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Chapter 771 A Gentle Story
Chapter 771 A Gentle Story (Part 3, Part 1, 5200 words)
Supreme Little Monkey completely ignored Chen Tao and took off on the spot, leaving Chen Tao no choice but to follow.
Looking in this direction, which had absolutely nothing to do with Capitol Hill, Chen Tao, Hero Day, and Wonder Woman followed the Supreme Super Monkey and discovered that it had landed in the Metropolitan Zoo in the main universe.
With a loud bang, Superman landed directly on the monkey mountain in the zoo. He knocked down a section of the artificial mountain before landing in the spot where the original monkey king was, kicking him away with a single blow.
The monkey king in the zoo: Squeak squeak squeak squeak?
"Oh my god, that scared me to death!"
Even though the main universe is currently in the Flashpoint timeline and war is raging everywhere, organizations like the Zoo haven't collapsed yet.
A zookeeper was thrown to the ground by the shock. Terrified, he wet himself and even dropped the feed bucket, yelling, "Help!"
Chen Tao and his accomplices followed closely behind, appearing beside Supreme Little Super Monkey.
The next second, he was glared at by a monkey: "What are you doing? Tourists aren't allowed in the monkey mountain!"
In an instant, he raised his fist at Chen Tao. Chen Tao immediately chose—
He slid down to his knees.
Don't argue with a lunatic; just go along with his logic.
Chen Tao led the two people back to the tourist viewing platform.
There weren't many visitors at the zoo on a weekday morning, and even the few that did come were scared away by the Superman who had just fallen like a meteorite.
The entire zoo was deserted, except for a large group of monkeys squawking and making a lot of noise, but that wasn't a problem for Chen Tao.
He briefly considered the current situation.
and so.
Superman has gone mad; he thinks he's a monkey.
Isn't that easy to handle? Chen Tao is best at dealing with madmen.
"Supreme Little Superman!" he shouted at the other person.
"Squeak squeak squeak squeak!" That's how the Supreme Little Super Monkey answered him.
"Now that's easy," Chen Tao said, his body flashing before he instantly returned. He had used his speed-enhancing ability to run quickly and check what uniforms the zookeepers usually wore. When he returned, he simply snapped his fingers, and an identical set appeared on his body.
He stepped into the monkey mountain, and with a flick of his wrist, a set of iron chains appeared in his hand.
He took the iron chain and put it around the neck of the Supreme Little Super Monkey, saying as he did so:
"Now I'm the zookeeper, and since you're a monkey in the zoo, you should listen to me."
With a loud bang.
The next second, Chen Tao was struck hard by the Supreme Little Superman's twin peaks piercing his ears, making him look like a roly-poly toy, with all his bones shattered, and the iron chains he created with the power of the fifth dimension breaking apart piece by piece.
Then Superman the Supreme gave him a flick on the forehead, sending him flying backward and landing headfirst under Hero Day's feet.
"Do you think I'm stupid?" said the Supreme Little Monkey. "You're Batman's Dragon, not his zookeeper."
Your reasoning is so clear that I can't refute it!
Chen Tao pulled his head out of the cement, clutched his head, and sat up from the ground, feeling dizzy.
He admitted that Superman the Primal made a lot of sense.
"Uh, Bat, I think..." Hero Day held up a finger, seemingly wanting to say something, but Chen Tao waved his hand to stop him: "It's okay, watch me, I can handle it."
He flashed to the spot, and then the zookeeper who had screamed and run away after seeing Superman fall from the sky was caught by him with his superhuman speed.
The poor zookeeper, upon seeing those strangely dressed creatures, especially Hero Day with his body covered in bone tattoos, blue face, and fangs, was so terrified he wet himself: "My God!"
He opened his mouth as if to start crying, but Chen Tao immediately controlled his strength and slapped him across the face: "Are you calm now?"
"Wow, help me—"
Snap snap snap snap snap—
"Good, I'm calm now." A minute later, the zookeeper, clutching his swollen cheeks, said with a sob in his voice, "Stop hitting me! I'll confess everything!"
