rpbooks Chapter 518 Night Owl's Ultimate Nightmare: The Clown Man Returns!
Chapter 518 Night Owl's Ultimate Nightmare: The Clown Man Returns!
Chapter 518 Night Owl's Ultimate Nightmare: The Clown Man Returns!
Night Owl checked Luther first.
The other person was on the verge of death, looking like they were about to die, but not completely dead yet.
Night Owl's armor detected that Luther's armor was still functioning. A large number of nanobots flew out of the armor, desperately repairing Luther's heart, which had been ripped out by the Wolf's hand chop. The nanobots were taking over the function of the heart, desperately pumping blood throughout Luther's body, so he wouldn't die anytime soon.
This injury isn't beyond saving; Night Owl has many ways to save the other person's life, but now?
You should lie down here for a while.
Followed by.
Night Owl looked at Claws, Dick Grayson, not far away, with a complicated expression.
No, his Dick is dead; this is just a parallel universe version.
Night Owl told himself this a thousand times, and then he walked up to Nightwing, hoping that the other would beg him to save his life.
but no.
Thanks to the powerful regenerative abilities of the Wolf's genes, even after suffering a fatal injury like being cut in half at the waist, Nightwing, unlike Luthor, was still able to maintain a clear consciousness.
However, his regenerative abilities are far inferior to those of the Wolf. At most, they are comparable to Deathstroke, far from being able to regenerate severed limbs.
He wasn't ignoring the opinions of outsiders, so although he didn't reveal it to them, he was actually here...
Beg me. Come beg me. Plead with me to live. Please, Dick.
Give me...give me a reason to save you.
but.
Nightwing Dick didn't even glance at him.
"Wolf Warrior, you...you said you owed Batman a favor..."
Wolf seemed a little annoyed: "Come on, Dick, you're a good lad, you know our mission is over. I worked for Batman? Of course. I'm a mercenary, and I told Batman I'd work for him for free once. But free work ended the moment we were caught."
"The mission has failed, loyal lad. I should go find my next employer and my next mission. That's the law of survival for mercenaries: never get involved in feuds."
So Night Owl hired me to capture Luther, and in addition to my due payment, I'll have the right to continue doing business in the New World. What reason do I have to refuse?
Night Owl waved to the wolf, and the mercenary stopped talking. He left the room cursing and leaving the space to Night Owl.
Night Owl walked up to Dick and looked down at him. Dick finally met his gaze, and Night Owl felt as if he were seeing his past self.
"...Alfred, how can I believe it? How can I believe it? The biggest mob boss in Gotham City is my parents? How could they do this to me?"
"...My blood is tainted with black blood...This is all the sins of the Wayne family...They died because of me, and they never said it was me even in their dying moments..."
"...No, I didn't cry, Alfred, I never cry."
"...I can no longer stand by and watch my parents let this city continue to degenerate; they've killed countless people..."
"...I have nothing to say to my parents. I have shed all my blood and tears, the blood and tears of Gotham. Today is their day of reckoning."
"...No, there's no need to rely on others. Now that the decision has been made...I'll do it myself."
"My brother... my beloved brother Bruce... I will protect him..."
"...No! Don't die! Bruce! No! Dad, Mom!!! Why are you forcing me to do this!!!"
"...This boy is named Dick Grayson. He has lost his parents. Mr. Thomas, he will become your claws."
"...Dick, you remind me of my brother...you know what? His name is Bruce..."
"...We're family forever, Dick. I never thought I was qualified to say the word 'family.' No, it wasn't me who reshaped you, it was you who reshaped me..."
"No, I beg you, please don't let me lose my family a second time."
All those memories surged and raged in his mind, finally settling on a version of himself holding a corpse in the rainy night, roaring at the sky.
"You are not him," Night Owl said slowly. No one knew the pain in his heart, but he still said firmly, "Alfred thought I came here to save you. But I didn't."
If he gently combines Nightwing's lower body with his upper body, Nightwing can be revived immediately using the cells of the wolf.
But he didn't do it; he ultimately chose not to. Just as he ultimately made the cruel choice to kill his own parents.
He took off his helmet and sat down in front of Nightwing.
Nightwing was so weak that he couldn't even lift his hands. He felt cold all over, and the world was turning black.
But he still stared in astonishment, almost thinking it was a hallucination he was seeing before he died.
Because he saw it...
Why are you so cruel to me?
A single tear from the night owl spilled slightly from his eye, but his action of putting on his helmet completely interrupted its flow.
Night Owl stood up and snapped his fingers. The Night Owl robot next to him, which looked exactly like him, ran over and picked up Luther, who was still being repaired in his chest wound by nanobots.
Bizarro and Amojo were still fighting fiercely outside when Berserker went to help.
He had to loot the only valuable piece of Luther in the room, and then...
Let Dick stay there and wait to die.
"Goodbye..." With each step he took, Night Owl's heart grew colder. The emotions that belonged to Thomas Wayne gradually stripped away from him, and he once again transformed from Thomas into Night Owl, ruthless and indifferent to tears—Night Owl!
"Hehehe, oh my gosh—how cruel."
The owl's voice suddenly stopped.
He could hardly believe the sound he was hearing.
Then he suddenly turned his head.
There was nothing behind him.
He looked around but didn't see anyone. Only Nightwing, who was gradually losing consciousness, was groaning in pain not far away.
"Night Owl 333, play back the ambient recording from 10 seconds ago."
The owl robot beside him did as instructed.
There was nothing there.
Night Owl frowned, unsure whether he had just imagined it or something else.
