novellhall Chapter 403 Substitute Literature, Batman Abinsu
Chapter 403 Substitute Literature, Batman Abinsu
Chapter 403 Substitute Literature, Batman ≈ Abinsu
The first Lantern Knight wouldn't understand why.
Logically speaking, if Batman were not mentally unstable and if he cared about himself even a little, he would never so arbitrarily and decisively reject his own proposal.
The first Lantern Man knew very well that what he said was true, and the truth is the least afraid of being verified.
If Batman were to take the time to verify what he said, he would know that he was telling the truth and that he never intended to do anything to Batman or the universe. It was a good suggestion, and if they could cooperate well, they could each get what they wanted afterwards.
But Batman refused, even rudely interrupting him, and wouldn't even try to fool him.
The first Lantern was almost furious because of this.
almost.
He knew Batman didn't trust him, just like when he secretly used the green light energy to connect with Sinestro's yellow light ring while Batman's attention was focused on Calona, trying to persuade him, and Sinestro refused him for the same reason.
The first Lantern Knights understood all this. After all, they lived in a very late era and had very short lifespans. They had no idea about their grudges with the Guardians of the Universe. They only knew about Calona through the survivor of Sector 666, so it was only natural that they considered themselves to be the same kind of person as Calona. This was all understandable.
"If you don't believe me, you can look up the Book of Oa. Now that the Guardian of the Universe is dead, no one can stop you." He offered a way to verify the truth of his words, then slowly, very slowly said, "I beg you."
"I implore you to consider what I'm saying, and I implore you to make a decision only after you've verified it." He turned to Sinestro: "And you, Sinestro, once you've verified it, you'll know what I'm talking about..."
But before he could finish speaking, he heard Batman say to him, "Shut up this noisy idiot."
"What? Batman, you...?"
The next moment, the face of the first Lantern, formed by the energy of the Green Lantern's will, blurred. Then, the ventriloquist Arnold beside him clutched his head and screamed in pain. As the Green Lantern flickered, the first Lantern soon found himself forcibly severed from his connection with the Ring of Power, and his consciousness reappeared in the cell in the Shadow Cabinet.
The first Lantern Man stared blankly for a while.
Immediately afterwards, a deafening roar erupted from within the Shadow Cabinet: "Aaaaaaaah, you damned Batman—"
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Boo!
Sinestro, standing to the side, could only watch helplessly as the Green Lantern Force, composed of the original Green Lantern, vanished into thin air under the control of the strangely dressed elderly Earthling beside him after Batman snapped his fingers.
"The Ring is ultimately an early work of the First Lantern." He heard Batman say this. Sinestro always felt that Batman knew the First Lantern far better than others thought. This was based on the intuition of a veteran police officer who had been enforcing interstellar law. However, he had no evidence and did not intend to get entangled in this matter. On this issue, Sinestro's opinion was actually the same as Batman's.
Although he was unaware of the time paradox involving Genie and Superman Supreme, Sinestro never intended to release anyone.
That's right. Who knows what the first Genie will do after escaping?
The important thing is not whether the first Genie wanted to do it, but whether he had the ability to do it.
If he really wanted to do something, what methods did Seneca have to restrain him?
No, absolutely not.
Sinestro isn't stupid. Compared to the benefits promised by Lantern Man Number One, the dangers it brings are clearly far greater. Sinestro is far from being so desperate as to be blinded by greed, especially after Batman killed Little Blue and teamed up with him to fight Mongo. Sinestro can almost guess Batman's intentions...
“We can reach an agreement,” he heard Batman say. “Then before we officially begin negotiations, don’t you think we should get those yellow-lights down there to stop? A friend of mine… you can call him Atositas, he’s been working hard to mediate for a long time and just got the payment I promised him earlier.”
Senesto's eyes unconsciously swept towards the spot where the Ghost of Calona had been completely destroyed.
Sinestro then loudly ordered the Yellow Lantern Corps members, who were still fighting sporadically with the Green Lantern Corps members, to cease their hostilities.
