Chapter 372 Batman's New Robin
"Batman, you're crazy!"
Chen Tao waved his hands.
There was a reason why he didn't return William Hand to his original family as Atrocitus hoped and let him grow wild.
Let's not talk about whether Atrocitus used blood magic to eliminate William's "inner darkness". This elimination is permanent-
After all, in the history of comics, Atrocitus's action of "eliminating the darkness in William's heart and extinguishing the Blackest Night in advance" ultimately failed. He was captured by Hal and Sinestro and taken back to Ismote. Whether the blood magic he prepared can work and how long it can work has not been reflected in the comics.
Even if this kind of inner darkness elimination is permanent, let's talk about a very simple truth. As a human being, William Hand's life span is limited. Even if he didn't collapse his entire family and then himself in his youth because of the whispers of the Black Death Emperor, and turned into a black light corpse on the spot and started laughing strangely, as a pure human, William Hand will still die of old age.
Even if Chen Tao keeps adding buffs to him, such as the human-faced bat potion and the water from the Lazarus Pool, William Hand will most likely die.
Moreover, not everyone is like the ninja master Lei Xiao Aogu (the father of Talia Aogu and the mentor of Batman), who can soak in the pool repeatedly and has not gone crazy after 600 years.
The water from the Lazarus Pool can drive people crazy and trigger the darkness in people's hearts. Chen Tao can't guarantee that if William Hand takes him to the pool water and soaks like an Oreo cookie, after soaking in the hot spring, will William Hand start to want to marry the corpse again.
Of course, the amber gold of the Court of Owls cannot be used. This thing is different from the Dionysus factor contained in the Lazarus Pool. The Dionysus factor can correctly activate the appropriate genes and promote the body's self-repair, but the essence of amber gold is to resurrect the dead and then drive the corpse. Giving William a shot of amber gold is probably not to directly send the Black Death Emperor a ticket to the reality.
The official definition of Batman in the comics is that the creatures resurrected by Amber Gold are not "living people" at all, but "corpses that can repair themselves and move freely", so this is also the reason why Batman is so ruthless when killing the Court of Owls.
"Bat... Mr. Batman..."
Atrocitus's appearance is indeed a bit scary. After all, he has a red face and fangs, and is tall. Although Chen Tao gave him a big mud face before, disguising him as an alien with a silly look, this disguise has disappeared under the opponent's flushing due to Bane's previous mud face phobia.
William Hand immediately recognized the alien who had pressed him there before, and suddenly became a little timid.
William Hand didn't react much to Batman's words. During this period of time, whenever Batman appeared in front of him, he would say in his ear "Once he dies, the Black Death Emperor will come to reality" and so on, and then let out a wail of "This matter is so annoying", and William Hand's ears were about to be calloused.
Moreover, Batman often said some outrageous words like he would kill him and make a bomb to "destroy the whole world!", but William Hand knew that he would not do that. Batman and his old butler Alfred, who took care of him, were both good people.
In fact, during this period, William did not fail to express his wish to return to his home, but such words were ruthlessly and arbitrarily rejected by Batman.
His original words were: "Although you may not realize it now, your life is destined to be full of bloody legends and epics full of death wailing, and your actions are destined to affect the lives of trillions of lives in the entire universe.
If you don't find the trajectory of your destiny, you can certainly be at ease at home as a little brat who eats and waits for death, thinking about what to eat for lunch every day.
But if you know that you are not a good person at all, and still let you grow wildly, it is a huge irresponsibility for the entire universe."
"Legend, Extraordinary, Epic"!
He is praising me! I am praised!
I am a genius!
William Hand was born in a very serious Catholic family. His two elder brothers were both "good children of God" in the eyes of his mother.
But William Hand, due to his dark heart blessed by the Black Death Emperor, always had a perverted hobby for corpses that was different from ordinary people. In such a serious family environment, the psychological pressure on William Hand himself can be imagined.
Therefore, being taken away from the family environment that made him feel at a loss might be a good thing for William himself-
Especially after Mr. Bruce Wayne brought Alfred to visit the Hand family in person and used nearly a ton of banknotes to make Mr. and Mrs. Hand swallow all their problems, William Hand felt that he had never been so relaxed in his life.
Although Batman frightened him and said that the pile of banknotes was money to buy his life, William was not afraid at all.
He had a heavy sense of mission in his heart. Due to the magic of Atrocitus, he no longer loved corpses, and therefore he could clearly perceive how abnormal and morbid his former behavior of loving corpses was. That was not his inner thoughts, but someone was manipulating his mind, which was also what William Hand hated the most.
Soon after, William Hand was given a Robin uniform without pants.
Although it was a bit cold with his bare pants and two long hairy legs exposed, William Hand liked it very much.
He, William Hand, wanted to be a hero, a hero who was admired and saved billions of planets, not a "first black lamp corpse in history".
At this time, William Hand sat quietly beside him, watching Batman and his two teammates named Bane and Atrocitus discussing things in a low voice in the distance, and he seemed to hear what they were saying faintly.
The alien named Atrocitus seemed very excited. He loudly refuted Batman several times, but Batman Batman just answered calmly, which made Atrocitus stop.
William was a little far away, and he only heard some words about lifespan faintly, and he didn't know what they meant.
Finally, he saw Batman, Bane, and Atrocitus come to him after the discussion.
"As a superhero, you need strong enough superpowers to at least guarantee the most basic self-protection ability."