"Very good." Chen Tao said, "It seems you've calmed down. Next, I need you to use iron chains to put on that Supreme Little Super Monkey inside."
He pointed at the Supreme Little Super Monkey, and almost simultaneously, the zookeeper lay down on the ground: "Just kill me."
Chen Tao: ...
Chen Tao slapped his forehead. He had forgotten that in this Flashpoint timeline, Superman's reputation had been reduced to the level of a demon king that could stop children from crying by the Batman Who Laughs and the Achiever. This did seem a bit unreasonable.
So Chen Tao conjured up a huge golden bat figurine and threw it into Chen Tao's hand with a thud, the weight of which made his hand feel heavy.
Upon seeing such a large piece of gold, the zookeeper, who had just been beaten, widened his eyes: "Gold!!!"
Then Chen Tao rubbed his hands together, and the zookeeper took out his phone and saw that there was an extra $500 million in his account. The string of zeros made him dizzy.
"Is it okay now?"
The zookeeper looked at the zeros, gritted his teeth so hard his gums almost bled, and then did a complete 180-degree turn in attitude: "At your service, esteemed sir."
"Don't worry, you won't die," Chen Tao said. "I copied Flashpoint using the timeline of the British Descent. Even if you get punched by Superman Supreme, unless he unleashes the Cosmic Destruction Fist, the only thing that will be destroyed is the zombie version of you from the British Descent timeline."
The zookeeper blinked twice.
He couldn't understand.
"Never mind, it's nothing." Chen Tao rubbed his face a couple of times, then took a deep breath.
"I haven't asked your name yet?"
"Bill," the middle-aged zookeeper said, "Bill Hoffman."
Chen Tao shook hands with him: "It's a pleasure to meet you, dear old Bill, our friend."
Then he handed the chain needed for the mission to the other party: "The fate of the multiverse and all of us rests in your hands!"
Although he knew nothing of the cause and effect, nor did he understand why he was so inexplicably excited, in short, the ordinary zookeeper Bill, with a death wish, wearing his pants that were a little wet from just urinating, embarked on a journey to save the world!
Congratulations! Congratulations!
Okay, no.
Just as the zookeeper, Old Bill, was about to put the chain on the head of the Supreme Little Super Monkey, the monkey snatched the chain away and threw it into the moat surrounding the artificial mountain.
"Do you think I'm stupid? Even zookeepers can't force monkeys to leave the zoo!"
Old Bill looked at Chen Tao helplessly.
Chen Tao shook his head: "Come back."
When Old Bill returned, he stood there, unsure of what to do. Chen Tao stood there lost in thought, while Hero Ri warmly invited him to sit with him on one of the chairs available for tourists to rest on.
"Sir, please have a seat."
Faced with the monstrous, fanged, and ghost-like figure of Hero Day, old Bill dared not refuse to sit down.
He sat down next to Wonder Woman Diana.
Hero Day pursed his lips and then began to play with his fingers.
After a brief moment of thought, Chen Tao came up with another plan.
He used the power of the Metal Spirit to search online and quickly found the company behind the zoo.
In the United States, many zoos are privately owned.
The Speed Force wrapped around him, and five or six seconds later, a middle-aged woman with a receding hairline was brought to the scene by Chen Tao, who grabbed her by the back of the neck.
"My goodness, Ms. Christine," said old Bill, the zookeeper beside her, "he's the biggest leader in our company."
"Hello, I want to buy this zoo," Chen Tao told the other party.
"My God, of course... of course." Ms. Christine, as the president, was clearly more composed than Old Bill, the zookeeper: "But there are many procedures to go through to sell it, such as USDA approval, state-level approval, and government departments are generally inefficient..."
Chen Tao left like a whirlwind, then quickly returned.
In the blink of an eye, Chen Tao moved many officials with important functions, along with their offices, directly to the street outside the zoo.
Chen Tao transformed into a giant dragon right before their eyes, baring his fangs and yelling, "You bunch of inefficient good-for-nothings! Get to work!!!!"
All the procedures were completed in just 15 minutes.
