(During the Qingming Festival, it rained a lot, and readers urged to break their souls.) ）

As an organization of explorations formed across countless parallel worlds, the Star Society, although it has not been as forced as it should have been due to its poor style and predator-first strategy for most of the time, has indeed accumulated a pretty good foundation for them to survive the Dark Ages for seventeen years.

For example, at this time, the Warlock Grand Mentor ordered to teleport to the "Battle Death Star" outside the orbit of the Gotham world.

This thing belongs to the "deterrent" weapon of the Stellar Society, and the level of secrecy is naturally very high, and it has not really been used a few times since it was created by the mad scientists of the fox's nest, resulting in Mason, a B-class personnel, knowing nothing about this thing.

Therefore, after receiving Heary's cross-world warning call, Mason, who was directing the second-line heroes to capture the defeated pioneers in Washington, showed a rare look of confusion.

"What's that? Death Star? ”

A rather terrifying thing immediately appeared in his mind, and when he felt his scalp tingle, he asked:

"You're talking about the super war fortress with a diameter of 160 kilometers, carrying two million people, and being able to shake celestial planets with its own gravity alone? With 768 traction beams and 15,000 turbo laser cannons, its planetary-level laser cannons can penetrate the horrors of the stars with just one shot?

Will the stars still have something of this level?

You have said it earlier!

What are we going to do with this thing once it comes out? The opening shot was directly thrown, and a beating was waived. ”

Mason quickly calmed down after a brief moment of shock.

He realized he must have thought badly.

If the Warlock's command really had this thing, and could have sent it out in any world invasion war, the Stellar Society wouldn't have been just a pioneering organization.

So he rubbed his eyebrows and said to Ciri on the other side of the phone:

"The 'Battle Death Star' and the 'Death Star' in my imagination are actually two different things, right?"

"Well, you're talking about the 'Battle Weapon' of the Legion of Cleaners, an ancient relic they dragged back from the Star Sea battlefield after the collapse of the Galactic Empire in a certain plane.

I've heard that it was restored by the scientists at the Fox's Nest and has been used as a training ground and base of operations for the Conqueror sequence. ”

Ciri, who was in the office of the Star Castle, rolled his eyes and explained:

"The 'Battle Death Star' in the Warlock's hand is a downgraded version, but it uses the weapon part of the real Death Star plus a fully automatic mechanical space station structure, and it is an 'experimental' weapon that was made by the Fox's Nest scientists ten years ago and sent to the Star Society, which was supposed to be tested for destructive power in an impact event.

Later, the researcher in charge of the project, Mordok-15, was terminated for misusing resources, resulting in the operation itself being over, and the experimental Battle Death Star has been left in the Star Castle as a 'mascot'.

I didn't expect Warlock to enable it at this point.

But don't worry, this thing is only 30 kilometers in diameter, and its attack range is not enough to rely on its own gravity to affect the Earth's environment.

The bad news is that it's powered by a more dangerous neutron-killing beam engine. ”

Ciri looked at the parameters of the weapons placed in front of him, and said with some sorrow:

"I just found its documentation, which says that this thing can lock on to fifty targets at once and kill twenty of them at a low energy level when attacking a planet, and its power can wipe out all organic matter in a large city in an instant.

The maximum energy level can clear the entire world of rebels in a matter of minutes, but keep the buildings and valuable property intact.

When activated, it causes a lot of optical contamination, and it manifests itself in the form of "

"A dark blue plume."

Mason looked back at the sky, and seven white rays that tore through the sky appeared in everyone's eyes like pillars that pierced the sky.

It would have been unnecessary for Ciri to read the weapon parameters on the paper, as one of the seven beams of light that shot from space to Earth landed in the middle of the city in front of Mason's eyes.

The moment the continuous neutron killing beam touched the surface, a large amount of aerosolized and decomposed organic matter, that is, walking humanoids, dissipated into the surging beam.

The pioneers who were still stationed in the center of the city even stopped at this moment for their last screams.

The only good news was that such a death was painless, and that Mason was in an area a little distance from the city center.

This meant that he had a few seconds left before he was engulfed in the destruction beam to repent of his past regrets and small sins hidden in his heart.

Or he could choose to activate the Tail Ring in his hand and let himself run at the speed of light to teleport everyone else in a matter of seconds.

To the best of Mason's knowledge, the strongest record of all the speeders in saving the realm was set by Wally West, the third generation of Flashes.

That kid had saved 530,000 people in 0.00001 microseconds, which was completely incomprehensible to Mason, but the situation he was facing now was actually similar.

The only thing that luckily left for him should be about 3 seconds, and there are only tens of thousands of people he needs to save, but to accomplish this, Mason will have to make his first attempt to exceed the speed of light.

"Huh"

His figure disappeared in place.

In the face of the sudden catastrophe, everyone in the entire city of Washington, whether pioneers or rebels, and even ordinary people, has fallen into a stupor.

Only that light kept running, accelerating and accelerating.

Seconds passed in a flash, and the dark blue plume eventually engulfed the entire downtown area of Washington.

