radiothebook Chapter 267 Bane and His Disciples: Experimental Subjects
Chapter 267 Bane and His Disciples: Experimental Subjects
Chapter 267 Bane and his disciples (crossed out) the experimental subjects
Chen Tao almost thought he had suddenly walked into the set of an American kung fu movie, like "Kung Fu Panda" or "Mortal Kombat".
At this moment, he was standing in a temple deep in the Himalayas, surrounded by either shirtless monks training their muscles or Eastern European-looking men dressed like savages practicing strange boxing techniques.
Chen Tao originally wanted to sneak into the temple where Bane was, but he eventually gave up on the idea and chose to wear Batman's uniform and visit him openly and honestly.
He came to ask Bane for help, and his sneaking around seemed rather strange. Asking for help should at least look like it's asking for help, especially since the other person is one of his most dangerous enemies. Although their relationship isn't as antagonistic as it used to be, it's still somewhat ambiguous.
They're no longer enemies, but they're not exactly allies either.
In short, it's a bit subtle.
As Chen Tao thought this, he followed the young novice monk through the winding temple grounds.
From the outside, this place looks like a small, tiny area, but once you go inside, you'll find it's a hidden gem.
The entire complex is situated in a small canyon formed between two small mountain peaks, and the interior area is surprisingly large.
As Chen Tao walked, he looked around.
This godforsaken place has all sorts of races: Middle Easterners, Arabs, Caucasians, Asians...
Chen Tao even saw a young woman dressed as an Indian shaman chatting with another skeleton who was floating in the air with only a cane.
The man was wearing a strange-looking skull mask and a black bodysuit. As he was talking, his arm suddenly stretched out as if it had no bones, and then he took an apple from the table next to him and held it in his hand.
I'm awesome, Luffy!
Chen Tao stared at him intently, then realized that the guy was simply retracting his other arm into his body like a gibbon to extend the distance his other hand could reach.
But this is ridiculous! Is this yoga?
(Note ①: The one who looks like a skeleton is Deadman, a third-rate DC villain. He is a yoga master who wears a skull mask and is good at playing dead and then pretending to be resurrected to deceive others into believing he is immortal. Later in the comics, for unknown reasons, he actually became a skeleton. He appeared in Batman v Superheroes.)
(Note ②: The young woman dressed as a shaman is Radama, a third-rate villain in DC Comics. She is the villain of Blue Beetle, a second-tier hero, and her special skill is summoning two incredibly stupid demons.)
"What the hell, Batman!"
The dead man was still chatting with the witch Radhama when he suddenly felt someone watching him. He turned his head and saw Batman, and jumped up as if he had seen Batman himself.
He committed a crime in Gotham in his early years, and was caught and beaten up by Batman and the original Robin, Dick Grayson. He was so traumatized by the beating that he was eventually locked up in Arkham Asylum.
He's innocent! He's a criminal, he should be locked up in Blackgate Prison.
The patients at Arkham Asylum really terrified him. After escaping during a riot at Arkham Asylum, he never returned to Gotham.
He thought he had long since escaped Gotham, escaped Batman, escaped the worst nightmare of his career, but today—
That nightmare reappeared before his eyes!
"Help!"
The dead person hugged their own neck, immediately lay down, and began to play dead.
Eh... who exactly is this guy?
Chen Tao didn't know him at all and felt completely bewildered.
There's no way around it; Batman has just too many and too varied villains, and Deadman isn't even a third-rate villain among them, his fame is even less than that of another third-tier villain, Big Tent.
After all, the giant tent was made up of a huge man wearing a ballet tutu who looked like Tru from Jackie Chan Adventures, which was much more eye-catching than a dead man.
With fat men in skirts to look at, who would want to look at Mr. Skeleton?
"Enemy attack!!!"
With a thud, the dead man crashed to the ground, and a piercing scream shattered the harmonious atmosphere on the field.
Some people were shouting, some were staring blankly, and some had formed a strange formation.
There was a great deal of noise and chaos, and Chen Tao, standing in the center, only found it noisy.
He re-synchronized with the Bat-Sorcerer, dispelling the charm spell on the young novice who was guiding him, and watched as the boy screamed and ran away as if he had seen Batman—
Of course, otherwise do you really think a novice monk would bring a stranger into the temple?
He reached out and grabbed a nearby monk:
"Excuse me, I'm looking for Bei..."
