mousepad-d2 Chapter 159 Villainous Acts
Chapter 159 Villainous Acts
Chapter 159 Villainous Acts
"It's difficult to describe in words what the Red of All Beings is."
A large, scaly, humanoid crocodile sat in a chair. To be honest, this wasn't his first time on Batman's plane, but no matter how many times he came, he still felt uncomfortable with the plane's decor.
Killer Croc believed this was a form of psychopathology. He always felt that Batman was mentally unstable, unlike him, Killer Croc, who was just a pure and lovable crocodile.
He originally thought that it was already bizarre that the other party had decorated his entire underground base like a bat cave, but he didn't expect that the other party had even decorated the airplane like a bat cave.
Is he addicted to dressing up as a bat?
Hey look, there are even fake bats hanging on the ceiling—holy crap, they're real!
Killer Croc was startled by the flying bat, and then he saw Batman in front of him open his mouth and emit ultrasonic waves that were inaudible to human ears (and of course, inaudible to crocodile ears as well).
"Sorry, please continue, Wayne." He heard Batman's voice, but he was quite certain that he had just seen protruding teeth in the other man's open mouth.
The opponent was like a wild beast, baring its fangs in the darkness. Killer Croc thought...
Wait, I'm the beast, right?
Killer Croc always felt that Batman had stolen his script.
He tapped his head, barely managing to refocus his attention on the task at hand.
Chen Tao looked at him with some worry. Killer Croc had never been very bright, and his actions couldn't be predicted by common sense.
After all, a normal person wouldn't hit their own head for no reason.
Chen Tao believed this was a form of psychopathology. He always felt that Killer Croc was mentally unstable, unlike him, Batman, who was just a pure and lovable big bat.
A tokusatsu (special effects) film was playing on the television in front of them.
Rooster Thief is currently the hottest movie in California—though only among children.
Killer Croc continued, "Sometimes you can clearly feel the call of the Crimson of All Beings, but sometimes you feel that he doesn't exist at all, as if what you experienced before was an illusion."
He said, "I have never tried to actively call upon the Red of All Beings; it always responds to me on its own when I am in danger."
He paused, then explained, "It's like something rising from your blood. Calling you, strengthening your body."
Chen Tao silently compared what he said with his own feelings.
His feelings about the red of all living beings were almost nonexistent.
The perfect human-bat serum was perfect, but along with its side effects, the power that the Crimson of All Beings had forcibly bestowed upon it was also stripped away.
In his current state, even after transforming, his physical strength would increase only slightly.
But that doesn't matter. No matter how much, as long as we have the power of the Crimson of All Beings, that's enough.
He touched his buttocks and chin.
Not long after.
"We've arrived."
Killer Croc heard Batman say that they were hovering in the air. Killer Croc looked out the window and saw that it was just an ordinary house.
"So, what exactly are we doing here?"
Killer Croc knew he shouldn't ask Batman about his plans; Batman always had plans, and he didn't like others interfering with him.
But he was just curious; after all, he originally thought the other party would take him to some terrifying dragon.
"This is the Baker family, and the patriarch is Buddy Baker, the famous Animal Hero... You should hide inside the plane for now."
Without waiting for Killer Croc to reply, Batman jumped off the plane, landed in front of the other party's door, and knocked.
"Animal Hero..." Killer Croc frowned, feeling like he'd heard the name somewhere before.
and many more!
He suddenly realized that it was the local superhero he had seen on the news recently.
Boom boom boom!
Batman knocked on the door a few times.
"Coming, coming, I'm here to open the door."
"Buddy, is that you back? You... Wardfuck!"
The woman who opened the door was heavily pregnant; she was Ellen Baker, the wife of Animal Hero Buddy Baker.
Animal Hero doesn't seem to be home; only his pregnant wife Ellen and eldest son Cliff are there.
His wife immediately tried to close the door warily: "Whoever you are, impersonating Batman won't do you any good, and if you're planning to do anything to us, you've got the wrong person..."
