What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 515: Heading into the Darkness... With Blood, With Courage (6400 Words)
Nite Owl's universe, Earth, Nite Owl's Gotham City.

When passers-by saw a group of guys in strange costumes stop two men in black robes, and then the two men in black took off their clothes, one turned into a bald human wearing armor, and the other turned into a man in a blue cloak with a strange logo on the uniform, these old Gotham Black Flags ran away quickly.

What a joke. People who have experienced the destruction of the Night Owl know what to do and when. If they were just ordinary criminals dressed in strange clothes, they might have the courage to shoot them, but the villains who came to block people all wore the badge of the Night Owl, which means they serve the Night Owl. In Gotham City, the person you should never mess with is the Night Owl.

They left the middle of the road for the people who were fighting, and even if they escaped to a seemingly safe distance, they still scattered like birds and beasts.

In the universe of Night Owl, superheroes - if the Crime Syndicate could be called that - never cared about the lives of those watching when they were fighting super villains.

"You actually used fire against me?" Luther heard the bomb girl's voice, "Don't you know that I am a master at manipulating explosions? The thing I am most afraid of and most familiar with in this world is... fire!"

The battle broke out completely. The bomb girl raised a lot of dust and created a violent explosion. The explosion collided with the fireball spewed out by the man-made object, and then splashed out like water.

In the midst of the flames, she actually blocked the first burst of flames:
"It seems obvious that you are a poor copy of Superman, but what you don't know is that I once fought Superman on the streets of Metropolis for more than an hour without losing. If a fire truck hadn't passed by, Superman would have died that day!"

As soon as she said this, except for the black bison who was frozen in the ice, the other villains immediately looked at her sideways, wondering if they had never realized that there was such a master like you among us???
"And when I left the prison, that coward Superman disappeared. I couldn't find Superman to let him die, but it's not bad to kill a low-quality copy now!"

Then she pointed at Luther and said, "And you, just die in..."

Even though the bomb girl was ordered not to kill Luther, it did not stop her from talking trash about killing the other party.

however……

"Roar! The man-made creature next to Luthor was still confused at first, but when he saw the bomb girl pointing at Lex Luthor and then saying words like "you" and "die", he suddenly became furious.

"Roar!"

He opened his mouth to the point where a normal person's jaw would be completely dislocated, and then even more exaggerated flames rushed towards his opponent.

With a loud bang, Black Bison broke free from the ice and saw the flames raised by the bomb girl collide with the flames spewing from the mouth of the monster wearing the reverse Superman uniform, and then exploded.

Before he could recover from the shock of being frozen just now, or figure out how to attack next, he saw the bomb girl being thrown out helplessly in flames like a kite with a broken string, with half of her body burnt black by the monster that was obviously a low-level copy of Superman.

The violent flames didn't stop at all and spread directly over half of her body. In an instant, the extreme high temperature roasted the bomb girl from a living person into a skeleton, and then in a flash, her bones also vaporized under the high temperature.

The flames as thick as a pillar did not stop for a moment and went straight through the building behind. The artificial creature created by Luther swung its head, and the flame pillar directly cut off several buildings, causing a huge explosion. It was unknown how many people died.

Do you think everyone is Clark Kent who dares not to harm civilian lives on the streets?

Luther was caught off guard by the deafening sound of collapse and the terrified screams of countless civilians who had no time to escape.

"Damn it, man-made thing, didn't I tell you not to make too much noise... Damn it, forget it." Luther said:
"Let's get this over with. This farce should be over."

A few of the old Gotham Black Flags were slow to react and didn't have time to run. When they found that their escape route was blocked by the ruins of the building, they desperately pulled out their guns and emptied the magazines at Luther.

But all of them were blocked by Luther's energy shield. Luther didn't pay any attention to the Gotham City gangsters who attacked him. Although these people were still alive, to Luther... they were already dead.

When he covered the body of the homeless woman with bloody clothes, he had already sentenced everyone in the universe to death in his heart.

He had completed his psychological compensation and moral desensitization, so he allowed the artifact to do whatever it wanted... He could have stopped it, but it would have been meaningless and would have put himself in a downward spiral.

Luther aimed at the hyena that was trying to pounce on him and bite his armor and fired an energy cannon. In an instant, the opponent's flesh and blood was penetrated by the accelerated particles, as easily as dissolving a piece of tofu with vinegar.

The multiverse created a large number of copies of itself, and then he heard a sound that made him feel creepy, the sound of flesh being smashed by something moving at high speed.

