Chen Tao and a Kryptonian named Clark Kent walked on the field bank of Kent's farm together.
The sunshine between 9:00 and 10:00 in the morning is the best time. It is neither poisonous nor weak, with a slight drunkenness. It makes people feel like their hearts are drunk. The warm Kryptonian’s cells are all in the body. Groaning, cheering and absorbing the energy.
Chen Tao and Clark were walking, and neither of them spoke first.
Soon they reached the edge of their field. Clark finally spoke:
"Could it be...that we really can only choose 1 out of 2?"
Chen Tao did not answer him directly. He muttered in a low voice:
"I am Clark Kent, and I will serve humanity..."
He didn't finish his sentence, but Clark already understood what he meant.
"You can be anything, Clark. But the most important thing is, you know who you are going to be. Your father is a great man," Chen Tao told Clark:
"He gives you all the beautiful qualities of human beings. I have always believed that human identity only comes from identity, not blood."
"Therefore, I sincerely hope that you will not have any illusions about Zod." Chen Tao lowered his eyebrows:
"Don't go see Zod, let alone try to convince him. To Zod, the lives of all living things on the earth are not lives, they are just bugs. Including Martha Ken..."
"Mr. Wayne - I hope you won't interfere with my judgment by using my mother's name."
"I apologize for this," Chen Tao answered him immediately: "But the fact is that your conflicts are irreconcilable."
"You go to Black Zero just to give him a chance to kill you."
Chen Tao tried his best to persuade the other party, although based on his understanding of Superman, he knew and understood that this would always be in vain——
Superman has never been a yes man who believes what others say. He is the greatest hero on the planet, and there is most likely not "one" behind this title. He will make his own judgment. He just doesn't like to use the word super. brain:
If you can rush to any bad guy at a speed close to supersonic speed, and then smash him into small biscuits with one punch, if someone hits you, you will lose 1×10 to the power of -9999 trillion, and if you hit someone, Others just explode on the spot, and you don’t want to use your brain.
But that doesn't mean Superman is a fool. Chen Tao knew very well that no matter how obedient he had been to his words before, when it came to the most core decision, Superman would never be fooled by anyone.
"Mom was so worried that she stayed up all night." Clark changed the topic.
"She held me tight and told me not to leave her."
He squatted down, picked up a stone from the ground, weighed it in his hand, and seemed to want to throw it directly, but in the end he curled up his fingers and crushed it into powder.
"Last night, I flew all over the world," Clark said. "I even flew around Black Zero and observed them for a while."
The atmosphere seemed a bit stagnant.
"I didn't find the world engine you were talking about, Mr. Wayne."
He stood up and turned to look at Chen Tao.
They faced each other, facing each other in the field. Both of them stood in the light, and the golden sunshine stretched their shadows long.
"My biological father's projection confirmed to me the existence of such a thing as the World Engine. But he also confirmed to me that General Zod was imprisoned in the Phantom Zone with nothing. Everything on Krypton was destroyed along with the planet. General Zod himself You shouldn’t master this kind of thing.”
"General Zod will never let go..."
"how do you know?"
Chen Tao was silent. That's the worst part of the whole thing. He is a time traveler, and he can deduce the process through the results combined with the comics and movies he knew in his previous life, but this means that anything he says is not supported by a complete chain of logic and evidence.
Therefore, when faced with Superman's question, he could only answer: "I just know, because I am Batman, and Batman knows everything."
Superman was noncommittal.
He turned around and continued walking forward. Chen Tao followed him, shoulder to shoulder with him.
They crossed the field ridges and small slopes, flew side by side through the dense trees, and then gradually began to accelerate. After flying for a while, they landed on a cement road far away in another small town.
"So, where are we going now?" Chen Tao asked, "Where are you taking me?"
"You'll know when you get there." They walked along the path for about six minutes, and a church built on a small slope outside the town came into view.
“You come to God for guidance when you’re confused?”
Chen Tao asked.
Then he saw Clark's face covered with a veil of biological force field.
