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Chapter 443 Night Owl Turns the Justice League Against the League, Anti-Monitor Descends
Chapter 443 Night Owl Turns the Justice League Against the League, Countdown to the Arrival of the Anti-Monitor (Bonus Chapter, Please Read!)
Late at night.
Mera and Arthur had already gone to sleep fully clothed.
The midnight starlight shone quietly and gently upon the two of them.
Then it started to drizzle. Within minutes, the dew began to fall in a steady patter, and the rising mist left a hazy reflection on the window.
Mera mumbled something, rolled over, and then took Arthur's arm.
Arthur suddenly opened his eyes.
He raised his head like a lion, and Mera opened her eyes almost at the same time.
He stood up silently, pulled his arm out of Mera's embrace, and then swiftly grabbed the Trident of Neptune, which was leaning against the corner of the room. Although he was fast enough, he made no sound on the floor.
Mei stretched out her hand, and the water in the fish tank not far away flew out silently like a dragon, engulfing all the goldfish in the tank who didn't know what was happening.
The rain was still falling, getting heavier and heavier, dripping and soaking everything.
Arthur made a shushing gesture to Mera, then stood in front of her, gently pushed open the bedroom door, and walked towards the living room.
Mera put on a bathrobe and followed closely behind.
"Squeak~"
Arthur was startled.
His feet were on the floor, but the sound wasn't from him.
He raised his trident and saw a man sitting expressionlessly in the main seat of their living room. Although he made onomatopoeic sounds as if the floor was being stomped on, he remained as cold and lifeless as a statue.
Boom!
A clap of thunder illuminated the somewhat dim room, and the man's face was faintly visible in the thunder.
A chill ran straight up Arthur's spine from the soles of his feet.
"Night Owl," Arthur said.
"I'm glad you know me, so I don't have to waste time introducing myself."
A slightly strange smile appeared on Night Owl's lips. For someone like him, forcing himself to smile would only make him look more terrifying.
"Batman left a lot of security measures around your house, and it took me a long time to remove them completely—maybe not completely, but enough to make him confused about what we were talking about today."
"What do you want to do?"
"Anti-surveillance agent".
"What?"
"I'm surprised Batman didn't tell you," Night Owl said. "The world is going to end."
"Batman told me the Anti-Monitors are going to invade Earth," Arthur said, frowning. "But Earth won't be destroyed. We'll defeat them, just like we defeated Darkseid."
Night Owl: "..."
"I am astonished by your ignorance," he said.
"Batman is right not to tell you everything. Because for a dimwit like you, knowing the truth about how terrifying the Counter-Monitor is wouldn't help at all; it would only distract you from the tasks he assigns you and further disrupt his plans. But you know, there's a slight difference between what Batman and I know."
"I don't understand what you're saying. What are you trying to say?"
What are your thoughts on Batman?
"What do you mean?"
Night Owl: "..."
"Batman is a superhuman; he can summon Batmen from parallel universes, yes, is that what you all know?"
"That's right."
"What were his conditions for summoning a Batman from a parallel universe?"
"Robin (referring to the third Robin, Tim Drake, who is now retired) once summarized it."
Arthur said, "When someone suffers an unprecedented defeat and genuinely believes they have failed, they can find a way to synchronize with a parallel universe Batman through something on that person."
"Anything else?"
"Someone died after a crushing defeat."
"That's right, that's the problem," Night Owl said.
"I do not understand."
"Don't you find it strange?"
"How Batman acquired his abilities from a parallel universe? To be honest, I've even seen irony, so I'm not surprised at all..."
"That's not what I meant. Damn, it's exhausting talking to low-IQ idiots."
Night Owl let out a breath and continued:
"I mean the method."
"Use your seaweed brain to think about it. Even when you go to a fried chicken shop and buy a fried chicken combo meal, different prices offer different combo meals for you to choose from—"
What makes you think that Batman, by using two different methods to acquire the abilities of Batman from parallel universes, will ultimately end up with the same result?
Arthur felt his brain wasn't quite working properly: "You mean...?"
"Energy and mass are conserved. Superman's power comes from Kryptonite, which is an energy ore. Superman's power comes from the yellow sunlight, Mera's power comes from magic, and your power comes from the Aklandian bloodline, or perhaps a part of it from the Red of All Beings—but what about Batman?"
The owl spread its hands: "Why, why has no one ever thought about this question?"
"So..." Night Owl said slowly, "I'm going to propose a hypothesis, a guess without any evidence."
"drink!!!"
