Chapter 2173

The strength of all characters on Earth-1 has generally decreased, especially the strength of Cat Getan, which has been cut by a large margin with the weakening of Batman. This is manifested in the lunatics that they are violent enough, but not crazy enough.

The old town in the upper reaches of the Cat Getan River can be considered the area with the highest Cat Getan strength on Earth-1, but their strength is not reflected in quality, but in their indiscriminate attack on all living things that enter this area.

This has led to almost no one being willing to come to this area except themselves. They have been holding back for a long time.

When a group of fresh prey rushed into the hungry wolf pack, appetite and desire for slaughter rose instantly. After the sound in the radio disappeared, everyone rushed out of their homes and strafed all living things.

The ferocity of the firepower made all creatures that dared to approach crawl away, and Seeing Natasha and Stark were no exception.

Soon, countless streets were engulfed in a sea of fire, and the two of them fled for their lives in the ruins. They weren't the only ones fleeing, but the vast majority of ordinary people didn't have Seeing Natasha's skills and fell into the ruins before running very far.

The hunters held submachine guns, grenades, and rocket launchers, pouring firepower on everyone like crazy. They didn't care who they hit, they were just venting the violence in their hearts.

"Is this what you want?" Seeing Natasha looked at Stark while running and said: "Do you know that the poison you released will turn everyone into this?"

"This damn isn't me..."

"It will definitely turn into this in the end." Seeing Natasha said coldly: "You know the side effects of the Extremis virus better than anyone. You know this is seeking your own death."

"That was just a phase-one virus, I will optimize it later." Stark was still stubborn, but he was also a little scared in his heart. This city called Cat Getan was simply too terrifying. Their violent behavior was unreasonable, purposeless, and completely unpredictable.

This kind of chaos makes people feel fear, not just because Stark isn't wearing armor now, but the wolf-like brutal eyes of that group of people made him feel that no matter how powerful his force was, he would eventually be torn apart by the wolf pack that swarmed up.

They were too hungry, which reminded Stark of zombies.

The war soon spread. The streets closest to the Cat Getan riverbank had completely turned into ruins, and the bombing was continuing on streets further away.

On the big screen in New York's Times Square, reporters were broadcasting news of emergency evacuation. Although the place where the incident happened was a certain distance away, this time was different from the past.

In the past, whether it was an alien invasion or an alien race invasion, they were all fought from the outside, but this time it was an internal bloom, and they didn't even know who those people venting firepower were.

Currently, mainstream media believes that this is a case artificially created by the government to eliminate protesters. Those who manipulate public opinion behind the scenes can be considered to have lifted a rock only to drop it on their own feet.

They won't know that the thing that can defeat all public opinion offensives is called conspiracy theory. The best way to eliminate a wave of public opinion is neither to manipulate public opinion nor to extinguish public opinion, but to show the public a bigger conspiracy.

How could it not be done by the government? The protesters only harmed the interests of the government. They created this massacre because they opposed environmental protection, animal protection, or transgender rights. They wanted to shut up all the ideologues.

And this time, it was not a wave of public opinion that rose in a local area. Such a large-scale town attack case is rare even in wartime. For a time, the world focused on this.

Avengers assemble!

Captain America raised his shield, and the superheroes followed behind him as usual, but this time two capable generals were missing: one was Spider-Man, and the other was Iron Man.

Captain America didn't care, but media reporters and the public cared. When it involved a massacre case where the government silenced people, why didn't these two people stand up? Were they already bought by the government?

This speculation is quite reasonable, because Iron Man's identity is public, he is the owner of Stark Industries, and such people will of course be in the same pants as the government and the military.

And many Spider-Man fans know that Spider-Man's economic conditions are average. If the government offers a high price, who can guarantee that he won't be tempted?

But the public didn't suspect another thing, and that is, is Captain America really on their side?

During wartime, Captain America has always served the military and the government. His image of giving speeches and recruiting soldiers everywhere has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Is he really going to save people this time? Isn't it to eliminate the remaining survivors and make them shut up forever?

The public spontaneously blocked the entrance of the war zone, wanting to ask clearly. Captain America explained to them very patiently and asked them to leave this dangerous place immediately.

But as the saying goes, as long as reporters want to, anything can be filmed as a conflict. The charm of journalism is fully displayed at this moment. Captain America's action of trying to stop the public from entering the danger zone was forcibly filmed as him raising his fist to hit someone.

Public opinion completely exploded. Countless people began to head to the periphery of the incident, and reporters moved at the news, surrounding the place tightly for a while.

Others who wanted to save people didn't dare to move either. Now whoever goes over will be labeled with a "shit pot." It's fine if they can save a few survivors, but if everyone inside is dead, it will really become a case of murder to silence witnesses.

But the hunting inside was still continuing. The lunatics whose crazy flames were completely ignited piled up abandoned cars higher and higher, blocking all intersections. They obviously didn't want to let anyone out.

S. H. I. E. L. D. sent three stealth fighters, all of which were defeated. This time even Seeing Natasha had to curse. What the hell is US Customs doing? How could these people have anti-stealth devices in their hands?

"We have to go to the street next to us." Stark, who was hiding in the bank's office, looked downstairs and said: "The robots of Osborn Group and Hammer Group have been chasing me, but those robots have all been beaten into paralysis."

