I'm Bain.
Some people may have thought that Bain is most likely a person who never gives up.
Some people may have thought that Bane was most likely hiding his capabilities and biding his time, deliberately obeying Batman's orders, just to strike back at the last moment.
In fact...Bane really wanted to do this.
once.
Brainiac fell to the ground.
"you……"
He turned to look at Bane.
"You took the initiative to let me read your memory." He said with difficulty: "You really wanted to cooperate with me and betray Batman."
"Your memories are true and false, and your thoughts are firm and vicious. Such memories cannot be forged by anyone."
Because that's what I think.
Bain thought silently.
He sincerely thought about working with Brainiac to stab Batman in the back.
"What made you change your mind?"
Brainiac asked: "Why are you...ahhhh!!!"
Before he could finish his words, he was stopped by his uncontrollable screams.
Half of his body fell to the ground with a clatter like a melting candle.
"Delaying for time will do nothing, Brainiac. Boring questions will not change your outcome."
Wonder Woman helped Batman up, and Chen Tao, who was too weak to stand up, stood in front of Brainiac.
He felt that the world was a little blurry, and the other party's voice seemed to be coming through heavy fog.
"The fact is that I stood and you fell, Brainiac."
Brainiac said nothing.
"Don't waste your efforts anymore. You also have the spores of Doomsday hidden in your organic body, right? For you, this body is completely disposable, so there is no need to worry about permanent changes. Become the day of destruction.”
"You are not a life that relies on the brain to exist. Whether it is a physical body or a mechanical body, it is a harbor for you to live in, and it is also a shackles. Even if this body is turned into a brain by the Doomsday spores, Stone, you can also control it."
Chen Tao watched quietly as Brainiac continued to struggle, trying to maintain the balance of his body amidst the total explosion of four natural energies, but in vain.
"My blockade on your mind cannot always be effective. As long as you deal with us and then transfer your mind back to your spaceship, it will be completely fine, right?"
puff!
A large ball of metal exploded from Brainiac's body again, with faint carrion, bones and a touch of green mixed in it.
This is what would normally happen if the four natural energies came together, and it is also what would happen if the natural energies on the earth failed to balance each other.
Spiritual energy, physical chemical energy, spiritual power, everything turned into nutrients, which were constantly absorbed by the four forces, and then the dog's brain was knocked out of his body.
"Why?"
Brainiac looked at Bain. One of his eyes had been exploded by the swelling blackness of decay, protruding like a frog's eye.
"Your memory, your motivation, I analyzed your behavior pattern, and came to the conclusion through repeated verification, and finally got the result that you will never help Batman."
"He broke your back! He used Clayface to make a fool of you like a fool!"
"And you are actually willing to help him?!"
"Why?"
But Brainiac knew he might never get the answer.
His mouth has been severely deformed, half of his face has begun to melt, and he has completely lost the ability to speak.
"why……"
He saw Bane lower his head slightly, looking at his hands with some sadness, then turned his head and looked at Batman.
His expression was deep and solemn.
At this moment, he and Batman were obviously very close, but they seemed to be standing on both sides of a turbulent river.
Brainiac looked at the two of them.
He knew Batman was ready to take on Bane. Maybe it's that strange power, or maybe it's just that the other party did something to strengthen Bain.
How ridiculous.
There was ridicule in Brainiac's eyes. Batman never trusted anyone. He was always ready to murder his teammates in various ways.
So unwilling! I'm so unwilling.
Things shouldn't be like this, he shouldn't be the loser!
He is Brainiac, he has been in countless galaxies...
never mind.
Reminiscing about the past will not help you in the present. Brainiac suddenly felt uninterested, and everything in front of him suddenly lost meaning to him.
"Because I am Bane. Because I am human."
He heard the answer that was on his mind, but even at this moment, the answer lost its meaning to him.
Brainiac felt his thoughts gradually stop.
This actually gave him a kind of fear, which rippled in his heart like the gentlest morning breeze.
"No. Don't. Someone come and save me."
But even with such fearful emotions, all Brainiac can feel now is numbness and endless emptiness.
The feeling of emptiness came over him and made his soul tremble.
It is difficult to describe this feeling in words. It is like the loneliness of knowing that death is imminent but not knowing what to do. The loneliness that cannot be dispelled even by fear gnaws at his heart, but makes him look forward to it. Come sleep peacefully.
Brainiac found himself able to speak again. The four forces faded away from his body, but he knew very well that this meant that his mental and physical energy had been exhausted by these competing forces, just as the vitality of a cancer patient had been completely destroyed by cancer cells. What is absorbed will only be reflected back on the last day of life.
So, at the end of it all, he regained the ability to speak.
"I don't understand," Brainiac said. "I control life. I hold life in my hands."
"I don't know how to describe this feeling in the language of Earth..." Brainiac said: "...but I'm not wrong."
At the last moment, the collector who shocked the world actually said such simple words.
"Nothing I did was wrong, everything I did was meaningful." He emphasized again: "I, Brainiac, am not meaningless."
"I am protecting life." He said: "Those lives that should have been extinct, I continued them. I allowed them to be naturally selected. I saved them and arranged everything for them."
Then he heard the other party's rebuttal:
"Life cannot be controlled or kept in a bottle."
"This spaceship is life! The lives of countless planets and sectors are protected by me here. I place them properly and eliminate their inferior genes so that they can obtain better results here than in nature. More history!”
said Brainiac, yelling at Batman: "I'm right! Right! That's what I'm about!"
