Chapter 448 You will eventually meet an enemy that you cannot defeat even if you try your best (5200
"What happened?"
"Quick, quick, quick! Raise! Raise the drawbridge! Protect the totems!"
"Ah!!!"
Amid the screams of a Red Warrior, the Blood Cult Master tore off his leopard head. These creatures with animal heads, human bodies, bird wings, and weapons are creatures that have used the power of the Soul of All Living Things for generations. After death, they entered the Hades of Red of All Living Things and were reincarnated as warriors.
For example, users like Killer Croc and the Human-Faced Bat will become them after death under normal circumstances.
There can only be one King of Life in each generation, but there can be countless Red of All Living Things users, so the number of Red of All Living Things warriors is relatively considerable.
Their military strength is not bad, but the problem is that they are the creations of Red of All Living Things. When facing another Red of All Living Things power user with higher authority and stronger than them, they can only... be defeated.
"Poor creatures, how dare you attack me! I am the flesh, I am blood!"
Soon the Red of All Living Things troops were defeated. The Red Warriors of All Living Beings flapped their wings and retreated in panic towards the palace of the Totem Council.
"Damn it, we are one step too late, we don't have time to retract the drawbridge!"
The two crocodile-headed men tried to pull up the drawbridge, but to no avail.
The Blood King grabbed a Red Warrior of All Living Beings by the neck and lifted him up high:
"I ask again, do you still want to stop me?"
He crushed the other's throat and threw it on the ground.
Then, as the Blood Lord howled, several huge bone spurs pierced the two crocodile-headed men who were fleeing on the bridge:
"It's too late!"
Soon, there were piles of corpses at the door of the hall, and no one could stop the Blood Lord's footsteps.
He stepped on the blood, and strands of blood spread out from his palm, mobilizing the blood of the dead Red Warriors of All Living Beings like the veins of blood vessels, laying out a dense route like a spider web under his feet.
"Where are you? Where is the ruler of this place? I will let you know that you should be afraid of me!" He raised his head and saw several totem spirits of the Red of All Living Beings in the hall. Their towering huge bodies were high above the red hall. "You could have chosen me. If we had joined hands with the Red of All Living Beings, we could have ruled the four directions and achieved true hegemony! Great Totem Council, all totems... You may be able to fool your pathetic incarnations, but I have long understood you. You are just a group of small animals that curl up, shrink and panic in front of real power!" "Bold, you..." The rhino totem wanted to say something, but as the blood leader raised his arm, the entire red hall trembled like an earthquake, and then collapsed. In the ruins, countless red blood veins were held in the hands of the blood leader like lightning. Many totems of the Totem Council gathered together to support the protective shield made of flesh and blood to resist the falling building debris. "How is this possible? This is the Red of All Living Things, our territory!"
A wild boar totem with a humanoid appearance said:
"His power... where did he get this power from?"
"He has eroded part of the power of the Red of All Living Things. This is absolutely impossible to do out of thin air!" said the rhino totem: "Whether it is technological means or magic, although it is possible to connect to the Red of All Living Things, it is absolutely impossible to seize such a huge power of the Red of All Living Things, which is even close to the King of Life! Someone must be interfering, we must..."
"Oh, the facts are in front of us, brothers and sisters, as you can see, I chose this man, I told him the way to enter the Red of All Living Things, in order to achieve great things."
The rhino totem turned around suddenly and looked at the deer horn totem.
"Brother Totem, what did you do... ah ah ah!!!"
With the dying scream of the totem spirit, the deer horn totem pulled out the beast claw that pierced the other's back expressionlessly.
And the Blood Cult Leader also took this opportunity to manipulate the blood vessels like lightning and tear open the flesh and blood barrier formed by the totems.
"I just did my duty. I'm fed up with you old fools who choose children and liars as your incarnations. You also gave in to Batman in every way, so that he treated the Red of All Creatures as his backyard where he could come and go as he pleased.
You made the Red of All Creatures have to live in the shadow of the Corruption Kingdom and the Green of All Creatures. It will not be like this anymore. The time for the Red of All Creatures to rise has come. And the Blood Lord... you are my warrior!"
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"So - I ask again. Can we talk now?"
A large number of Atlantis warriors have floated up from the water, looking at their king blankly.
In the end, Lord Orm could only take off his helmet.
"I abdicate."
Damn it, if his magic trident had not been stolen before the incident started -
Just as Lord Orm thought of this, he saw Batman's face turn green, and then three pink spots of light appeared on his forehead.
As a shrinking ray belonging to Brainiac flashed by, Chen Tao pulled out the magic trident belonging to Lord Orm from behind his buttocks: "Orm has given the throne of Atlantis to me--"
Orm felt that his blood pressure almost exploded in an instant. He hurriedly interrupted Batman's words:
"No, I gave it to my brother! Arthur! My brother Arthur!"