Mason didn't know if he had broken through the speed of light, but at the moment when he dragged Catwoman and the second bucket out of the neutron extermination area thirty kilometers away from the city, the speed tail ring on his finger snapped open, and the remaining speed energy exploded, throwing Mason out and hitting the ground fiercely.

His body was shattered by the violent kinetic energy, and in the next moment, the water body was reassembled.

When he stood up, he was surrounded by thousands of people he had dragged out of the Oblivion Zone, from superheroes to terrified pioneers.

The moment he got up, Mason even hallucinated.

He vaguely saw a skeleton in a black blitz suit emerge from the light and reach out its zombie-like claws towards him.

Just as the thing was about to touch Mason, Professor McGonagall next to her let out a piercing hiss, and her whole body arched like a cat in danger, and the black death sword suit also abruptly covered her whole body, allowing the illusion of black lightning to dissipate and Mason to his senses.

He looked at the man beside him.

I saw the dejected Catwoman-sama and the two buckets who clenched their fists and roared.

He searched through the crowd but couldn't find Zakang and Ivy, and Zha and Demon Knight were nowhere to be found, and less than a third of the superheroes he had summoned here had been rescued by him.

The rest are all there

"No !!"

Shazam descended from the sky and looked at the dead city in front of him, the buildings still intact but all the life in them had been dissipated, causing the fifteen-year-old boy with divine power to let out a beastly roar in pain and despair.

Mason's body shook a little.

Not only was he weakened by the explosion of the Speed Force, but his face turned pale for a moment, because this was the first time he had truly lost his teammates and partners.

His worst fears finally happened.

He had promised not to make any of his companions a "price", but now he had broken his promise.

"Bang"

Mason fell to his knees, his hands clasped in the dirt in front of him, and his fingers were bruised.

An indescribable frustration filled his heart, he should have planned for this situation in advance, he should have given his teammates more protection instead of letting them come here without any protection.

He should have worked harder to fix the Speedforce armor he had captured from Savita in advance, so that he could save more people in the last few seconds.

He made a mistake.

The city in front of you is the price of mistakes in war.

"Mason."

Catwoman-sama stepped forward in the pain of losing her partner, reaching out to take Mason, who was silent on the ground, into her arms and gently patting him on the back.

As a starting partner, no one understands Mason's dedication to this aspect better than she does.

"You've done enough, don't blame yourself so much."

She whispered, about to say more to comfort Mason, when a scowling voice appeared in front of the two of them.

"Yo, is this the old aunt finally not hiding her desire for little fresh meat, so she decided to bring a super green hat to Batboy? I knew that if you two were left together, something would definitely happen.

Look, I guessed right, if I came out one second later."

"Huh"

Mason and Catwoman looked up at the same time, and saw John Constantine appearing in front of them with a smoke ring and a frightened Xiaozha in his arms.

Not only these two people, but in the air that was constantly "swaying" like water waves behind Zakkang, Ivy Girl Ivy Ivy and Demon Knight, as well as those superheroes and pioneers who could not be brought out by Mason, were rapidly appearing.

It was as if some magical masking was being removed, and a dense crowd of people appeared in front of a silent crowd.

Zakang pursed his lips, looked at the red-eyed Mason and the round-eyed Catwoman with a weird smile, he flicked the cigarette ash cheaply, and said in a long voice:

"It's touching to see someone so sad if I die, but have two of my stupid teammates forgotten something?

Ben-sama has learned all the strange magic of the black!

Although he may not be very proficient, isn't the excellent magic of the mirror dimension that preserves life and controls just for that moment? ”

He grinned and squatted down, handed a dirty handkerchief to Mason, who was staring at him, and said softly:

"Just now, I saw that you were like a fool and wanted to drag these out, I was going to shout at you, you actually don't need to be so desperate and hurt yourself to be targeted by the black lightning of the 'God Speed Traffic Police' because of the speed of light.

But it's actually nice to see you make stupid mistakes once in a while.

We're your teammates, Mason.

You just have to worry about the others, and everyone in Team K is capable of taking care of themselves."

Mason took Zakon's handkerchief expressionlessly, broke free of Catwoman's embrace, pounced on it, and punched Zakon in the eye socket, riding on his waist and slamming the bow left and right in the latter's scream.

It was the first time Mason had been truly frightened, and the desperation of losing his companion had outweighed his panic when he faced the Black Strange.

"Don't fight!"

Xiao Zha was saved by Zakang, and he hurriedly planned to pull Mason away, but was pulled aside by Catwoman, and the second bucket took off his bucket helmet and threw it to the side, pounced on it, and kicked it in the face of Zakang.

This bastard!

This kind of bad joke is really not funny!

"Stop!"

While the three little men in the team are playing a game of war, Catwoman, in place of the captain, gives an ultimatum to the pioneers who have escaped and are planning to sneak away.

Poison Ivy stood behind her, and the power of the green of all things unfolded silently, causing the wild grass on the ground around her to grow wildly into snake-like monsters blocking the way of these creatures.

