togophonebook Chapter 356 Can I pollute all of humanity?
Chapter 356 Can I pollute all of humanity?
Chapter 356 Can I corrupt all of humanity...?
Even in its final, desperate stage, the eclipse continued to resist.
The bloody movement he controlled somehow managed to break free of the ropes the Flash had tied him with and charged forward again, but it was too late to change the overall situation.
Chen Tao had already disabled the firearms in his hands. This was not difficult; it only required targeting the system that Amanda Waller had specially made for him to transfer firearm parts.
Chen Tao doesn't underestimate anyone. Bloody Movement, like most superhero villains without superpowers, is known for his props. Amanda Waller has prepared a lot of random stuff for him. Who knows what he might pull out? It wouldn't be good if something unexpected happened.
But speaking of which...
"Hehehehe..." No one knows what Tian Shi did, but suddenly, Xue Shi's legs shook, and his whole body seemed to swell several times its original size.
He stomped so hard that he cracked the ground beneath his feet, then charged at Chen Tao like a raging bull.
Chen Tao was a little surprised. After he transformed himself with the Rapid Bullet ability, he briefly felt the Bloody Movement struggling in his hand.
Like the Deadshot, the opponent was clearly an ordinary person who used firearms, but after being controlled by Eclipse, his strength increased so much, which was truly unscientific.
On the other side, Wonder Woman, controlled by Chen Tao, held down Amanda Waller, who was still trying to attack others, while The Flash circled Martian Manhunter, who had been frozen earlier, holding the freeze gun given to him by Chen Tao and continuously reinforcing the ice.
This is their final counterattack.
Eclipse unleashed its last power, continuously strengthening those under its control, but ultimately it had no effect. As time went on, Eclipse also realized this deeply.
"You...you...you're despicable! I'm going to put all of you under my control, you'll all be like ghosts..."
Black smoke billowed from Tian Shi's face, then continuously detached from the body of Maxwell Lord, whom he possessed.
The black energy condensed on the ground, transforming back into the black Heart of Darkness. The Bloody Movement, which was still desperately fighting back, and several other controlled beings began to lose their strength. The magic of the Sky Eclipse failed, and the sky that it had been blocking opened up. Under the direct sunlight, the magical monster, which had been beaten beyond recognition by the Super Overlord, curled up. He was so weak that his speech was somewhat intermittent.
He kept repeating villainous lines like "I'll be back," sounding completely out of his mind after being beaten by Superpower. Even as one of the most powerful monsters on the magic side, without regaining his full power and encountering a magician's nemesis like Superpower, he could only ultimately be defeated.
"So many years, so many years! Why is it always like this..."
He curled up on the ground, his once sharp, hooked nose slumped down as if boneless, clumping onto his face like a slime, his pointed ears drooping down like a defeated wild dog, making him look rather pitiful.
Chen Tao reminded himself again that the other party was a dangerous guy. The reason he was able to defeat Tian Shi this time was not because the other party was weak, but because he was not even at his peak.
Otherwise, if the Eclipse truly recovers to a level where it can become a threat, not to mention others, the Ghost will definitely rush over to ensure that it can once again crush its old enemy back into the ground, rather than waiting for the other party to come looking for trouble after it has recovered.
The fact that Ghost never appeared in this incident indicates that Eclipse had not recovered enough power to cause trouble before Chen Tao brought in Superpower and beat him to a pulp.
He watched as the defeated Eclipse was gradually absorbed back into the Dark Heart by the ghost's magic seal, while simultaneously switching into Bat Mage mode to ensure that Eclipse was completely absorbed without leaving anything behind.
"I clearly... I clearly have the ability to control everyone on Earth... I clearly have the ability to make everyone I control incredibly powerful..."
Waiting for the eclipse. It will take some time to be completely sucked back in, especially with the other side desperately digging at the ground, refusing to return, and continuing to issue villainous pronouncements.
