American comics: The off-the-charts random transformation

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The manor's underground bat cave.

It still has the same eerie style. Despite being so rich, Batman couldn't even afford to install more lights.

Batman sat alone in front of an enormous Batcomputer, with freshly brewed coffee on the desk.

On the computer screen, in addition to surveillance footage from various areas of Gotham, there was a pile of information about shapeshifting magic.

Upon hearing footsteps, he quickly hid the files on his desktop and looked at the person who had entered.

"Long time no see, Batman, what brings you here?"

Tian Xiaoban was the first to greet him. When he got closer, he noticed that Batman was wearing full armor, and compared to his previous bodysuit, he now looked much larger.

This suit is no ordinary thing, and the event that allowed Batman to wear it must also be extraordinary.

Batman, in a metallic, altered voice, said, "The fight with Shiva has taken a toll on my body, and this suit will help me maintain some of my fighting ability."

Alfred warned, "This is no small matter, sir. The nerves in your limbs have been burned by the electric current. If it weren't for the 'Dionysus dentures'..."

"Alright, Alfred, I'm fine." Batman stopped Alfred from saying anything more.

He could guess what Alfred meant: he wanted Tian Xiaoban to become the Shennong Beast to heal her.

Tian Xiaoban raised an eyebrow: "Electric current? Why didn't you punch when you were being shocked? That set of punches can make you stronger in the presence of electric current."

I don't think that Ms. Shiva is powerful enough to kill you with one punch, right?

Batman fell silent. He couldn't very well say that he truly couldn't withstand the attack at the time. If his Batsuit hadn't been so excellent, Ms. Shiva's attack might have killed him instantly.

Ms. Shiva thought Batman had also mastered the secret technique, so she hit him quite hard. Batman was lucky to survive.

Batman said seriously:

"My Kevlar suit can withstand 230,000 volts. But Shiva's casual release of voltage is beyond my imagination."

"You're the author of that book, can you tell me what the upper limit of its cultivation is? I need to know where the limit is, and then create a suit of armor strong enough to withstand that limit."

This is a problem... Tian Xiaoban doesn't know either. It's because he wrote it that he himself doesn't know if he can learn the later parts.

"Huh? Well... to be precise, I don't know."

According to the theory in the book, when the current reaches 500,000 volts, the practitioner should begin to make a choice.

Whether to continue cultivating electric current propulsion or take another path—magnetic field rotation—is a personal choice.

Once a path is chosen, one can continue to grow stronger, but I don't know the upper limit of that strength.

Batman understood what he meant:

"Five hundred thousand volts? If Shiva needs to come here to steal books, then she's reached that level. Hmm, I understand."

Batman turned around, entered a string of data into the computer, and then instructed his factory to begin manufacturing the new suit.

"master……"

"No need to say anything more, Alfred, take him to see Jason. I'll take care of the rest."

“Yes, sir.” Alfred glanced at the half-finished coffee on the table and reminded him, “Remember to rest, sir. Please come with me, young master.”

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After exiting the Bat Cave, they took the elevator to the manor's garage. This time, they wouldn't be bringing Garfield along, since they were just going to familiarize themselves with the place and would have to leave the actual work for the night, to be done discreetly.

Tian Xiaoban asked curiously, "What's wrong with Batman? He's like a child who's abusing himself after doing something wrong."

Alfred's lips twitched involuntarily, but he also felt that Tian Xiaoban's words were very apt.

He sighed and said:

"Alas, when I found the old man, he had extensive burns all over his body and multiple fractures; he was on the verge of death. All the dentures I brought were used to treat him."

Young Master Jason… He damaged the locator in his suit during the battle, and it was a day later when I found his body. I still can't forget that expression on his face—shock and terror. Poor kid, I wonder what he went through before he died.

The master also went to see young master Jason's body, and the sadness and anger in his eyes were greater than ever before.

After that, the old man seemed to develop Parkinson's disease, experiencing occasional involuntary convulsions throughout his body. Medical equipment couldn't find the cause. "Sigh—I was hoping you could try to cure him."

Once that was explained, Tian Xiaoban understood. However, Alfred had made a mistake.

"Ah Fu, some things can't be forced, like my transformation. I can't become the way I want to be, and whether I can cure diseases depends on luck."

“I know, you said that before, and I’ve always remembered it. What I meant was that when Young Master Ban has the ability to treat the Master, we should help him once.”

"I will."

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Gotham Cemetery.

Tian Xiaoban and Alfred stood there with umbrellas. It started raining as soon as they got out of the car, as if even the heavens were experiencing their sorrow.