In the fast-paced world where he could not react, Luthor's creation appeared behind him. He swung his pale-skinned palm and slapped the multiverse on the back. The super-powered person who had the ability to copy his own superpower flew out like a cannonball, and his whole body exploded on a building not far away, and blood splattered all over the wall like a mosquito that had sucked enough blood.

"you!"

Black Bison still wants to cast spells. He is a wizard, but...

A large mass of sticky stuff covered his mouth, and the next moment Luther's palm was on his chest, and then everything was over.

"Hurry, we have to go." Luther grabbed the man-made creature that was already obsessed with killing and wanted to continue attacking the onlookers: "We will be attacked by truly dangerous characters soon. Lady Styx is at a level that is completely out of reach of this group..."

puff!
Luther lowered his head in shock.

He saw a steel bar break through the energy shield of his armor and pierce into his chest - how could it be just a steel bar... Maybe some blue-purple energy corroded his protective shield and armor, and used these as a cover to insert the steel bar into his body.

And his armor automatically counterattacked the moment it detected that he was injured, and the "person" who secretly used steel bars to attack Luther disappeared.

But that was not a living human being or any living creature... it was a human form condensed from dark matter driven by the Lady of the Styx.

Damn it, it wasn't that Lady Styx hadn't arrived yet, she had already arrived. She had been hiding in the dark, and at this moment she launched a fatal attack.

Beside him, the artificial creature was holding its head and roaring. The dark matter of Lady Styx invaded his head, intending to use the dark matter to control his body.

In the comics, during the Infinite Crisis period, Lady Styx even used this move to control Animal Man, so that he had to let Starfire kill him. This kind of dark matter erosion is different from mind control. At this time, Luthor's creation suddenly let out a wail.

"No, I've deconstructed your dark matter, I just want..." Luther grabbed the steel bar, which blocked his wound and prevented him from bleeding heavily. Fortunately, the energy shield of his armor was strong enough, so he still had a chance.

The Mother Box appeared in his palm, and Batman taught Luther Brainiac the shrinking ray to hide these key props. But Luther did not simply use it as a tool to open the sonic boom channel. He connected the Mother Box to his armor, and the next moment the alien computer was completely integrated into his armor.

Luther put one hand on the shoulder of the artifact, and the function of the Mother Box to control particles instantly destroyed Ms. Styx's attack on the artifact using dark matter.

With the opening of the sonic boom channel and a dazzling bang, Luther and the artifact disappeared on the spot.

The Styx lady slowly came out from her hiding place. She had indigo skin, was about 1 meters tall, had a pair of eyes without whites, and was as dark as the night sky, with a faint yellow glow. There was another pair of eyes at the position of her eyebrows, but they were slightly smaller than the main eyes.

“Run away…” She frowned slightly: “I should be able to track their location… but what good would that do me?”

Will Night Owl become stronger after getting Lex Luthor? For Ms. Styx, although Night Owl and their group of cosmic overlords are still in the honeymoon period, she has already thought about the future struggle for cosmic hegemony. Night Owl's ability and plan make her quite afraid. Of course, she will not let Night Owl become more powerful. For Luthor, either surrender to her or be killed by her. From the beginning, there is no option to really capture him alive and give him to Night Owl.

So she attacked just now, intending to kill him directly, but she didn't expect Luther to be the weak scientist she imagined. Since she failed to kill him with one strike, then...

"I'm here, Styx." Ms. Styx turned her head and saw a pink alien flying in from a portal that opened not far away. He was covered in muscles and had only one eye on his forehead.

He is the nemesis of Martian Manhunter, Despair. His ability is almost a replica of Martian Manhunter, in addition to super strength and speed, he also possesses telepathic ability that is only slightly weaker than Martian Manhunter.

When Ms. Styx faced the opponent, she used dark matter to protect her brain at the first moment.

"Where did Night Owl's target go?" Lady Styx heard Despair ask, "Can you track where they fled to?"

Of course, Ms. Styx denied it flatly: "I can't. This target named Luther is stronger than we thought. He escaped. We must search the surrounding area thoroughly..."

While she was trying to deceive the Demon of Despair, Ms. Styx thought silently in her heart.

"Run away, run away... my toy."

"Just let you dig a rat hole on this planet and think you can live comfortably..."

"When things are settled, I will come back to take you back."

"You little mouse are harmless to the overall situation."