Mera manipulated the water, transforming it into sharp blades. In an instant, the water blades sliced open the owl's head, but beneath them lay not flesh and blood, but rows and rows of metal components.
"The mind-projection robot, his real body isn't here," Mera said. "Don't believe him, he's trying to bewitch you, Arthur, he..."
But the next second, Mera's face turned green, and she collapsed to the ground clutching her neck.
"Mera!!!" Arthur hugged his girlfriend: "What did you do to her?"
He originally intended to attack Night Owl, but his face also turned green.
Meanwhile, on the owl's head, which had been severed, countless nanobots were rapidly repairing the massive wound.
"Relax, Arthur, it's just some neurotoxin. I gave you a slow-acting poison at the Ocean Festival, and then just now I used the powder I sprinkled in the living room to speed up its onset."
But believe me, with your Atlantean physique, there are almost no drugs in this world that can cure you. Such toxins can be metabolized and eliminated from your bodies in just a few dozen seconds.
And even while poisoned, you're not without a fighting chance, are you? So let go of the trident and let me finish.
"Your girlfriend is a little smarter than your seaweed-like brain; she guessed what I was going to say halfway through my sentence."
"No... Arthur..." Mera said. She tried to use magic, but it was too late.
"My hypothesis is that Batman's superpowers are essentially based on 'killing and plundering power,' just like Thunder Zamza?"
Mera let out another sharp cry and used her water blade to cut the robot remotely controlled by Night Owl in half at the waist.
But the upper body of Night Owl, lying on its back on the ground, was still saying: "And through Batman's efforts, he successfully altered the underlying logic of his own abilities, and the price he paid for it was..."
"He cannot fully unleash his power."
"Shut up!"
Mera's water blade instantly shredded the head of the Night Owl-controlled robot, but she misjudged one thing:
The robot's voice-producing device is not a mouth.
The owl's voice came from the chest cavity of the robot that had already fallen to the ground:
"So you understand what I mean now, right? If you're really pushed to the brink..."
"Perhaps a heroic suicide is what empowers Batman and helps him save the world..."
"Drink it all!"
The entire Night Owl robot was instantly sliced to pieces by Mera's water blades.
Although the bluish tinge on Mera's face had faded, she collapsed weakly to the ground.
No, no, no, that's not it.
Mera said:
"Suicide is such absurd. If it fails, suicide won't change anything. We can escape. I mean, didn't Night Owl escape from a parallel universe?"
Arthur looked at the love of his life.
She was on the verge of tears, yet she was so beautiful and lovely.
He was willing to do anything for Mera, including death.
Then he laughed: "Don't worry, don't joke around, I won't be fooled by Night Owl."
He comforted his girlfriend, but deep down...
He knew that the owl might not be lying.
He pondered quietly, then watched as the fragments of the Night Owl robot slowly turned to ashes.
Wonder Woman's residence.
Diana watched silently as the Night Owl robot, which she had chopped into pieces, disappeared down the corridor.
She pondered what the owl had just said.
Midtown.
The Flash's residence.
Barry, enveloped in the Speed Force, frowned as he faced the pile of ash on the ground.
He had just sliced open the Night Owl robot's chest with a supersonic chop, but the words the robot uttered before it was destroyed kept echoing in his mind.
Shazam's house.
Billy Batson told his parents that nothing had happened.
When he returned to his dormitory and climbed into his bunk to go to sleep, his hands were trembling, and he muttered to himself.
In the darkness, his brothers and sisters heard his murmured voice.
His foster sister Mary asked, "What did you say, Billy? Suicide?"
"It's nothing."
Billy closed his eyes and let out a long breath.
Martian Hunter.
superman.
All the members of the Justice League, at different times and in different places... were silently thinking together.
If... if everything the owl said is true...
If it's really as he says, that there's no other choice, that it's a dead end...
Then what he said... could very well be the only chance to achieve victory!
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Many years ago, in Gotham.
Chen Tao, who had just scared Bane away, paused and stood amidst the pile of corpses of the mercenaries he had recruited to fight Bane and then killed.
I stared into thought as the silvery-white explanatory text kept appearing on my retina.
What does this mean, huh? I'm asking you. What does this mean?
Why am I able to pick up anchoring items when my teammates die tragically?
Breathless, shivering, cold.
Am I, the Dark Knight, the Cloaked Warrior, the Guardian of Gotham, the world's greatest detective, the renowned Batman, destined to make a living only by stealing my teammates' coins from now on?
Looking at his teammates' belongings, Chen Tao felt a lump in his throat, and a poetic sentiment of melancholy welled up in his heart.
No! Absolutely not!
Superheroes must have backbone!
