American comics: The off-the-charts random transformation

Tian Xiaoban is now Steve!

Unfortunately, the transformation time is limited!

At this moment, Tian Xiaoban was suppressing his various impulses, fearing that if he made a mistake, he would destroy the earth!

"Calm down! Calm down! Tian Xiaoban, calm down! This little brat is unusually helpful. We need to escape before the transformation time is over!"

Once you're out there, build yourself a large shelter!

Ideally, it should be incredibly tough, the kind that can withstand a nuclear blast! That way, I'll never have to worry about not having a place to live again!

At this moment, from Tian Xiaoban's perspective, everything looks familiar from her previous life. The whole world is like a mosaic, and everything has sharp edges and corners.

Below his view, there were even shortcut keys. As long as Tian Xiaoban had a thought, he could click on and use the items in the shortcut keys!

He has now dug a path, and there are 37 clods of dirt in his character's backpack.

When Steve was digging down the Penguin's warehouse floor, he also filled it back up, which is why the Penguin couldn't find any flaws.

Beneath the concrete floor lay sand and soil. Steve's right hand swung wildly like a pile driver, shattering the soil in minutes. Modified by a special force, the soil was transformed into earth blocks that could float on the ground.

Steve can automatically collect the dirt into his backpack as soon as he gets close!

“I dug down five blocks, then dug in the opposite direction of the warehouse…” Steve glanced at his backpack, 40 dirt blocks. “Hmm, I dug 35 blocks in the opposite direction, now let’s look up!”

He knocked the soil off his head, and the clods of earth automatically went into his backpack. He then knocked out an upward trapezoidal passage.

When Steve came out, it was already daylight! Considering he had been digging for less than ten minutes, it seems he had been drugged for quite a while.

Looking around again, all I could see were trees!

They're all trees! Ah—!

What does this mean? It means Steve is about to rise to power!

"If you want to get rich, start by chopping down trees!"

The unchanging truth for Minecraft players, a memory etched into their DNA!

Time is money!

I don't even know if the Omnitrix will be able to conjure up again next time! I need to cherish my time!

While offering words of encouragement, the architectural genius Steve used his invincible right hand to chop down a tree.

He smashed the tree trunk section by section with his hammer, and the leaves and crown floated eerily in mid-air!

With enough resources, Steve easily crafted basic tools such as a workbench, a wooden axe, and a wooden pickaxe.

Then I continued chopping down trees and made storage boxes!

After he made the storage box, he emptied his backpack and then immediately started smashing rocks with his wooden pickaxe. All the exposed rocks in the forest became his targets!

After he had smashed all the large rocks, Steve crafted a stone pickaxe and a furnace at the crafting table!

He kept silently counting down the seconds until his transformation time was almost up!

There's definitely not enough time for Steve to build a house!

But it's still possible for him to dig out a large enough underground space!

So, with the help of tools, Steve quickly swung his stone pickaxe and dug into the exposed rock!

They dug inwards by 20 blocks, and then started widening it.

Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, and just like that, he dug out a 420-square-meter space! (To prevent accidents, Steve also built many load-bearing walls in this underground space to ensure that the space can still exist safely after the transformation is deactivated!)

After the space was cleared, he moved the workbench, furnace, and storage boxes inside!

420 square meters is enough for him!

"Beep beep beep beep...beep!"

"Oh no! Time's up! I should have built another door!"

Just as Tian Xiaoban deactivated his transformation, the original square pillar gradually became rounded, as if adapting to the rules of the world!

The workbench and furnace also lost their magical ability to create things, becoming just ordinary workbench and ordinary furnace.

The locker... well, it's a mess. It was burst open by the wooden sticks and other debris inside, and now it's just a huge lump of dirt, wood, and stone.

Thankfully, Steve hadn't filled it with too much dirt and rubble. Otherwise, this newly established underground base would have been gone!

Chapter 9 Batman's Secret Investigation

Looking at the mixture crammed into the large room, Tian Xiaoban covered her face with a helpless smile: "Okay, I'm in for a busy day!"

He casually picked up five scattered planks, fragments of a storage box. He then picked up nails from the workbench. Although the workbench no longer had the magical block crafting function, it was still a complete set of tools for a workbench!

"The toolbox has a limited number of nails, but it's well-equipped with other tools. Luckily, I learned carpentry in my previous life, so I can use them sparingly! Let's get to work!"

After some hammering and tinkering, he made a wooden square box.

With the wooden box as a container, Tian Xiaoban was able to quickly move the pile of wooden sticks and soil mixture using this tool.

There was no need to throw these things away. Tian Xiaoban piled the mixture at the doorway and then made a mound of earth as cover, uh... although it looked like a grave.

