"Solomon Grundy... born on a Monday."
The giant zombie muttered, "Christened on Tuesday!"
Then his voice grew louder:
"Married on Wednesday!"
One punch!
Under the overwhelming brute strength, Zombie Bane was heavily forced back three steps. Each time his feet touched the ground, the soft, slippery swamp exploded as if a bomb capable of killing someone was buried in the earth.
"What the hell, this big guy's strength..."
Solomon Grundy spread his arms, using the grayish-white muscles on his arms, which were longer than his knees, to pin Zombie Bane, who was punching and kicking, trying to push him back. However, his opponent was only pushed back a step before firmly planting his feet deep into the ground to stabilize himself.
Grundy pushed twice but couldn't move his opponent at all.
So he said:
"Grundy... feel angry!"
The giant grayish-white zombie roared up at the sky, wrapping his arms around Zombie Bane's waist: "Solomon Grundy... very angry!"
Boom!
The two behemoths roared, tumbled, and rolled in the mud. Decaying trees fell one by one. A large number of animals, infested by The Black, gathered towards the direction of their fight, fearlessly swarming Solomon Grundy, but they couldn't inflict any damage on the zombie with skin of bronze and bones of iron.
Zombie Bane waved his hand, dispersing those animals and redirecting them towards Deathshot and Cheshire Cat.
"Grundy angry! Angry! Ang..."
Then he felt himself being grabbed.
The disoriented giant zombie looked blankly into Zombie Bane's grayish-white eyes.
"Did you have fun fighting? Now it's my turn."
The next second, Solomon Grundy felt the world spin, the entire world turned upside down.
Bang!
His head was forcefully driven into the ground, and then Zombie Bane grabbed his feet and, like plowing a field, violently pulled him out of the earth. Clods of dirt flew high into the sky.
The massive muscular monster sat on top of Solomon Grundy, punching his face repeatedly, like hammering a piece of iron. His fists were like hammers, slowly deforming the iron block!
Muscles tore, bones broke. Chen Tao could almost see the broken bone spurs protruding from Zombie Bane's arm, piercing through the exposed muscle. Yet, there was no pain on Zombie Bane's face, nor did any blood flow from the wounds.
Soon, Grundy stopped moving.
Zombie Bane stood up from the scarred body of the giant grayish-white zombie and looked towards Chen Tao and the others.
Crack.
Poison Ivy swallowed a tuber from Swamp Thing. Everyone's attention was drawn to Poison Ivy, who was piloting the giant plant monster and the wood dragon. No one noticed Chen Tao quietly retreating and hiding behind a large tree.
Robin was waiting for him there, his face a mask of lingering shock. He held a grappling hook gun in his right hand and Bane's fallen mask in his left.
"I got the item, Batman, but..."
Chen Tao didn't continue talking with Robin. He tightly gripped the few tattered scraps of cloth.
[Warning, anchor item detected: Bane's Mask] [Crisis energy units converted: 103] [Crisis energy units currently held: 143] [Warning, targeting file for Batman is being downloaded] [Bane Bat] [Danger Level: D+]
Chen Tao only then realized that danger levels had secondary classifications like plus and minus.
[In a certain Dark Multiverse, Batman, who was thoroughly defeated by Bane, decided to transform into his enemy, don the guise of his nemesis, and wield his powers. He succeeded. Ultimately, Batman triumphed.
However, when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back. He who fights monsters, lest he become a monster, and if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze also into you. But Bruce, having defeated Bane, had grown accustomed to Bane's way of thinking. He imitated his nemesis as much as possible, but in doing so, he lost his Batman identity and his moral boundaries, ultimately becoming something that resembled nothing—neither Bane nor Batman.]
[Do you wish to immediately consume 59 units of crisis energy to synchronize?]
Chen Tao let out a sigh of relief.
"Synchronize."
[Synchronized: Bane Bat] [Crisis energy units currently held: 84]
"Batman, I don't know what use you have for this thing. Poison Ivy can't possibly deal with Bane, she..."
Tim's words were cut short as he saw Batman silently lowering his head.
"Batman?"
First, it began with the mask. Strands of white fabric fibers emerged from the tip of Batman's mask's nose, glowing with a silvery light, like dust from the moon that had fallen to the mortal realm.
Bane's iconic white skull mask appeared on Batman's mask, overlapping with his sharp ears, transforming into a shared fusion, no longer distinguishable.
Immediately after, dark green Titan Venom tubes were drawn from the void by silvery particles at the back of Batman's neck. The improved Venom drug was pushed, surging, roaring, groaning, and leaping as it was poured into Batman's body.
Muscles bulged, height increased. Tim took half a step back, his voice trembling slightly, "So, Bruce, this is your newfound power? Because of that piece of Bane's cloth? This isn't scientific."
He whispered, "And I've seen magic... this isn't magic at all!"
Like a tide, sharp and surging, like a waterfall plummeting from the peak of a cliff, an oppressive aura pressed down on Tim's nerves. This was the deathly deterrence emanating instinctively from this body.
A familiar feeling returned, the same sense of threat he once felt facing the martial arts master Batman, the panic of all his martial arts moves being seen through by the opponent.
Tim suddenly remembered that Batman possessed the ability to instill immense fear in others, frightening even those closest to him...
Because he was...
The Batman who made one feel as helpless and irresistible as a child!
And now—this Batman had mastered Venom!
However, it wasn't over yet.
Chen Tao let out a long breath.
Dragon.
Dinosaur.
Its massive body, its sharp teeth.
Chen Tao imagined it from the bottom of his heart.
Car.
An off-road vehicle, a monster truck type of off-road vehicle.
It had huge tires, liquid nitrogen injectors, and sharp steel spikes on its tires.
All of this appeared in his mind's eye with perfect clarity, just like the moon reflected in a well.
First, his legs, his feet curled and twisted, unnaturally transforming into rubber.
The dinosaur's green scaly skin began to appear on his left arm, then spread to his palm, sharp claws piercing the fingertips of the gloves Bane would wear.
Chen Tao opened his mouth, his cheeks gradually elongating, his mask and pointed bat cowl stretching along with them, covering the upper half of his face and revealing his exaggerated jawline.
Sharp fangs grew, and the bottles on his back gurgled, supplying Venom.
Under Tim's gaze, his heart almost stopped beating, a massive, seven-to-eight-meter-tall, muscular green Bane dinosaur roared to the sky. It rotated a pair of rubber tires that served as its feet, swung its tail, crushing several towering trees, then turned, lifted its dual wheels, creating a gust of wind, stirring up clouds and wind, and charged towards the battlefield like lightning!
Thanks to the great writer Magic Night Book for the 200 Qidian coins reward!
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