bookbashuk Chapter 226 Wonder Woman Wants to Know
Chapter 226 Wonder Woman Wants to Know
Chapter 226 Wonder Woman Wants to Know
That's true.
The artilleryman, whose mother was named Martha, chuckled twice when she saw Batman, seemingly finding his words quite reasonable.
"Yes, I think I really should release all the people whose mothers are named Martha."
He dramatically pulled the artilleryman up from the ground and gave him a hug. At that moment, an emotionally charged soldier pulled out a gun and fired a shot at Chen Tao's head, but it hit the nanobot, sending sparks flying. The impulsive soldier was then pinned to the ground by the others.
"You bastard, you don't want your mom anymore, but we do!!!"
Chen Tao, seemingly unaffected by the gunshot, thoughtfully dusted off the artilleryman whose mother was named Martha, saying, "Since your mother's name is Martha, then we are half-brothers."
The artilleryman almost cried: "Thank you, thank you, please hurry and get my mother—"
"It's our mother." He heard Batman correct him. At this moment, he was absolutely certain that Batman was a super lunatic with a mental problem. If his mother wasn't still in his hands, he would have wished he could grow wings and get as far away from this madman as possible.
But at this moment, he could only force a smile: "Yes, yes, our mom, so hurry up and put it down..."
Before he could finish speaking, Batman gave him another hug, then suddenly stopped, grabbed his shoulders, and asked, "By the way, what's your dad's name?"
"Uh... Vincent?"
"My dad's name is Thomas!"
Upon hearing this, Batman flew into a rage, throwing the bewildered artilleryman to the ground. He then pointed at the soldiers squatting there like quails, holding photos: "Go join them!"
The artillerymen went off dejectedly.
"All troops, prepare for artillery fire!"
General Erin was shouting loudly; he even jumped onto the front armor plate of the tank, like a rooster crowing on a large blue stone: "I order you—"
"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you can't command anyone, General Erin."
Chen Tao kept calling out names, as if he were reciting a fast-paced storytelling routine, gesturing wildly and jumping around.
No soldiers cared about General Erin anymore; they were in disarray, asking each other what was going on. Some soldiers were bewildered and wanted to obey General Erin's orders, but they quickly stopped at the frantic pleas of their comrades. Their comrades, with whom they spent every day, were more likely to influence them than their general.
"All troops, obey my command!"
General Erin heard Batman give the order to his troops: "Attention! About face! March!"
The soldiers looked at each other, momentarily unable to tell who their superior was.
Seeing that no one reacted, Chen Tao tossed down another photo, then called out a name. An officer rushed over, picked up the photo, glanced at it, and his eyes turned red.
"Master Bat tells us to turn around, hurry up!!!!"
The mid-ranking officer, who seemed to be a battalion commander, was so anxious his eyes were practically spitting fire: "Are you deaf? Didn't you hear me?"
"Damn it!" General Erin roared, "You're not allowed to leave! Do you want to go to a court-martial?"
"I'll fuck your mother!" a mid-ranking officer yelled. "I'm the battalion commander!"
He became anxious and immediately knelt down before his soldiers.
"Please, I beg you! Considering how much I've always looked after you, you're just following orders. If anyone's going to be in trouble, it'll be me facing a court-martial! Please, my mom's in Batman's hands. Even though she's also named Martha, my dad's not named Thomas, so this won't work!"
He then loudly called out the names of several rank-and-file soldiers with whom he had a good relationship, and soon the men of that battalion turned around and ran away.
With the first person taking the lead, the rest followed naturally.
"You...you..." General Erin trembled with rage. He pointed at the soldiers who were ignoring his orders and running away, or rather, collapsing, then turned to the metal figure standing behind him and said:
"Do it! John Coburn! I order you to take care of Batman and Wonder Woman!"
A red light flashed in the metal man's eyes, and then his figure flickered as he charged directly towards Chen Tao.
"Wonder Woman," Chen Tao said succinctly.
Immediately afterwards, the Amazonian warrior drew her sword and blocked his way. Sparks flew as the metal man's arm clashed with Wonder Woman's sword, and the two superhumans became a blurry afterimage.
