American comics: What kind of evil intentions could Batman have?

Chapter 488 The Justice League, striving to become stronger, and the drenched rotten chicken

Chapter 488 The Justice League, striving to become stronger, and the drenched, decaying Lord.

South America, the lost temple of the feathered serpent god.

It is located above the entrance to the Lhasa Road Pool passage.

The place was deserted, except for the bloodied corpses of a few guards who had been assigned by the ninja master Raiyo Augu, lying haphazardly here.

This is the entrance to the underground Lhasa Road pool. Batman left Aquaman (Aquaman) Arthur and Aquawoman Mera here, both to guard the main passageway and to keep them from appearing in front of General Zod for the time being.

At this moment, they should guard—

Eh? ? ?

What about the two of them?

The entrance was quiet; there was no one there except for the corpses.

A moment later, Mera's voice suddenly rang out in the air.

"Arthur... uh... are you sure your new technique can hide from Kryptonian X-rays?"

Still no sound.

"Arthur, can you hear me?"

"Mera, seriously, can you please shut up? We're like two bricks now."

"Pretending to be two bricks," Mera added, "and in a very awkward pose."

"This is necessary to activate my new ability. I don't have the capacity to extend this invisibility range to too large an area."

"Okay, I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm, Arthur, but you'd better listen: I don't think Batman needs our optical invisibility."

"This is not optical invisibility, it's biomimetic, an ability similar to that of marine animals, bestowed upon me by the Red of All Beings."

"They're all the same under Kryptonian X-rays."

"I tried it in front of Superman, and he walked away as if he didn't see me."

"How many times did you try?"

"once."

"Huff—humph!" Mera made a strange sound through her nose. Then, calming herself down, she spoke softly, as if coaxing a child:

"Is it possible that Clark just thought you were joking, and that he didn't call you out on it so as not to hurt you?"

Her conjecture was met with several rebuttals from Aquaman Arthur, who declared it absolutely impossible.

Mera: "..."

"Okay," she said, "but the truth is, if Batman puts us in this position, he needs us to help him stop the escapees or call us in at any time. So let me be clear: this kind of invisibility is unnecessary."

Aquaman accepted. He deactivated his invisibility, and deformed fish scales appeared from the air, then turned back to silver-white. The fish scales, which spread out like a semi-transparent invisibility cloak, gradually shrank and then returned to Aquaman's neck, which had returned to its fish-head form.

Aquaman shook his head, and Zatanna's transformation spell on his neck turned his fish head back into a normal human head.

He said, "Okay, I admit I just wanted to try out my new ability."

Then the two fell silent again.

"Arthur".

Mera said.

Aquaman Arthur, intently staring at the temple entrance in the distance, replied somewhat absentmindedly, "What's wrong?"

From the moment they parted until now, the atmosphere between them seemed relaxed and humorous, but in fact, a deep worry lingered in their hearts.

So they finally got to the most important topic:

"What do you think of Night Owl's...?"

Owl once told them that only suicide could allow Batman to reach his true potential. Although Batman himself refuted this claim, the Aquaman couple still often discussed this issue.

"Nonsense," Aquaman said. "I'm not stupid enough to believe such a thing."

"Oh," Mera said.

A deathly silence fell between them again, then Mera said, "Clark started out sunbathing on Earth, but then he just took Kara and Connor (Supergirl and Superman) and flew into the sun."

"Diana is busy training the army on Themyscira, getting them used to fighting freely while helping Batman relieve some of the pressure."

"Ron (Mars Manhunter) is preparing the telepathic projection amplifier... a device that amplifies telepathic abilities, built with his and Luther's help."

"The Flash is on a secret mission for Batman..."

"Hal..." Mera paused, "Hal is anxious because he can't find his mysteriously missing 2000-plus Green Lantern Corps members, but he is still helping Arlinsus maintain the basic framework of the cosmic police system, suppress riotous forces, and maintain the most basic Green Lantern Corps order within the sector."

Mera was talking for a while, then suddenly asked, "We can win, right?"

"I am now the agent of the Crimson of All Beings," Arthur said.

"I am closely connected with the part about marine life in the Red of All Beings. The authority over marine life belongs to me."

He said, "Whether it's me, Diana, or anyone else in the alliance, our power is growing."

He confidently told his wife, "We will win this time, just like we have won countless times before. Batman has always been able to lead us to these things."

"But... but I always feel that Batman is taking this time more seriously than ever before. He doesn't tell us a lot of things, which is true, that's Batman's usual practice, but this time I feel something is different."

Mera said, "This time..."

But before he could finish speaking, he and his wife received Batman's mobilization order almost simultaneously.

The two of them exchanged a glance.

"Let's sneak over to the seaweed head," Mera said.

His eyes glowed with a shimmering blue light. A water-manipulating mage, Arthur, appeared before them like a flowing magic carpet, controlling a small ball of water. He boarded first, followed closely by his wife, and the two silently flew directly towards the Pool of Lhasa.

Before they even arrived, they heard someone proclaiming their power, just like countless enemies who had been defeated by the Justice Alliance:

"Death will be the end of everything, and the spokesperson for the end and destruction is the Anti-Monitor, Batman. I am not betraying my own universe, but fulfilling my mission to return the world to its rightful death."

"Because I am death itself, I am the definition of death, and those who oppose surveillance are often accompanied by death."

"Zod, you make me so..."

Aquaman Arthur and his wife hid together under a fish-scale-like camouflage. Arthur quietly asked Mera:

"Can you manipulate the waters of the Lhasa River pool to pour over that incessantly talking corpse?"

Mera took a look.

"Yes, I can use magic to drive anything that is liquid."

"Very good, that's exactly what Batman planned."

Aquaman said, "Now listen to me. 3, 2, 1."

As the countdown to the Sea King began, a loud "plop" was heard, and the towering green waters of Lhasa Road drenched Anton A. Kane, who was possessing a corpse, causing white smoke to rise from his body.

"My camouflage technique works quite well."

Arthur whispered to Mera, "The Kryptonians can't detect it at all, right?"

(End of this chapter)