Chapter 3537: Mind Hunter (6)

"Krypton is a star," Injustice Batman said surprisingly.

Injustice Superman and Schiller were both stunned.

Injustice Batman was staring fixedly at a spectrum.

They found a maintenance room on this floor of the mine. Obviously, at this point in the dream, Krypton had not yet been destroyed. All equipment was operating normally, and those instruments monitoring core activities were also reflecting the data truthfully.

None of the three of them could understand Kryptonian text, but Batman understood various data better than them.

Under the condition that the laws of the universe remain unchanged and they are all carbon-based organisms, the basic science of all civilizations is not much different, especially in terms of data, basically only the form of expression is different, and the content to be monitored is essentially unchanged.

"What's wrong?" Schiller looked at him and asked.

Injustice Batman stood in place for a long time without speaking, as if accepting a fact. He looked at Schiller and said: "How credible is the dream?"

"The credibility of the shallow dream is relatively high," Schiller explained, "You can understand it as H'El's past memories."

Injustice Batman pointed to the spectrum of the instrument in front of him and said: "This is a fusion reaction monitor. The instrument shows that the energy core active underground is a huge high-energy fusion reactor."

"This kind of spectrum representation usually only appears on stars. Either Krypton is a star, or it should have become a star."

Schiller only knew a little about professional astronomical knowledge, but he could understand what Injustice Batman meant.

As everyone knows, the biggest difference between stars and planets is that there is a continuous nuclear fusion reaction inside the star, while planets do not.

So, if there is a nuclear fusion reaction inside a planet, is it still a planet?

Theoretically speaking, this is impossible. The mass required to trigger nuclear fusion is simply not something a planet can reach.

Taking the Solar System as an example, the minimum mass required to trigger nuclear fusion is about 7.5% of the Sun's mass. The mass of Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, is only 0.1% of the Sun's. Earth is even less worth mentioning; even if you pinch thousands or tens of thousands of them together, they wouldn't reach the minimum reaction condition.

Krypton is much smaller than Earth, where would it get such a large mass for extreme compression to ignite the fire of fusion?

If the mass were that large, the other planets in this star system shouldn't be orbiting their sun, but should be orbiting Krypton.

But Schiller believed Batman's judgment. On such issues involving science, he wouldn't talk nonsense.

"What do you think could lead to such a situation?" Schiller asked.

"Human scientists also have a hypothesis," Injustice Batman said, "Theoretically speaking, gathering about 80 Jupiters together and compressing them can artificially create a smaller red dwarf."

"But judging from the current technological level of humans, there is absolutely no possibility of achieving this. However, perhaps other civilizations can do it, who knows."

Schiller pondered. He thought, the universe is vast and full of wonders. The civilizations in the DC universe are vast, although most of the civilizations in the DC universe are not very famous, the little blue people should have a way to do it.

The three major empires on the Marvel side must have such technology. They even have artificial cosmic colonies, which is to get a star, and then get many planets, creating an artificial star system, and then stationing troops inside, which is a bit like humans reclaiming land to build islands.

To avoid the entropy increase speed being too fast, their actions are relatively cautious, but near the ring star area, there are many such artificial star systems, which cannot be seen from the outside.

Then, is it possible that Krypton is also an artificial planet?

To be precise, it is an artificial star, but I don't know why, it became a planet while being built.

Injustice Batman of course also thought of the possibility of "artificial". He of course first felt that it might be the Kryptonians who did it—for convenience, they put a fusion reactor in the core of their home planet.

But after thinking about it, he felt it was wrong: they could build a fusion reactor, why put this thing in the core? Isn't this the same as building a house on a bomb?

Although it is said that nuclear fusion is safe and pollution-free, it depends on the mass. The thing in the center of the Krypton planet is obviously very unsafe.

How to describe its danger? It's probably like you sending this plan to the desk of the President of the United States, and he wouldn't dare to sign it.

This is obviously a situation beyond the three's expectations, and it is even very likely to overturn all their previous guesses about Krypton.

If this matter wasn't done by the Kryptonians themselves, it means that some civilization built this planet, which also means that Kryptonians might not be a naturally evolved race, but an artificial race.

Although the whole universe was created by God, sons and grandsons are still different.

After reaching this conclusion, many of Schiller's doubts were answered. For example, why Kryptonians couldn't adapt to the radiation of the stars in this universe, why their gene screening technology was so powerful, and why they died so carelessly.

Injustice Batman was obviously better at conspiracy theories than him. From his expression, it could be seen that he had already compiled tens of thousands of science fiction movies in his mind.

"H'El knows about this," Schiller said, "This is a scene that appeared in his dream, which means he might have come here, seen these things, and someone explained everything to him."

"Jor-El," Injustice Batman said, "He knows more than we imagine."

"It seems you know more than I imagined," Barry leaned against the laboratory wall, staring at El who was busy in front of the experimental bench.

