Black American Comics: Start with a Snap

Chapter 230 Weird Balance

Listening to Su Ze's words in a daze, even Bane took a while to digest this huge amount of information. Obviously, he didn't know that the person imprisoned in the basement of Arkham Asylum was not Batman.

"Have you really found the bottom layer?" Bane couldn't help but ask. His movements were too fast and even stimulated the wound, and blood flowed out of the gauze again.

"If you mean the separate compartment on the fifth underground floor, which is barely the sixth floor, yes, we did find it." Rocket Raccoon also came over and said hoarsely.

"He's not there? That's impossible."

Bane's eyes trembled slightly, as if he couldn't believe what he heard.

It was as if his only hope was shattered at this moment, and even his eyes became a little unfocused.

"Answer my question, Bain." Suze said seriously, "If you still want to restore everything to its original state."

"Restore it to the way it was?" Bain seemed to have heard something funny, and couldn't help but let out a sad smile. "It's impossible to go back. None of us can go back. This is all a joke."

When Suze brought the news about Batman, Bane seemed to have aged more than ten years in an instant. Originally, he had placed all his hopes on the bat with whom he had fought for half his life, but now, the last motivation that kept him moving forward was gone.

As his eyes moved, Bane did not let out an angry roar, nor did he show any self-destructive tendencies. He just stared at Su Ze calmly.

"Do you really want to save this?"

Su Ze didn't say anything, but looked at Bain calmly.

The silence between the two did not last long. After a pause, Bane slowly spoke.

"Okay. Although I don't know where you crazy people came from, I will tell you what you want to know."

It all started with that sunrise.

The shadow of night still lingered in the sky, and silence enveloped the earth.

In the darkness, a faint light began to appear on the distant horizon, so faint that it was almost imperceptible.

The light was like a hand struggling out from an endless abyss, trying its best to grasp something. Gradually, the light began to spread, and the sky began to be dyed a light golden color.

Everything was so 'normal', this sunrise was no different from any other sunrise.

The clouds on the horizon gradually took shape. At first they were just vague outlines, but slowly strange shapes were outlined in the light.

They continued to twist and hover in the sky, and the light gradually became stronger at this moment, but this time, the sun did not bring light and hope.

It rises quietly, like a pupil, staring coldly at everything in the world below.
The first person to notice something was wrong was Luther. He sensed an unusual energy reaction, and this energy was different from any he had ever seen before. In order to find out the details, he secretly contacted Deathstroke to investigate the matter.

Soon after, the Hall of Justice also sounded the alarm, and the heroes of the Titans and Young Justice were gathered together. Although no one knew what had happened, it was obviously not an ordinary event that could make the heroes so serious.

A few days later, Bane, who was in prison, was suddenly visited by the Riddler.

The guy kept muttering something in a weird way. Bane also knew that the Riddler had always had mental problems. Although it was very strange, he did not think much about it. After all, it was a good thing to have someone help him escape from prison. But what happened later made Bane feel creepy.

Having assembled an army of mutants, Bane decided to take a darker approach to deal with Batman this time. He wanted to target Batman's softest spot and defeat the Gotham legend in another way.

Other super criminals have made similar plans before, but they all failed. Batman has proven his unbreakable strength time and time again.

However, Bane did not take this seriously. He did not think there was anything he could learn from the failures of other criminals. He just thought those people were not as strong as himself.

But when he proposed a specific course of action to his subordinates, he was stunned by a question from his subordinates.

"Boss, who is Batman?"

Who is Batman?
Bane was stunned at first, and then he exploded with uncontrollable anger.

Batman at this time is no longer the urban legend of Gotham. After launching from the Justice League's watchtower, these superheroes have come to the fore and entered the public's field of vision.

He had fought with Batman for half his life, and this subordinate actually asked such a question, which made Bane think that the other party was provoking him. After he used cruel means to kill this subordinate who dared to provoke him, the second subordinate who asked this question appeared.

Then came the third one, the fourth one, and finally, Bane was horrified to find that none of the people he had gathered knew Batman.

In their understanding, there has always been only one patron saint of Gotham City, and that is Batwoman.

Where did the bat go?
Bane couldn't help but have this question in his mind.

Or to put it another way, does Batman really exist in this world?
At first, Bane thought it was a trick by other super criminals to change people's memory in order to erase the world's impression of Batman. It was even possible that even Batman had forgotten that he was Batman.

I have to say, even Bane was amazed by this strategy.

But Bane doesn't want to just be a quiet spectator. The only one who can truly defeat Batman is him, and only him. If Batman is really defeated, it must be at his hands.

So Bane sneaked into Wayne Castle alone. He wanted to use his own methods to make Bruce Wayne remember his identity again, and then fight him with real swords and guns.

However, when Bane actually came to the castle and met Bruce Wayne, the expected situation did not occur. Bruce still remembered who he was, and he also remembered that he was Batman.

Bruce entertained Bane and invited him into the castle, but Bane could see that there was something wrong with Bruce. He would always be distracted from time to time and occasionally mutter something.

It was hard to imagine that two old enemies would one day sit together and have a meal so peacefully, just like a pair of old friends who hadn't seen each other for a long time.

But what Bane wants to know most now is what exactly happened to Bruce.

The dinner didn't last too long. When Alfred served the second appetizer, the Justice League's alarm bells had already sounded.

Bruce Wayne looked a little solemn. Bane had not seen such an expression on his face for a long time. He just felt that everything was beginning to tilt towards the edge of getting out of control.

The sound of quarreling continued to come from the study. Bane didn't know who Bruce was quarreling with, perhaps other heroes of the Justice League, or maybe the group of birds under his command.

Without leaving much time for explanation, Bruce Wayne hurriedly put on his bat suit.

Bane was still in a daze at the time. Before he could react to what was happening here, he watched the worried Batman disappear into the darkness.

Bane returned to his temporary residence silently, with a head full of confusion, and decided not to think about these messy things for the time being.

No matter what happens, the Justice League guys will always solve it all, just like what happened in the past nearly twenty years, that damn bat will always find a way to restore everything to its original state.

But can everything really return to the way it was?

A few days later, more and more superheroes disappeared from the public's perception, but those remaining heroes were not surprised at all, and even their perceptions changed.

At this point, no matter who did it, he has already won.

Without Superman, Flash, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter, the pillars of the Justice League, the heroes were completely defeated. Although the few remaining ones still had some combat power, if that person wanted, he could continue to wipe out those heroes one by one.

But things started to get even weirder. No one stepped forward to claim responsibility for the incident, and no one took action to eliminate the remaining heroes. It was as if nothing had happened.

The Justice League still maintains world peace, those super criminals are still tirelessly trying to defeat their enemies, and the whole world is in a strange balance.

But Bane knew very well that after Superman started a war in Metropolis and was defeated and imprisoned, the world had begun to become strange. Many people disappeared, disappearing from people's cognition and memory.

Wayne Castle was completely deserted, and the Batcave was reduced to ruins with an explosion. On the day of its fall, Batman's voice almost spread throughout Gotham, but no one responded.

The Joker was stabbed to death on the throne by Harley Quinn herself, Two-Face jumped off a tall building for some unknown reason, and as for the Riddler, Bane has never heard from him since that day.

All these unexpected changes almost drove Bane crazy. He regretted deeply why he didn't catch up with Batman that day and why he had to watch everything degenerate into such a state.

From that day on, Bane began to frantically look for all the information about Batman. He knew that the bat was not dead yet, and he knew very well that the damn bat would not be defeated so easily.

Until later, a piece of news suddenly spread in Gotham City - Batman's whereabouts were located in the basement of Arkham Asylum.
(End of this chapter)