What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 256 Black Manta is also a bat! (A 6000-word chapter, I’m so awesome!)
"You..." When his father was mentioned, the eyes of the actor who was performing on stage just now suddenly flashed fiercely, but after only half a second, a blank look appeared on his face.
Chen Tao didn't expect that he was still pretending to be so seriously stimulated by Neptune.In order to prevent Neptune from pretending to be stupid, he deliberately said things that would make him angry to induce him to expose himself.

But it was obvious that Neptune saw through this and still tried to fool Chen Tao and the others into believing that they were mistaken - or did he think that he was deceiving him?

Chen Tao turned to look at Super Girl: "Madam, do you know what to do?"

"Yeah. I know." Supergirl nodded, and then the next second.

boom!
Tavern.

Blasted.

"No! Aren't you superheroes? Look what you have protected! Why am I the one who is injured?"

The bar owner was stunned. He rushed forward and tried to grab a decorative statue in his shop, but then he saw Supergirl fly to another angle, her heat vision bypassed his palm, and burned the statue directly. Ash.

"Do not!!!"

The tavern owner burst into tears: "What happened?"

It was fine at first, but why suddenly...

"Stop it! That's my favorite drink!"

Finally, Arthur, the Aquaman who had previously pretended to be himself performing tuna on the stage, could no longer pretend.

He hurriedly waved his trident and intercepted Super Girl's heat vision in the air towards the wine cabinet. Then he realized that he had been exposed and could only smile bitterly:
"I really didn't expect you guys to be so..."

He couldn't speak anymore.He turned his head, and the man with long blond hair and beard looked at him in surprise, and then a look of realization appeared on his face:

"God, you...you...you are the one...you asked me to work as a security guard in the tavern, and then hinted to others that I was the King of the Sea and called myself Arthur..."

All this is to protect you, you... you are the legendary Aquaman among the fishermen..."

"You...you also told me that you wanted me to obey your orders, and you deliberately made some smart people who found out that I was fake doubt you, and then suddenly revealed that we were both fake, in order to whitewash and hide your own identity. The purpose... is so clever. Once people confirm that I am the fake Neptune, they will subconsciously think that you are also fake... and this is exactly your purpose!"

"Yes, it's me. Sorry." The real Neptune, that is, the one without long hair or beard, as young as a guy in his early 20s, Arthur, who just played his Japanese tuna on the stage, pointed to Chen apologetically Tao and his group said:
"They have been checking my whereabouts. In order to maintain my information channels on land, I had to play this trick to deceive you. I am really sorry."

The blond bearded man was still muttering to himself: "I really didn't expect... I really didn't expect it! I had some guesses, such as you never need to take off golden contact lenses... But when I thought about it, Neptune was actually willing to participate. When you did that funny skit about Neptune and the tuna fish, I thought it wasn't you, but I didn't expect...who could have imagined that?"

Sea King Arthur's face turned dark when he heard this.

Connor's head was filled with questions.Supergirl Kara couldn't stand it anymore, and she explained in a low voice: "The real Aquaman is the actor who played Aquaman on stage just now. He found a bearded blond man who called himself Arthur and pretended to be Aquaman, and claimed that all this happened. It’s a show, do you understand?”

The owner of the tavern was still shouting: "My tavern! Woohoo!"

Arthur the Sea King lifted him up from the ground and put him on a chair.

Then he turned his head.

A completely different demeanor spread from him than when he was hiding in the crowd just now:
""Then... after you have dealt with the matter between me and my friends, it's your turn next.Even if you want to find me, you shouldn't pay the loss of the tavern owner. This is not a heroic act. "

"A dedicated person will be responsible for the loss of this tavern in the future, and the compensation is guaranteed to be enough for you to build 10 new taverns."

Chen Tao walked up to the tavern owner: "This town has internet and signal. You can check your bank account now. The money has been received."

"!"

The tavern owner took out his cell phone and took a look at it. He was immediately elated and performed a Sichuan Opera face-changing performance on the spot.

He kicked and broke the glass of the bar in front of him: "Burn it! Burn it as you like! It's good, it's wonderful! It's squealing! Okay! I'm rich!!! This wealth that is pouring out of the sky finally hit my head. It’s on!”

Then he actually twisted his fat belly and performed a cheerful belly dance in public.

