"How... how is that possible?"
Alfred's eyes were filled with disbelief as he looked at Bruce in utter astonishment.
"The vampires' super healing ability cured me, but it's also constantly eroding my will, trying to make me their slave!"
Batman's eyes revealed an unusually serious expression.
"Master Bruce, are you saying you resisted the vampires' mind control?"
This time, Alfred's expression was even more stunned.
It was more shocking than hearing that Master Bruce had already become a vampire.
"Yes, although it's very difficult, and I constantly have to fight this bone-deep pain, I can hold on. I just don't know for how long."
Bruce turned away, not wanting Alfred to notice anything unusual about his body.
"I have something to give you, Alfred!"
Batman walked to the weapon display cabinet, took out a bottle, and handed it to Alfred.
"What is this, Master Bruce?"
Alfred looked at the yellow powdery substance in the bottle in his hand, and a bad premonition suddenly arose in his heart.
"A type of artificial 13-0858 fine quartz powder that can rapidly weaken vampire abilities."
(13-0858: The international standard color code for yellow. Because Batman has a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder for such codes, he often uses numbers instead of colors.)
"It contains a lot of crystal powder with ultraviolet light, which has a strong destructive power against vampires. Once touched, they will immediately lose their abilities and suffer irreversible damage. However…"
A wave of dizziness came over Batman, his eyes glowing with a blood-red light. He leaned on a metal shelf with one hand, enduring the excruciating pain that assaulted his nerves, and the demonic whispers in his mind.
"I don't know how effective this thing will be against this new type of virus."
"If it doesn't work…"
Batman took a deep breath, forcing his shattered mind to return to normal, suppressing the desire for bloodlust and destruction within him, and said to Alfred, "Then just use this."
As he spoke, he handed over an axe placed in the base, "If these things inside me cannot be destroyed by medicine, they can only be destroyed by the simplest tools in the end."
"…"
Looking at the axe in Bruce's hand, the somewhat stunned butler paused for a long time, then shook his head, "You will be alright, Master Bruce."
"It's just a precaution, Alfred. We don't know what will happen in the future. Accidents and the future are like two parallel lines, seemingly not intersecting within sight, but once out of sight, they are prone to intersect or lead to more unpredictable accidents."
Batman walked to the multi-screen monitor, glanced at Gotham's night scene on the monitor, "I don't believe that the so-called ties of emotion can resolve a crisis. Before more irreversible situations occur, I must constantly warn everyone, even myself."
As he spoke, he walked to the experimental instrument for testing blood components, saw that the detection analysis progress had reached 50%, and nodded.
The blood in the experimental instrument was his own; he was testing his own blood, trying to find an antidote for this vampire virus.
"I've already contacted Fox, and he'll be here soon. If he's here, he can definitely help me analyze the blood components faster, and even create an antidote."
(Fox: Lucius Fox, President and Technical Director of Wayne Enterprises, and also Bruce Wayne's most trusted person. He generally helps Bruce develop various high-tech equipment, and analyze, manufacture, and interpret various chemical drugs.)
Batman clutched his head, revealing a pained expression.
Innumerable intense pains and hallucinations, like maggots clinging to bone, constantly influenced his judgment.
The will for bloodlust and destructive slaughter kept his mind oscillating between collapse and rationality.
"I… I don't have much time left!"
…
In Metropolis, Eric was battling a vampire army.
The ones attacking Eric were the State Defense Force, an army under the command of the state government. Although they were also subject to the National Guard Bureau, they had greater autonomy.
In the state government's command center, a large screen clearly displayed the situation of the army attacking Eric.
The commander of the operation at this time was an infected state government official.
Since Brainiac had defined Eric as "Target Number One for Elimination," coupled with the official accusation of Eric as a serial killer, these people dared to blatantly send troops to deal with Eric.
"General Lane, even if you can provide us with military assurance, we cannot determine the legality of this operation."
Inside the operations command room, most of the people had already been infected by vampires at this time.
However, only one female official from the Governor's Office questioned the meaning of this operation.
"Even if the other party is a heinous criminal, I don't think it's necessary to mobilize the State Defense Force and the military."
"I'm just following orders, Ms. Meli. If you have any objections, you can relay them to the Governor who signed the order, and to your Metropolis Mayor."
General Lane, with his gray hair and imposing stature, shook his head, picked up his cigar again, and slowly exhaled a puff of smoke while watching the large screen.