"This ship is lifeless, Brainiac, this ship is just your bottle."
Brainiac was in a daze for a moment.
He stared into Batman's eyes and saw pity in those eyes.
Suddenly, a strong unwillingness emerged in his heart. In his long life of several centuries, he had never experienced such an emotion.
"help me!"
The super AI said to Batman: "I shouldn't... I shouldn't end up here. I haven't fully found the meaning of my existence."
He wanted to reach out to Batman, but now he couldn't feel his hands.
He lowered his head and saw that his palms and lower body looked like weathered wood.
"How sad, Brainiac."
He heard the other party say: "I thought you would persist until the end."
Brainiac saw Wonder Woman flying out of the spacecraft, and he knew that the other party was going to destroy the missiles he was preparing to launch to destroy the earth.
So Brainiac took one last look at his ship, the worlds he had collected, the worlds he was extremely attached to.
"You...you cannot take these cities out of my biological shell...their position cannot be maintained."
"Thank you for reminding."
he heard Batman say.
Brainiac was slightly silent.
He suddenly sat up straight, but at the cost, his lower body turned into powder like crushed charcoal.
"My collection, everything I own, they're all yours now."
Brainiac said: "Okay... treat them well."
"They will return to where they belong." He heard Batman say: "I will place them properly."
At this time, Brainiac and Batman no longer looked like tit-for-tat enemies, but like two old men sitting in the square park chatting.
"And I will also target the mechanical legion you left in the Red of All Beings, the big-headed doll you left in the Batcave, and the robot that Bane fought with outside."
Brainiac heard Batman say, "I will never give you a chance to be resurrected."
Brainiac's eyes dimmed again for a moment.
"Thank you."
He said.
"And." He said: "Dakseid, the Dark King Darkseid is coming to Earth. Continue to protect your world from Darkseid, Batman. This is the meaning of your existence, you Destiny of birth.”
His eyes looked at Chen Tao, and it was difficult for Chen Tao to read his true attitude from his eyes.
Is it spite?
Is it sadness?
Or is it relief, or gloating?
"My meaning should not be determined by..."
But Chen Tao had no chance for Brainiac to hear what he said next.
The second after he said those words, the Collector of the Universe fell to the sky, his body scattered into dust, covering every corner of his spacecraft.
Even in death, Brainiac never left his ship.
"it's over."
Chen Tao said.
[Warning, warning, Batman, you have discovered the anchor item: Brainiac's ashes]
[Introduction: The ashes left by Brainiac after his complete death contain Brainiac's desire to find the meaning of life. Brainiac spent his life trying to define himself rather than be defined by others. You might be able to use it to summon Batman from some alternate universe. 】
[But, can the existence that is summoned due to self-definition be something real? 】
["I am Brainiac. I control life, I control everything!"]
[Converted crisis energy: 319]
【warn! Downloading targetable Batman files! 】
【Manta Leniac】
[Danger Level: A-]
[In a certain dark multiverse, Batman, who had exhausted all his cards, failed to defeat Brainiac, so he used his last card: to merge with Brainiac. Therefore, the old Brainiac and the old Batman disappeared, and only Brainiac exists here]
Chen Tao was not in the mood to read Brainiac's diary at this time.
He turned to look at Superman.
At this time, Clark was completely out of Brainiac's control. He stood on the ground, wearing a Superman uniform, looking at Batman with a smile and a cry.
"Batman!"
"What's wrong, Superman?"
"I've lost my powers. I'm no longer Superman."
"What's the meaning?"
"My Kryptonian physique disappeared." Clark said: "My Kryptonian physique, along with the Doomsday spores that were eliminated with you -"
"Disappeared together," he said.
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“After being attacked by the infamous treasure hunter known to the world as Black Manta, local lighthouse keeper Thomas Curry is rushed to the emergency room…”
"Recently Thomas Curry denied marine biologist Stephen Shen's claim that his son is an Atlantean..."
"But in a world where Batman, Superman, and Wonder Women exist, even stranger things have been confirmed..."
deep sea.
Arthur opened his eyes, his father's dying voice echoing in his mind.
"How could he do this?"
"Arthur, you only have to do one thing after I die..."
"No, dad..."
"Tell him that I have been waiting for her, that I have been..."
Arthur looked at the man in front of him and heard his voice:
"My king. Please follow me."
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"Superman was once the most powerful superhero in the world, but he has been missing for more than two months."
The man in front of him ripped off the Superman poster hanging in mid-air, and behind the poster, Barry Allen was posing as vigorously as Superman.
He saw the man in front of him turn his head and look at him: "I need to test whether you can be as great as Superman."
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Victor Stone is sitting in his football locker room. His father still hasn't come to his game.
But at this time, the door creaked.
He turned his head hopefully. But all that came in was a little boy.
"Hey, hello, is this Victor Stone?"
The little boy seemed very excited: "Okay, I'm your fan. My name is Billy."
He happily ran to Victor Stone: "Can you sign your autograph for me?"
Cyborg did so.
"Your family would be proud of you," he heard the other person say.
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Apokolips.
Darkseid quietly looked at the planet projection in front of him, with no expression on his rock-like face.
"Brainiac failed miserably and even died because of it, my master."
The black shadow beside him said: "Is this planet really a problem that Steppenwolf can solve alone?"
"The Kryptonian has lost his powers."
The black figure heard Darkseid's voice and erupted like lava.
"The problem will be solved."
He looked at the shadow next to him. That shadow had a big S on its chest.
"And Earth will also get a new Superman."
(End of chapter)
