Chapter 86: Expired Parents (Seeking Follow-Up Reading)

"I still have two hostages, two hostages you would never expect."

Bane opened his palms, and the venom began to pour into his body little by little, swelling up his already burly body.

On one side of his body, green plants grew from under his flesh and blood, breaking through his muscles and skin, causing Bane to bleed bright red.

On the other side, his body quickly rotted. A strong stench spread from that half of his body, and his flesh cracked inch by inch, oozing out yellow-brown corpse fluid.

The two forces began to wrestle with each other at the dividing point of his body, as if to tear Bane in half - and then at this time, with Bane's nose as the center, the middle part of his body quickly turned pale with blue veins. Was it the transformation of amber gold?

The venom gurgled into his body, and the three forces actually reached a strange balance, appearing on Bane's body at the same time, making him look like a...

Uh... three-color ice cream?

Chen Tao knew that such a metaphor was inappropriate and impolite, but this transformation did add a dramatic touch to Bane's serious and cruel life.

Bane stretched out the arm that was stained by the black power of decay. He lightly grasped in the air, as if guiding some intangible and invisible power to infuse his whole body.

His half body covered with corpse spots swelled again, but was then suppressed by the amber gold and the green of all things.

"Come on..."

Chen Tao felt a chill.

He heard a hissing sound, as if some giant rat had dug a tunnel underground and tried to drill into Arkham Asylum.

Chen Tao's mind was suddenly tense.

What is that!

He silently transformed his body into the nano body of Nano Batman, and the drifting black veil gradually condensed in the room.

Chen Tao had made full preparations. No matter what came out from under the floor, it would be struck by thunder the moment it emerged.

Black of Decay, Black of Decay!

Could it be that Bane and Black of Decay had some collusion? What giant rotten worm would come out from the ground? A giant beast covered with corpse spots?

It couldn't be a dead centipede with various broken limbs sewn all over its body, howling as it rushed out of the ground, right?

Chen Tao's brain was spinning frantically, and he deduced all kinds of ideas in these few seconds. He was shocked that his brain was spinning so fast.

Is the water in the Lazarus Pool that I prepared before enough?

Amid all kinds of crazy thoughts, the sound stopped.

The thing digging underground finally reached under the floor.

A drop of cold sweat dripped from Chen Tao's forehead.

With a click, the floor made a slight sound.

Then the next second, a pale hand pulled the head, smashed the floor directly, and roared to the sky in the room!

This terrible monster, uh...

Wait, what is this?

Chen Tao widened his eyes and saw the two...

zombies crawling out of the floor in disbelief.

"Unforgivable..."

Chen Tao said.

"I feel this power called the Black of Decay." Bane replied: "You may not understand how terrible this power is."

"The boundary between life and death has never been so blurred in front of me as it is at this moment. I have been close to death countless times, and I have been ready to embrace death..."

"But I never thought that one day, I would master death."

"Batman." He said seriously: "I now realize so clearly that... death is not the end of everything, but the beginning, the beginning of everything."

"Unforgivable..."

Chen Tao whispered to himself.

"So, Batman. I solemnly introduce my last two hostages to you."

"Thomas Wayne."

The slightly taller zombie roared, and the sound like a broken saxophone sounded from his windy throat.

"Martha Wayne."

The slightly shorter zombie followed with a howl, sharp, piercing, and full of hatred for all the living in the world.

A pearl necklace hung around her neck. Intact, pure and flawless.

Chen Tao covered his face and sobbed softly.

"Unforgivable..."

The tremendous anger brewed in his voice: "How dare you? How dare you do this to my parents--"

Wait.

Aren't these Batman's parents?

A bolt of lightning struck Chen Tao's brain, dispelling all the sadness in his mind.

? ? ?

Why should I be sad? These are not my parents. I am the time traveler Chen Tao. Batman's parents' graves have been dug up. What does it have to do with me, a time traveler?

Chen Tao realized why he had never considered Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne, because he had never cared about these two bodies at all. He subconsciously never thought that these two bodies were something that could threaten him.

Then how could he make a plan to prevent them from being robbed?

!

"Do you think I don't know the existence of the Clayface? Do you think I would be stupid enough not to take any precautions against the Clayface? I am disappointed, Batman, that you underestimate me so much... This is why you made a mistake."

Bane slowly walked between the two zombies: "Although you replaced all the hostages I kidnapped with the Clayface, this still surprised me. But I never thought from the beginning that relying solely on those hostages could shake your mind."

Chen Tao lowered his head, his shoulders twitched, as if he was sobbing.

Bane looked down at him.

This huge blow, a devastating blow, seemed to make Batman shocked and angry, and lost all the will to fight.

The plan was accomplished so well, and the great feat of deceiving Batman made Bane feel a little dizzy:

"The pamphlet you wrote to me on how to fight the Joker also revealed how to fight you to some extent... This is almost a confession you wrote to me!"

"Despicable..."

Bane saw Batman covering his face, he stood up from his seat, then covered his stomach, fell to the ground, and slowly bent his body.

"I knew that the hostages I kidnapped would most likely be replaced by the Clayface. I knew that even if I kidnapped those hostages, I couldn't keep them from you... but I still did it. It was all a trick, Batman!"

"Those hostages distracted your attention, Jim Gordon, Harvey Bullock. You paid too much attention to them, and made you forget to guard against the two most important people in your life!"

"This is all written in your booklet... How to fight the Joker? Distract his attention. How to fight Batman? Distract...his attention!"

"So now... [dying]."

Bane manipulated two zombies to block in front of him.

"In the next battle, if you want to attack me, you must personally grind your parents to ashes!"

Even with Bane's scheming, he could no longer suppress the high spirits in his tone.

The uneasiness of being close to victory pushed his blood straight to his brain - if he still had blood to flow in his veins.

Batman fell to his knees, covering his face, and twitching slowly.

"Woo woo woo... woo woo woo..."

"Oh my god, you're not crying, are you?" Bain said.

"Woo woo woo, woo ha ha, woo ha ha ha!"

"What?"

Bain's expression changed little by little, and his originally excited expression froze on his face.

"Hehe, ha ha ha, hehe ha ha ha ha!"

Chen Tao laughed hysterically, and he laughed so hard that he fell down, rolled on the ground, and pounded the ground hard!

"Ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"