What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 321 The truth that you can never retire (must read, finished, 8000 words)
  I have a secret.

I come from another world, a world completely opposite to the world I live in now, a parallel universe.

There, the Crime Syndicate ruled the world, not the Justice League of the universe I'm in now.

But where it comes from is not a secret from us, you will find out soon... but not now.

A few years ago, Earth 3.

Another Gotham.

"Can you hear me, Master Thomas?"

(Note: Thomas Wayne Jr., also known as Night Owl, is a peer of Batman on Earth 3, an evil version of Batman, and the brother of Bruce Wayne on Earth 3, and Bruce has long since died in this universe.)
  The Outsider flew the Owl, and he checked the position of the Owl on the monitor.

"I'm following you as best I can, sir, but it's always hard to keep up when you're flying over a cliff."

"Where are the Talons?"

(Note: The claws in Night Owl's mouth refer to Dick Grayson. In the normal universe, he is Batman's first Robin. After flying solo, he became the superhero Nightwing. However, in the parallel universe of Earth 1, he Became a claw.)
  "His communicator is not answering. You shouldn't have told him about his parents, sir. Just as you shouldn't have told him the truth about Barbara and other things."

The outsider said:

"You should do it the old way: cheat."

"It's just a waste of time to talk about this now. We have to save the claws from the Joker, and then I'm going to kill every villain who helps the Joker. If anything happens to Dick, I'm going to kill that maniacally laughing guy. The clown was cut into pieces."

"With all due respect, Master Thomas, if you hadn't killed the Joker's girlfriend Harley Quinn, maybe he wouldn't have lowered his limits and attacked your underage followers——"

"Shut up. Contact me when you find him."

"but……"

"Night Owl, the call is over."

-You see, Thomas and I have been partners forever, ever since the day I shot his parents.

That day was the only time I saw Thomas completely lose control. That day was the only time Thomas cried uncontrollably.

He never mentioned the experience of that day again, it was his darkest secret. After that, Thomas no longer expected anything. He chose to take complete control of everything, everything and everyone with his hands.

Gotham is just a piece of cake, but what about the people? The people are the problem.

My real name is Alfred Pennyworth, also known as The Outsider, and I live solely to serve the Night Owl.

He never asked me why, but he knew he had to know. He knows my darkest secrets, that's why I would never betray him, why I help him spy on the police station, Arkham Manor, Tompkins Brothel and Harley's Circus, why I can fight for him die.

The two of us worked together to control Gotham's system, and the system gave him the right to control. Losing control will inevitably lead to chaos.

Allowing any bit of chaos may cause it to spread like a cancer until the entire system dies.

This is exactly what that person wants. He wants to break the Night Owl's control over the people. He wants to liberate Gotham from the Night Owl's iron fist. He is the Joker.

He was a cancer on this city and he almost killed me.

The Joker used to be the person I was most afraid of, and when I saw the corners of his mouth, it made me tremble all over. That night, Night Owl killed the Joker, ending the only person who could resist Night Owl.

I thought I would never see that crazy smile again.

however……

At this moment, at this moment.

"Outsiders, answer me."

"How's your survey of that universe's defenses going? We're in a bad situation here. You'd better hurry."

In some dark underground lair on the earth, the stern face of Night Owl is reflected on the screen in front of the outsider.

On the machine next to it, the parent box continued to rotate quietly.

"Master Thomas... I'm sorry. I've been waiting for you to come, but when trying to put the world in order... I underestimated the difficulty of this task."

"Just tell me how many people can come to the transmission channel."

"I'm afraid only one person can come here at a time. After one person comes, it will take a while to recharge before he can continue to the next one. Moreover... the safety of the transmission channel is still open to question. I'm sorry."

"But now the transmission channel has been opened, which is good."

The outsider heard Night Owl's voice: "We will send a member over soon."

He thought about it.

"Just choose Sea Overlord. He is the most useless among us. He knows nothing except talking to fish. It doesn't matter even if he dies. He is just testing the stability of the transmission channel."

(Note: Aquaman, a member of the Criminal Syndicate, the evil version of Aquaman.)
  He went on to ask:
  "Where's the intelligence you've gathered on this world's defense forces?"

"After establishing contact just now, I have already transmitted it to the owl computer in Owl Cave." The outsider said, and then he wanted to say something more, but he stopped talking.

"Just say something."

"Well... Master Thomas, in the history of this earth, your brother Bruce Wayne has survived."

"You already told me this information in the contact shortly after you came to this world."