However, some of the other person's words caught Chen Tao's attention. He leaned forward and asked Tian Shi with some curiosity, "Wait, do you really have the ability to enhance everyone you control?"
From the moment he was about to finish, he had been thinking about the bloody fight where he had pinned the other person to the ground. He was also very interested in the superhuman-like power that the other person displayed after being controlled by the Eclipse.
Actually... Chen Tao had thought about it before.
Superheroes can act as batteries to help him share the burden, and ordinary people can do the same.
Among the many members of the Justice League, there are some who are ordinary people. For example, the magician from the Rogues is an ordinary person, unlike his colleagues who are superpowered. Before the experiment that turned the entire Rogues into superpowered people, the magician was still an apprentice member of the Rogues, and Captain Cold did not let him participate in the experiment.
This resulted in him being an ordinary person except for his strange high-tech gadgets. In the previous battle against Darkseid, the entire Justice League was used as batteries by Chen Tao, and he was the first member who couldn't withstand the charging and was urgently released by Killer Croc to prevent him from dying.
However, he also successfully proved that even ordinary people have the value of becoming batteries. However, Chen Tao never thought of using ordinary people as batteries because there were many difficulties involved.
One of the most important points is that he has no control over when the "power goes out".
The Magician was there as a battery along with the other Justice League members, right? Killer Croc was also there, watching out so that if anyone couldn't handle it, Killer Croc could forcibly cut off the power and pull them out of the Speed Force's electric grid.
But ordinary people are different. There is only one Killer Croc. Not to mention him, even the Flash cannot take care of thousands of ordinary people. No matter how fast he runs, as long as the number is large, he cannot ensure that every ordinary person who needs to have their power cut off can have their power cut off in time.
Even if there were a need, Chen Tao would never gamble with the lives of ordinary people.
Moreover, the more realistic problem is that Chen Tao cannot possibly manufacture crystal coffins like the ones he made for the Justice League members. If so many people each had a coffin, Wayne Enterprises would go bankrupt no matter how rich it was.
Moreover, it's unrealistic to expect ordinary people to volunteer as batteries. Chen Tao has already released a lot of information about Batman in the public eye, including movies, TV shows, and series. Batman's reputation is already very high, but none of that is enough to make him do something so shocking.
Would anyone really dare to crawl into a crystal coffin and let an electric current pass through their body?
And more importantly...
The burden that ordinary people can share for him is far too small.
They worked themselves to the bone and searched for hundreds of people, but it might not be as effective as finding Wonder Woman alone?
but……
Chen Tao looked thoughtfully at the Eclipse gradually transforming into the Heart of Darkness.
If there were a way to temporarily transform an ordinary person into a superhuman, the situation would be entirely different...
For example, his control over Eclipse. He can clearly enhance an ordinary person to the level of a minor superpowered individual in a short period of time, or even enhance ordinary superpowered individuals.
Although those enhanced superpowered individuals become slightly weaker overall because they are not as familiar with their abilities as before being controlled, in terms of sheer power, they are actually enhanced by Eclipse...
As a battery, it doesn't require any special skills or expertise; all you need is enough strength to lift more weight.
For example, using a celestial eclipse to corrupt all of humanity, temporarily enhancing them all into minor superpowered beings, and then reverting them back to normal after the event, countless ordinary people become nodes, thus connecting the entire distribution network and successfully resolving the issue...
cough.
Chen Tao let his thoughts wander for a while, then finally shook his head. But the fact that everyone controlled by the Heavenly Eclipse would be under his control was still far too dangerous.
He picked up the Dark Heart that had fallen to the ground.
Until a way can be found to control eclipses, it's best to keep such dangerous ideas as just ideas.
"Batman..."
Amanda Waller finally regained her senses. She walked over, looked at Maxwell Lord lying unconscious on the ground with a useless scribbling on his chest, and then angrily kicked him.