……

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"Huchihuchihuchi..."

I have to admit that an hour ago, I thought about giving up.

I was severely injured by Lady Styx, which greatly affected my original plan to rescue Nightwing and the others and then steal the heart of the planet together.

And I gradually realized a fact that I had been deliberately ignoring: Even if I succeeded in stealing the heart of the planet, I would not be able to bring it back to our universe. The two universes are thousands of miles apart, and Night Owl has already activated his entire system and is gradually accelerating the entire universe.

The longer time drags on, the faster the entire universe is accelerated. Night Owl is creating a deviation, pushing his universe into a faster track in the dark multiverse, enough to throw off the Anti-Monitor. Not to mention that I have no ability to escape from a single universe and travel in the vast multiverse. Even if I did, I would be shattered to pieces like an ordinary person jumping off a train if I rashly escaped from the increasingly fast single universe.

Even if I managed to get the heart of the planet, I wouldn't be able to take it away.

Therefore, the only way is to find a way to replicate my original plan through coercion, but this means that I will need to face Lady Styx again, and even face a large number of cosmic overlords besides her at the same time. This is not about escaping from their hands, but about defeating them all.

I'd like to say I can, but the truth is, even I can't do it.

I can completely change my plan. If I surrender to Night Owl, I will just become a caged bird in his captivity, but I will be able to form alliances with the group of universe overlords who surrender, and after this universe completely escapes the Anti-Monitor, I will establish a force that can compete with Night Owl. I have a lot of plans and future development directions to plan... But what's the point?

Some of the puzzles were really hard, but I never gave up.

My name is Lex Luthor.

To others the name meant many things, they called me a scientific genius, even though Superman's clone was such a poor quality, he still showed my personal talent.

They call me a greedy shark, they call me a leader, but no matter how anyone defines me, it doesn’t stop me.

I am being patient.

Patiently waiting for the enemy to bleed into a river...

That moment.

"Cough cough cough..."

Inside the sewer pipe.

Luther had taken off his armor, and he used the green armor to shoot out a laser, which disinfected a large area where he was sitting.

Then he carefully tore off the shirt that was stuck to his wound. The shirt soaked with blood made him gasp and sweat broke out on his head.

He also made a big hole in his armor and released a small group of nanorobots, which quickly gnawed off the half of the steel bar that was still inserted in his body around the wound. Then the nanorobots took over Luther's nervous system and helped him perform a minimally invasive surgery. With a clang, the blood-stained steel bar was thrown to the ground.

The nanobots helped him stop the bleeding, and then they returned to the armor and began to repair the breach in the armor itself.

"They didn't even come to Nightwing's cell to stop me..." Luther said hoarsely. The blow from Lady Styx injured his alveoli. Even with the healing of the nanorobots, he would not be healed so quickly. After all, he was an ordinary person, not a superhuman enhanced by the serum.

After a while...

"Let's go." Luther said, "If we go one kilometer further along this sewer pipe, we will appear right below the warehouse closest to Nightwing's cell, and then we can find a way to get into Nightwing's cell from there. I have rehearsed the plan to rescue Nightwing many times, and the success rate of this is very high."

As he walked away, he silently thought about Ms. Styx. She didn't come after him at that time, so he guessed what was in her mind in an instant, and wondered how much benefit this attitude of hers could bring him, but even so, the success rate of the plan was still very low.

Feeling upset, he walked towards the depths of the sewer, but then he saw the stupid android he had created standing in the light with his head down, refusing to move forward into the dark cave.

"Artificial beings, move forward!"

"Subject B0, I order you to move forward."

There was no response. Luther took a deep breath and controlled his almost furious emotions. Impotent rage had never been his style.

"Listen to me, child," he said, "there is nothing to be afraid of. It does not matter to me whether you stay or go."

"Roar, roar, roar..." The man-made creature looked at him in confusion. Its lifeless eyes were tinged with red pupils, and its pale, uneven skin made it look somewhat scary.

Luther stroked his creation, then turned his head to look into the darkness.

"When I was about your age, I had no fear of the dark, but there was something else that held me back."

He seemed a little melancholy:
"Ow..."

"When my sister got sick, I was just 17 years old. No one could do anything about her illness at that time except me. I was arrogant and thought I could save her life... but I gave up."

Luther said: "I was afraid of failure. I was afraid of losing the only person in my life who meant so much to me, so... I didn't face the unknown challenge. I chose to give up."

