r18novel Chapter 504 The 3rd Legion of Monsters, Time is Running Out
Chapter 504 The 3rd Legion of Monsters, Time is Running Out
Chapter 504 The Third Legion Monsters, Time Is Running Out
"The factors that hindered others have been eliminated."
The first Lantern Man looked at the Supreme Little Superman who appeared next to Chen Tao with some horror.
The opponent was a two-headed monster, one head being a monkey and the other a normal human. At this moment, both heads had eerie smiles on their lips. This was because, in order to stop the excruciating pain, Superman had connected his mind with his beast personality. This caused him to receive feedback from the monkey personality to a certain extent in his neurons, but this could not affect Superman, at least not for the time being.
"Don't speak."
As if he had foreseen the future, Chen Tao stopped the strange sounds coming from the monkey personality of the Supreme Little Superman.
Then those two heads, silent and taciturn, their eyes flashing with deep red demonic light, appeared silently in an instant, hovering behind Chen Tao like corpses moving like the wind.
Sure enough, once Superman shut up, the sense of fear he exuded increased dramatically.
The temporary body of the first Lantern Knight, formed from the green lantern energy of the Ring of Calamity, trembled slightly.
"I am imprisoned in the deepest part of the Shadow Cabinet," he said.
Following his instructions, Chen Tao first used Brainiac's shrinking ray to shrink all the unconscious blue prison guards, then stuffed them into containers and swallowed them whole in front of the first Genie. This inhuman scene even made the guards look on with surprise.
They continued forward, and soon an egg-shaped object shimmering with a faint white light in the darkness came into Chen Tao's view.
"What should I do next?" Chen Tao asked the first Lantern Knight, then warned, "Don't think you can deceive me or play any other tricks. You should know very well that in your current weakened state, you can't stop me from forcibly reading your memories. Don't push me to that point."
"Of course not." The shadow of the first Lantern, formed from Green Lantern energy, drifted toward the giant egg-shaped cocoon. Strands of white spectral energy, like veins, gathered and wrapped around its surface, connecting to a distance not far away.
He lovingly stroked the giant cocoon-like object, his true form imprisoned inside. If he could, he would love to smash this vexing cage and escape, but clearly, the first Lantern Knight, who could only manifest the Calamity Ring, didn't have that ability.
"Use the corpses of those cosmic guardians," said Genie A. "We're so close to our original forms; I'm fully capable of reshaping that flesh and blood."
There was no response from Batman.
The first Lantern turned to Batman: "Don't want to desecrate a corpse? Don't worry, I'm not telling you to cut it off..."
Then, through his eyes, which were formed from green light energy, he saw Batman wielding a kitchen knife made from purple light energy, with a cutting board made from purple light energy beside him.
He didn't know when, but he actually drew a complete kitchen behind him, and a huge, dead blueberry, which he had stripped naked and threw on the cutting board.
"you……"
Before the first Lantern Man could finish speaking, Batman wielded a kitchen knife and, as if cooking, quickly peeled the skin off the giant blueberry, then cut the flesh into pieces and placed them on a plate, casually tossing the remaining blueberry bones aside.
He heard Batman say, "Don't look at me like that. I do cook sometimes."
This is certainly not a skill of Batman Bruce Wayne, but rather a basic cooking technique that Chen Tao knew in his previous life.
After all, it was obvious that Chen Tao in his previous life wasn't made of gold, so he couldn't afford to hire servants to cook for him.
The first Lantern opened his mouth, but then gave up. He reached out and grabbed a large piece of blueberries with the hand drawn by the Green Lantern Colossus.
Damn, how could this blueberry be cut so neatly? In his long life as the first Lantern Man, he had seen many villains known for their cruelty. Batman cutting into this kind of corpse was far from surprising to him.
He stuck the half of the blueberry to the rock wall, and immediately a large amount of white energy, like lightning, flew out from it.
A large amount of white lightning was constantly forging, and soon, the large lump of little blue man's flesh was solidified. Then, the first Lantern was somewhat surprised to find that the blueberry pieces that Batman had cut for him seemed to be just enough to create a complete creation, with not a single one left over.
Was this a coincidence or intentional? However, by doing this, the other party had already physically prevented him from retaining a portion of flesh and blood to create other flesh and blood clones that he might control, even though the first Genie didn't intend to do so.
When Lantern Man realized that Batman had actually manually cut the blueberry chunks just enough to keep him safe, Chen Tao pulled out the live cow he had captured from the Kent farm.
"Gurgle! Moo! Gurgle!" The cow had just been shrunk back to its original size from the size of a fingernail by Chen Tao using Brainiac's shrinking ray. It wanted to run away as fast as it could and escape from the two terrifying humans in front of it, but it was quickly pounced on by the wolf-like monsters of the Third Legion.
The reason Chen Tao called these monsters, which were made up of the flesh and blood of the little blue men and the power of the first Lantern, the Third Legion was because in the DC comic "Rise of the Third Legion" that he had read in his previous life, the Guardians of the Universe wanted to replace the Green Lantern Legion with these monsters, and even went so far as to kill Hal for this purpose.
These monsters originally had no name, so Chen Tao simply adopted their name, the Third Legion.
Glug glug glug glug glug...
The cow was still mooing, but it soon stopped. It was changed and evolved; its original brown fur quickly transformed into silvery-white skin, just like the monster that had appeared earlier.
First, the cow learned to walk on two hooves. He sat on the ground, and then his chest began to boil like boiling water.
A heart was ejected from his chest cavity, followed by a soaring brain.
The cow's flesh writhed, and it let out a painful scream; it was being assimilated and transformed.
In the end, it quickly transformed back into a humanoid creature exactly like the original Third Legion monster.