"What? It turns out you didn't give it to me." He heard Batman say, "But you just said you gave it to me." Lord Orm almost forgot that Batman was holding his magic trident: "Which ear did you hear it with???!" Chen Tao curled his lips. Okay, I won't tease you anymore. This magic trident of Lord Orm is to some extent the same as Arthur's, and has the ability to command the sea. Even if the Bat Mage that Chen Tao synchronized with didn't actually know the unique water magic of Atlantis, he could still mobilize part of the sea water with this weapon called trident, which is actually a magic staff... at least to prevent someone from wanting to cross Orm and launch a tsunami. Who are you looking at? I'm talking about you, Night Owl. Chen Tao's peripheral vision swept through the many Atlantis fleets and warriors on the sea level. It was not clear whether Night Owl had made any preparations for the time being. But in fact, if Chen Tao is Night Owl, if he wants to plan all this, he will definitely prepare a plan after Lord Orm fails, especially when Orm has no resistance to his brother Arthur.
"Om, the people you brought are all your diehards, they will not obey my orders."
Arthur said.
But his words were immediately refuted by his own brother:
"They obey the laws of the Atlanteans."
"That's because you are willing to obey the laws of Atlantis. Orm, don't extend your own moral level to all those under you." Chen Tao said.
"I will accompany you to let your men return to Atlantis first, and this ridiculous war will stop here." Arthur said.
Chen Tao glanced at the other party. What Lord Orm's men will not obey Arthur's orders? He is the king of Atlantis, who dares not to listen?
Arthur just found an excuse to let Lord Orm return to Atlantis with the Atlantis fleet.
He was afraid that Batman would ask Orm to go to jail for what he did. In the original comic story, Orm killed too many people, so Arthur couldn't cover him up, but now, Orm just wanted to take action, but didn't really put it into practice, and the live broadcast was cut off, so there were no substantial consequences. Of course, Arthur hoped to put Orm back to Atlantis instead of falling into other consequences.
Chen Tao's opinion on this is:
What are you thinking about? You overestimate my moral standards.
He said that to Orm and to Arthur. Arthur is a typical person who extends his moral standards to his old bat, but for Chen Tao, he definitely doesn't have any pedantic ideas full of procedural justice such as "crimes that do not cause established facts are also crimes and must go to jail."
The government has objections? The Pentagon has objections? So what?
Wait, no one thinks that Chen Tao will confront the government head-on because of this kind of thing, right? Of course not. What is the use of Bat-Lenyaq's telepathic ability? No matter how big the disagreement is, if even the memory is wiped out, what is the dispute?
In the final analysis, Chen Tao is fully capable of flattening those people in the government. He will not be stupid enough to mess up the situation because of the idea that "I can't change other people's minds".
Of course...
Chen Tao watched Arthur and Lord Orm walk towards the Atlantean fleet together.
Of course, if he was a night owl, things would not end so easily. He was sure...
"Ahhhhhh!!!!"
In a flash, a violent scream suddenly rang out in the Atlantean fleet.
An Atlantean soldier desperately grabbed his throat, and then black thorns grew on his palms and cheeks one after another.
The sharp nails grew wildly and pierced his own throat in an instant, but in just a breath, the wound healed again and disappeared.
His nose and mouth stretched out and began to develop in the direction of canines, and then there was a howl that was not like a human voice.
"I really saw a ghost."
Chen Tao cursed.
He turned his head and abruptly asked in the air: "What did you do, Night Owl?"
There was no response.
"Don't pretend, Night Owl, the nanorobots are the things I have left."
Chen Tao said.
He raised his hand, and the broken bats were synchronized with the silver-white examples on his body. Black sand spread in the air. In an instant, some blue tiny dots appeared in the air. That was the state of the nanorobots controlled by Night Owl being forced by Chen Tao's nanorobots to condense in the air.
Soon, those blue nanorobots condensed into half of Night Owl's blue face in mid-air.
"Bruce." The face made a voice: "I'm helping you. Please, don't do that."
"I don't think so." Chen Tao said.
"You have almost guessed my plan, haven't you?" said Night Owl. "As long as the tsunami of Atlantis floods the land, you will soon be able to obtain more than 8 billion small killer crocodiles strengthened by the power of the Red of All Living Things. The help they can provide you is far greater than the millions of Atlanteans you are struggling to plan now." "If Atlantis is defeated, all people will be-" "You know very well that the changes of the Red of All Living Things are not irreversible." Night Owl said: "Once they are restored, it will still be the world you like."
"Many people will die, some will die because they can't bear the red power of all living things, some will die because they can't bear the power I share, and even some will be accidentally drowned by water after being transformed into animals due to their position... too many lives."
