Lex Luthor wasn't in the house, but the red arrow of the lucky pointer pointed to it.

Thinking of a possibility, he asked Cyborg to inspect the surrounding seabed close to the shore.

The other party may have built the base underground, like the base of his villa by Gotham Lake.

"I found it, there's a hidden passage here."

The steel skeleton who dived to the bottom of the sea looked at the secret door scanned in front of him and sent a message to the two people who were waiting.

"Arthur, how long are you left?"

"It's coming soon."

The Sea King, who was swimming in the sea, rushed towards the positions of several people like a dart with a trident in his hand.

He was fast in the water, and Batman didn't let him ride the Downwind because he was afraid that Luthor would use some kind of underwater vehicle to escape.

"Cyborg, when he arrives, you can go in together."

"What about me?"

If it weren't for the fact that she had kicked the wrong door and scared others before, Diana would have jumped into the sea by now.

She had expected Bruce to arrange for her to go in, but he didn't expect him to let Arthur enter with Cyborg.

"You're getting too emotional, Diana."

Batman fears that she'll fall into the Luther trap that studies them well.

So he chose to let two calmer members of the Justice League deal with Lex Luthor in the undersea base.

Seabed.

The steel skeleton floating on top of a large piece of coral told the Sea King who had just come over the location of the entrance to the base.

"Get out of the way!"

The Neptune of the charged trident stabbed at the coral group violently, and the originally beautiful coral suddenly turned into an imaginary phantom and flickered twice and disappeared completely.

What appeared before them was a round metal gate, large enough for a small boat to drive into.

The door had been poked out of the top by the trident, and perhaps this was the reason why its camouflage had failed.

The Steelbone Arm transforms into a gun and fires several energy projectiles at it.

The entrance door blocking them was clearly unable to withstand the onslaught of these energies, and a large melted hole allowed the two to see what was behind it.

The end of the circular passage, which is more than five meters deep, is sealed off by something resembling a landing platform, and the walls around the passage are filled with holes for pumping or filling water.

Now that the passage was filled with water, the two swam in.

"You fired a few more shots, and the sea directly flooded the bottom."

Arthur gave a good suggestion, but Cyborg was hesitant.

He didn't know if there was anyone in there other than Lex Luthor, and if he did, he wouldn't be a murderer...

Just as he was about to reject the suggestion, the sea water above the two of them was suddenly blocked by a stream of energy.

The water in the passage was quickly emptied in a matter of seconds, and they stood on the moving landing platform and descended further and further.

Touch...

Drip.

The platform stopped, and in the huge space in front of the two of them, various underwater vehicles and strangely shaped planes were parked.

"Welcome."

They were greeted by a mannequin that you can often see in clothing stores.

However, its face is the same as that of the doll, which reminds Aquaman of the doll helmet worn by the child who controls the toy.

The mannequin with the pulleys on the soles of his feet sent the two to a small door, and seeing as it stretched out its hand to signal, Arthur once again suggested to Cyborg:

"You destroy those planes and submersibles first, and don't let Luthor find a chance to escape."

This time, Cyborg didn't hesitate, and the arm that had been transformed into an energy weapon smashed all the vehicles in his field of vision into scrap in the exclamation of the dummy next to him.

"Stop! What are you doing!! My God! ”

Burst!

Aquaman couldn't stand the dummy wailing beside him, so he decisively made three holes in the other's head with a fork.

Zizi...!

Inside the hole in the dummy's head, pulsing mechanical sparks prove that it is structurally similar to the self-destructing toys Arthur had seen before.

He shook the trident hard, and the dummy that flew into the air was shattered to pieces by the energy projectile shot from the steel bone.

"What two rude guys! Especially you, Squidman, I should have blown you up with Batman last time! ”

Hearing this network nickname, Arthur's face instantly became angry, and he shouted around:

"If it's a man, get out of here! Don't hide in some dark room and stare at the screen like a coward! ”

“……”

Sitting on the Batfighter and looking at the Steel-Bone perspective, Batman made a string of dots.

Although he knew that Arthur was not talking about himself, it still sounded strange.

Diana, who was standing behind him, covered her mouth and let the laughter that almost came out go back.

"Be careful, Luthor is a very cunning opponent, and I don't want to see any of you hurt."

As soon as he finished speaking, Batman saw an oval spaceship fly out of the coastal woods in the distance.

He hurriedly piloted the fighter plane to follow.

At the same time, Cyborg and Aquaman, who are deep under the sea, find that there is nothing behind the doors in the complex passage.

The room was all empty.

Rumble!

There was a muffled sound, and Cyborg and Aquaman, who sensed the danger, immediately ran in the direction they came.

"Follow me!"

Cyborg had memorized the route since he came in, and even if the inside of the passage was complicated, he could run out with Arthur on the correct route.

"Hello!"

At the last intersection, a group of red-eyed toy villains pounced on them, and several doll Superman shot lasers directly into their eyes, forcing Aquaman to hide behind the steel bone.

Rumble...

The energetic steel skeleton emptied all the dolls in front of him with thick energy rays, and then he led the Aquaman to the lifting platform filled with seawater.

In less than ten seconds, the original underground space was already filled with seawater.

The two who swam up above the elevator dodged the laser traps in the passage and killed a bunch of self-detonating dolls...

However, the lifting platform that had sent them down had become an obstacle in their way.

Steelbone fired several energy projectiles at it, only to have the energy mass disperse around it as it hit the surface of the thing.

The Sea King raised his fork and stabbed it hard, but the trident, which could easily pierce through the metal, stabbed it like a plastic fork on the metal bowl at this moment.

"It ate my attack..."

"Destroy the passage next to it!"

Outside, Batman, who was chasing the oval ship in the sky, alerted them.

Since the door is strong, open the wall!

Cyborg did so, and as Batman had guessed, the wall of the jammed door broke open under their attack.

Wow!

Cyborg flew out of the ocean floor, and he chased straight towards Batman's current location.

Arthur, who was most of his body on the surface, glanced in his direction, then sank into the sea and swam silently.

Superheroes who can't fly, that's all.

(End of chapter)