Boom!
As the State Defense Force was moving, a loud rumble suddenly came from the ground.
The ground in front of the State Defense Force vibrated slightly.
Inside the command room, the surprised and uncertain crowd looked towards the large screen and saw a figure standing up in the swirling dust.
Eric descended from the sky, looking at the fully armed soldiers in front of him.
Expressionless, he twisted his neck and looked at the soldiers who radiated bloodthirsty killing intent.
Upon seeing Eric appear, the soldiers immediately aimed their weapons at him.
Without waiting for any command, they directly pulled the trigger.
A barrage of bullets rained down like a storm.
Eric had no intention of dodging; he crossed his arms, letting the bullets strike him.
After enduring a storm of bullets, he activated his super speed and rushed to a Humvee.
He punched the several-ton car, sending it flying.
Rumble!
The car flew along the ground, crashing heavily into a military vehicle, causing a violent explosion.
Amidst the flying sparks, Eric advanced to a guy who was shooting at him, enduring the rifle fire, and extended his hand to smash the opponent's rifle with a punch.
Crack!
The moment the rifle shattered, the soldier's chest was also struck by Eric, sending him flying backward.
He extended his left hand, grabbing the neck of a soldier to his left, then extended his right hand.
Bang!
The sound of air exploding rang out, and Eric's figure appeared in front of another soldier, whose neck was instantly seized in his hand.
He grabbed the soldiers' necks with both hands, twisted their necks, and then threw them to both sides.
Bang! Bang!
Accompanied by dull thuds, several soldiers who were firing were directly knocked flying by the incoming bodies.
The soldiers, with shocked expressions in their eyes, were directly defeated by Eric before they could even use their vampire abilities.
"This… how is this possible?!"
Staring blankly at the screen in front of her, the state government official Meli was already in a daze.
Could this level of combat power be displayed by a human?
He could withstand bullets and possessed unparalleled speed; just a casual punch had such immense power!
Even the army wouldn't be a match for this monster, would it?
To completely defeat this monster, weapons of the level of nuclear bombs would be required to be effective.
Meli came to a conclusion that even she found astonishing.
Forcing herself to calm down, she looked at General Lane who was standing nearby, and found that he had taken the cigar out of his mouth and held it in his hand, his brows tightly furrowed, deep in thought.
On the other side, Jena of the Wonder Twins, located at the edge of the battlefield, was using her chameleon skill to hide behind a large tree, quietly observing everything happening on the battlefield.
She watched Eric, with combat power that defied human understanding, unilaterally slaughtering the soldiers.
With her mouth wide open, besides doubting her own eyes, she came to another conclusion: Eric was also an alien, just like her.
Bang!
After punching a soldier away, Eric leaped into the sky and, with a boom, fell from dozens of meters high.
He stomped on a military vehicle beneath his feet, causing it to collapse.
Accompanied by a deafening rumble, the car beneath his feet instantly turned into a pile of scrap metal, with parts and metal fragments scattering everywhere.
Expressionless, Eric looked at the guy standing in front of him, lying on the ground and shooting at him with a pistol, and shook his head.
After all the pistol bullets were spent, the soldier roared, baring his fangs, and lunged at Eric.
However, Eric grabbed his head and threw him forward.
With a bang, the opponent's body impacted a military vehicle, immediately turning into a puddle of flesh and splattered blood.
Eric, with a cold look in his eyes, had no mercy for these guys with "immortal" abilities. With a casual strike, countless amounts of blood splattered.
A large, shark-headed Shark Man roared and charged at Eric.
The Shark Man, with bloodthirsty killing intent swirling around his entire body, rushed to Eric at an extremely fast speed, but was met with a punch from Eric.
Boom!
The air exploded, and Eric's punch caused blood to spray from the Shark Man's head, sending him directly to the ground.
Dizzy, he hadn't even had time to think about how he had been defeated.
Eric extended one hand, grabbed his neck, and lifted him up.
The Shark Man, spitting blood, squinted his eyes at Eric, but was quickly penetrated through the head by a Heat Vision blast.
Thud!
With a heavy thud on the ground, the Shark Man's body fell heavily.
On the other side, the female official in the operations command room, watching the large screen, suddenly felt that something was increasingly wrong.
How come these soldiers seemed to be turning less human?!
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