louisehourcade Chapter 517 The Clown Virus: Night Owl Made the Biggest Mistake
Chapter 517 The Clown Virus: Night Owl Made the Biggest Mistake
Chapter 517 The Clown Virus: Night Owl Made the Biggest Mistake
Night Owl sat in a secluded and safe corner, controlling a lifelike Night Owl robot through a screen. For a long time, he had never appeared in front of others in his true form. The only person who could see his true form was his most trusted old butler, "Outsider" Alfred.
To ensure that no one would threaten him with the lives of outsiders, Night Owl also ordered the other party to hide in a corner with him and never appear in front of outsiders.
So you see, they are safe now, remotely controlling the current situation.
"It seems Mr. Luther didn't choose the option you expected." The outsider brought over a plate of pastries, and Night Owl, having removed his helmet, silently took a piece and put it in his mouth.
"It's just a 50% chance of a wrong guess... it won't affect the situation at all. If Luther comes looking for Wolf, I'll just grab him; if he chooses to go to Dick..."
The outsider's brow furrowed almost imperceptibly. Night Owl still addressed Nightwing Dick Grayson as Dick, which was a bit too intimate.
"I'm afraid I have to say this, Lord Wayne."
He had barely opened his mouth when Night Owl interrupted him: "I know I shouldn't be so concerned about Nightwing, but it hasn't affected my plans."
"I've already extracted all the Joker venom from Dick's heart and spine, so even if Luthor finds Dick, it won't do him any good... As for those drugs, I analyzed them, and they're just the same old Joker venom. Does that pale-skinned madman think his potions can change a person's personality?"
"No matter where Batman got it from, Luthor is making a huge mistake if he thinks it's his trump card."
"Hmm." The outsider paused, then said, "So, what's the next step?"
"Luther didn't go after the Wolf as I expected, so the three of them, including Lady Styx, whom I had placed there, turned out to be empty-handed. Instead, he rescued Nightwing."
"If you had been willing to split your forces back then, I think any one of the three—Despair Demon, Lady Styx, and Amordro—would have been capable of capturing Luther."
"No, only three people can guarantee a 100% capture of Luther. If I leave one with Nightwing and two with Wolf, it will only add more variables," Night Owl said. "Luther will definitely bring Nightwing to find Wolf; he needs the other's fighting strength. I've already laid a trap for him..."
"But it's pointless if they don't eat it," the outsider said, looking at the screen. "Luthor blocked your tracking, but if they were going to rescue the wolves, they should have arrived by now."
"...I'm afraid that's true." Night Owl said silently, "The fighting force I left around Wolf is far too high, far exceeding the level that Lex could defeat using his intelligence. He won't walk into the trap, but without Wolf's help, how can he defeat me?"
Night Owl muttered to himself, as if speaking to an outsider, yet also questioning himself: "Well... rather than letting Lex continue stirring up trouble in the shadows and doing things I can't control, it's better to..."
He controlled the remotely operated Night Owl robot and gave orders to the Despair Demon and Lady Styx beside him: "Leave here now and return to your respective push towers to wait, otherwise Luther will not come. Wait for me to summon you..."
He was about to say that when he paused again: "Luther must have a plan to delay your actions. If you encounter it, do what you need to do and don't worry about what's going on here."
Despair Demon voiced some objections, but ultimately the two of them obeyed Night Owl's orders and made a grand departure from the base that imprisoned the wolves. It was an owlhole outside Night Owl's Cosmic Metropolis, built directly on the ground, the kind specifically designed to serve as a prison. This was a trap Night Owl had custom-made for Luther, and now the iron spikes around the trap had been removed, making it appear completely harmless.
"Come on, let me see Lex. I've reduced the defense personnel down to just my Night Owl robot and Amozzo... You don't even have the guts to come? I even gave up the mission of personally overseeing the main thrust tower in order to catch you... I know all too well how dangerous you are. You're just as troublesome as Lex Luthor in our universe."
Night Owl waited silently, spreading his wings in the darkness, waiting for his prey to arrive. And finally... he saw on the monitor that Lex Luthor, Nightwing, and Bizarro swaggered into the place where the wolf was being held.
"Wait, they just hacked in like that?" Night Owl turned his head, his eyes fixed on Dick, who was following behind Luther.
"Damn Luther, what are you doing?" he muttered to himself. "If I were you, I would at least have tried to ambush Amordro."
Just minutes ago, several third-tier villains from the Supervillain Secret Society, responsible for guarding this prison, reported an intrusion, and then heard on the monitors that they had been swiftly and cleanly killed.
Night Owl initially thought it was a diversionary tactic by Luther, so he controlled Amodro and had no intention of leaving, staying in the Wolf's cell. However, he didn't expect that this time the main force would come out.
The three members of Luther's team were all present. There was no plan, no other scheme, no detours, just pure recklessness.
There's not much to say. The moment they met, the Amozzo robot launched a mental attack on Luther's team.
The violent mental explosion ignited the three people, but they were completely unharmed.
"This mental shock is far less severe than Martian Manhunter's," Luther said coldly. "I've applied a mental barrier to my armor that even Brainiac couldn't break through, a barrier strong enough to cover the three of us."
Luther looked at Night Owl, who was in charge of operating the molding robot, and said, "Save your breath!"
"This is bad." Night Owl, who was observing the situation through the screen, suddenly turned his head. The next moment, the alarm in his room went off. Night Owl was furious: "You bastard, Lex, how dare you try to blow up my Gotham? You're asking for death!"
In an instant, he contacted Lady Styx: "Stop those nuclear bombs falling on Gotham!"
"We're doing that," Lady Styx replied to Night Owl on the other end of the communication. "Luther launched nearly a hundred missiles, which are very likely nuclear, to confuse the situation. We'll be able to intercept them all soon, but you know that will take time."
