Chapter 257 We Are Going to Send Aquaman to Black Manta to Kill Him (5000 Words Long Chapter)

So... this is where the story begins.

That old grudge is the beginning of the lifelong fight between Aquaman and Black Manta:

The tragic death of a man.

Black Manta closed his eyes, and the roar of the young Aquaman seemed to still echo in his ears.

"Black-Manta-Ray!"

The voice was full of anger and deep hatred.

The voice came from the lighthouse of Port Clement, and spread along the ocean current to the ship of Black Manta and his father. They are a father and son treasure hunters, a group of illegal criminals roaming the sea.

"I know-you are here!!!"

Even after so many years, Black Manta can still remember the trembling feeling when he heard this roar.

He was hired by Dr. Stephen Shen to steal the blood of Aquaman Arthur Curry, so that Dr. Shen could tell the world about his discovery of Atlantis.

When Black Manta broke into Arthur Curry's house to steal, he happened to encounter his father Tom Curry who had a heart attack and died. But Aquaman didn't know that, and he thought that Black Manta killed his father.

(Note: In fact, Black Manta came in to steal things, and ended up scaring Aquaman's father into having a heart attack and then died. Black Manta is not as innocent as he thinks.)

As a son, the young Aquaman Arthur Curry was furious and determined to catch the murderer. In order to commemorate his father, he wanted to give the murderer the most fair trial...

Death.

However, he was blinded by his father's death and made a wrong decision - to vent his anger on the murderer he thought was the murderer [Black Manta]'s father.

Arthur searched the seas to find Black Manta, and he found Black Manta's ship near a shipwreck. At that time, Black Manta was searching for treasure underwater. He thought Black Manta was alone, but he was not.

Black Manta is a diver, and his father... is a captain.

And Aquaman Arthur Curry strangled the wrong person... He strangled Black Manta's father to death.

Black Manta survived, but he and Arthur are forever trapped in a cycle of revenge.

This happened a long time ago.

But once the flames of revenge start to burn, they will never go out, no matter what damn mistake ignited them.

They burn, they spread...

They burn everyone they touch. Everyone, and all their hopes and dreams.

At this moment.

N.E.M.O meeting hall.

The leaders who were here before have long left, even the second-in-command Black Jack has disappeared, and only Black Manta is sitting alone in the center of the hall.

"You can come out." He said.

There was no response, and the surroundings were quiet.

Black Manta sighed. He opened his palm, and the brilliant golden light spread from his palm, forming a golden vortex-shaped space portal.

The next second, a figure fell from it in a miserable state, but before landing, he suddenly turned sideways and landed lightly on the ground.

"I hope that since you are already here, you will not pretend to be absent." Black Manta said to the figure: "And... I will only say the same thing once, Atrocitus."

"Where is the help promised to me by [Meditation Mite]?"

Yes, the one who appeared in front of Black Manta at this time was the future leader of the Red Lantern Corps, the blood magician [Atrocitus], a prophet from an alien planet, and the target of the pursuit of Green Lantern Sinestro and Green Lantern Hal before.

He came to Earth because he predicted the great crisis of [Blackest Night] in which the universe would fall into death in the future, but was deceived by the magic worm [Meditation Mite] and joined their army.

"Your assistance will be here soon." Atrocitus's red-faced, fanged face was expressionless: "The chemical waste monster is ready, and of course I am too. Our mission is to distract Batman as much as possible, waste his time, and give the meditation mite more time to absorb magic power."

Since the meditation mite used Billy's father CC Batson to steal the power of Thunder Shazam, he successfully released many monsters except the Supreme Superboy through the [Eternal Cellar], and also connected the seven magic continents, so that the magic power that was once sealed to other magic continents in different latitudes by the ancient wizard alliance [Wizard Council] returned to the earth and was gradually absorbed by it.

During the time of absorbing these magic powers, the meditation mite certainly hoped that Batman's plan would not be launched so quickly, so that he could be more fully prepared.

Therefore, through an alliance with another villain, the Outsider, the Mites used the other party's name to provide the leaders of the N.E.M.O., the Fisherman and the Black Manta, with two monsters, the Hairy Man and the Chemical Waste Monster, which were low in intelligence but capable of fighting.

But with the change of hands of the N.E.M.O. and the death of the Fisherman, the command of these two monsters now fell into the hands of the Black Manta.

The Hairy Man has an empty head, full of strange power, low intelligence, and can only destroy. He is a failed genetic synthesis monster.

The chemical waste monster is a container for storing chemicals, because the monsters born after the chemical mixture are also low in intelligence.

"Our mission." Black Manta sneered, but did not continue speaking.

Atrocitus knew that the other party did not regard the meditation mites as allies at all, and the meditation mites were probably the same.

He sighed.

