msmithbooks Chapter 635 Old Master Bat and His Blacklight Corpse Bruce
Chapter 635 Old Master Bat and His Blacklight Corpse Bruce
Chapter 635 Old Master Bat and His Blacklight Corpse Bruce
"Bat mite, I have a task for you."
When Batman heard Batman say those words to him, he lay on the ground like a wilted cabbage, motionless like a bat corpse.
"Bat mites, bat mites?"
Chen Tao said, "Did you hear me?"
The bat mite rolled over, turning its rear end towards Chen Tao, and then stretched out its baby paws and waved.
That means:
Don't fucking talk to me.
His face, hidden beneath the bat mask, betrayed no emotion.
Chen Tao didn't tolerate him at all. He picked up the bat mite from the ground and slapped him twice across the face.
no response.
"Dear Robin, I really need your help." So Chen Tao could only change his tone and try to charm her with an extremely sweet voice.
"It's no use, Batman, you can't lie to me anymore," Bat Mite said. "I'd rather jump off a cliff and die there than believe a single word from you again or do you a single favor."
"Everything is going according to my plan, including your loss of power," Chen Tao said.
The bat mite turned its body to the side, pretending not to hear.
Chen Tao's eyelids twitched.
He snapped his fingers, and then, looking completely bewildered, Doomsday, dressed in a wedding gown, reappeared beside him.
The bat mite sprang to its feet, then smiled and asked earnestly:
"How can I help you?"
Chen Tao kicked the Bride of Doomsday away, causing her to disappear behind the blue portal.
He then turned around and faced the bat mite again.
"I have a general understanding of your power. If my understanding of your power is correct, then is the divine power of every fifth-dimensional being unique?"
"Why do you want to know this?"
"I need your confirmation. Answer my questions."
Chen Tao didn't intend to answer the bat mite; it had far too many questions, and he needed to train it to become an answer provider.
"Okay, okay...that's true, it's obvious, is there even a need to ask?"
Of course, there's no need to ask, but training always starts with questions like these, just like how the police always ask a client whether he's male or female after arresting him in a prostitution raid.
And then comes the main event:
"If your power were combined with the power of the troublemaker—I mean, if someone possessed both your power and the power of the troublemaker…"
"That's impossible!"
Bat Mite said, "I'm Batman's number one fan, and the Mischievous One is Superman's number one fan. One can't like everyone at the same time, otherwise how could one be called 'number one'?"
He started to say something, then gagged: "Except for creatures like Green Lantern and Green Arrow mites, since they're essentially one and the same. But the powers possessed by other fifth-dimensional beings are absolutely incompatible."
(Note: The green-light green arrow mite mentioned here is the only fifth-dimensional being that is a fan of two superheroes at the same time.)
"What if someone forcibly possessed the power of both of you?"
What happens when you put cesium metal and water together?
The bat mite retorted to Chen Tao.
Chen Tao understood the analogy. Alkaline metals react rapidly with water, releasing hydrogen gas in the process.
Cesium is the most reactive of the basic metals; when it comes into contact with water, it not only spontaneously combusts but also explodes.
"That was really dangerous, now I'm relieved."
Chen Tao quickly made a plan in his mind. After obtaining the power of the bat mite, he was like a monkey who had gotten a pistol.
Although he had already realized that pulling the trigger would fire the gun, he still wanted to ask the gun's previous owner to confirm his thoughts again.
He silently abandoned his original plan to warn Hal and prevent the troublemaker from appearing in front of the Emperor Joker.
He's like an arsonist who's finally found a fire extinguisher; he can finally...
They set a fire without any scruples.
"Bat mite, listen to me, I need you..."
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"Parallax Morhal could not have arrived in the present timeline so early."
Earth 1.
The members of the Third Legion were frantically exchanging information and communicating with each other.
"But Batman: Dragon has already prepared this condition!"
A member of the Third Legion said, "What I mean is that Batman Dragon's preparations have been successful. He gave Parallax Morhal 20% of the Bat Mite's five-dimensional power and kept 29% for himself."
"I'm telling you, he's like a diesel engine with a full tank of fuel right now. The five-dimensional divine power is the diesel fuel, driving the position of the Dark Multiverse Dragon."
Using the connection between the powers of the bat mites, this diesel truck, at full power, was indeed able to pull Hal, that nail, off the road.
A member of the Third Legion said, "He already has the ability. He doesn't need to sacrifice himself so severely to lure Hal here. I can't understand what else can stop him."
"We can't help Brainiac and Barbatos, the Black Death Emperor, because that would also cause their powers to spiral out of control..."
"Haven't any new failed outcomes come along yet? Not yet? Can anyone tell us what the outcome of this choice will be?"
When you get used to looking up guides to play games, you will gradually become dependent on them and eventually lose the joy of exploring the game.
If you've become accustomed to having a time-traveling version of your future self appear before you when you encounter problems, telling you what to do, and all you have to do is put down everything you're doing and wholeheartedly listen to this future version of yourself, letting him guide you, then in such a situation, what ability can a person still have to make their own decisions?
"Brainiac, Barbatos, and the Death Emperor won't stand by and watch Batman do that."
"Batman may not be able to pull Parallax Malfurion out of the time loop."
"Even if he does succeed, there's no future version of us to warn us, so there won't be any major problems with that future."
"Even if Parallax Malfur really leaves the Hypertime Stream and comes into reality, Barbatos has the ability to send him back."
"No, you forgot? Parallax Morhal still possesses 20% of the power of the bat mites..."
"But even so, I still believe in Lord Barbatos."
"Most importantly, the fact that we returned from the future without failing means that even if Hal had arrived earlier than expected, it wouldn't have affected our victory."
