"Batman?"
Nightwing looked at the man who appeared before him, an expression of disbelief on his face.
He never imagined that Batman, who had supposedly died, would appear here!
At the same time, a certain realization suddenly dawned on him.
No wonder the items displayed in the passage looked familiar; they were all things placed inside Batman's cave.
Batman, who appeared before everyone, was sitting in a wheelchair, his eyes closed, seemingly in a coma.
Although he didn't know why the supposedly dead Batman was here, sitting in a wheelchair and in a coma, it still stirred considerable ripples in Nightwing's heart.
He turned to Cyborg and asked, "Why is Batman here? He's dead!"
"Actually…"
Cyborg was silent for a moment, then said, "For Batman now, he's not much different from Death."
"What do you mean?"
Nightwing glanced at Batman, then turned to Deathstroke and asked.
"It means he suffered fatal injuries in his battle with Homelander. His spine was broken, and his head suffered a severe impact, damaging not only his spinal nerves but also his brain nerves."
"I admire his will."
Cyborg cast a respectful gaze at Batman, who was sitting in the wheelchair, "Even in a situation like this, which would be undeniably fatal for an ordinary person, he managed to endure."
"I don't know why he managed to endure, but I think deep down, he must be holding onto some belief; it's the strength of his inner self driving him!"
Listening to Cyborg's words, a complex look appeared in Nightwing's eyes. He walked to Batman's wheelchair, knelt before him, and with trembling hands, grasped his slightly cold left hand.
At this moment, his heart was filled with overwhelming emotion; he had never thought he would be able to see this most important man in his life again.
This being who had served as both a father and a teacher in his life.
"Batman cannot react because he is currently in a vegetative state, but he can hear us speak; he just cannot express his thoughts."
"How do you know?"
Deathstroke, standing by, looking at the motionless Batman in the wheelchair with infinite emotion, asked Cyborg.
Seeing his most troublesome opponent in Gotham reduced to this state, Deathstroke suddenly felt a sense of sorrow.
"Because sometimes, he reacts to some of my words."
Cyborg shrugged and replied to Deathstroke.
"His…"
Nightwing, holding Batman's hand, unable to hide his excitement, said to everyone, "If there's anything unconquerable about Bruce, it's his iron will to fight."
"That sounds very admirable!"
Black Canary said sharply from the side, "Compared to his iron will, I'm more curious about who broke his back."
"It was Homelander!"
Cyborg spoke the name of the person Nightwing hated so much.
"I thought his brain was smart enough to figure out a way to stop Homelander, after all, he's a pretty resourceful guy in Gotham, but I didn't expect him to be the unlucky one who fell first!"
Perhaps because of Green Arrow's tragedy, or perhaps because she simply didn't care for Batman, Black Canary continued to mock Batman.
"Lady, you'd best watch your words!"
Nightwing immediately stood up upon hearing Black Canary's disrespectful remarks about Batman.
"I just want you to understand!"
Black Canary did not back down because of Nightwing's words. Instead, she continued with a cold face, "This world will not change because of someone's sacrifice. Sometimes, innocent sacrifice is just pure bloodshed. Just like Oliver, his bloodshed won't make you grateful; everything will be as if nothing happened!"
"No one thinks that!"
Nightwing immediately stepped forward, glaring furiously at Black Canary, and said, "We are all grateful for Oliver's sacrifice, and we grieve his loss. Don't try to portray yourself as the only clear-headed, conscientious person, while we are all cold-blooded bastards!"
"Is that so?"
Black Canary, unwilling to be outdone, immediately stepped forward to argue with him.
"All I see is that you are all a bunch of cowards!"
Cyborg looked at the two arguing, an expression of helplessness on his face.
Amy stood to the side, not daring to breathe loudly.
She was just an insignificant small character who got caught up in this incident because of Clark.
So she could only stand quietly and discreetly to the side, playing the role of a small transparent.
Deathstroke stood by with an expressionless face, looking like a spectator.
"Actually…"
Seeing that the argument between the two might escalate into a conflict, Cyborg had to step in as a peacemaker.
He said to Black Canary, "Actually, Batman didn't fall without achieving anything. He left us two critically important things. Perhaps with these two things, we can find some way to deal with Homelander."
Hearing him say this, Nightwing and Black Canary immediately stopped arguing and turned their gaze to Cyborg.
"What things?"
Facing Nightwing's question, Cyborg did not speak. Instead, he walked to a safe, opened it with his fingerprint, and took out the item inside.
The mysterious object, held in Cyborg's hand, emitted a faint green glow in the room.
And the moment Cyborg took out the item, Clark immediately felt a wave of weakness wash over him!
And because his previous injuries hadn't healed, he couldn't even stand steadily and fell to the ground with a thud.
Amy, standing nearby, was startled. She immediately bent down to help Clark up, but for some reason, Clark's body was unusually heavy at this moment, and sweat beaded on his face, looking extremely pained.
Seeing Clark's unusual reaction, the few people in the room were all stunned.
Cyborg looked at the green stone in his hand with some disbelief, then at Superman, who was lying on the ground, gasping for air, and suddenly understood.
"So, Superman, you fear this green stone?"
Cyborg said, quickly placing the green stone in his hand into the radiation-absorbing safe.
"Yes… yes!"
Only after the effects of the kryptonite on him disappeared did Clark's weakness and pain gradually subside.
He stood up with Amy's help and said to Cyborg, "My weakness is this green stone!"
"Once I come into contact with the radiation emitted by kryptonite, I become weak and lose my power! I cannot get close to this stone that specifically counters me!"
"You and Homelander are both aliens from outer space, and you once fought alongside each other against General Zod, which means…"
Deathstroke looked at Clark and asked him suspiciously, "Homelander's weakness is also this existence you call 'kryptonite'?"
Clark hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "Yes."
"Then why didn't you say so earlier? If we had used this stone against Homelander, we wouldn't have lost so many people, and Oliver wouldn't have died in vain!"
Black Canary immediately rushed over, shouting at Clark in an agitated tone, "You could have had the power to stop all of this!"
"I…"
Facing Black Canary's accusation, Clark lowered his head and apologized to her, "I'm sorry!"
Amy, who had been standing nearby, initially felt afraid of Black Canary, but seeing her "attack" Clark, her fear immediately vanished without a trace. She said to Black Canary, "Because Homelander is his brother!"
She said indignantly to Black Canary, "You can't expect a brother to use every means to fight his own brother!"
Hearing Amy say that Homelander was Superman's brother, everyone looked shocked.
Black Canary also stopped her questioning of Clark, her mouth slightly agape, looking at Clark with an expression of "I'm shocked for years."
"You… you!"
Black Canary stammered as she asked Clark, "Is what she said true?"
Clark looked at their expressions and remained silent for a long moment.
"Yes! He is my brother."
Clark didn't want to reveal this, but seeing everyone's expressions, he knew there was no point in hiding it any longer.
Nightwing ignored Batman, suddenly stood up from his half-crouching position, and his incredulous gaze darted back and forth between Amy and Clark, wanting to confirm whether they were both lying, telling the truth, or if one of them was lying.
Deathstroke, on the other hand, stroked the mask on his head, which had been cracked by Eric, and stood still, saying nothing, just quietly processing the truth or falsehood of what Clark had said.
Cyborg's eyes widened as he stared at Clark, his dark half-face completely red.
Receiving such shocking news in a short time made him feel as if both his brain and his machine brain were overheating.
"Yes, Eric is my brother, and I have always felt guilty towards him."
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