Chapter 980: Battle for the Tower (15)

"Fair? Just?" The big overseer's voice came from below the dirt pile, carrying mockery and ridicule as he said: "Human! Cunning human! You must have used so-called magic to conjure these minerals. You are cheating!"

"These minerals were mined by everyone's hard work, not my own achievement alone." Batman said: "They know every piece of ore here and can call them by their names. This is the result of their labor."

"You actually dare to talk back to the great Lord Jacob!" A small overseer behind the big overseer stood out, pointed at Batman, and said: "Lord Jacob will throw you into the magma!"

"That's all you're capable of." Batman said coldly: "Telling anyone that you're going to throw them into the magma, including those small demons."

But this seemed to have stepped on the tail of the big overseer Jacob. He screamed angrily: "Catch him! Catch him! I'm going to whip him to death!! I'm going to tear him into pieces!!!"

Batman snorted coldly, dodged the whip that was lashed over, and then started leading that group of overseers in circles in the mine tunnel.

Batman's work over so many days hadn't been in vain. He had memorized every protrusion on the rock walls and planned countless routes in his mind. When he ran, his cape fluttered, and his figure was agile, just like a real bat, skimming over the demons' heads, yet no one could truly touch him.

The human body is far less strong than a demon's, but it has one advantage, which is excellent flexibility and coordination. It won't be like many demons with powerful arms who are top-heavy when moving and have difficulty maintaining balance.

Batman's physical fitness, even among humans, was second to none. He exerted the advantages of the human body to the extreme, jumping from one platform to another, then jumping up again, grabbing the protrusions on the rock layer, swinging hard, jumping over the head of another pursuer, and in mid-air, delivering a whip kick to knock another demon to the ground.

Seeing that his subordinates couldn't gain the upper hand, Jacob intended to enter the fray himself. His whip was swung with great majesty, but unfortunately, the space in the mine tunnel was too large, and the length of the whip was limited. Before he could lash it out, Batman had already jumped to the other side.

The exasperated Jacob, looking at the surrounding demons watching the show, felt a surge of anger. He shouted: "What are you all standing there for?!! Catch that human!!!!"

The demons standing nearby looked at each other. They instinctively wanted to obey the order.

But on one hand, this group of slaves was not as good as that group of overseers, having fatal defects in body size and strength. There were also many demons who could only rely on their sense of smell to act, and their vision was very blurry, so they couldn't even see, and for a moment, didn't know what to do.

On the other hand, Batman had just saved them. Most demons didn't understand what it meant to repay kindness with kindness, but they weren't stupid. If they caught Batman, then who could do such work next time?

If no one could do it, wouldn't they sooner or later be thrown into the magma? Even if they had to die sooner or later, they wanted to die later.

Seeing this group of demons who had never dared to resist him not listening to his instructions at all, Jacob became even more insane. His whip couldn't hit Batman, but it could lash out at the trolls and shuttle-snake demons nearby.

With one lash of his whip, the demon nearby had bad luck. The strange power attached to the whip lashed onto the back of the tall troll, causing him to stagger, and then he fell down, emitting a miserable scream.

Jacob attacked the demons nearby like a madman. All the demons fled in panic, but the large demons ran too slowly, and for the small ones, one lash of the whip meant flesh and blood flying. In an instant, all the demons were wailing.

An old shuttle-snake demon, timidly wanting to hide behind the dirt pile nearby, was different from other shuttle-snake demons. The scales on his tail had more colors, and hidden under his tattered miner's uniform were tattoos with mysterious patterns.

But at this time, everyone was busy fleeing for their lives, and no one could take care of him. He heard a loud sound of breaking air, and the whip flashing with green light was already before his eyes. The elderly shuttle-snake demon closed his eyes in despair.

"Snap!!! Thud!"

The expected pain did not arrive. A black shadow skimmed past before him and smashed heavily onto the ground. A huge wound appeared on Batman's back, penetrating from the right rear ear side to the left gluteal muscle. His entire back was almost split in two.

Blood sprayed out instantly. He struggled on the ground, but couldn't climb up at all, and could only pant in vain on the spot.

Discovering that he had finally beaten down this detestable bat, Jacob panted and withdrew his whip, gritted his teeth, walked to Batman's front, emitted two malicious laughs, and then said:

"Damn human! Your weak bodies are your eternal curse! You will never be able to contend with demons. Want to escape from my palm? Dream on!"

"Hahahaha! You want to be a hero here, want to talk about justice and fairness? Look at where this is? This is Hell!!"

Batman lay on the ground motionless, as if panting had already exhausted all his strength. Jacob stretched the whip in his hand and said: "Remember what I just said? I will whip you to death! Tear you into pieces!! And then throw you into the molten lava!!"

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After speaking, he swung the whip again. The rapidly moving whip stirred the airflow in mid-air, and then like a sharp sword, lashed toward Batman. And Batman looked as if he no longer had any strength to escape.

