, was this written by Waller?"

"There's her signature below. She wants him."

"Tsk..."

"Huh..."

"Look at this helmet, how funny, like a big red-headed fly."

A guard weighed the helmet in his hand.

"Honestly, hasn't she given up on the plan to recruit villains as government agents?"

"Of course not, Waller said she wants him, so he must be hers. What is that called... Suicide Squad? This is obviously a copy of Batman. Waller won't still use this name?"

"She is the boss, she has the final say."

A guard said: "And we should help him deal with it, and then tell Waller that she will have Black Manta at her disposal soon."

The two of them walked to the door of the last cell and handed the documents to the gatekeeper.

As the huge iron door opened, they finally saw Black Manta, a strong black man with three scars on his face.

"Wow, when they first captured you, we were thinking about whether to prepare a fish tank for you. But obviously, you can't breathe underwater like your aquatic friends."

A guard walked up to Black Manta, who was sitting at the table. The other party was wearing heavy shackles and handcuffs, so he didn't have to worry about the other party's violent attack.

"Tell me, Black Manta—is he really that hard to deal with?"

Black Manta looked up at him. He knew exactly who the "he" was referring to.

"You're dying."

He suddenly said.

"You..." The guard wanted to say something, but he was stared at by his sharp eyes. He gradually dared not say anything, and the frivolous look on his face slowly disappeared.

He was inexplicably flustered, so he stopped talking nonsense and hurriedly began to perform his duties: "If you say you want to go to jail, you may have to sit for life, but look, now there is a chance for you to get out of here. I can tell you all the details, as long as you sign here..."

"Join the government and become an agent? Right, everyone knows that there is such a thing, but I don't buy it."

Black Manta looked at the helmet that was brought to the table. The eyes of the helmet were facing the guard.

"You're dying."

Black Manta told him.

"What do you mean?" The guard said, "Can you stop joking like that?"

He once again let his eyes linger on the other's heavy anklets and handcuffs.

"You're dying."

"You're dying."

"Dead. Dead. Dead."

Black Manta's voice became faster and higher. The guard looked at his companion and stood up from the table. A huge fear lingered in his heart, but he didn't know where it came from.

"3.2.1."

"QUEIMADURA!" Black Manta suddenly said.

(Note: Portuguese, meaning burning.)

Black Manta stood up. He saw that the guard's body was burned by the laser from the helmet. He howled twice on the ground and soon stopped moving. People who can be alive and talk continuously after being pierced by such a laser only exist in TV dramas.

"Oh my God, he...he...someone come quickly!" Another guard was howling.

Black Manta continued to sit in the chair without moving.

"Do you want to know why Aquaman is so difficult to deal with?"

He said. "His skin is nearly bulletproof."

Another guard tried to draw his gun, but the helmet on the table rotated without warning, and a laser hit his hand holding the gun, and evaporated his forearm all the way to the elbow.

"His muscles are 10 times stronger than yours and me, and as you said, he can breathe underwater."

"Ahhhhhhh!" the guard screamed desperately.

Then his body was dissolved by the red laser, like ripe cheese.

"Unlike us." Black Manta said.

"We gave you the helmet as you requested, Black Manta, and we let the guards take the helmet into your cell, and for this we exposed a spy in the Eye."

Just then, the helmet on the table made a sound: "And now it's time to repay us."

"What do you want me to do?"

Two lasers broke Black Manta's handcuffs and anklets, and he stood up from his seat leisurely and put the helmet on his head.

In the distance, the sound of violent explosions in the Belihev prison was endless. This was a planned collective prison break, and the outside world was in chaos.

"Leave this prison first, and then come and join us."

Black Manta heard the voice in the helmet: "The Outsider is waiting for you."

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"You've been away from home for a long time, Arthur."

Deep in the ocean, in the ruins of a ship. Aquaman Arthur was talking to someone.

"And so am I."

The man hidden in the shadow said.

"Thank you for coming." Aquaman Arthur said.

The two of them looked at each other in silence for a while, and then the man in the shadow said slowly:

"What can I do for you, brother?"

Aquaman Arthur glanced at him.

"Two days ago, an Atlantean soldier attacked the US military base in order to retrieve an Atlantean artifact. Today, Black Manta escaped from Belihev Prison. He attacked my friend and stole another Death King treasure."

"In addition to the Death King's golden ball that was taken away by Batman last time, he has now stolen two Death King relics. This makes me wonder what he wants to do, or what the people who hired him want to do."

"What is Black Manta?"

"He is a treasure hunter."

"From the surface world?"

"Yes."

Aquaman Arthur looked at the other person.