He knew that as an alien, he had been too involved in the disputes on this planet, but in order to find William Hand, the initiator of the Blackest Night in the prophecy, he had to obey the meditation mites. Because only the other party could find William Hand, which was a fact he had verified through the blood magic prophecy.

What Atrocitus did not know was that William Hand was hidden by the meditation mites, so naturally only he could find him. In a way, the prophecy was not wrong.

"Very good." Black Manta stood up: "Wait until we disguise ourselves as Atlanteans and launch nuclear bombs to attack the United States, and the first wave of American self-defense actions begins..." He said: "We will follow behind the United States and turn the first American counterattack against Atlantis into the end of Atlantis!" ... ... Since his birth, countless generations of Atlanteans have reinforced and cast different spells. The complexity is amazing.

However, with the king's authority of Sea King Arthur, these shields and magic circles have made way for the four of them.

"The palace of Atlantis is in front, and it is also my residence." Sea King Arthur said.

But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Superboy Connor next to him: "Do you really live in the palace? So cool, buddy!"

"..." Arthur paused. He is old enough to be Superboy Connor's father. This guy has only been out of the culture dish for less than a year.

Arthur took a deep breath and decided not to pay attention to him. He continued: "Regent Tula will..."

Regent Tula, also known as [Water Girl], is an important figure in Atlantis. The relationship between him and Aquaman Arthur is very complicated. To put it simply, Aquaman Arthur has a half-brother, Lord Orm, who has now left Atlantis and is traveling in other seas. Regent Tula is Lord Orm's half-sister.

"... Let's go meet the rebels of the Hong Beast Organization first, and then--"

Aquaman Arthur stopped talking halfway, and then looked at Chen Tao strangely. Although his head still looked like an iron weight, there was an inverted bat logo and a red sun logo on his chest.

"What's going on?"

He asked Chen Tao.

Chen Tao, who was syncing with the bat wizard and frantically recording the paths of the magic circles and shields in and out of Atlantis, smiled shyly: "No, no, I just changed the color of my clothes. You continue."

Aquaman Arthur scratched his head: "Okay." He continued to chatter in front and began to introduce, causing the two Kryptonians to exclaim.

They passed through the magic circle and entered the city, and were strongly surrounded by many Atlanteans along the way. They whispered to each other, talking about the big news that they found that people on land can breathe and speak even in water.

"I have contacted the regent Tula remotely. He will prepare the route for us to see the mother box in advance. Let's interrogate the people of the Hongshou Organization first, and then..."

"Batman. There is a situation now."

Chen Tao put two fingers on the headset and suddenly heard Amanda Waller's voice in his ears.

"Batman, Batman? Are you listening to me? Something happened, a very, very serious situation."

"Speak."

"32 minutes ago, the USS Pontchartrain and all the crew on it disappeared in the South Atlantic. Atlantis claimed responsibility for this. They hijacked the nuclear weapons on the aircraft carrier and are about to attack the US mainland."

"This is impossible." Chen Tao stopped suddenly. This sudden incident disrupted his previous plan.

"And this is the fact, at least some people in the United States are willing to believe it. Atlantis launched an attack on the United States."

"It's ridiculous."

"I think so too. But they are taking advantage of the situation, and in fact they have every reason to take advantage of the situation. The nuclear weapons on that aircraft carrier can at least turn a city into a desert where no one will live for the next 50 years. In other words, they really have the ability to turn the threat into reality, and that's enough."

Chen Tao knew that Amanda Waller's words about some people taking advantage of the situation were just a gimmick to him. I'm afraid most people are already in a panic now.

"Listen to me, Batman. Things are very strange, but the automatic self-defense system of the American political system has already taken effect..."

Amanda Waller's voice was steady and clear, and the fat black woman knew very well how dangerous the current situation was.

"More than ten minutes ago, the US Strategic Command quickly reported the situation to the president, but the president did not respond at all and no one could contact him."

Chen Tao immediately understood what Amanda Waller meant: "Someone quickly and accurately cut off the connection between the president and departments at all levels."

"That's right, so of course, the crisis specialist next to the president read out his identification code, and then was awakened and began to exercise the power that the president should have exercised."

Amanda Waller warned: "After verifying the specialist's identity password, the crisis specialist bypassed me and Steve Trevor and convened a meeting of the National Security Council in the name of the president. The five chairmen are connected, and this is the only way in the entire American political system to directly exercise power to mobilize the American war machine without going through the two of us and several other generals. "

"There is something wrong with the crisis commissioner. He directly stripped the rights of the two of us for a short period of time through the National Security Council."

"After confirming the crisis, the [Night Watcher Program] was directly launched. All government personnel on vacation will be recalled at the first time. The crisis commissioner who issued the order has already boarded the helicopter to the Doomsday Fortress for refuge."

Chen Tao's face was a little ugly: "I know, and then..."

