Chapter 114 Chapter 114 Magic Defeats Magic
"Well, Batman is a bit overwrought, you ask me. Do I look immature?"
In the sewer, Benjamin, carrying a portable electric chain saw on his back, used a handheld electric saw to observe his surroundings. Even a mask could not completely block the odor of the sewer. Even so, Benjamin pinched his nose and complained to Li Hua.
"Considering you're the Legendary Releaser, I think Batman's concerns are justified. Furthermore, judging by the current situation, you've already drawn a significant amount of Poison Ivy's hatred."
Li Hua and Benjamin divided the work, Benjamin used the flashlight to illuminate the surroundings, and Li Hua illuminated the ceiling, resolutely eliminating the common ceiling-jumping face-killing in horror movies.
Green moss grew on the ceiling of the sewer. Li Hua turned on the microphone of the communication channel: "We found large patches of green moss on the top of the ceiling. Could these plants be the work of Poison Ivy?"
Red Hood: "If it were a regular Gotham sewer, not to mention a few moss, even a few heads would be normal. But considering there's Poison Ivy in the sewer now... it's hard to say."
Robin: "We found some vines here, but not many. We're heading to another area to continue our exploration."
Oracle: "Both locations are marked."
Batman: "I have discovered a small number of mutant plants at my current location. Report completed."
Oracle: "The location is marked."
Hearing that everyone else on the comms had discovered something, but his team... or perhaps even nothing, made Benjamin a little frustrated. "We have nothing. Our luck is truly terrible."
Li Hua: "Look at it from a positive perspective. In a sense, maybe we are lucky."
Although they are the only two in the team who have super powers, they are also the only two with skill cooldowns and are not good at using their original bodies in close combat.
That is, high attack and low defense.
If this configuration of two people were in a movie, they would be the perfect candidates for the opening sacrifice.
Benjamin did not comment on Li Hua's statement, but continued to observe the situation around him.
Soon the two came to a fork in the road.
Li Hua took out his Batcave-made, shock-resistant, waterproof, and long-lasting night patrol phone, and studied the sewer map with Benjamin.
This map updated everyone's location in real time, and the oracle marked the areas where they found anomalies.
For example, the moss discovered by Benjamin and Li Hua is the green "suspected target", while the mutant vines discovered by Tim Jason and Batman are the red "confirmed targets".
"Magic boy, where do you think we should go?"
Li Hua: "I think they're all pretty much the same. You choose."
The two forks in the road lead to two directions that no one has ever traveled. If they go in one direction and don't find their target, they will have to go in the other direction again.
We have to check anyway, so it doesn't matter which way we go first.
Benjamin shook his head: "You know how bad my luck is."
Random transformations almost never lead to what you want. The two mortal enemies are both the most evil, capable, and strongest individuals of their race. After coming to this world, they first became the mother of a young hero, and then unintentionally became the master of releasing animals...
The current situation...
"Magic boy, use your invincible poaching magic!"
"I already told you I don't have anything like that!"
Benjamin has bad luck, but does that mean Li Hua has better luck?
Benjamin: “It won’t hurt to try.”
"Well, then I'll have to show you a way from my hometown to treat decision-making difficulties."
Li Hua concentrated his energy on his dantian, stretched out a finger and pointed at one of the forks in the road, performing the "pointing troops and generals" technique, and finally his finger stopped at the fork on the left.
"This way."
This time, they came across a clue not long after they started walking.
There were several vines clinging to the walls of the sewer. They looked a bit like ivy and continued deeper into the sewer.
It is normal for moss to appear in dark, damp sewers with little light, but vines of this climbing plant should not appear in large patches.
The originally quiet vine leaves began to tremble, and the vines illuminated by the flashlight sprouted new buds towards the direction of the flashlight.
Seeing this, Li Hua and Benjamin immediately turned off the flashlights, and the vines stopped twitching.
Benjamin turned on the microphone of the communicator and reported the situation here.
Li Hua tucked his wand under his arm, freed one hand and took out his phone. He briefly turned on the flashlight to provide additional light, took a few clear photos, and recorded a short clear video of the plant. After uploading it to Oracle, he quickly turned off the flashlight and exclaimed in amazement: "How did Poison Ivy manage to grow so many of these climbing plants in the sewer?"
Although Li Hua does not grow flowers, he knows that this plant that looks like creeper and ivy should be light-loving.
Perhaps because of this, unlike their cousins who move around on the surface like Tyrannosaurus Rex, they all lie quietly in the dark sewers without moving.
