"Come on, do it. What are you hesitating about?"
Black Manta heard Batman's voice.
This is not how things should be. He made a lot of preparations and sacrificed a lot for killing Neptune.
"Kill him, Arthur Curry, your enemy."
Black Manta has Arthur's trident thrust into his hand.
He looked at the enemy in front of him. He had his eyes closed and was unconscious, like a silent statue or a dead pig waiting to be slaughtered.
He carefully used his trident to make a small cut on Neptune's arm and watched as bright red blood flowed out of it.
It's real, not Clayface.
"Well, what happened..." The pain in his arm woke up Neptune Arthur. He opened his eyes and was about to speak. Then the next second, Chen Tao grabbed Superboy Connor who had not yet reacted and gave him to him again. His love came, and Neptune fainted gorgeously again.
"That's enough!" Superboy Connor, who had been used as a one-legged man until now, covered his forehead: "It's too much. My forehead hurts and his skull is so hard."
But Black Manta still suspected that Batman was lying to him, so he opened his palm again, and a little water sprayed out from the diving suit and sprinkled on Aquaman Arthur's face.
Stimulated by the cold sea water, Neptune opened his eyes again: "What's going on? My brain..."
Connor was smarter this time. He wanted to run away, but his reaction was still slow.
Bang!
Superboy Connor also fainted along with Aquaman.
Black Manta finally believed that what was finally in front of him was Aquaman and not another one of Batman's deceptions.
"I am here to give Neptune to you sincerely." Chen Tao said, "Try it. I know you have been waiting for this opportunity all your life."
"I don't understand why you would do this." Black Manta stared at him. His eyes lingered on Superboy, who was covering his head next to him.
"You're a superhero," he said.
"I am a super villain." Chen Tao said.
He turned to look at Black Jack, a large number of leaders of the organization, and a few soldiers operating instruments, who were watching their group blankly not far away.
"I'll prove it to you right now."
In full view of the public, Black Jack, the organization's second-in-command, saw Batman pick up an Atlantean...water gun from the pile of weapons he had just dumped on the ground.
As a villain who works in an evil organization, Black Jack has planned several actions to disguise himself as an Atlantean and attack the government to make the other party take the blame. She knows this Atlantean weapon, a weapon that converts water into Laser shooting firearms.
Then she saw Batman crazily holding up the gun and shooting randomly in his hand:
"Uh...huh? How should I use this thing?"
There was a loud bang, and the misfired laser bomb immediately melted a small piece of the damaged building debris next to it.
Blackjack:!
She saw Batman raise the water gun that he had learned how to use, then grinned from the corners of his mouth to his ears, and said with confidence:
"You kill Neptune, and then I can completely make things happen and cause an accident."
"?" A question mark popped up in Black Jack's head.
Then she met Batman's red eyes, which were exactly the same as the red eyes that made her unforgettable when she faced Black Manta last time:
"My people won't speak. The only people who may leak the secret are these witnesses. As long as you kill them all, knowing that everyone you killed Neptune is dead, isn't that an accident?"
"???What?"
The crowd suddenly burst into uproar, but before the noise could spread, they saw Batman seeming to turn into a drifting black mist in an instant, rushing over in an instant.
So the unspoken questions suddenly turned into howls of ghosts and wolves:
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Batman!!!"
"It's coming, it's coming, something's biting my foot!"
"Help!!! Batman!!! Mom!!"
Some people wanted to resist with guns, but soon fell asleep quietly on the ground, which only exacerbated the fear of others.
Soon this group of people collapsed - the real hard core died when the organization was just taken over by Black Manta, and they themselves were the leaders or the ones who launched the weapons, not the soldiers on the frontline battlefield, so this The gang almost collapsed at the first touch.
Why is the organization I work in such a waste...
Black Jack thought so, but soon realized that the good ones were screened out by Black Manta first, and the rest were knocked down by the black mist released by Batman just now. The guys who looked like this were just is the result after filtering.
Black Jack watched numbly as the exit farthest from Batman was opened. The crowd howled and tried to rush out in a swarm, but was soon forced back by Batman, so they could only collapse to the ground. She could still barely stand.
—and this disturbed Batman.
Black Jack watched with suffocation as those inhuman, fiery red eyes turned towards him.
She felt as if there were illusory flames burning from the soles of her feet to the top of her head.
"oh……?"
The tongue of fire, as hot as the sun, licked her forehead, as if it was about to burn her out, and then...
"That's enough." Black Manta said.
He turned sideways, blocking Batman's glare at Black Jack.
Like a pool of icy-cold sea water pouring on his forehead, Black Jack's body, which had been stiff like a corpse, suddenly relaxed. She sat down on the ground, trembling all over, breathing heavily. She couldn't tell whether it was because of the flaming fear that Batman gave her, or the deep sea-like fear that Black Manta gave her.
But the only thing that is certain is that under the current situation, Black Manta makes people feel much safer than Batman.
She looked at Black Manta's latissimus dorsi muscles that were outlined like tides under the diving suit's armor from behind.
