Chapter 348: You Can See Me!
Cyborg suddenly felt a strong vibration coming from the lead-lined sealed box he was holding. He subconsciously lowered his head to check.
For some reason, the sealed box in his hand began to vibrate rapidly. Cyborg's modified electronic eye monitored the inside of the sealed box, detecting that the energy radiation value was climbing rapidly in multiples, quickly reaching the critical point! "Careful!" Cyborg hadn't even finished saying the two words.
The alloy sealed box with lead lining exploded in his hand with a bang.
The intense shockwave generated by the energy burst caused the exploding alloy shrapnel to instantly turn into dense shrapnel shooting out in all directions.
Cyborg bore the brunt of it. Facing these fragments comparable to artillery shells, Cyborg's consciousness in his brain quickly activated the defense system. His modified mechanical parts, amidst a series of clicking mechanical transformation sounds, assembled into a half-human-height diamond-shaped shield. This shield extended energy barriers in all directions, protecting the crowd behind him.
Clang, clang, clang—
These steel plate fragments shattered by the shockwave landed on the shield that Cyborg had transformed into and were directly blocked by the shield.
The fragments from the sealed box explosion did not cause any casualties, but the steel plate fragments shooting out to the sides did damage quite a bit of equipment inside the Batcave.
However, at this moment, the crowd, including the host Bruce Wayne, had no mood to care about these trivial matters.
After the sealed box exploded, a regular hexagonal cube floated in mid-air. On the surface of the cube, blue energy fluctuations flowed like water ripples, forming strange runes!
"Careful! This is a sign that a Boom Tube is about to open!"
Cyborg looked at the cube, his face changing drastically, and quickly warned the crowd.
Among the people present, if anyone was most familiar with the Mother Box, it was undoubtedly Cyborg. He was originally an excellent American football star athlete, who was severely injured and in a near-death state by an Apokolips Mother Box explosion in an accident. However, at the moment of the explosion, he fused with Mother Box molecules. To prolong his life, his father Silas Stone took him to the Federal Government's "Red Room Laboratory," which collected various alien technology, for emergency treatment.
During the process, influenced by the Mother Box molecules, Victor absorbed all the high technology in the Red Room, eventually becoming a half-human, half-machine cyborg.
It was precisely because he had fused with Mother Box molecules inside his body that Victor had some kind of contact with the Mother Box.
"Victor! What's the situation?"
The members of the Justice League now couldn't care about the Avengers. Bruce Wayne walked up to Cyborg, standing shoulder to shoulder with him, examining the Mother Box floating in mid-air.
"The Mother Box's Boom Tube is opening!" Victor's mechanical arm had now transformed from a shield shape into a high-energy particle cannon shape. The thick gun port was aimed at the Mother Box emitting dazzling white light, his expression solemn.
"Boom Tube, is it that bastard from last time? He escaped in the Undersea Secret Vault last time, but it won't be that easy this time!"
Aquaman Arthur Curry, holding his trident, leaped forward, jumping in front of the Mother Box, taking an attacking stance.
"Something's wrong! The Mother Box seems to have been attacked and has activated its own defense mode, passively opening the Boom Tube!" Cyborg checked the Mother Box's changes through his contact with it, his expression filled with doubt.
At this moment, the white light emitted by the Mother Box had turned into a transparent light wave. Countless shadows could faintly be seen flickering within the light wave. That was the scene of another Boom Tube opening on the other side of the passage.
These black shadows were clearly the Parademon Legion gathering.
"Tsk!" On the other side, Tang Song, who was sitting and watching the show, shook his head. "How stingy. I just wanted to carve a few treasure refining restrictions on you, and you call for backup!"
On the surface of the Mother Box, accompanied by the constant washing of dazzling white energy wave, a spirit rune restriction that only Tang Song could see was continuously dissipating, eventually disappearing.
Just now, Tang Song had originally used his divine sense to try and draw a few restriction runes on the Mother Box's surface, wanting to see if he could refine this Mother Box away.
Unexpectedly, this instead triggered the Mother Box's defense mechanism to counterattack.
Because it was invaded by aberrant energy, after the Mother Box erupted with strong white light to wash away this aberrant energy, its surface runes, accompanied by intense vibration, completely unleashed an invisible sound wave energy.
"If my main body were here, I'd just throw you into the Eight Trigram Furnace and refine you into a pile of scrap metal!" Looking at the Mother Box that gave him no face, Boss Tang's temper flared up. He lit a cigar and pondered while watching the Boom Tube gradually forming on the Mother Box.
This thing, combined with the Space Gem, might even be able to cross parallel universes.
"Victor, is there any method to shut down the Mother Box!?"
"The Mother Box's Boom Tube has already opened. Unless we wait for this wave of energy burst to end, interrupting the Boom Tube requires at least several times the powerful strength of the Mother Box!" Cyborg shook his head. "We can only wait for this wave of Boom Tube to finish!"
"Diana! Give the people back to them!" After hearing Cyborg's words, Bruce Wayne looked around at the wary Avengers behind him.
