Chapter 3038: Mercury Chronicles (35)

The smooth settlement of this matter didn't mean the opponent's level wasn't enough, but meant that this was just an appetizer. The opponent would use countless such small water ripples to push up a monstrous giant wave, until everyone was buried in the sea.

Sure enough, less than half an hour after the murder case ended, the Mercury base terminal received an alarm from a detector. An alien spaceship was rapidly approaching Mercury.

The base terminal didn't receive any communication sent by the spaceship, and couldn't identify the spaceship's identity code. So, it dispatched defensive drones to intercept the spaceship outside the safety line and didn't let it approach Mercury.

Clark went to check the situation. As a result, the spaceship exploded. Although it didn't hurt him at all, it still gave him a cold sweat.

Now the humans of the DC universe hadn't developed to the interstellar era. That is to say, they didn't have any space defense means, all counting on the safety measures of the Mercury base. Assuming the defensive drones didn't intercept this spaceship and let it rush directly to Mercury to explode, it was very likely to cause great casualties.

This matter almost alarmed all the high-level officials in the base. So, the professor team that had just disbanded for less than half an hour gathered together again.

The drones sent back the footage they captured. One could clearly see that the spaceship wasn't a product within the solar system, and the characters engraved on the fragments after the explosion were also very strange. For a time, no one knew which spaceship it was from.

Fortunately, the Justice League of this universe had very sufficient interstellar intelligence support. They sent all the videos to Green Lantern Hal, who was working at the Green Lantern headquarters.

Hal quickly recognized that the information code on this spaceship came from the Exor planet in the 1601 sector. It was a civilian spaceship, and the code had been invalid for a long time. It was temporarily impossible to identify the specific identity.

The name "Exor" sounded very strange, but when this name appeared in Hal's mouth, everyone was silent, because the Wonder Twins came from the Exor planet.

This planet's civilization was highly Earth-like, and not everyone used superpowers. Although their physical fitness was much better than humans, the Wonder Twins who possessed superpowers were also aliens among them.

Many years ago, a plague killed many residents on the Exor planet and also caused the Wonder Twins' parents to pass away. The two wandered to a circus, and the younger sister used her ability to transform into animals to work for the circus boss.

Later, the two sides fell out, and the brother and sister stole the circus's spaceship and traveled to Earth.

Clark had seen this spaceship at close range. He was sure that there were actually no weapons on this spaceship. It didn't look like the kind of space weapon used for combat, and it was even somewhat old. If it weren't for the loud explosion sound at the end, Clark would have thought this was some space junk.

Several professors had to call the Wonder Twins brother and sister over again. When Zan and Jenna saw those fragments, they were completely stunned.

This was indeed the spaceship they stole, but according to what they said themselves, this spaceship was hidden in the depths of the Rocky Mountains a long time ago. And when they first arrived on Earth, the spaceship's condition wasn't good. And by the time they basically adapted to Earth life, this old spaceship couldn't be started anymore.

By the time the drones dragged all the spaceship fragments back, Bruce conducted an inspection. Combined with the AI butler's analysis, it was confirmed that what the brother and sister said was true. This spaceship was already so old that only a shell remained. Wanting to fly out of Earth's atmosphere was very difficult.

And, at that time, the younger sister Jenna, out of cautious consideration, directly dismantled the spaceship's engine and completely destroyed it. This was the only component on the spaceship that could cause an explosion. Without an engine, the rest was just tin sheets. No matter how you looked at it, it was impossible to explode. So this explosion was very suspicious.

The professors watched the explosion video in the room for a long time. Finally, Bruce gave a conclusion: the thing that exploded definitely wasn't some kind of machine. The energy flow was too strange.

He sent this video back to Earth again. Several professors from the Gotham Magic Academy watched it. Madame Xanadu affirmed his point of view and said: "I can be sure that the energy flow at the source of the explosion is closer to magic. Someone compressed a large mass of magic energy and charged it into some kind of thing, letting it lose control and explode at a designated time, similar to a failed artifact. This is a magic experiment accident created by humans."

Diana also sent this video to Hephaestus, who gave the same statement: this was a magic accident.

But what was relatively troublesome was that when the brother and sister took the spaceship to Earth before, they conducted some modifications to this spaceship that was already very old at that time. Otherwise, this thing wouldn't have been able to fly to Earth.

The spaceship retained some traces of their modifications. Now that it was completely blown up, it was very hard to explain what these traces were modified for. Saying it was to let it fly again, and then explode on Mercury, wasn't impossible.

"Do not block the news." Schiller said immediately.

Everyone looked at him, because this was an anti-intuitive answer. After all, the exploded spaceship was intercepted outside the safety line, and no one suffered losses. Then, actually, it was completely possible not to let the students know.

But soon they reacted. If this was someone causing trouble, then even if they blocked the news, someone would spread the news among the student group.

The so-called "official denial must be true." The professors uniting to block the news itself was very easy to arouse the students' resentment. If they let them know again that this spaceship came from the Wonder Twins brother and sister, and then combined with the role the brother played in the classroom murder case, it was hard not to let people think more.