But just at the moment when the airflow of the whip approached Batman, a dizzying scream came from the side. With a "thud" sound, the whip in Jacob's hand flew out. That elderly shuttle-snake demon quickly swung his snake tail, darted out from the side, hugged Batman's waist, and pulled him to the side of the dirt pile.

"Damn it!!!" Jacob, who had staggered twice, suddenly reacted, looked at that shuttle-snake demon, no longer cared about the whip on the side, but rushed directly toward him.

The elderly shuttle-snake demon looked difficult to resist and could only raise his arms to make a defensive posture. But at this time, the young shuttle-snake demon on the side shouted: "Protect the elder!!!!"

Instantly, all the shuttle-snake demons moved, using their huge tails to lash at Jacob.

The shuttle-snake demons' tails were strong, powerful, and very flexible. One of the tails closest to him directly tripped this strong demon overseer, causing him to fall to the ground.

And at this time, the elderly shuttle-snake demon stretched out a hand and said: "Kill him! Otherwise, the one who dies will be us!"

All the shuttle-snake demons screamed in unison, picked up stones, and smashed them toward Jacob. The demons of other races on the field hadn't figured out what had happened yet, when they heard the elderly shuttle-snake demon say:

"A riot has occurred in the mine tunnel. If the higher-ups investigate, no one will be able to run. We must kill all the overseers to resist the army!"

What he said was already very clear, and the vast majority of demons finally turned the corner.

Jacob had been attacked by the shuttle-snake demon clan in the mine tunnel, but if he reported it upward, he would only say that a riot had occurred in the entire mine tunnel. After all, from what he had said before, it could be known that he had been dissatisfied with the Central Mine for a long time and was eager to clear out all the slaves here.

Therefore, he and all the overseers must be killed to delay time. Otherwise, now, the elite army under General Fuxin would rush in, and these ordinary demons at the bottom of Hell simply couldn't resist.

All intelligent life, when making a choice between life and death, will not choose any other answer. They will rack their brains to let themselves live and let their opponents die.

And when it comes to the time when they have to make a choice, demons will be more decisive than humans because Hell itself is a world of the law of the jungle. Although you were once very strong, as long as you become weak, you will also be divided and eaten.

The next second, the trolls raised their fists, the shadow monsters raised their tentacles, and even the small demons picked up stones.

In the entire large mine tunnel, not counting the small demons, there were hundreds of demons. Just the trolls with larger bodies than Jacob numbered more than twenty. With one punch from each person, Jacob didn't last two minutes before he turned into meat paste.

At this time, Batman climbed up from the ground, not even having the strength to stand up, and could only sit on the spot, looking up at the shuttle-snake demon elder who was swimming over while swinging his tail.

This was originally his plan because, during the mining process just now, he discovered that this elderly shuttle-snake demon had almost no ability to mine. He was already too old, but he could survive in the mine tunnel, which proved that someone was maintaining him.

And after a period of observation, Batman discovered again that this elderly shuttle-snake demon seemed to have an extremely special status among their clan. The young shuttle-snake demons would help him transport ore.

Batman knew that in Hell, there was no such thing as respecting the old and loving the young. Here, the law of the jungle and the survival of the fittest were practiced. Without the ability to work, one could only wait for death. No one would pay extra labor to raise others unless they could bring extra benefits.

Batman discovered that the mysterious tattoo patterns on this elderly shuttle-snake demon and the scales on his tail were different from other shuttle-snake demons. Therefore, Batman concluded that he was likely the leader of the shuttle-snake demon clan in the mine tunnel.

Therefore, Batman formulated such a bitter scheme to trigger the chaos in the mine tunnel, forcing these demons to take ruthless action and kill the overseers.

And once the overseers were killed, they had no way back.

Batman, sitting on the spot, thought, just linking the shadow monster clan? No, that was too simple. Everything he could do and wanted to do was more than that, and the first step was to occupy the mountain and become king.

Batman stood up shakily and walked to Jacob's corpse, but didn't look at him, instead picking up the whip he had thrown aside.

Batman walked back to the side of the shuttle-snake demon elder, handed the whip to him, and then stretched out his hands with shackles, looking at him.

The shuttle-snake demon's half-human, half-snake face revealed a somewhat sorrowful expression, but afterward, he looked at Batman with those green vertical pupils full of wisdom. When the two pairs of eyes met, the shuttle-snake demon elder picked up the whip and bypassed the shackles.

The shuttle-snake demon elder pulled forward hard, green light flashed on the whip, and the shackles broke in response. Batman took the whip and jumped back onto the highest dirt pile in the very center of the mine tunnel.

When Batman looked down, he saw a kind of longing in the eyes of all the demons.

At this time, he understood that his plan had succeeded.

But he didn't feel proud of this because there was a bigger cause waiting for him to complete. This was just one of the mine tunnels of the Central Mine, and the entire Central Mine, from top to bottom, had more than sixty mine tunnels of various sizes.

Batman raised the whip with his shackled hands and then said loudly:

"Fairness, justice, and... freedom!" ===== CHAPTER 981 =====