bdsm-fiction Chapter 255 The Sea King and the Tuna
Chapter 255 The Sea King and the Tuna
Chapter 255 The Sea King and the Tuna (A long chapter of 5800 words! I wrote so much, I'm so amazing!)
Antarctica.
In a secret base unknown to anyone.
"Hahaha, black manta ray, are you kidding me?"
"...You seem to still be fantasizing about having a say in operations after joining NEMO?"
The black manta ray sat in its seat with its fingers interlaced.
By this time, all his weapons had been stolen, including his famous diving suit and his fly-head-shaped helmet that could fire destructive lasers.
The surrounding area was almost entirely filled with heavily armed soldiers from the NEMO organization. A mocking expression appeared on Black Manta's scarred face.
Cowardly bastards...
"Why can't I?" he retorted.
The fisherman was a burly old man with white hair and beard. He wore leather boots and a large nautical coat.
"Blackjack told me you were reckless, sir. NEMO's schedule has been in the works for decades. We've meticulously designed it to achieve global control."
The fisherman said, "Unless they are exceptionally talented newcomers, we will not allow them to adopt entirely new ideas or disrupt our carefully crafted plans."
He looked at Black Manta: "It's obvious that you have nothing on your mind but revenge. You can't be a decision-maker; you can only be a tool for our plans."
"I have never served anyone."
The fisherman chuckled at the black manta ray's words, then waved his hand dismissively: "Get used to it, you'll like it here, otherwise... alright, that's enough."
He waved for his men to send Black Manta away, completely oblivious to the growing coldness in their eyes. His biggest mistake was letting Black Manta appear before him. It was an absolute blunder.
Black Manta stood up, and then, in a flash of golden light, he suddenly vanished from his seat.
This is not a description or metaphor; he truly stood up and fell backward in a vortex of golden light, disappearing from his seat without a trace.
"Wh...what? Where...where did he go? How did he suddenly disappear...?"
The fisherman suddenly stood up from his seat, staring in surprise at the spot where Black Manta had just been sitting, then turned to look at the woman who had brought Black Manta into the base.
"Blackjack, what on earth is going on?"
Blackjack seemed even more surprised and panicked than the fisherman: "I...I don't know, the black manta ray never told me—"
"Ah!" Before Blackjack could finish speaking, the fisherman suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest and let out a scream.
"what!"
He looked down and saw, with his eyes almost bulging, a knife tip protruding from his chest, crimson blood slowly soaking through his shirt.
"You...you..." He turned his head with difficulty, but only saw Black Manta's helmet, which looked like the eyes of a fly, flashing a scarlet light.
How is that possible? When did he retrieve his equipment? He... he just flashed and disappeared into the golden vortex. Was that teleportation?
He teleported somewhere, took his equipment, and then came back...?
呲!
The blade was pulled out, and blood splattered onto Black Manta's helmet.
Everyone was stunned by this unexpected outcome.
The black manta ray's fly-like helmet might seem ridiculous or funny to others at first glance.
However, at this moment, when the helmet was stained with the blood of their former leader, "The Fisherman," it looked indescribably ferocious and terrifying!
Blackjack was the first to react. She had thought that after so many years in an evil organization like NEMO, she had long forgotten what fear was. But when she met Black Manta's deep red eyes, she still trembled uncontrollably.
"What...what did you do? Oh my God, what did you do?"
"The king is dead, Blackjack." Black Manta's voice came from inside his fly helmet, hoarse, dark, and filled with inhuman terror.
He went straight to the spot where the fisherman had been sitting and crossed his legs.
"Long live the new king!"
Black Manta pursed its lips beneath its helmet: "Is there a problem?"
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Before entering the tavern, Chen Tao disguised himself. He covered his face with sunglasses and a mask, and also wore a hat. Supergirl and Superboy, on the other hand, had biological field properties to conceal their appearances, so they didn't need to go to such lengths.
"Alright, let's go," Chen Tao said.
They went inside, where it was bustling with noise. At that moment, an event was taking place in the bar…
Um, Chen Tao doesn't quite understand, performance?
A handsome young man. He stood on the stage, holding a trident that looked like a prop but was clearly made of metal.
