Chapter 192 Let’s reconcile
Bruce's performance made it difficult for Katum to evaluate him.
"Is he really a natural born playboy?"
Thinking back to the movies and comics I watched in my previous life, Bruce Wayne changed his girlfriends faster than his clothes.
Bruce was never really attracted to any of these girlfriends.
When it comes to someone he truly likes, he will deliberately avoid her and push her further and further away from him.
Can't get close to bats, it will become unfortunate.
"However, Bruce probably doesn't have this awareness yet."
The young boy Mu Ai liked to be close to beautiful things. Diana was beautiful, so he couldn't help but want to get close to her.
They even deliberately staged a scene where a beauty saved a bear.
But it’s not true to say that Bruce has ulterior motives.
At this time, Bruce was lying on the ground with his head resting in Diana's arms. Miss Wonder Woman looked worried. Even though Bruce said he was fine, she still kept confirming it.
Seeing this scene, Katum even wanted to leave for a while to give them some space.
Unfortunately, now is not the time.
Just when Diana offered to check Bruce's body for the third time, a noise suddenly came from the ruins in the distance.
Then, a tall figure stood up from inside.
Clark.
After he was hit by the hammer grenade thrown by Bruce, he fell almost at the same time as Batman.
But when he fell, no one caught him, and he fell straight into the ruins.
Clark stood up and shook his head. His face was now covered with bloodstains, caused by the triple power of Thor's hammer.
The previous battle had dispersed all the dark clouds, and now as the sun shone on his face, the scars began to heal visibly.
"Isn't this too unreasonable?"
Bruce was almost laughing out of anger. Just by shining the sun he could become stronger and heal his wounds at the same time. With such abilities, why would he stay on Earth? Wouldn't it be better to develop other planets in the solar system?
Diana has already reached for the Sword of Vulcan beside her.
If Bruce can't fight, then she will have to finish the rest of the battle.
"enough……"
Clark had just said half a sentence when his facial muscles suddenly began to twitch. That kind of grinning expression should not appear on the face of Superman, the Man of Steel.
Bruce also sat up from Diana's arms.
He stretched out his hand, and Thor's hammer flew from a distance and fell into his hand.
The hammer was still covered with cracks, but there was a small piece missing in the middle.
"Your name is Bruce Wayne, right?"
Clark remembered Bruce's name, which meant that he officially regarded Batman as his equal opponent.
In the fight just now, I had the upper hand and was at ease.
But he didn't expect that at the last moment, he would be tricked by Bruce.
He now felt an indescribable pain all over his body. A piece of fragment of Thor's hammer had entered his body and was moving around in it.
Wherever he passed, he left a feeling of numbness. Just during the few steps Clark took out of the ruins, he almost fell to the ground several times.
"I recognize your strength."
Clark finally came to Bruce and sat down across from him.
"We'll make peace, and you take that piece out!"
"Do you think that's possible?"
Bruce grinned, which was taught to him by Katum, and it came from an emoticon package.
Even though he was smiling, it could make other people's blood pressure soar.
"It's not easy to think of a way to deal with you, and it's even harder to pull it off."
Bruce said, "Now that I finally succeeded, there's no way I could possibly take it out."
The hammer body of Thor's hammer is forged from Uru alloy, an excellent magic storage material that does not exist in the DC world.
The piece that entered Clark's body contained three kinds of lightning from Asgard, Olympus and the Speed Force. Once it was activated, although it could not kill Superman, it could make him live a life worse than death.
After hearing Bruce's clear refusal, Clark's expression changed several times.
Bruce can guarantee that at one point in time, he felt a very obvious murderous intent.
But in the end, Clark just sighed.
"Then tell me your conditions."
He compromised, "What do you want in exchange for taking that piece out?"
If there is a time bomb in the body, even Superman would be unable to sleep or eat.
"My request is simple."
Bruce said, "As long as you leave this world, everything else will be easy."
"I can't do this." Clark shook his head, "I still have many questions that can only be answered in this world."
Unlike other Superman origin stories, Red Son's craft crash-lands on a farm in the Soviet Union.
That was 1938.
Clark knew from a young age that he was different. He felt that he had a responsibility to make the world a better place, but he had not figured out how to do it.
It was not until he came into this world and met his mentor that the fog that had troubled him for years showed signs of loosening.
“I want to stay in this world.”
Clark said firmly, "Until I find the final answer."
"Then there's nothing more to say."
Bruce sighed, "If you don't give in, I won't give in either. As long as you remain in this world, the fragment will remain in you forever."
He was confident that Clark would never be able to remove that fragment on his own.
Unless he can crack the forging techniques of Asgard and Olympus at the same time, he can control the speed force at will.
In addition-
He also had to know a little bit of Hogwarts magic.
Otherwise, the fragments of the hammer would continue to wander around his body, sometimes blending into his blood, sometimes attaching to his bones, and sometimes even visiting Clark's brain.
“Does it have to be this far?”
Clark finally tried to persuade, "I don't want to go to extremes if I can help it."
"You don't have to scare me." Bruce shook his head. "In fact, what I can't understand is that you obviously don't belong to this world, so why do you have to stay here?"
“Because I saw the light.”
Clark stood up, his tall body blocking the sunlight in front of Bruce, and the shadows fell, making it impossible to see his eyes clearly.
"I have been living in a dilemma all my life. Am I an Earthling or an alien? What mission did I bring with me from the sky? If I want to help the Earth, how should I do it?"
Clark, the Red Son, blurted out the troubles that had been buried in his heart since childhood.
In the final analysis, he couldn't find his own identity. He wanted to become an Earthling, but he couldn't find evidence to convince himself.
If you can't be a human, you can only be a god.