General Erin tried to get his soldiers to leave: "Stop! Stop!"
It was no use. The defeat was swift and complete. Almost all the lower and middle-ranking officers in the entire army rebelled, and even the senior officers became mere puppets.
General Erin even tried to draw his pistol, but was quickly tackled by several soldiers beside him, tumbling awkwardly off the front deck of the tank and pinned to the ground: "No, you don't want your mother anymore, we do! Ah, sir, I'm so sorry, so sorry, so sorry, so sorry, so sorry..."
The soldiers apologized verbally, their faces showing a helpless expression as if they were about to cry, but their hands didn't stop for a moment. Soon, they had General Erin tied up tightly, like a rice dumpling.
The fight between the Metal Man and Wonder Woman continued, and they seemed to have tacitly avoided the area where the entire legion was standing, preventing the battle from spreading there and causing chaos.
Soon, the entire legion retreated into the mist and disappeared completely.
General Erin's face was grim.
"Metal Man! Come back and untie me!" He was about to escape. The situation had deteriorated to the extreme, and even with his arrogance, he no longer believed his previous plan could proceed.
And that bomb...
He should have let those ordinary soldiers and his men be blown up here, while he himself was protected by the Metal Man and left, then used their lives as leverage to attack Batman and other superheroes, instead of ending up like this.
But all things considered, he has to leave now. Batman has a secret prison; Pentagon intelligence had deduced this before, and if they capture him, they won't put him in court.
Moreover, judging from Batman's current state, the other party has no bottom line and is lawless, which is completely different from the intelligence the Pentagon gave him!
The Metal Man moved so fast that it was like a blur. He broke away from the fight with Wonder Woman and appeared beside General Erin.
"Quickly, take me away." He stretched out his arm to the superhuman in front of him. However, instead of being grabbed by the arm and carried into the sky, he heard the superhuman say:
"General Erin, you have a secret, a secret that cannot be known to anyone else."
General Erin felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
"The mechanical superman told me he has completely taken control of you." He swallowed hard, staring at the metal man who had turned around, his eyes glowing green, and took a step back. "Did he lie? Impossible. He said he used digital means to hack into and control you. He even cracked your firewall. How did you recover...?"
"Everyone has secrets, General Erin, your secret, my secret, the President's secret, everyone's secret," the metal man said.
His eyes were clear and bright; there was no trace of the dullness and ignorance he had shown when he was being controlled.
Chen Tao watched from the side, marveling at the situation. He hadn't expected the government to be more effective than he had imagined. He had thought that a character like the Metal Man, who was completely countered by the Mechanical Superman in both technology and ability, would be completely unable to escape the other party's control.
Chen Tao touched his buttocks and chin.
Who helped him break free from the control of the robotic superhero?
A Martian hunter?
"The metal man has been holding back since the very beginning of the battle."
Wonder Woman whispered seriously in Chen Tao's ear, "So I went easy on him and let him out of the fight."
"Hmm." Chen Tao nodded somewhat awkwardly. The 5000-year-old girl had no idea how close they were. Her mind was completely focused on battle, and she didn't even realize that her breath was fragrant and that her posture and movements were somewhat strange.
Chen Tao suppressed this little incident. His gaze met the look the metal man was giving him.
"You can't keep that thing from exploding forever," the metal man said to Chen Tao.
General Erin turned to run, but the metal man didn't even turn his head, delivering a single chop to knock him unconscious: "Want to talk somewhere else?"
A few minutes later, Chen Tao, Wonder Woman, Metal Man, and General Erin stood beside a small grove of trees, hearing a deafening explosion from a distant bomb.
"Batman told me that he didn't actually kidnap those hostages," Wonder Woman explained before Chen Tao could even speak.
"He just collected these people's home addresses and their families... well, the addresses, appearances, and family relationships of military personnel's families. I know this is classified intelligence, but at least he didn't intend to do anything with it."
"The entire U.S. military has only a few million personnel. Even if you include mid- to low-ranking officers, there are only tens of thousands of officers with official positions."