"...The country will soon In self-defense according to the law, the crisis commissioner exercised his rights based on the premise of the national crisis state. Under such conditions, his rights are almost absolute. "

"I have to find a way to prove to them that the Atlanteans did not attack the United States, and someone is interfering."

"That's right." Amanda Waller said: "Hurry up, because from a legal perspective, the country has now entered a state of war. In such a state, it is legal to launch a counterattack against Atlantis. This is no longer applicable to any international law."

"That is to say, if I can't quickly prove all this and stop the country's state of war..."

"Then the country may take the initiative to attack Atlantis in order to prevent itself from further attacks."

Amanda Waller said: "Whoever this secret instigator is, he must be familiar with the US military government system."

"The navy, nuclear submarines, powerful air force and army stationed in other countries at military bases around the world..."

"They will be granted unlimited defense rights, every nuclear submarine with nuclear weapons..."

"The US government does not know the exact location of Atlantis, that place is in the deep sea, they even..."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while.

"I'm sorry, Batman, the US government knows the location of Atlantis."

"What did you say?"

"We found the place, but Atlantis has its own defense system. They built an energy field shield underwater. No one can break through that thing, and we haven't tried whether nuclear bombs can defeat it. But so far, we do know the location of Atlantis."

Chen Tao's heart sank:

"That is to say..."

"The third-party conspiracy organization must not manipulate the hijacked aircraft carrier to launch a nuclear bomb at the United States. Otherwise, the United States' mutual destruction program will be launched immediately, and Atlantis will be dragged to hell regardless of anything. But even now, Atlantis, which attacked the aircraft carrier, has been regarded as starting a war, and conventional means of attack other than nuclear bombs will be used."

"I'm sure some powerful militant figures have already started to deploy soldiers to Atlantis at this time." Amanda Waller said: "It's completely out of control now."

Chen Tao touched his chin.

Too cruel. This is completely aimed at sending the entire Atlantis to hell. What kind of person has such a deep hatred for Aquaman?

Chen Tao immediately thought of a name in his mind, and Chen Tao could almost guess the ending.

The goal of the third party behind the scenes certainly cannot be to destroy the United States, because the United States has the Justice League. Even if Atlantis launches the plan to directly destroy the United States' ocean created by Aquaman Arthur himself, it may cause the fall of several continents in the United States or the death of a large number of people, but under the absolute force of the Justice League, it is absolutely impossible for Atlantis to destroy the United States with just Atlantis.

But at the same time, Atlantis is not that fragile. Even if the opponent's position is known, a few nuclear bombs want to destroy Atlantis? Yes, nuclear bombs are very powerful, but they must be able to blow up people.

The United States never realized that they were facing a magical civilization, and magic... teleporting away attacks that others could not withstand was already a basic operation.

So if the enemy's goal was to destroy Atlantis, then at this moment, he should be...

At the door of Atlantis.

Chen Tao thought of Black Manta, so he closed his eyes and tried to retrieve the other party's position.

As early as the first time he met Black Manta during the battle with Brainiac, he had left nanorobots on the other party. If he really felt that Black Manta was really outside Atlantis, then it meant that his inference was completely correct, and the other party really wanted to take this opportunity to attack and destroy Atlantis.

Sure enough, he soon got the answer he expected.

"Batman, you have to find the mastermind behind the war between the Atlanteans and the Americans, and stop the battle that has already begun. Please, otherwise there will be many deaths..." Amanda Ward was interrupted by Chen Tao before she finished speaking.

"Wait, Amanda Waller, if the purpose of that Black Bat... the third party conspirator is always to destroy Atlantis, plus to kill Aquaman, then can't I just give Aquaman to him to kill?"

"Bat, you have to... ah?"

"Ah?"

Amanda Waller was choked by what the other party said before she finished speaking.

She sat up straight on the other end of the phone.

"What are you kidding? You are not serious, are you?"

"Of course I am not kidding."

Chen Tao did not say these words in front of Aquaman. He just used the on-board computer to input what he wanted to say directly in his mind to Amanda Waller.

"If their target is always just Aquaman Arthur Curry, I can bring Aquaman to him... Does he want Atlanteans to die? Does he want Americans to die? No! He wants Aquaman to suffer."

Chen Tao said: "Then let Aquaman suffer, and I will bear the blame."

"Killing Aquaman, and turning Atlantis and the United States upside down? How troublesome, can't I just deliver the goods to his door?"

"... Stop for a moment, let me think about it." Amanda Waller felt a mess in her head, but she quickly got rid of the mess.

"What are you kidding, Batman, I won't believe you really killed Aquaman."

"What are you up to?"

"I'm Uchiha You, I'm devoted to cultivating immortals" Bai Zhan Yang

My Uchiha You's dream is to eat good food, drink good food, accompany the kitten, and cultivate immortals with peace of mind.

I'm not a problem for you, but why do you want me to live a miserable life?