If Bruce Wayne is Batman in disguise, then Clark Kent is Superman's true identity.
"You don't know how many times you've been on the brink of death."
Clark said softly, "There have been several times when I have thought of killing you. As long as you are gone, the fragment will no longer be a threat."
"I know."
Hearing these words that sounded like a threat, Bruce nodded nonchalantly.
"I also want to see if you will kill me under such circumstances." Bats cannot be killed.
It is difficult for Bruce to defeat Clark completely, but it is very easy for him to protect himself.
If Clark had attacked just now, Bruce could finally be sure that Clark was the biggest threat to humanity disguised as a savior.
But unfortunately, Clark did nothing.
He was so close to Bruce just now that he could have strangled Batboy's throat with just one hand.
It's really simple.
All Clark needs to do is stretch out his hand and exert some force, and Bruce's life will be his.
But in the end he did nothing.
He even spoke in a friendly manner and wanted to negotiate terms with Bruce.
In this regard, Bruce can only say that either Clark is a born softie, or he is really kind.
"If possible, I still hope to resolve the conflict between us peacefully."
Clark finally said, "You just seemed to give me a choice, but apart from leaving this world, the only way left is to kill you, and I don't want to take either of these two paths.
“Bruce, I believe there is a third way that will satisfy both of us.
“I will go back and think about it carefully, and I hope you will also take this matter to heart.
"If I think of it first, I will come to you. If you think of it first, you can come to Zurich to find me."
After saying that, Clark did not stop. He rushed into the sky, leaving layers of sonic boom traces in the air.
He just left like that, leaving Bruce feeling a bit amused and helpless.
"That sounds nice," he said, "but didn't you still choose to escape in the end?"
Clark doesn't want to leave this world, but he also doesn't want to kill anyone. Faced with this dilemma, he can only pin his hopes on Bruce figuring it out himself.
Before that, he could only avoid appearing in front of Bruce.
"Has he always been like this?"
Bruce asked Katum, "If it were me, I would choose the most correct answer without hesitation at this time."
"You should say less." Katum shook his head and sneered, "What's the most correct answer? If the time comes, I'm afraid you won't perform much better."
The owl finally realized that Bruce always liked to give others such dilemmas.
No wonder the Joker always appears around him.
After all, birds of a feather flock together. Doesn't the clown also like to create trolley problems to test human nature?
"If you don't want to listen, forget it."
Bruce shook his head and stood up from the ground.
After what Clark had just done, he had no good excuse to lie in Diana's arms again.
Diana was still immersed in the conversation between Bruce and Clark.
She felt that the two of them seemed to have the same problem, they liked to leave problems for others to answer.
Diana really couldn't see where things would go in the end.
"Stop daydreaming, Diana."
Bruce turned around and looked at Ms. Wonder Woman who was still sitting on the ground, and reached out to pull her up.
"Anyway, we have dealt with another Adventist."
Maybe there are two, Bruce thought. For some reason, the purple-skinned pig-headed monster that appeared before always made him suspect that it was the Pig-faced Professor himself.
Better go check it out.
He twisted his arms a few times, and his muscles felt a little sore. The battle with Clark was indeed the most stressful he had ever experienced.
"It's a pity that there is no result." Bruce said regretfully in his heart.
"Nonsense."
Katum clicked his tongue and shook his head, "It's obvious that you lost. There's no way you could beat Clark."
"That's not called losing."
Bruce said calmly, "Although I didn't defeat Clark, I put a noose on him. From another perspective, this is also a win."
"Indeed, we are always winning, and we will continue to win."
The owl said something in a sarcastic tone, but when he saw that Bruce didn't seem to care about him, he lost interest in continuing.
This fight ended in failure.
If Bruce only considers his own strength, he still has a long way to go if he wants to defeat Superman.
But Batman's fighting style has never been a head-on confrontation. He has his own fighting style.
It is normal for him to use some conspiracy tactics.
Batman in the comics even once hid kryptonite powder in his mouth and then spit it into Superman's eyes.
Compared with that method, the little bats nowadays are really bright and upright.
It's just a magic grenade to the face.
……
Bruce searched the ruins for several times. According to his memory, Black Adam's body should have fallen here.
However, he looked for it many times, but in the end he didn't even see its shadow.
"Gone?!"
Not only Black Adam's body, but also the purple-skinned pig-headed monster disappeared.
Bruce couldn't help but look at Katoom.
"What the hell is that look in your eyes!"
Katoom shouted in his defense.
"Even if I like to collect other people's things, I won't collect this kind of stuff!"
Collecting corpses? That's too unlucky!
"So where did the things go?"
Bruce said expressionlessly, "The intensity of the fight between Clark and I just now, I can't believe that any thief would dare to steal things in such a scene."
"Then you think too simply."
Katum said, "Let me analyze this for you, Bruce. If it were you, would you dare to steal in this situation?"
"What's there to be afraid of?"
Bruce didn't care at all about the word "stealing" that came out of Katum's mouth. Owl had no right to use it to accuse others.
"It's just taking something from the war scene. As long as the value is high enough, I can find a way."
"Isn't it over then?"
Owl said, "If you dare to do it, why do you think the other Bruce doesn't dare to do it?"
Another Bruce.
Bruce suddenly realized that what Katum said was right. He was not the only Batman in the world today.
Merciless and iron-fisted!
As the Batman of the Dark Universe, no matter how corrupt he is, he is still Batman.
Coming and going without a trace, unpredictable.
It is hard to say what conspiracy is behind this.
"What does he want the corpse for?" Bruce asked, "Is he trying to absorb Black Adam's power?"
"I do not know."
Katum replied naturally, "But, his enemy is only you, it certainly won't affect me."
(End of this chapter)