A guest in the tavern leaned his head and took a look at the amount of money transferred to the boss, and he stayed there.

"..." Neptune stood next to the dancing tavern owner, feeling like a fool.He took a deep breath, then stumbled and said: "Uh... But even this is not what a hero would do. You shouldn't destroy the store first, and then..."

Then he was grabbed by the arm of the tavern owner who was halfway dancing:

"No! It should! It should be so! I wish I could encounter something like this every month! Oh, I am a rich man! Oh!!"

The tavern owner ignored Neptune as he talked. He took out his mobile phone while dancing, and then called his family: "Brother, our family is rich!"

"It's time for us to talk." Chen Tao turned around and said to Neptune King Arthur.

They walked outside the tavern. Superboy Connor tried to stop the curious people in the tavern, but the drunken drunkards ignored Connor's obstruction at all.

Taking advantage of his inattention, they climbed over the guardrail and tried to get close to Arthur and Chen Tao, the king of the sea, who were discussing something. However, Conner sneaked back and dared to do it next time, leaving Conner to use himself. With its super speed, like a porter, it sends the idlers who keep moving over there back to their original position.

"useless."

Supergirl Kara curled her lips and said.

"?"

Connor, who was diligently practicing stupid work, suddenly became angry when he heard this: "What can you do?"

"Look at me." The super girl flew directly over the incorrigible crowd, and then her golden hair was flying in the biological stance:

"You all stay back!!! Or I'll shoot you all to death with a laser!!! Damn it!!! You bastards!!! I'll shoot you all to death with a laser!!!"

Superboy Connor stared blankly at Supergirl Kara, who came down from the sky, and the crowd behind her, which was as silent as ice.

"..."

"You know." Kara stretched out a finger and turned it on her forehead:
"Sometimes you have to have a little bit of a bat mentality."

"But...but your reputation is so..."

Then he saw Super Girl walking to the edge of the crowd like the little girl next door: "I'm sorry, everyone, after all, I have to maintain order..."

Then she took out a book in front of everyone, which read:

"From Arkham to Batcave: On How to Be Batman's Favorite Robin"

The following subtitles are:
Basso Carlo's Robin's Diary of Youthful Strength, a righteous life needs no explanation!
(Note: Basso Carlo, Clayface’s original name. This book first appeared in Chapter 79 and is now passed down to Carla.)
Kara said softly:

"I read the operation manual and asked to take necessary measures to scare everyone! Don't be angry, hehe."

"Huh?" Connor said, "You think this can..."

"it's okay no problem……"

"We also made mistakes. We shouldn't have ignored our words and still thought about it...I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

"The fierce super girl is so cute."

Sent.Connor looked numbly at the group of drunkards and idlers in the tavern.

Why?Someone put me back in the petri dish, hurry up.

As for Chen Tao's side...

"...We have nothing to talk about. I don't have time to help you deal with visitors from an alien world right now." Arthur, the King of the Sea, said honestly: "I'm tired of all the things in Atlantis. .”

He stretched out his rough fingers like a fisherman, and Chen Tao noticed that there were many calluses in his palms caused by holding weapons for many years.

Although the dock boy is not a warrior who has been trained since childhood like Wonder Woman Diana Prince, he is also a master of polearms who became a monk on the way.

Many people often ignore Arthur's personal fighting power because of his status as the King of Atlantis, and even take the joke skit seriously. This is definitely a complete mistake.

Not just anyone has the ability to knock Superman flying dozens of meters with one punch (Aquaman V8) or compete head-on with Wonder Woman Diana.

Most people who hit Clark and Diana would only make sparks fly or break their own bones.Being able to rank among the seven giants of the Justice League and contribute a first-line Aquaman villain like Black Manta proves the strength of Aquaman.

Sea King Arthur stretched out his fingers and pulled them down one by one:

"The opposition group [Hong Beast] within the Atlanteans, I don't know if they were responsible for the attack, and... Black Manta."

He said: "Black Manta came to me with great fanfare before. He told me that he wanted me to witness his destruction of Atlantis."

He said:
"He is a madman, and he is angry at the entire city-state where millions of Atlanteans live because of a personal vendetta between me and him. He is a threat to all of Atlantis."

Arthur said: "I must guard Atlantis to prevent possible problems."

