Chapter 93 Chapter 93 Finally Seeing You
It wasn't until three in the afternoon that Benjamin came down from the second floor and greeted Li Hua, who was mopping the floor in the living room: "Good morning."
Li Hua waved his left hand: "Good morning, Ben."
"It's three o'clock in the afternoon. What time are you following?"
Jason came out of the bathroom carrying a dry sponge mop, exchanged it with Li Hua's sponge mop, which was soaked with water, and went back to the bathroom to dry the mop. Fourteen ice ghost pups were chasing a bat dart with small wings all over the room.
"Stop standing there watching and come help."
Benjamin moved the plastic mop bucket filled with ice and water that was blocking the stairs and took the mop from Li Hua's hand. "What are you doing? Are you guys having a snowball fight in the living room?"
Li Hua: "No, we just had a dance party in the living room. The main actors were your fourteen cubs, and the song was "Let it go."
"...I understand." Benjamin rolled up his sleeves. "Your injury hasn't healed yet, go and rest."
"Great! Thank you, great hero, Ben 10, for saving me from this terrible situation." Li Hua didn't hesitate to greet Benjamin and quickly slid over to the dining table. "Ben, Dick said you set his car free."
Benjamin: “…”
Why does this plot seem familiar? Has Batman had a similar conversation with him before?
"Ben, you're like the ancient Greek king of releasing animals." Jason walked over, carrying a squeezed-out sponge mop. "If Scarecrow is the super assist king, then Benjamin, you're the super releasing king. Batman, Nightwing, their mounts, even Li Hua and I couldn't escape your clutches."
Although it was a bit embarrassing, it wasn't the first time Benjamin had set a person or their mount free, so he quickly adjusted himself. "It's okay, I'll just carry the motorcycle over to Dick tonight."
"Ah, my clothes!" Li Hua realized belatedly that there was blood on his uniform. "Where are the wet wipes I ordered last time? I need to clean the blood off my uniform, otherwise it will lose a lot of BUFF when I wear it tonight."
"Wow, did I hear that right, Ben?" Jason raised an eyebrow. "I actually heard a guy who was shot say he's going on patrol tonight. Did you hear that?"
Li Hua: "Actually..." It's not that serious.
"You must have heard wrongly, Jason." Benjamin raised his voice, his emerald green eyes half-smiled, making Li Hua shudder. "How could there be such a reckless wounded person? Don't you think so, Li Hua?"
Under the sharp gazes of his two friends, Li Hua had to swallow the words that were on the tip of his tongue.
Li Hua had a premonition that if he dared to say "no" at this time, Benjamin would transform into swamp fire and tie him to the bed with vines, and Jason would take out a magical breathalyzer from somewhere and spray it lightly on his face to ensure that he could sleep until they came back from the night patrol.
Li Hua: "But with Desmond dead, the power vacuum in Blüdhaven is bound to be in chaos tonight. Can you two handle it?"
"Just kidding, I'm super strong, okay!" Benjamin slammed the mop to the ground and straightened his back. "Li Hua, don't doubt my strength just because I can't find many opponents after coming to this world and I have children to take care of. Don't forget that I can still transform into a Kryptonian. Even if Vilgax and Ghost were to pack up and ship them over tonight, I wouldn't be afraid!"
Jason: "Exactly. And no matter what, it won't be as difficult as a mass escape of all the psychopaths in Arkham. Li Hua, you can just relax and have a good rest. Didn't Bruce send you and Benjamin study materials? Since you have nothing to do anyway, why not just study tonight."
Li Hua recalled the compressed learning file Bruce had sent, which was three gigabytes in size. It contained electronic learning materials on subjects like "Identification and Resolution of Dangerous Chemicals," "Firearm Models," and "Trace Identification."
I haven’t finished reading the bomb disposal book that Bruce and Nanfu Battle Skirt gave him last time. Is this another one?
"Can I just pretend I didn't receive the message?"
It's not that Benjamin is not good at learning, but he is better at using his wisdom in areas that interest him. As a more experienced superhero, Benjamin is naturally interested in the learning materials provided by Bruce.
But a three-gigabyte compressed file is still a bit...
"Bruce said he'll review your learning progress this weekend." Jason, who had already graduated, looked at Li Hua and Benjamin with a gloating look in their eyes. He said with the tone of a veteran, "It's not that hard to learn. Come on, I went through this too."
This is just theoretical knowledge, not practical guidance.
Back then, after Jason finally got Bruce to agree to let him take over the Robin mantle, he thought he would be able to fight alongside Batman right away, but he was shocked by the mountain of new homework.
The Bat Tutoring Class has zero water content and is full of practical information. You can learn everything without saying a word.
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At night, Benjamin placed the cubs on the sun nursery, and flew into the city of Bludhaven at high speed with the Nightwing motorcycle in his left hand and Red Hood in his right hand. He placed Red Hood on a building and put the Nightwing motorcycle, a gift from nature, into the parking place told by Nightwing.
Benjamin's super hearing allowed him to capture all kinds of chaotic noises in every corner of the city.
Benjamin took one second to go to a nearby supermarket and buy a few bundles of rope, sticky notes and pens. He then took another three seconds to deal with the source of all the sounds he heard, and threw the "gift" that was tied up and labeled with a crime on a sticky note into the Bludhaven Police Station.
But before he could catch his breath, he heard new gunshots in the city.
