What bad intentions could Batman have?

Chen Tao left Shazam standing there in silence. He had no time to comfort poor Billy Batson, because things were far from over.

He returned to the side of the meditation mite again, picked up the meditation mite, and gave Darkseid an order without hesitation:

"Stop the fight between Steppenwolf and Wonder Woman, and bring them all here."

"Then you stay here and wait for me to come back and arrange the next things."

Then he held the meditation mite in one hand and twisted out a golden ball in the other hand, which was the treasure of the Death King, the Golden Ball.

As the golden portal created by the golden ball rippled, Chen Tao raised his foot. Just as he was about to walk in, he suddenly remembered something and turned to Darkseid and said:

"Oh, by the way, I almost forgot. You still have one thing to do: arrest Dr. Sivana. You and Steppenwolf will do this together. Steppenwolf will tell you who Dr. Sivana is. This guy is good at keeping himself safe. He disappeared from the beginning of the battle. I don't want him to cause me any trouble in the future if I miss him this time."

Chen Tao was not worried that Darkseid would not be able to catch Dr. Sivana. Steppenwolf did a good job in the early stage. Several villains basically confirmed the main action plan centered on "submission to Darkseid". Even if someone had some small ideas, it was generally like this.

So once Darkseid and Steppenwolf started to backstab, it would be difficult to trick Dr. Sivana into appearing, and it would be a piece of cake to deal with him.

After explaining the task, Chen Tao didn't care about Darkseid's reaction. He crossed tens of millions of kilometers and appeared on Ismote, the base of Atrocitus.

He landed on the ground. In the valley not far away, the red light central energy battery was burning. Chen Tao flew closer with the meditation mite, and then saw Atrocitus half-kneeling in front of the central energy battery. In front of him was a pre-drawn and extremely complex blood magic circle.

"Have you finished preparing what you should do?" Chen Tao asked him.

"Of course, Batman." Atrocitus, who had his back to Batman, replied, "I have been preparing since I came back from the Origin Wall. Everything is ready. A magic circle that completely eliminates the darkness in William Hand's heart."

He turned his head:

"It will be more profound and effective than my simple use of the cosmic magic wand. You... What the ***!"

Before Atrocitus finished speaking, he saw the half-dead meditation mite being beaten and carried by Batman. The anthropomorphic insect face was full of grievances, but his electronic speaker was still in Chen Tao's hand at this time, making it impossible for him to do anything.

The insect face of the meditation mite was immediately excited when it saw Atrocitus appearing in front of it, and the insect mouthparts kept hissing, but Atrocitus didn't understand a word.

Chen Tao picked up the half-dead Meditation Mite from the ground. Although he had never been sure whether Meditation Mite was the person behind the abduction of William Hand, and he also didn't know what means Meditation Mite used to get William Hand away...

But since he saw Meditation Mite appear at Hand's funeral home, and compared with Atrocitus, Meditation Mite claimed to him that "only he could help him find William Hand", the answer was basically out, and it was almost certain.

At this time, William Hand was just a nobody, even a minor, not the first black lamp corpse who would trigger the key figure event of "Blackest Night" in the future.

Unless the Black Death Emperor was going to break into the material universe and kidnap his apostles directly, who would take William Hand away?

By the way, if the Black Death Emperor had the ability to enter the universe directly now, he would not have to train William Hand.

As for what method was there to make Meditation Mite speak...

Atrocitus saw lightning created by the power of Thunder Shazam wrapped around Chen Tao's hand.

Oh! Atrocitus knew that one. The Mind Mite had been trying to get this thing before, and he did succeed. The Red Light Lord had been in the Mind Mite gang for quite a while, so he knew all this.

So Batman was going to use this living lightning power to induce the Mind Mite to release William Hand? Batman won't share these living lightning powers with him, what's the point..."

Ziziziziziziziz!

But Atrocitus thought halfway, and then he looked at Batman dully as he poked the palm wrapped in lightning directly into the body of the meditation mite, electrocuting the big insect and making it twitch all over.

He saw Batman kick the meditation mite, which only had 1/4 of its body left, to the ground. Due to the serious injury and the countless magic circles on its body, its body was no longer as big as before, so it looked even more pitiful.

Batman kicked the opponent again and again, and the meditation mite curled up in pain, and the color of its body turned red and green because of the severe pain. Batman did not hold back, and the black nanorobot turned into a crowbar in his hand. He laughed wildly and hit the brain of the meditation mite with the crowbar: "Speak or not? Speak or not? Speak or not? "Hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss... Chen Tao did not give the meditation mite permission to control the electronic speaker. The big bug was twitching in pain, and its mouthparts kept sucking air, but it couldn't say a word.

But even when the meditation mite looked so painful, Chen Tao noticed that the meditation mite was still absorbing the lightning created by the thunder Shazam power that Chen Tao used to electrocute it.

Chen Tao pretended not to see it and let it do it.

Suck it, suck it. After all, it is the only creature that can use the power of living lightning without being recognized. The more he absorbs now, the easier it will be to control it later...

Chen Tao thought so while opening the other party's speaking authority.

Once the authority was passed, the first sentence of the meditation mite was:

"Don't fight, I confess everything, please, don't fight anymore!"

The meditation mite really didn't play any tricks. Soon, the hungry and skinny William Hand was released with a confused look on his face, and then he met two pairs of surprised and happy eyes.

"William Hand!" x2

Chen Tao rushed over, followed by Atrocitus. After scanning his body and confirming that he would not die immediately, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's good that he won't die for the time being!"

