Chapter 1680 - Let's See Who's More Shameless
Chapter 1680: Let’s See Who’s More Shameless
Luke kept quiet the whole time, until Tony sent him a new program. “Try this and see if you can lock onto Shredder’s position.”
Luke opened the program – it was the same one they had used in Grand Rapids to detect the Enchantress’s mental fluctuations.
Tony had made minor modifications to focus more on the Blood God Experimental.
Luke had been tailing the Blood Good Experimental all this time precisely to collect data on its mental fluctuations for Tony.
At that moment, Luke perked up.
There were three troublesome things about Shredder.
Firstly, they had no way to lock onto his real body. Secondly, he recovered quickly after swallowing people. Thirdly, after he turned into blood, it was impossible to predict his movements in a big city.
These three advantages complemented each other, making him the most difficult opponent.
If he could be stopped from transforming into blood, he wouldn’t be able to come and go without a trace, and he definitely wouldn’t be able to recover more quickly than Luke could kill him.
After verifying where his real body was, the chances of Luke killing him in one blow would be even higher, and would solve the problem at its root.
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Now, Tony had given Luke a trump card.
Luke hadn’t made a move all this time because he wanted the enemy to drop his guard.
No matter how cautious Shredder was, he wouldn’t be more cautious now, while swallowing people, than when he had been attacked non-stop.
Frank also sent over three locations after a preliminary analysis. “If you want to take care of him, these three locations nearby are the best choice. However, you only have one good shot at this – he might not fall for it again after that.”
Tony couldn’t help but ask, “Are you sure about using those people as bait?”
According to this plan, a dozen or even several dozen passers-by could be sacrificed.
After all, Shredder would head over because he wanted to devour people.
Tony knew that Big Dipper was murderous, but he didn’t willfully kill innocent people; Tony was a little worried that he might hesitate during battle.
In the face of a monster like Shredder, hesitation… wouldn’t mean defeat.
But it would become countless times harder to kill the other party later.
“If I do nothing, more people will die,” said Luke casually.
There would always be deaths in a major incident like this – he wouldn’t go out of his way to save a stranger.
That was why he was always thinking of ways to give his family the capability to protect themselves.
This way, they could proactively avoid danger and save themselves rather than pin their hopes on a superhero’s whim.
As someone with multiple superhero identities, Luke knew very well that nobody could save everyone.
Rescuing one stranger meant abandoning another stranger at the same time.
If a superhero became too conflicted because of something like that, it was better not to be a superhero, and they would have fewer worries.
These thoughts flashed through Luke’s mind before he immediately tossed them aside to check the layout of the three areas and swiftly deliberate options in the team’s internal channel.
Frank put forward a battle plan. Tony was responsible for resolving technical problems in the operation, and Luke and Ivan were responsible for executing the plan.
The three parties had to work together to come up with a more reliable plan.
Like Frank said, they only had one good shot at this.
In fact, Luke had already killed the Blood God Experimental earlier.
Then, Shredder retreated and ran off after swallowing some people, not giving Luke a chance to confront him.
If Shredder failed again the second time, he wouldn’t be stupid enough to try a third time.
The four of them didn’t waste any time. Tony, who usually spoke the most, only used the simplest and most direct words to communicate.
Except for bringing up some issues with his tech, Ivan didn’t say anything.
When it came to planning strategy, everybody had to listen to Frank.
When it came to tech, Tony covered most things, with Jarvis helping to do the calculations.
Luke didn’t say much either. Most of it had to do with the situation on-site as he pointed out some gaps and rejected certain opinions.
He had been in Japan for more than a month, and had been observing the terrain every day. He had been on the ground working hard to drain the cash reserves of various gangs.
Naturally, Ivan had nothing of note to contribute.
But he wasn’t embarrassed by it.
He could still help once they fought Shredder.
Apart from the four people on the comms, the other members of the Bat Squad weren’t a good fit for this battle. They couldn’t help even if they wanted to, which proved how unique his electromagnetic armor was.
That alone was something to be proud of.
A few minutes later, the four of them were done discussing the situation.
The plan wasn’t perfect, and there was even a lot of uncertainty.
But the more detailed the plan, the more likely it was to go wrong.
In this regard, Tony and Frank took Big Dipper’s super combat ability fully into account, and a lot of the plan was about him adapting to the situation.
This wasn’t a fake-out, but because they believed in this super killer’s adaptability.
Apart from Batman, Big Dipper was the most unfathomable person in the team.
Batman was very strong, but as long as the team paid attention, they would discover that Big Dipper had never lost a fight, and practically every opponent he faced would be killed.
Thus, they didn’t have to take into account Big Dipper’s safety when they put the plan together; they just needed to confirm with him if he could do it or not.
At that moment, Shredder had already charged into the center of bustling Shibuya and was frequently ambushing people.
After repeatedly devouring people and excising parts, he had discovered some of the principle behind the strange poison.
To put it simply, the poison had a “stress trigger,” and could be classified as “semi-intelligent.”
After it infected a person, it would do its best to turn the living parts into poison before it stopped expanding.
In the end, Shredder couldn’t get rid of it completely because all the cells in his body had been invaded by the poison, but some of them had yet to be triggered.
When he swallowed and absorbed people, these infected cells became buried and latent, but could be triggered at any time.
Now that he knew this principle, Shredder immediately had a preliminary solution.
The only problem was that his control over the Blood God Experimental wasn’t very precise.
Forget trying to get rid of something on a nanoscale, he couldn’t even do it on a microscale.
Thus, Shredder could only swift reactions, which was a characteristic of the Blood God Experimental, against the spread of the virus.
As long as he minimized the absorption of the people he swallowed, just enough for him to transfer the poison, he could immediately excise the infected parts.
After repeating this transfer a few times, there was a high chance he could shake off this annoying “semi-intelligent” poison.
Now, he just needed to find a crowded place to complete this experiment.
It couldn’t be an open area; the best would be a sealed room.
As long as he was fast enough and blocked all exits so that no one could escape, he didn’t need to worry about that terrifying invisible killer finding him.
That guy was super shameless. He used stealth to ambush him every time.
The first time, he had chopped up the Blood God Experimental into dozens of pieces, and the second time, the Experimental had simply collapsed and disappeared, which made even less sense.
Shredder didn’t want to be found by a guy as shameless as this at all.