Sure enough, it was a chain of linked schemes. The purpose was to trigger suspicion among the student group. Suspicion was like a virus, which would eventually lead to the outbreak of panic.

"What do you think should be done, Professor?" Diana asked immediately.

"Beat the opponent to it and make this matter big. And it must be made big by Zan and Jenna."

He looked at Jenna and said: "When you go back later, start crying all the way, saying that your spaceship didn't know why it flew here and exploded, and you have no way to go home anymore."

Jenna widened her eyes and said: "We originally had no way to drive this broken spaceship home. That was completely suicide!"

"Does anyone else know?"

The brother and sister looked at each other and shook their heads. They had actually forgotten about this old spaceship long ago, so they didn't mention it to anyone.

"Then pretend it was never broken." Clark said firmly: "Not only was it never broken, but it was very advanced, surpassing human technology level by several magnitudes. Use all the words you can imagine to improve the technological content level on it. Also emphasize that it spent all your family wealth. Now that it's broken, your loss is significant."

Jenna immediately understood. They must, before the mastermind molded them into malicious perpetrators, first mold themselves into victims, emphasizing that they had absolutely no motive to use their own spaceship as a bomb.

Then naturally, the better and more expensive the spaceship was, the smaller the motive.

"No." Jenna raised another problem, "There isn't just one alien in the student group. Some aliens know the bottom line of the Exor planet and won't believe what we say."

"What they know is the past Exor planet, not the present one."

"But the present one isn't much..."

"The present one isn't much advanced, but don't forget who holds the discourse power of interstellar public opinion."

Jenna was even more confused. She looked at Clark and said: "You wouldn't want to say Earth, right?"

"Of course not. It's the Green Lantern Corps." Clark said while typing on his phone to send a message to Hal: "We work from inside and outside, letting Hal modify the history of the Exor planet once recorded by the Green Lantern Corps at the terminal of the Green Lantern headquarters."

"I will write a few more news about epoch-making spaceships hitting the market, stuff them into their technology research and development history news, and it will be around the time you purchased the spaceship. Naturally, it can confirm your statement."

"The aliens who come here won't hold high positions in their original planets, so it's very hard to find deeper information, and there's no way to expose you."

"You can actually manipulate the Green Lantern Corps." Zan sighed: "The Justice League is indeed a very powerful organization."

Next, work began to be arranged. Clark pulled Oliver to write news, Diana went to pick up reinforcements from the magic side, Bruce stayed behind at the headquarters to monitor unexpected situations, and Arthur took the brother and sister to spread the news.

Other professors all went to attend class according to the plan. The more crisis was before them, the more they should maintain the existence of order, so that the panic atmosphere could be dispelled to the greatest extent.

As for Schiller, no one arranged any work for him, because everyone knew that this professor who had been disturbed all along wouldn't let it go. He was the person responsible for counterattacking.

Schiller first called Brand. He originally didn't want to come at all, but once he saw the string of zeros behind the salary, he immediately expressed that there was no mental doctor in the world more suitable for extraterrestrial work than him.

Brand arrived very quickly. To be accurate, he arrived in a flash. When he arrived, Schiller was writing and drawing, seemingly sorting out the order of events.

Brand leaned over to take a look at Schiller's notes. He discovered that the starting point of the Mercury affairs written by Schiller wasn't the security check, nor was it the classroom murder case, but the Scarecrow serial murder case.

This case had been a while ago, and from the culprit to the victim, it looked like it had nothing to do with Mercury. The only sense of presence was appearing in Bruce's lesson plan.

But next to this case, another case was placed, which was the Nigma serial murder case.

Comparing these two cases, besides both having three victims, there was also a key overlap point, which was the totem-like crime scene.

In the Scarecrow murder case, the Scarecrow standing on the flat earth itself was a kind of totem, while in the Nigma serial murder case, in the last case, the culprit used the corpse to create a totem.

These two victim states were actually very similar. Both were pierced onto wooden stakes, standing on a flat ground, presenting a state of being the most conspicuous protrusion above the earth, tracing back to the source related to totems.

Actually, totem-like corpse states were not rare in serial murder cases. Vertical totems were a more primitive reproductive worship, manifesting male power, which was a form many serial killers liked to use.

But the problem was, the culprits suspected to be these two cases didn't look like people who would use this form. ===== CHAPTER 3039 =====

In the Scarecrow murder case, the scarecrow standing on the flat earth was itself a totem, while in the Nygma serial murder case, the killer used a corpse to create a totem in the final case.

The state of these two victims was actually very similar: both were impaled on wooden stakes and stood on flat ground, presenting a state of being the most conspicuous protrusions above the earth, which can be traced back to totems.

In fact, totem-like corpse states are not uncommon in serial murder cases; a vertical totem is a more primitive form of phallic worship, highlighting male power, a form that many serial killers enjoy using.

But the problem is, the suspected killers of these two cases do not look like the type of people who would use this form.