Chen Tao's gaze lingered on the halberd for a moment. As everyone knows, the Neptune Trident, also known as the Neptune Trident, has five prongs, which is quite reasonable.
He was amazed that the props for the stage play performed in a mere tavern were so realistic.
Standing next to him were two actors dressed as Superman and Batman, respectively. Their costumes were cheap and completely different from the Aquaman actor's; they were made of ordinary cloth, unlike Aquaman's golden scales which had a metallic sheen.
Just as they entered, the actor playing Aquaman was finishing his joke.
"I'm not playing with you guys anymore. No matter what you say, I'm going to sleep with this tuna."
"Hahahaha, Aquaman actually sleeps with fish!" The actor who played Batman laughed wildly, then suddenly looked like he couldn't laugh anymore.
"Wait a minute. When he said 'sleep,' he just meant sleeping with the fish, right?"
"Who knows?" said the actor who played Superman. "Let me use an X-ray to see."
Then the actor playing Aquaman actually walked over with a half-dead tuna and started swaying his hips seductively: "Oh! Sweetheart, although you're amazing, I'll still marry the octopus. You know, the octopus will always be Aquaman's official girlfriend! Oh! Sweetheart, 'taste' my masculinity!"
(Note: This is a reference to a popular superhero TV series, The Boys. There's a parody version of Aquaman whose superpower is talking to fish, even chatting with lobsters. His friend is an octopus, whom Homelander later forces him to eat alive.)
Then he adopted the high-pitched, shrill voice of a tuna: "Oh, it doesn't matter, as long as you're in my heart and mind, I'll always belong to you!"
As the actor playing Aquaman spoke, he showed the audience the deliberately dissected body (heart) of a tuna and the mouth (brain) that had been widened with a stick.
The performance appeared to be quite a success, and the pub was filled with laughter. Thanks to the government's extensive search and Aquaman's increasingly frequent maritime rescue operations in recent years and months, Aquaman's popularity in this small, remote part of Maine is higher than people in the interior could imagine.
Everyone is talking about a superhero who swims in the sea and has the superpower to talk to fish, so this kind of performance can be said to have come about out of necessity.
"Tsk tsk tsk... This joke is so vulgar." Chen Tao looked at the actor dressed as Aquaman.
He had muscular, muscular physique and hair dyed golden, but with a very natural color.
Despite wearing gold-colored contact lenses, she looked as if she really had a pair of golden pupils.
His chiseled face was as handsome as an ancient Greek demigod, and even when he deliberately acted strangely, it did not affect his heroic appearance.
With such physical attributes, it would be a waste of his talent to make a living as a comedian in a mere tavern in a remote border region.
Soon, the comedy skit ended, the three actors packed up and left the stage, a waiter came up and cleaned up the tuna drips on the stage, and then a red-necked white man carrying an accordion took over the performance trio and started playing the accordion.
The three actors who had been on stage went offstage and sat down at a table not far away, also taking a few drinks.
Chen Tao shifted his gaze away from the stage performance.
"Connor," Chen Tao suddenly called out the name of Superboy Connor.
"Hmm, what is it?"
he asks.
"Scan that man with your X-ray vision and microscopic vision, then tell me what you've found," Chen Tao said, pointing to the long-haired man.
"What? You can't treat me like a tool in your multi-purpose belt," Superboy Connor protested.
"Why not? That's what I did to Superman. Hurry up and scan him. Do you think I haven't scanned him myself? Tell me what you analyzed after you scan."
Connor then realized that this seemed to be a pop quiz. So he did as instructed and answered:
"If X-ray vision can't see through his body, either he's wearing something to prevent others from peeping, or he himself can prevent others from peeping into his physical abilities."
"That's all?"
Superboy paused, then scanned the area twice more with his X-ray vision: "Is that really true?"
Chen Tao sighed.
"Even if your vision surpasses that of 99.9% of the people on this planet, you are still hopelessly blind."
?
Connor was furious when he heard this.
Chen Tao turned to Supergirl: "Did you get the scan results?"
"Yes, I see, it's obvious..." Chen Tao stopped Kara from saying anything more, and nodded with satisfaction: "Fortunately, not everyone is as stupid as Connor."
Connor: ?
