"Your vital signs are stable, there are no problems, Arthur."

The fish-headed Sea King sat in the middle of a large pile of instruments and heard Lucius's words. His fish mouth spat out a series of bubbles that unusually popped out of his mouth, were blown into the sky, and then exploded on the ceiling.

Arthur asked him what the change was about. Mela translated.

The fish-headed Sea King stared at his dead fish eyes, shaking up and down in agreement.

“…… Can you understand what he says? Well, all in all, look at the experimental data for yourselves. Lucius crackled on the computer next to him for a while, and soon a set of data appeared on the big screen: "On the left is Aquaman's current physical data, and on the right is what he showed on the training ground when the Justice League was formed." In the past, Arthur was able to compete with Superman head-on for a short period of time, even on land, and now his physical fitness is showing a significant upward trend overall. ”

At this time, Chen Tao and Aquaman and his wife were in the Justice League's laboratory in Gotham, with Chen Tao and Lucius accompanying them.

So frankly, having a fish head may make you ugly, and it becomes a collection of Atlantean stereotypes in the public eye. But in terms of experimental data, you ask me what conclusions I have drawn? My conclusion is Arthur, you have become stronger than before. ”

"So can you find out what the reason for this change is?" Mela continued to translate for Aquaman: "Although he looks more powerful, you know ......"

"Arthur's status as the crown prince of Atlantis is more important than his combat prowess." Chen Tao spoke next to him: "It is a bridge between humans and Atlanteans, think of a way, Lucius." ”

"So how the hell did he get to be like this, Bruce, this powerful life force of Mr. Arthur reminds me of a power, the red of all beings." Lucius said.

"According to Arthur, at that time on the battlefield he was suddenly controlled by a powerful life force, in order to prevent this power from manipulating him to harm others, and in order to prevent being controlled by the eclipse, he relied on the last bit of sanity and rushed directly into the trench."

"And he was really out of control in the trench, and he slaughtered a lot of the Trench people - Batman knew what it was, these guys had attacked ordinary people on the shore before, and then Arthur and I joined forces to drive them back into the trench." "Then Arthur found himself recovering from this power, and he came back to me," said Meera. ”

"Arthur's life force is particularly strong, it's an unusually strong, you know Bruce, this state of his makes me think of a person."

Lucius touched his head as he spoke, then tapped on the computer for a moment to bring up a person's profile.

"Master Plant, Jason Wood."

Mela and Aquaman looked at each other.

"Who is this guy?"

"An enemy I've faced before." Chen Tao explained to them, "The low-level spokesperson of the Green of All Things has his own authority under the swamp monster and the poison ivy woman. Poison ivy and I defeated him, but since killing him would reduce the power of Green, Ivy sealed him away for the time being. ”

"But remember when he was able to eat the tubers on the swamp monsters' bodies." Lucius said.

He tapped on the screen, and then more green branches appeared on the screen from the plant master, if he was originally a monster of vines and trunks at best, now he is like a walking tree, and even green leaves grow on his nose: "It can absorb the tubers that fall from the body of the swamp monster, the ruler of the green of all things, and thus greatly increase its own strength, but at the cost of this, the power of the green of all things will alienate his body, making it even less human, similar to the situation of the current Aquaman." ”

"An unimaginable life force that strengthens Aquaman's physique."

"Arthur also has the power of a part of the red of all beings." Chen Tao added

"Yes, so that his innate ability to talk to fish has been greatly enhanced, so much so that he has become alienated in his appearance." Lucius said, "It's the same as the change in the appearance of the human bat. ”

"So is this situation good or bad?" Mela asked, "Is he going to have to do this forever?" ”

"If you don't think about the impact of your appearance on Arthur's life, I think it's a good thing." "Of course, that's just my opinion," Lucius said. ”

Arthur stood up, opened the fish's mouth, and spat out a series of bubbles: "Bobo-bo-bo!" Bobo woo woo bang bang bo! ”

