bioinnovel Chapter 362 The Nightwing Project: Creating the Top Male Prostitute in a Brothel
Chapter 362 The Nightwing Project: Creating the Top Male Prostitute in a Brothel
Chapter 362 The Nightwing Project: Creating the Top Male Prostitute in a Brothel
Chen Tao frowned.
Chen Tao could basically confirm his guesses about the First Lantern and Cardinal based on the information he gleaned from the comics. However, both of them were currently in prison, and even if they could interfere with the outside world, the things they could do were extremely limited.
The person who successfully utilized their abilities and orchestrated the entire event must be a dangerous individual.
Could it be Sinestro?
Chen Tao stroked his chin. In the comic book history, after Sinestro rebelled and was captured by Hal, he was imprisoned in the Green Lantern Central Energy Battery by the Blue People. As a result, he got involved with the Yellow Lantern Legion's Parallax, who was also imprisoned in the Green Lantern Central Energy Battery. After the Emerald Twilight event, in which 700 million people died in Seaside City, Sinestro directly caused Hal Jordan's fall into Parallax, becoming Hal.
Sinestro has both the ability and the intellect to pull off a conspiracy of that caliber. The Sinestro of his Green Lantern days and the Sinestro who became the leader of the Yellow Lantern Corps are not even in the same league.
But frankly, Chen Tao thinks this is very unreasonable.
The death of Sinestro's wife, Arlene Sue, undoubtedly caused him immense grief, but it also removed, in a way, the last shackle that bound him. Therefore, he no longer needed to consider any possibility of retreat in whatever he did.
But now things are different; Arlene Sue is not dead.
Will Sinestro still be able to ignore Arlene Sue's opinions as before?
Chen Tao shook his head again.
No, logic doesn't work that way. If Sinestro, despite not losing his wife, was still determined to completely destroy Planet OA and went to great lengths to prepare for it, such a thing wouldn't be impossible.
Ultimately, Chen Tao's ability to instantly identify the First Lantern Knight through the attack on OA Star using the Divine Power Ring, and to deduce the existence of Carona through this diversionary tactic, already relied on his massive comic book readership.
Now, asking him to speculate on whether Seneca had orchestrated all of this is futile; after all, he's not some all-knowing fortune teller like Wei Banxian from the village entrance.
Ultimately, he needs to actually see for himself to draw conclusions.
Having grasped a general direction, Chen Tao left Atositas prison without looking back. Despite Han Nu's repeated calls for his release, Chen Tao ignored them.
This was, after all, a prize captured by Atochitas, and Chen Tao wouldn't release him casually. In any relationship, a sense of proportion is paramount. Even if someone were to be released, it should be Atochitas who does it, not Chen Tao overstepping his bounds.
As Chen Tao thought this, he walked through the corridor and appeared outside the prison room.
He held his head in his hands.
Besides Green Lantern, he also needed to keep an eye on Night Owl. He didn't want to come back to find his house in a mess.
Chen Tao thought to himself.
To prevent Night Owl from hiding alone in his owl's den, tinkering endlessly, and then suddenly producing a problem that Chen Tao couldn't solve beforehand, he needed someone who could transmit the information he wanted from Night Owl.
Chen Tao thought to himself as he walked.
He needs someone who can keep Night Owl under control for a short period of time when he's not around, maintain Night Owl's novelty, and temporarily stop or roughly uncover the other party's plans.
And this person was undoubtedly Dick Grayson, the Night Owl's favorite. Emotions make people vulnerable, and Dick Grayson could touch the softest part of the Night Owl's heart, which could then become the sharpest blade to pierce him.
He came out and saw the Red Lantern Master sitting beside him, gazing absently at the distant horizon.
"How is the situation?"
Chen Tao told Han Nu about the information he had obtained earlier, and then told him that he would be searching for the entire Green Lantern Corps after a period of time, which made the leader of the Red Lantern Corps nod repeatedly.