Chen Tao sighed again. This couldn't be blamed on Superboy Connor. Although he looked like a teenager now, just a few months ago, he was still an immature embryo, strictly speaking, a baby less than a year old.
Super brains can make Kryptonians intelligent and good at learning, but intelligence does not mean knowledge and experience, and the complexity of this world is far beyond what can be fully understood simply by reading books.
"Why don't you tell our purpose and our target?"
Chen Tao said.
"Huh? Me?"
Superboy Connor's eyes widened, and he pointed to himself in surprise.
"Are you sure!?"
"That's right," he heard Batman's voice say, "Go test him."
"Okay." In this situation, Connor's super brain worked at lightning speed.
The blond, bearded man had been sitting there expressionless ever since the Aquaman/Batman actors performed their parody of Aquaman on stage, his face revealing neither joy nor anger. He was the security guard at the bar, the suspect Amanda Waller had mentioned earlier in the bread truck.
Connor walked up to the other person: "We need your help."
Chen Tao nodded secretly. Superboy Connor, after all, inherited Superman's super brain. Although he lacked experience, he was definitely not stupid.
He immediately stated that he was there to seek help, instead of rambling on and on, trying to sound mysterious and arouse suspicion or create more misunderstandings that would raise people's blood pressure.
At the nearby table, the actor who had previously played Aquaman immediately perked up his ears. He used the excuse of pouring a drink to change seats, sitting behind the blond, bearded man.
"Your name is Arthur Morgan, right? May I call you that, Mr. Morgan?"
Connor felt a little guilty because he found that the man in front of him was just staring straight at him with a pair of golden eyes, without saying a word.
The atmosphere froze instantly.
"Hiccup—"
The actor who had been playing Aquaman on stage suddenly let out a long, rude burp, breaking the somewhat tense atmosphere.
Arthur Morgan, the blond, bearded man, glanced sideways at the hiccuping actor before refocusing his gaze on Connor's face, a menacing expression on his face: "What do you want from me? Speak quickly."
Connor instinctively wanted to turn around and look at Batman, but ultimately stopped himself. Chen Tao nodded approvingly from behind.
That's what training is all about, not letting your opponent grow wildly like Luther did.
Connor thought for half a second, and finally decided to try to probe a little more tactfully first.
"A stranger came to this village from the sea."
Connor's behavior had already attracted the attention of several tables of drinkers around him. Their conversation gradually quieted down, and Connor, suddenly being the focus of so many people's attention, became a little nervous, but still forced himself to continue speaking.
"That stranger, who lived among sharks and dolphins, came with the high tides, commanding all the creatures of the sea. He rescued wrecked ships and brought fishermen a good catch; he—"
"That's just a rumor."
But before Connor could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the blond, burly man.
"There has never been such a person. Please leave."
"An enemy from afar is about to attack." The other party's attitude solidified Connor's judgment, and he said:
"We need warriors. We need this stranger. There are already many others like him who have formed a coalition to defend the Earth. We must meet this man."
The blond, bearded man named Arthur stared at him intently.
Then he suddenly burst into laughter, and soon the people at the surrounding tables also started laughing.
"Hahahahahahahahaha—"
Loud laughter erupted, filling the entire tavern with a joyful atmosphere.
Connor was bewildered by their reaction.
"You... what do you mean by this? What is this...?"
The blond, bearded man named Arthur laughed so hard he could barely breathe: "Hahahaha... I'm dying of laughter, that's the expression! I bet you mistook me for that rumored Aquaman or something, and even came all the way here for that reason."
He laughed until his stomach hurt, pointing at Connor's bewildered face: "Yes, yes, that's the expression, hahaha... But the truth is, it's all fake, just a trick our tavern uses to attract customers."
He grabbed the actor playing Aquaman from behind and, amidst the actor's complaints of "Hey, stop ruffling my hair," began vigorously rubbing the actor's forehead.
"Do you still think I might be an imposter, and that this guy is actually a real player, secretly manipulating me from behind the scenes?"
The blond, bearded man named Arthur Morgan was overjoyed:
"Wrong, it's fake!"
"That's exactly how I want you to think. This is all a deliberate setup to attract business, just to mess with you out-of-towners, hahaha!"