After a moment of thought, he said to Wonder Woman Diana Prince.
Diana also knew that facing the Parademon Legion led by Steppenwolf, they had no remaining strength to deal with these visitors from parallel universes. Unable to accept the pressure of fighting on two fronts, Diana directly withdrew the Lasso of Truth tied around Star-Lord and threw Star-Lord towards Captain America.
Captain America opened his arms, caught Star-Lord, and helped him up. Then Captain America and Tony exchanged a look.
Both of them nodded towards Black Widow at the same time. Natasha Romanoff took a key from her waist and unlocked Barry Allen's electric handcuffs.
After the electric handcuffs lost effect, Natasha Romanoff felt lighter in her arms. The young man she had just held was instantly behind Batman.
"Now we're even. We'll handle the matters here. Gentlemen, farewell!"
Bruce Wayne had no intention of inviting Captain America and the others to stay and help. After all, they had just been at odds with each other.
Looking at the members of the Justice League who remained wary of them, Tony handed the Ant-Man Suit he had obtained to Star-Lord and watched him fumble to put it on.
Then, without any hesitation, the few of them pressed the switch on the Ant-Man Suit. Five figures simultaneously disappeared inside the Batcave.
"They're gone!"
After Wonder Woman Diana Prince checked thoroughly inside and out, she didn't sense the aura of the few people. She nodded towards Bruce Wayne, drew her treasured sword, and took a stance ready to meet the attack against the Mother Box that was about to open.
The slaughter Steppenwolf caused on Themyscira (Paradise Island), those lost lives, needed to be washed away with his blood!
Bruce Wayne silently activated the AI system on his armor. Only after seeing the tracking device disappear did he confirm that those visitors from parallel universes had truly left their universe.
Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz—
Accompanied by a strong vibration from the Mother Box, a Boom Tube as thick as several people embracing fully formed. Inside the Boom Tube, countless swarms of Parademons flew out from within.
These Parademons flapped their wings. Before they even appeared, particle beams shot out from inside the Boom Tube.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
For a time, various colored energy laser beams flew wildly inside the Batcave.
The Justice League, standing ready, instantly launched a counterattack the moment these Parademons appeared.
Green Arrow Oliver Queen continuously drew arrows from the quiver on his back, nocked them, and shot out rapid succession arrows. Every time an arrow hit, accompanied by a red light flashing at the arrowhead, the roaring sound of explosive arrows boomed and exploded inside the Batcave.
Although the Queen family was not as rich as the Wayne Family, Oliver Queen was a playboy whose style of doing things was somewhat similar to Bruce Wayne's.
The bow and arrow in his hand were custom-made products, especially his modified explosive arrows. Although the amount of liquid explosive filled in the arrowhead was small, the force of each one was no less powerful than a high-explosive grenade.
Every time an explosion sound rang out, a Parademon would be blown to pieces.
Wonder Woman Diana Prince leaped up, the treasured sword in her hand flashing with a cold light. Every sword thrust would surely result in a Parademon dying by her sword.
Back then, Steppenwolf descended upon the Amazons from Apokolips through a Boom Tube to seize the Mother Box guarded by the Amazons, causing the death of many Amazonian warriors. Diana had always kept this grudge in her heart.
When she swung her sword and cut down, she showed no mercy. As long as they got close to her, those Parademons were either beheaded with a single sword strike or cleaved into two with a single sword strike by her.
In contrast, the beams shot out by the high-energy particle rifles in the hands of those Parademons couldn't cause much damage to Diana, a demigod.
At her wrists, two golden bracers emitted the unique radiance of Olympian divine script. Whenever a Parademon tried to attack her, the daughter of Zeus could always sense it keenly and raise her wristbands to block.
When facing attacks from swarms of Parademons, her two wristbands collided with each other, producing a thunderous shockwave that blasted groups of Parademons away.
The Parademons rushing out of the Boom Tube seemed endless, like densely packed flying ants swarming out from a tornado-like light beam.
The members of the Justice League, Wonder Woman Diana Prince, Aquaman Arthur Curry, and Cyborg Victor, surrounded the Boom Tube from three sides. Green Arrow Oliver and Batman Bruce Wayne provided ranged firepower support. As for Barry Allen, The Flash, he used his super speed to do support work in the middle, such as replenishing Green Arrow's empty quiver.
Among the three directly blocking the front, Wonder Woman Diana Prince was at full firepower, and the other two were not inferior.
Aquaman Arthur Curry's trident stirred up blue water ripples. The area dozens of meters around him seemed to turn into his fishing ground. The speed of those winged Parademons was greatly reduced in the shimmering blue water light.
Once their speed dropped, what awaited them was Arthur's merciless thrust of his trident.
This task was familiar and easy for Arthur, who grew up by the sea. Compared to that difficult sticky candy guy with the shield just now, these winged extraterrestrial life forms, although stronger than that guy in terms of strength, were much easier for Arthur to deal with than the guy holding the shield.
