Chapter 297 Bane Is Rescued, Reverse Flash and Flash Are Subdued

Chen Tao left Shazam standing there in silence. He had no time to comfort poor Billy Batson, because things were far from over.

He returned to the side of the meditation mite again, picked up the meditation mite, and gave Darkseid an order without hesitation:

"Stop the fight between Steppenwolf and Wonder Woman, and bring them all here."

"Then you stay here and wait for me to come back and arrange the next things."

Then he held the meditation mite in one hand and twisted out a golden ball in the other hand, which was the treasure of the King of Death, the Golden Ball.

As the golden portal created by the golden ball rippled, Chen Tao raised his foot. Just as he was about to walk in, he suddenly remembered something and turned to Darkseid and said:

"Oh, by the way, I almost forgot. You still have one thing to do: arrest Dr. Sivana. You and Steppenwolf will do this together. Steppenwolf will tell you who Dr. Sivana is. This guy is good at keeping himself safe. He disappeared from the beginning of the battle. I don't want him to cause me any trouble in the future if I miss him this time."

Chen Tao was not worried that Darkseid would not be able to catch Dr. Sivana. Steppenwolf did a good job in the early stage. Several villains basically confirmed the main action plan centered on "submission to Darkseid". Even if someone had some small ideas, it was generally like this.

So once Darkseid and Steppenwolf started to backstab, it would be difficult to trick Dr. Sivana into appearing, and it would be a piece of cake to deal with him.

After explaining the task, Chen Tao didn't care about Darkseid's reaction. He crossed tens of millions of kilometers and appeared on Ismote, the base of Atrocitus.

He landed on the ground. In the valley not far away, the red light central energy battery was burning. Chen Tao flew closer with the meditation mite, and then saw Atrocitus half-kneeling in front of the central energy battery, with a ready-made and extremely complex blood magic circle in front of him.

"Have you finished preparing what you need to do?" Chen Tao asked him.

"Of course, Batman." Atrocitus, who was facing away from Batman, replied, "I have been preparing since I came back from the Origin Wall. Everything is ready. A magic circle that completely eliminates the darkness in William Hand's heart."

He turned his head:

"It will be more profound and effective than my simple use of the cosmic magic wand. You... What the ***!"

Before Atrocitus finished speaking, he saw the half-dead meditation mite being beaten and carried by Batman. The anthropomorphic insect face was full of grievances, but his electronic speaker was still in Chen Tao's hand at this time, making it impossible for him to do anything.

The insect face of the meditation mite was immediately excited when it saw Atrocitus appearing in front of it, and the insect mouthparts kept hissing, but Atrocitus didn't understand a word.

Chen Tao picked up the half-dead Meditation Mite from the ground. Although he had never been sure whether Meditation Mite was the person behind the abduction of William Hand, and he also didn't know how Meditation Mite got William Hand away...

But since he saw Meditation Mite appear at Hand's funeral home, and compared with Atrocitus, Meditation Mite claimed to him that "only he could help him find William Hand", the answer was basically out, and it was almost certain.

At this time, William Hand was just a nobody, even a minor, not the first black lamp corpse who would trigger the key figure event of "Blackest Night" in the future.

Unless the Black Death Emperor was going to break into the material universe and kidnap his apostles directly, who would take William Hand away?

In other words, if the Black Death Emperor had the ability to enter the universe directly now, he would not have to train William Hand.

As for what method to make Meditation Mite speak...

Atrocitus saw that Chen Tao's hand was wrapped with lightning created by the power of Thunder Shazam.

Oh! Atrocitus knew that one. The Mind Mite had been trying to get this thing before, and he did succeed. The Red Light Lord had been in the Mind Mite gang for quite a while, so he knew all this.

So Batman was going to use this living lightning power to induce the Mind Mite to release William Hand? Batman won't share these living lightning powers with him, what's the point..."

Ziziziziziziz!

But Atrocitus thought halfway, and then he looked at Batman dully and poked the palm wrapped in lightning directly into the body of the meditation mite, which made the big insect twitch all over.

He saw Batman kick the meditation mite, which only had 1/4 of its body left, to the ground. Due to the serious injury and the countless magic circles on its body, its body was no longer as big as before, so it looked even more pitiful.

Batman kicked the opponent again and again, and the meditation mite curled up in pain. The color of its body turned red and green because of the severe pain. Batman did not hold back. The black nanorobot turned into a crowbar in his hand. He laughed wildly and knocked the meditation mite's insect skull with the crowbar: "Say it or not? Say it or not? Say it or not?"

Hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss...

Chen Tao did not give the mite permission to control the electronic speaker. The big bug was twitching in pain, sucking air through its mouthparts, but could not say a word.

But even when the mite looked very painful, Chen Tao paid close attention and found that the mite was still deliberately absorbing the lightning created by the thunder Shazam power that Chen Tao used to electrocute it.

Chen Tao pretended not to see it and let him do it.

Suck it, suck it. After all, he is the only creature that can use the power of living lightning without being recognized. The more he sucks now, the easier it will be to control in a while...

While thinking this, Chen Tao opened the other party's permission to speak.

As soon as the authority was granted, the first words of the meditation mite were:

"Stop fighting, I'll confess everything, please, stop fighting!"

The meditation mite really didn't play any tricks. Soon, the skinny and hungry William Hand was released with a confused look on his face, and then he met two pairs of surprised and happy eyes.

"William Hand!" x2

Chen Tao rushed over, followed by Atrocitus. After scanning his body and confirming that he would not die immediately, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief together.

"It's good that he won't die for the time being!"