"So what?" Night Owl said: "You reject my plan because of this? If the whole world is about to be destroyed, what's the point of you insisting on these damn bottom lines?"
Night Owl, who was far away on the other side, seemed a little angry, and then he took a deep breath:
"Listen to me, Batman, you feel very proud, right? You see through my plan, you can solve all problems, you think you are omnipotent like a god, you think you are extremely smart and wise, and you can solve all problems in the world?"
"Bat, I know this too well, I know this too well... because I used to be such a person."
Night Owl was even a little sincere: "I am invincible in my universe, calling the wind and rain, just like what you have done now, the plan I made has been I have never failed. My brain is active and smart. I can always think about what the enemy is thinking and respond in advance. "
"Except for the failure in the matter of Claw Dick Grayson... I have never failed. Even when facing those superpowers."
"Superman, Super Queen, although they are naturally powerful monsters, I can play with them in the palm of my hand."
"...But you have never seen what despair is, right? You have never met an enemy that you can't defeat even if you try your best in your life."
"But I have seen it, I have seen it. That's why I made these plans. I lost, and lost miserably. As long as this event can continue, as long as there is a little hope of defeating that guy...the so-called morality and bottom line are completely things that can be thrown away at will."
"So I'm talking to you from the bottom of my heart: agree to my plan, and then we will work together to try to defeat the Anti-Monitor. Agree?"
Then he saw Batman tilt his head slightly. "What you said is true. You are telling the truth."
"Right."
Night Owl said, "So what is your decision?"
"That is to say, if I am willing to implement your plan, can you help me get 8 billion 'trackers' who can share the pressure?"
"Yes, and as long as you are willing to cooperate with me, we have the ability to minimize casualties. Although all the transformed humans will become brainless red beastmen of all living beings, as long as you cooperate, I can make most of them grow gills, so that even if they are in a bad position and accidentally trapped, they will not be drowned."
"Bat, I have offered the best conditions. This is not for me, but for your universe... maybe a little for me." Night Owl said.
He saw Batman lowered his head and did not speak, which gave him a little hope in his heart for a short time.
"But I refuse. What I like most is to say no to self-righteous people."
But then, this hope was immediately shattered.
Night Owl sank his face.
"That doesn't matter." He said, "Without a tsunami that drowns the whole world to assist in the transformation, letting the beastmen attack ordinary people to transform them is also an executable plan. It's just that this plan is more bloody and cruel than the tsunami plan, but it's your choice, Batman. You..." Then he met Batman's indifferent eyes. Night Owl realized something. He was silent. After a while, he said, "The Blood Lord can solve the Totem Council." "Blood Lord? Who is that? Anyway, it should be the 'dark side of the red of all living beings' that is influenced and controlled by you. I understand it this way." Chen Tao said, "Yes, he can indeed solve the Totem Council." Then he paused and said, "But he can't solve the Justice League." He almost felt pity: "I really want to see what the scene was like at that time." "You are stupid, Batman." He heard Night Owl's voice. "You don't know what you are doing at all... You... You will eventually meet an enemy that you can't defeat even if you try your best, Batman." Chen Tao turned his head away. …
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Paradise Island.
“Ahhhhhhhhh, Diana! This battery compartment hurts so much! What are batteries anyway?”
“Sisters, I know this is difficult, but if we have no other choice, this may be our last choice. Listen to me, breathe in, breathe out, it feels like you are lifting a heavy stone lock… I know you can do this - sorry, I have to take a call.”
“The kind of thing that can deliver letters in an instant like Hermes (the twelve main gods of Olympus, with the function of a messenger)?”
Diana didn’t have time to answer the questions of her Amazon sisters, she turned on the communicator:
“Batman?”
“Diana, I need your emergency support…”
Pentagon.
“General Swanwick (Mars Manhunter’s fake identity) The documents here… General Swanwick?”
When Martian Manhunter’s female secretary pushed the door and walked in, she only saw an empty desk and an open window next to it.
There was a note on the desk, which read:
I’ll be back soon.
"But the meeting is about to start in three minutes, what about your speech, General?" the secretary shouted, "No way?"
Kansas.
Kent Farm...
Clark trying to fly again in the field...
Gotham City, Botanical Garden.
Poison Ivy, who is trying to cultivate a Wood Cycad (an endangered plant with dioecious sexes), takes out her cell phone...
Central City.
Star Lab.
Barry is constantly trying to speed up on the cosmic treadmill, but he is never fast enough.
This is strange, Batman told him that every Flash can have the ability to travel through time, and he has mastered his power for many years.
He should have mastered this ability, but the limit is always in front of him and he can't break through it anyway.
Cisco and Katherine are helping on the side, they are collecting experimental data, but soon Batman's face appears on the computer of Star Lab:
"Barry, we may need your help here, can you put your work aside and come over?"
"Oh, by the way... help pick up our teammates."