"Yes, that's right, Master Thomas, but I have to correct it now. The Batman of this world may be a little... different from what we imagined."

The outsider took a breath, and Batman's maniacal laughter flashed through his mind.

"It's different? How can this be different?"

The outsider heard Night Owl's voice: "After so many years in Gotham, nothing can surprise me anymore."

He said: "No matter what this Batman looks like, can he be more disgusting than the Joker?"

"..." The outsider lowered his head: "You'd better read the information I sent you."

"I'll go check it out later." Ye Xiao said, "Ye Xiao has finished the call."

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In many ways, the universe we live in is like a giant jar.

This is a place bound and governed by invisible rules, some born of science, some derived from magic, and others more mysterious.

However, all lives born in this universe are bound by its own laws, like an airtight glass barrier.

However, once upon a time, in a pocket born at the edge of time and space, an incredible whirlpool was surging under the surface.

There, the usual rules no longer apply, it's a space outside the jar.

The creatures here often give up on themselves before evolving to maturity. Any creatures that appear on that chaotic shore will quickly become extinct. In the end, only one known planet matures. It is a terrible place, different from the ordinary world. Based on simple biological origins and stable evolution of branching variants, life on this planet had already reached the peak of diversification when it was born.

Weird and wild creatures have shown their most complete form in the sea of ​​their origin, so while life on ordinary planets is becoming more and more prosperous, in this world, the process is completely opposite.

All species here start from war, and their only goal of existence is to destroy each other. All creatures join together in the ultimate melee of survival of the fittest, and in this ultimate bloody battle, only the most powerful, vicious, and ruthless creatures can survive.

Over time, extinction follows extinction.

Eventually, the planet selected his masterpiece, a species with endless life capable of controlling the minds of any he touched.

And among this ethnic group, an independent existence quietly emerged...

After arriving in the multiverse, he destroyed every existence, every planet, every civilization, and every thought that stood in his way.

He has received many names in his long history: Fire Star, Black Star...

And the title he was most satisfied with was Starro the Conqueror, because everyone who saw him conquering in person... was equivalent to witnessing his death.

In the boundless starry sky.

A huge starfish stretched out around his body in space.

Its telepathic ability spans thousands of mountains and rivers and locks on a new target...

Earth.

"Target discovered: Earth. Starro the Conqueror will conquer Earth!"

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"Shh!"

"Batman can't hear us."

The redness of all living beings.

When many members of the Totem Council dispersed, the antler totem among them was quietly carrying out his machinations.

"Listen, the Darkness of Decay is coming, and no one can help us."

He was whispering into the void, and through the crimson connection, he saw the two crimson faces.

Just like the green of all things and the black of decay, they all have a dark side. Over the long years, the red of all things also has its own side that cannot be shown to others.

"Hiss...do you know?"

"That boy."

The antler totem whispered: "You really succeeded."

He said: "Well done. Well done."

Antler Totem looked around for a while before he dared to continue: "You have no idea what kind of bullying Batman has done to us."

"He keeps building buildings in the Red of All Beings, hiding things, and not allowing any warriors of the Red of All Beings to approach."

He said:
  "He even left those robots in those buildings, creations made entirely of metal that are neither plants nor life nor death. It's horrible. It goes against nature."

"He turned a blind eye to us and treated us like complete idiots."

He whispered to himself: "And Batman will pay the price."

He looked at the two blurry red figures: "And you, you have made great contributions to the Redness of All Living Beings."

"-Beast Boy."

"It is the only person we have found who can truly transform into any animal at will." The voice of the antler totem was full of excitement: "It will be the key to strengthening the redness of all living beings!"

The two red figures didn't respond, but the antler totem didn't care. He walked around excitedly: "We can combine all humans on the planet - every one of them, including superhumans, such as Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash and other superhumans... We can combine them all with beasts." Transform into half-animals... and then they will be controlled by the redness of living beings."

"The Red of All Beings will be unprecedentedly powerful and prosperous, and we will no longer have to fear the threat of the Black of Decay! Those idiots in the Totem Council, those ignorant old antiques who don't understand the situation at all, actually inject the power of life into animals Buddy Baker's daughter, and then you want to wait for the embryo to mature? What a joke."

He said, “We’re going to get around those idiots—and make the Red of All Great Again!”

"And it all started with Beast Boy, with the Teen Titans—!"

"Brothers of blood...go complete our plan and let the whole world feel the terror of the Blood Church!"

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Louisiana State.

3 pm.

A large number of armed soldiers were searching for their targets in the vast virgin jungle.

"Team Z, report the current situation."