Therefore, after a long discussion, the noisy crowd reached the following conclusion:
We do nothing.
And this is the beginning of the gradual loss of balance.
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"Some things are worse than death..."
"Some things..."
"Like me."
Reverse Lightning: Elberdswan's Flashpoint Universe.
Interstellar sector 2814.
Earth, Gotham City.
Wayne Manor.
The grave of Alfred, who died at the age of eight in Crime Alley, Bruce Wayne.
And next to them are two graves belonging to Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne, but these two graves are still empty and no one has moved in yet.
A bat's shadow appeared beside the grave.
"Crack."
The bat shadow made a panting sound.
He was no longer young, and the rope race in Gotham City had taken a toll on his stamina.
He was Thomas Wayne, once the most famous Dr. Wayne in Gotham City.
He was Gotham City’s greatest philanthropist, and he dedicated his life to changing the city, and he almost succeeded at one point.
But then came the night his young son Bruce Wayne died in Crime Alley. After that night, his wife Martha Wayne went mad, calling herself the Joker and eventually becoming a criminal.
And he, Thomas, also became the Dark Knight of Gotham City.
He is the caped warrior, he is the avenger, he is the night, he is—
Batman!
"I heard you calling from deep space."
Thomas Wayne muttered to himself.
"I heard your voice buzzing like flies, plaintive and sorrowful."
After the death of his young son, Thomas went on a rampage through almost all of Gotham's criminals, except for Martha the Joker, whom he couldn't handle.
He paid tribute to his son in his own way.
"You're very hungry."
Thomas Wayne said.
Everyone will die.
The violent Batman of Gotham City, who kills people with guns, makes a chilling chewing sound from his mouth, like a corpse forcefully chewing its own cheek from the inside.
"Death is the only thing in the entire universe that you can trust."
His voice gradually faded and became indistinct, as if a large hole had been torn in his face.
"Death forces us to submit. Whether strong or weak, loved or hated..."
No one can escape death.
"My poor child," Thomas said.
"My youngest son, my poor child."
He reached out his hand towards the tombstone, and then his voice gradually deepened, becoming unlike that of a living person:
"Bruce Wayne from Earth..."
"resurrection!!!"
At first, there was only a slight tremor.
Immediately following this, the ground began to crack slightly.
"My dearest son..."
Thomas Wayne trembled slightly as he murmured, "You need food, my beloved son..."
Amidst the cracking sound of bones, the tiny 8-year-old Bruce's body forcefully broke through the hard soil of the grave and crawled out of it.
His flesh had rotted away over the long period of his burial, leaving only a skeleton that was almost unrecognizable. His empty eyes gleamed with white light, and only some of his hair that had not yet decayed could still be vaguely seen as once elaborate hairstyles.
As soon as he landed on the ground, he twisted all the joints in his body, healing the broken bones one by one.
Bruce Wayne, or rather, Black Lantern Corpse Bruce Wade, opened his mouth and let out a fierce howl at his father!
Thomas Wayne... was in tears.
"My child..."
He groaned and wept.
"My child."
His face, hidden in the shadows, was revealed. Although half of his face was covered in blood, it was still clear that Thomas Wayne had not been transformed and was still alive.
The nature of the Black Lantern Corpse is to attack the living, and although Thomas knows this, he can't bear to leave his son's side.
He reached out his hand to the black-light corpse Bruce, as if possessed.
In that instant, he braced himself for an attack, but then...
He saw his Bruce looking at his hands.
The corpse, somewhat unsteadily and foolishly, removed its own head and held it in its hand.
Then, with the severed neck facing upwards and the hair facing downwards, rub it repeatedly on Thomas's outstretched hand, palm up, as if Thomas were stroking his head.
Thomas suddenly embraced his son's body.
"Bruce..." he said, "Bruce. Martha will be so happy. You're back to life. Her illness can finally be cured. You're back to life..."
He muttered to himself as if possessed.
"Our family can finally be together...and live well..."
At the same time, Reverse Lightning Elberdeswan looked up.
He saw, in the far distance, comets streaking across the sky, their black tails trailing behind them.
He knew it was the horn of doom.
But this apocalypse is different from the ones he has experienced before.
It's no longer about Amazons and Atlanteans fighting day and night, no longer about foreign invasion, and no longer about nuclear war.
A brand new, pure death.
"This time it's the darkest night." He turned his head and saw Batman looking up at the starry sky with him.
"Are you ready? What's the next step?"
He said, "We simply have no way to deal with this wave of death sweeping the world; all the dead will become black-light corpses."
He said, "We do not have the spirit of the White Lamp, nor do we have any way to fight against the Black Death Emperor."
Chen Tao opened his mouth as if to say something, but was cut off by Reverse-Flash's accelerated speech: "I've seen the intelligence you sent me. There is no Seven Lamps Legion in our universe."
Reverse-Flash knew that his current attitude might arouse Batman's suspicion, but he couldn't control himself. He kept emphasizing his side's weaknesses, perhaps... seeking a moral excuse for his betrayal.
"But my universe does."
Chen Tao said.
He snapped his fingers, and a ripple of light appeared in the air. Then, HAL from his universe, along with Sinestro's wife Arlene Sue and a large group of other members of the Light Brigade, including Atositas, all appeared before them.
Then Reverse-Flash heard Batman say, "Who else says we don't have White Lanterns?"
"We even have Sinestro himself. I can get him out of here immediately..."
As Chen Tao was saying this, he turned his head and saw the zombies Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne from his universe, whom he had put back in their graves a long time ago, appear there, wearing green light rings on their hands.
"Wait, how come Batman's parents are mixed in with the Light Brigade members?"
(End of this chapter)