Then the two of them began to examine William Hand's body, so enthusiastic that they almost scared him to death: "No! Where is this? Help! I want to go home!"

A few minutes later.

William Hand sat in the center of the magic circle, his mouth crooked, his eyes slanted, his eyes dull, motionless, and Chen Tao was slightly relieved.

Atrocitus's inner darkness elimination operation has begun. In the original comic history, Atrocitus, who predicted the Blackest Night, once wanted to come to Earth to eliminate the darkness in William Hand's heart in advance.

Such behavior is undoubtedly a crime for Hal and Sinestro who came after hearing the news. So Atrocitus failed as a matter of course, and the plan to cut off the Blackest Night from the source was declared bankrupt.

And now, with his interference, William Hand can always quietly accept the "inner darkness elimination".

This could probably cure his necrophilia at once. Would it have some positive impact on the coming of the Blackest Night?

But Chen Tao didn't have time to care about this. He still had Darkseid to worry about. If he couldn't get through today, there was no need to worry about the Blackest Night.

After telling Atrocitus not to kill anyone and handing William Hand over to the Dark Emperor, Chen Tao left Atrocitus, who was still doing the same thing as a shaman to William Hand, and hurried back to Earth. He still had a lot of things to do.

… … … … … At this time, Reverse Flash was tied up in a corner of the Red of All Living Things.

He looked coldly at the many jailers who were surrounding him and commenting on him, Killer Croc, Poison Ivy, and Clark, who had returned to normal, who looked a little weak and was supported by his wife Louise.

He didn't want to hear clearly what these people said to him. At this time, his heart was full of doubts.

This is not right. This is different from the future he saw.

What went wrong? He has now completely lost control of the situation.

Will the Flash really fail in the war with Darkseid as he saw in the future?

He should have stood by and led it all, witnessed it all, instead of being locked up here like a loser.

Then he saw Batman appear in front of him. He drove away the onlookers and took him into the shelter built for the families in the red desert of all living beings, and took him alone to an empty, silver-white room.

This place is different from other places in the shelter that are obviously used for rest and self-protection. But it is bare here, and Reverse Flash is not sure what Batman wants to do.

"You want..."

He asked directly, but soon Reverse Flash saw Batman take out a ring from his universal belt in front of him, and then pressed it, and then the small ring immediately popped out a set of Flash uniforms.

Reverse Flash: ? ? ?

Then he saw Batman hurried away again.

…

…

…

Lonely.

Dark.

Deep.

"For so many years, what I have been chasing is just a reflection."

Bane was now fixed on the origin wall. His consciousness was being swallowed up by the wall bit by bit. Maybe it will take a while, maybe soon...

He looked at a creature next to him that had condensed into a statue.

The thing flapped its broad wings, and seemed to be flying out of the wall at the last moment of its life.

Bane was thinking about Batman again.

The reason why he wanted to defeat Batman in the first place was that he wanted to defeat his own demons and his own nightmares.

His childhood shaped him into a monster, and the long-term sense of crisis made him unable to feel happy. Only by defeating Batman could he get peace, otherwise he would die at the hands of another monster. Defeating Batman was his own vain obsession.

But after this obsession disappeared and everything was gone, Bane always felt that his life was worthless.

He tried to enrich himself by finding his father. He wanted to find his blood relatives. This was a way to find his "origin", but in the end, after searching for a long time, he actually found Batman again.

"You saved me - Batman -" Bane raised his head slightly, and the roar he once made at Batman seemed to echo in his ears again.

"I am no more harmless than this monster. But you saved me, so I will spare your life. We will be entangled together for the rest of our lives."

This is like a promise, but also like a curse.

So Bane said nothing.

He lowered his head and saw that the gold had spread to his neck. That gold... dazzling gold.

It climbed over his bulging veins, began to grow flowers on his chin uncontrollably, and finally crossed over his nose, gently and tenderly pressing the constantly flapping nose wings.

He knew that Batman might not be able to make it in time for the appointment, and he was not sure whether Batman deliberately did not come to the appointment, but it didn't matter.

When Bane looked back on the past, he found that Bane's life was meaningless.

His hatred for Batman, whether it was at the beginning or at the end, was extremely child's play.

He was a person who lacked internal motivation.

Save the world? Destroy the world? Rule the world? Even the commander of Gotham?

Or did he want to resurrect someone? Change the past?

Did he love anyone?

What did he pursue? What ideas did he want the world to agree with? Fear, or madness, or riddles?

Nothing, his life is just a void. Even every goal in life is something he came up with, not something he pursued from the heart.

He is not like Darkseid, the Joker, or the Scarecrow.

There are only bats.

There is only Batman.

Even taking Gotham is just like a child trying to snatch a toy from another child.

Conquer all evil?

What a grand goal, is he really interested in it? Does he really regard this as his lifelong career?

No.

Under that strong body, Bane's heart is empty.

He does things without logic or plan. This does not mean that he will not make plans for a specific goal, but he...

This feeling is difficult to explain in words. It should be said that he has never thought about what to do after achieving his goal.

This is Bane... and I am Bane.

Maybe sleeping forever on the Origin Wall will be my destination. In this way, he will never have to think about the meaning of life or the direction of life.

Bane thought about this and began to feel sleepy. The golden color spread over his temples, making him drowsy, as if he was in his mother's amniotic fluid.

He wanted to go home, he wanted to fall asleep.

Then he saw Batman.

"Bane."

That hazy, as if otherworldly voice, seemed to roar loudly in his ears, and seemed to hum softly in his heart.

Bane heard Batman's voice.

"I came as promised."