American comics: What kind of evil intentions could Batman have?

Chapter 216 The Mechanical Superman Gets a Brutal Beating

Chapter 216 The Mechanical Superman Gets a Brutal Beating

"Hey, seriously, man," Heatwave said, crouching in the dense jungle, barely suppressing the urge to set the place on fire. "I don't understand why we actually came here all this way."

"Because Batman can make us rich." The magician squatted on the tree next to him.

"Batman gave us a whopping $20 million! There are six of us, so each of us gets $333 million! My God! We can use the extra $20,000 for travel expenses. If we're careful with our money, for example, if we take the old-fashioned green train back instead of the high-speed train we took here, we can save at least $9000, enough for us to have five or six nice meals."

The youngest magician in the gang seemed a little excited: "I've never earned so much money in my life. I'm putting it this way, even if Batman made us fight Superman, I..."

"Quiet down, kid," Captain Cold said. "Batman's money doesn't come from thin air. I bet his cash reserves are severely damaged by giving us that much cash all at once. He's gone all out; what we're going to do won't be as easy as a robbery. Damn it, if we could still rob someone now."

He complained, "The situation is really terrible right now. I never thought I would feel such disgust for the robbery business."

"I actually think the robbery was pretty good. We robbed 13 banks. Except for the first one, which we had scouted out beforehand and had enough cash, the others were all tens of thousands at a time. But all in all, our total income has exceeded 2 million. That's definitely a big deal," the Magician said. "But compared to the lavish Batman, it's still a bit lacking."

"But this kind of work is just too boring," the weather wizard said. "I've always felt like we're robbers, not beggars on our knees. I'd rather travel all this way to feed mosquitoes than earn money this way."

He tapped the tree beside him twice with his weather wand. Before he gained superpowers, the wand was a technological artifact used to manipulate the weather, but now it was just a purely decorative wooden stick, which he could wave around to pretend to be a wizard when he activated his superpowers.

A small whirlwind swept up and killed all the insects that were near it, but soon more insects emerged from the dense forest, filling the gaps around it, and no matter how many it killed, it couldn't kill them all.

The weather wizard rubbed the mosquito bites on his body: "How much longer do we have to wait in this forest?"

"Killer Crocodile will be here soon," the Golden Glider said. "He said he's very fast and won't have more than an hour and a half to put the things away. Now there are only about 10 minutes left."

"He'll be back soon," said the golden glider.

"And we've been taking care of this stupid dog for over ten minutes now," Heatwave said from the side. "Why is this dog dressed in a Superman costume and cape? I'm hungry, can we grill it and make dog meat hot pot?"

Little K, who had been squatting beside him like a good puppy since the start of the conversation, looked at him in horror and barked angrily.

Lisa was speechless. Ignoring the two clowns, she turned to the Mirror Master, who hadn't uttered a word since they started, and asked, "Sam, would you like some water and a rest?"

"I don't need it, you should rest too, Lisa, we have a tough battle to fight later." The Mirror Master sat on the tree with his arms crossed, and wisps of broken mirror kept appearing in his hands, then quickly condensing into a whole piece, and then dissipating without a trace.

"Your brother is right. No matter what Batman asks us to do, this money isn't so easy to get."

A few minutes later.

Killer Croc opened the portal to the Crimson of All Beings and returned to the Rogue Gang.

"The mirrors are all set up, Sam. Now it's all up to you to show your skills. But for now, everyone come with me to the Red Hole to hide yourselves," Killer Croc called to the group.

"By the way, Wellen." Magician watched his teammates walk into the Crimson City one by one, then suddenly remembered something and turned to Killer Croc, asking, "Did Batman give you money back then? How much?"

"Oh, okay, I gave it to you," Killer Croc said. "But not much."

Killer Crocodile thought.

Just a tiny bit.

"Oh, not much. How much exactly?"

Killer Crocodile thought for a moment, then made a two-sign to the magician.

