Chapter 345: All this may seem too cruel to me (5000 words long chapter)

Chapter 345: All this may seem too cruel to me (5000 words long chapter)

You see... things always happen like this.

When Chen Tao stepped on the dark blue floor tiles of Berelford Prison, he suddenly remembered the night he faced Bane a long time ago.

He heard Bane's breathing like the waves of the sea, rolling up a quiet, low roar, as clear as a whisper in his ear.

The specific process of the fight has long been blurred in time, but he remembers that he was so pitiful, weak, and helpless, and more importantly...

Alone.

You can never count on anyone, you should never count on anyone...

This voice has whispered in his ears countless times, and he once regarded this voice as a breeze blowing in his face, but now it seems that it is a premeditated curse.

He seemed to be standing in the center of the huge arena again, with countless ghosts and monsters standing in front of him. And in the center of the huge whistling sound, he confronted the enemy surrounded by countless people.

One enemy fell, and another got up. He was like Hercules who killed the Hydra. He kept swinging his sword, cutting off heads one after another. But as soon as one of the heads fell to the ground, two more grew on the Hydra's neck, and he didn't have the torch to burn its neck.

So he just swung his sword mechanically. Be careful, don't be distracted. If you are a little slow, you will be stained by the venom sprayed by the Hydra.

The world is waiting for you to save it, only you, only you.

You hold up the sky, so you can't breathe for a moment.

Yes, I know, I always know.

Chen Tao paced and walked through the broken ruins. The two guard robots had been beaten into scrap metal. This should be the technology that Waller modified based on Brainiac.

Even from a distance, he could hear the sounds on the battlefield through the nanorobots that had been sent in one step ahead.

"... Stop thinking about Batman. Is this all you can count on in a fight? Let me guess... Justice League? Batman and his 6 or 7 thigh pendants?"

This voice belongs to Maxwell Lord. It sounds like he is trying very hard to activate his ability and use words to disintegrate Wonder Woman's fighting consciousness. This way of using telepathy is very Lord. His ability is activated in the form of "persuading" others. But now it seems that this ability is ineffective against demigods, and it is also greatly discounted for speedsters who can use the speed force to accelerate their brains.

Then Chen Tao heard a female voice, which sounded like the Emerald Queen.

She is a mistake in the timeline, and the eyeballs beside her can use green light energy.

"...very fast, good, dear. I know this stuff...speed force, right?"

She said:

"Inventor Barry...wait...Albert Swan? No, it doesn't seem right...damn, damn, this mess of timeline...but none of this matters to us now. What did I just say? Beautiful dodge."

Then there was a loud bang, and then the next sentence of the Emerald Queen sounded:

"But you forgot about Dr. Polaris, beautiful attack, but it was all expected. Oh, I think it must be painful. Hey, to be honest, you are not very familiar with the green lantern energy, right? What about the Green Lantern in your team? Haven't you learned from him? And never practiced with him, like the Legion of Super Heroes?"

(Note: The Emerald Queen comes from the 30th century and is the villain of the 30th century superhero team [Legion of Super Heroes], But this superhero team from the future was directly destroyed after the time was restarted, and the Emerald Queen became a remaining bug on the timeline. )

"Oh, no, let me think... Green Lantern and Batman broke up, didn't they? Although I just got out of prison for a long time, I at least still go online. Green Lantern no longer appears in the league, why? Because he doesn't want to be a dog for Batman like you?"

"You talk too much nonsense, Emerald Queen." Then came the deep male voice of Dr. Polaris. Under the effect of the surging magnetic field beside him, this voice seemed to resonate in the empty cave: "We should quickly get rid of the enemy in front of us, and then go and kill Amanda Waller."

"Dr. Polaris is right. The only tough guy in the universe is already a little impatient. Can you just tickle me? Princess?"

Another fierce bombardment.

Then Chen Tao heard Wonder Woman's answer. Just by listening to the voice, he could feel how stretched she was when she faced the siege of the entire villain army alone.

"Even if there are only two of us, we can stop you, Maxwell..." Chen Tao sighed. He used the Clayface clone mixed with nanorobots to secretly control the time of Damian's attack, while paying attention to the situation of Wonder Woman and Flash. He used the Green of All Things to bloom an eyeball flower in the room, so as to clearly convey the scene in the room to him. This is a perfect combination of the Red of All Things and the Green of All Things, combining the eyeballs of creatures and the roots of plants, and of course some of the power of the Metal Spirit as lubrication and energy. In long-term use, Chen Tao has long been handy with such synthetic creations. "Wonder Woman, it is a good choice for you to stand aside and let us finish the work."

Maxwell Lord was still trying to use his power on Wonder Woman, his nose was bleeding, but Wonder Woman was unmoved.

She stood up from the ground and stood with her sword across her body.

