HCB Chapter 468 I, Batman, am going to drive the whole world crazy!
Chapter 468 I, Batman, am going to drive the whole world crazy!
Chapter 468 I, Batman, am going to drive the whole world crazy!
The Turtle Man had no idea what Batman was up to this time.
He was unaware that the timeline had restarted. Like Bane, in their memories, the world he lived in was peaceful and uneventful, and nothing had happened. He was simply dragged here in a daze, thinking that he was going to be tortured by Batman again, but this time... it seemed different from before.
First, the magical power of the Eclipse infected him; the turtle-man felt a chill fill his mind, followed by the infusion of the crimson power of all living beings, burning like fire.
He looked at the turtle head next to his head and felt his body starting to spiral out of control.
Damn it, he's just called Turtle Man, but he's not actually a turtle!
"Help!" he cried out to Batman, but he had completely lost control of his body.
The turtle head quickly grew larger and larger, and in an instant it replaced his original left shoulder. The turtle head turned its neck and its eyes flashed with ferocity when it saw the turtle man.
Before Bane could stop it, the ferocious turtle head opened its mouth and bit, tearing open the neck of the turtle-man's head in one fell swoop.
Bane was originally planning to rescue them, but who remembered that he was already a hero...
However, he soon saw that the turtle-man, whose neck had been bitten open, did not die screaming, but seemed to have exchanged some kind of body sovereignty with the turtle head through this method.
The wound on the turtle-man's neck healed quickly, and he lowered his head, seemingly no longer speaking.
At the same moment, the turtle head lowered its head, and the turtle-man became completely still, almost like a corpse.
"Turtle Man, are you alright?"
Bane took two steps back, then turned to look at Batman, who was still standing there with a green face, three pink dots on his head, and a face like he was taking a dump:
"This is too weird, Batman. You always have something new to do. What's going on now?"
Chen Tao focused intently on using Brainiac's telepathic abilities, attempting to preserve the Turtleman's personality from being devoured by the Turtle Beast personality formed by the combined power of the Crimson Force and the Eclipse Force.
This is a delicate job, get lost, Bane, I don't have time for you.
So he could only wave his hands behind his back, signaling to Bain not to talk nonsense.
"Quack! I'm so strong! I'm so strong!"
Before Bane could say anything more, the turtle head on the turtle man's left shoulder suddenly stood up abruptly, and the turtle man also raised his original head. At this moment, his face was filled with a madness that even Bane had never seen before.
"You don't understand, you don't understand, my power!!!"
Because Chen Tao has been drawing upon the Turtle Man's stasis energy for his own use, and because of the superpower suppressor in the Turtle Man's cell, the Turtle Man should not be able to use any stasis energy at all right now.
As a villain of The Flash, Turtleman's abilities are the opposite of The Flash's—The Flash speeds himself up while he slows others down—but he is never a villain known for his strength.
However, as his limbs suddenly grew thicker and then became as wrinkled as a turtle's skin, the turtle-man roared.
He actually managed to break free of the alloy shackles that were originally binding him, relying solely on the strength of his physical body. He suddenly jumped up and pounced on Bane and Batman in front of him.
"Damn Batman, how dare you imprison me for so long, depriving me of my freedom! I'm going to beat you to your knees and make you my..."
Bain, who was standing next to Chen Tao, was taken aback. He immediately took action and was fighting with the turtle man in an instant.
He was quite perceptive; he was certain that the turtle-man hadn't used any static force at all.
In the blink of an eye, within this small room, Bain and he exchanged four or five lightning-fast blows.
Bain had thought he could subdue him quickly, but he found himself unable to do so for the time being!
Although Bane didn't intend to harm the other party, it was still quite astonishing.
Chen Tao remained standing there, trying his best. He carefully examined the Turtle Man's personality again and again, trying to understand the reason for the other party's current reaction.
Bane was still fighting with the turtle man in the room.
He grabbed the turtle man and slammed him to the ground, then forcefully bent the long, straight turtle head sticking out of the turtle man's shoulder, pressing his open mouth against the floor, where he swallowed a mouthful of wood.