The black manta that once terrified her now gave her an unprecedented sense of security.
She tightened her legs and her eyes changed.
"Let's do it." Chen Tao said.
Black Manta held the shaft of Aquaman's trident with mixed emotions. Batman had already helped him to lift the unconscious Aquaman Arthur up and lean on the chair next to him. Then, he pointed the tip at Aquaman Arthur's. Throat.
All it takes is a gentle click...a gentle and delicate force, not much more than the force required to pull the trigger.
His diving suit armor can provide him with supernatural strength beyond ordinary people, and the trident in his hand is an artifact of Atlantis, which can easily pierce Aquaman's tough skin.
However……
I don't know why, he...he couldn't do it.
He heard Batman's voice: "Why don't you do it?"
Chen Tao watched the opponent's movements attentively to ensure that if Black Manta really wanted to take action, he would be fast enough to stop the opponent and save the life of Neptune Arthur - but as of now, Black Manta's reaction Just as he thought.
Then... you can add a little more excitement.
His voice turned cold.
"Come on - what if you kill him? Do it quickly! Don't you even have the courage to kill him?"
Black Manta panted violently. He looked irritated.
"Do you think I don't dare? I, in this life, want to kill Arthur Curry!"
anger. Black Manta couldn't tell where this anger came from, but he was angry after all.
He gripped the Trident of Neptune tightly, pushed it forward, pressed it against the unconscious Arthur's neck, and then his hands shook uncontrollably.
He could even feel the pulse of Neptune's breathing through the trident, and the beating of his heart through Neptune's skin that was as strong as steel.
After Black Manta made this move, he froze there. Chen Tao didn't urge him. He just folded his arms and watched.
Black Jack mustered up the courage and stood up behind Black Manta. Some kind of emotion that transcends the relationship between superiors and subordinates drives her to burst out with the courage to surpass a third-rate villain:
"Black Manta, you need me to help you..." But just halfway through her words, Black Manta pushed her back.
"Shut up!"
"Who do you think you are?" Batman's voice also sounded in his ears at the right time:
"What's the point of your life? The only thing on your mind is revenge. You only live for revenge. If you kill him, you will have nothing."
"That's enough, stop reading!" Black Manta's voice was trembling, but he didn't realize it at all.
"Arthur, the King of the Sea, has his own life. He has a meaning to live for and a lifelong career to fight for. What about you? What do you have? All you think about is killing."
"asshole……"
"What do you want to kill him with? With the Trident of the Sea King? With bombs, with bullets? With a blade piercing his heart? Or with a knife across the throat, a quick slash, or with slow torture?"
"How do you think we should end him so that you feel a little satisfied!? Come on, do it, I have brought him in front of you."
Black Manta still didn't make a move, Chen Tao said slowly.
"Maybe I'm wrong. You won't have nothing after killing him. You will spend the rest of your life in disappointment, and you will never get any satisfaction from him."
"You blame Arthur, you blame Stephen Shen, you blame Atlantis, you blame anyone but yourself."
"You live aimlessly, Black Manta. You never realize how vulnerable your position really is."
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!"
Black Manta suddenly let out a hysterical roar. He threw the Trident of Neptune on the ground angrily, yelled like a manic mental patient, and tore his head to the point where he pulled off his helmet, revealing his head. A face with three scars.
Finally, he squatted on the ground slumped and covered his head.
Black Jack staggered over, and she wanted to hug him, but she didn't dare, so she ended up just grabbing Black Manta's shoulders.
Black Manta suddenly stood up suddenly.
He pushed Black Jack away, raised his palm towards Arthur, and poured a pool of water directly on his forehead, waking him up. Then Black Manta pounced directly on him, and with the help of the strange power of the diving suit armor, he fought with him.
He even bit Arthur the Sea King on the nose.
You must know that without the blessing of the diving suit and armor, it is impossible for him to chew the opponent's body without superpowers, but he just did that, and the teeth did not stop bleeding.
Bang bang bang bang bang bang!
Arthur, who had just woken up, was at a disadvantage for a moment. He was riding on him, and the Black Manta rounded his fist, beating Arthur until it kept ringing like a drum.
Chen Tao just stood aside and watched them fight: "You wake up, Arthur! Things have been successful. We have successfully found the lair of the mastermind behind the scenes, which is Black Manta."
"Murderer!" Black Manta roared, and he punched Arthur the Sea King in the face with all his strength and selflessness.
"Ah, Arthur. You get beaten first, then I'll tell you..."
"Batman, you..."
Chen Tao ignored their behavior of beating each other.
Black Manta is like this, or rather, most superheroes and their nemesis are like this.
He really wants to kill Neptune, but he doesn’t really want to kill. He is in a state where he wants to kill but doesn’t want to kill at all. To sum up, Schrödinger’s desire to kill cannot be explained. Everyone understands it. It’s just such a twist. The state of Ba.
"...Atlantis now...I just tied you to...this is Black Manta...the hairy man is heading towards Atlantis...what? Oh, there's something else I didn't tell you , and the chemical waste monster... what is he? A small problem, at most he will poison the sea and kill the entire Atlantis..."
