Chapter 3488: Research on Cats and Dogs (Part 47)
Seeing these messages, Clark immediately called Oliver.
"Bruce has been kidnapped again," he said. "Someone stuffed him into a black Honda car. But there is a special vision-blocking device on the car, so he didn't see the specific situation either.
However, after his communication with the kidnapper, he judged that it might be my compatriot, that is, a Kryptonian.
I think you should find the location as soon as possible so that the kidnapper can be rescued... That's right, a conflict broke out between the two of them, and Bruce threatened to make him look good. I can't guarantee what will happen if this drags on."
Oliver hung up the phone, opened the group contact channel, repeated Clark's words, and then said in a deep voice, "Track the whereabouts of the black Honda car with all your might!"
"Received," Pamela pressed her earpiece with her gloved hand.
"On the way," Lex hurried down the stairs.
"Got it," Hal turned to look at the sun outside the floor-to-ceiling window.
"No problem," Harley put away the defense layout drawings in her hand.
The Justice League operated at high speed, and everyone was searching for the mysterious black Honda car in their own way. Countless signals converged inside Luthor Manor.
At the same time, on a cliff on the south beach of Metropolis, a white beam of light that could not be seen by ordinary people penetrated the soil, passed through the ground, and shot into the sky from inside the cliff mountain.
Following the beam of light downward, there was actually a cave in the center of the cliff, which was clearly not a natural structure but had been hollowed out by humans.
On the side facing the sea, there was a very inconspicuous cave entrance covered by shrub branches, and the entrance was covered with a thin energy film, isolating all energy fluctuations within.
Passing through the smaller entrance, the inside was a different world. This cave was quite large, and the neat rock wall cuts showed how easy it was when it was excavated. And right at the deepest part of the cave, a ship that looked very high-tech was parked.
This ship was not the flying saucer that humans thought aliens would drive; its shape was closer to a quadrangular pyramid, with extended side wings on each edge. When parked in the cave, the side wings were retracted, and faint light shone around the edges.
Around the ship, there were many workbenches deployed from the ship, turning the cave into an alien base.
And right in the center of this base, there was a transparent cylindrical cabin, just enough for an adult human male to stand in. And the unlucky human standing here at this moment was Bruce.
He bared his teeth and brandished his fists, with a bit of injury on the corner of his mouth, clearly having just had a scuffle with someone.
But considering that the one standing in front of him now was a standard Kryptonian, how he managed to only have a bit of injury on the corner of his mouth was worth savoring.
The tall figure standing opposite clearly didn't have it easy either. He also didn't expect that Batman's fighting skills could be so superb that a sweep kick could knock him down.
Or rather, what he couldn't understand was that this damn Batman could knock him down with a sweep kick, so why was the next step to pull his hair?
And what puzzled him even more was why his own first reaction was also to scuffle with him?
It could only be said that any humanoid creature—or rather, as long as it had four limbs—the instinctive reaction when facing an attack from others was not some handsome fighting move, but grabbing wherever one could, scratching wherever one could, and skillfully using "Wang Ba" punches (wild, unrefined punches).
And once someone started throwing wild punches, no matter how superb the other person's fighting skills were, they couldn't be displayed; they could only be pulled to the same level and then defeated by the other person's rich experience in chaotic fighting.
What happened in these few seconds made this alien from afar completely certain: humans evolved from monkeys.
It's just that he wasn't sure where the Kryptonians, who looked exactly like humans, came from.
"BAT-MAN!" he said, almost word for word.
"I said I'm not Batman!" Bruce's pauses were more than his, and he even looked like the one who was angrier.
"Very well, if you are unwilling to cooperate, then I can only change to another way." The other party took a few steps back, reached out to touch a button on the console, and his fingers exerted a slight force.
The moment the button was pressed, a ring of light above this cylindrical cabin gradually lit up and then descended towards Bruce's head.
Bruce looked up at the ring of light, but when he lowered his head, the alien visitor didn't see any panic on his face. On the contrary, he only saw a trace of cunning amusement.
Suddenly, Bruce reached out to touch behind his waist.
The Kryptonian opposite instinctively imitated his action and then discovered that something seemed to be missing from his own waist.
Bruce pulled out a gun from somewhere.
Zzzzt—BANG!!!
The cabin made of energy was shattered, and Bruce disappeared in an instant. The Kryptonian immediately turned his head to look for him, but the next second he heard the sound of the energy cutting gun charging up.
Zzzzt—BANG! BANG! BANG!
One charge, three shots fired in succession, hitting exactly the three most expensive, most complex, and most difficult-to-obtain machines in the base.
Instantly, metal fragments flew everywhere, and electric sparks darted about. A black shadow flashed past the Kryptonian's eyes, and red light flashed in the Kryptonian's eyes.
Zzzzt—!!
The laser beam swept past, but it just happened to destroy the equipment in front, opening a gap in the circle of equipment. A figure swooshed out.
Seeing that he was flying in the direction of the ship, the Kryptonian rushed up in a hurry, but the figure nimbly circled behind the ship again. He had no choice but to quickly increase his altitude and fly over the top of the ship.