"It's no use, you don't understand! You don't understand the profound mystery of my power! I am invincible!"
The turtle-man raised his hands, his two heads pointing skyward and roaring. Bane felt his opponent's strength inexplicably surge, followed by a rapid increase in his speed.
Bain was able to notice these things not because of the static force he sensed, but because the turtle-man's posture didn't resemble that of someone capable of high-speed movement. Bain might not understand static force, but he was very knowledgeable about human movement postures.
The tortoise-man is gradually regaining his ability to use static force.
"This is outrageous!"
Bane slammed the turtle-man, who had gained some strength, to the ground. Then he struck the turtle-man's two heads with both hands, making them tremble like marbles.
"Useless, completely useless! With such weak attacks, you're not even qualified to defeat a strongman like me!"
The turtle-man grinned, revealing sharp teeth. In the blink of an eye, Bane found himself straddling the turtle-man, whose head stretched its neck and was being whipped around like an iron whip, striking Bane's face.
The two fought faster and faster, causing more and more damage to the room. Chen Tao finally gave up. He stopped synchronizing with the bat Leniak and snapped his fingers.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz!
A massive electric current shot through the floor, creating a bright flash in the air, and struck the turtle-man violently.
The turtle-man, who had just been evenly matched with Bane, was electrocuted and stood upright, with the turtle head next to him also being electrocuted and standing straight up into the sky like a flagpole.
Bane lost control for a moment, and with a loud thud, the turtle man was knocked to his knees, his knees sinking into the floor, and he was pinned to the ground.
"Little-known fact," Chen Tao said, "From the perspective of a static force user, only they are moving at a normal speed, while everyone else is moving at an excessive speed."
Therefore, he cannot dodge the electricity like a user of the Speed Force, because the current would strike him before he could activate his power.
Chen Tao wanted to continue explaining to Bane, but he was quickly interrupted by the turtle-man's domineering voice:
"So exciting! So exciting!"
"Being able to fight you is worth the price of admission, even if I die!"
Chen Tao clutched his head: "No, no! My goal was to prevent the victims from becoming mindless beastmen. The turtle man hasn't turned into a berserk beastman, but he's still insane. So how is this any different from Night Owl's plan?"
"What should we do?" Bane gasped for breath. He had barely caught his breath when he used the power of the Green of All Things to cast a spell. In just half a second, a large number of green vines and trees sprouted from the floor beneath the turtle-man's feet, binding the turtle-man tightly.
Then he saw Batman say, "Let's start over."
"What do you mean, start over?"
Bain asked.
The very next second, Bane's dynamic vision barely kept up with the speed at which Batman appeared in front of the Turtle Man.
Strands of bat-shaped Speed Force flowed from Chen Tao's transformed Red Death Demon body, passing through the Turtle Man's body.
Then, right in front of Bane, the Turtleman rewound like a tape rewinding. The distorted turtle head retreated, shrank, and then disappeared without a trace. The crack in the floor he had just smashed was also repaired. Soon, to Bane's astonishment, the Turtleman returned to his original state, as if the failure had never happened at all.
"What... what's going on?"
Bane turned to Batman and asked, only to see Batman reply somewhat indifferently, "What's the big deal? It's just a time reboot, isn't it?"
"ha?"
Chen Tao ignored Bane. After thinking for a moment, he opened the blast channel and retrieved some of Joker's potions.
Seeing the turtle-man's terrified expression, Chen Tao quickly comforted him: "Don't be afraid, I'm only here to help you become stronger."
What does "strong" mean?
"Uh..." Chen Tao said, "It means to become better, be good, open your mouth."
The turtle-man didn't want to listen, so Chen Tao instructed Bane to forcibly pry open his mouth and force down a large amount of the potion, followed immediately by the power of the Sky Eclipse...
Compared to restarting the timeline of the entire universe, the Speed Force consumed by the Turtle Man to rewind a local timeline is less than one ten-billionth of what he would have needed.
