Chapter 6: The Elements of Inscurity
After waiting in the martial law concentration camp of Metropolis for a while, the team on Cowen's side also came, he, Dick, Kara, Lena, Superboy, Cyborg, Shazam, the metal team that contributed to the crime syndicate invasion of the earth, this is the Titan who can rush to Metropolis in the first place. The loss of contact with the Justice League, some people also need to maintain the order of the city when several elders are missing.
"Alright, that's probably the one we're able to come over now, can you tell us what's going on, Lex." After confirming with Cyborg that no other members would arrive for the time being, Curvin also turned his head to look at Lex.
And Lex didn't care about Kewen's attitude towards him, he took Kewen and them to a tent, and then turned his head and said to Kewen: "Don't be too surprised about the next thing, the Justice League you are looking for is here." With that, the curtain of the tent was opened.
In the tent, under the white light, a group of Justice League veterans lay there, with painful faces, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman Arthur, Green Arrow, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman. With the exception of Batman and Superman, the others were lying in hospital beds, gray rashes on their faces. The soldiers in charge of the guards around him were also wearing isolation suits, and the leader of the group was a resolute-faced, blonde-haired, capable leader, who was Steve Trevor, one of the two commanders of the Celestial Eye Society.
"Lex, this is the foreign aid you were looking for, calling a group of seventeen or eighteen-year-old kids to come and help?" Before Ke Wen could ask, the commander, who had carried out many missions and survived various crises, said with an unhappy face.
"Hey, that's a bit of a stretch to say that to our face, Buzz Lightyear!" Shazam, the head of the bear children, complained directly about Steve's bloated protective suit.
The green tendons on his forehead rose, and Steve didn't understand Lex's operation, in his eyes, no matter how powerful Kewen's gang was, when they unveiled their masks, they were all a bunch of little guys who were a round younger than themselves. As a soldier, he hasn't made it to the point of letting a bunch of kids solve these world-level crises for him, which is why he looked unhappy when he saw Lex call a bunch of kids to the tent, but he didn't understand what you, Shazam, who had been in the Justice League before, were doing in the Teen Titans, the reserve talent delivery group of the Orthoptic Alliance.
Ignoring the mispath between Shazam and Steve, Curwen and the others also began to observe the members of the Justice League lying in the hospital bed, especially Curwen, who was mentally prepared before he came. Although this new 52 universe has caused deviations in some places due to its own appearance, some major events that should have happened will still happen, but for various reasons, either the time has been advanced, or some uncertain factors have been added to it.
Just like the Yamozo virus leak incident that happened in front of his eyes, because of his own reasons, Shazam, as one of the new 52 Zhenglian giants, was revealed and was directly kicked out of the team, and the Martian Manhunter, who had previously retreated to the second line, was also reassigned to the first-line position. So in this virus leak incident, Martian Manhunter took Shazam's pot and became a member of the virus infected, but he was more curious about why Wonder Woman was also tricked, in memory of this virus leak incident, the Big Three were strong to the end.
"Kamen Rider, do you see something?" Dick stopped Shazam and Steve from complaining to each other, and when he saw that Curvin had taken out his genetic memory and inserted it into the card slot on his right, he also asked, he understood the power of this memory.
"The virus on their body is very powerful, full of uncertainty, and has different degrees of modification for the human body, but for themselves superhumans, the virus has no bonus effect except for inhibiting their abilities and destroying their immune system, but for ordinary people, this virus will give them all kinds of superpowers, of course, at the cost of life, but after the virus is eliminated, a very small part of these superpowers will remain in their human body, No matter how you look at it, it feels like a virus specially developed for superpowers, who is so idle and has nothing to do, and this kind of thing is made. β
According to the feedback given to him by the genetic memory, Ke Wen wanted to scold his mother, when he read the comics before, he saw that the people of Zhenglian were infected with the Yamozo virus, and he took it for granted that it was because those Zhenglian bigwigs were too close to the center of the virus outbreak and ate a wave of tricks, otherwise they couldn't explain that they were also half-human and half-gods, Wonder Woman was not shot, and Aquaman fell this problem.
