American comics: Random transformations

"Harvey, any thoughts?"

Gordon's old partner, Harvey Bullock, also wore a long face. The TV news was just the beginning; the trouble was yet to come!

He took a sip of coffee, shook his head bitterly, and said with a melancholy expression, "Gotham first had all sorts of gangsters and criminally insane, and now there are all sorts of monsters haunting Gotham!

Damn it, Gordon, Gotham feels like it's been cursed this year! Even I, a local, feel like a stranger.

Now with this, we're going to be busy. I just requested a vacation! Now I have to work overtime!"

"Oh, damn it! Don't mention it, Harvey," Gordon could only curse helplessly. "Such large beasts are appearing in the city, how can you rest? Catching them as soon as possible is the main thing!"

Besides cursing in their hearts, they were also helpless. With these man-eating creatures appearing in Gotham, who would dare to relax before they were caught!

In places without surveillance, any investigation was just a waste of time, just like those mysterious creatures before, they always disappeared where the cameras couldn't see!

Just then, a young officer quickly knocked on the office door. After Gordon said "Come in," he nervously entered and said to Commissioner Gordon:

"Commissioner, there's a new situation! In the factory that burned down yesterday, there were several bodies that didn't belong to the chemical factory employees. The autopsy report is out, they were Penguin's men!"

"Cobblepot!? Why him?"

Gordon and Harvey Bullock exchanged a glance. Their years of partnership allowed them to instantly understand each other. With Penguin involved, there must be a conspiracy behind this!

"What else did you find?" Gordon continued to ask.

The young officer leaned close to Gordon's ear and whispered, "Yesterday, the 'Cleaner' on the dark web took an emergency order to dispose of the bodies at the chemical factory."

"Cleaners" was the name for those who cleaned up corpses. The police department also monitored this kind of business. The reason Gordon hadn't taken down this dark web site was to make it easier to investigate cases!

After all, this was Gotham, where death was the norm.

In the homes of local tycoons and gangsters, how could no one die? These "Cleaners" were basically supported by those wealthy gangsters.

"Okay, I understand! Pass the word, have the brothers keep a close eye on Penguin recently! If he takes any action, report it immediately!"

"Yes! Commissioner Gordon!"

As soon as the young officer left the office, Harvey Bullock said, "Gordon, this is a big problem!"

"Yes, Harvey, how long has Cobblepot been behaving? He's starting trouble again so soon! It doesn't fit his personality."

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… … … …

Cobblepot's Iceberg Lounge.

On the surface, it's Gotham's top private restaurant. In reality, the area that the basement of this restaurant leads to is the real important area, a subterranean city of entertainment, Penguin Cobblepot's headquarters.

However, at this moment, this "important area" was littered with the bodies of thugs, scarlet blood flowing all over the floor, the smell of blood permeating the entire place.

Ten assassins wearing black tights and masks with white owls painted on them surrounded Penguin.

They stared coldly at the fat, hook-nosed dwarf.

Penguin calmly picked up a wine glass, swirled the red wine in the glass, and after calmly taking a sip, he didn't care about the corpses on the ground.

He said, "You Court of Owls are going too far! This matter has nothing to do with me.

Do you really think I, Penguin, can be manipulated by you? Don't forget, I supply your weapons."

The ten Talon assassins of the Court of Owls didn't react at all. But this was normal, they were just biological weapons created by the Court of Owls!

They would only obey the orders of the Court of Owls, they wouldn't speak, they wouldn't negotiate.

Although they didn't speak, they had phones on them. The elite Talon leader turned on the speakerphone on his phone, and the old voice from the other end of the phone was played out.

— "Penguin, descendant of the Cobblepot family, please be honest. If you make our transaction fail again, then we will find the next merchant who can successfully trade.

You have always been under the control of our Court of Owls. Remember, there is no next time, Cobblepot!

Next time, Talon will take your penguin head."

"Click, beep beep beep…"

After the phone hung up, the ten Talon assassins didn't make any extra movements. Under the Penguin's cold gaze, they silently left the Iceberg Lounge along the shadows.

The entire Iceberg Lounge was left with only the Penguin Cobblepot, his face gloomy.

Penguin expressed that he was very frustrated!

This matter had nothing to do with him, but he was dragged into it. He had dozens of arms deals with the Court of Owls!

Like yesterday's, it was just a normal arms deal for him. It wasn't like he was transporting any rare treasures.

But he never expected that such a thing would happen! Who is it? Who is screwing with me, Penguin!?