"That was just a pile of moving scrap metal, the transmission system was designed in a mess, so it was broken by ordinary weapons, but the energy device on it is still useful. If I can get it, I can provide energy for my armor."

"And then make this place even more chaotic?"

"Let's talk about our grievances later." Stark looked at the bottom with a serious face and said: "This matter is not as simple as you think. It won't be long before all of New York will be engulfed in war."

Stark's words came true.

At first, it was just the lunatics in the upper reaches of the Cat Getan River aiming their weapons at the New Yorkers who strayed here, but the range of the bombing was obviously impossible to control so precisely, and soon it spread to Queens and the Bronx on the other side.

The New York people in these two districts are also full of martial spirit. Although they don't have as much firepower as the Gothamites, they have many people. Queens and the Bronx are the two largest districts in New York with the largest population, and they occupy a large area with broad strategic depth, and people are also open-minded.

So what they did was not to squat at home and wait for the government to rescue them, or rather, they knew better than anyone that no one would come to rescue them no matter what disaster happened, so they simply took weapons themselves and began to fight against that group of lunatics.

At first, it was just armed groups spontaneously organized by the public piling up sandbags on various streets, blocking intersections with cars, concentrating weapons in the hands of a few people who could fight, while others were responsible for logistics, unfolding several short and narrow battle lines.

The advantage of a closed battle line is that the defense is extremely high, and the disadvantage is that, like the Maginot Line, if you want to bypass it, you can bypass it. The lunatics are here to hunt, not to gnaw on hard bones. Since there are so many other places nearby, why must they attack the strong points?

Just like this, the communities that reacted quickly and stood out first successfully defended their territory, but the price was that the neighboring communities were attacked more fiercely, and suffered heavy casualties due to insufficient preparation.

So more people began to follow suit, spontaneously organizing armed forces to fight.

Some people might say, the gathering area upstream only has a population of tens of thousands, and the lunatics who ran out are at most one or two thousand, and they are all scattered soldiers fighting on their own. How could they cause such great destructive power?

There are indeed not many lunatics, but many people who have read war history know that the most terrifying thing in wartime is the wandering bandits, referred to as those who follow the chaos. What "soldiers passing like a comb" says may not be those regular armies, but these wandering bandits who want to take advantage of the chaos to loot.

The Bronx and Queens are both disaster areas for crime, and the crime rate is even higher than in Cat Getan, which means there will be more of this type of people here. Wherever it is chaotic, they go there, and wherever there is an opportunity, they go there to make a profit.

The brains of the lunatics have already burned up, and they can't take care of robbing at all. If they blow up the house, they turn around and leave, and the finances in the house naturally belong to these followers.

Later, they discovered that this place had completely lost order, government departments didn't care, and the police were unable to reverse the situation, so why must they follow others to pick up the leftovers? Wouldn't it be better to organize armed forces themselves?

So they also began to occupy strongholds, set up defense lines, occupy one base after another, and then split into smaller bases due to contradictions such as uneven distribution of spoils or mutual suspicion.

The war resources within a region are limited. Later, the public who spontaneously guarded the area also became robbers to fight for resources, and the solid bases set up by the robbers also turned some places into their own territory.

The warlord melee belonging to the new city began, at first only Queens and the Bronx near Cat Getan and upstream, and then gradually spread to the entire Queens—that is one-third of the area of New York.

Then it was the entire Queens, then spread to Brooklyn, and finally approached Manhattan.

After Queens and the lower city of Cat Getan merged, the two sides mixed together. After the war started, they also fought on their own, occupying their own territory and fighting for the other side's territory.

In order to distinguish the forces of the two sides, New York took out the New York flag, and Cat Getan naturally took out the Cat Getan flag. They inserted a flag for every street they occupied. Over time, the new city was filled with colorful flags.

The speed at which this prairie fire spread exceeded everyone's expectations. The media went from the initial fanning of the flames and adding fuel to the fire, to the later slight panic and stabilizing people's hearts, and finally didn't even dare to say polite words.

But various sayings still circulated among the people, but fortunately, those who were originally influenced by the media and didn't know the truth finally found the truth themselves through the later development of things.

A group of unlucky New Yorkers strayed into Cat Getan and had a conflict with local residents. The two sides broke out a protracted war to defend the dignity of their cities—historically known as the War of the Two Cities.

It was another sunny morning. Batman of the main universe finally finished the arrangement of the strategic tasks of this stage, and he could finally free up his hands to do other things.

What else could he do? Of course, it was to find back the old home that didn't know where it had flown. They couldn't just let them float there all the time.

Fortunately, Batman left a backdoor when he modified the power system of the Sky Island, allowing him to go directly to the place where the Sky Island was through a space portal.

And what he didn't know was that Darkseid would never let go of the clues related to the Anti-Life Equation. He never forgot the equation that Batman held in his hands.

The fluctuations generated by Batman passing through the portal were completely recorded by the spy robot deployed not far away and transmitted back to the headquarters of Apokolips. Darkseid pondered for a long time.

The first thing Batman did when he returned to the Sky Island was of course to look down. He wanted to ensure that the power system of the Sky Island was still working normally and that the altitude was kept stable enough.

Then he was stunned. Why was the scene below so familiar?

Batman looked back at the Sky Island Cat Getan that hadn't been rebuilt long after the fight, and then looked at the new city below that was fighting hotly. For the first time, he had a deep suspicion about a question—

Could it be that he is really a disaster star?