Chen Tao completed the transfer from Wayne Group in the Flashpoint timeline to Ms. Christine's company, thus completing the acquisition as quickly as possible.
He then arrogantly announced, "From this day forward, the zoo will be transformed into a circus!"
He went into the monkey mountain, intending to put chains on Superman, but he was still knocked to the ground:
"No, I refuse. I'm a monkey, not a cow or a horse. Monkeys shouldn't work."
The Supreme Little Super Monkey declared confidently, "You ask the monkeys in the zoo to work, and I refuse. You have the guts to beat me up and force me to become a monkey in a circus."
Chen Tao gritted his teeth and got up from the ground.
Okay, okay, you're not going to act anymore, huh?
Chen Tao finally realized what he had realized on Hero Day: Supreme Little Super Monkey had never intended to listen to him. Although he looked like a monkey, Supreme Little Superman's willpower was too strong. Chen Tao's control over him was very weak, and even the change in the "monkey" creature had less of an impact on Supreme Little Superman than he had imagined.
Rather than saying that Superman's ability to rewrite history turned him into a monkey, it's more accurate to say that he deliberately gave up, believing himself to be a monkey based on his idealistic Superman nature, and the combination of these two factors resulted in his current form.
Ultimately, his transformation into a monkey wasn't entirely due to Chen Tao's efforts, but rather partly due to his own laziness.
He's too powerful; no one can control him without Superman's permission.
Even if Chen Tao could find a way to forcibly train the Supreme Little Super Monkey into a "circus monkey," the Little Super Monkey wouldn't listen to him. If he were to actually put it into use, it would be full of rebellious spirit. It might say one thing and another, and if asked, it would be, "Even circus monkeys aren't completely obedient."
Chen Tao took a deep breath.
He must solve this problem.
He walked up to Supreme Little Monkey and sat down cross-legged.
"You are a human being."
He said, "Let's have an open and honest talk. Whether you like it or not, you're human. You'll eventually have to face the problems that only people worry about. You can't be a monkey forever and run away from all of this."
Supreme Little Super Monkey remained silent, and Chen Tao seized the opportunity to strike while the iron was hot.
He grabbed a monkey at random, and the monkey squealed and hissed wildly in his hand.
"You see, you are different from them. They walk on all fours, while you walk on two legs. You simply have the appearance of a chaotic beast."
"But deep down, you are a person, and a hero at that."
"God, you're a living legend! You can't just sit here like a monkey, lying on a stone throne, waiting for other animals to worship you and be fed by this mediocre, incompetent middle-aged man!"
Chen Tao pointed to old Bill next to him.
Old Bill, an innocent middle-aged man who was called incompetent: ...
"Think about Crisis on Infinite Earths, think about those golden ages, think about all the atrocities you committed, all the people you killed, just to restore the great history of that era. Even though you did so many bad things, deep down I don't believe you really think of yourself as a monkey—"
Chen Tao grabbed the shoulders of the Supreme Little Super Monkey and shouted at him:
"You! Are a hero!!!"
The Supreme Little Superman stared blankly at him.
"No, I am a monkey," he said.
Chen Tao slapped his forehead.
He was truly speechless; this was the first time he had ever been so helpless.
Then he made a decision.
"No matter how much you try to escape reality, you can't change the fact that you are a person. Your current monkey state is something I created. As long as I stop this timeline modification with the cosmic tuning fork, your monkey state will be overwritten like a cement road that hasn't hardened yet."
"I know that even though you might not be very nice to me after you regain your true consciousness, it's still better than you lying here like a real animal. You won't side with the Batman Who Laughs, nor will you side with me. Even after merging with the Time Trapped, the Batman Who Laughs can no longer deceive you."
"With such a powerful character as you appearing in the main universe's timeline, you can not only fill the void left by Superman, but also suppress the Batman Who Laughs, making him hesitant to act. Even if it means losing control of you, I cannot accept you lying here."
Chen Tao raised his palm towards Supreme Little Super Monkey: "So, restore yourself, Supreme Little Super..."
boom!
The next second, Chen Tao was grabbed by the neck by the Supreme Little Super Monkey, and for the first time, panic appeared in his wild, chaotic eyes.