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. Penguin Cobblepot took out his phone, contacted his driver Jack, and asked driver Jack to take him to Arkham Asylum. He needed the help of an old friend!

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The Talon assassins moved quickly in the shadows of the city. Today, they not only had to knock on Penguin Cobblepot, but also had to clean up several interfering gangs.

And the live broadcast of these Talon's actions was playing in the core area of Gotham's sewers.

This was a vast underground space, supported by eighteen concrete pillars. Each pillar had a sculpture of an owl, and the owl's eyes stared at the center of the space.

Around a large conference table, people were gathered.

They were the Court of Owls, a dark force composed of Gotham's oldest and most prestigious families. These prestigious families secretly controlled everything in Gotham through wealth and power.

In the eyes of the Court of Owls, those gangs, like weeds, were like children playing house, and were the Gotham's never-ending leeks.

… … … …

Just as the Talon of the Owls was massacring those small gangs, a pale-faced maniac with a wicked smile was laughing wildly on the rooftop of a building.

"Heh heh hahahaha, Gotham is getting more and more interesting, hahahaha, hahaha!"

The Joker laughed more and more exaggeratedly. He laughed at Batman's incompetence, and also laughed at Gotham's dark rules being so careless that he discovered them.

He had escaped from Arkham Asylum a month ago, and with the help of the Joker Gang's stand-in, he replaced him with a fake Joker!

The real Joker had blended into the crowd, preparing the next "big surprise" for Batman!

When he infiltrated the Penguin Gang, he discovered the darkness in the shadows of Gotham—the Court of Owls!

The genius maniac's thinking made the Joker feel: Hey! This organization is quite powerful, playing the game of hiding in plain sight is as powerful as him!

So, with curiosity, the Joker began to investigate the Court of Owls, and began to give Batman a "big surprise" in the future!

Chapter 3 On the Survival Skills of a Transmigrator in the American Comics World

Early in the morning, Tian Xiaoban was in his rented house, watching TV and eating.

He kept gnawing on the alkaline bread he bought on sale a few days ago, which was already rock hard.

"Crunch, crunch…"

The chewing sound was loud, but the hardness of this bread was not a problem even for hammering nails!

But there was no way, Tian Xiaoban had a lot of exercise last night, so after waking up this morning, his body was hungry and a little weak.

For Tian Xiaoban, eating this alkaline bread is currently the cheapest way to recover. (He also wants to eat hamburgers, but his wallet is empty.)

People are iron, and food is steel; you'll be hungry if you miss a meal. Especially when you just wake up, you're really hungry!

Therefore, Tian Xiaoban at this moment looks a bit indiscriminate in his choice of food. He directly gnaws on the bread that has been hard for several days without even soaking it in water.

"Crunch, crunch..."

Just consider it teething during the tooth-changing period!

The Omnitrix has already optimized Tian Xiaoban's genes. Not to say that his body is invulnerable to swords and spears and immune to all diseases, Tian Xiaoban feels that just gnawing on bread is nothing! He believes his stomach can digest this hard bread!

Watching the TV broadcast of: Methods to deal with wild beasts. Tian Xiaoban also watched it as a joke.

These days, Tian Xiaoban sneered at the multiple hypes in TV news, with bold and enlarged titles—"Beware of Giant Wolves."

That giant wolf is Garurumon, which he transforms into using the Omnitrix. How could he, the user, not know if it's dangerous?

And also arson!

This is slander! It's slander from misleading news!

He had randomly transformed into the Digimon Garurumon two days ago.

Moreover, he clearly saved people that day, and not just those two people in the fire. He also saved many... female passersby who were assaulted by thugs at night. (Excluding those who were into role-playing; anyway, those on the street were beaten by his wolf claws.)

If the Omnitrix wasn't unreliable, Tian Xiaoban would definitely find those newspaper guys to have a good "chat"!

"Forget it, forget it, I shouldn't have any expectations for this broken place called Gotham. Let's continue with my own business! Sigh... rent is due again soon."

.........

Tian Xiaoban is an unlucky guy who transmigrated after being stabbed in the heart by a splinter from an exploding phone. He is now twelve years old, 1.52 meters tall, and of average appearance, not outstanding among his peers.

After all, he started in a Gotham orphanage.

He is relatively thin, with slightly sunken cheeks, which makes him look somewhat malnourished due to long-term lack of food.

However, his black hedgehog hair, expressionless face, and sharp eyes will make people subconsciously stay away from this guy who looks like he's not easy to mess with at first glance.

But people who are familiar with him will definitely say: "Brother Ban just looks like he's not easy to mess with, but he's actually a good person!"