Then Killer Croc saw Batman snap his fingers, and immediately the previously invisible Batplane appeared right in front of them, interrupting his wife Ellen's voice.
Black nanobots emanated from Batman's lower body, lifting him slightly into the air.
He seemed to be showing off, as the plane, which had been flying silently, hovered over the roof of the Baker's house with a whooshing sound.
"Yay, it's the real Batman!"
Animal Man's eldest son, Cliff, is only a teenager and appears to be a fanatical Batman admirer.
Taking advantage of his mother's momentary lapse in attention, he opened the door and ran to Chen Tao with a cheer.
The teenage boy, with the reverence of someone meeting an idol, reached out a trembling hand to grab the bat-patterned cape.
"My God! It's Batman! I've dreamt about this day before!"
He spoke very quickly:
"Are you here to see my dad, Animal Hero? You guys are superheroes... Good heavens! Batman is visiting my house, I can't believe it!"
As he circled Batman, he shouted to his mother, "Mom, don't worry, it's the real Batman! Look at his Batplane! He's a superhero, a good guy—"
At the shouts of their eldest son Cliff, Animal Man's wife Ellen seemed to relax her guard as well.
She opened the door and came out, then stammered, "Good heavens, it's Batman! Please come in, uh, I mean, please sit down. I'll call Buddy back right away."
The woman struggled for a long time before she could straighten her tongue:
"My God, Batman, I've heard about your urban legends in Gotham since I was in high school! The store near my high school even sold cards featuring you. They packaged you as a vampire and sold you as part of a set with other urban legends like Hanako the Puppy."
After confirming it was true, the woman was very excited: "I've always been your fan!"
So, what was Batman planning to do with this family?
Killer Croc pondered silently. He sensed some of the power of the Crimson of All Beings within this house.
He had to admit that even without having seen Buddy Baker in person, the other party was very likely the most powerful user of the Crimson of All Beings he had ever met.
Forget King Billy, forget Batman; they all pale in comparison to Animal Hero. Even the places he lived left behind such a powerful life force, like a planet orbiting its own course in a galaxy. It's unimaginable how much power the Crimson of All Beings bestowed upon him.
Killer Croc's head was turning. Since he became close to people and no longer curled up alone in the sewers, his humanity had grown considerably, and at least when he started thinking, he no longer got stuck as easily as before.
At this moment, our giant crocodile was deep in thought.
Is Batman asking Animal Man for help against Brainiac? Oh, then he should definitely try to build a good relationship with Animal Man's family. With Animal Man's help, they'll surely be able to...
He had only thought halfway through his thought when he saw Batman, not far away, extend his hand to the two enthusiastic fans.
Oh, do I need to shake hands with them?
Then Killer Croc saw Batman's hand suddenly transform into a spinning wheel, which then slammed into his eldest son Cliff's forehead.
"Wardwalker!"
This time it was the killer crocodile's turn to scream, and it looked like it was in a lot of pain.
With a thud, the young child lay on the ground, fast asleep like a baby.
Before Animal Man's wife, Ellen, could even scream, Batman, who had teleported in front of her again, swung his wheel and hit her on the head. She fell to the ground without a sound. After hitting her, Batman even reached out to support her to make sure she didn't fall to the ground.
Killer Crocodile stared blankly.
"Wayne! Come out and clean up the mess!"
He heard Batman calling him, and Killer Croc jumped off the plane and landed on the ground.
"Disposing of corpses... ah, no, disposing of unconscious people, you should know what that means, right?"
Killer Croc nodded somewhat numbly.
Having spent so many years in Gotham, he had worked as a gangster's underling and as a gangster boss, and had worked for countless villains. Disposing of corpses was already a job he was extremely familiar with.
"Then what are you still standing there for? Move them inside."
The killer crocodile had already conjured up this image in its mind:
Animal Warrior, fresh from his heroic adventures, returns home to find his pregnant wife and eldest son murdered. Enraged, he tears himself and Batman into seventeen or eighteen pieces. Batman, unharmed, wipes his face and says, "It's a mud face." Animal Warrior, on the other hand, becomes a roasted alligator steak, utterly and irrevocably dead.
