amaotonovel Chapter 326 Shocking Change
Chapter 326 Shocking Change
Chapter 326 Shocking Change
"I am not."
Chen Tao said:
"I am Batman."
He met Talia's gaze, then saw the Assassin's daughter turn her head away: "Of course, you're Batman. You'll always be Batman first. No matter what you become, that will never change."
"What a pity."
She said, "Before I actually met you, based solely on the information, I didn't fully believe that you had changed so much."
She gracefully pulled the sharp blade from the head of the screaming brain demon.
"You... I clearly controlled you... I read your mind, you're just a stupid woman trying to steal Wonder Woman's man... How could you... How could you..."
The brain demon's voice was intermittent. Even though he had been stabbed in the head, he was still concerned about why his abilities had failed.
Oh... no. He's just stalling for time to recover. Chen Tao began to notice that new cells were constantly growing in the wound on his brain at the nanoscale.
"You have too much faith in your telepathic abilities," Talia said. "It's like someone who has relied on a cane for a long time suddenly forgets how to walk after losing it. Try it if you don't believe me. You still have this chance to read my mind."
So the brain demon actually did it.
Then he quickly withdrew, looking completely bewildered: "You...you actually..."
"...I'm cursing you in my mind in Spanish mixed with Arabic," Talia said.
"But you can't understand a single word, you illiterate."
Chen Tao: ...
This method of dealing with telepaths is quite effective. If the Brain Demon can't figure out what Talia's Spanish and Arabic words mean, then it means he might also be deceived by the false ideas she deliberately creates.
But Talia is equally breathtaking. She constructed a false idea through sheer willpower, deceiving the Mind Demon. That's something most people couldn't do.
"What you read before was all something I deliberately wanted you to discover, you idiot."
Talia raised her sword, pointing it at her opponent: "And now, are you ready to die?"
She raised her sword, her face contorted with murderous intent. Everyone present guessed what Talia was about to do.
Brain Demon's teammates attempted to rescue him, but were blocked by the nanobot blades wielded by Chen Tao. The fluttering blades not only stopped the charging mammoth, but also riddled the steel spikes driven by Wei Guang's ability to control matter with holes, and finally blocked the rockets fired by Xiao Invention.
With a deafening explosion and shockwave from the rocket, Talia swiftly sliced open the Brain Demon's neck.
As she abruptly pulled out the blade, the Brain Demon clucked and collapsed to the ground, desperately clutching his bleeding throat as air leaked from his trachea.
Talia turned to look at Chen Tao: "You didn't stop me?"
Why should I stop you?
Chen Tao said.
"If you want to kill him to vent your anger, go ahead and kill him. It's no big deal."
Aside from being something a superhero like Batman would say, the sentence was fairly normal.
"Even if his throat is cut open, I can still pull him up and keep working."
"...What?"
Chen Tao stretched out his hand, and strands of fine black gauze wrapped around his palm, quickly flying to the brain demon whose neck had already been ripped open.
In an instant, his wound was stitched up, the bleeding stopped immediately, and he opened his eyes. Apart from being a little weak due to excessive blood loss, he seemed to be in pretty good shape. From the moment his head and neck were cut open to his complete recovery, the whole process was like a game.
"He...he's really alright?"
Talia was somewhat uncertain and wanted to check on the Brain Demon's condition, but as soon as her hand touched the other's shoulder, she suddenly heard the Brain Demon, who had its head down, make a "plop" sound.
"Hehehe, hehe, hehehehehe..."
"ah!!!"
Talia was so frightened by the horrifying smile on the Brain Demon's face that she took two steps back, then slashed the other's neck with her knife. Blood spurted out with a hiss, and Chen Tao hurriedly repaired the neck.
"Stop cutting! Even if nanobots close the wound temporarily, Brain Demon will still die from excessive blood loss," Chen Tao stopped her. "This is a rare telepathic user; I still have a use for her!"
Talia turned pale, leaning on the knife with lingering fear, and could no longer maintain the "seeing an old friend" expression on her face:
"I thought Lei Xiao Augu (Note: the ninja master, Talia's father, an ancient being who has lived for 700 years) was the most sinister person I had ever met! What did you do to him?"
"It's just the Joker's drug... I've been researching his legacy..." Chen Tao muttered, but finally told Talia concisely, "It's just a control method. When I made the move, I used nanobots to release anesthesia on him, and then secretly injected him with some drugs from behind."
Chen Tao wiped his face, and immediately a pale, maniacally laughing face appeared on it. He directly controlled those low-level "clown" creations through the Joker.
Talia stared incredulously at Batman's maniacal grin.
Huh? What is this?
She had imagined countless times what it would be like for her next meeting with Batman. She had thought that she would be facing Batman with swords drawn, that they would be rolling around in bed together the next time they met, and even that they would be like a real family of three...
But what I never expected was that before I could reunite with Batman, the Joker would reunite with Batman first!
She turned to look at the villains around her, and at the two metal-type villains, Steel Beam and Shrapnel, lying incapacitated not far away, and then sighed:
"Why don't you deal with these guys first, then help Wonder Woman take care of Cheetah, Giant Woman, Silver Swan, and Jinx, and then we can talk."
"I have something to tell you."
Clang!
Chen Tao turned his head and saw Wonder Woman swinging her sword, then fiercely colliding with Cheetah's claws. She then reversed her grip on her shield and knocked over the giant woman who was trying to grab her from behind. However, she suddenly lost her footing and half of her waist sank into the mud created by Jinx's magic.
"No," Chen Tao said, "Diana doesn't need my help right now. If she needs help, she'll call me."
Chen Tao said, "Now I'm actually very curious about what the person behind all this is really after." He turned to look at Talia.
"Talia, aren't you curious?"
