Chapter 3061: The Mercury Record (58)

In the office of the Mercury base, the argument was still continuing, and Oliver and Bruce had a serious disagreement.

"No, Oliver, we don't have enough evidence. Based on the clues we know now, we can't prove that Miss Cain is the murderer at all." Bruce said with his hands on his hips.

"I didn't say she must be the murderer, but I think in this situation, it's better to restrict her first. This way, if there are any more attacks later, her suspicion can also be ruled out. Isn't that a good thing?"

"Since we can't prove she is the murderer, we have no right to imprison her!"

"This isn't imprisonment," Oliver was still trying to persuade Bruce. He said, "We are just letting her stay in a place with better monitoring, also to help her rule out suspicion..."

"I don't agree with doing this either," Clark said. "Cassandra is too young. Such suspicion might cause her psychological trauma. Besides, if we don't let her go back for a long time, other students will know what's going on. How will she get along with them in the future?"

Oliver appeared somewhat helpless. He was still continuing to persuade, but Bruce and Clark firmly disagreed. Cassandra seemed unable to speak, listening quietly on the side without expressing her views at all.

Janna was also arguing for Cassandra. Currently, Oliver was fighting alone. Until Diana also joined the battlefield.

"I have to say, Miss Cain is indeed the one with the greatest suspicion right now, but the evidence is indeed insufficient to prove she is the murderer. Then why don't we find an excuse to send her back to Earth? Just tell the students she has something to do back on Earth. This way, even if she is wronged, she won't be resented."

After she said this, the room fell silent.

Bruce raised a key question: "Then who will send her back?"

The room remained silent. Diana had to speak again: "I can't go back. Oliver is an ordinary person and might encounter danger. Clark has to stay on Mercury. Then I'm afraid only you, Bruce, can make a trip..."

"I'll go," Janna raised her hand, volunteering. "I can also protect Cassandra to prevent anyone from attacking her."

"You also have to be careful," Diana said to her. "It's a time of trouble. After settling Miss Cain, come back quickly."

Janna nodded vigorously, pulled her brother and Cassandra, and walked out of the office. As soon as she left, she let out a long sigh.

They ran to the portal in one breath. Zan pulled his sister and said, "What are you doing? You haven't been right since just now, winking at Lilith, and now you're in favor of letting Cassandra go to Earth. This doesn't look like you."

"We have telepathy. Can't you sense what I'm thinking?"

"Under normal circumstances, I can only sense general emotions. However, I do feel that you are not as anxious as before. What happened?"

Zan was about to walk to the side of the portal. Janna pulled him back. Zan asked somewhat puzzled, "What's wrong? Didn't you say you wanted to send Cassandra to Earth? Hurry up and go."

"Don't rush," Janna smiled and said.

At this moment, Zan turned his head and saw Cassandra looking left and right, lowering her head to feel the surface of the table, with a thoughtful expression.

During the time they had been with Cassandra, they had discovered that although this Asian girl was silent and didn't have much emotional fluctuation, she was actually meticulous and always noticed small details that others didn't.

Zan just wanted to say something, but the portal flashed with light, and someone actually walked out of it.

Barry said to the three of them, "Only you are left. Follow me."

Zan was confused and didn't know what to do. Janna followed Barry's pace, and Cassandra followed closely behind. Zan had no choice but to follow them through the portal.

The light flashed, and they came to a familiar yet unfamiliar world. It wasn't the Earth portal station that this portal should have led to, but a place exactly the same as the Mercury portal hall.

What's the situation? Zan was confused, looking left and right. They had passed through the portal, but hadn't they? How did it seem like they hadn't moved?

Under Barry's guidance, they walked toward the outside of the portal hall. In the corridor, Zan saw students of all kinds. So they really hadn't transmitted at all?

Zan wasn't stupid. He suddenly reacted. How come he didn't see so many students on the way from the office to the portal hall?

He recalled the situation at the time. The entire Mercury base was terrifyingly quiet, as if everyone had disappeared in an instant. It wasn't unreasonable to say that the students were hiding because they were afraid of being attacked, but Zan always felt it wasn't that simple.

The three were led to a classroom, where they saw several familiar faces: Boonu, Blue Beetle Ted, Booster Gold, and several students who had been attacked before.

Zan was even more confused. Was this a victim networking event?

Janna smiled and finally told her brother the truth. She said, "There is a mole in the Justice League."

"What?!"

"When I empathized with Bruce, I could feel that he had known this for a long time and was not unprepared. And what we had to do at the time was to help him drag out time."

Zan was slightly stunned, then suddenly realized. He said, "So you winked at Lilith, hinting at her to read your mind, so you could tell her your speculation."

"Yes, facts proved my speculation was correct. Lilith must have also read Bruce's mind and knew their plan, so she asked for this and that, acting crazy to drag out time."

Zan nodded. Lilith's way of dragging out time was unique, but very effective. Each thing she wanted took a long time to be delivered. A complete performance took at least two hours, and a complete play dragged on for a whole night.