He ordered all members of the Yellow Lantern Legion to focus from now on attacking the Annihilator Legion that Mongo had previously recruited, as well as the Supergirl who led them.
But Athocitas had already been traversing the battlefield, using his combat prowess to forcefully stop the green and yellow lights from attacking each other for a long time. Those who haven't stopped yet are basically bloodthirsty.
Adding to the chaos was the interference of the Annihilator, a third force outside the red and yellow factions, and the erratic Supergirl Kara leading the charge. Initially, Atositas was evenly matched with her, holding her back and preventing the situation from becoming too chaotic. However, the Lord of the Red Lanterns quickly abandoned his opponent to collect his coveted reward, Calona. The abandoned Supergirl didn't care about any pursuit; her chaotic mind had no concept of that. Instead, she continued to indiscriminately attack her surroundings.
When Mongo was influencing her, she knew to control him a little and tell him not to attack the Yellow Lantern members together. Now that Mongo has lost the power of the Black Death Emperor, he and Achilo, the third member of the Yellow Lantern Legion whom he had just controlled, are floating in space like corpses. Without any restraint, Supergirl is even more powerful when she goes crazy.
Sinestro called out twice, but no one paid any attention to him, the Lord of the Yellow Lanterns. In the end, the former greatest Green Lantern was forced to voluntarily shut down the Yellow Lantern rings of most of the Yellow Lantern members. Then, when all the Yellow Lanterns' rings suddenly rebelled and were pulled to the ground by the gravity of OA like dumplings being dropped into a pot, Sinestro returned control of the rings to everyone.
This gave everyone a moment of physical calm, and now the Yellow Lanterns could finally speak properly. Although the group of former murderers hurled insults and profanities at Sinestro, they finally yielded after Sinestro threatened to take all their Yellow Lantern rings and then let them be sucked to the surface by the gravity of Planet OA, where they would be smashed to pieces like blood-sucking mosquitoes.
So, as they began to obey Sinestro's orders and join forces with the Green Lanterns, who had just been fighting to the death, to attack Mongo's army of Annihilator robots, Chen Tao, who was standing next to him, also began to assign generals.
He ordered Baine and the newly acquired Ventriloquist to join the battle, followed closely by Atositas.
Bane refused the Green Lantern Ring replica that Batman offered him. Instead, he grew a pair of plant-based wings from his back and flew down to the battlefield to join the fight.
Well, the fact that Bane can control plants to turn into wings is a skill used by the Swamp Monster, the embodiment of the Green of All Things. The fact that he can do it shows that although his mastery of the Green of All Things is not as good as that of the Black of Decay, it is still profound.
However... however, how did a pair of wings give Bane the ability to fly in outer space?
Don't ask, it's all magic. However, Chen Tao still guessed that Bane might have used the Crimson of All Beings to communicate with some kind of creature that can move in the universe and then gained its abilities. The plant-based wings might just exist as weapons.
Well, that means the other party is also very skilled in the Crimson of All Beings. Well, Chen Tao has too many things to prepare every day. In the end, his research on the three natural energies is no match for Bane, who studies them every day.
After all these miscellaneous matters were arranged, Sinestro was finally able to have a proper talk with Batman.
The storm of death was still convulsing not far from Chen Tao and Sinestro.
After being used as a humanoid vessel to seal Parallax again, Deathstorm felt like he was about to be killed.
"Parallax is a dangerous thing," Sinestro heard Batman say. "Putting Parallax inside your body is an absolutely stupid way to die. Unless it's a matter of life and death, I think it's best for no one to do something so foolish."
"Especially if his body were accidentally taken over by Parallax and he were to become Parallax's slave, combined with his original immense power, he could absolutely become a cosmic catastrophe."
"I never intended to try to put Parallax inside my body," Sinestro said. "I admit I had plans and preparations, but it was truly out of necessity."
Seneca said, "My goal is not to become stronger and become the guardian of the universe, but to hope that the Yellow Lantern Corps can replace the Green Lantern Corps and bring justice and order to the universe that did not exist before."