With a bang, the monk roared and punched him in the chest, but the force was so great that he broke one of his finger bones.
Even without any Batman synergy, Chen Tao's physique, enhanced by the Red Metal Spirit and other miscellaneous things, far surpassed that of the ordinary person before him.
"Can you speak properly? I'm here to see..."
With a thud, the monk kicked Chen Tao in the leg, breaking his own leg. Then Chen Tao witnessed his opponent using all sorts of martial arts techniques to break every single bone in his body.
"..."
"Devil! Devil! Help!"
"..."
Chen Tao watched as the other person fled into the distance.
He touched his face.
Am I that scary?
Then he turned his head and saw that the witch Radhama had summoned two muscular demons.
Monsters resembling two large buildings appeared directly in the temple, causing the ground to shake violently. Their hoarse, demonic voices rang out.
"Abaddon served Radhama."
"Morix serves Radhama."
The witch Radhama, her eyes bloodshot, stood between the two demons and said in a clear, rhythmic voice, "And Radhama thanks you for your service, children."
She turned her head, her beautiful hair seemingly floating in the air under an invisible magic: "Batman, you will feel the demons unleash their full power, and they will..."
But before the witch Radhama could finish speaking, Chen Tao threw a lump of mud at her face.
"Waaaah..." The witch Radhama desperately tried to tear off the mud smeared on her face, but the more she pulled, the tighter it became.
Once DC wizards can no longer cast spells, they are basically no different from ordinary people. Even Zatanna, the master of irony, was once nearly drowned in a tank of water, let alone her.
Two demons: "?"
Due to their low intelligence, without the mage's control, their actions immediately ceased.
A demon said, "Abaddon doesn't understand. What is Radham saying?"
The witch Radhama: "Waaaaah, waaaah!"
Another demon said, "Morex isn't sure."
Chen Tao said, "He said your service is over, hurry back to hell!"
The witch Radhama's beautiful eyes widened immediately: "Waaaaah..."
"I see!"
The two demons placed their arms across their chests:
"Abaddon obeyed Radham."
"Morix obeys Radhama."
The magic circle lit up, and the witch Radama watched in despair as the two demons patted their behinds and disappeared in a flash, just like they had disappeared in a flash.
She watched Batman get closer and closer, then turned her head away like a girl about to be raped by a bully, revealing a tearful expression, and closed her eyes.
"..." Chen Tao was speechless once again. Stop with the drama! Where did Bain find this bunch of oddballs?
"Don't be silly, I don't hit women."
"Really?" The not-so-bright witch Radama turned around in surprise, only to be punched squarely in the face by Chen Tao and knocked unconscious on the spot.
Magicians are too dangerous; they can summon demons at the drop of a hat. It's terrifying.
Chen Tao tossed the female mage aside, then picked up the man pretending to be dead from the ground. His head, clad in a skull mask, was tilted to one side, and his entire body was limp as if boneless.
This guy looked like a real corpse, but Chen Tao briefly synchronized the high-speed bullet and quickly discovered with his X-ray vision that this guy was just pretending to be dead.
So Chen Tao picked up the dead man headfirst and shook him violently twice: "Wake up, it's time to get up and get to work."
Mr. Skeleton is still pretending to be dead.
Chen Tao briefly synchronized with the Red Lantern Batman, Battositas, and the red lantern energy flames he spewed from his mouth burned a nearby training stone lock to ashes.
Mr. Skeleton was immediately terrified.
Chen Tao ripped off his skull mask and was about to say something when he was surprised to find strands of black markings, like snakes, spreading from the back of his neck and climbing up his entire face.
In an instant, Chen Tao felt the opponent's struggle become much stronger.
Chen Tao was taken aback.
Wow, Naruto, Cursed Seal!
The opponent's strength has increased from about one or two tons to about seven or eight tons, which is amazing!
What did Bane do to this third-rate villain?
Chen Tao still held on tightly to his opponent, wanting to see what other tricks this guy had up his sleeve.
The dead man struggled for a long time, only to find it was all in vain. Then, another change occurred to him.
The black markings began to turn red and heat up until they covered the dead man's entire face. His face began to rot, and soon the entire face was gone, revealing a stark white skull.
Half of his body softened completely, as if it had no bones, allowing him to escape from Chen Tao's grasp like an eel.
Chen Tao withdrew his hand, watching the other party land warily on the ground, lost in thought.