Luther's expression shifted, and he showed a confused look: "She...she didn't make it through that year. Since then, I have never let the fear of failure stop me from moving forward."

Luther finished his words, but the artifact remained motionless. He was a little depressed and shook his head violently: "Heh, what's the point of talking to you about this? You are just a defective product, a monster without any intelligence."

So Luther took another deep breath, and he left behind the man-made creature that was standing still in front of the darkness. He turned his back to it, faced the darkness, and was determined to step into it alone.

No matter what, she...

But then, he felt someone put his hand on his shoulder. He turned around and saw the man-made object that he had judged to be a defective product speaking word by word in a somewhat unskilled voice:

"Bizarro...don't give up."

(Note: Bizarro is similar in pronunciation to the English B-0 experiment Bzero, which is also the origin of the name of the DC super villain "Alien Superman" Bizarro and the origin of his story.)
"Let's go." Luther said, "We have to hurry. Our friend Lady Styx will deliberately trip up Night Owl because she doesn't want me to fall into Night Owl's hands. But she can't delay Night Owl's attention for too long. Once he finds out what we want to do, everything will fall apart."

Soon after.

With a loud bang, Lex Luthor burst through the floor with Bizarro and found himself behind the stables of Wayne Manor.

well.

I have hacked into this place... The surveillance set up by Night Owl here can't do anything to us. All this is thanks to my preparation in advance and the deliberate help of Ms. Styx...

As Luther thought about this, he quietly climbed out of the stable with Bizarro. Two horses were stunned by the sight of two living people, and before they could neigh, Bizarro bit them on the neck and killed them.

He had an energy shield, so it was actually better, but Bizarro was covered in horse manure. Fortunately, the Alien Superman didn't care about it and even grabbed some horse manure and ate it.

vomit!
He immediately spat out the secret burger and followed Luther.

"The surveillance here can't see us..." Luther was silent as he operated the computer through the armor, trembling with fear with every step he took.

He felt a little uneasy in his heart. Although he was well prepared, would things really turn out so easily? It seemed that Night Owl didn't take Night Wing's precautions seriously. Shouldn't that be a problem?

He even had a terrifying thought. What if he just walked into Nightwing's room and found Night Owl with all the cosmic overlords waiting for him there? Or what if he just entered the room and found that the entire cage was closed, and then Night Owl's voice came out and told him that he had been waiting for Lex Luthor to fall into his trap?

A multitude of thoughts filled Luther's mind, but he had no other options at this time, and no time to make other plans.

As they passed the stables, walked along the tree-lined path, crossed the cemetery, and approached the Wayne Mansion, Luther left Bizarro there. Then he gave the order: "Wait here for me. I will call you when I need you, and you will rush to save me. Do you understand?"

"Roar~" Luther understood what the other party said. He knew that the other party didn't want to wait here, but he still gave Bizarro orders in a strong manner.

Then he paused and added another order: "If I find that the enemy is too strong, I will give you another order. You must leave here immediately and find a place to hide until I summon you again. Do you understand?"

Luther himself knew very well that if he really encountered such a situation, it would mean that he found that the enemy was irreversible. Would he really surrender and survive at that time?
Luther didn't know, and he didn't intend to think about it.

With Bizarro's reluctant farewell, Luthor finally stepped into the door of Wayne Mansion, which was empty. After passing countless monitors, he followed the closet and hacked into the elevator at the back, arriving at the Owl Cave, which is the most original Owl Cave and is in the same location as the most original Bat Cave in their universe.

After a while of searching, he actually found a transparent prison cell in the lower level of the Owl Cave, and Nightwing himself was imprisoned inside.

There are no night owls, no traps, and no other legions of cosmic overlords.

Luthor was overjoyed. He rushed to the cage and released Nightwing. He grabbed his hand without even having time to say hello and asked, "Batman left a dose of the Laughing Virus in your spine. On the surface, some of it is left in the spine to be stimulated, and the other bottle is hidden using Brainiac's shrinking ray. I need to give you the hidden Laughing Virus..."

That is the core prop of Luthor's plan. Only by getting the potion left by Batman can he have the opportunity to infect Night Owl. Only Night Owl himself can control the system in front of him...

Luther was still thinking about his plan, but the next moment, Nightwing's words made him feel like he was falling into an ice cave:

"It's gone, all gone. Luther, Night Owl discovered all the Joker virus hidden in my cervical vertebrae, and he took it all away..."

“Not a drop left.”

(End of this chapter)