"So, as long as we don't fight the Green Lantern Corps to the death, we don't need Parallax monsters?"
"Indeed."
"very good."
Chen Tao said, "Now that the Green Lantern Corps no longer has those troublemakers, the Guardians of the Universe, the Yellow Lantern Corps can coexist with them. Wait, Sinestro, but this is not without conditions."
"I can represent the Green Lantern Corps to allow the Yellow Lantern Corps to exist. You can reshape the world as you wish, but you must respect individual will."
Chen Tao said:
"Only after each planet has fully experienced both different management methods and voluntarily chosen the management methods of your Senestor Legion can you be qualified to touch it."
"Don't rush to object."
Chen Tao said, "I still have something to say."
His gaze swept down to the battlefield closer to OA, where the Yellow Lantern Legion had received Seneca's new orders and all its members were fighting the Annihilator robots.
Chen Tao's gaze lingered on one of them:
That Yellow Lantern Demon is an alien with a bird's head and a human body.
"What's his name?"
"Lomat Ru," Senesto replied.
"Yes, that's right. He's from Zando, huh? The police found the remains of thousands of children at his residence. He's also a murderer."
Then Sinestro heard Batman rattle off the next character's name like a menu: "Who's this guy? Fina Hicko?"
He was referring to a three-eyed, purple-haired female alien.
"A completely insane artist who killed her husband in the name of art, used his blood to paint, possessed superpowers that allowed her to bring her paintings to life, and then began indiscriminately killing people?"
"Schlag Mann?"
"A career criminal with teeth made of Bismo steel; he once bit through the neck of a policeman on his planet."
Sinestro heard Batman recite the names of dozens of Yellow Lantern Corps members one by one, as if they were his own treasures. They were all vicious criminals, the kind that everyone knew would be sentenced to death without them even needing to appear in court to defend themselves.
"You really take anyone in your party, Sinestro. You even made such a complete scumbag your subordinate?"
"You know perfectly well how many of your men are hopeless scum. Those who can be reformed should be reformed, and those who can't should be sent to hell as soon as possible. What kind of deformed freaks are these? You think you can be the protector of the universe with them?"
Although Chen Tao does accept roles for Gotham Arkham Asylum, do you think he would want characters like Dr. Pigface (Note: Gotham villain who enjoys human experimentation and then creates a hundred twins who obey his orders), Mr. Zass (a serial killer who cuts himself after killing someone), or the cannibal (as the name suggests, Gotham gourmet).
At most, Chen Tao would look for someone like Mr. Freeze who doesn't have much of a criminal record, or someone like Mudface who doesn't have many criminal records.
As for those utterly cruel and wicked people, Chen Tao only used them as expendable resources once when he first transmigrated and faced Bane. He never touched them again after that, let alone gave each of them a yellow light ring like Sinestro did.
"How do you know these people's names? I remember..."
Sinestro said half a sentence, then his expression suddenly changed: "You're reading my mind."
Every word Batman said resonated with him, perfectly matching his own thoughts and feelings.
No one could agree with him so well, not even Abinsu.
He changed his position and saw that the half of Batman's face that wasn't facing him had somehow transformed into the likeness of Lenias.
"It was just grasping at some superficial, scattered thoughts and ideas." Chen Tao shook his head. "Your thoughts were too obvious, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to do it so easily. I knew the group of subordinates you recruited weren't good people, but I didn't expect them to be this bad one by one."
"I only intended to use their fighting ability; I never planned to keep them as members of my army for long," Sinestro said, staring into Batman's eyes. "When the time is right, I will personally send these scum to hell."
For some reason, he had a strange feeling, as if he were talking to Abinsu again after many years.
In the original comic's history, you didn't do that, Sinestro, don't look so certain.
"Since that's what you think, that's good. As long as you can slightly change the basic composition of your team..."
Sinestro heard Batman ask:
"I'm willing to make this happen as easily as possible."
"Did you make the deal?"
When Batman questioned Sinestro, he always felt as if Abin Su's voice was echoing along with Batman's question.
So he said, "Deal."
(End of this chapter)