Atositas stated that he would also participate, and for him, this was not a search for the Green Lantern Corps, the protectors of the universe, but a revenge journey to find the Green Lantern Corps he hated.
If an avenger loses the target of his revenge, it is undoubtedly a huge blow to him.
"By the way, Batman, there's something else I need to tell you."
Athocitas said, "I know you used to have a Kryptonian teammate, right? The one called Superman."
"That's right, what's wrong?" Chen Tao asked.
"I've encountered some problems on my end too," Athocitas said. "In the very beginning, I used blood magic to create the first Red Lantern Ring, and that wasn't the only one I made. Shortly after I finished creating the Red Lantern Central Battery, countless aliens of all kinds spontaneously received the call of the Red Lantern Ring and were summoned by it to become Red Lanterns. Since the Red Lantern Corps is still in its infancy and not yet ready to wage war against the Green Lantern Corps, I have to forcibly bring each Red Lantern back to Ismot or they come here on their own."
Atositas paused for a moment, then continued, "Perhaps it sounds a bit like I'm bragging to say this, but it's true. I am the strongest fighter in the entire Red Lantern Legion, and the master of all the Red Lanterns."
"With control of the central power battery, I can now effectively control every Red Lantern, although this is only on the premise that most of them are mad dogs and incapable of resisting me."
Chen Tao guessed what he was going to say next, but there was one exception.
His head started to hurt again. Was Athocitas going to cause him trouble again?
"But there was one exception. A Red Lantern broke free of my control. Although she was going crazy like the other Red Lanterns, she was too powerful for me to control. In the end, she left me and Ismot, wearing a Red Lantern ring, and plunged into the vast universe."
"she?"
Because of the characteristics of the English language, Chen Tao immediately grasped the key point in Athocitas's words.
Combining this with what Atositas had mentioned about the Kryptonians, a name immediately came to mind for Chen Tao.
"She calls herself Supergirl Kara, of course, when she's not acting crazy / Are you talking about Supergirl Kara?"
They both spoke in unison.
"...With so many Red Lantern Corps members, how come you couldn't capture her?"
"The Red Light Ring drained her of all her blood and internal organs, making her like a mad tiger. Moreover, the ring can heal her injuries at any time, making a Kryptonian almost unafraid of getting hurt." Atositas shook his head: "Of course I have the ability to keep her here, but I don't have the ability to keep her alive."
Chen Tao frowned: "Okay, I understand. We'll discuss this later."
He rubbed his temples. Before, Supergirl Kara left Earth claiming she was going to find her home planet Krypton and that her father had collected a large piece of Krypton's fragments so she could go back and rebuild Krypton. So how did she end up wandering around to Atochitas in such a confused state?
What happened to her dad that she mentioned before?
Ignoring all that, Chen Tao activated the popping sound channel.
He already had some ideas in mind and was eager to tell Nightwing about them now, and also to test Nightwing's thoughts to see if he was resistant to the method he had come up with.
Because his idea is essentially a honey trap, it still poses a certain danger to Nightwing.
Soon, Nightwing's call was connected, and Chen Tao immediately asked him to seduce Night Owl.
"...Batman, tell me about this when you get back to Earth."
Gotham City.
Nightwing Dick Grayson sat atop the head of the Water Beast in Wayne Tower, the sky shrouded in a misty haze.
This is a common sight in Gotham, shrouded in fog and clouds year-round, rarely seeing a ray of sunshine.
Nightwing twisted his back and then contracted his glutes.
Anyone who has been to Metropolis will find Gotham's weather very strange. Metropolis is always sunny. Although there is no longer a red and blue Boy Scout flying over your head, along with the Boy Scout, there are also many more villains who fought each other in the city because they came for Superman.
So, Superman's disappearance... even made parts of Metropolis more livable?
Dick shook his head; now was not the time to think about these things.
Because the Penguin was terrified by Batman's killings, he has now completely given up his criminal ways and even started a breakfast shop. Although he still retains some smuggling business, overall, the Penguin has shed too much of his past.
