Chapter 244: We Have a Traitor in the Middle (Plus Seek to Follow, 6-1=5)
"Tomorrow is the first meeting of the Justice League...... Why are you so interested? ”
Refreshing night.
Wonder Woman Diana and Chen Tao, who was dressed in civilian clothes, walked together on the square of the Hall of Justice in Xinjian City.
Located in the heart of the metropolis, this new landmark sits in the heart of the metropolis and faces north and south, with every inch of land smelling of money.
The square was built in the style of a football field, but the area was more than ten times larger.
"Just a little confused, Diana." Chen Tao kicked the newly planted grass on the ground with his foot and said, "About myself." ”
"Oh?" Chen Tao saw Diana turn around and walk upside down: "I didn't think that Batman, who was busy like a spinning top all day long, would feel lost." ”
"That's not what I want." Chen Tao shook his head.
He said to Diana: "You know I promised Alfred that I would go to Fiji with him to retire. But what about now? ”
"Darkseid, meditative mites, until the darkest night, one thing after another, never stops."
"I doubt this, I doubt that, I think all day long, either in a fight or on the way to a fight," he said. ”
"Is this really what I want in this life?"
Wonder Woman doesn't speak. She stretched out a hand and put it on Chen Tao's shoulder.
Then she saw Chen Tao shove something like a remote control into her hand.
"What is this?"
She asked.
"Magic props." Chen Tao told her: "With this thing, you can almost counter most of the people in the Justice League." Just press this button gently. ”
Wonder Woman burst out laughing.
"Sounds like a cheat code for some game."
She saw Chen Tao raise her eyebrows.
"Uh-huh, do I know the game unexpectedly?" The princess of Paradise Island said, "Don't think of me as an antique. I'm no different from an ordinary modern person now. ”
She held up the remote: "Okay, okay. But I don't quite understand how this works. ”
"You just have to press it, and they will tremble and go limp, and lose their combat effectiveness."
"It's the effect, I'm asking about the principle."
"I can't tell you, Diana. Some things are better rotten in the heart. Chen Tao said:
"It's just a little bit of ...... Backup plan, only you Diana, I only you can trust. ”
"Okay...... Diana said, "Shouldn't I feel honored to be one of Batman's backup plans?" ”
"I don't think it's extreme to prepare for the worst, you need multiple backup plans in a military operation," Chen said, "and only by considering the worst-case scenario can we ensure that the team will not be defeated, and we need to ......."
"Shhhh......h
Wonder Woman Diana made a booing gesture.
"You don't have to explain this to me, Batman." She said.
When Chen Tao turned his head, Wonder Woman had already walked away with a gust of fragrant wind.
"Be your backup plan...... I'm really honored. ”
"Don't tell anyone about the remote I gave you, I only gave it to you, I only trust you." Chen Tao said.
Diana paused, then exhaled deeply, almost groaningly.
Chen Tao shook his hand at her, signaling that he knew, and then slowly walked away.
Chen Tao muttered to himself silently.
"I'm sorry, Diana...... But I can't tell you anything. I suspect that we have a traitor among them, not Billy's father, nor Superman, but a third person hidden among us. I have every reason to be suspicious of anyone but myself. ”
"Everything seems to have been arranged. Why did Billy fail in his missions and even kill civilians by mistake? Why was Superman able to tell so much Krypton information and Kara's family situation so accurately when he first met Supergirl Kara Zo El? ”
"Is it true that Mecha Superman has absorbed the knowledge from the Kryptonian spaceship like in the comics?"
"Also, why are my enemies able to grasp my whereabouts so accurately? I'm already wary of Superman, there's no way he'll be able to get my schedule, not to mention that I'm going back to dinner with Alfred on the spur of the moment, and I'm a day late to meet Waller with Green Lantern. ”
"Why was the Meditation Mite able to take Billy into a trap with such precision by taking such a time difference when I was dealing with Green Lantern affairs?"
"Who is secretly betraying this information to my enemies?"
