darknovel Chapter 225 We All Have a Mother
Chapter 225 We All Have a Mother
Chapter 225 We All Have a Mother
So... do you know that?
You see, we seem to be forced into a choice again.
A group of foolish soldiers, a bomb about to explode, a death that is about to befall them, and a political conspiracy that many people would love to see happen and that they could use as a pretext.
What would a normal person... or rather, those who consider themselves normal, choose to do? Hmm?
Warn the soldiers, tell them there's a bomb under their feet?
Then go to great lengths to prove to them that the bomb is about to explode? Relying on them to trust Batman more than their own superiors in the military, and expecting them to disregard the risk of court-martial and obey Batman's orders?
Have Wonder Woman protect him, then go all out to crack Apokolips' technology, and then take him high into the sky and detonate him?
Of course, of course, friends. There are so many ways, hehe—
I'm afraid I have to admit it.
These are indeed choices that seem to have a very high success rate. Those people with no sense of humor, schemers, villains disguised as superheroes, vanguard officers of an invading alien army, martial artists who have wasted their efforts but are manipulated, dutiful metal soldiers, and indignant Amazonian warriors, they must all think this way, right?
So at the same time... this also means that they will definitely take precautions against the choices of these normal people.
The mechanical superhero is the mastermind behind this situation; he must have done everything perfectly.
I can guarantee that if I actually did that, making the choices that normal people would make, I would definitely fail and waste a lot of my time, thus completely losing the chance to salvage everything.
But did you know that this also means...?
If I'm not thinking straight and do something that goes beyond his expectations...
Chen Tao squinted.
Why would anyone think that his preparations might be useless?
He opened his palm, and a small lump of muddy body tissue was wrapped around it.
He lowered his head slightly and looked at the information inside.
"Howard Meeks!" he suddenly called out a name. "Tell me, who is the most important woman in a boy's life? Tell me, for whom would a boy fight to the death?"
General Erin's adjutant turned his head in disbelief.
An ominous premonition rose in the soldier's heart: "I...I don't have a girlfriend yet."
"No, it's not that person who doesn't exist."
"Howard!" General Erin tried to reach out, but his adjutant was nearly driven mad.
"No, it's not her. The most special woman for every boy is his mother."
Lieutenant Howard charged straight out of the position. Chen Tao rubbed his hands together slightly, and with the help of tiny nanobots, the strands of mud-covered body tissue transformed into several photographs:
An elderly woman wearing glasses was bound hand and foot. The light from a flashlight shone on her face, revealing bruises on her face, swollen eyes, and a look of fear in her eyes.
The lieutenant, Howard, rushed in front of Batman.
"Merlin, Merlin, Merlin... Your mother's name is Merlin, right? Heh heh... Too bad her name isn't Martha."
He saw Batman laugh nervously twice.
"Oh, what a pity, otherwise I would definitely have let her go."
Chen Tao spread out the photos like playing cards, displaying them as clearly as possible to his adjutant Howard: "Of course, the mother of the villain who opposes me must also be a villain."
"And what kind of punishment do the bad guys receive?"
Diana stood there blankly, staring at her ashen-faced lieutenant Howard, then at Batman, whose mouth was stretched to his ears, and felt a chill run from her feet to the top of her head.
"Right, they were burned to death."
"Bat, you wouldn't really..." Diana finally couldn't bear it any longer and placed her hand on the hilt of the sword.
Everyone should understand one thing. The valiant Amazonian girl belongs to no one; she obeys no one and serves no one.
While a small part of her help to the government stemmed from her personal friendship with Colonel Steve Trevor, it was largely because she believed the government was doing the right thing, and the same applied to her help to Batman.
Wonder Woman's sword is only drawn for justice, while Batman's actions clearly exceed the bounds of normal conduct.
Wonder Woman will never allow this to happen.
"I'm sorry, Batman, but this doesn't end here. You can't..."
But before the 5000-year-old girl could finish speaking, she saw Batman turn his head and wink at her twice.
This caused her to pause slightly in her steps.
What does it mean to wink?
?
Realizing that Wonder Woman hadn't grasped his gaze at all, Chen Tao could only helplessly extend a finger, manipulating a small portion of nanobots to float in front of her, assembling into a tiny bat-shaped headset—which even featured two inhumanly pointed ears.
When Wonder Woman put it into her cochlea, she felt a little itchy from the pointed ears.
Then, the lieutenant Howard looked on with despair as Wonder Woman, the only one who might be able to persuade Batman, stood still, seemingly subtly standing beside Batman, as if she were joining him in his evil deeds.
Chen Tao threw the photos on the ground one after another. His adjutant, Howard, knelt down, picked up one of the photos, and said in a trembling voice, "Where is she?"
He suddenly pulled out a pistol from his waist and pointed it at Batman's head: "Tell me!"
"I don't know, I have absolutely no idea!" Chen Tao shouted twice, then turned to Wonder Woman and said, "Use the Lasso of Truth on me."
Wonder Woman did as she was told.
Lieutenant Howard looked at Batman. Wrapped in the Lasso of Truth, like a helpless comedian, he said, "I have absolutely no idea where Merlin is!"
Howard, the adjutant, recognized the Lasso of Truth. As General Erin's second-in-command, he was no longer a low-ranking officer, and Wonder Woman's information was, to some extent, accessible to people like them.
He knew the effects of this stuff.
He knew Batman wasn't lying.
Wonder Woman freed herself from the noose.
Then he saw Batman hopping and skipping towards him, the bat symbol on his chest turned green at some point, and the skin exposed under the mask had turned pale.
"If you attack me, your mother Merlin will die; if you obey General Arryn's orders, Merlin will still die."
"But if you leave here quickly..."
He heard Batman pause for a moment: "Your mother will survive."
Then he saw Batman turn around and shout to everyone present, "Hey everyone! Don't you want to see what photos I have?"
Batman shouted, "Your mother!"
"James! Ronnie! Donald! Sophie! Yes, I'm talking to you, Artillery Stevenson—damn, your mother's name is Martha too?"
Chen Tao muttered to himself, "This name is so common?"
"Fire! Fire! Fire on Batman!" General Erin roared, but no one paid him any attention.
Dozens of soldiers and officers who were called out ignored General Erin and ran desperately toward Batman, then collapsed into the mud, trembling as they picked up photos of their families.
"You...how could you...?"
"My mother's name is also Martha, and you said you would let her go!"
When people are terrified, their reactions are surprisingly fast. One soldier, holding the photo, frantically plucked out a small tuft of his hair and shouted, "I'm different from them! I'm special!"
"You said you wouldn't hurt Martha, right? Is Martha your mother? My mother's name is also Martha. We all have a mother named Martha!"
"Please, I beg you, you have to let her go!"
(End of this chapter)