El didn't even look up and said: "I'm just an ordinary scientist, not some future person."

Barry walked to his other side and said: "What exactly is going on with the Council here? They give me a feeling..."

"What feeling?"

"As if they don't want to live anymore," Barry paused and described it more seriously, "As if they have been having a doomsday carnival and don't consider the future at all."

"We are a race without a future," El said, and then added, "But not necessarily now."

"I want to know what exactly is going on with all this," Barry said very directly, "If you don't tell me, I won't be able to sleep."

El had no intention of being a riddle-maker at all. While putting the mold into the cooling machine, he said:

"We are not the first generation of Kryptonians, but the second. We call ourselves 'Kryptonians', and the race that originally lived in this star system called themselves 'Krynians'."

"At that time, the star system we were in—that is, the Andromeda Galaxy—possessed many powerful civilizations. We also reached an alliance with other powerful civilizations at a closer distance in other galaxies, once becoming the most powerful alliance in the universe, called the Star Alliance."

"And the establishment of the Star Alliance was mainly to deal with a terrifying and powerful enemy—Apokolips, located at the edge of the Milky Way."

"Most of the member civilizations in the Star Alliance were advanced and powerful, such as New Genesis, Titan, and Krypton."

"However, later, a terrifying disaster descended. Countless advanced civilizations gathered in the Milky Way to compete for a certain treasure, and an unprecedented war broke out."

"War has never had winners. The treasure was shattered, Titan was destroyed, Apokolips and New Genesis entered a cold war, and the Star Alliance led by the Krynians suffered heavy losses in this battle until it completely disintegrated."

"Because the various weapons and resources used in this battle were too many, the universe erupted in acute entropy increase. The increase in dark matter caused stellar radiation to drop sharply, leading to the extinction of the Krynians, whose source of power was absorbing stellar radiation."

"They created you before they went extinct?" Barry asked.

"They wanted to do so, and they probably succeeded."

"What do you mean probably?"

"Because stellar radiation has dropped too much, they already knew that they were not far from extinction. So they wanted to create a race that was not affected by stellar radiation."

Barry finally reacted and said: "But it seems they were counterproductive."

"To be precise, it was interfered with by someone. Someone tampered with it." El adjusted the parameters of the low-temperature machine and continued, "At that time, the Krynians had three major families, namely El, Zod, and Vex."

"The El family—that is, my family—mostly consisted of scientists, the Zod family mostly consisted of great generals, and the Vex family consisted of politicians."

"Since the birth of the Kryptonian race, they have maintained such traditions. You should already have some understanding of the El family and the Zod family. The Vex family is the family that rules the Council."

Barry realized and said: "Could it be that this guy tampered with it?"

El nodded and said: "Yes. But not just them. According to my speculation, they must have colluded with some other advanced civilizations to tamper with the Kryptonian genetic data."

"They made you fear stellar radiation?"

"More than that. They made us die of stellar radiation one day."

Barry continued to think along his words.

No wonder he said Krypton would be destroyed at the beginning, El had no fluctuation at all; it turned out he had known it for a long time.

Krypton's destruction at that time wasn't because of any worker uprising, but because their genes themselves had problems and were destined to perish at that time.

Then he remembered what El said earlier about the Council wanting to build robots, but not building machines first, but building artificial intelligence first. Now it seems there is a big problem here too.

If the Vex family that rules the Council is a traitor, then the artificial intelligence they created must not be anything good.

No wonder El, who came from the El family, adopted H'El. I'm afraid they also planned to use H'El to deal with that artificial intelligence and the Vex family behind him.

It's just a pity that in the end, the Vex family succeeded, and Krypton was still destroyed.

No, Barry thought, El's attitude was too calm; I'm afraid even if he didn't come, he had other plans.

Krypton's destruction wasn't entirely a bad thing, because if the genes at the beginning had problems, then this batch of Kryptonians definitely couldn't be kept.

But this doesn't mean that a new batch of Kryptonians couldn't be created. As long as the gene that fears stellar radiation is solved, the new Kryptonians can inherit all the culture and knowledge of the previous generation of Kryptonians, and there is no loss.

But Barry was more concerned about a question at this moment, and he said: "Why didn't Clark die from the outbreak of genetic problems?"

El seemed to have been holding back for a long time, waiting for someone to ask him. He stood up straight, adjusted his collar, cleared his throat, and said:

"Because I—the greatest scientist in Kryptonian history, and my brother, successfully eliminated the root gene that was called 'impossible to eliminate'. Kal and Kara will be perfect Kryptonians, with no genetic defects!"

"Then what's going on with Zod?"

El's face immediately collapsed.

"Which Zod? Could it be Dru-Zod? This bastard didn't die?!!"

"He didn't die," Barry said, and added in his heart: but he's much worse off than dead.

?? The Schiller universe background combines the origins of various versions of the comic universe, all of which have been re-edited, subject to the author's settings.

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