Judging by Arthur's expression like spearing fish, these unlucky Parademons were being used as his punching bags. Perhaps in Arthur's eyes, these guys vaguely became that guy holding the shield.
Cyborg, relying on a body full of alien equipment, single-handedly blocked the exit of the Batcave. His mechanical body fused with dozens of types of alien technology equipment from the Red Room, including immensely powerful plasma cannons and energy barriers. Combined with his body of steel and iron bones transformed by the Mother Box, he also single-handedly suppressed and thrashed those Parademons.
His mechanical arm transformed into a plasma cannon. With one shot, five or six Parademons were blasted to pieces. As for the beams fired by the high-energy particle rifles in the hands of those Parademons, they were completely unable to break through the energy shield condensed from the energy emitted by Cyborg's entire mechanical body.
Furthermore, perhaps because of being modified by the Mother Box, these Parademons seemed to have a feeling of wanting to avoid Cyborg, attacking him very rarely.
This allowed Cyborg to let loose and kill wantonly.
Inside the Batcave, the one who caused the most casualties to the Parademon army was not Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Cyborg, but the host here, Batman Bruce Wayne.
Where was this? The Batcave! This was Batman's lair. As a guy who could prepare over a dozen contingency plans for Superman and had an extremely strong sense of self-preservation/crisis awareness, his lair was no less dangerous than a dragon's pool and tiger's den.
Facing the tide-like Parademon army, Bruce Wayne first walked to the main control computer and controlled the Batcave's security protocol, completely sealing the entire Batcave inside and out to prevent these Parademons from escaping the Batcave and harming the residents of Gotham City.
Then he activated the Batcave's defense system. The rocks disguised overhead moved aside, revealing dark firing ports.
The densely packed firing ports were distributed like stars across the ceiling. Bruce Wayne had actually hollowed out all the rocks in the upper layer of the entire Batcave. At a rough glance, if not a thousand, then several hundred of these honeycomb-like firing ports existed.
Buzz, buzz, buzz—
Under the control of the AI system in the computer, machine guns extended from the firing ports above the Batcave, aimed at the Boom Tube.
As Bruce Wayne pressed the enter key, the machine guns in several rows of firing ports simultaneously fired a torrent of bullets at those Parademons.
The machine guns in the firing ports, under the control of the artificial intelligence, coordinated with dozens of cameras inside the Batcave, accurately predicted the flight direction and speed of these Parademons.
Hundreds of machine guns firing bullets instantly cleared out the hundreds of Parademons flying out from inside the Boom Tube.
This scene made Barry Allen, who was holding a bundle of arrows and was in a state of super speed, open his mouth wide enough to fit an egg.
He never expected Mr. Wayne to have set up so many mechanisms in his own home. Truly a man with cash power.
Click! Bruce Wayne opened the protective shield next to the main control computer and flipped the red lever inside. At the Batcave's ceiling, a batch of laser guns extended from several rows of diagonally crossing firing ports.
Buzz—
After a muffled charging sound, these technological products from Kryptonian spaceships instantly shot out beams of laser particles.
Kryptonian civilization focused on developing the physical body, but their technological civilization was also not to be underestimated.
As an old friend, Superman Clark had sponsored Bruce Wayne with a lot of Kryptonian technology, including these laser guns that utilize light technology to the extreme.
Under the laser particles fired by these laser guns, which could pierce the armor of ordinary Kryptonians, the bodies of Parademons were directly pierced. Barry Allen evenly placed the arrows in his hand into Green Arrow's quiver. At this moment, the Speed Force surrounding his body had not yet disappeared. He glanced around.
The entire Batcave battlefield seemed to be in a state of stillness in his eyes.
Just as he was looking for which battlefield needed his help and support, surrounded by the Speed Force, he suddenly discovered that in a corner of the Batcave,
A man in a white suit had appeared at some point. The man was standing in front of their conference table, holding a scalpel in his hand, dissecting a Parademon corpse on the table.
The disemboweled Parademon, the man's hands covered in blood, and that sharp scalpel.
Fear instantly clutched Barry Allen's heart. He subconsciously rubbed his eyes and looked towards that conference table. At this moment, the table was empty. Where were any men, any Parademon corpses?
"It was an illusion!"
Barry Allen breathed a sigh of relief. "I knew it!"
"You can see me!" A very casual voice sounded behind Barry Allen.
Hiss! The hairs on Barry Allen's entire body stood on end. His Speed Force, under tension, instantly spread throughout his entire body. Just as he was about to turn around and run!
"Want to run? Immobilize!"
A warm palm rested on Barry Allen's shoulder. The next moment, Barry Allen felt as if he instantly lost control of his body. He wanted to lift his legs and run, but it felt as if he couldn't sense the existence of his legs.
He wanted to shout for help, but he couldn't open his mouth no matter what. That feeling was as if he himself had become like a vegetable.
Returning to Jinan tomorrow. Resume daily updates of 6000 to 8000 characters.
(end of chapter)