Bypassing the other graves, we came to a corner area where, under a large tree, stood three tombstones: Thomas Wayne, Martha Wayne, and Jason Todd, each adorned with flowers.

“We were just here this morning, and it has already been cleaned.”

“Hmm.” Tian Xiaoban cared a lot about the tombstone, so he walked straight to Jason Todd’s tombstone and looked at it carefully.

Although I really wanted to tear down the tombstone to see if the body was still there, I held back.

"Bro, I didn't expect you to leave so soon. Heh, I wonder where you'll go after you die. Heaven has God, Hell has Lucifer, who will be there to greet you?"

If you're not here, but instead went to soak in the Pool of Lazarus, then good heavens, I need to go and fight Sannomiya.

Haha, but don't worry, no matter where you go, I'll bring you back! This time, definitely..."

This was his very quiet muttering to himself, which Alfred couldn't hear at all in the drizzling rain.

However, what Tian Xiaoban didn't notice was that behind his clothes was a thin, gray mechanical insect about the size of a fingernail.

When it has completed its task, it will automatically detach and fall to the ground like a leaf.

The old bat listened intently to all that rambling.

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boom!

Another explosion was heard 20 meters underground in the old city.

The force of this explosion nearly destroyed an entire laboratory.

"Crazy woman!"

Lei Xiaogu offered a fair assessment.

This is twenty meters underground. If something happens here, no one will even know you've died.

Although he called her crazy, Lei Xiaogu's eyes were full of envy!

The explosion just now was Ms. Shiva's attempt to convert her own electrical current into a magnetic field.

It was a golden arc of electricity that could surround the entire laboratory, spinning wildly at an accelerated rate around Ms. Shiva.

The speed was so fast that it almost formed a high-voltage electric ball.

A strong wind and metal parts began to swirl around the electric sphere, forcing everyone in the lab to go outside for fear of being crushed by the metal.

Such terrifying power, Ms. Shiva maintained for only one minute.

Then she ran out of energy, and an explosion occurred, almost killing her as well.

"Shiva, are you alright?"

Lei Xiaogu shouted towards the ruins.

The voice from within the ruins was weak and feeble: "I... need... a doctor."

Lei Xiaogu breathed a sigh of relief and said to the people behind him, "What are you standing there for? Go and save them!"

Five members of the Assassin's Guild stepped forward to clear the rubble. It took them almost an hour to clean it up.

Ms. Shiva was pinned against the wall, looking utterly miserable. Compared to her former voluptuous figure, she now resembled a skeleton, as if all the energy had been drained from her body.

After removing the last few items, the frail Ms. Shiva looked like she was about to die.

Lei Xiaogu walked over, holding an electric baton, and stabbed himself in the body.

Tsh tsh tsh tsh~

Using the methods of transporting electricity that he had learned, he injected the electricity he had tamed into Ms. Shiva's body.

Unlike the previous times, this time, Ms. Shiva did not use the current to recover her condition; it was as if she no longer had the strength to receive or connect to the current.

"I need an IV... a nutrient solution... I'm completely exhausted, I need to recover before I can absorb electricity..."

The skeletal figure with sunken cheeks completely fainted after saying those words.

"Hehe..." Lei Xiaogu just smiled and instructed his men to take Shiva for treatment.

He actually had another way to help Shiva recover even faster: give her an intravenous injection of the water from the Pool of Lazarus to help her recover quickly.

But that stuff... can easily drive people crazy.

Although Shiva is already quite insane, Lei Xiaogu is afraid that he can't stop Shiva after he has used the water from Lazarus Spring.

The residual electric current from the stun gun in his body traveled back and forth between his palms, following his thoughts.

"Soon, my body will be able to store electricity. As long as I can generate electricity myself, I will surpass Shiva now."

Lei Xiaogu, an old-timer, immediately noticed something was wrong with Shiva's actions.

That state of complete shrinkage must be because Shiva drained all the energy from her body, draining all the energy from her cells as well.

What if the energy in your own cells could be inexhaustible?

For example, using Lazarus's Pool?

Lei Xiaogu suddenly felt like he had grabbed something!

Since the human body can absorb external electric current to overcome electric current propulsion.

So, to break through to the point of magnetic field rotation, wouldn't it be necessary to absorb something else? And then allow one's physical body to surpass human limits!

Lei Xiaogu thought of the Pool of Lazarus! The pool of water that can grant immortality and resurrection, it possesses an inexhaustible source of life force!

He suddenly felt that the second half of the manual was as if it had been prepared for him.