The magician chuckled inwardly.

It turns out that Killer Croc only received 200 million. It seems that the Rogue Gang is still very difficult to bribe. They didn't lose money at all when they asked for the price.

So he entered the Crimson Realm of All Beings, completely satisfied.

Killer Croc, following closely behind him, glanced at the Rogues. To be honest, he'd always been curious. Batman spent so much money just to bribe him, and now he'd bribed so many powerful figures—how much exactly had he spent?

"Let's go, Little Krypton." He turned around and called out to the white Super Dog.

"Woof!"

Xiao Ke answered him.

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"It hurts so much, my head feels like it's going to explode!"

The mechanical superhero saw a devastating red light shoot from the supergirl's eyes, which sent an armored soldier flying backward.

"God, God... I'm on fire! Get out, help me out!"

Several soldiers rushed forward, dragging their comrade to safety. Then, a few brave soldiers grabbed Supergirl from behind: "Calm down, baby?"

Then, in the blink of an eye, their arms were torn off.

So the mechanical superhero knew it was time for him to make his appearance.

"calm!"

He appeared in front of Supergirl.

"Who am I...who am I?"

Lost, confused, lonely. It was just a difference in wording, but the mechanical superhero knew she was terrified, extremely terrified.

"Who are you? Why are you wearing my family crest?"

"Calm down, I can hear your blood rushing to your brain, take a deep breath."

"Don't tell me what to do. How did I get here? Where are my family?"

The mechanical superhero put on a kind expression and asked the question he already knew the answer to: "Wait a minute, first tell me who you are, where you're from, and why you're wearing this."

Then he heard the woman in front of him say:

"I am Kara Zor El, from Argon City... Krypton! I was in a daze, wandering around this forest for a long time, and just as I regained my senses, these machines started attacking me, and then, and then, oh my god, no way, something's wrong with my body, my eyes, my hearing..."

The mechanical superman pretended to be an unsuspecting fellow countryman. He waved his hand to stop more soldiers from crowding around, and continued in a gentle, almost benign tone: "You say you're Kara, Zo El, and Alura's daughter?"

"Yes, you know them. Where are they?"

The mechanical superman said, "I am Karl, the son of Jorel and Lyra. If you really are Karazor, then I am your cousin."

Great, so far everything is going well.

The mechanical superhero thought silently.

Next came the tearful reunion of the cousins, and he brought back another valuable asset for the government, gaining even more trust from them.

But the next second, the mechanical superman was sent flying like a cannonball by Kara's heavy punch.

"Liar! Karl is still a baby. I held him in my arms three days ago!" She grabbed the mechanical superhero's cloak and slammed him to the ground with a thud.

"What did you do to him?"

She straddled the mechanical superhero, punching him repeatedly until his mechanical head was embedded in the ground: "I know you're lying, Karl isn't very good at climbing yet!"

As she swung her fists, she watched as the other person's head gradually became transparent: "So that means you're definitely not my cousin!"

Kara stretched out her palm and could clearly see her own bones: "This is... me, I can see my own bones, what's happening? Stop!"

"These are X-rays, just one of the physiological changes Kryptonians experience after being exposed to Earth's yellow solar radiation. I've also experienced these, only the process took much longer—"

Boom! Before the mechanical superhero could finish speaking, he was hit on the face again.

"No! I don't want to hear it! I still have school to go to! I'm graduating soon! What's going on?!"

Not far away, Chen Tao, who had witnessed the whole thing, whispered to Clark on the communication channel, "That's why I didn't just rush out. The girl, who's just arrived on Earth and is very excited, needs a human punching bag."

He added, "Or steel sandbags."

"No, I need to get away from you. I need to find the spaceship that woke me up right away; it's the only way I can go home—I need to get out of this hellhole!"

"This strange forest definitely isn't from Krypton!"