"Batman!" Hero Day and Wonder Woman were taken aback. They pounced on him from both sides, grabbing Superman's arms, while the government officials and zookeeper Old Bill, who had been moved there to watch the show, scattered like birds.
"Heh...heh..." Chen Tao grabbed the arms of the Supreme Little Superman that were choking him at the same time: "Even so, it can't stop me...Even if you kill me here, the changes of the Cosmic Tuning Fork will not stop, and the monkey can't leave the zoo to stop the operation of the Cosmic Tuning Fork."
He gritted his teeth and laughed, "So, by leaving the zoo, you've given up your monkey identity. But if you don't leave, the cosmic tuning fork will change you, and you'll lose your monkey identity again. No matter what you do, you'll never have that monkey identity again... Wake up, Supreme Superman!"
Supreme Little Super Monkey released Chen Tao.
"No," he said.
Chen Tao was pressuring him, but Supreme Little Monkey did something that Chen Tao hadn't expected.
He swung his iron fist, but not at Chen Tao, or any of the three of them, including Hero Day.
He swung his fist violently, striking his own back in a contorted motion.
With a crack, Chen Tao heard the crisp sound of bone breaking.
Chen Tao realized what the Supreme Little Super Monkey had done.
He broke his own spine. The biggest difference between the spines of apes and humans is that the human spine is S-shaped, while the ape spine is C-shaped. This also explains why apes can only walk on all fours, while humans can walk upright.
But now, Superman has drastically altered his spine in the most extreme way.
He reinforced his history as an ape in this way, much like adding a quick-drying agent to a cement road that hadn't yet dried.
Chen Tao took two steps back.
He clutched his neck. Superman even went so far as to self-harm rather than fulfill his responsibilities as a human being. His spine was broken, and his bones were soft. So that was the end of it.
Chen Tao's expression turned grim, and he decisively abandoned his plan to force the Supreme Little Super Monkey.
"Listen to me, Hero Day, I'm going to contact Barbatos." Chen Tao instructed Hero Day, "You and Diana stay here and watch Super-Monkey King. With Super-Monkey King gone, the Batman Who Laughs will definitely take advantage of our inability to interfere with the main universe, using the post-apocalyptic future timeline and the Flashpoint timeline, to frantically create crisis energy through the Cosmic Tuning Fork. We're pressed for time; we must hurry. Rather than letting the Batman Who Laughs create this crisis energy, we should have it ourselves. We must reclaim full control of the Cosmic Tuning Fork."
"So once I bring Barbatos here, we'll go back immediately. What you need to do now is make sure the Batman Who Laughs doesn't do anything to Super Monkey King."
As Chen Tao said this, he communicated with Wonder Woman privately: "Keep an eye on Hero Day for me. If he's planning anything unusual..."
With a flash of fifth-dimensional divine power, both Diana from the main universe and Diana from the alliance felt that they had grasped some kind of abstract magical switch.
"Although Super-Monkey is completely beyond saving, I can still control him, drive him completely insane, and turn him into a crazed killing machine." Chen Tao's calm voice echoed in their ears: "Once any unusual activity is detected on Hero Day, activate this. Super-Monkey going berserk in the Flashpoint timeline and causing some trouble for the Laughing Maniac isn't unacceptable. I'm going to activate Barbatos' backup plan now. Hopefully, the Batman of the main universe has collected enough dark matter cosmic energy for Barbatos..."
After giving his instructions, he quickly disappeared behind the portal, acting decisively.
Heroes sighed.
The blue-faced, fanged monster hero scratched his head, then walked up to Supreme Little Monkey.
Supreme Little Super Monkey climbed back onto his monkey stone throne.
Then the monkey raised its head.
He saw Hero Day, who, like him, didn't look human, scratching his head shyly in the warm sunshine of the Metropolitan Zoo, and said to him, "Um, want to chat, friend?"
The voice was as gentle as the afterglow of a golden age.
This situation caused the Supreme Little Super Monkey to feel inexplicably strange.
"What do you want to talk about?" he asked.
(End of this chapter)