The bull stood up on its hind legs, pulled its horns—which couldn't be modified in the same way—from its head, threw them on the ground, and roared loudly.
"This is your transformation, First Lantern. Amazing. His biological tissues have been completely rewritten. His brain has collapsed, and his heart has been discarded."
"Apart from its eyes, this monster has no other biological organs."
"It has been assimilated, its identity has been erased, and its free will will be completely lost."
Chen Tao walked up to the monster and looked up at it.
Then he turned to look at the shadow formed by the green lantern energy of the first Lantern.
"I have fulfilled my promise. I have released a portion of your power. Although I will still seal them within the Shadow Cabinet, with the help of these two avatars imbued with your power, you..."
Just as Chen Tao was about to ask the first Lantern Knight to hand over the knowledge and skills he needed, the next second, seemingly before anyone could react, the two monsters flew out of the Shadow Cabinet at an unimaginable speed, almost escaping...
almost.
In an instant, the Supreme Little Superman captured the two who were trying to escape. Chen Tao finally stopped wasting words and synchronized a portion of the Bat Mage. Soon, the two Third Legion monsters that had appeared were resealed onto the giant egg-shaped cocoon.
He glanced at the first Lantern, barely bothering to acknowledge the other's earlier attempt to manipulate the two clones to escape the Shadow Cabinet. He stated directly, "Share the memories I want... You know what I'm asking for. Don't try anything funny; you're too weak. I can tell if you're lying."
The first Lantern Knight acted as if nothing had happened: "Okay."
Soon, as he opened up his memories, Chen Tao quickly accessed various kinds of knowledge about connecting the Light of Creation and manipulating the spectrum of emotions.
After a long while, Chen Tao disconnected the connection and then nodded:
"That completes our transaction."
Then he manipulated the purple lamp energy and placed a hand on the egg-shaped cocoon.
"What do you want to do?" asked the first Lantern Man, then he let out a muffled groan.
"You tried to run away before, and this is your punishment."
He heard Batman say, "That's what you call a completed deal."
By the time Lantern Man recovered from his pain, Batman had already disappeared inside the Shadow Cabinet.
……
……
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"You murderer who released Evolution Lantern!"
"No, if you do that, it will free Genie #1. You have to send us back..."
"No, we refuse."
"You lackey of the First Genie!"
"I'm trying to reason with you, Batman. Compared to that Anti-Monitor we've never even seen, Genie E. Lantern is the biggest in the universe..."
Clang!
In the Justice League Hall, Chen Tao's face was very grim as he came out of his cell, which was filled with a group of Shadows, the little blue jailer, who had been relocated to a different place to serve their punishment.
He had come to understand firsthand the stubbornness and inflexibility of these little blue men. He had originally thought that the guardians of the universe who had voluntarily shed their emotions were like that, while these guardians of the universe who still retained their emotions were reasonable, capable of normal communication and persuasion.
He originally wanted to involve these universe guardians in his plan as an important fighting force, but they seemed to have decided that he was a bad guy. Chen Tao shared his memories and then tried to talk his way out of it for a long time, but these little blue men remained unmoved, sticking to the idea that "you're a bad guy and I won't believe anything you say," giving off a naive feeling of seeing things in black and white.
"call……"
Chen Tao breathed a sigh of relief, but he was afraid that if it weren't for this, they wouldn't have been chosen to stay and guard the first Lantern Knight. Let's leave their situation for now.
Compared to these stubborn little blue men, what Chen Tao needs to do now is far more important.
He walked to the center of the Hall of Justice, where a young man was waiting for him; it was none other than William Hand.
When Chen Tao entered the hall, he didn't speak, nor did Chen Tao. He simply walked silently to William Hand, then extended his finger and tapped the other's forehead. Soon, a large amount of information was shared with William using his ability to use the bat-like creature.
"These are the abilities to manipulate the spectrum of emotions, and more importantly, the ability to manipulate the light beasts of their own color," Chen Tao said. "Since I've called you here, you should already be mentally prepared."
This is a difficult process, even somewhat demanding; I admit it's like cramming at the last minute. I don't expect you to master a lot, but you have to memorize it all.
In our universe, only two people possess the ability to manipulate the spectrum of emotions: the first Genie and Cardona.
I hope you become the fourth one, William. I know time is tight, but I will arrange a suitable learning place for you. You must learn as many skills as possible from these memories so that you will be able to truly intervene in the battle when the Black Death Emperor is released next time.
He said, "I'll give you a training place where you can speed up time. With Superman the Primal."
"Won't I go to war with you?"
"No, of course not," Chen Tao said. "If I ever had any delusion about not using the Black Death Emperor's power before, I have now completely given up on that idea."
"Only by borrowing all the power we can, can we have the ability to struggle."
He said, "We will definitely be able to..."
"Can we win?" Then he heard William Hand ask in return.
"I've already received the memory of our defeat that time. If the anti-monitors could defeat so many of us, then what makes you think we can do it this time...?"
Chen Tao didn't know how to answer him. He could confidently tell the members of the Justice League what he could tell them about his plan and that everything was going according to plan, but he couldn't seem to tell such a lie to William.
He walked up to him.
"able."
He said.
In the end, that was all he could say in such a simple way.
He spoke with such conviction, just like the protagonist of the most exciting anime on TV.
There was no plan, no encouragement, just a simple explanation. As if it were all perfectly natural and expected.
And in fact...
"Our time is indeed running out soon," Chen Tao said softly.
He walked to the window of the Hall of Justice and looked at the clear sky outside.
He knew that every day he saw this clear sky was one less day he could enjoy.
"all in all……"
"Since fear is useless..."
"Then prepare for battle."
(End of this chapter)