Chapter 1698: S: The Apocalypse Event (Part 1)

"I say, will this really work?" Constantine asked, looking up at the Robins who were organizing data across the massive table while he drew runes on paper.

"I think we can try," Red Robin said, tapping a stack of data on the table to align it. "After all, that is a conclusion reached by human geniuses from an entire Earth in another universe."

"But regarding magic..."

"There's magic over there too," Harley interrupted at the right moment, adding, "And according to my observations, the magical energy over there is much more abundant than here. Even many children can contract demon gods at will, and the terms are quite generous."

Constantine sighed softly. Although he hadn't personally been to the universe across the way, he could analyze its operating mode from Harley's snippets: it was nothing more than a group of lunatics, crazier than the cosmic demon gods, using a magical defense network to hold all of humanity hostage, which in turn made the cosmic demon gods hesitant to act.

Constantine believed this might also be effective on Earth in this universe, but the only problem was that the magical world here was too pathetic, unable to even organize personnel to establish an official organization. If one had to say, friends like Zatanna and the Masters of the Dark who were closer to him could be considered an organization, but due to their slightly different stances, it would probably be difficult to unite them.

Constantine had to admit that this made him feel subtly frustrated. Before, when there was no correct solution, everyone just muddled through, but now that there was a very specific reference plan, even if one just copied the homework without change, even if one couldn't get the exact same effect, there would definitely be a great improvement. Yet, because of this or that realistic reason, one couldn't even take a single step.

He had even less energy to argue with the Robins across the way. He just said, "I've drawn the runes you wanted me to draw. If you intend to use Batman's machines to engrave them onto metal, you must ensure precision. Rituals of magic circles are the field with the highest requirements for precision in occultism..."

In this regard, the Robins were quite patient to listen, but Constantine, who was in a bad mood, just gave two simple instructions. Plus, the Robins were very confident in the advanced nature of the large machines in the Batcave, so they didn't consider too much and began to execute the plan provided to them by the other universe.

In short, Nick gathered the world's genius scientists and the most experienced Archmages. Of course, it wasn't just to learn technology from the other universe; they also believed they could let the other side cooperate with them in experiments to witness the effect of the enchanted metal.

Thus, scientists and magicians began to study the occult knowledge belonging to the DC universe provided by Constantine without sleep or rest. Constantine himself was a master of magical trivia; he knew absolutely nothing about the mainstream techniques of pleasing gods, but he had learned all the crooked paths, scams, and tricks.

And this meant he was more compatible with Marvel's mages, as both sides didn't take gods seriously and valued the efficiency of humans using magical energy more.

Nick sent two reinforced teams of agents to question Constantine without sleep or rest for three days and three nights. Until all the knowledge in his brain was squeezed dry, the geniuses of this universe began to conduct extremely in-depth research on this knowledge.

Marvel's scientists were already very accustomed to this rhythm of research. After all, they had to gather every few months to deal with a comprehensive problem. The last meeting was to conquer the difficulty of enchanted metal, the one before that was the construction of the human starport on Pluto, and the one before that was the geological structural transformation of Earth.

Such topics were inevitably comprehensive and ridiculously difficult. Scholars from various fields had to work together wholeheartedly to have any chance of making even a tiny bit of progress. Therefore, regardless of their personality, stance, or nationality, they were already very accustomed to cooperating with scholars from various other fields.

This led to the extraordinary efficiency of the scientists in the Marvel universe working together. One week after formally starting research on the DC occult structure, the experts came up with a feasible plan.

Briefly summarizing the mode: since this mysterious alloy in Cat Getan had already shown various magical properties, let's not explore where the mysterious solid darkness came from for now, but first see what it could do.

Considering that the energy possessed by the magicians present in the other universe was too scarce, starting from the nature of magic was clearly not a good choice. Even if Constantine were worked to death, he wouldn't have enough energy to drive so much metal to build an aerial fortress.

So they intended to start from physical properties but with the help of magical means. In short, it was to use a special magic circle to activate the anti-gravity properties of the aerial fortress, achieving the best effect with the least energy.

However, Constantine clearly couldn't fly around the aerial fortress and draw magic runes on such a large thing. Even if he could actually do it, it would be a bit of a waste of energy. So he just drew a small one on paper, and then the Robins took Batman's super machines to draw runes for the entire aerial fortress.

The Robins' aerial fortress, called a fortress, was more like an aerial spire. The overall shape was tall and thin, and there were few rooms. This was because the principle they used to make this thing fly was quite simple, even a bit primitive. It was Red Hood, who had strong hands-on ability, who, with the assistance of Red Robin, manufactured a current shock device to continuously activate the anti-gravity properties of the Cat Getan metal.

This aerial fortress didn't fly very high, only floating at the height of about five or six stories. If Cat Getan's skyline hadn't been blown down by more than half, Harley, who had just returned to this universe, might not have been able to see it.

But what needed to be done next was not so simple. The power required just to excite the metal properties was not in the same order of magnitude, so this structure was clearly not safe enough. The Robins' next step was to widen the sky island as much as possible, eliminate the overly tall buildings, and build a truly solid fortress.

