Chen Tao is watching TV.

A debate, a replay of last night, is often used to fill the gap in the early hours of the morning when no one is watching.

The moon is high and the stars are sparse, which is the season when Batman often haunts. Chen Tao got up early, it was still a long time before dawn, and the night was still shrouded in Gotham.

Last night, the long-dormant crime ban will be lifted, and the Gotham underworld, which has been held back for almost three months, will start a new round of carnival tonight.

But Chen Tao knew that they must have ushered in a ...... Surprise.

A Batman who is not quite the same as before.

The sound on the TV was still ringing.

"As a member of the earth, we have been looking for a savior, 90% of us believe in the power of God, every religion believes in a savior, when such a savior really comes to the earth, do we force him to abide by our rules? We have to understand that this is a paradigm shift......"

"The existence of superhumans has made the police and all social organizations of mankind lose their meaning of existence. There are many historical ...... for humanity to allow a powerful individual to reshape society and the state by his own will"

"Blindly following people with great abilities leads to serious disasters...... Hiller? Napoleon? We always make the hero our own way, project ourselves onto him......"

"Seriously, what's the big deal if Superman solves everything? I don't know if you've ever lived in Gotham, but in my opinion, Superman is a sunny version of Batman - have you ever heard of Batman? ”

"But it's clear that Batman can't blow up the entire Gotham crime in one night."

"But now I can."

Chen Tao muttered to himself in a low voice.

He chuckled and continued to watch. People on TV argued.

"Maybe Batman is a vampire, a night elf, but he's always a human being, right? I've read Gotham's newspapers in recent years, and Batman has shown more than once that he's going to get hurt too. ”

"But Superman? Haha, I mean—"

"He is a god who walks on earth!"

But man should not be saved by God, hell, you can't always expect a superman to come down from heaven to save you when you are in danger! Do you know about suicide ghetto? ”

"Oh, I'm sorry, maybe I should say the official name there: Hobie Bay. Recently, there was a crazy woman who became famous there, she deliberately rushed to the place where the gangsters were in flames, and she also established a [Superman Angel Society], which seems to me to be no different from the previous cult [Superman Almighty Sect]! Don't you know what the group of fanatical Superman fans of [Superman Almighty Teaching] did?

"They attack everyone who openly criticizes Superman, just like the Heller Youth!"

"But Superman personally arrested every member of that cult, and fan behavior shouldn't rise to idols!"

"That's right, yes, Superman arrested those crazy fans, and that's just because Superman wants to take care of it, but what happens if one day, he doesn't want to care about his fanatical bastards?"

"Oh, by the way, you should know that the arrested members now hate Superman, how much they believed in Superman before, and how much they hate Superman now."

"Did you read the news? Do you remember how hysterical the blonde woman named Kelly screamed when she was arrested? ”

"She also organized anti-government demonstrations before, asking why Superman didn't come to rule us, she should be the first batch of the most fanatical Superman fans, almost developed into a cult, and in the end it was the result - this is the end of relying on Superman!"

"I bet that the old woman who made a name for herself in the suicidal slums, Safna, and her Superman Angel will end up with this as well-"

The opposing debater did not give the positive side a chance to speak at all:

"I would like to quote here what a very famous entrepreneur, Mr. Lex Luthor, said:"

"Superman seems to be very friendly now, but this kind of friendliness is just 'the little boy sees the ant and thinks it's cute, so he takes care of it', and even if Superman can be friendly for a lifetime, he will always die one day."

"If the police and firefighter systems are all in use, who will save us the day Superman dies?"

"Enough, you said so much, do you mean to stop Superman? You can always be here to preach out to me, but I ask you if you have the guts to say in front of a grieving parent that 'Superman could have saved your child, but in principle, we don't want him to go.'" ’？ ”

The debate was directly destroyed by the brutal and unreasonable moral dilemma of dimensionality reduction.

Chen Tao shook his head.

There's nothing to look at in the back anymore.