I don’t know how many gardeners will be angry when I post these photos.
This is much more infuriating than finding out that the precious plants you have worked so hard to care for are growing lush and vibrant in green belts and drainage ditches elsewhere, and are several times more vigorous than those in your own home.
Benjamin: "Doesn't the information say she's a botanist? Then wouldn't it be reasonable for Dr. Dong Wu, a zoologist, to create genetically mutated monsters with just a few moves? Doesn't that make Poison Ivy capable of such a thing? What's that saying... there's a fine line between genius and eccentricity."
Li Hua: "If I remember correctly, it seems to be 'There's only a fine line between genius and madness'?"
"That's all right. Let's try the other way."
Benjamin stood up and tried to walk out, but his ankle was suddenly caught by a vine that suddenly sprang up. Before he completely lost his balance, he subconsciously screamed and grabbed Li Hua's staff, thus preventing himself from being dragged in an unknown direction.
Li Hua grabbed the staff horizontally to give Benjamin a better grip and exclaimed, "What the hell is that?"
They've clearly turned off the lights!
The vines were pulling so hard that Benjamin needed both hands to hold on to avoid being completely pulled away. He didn't have a hand free to hit the clock. Moreover, the vines were continuing to spread upwards along his calves, and the pulling force was getting stronger and stronger, as if they were going to pull both of them in.
This is the benefit of working in a team.
Although Li Hua couldn't see clearly what happened in the lack of light in the sewer, the gradually increasing force on the staff made him realize that what was happening was definitely not a good thing, so he took action immediately.
Li Hua asked Benjamin to continue holding his staff, while he grabbed Benjamin's arms, lowered his head and got into the gap between the staff and Benjamin's arms.
The scene looked a bit like a funny scene of tug-of-war with a carrying pole, but neither Li Hua nor Benjamin had the mind to think about whether the scene was funny or not.
A person's shoulders and back can bear more weight than their hands. The change in the posture of exerting force allowed Li Hua to free up his strength and hands to do other things. He grabbed Benjamin's left arm where the watch was worn, quickly turned the Omnitrix dial and slapped it down hard.
Anything would be better than this human tug-of-war!
The green light that exploded when Omnitrix transformed made the plants in this space begin to stir, and the vines dragged harder but to no avail.
Li Hua felt a familiar burning pain on his shoulders from being scratched by something hard. "Hey! Are you doing scraping for me?"
"Feel sorry."
The alien, composed of indigo and bright pink crystals, waved its hands, releasing a dazzling array of rainbow-colored fibers to burn away the vines that were in its way. The two-meter-tall crystal figure stood up, its single green eye filled with apology for the teammate who had received the sewer scraping treatment.
"ChromaStone is solid and very dense, so it might be a bit heavy. Is your hand okay?"
He still remembered that Li Hua had been shot in the right arm last week. Crystal Man's body was covered with extremely dense crystals. He had to be careful not to open Li Hua's wound with that shot just now.
"Don't worry, I don't think I'll even get any sha with that kind of force."
Li Hua didn't think it was a big deal; his wound had already begun to heal, and Benjamin hadn't touched it. While searching his pockets for his phone, he tapped the smooth, hard crystal shell of Crystal Man.
"Do you think this crystal can be used as a scraping board?"
If the timing hadn't been wrong, Li Hua would have shouted "Fuck, Gem Man!"
Benjamin finally felt relieved and said jokingly, "If you're interested, I can give you a crystal plate later. But I beg you not to try it on me."
He knew what scraping was. His grandfather had seen this method from somewhere some time ago and had tried it himself.
Benjamin’s feeling was – that was a good shave, I won’t shave again next time.
At least don't scratch him.
Li Hua pressed the speakerphone button on his night patrol cell phone—there was no other way, Crystal Hero had no ears and couldn't use headphones. He reported:
"This is Magic Boy. We were just attacked by vines, but the danger is now resolved."
Robin asked on the comms: "Did you turn off the flashlight?"
Benjamin moved his shoulders, and the crisp clinking of crystals echoed with his movements. "Shut it down! Those vines attacked suddenly. I'll go check what's going on."
Batman said, "Don't hang up the communication from now on. Stay alert. Poison Ivy may be near you."
"clear."
Crystal Man picked up the portable chainsaw and flashlight that he had dropped when he transformed. Without turning on the flashlight, he raised his hand and a bright white light like a flashlight shone deeper into the tunnel.