The difficulty became much smaller, mainly because they could now activate the black-tech equipment in the Batcave, including but not limited to Bat-motorcycles that could fly in the sky, Bat-flying saucers that could hover for long periods to supervise work, and Bat-cutters that could be controlled by brain waves to perform aerial cutting...

When these devices were dug out of the Batcave and put to use, the Marvel scientists on the other side of the screen fell silent.

"What the hell?!" Stark was the first to shout in dissatisfaction, "I didn't even put my logo on all the equipment for the solar system development plan!"

"There's actually a megalomaniac in this world even more narcissistic than you?!" Reed was also shocked. He stared at Stark and said, "You didn't even think of this, and he's already put it into practice. Stark loses this round!"

"Is this some kind of commercial copyright claim? Or is it just an over-the-top brand awareness?" Bruce Banner scratched his hair and said quite puzzled, "If I'm not mistaken, there are two bats engraved on the gaps of the vacuum cleaner blades just now..."

Nick, however, was stunned in place. After a while, his eyes lit up, and he said to Natasha and Coulson, "Quick, organize personnel now, fly the spaceship to the solar system... oh, no, no, no, it's the galaxy, go and engrave the Earth's logo on every visible star in the galaxy!! Don't let even one asteroid go!! Hurry up!!!"

Then he walked up with a sincere expression, took Wanda's hand, and said, "You must have a good chat with that Miss Harley Quinn. I must meet this Mr. Batman. His way of strongly claiming ownership of his belongings is very worthy of reference by the entire human civilization..."

The Robins on the screen didn't feel anything unusual; they had already adapted to life being filled with bat logos everywhere. Soon, under the guidance of architects and structural engineers from the other universe, they completed the transformation of the aerial fortress.

Now the aerial fortress finally looked like a fortress. Although the internal rooms were still empty and had nothing, it at least looked like a real floating island.

However, as the material continued to increase and the gravity continued to increase, the entire sky island had dropped by five or six meters. Clearly, the anti-gravity properties excited by the original current shock device were no longer enough.

Immediately after, the Robins began to carefully engrave magic runes at designated locations. Constantine rode a Bat-flying saucer and flew in the middle of the sky island, overlooking their work to ensure the precision of the reproduction.

But because it was the first time performing similar work, people from both universes ignored a very important problem, which was that human visual transmission to the brain, brain transmission to another brain, and brain transmission to the screen—there was no problem with the visual nerves and the screen in this, but the problem lay between the two brains.

As everyone knows, the brain will perform a certain degree of completion for things it hasn't seen, and ignore things it has become accustomed to and that don't get in the way. The working principle is the same when judging size; the precise size of an object might be larger or smaller than what the brain judges. This is a manifestation of the brain's fuzzy algorithm.

Harley made some judgments when she saw the aerial fortress, the image was transmitted to Wanda, and Wanda made some judgments. After two fuzzy algorithms, the pattern projected onto the screen was difficult to achieve academic precision.

This led to a serious consequence, which was that both sides had a certain misjudgment of the volume of the aerial fortress and the amount of magical energy required to excite the metal properties.

And this led to Constantine, who was absent-minded and hadn't checked carefully, injecting too much energy according to the other side's requirements. The aerial fortress, it went to the sky.

Exciting the anti-gravity properties was indeed the goal, but that didn't mean they had to send an iron lump that didn't meet aerodynamic and cosmic dynamic standards into Earth's synchronous orbit.

When the aerial fortress shot out like a rocket, everyone was shocked.

This once again confirmed a saying: no matter how good the starting point is and how perfect the plan is, Gothamites can always turn it into a pile of shit for you.

"My God!" Jason looked at the window in shock. He saw his beautiful blue planet right under his feet. Tim's Adam's apple rolled. He stretched out his hand to touch his neck, and then said with some confusion: "Wait, if we rushed out of the atmosphere, why aren't we suffocating now?"

"Very wrong." Red Robin walked to the window. He looked at the scene outside the window, but his attention was not on the distant Earth, but on the sky island itself. He pointed to the bottom and said: "Do you feel that a certain force field has been activated?"

The Robins rushed out of the building, came to the ground of the sky island, looked up and said: "We seem to have excited a protective shield. It is what protects us from harm in space."

And the scientists in front of the screen in the other universe had already exploded. The Archmages knocked on the table and shouted.

"I said long ago that this is another version of the magical defense network! They just couldn't use this power correctly and didn't use the right method to excite it. Now it has unfolded!"

Just as the Archmages said, at this time, the sky above the aerial fortress was covered with a black protective shield that was constantly surging with certain patterns. If you look closely, you can see that the massive amount of Cat Getan metal under the sky island forms a subtle echo with this protective shield. The protective shield is projected by the power in the metal.

Constantine looked up a bit blankly and said: "I didn't expect it to be this form of expression. This is not any kind of power known to the Earth's occult world, but more like a more primordial darkness..."

Suddenly, several Robins were also stunned, and then they spoke almost at the same time, and interrupted each other at the same time. Finally, Jason grabbed the conversation. He swallowed and said slowly.

"Does this mean that the whole of Cat Getan also..." ===== CHAPTER 1699 =====