"This is No. 1. We are still tracking the target, but the swamp has affected our electronic equipment... The area we are in now is... the coordinates..."

"I'm glad you found the right place."

Immediately afterwards, Soldier No. 1 heard Amanda Waller's voice coming from the earphones: "Don't ask questions before I finish the work. I will try to talk as I go."

The soldiers searched, and No. 1 squatted down. Amanda Waller's voice still kept ringing in his ears.

"Captain, I assume you already know what happened in Belheve, or at least as others do. Riots, attacks, that sort of thing."

(Note: Bellhead Prison is a prison in Louisiana designed to imprison super criminals.)
  "I'm not going to tell you the specifics of that attack, but you need to know that one of the fugitives who escaped from that attack was Leopard Girl, whose real name was Barbara Minerva. She had several pseudonyms. , but the name Barbara Minerva looks like her real name..."

No. 1 nodded slowly, and he continued to listen attentively to Amanda Waller's task assignment.

"Dr. Minerva spent a lot of effort to join the Sight Society, which is a department that specializes in researching collected mysterious items. At that time, Barbara Minerva even worked with Wonder Woman who had just arrived in the United States. The Eyes will meet and become friends.”

"However, during the Sky Eye Meeting, Dr. Minerva came into contact with a thing called the God-Killing Blade. In any case, she transformed into a leopard girl through various witchcrafts, and all her senses were strengthened. She's almost as fast as The Flash, even being called a speedster without the Speed ​​Force, while also becoming incredibly bloodthirsty."

"So your mission is not to catch her, but to notify Katana immediately once you find the trace-"

(Note: The katana has appeared in previous chapters. The Japanese woman whose husband’s soul resides in the sword is a member of the government.)
  呲!
  But before Amanda Waller finished speaking, he heard a soft sound in his earphones, as if someone was gently stroking the tough cowhide with his rough hands.

However, it is obvious that there will be no cows in the swamp and no cow hides.

There were no screams.

There was no sound of firing.

Just "Bah!" over and over again.

Then there was a creepy chewing sound, and Amanda Waller could even imagine a humanoid monster lying on the ground, taking out the stuff from its chest and gnawing it like a tomato.

Amanda Waller deadpanned.

Then she heard a loud noise, and the communicator was trampled to pieces. Without saying a word, she directly answered another phone call: "Hello? This is Amanda Waller, calling Wonder Woman."

On the other side, Leopard Girl crushed the communicator next to the dead soldier with one foot.

The communicator in her hand rang with a voice: "Leopard Girl, the secret society needs you. We think you should have completely gotten rid of Belheave and are on your way to the meeting point... There are conditions for our release of you. Outsider Your Excellency is waiting for you, and he will introduce you to a group of truly powerful people.”

"Yeah, get rid of it. I'll get over there as soon as I can."

Leopard Girl said: "But before that, I have some personal grudges to resolve."

But just as she was about to turn around and leave the bloody scene, she saw a Japanese woman standing quietly at the edge of the swamp.

The demon knife in her hand glowed with green fluorescence.

"It seems that there are a few loose ends that need to be sorted out before we can resolve our personal grudges."

Leopard Girl said.

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Louisiana State.   Baileyhave Prison.

"There's black manta rays living up there."

"What's his real name?"

"I don't know. Look here: real name unknown."

Two guards walked in the steel corridor, and a huge robot walked past. This place was heavily guarded and was a prison specially built for people with super powers.

They were chatting, and one of the guards read the words on the paper in his hand:

"The treasure hunter, Aquaman's main rival, would be invaluable if used to rescue Black Manta from a shipwreck. He is especially suitable for participating in the wreckage salvage operation of the crashed plane, suspect tracking and assassination operations - God, this thing was written by Waller of?"

"It's her signature underneath. She wants him."

"Tsk..."

"Alas……"

"Look, this helmet is so funny, it looks like a big red-headed fly."

A guard weighed the helmet in his hand.

"To be honest, hasn't she given up on her plan to recruit villains to become government agents?"

"Of course not. Waller said she wanted it, so he must be hers. What's that called...Suicide Squad? This is obviously plagiarizing Batman. Waller won't still use this name, right?"

"She's the boss, she has the final say."

A guard said: "And we should come and help him get it done, and then tell Waller that she will have Black Manta at her disposal soon."

The two of them walked to the door of the last cell and handed the documents to the gatekeeper.

As the huge iron door opened, they finally saw Black Manta, a strong black man with three scars on his face.

"Wow, when they first got you, we were thinking about getting a fish tank for you. But obviously, you can't breathe underwater like your aquatic friends."

