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Chapter 2815

~11 min read 2,113 words

When the others looked down at the pool containing the psychedelic liquid again, they found that the several metals thrown in before were gone. On the contrary, psychedelic light was twisting on Peter's body, and metallic luster was flashing in his eyes.

Jerome opened his eyes wide in surprise. He walked to Peter's side and sniffed with his nose. Obviously, he smelled the scent of the Wine God Factor. He grabbed Peter's hand and didn't know where he took out a small knife, seemingly wanting to cut Peter's palm.

Peter was so scared that he wanted to pull his hand back, but after looking at Schiller and finding that he had no expression, he knew that Jerome didn't want to hurt him, so he let Jerome grab his hand.

Jerome used the small knife to scratch Peter's palm, and didn't use force, but as soon as the knife tip touched Peter's palm, it melted. The metal turned into a pool of liquid and melted into Peter's body.

Peter blinked, not understanding what the situation was, because this wasn't operated by him at all. He took a deep breath and stared intently at his palm. Not long after, a small piece of black metal emerged, obviously the blade that had just been swallowed.

What is this? A human-shaped steel furnace? Peter didn't understand, and then he felt that he seemed to be able to control his skin, so he took another deep breath. Silver-white light appeared on the surface of his skin, and a new spider suit formed in an instant.

Cobblepot walked over and touched the tights, then said: "This looks like the piece of metal in Alfred's head, which is the spaceship wreckage Thomas found in Africa."

"That is N-metal." Schiller spoke again and said: "It has many magical qualities, but the most important thing is that it is very hard. Almost nothing can break through its defense."

"You should have absorbed five kinds of metals and possessed the abilities of the metals." Schiller said: "Recall carefully and see if you have a few more memories."

Schiller was actually referring to the most special one among the five metals, which was Bat-metal. Logically speaking, this metal was related to Batman and had to be injected into Batman's body by the Owl Priest himself as the final key to open the door.

But it might be that these inaccurate five kinds of metals underwent some mutations under the catalysis of Amber Gold. All metals were absorbed into Peter's body, but Peter was not Batman, so it was uncertain what Bat-metal could bring him.

Peter closed his eyes and recalled carefully, suddenly showing a painful expression, but soon relaxed again. He said: "I saw many different images. It seems to be ancient times. There was a group of people dressed like birds kneeling and worshipping constantly, and then there were bats, and a huge iron furnace..."

Hearing the iron furnace, Schiller had a response. After all, Barbatos and the World Forger had a close relationship. This big iron furnace should be the World Forge. Didn't expect Bat-metal to be related to the World Forge. Could it be the metal Barbatos stole from the World Forge when he rebelled?

The DC world has ten major metals. The first five were fed to Batman during the Metal event as keys to open the dark universe passage. The tenth became the key to reversal.

These five metals each have their own wonders. Some specific sources have been explained, such as N-metal, which is said to be a rare metal produced in the universe, similar to Vibranium, used by some advanced civilizations to manufacture spaceship shells, focusing on being indestructible.

But some metals related to magic have never had their specific sources explained, such as Bat-metal. Its properties and functions are very strange. It can actually amplify magic energy. Schiller originally guessed whether this metal would be related to the Upside-Down Man, but now it seems that the memories carried in this metal show that this thing might be some kind of treasure of the World Forger.

However, now that it has been absorbed by Peter, Peter should also have similar abilities. Schiller took out the unused candle, broke off a small section, and stuffed it into Peter's hand.

Peter didn't understand at first, but the moment he touched the candle, he opened his eyes in shock. He felt a huge amount of energy flowing into his body.

When he covered his body surface with these energies, the whole person almost turned into a mass of flowing mercury, emitting brilliant luster.

Peter felt that he seemed to be able to use these energies to do something, but couldn't find the way for a while. He had read many books related to occultism and magic at that black sun before, and also knew that there were magicians in this world, but at that time he had no energy in his body and didn't know how to use magic.

Now he had energy, and also knew the appearance of several spells, but for some reason, he just couldn't cast them. He felt that it might be that what is learned on paper is shallow, but it wasn't convenient to experiment here, so he still had to return to the black sun to study carefully.

For a scholar-type personality like Peter, discovering a new topic but not being able to study it immediately was simply heart-wrenching. He wanted to leave immediately, but heard Schiller ask Jerome and the others what was going on. Peter also had curiosity about the truth, so he could only suppress his impatience and listen carefully.

Besides the story of Martha and Thomas, Jerome and the others also had a story. It was nothing more than a series of experiences after Jerome joined the insurance company as an investigator.

Actually, he really didn't have any conspiracy. Still, that sentence, the Joker who finished fighting Batman also has to buy groceries and cook when he goes home. After all, he isn't a big tycoon. If he doesn't work, where does the money for living come from?

Because of mental problems, Jerome had a low academic qualification. Many formal companies didn't accept him, and he didn't like to mix with gangs. He could only find some jobs that required using his brain in the cracks between the black and white worlds.