Benjamin caught the fired bullet and thought to himself that Bludhaven was indeed very chaotic tonight. Fortunately, Li Hua did not come out.
After dealing with this guy, Benjamin just found a secluded place to cancel the transformation state when he heard the sobbing of several people coming from somewhere in Blüdhaven. It seemed that they were kidnapped, and there seemed to be the sound of children.
Benjamin's hand, which had released the transformation, hung in mid-air.
Although he usually didn't like to use his Kryptonian form, tonight would be an exception.
Benjamin followed the sound to a warehouse and discovered that even a Kryptonian's X-ray eyes could not see what was inside.
This situation often occurs when Benjamin observes Gotham in his Kryptonian form, because there are many old buildings in Gotham City that contain lead, and Kryptonian perspective cannot see through lead.
I guess this warehouse in front of us was also built with lead.
Benjamin didn't think twice before breaking the roof and jumping in: "Your evil plan is over!"
"Oh, there's no evil plan at all, kid."
Under the red light, there were no kidnapped hostages in the warehouse, only a bunch of guns pointed at his machinery and a shiny bald head.
"I just wanted to see you."
"It's truly my pleasure."
Seeing the shiny bald head and the disappearance of his own Kryptonian power, Benjamin immediately understood the identity of the man in front of him and smiled.
"Would you like me to sign something for you, Mr. Lex Luthor?"
Benjamin was not surprised. After all, the Kryptonian genes in his Omnitrix came from Luthor's laboratory. The probability of Luthor not coming to find him was even smaller than the probability of Vilgax giving up the Omnitrix.
Perhaps because he felt that he had the advantage, although Luther had a bunch of mechanical guns aimed at Benjamin, his behavior was surprisingly polite, with even a smile on his lips, as if he was participating in a business meeting.
Of course, it was only "counted as such". Benjamin could swear on his years of experience of being kidnapped and robbed of watches by villains that Luthor looked at him as if he wanted to tear a piece of flesh from his body. Luthor definitely did not make such a big fuss with the intention of returning empty-handed.
Luther: "That's unfortunate. I didn't bring any paper or pen today. But I'm really interested in your name."
Although Luthor had anticipated this possibility after Superman's DNA was stolen from the laboratory, he did not expect that the organization that stole Superman's DNA could create such a perfect creation in such a short time.
Apart from his green eyes and younger age, the young man in front of him was almost indistinguishable from Superman. It was as if... he was a pure-blooded Kryptonian creature cloned entirely from Superman's DNA.
Luthor had tried to use Superman's DNA to create a pure Kryptonian creature before, but he had never succeeded. One of the biggest problems was that the creature was extremely easy to get out of control.
But look at this young man in front of you. He can fly shortly after he was born, has superhuman abilities, and can even communicate!
And he seems to have magical talent, which is something that even Superman couldn't do. He is simply better than his master!
What a superb technology! Luther decided to find an opportunity to get some samples from this clone and take them back for research. Maybe he could overcome the technical bottleneck of his laboratory or provide new technology.
"I'm the hero BEN 10, you can call me Ben!"
Those green eyes sparkled, and the boy's cheerful energy was clean without a trace of gloom.
Luther thought of a young reporter and his genetic son watching...
Are all Kryptonians like this, or is it just Clark's genes?
Little did he know that Benjamin's energy came from excitement.
Finally! He finally got the chance to reveal his BEN 10 hero codename!
Things like "Killer Croc II", "Kind version of Mr. Freeze", "Gender-changed Alien Poison Ivy"...all get away from him!
Lex Luthor is from Metropolis, and he has even given his real name. I believe they won't give him all kinds of nicknames like the people in Gotham, right?
Luther noticed that the boy looked at him with some expectation.
Luther: ...?
What does this mean? ...Oh, this guy isn't a clone I created. He has other allegiances.
Luther's mind was spinning rapidly.
Considering that this clone has heard of me before, and the emblem on its chest is the same as that of the teenage superhero team One-Man, who are active in Blüdhaven, and that said team has been spotted numerous times operating with the Bat-type vigilante...
Could it be that this clone wants to capture me and bring me back to his master to claim credit?
Luther grasped the attack button on the machine in his pocket.
"Aren't you going to say something?" the boy urged. "I've already told you my name, why don't you call me? Do you understand social etiquette?"
Benjamin: I will personally monitor this time and will nip the nickname "meal replacement" in the bud!
Luther couldn't understand what was going on, but he couldn't lose anything by calling out, "Hello, Ben 10. Nice to meet you."
Benjamin: "Hello buddy, nice to meet you too."
Benjamin decided that next time he beat Luther, he would take this conversation into consideration and hit him less harshly.
After all, this was the first time he had seen such a civilized and polite villain.
They are all bald villains, they all kidnap people, why can't Vilgax learn from Lex Luthor?
In fact, Luther, who owns the android laboratory, does not think that Ben and "BEN 10" are formal names. He thinks this may be some kind of experimental number.
Could "BEN" be the name of that cloning experiment, and the person in front of him is the tenth experimental subject?
Even if it succeeded on the tenth try, this technical ability is still terrifying. Luthor didn't know how many times he failed in order to create Connor, a hybrid of Kryptonian and human.
Luther had reason to suspect that this was technology that did not belong to Earth.
But why did this clone insist on him calling it that? Could it be that this experimental code name had a special meaning for this clone?
If that's the case... could it be that the ones who appeared in the sky above Blüdhaven and Gotham before were other experimental subjects?
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