"You should know by now who your real enemies are."

Selena crossed her waist and shouted to the grizzled pioneer companions in front of her:

"We don't ask you to defect to our side, but the next time you are treated as dispensable cannon fodder because of the evil deeds of the warlocks, don't pray that we will show up and save you again!"

"Ma'am, we are not good people, but we remember the kindness of Team K."

The oldest B-class captain among the nearly 100 pioneers who had escaped the roundup and survived the beam of annihilation stepped forward, and the old man wearing the Spartan armor of the master chief and carrying a ray rifle on his back made a peculiar salute solemnly on his chest.

He said in a dumb voice:

"No one can say what will happen in the future, but at least in this war, we will definitely retreat wherever Team K goes. We are not die-hard warlocks, and we are forcibly recruited.

If there is a choice, no one wants to get involved in the infighting of the three mentors. ”

"This is not the infighting of the three mentors, this is the duel between Team K and the Warlock, the swordsman and the hunter are not the leaders, Mason is! And you should know who is going to win, and know exactly which side to expect! ”

Catwoman snorted and said:

"Warlocks can't cover the sky with one hand, and they don't even have a chance to return to the Star Castle to give orders, and you should know that you have to earn your own life.

Forget it, get out!

Don't let me see you again. ”

She waved her hand very much, and the Poison Ivy Girl released a path, and under the gaze of the heroes of this world with hatred and disgust, these pioneers could only leave in disgrace.

"Stop fighting! Think of a way! ”

The beaten slag Kang, who had a blue nose and swollen face, screamed:

"This time it's seven beams of annihilation, who knows how many there will be next time, there are already seven cities suffering, this kind of instantaneous wear and tear will cause terrible pressure on the ordinary people on our side, and the warlocks are forcing them to surrender!

Damn it!

Instead of continuing to beat me, you'd better get an idea, okay? ”

"Of course, the idea has always been there."

Mason got up unhappily, wiped the dirt marks on his face, and looked at the sky again, he kicked Zakang again angrily, and then took out the communicator and said to the other end:

"Judy! Open the secret device X, is the position of the annihilation beam release just now locked? ”

"Just at a synchronous point outside the Earth's orbit, the target is 30 kilometers in diameter and easy to target, and it needs to be maintained in a specific location to maintain a precise attack on the surface.

It's moving over Gotham City!

The next target is definitely here, five minutes later into the effective range of the secret device X! ”

The tech girl of the afterlife team quickly reported:

"I've started the energy supply, but I'm skeptical of your craft! Mason, that thing you made yourself can only fire two shots now, are you sure that such a thing can really be used as a 'Star Destroyer'? ”

"I'm sure that even though I started out using it as a model, I made it myself, and no one knows its stability better than me."

Mason popped out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and next to him, who was courted by the panda-eyed Zakang, sent a flame to help Mason light it, and the captain spat out the smoke ring and said to Judy:

"You can just fire the gun, but to be on the safe side, you'd better stay away."

"Hey, it's getting more and more unreliable."

Judy complained and hung up, and a five-minute countdown to the launch appeared on Mason's watch.

Shazam leaned in and looked curiously at the beating time, and he whispered:

"What the hell are you going to do with that thing hanging over our heads? And I just heard that sister say to you 'Star Destroyer' or something, do you really have such a thing in your hand? ”

"Huh"

Mason pulled a handful of BFG9000 from his bag and put it in his hand, and said to Shazam, who looked curious:

"Look, it's an electromagnetic gun."

"I know, it's powerful, I've seen you use this to wipe out the Swamp Monster's Troant Legion."

Shazam nodded vigorously, still not understanding what the gun had to do with the topic he was discussing with Mason, and Mason spat out a smoke ring and patiently explained to the little fool:

"The most amazing thing about this gun is that it is a super Star Destroyer that has been tested in actual combat when magnified 1000 times at equal scale, of course, with my current skills, I can't do such a restoration, so I just used the help of Wayne Group to make a 1:500 model of Gotham underground.

It is certainly impossible to destroy a planet, but if the target is an armed space station with a diameter of only 30 kilometers at the limit, it is basically guaranteed to hit the soul with one shot. ”

"Is that what you hold?"

The second-tier hero Atom next to him asked:

"And when did you start preparing this kind of stuff that sounds amazing?"

"Hmm"

Mason thought for a moment and said:

"Probably the night I got the BFG9000 drawings? After all, what craftsman can resist the temptation to make a Star Destroyer cannon with his own hands? ”

"Then did you hide it underneath Gotham City on purpose? Or is it handpicked? ”

Za Kang said dissatisfiedly:

"If you still hide from us and do it secretly, you can't believe it, right?"

"It's really just a model for my own pleasure, and I'm not prepared to bring it to action one day, and as for the location, well, I'll admit I have an element of gambling."

Mason shrugged his shoulders and said:

"But I'm right, magical Gotham can happen to anything you can imagine, even being targeted by a neutron killer."

(End of chapter)