I would rather die than pick up my teammates' corpses!
ДO
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Origin Wall.
Chen Tao, who had once again arrived at this place through the Eternal Cellar, stared blankly at the Supreme Little Superman who was stuck there like a statue not far away.
"Sigh, even if I manage to get him down, I won't be able to control him."
Chen Tao stared blankly at the Supreme Little Superman, looking on with worry.
"He beat me into a pulp the moment he didn't come down before because of Blood Slaughter Bull's interference. But you can't use the same trick twice. Even if I recapture Blood Slaughter Bull now and let him parasitize Supreme Superman, it would be very difficult to replicate the operation from last time."
"【Anger is the enemy's way of manipulating himself】Once the Supreme Superman realized this, Blood Bull could no longer control him... Just as a Gold Saint will not fail a second time on the same move."
"It's easy to get him down again, but this time it's truly a case of 'it's easy to invite a god, but hard to send him away.'"
Chen Tao clutched his head. Since there was no one else around, he dared to make that face: "Aaaaaaah, if only we had the Möbius Chair! I could just use one click to find out how to defeat the Anti-Monitor, then I wouldn't have to think of it myself! Aaaaaah!"
Then he started standing there dumbfounded next to the Origin Wall:
Help! (Running around)
What to do? (Crouching in a twisted manner)
We're doomed! (365-degree Thomas spin)
After a minute of his outburst, Chen Tao sat down again. His face once more displayed a cold, Batman-like calm.
"In any case, if there is no other choice, we can only release him first."
Chen Tao thought to himself silently.
"A powerful character who can perhaps stand up to the anti-surveillance agents is always my last resort. I may never have to use it, but I always have to be prepared."
Then he turned and walked toward the entrance to the Eternal Cellar.
"Atocitas has already contacted and recalled Blood Slaughter Bull... I also have something else to do."
On Apocalypse.
Darkseid's face was as black as obsidian.
He watched as Batman emerged from the sonic boom tunnel.
The other person's behavior was so natural, as if Apokolips were their backyard, bastard!
"Yo, Darkseid, good afternoon."
"..."
"Uh... do you know why I'm here?"
"The destruction of this universe means nothing to me," Darkseid said.
"Ah, yes, yes, I know. You're a high-dimensional god. What's that saying again? A thousand faces of evil. But the anti-monitors we're facing this time possess the anti-life equation. You'll definitely be interested, right?"
Stop pretending. The fact that you're still willing to see me means that our agreement was reached from the beginning.
Darkseid almost laughed, almost.
"That's really clever," he said.
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The Owl's Universe... let's call it Earth 3 for now.
After a flash of blue light from a portal, Night Owl appeared. As soon as he landed, he immediately knelt down and crawled forward two steps.
"Owner."
He dared not raise his head, but he could still feel the anti-monitor's fiery breath burning his body.
"Thomas..."
He heard the other person call him by his real name: "You figured out how Batman found Superman Supreme. Right?"
"Not...not yet, Master." Night Owl bowed deeply. "I'm sorry."
"I see." The voice of the counter-surveillance agent was unreadable.
"So you've already built the portal to that universe, haven't you? You'd better think carefully before you answer."
The owl heard the voice say, "I've already given you one chance to postpone. I told you there won't be a second."
We really can't drag this out any longer...
Night Owl sighed deeply in his heart. He had bought Batman and himself a great deal of time, but he still couldn't calmly face the Counter-Monitor after the entire plan was completed.
Even so, he still wanted to take one last risk and buy himself a little more time.
"The portal has been completed, but Master, it still needs final adjustments."
He said, "I must ensure your arrival is flawless. Just one last month... no, I only need 15 days."
He said, "Then I can offer that world to you."
Night Owl was prepared to be punished. He decided to take the risk and try to fool his opponent, just as he had done countless times when facing Superpower.
To his surprise, the anti-surveillance activists actually agreed to his proposal.
This left Night Owl slightly bewildered.
He was prepared for even these 15 days to be compressed.
but……
The other party let him go so easily.
This means the other person might be fooled by him, and there's an even worse possibility:
The other party didn't care about his little tricks at all.
This is the worst case.
"15 days," the counter-surveillance agent said.
"15 days," Night Owl replied.
Night Owl calculated the time; it was approximately a few days after the Atlanteans' embassy, "Snow Wave Base," was completed.
"And Lord Om will definitely launch an attack at the speech when the base is completed."
Night Owl thought.
And his plan will then be launched.
"You'd better act fast and decisively, Batman."
The owl lay on the ground, lost in thought.
Please.
(End of this chapter)