"That's the time Luther deliberately bought, thinking he could use it to create an opening for the Wolves," Night Owl said. "He won't succeed."
"Need reinforcements?" Despair Demon's voice came, but Night Owl refused: "It's not necessary at all. As I said before, you all focus on finishing what you're doing."
"That's all Luther's skills are capable of."
That's what he said to Lady Styx and the Despair Demon, but as soon as the communication ended, he hurriedly contacted Darkseid's daughter, Grell: "Damn it, be careful, Luther has tampered with all the propulsion towers he's worked on. Those nuclear missile launches are just one link in a chain reaction. I require you to sort out the propulsion energy of all the main towers, and then..."
Then he contacted Dr. Ivo: "I need you to send three second-generation Amozzo robots for repairs..."
After rattling off a series of instructions, Night Owl hung up the phone with a murderous look on his face: "I shouldn't have let Lex go. This will never happen again."
“The last person you should have let go of is Dick Grayson,” the outsider said. “You have to put down your claws. I know he’s a good kid, and he’s very popular with you. I believe he feels like family to you, but Mr. Thomas.”
The outsider's voice dipped slightly, then suddenly rose sharply: "Wake up! Claw Dick Grayson is dead. This Dick Grayson in front of you is a parallel universe version, a defective product, a clone. He and Claw have nothing in common except for appearance and genes!"
"And thanks to the genetic modifications Batman made to him, his genes are now completely different from Claw's!"
"Think about it, Mr. Thomas. Think about how much our plan went wrong because of your leniency towards him. Turning Greer against him, passing information to Batman... You gave him chance after chance, but he never showed any gratitude!"
"It's time to let go of your obsession with him completely. That obsession and psychological compensation will kill you sooner or later, Mr. Thomas."
"I now have the ability to control the situation."
"But that doesn't mean you'll always have the ability," the outsider said. "Look at the situation now. You have to do something, Mr. Thomas... Luther is about to rescue the Wolf King. It's too late to mobilize forces to surround and intercept him now, but at least there's still time to form an encirclement, and then..."
"There's no need."
The outsider seemed to grasp what Night Owl was saying, but didn't quite understand: "What does 'no need' mean?"
"Literally, I need to deal with this temporarily. This Greer doesn't have the authority to operate the Northern Advance Tower. To prevent someone from seizing control, I've divided it into east, west, south, and north..."
Night Owl made a simple maneuver, then returned to continue, "The literal meaning."
He didn't even glance at the display screen, simply waving his hand casually.
boom!
Bizarro and the Amojo robot clung to each other like two bulls, and like two wild beasts, they opened their mouths and desperately tried to bite each other.
"Identifying, Superman detected... using green kryptonite." The Amodro robot mistook Bizarro for Superman and immediately pulled out green kryptonite to deal with him. However, for Bizarro, green kryptonite would have the opposite effect on him compared to Superman, meaning it would enhance him.
Bathed in the glow of green kryptonite, Bizarro seemed to have been injected with adrenaline, grabbing the Amojo robot by the foot and slamming it to the ground.
The Amozzo robot hurriedly spewed flames, a freezing breath specifically designed to counter Superman and neutralize him… Bizarro inhaled all the flames, his own breathing being a fiery breath, the exact opposite of Superman's. The Amozzo robot's module designed for Superman was a perfect tonic for him.
In a corner of the Night Owl Universe, Dr. Ivo, remotely controlling the Amozzo robot, jumped up from his seat in a fit of rage, proceeding to clean up his desk. Grabbing his already dwindling head, he screamed, "Why, why? Why do my creations always encounter this? Why do they always fail?"
Under these circumstances, Luther finally led Nightwing to approach the wolf in its cage.
They opened the cage, and Nightwing was the first to go in: "Wolf, wake up, come out now, the best manly guy wants..."
Then he saw the wolf stand up directly from where he was lying.
Huh, what's going on?
puff!
The sound of a hand piercing flesh rang out, and Nightwing turned his head to see Wolf stabbing his hand into the chest of Luther's armor.
The sudden sneak attack and the aftershock of a battle from the Amozzo robot not far away were perfectly coordinated. Luther had just activated the shield of his armor to block Amozzo's heat vision when the Wolf of the Berserker swung his hand with all his might at the vulnerable spot behind him.
"Pfft... Ugh!"
Luther vomited a mouthful of blood. He raised his palm and fired a long-charged energy cannon at the wolf's head. At such close range, the cannon shattered the wolf's upper body. Blood splattered all over Nightwing's face. Then, the wolf threw a punch, shattering half of Luther's armor. A fragment of the armor happened to slice through half of Nightwing's body.
As Nightwing's blood and Wolf's blood mingled, a strange, pre-ordained chemical reaction immediately occurred.
Hydrides are compounds formed when basic metals and basic earth metals combine with hydrogen upon heating.
Two things that won't kill you, once mixed... you see, that's the secret Batman hides beneath the surface.
Now... we have the Joker virus.
Where no one could see, Luther grinned maliciously. Then he collapsed to the ground, feeling his body grow cold.
The stage is set, and all preparations are complete. Come on, let's go!
The funniest and most important actor is about to make a dazzling appearance!
This is really...
It's so funny, you can't stop laughing!
At the same time, seeing Nightwing fall to the ground as well, Night Owl let out a furious roar:
"No!"
He pushed back his chair and was about to leave, but was immediately stopped by an outsider:
"Mr. Thomas, you've gone too far..."
Stopped by the outsider, Night Owl calmed down. But he ultimately shook his head.
"No. The child is dying. I have to see him one last time."
He said:
"Luthor is finished, and Wolf is mine. I've also completely removed the potions from Dick's body, so what danger could he possibly pose?"
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