Chen Tao said.
"So that's why I found these two teachers for you." Chen Tao introduced: "Bane will inject you with the human-faced bat potion. The human-faced bat created by this thing is much weaker than the real human-faced bat Dr. Kurt Langston, but it is also a superpower that the Red of All Living Things cannot resist and can only accept with a pinch of nose." "The red of life will flow in your body. Bane will teach you how to use the power of the Red of All Living Things correctly and how to use it in battle." Then Chen Tao paused, "And Bane will also teach you how to calm your mind and fight against the inner demons." Then he turned to Atrocitus : "Atrocitus will use blood magic to assist you. If you can learn his blood magic, blood magic will also be yours."
"But apart from this, nothing is more important than this matter:" Chen Tao said:
"Bane will let you contact the power of the black of decay, but you must pay enough attention to this point."
"Batman, I haven't agreed to this yet." Bane beside him interrupted Chen Tao: "In fact, I still can't understand it. You told me that once this little guy dies, it will cause a terrible zombie disaster, but you still let him get close to the creature of death. Isn't this a sheep walking into the tiger's mouth?"
But Chen Tao ignored Bane.
He just told the other party: "If one day the Black Death Emperor still finds you and still wants to seize you, these may be ways to save you. You must be extremely clear about how the power of death is constructed. The black light can be turned on because the Black Death Emperor is manipulating you. Your willpower cannot cover the power of the Black Death Emperor, but if you understand the black of decay..." "You can keep your heart and know what you want to be..." The basic considerations have been completed, but before taking William Hand out for nuclear deterrence, Chen Tao still has a problem to face. He is now like saying: Listen, everyone. We have a bomb in our hands now. A super, huge bomb that everyone is afraid of! The name of this bomb is William Hand, and the effect of the explosion is a universe-destroying crisis called "Blackest Night"! But now there is a very serious problem. Not everyone knows how terrible the explosion effect of this bomb is, at least not everyone knows the specific details. Therefore, although Chen Tao has decided to use William Hand as a trump card, he still can't just take William out like this. He had to let everyone know who William Hand was, and what the Blackest Night prophecy that the little blue man tried so hard to cover up was.
Then... William Hand could really play a role.
And to achieve this step, what Chen Tao had to do was very simple.
Destroy the Green Lantern Corps, kill the Guardians, and prevent those bastards from erasing all the content about the Blackest Night in the Book of oA.
So to some extent, his interests and Sinestro's... are consistent.
As Sinestro said, for the entire universe, a corps that maintains order may be important, but the Green Lantern Corps is not important, and the little blue men of the universe are not important.
In a timeline where the Green Lantern Corps could not continue, the Black Star Corps still relied on high-tech armor to do the work that Green Lantern needed to do in the universe.
The world has never been unable to turn without someone, and the world has never been that the two opposing parties cannot reunite in a short period of time because of interests.
And there is only one thing that can be confirmed:
Chen Tao is absolutely full of malice towards the group of little blue men who are causing trouble.
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After sending away the three people who started teaching, Chen Tao quickly appeared in another place.
He knew that he didn't have much time to wait for the students to grow up, but what did that sentence say? First, let William Hand have a basic acceptance of supernatural powers. There is no better place than this.
This is the laboratory of the Justice League. Lex Luthor has been here since he recovered from his illness.
Luthor took the initiative to give up his rights. A large number of Justice League affairs dragged him down, causing his scientific research ability to decline instead of improve, and those Justice League affairs were too messy. Many things did not require Luthor to make decisions at all.
Therefore, in accordance with Luther's wish, Chen Tao freed him from the complicated things, but gave him enough orders again.
Joke, what are you thinking? Do you think you don't have to work like this?
One scientific research task after another was assigned to Luther. For Chen Tao, many verifications and conjectures require experiments again and again, and then observe the periodic changes.
So now, although Luther no longer allocates energy to manage the Justice League, these things still keep him busy.
"Lex, good afternoon."
The afternoon sun shone into the laboratory through the window, and a dark shadow composed of ethereal nanorobots slowly flowed in through the window.
As the black sand condensed into a human shape on the ground, Chen Tao appeared behind Luther, but he was a little surprised to find that even at this point, the other party still did not notice him, so Chen Tao could only speak first.
This made Chen Tao feel a little strange. In the past, Luthor was a person who lacked a sense of security. Even in his own room, he would be ready to deal with dangerous creatures of intruders at any time. Of course, the former Batman was also like this... In the hall of the Bat Cave, many people thought it was a statue of mechanical dinosaur at first glance.
But this time, the other party just let him quietly touch the other party's throat, and he could twist it at any time if he exerted force.
"Luthor, Luthor, how are you?" Chen Tao asked him a few words, and then the other party turned his head and scared Chen Tao.
Before, when I looked at Luthor's boiled egg from behind, I didn't think there was anything wrong. Since he started to lose his hair in his youth, Luthor has always been known for his image of a boiled egg. But at this time, the boiled egg had thick dark circles under his eyes, and his whole face was sunken, as if he had been having fun for three days and three nights, and dancing wildly in the dance hall.
This sick old ghost really scared Chen Tao, so much so that the question he was about to ask was stopped for a while: "Lex Luthor, you..."
"I have prepared what you want."
Luthor said:
"About a plan that can strengthen Death Storm and other members of the crime syndicate, but can also trick them."