A guard walked up to Black Manta who was sitting at the table. The guard was wearing heavy shackles and handcuffs, so he didn't have to worry about the other party getting angry.

"Tell me, Black Manta - is he really that difficult to deal with?"

Black Manta looked up at him. He knew exactly who the other person's "he" was referring to.

"You're dying."

he said suddenly.

"You..." The guard wanted to say something more, but was stared at by his sharp gaze. He gradually did not dare to say anything more, and the frivolous look slowly disappeared from his face.

He was inexplicably flustered, so he stopped talking nonsense and hurriedly began to perform his duties: "If I say you want to go to jail, I'm afraid you will have to go to jail for the rest of your life, but look, now there is a chance to get you out of here, and I can put all my money into it." I'll tell you the details, as long as you sign here..."

"Join the government and become an agent? Right, everyone knows that there is such a thing, but I don't accept that."

Black Manta looked at the helmet that was brought to the table. The eyes of the helmet were pointed right at the guard.

"You're about to die."

Black Manta told him.

"What do you mean?" the guard said, "Can you please stop making such a joke?"

He once again focused his gaze on the other party's heavy anklets and handcuffs.

"You're about to die."

"dying."

"Dead. Dead. Dead."

Black Manta's tone became faster and higher, and the guard looked at his companion. He stood up from the table. A huge terror lingered in his heart, but he didn't know where. Come from everywhere.

"3. May 2."

"QUEIMADURA!" Black Manta suddenly said.

(Note: Portuguese for burning.)
  Black Manta stood up. He saw that half of the guard's body was burned by the laser sprayed from the helmet. He howled twice on the ground and soon stopped moving. There are only people in TV dramas who can survive and talk after being penetrated by lasers to this extent.

"God, he...he...come here quickly!" Another guard was howling.

Black Manta continued to sit on the chair without moving.

"You want to know why Aquaman is so difficult to deal with?"

He said.

"His skin is nearly invulnerable."

Another guard wanted to take out his gun, but the helmet on the table rotated without warning, and a laser hit the hand holding the gun, vaporizing his forearm all the way to the elbow.

"His muscles are 10 times stronger than yours or mine, and as you said, he can breathe underwater."

"Ahhhhhh!" the guard screamed desperately.

Then the red laser dissolves the body like ripe cheese.

"Not like us," Black Manta said.

"We gave you the helmet as you requested, Black Manta. We let the guards enter your cell with the helmet, and we exposed a spy in the Sky Eye Society."

Just then, the helmet on the table made a voice: "And now it's time to pay us back."

"What do you want me to do?"

Two laser beams broke Black Manta's handcuffs and anklets. He stood up from his seat and put the helmet on his head.

Violent explosions could be heard in Belihave Prison in the distance. This was a planned collective prison break, and there was already a commotion outside.

"Leave this prison first, and then come join us."

Black Manta heard a voice in his helmet: "The Lord Outsider is waiting for you."

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"You've been away from home for a long time, Arthur."

Deep in the ocean, among the ruins of a ship. Neptune Arthur is having a conversation with someone.

"And so do I."

said the man hidden in the shadows.

"Thank you for coming." Sea King Arthur said.

The two of them looked at each other in silence for a while, and then the man in the shadow said slowly:

"What can I do for you, brother?"

Sea King Arthur glanced at him.

"Two days ago, an Atlantean soldier attacked a U.S. military base to retrieve an Atlantean artifact. Today, Black Manta escaped from Belihave Prison and attacked my friend. , and stole another Death King treasure."

"Except for the last Death King's golden ball which was taken away by Batman, he has now snatched two Death King's relics. This has to make me wonder what he wants to do, or what the person who hired him wants to do. What."

"What's Black Manta?"

"He's a treasure hunter."

"From the surface world?"

"Correct."

Sea King Arthur looked at each other.

"He was hired by some Atlantean, someone who wanted to get his hands on ancient artifacts from Atlantis."

"And you think that person is me, Arthur? If I want those ancient relics, I will never be secretive, but ask you directly."

"—Unless you don't want me to know why you want them. Black Manta knows this sea well, and he may be able to find the Death King's Scepter through those treasures. I have witnessed the power of that thing, it can sink the entire island. "

"Arthur, I didn't lie to you. I never have. You are my brother. If you suspect that I want to attack your surface world, you can ask me directly."

Sea King Arthur stared into his eyes. He saw that the man in the shadow had his whole face hidden beneath his mask.

After a long while, he asked: "Do you want to plan to attack the land?"