He lowered his head for a brief moment of thought, then decided to ignore it for the time being. He looked up, and suddenly saw the Joker pointing a gun at his forehead, and then…
boom!
"What?"
For the first time, Night Owl's face, which was always so composed and calculating, showed a look of utter horror. He was almost utterly terrified: "It's you! It's you! How could it be you???"
He retreated desperately, raising his arms and unleashing a barrage of energy weapons at the location where the Joker was standing. Explosions and dust instantly engulfed the area, but the Joker did not escape his attack using agile movements and strange gadgets as he remembered.
The other party simply stood there, completely unharmed.
"Really?"
He heard the Joker say, "You actually intend to fight me with a weapon?"
Under the horrified and furious gaze of Night Owl, the Joker said, "Oh, what were we talking about last time we met?"
"I will never die. I am an idea, a thought, and I will live forever in the indomitable spirit of Gotham City."
Nightwing stared blankly at Night Owl. He was already on the verge of death, but Night Owl, who had reached the door, suddenly uttered some incomprehensible words, then turned around and reattached his lower body to his upper body.
This action directly caused Nightwing's wolf cells to begin repairing the broken wound. Before Nightwing could finish speaking, he saw Night Owl run back and stuff Luther's heart, which had been ripped out by a wolf's claw, back into his chest cavity.
As the nanobots repaired him, the weakened Luther opened his eyes.
"How could you be alive? How could you still be alive? I clearly put you in the incinerator with my own hands..."
The Night Owl, who was almost losing control of his emotions, suddenly calmed down: "I'm poisoned... a hallucination. It made me see you, made me think I was seeing you again, but it was just an illusion."
"Oh, this is really heartbreaking, Thomas. I thought that after all these years of fighting each other, you would welcome my return."
"Hey, seriously, have you ever cried your eyes out at night, regretting that your most beloved jester never had the chance to present you with a lavish gift again?"
The Joker's voice was light and cheerful as he skipped over to Night Owl and placed his hand on Night Owl's shoulder.
"No? Oh, that's not interesting, is it? How boring. In your eyes, people are just cold chips, or pawns without their own love or hate. You've been the same for so many years, not changed at all. Sometimes I even doubt if you're human."
"Tell me, did you shed a tear the day I killed Claw Dick?"
This question provoked Night Owl's furious roar. He wasn't usually this emotionally unstable, but Night Owl just couldn't control himself now.
He unleashed a torrent of profanities at the Joker, using every swear word he could think of in his life. He was completely out of control, hurling hysterical insults at the Joker.
Even amidst such intense shouting, he could still clearly hear the other person's voice, as if it were not coming from someone else's mouth, but resonating within his own heart.
And it is very likely that this is indeed the case.
"Listen to me, Thomas. We're the same kind of people, we've always been the same kind of people, we're like two sides of a mirror, or two ends of a scissors. We're like twins!"
"We're not brothers!"
"My God, you're so gay."
"What I mean is, Night Owl, you're a good person at heart, just like me. You're different from the rest of the Crime Syndicate, and I won't deny that even if you killed me."
"You and I both want to make this city and this world a better place, but we've chosen two different paths. That's why we've always held back in our battles all these years... Without each other, the world would be far too boring!"
"Bullshit! I never intended to let you go. I'm going to kill you again!"
"Yes, yes, but that still doesn't change the fact that I know everything you've done."
He heard the Joker, still in that annoying voice, say, "Let me see what you've been doing while I was gone?"
"Hmm, it's the same old game I always knew: sacrificing a few to save the many, using human lives as bargaining chips. It hasn't changed at all... you know that."
The Joker's voice was light and cheerful, but the next moment, it turned into a sinister and venomous tone, like the cold winds of Siberia.
"Sacrificing others to save yourself—it's all too predictable, you know..."
"This completely ruins the humor."
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"The Night Owl's universe has finally begun to launch."
Chen Tao thought to himself silently.
He had waited far too long for this moment. In a universe without Nightwing, their current battle was nothing more than a pointless delaying tactic. But now, as the enemy drew closer, he finally saw the dawn of victory.
Rumble rumble rumble rumble!
The entire universe began to tremble.
The Anti-Monitor's limbs were all covered in gargoyles. The Justice League members, now proclaimed gods, were able to briefly delay the Anti-Monitor; this was the final piece of the puzzle.
"You want to throw me out of this universe. On what grounds? Just because of the new god power you just acquired?"
The anti-monitor kicked the newly deified Shazam away, but was immediately grabbed by the leg by the other party again.
"Such expulsion is pointless."
The anti-monitor said, "I can come back again, almost in an instant. Do you think you can keep me out of this universe for as long as last time?"
But it's very likely that what returns won't be this universe.
Chen Tao answered him in his heart, feeling an unprecedented sense of relaxation and joy.
Finally. He had already thought Luther had failed and was prepared to fight to the death.
He never revealed his plans to anyone, so most people felt that the methods he could use were as unfathomable as a pool of water.
But Chen Tao knew very well that the methods he could use were extremely limited, practically nonexistent. If Luther's plan also failed completely, then getting help from Night Owl's universe would be entirely impossible.
Under such circumstances, what other options did he have besides having William shoot him in the forehead, summoning the Black Death on the spot, swallowing the Anti-Monitor's heart, carrying the sun out of the universe, and taking Superman Supreme with him to perish together with the Anti-Monitor?
He had just grabbed the heart of the anti-monitor hidden inside his body.
But he succeeded in the end, Luther succeeded in the end, and they accomplished what Nite Owl had once wanted to do.
They were finally able to sacrifice others...
I saved myself.
(End of this chapter)