"I know too well how unscrupulous you are to achieve your goals, Lord. Not only will you force others to achieve your goals, you will also force them to collapse. My mind will not be manipulated by people like you."

"You are right." Maxwell Lord tried again and sighed.

"Your mind is a locked box, Amazon Princess, I think the key to open it is magic. And I don't have a key... I didn't have one before."

He said.

Then a purple light flashed in his eyes the next second, Wonder Woman held her head and screamed, then hugged her head fiercely.

But even so, Wonder Woman's sword still did not fall out of her hand:

"This... This is not enough to distort me!"

She used the wrist holding the sword to knock on her forehead, and then rushed towards Lord like a bull, so that the other party had to dodge in embarrassment.

His nose was bleeding wildly, and even his ears were bleeding, and the purple light in his eyes flickered.

"That's true... but it's enough to make you tell me what I want to know..."

What do you want? Wonder Woman didn't have time to think about it.

She tensed her whole body suddenly. No matter how Maxwell Lord interfered with her as a demigod, she was ready to resist his manipulation.

In the entire Justice League, Wonder Woman is also one of the people with a close relationship with the government. Thanks to her friendship with Colonel Steve Trevor and her past work for the government, which has not been completely cut off now and has not been thought of being cut off, Wonder Woman's authority in Berelf Prison is second only to Amanda Waller and Steve Trevor.

If Maxwell Lord ordered Wonder Woman to hand over her authority to control the prison to him, then the other party could use this authority to skip many defense measures that originally required violent breakthroughs, and find Amanda Waller faster. Wonder Woman would not allow this to happen.

But now she was injured, and Lord used unknown magic to break the defect that his superpowers could not control demigods. Wonder Woman herself was not sure whether she could withstand the other party's ability.

She bit her tongue. She knew that Lord's ability was similar to forced persuasion, that is, he would not use his psychic power to control her body like Brainiac, but would use his ability to make her believe from the bottom of her heart that what he said was very right, and then obey him.

But such a thing would not happen, absolutely not. She was a warrior, and before she spoke, she would rather bite off her...

However, she heard Maxwell Lord asked:

"I'm not going to ask about Amanda Waller, but I want to know another harmless little thing:"

"Why did Batman fall out with Green Lantern? So much so that Green Lantern, except for fighting side by side with other members of the League on the battlefield against Darkseid, never appeared in the League's appearance, but Batman still insisted that the other party was a member of the League?"

What, isn't it my authority to ask?

This unexpected question made Wonder Woman feel relaxed. Influenced by Maxwell Lord's ability, she subconsciously answered: "Because Batman has tampered with Green Lantern's mind to ensure that when dealing with Darkseid, the other party will not deviate from the pre-set command control and do something out of control."

Wonder Woman's face darkened as soon as she spoke, damn bastard!

"Is that so..." Maxwell Lord said: "Thank you very much, I have answered a question that has been lingering in my heart."

Wonder Woman rushed towards Lord furiously. This state of rage due to mental loss is undoubtedly a huge flaw. The other party also turned around and shouted at Johnny Solo at the right time:

"Now is our chance, don't forget why you are here!"

The magic messenger with a mask on his head slowly opened his hands and pulled out a door of fire in the void.

"Don't worry, my performance still needs to invite guest performers..."

Maxwell Lord rolled awkwardly to avoid the splashing gravel caused by Wonder Woman's shield hitting the ground.

"I believe I can find a lot of good ways to entertain our host. When I was imprisoned in Waller's prison, I was not alone. The screams in the dark were always around me. That was the army of the King of Tears craving... freedom!"

Clang!

As a large number of flesh and blood tentacles rushed towards Wonder Woman like a tide, purple light appeared in Maxwell Lord's eyes again. With a loud bang, Wonder Woman's sword had already flown to the side. She used the sharp edge of the round shield to cut off a huge and sharp tooth tentacle summoned by Johnny Solo with a loud shout, but was immediately hit by three other tentacles at the same time, and then was knocked back.

The Flash fell to the ground, his feet were abnormally twisted, revealing the white calf bones. It seems that the enemy has long thought about how to deal with a speedster running around, and breaking the calf is indeed an extremely correct choice.

And the Flash... In a hurry, he didn't care about wailing, but used his only remaining leg to get up from the ground and jump up one by one in a golden rooster stand.

This was a slightly funny move, but under the acceleration of the Speed ​​Force, even with only one leg, the Flash still came and went like the wind.

"My name is Barry Allen, the fastest cripple in the world..."

Chen Tao imagined what the opening of CW's American TV series The Flash would look like if it encountered this situation, then shook his head and walked in.

Rustam was still waving his flaming blade at the Flash who was jumping on one foot, but at some point, everyone on the field stopped moving.

Chen Tao walked out slowly.

No one spoke.