But before he was about to get up and turn off the TV, he still heard the opponent struggling:

"Superman can't save everyone, and he can't save forever. One day, the big blue boy scout will find that everything he has done is in vain, and after he is gone, the evil will still exist and nothing will change, and even because of his big baggage, the power of justice will fade more and more, causing even more destruction and imbalance! ”

"In the face of the chaos of reality, everything Superman does is in vain and will be in vain!"

"In vain!"

The debater's final conclusion echoed in his mind.

Chen Tao suddenly had no interest in turning off the TV, he didn't want to do anything now, just sat on the sofa in a daze.

But soon his phone rang, and a surveillance program sent an alert.

Chen Tao walked to the window, and sure enough, he saw Clark wearing a Batman uniform flying from a distance.

"Don't use a hook gun?" Chen Tao asked him.

Clark turned his head weakly.

Although he learned how to use the hook gun, it was too slow after all, and in the end he didn't use it.

Superman fooled over the topic, and then spoke: "I stopped more than 6,000 illegal incidents tonight, including but not limited to smuggling, *drugs, forced sales*, human trafficking*, and violent debt collection, and I solved them in one night. ”

He pulled out a crowbar from his back, apparently beaten so hard that it was bent and then forcibly straightened.

"You're right, there are so many criminals that you can't send them all to prison. So I finally listened to you and used a bat-like approach. ”

Clark said sullenly, "But it would be too cruel to break all four limbs, so I only broke their legs." ”

Chen Tao knew that the osteopathic doctor might be busy breaking his leg tomorrow, and the stretchers and crutches from the Wayne Group's medical supply store would also be sold out.

Fortunately, he had the medical supply store stock up in advance, and he had bought all the goods for the other family a day earlier.

"There are so many criminals." Clark repeated again sullenly, and then said:

"It's also cruel, far more cruel than the Metropolis. It's hard for me to imagine that you've been battling this bunch of villains. Batman, you're an amazing person. ”

But there are still so many criminals committing crimes.

Chen Tao's mind inexplicably remembered what the opposing debater said.

"Everything done was in vain!"

He shook his head and forcibly banished the other person's voice from his head.

Whatever, the real Batman has failed to save the city for so many years, what does it matter to me who travels through it?

And I'm retiring.

Without the Owl Court, the Gotham transformation project should be able to proceed smoothly.

Clark saw the image on television.

"Ah, that's the show."

Clark stared at the screen in a daze. Chen Tao knew that some of the recent events of some fanatical admirers had touched the heart of this Kansas farm boy.

"Mr. Wayne?"

"Huh?"

"Sometimes...... I always felt like Superman didn't exist. I always felt that Superman was just a Kansas farmer's dream, and I didn't know when I would wake up. ”

His voice was a little muffled.

Chen Tao patted him on the shoulder:

"But your dreams still inspire countless people. That peasant's dream is the whole world for some people, their only source of hope. After all—"

"You're Superman!"

When the first rays of the morning sun fell on Clark Kent, our Kansas boy took off his black Batman suit and put on the red and blue tights again.

The S on his chest shimmered dazzlingly in the sunlight, reflecting on his melancholy face that was comparable to the ancient Greek demigods.

"There's a meteorite falling towards Earth."

He rose from a levitation and raised his head, his eyes glowing white.

"The landing points are Sydney and Seoul."

Chen Tao knew that he must have seen through the fog of countless worlds and went straight to the world that needed him the most.

"Go save the planet once again, Clark."

Chen Tao said, "Fly, Clark!" Fly! ”

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"For God's sake! You guys are trading * goods and people here is utter blasphemy! ”

The gangster gunman looked at the old woman who broke into the trading scene and felt numb.

In order to prevent being caught by this old woman and thus attracting Superman again, they have changed the trading time from the night to the early hours of the morning when normal people should sleep!

But the horse-ridden, why, this old woman was still able to find them?!

The gangster gunman scratched his head frantically:

"How the did you find here?"

"Justice never sleeps, wicked man!"

The old woman rushed to him with righteous words: "I am monitoring you 24 hours a day!" ”

The gunmen of the International Gang felt that they could not bear it anymore.