However, here's the problem: over the years, this city has cultivated too many users, and too much dirty money needs to be laundered into legal income, including drugs, casinos, and all sorts of criminal activities. Without the strong suppression of the government, when a power vacuum appears where those who once occupied these areas are, gangsters will inevitably emerge to replace the Penguin.
This decision was made from the bottom up, and Nightwing has been busy with this matter all this time. He must completely eliminate the group of people trying to replace the Penguins based on the information provided by the Penguins.
Compared to the Penguins, these newcomers are more ruthless, bloody, and unruly.
"What? You want to say this over the phone now? It's better to talk about these things face-to-face."
"What? You're saying that in that parallel universe, my counterpart is Night Owl's top henchman, and that he poured so much emotion into that counterpart, so he might extend that affection to me?"
Nightwing stood up and moved his buttocks off the Dripping Beast's forehead.
"Impossible. I've already seen the information you left about Night Owl on the Batcomputer. Someone like Night Owl wouldn't treat me differently because of such trivial feelings."
Nightwing shook his head: "And to be honest, I don't think he wouldn't see through some of the standard spy deployment tactics. If he were Batman from another world, you know, these are all things we've already done before."
He asked:
"What are you planning to do? Am I just going to run over there and tell him I'm going to team up with him? Or are you planning to stage some kind of typical spy infiltration drama?"
As a former Robin trained by Batman, Nightwing has extensive experience in infiltrating gangs as Batman's mole, and his training in this area is quite thorough. Nightwing also has some experience in being a spy.
In the original timeline, Nightwing's identity was exposed during the "Eternal Evil" event, so Batman arranged for him to fake his death and join the Spider-Web organization as a double agent, Agent 37, where he became a very successful spy.
But the more Nightwing knew how to be a spy, the clearer he became that it was naive to expect someone like Night Owl to extend his affection to him.
Since Batman and the Crime Syndicate formed a partnership and officially became teammates, Nightwing, relying on the traditional skills of the Bat-family, has reviewed the files of all of them, especially Batman-like characters such as Night Owl, who are one of Nightwing's key targets of observation.
Because he understood this, he knew that such a thing was simply impossible. In fact, if the other party discovered it, it would only provoke even greater anger in them.
Chen Tao understood Nightwing's meaning. It was indeed impossible to manipulate Night Owl simply by relying on "Wanwan's Resemblance to Qing," however…
"No, no, no, you need to understand one thing."
Then Nightwing heard Batman say, "It's not about making you play the old Claw Batman, it's about making you become a new Dick Grayson standing next to Night Owl. You absolutely shouldn't play the old Claw Dick, you should be yourself, that's how you truly fool men."
"I don't quite understand. What's the difference between the two?" Dick asked, puzzled.
"...Let's talk face to face."
Immediately afterward, he saw the sonic boom appear in front of him, and Batman walked out from behind with a malicious smile on his face. Yes, Dick recognized that smile; it was the smile that looked like the Joker's face had been cut off and sewn onto his own.
He could tell at a glance that Batman was about to do something bad.
"The deceased 'white moonlight' is invincible," Chen Tao said. "Everyone else is merely a substitute for her. But a substitute is always just a substitute; it can never replace the 'white moonlight.' However..."
"Night owls have desires."
Nightwing heard Batman say, "Even someone like Night Owl, a seemingly invincible human, needs to be abused, hurt, ignored, and trampled on."
"I don't understand," Nightwing said.
He felt very strange, because Batman's tone at that moment sounded like a madam in a red-light district disciplining a new top prostitute.
"In the past, Claw Dick and Night Owl had a completely dominant-subordinate relationship. Claw Dick unconditionally obeyed Night Owl's orders and became his living shadow."
But this time, we're going to give the owl a completely new experience. This time, we're going to make the owl the one being dominated.
"I have a plan, I'm sure I have one, a fucking awesome plan!"
(End of this chapter)