Oh, by the way, don't ask him how he knew Mudface's mental state. A few hours ago, when he first entered the Batcave, Batman left him in the rest area to do other things. Then, while waiting alone in the rest area for Killer Croc to take Batman to do something, he encountered a large group of women, and then…
Fortunately, he was loyal to his girlfriend, which prevented a major mistake from happening.
Killer Croc blinked, refocusing his thoughts on the problem at hand.
It's fine, anyway, when Animal Man comes to kill us, he'll just sell out Batman—what a joke, he looks more like the killer than the killer! But he was watching the whole time on the plane and didn't get involved in the fight at all!
The crocodile reluctantly carried both of them back into the room and placed them on the big bed.
"Why did you leave this little brat on the bed?"
Then he saw Batman lift the little boy Cliff, who idolized him, off the bed and toss him into a corner like trash: "We don't need him."
Then he reached out, and countless black nanobots slowly emerged from his body and clung to the belly of Animal Man's wife, Allen.
Chen Tao squinted.
As we all know, whether it is the red of all living beings, the green of all things, or the black of decay.
This supernatural power may have countless low-level representatives, but it can only ever have one most powerful representative.
For example, while Greenery can have Poison Ivy and Botanist as its representatives, Swamp Thing's position is irreplaceable.
Similarly, for the Red of All Beings, whether it is Killer Croc, Human-Faced Bat, or even Chen Tao himself, or even Animal Hero himself, they are all just useless low-level representatives, and cannot be compared with the real controller.
In this generation of the Red, the ruler of the Green Swamp Monsters, whose status is equivalent to that of the Green Swamp Monsters, is named Michaelxin.
This future queen of life is currently in his mother's womb.
That's right, Budibak was merely the protector chosen by the Crimson of All Beings for the true Queen of Life, with the aim of protecting her from attacks by the Black of Decay before the Queen of Life fully matured.
The problem is that our Queen of Life is not facing the Corruption Blackness, but Chen Tao, Batman, and a completely new kind of weak, yet equally powerful, superhuman strength:
The Spirit of Metal!
However, at this moment, the Crimson Beings had no idea what they were facing.
"Stop!"
Countless tiny nanobots are invading the abdominal cavity of Animal Hero's wife, Ellen.
Chen Tao's gaze fell upon a distant branch where a bird let out a terrible scream. Then, countless pieces of flesh sprouted from its body, transforming the bird into a cat's head in just a few seconds.
Chen Tao knew him. He was a member of the Totem Council of the Crimson Souls, an elder from the Totem Council. It was he who advocated for Michael to be trained into the Queen of Life, and it was he who arranged the so-called adventure of Animal Warrior Buddy Allen.
"Stop! You're going to cause Michael to miscarry! You have no idea what you're doing!!!"
Chen Tao did not react.
"Batman!! Do you want the power of Decay to continue growing uncontrollably? The Queen of Life is the key to suppressing Decay. You are committing suicide, outright suicide. You are harming all life on Earth. This is terrorism! Stop it now!"
The cat seemed a bit too excited, even bringing up accusations of terrorism.
Most users of the Crimson Power of All Beings will return to the Crimson Power of All Beings after death and become members of the Totem Council, just like the Tree Council of the Green Power of All Beings.
Chen Tao deduced that the other party had probably only recently returned to the Red Sect of All Beings—probably within the last few decades. The real old fogies in the council wouldn't understand this kind of description.
"Let me into the Crimson Realm, Elders of the Totem Council. I have something to discuss with you in person."
Chen Tao quickly said, "Don't think I don't know. I know you all better than you think."
"You are not qualified to enter the realm of sentient beings—"
Before the cat formed from the bird could finish speaking, they heard Animal Hero's wife, Ellen, scream while she was unconscious.
"You win," he shouted. "I'll let you in, stop now!"
(End of this chapter)