Seeing that the other party did not answer, he continued, "Let me guess, you once created an organization, but one day you found that most of the people in this organization had been replaced by another organization, and you became a lone commander. The organization you created was out of your control."
“That’s right,” Talia said. “Leviathan once belonged to me.”
"Then they kidnapped you and used the Mind Demon, a telepath, to control you and your child in an attempt to distract me, buy time, and hinder me so they could achieve their nefarious goal."
"Yes, yes, that's right..."
Talia was about to nod when she suddenly froze, turning to look at Chen Tao: "You...you know?"
Chen Tao nodded: "Damian Wayne, you gave him a nice name."
Ignoring Talia's existential crisis, Chen Tao continued, "Whatever that person behind the scenes wants to do, I've made sure everything goes smoothly."
Chen Tao turned to Talia and asked, "Do you know the name of the organization that attacked you?"
"I don't know." Talia shook her head. "I was taken control of by them before I could even react. Although I continued to act out the situation, I still know nothing about them."
"They are the Crime Syndicate, an evil version of the Justice League from a parallel universe that has infiltrated our planet." Chen Tao briefly introduced the Crime Syndicate, then said, "It seems that Night Owl and his outsiders must have already discovered my pivotal role in the Justice League."
He boasted without a hint of embarrassment, then said, "So they will definitely try to hide first to increase their chances of winning, and the easiest way is..."
Just as Chen Tao finished speaking, his phone rang. He raised his arm, and it was the Flash, Barry, calling.
"Batman, this is Barry Allen, the Flash. I've helped Firestorm escape the attack. Someone did try to harm him... but I've taken care of it, just as you arranged..."
Firestorm is a super form created by two ordinary people combining without any power source; their power comes from the Firestorm Matrix.
This is a very special thing. Not only can it give the user a head of fiery hair, but it can also allow the firestorm to be emitted from the hand as a "fusion and decomposition wave" that can pass through solids and change things by rearranging atoms. Such changes are often permanent.
Most importantly, the Firestorm Matrix can accommodate more than two people. With a little modification, Firestorm can immediately become a super-huge prison, holding countless people inside.
In the comics he had read in his previous life, which featured the Crime Syndicate, the Crime Syndicate came to the main world, attacked the Justice League which was in the midst of a civil war, and imprisoned most of its members inside Firestorm.
If the Crime Syndicate would choose to use Firestorm to weaken the Justice League in the comics, then they probably will now.
And just as Chen Tao had predicted, everything before him was far too deliberate, even making him feel somewhat bored.
He knew the other person too well. This understanding came not only from the information given to him by the Joker, but also from his understanding of the other person from the comics.
The criminal syndicate has a basic plan for what it wants to do, which is like shooting an arrow before drawing the target. They set a trap on the target first, keep a backup plan, and then wait for the target to make a move.
Although he didn't know exactly when the other party would make their move, the moment Talia appeared in front of him today, he already knew that the Crime Syndicate had been activated. Then, naturally and logically, he notified the Flash, Barry, and ordered him to locate Talia using the locator he had left for Firestorm beforehand, and calmly lead him out of the other party's trap...
Everything was easy and relaxed.
"Hmm, who are the people they sent? What? The Atomic Family? And who are they? Oh, those Atomic Robot villains, right? It's okay, don't confront them head-on..."
"What? There's a nuclear power plant around here?" Chen Tao's voice rose eight octaves: "Don't start a fight there!"
"...Hmm, not bad. It seems our enemy, the Criminal Syndicate, has chosen a pretty good battleground—but refuse them and tell them we want to choose our own place."
Chen Tao hung up the phone, then shrugged and said, "Nothing new at all."
Then, right in front of Talia, he made a phone call: "Hey, can you hear me? Lex Luthor, how's it going on your end?"
Having read the comics, he knew very well that besides the firestorm, there was another crucial element for the Crime Syndicate:
Lex Luthor. This bald, muscular man, Superman's greatest adversary, resembled a Viking with a thick head of hair on Earth-3. Unlike Lex Luthor, he possessed powers similar to Shazam and Black Adam. Shouting "Shazam!" summoned lightning to gain power and allowed him to absorb the power of superhumans he killed. Thus, he went on a killing spree against superhumans on Earth-3, becoming so powerful that no one in the Syndicate could rival him. After his powers were neutralized by Supergirl's Subjugation Lock, he was imprisoned by the Syndicate and taken to the main universe.
However, he is Lex Luthor's counterpart, which means that the two of them have identical voices, resulting in Luthor's voice being able to grant Zamza power and nullify his power.
Although in the original storyline, the Crime Syndicate did not discover that Lex Luthor was Zamza's counterpart, nor did they discover that "Luthor's voice could transform Zamza," which led to Luthor using this information to defeat Zamza in the final battle, completely crushing him.
However, out of caution, and to prevent the current Criminal Syndicate from discovering him, Chen Tao had already notified Luther in advance to guard against the Criminal Syndicate, which was enough for Luther to make sufficient preparations to defend against them.
He didn't inquire about Luther's specific preparations, which was a sign of distrust and insult to Baldy. He had never doubted Luther's strength; against any villain, Luther was in a class of his own.
In the comics, as one of the biggest villains of the Justice League and Superman, he always easily defeats his enemies, requiring no intervention from Batman. Chen Tao has never looked down on the other party because of his seemingly harmless appearance.
However, on the other end of the phone, he heard Killer Crocodile's panicked voice.
"It's terrible, Batman! Luthor has been captured by the Crime Syndicate!!!"
Chen Tao: "Damn it."
(↓The following is newly added text after the update, free of charge. I really can't write about romance, sob sob sob! I'm so stuck, I've lost almost 400 words reading this far, I'm completely numb, sob, so wronged. I've never been in a relationship, I just can't write about it!!!!)
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