He raised his gun: "Enough, you bastard!" ”

He was indignant and said, "You have already sent more than a dozen people from our gang in!" ”

Saphna wasn't afraid at all.

She deliberately walked in front of the other party, and stood swaggeringly in front of the big bags of white powder and the living goods in the cage surrounded by more than a dozen gangsters.

Many of the kidnapped "goods" were children. They looked in horror at the grandmother who stood in front of them.

The gangster raised his pistol and aimed it at her thin, crumbling body.

Saphna looked a little tired, but she still prayed in a loud voice: "In God's name, the angels will punish you wicked people!" ”

Superman hears her.

Even if he is now falling at more than several times the speed of sound.

He knew he had to save Sephna now, as he had done so many times before.

But now...... He couldn't run away.

Two meteorites falling in different directions fell at the same time, and he had just taken the one in Seoul and was now fighting the one in Sydney.

This meteorite is very large, and it is a little bigger than he imagined. If it falls in a dense city, it may kill and injure millions of people in an instant.

He had to do his best to change the trajectory of the meteorite's fall, and he couldn't even spare his hands to call Batman and ask Batman to save Sevna.

The timing was very unfortunate.

Very, very unfortunate.

Clark could hear the sound of a bullet being loaded.

Even from that distance, his super hearing could hear the sound of the firing pin of a gun hitting gunpowder.

Click.

Saphna opened her hands and stood in front of the children and *pin.

Qiang.

Bang!

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"I'm sorry."

Clark said to Chen Tao.

They were standing in the doorway of the hospital room.

Superman, with his body of steel, stopped. Chen Tao accompanied him.

"Maybe she'll hate me as much as the superhuman all-powerful Kelly taught before."

Clark said to Chen, "She may resent me for not being able to save her." ”

"No, it won't." Chen Tao said.

But this is clearly not convincing.

Clark was a little rambling.

He wandered through the corridors of the hospital with flowers for visiting the sick:

"Maybe the debater was right. Yes, I watched that debate a long time ago. ”

Clark said, "My efforts were in vain. ”

"Maybe I just ended up with the police and firefighters and nothing changed in the end."

"Maybe the world doesn't need a super-"

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

Chen Tao interrupted him: "You are superhuman." ”

He said, "Come on, you're going to have to face this." ”

They pushed open the door to Sephna's hospital room.

The old woman was lying on a hospital bed, her thin body full of catheters and on a ventilator.

"I ...... I'm sorry that there was a meteorite falling at the time and I had to ......"

Superman was a little confused and put the flowers on the table next to the old woman.

"No, it's not your fault, angel." Then he heard the old woman's faint voice: "God has heard my prayers and therefore sent you to me-"

"But angels don't come every time. I mistakenly took the power of the angels for my own, which is why I have incurred such a fate. It's not your fault, angel. You don't need to blame yourself for this at all. ”

The saddest thing didn't happen, and Clark breathed a sigh of relief. He paused, then continued:

"I'm really sorry. I swear to you, Saphna, those who hurt you, I will arrest them immediately. ”

But his words only drew a smile from the old woman.

"No, not anymore."

"What?"

Clark was stunned.

"Our angel, haven't you watched the news?"

Chen Tao controlled the TV to turn on, and found the latest announcement on it:

"The brutal, cold-blooded, ruthless and heinous shooting of Ms. Safna ignited the public outrage of the suicide ghetto. Over the past few weeks, this lady who bravely said no to evil has earned the respect of all citizens. ”

"Although she was helpless, her heroic actions inspired every citizen who was plagued by gangs."

"The orphanage she founded and the Superman Angel Society have helped hundreds of people in need......

"The anger of hundreds of thousands of people tore apart the International Gang in an instant, and before the police could reach the scene, the gang members were overwhelmed by the angry citizens......

Saphna's gaze was filled with infinite tenderness, and she looked at Superman with reverence.

"Angel, this is your strength. Gentle, kind, inspiring. Even though you couldn't be by my side all the time, you saved me because—"

"You're Superman!"

(End of chapter)