There were plenty of tree canopies around that could be used to decorate the grave. After the Omnitrix's transformation failed, those tree canopies that were floating in the sky were recaptured by gravity and fell to the ground.

"Hmm, did I forget something?"

Tian Xiaoban felt like she had forgotten something very important! She kept thinking about it as she worked!

As he panted and carried the last load of soil, he suddenly remembered, "Damn it, I forgot to ventilate this base!"

Without Steve's power, this place is completely uninhabitable.

Tian Xiaoban couldn't possibly survive in an extreme environment lacking oxygen. Thinking about it, Tian Xiaoban felt like she had dug her own tomb!

"There's no electricity or ventilation here; it's tough, but it has no advantages whatsoever."

It feels... no different from a grave!

Haha, let's just call this base the 'Tomb of the Living Dead'! Haha!

After an awkward moment of self-consolation, Tian Xiaoban sat against the wall near the exit and fell asleep peacefully. Moving things was just too tiring!

Especially after the transformation, he was very tired and hungry! He'd think about the base later, after he woke up.

………………

A new guest has arrived at the bat cave.

Wow! This is your secret base? In such a huge underground cave! Cool!

Jason stared in astonishment at everything inside the Batcave; it was just too cool!

This large, dark metal-style platform, this computer screen that covers half a wall, and those bat-shaped tools focused by various spotlights.

The car, the plane, the motorcycle, the submarine, and the complete Bat costumes displayed in the showcase were enough to send Jason's adrenaline soaring. He was incredibly excited and on the edge of his seat!

"Yes, all my equipment is here."

Bruce Wayne, who had just finished showering, was wearing his red pajamas and looking at the excited little guy in front of him with a smile on his face.

Yesterday, when he finished his investigation and was about to go back, he saw this little guy taking apart the Batmobile! Moreover, the little guy had already removed all four tires of the car.

The one who dared to remove the Batmobile's tires was Jason Todd, who was on the operation that night.

Then, Batman thought Jason was a courageous and promising talent, and he happened to be lacking a Robin assistant, so the next day, Bruce Wayne adopted Jason as his son.

He is now showing Jason around the Bat Cave.

"Wow! That's so cool!" Jason's eyes lit up as he looked at the Batmobile, touching it from all sides. If Batman hadn't been watching him, he would have jumped on and ridden it long ago.

Bruce Wayne introduced, "That's Robin's motorcycle. His name is Dick Grayson, your brother."

Jason Todd's eyes lit up. Robin was one of his idols, after all. He immediately asked, "Wow, where is my brother now?"

"..."

Bruce Wayne paused for a moment, then said in a low voice, "He disagreed with my ideas and has now gone to another city."

Upon hearing that his adopted brother was actually going against Batman, Jason Todd's admiration instantly shone through.

"OK, got it! My buddy's got some personality! So cool!"

Bruce didn't want to talk about this anymore, so he said to the butler:

"Alright, Alfred, take him to rest! When he wakes up, teach him some basic exercise methods."

"Yes, Mr. Wayne. Young Master Jason, this way please."

Alfred led the way with a smile.

Just after Alfred took Jason Todd away, Bruce Wayne walked up to the display case and put on his gear.

When the bathrobe transforms back into a full-body black bat suit, the ruthless Dark Knight reappears.

The data from the Batcomputer was accessed by him; all the information Batman had gathered in recent days had been stored in the Batcomputer.

"After the factory explosion, Gotham's wealthy actually paid to cover it up. The autopsy report from the factory showed samples of toxic gas, and there was a mysterious organization with a green logo. Why was it at that factory...?"

Beneath the Batman mask, his eyes were sharp as he relentlessly searched through the available information for clues.

"Gotham has had too many cases lately, and the clues are too messy. Or... it might be two different things!"

Batman thought about it more and more and it seemed very possible!

First clue: The aftermath of the factory explosion—the Elliott family placing an order to clean up the factory is highly suspicious.

The second clue: The Elliott family had a long-standing partnership with Arkham Asylum, and they likely had access to the Scarecrow's recipe for Fear Gas.

The third clue: all the dead were Penguin's henchmen, and Penguin has been "missing" for the past few days, and Batman hasn't been able to find him!

Batman has already investigated that factory, and he didn't find any raw materials for the Fear Gas there, since the Fear Gas is only found in the bodies of the dead.

This indicates that the factory was not a place that manufactured poison gas, and that they inhaled the poison gas of fear before they died.

As for Scarecrow, he was still in Arkham Asylum at the time, there's no mistake about that, because Batman had just returned from Arkham Asylum, and there's surveillance video from those days to prove it.

So who exactly is it?

Who is using fear gas, and what is he planning to do?

What role did the penguins play in all of this?