"Martian Manhunter? Although he is a master of mind manipulation, people who play with the mind are often controlled in reverse, and his suspicion cannot be ruled out. ”
"Amanda Waller? She's just an ordinary person, and it's easy to mentally manipulate her. ”
"Alfred? If someone manipulates his mind......"
"The Flash? His super-speed and wall-piercing abilities have every chance of stealing any information from Amanda Waller and notifying anyone, or faking the death of a civilian before Billy can react, so that Billy mistakenly believes that he caused it. ”
Or...... Wonder Woman Diana? Demigods, as difficult as they are to be controlled by the mind, are not absolutely not. ”
"Green Lantern Howl? He knew that I had decided to come back to him on day 2 and Amanda Waller would definitely let him know. ”
"The scoundrels? They are loyal only to the banknotes, although united but unorganized and undisciplined, if anyone ......"
"Ivy Ivy? My Scientist Lucius? ”
"Killer crocodile? Or did someone invade a part of his body, such as Clay Face, and manipulate him? ”
All kinds of doubts and thoughts came one after another, turning Chen Tao's heart lake into turbulent waves and turbulent storms.
Chen Tao made another call.
Not long after, with a burst of yellow light, the Flash appeared in the square: "Batman, what are you looking for me?" ”
Then he saw Batman pull out a remote control of the same model from his pocket that was exactly the same as the one he had given to Wonder Woman.
“…… All you have to do is press it, and they'll tremble, soften, and lose their combat effectiveness......"
“…… It's just a little back-up plan, and only you, Barry Allen, and I'm the only one you can trust......"
"Woooooo Barry was so moved that he almost cried: "Batman! I will never fail your trust! I'm sure to be your best backup plan, you can definitely trust me! ”
Chen Tao watched the moved Flash leave, and then dialed the next number.
"Hey, Martian Manhunter?"
"Yes, yes, you come to the square."
"You just have to press it"
"I only trust you"
"A Little Backup Plan"
"I see, Batman. Rest assured, I won't ask more. Martian Manhunter nodded solemnly: "Thank you for your trust, I promise ......"
Next.
"I can't believe you trust me so much, Batman!" Green Lantern Hal said with a shocked face, and then a serious face: "Don't worry, I won't let you down." Entrusting me with big things is definitely the right choice you have made in your life. Members of the Green Lantern Corps will guard ......"
Chen Tao waved his hand impatiently.
Next.
"Boo, I'll be ready at all times." Super girl Carla said, "But what is the use of this iron lump? ”
Next.
"Are you mistaken, I'm so moved that I'm about to cry." Captain Cold said.
Next.
The killer crocodile hugged Chen Tao directly, stretched out his tongue, and licked wildly on his face: "Woo woo woo!" Batman! I will always be your most loyal Robin! ”
Chen Tao wiped the saliva on his face expressionlessly.
Go on.
"Earthling, I didn't expect you to entrust things to me." "I'll give it back to you before I leave Earth," Senisto said. ”
"Oh." Chen Tao said: "Okay, you're OK, you can go back." Hurry up. ”
"It's because I'm afraid of being seen by others, right, you're thinking about it quite well."
"Ah, yes, yes."
Damn, why are there so many people under me?
After Senisto left, Chen Tao summed up for a while. You have to get stuck for a good time, in case the people who come over and the people who go back meet, and then chat with a couple, then it's Shura Field.
But now it's almost there. Oh yes, there's another one, Chen Tao turned his head to look at the muddy face next to him.
Clay Face: "Aba? ”
Chen Tao: "Swallow this thing in your stomach." ”
Clay Face: "Ah! ”
Goo!
This one is the most hassle-free.
The night was deep, the moon was hanging high, and Chen Tao, who had perfunctory everyone, breathed a sigh of relief.
It's finally over. Tomorrow is the first meeting of the Justice League.
He took out a small remote control from his bosom, and then slowly flew into the sky, flying to a height where no one else could hear the sound.
