rpbooks Chapter 170 Brainiac: Who will take control of their teammate first?
Chapter 170 Brainiac: Who will take control of their teammate first?
Chapter 170 Brainiac: Who will take control of their teammate first?
Chen Tao's gaze was deep and unfathomable.
Therefore, this is the objective that the operational plan needs to achieve.
Although Brainiac appears to exist as a green-skinned alien, Chen Tao is well aware that the green organic bodies of the Kru are merely Brainiac's vessel.
He, or rather "it," is essentially a super AI, possessing artificial emotions, artificial evil, and artificial greed.
The entire spaceship is Brainiac; "Brainiac is immortal" is not an adjective, but a fact.
During Brainiac's conquest of countless planets, heroes from more than one planet may have stormed Brainiac's ship, but they all likely perished in the end, largely because they mistook his true identity.
Brainiac intentionally created this deceptive organic body to conceal the fact that he was essentially an AI.
Chen Tao could almost imagine the despair they would feel after they had gone through so much trouble to defeat Brainiac's Krull body, only to have them all captured by the enemy's spaceship.
In particular, Brainiac's use of metal tentacles to connect the mechanical body to the spaceship further enhanced the deception.
The tube on his head looked like a clear weakness, as if cutting it would sever Brainiac's control of the ship.
But if someone were to actually go through all that trouble and pay such a high price to achieve this, they would only reap new despair. Brainiac did it on purpose, deliberately exposing the metal tentacles to make many people believe that this mechanical body was controlling the ship, when in fact the opposite was true.
This is why Chen Tao's henchmen were so easily manipulated by Brainiac; to be precise, they weren't actually standing "in front" of Brainiac, but rather "inside" him.
This body is like a puppet in the hands of a ventriloquist, except that Brainiac has enhanced the physical strength of this "puppet" to the point that it can fight Superman.
In the original storyline, after Superman removed Brainiac's organic body from his biological shell, which was the skull-shaped spaceship, Superman threw him hard into a swamp. Countless microorganisms and bacteria instantly overwhelmed Brainiac's computing power, rendering him unable to resist.
But the comics he read in his previous life were still just comics, and Chen Tao didn't dare to completely believe in the solutions in them.
Who knows if Brainiac's organic body will break its connection with the body when you pull it out of its biological shell and throw it into the swamp?
Chen Tao wasn't sure if Brainiac would be defeated in such a simple way. Therefore, when formulating his plan, Chen Tao's primary objective was to completely compress Brainiac's consciousness into his organic body to prevent him from pulling off some kind of crazy move like a second phase of a boss fight.
In short, the effect is now very significant. The Joker's truly manic thoughts have begun to corrupt Brainiac, who is now laughing so hard his mouth is splitting open.
"Hahahaha, impossible! How did you control my spaceship, no, control mine?"
Brainiac collapsed to the ground while laughing maniacally.
This was a completely new experience he had never had before, as incredible as if his own hands and feet had suddenly rebelled one day.
He quickly scanned the entire spaceship. Even with his mind being invaded by the Joker's thoughts, Brainiac's immense computing power still allowed him to do something so simple.
"It can't be purely technological... No one could control me so easily with technology... What could it be... Wait, that Kryptonian spaceship?"
Brainiac rose from the ground, his green face conspicuously split in two, one side twisted and grinning wildly, his jaw dislocated and his eye slanted to one side, while the other side barely regained control.
"Black Zero." Brainiac's half-face, which was still able to maintain control, remained expressionless and calm.
Under the influence of the Joker's mind, he finally revealed his true nature as an AI. His face no longer had that lifelike but contrived expression; he was deathly still, like a corpse. But this state only lasted for a short while.
Then, very quickly, the artificially generated expression reappeared on half of his face, like a graphics card restarting after a lag. This was a signal that Brainiac was gradually regaining control after a brief moment of being caught off guard.
The eye that was still under his control blinked, and then a phantom three-dimensional projection appeared on the field, which was the appearance of General Zod's flagship, "Black Zero".