It's just that now it seems that this Yamozo virus is completely a superhuman treasure. As for Cowen's complaints, Steve, who originally couldn't look at each other with Shazam, also glanced at the big bald head that shone in the light, and Superboy Connor also covered his face helplessly.
"Father, do you have to make trouble all day long, and Superman didn't beat you up?"
"Hey, kid, strictly speaking, this time it's not my fault, I just developed this thing to target those superpowered criminals who have been taught repeatedly, and then after discovering the uncontrollability of this thing, I sealed it, destroyed all the samples, and left only one copy as a preventive shot. But just 24 hours ago, at a press conference on corporate cooperation with Bruce Wayne of Wayne Enterprises, something attacked my business, causing the pathogen to leak, and even I was curious whether this attack was accidental or deliberate, and also, that's your mother, you should use an honorific title! β
Speaking of the back, Lex's aggravated tone made everyone present a little embarrassed, and everyone present basically knew that Superboy Connor Kent was a life crystallization conceived by Lex and Superman with half of the genes provided by each other. Although physiologically, Lex is a father and Superman is a mother, but only Lex, the guy who loves and kills Superman, is the only one who says it so openly.
"It's not a good habit to take advantage of my father behind people's backs, Uncle Lex."
Outside the tent, a childish voice came from the sky, and then a small figure also flew in from outside the tent, carrying a few metropolitan citizens who were also infected with the amozo virus on their shoulders, and after placing them on the ground, little Jonathan who flew in looked at Lex with an unhappy expression. At this time, Steve and the soldiers in charge of the guard also walked out of the tent with interest, and there were some words that they didn't need to know as government personnel, and Steve understood this very well.
"Jonathan? Didn't you go with your mom to see your grandparents? Carla, who was promoted to sister-in-law on the side, saw little Jonathan appear, and she was also happy to pick him up and rub his little face.
"Just because we go to see my grandparents doesn't mean we don't watch TV, it's such a big deal, I can't come and see my father, my mother may be worried, okay, Aunt Kara, don't pinch my face." Forcibly breaking out of Kara's arms, little Jonathan also looked at the teenage titan, and sighed a little disappointed after not seeing the person he was thinking about.
"If you really want to see people, fly to Gotham and come here to make some fun," he said, pulling little Jonathan from Kara's side, avoiding Kara's direct gaze, then looked at Lex and asked, "You haven't told us yet, what attacked you, Lex." β
"A ring."
At the crowded press conference, a green light ring that crossed the night sky flew directly towards the Lex enterprise, crashing into the floor where the R&D department was located without everyone being prepared, followed by a series of shocking explosions, and the members of the Justice League who were on guard in the crowd also evacuated the crowd at the moment of the explosion, and then the picture disappeared.
And the ring flying from the air in the middle was also frozen by Lex, the picture was enlarged, looking at the four-leaf clover pattern on it, Kewen and Dick glanced at it at the same time, and the two who had experienced the invasion understood the true face of this ring.
"The Divine Power Ring of Earth Three, the Power Ring of the Green Lantern Isotope, I thought you destroyed it."
"I hope so, at least during the conference presentation, Green Lantern told us that with the help of his good teacher, he killed Deathstorm and the Divine Power Ring, and naturally destroyed the ring. But now, the Divine Power Ring is more like the tool man of the power ring, by absorbing the user's fear, the ring controls the user to complete its instructions, and when it destroys my R&D department, I capture a piece of information, which translates to choose a new host. β
"So, it attacked your R&D department, detonated the Yamozo virus, and then let the Yamozo virus spread, just to find a host that is stronger than the previous Divine Power Ring? Did Superman and Batman go to find this ring? β
"No, they went to the area at the center of the explosion to find the first infected person, whether the ring can find a new host is not what we should be concerned about now, if the first infected person is found within the specified time, and the virus serum is made, millions of people will die."
"How much time do we have?"
"Now, with six hours to go, after the sun rises, the damage will be difficult to recover."
"Then let's put this time off as long as possible."