When he moved his eyes to his face, Chen Tao could clearly see his handsome face, but once he looked away, the face turned into a mosaic in the memory of his mind, and even Clark's hair The colors are a bit blurry.
Chen Tao sighed.
He snapped his fingers, and silver-white particles entangled around his face, turning into the mask of the Broken Bat and its dark yellow pupils.
Facing Clark's gaze, Chen Tao said angrily:
"Don't look at me like this. I don't want to be so arrogant, but I don't have your biological stance."
The two of them walked into the church together.
There was no one in the church. There was only a priest standing on the stage. Hearing the sound of someone coming in, he subconsciously said:
"What are you thinking about?"
Then he looked up and saw the Broken Bat transformed by Chen Tao floating above Clark's head like a dark cloud.
He was so frightened that he swallowed.
Clark sat down on the chair without any awareness or indifference: "I don't know how to start."
He paused.
"The spaceship that appeared last night, I am the person they are looking for."
"And I'm the Batman from last night."
Chen Tao floated to the top of the priest's forehead like A Piao: "I am a human being, and he is a Kryptonian."
You are more like an alien. The priest looked at Chen Tao's body, half of which was like gravel, and cursed, but of course he did not express such comments to his mouth.
This is not because he has high emotional intelligence, but because his brain is blank at this time and he has almost lost his language processing ability.
He reluctantly organized words and sentences in normal word order, and asked Clark:
"Do you know...the reason why they are looking for you?"
"Reviving my home planet, the current inference is probably this." Clark answered him: "But this General Zod, even if I surrender, he may not keep his promise. In other words, the so-called promise is just that from the beginning. It's a lie."
"But... if I can save the Earth by surrendering. Shouldn't I do that?"
Seeing that the priest was speechless, Clark shook his head.
Chen Tao walked out of the church with him.
Clark took out his cell phone from his pocket and adjusted it. A video was playing on it: "If he really doesn't want to harm us, then he should return to his people and bear the consequences... If he refuses to go, maybe we should send him away He goes. Lois Lane at the Daily Planet knows who he is, I think she is..."
Chen Tao knew him. This was Woodburn. Louis had cooperated with him before and published news about Clark. Now, as expected, under the global crisis, he sold Louis directly without any hesitation.
Clark silently stared at the information on the phone screen.
Then he finally said:
"I can convince General Zod. Even if there is a high probability that it is impossible, but... I still have to try. I'm sorry, Mr. Wayne. Zod and the others are my last compatriots.
In any case, I will try to see if I can find a way to peacefully resolve all disputes. "
Chen Tao sighed again. He knew it would be like this.
"All right."
He said.
"I will never be stupid enough to throw myself into a trap." Clark told Chen Tao: "I will bring the master control key of the Krypton spaceship. Black Zero itself is a spacecraft designed by my father. As long as I have the master control key, We should be able to seize part of the authority of this spaceship.”
"And this is part of my body." Chen Tao dispersed the transformation of the Broken Bat and placed a small square piece of metal in Superman's palm.
The metal immediately deformed and turned into an inconspicuous-looking iron ring, which was clasped on Superman's ring finger.
"You just need to leave it on the Kryptonian ship. It will help us when the time is right."
Clark looked at him, then nodded heavily: "Okay."
Watching Clark's flying figure disappear into the sky, Chen Tao immediately took out his mobile phone, then blinked, and the mobile phone automatically operated and sent a text message to the clay-faced man: "Clark has gone to the army to surrender. Now you can Kidnapped Martha!"
Then he immediately switched to Alfred's interface: "Hurry up, Clark is finally gone, use the Bat Plane to move all the kryptonite weapons over. And don't forget the kryptonite reactor armor! Our scientist (Lu How did Hughes upgrade it?"
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metropolis.
In the hotel where Ms. Siwa and Jason are staying.
Five-star hotels provide free buffets in the morning.
"Teacher Siwa...we have been in Metropolis for a while, why didn't you-"
Ms. Siwa tapped her chopsticks on the table. She is Asian, and she prefers to use chopsticks rather than knives and forks.