Before, he was helping people do fake accounts in a financial agency company, and met a colleague who later jumped to an insurance company. The insurance company also did black-eating-black. The business was simply to fool people into buying insurance, but not to pay. As for the means of not paying, there were many. Either identify the accident as man-made, or simply let people threaten to cancel the contract.

The financial agency company Jerome was in was soon ended by someone. He had nowhere to go, so he joined the insurance company introduced by his former colleague. He was handy at this job, especially in forging evidence, helping the company solve many problems, and soon got promoted, becoming a mainstay.

It was also around this time that various anomalies started to break out in Cat Getan City. Many people died in tragic accidents, and many eyewitnesses claimed that monsters killed them.

Some of them bought insurance from this insurance company, so Jerome naturally couldn't shirk his responsibility. At first, he didn't think there were really monsters, feeling that someone was against their company, deliberately making these groundless rumors so that their company would pay more money.

But the more Jerome investigated, the more he felt something was wrong. He discovered that there was indeed an Evil God hidden in this city, but at that time he didn't know that the person who took action was little Bruce.

The one who locked onto Bruce Wei En was Jeremiah.

As mentioned before, Jeremiah was different from his brother. He was a natural sadist and disguised himself very well. Not only did he go to a good university, but his resume was also very brilliant, so it was very easy to join the Wei En Group.

He wasn't aiming at Bruce at first, just wanting to add a stroke to his resume. After all, in this era, the Wei En Group was already the only dominant force. Being able to work here was considered a quite good work experience.

Then he ran into Bruce Wei En.

Jeremiah disguised himself quite well and soon became friends with Bruce. They were both young genius scientists and eventually reached the point of talking about everything. Jeremiah also discovered that Bruce was a bit abnormal at that time.

Combined with the monster attack events constantly happening in the city, Jeremiah thought Bruce was controlled by the Evil God, so he wanted to direct and act in a play, a hero saving the beauty, to further win Bruce's trust.

Jeremiah could also be considered all kinds of geniuses. He actually discovered long ago that the brain waves of those who were manipulated by monsters to attack others were abnormal, so he developed a machine called a brain wave impactor. As long as he gave a shot to those who were manipulated by the Evil God, the other party's brain waves would be completely disturbed, and the pollution would break out.

Jeremiah chose the right time to trick Bruce into the factory and gave him a shot. As a result, he didn't expect that Bruce wasn't the one being manipulated at all. After he gave this shot, Bruce directly revealed his original form. Those tentacles all over the mountains and plains almost scared Jeremiah to death.

But even so, this sick-jiao Jeremiah didn't give up his plan. He simply left the machine on and didn't turn it off. The coverage of this thing was about half of Cat Getan, and covering the central area of Cat Getan was no problem.

But what he didn't know was that besides Bruce, there were other polluted creatures within the coverage of the machine. They immediately went crazy, and the anomalies hidden in many buildings also broke out, which led to the shocking change 20 days ago.

Pride's evaluation of Jeremiah could also be considered hitting the nail on the head, because after Bruce was affected by the brain wave impactor and fell into trouble, the first person he wanted to find wasn't Jeremiah, but his brother Jerome.

Because in fact, the number of times Bruce dealt with Jeremiah was completely not as many as the number of times he dealt with that damn insurance investigator. Bruce might have some common topics with Jeremiah, but he regarded Jerome as a threat, which was why he thought of his rival at the first opportunity when encountering big trouble.

Jeremiah discovered that the situation was wrong and turned off the machine, but it was already too late. The whole city had mutations. He had no choice but to search the whole city's brain waves again, discovered the problem was most serious in the hotel, and rushed over. Who knew Jerome also came. The two entered different space-times by mistake.

Jeremiah knew Jerome would come, so he found a way to use the advantage of being in the past to contact Jerome. The two didn't want to cooperate but had to, so they had to pinch their noses and acknowledge it.

However, Jerome knew much more than Jeremiah. After all, he had been investigating matters related to little Bruce and had also traced clues to Cat Getan Cathedral, having some understanding of Martha's plan.

Little Bruce in this universe didn't go to be Batman, so Jerome naturally didn't become the Joker on the surface. However, in the process of investigating the anomalies, Jerome also discovered that he was a bit abnormal. His body had resistance to the damage of certain abnormal phenomena and recovered very quickly.

Jerome wasn't a scientist, but he also gradually discovered that the problem appeared in his blood. Combined with the plan of Martha he learned about, he believed that the Wine God Factor, which possessed self-healing ability, existed in his body.

He kidnapped a blood scientist, extracted his blood, and refined it. Sure enough, he refined a mysterious green substance, which was consistent with the green metal in the clues Martha left in Cat Getan Cathedral.

Jerome wanted to rule this city, not destroy it. He knew that the way to save this city was to follow Martha's plan and collect the metals that could open the passage first, so he entered the hotel with the Wine God Factor and finally followed the guidance to the underground ancient city.

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