"Arthur says he's all right, but even though the Atlanteans follow primogeniture," Meela translated, "the way he is now is likely to be evidence that Arthur is not going to succeed to the throne of Atlantis." ”

"His younger brother, Lord Orm, has returned from his travels." "Lord Orm is a staunch conservative, and Arthur has been promoting the establishment of normal diplomatic relations between the Atlanteans and humans, but Orm is against this, and his return has given all the Atlanteans who oppose this a backbone and leader," said Mela. There was another recent Atlantean attack, and we were confronted with questions from the Department of Defense that despite the Martian Manhunter's assurances and help, Arthur was overwhelmed enough. ”

"Let's have the Justice League scorched enough." Chen Tao corrected: "And I will solve this matter." ”

“…… Thank you. ”

"There is no need to say that." Chen Tao waved his hand, then touched his chin, and then said slowly: "Your state is indeed a problem. ”

He sat there, his chin in his hand, in a state of contemplation, and both Mela and Arthur held their breath in anticipation.

After a long while, Chen Tao stood up, the silver-white particles on his body flickering, showing the appearance of a bat mage.

He stretched out his palm to Arthur, the king of the sea: "Seya who turned into a skull like a human!! (Arthur's head turns back into a human!) ）”

With a puff of white smoke, the fish-headed Sea King's fish head popped and turned into a human head, but this head was as colorless as a dyeing disc that had not had time to be dyed, and it looked like a haphazardly kneaded plasticine, which only lasted for a few seconds, and then disappeared with a bang.

"It's purely a lack of mana." Chen Tao touched his chin.

Bruce Wayne of the Dark Multiverse has learned the magic of the Iron, but there is a difference between the Magic of Rhetoric and the Magic of the Voice. For a bat mage, the most powerful thing comes from his ability to know a little bit of magic, like Constantine, and his ability to face almost any situation, rather than how deep he is about individual magic.

The level of anti-speech magic of the bat mage is quite easy to make two anti-Chen Tao's own magic books, but when it comes to the advanced transformation of the Sea King's head, it is a bit stretched. It was not only the level of his anti-speech magic that failed Chen Tao, but more importantly, the powerful life force in Arthur's body hindered the operation of magic, and Arthur needed a more powerful mage to help the area of his head to build an advanced transfiguration without physically affecting his brain.

So Chen Tao used anti-language magic to create a magic invitation on the spot.

"This invitation will help you find Zatana Zatara." Chen Tao said: "She is a master of anti-language magic, she will definitely be able to solve your problems, Martian Manhunter will accompany you, Mela, you are also a mage, it should be easy to tell who Zatana is." ”

"Wow, now the art style is quickly turning to magic." Lucius said.

"But be careful." Chen Tao said: "Even if it is Zatana's advanced transfiguration technique, it is very likely that it will not be able to maintain your appearance when Arthur chooses to burst out his full strength and fight fiercely. When your powerful vibrations erupt, they will inevitably destroy the magic circuit, causing your head to revert to the shape of a fish's head. ”

"We'll continue to look into what you're like now, but you'll have to be prepared...... You'll probably be forced to stay that way for a long time to come. ”

……

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……

A few minutes later.

Lucius and Chen Tao watched Arthur and Mela, who had been so grateful, disappear behind the gate not far away.

"Supergirl has woken up." Lucius kept his eyes on the door, and then said, "Are you going to meet her later?" There's also General Zod, and now the Green Light Planet Mogo is still hovering outside Earth, and Superman's surgery. ”

"yes." Chen Tao said: "The crisis surrounds us. ”

"Although Aquaman has become a fish head, he is fine, and everything is going in a good direction." Lucius comforted:

"As long as your experiment is successful, Superman's combat power will also rejoin the Justice League. Aquaman's side should also be able to convince Atlantis to establish diplomatic relations with humans, and then pull the Atlanteans over to act as a medium to help you share the pressure through the speed of God. ”

Lucius said, "The part of the ionic power you gave me earlier came from the ion shark, and I have successfully used part of the parallax monster's power to clamp it down. ”

"You're researching so fast?"