Sea King Arthur's eyes turned red as he listened.
He punched Black Manta and sent him flying away: "My people!!!"
But then he was knocked to the ground by Black Manta, and the two entered into a ground fight, which was much more interesting than a boxing match like the Octagon.
But without the helmet, Black Manta soon became no match for Aquaman, who was gradually recovering.
Without the protection of the helmet, Black Manta's fragile body appeared directly within the attack range of Aquaman. He only needed to knock the opponent with his head to make Black Manta dizzy, without having to worry about being shot out of his helmet like before. laser close up shot.
He quickly pushed Black Manta to the ground and slammed him against the wall: "What did you do to my Atlantis?"
Seeing Neptune's anxious look, Black Manta's face finally showed joy, like a leaf falling in the air that had finally found its flight direction.
Aquaman took back his trident, and he didn't care to argue with Batman about the other party's forceful taking him out of Atlantis: "Stop the hairy man and the chemical waste, Black Manta, hurry up. "
But his anxiety and anger only brought Black Manta an even happier expression.
"I can't do it," he said. "They were given to me by a guy called the Outsiders and his organization, the Secret Society of Supervillains, who are not under my control. They also sent a guy named Atrocitus. Come and supervise me, that guy is a real magician."
Black Manta said: "The order for those two monsters has been issued, and everything is ready. Prepare to face the destruction of Atlantis."
"You crazy person."
"That's right."
Black Manta grabbed the tip of Neptune's Trident and pointed it at his neck: "I did all this. Come on, do it!"
"Do you think I don't dare?!" Arthur pushed against him and pressed him against the wall next to him with the tip of his trident.
"No!" Black Jack wanted to pounce, but was pushed away by Black Manta.
"Are you going to kill him? Neptune?" Chen Tao asked from the side: "I can make it look like an accident, such as killing all the witnesses or something."
Those high-level leaders who were scared to death next to them: Are you still coming?
"Do it, kill me, Arthur Curry!" Black Manta was also roaring: "Kill--"
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah……"
Neptune also roared angrily, but after several of them roared for a long time, Neptune did not kill him in the end.
He finally fell silent, still holding the trident against Black Manta's neck, and then slowly spoke.
"Your father is not innocent, Black Manta. The gods know that you are not either. You are all treasure hunters and illegal mercenaries who kill and sell goods at sea. But killing your father is the biggest mistake I have ever made."
"It's too late to repent now," Black Manta said.
"I am not repenting. Actions will speak for themselves." Said King Arthur: "That incident revealed serious consequences to me. It taught me to take responsibility and control myself. The boy who killed your father was not ready to become Aquaman, but if he hadn't carried that burden... there wouldn't be Aquaman now!"
Black Manta narrowed his eyes: "You seem very proud."
"No, Black Manta, calm down. That mistake made me grow into Aquaman, but this endless long-cherished wish will achieve nothing."
"Nothing will happen. Will there be any results? I'm going to destroy your dream right now, bastard. I'm going to destroy your arrogant ambition to be the link between the two worlds."
"I will humiliate you in front of everyone, and then let you witness the destruction of Atlantis!"
Veins popped out on Black Manta's neck: "Batman told me everything I did to you, and you will also know what I did--"
"Those Atlanteans who survived will blame you, and the land people will regard you as a tyrant, and they will always fear you."
"You're very calm, aren't you? You're an idiot. No one can escape from such a grudge like ours!"
"so now……"
"Kill me!!!"
Sea King Arthur lowered his face.
Half of his face was hidden in shadow.
"If you really want to take action. Seriously." Chen Tao said, "Please believe me, I have the ability to help you deal with the aftermath. The decision is yours, Arthur."
Only this time, Chen Tao really thought so.
He had no intention of protecting Black Manta. Whatever his reasons, everything he did about Atlantis was absolutely true.
Black Manta definitely has a reason to die. If Neptune Arthur decides to end this entanglement forever, Chen Tao will not be surprised.
"Kill me." Black Manta repeated: "Our hatred can only end with the death of one party and the destruction of all he represents."
"kill me!"
"I refuse." Sea King Arthur said: "I will never make the same mistake again. I will never become a murderer. This is my choice."
He nodded apologetically at Batman, then turned back to Black Manta.
"I am now going to save my Atlantis, save my people, and practice what I have been fighting for my whole life."
he said.
"And you only deserve to rot in jail."
He ripped apart Black Manta's armor and then knocked him unconscious as Black Manta looked at him with a curse.
"I respect your choice, and I am already prepared for the problem of Atlantis." Chen Tao spoke, he shrugged and walked to Arthur's side.
He groped around on Black Manta's body and found a golden ball.
"You should be familiar with this thing. Arthur, one of the golden balls in the Death King's six-piece set, has the ability to teleport over long distances. I discovered it before when I was monitoring Black Manta. This thing allows us to quickly return To the scene in Atlantis.”
He said: "And I also made preparations before coming to see Black Manta."
(End of chapter)