It's all that bastard's fault! The Shogi Club is clearly a government-affiliated superhero organization, yet its leader, Maxwell Lord, has done such a thing. Berelf Prison has been destroyed, and Amanda Waller is already plotting how to use this incident as a pretext to attack other government-affiliated organizations that are not under her control, while also continuing to demand funding from the government and increasing her own power.
In the early days of accepting the existence of superheroes and superpowered individuals, the government created too many uncontrolled and rampant organizations like the Shogi Club. Amanda Waller had long wanted to change this situation, but always lacked a pretext to do so.
Those organizations represent too many interests within the government, and many things become complicated once politics gets involved, making them difficult to change. But this time, however, presents a very good opportunity.
She could easily use this as an excuse to do many things. Although Amanda Waller is focused on superhero-related matters, it doesn't mean she doesn't understand politicians' tactics.
Unlike Colonel Steve Trevor, another key figure in superhero affairs and a straightforward former soldier, Amanda Waller, a former special agent, knew all too well how to deal with that bunch of incompetent fools.
Amanda Waller was thinking this when she asked Batman:
"What about the Heart of Darkness?" she asked. "That thing must be properly disposed of! I will seal it away forever, and I promise no one will ever be able to use it for anything again. It is far too dangerous, far beyond our control."
"Heart of Darkness? What Heart of Darkness?"
Chen Tao scratched his head innocently: "I've never seen anything like that."
He said, "The eclipse has been destroyed; that thing should be gone by now."
Amanda Waller's eyes widened. She had just witnessed Batman pick up the large black diamond and then disappear with a flick of his wrist!
Chen Tao ignored Amanda Wore.
Before the other person could say anything more, Chen Tao waved his hand, and some steel bars strung with concrete flew up, binding Waller like a dumpling. She twisted her enormous, barrel-like waist, writhing on the ground.
The other side has caused so much trouble. Although Chen Tao knows that Amanda Waller can't be blamed for the Eclipse's resurrection, the imprisonment of the old X Task Force is ultimately Waller's problem. Can he really expect him to be polite? And…
What are you thinking? You still want to take the Heart of Darkness back. You can't let such a good thing sit in the basement collecting dust, only to have it stolen by some monster or demon someday.
At this moment, the blue-purple scales on the Flash's face also disappeared. The Flash, who had been constantly traveling through time and creating time paradoxes, could finally stop his actions of disrupting the timeline.
Chen Tao instructed the other party to send Martian Manhunter, frozen solid, and Wonder Woman, whose mouth and eyes were still crooked and whose drug effects had not yet worn off, back to the Justice League headquarters.
Tsk, they always go out unscathed, but come back sick. This definitely can't be Chen Tao's fault as the team leader!
The Flash was left to worry about their treatment, as well as the many prisoners and guards buried in the rubble of Berelf Prison during the battle.
He turned to look at Superba, who was shielding his face from the sunlight with one hand and frowning slightly.
"Thanks a lot."
Chen Tao said, "This collaboration was very pleasant."
Before Superpower could speak, Chen Tao waved his hand again and continued, "Regarding granting you the Speed Force, I will not go back on my word. And, regarding the issues of Deathstorm and Johnny Quick, Luther is already preparing customized enhancement plans for the two of them, which will be submitted to the Crime Syndicate this week, so please don't rush."
After sending Superba away, Chen Tao breathed a sigh of relief and then looked at the Berelf prison, which was almost completely destroyed.
This place was Amanda Waller's stronghold, built up over many years, and a crucial point for her to balance various forces. After this battle, the place is essentially destroyed.
"And next... is..."
He opened a portal with a booming sound: "Of course, we need to find all the families who were sent to Red Lantern Atositas first. Are we supposed to clean up Waller's mess?"
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Crime Syndicate Base.
Night Owl met Superb, who had just returned from outside.
The other person looked serious and didn't seem very bright.
(End of this chapter)