Chapter 420: Stone Statue
New York, Stedelijk Museum.
The magic pointer that Faust had left for Diana led her straight here. Diana landed on the roof of the museum, and after making sure it was indeed here, she opened the skylight and jumped in.
It was late at night, the museum had long since closed, and the whole building was pitch black. Diana jumped to the floor in the center of the museum, only to feel that the exhibits in the glass display case around the turn were like a thousand strange burly monsters, one by one in the faint moonlight, showing off the strange atmosphere.
Following the guidance of the pointer, Diana went all the way to the innermost pavilion, and found a strange-shaped stone gadget, lying quietly in a display case. On one side of it stands a sculpture of an ancient soldier seven or eight meters high, with a solemn expression and a lifelike expression on the hilt of his sword.
Diana smashed the glass of the display case and took out the stone knick-knack. She had expected this to cause the museum alarm to go loud, but in the darkness there was only a "clang" of her smashing glass, and then silence returned.
It's so quiet, it's a little bit wrong.
At this time, the seven or eight-meter-tall soldier behind Diana quietly started to move. The stone blade was pulled out of its scabbard inch by inch, and it was held high by both hands, and pointed at Diana's head from behind to split.
Diana's vigilance was also quite high, and the moment the sword behind her fell with the howling of the wind, Diana had already rolled sideways and quickly avoided the sword. The stone sword slammed into the marble floor, and a deep crack appeared in the smooth floor.
Diana was startled and asked, "Who are you?" ”
Without reply, the soldier drew his sword again, his mouth opening mechanically, but without making a sound, as if he were crying out silently. The sword was obviously several people long, and it should be very cumbersome, but the soldier swung it in his hand as fast as the wind, and several earthy and stone-colored sword shadows slashed at Diana.
Diana dodged, and the glass display case behind her, along with the exhibits inside, was immediately cut into several pieces by the giant sword. She approached like a water serpent, and her red boots continued to use force on the stone soldier, and in an instant she climbed to the height of the opposite door. Diana let out a shout and slammed her fist into the soldier's rocky cheek, sending it backwards and backwards as it slammed into a load-bearing pillar and splintered debris from the ceiling.
It stands to reason that even the strongest rock should be shattered after eating the woman's punch, but this guy didn't. Its body was harder than steel, and there wasn't even a crack on its face.
Diana flew in pursuit, but she didn't expect the other party to be repelled on the stone pillar without any stiffness. The soldier immediately raised his sword and swept across the ground with a sword, and Diana, who was rushing rapidly, had no choice but to raise her arm to block in front of her. With a crisp "dang" sound, the stone sword slammed into the silver ring on her wrist, and sparks flew like rain. Diana, who was in mid-air, had nowhere to borrow her strength, and immediately flew upside down under the tremendous force of this sword, like a bullet that shot through the glass case of several exhibits in a row and fell to the ground fiercely.
This time it was really not light, and Diana's head was slightly dizzy. But Wonder Woman never admits defeat, she casually swept her hair back behind her back, got up and felt the mantra noose, raised it and volleyed it twice, and threw it at the other party.
The golden noose immediately grabbed the soldier's throat, and Diana pinched the other end of the noose and flew up, screaming, and with a force of her arms, she wanted to tear it down.
With Wonder Woman's arm strength and the binding force of the noose, there are very few people who can resist it, but this stone soldier has done it. Under the great force of the heroine, it only staggered forward, leaving a huge footprint on the marble floor, and then stood firmly, and in turn held the rope, and pulled in reverse, as if trying to drag Diana from the air.
Caught off guard by the other party, Diana was shocked, hurriedly rolled in the air, and stomped on the ground with both feet, the ground immediately shattered, her feet sank into the ground several feet deep, and finally stopped after dragging a crack more than two meters long on the floor.
"Great Hera...... Give me strength! ”
Diana shouted loudly, her voice echoing through the dark pavilion. She then exerted her strength even more, and with another fierce force, the burly giant finally failed to resist and fell down with a bang.
While that alone wasn't enough to knock the behemoth down, it had a noticeable effect. When this guy got up again, there was obviously an extra crack in his neck that was trapped by the noose, and he seemed to have been injured a lot.
The soldier seemed to have no sense of this, and raised his sword heavily. Diana also re-positioned herself and prepared to attack.
"100% output power...... Charge completed. ”
Two fiery laser beams burst down from the skylight and landed majestically on the stone soldiers. Two lasers slammed diagonally into its torso, blasting through its chest, leaving two blackened pits on the marble floor. After holding the posture of raising his sword for half a second, the soldier finally fell to the ground with a bang, and his entire body began to crumble from the part where it was shot, and within a second, it turned into a pile of rubble and did not move.
Eric slowly descended from the skylight to Diana's side and asked, "What's the situation?" ”
Diana put away the noose and said lightly: "I don't need help, it's my own business." ”
"When my friends smash at the city museum in the middle of the night, that's my business." Eric asked, "Would you like to talk about it?" ”
Diana sighed softly, "Let's go out and talk." ”
A few minutes later, two blocks away, on the roof of a building.
Diana told Eric about what had happened on Paradise Island and how she had been coerced by Faust to get something, and said to her frustration: "I am very unwilling, but I really have no choice now. My mother's and sisters' lives were in the hands of that guy, and I had to do as he was told. ”
"Felix Faust, a scholar of occult studies, but disappeared a year ago......" Eric frowned as he visited the Justice League's database.
According to Diana's description, it sounds like he should be the villain on the magic side, but according to his memory, he can't seem to think of such a number one character in either Marvel or DC.
Being able to petrify all the people of the entire Paradise Island, his mana must be extraordinary, or maybe he has some god-level figure behind his back......
But even if he continued to dream like this, it didn't help, Eric said: "It's okay, there is still a lot of time left in the day, it should be enough." Let's go, let's go find the rest of the belongings and save your mother and sisters. ”
Diana was stunned: "You want to ...... Come with me? ”
"Of course, we're comrades now, aren't we?" Eric smiled, "Like I said before - please advise, sam. ”