"No hurry, no rush, let's watch TV first."
she said.
The news on the TV next to the hall is still playing the image of tabloid reporter Woodburn's speech preaching that we should not protect Superman.
"The one named Lois Lane, I have an impression. Only she can get the exclusive report on Superman. But at this time, the FBI has already come to capture this reporter alive."
Jason said: "The world has become increasingly difficult for me to understand. A few years ago, I faced serial killers, psychopaths and mania. At this time, the world was still normal."
"Then came the era of American Idol, when all criminals had equal opportunities. Every kid suffering from Tourette's syndrome (note: clinical manifestations include motor tics, vocal tics, and behavioral disorders) dared to call himself a girl with a makeup box. The next clown."
"I originally thought that this era was bad enough and crazy enough. But now even aliens have appeared."
"Actually." He inserted a piece of food into his mouth with his chopsticks: "The content of the news in the past two days is really outrageous. I always feel like I am watching "Rick and Morty""
He took another bite and drank some drink. While chewing, he said vaguely:
"Well...challenging Batman is already magical enough, now we might have to challenge aliens..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw the expression on Siwa's face, and then his expression also fell.
"No, do you really want to challenge aliens?"
"What about Batman? Aren't you going to challenge him?"
Then he was immediately questioned by Siwa.
"If you're looking for excitement, why not just follow through?"
Jason choked.
He stretched his neck, struggled to swallow the food, and then said: "But you also saw how inhuman that Superman is."
He just felt tired. Does anyone remember their original purpose?
He originally only came to fight Batman, and the fighting place was supposed to be Gotham, but now he is staying in a five-star hotel in Metropolis - how did things develop like this?
"I know, he is strong."
Ms Siwa said:
"The flames can't hurt him. He can easily knock down houses and lift large piles of steel beams weighing dozens of tons."
"Now that you know it, shouldn't it be clear that this is definitely not an opponent that humans can fight against?"
Jason said: "Human beings are completely incomparable in front of such aliens."
"You are wrong. The only difference between humans and aliens is their strength. If these can be made up for...do you think I don't know you are hiding something secretly? Little Jason?"
Jason understood what the other party meant, and he had no intention of hiding it.
"I didn't prepare a lot of venom." He said: "Although Bain's subordinate called Zombie taught me the recipe for making venom, I didn't make a lot due to time, materials and location constraints."
But before he finished speaking, he heard Ms. Siwa say accurately: "I only made a van, right."
Jason was immediately speechless.
Ms. Siwa put on a serious look and said: "I have found the van where you hid it. It is too early for you to take the venom now. I will save it for you until you grow up a little. Let you use these venoms..."
"You want to use these venoms to strengthen yourself, increase your strength to the point where you can fight aliens, and then use martial arts to challenge them?"
Ms. Siwa pretended not to hear Jason's question: "You can locate Batman's plane, right?"
"Yes, that's right." Jason said dullly, "He is still using those satellite codes from back then."
Ms. Siwa said: "Then you start positioning yourself at any time now. I want to know when Batman is going to fight the aliens."
Jason saw her lift her hair around her ears, reveal a bloodthirsty smile, and bite into the barbecue in front of her.
It was like a beast tearing at the flesh and blood of its prey.
He then remembered that Ms. Siwa was famous for beating other martial arts masters to death with her bare hands in her early years. There are countless martial arts masters who are proud to die by her hands.
"I also want to go and see. Will aliens bleed? Can aliens be beaten to death? This is really exciting..."
Siwa's eyes wandered.
But whether it’s Batman or aliens, I will definitely win.
Because I am Shiva.
The strongest individual on this planet - bar none!
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4 hours later.
General Zod and his men landed in front of the Kents' house on Kent Farm.
As soon as General Zod stepped off the spacecraft, he saw Martha Kent standing at the door with a strange and uncomfortable smile, like a statue made of mud, waiting for them.
It was peaceful and quiet for dozens of miles around, so quiet that there wasn't even a dog barking.
(End of chapter)