"of course not."

The man in the shadow said:
  "I am Lord Orm and I never lie."

"In fact, I have only been to the surface world twice in total. Once I went to beg you to come back and take back the throne, but you refused. You chose your father's kingdom instead of ours. But I don't blame you. Although I Many ministers have a strong opinion of you, and I understand that you spent most of your childhood there."

"What you said had better be true."

Sea King Arthur said: "I entrusted the kingdom to you because I am not suitable to be a king. I do not have the characteristics to be a king, so when you come back and ask for the throne from me, I will give it up. But this It doesn’t mean that I will just watch what you do to the surface world and remain indifferent.”

"It must have been a very scary experience to be nailed to the ground while breathing that kind of air."

But Lord Orm did not answer the words of Arthur the Sea King. The face beneath his mask showed sympathy.

"...The world up there is not as bad as you think."

Sea King Arthur said.

"I'm sure you made it good, Arthur. Just like I did in Atlantis, I thought we could change Atlantis together. But now we are, literally, becoming People from two worlds.

When you first ascended the throne, I took you to see this wreckage to remind you of what the landmen were capable of.

The people on this ship killed first our great-grandmother and then our great-grandfather. They killed the king and the queen but sparked the fury of all of Atlantis. Do you remember what happened to that ship? ? "

"It sank, and the crew members were left alive."

Neptune Arthur said:

"The Atlanteans let them live, but threw them into the sea, and then looked on with cold eyes as the crew members drowned and sank to the ground one after another, until only the captain of the ship was left holding on. "

"Yes, you are right. The Atlanteans just watched like that, waiting quietly with great patience, until finally the captain could no longer swim. Do you remember what they did next? "

"They brought him ashore."

"Yes, Arthur. What happened next?"

"Yet he raised his dagger again and asked the Atlanteans to take him back to the sea. A captain is always with his ship."

Sea King Arthur turned his head and saw a skeleton wearing captain's clothing floating behind him.

"We can capsize every ship on the sea if we want to, Arthur, we can destroy everything on the sea, but we won't do that, and nothing will change that.

Whoever wanted the scepter, maybe they just wanted to frame Atlantis. "

Lord Orm said: "I love you, brother. I only want you to be happy."

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Gotham.

Chen Tao checked the big insect.

At this moment, they were in the Gotham Laboratory, and Lucius was standing next to Chen Tao.

"The Meditation Mites are almost finished."

Chen Tao came to a conclusion directly.

"The huge magic power almost destroyed his body. This is not something that can be repaired by simple repairs."

He said with some annoyance: "He has become the main rope, so the one that is broken now is the most serious."

"The situation of Gorilla Grodd and Turtle Man is not much different. They are half the same."

Lucius said: "Fortunately, none of them died, but basically they were no longer useful. I tried my best to save their lives."

"If I find a way to strengthen them, can I let them continue to share the burden for me..."

"There is no use in strengthening anything." Lucius interrupted Chen Tao's thoughts.

"If you try to do anything to them again, they will die immediately for you."

"So this means I have to find a new partner to share the money with me?"

"What the hell." Chen Tao muttered.

"Aren't you about to retire?"

Lucius asked.

"Yeah, yeah, that's right, I'm retiring."

Chen Tao immediately changed the subject and said, "By the way, how is the research on the Phantom Zone? Can you find General Zod now?"

"Not yet, I need time." Lucius said: "My energy is limited. You can't give me dozens of tasks at the same time and ask me to complete them all."

"Oh oh oh, okay." Chen Tao said:
  "You have to speed up, I need to be prepared."

"..."

Lucius was speechless:
  "But you told me you were going to retire. Have you changed your mind?"

"Of course not." Chen Tao said: "I have done enough, I just need to be prepared for any trouble."

He said: "Even if there is no crisis, we have to be prepared at all times, right?"

He muttered a lot of words that Lucius couldn't hear clearly, and finally said: "Actually, I know it too. But I just need to have a trump card to deal with unexpected situations at any time."

He said: "After all, although there is no new crisis that I need to solve for the time being, we must keep our trump card."

"You are about to retire, why are you always worrying so much?" Lucius shook his head:

"Is it possible that there will be a lot of things for you to solve? This is a disease that needs to be treated."

He advised: "Stop hanging out in the laboratory. Didn't you have an appointment with Wonder Woman tomorrow?"

"Why don't you hurry home and get ready now?"

　The World of American Drama: From the Los Angeles Patrol

　　The daily life of an old salted fish in the world of American TV series, eating and waiting to die

　　
  　
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