I'm Tao Chen.

A traverser.

I've wondered countless times if my behavior is really normal.

Am I affected by those Batman memories?

Did they influence me to change my course and go crazy?

Let's take a look at what I'm going to do now.

I'm going to intercept a nuclear bomb, completely voluntarily, premeditated, and deliberately careless.

- Oh no, it's completely Batman-shaped, and there's a damn magic to that pointy-eared mask.

- Hell, what kind of madman would have imagined that he would receive a nuclear bomb in his own flesh?

It's like a person standing on the edge of a cliff who faintly expects that he will stumble and fall?

This is definitely a pathological tendency to self-destruct.

Ha.

So now, you're questioning your motives? The body honestly made all kinds of preparations, and then began to doubt his own brain?

Don't be funny.

You say to yourself:

There was no turning back from the bow.

Either way, it was my decision...... Chen Tao's decision.

I decided to intercept the nuclear bomb myself, in the worst-case scenario, when all hole cards were depleted, when I had no other choice, and at the risk of being blown up.

Now is the time to live up to my decision.

So that predictable feeling of fear shocks your whole body like a pacemaker.

"I modified the design of the nuclear bomb so that it was no longer intended as a weapon against ground strikes...... It's against the weapon—the weapon—"

Bane said.

The world is distorted before your eyes, and Bane's voice is elongated and distorted in your ears.

You hear Bane say:

"Its radar is set up to track Batman."

And you know you're Batman.

"It's terrible." Lucius's voice sounded in the headphones: "I understand what Bane meant, that is, this nuclear bomb is now being launched according to the established trajectory.

If we don't leave it alone, it will raze the Metropolis to the ground, and if you want to push it off orbit, it is impossible to throw it off Earth, because this nuclear bomb is set up to track you, and once you get close to it, it will explode! ”

He spoke a little upside down, and his language processing was not brainy, but at least he could barely explain the situation.

Then the voice of the butler Alfred sounded inside the channel:

"Master, I heard the general situation, you don't have to rely on you alone."

His face with a candle hood appeared on top of the two-dimensional projection screen, with two claws standing behind him.

Young Robin stood safely behind him, all the dangers and dangers away from him.

Alfred's tone was very calm, and he looked very sensible, and even had a relaxed smile on his face:

"We must have other ways, we can think of other ways. For example, drones—"

"Bane named me." Chen Tao told him in a low voice: "Will he not think of this?" It is impossible for a drone to adapt to an environment like being out of the atmosphere, and needless to say, this is a gift for me. ”

Alfred was slightly silent, and then said quickly:

"Then there are some other ways, human bats, human-faced bats, he can also fly!"

So you don't care if the human bat lives or dies, if you don't have a nano body to face the explosion of a nuclear bomb, you will definitely die.

Although Chen Tao doesn't mind finding a replacement ghost, the main thing is ......

"How can you catch up with a missile at the speed of a human-faced bat?"

"Then we can find another ......"

Chen Tao took a deep breath.

"Alfred, I expected this, okay?"

He told Alfred, "It's nothing more than confronting the explosion of a nuclear bomb." ”

He organizes the language:

"I've got some special abilities, Nano Batman or something."

Alfred whispered, "I know, sir." You didn't explain them to me, and I wouldn't have asked on purpose, but there's no doubt that I know. ”

Chen Tao continued:

"I had imagined a nuclear bomb exploding. As long as I can convert into a hybrid of a car and a nanobody at the same time, and the amber gold of the owl bat keeps me alive, even in the face of a nuclear bomb that our chief scientist has calculated for me, I won't die, at best I'll be weakened. ”

He stretched out his hand, one hand turning into the black sand of a broken bat, the other condensing into green dinosaur claws, and then smoothly turning into a car's tires under his control.

His temples were throbbing, but this time......

These two overlapping transformations did not collapse.

Lucius's voice confirmed beside him: "Alfred, Bruce didn't let me tell you before, mainly because he was afraid that you would worry, and this is only a plan for the worst-case scenario, although it is ...... now Forehead ......"

In a dull tone, he said, "This worst-case scenario has become a reality. ”

Alfred was silent for a moment.

"You've never told me before that you're thinking about a nuclear bomb."

He turned his head abruptly to look at Robin standing beside him, "Tim, you know this, right?" Dudu didn't tell me? Don't dare to tell me? ”

He didn't even call Master Tim as he usually did.

Tim fell silent.

Alfred turned his head and said dejectedly:

"Have you tried?"

Chen Tao was speechless.

"Oh my God, you haven't tried it at all, have you? You're not sure if you're going to survive a nuclear bomb. ”

"It's not that exaggerated." Chen Tao told him: "According to numerical calculations, as long as I am not in the very center, the shock wave and heat energy are not enough to destroy me, and of course, the radiation is not effective for me......

Chen Tao wasted his words for a while, and then suddenly realized that these did not dispel Alfred's concerns, so he paused and explained, and finally said:

"I'm sorry, Alfred. I'm afraid I have to go. After all, it's Batman's responsibility. ”

Chen Tao could clearly hear every word he said.

"And I, it's—"

"Nope! No! You can't!!! You're not him! He's dead! He's finally dead! He finally got his wish, and died with the monsters in exhaustion! ”

Alfred finally broke out.

His whole body was trembling, and he could no longer hold back the smile he had put on his face.

"The city gave you back to me! Gotham gave me back the little boy named Bruce Wayne who died with his parents in Crime Alley! ”

"You're finally letting go, you're finally able to sleep, you're finally at peace—my child!"

He cautiously reached out his hand, as if to caress Bruce's face through the screen, as if touching some fragile porcelain.

"I'm ill-fated, a bruised child! You've suffered so much! You don't have to, you don't need to-"

He clenched his fists, as if he could desperately grab his Bruce, as if Chen Tao would turn into a bat and fly away in the next second.

"Please, damn it! You don't have to be a bat monster in black anymore! ”

“……”

The old man seemed to have exhausted the last of his strength, and his legs went limp, and he collapsed to the ground.

"Please......"

“……”

"There are others...... Others can go. You don't owe the city anything, you don't owe anyone. You should go and live a normal life, this city, or any other city, it doesn't matter to you how they are. ”

He let out two indistinct whimperes.

Under the light, half of Chen Tao's face was hidden in the shadows.

"The explosion of a nuclear bomb destroys the world, this ...... None of this is your responsibility. ”

He said:

"You promised to retire with me."

Always, it's happened too many times - the son of Gotham puts on his robe again, the dead bat monster comes back to life, and he ......

Once again, Bruce Wayne is on the verge of death. This was undoubtedly the most brutal torture of Alfred's life.

...... in this regard

I apologize.

"Alfred ......"

"I'm Batman."

Chen Tao always felt that these words had a destined-like flavor.

They were speechless.

Lucius's voice also sounded in Chen Tao's ears at this time: "We detected it, that nuclear bomb!" ”

He said with some sadness: "But we don't have interceptor missiles anymore." So ......"

"I see."

The Dark Knight exhaled deeply, his head paused and sighed, and when he looked up, Alfred saw the burning fire roaring in his eyes.

He was familiar with that look, he was too familiar with that look.

The kind of eyes that belong to Batman alone, he has seen such eyes countless times in the past years-

Lonely and awe-inspiring, contemptuous and sharp!

(End of chapter)