The mechanical superhero finally grew impatient, his eyes flashing red. But he quickly noticed Chen Tao and Wonder Woman, who had deliberately appeared at the edge of the woods not far away. He guessed that they had probably arrived here long ago, but had been watching from a distance without making a move.

Fearing that Batman might fuel the flames and lead him to endlessly fight with the Supergirls, he suppressed his urge to physically attack them and continued to patiently appease them.

Things always go wrong in unexpected ways, but he has to solve them.

"If you really are the person you're talking about, I can help you, but the more you resist, the less I'll believe you."

The mechanical superhero felt exhausted. He had never dealt with such a fragile young girl before.

"Okay, but actually... I don't need your help!"

With another deafening roar, the mechanical superman was punched so hard that he sank into the ground.

"Stop! Stop!" Then, Kara saw someone waving and shouting from a short distance away, "I have something to say, please listen to me!"

His shout drew Kara's attention, and she paused involuntarily. Then she heard the man with two pointed ears on his head say:

"Woof! Woof woof woof!"

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But the next moment, a look of surprise appeared on Kara's face. A white figure flew in from the horizon, and the girl recognized it in an instant: "Little Krypton! You're alive! You didn't die!"

"This place is called Earth. The yellow sun of this planet grants Kryptonians abilities beyond those of ordinary people. If you truly come from Krypton, you should remember the Planet Destroyer. Due to its overwhelming destructive power, it had to be permanently banned by the Council, and all its designs and materials were destroyed to prevent further threats. But on this planet, under this sun, you possess the power of the Planet Destroyer."

"Are you...you're also one of my compatriots?"

Kara looked at the man in front of her hesitantly, ignoring the fact that Xiao Ke was trying to lick her face.

"But... why are you here? Why don't you go back to your home on Krypton?"

Then she heard the other person say, "If you still have your memory, I think you should be able to remember, because of Krypton..."

"Disappeared."

The mechanical superhero, who had painstakingly climbed up from dozens of meters underground, hadn't even had time to spit out the remaining mouthful of mud when he saw his target, Kara Zo El, collapsing to the ground, sobbing helplessly. Batman, meanwhile, patted her shoulder and handed the Kryptonian girl, who had completely calmed down, a tissue he had prepared beforehand.

"Fuck." The mechanical superhero cursed inwardly, then forced a stiff smile back onto his face.

Even after being beaten, one must still greet others with a smile. Such shrewdness is a basic quality of a villain.

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"Batman, I can't believe you still have the nerve to show your face in front of me after all that's happened." Amanda Waller sat in her office seat, barely containing her anger, which was about to explode.

This is Waller's newly built office. She thought it would be a place beyond Batman's reach. However, at this very moment, Batman's pointed-eared figure still appears brazenly on the glass door of her office.

"I've done so much!" The obese, cylindrical-looking King of Agents roared, seemingly out of control.

"I upgrade and upgrade again, and the network gets hacked? I'll just use the intranet, and you still can't get in. I'll physically disconnect the network; but even that won't stop you. I've simply ordered the entire Pentagon department dealing with you to regress to the point of recording intelligence by hand on paper. I've even used a nuclear magnetic resonance destruction device, specifically designed to target anything with a technological level exceeding the difference engine appearing in this building, to prevent telepathy. I—"

"I fucking pushed myself to the limit!"

Amanda acted out her rage while hoping to glean something from Batman's face or glean a clue from his response.

She was completely baffled. Unlike those who spread rumors, Amanda knew that Batman was never some omniscient and omnipotent god. When she was invaded again, she was very curious about how Batman had managed to do it.

Batman appeared on the glass door; how did they manage to project the image onto the glass?

"Amanda Waller," Waller then heard the other person say, "Mechanical Superman has ulterior motives; he may be connected to Darkseid."

"I don't believe it," Amanda Waller replied succinctly.

"I'll make you believe it." Then she heard Batman say, "I'll prove it to you."

(End of this chapter)