But the other party, relying on a smaller and more flexible body, slipped past the side wing under the ship again.
When the energy cutting gun charged up again, the Kryptonian had a very bad premonition.
Zzzzt-zzzzt-zzzzt—
The continuous sharp sound meant that the cutting gun had been switched from point-shot mode to cutting mode. But Bruce happened to be in his blind spot, and he couldn't see clearly what the other party was cutting.
The reason he carried this cutting gun with him was that this thing could cut through Kryptonian metal, and it could be said to be sharp enough to cut iron like mud, very easy to use.
The Kryptonian originally thought that even if Bruce wanted to use this thing to destroy the ship, he didn't know where the important parts of the ship were. In such a few seconds, it was impossible for him to cut the engine.
But he didn't expect that when he circled around and flew over to catch Bruce, he found that a big hole had been opened in his ship, and Bruce had already disappeared.
He didn't drill inside, did he?!
Considering the damage Bruce might cause to the ship with the handheld cutting gun, the Kryptonian hurriedly returned to the ship, activated the ship's self-test system, and wanted to find this bug that didn't know whether it was dead or alive.
But this self-test system checked for a long time and only reported damage to the ship's hull; there were no other danger alerts.
The Kryptonian was worried that the other party had used some trick, so he hurriedly scanned it manually again, but except for the hole opened in the hull, there was indeed no damage.
He flew out of the ship with suspicion, and then he was completely dumbfounded.
The ship was indeed fine, but only the ship was fine.
Or rather, there was only the ship left.
The base spread out outside the ship had disappeared entirely, the ground had been scraped clean, leaving only the natural dust of the cave, which drifted away when blown by the cold wind, desolate and lonely like the heart of the alien visitor.
"BATMAN!!!!!"
Hal, who had just flown back to the sky above Metropolis, heard such an angry roar. He slapped his thigh and shouted: "It's bad! Hurry back to the base!"
Batman, who was following him, hurriedly grabbed him and said, "This should be the Kryptonian's voice, right? Could it be that Bruce encountered him?"
"This is indeed the Kryptonian's voice, but judging by the tone, it should be that he encountered Bruce." Hal waved his cloak and flew to Luthor Manor at the fastest speed, only having time to explain when he landed, "Hurry! Bruce will definitely have a next move, we have to be fast!"
"If he set a trap for Zod, then we really need to cooperate with him quickly. I think he might be..." Batman wanted to analyze Bruce's plan, but Hal interrupted him, saying: "I think he might have set a trap for us!"
Before he finished speaking, Lex's image popped up on the communicator. He shouted: "Hal! Stop that black Honda!!!"
Hal turned his head abruptly and saw a figure as swift as a missile already rushing into the sky above Metropolis, red light splashing from his eyes, attacking Metropolis with one laser beam after another.
He gasped and hurriedly flew up. Superman followed closely, and the Injustice Superman who was following Lex also flew out of the window. Several people flew in the same direction.
Batman, standing at the door, was almost hit by the Injustice Superman. He just wanted to adjust his position when Pamela also rushed out in a flurry.
She was still wearing the laboratory protective suit, took off the protective goggles with one hand and threw them aside, and floated into mid-air with both hands spread.
The moment she raised her hand, countless vines broke through the soil, spreading all the way to the sky, and then converged towards the center, finally intertwining to weave a dense green protective net.
Immediately after, the energy shield of Luthor Manor was also activated.
"Are they launching an all-out attack?!" Batman said to the communicator, "Zod must be stopped immediately, I need equipment!"
"I have a question," another deeper voice came from the communicator. Injustice Batman said: "Why didn't Zod fly his ship?"
Batman was also choked. Clearly, he didn't know why either. Even if the weapons on the Kryptonian ship were trash, they were still much stronger than him shooting around with his eyes here.
If this was also a probing attack, then he didn't need to expose his main body at all; just send drones to attack. But if this was his all-out attack, why didn't he fly the ship?
In the end, Batman could only attribute it to Zod being very confident in his own physical strength, feeling that he could retreat unscathed under the siege of three Supermen.
Just then, the buzzing sound of drones came from behind. A box was thrown down from mid-air. Batman walked over and opened it to see a full set of combat equipment.
Although the Luthor Corp logo printed on it made people a bit unable to hold it, forget it, as long as it could be used.
Batman quickly put on the auxiliary exoskeleton and took the Batarangs produced by Luthor Corp—although they were silver, their weight and shape were really similar to the ones he usually used—as well as grappling hooks, shooters, flares, tear gas, etc.
And Injustice Batman drove a car, which was clearly also a combat armored vehicle produced by Luthor Corp. Compared to the Batmobile, which looked like a sports car, this car looked like a proper armored vehicle: high chassis, heavy weight, and equipped with various weapons.
The two Batmen rode in the same car and drove towards the center of the battlefield.
And it wasn't until he reached the center of the battlefield that Batman discovered that this battle seemed a bit different from what he thought.
Not to mention Zod going crazy in mid-air, nor the two Supermen who were clearly very close to Zod but had been slow to take any action, and ignoring Barry and Hal who were running around on the ground but just didn't take any effective control measures...
Who can tell him what's going on with this black Honda running around?
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