He laughed so hard he pounded the table, then grabbed the neck of the actor who had just played Aquaman on stage: "Hahaha, Tom! He believed it, he believed it! This is the first time we've successfully fooled someone since we started this plan, it's hilarious!"
The actor who played Aquaman, Tom, also opportunely offered his flattery:
"Well done, Yue! Boss Arthur pulled a great job!"
The blond, bearded man, Arthur, laughed heartily: "You bunch of idiots, always fantasizing about superheroes hiding in the crowd and you just happen to find them, it's hilarious!"
He pointed to the table full of drinks on Chen Tao's table: "But our goal from the beginning has only been to get you to buy this table of drinks, hahaha, you've already paid for your trip to our tavern in search of that legendary sea king, and now you can't get a refund!"
He turned to the bar owner and said, "Hey boss, our plan was pretty good, wasn't it? We've landed you a huge deal!"
The bar owner, wiping the glasses, was too tired to speak and could only wave his hands.
"Wh...what?" Connor was struck dumb by this "fact," his face turning a deep shade of purple. He turned around as if he had lost his life and looked at Batman.
"This...this is impossible. The intelligence system couldn't possibly make such a big mistake." Amanda Waller's voice came through the earpiece. She was also taken aback, but quickly calmed down.
"Our lads couldn't possibly have made such a huge blunder," she said. "Even if Aquaman wasn't between those two, he could be hiding somewhere in the tavern, or maybe he's not even here today."
Amanda Waller stated unequivocally:
"But no matter what, Aquaman should be somewhere near this tavern... or in this area. Otherwise, his source of information is inexplicable. We finally tracked him down here, there's no doubt about it, it can't be fake. And it also matches the probability calculations perfectly."
"No, you've been fooled, fooled by a tavern juggler!" Connor was starting to lose his composure. The thought of how he had pretended to be serious and talked to the other person about "a distant enemy" made his face burn.
Amidst the loud laughter, he forced himself to walk back to Chen Tao's table, and Chen Tao could practically see smoke billowing from his seven orifices.
"Let's get out of here right now, I don't want to stay here for even a second longer," he said to Chen Tao.
Chen Tao sighed.
Then he turned his head and looked at Kara, the super girl who had been sitting there quietly like a demure lady since the beginning of the night.
"Let me test you. Do you know what to do in this situation?"
Chen Tao said, "Please, think it through before you give me your answer, don't disappoint me."
"I know." Supergirl thought for half a second, then answered in a soft voice.
"What are you talking about? Why don't we leave now—"
Before Connor could finish speaking, he saw Kara take off her coat, revealing the "S" on her chest and the cape behind her.
Connor: ? ? ?
Kara flew straight up and landed in front of the somewhat amused tavern crowd. Then, her eyes glowed red, instantly turning the table in front of them into charcoal.
"I have something to tell you guys. I have something to tell you." Kara seemed a little shy when suddenly stared at by so many people.
The little girl flew timidly in the air and said:
"If Aquaman doesn't show up, I'm going to burn this tavern down and then slaughter you all."
She turned her head and melted the double-barreled shotgun that the boss pulled out from under the bar into molten iron, startling the boss into raising his hands.
"I'm really going to kill them all, no joke. Sorry!"
Batman gave him an approving look and said, "Well done, but not aggressive enough. Watch me."
Then he synchronized with the high-speed bullets and floated up, staring straight at the man who had just performed the Neptune's Day Tuna performance on stage and called himself Tom.
The corners of his mouth gradually turned up.
"Come on, let's go!" Supergirl exclaimed.
"?" Superboy Connor turned to look at her, somewhat numb by now: "What's coming?"
Then, the next second, Connor heard Batman let out a chilling, maniacal laugh: "Hehehe, hehehahahahahahaha!!!"
He floated directly to Aquaman Arthur's ear and laughed maniacally in a low voice that only Arthur could hear:
"Arthur! I know your father is buried in Harbor of Grace. If you still won't admit it, I'll fly to Harbor of Grace right now and scatter your father's grave and throw all the ashes into the sea!"
Chen Tao's gaze lingered on the other party's obviously metallic golden scale armor and the Neptune Trident that was placed within easy reach even when drinking.
Although the trident is called a trident... it does indeed have five points, just like in the comics.
(End of this chapter)