Tian Xiaoban's record of fighting his way through the orphanage at the age of ten without hurting anyone also made the orphanage's caregivers and director know that Xiao Ban is a clever child who can fight and has a good sense of propriety.

The caregiver's evaluation is: This little guy has a future and will definitely not go hungry.

Tian Xiaoban, the transmigrator, had no opinion about starting in an orphanage. After all, people have transmigrated, and starting as an orphan is normal.

After leaving the orphanage, Tian Xiaoban didn't go into the underworld (he was too young, and the gangs didn't like him). Now, in addition to working to barely maintain his life, he only has research on his cheat—the "little broken watch" Omnitrix.

.........

As everyone knows, there are too many orphans in Gotham, and the top wealthy people are orphans (Gotham jokes), let alone those of them who came out of Gotham orphanages.

Here, it is normal to leave the orphanage and make a living in one's teens. Moreover, in Gotham, the employment pressure is very high, and it is basically impossible for minors to have a safe way to earn money.

For ordinary people with average ability, average financial resources, and average luck in this ghostly place called Gotham, surviving is the greatest luck (who knows how ordinary people will die in the future).

Moreover, Gotham's gangs are too competitive. An ordinary gang member needs: makeup, shooting proficiency, super durability, code proficiency, counter-reconnaissance ability, bomb disposal, driving, top-notch communication ability, and good luck.

This is just the most basic requirement. To become a villain-level character, the minimum requirement is to have several doctoral degrees and be beaten by Batman.

Tian Xiaoban sighed that it was too competitive and didn't allow a Gotham newbie like him to get ahead!

.........

When Tian Xiaoban first transmigrated, he was only about ten years old. That was what he found out after constantly questioning the orphanage's caregiver aunt.

However, his clueless appearance stunned the caregiver aunt, who thought Tian Xiaoban had some kind of illness and lost his memory.

Born in a Gotham orphanage, and without finding a golden finger at the start! Helpless, Tian Xiaoban could only honestly hang out with a bunch of children for a year, successfully becoming the orphanage boss, known as the King of Children.

(He knows how to fight and doesn't talk much when he's ruthless. After all, he's an adult soul, and even if he's smaller, Tian Xiaoban is better than ordinary children at swinging their fists randomly. He knows more about using physical moves to attack the opponent's weaknesses.)

On Christmas Day at the age of eleven, Tian Xiaoban woke up and found that a technologically advanced watch had inexplicably appeared on his left wrist, and it seemed to have grown on Tian Xiaoban's hand, impossible to take off.

As Tian Xiaoban's sleepiness faded and reason returned, the memories of his dead past life began to attack him, and he recognized this treasure on his left hand that could not be taken off—the first-generation Omnitrix.

Although he showed a lot of disgust in the next second, muttering: A late golden finger is cheaper than grass.

But Tian Xiaoban himself knew that the corners of his smiling mouth hidden in the quilt were harder to suppress than an AK!

"Damn, the protagonist of 'Ben 10' had a golden finger at the age of ten, but I have to wait until I'm eleven!

But it's good that it's here, it's good that it's here! Thinking about the alien god DNA in the watch, hahaha, TMD, I don't have to be afraid of this damn DC universe anymore!

Calm down! Calm down! Must calm down!"

Although he said calm down, Tian Xiaoban was eager to try when he thought of Four Arms, XLR8, Cannonbolt, and Upgrade.

However, considering that there are many people in the orphanage, Tian Xiaoban urgently needed a place where no one was around to experiment with and familiarize himself with this super-powered watch.

So, Tian Xiaoban decisively applied to the director, saying that he wanted to earn money! With the director and caregiver's consent, Tian Xiaoban left the Gotham orphanage.

The director meant: It's best if Tian Xiaoban can earn money himself. If he can't make it outside, he can come back. The Gotham orphanage is invested in by the Wayne Group, and it's no problem to provide him with a job to eat.

Tian Xiaoban also knew that the orphanage director was considered one of the rare people with a conscience in Gotham. In this place where gangs run rampant, it's already very difficult to have a non-dangerous job that can provide food and clothing.

He directly came out to work independently, planning to become the most promising profession in Gotham—a gangster.

But when he was familiarizing himself with the Omnitrix, he found that the Omnitrix's green core display (dial) could not be used!

The display (dial) always showed the green hourglass icon!

Because Tian Xiaoban couldn't see the icons of the transformed creatures, Tian Xiaoban could only use random transformations. He figured that the aliens in 'Ben 10' were all pretty good and had super combat power, so it didn't matter if he transformed randomly.