Assuming a photo and a file each require 1MB of storage space, even if tens of thousands of people were fully utilized, their data would only amount to tens of gigabytes.
This is such a tiny number, yet such a huge number.
Chen Tao added from the side, "I simply didn't have enough manpower to kidnap so many people in advance, so I just had Mudface conjure up photos of the soldiers' families being kidnapped based on their family situations, thus achieving the effect of deception."
Clayface is not only capable of altering his appearance, but he's also adept at conjuring items. Back when he was a hoodlum in Gotham, the clothes he wore were all created by himself.
This is an explanation for Metal Man. As Wonder Woman said before, kidnapping someone's family is a rather heinous act, undoubtedly crossing the line, and it is necessary to explain it.
However, it now seems that the government was not entirely unaware of what General Erin and the Cyborg had done, which makes things easier.
Waller wasn't entirely useless; no wonder when he brought up the matter of "Mechanical Superman harboring ill intentions" before, the other party only asked him to prove it, rather than directly denying it.
Old fox!
However, even though they noticed something was wrong with the mechanical superhero, they didn't do anything to him... There's also the plan by General Erin and the mechanical superhero to use the lives of these soldiers to smear him with dirty water.
The government allowed the plan to proceed as planned, simply using the metal man as a spy. Whether their aim was to continue to lull the mechanical superman into complacency or to have something more sinister in mind, they genuinely intended to go with the flow and use these soldiers to smear Chen Tao. These soldiers were the ones who had been abandoned.
Batman's reputation is indeed enormous. After his experiences with Brainiac and his more than 10 years of chivalry in Gotham, he has become a representative figure of superheroes in the public eye. Moreover, unlike Superman, people generally believe that Batman's actions are somewhat "dark".
For the general public, a righteous and heroic superhero might seem unapproachable, while a hero with some questionable actions might inspire more faith in them.
Therefore, the government would naturally welcome any opportunity to diminish Batman's reputation.
Damn it, when it comes to being inhuman, I, Batman, am probably only fit to carry the shoes of these bastards in your government.
Chen Tao cursed Waller in his heart, and then tried to say something to the metal man, but the man raised his hand to stop him before he could speak.
"My mission is over, Batman. What happens next is not my concern."
He said, "That's settled then."
Before Chen Tao could speak again, he grabbed General Erin: "I will take this man back for trial."
"Wait, you..." But... Flames erupted from beneath the metal man's feet, and he had already dragged General Erin away.
Instead of a princess carry, the other person grabbed his collar, and amidst a scream, the two disappeared into the mist together.
"You couldn't possibly kidnap that many people at the same time, right?"
Wonder Woman suddenly spoke up, saying, "They number at least tens of thousands; you simply don't have that many people."
Then she saw Batman staring intently at him.
"Really, right?"
Facing Wonder Woman's clear, black-and-white eyes, Chen Tao felt a little guilty.
"I swear it's true."
He said, then immediately changed the subject: "The battle isn't over yet, be careful the mechanical superhero is still around..."
"You're changing the subject; you're feeling guilty."
"I didn't. I'm Batman, and I have nothing to hide. These are just your imaginations."
"real?"
"real."
Chen Tao said, "We're not discussing this topic now."
"You wouldn't really do that, would you?"
"Won't."
"Then grasp the lasso of truth with your hand."
"don't want."
"Huh—why?"
"No means no."
After much effort, Wonder Woman finally gave up and stopped discussing the topic.
Chen Tao secretly breathed a sigh of relief before putting his finger to his ear.
A message was sent from his brain, which had transformed into the car's computer within his skull:
"It's over, let's withdraw."
This message traveled across mountains and plains, reaching thousands of miles away in Texas, appearing on countless mobile phones.
One of the claws glanced one last time at Merlin, the old woman still watering the vegetables in the yard, then called to his companions, "Retreat!"
In the shadows, countless sharp claws carrying swords loomed out.
In the sunlight, the morning sun shone on the old lady's wrinkled skin, making it appear so bright and radiant.
Good morning, Mrs. Merlin.
(End of this chapter)