This ability to transform the body into a slippery, mud-like posture is something that yoga contortionism could never achieve. It's more similar to the ability of another second-tier superhero, Black Orchid, who can simultaneously wield the power of both the Red of All Beings and the Green of All Things to deform her body.
Chen Tao's eyes lit up.
He originally came to seek Bane's help, hoping that Bane could use his control over the power of decaying black death to turn the hairy man he captured in the Atlantis incident into a zombie, and then go to the Origin Wall to pull out the Supreme Superman.
Ever since meeting Supreme Superman, Chen Tao had been pondering how to get him off the Origin Wall. As everyone knows, the most important characteristic of the Origin Wall is that anyone who touches it will be stuck on; trying to pull someone off is simply a pipe dream.
Of course, in the original comics, some people did achieve the feat of "pulling people off the Origin Wall." For example, "Black Hand" William Hand, the first Black Lantern Corpse in history and the beginning of that darkest night, successfully pulled people off the Origin Wall. Because every creature stuck to the wall is in a superposition of death and life, the Black Lantern Ring can control them briefly.
However, once the person was pulled off, the Black Hand was immediately assimilated by the Origin Wall, because the person who was pulled off was alive once they left the wall, the Black Light was ineffective, and the Origin Wall took effect.
In other words, the Black Lantern Ring can indeed temporarily control and pull a person off the wall, but once the person is pulled off the wall, the user of the Black Lantern Ring will immediately be assimilated by the Origin Wall. Although the person is pulled off, the user of the Black Lantern Ring is stuck to it.
The same logic applies to replacing the Black Lantern Ring with the Rotten Black, which is also a power of death.
Therefore, Chen Tao needed a scapegoat. The Supreme Little Superman was like Sun Wukong trapped under the Five Elements Mountain. To release him, it wasn't as simple as removing the talisman from the mountaintop. Instead, another person or a corpse was needed to replace the Supreme Little Superman on the wall.
Chen Tao had been searching for a suitable corpse, and the appearance of the hairy man made things simple:
All he needs to do is turn the hairy man into a zombie, then pour the Blood Slaughter Cow into Superman to increase Superman's struggling power, and then let the other party pull Superman out, wouldn't that solve the problem?
Logically speaking, to remove someone from the Origin Wall, one would need at least a Black Lantern Corpse of the level of William Hand, or a multiverse deity like Darkseid.
Ordinary Black Lantern Corpses should not have this power, and similarly, ordinary Decaying Black Corpses should not either.
However, Chen Tao had already secretly investigated and found that the wall that Supreme Superman was stuck to was not the origin wall of the multiverse, but the origin wall of a single universe. In terms of both strength and control over the creatures stuck to the wall, it was far from being unshakeable.
So whatever the plan is, everything has to be tried first, which is why he came to Bain.
But now, Bain's new invention has given him a pleasant surprise.
It's not just the black light representing death that can influence the Origin Wall; the white light representing life can also do so. By the same logic, could the green of all things and the red of all beings, representing life, similarly influence the people on the Origin Wall?
"I need to see Bain," Chen Tao said.
"Don't even think about it."
The witch Radhama finally ripped off the mud mask stuck to her face.
She threw the mud-faced figure with the suspiciously perverted expression on the ground, and with a look of utter displeasure, she also activated the "Cursed Seal"—that's what Chen Tao would call this power invented by Bane for now.
The young woman dressed as a shaman quickly transformed into a tree-person in front of Chen Tao. Unlike the ghostly appearance of the dead, the green of all things clearly prevailed on the witch Radama.
"stop!"
However, just as she braced herself and prepared to fight Batman for three hundred rounds, a voice stopped her in her tracks.
Chen Tao turned his head and saw Bane wearing a short training robe, sporting a shiny bald head, standing by a wooden door not far away, accompanied by Blake, a telepathic ability user with a similarly shiny bald head.
Black was once Superman's villain, but later became the Rotten Black Corpse, completely controlled by Bane, and has remained so ever since.
The entire front courtyard of the temple was filled with lamentations, with wounded monks and traces of destruction left by a massive demon everywhere.
Amidst the chaos, Bain strode forward, and those around him bowed their heads in respect.
"master."
They clasped their hands together, looking just like they were on the set of an American kung fu movie.
Chen Tao glanced at him sideways.
Yay, I found another friend!
(End of this chapter)