"Okay, now let me see what these vines have suddenly gone crazy for."
"How disrespectful! My children are only following my will."
The fiery-red-haired Poison Ivy appeared out of nowhere, cradling a bunch of vines and sitting quietly on a throne made of plants. Like a mother, she softly soothed the vines twitching from the fiber optics in her arms, but she looked at Benjamin and Li Hua with contempt and coldness.
"I never imagined that the true form of those incredibly powerful creatures would be a fragile human teenager. No wonder you, a fellow plant, can't understand their pain. You're just an imposter."
"You're so rude! How dare you assume his race?!"
Li Hua stepped forward and used the same gesture as the meme "When someone says there is no perfect thing in the world, I:" to show the Crystal Hero.
"Do you see this shining big brother? He is a mineral, a mineral life. When you plants took root in the earth, did you ever hear the ore's whimpering? No! You didn't! You are still rolling in the mixture of his relatives' ashes - that is, in the soil!"
"I suppose you're going to say that minerals are lifeless—but my brother is standing right before you, alive and well! You and your people have been sucking nutrients from my brothers to expand your territory, yet you've never shown any gratitude. You even plan to further exploit the ashes of my brothers! You're not an environmentalist. You don't care about the minerals' life or death. You plants only care about yourselves!"
"The life of plants is life, but the life of minerals is not life? The life of minerals is also life!!!!!"
Benjamin: “…”
Poison Ivy: “………………”
The people who were rushing here heard Poison Ivy appear from the communicator and heard Poison Ivy say:
"I thought I was the only psychopath here."
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The author has something to say: Li Hua: I'm just stalling for time. What are you all doing? Why are you all silent?
Everyone: .....I was silenced by you.
PS: In fact, in the original work, Benjamin was the one who was often tied up by tentacles/ropes/kidnapped/handcuffed to the torture platform. He can be called the legendary king of endurance.
But a big part of the reason he was tied up was that almost everyone in his hometown knew that he would beat the clock before transforming, so experienced villains would quickly control his hands.
And he is very easy to find. He just gives his real name. In the original work, Benjamin was playing tennis with his girlfriend and was kidnapped in front of her.
But Benjamin in this article was asked by Jason to keep his vest hidden, so other people didn’t know that those alien heroes were actually one person, nor did they know that his original form was an Earthling, and they didn’t know how Benjamin transformed, so until now he has only been ambushed by Luthor once because of his Kryptonian form.
PS: The following is a side note about Crystal Man. It's okay if you don't read it, as it won't affect the plot of this article. I just thought this guy was quite interesting, so I put it here.
You may have noticed that I used the word "this guy." Yes, that's right, this guy is alive, just like a ghost! His name is Sujit (I think that's what he's called, I guessed it's the phonetic translation of the original name, Sugilite).
However, he can't possess other bodies, and his personality is extremely Lawful Good. He didn't wake up on his own, but was awakened by Diamond King (a member of the same race as Diamond God, the green one) to resurrect his home planet. After that, his original body lived happily in his hometown with his resurrected home planet and people, while his own form remained inside Benjamin's body.
Next is his introduction.
Crystal Hero, ChromaStone, is composed of the words Chroma and stone, and its literal translation is colored stone (colored quartz).
The Cairit Shaping people of Pedro Shaping and the Diamond War God (Pedro Shaping people) are from the same hometown. They are related by blood, but they are not exactly the same race... uh...
Probably similar to... polar bears and brown bears. I don't really understand their mineral life forms.
Benjamin and Sujit are the last two Cairite Pedro Shaping people (yes, these two exist at the same time). In the original work, even Diamond King Kong didn't know that the Cairite Pedro Shaping people could fly. It can be inferred that there are very few people of this race.
Wiki original text:
The original Sugilite was created to serve as the guardian of Petropia.
Sugitite's DNA was used as a sample for the Crystalsapien species' Omnitrix. This created a genetic backup of Sugilite in the form of Chromastone.
Sugilite is believed to have been destroyed by Vilgax, along with Petropia and his people (the bounty hunter Tetrax Shard was the sole survivor).
So maybe the Cairuituo Shaping alien was created, so there is only one of them (but now there are two).... You crystal life forms... are so magical.
If the neighboring Steven Universe and the Land of the Gems had your kind of vitality that could revive a planet and its people with just one backup crystal, how many knives would they have to save? (bushi)
【Catch a bug once】
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