"Someone from Atlantis hired him, someone who wanted to get the ancient relics of Atlantis."

"And you think that person is me, Arthur? If I wanted those ancient relics, I would never be secretive, but ask you directly."

"--Unless you don't want me to know why you want them. Black Manta knows this sea very well, and he may be able to find the Scepter of the Dead King through those treasures. I have witnessed the power of that thing, it can sink an entire island."

"Arthur, I didn't lie to you, never. You are my brother, if you suspect that I want to attack your surface world, you can ask me directly."

Aquaman Arthur stared into his eyes. He saw that the man in the shadow hid his entire face under his mask.

Then after a long while, he asked, "Are you planning to attack the land?"

"Of course not."

The man in the shadow said, "I am Lord Orm, and I never lie."

"In fact, I have only been to the surface world twice. Once I asked you to come back and take back the throne, but you refused. You chose your father's kingdom instead of ours. But I don't blame you. Although many ministers around me have great opinions about you, I understand that you spent most of your childhood there."

"What you said had better be true."

Arthur, the Sea King said, "I entrusted the kingdom to you because I am not suitable to be a king. I don't have the characteristics to be a king, so when you come back to ask me for the throne, I will give it up. But this does not mean that I will watch you do something to the surface world and remain indifferent."

"Breathing that air and being nailed to the ground must be a terrible experience."

But Lord Orm did not respond to Arthur, the Sea King. His face under the mask showed a sympathetic look.

"...The world above is not as bad as you think."

Arthur, the Sea King said. "I'm sure you made it better, Arthur. Just like I did in Atlantis, I thought we could change Atlantis together. But now we are literally two worlds apart.

When you first ascended the throne, I took you to see this wreckage to remind you what the land people can do.

The people on this ship first killed our great-grandmother, and then our great-grandfather. They killed the king and queen, but aroused the anger of the whole of Atlantis. Do you remember what happened to the ship later?"

"It sank, and the crew members were left alive."

The Atlanteans let them live. Instead, they threw them into the sea, and then looked at the drowns of those crews one after another, and sank to the bottom of the ground, until the captain of the ship was left alone. "" Yes, you are right. "They brought him on the shore." "Yes, Arthur. What about later?" "But he raised his dagger again and asked the Atlantis to bring him back to the sea. A captain was always with his boat." Neptune Arthur turned his head and saw a skull wearing the captain's clothing floating behind him. Boat, Arthur, we can destroy everything at the sea, but we will not do that, no matter what happens, no matter who wants that scepter, maybe they just want to plant it on Atlantis. " Chen Tao checked the big bug.

At this moment, they were in the Gotham laboratory, and Lucius stood beside Chen Tao.

"The meditation mite is almost finished."

Chen Tao came to a conclusion directly.

"The huge magic power almost destroyed his body. This is not something that can be repaired by simple repair."

He said with some annoyance: "He became the main rope, so now the break is the most serious."

"And the situation of gorilla Grodd and turtle man is not much different. They are the same."

Lucius said: "Fortunately, none of them died, but basically they are no longer useful. I tried my best to save their lives."

"If I find a way to strengthen them, can I let them continue to share the burden for me..."

"No strengthening is useless." Lucius interrupted Chen Tao's fantasy.

"If you want to do anything to them again, they will die immediately."

"So this means that I have to find a new object to help me share the burden?"

"What the hell." Chen Tao muttered.

"Aren't you going to retire soon?"

Lucius asked.

"Yes, yes, that's right, I'm going to retire."

Chen Tao immediately changed the subject and said, "By the way, how is the research on the Phantom Zone going? Can you find General Zod now?"

"Not yet, I need time." Lucius said, "My energy is limited. You can't give me dozens of tasks at the same time and ask me to complete them all."

"Oh, okay." Chen Tao said:

"You have to speed up, I need to be prepared."

"..."

Lucius was speechless:

"But you clearly told me that you were going to retire. Have you changed your mind?"

"Of course not." Chen Tao said: "I have done enough, just be prepared, be prepared."

He said: "Even if there is no crisis, we must always be prepared, right?"

He muttered a lot of words that Lucius couldn't hear, and finally said: "Actually, I know that. But I just need to have a trump card to deal with unexpected situations at any time."

He said: "After all, although there is no new crisis that I need to solve for the time being, we have to keep the trump card."

"You are about to retire, why do you always worry so much?" Lucius shook his head:

"Is there going to be a lot of things for you to solve? You are sick and need treatment."

He advised: "Don't stay in the lab anymore, don't you have an appointment with Wonder Woman tomorrow?"

"Why don't you go home and prepare now?"

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