With the defeat and death of General Zod, his 20 men and his chief scientist Ur, along with his spaceship "Black Zero," all fell into the hands of Brainiac.
After absorbing the wisdom of Ur, who was likely the last scientist on Krypton, Brainiac transformed him into the incomplete Doomsday he had previously created and released him onto Earth.
Chen Tao recalled what had happened before and carefully reviewed in a short period of time whether he had overlooked anything.
Doomsday... Doomsday...
However, he didn't have time to think about it further.
Chen Tao brought his wandering thoughts back into focus.
Brainiac manipulated the 3D projection to continue enlarging, removing the outer shell of Black Zero, and then one component after another.
Ultimately, the 3D projection was magnified to the dissection room, the place where Ur had once tied up Superman.
Brainiac blinked again, and then he saw countless tiny grains of sand fly out from the corners of the various machines in the dissection room, coalescing into a single grain in front of his eyes...
A small iron ring.
This was the ring that Chen Tao had given to Clark before, so that he could wear Black Zero.
Brainiac watched as the iron ring in the projection disintegrated into countless tiny grains of sand in his vision. He continued to zoom in and out of the image, watching these grains of sand detach from Black Zero and seep into his skull-shaped spaceship.
While those nanobots were infiltrating, they were also constantly trying to "turn" the nanobots that originally belonged to Brainiac. It was obvious that Brainiac's achievements in nanotechnology were also extraordinary. But these extraordinary nanobots, which far surpassed Earth's technology, all surrendered in front of Chen Tao's nanobots.
"This...this doesn't make sense." Brainiac had lost count of how many times he'd said this; Batman had brought him far too many surprises.
"Even nanobots, I should have been able to discover them," he said. "No one can surpass me in nanoscience, especially not a race like yours."
He repeated:
"There must be some reason why you could never surpass me technically."
Countless massive streams of data flowed through Brainiac's eyes. He devoted a significant amount of computing power to calculating the result, even setting aside his confrontation with the Joker's mad mind.
The smile on the other half of his face instantly intensified, taking up more of his face and making Brainiac appear sunny and cheerful.
"What's going on? What's interfering with my nanobots? Tell me! Tell me! I want to know! I must know!"
Chen Tao remained expressionless. He carefully assessed the current situation in his mind—damn it, due to the frequent use of the Metal Spirit, how come he's become so rational, like an AI, while the real AI, Brainiac, has lost his AI-like data thinking due to the Joker's mindset.
Tell me! Tell me!
Brainiac was still repeating the same thought process. His consciousness had been injected with too much of the Joker's insane thinking, causing his way of thinking to begin to lean towards humanity, and specifically towards the most insane aspects of humanity.
"Because I am Batman," Chen Tao told him directly.
In fact, since he did not have the "Broken Bat" installed, once he stopped synchronizing the "Broken Bat", the nanobots he had dispersed should have been "refreshed" and disappeared.
The problem is that Brainiac's nanobot technology is simply too advanced. Once he corrupts Brainiac's nanobots using the power of the Metal Spirit through Broken Bat's nanobots, it becomes irrelevant whether he synchronizes with Broken Bat. The corrupted nanobots can completely replace Broken Bat's nanobots to corrupt more of their kind, so he doesn't need to worry about it at all.
"you……"
Brainiac finally realized something was wrong. He abruptly covered his face and quickly backed away.
Cold sweat beaded on Chen Tao's forehead. Even though Brainiac's mind was weakened by the Joker's influence, the gap in computing power between him and Brainiac was still too great. Chen Tao squatted down on the spot, and in full view of everyone, his head suddenly transformed into the car's onboard computer.
Suddenly, a Batman-like figure with a car-mounted computer head appeared on the scene, with countless data streams repeatedly rotating on the screen.
Chen Tao knew that his mind could never compare to that of a super AI, and he also had a vague feeling that the Joker's thinking might not be able to really solve Brainiac's problem either.
He must compress as much of Brainiac's consciousness into this body as possible before Brainiac regains full control, while simultaneously wresting control of the skeleton ship from Brainiac's mind.