"Wrong." Chen Taorui commented:

"That's why you never get it right. We need more groundbreaking ideas, more imaginative and creative plans. Get to the point and kill it with one blow."

Before Neptune King Arthur could say anything else, Chen Tao continued: "I'm here to ask you for something called a mother box... In exchange, I will help you solve these problems. I will do my part."

"I don't need your help, I can..."

"Oh, poor Neptune King Arthur." Chen Tao said.

"Your mother was Atlantean royalty, and your father was a surface dweller, a lighthouse keeper.

How does it feel to have a person's origin story that sounds like a sailor's chant?You come from these two worlds, but you do not belong to either side, and therefore you are not accepted by either world. "

"what do you want to say in the end?"

"But even though you are not understood, ridiculed, and ignored, you still persevere. You are busy guarding the earth and the ocean, just like your father's lighthouse in his later years. You look at the coastline and save the dry land. Being invaded by the angry ocean also drives the ocean away from the green land."

Arthur the Sea King was silent. He would never tell others this, but everything he did was told by Batman, whom he met for the first time.

"I sympathize very, very much with you and your unfinished business." Chen Tao said.

"You are convinced that you are striving for a better and safer world. You are undoubtedly a super human, one of the greatest heroes, you are a king and in charge of a country, but those on the land see you as a joke , or a threat.”

"Most Atlanteans hate your rules. You fight every day to maintain the interests of both worlds." "When war and all the struggles surround you, there is no doubt that you Believe in peace, even in the fact that the fish won’t talk to you.”

"I've lost some patience..." Sea King Arthur said: "Telling what I did won't change anything."

He was somewhat silent: "The tradition of hatred of land people within Atlantis goes back to the founding of the United States. And I am also well aware of the government's fear of Atlantis."

He smiled reluctantly and said: "Let's get straight to the point. If I understand correctly, you are Batman, and those enemies from other worlds want to capture the earth, and you need a famous person who is guarded by us Atlanteans. Something called a mother box?”

Although he knew that the other party was simply telling the fact that he did those things, Arthur still felt a little relieved.This passage brought the relationship between them much closer.

For a long time, everything he did was not understood by others, and was hated by both parties.

The people of the [Hong Beast Organization] called him the False King. Although he had not told anyone... not even his favorite wife Mela, it still stung him.

And Batman...

Perhaps one of the few people who can fairly evaluate what he did.

"I will give you what you need, but accordingly, I am really too busy to join your team."

Sea King Arthur said: "So I'm sorry, I..."

"I'm going to build an embassy for Atlantis and then completely establish diplomatic relations with the United States."

"?"

"You work hard to put Atlantis on the world stage, and at the same time you also want the world that breathes air to accept this ocean kingdom that it fears at its roots, don't you?"

"I can help you do this."

Neptune's eyes lit up.

"I can also help you solve the troubles you are encountering now, clarify all misunderstandings between you and the government, and promote the normalization and routineization of exchanges between the two countries. And..."

"Are you talking about the Atlantis opposition group [Hong Beast]?"

"Yes, they are a group of separatists who have been immersed in separatism for many years, but today they launched an attack." Neptune said: "It's been a troubled time."

He paused and then said: "This is very unusual. Although it may be their spontaneous behavior, it may also be driven by a third force. I have more opponents than friends."

"The interrogation will tell us the truth." Chen Tao said, "Then it's a happy decision."

"I will serve as your assistant to help you solve the problems currently encountered in Atlantis, and then promote the establishment of the embassy."

He said: "And you, give me the mother box, then join my team and save the world with us."

He stretched out his hand towards Neptune: "So, is it a deal?"

Under the humid and cold air and warm sunshine at the seaside, Neptune held Chen Tao's hand.

"make a deal!"

……

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……

NEMO organization meeting hall.

Black Manta is having a fight.

There were seven or eight corpses lying at his feet. A dozen soldiers wearing high-tech armor were besieging him, but they were not his enemies.

The figure of Black Manta kept jumping out of the golden space vortex he created, and then jumped in and disappeared without a trace.

It looks like Black Manta has found a new power...or gear.

"Ugh!!!"

Black Manta held the harpoon with his backhand, pulled it out of a soldier's chest, and then inserted it into the chest of another man. Then not far away, he saw a soldier raising a gun at him.