People watched Batman slowly walk through the chaotic battlefield, and he raised his hand, and Rustam, holding the flaming blade, flew out.

Maxwell Lord's face darkened, and he wiped the blood from his nose. Then he said slowly: "It's really surprising that you actually appear here."

"Are you not going to kill your son?"

"..."

Maxwell Lord communicated with the status of Titan Tower the first second he saw Batman, but the result was that it was not Batman himself who appeared there, but a child who had appeared beside Batman in the early days. A Robin of a certain generation.

This is very strange, very strange. He had obviously done it clearly enough, what Cheetah suddenly escaped... According to Batman's IQ, he should be able to easily perceive that Cheetah was a pretext to lead him away from his child, and immediately realize that his son was in danger.

What a father should do at this time is to protect his child no matter what, in order to make the crisis that trapped Batman completely established. Maxwell Lord also manipulated Talia. As long as Batman appeared in Titan Tower, she who was hiding there would immediately appear, and then...

That's right. Brain Demon, Leviathan Incident, and some villains such as Jinx, the shrapnel steel beam gizmo...

All of this is the product of Maxwell Lord's cooperation with the Super Queen of the Crime Syndicate.

Maxwell Lord brought Talia and her son back to Batman, all along intending to use them to contain Batman. Lord even took the initiative to expose Super Queen and the Crime Syndicate to Batman so that Batman would no longer doubt him, so that Batman would think that he had found the real "mastermind".

In Lord's opinion, this so-called Crime Syndicate was just a group of inferior villains who cosplayed as Justice League, and they were no different from third-rate characters like Jinx's invention.

He didn't know about these people, and he didn't need to know. He just needed Batman not to focus on himself, and it turned out that the Crime Syndicate did a very good job as a cover.

Although Batman didn't know why he didn't hurt these villains, he also didn't find himself. His plan was implemented smoothly, and Batman should have been completely led away at the right time.

But now things are a little different...

This is definitely a big accident, and Lord hates accidents.

"You have to save your son."

Maxwell Lord said.

He put his middle and index fingers on his temples: "If you don't hurry up now, they will probably die. You sent a villain called Killer Croc there before, right? That scumbag from Gotham City, that ugly beast with scales. You gave him a set of Robin uniform without pants as dog food, and commissioned him to save your son? Ridiculous, don't you know that he has been knocked down by Damian and then controlled, and it didn't affect the result at all?" Lord threatened: "I advise you to go back to Titan Tower immediately to save your baby son Damian. He will teleport the entire Titan Tower to a black hole in the universe. If you set out now, you may be able to rescue everyone before they are torn apart by the black hole." He said: "Think about it, my goal is just to kill Amanda Waller, what does her life or death matter to you? Hum——" Maxwell Lord said halfway, and suddenly a stream of blood spurted out of his nose, and Chen Tao slowly retracted the corners of his mouth that were raised under his nose, and then curled his lips. As a telepath, Maxwell Lord had collected enough intelligence in advance. For a long time, Batman's ability may still be a secret to ordinary people, but there is no impenetrable wall in the world.

Having seen the unfortunate past of so many telepathic predecessors, when facing Chen Tao this time, he only activated his ability of "forced persuasion" and was not stupid enough to try to enter Chen Tao's brain.

What a pity, if he dared to come in boldly, the two of them could hold hands and laugh together.

However, after discovering the other party's caution, Chen Tao also turned his head into a piece of iron very neatly, making Maxwell Lord's ability work alone.

But this kind of nosebleed is already commonplace for the other party. Chen Tao has always suspected that in addition to telepathy, Maxwell's hematopoietic function is also very strong. Otherwise, his superpower side effect of nosebleeds at any time has not bled to death for so many years, which is really a wonder.

"Don't think about it, Maxwell Lord."

Facing Lord's direct threat, Chen Tao shook his head and said, "If I appear here, the first thing you should do is not to ask me why I am here, but to think about how much your arrangement has been destroyed." He said, "Do you know?" Chen Tao turned his head and looked at Wonder Woman and Flash lying on the ground. "You may have deceived me for a while... I admit that this is amazing." "But you should know more... When I appear here, it means that you have already lost, completely." Maxwell Lord raised his head and saw Batman's cape flying, moving without wind, like the smoke falling in Gotham at night. "And if you lose, it means I will win, I will win, and I will win soon. Although..." The Flash climbed up from the ground, and Chen Tao looked at his broken leg. It was still broken before he came, but within a few minutes after he came, as the owner of this body was excited, the injury was completely healed under the acceleration of the speed force. Wonder Woman stood up from the ground with a smile on her face. When she saw Batman coming, her body, which had been powerless, burst out with divine power again.

So Maxwell Lord looked at Batman in confusion. He saw a mixture of happiness and sadness on his face. Maxwell didn't understand why.

"Although... although all this seems a little too cruel to me."