"It's time to make a move, everyone."
From his vehicle, Chen Tao, connected to the onboard computer, shouted loudly to the mercenaries and villains he had brought, "Kill Brainiac!"
"Hahaha, hahaha, I never thought I could be this happy!"
Deathstroke laughed maniacally as he swung his sword, laughing so hard tears streamed down his face. "When will that damned Joker's mind finally fly out of my head? I'm going crazy!"
The live wire, laughing maniacally, flew around inside Brainiac's spaceship: "Hahahaha, I am the beautiful Harley Quinn!"
Red Hood: ?
Jason really wanted to laugh, but he couldn't.
As the second-generation Robin (former), Chen Tao's pink pills served another purpose.
After the onset of the clown's thoughts, Jason initially laughed as the clown's ideas flowed through his mind, but now his body was completely under Chen Tao's control, like a puppet on strings.
He can now see the scene outside perfectly, but he has absolutely no control over this body. He can't even laugh, unlike Deathstroke and the others who can move freely even while laughing wildly.
Because Chen Tao did not actively control his body, he was now standing there like a wooden stake, like a camera standing in the middle of a battlefield.
This is actually a super-enhanced variant of the drug that Poison Ivy used to control Superman in Batman: Hush, meaning that while a person's consciousness can still perceive the outside world, they cannot control their own body.
In the original comics, Superman forcibly broke free from the drug's control through his own willpower, but in the current version, with this super-enhanced drug, it's clear that Jason cannot break free from it through his own willpower alone.
"Damn it, you wretched old bat, if you leave me standing here, I might get killed by some incoming laser beam in a minute."
Jason stood there, sweating profusely with anxiety: "At least let me move around a bit!"
Jason watched as his teammates rushed towards Brainiac, and all sorts of slashes and hacks filled Brainiac's organic body in an instant.
With a snap of her hands, the live wire absorbed energy and converted it into electricity. The massive current surged through Brainiac, causing him to scream.
As a super AI, Brainiac originally had no sense of pain, but after he created an organic body, the body's sense of pain would also be fed back to him.
Chen Tao immediately sensed that Brainiac's resistance had weakened considerably. He quickly roused himself and mobilized as much of his Metal Spirit power as possible to launch a siege against Brainiac's will.
"Do you think I didn't consider this possibility? Do you think I wouldn't have anticipated your methods?"
Despite the immense electric shock, Brainiac's voice still rang in Chen Tao's ears: "You should really resent Luther; his stupidity revealed your hand to me prematurely."
He said, "Do you think I didn't study how to deal with this kind of unreasonable mental pollution after I was outmaneuvered by you last time I invaded your mind?"
"You..." Chen Tao didn't speak. He gritted his teeth and continued to mobilize more metal spirits.
His car's computer started smoking.
"If I can't escape the effects of this mental shock, then I'll... kill myself!"
Chen Tao's eyes widened as he saw Brainiac extend a hand to block Deathstroke and the others' attack. Then, braving the destructive light shooting from Black Manta's eyes, he gouged out the other half of his face.
Chen Tao's heart sank. He sensed that Brainiac had deliberately separated a portion of his mental energy and injected all of the Joker's thoughts into it.
"Hahahahahahahahaha!"
The half-face lying on the ground emitted a hysterical laugh, and Chen Tao could already sense what Brainiac wanted to do.
"you……"
The hysterical laughter vanished in an instant.
This is equivalent to cutting off one's own flesh and then burning it, but the effect is remarkable.
Brainiac's other half of his face regenerated in a very short time, and he looked grim.
"Now, what other tricks do you have up your sleeve?"
Seeing that Chen Tao remained silent, Brainiac said in a deep voice, "Then it's my turn."
In an instant, two spatial portals opened behind him, and the person who stepped out was actually...
Superman and Wonder Woman!
Their faces were green, and they were acting very strangely. Were they being controlled by Brainiac?
Chen Tao lowered his gaze.
The problem is not big.
The two of them... were taking the same medication as Jason.
(End of this chapter)