"But why did they want to drag out time?" Zan asked. Others also gathered around, especially Blue Beetle Ted. It was obvious that Blue Beetle knew something but didn't tell him, and he was extremely curious now.

"Dragging out time is to catch the mole. Clearly, if they took action the moment they knew, it would be difficult to be fully prepared. Although I think they wouldn't be injured, don't forget there were so many students in the Mercury base."

Ted pushed others aside and stepped forward, saying, "Since you want to transfer the students, then hurry up. Why are you still waiting here for normal teaching activities?"

Others also echoed. In their view, if they wanted to transfer, they should gather and transfer quickly, instead of still having normal teaching activities here.

Janna smiled and said, "They were already transferred long ago."

"Ah???"

Others were puzzled. Janna smiled and said, "Take a good look at the sun outside the window. Don't you feel anything is wrong?"

Hearing this, others turned their heads to look out the window. The mysterious patterns on the sun were still constantly rotating and flashing, looking no different from usual.

Because Mercury was too close to the sun, most of the field of vision was blocked by the sun, and it was basically impossible to see the situation of other places in the solar system. However, the patterns of the sun all looked about the same, and no one saw any abnormalities.

"Boonu, your water control magic is very powerful. How about taking us out to see?" Janna looked at the Atlantean girl.

Boonu was also curious, thinking that anyway, she had died once. Since there was a means of resurrection, there was nothing dangerous about it, so she might as well go out and see.

So she controlled the water flow to cover the group's bodies, allowing them to survive in space, while Blue Beetle transmitted them out together through the glass.

Accompanied by gradually moving away from the Mercury base, everyone was stunned, because at this time, the eight planets in the solar system had turned into nine planets.

"Don't misunderstand, it's not that the one kicked out has returned, but that there is an extra Mercury."

There were now two planets in Mercury's orbit, both slowly rotating around the sun. And judging from the few space science knowledge they had, the Mercury in the distance was in the correct position, and this Mercury of theirs was extra.

Everyone was stunned.

And looking closely, both Mercuries had been transformed and had Mercury bases. From the outside, they couldn't see any difference at all, except that the two were facing each other diagonally in orbit. If they hadn't flown far enough and high enough, they wouldn't have seen the flaws.

"So what exactly is going on?" Ted asked, "How did a Mercury appear out of thin air?"

But Boonu had already understood a bit. She said, "I understand. When I washed my hands before, I found that the water flow in the base had some abnormal subtle tremors. At that time, I thought the Mercury base had started some machine, and the machine's power was relatively large, which caused the overall vibration. Now it seems that the planet is likely changing its orbit."

"Planet changing orbit?"

"That's right. Do you think a super base that occupies 80% of Mercury's mass can't move?"

Ted's mouth opened wide. This was clearly a bit beyond his understanding. He said, "You mean, the Mercury base took Mercury and ran?!"

"The Mercury base is Mercury," Janna said. "Don't be so surprised. This wasn't made by you humans, right?"

"But... but... this shouldn't have been made by humans," Ted stammered. "Human cars haven't even flown yet, how could they move Mercury?"

"This thing was indeed developed by humans, because all the equipment inside is clearly adapted for humans, but it might not be this batch of humans," Blue Beetle said. "Now there is a future person standing in front of you, what else is impossible?"

Booster Gold nodded and said, "Indeed, future human technology is already very developed, but I haven't heard of any planet warships at that time. This kind of equipment might come from a more distant future."

"I have already understood this part," Zan nodded and said, "A base facility that occupies 80% of Mercury's mass secretly moved its position, letting the Mercury where the students are come here. But what about that fake Mercury? Why did they move Mercury away first and then manufacture a fake one?"

"Of course, it's to confuse the mole," Janna said. "The mole isn't stupid either. He knows how much the Justice League values the students. As long as he stays inside the base, he will feel that the Justice League dare not easily take action against him, because this is extremely likely to endanger the students."

"And as long as he is still in the base, he can grab hostages at any time to negotiate with the Justice League. He always has a way out. The Justice League just wanted to give him such an illusion, so they moved the real Mercury away first and then shaped a fake one, letting the mole mistakenly believe that the current situation is still favorable to him, so he wouldn't easily escape."

"So that's how it is," Ted also fully understood. He said, "To stabilize the mole, we must adopt this way of stealing the beam and changing the pillar. But stabilizing is stabilizing, don't we still have to fight in the end? Mercury is so close to the sun. If it endangers the sun, let alone the students, Earth will have to play along."

"I don't know about this," Janna shook her head. "But don't you feel a bit strange? Humans of this era can't build a Mercury base at all. Where did this fake Mercury base come from? And it was restored to be exactly the same as the real one in such a short time. There must be something tricky, right?"

As soon as she finished speaking, in the shocked eyes of everyone, that fake Mercury in the correct position turned green. ===== CHAPTER 3062 =====