Then the two of them began to examine William Hand's body, and they were so enthusiastic that they almost scared the other party to pee: "No! Where is this? Help! I want to go home!"

A few minutes later.

William Hand sat in the center of the magic circle, his mouth crooked, his eyes slanted, his eyes dull, motionless, and Chen Tao breathed a sigh of relief.

Atrocitus's inner darkness elimination operation has begun. In the original comic history, Atrocitus, who predicted the Blackest Night, once wanted to come to Earth to eliminate the darkness in William Hand's heart in advance.

Such behavior is undoubtedly a crime for Hal and Sinestro who came after hearing the news. So Atrocitus failed as a matter of course, and the plan to cut off the Blackest Night from the source was declared bankrupt.

And now, with his intervention, William Hand can always accept the "inner darkness elimination game" quietly.

This may be able to forcibly cure his necrophilia at one time. Will this have some positive impact on the arrival of the Blackest Night?

But Chen Tao has no time to care about this. He still has Darkseid to worry about. If he can't pass this level today, there is no need to worry about the Blackest Night.

After instructing Atrocitus not to kill anyone and handing William Hand over to the Black Death Emperor, Chen Tao left Atrocitus, who was still doing magic to William Hand, and hurried back to Earth. He still had a lot of things to do.

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At this time, Reverse Flash was tied up in a corner of the Red of All Living Things.

He looked coldly at the many jailers who were surrounding him and commenting on him, Killer Croc, Poison Ivy, and Clark, who had returned to normal, who looked a little weak and was supported by his wife Louise.

He didn't want to hear clearly what these people said to him. At this time, his heart was full of doubts.

This is not right. This is different from the future he saw.

What went wrong? He has completely lost control of the situation now.

Will the Flash really fail in the war with Darkseid as he saw in the future?

He should have stood by and led everything and witnessed it himself, instead of being locked up here at this time, like a loser.

Then he saw Batman appear in front of him. He drove away the guards who were watching and took him into the shelter built for the families in the red desert of all living beings, and took him alone to an empty, silver-white room.

This place is different from other places in the shelter that are obviously used for rest and self-protection. But it is bare here, and Reverse Flash is not sure what Batman wants to do.

"You want..."

He asked directly, but soon Reverse Flash saw Batman take out a ring from his universal belt in front of him, and then pressed it, and then the small ring immediately popped out a set of Flash uniforms.

Reverse Flash: ? ? ?

Then he saw Batman hurried away again.

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Lonely.

Dark.

Deep.

"For so many years, what I have been chasing is just a reflection."

Bane was fixed on the origin wall at this time. His consciousness was being swallowed up by the wall bit by bit. Maybe it will take a while, maybe soon...

He looked at a creature next to him that had condensed into a statue.

The thing flapped its broad wings, and seemed to be flying towards the wall in the last moments of its life.

Bane was thinking about Batman again.

The reason he wanted to defeat Batman in the first place was that he wanted to defeat his own demons, his own nightmares.

His childhood shaped it into a monster. The long-term sense of crisis made him unable to feel happy. Only by defeating Batman could he find peace, otherwise he would die at the hands of another monster. Defeating Batman was his own vain obsession.

But after this obsession disappeared and everything was gone, Bane always felt that his life was worthless.

He tried to enrich himself by looking for his father. He wanted to find his blood relatives. This was a way to find his "origin", but in the end, he found Batman again.

"You saved me - Batman -"

Bane raised his head slightly. The roar he once made at Batman seemed to echo in his ears again.

"I am no more harmless than this monster. But you saved me, so I will spare your life. We will be entangled together for life."

This was like a promise, and like a curse.

So Bane was silent.

He lowered his head and saw that the gold had spread to his neck. That gold... dazzling gold.

It climbed over his bulging veins, began to grow flowers on his chin uncontrollably, and finally climbed over his nose, gently and tenderly pressing the flapping nose.

He knew that Batman might not be able to make it in time for the appointment, and he was not sure whether Batman deliberately did not come to the appointment, but it didn't matter.

When Bane looked back on the past, he found that Bane's life was meaningless.

His hatred for Batman, whether it was at the beginning or at the end, was extremely child's play.

He was a person who lacked internal motivation.

Save the world? Destroy the world? Rule the world? Even the commander of Gotham?

Or did he want to resurrect someone? Change the past?

Did he have anyone he loved?

What did he pursue? What ideas did he want the world to agree with him? Fear, or madness, or riddles?

Nothing, his life was just a void. Even every goal in life was something he came up with, rather than a pursuit from the heart.

He was not like Darkseid, the Joker, or the Scarecrow.

Only bats.

Only Batman.

Even taking Gotham is just like a child trying to snatch a toy from another child.

Conquer all evil?

What a grand goal, is he really interested in it? Does he really regard this as his lifelong career?

No.

Under that strong body, Bane's heart is empty.

He does things without logic or plan. This does not mean that he will not make plans for a specific goal, but he...

This feeling is difficult to explain in words. It should be said that he has never thought about what to do after achieving his goal.

This is Bane... and I am Bane.

Maybe sleeping forever on the Origin Wall will be my destination. In this way, he will never have to think about the meaning of life and the direction of life.

Bane thought so, and he began to feel sleepy. The golden color spread over his temples, making him drowsy, as warm as in his mother's amniotic fluid.

He wanted to go home, he wanted to fall asleep.

Then he saw Batman.

"Bane."

That hazy, otherworldly voice seemed to roar in his ears, and it seemed to hum in his heart.

Bane heard Batman's voice.

"I came as promised."