## Chapter 4: There’s a Big Problem with This Basic Benefit
**[Warning! Detected anchor prop “Ventriloquist’s Personality Destruction Tears”]**
**[Searching for Batman that the anchor prop can target]**
**[Warning! The prop didn’t find the targeted Batman]**
**[Randomly matching a weak, low-level Batman… success]**
**[Matched: Batmobile]**
**[Danger Level: F]**
**[Syncing… success]**
**[Your current Crisis Energy: 0]**
**[Warning! This Batman is from the Dark Multiverse, his thinking is more evil, and may harm Batman’s morality and sanity!]**
Cells… are boiling! Roaring with joyful screams!
Genes are being overturned like dominoes, invisible, unreal particles are kissing and entangling with the existence called [Reality] on his body, then turning into each other’s truth, presenting an anomaly that human language cannot exhaust!
**[File “Batmobile’s Memory” synced]**
**[You can sync other… anytime…]**
**[@#$^&%!$#!…… Detected that you don’t have other anchor props, Crisis Energy is 0, temporarily not supporting syncing other Batmans]**
……In the parallel universe where the Batmobile exists, Batman placed a part of himself into every technology that controls the world…
……He became a part of people’s lives, providing comfort and safety for the flock…
……But the flock started a revolution, they didn’t want to settle down, these idiots just wanted freedom, and all the flaws that came with it…
I was erased from this planet by the system, my electronic technology and physical personality were destroyed…
……I could only upload my consciousness into this huge car body…
No!
I’m not a Batmobile! Not even Batman, I’m Chen Tao!
Chen Tao only submerged for half a second before he instantly woke up, the chaotic memories were impacting his brain, causing his temples to throb.
Wait.
Temples?
That’s hilarious, there’s no such thing as temples, Chen Tao lowered his head and saw wheels replacing his arms, spinning aimlessly on the ground.
A loud bang, the sound of glass breaking, Chen Tao wanted to turn his head—but there was no head to turn. He saw his inflated body smashing the glass door of the room next to him through the rearview mirror.
I fucking… turned into an off-road vehicle?
？？？
“Ugh…”
The massive memories were still being continuously stuffed into Chen Tao’s brain. This was the Batmobile’s life, love, hatred, emotion, and resentment. All the bitterness and sorrow, a brutal emotion surged uncontrollably in his heart, he wanted to destroy the entire Gotham!
He looked at the Ventriloquist, the desire for killing and destruction immediately surged up, he just suddenly felt like taking a bath in the other’s blood.
Chen Tao felt that if he was living in an online game, his forehead would be continuously floating “Morality -1, -1, -1…”
“…”
“This is probably the side effect of receiving memories, thorough mental pollution… depravity? But this doesn’t fit my moral compass—what good would killing the Ventriloquist do me?”
Chen Tao’s brain flashed, the dark and brutal emotions were swept into the trash can, the process was so effortless that even he felt speechless.
“I understand, the benevolent Batman raises the moral upper limit, the evil Batman lowers the moral lower limit, and I, have no morality.”
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He’s not Batman at all, he can’t agree with the other’s values, and he doesn’t understand the moral choices and struggles made in the memories.
Since he couldn’t empathize with them at all, he naturally wouldn’t be affected. Just like the trolley problem, everyone else is thinking about which one to save, only he’s thinking about how to take pictures and sell them to the newspaper for money?
The two are not on the same wavelength at all.
Of course, this is only because the Batmobile is simply too weak, there’s too little negative emotions, and he can’t empathize. If it were those stronger evil versions of Batman, would the result be different?
However, this remains unknown for now. Chen Tao quickly turned his attention to another issue.
“Can I change back to my previous appearance?”
As soon as he thought about it, half of his body disintegrated into dark red light spots in an instant, then recombined into flesh and blood. The memories that had been constantly playing in his mind also stopped abruptly.
Perhaps a long time, or maybe in an instant… everything returned to normal, as if what had just happened was just a dream.
Chen Tao rubbed his knuckles, confirming that he had changed back to his original normal Batman, not even a piece of his clothes was torn.
He thought about it, his left hand suddenly turned into a continuously spinning off-road wheel, then changed back the next second.
“As long as I want, anytime, anywhere, I can completely transform into that Batmobile…”
But after all—what use is the superpower of turning into a super off-road vehicle?
《Listen To Me, I’ll Create You To Death》?
And this Alfred Protocol… never mind, my original plan seems more reliable.
Chen Tao shook his head. It was never his style to leave the success or failure of doing things entirely to unknown variables.
He turned his gaze back to the Ventriloquist. Fortunately, he had driven the hostages away when he subdued the Ventriloquist just now, and now he was the only witness who saw him turn into a car.
The middle-aged, balding, white male stared at him with wide eyes, the bat baby in his hand kept shouting something like “That’s right, that’s what a good dog should do!” and other encouraging words.
“Don’t tell anyone about what just happened.”
“Woof!”
“Talk in human language.”
“Okay.”
Ignoring these details, so far, his original plan was going smoothly. The snowball was already rolling, with the Ventriloquist, he could finally hide behind the scenes and manipulate him to recruit more villains.
He could also use the Ventriloquist’s identity, leverage Batman’s Money Ability (Power of Money) to hire some international mercenaries, then, villain army plus mercenary army wouldn’t play fair, they’d swarm, even if Bane had three heads and six arms, he’d be hammered into a pancake!
No such thing as personal involvement.
Even if I jumped off Wayne Tower and died outside, I would never…
After all, he’s a time traveler.
He loves Batman comics, but that doesn’t mean he has to be Batman in reality.
What kind of person would give up their vast wealth and go out at night like a big bat to vent their chaotic emotions on the streets?
He also encourages teenagers to wear colorful clothes, not to wear pants, and fight against murderers and maniacs. Admit it, Bruce Wayne has gone crazy.
But this time traveler is different, he’s not crazy, he’s a normal person.
Chen Tao just wants to get rid of Bane, the death marksman who knows Bruce’s real identity, then retire safely, then live a life of debauchery, wasting the last bit of his energy on the Gotham City socialites.
Yes, this is the life he wants to live!
He spent his last life in Hollywood, wasn’t it for this kind of life?
As for what happens to Gotham afterwards…
He’s already figured it out. Do you really think the Kryptonian with a steel body and the 5000-year-old demigoddess from Amazon are just eating dry food?
Although Chen Tao hasn’t found Clark Kent in the Daily Planet in Metropolis, nor Diana Prince, the antique appraiser, in Boston after crossing over.
But the Daily Planet already has Lois. Based on the timeline, these two will be out causing trouble soon. So, all he has to do now is to get rid of Bane, at least before these two giants make their grand entrance, protect his own life, and the beautiful life of a billionaire is beckoning to him.
As for those cosmic crises… he’ll just be a spoiler dog. There are so many superpowered people and demigods in the Justice League, will they really be defeated and need him, a humble mortal, to save the day?
Chen Tao’s heart is filled with hope for a comfortable life in the future.
But now, the priority is to defeat Bane.
Well, to be more precise, now, the Ventriloquist should call to find cannon fodder… ah, no, mercenaries.
(End of chapter)
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