After getting Lex's exact reply, Curwen also stepped out of the tent, and with the help of genetic memory, the red compound eye in the mask could see that the free Yamozo virus in the air was multiplying and spreading, using the entire metropolitan infected citizens as a petri dish, and began to spread in the air. The single drive on his waist extended the other half under his mind, turning into a double drive, merging the open drives, and summoning the virus memory in the system space, inserting, dialing, switching to his own virus spider form, and then, slamming the genetic memory in the card reading slot on his right side.
γGeneοΌ Maximum DriveοΌ The electronic sound sounded, and Kewen's hands were condensed with a light cluster constructed by genetic memory based on the subamozovirus that was currently captured in the air.
"Superboy, Supergirl, when I release these two clusters of light, blow them as far away as possible."
"Understood."
After getting confirmed, Ke Wen condensed the light cluster in his hand as much as possible, until he could no longer suppress it, then he threw it into the sky, and two genetic bombs condensed that could temporarily suppress the subamozo virus flew towards the sky, exploded, and acted with the clouds in the atmosphere, and began to turn into a cloud of fog and spread around the metropolis as the center. And Kara and Connor who were close behind were also in the air, back to back, using the Kryptonians' exclusive super breathing.
The force of the wind like a Category 18 typhoon spreads the genetic bomb at a faster rate, inhibiting the genetic damage to humans and superhumans by eroding the subamozovirus in the air.
"How long will it last?"
"Add six more hours, and you'll have to take command of the rest, Nightwing."
"Then I see, Titan Assemble! Cyborg, lead the metal team, use your computing power to calculate the location of the Ring, Superboy, Supergirl, Shazam, Jonathan, you try to search for survivors in other areas of the metropolis as much as possible, there must be other survivors here, and, Shazam, don't lift the transformation here, if you don't want to be one of them, Lena, work with your brother, develop the serum, do a good job of Plan B, you and me, go to Superman and Batman. β
"I can go with you, too, and don't forget that I'm wearing armor now, too."
"It's better for you to stay here, I think your brother is already very irritated to see you coming to the Metropolis, if you go with us, maybe he will do something, obedient."
Stopping Lena's request, Cowen and Dick also left the concentration camp and walked towards the ten blocks that were isolated around the Lex enterprise, because of the ravages of the Yamozo virus, the originally lively streets were full of listening vehicles, and the people inside had long since disappeared, and the surrounding street lights flickered, coupled with the fog produced by the effect of the genetic bomb released by Cowen just now, which made the metropolis at night fall into a horror movie atmosphere.
"I never thought that the Metropolis would feel like coming home when it was like Gotham, Dick."
"Gotham is so much better than that, at least we're just dark, not making the city streets look like Silent Hill." Pouting, for the metropolis at this time, Dick was a little weak for no reason.
"Preferably, but before that, are you sure you don't need an oxygen mask? This is the hardest hit area. β
"Don't, ask me such an idiotic question, thank you."
In Cowen's surprised eyes, Dick somehow pulled out the Accel drive that Cowen had given him, grabbed the handlebars with both hands, pinned them to his waist, and then took out the red memory.
"Transform!"
The memory is inserted, and the red instrument cluster surrounds Dick, synthesized, and the red light flashes, and the red Kamen Rider Accel armor is wearing on Dick. Before Curvin could ask, Dick, who was holding the handlebars, did a backflip and switched himself to locomotive mode.
"No, where did you get your belt?"
"What? Just allow you to change every time with a bunch of bells and whistles and those big eyes, and you won't allow me to have a space to store my belt? Don't forget, I'm Batman's first Robin, how long are you going to be there? Infected No. 1 does not appear on their own. β
Okay, asking is black technology, Ke Wen didn't expect that he would always let others complain about his transformation, and there would be times when he complained about others' transformation, but looking at the locomotive mode that Dick switched, Ke Wen still stepped on, just the right waist to match his size, well, sure enough, the knight still has to ride the knight to feel it.
With this in mind, Dick, who was sure that Curwen was seated, tightened the throttle, and the tail flame erupted from his foot armor, leading the two of them into the thick fog-covered metropolis.