"You bastard..." (Italian)

There was a coldness in Black Manta's eyes, and the hot crimson laser condensed on the emission port on his helmet.

boom!
There was a gunshot, and Black Manta turned his head, and Black Jack held up the gun that was still smoking.

"Your laser will blow this place into rubble." She said to Black Manta: "Let me do it for you."

A few minutes later, Black Manta sat on the main seat, surrounded by people from NEMO Group.

All those who dared to resist and their soldiers had been killed just now.

"Anything else?"

"So...are you taking over NEMO Group now?" Someone at the discussion table raised his hand and asked.

"NEMO has existed as a secret society for more than a century. The management relies on their own technical ability to get to the top. Just like a group of pirates, only the strong will survive."

Black Manta points his ten fingers together and leans forward slightly, showing his streamlined biceps and chest muscles. Even though he has not deliberately designed his movements, his appearance is still full of the beauty of power. .

The energy-conducting tubes connected from the backpack on his back to his helmet were floating like wings on the back of his head.

"I killed your fisherman, and now I am the fisherman. Black Jack is your second in command, and she realized that following me was the right and wise choice."

"Sometimes there is a price to pay for understanding the situation." Black Jack added next to him.

"So...unless you still have objections."

Black Manta said, "Otherwise, let's get to work."

He turned to ask one of the leaders in the hall.

"Can anyone tell me where the NEMO Group's previous plan to deal with Aquaman Arthur Curry has progressed?"

"I...we pretended to be Atlanteans and attacked the USS Pontchartrain in the South Atlantic. It just entered service in the Navy in March this year. Soon the Atlanteans we pretended to be will Declare to America that Atlantis was responsible.”

“At that time, we will release the monster called the Hairy Man given to us by a cooperative ally called [The Outsider].

"We will let it serve as the vanguard, leading us disguised as the US military to attack Atlantis, and then cause as many casualties as possible to provoke the militant faction within Atlantis that hates the land people to start a war."

The leader turned over the information in his hand.

"Very good, very good. You know what? You guys are doing a great job, which is one of the reasons why I took the trouble to join you: I couldn't have done such a good thing."

Black Manta nodded with satisfaction.

"These plans will cause Neptune pain, so how far have they been planned now?"

"Plans are in sync and started a few hours ago."

"So what were you going to do?"

"We're going to induce the U.S. government and the Atlanteans to go to war."

"To put it simply, after we seize the aircraft carrier, we will use it to launch nuclear bombs, and then the United States will attack first. Then we will send people to attack Atlantis, and Atlantis will follow suit, and then..."

"Then if the Justice League doesn't intervene, Atlantis and the United States will fight and lose both sides? No, no, no..."

Black Manta objected:

"Nothing like this will happen, this plan simply won't work."

"Then what should we do?"

"It's very simple." Black Manta said: "We fight fast. Don't think about letting Atlantis and the United States engage in a protracted war and lose both sides. I bet Batman will use methods such as kidnapping hostages to force both sides to A ceasefire, for example, tie the President of the United States to the Atlanteans to clarify misunderstandings or something.”

"Take...take hostages? Batman?" The NEMO leader almost didn't figure out who the villain was: "I...none of us would do such crazy things. Are you sure he would really do this?"

"So you are a third-rate villain and a third-rate villain organization." Black Manta commented sharply.

He then continued:

"We need more pioneering ideas, more imaginative and creative plans. Get to the point and kill with one blow. Only bat thinking can defeat bat thinking!"

Then he said: "We have to do something before Batman even reacts. The United States' war response procedures are much faster than those of Atlantis. We first make the Americans believe they are under attack and then cut off the President of the United States." Contact with various departments and then help the United States quickly attack Atlantis before Atlantis can react. Use nuclear bombs to break their energy shield at once and kill at least 70% of Atlantis civilians. Leave behind the most elite war troops of the Atlanteans."

Then he asked the leader of the NEMO organization next to him: "Do you understand?"

"?" The poor leader was about to cry: "I, I..."

"It's stupid."

Black Manta said:
"What I mean is to turn the long-term tug-of-war you originally planned into a one-shot decapitation battle for Atlantis on the American side with our help and leadership."

"Understand?"

The leader heard this and cursed secretly in his stomach.

fuck you.

"It doesn't matter whether you understand it or not, as long as I understand it." Black Manta said:

"No one knows Batman better than me!"

(End of this chapter)