"It's not so much the method I've researched, it's more the innate nature of the power of the two light beasts." Lucius explained, "You gave me two puzzle pieces, and I just merged them together. ”

"With these Atlanteans to help you share, the strength of your own body will be enough, and then you will be able to force the ion shark to possess you through the anti-life equation of the Dark Father, which should allow you to exert several times more powerful power than the original ion shark possession, even if it is still not comparable to the full body of the ion man you described, but it should be far beyond the semi-possessed state you mentioned before. And then on that basis, you might still be able to harness parallax, but the exact way is still up for granted. ”

Chen Tao didn't react, and Lucius continued: "One more thing, Luthor and I also invented an advanced transmission device before, and I perfected him while Luthor was away. This device allows several people to share a huge amount of pressure for one person, and then he will share your pressure, like a pyramid. ”

"Actually, I'm thinking......" Chen Tao said, "Can't you make a battery compartment that automatically shuts off the power and guarantees life, and turns everyone into a battery?" I mean those ordinary people. ”

"No," Lucius said, "because after our research, we found that your sharing of stress is not purely physiological. It's more of a psychological apportionment. ”

Lucius said: "We have done experiments trying to give the tortoise man an anesthetic, so that he can avoid the great pain caused by the sharing of power, but found that if you give him anesthesia and make him unconscious, he will not be able to share the power, just like a weightlifter who has been stoned to death by dumbbells, it is not just the body that helps you share the strength, but something deeper, not even the life force, and no matter how weak the person, as long as he resists this kind of help sharing, even if he is stuffed into the battery compartment, There is no way to help with the sharing, which means that it is useless to force others to help with the sharing, and mind control is useless, and people must help from the heart. ”

"Can't it be like forcing Gorilla Grove and the Turtle Man?"

"One of them is the spokesperson of the stasis force, and the other is a creature of the speed force. They are born to be built with these two forces, can ordinary people be like them? Compared with ordinary people, their strength is too high, even if they are mind-controlled or forced to force them, they can squeeze out enough [apportionment quota], but for ordinary people, their own quota is small, and the amount squeezed out by coercive means is basically the same as nothing. ”

"That said, Gorilla Grove and the Turtle People are far from being exploited to the limit."

"It's understandable, but that's not the point."

"The point is, there is still a big problem with your thinking, which is that there is no way to detect whether there is a life-threatening situation. Because for the person who helps to share the pressure, just detecting the vital signs cannot detect whether he has reached the limit, because the vital signs are far from reaching the point of dying, but some other kind of consumable thing is to the limit, which leads to the collapse and death of the person who helps to share the pressure.

And there are also differences between ordinary people and ordinary people, like the magician of the rogue gang before, he is the only one in the gang who does not have superpowers, but he lasts for far more than a hundred times more than normal ordinary people. Now we have no means to detect how far that abstract thing has been consumed, if you let ordinary people go on, ordinary people die in an instant before they even have time to stop, and the Atlanteans people are little supermen, they have the ability to stop themselves. ”

Lucius said, "So put out the idea of letting ordinary people help, it's not a war for them that they can participate in." ”

Chen Tao was silent for a while: "I know." ”

He seemed to quickly realize that this was a bit too hard, and hastened to explain, "I don't want them to force themselves into the war, but you know what? ”

He looked up and out the window.

In the night sky outside the window, there seemed to be a huge invisible black shadow smiling.

"The anti-watchdog is coming...... That giant monster is coming. The enemy will not give us time. ”

Lucius almost suspected for a split second that he had heard a cry, but when Batman turned his head, all he saw was a raging fire burning in the other's eyes.

He must have read it wrong...... Batman is never sad, never panicking.

He is never weak, he never hesitates, he is determined to move towards his goal, like an emotionless iron man.

Because...... He's Batman. So it was then, and so it is now.

(End of chapter)