If the turtle man's experiment fails, Chen Tao can simply turn the clock on a person's body as many times as he wants without any problem.
(Note: Red Death Demon clearly demonstrated his ability to use the Speed Force to influence others in the comic "Dark Night Metal," and even aged Iris and Black Wally in the main universe at one point.)
"First, a bit of the Joker's Laughter Potion, a bit of righteous laughter... and then..."
As time passed and the turtle-man died repeatedly, finally...
"Hahahaha!"
At this moment, the turtle-man transformed back into a two-headed monster, his original head staring in fear at the other head that had grown from his shoulder.
At this moment, the turtle head was no longer the dazed and confused beast it had been in before, but had become polite and greeted people.
"Ribbit! Bat Commander! I respect you, Teeth!" Looking at the turtle-man who had been transformed and finally regained his senses, Chen Tao was very gratified.
At this moment, the turtle-man still retained his original consciousness. His original head showed a look of horror and fear, as if he wanted to run away from this terrible demon king at the last second before seeing Chen Tao. However, the turtle head that grew on his shoulder had already grown into a human-like shape. That turtle head was more like a human than a turtle head.
"Help!" The turtle-man frantically twisted his neck, trying to get away from the deformed head beside him. "Damn Batman, what did you do to me? I'm going to kill you!"
Upon hearing the words spoken by the turtle-man's original head beside him, the turtle head immediately straightened up and burst into loud wailing:
"No, we can't lose the Bat Commander!"
The turtle head that had grown out of the turtle-man twitched and wept, and made a huge fuss:
"They must be protected, and their orders must be obeyed, fully understood, and implemented!"
Bain squatted numbly to the side, staring at the scene before him, feeling only...
Batman was really polite when he was dealing with me.
Then he saw Batman, now in sync with the Red Death, reach out to the Turtleman. The next second, as Chen Tao withdrew the power of the Eclipse, the turtle head on the Turtleman's body vanished in an instant, as if they had never existed.
The turtle-man looked at his hands, still in shock, and almost cried tears of joy.
"The power of the Sky Eclipse will not harm the host. After escaping the control of the Sky Eclipse, most hosts will not suffer any aftereffects."
Chen Tao thought to himself silently.
"That solved the problem. I created a secondary personality inside the turtle-man's body that I could destroy at any time, and used this secondary personality to bear all the harmful substances that Night Owl originally wanted ordinary people to endure."
"And all I need to do is extract those harmful alternate personalities after everything is over to immediately restore everyone on Earth to their original state."
"I've solved the problem that Night Owl couldn't solve, but there's still one problem..."
Extending this system to the entire universe might be difficult—but Night Owl must have prepared such a plan beforehand.
Chen Tao trusted Night Owl as much as Night Owl knew he was Batman.
With the help of Night Owl, he could extend the Turtleman's condition to every living creature on Earth, and then he would be able to exceed the original resistance plan Night Owl had set for him.
Just imagine, if everyone in the world went crazy like the Turtle Man just now, what enormous power he could mobilize without any consequences—a billion-battery Batman, the Anti-Monitor could be crushed to dust…
I'm going to drive the whole world crazy!
To save the world, start by turning everyone into madmen!
Sigh, Chen Tao stopped his delusions. More than anything, he needed the help of the Supreme Little Superman, but in short...
The problem now is...
How could he force Night Owl to do his favor?
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Deep in the universe.
Night Owl watched as the screen showed that the reboot had been successful, expelling the anti-monitors, before plunging into a dark universe.
"Batman has successfully stalled for time again."
He turned to Nightwing Dick Grayson and said, "No matter how much time he delays, it won't change the final outcome. That's what they call fate."
He said, "You..."
"Batman will definitely find a way within the next few days."
The one who interrupted himself wasn't Nightwing, but Night Owl himself. He spoke in Nightwing's voice:
"Because Batman always wins, he'll always find a way to defeat the Anti-Monitor. Don't be silly, what can Batman possibly do to his world in such a short time?"
(End of this chapter)