Under the control of the metal spirit, the small remote control seemed to come to life, boiling in the moonlight.
"Shazam!" Chen Tao let out an angry roar, and then a bolt of lightning struck his body, causing him to change the color of his whole body.
The lightning bolt emblem wrapped in thunder and lightning fused with the Batman emblem on his chest, and the mask that originally covered half of his face was transformed into a cloak with two pointed ears.
The stealer of the power of thunder and lightning stood at a height of thousands of meters, wantonly looking at the entire land from a bird's eye view, and then the thing like the remote control in Chen Tao's hand suddenly had a certain reaction under the action of thunder and lightning, and instantly turned into countless tiny black sand, which fused with the thunder and lightning wrapped around Chen Tao's body, and the thunder and lightning on his body not only did not help him resist the shackles of the so-called remote control, but joined in with joy, tying himself up strongly.
Chen Tao snorted, dissipating the power of the metal spirit.
For most of DC's magic, power is like a substantial piece of cake, and when you share it with others, it is absolutely impossible to take it back, just as it is impossible for the Red of All Things to take back the superpowers of Animal Man out of thin air, only to catch him, and then break him into a thin face, and then take away the ability little by little.
But this law is a special case for Billy: unlike the direct capture that Black Adam wants, when Billy takes the initiative to share his magic, it is essentially a kind of borrowing, and Billy himself is the host who truly masters the power of Thunder Shazam, and even the wizard Shazam who gave him this power cannot take it away.
It seems that Billy can reclaim the power he has shared, but the problem is that this sharing comes from love for his family.
That's why Meditative Mite chooses to control Billy's father: no matter how angry Billy is at old Batson for abandoning him, Billy will love him after all, and Billy will always be connected to him because he is Billy's father, and Billy can't do anything about it.
So why can't we try to think differently?
Using the power of the Bat Mage's rhetorical magic, Tao Chen can make Billy share his magic with him even if he doesn't treat him as family. And the price that must be paid is that as long as Billy wants to, he can reclaim the Shazam power he lent to Chen Tao at any time. But in any case, Chen Tao has become Shazam, and there is a lot of room for maneuver.
For example, it can mix the power of the metal spirit with Billy's Shazam and share it with others, just like a liquor distributor.
What Billy gave him was the purest liquor and nothing else. And Chen Tao, a black-hearted businessman, mixed a large amount of xenomorphic magical energy called "Metal Spirit" into it, and even more frustrating was that he also added a lot of control magic.
Not only did he give this blended "wine" to others to drink, but he also gave everyone a so-called remote control.
On the surface, this thing is called a remote control, but in fact it is an acceleration reactor of the metal spirit, which can react with the power of Shazam with the participation of the metal spirit, ∑ greatly accelerate the metal spirit's ability to control the host, which is equivalent to making people drink fake wine and putting betel nuts into it, which is extremely lacking in morality.
Next, it's time to share Shazam's magical energy with a few important members at tomorrow's meeting.
Chen Tao thought about it as he turned on the communicator.
Immediately after, a message from Lucius caught his attention.
"Batman, you've got to look at this. Clark had been talking to me about it before. But you were busy, and he didn't bother you in the end. ”
Chen Tao clicked on the email, and then entered the news link.
The reporter who covered it was Louis Lane, and as expected.
"Lex Luthor Group launches new Superman? But people prefer to call him Superboy"
"Superboy Overnight at the Bar"
"Superboy says Batman is trash"
There is a hot word next to this entry.
“emmm……”
Chen Tao touched his chin.
"One didn't pay attention, and Luthor really got Superman out. I'll have to deal with this as well. ”
He clutched his head in a headache.
"That's a lot...... I can't stop even a moment of busyness. ”
Ahh
And then he was like a deflated ball.
"Leave that alone, Lucius." He replied to Lucius's message.
"How did you do with the Batman superhero movie I told you to make for me?"
Chen Tao wrote.
"I have to let everyone know about Batman and make the name as influential as possible."
(End of chapter)