Chapter 3543: Interstellar Speed (Part 3)

In an instant, all the lights on the planet lit up.

It seemed to be responding to Martian Manhunter's call; the nearest building sign flickered. Clark heard a voice:

"Hello, humans."

He turned back to look at H'el. J'onn shook his head at him and said, "I have closed his brain functions; he won't wake up for a while. He is no longer the biggest trouble now."

Clark also came to the edge of the building and looked down. The lights on the street flickered rhythmically, as if they wanted to say something to them.

"An out-of-control super artificial intelligence..." Clark whispered, "Will he invade Earth?"

"He can't," J'onn said. "Earth's magical defense network has activated full defense mode, and no radio waves can invade. But he can leave here and head into the universe."

"What will he do?"

J'onn shook his head, not knowing whether he didn't know or didn't want to say. And just at this moment, a golden light flashed, and Barry appeared before the two.

He exhaled and shook his head, saying, "Finally back."

Then he also looked at the street below his feet and shouted, "Brainiac, are you okay?"

"You know him?"

"Sort of, an evil super artificial intelligence," Barry said. "He came to the solar system to find the permission to lift the underlying restriction protocol."

"Where is this permission?" Clark asked, frowning.

"With me," Barry said. "To be precise, I got this thing to Earth in the past. That's why he sent H'el to probe, then led us to Krypton, and finally brought Krypton back to Earth."

J'onn's hand paused; he hadn't expected it to be like this.

Barry shrugged and said, "Although we lost a Mercury base, now we have a new one, and it's better than the original one. This is a profitable deal."

At this moment, Clark's communicator rang, and Oliver's voice came through: "Bring H'el back, everyone assemble, prepare for a meeting."

Clark, J'onn, and Barry brought the unconscious H'el back to Earth. They first put H'el into the cryogenic chamber where Zod had been, and then they went to the meeting.

All members of the Justice League were present, and the peripheral members who participated in this incident also came. Batman and the Supermen were all there.

As the only one who knew about the past, Barry explained the entire chain of events to them:

The Barry of the past took Brainiac's permission to lift the underlying restriction protocol, causing Brainiac to target the solar system and send H'el to probe Earth many years later.

H'el came to the solar system and blew up Mercury, attracting the attention of the Justice League. Hal and Barry went to deal with it, and Barry went back to the past and took Brainiac's permission to lift the underlying restriction protocol.

Time thus closed the loop.

El learned from the future Barry that his future son Clark could absorb the energy of the sun in the solar system to become more powerful, thus knowing that the sun in the solar system was the star they needed, and formulated the interstellar speed run plan.

And Jor-El knew the coordinates of Earth, so when Krypton was destroyed in the future, he set the automatic navigation to Earth for the spaceships of Clark and Kara, letting Clark come to Earth and crash on the farm in Kansas.

Clark, after growing up, joined the Justice League, encountered the H'el invasion incident, went to Krypton to investigate, and in Jor-El's home, found a letter that the past El had entrusted to invade the past Barry.

The main content of the letter was to reveal the existence of the Kryptonian planetary engine. El let Clark get the key to the planetary engine, successfully started the engine, and brought the entire Krypton to jump to the solar system.

This was the whole story of the H'el invasion incident.

"The reason I agreed to El's plan is that compared to our original Mercury, this one is obviously better," Barry, standing at the front, laughed and said.

Oliver and Lex also nodded. They were obviously quite satisfied with Krypton.

Although the civilization on this planet had been completely destroyed and various facilities were damaged, just a planet-level fusion reactor and a faster-than-light engine were definitely a profit.

The Justice League painlessly possessed a planetary warship, the kind that could go to every corner of the universe at any time.

Some people might think that Krypton belongs to the Kryptonians after all, and Zod and the others might still want to carry out a Krypton revival plan on it.

However, this plan cannot be completed in a day or two. Without mature accelerated growth technology, it would take decades for the first generation of Kryptonians to grow up. By that time, humans might have already replicated the faster-than-light engine.

And even if they grow up and take back their planet, there is absolutely no need to be enemies with humans. On the contrary, the two sides can fully cooperate to jointly guard the solar system.

Kryptonians' physical fitness is so strong, and the sun in the solar system is an extra enhancement for them, so it is equivalent to Earth painlessly possessing a group of bodyguards.

To make an analogy, it is equivalent to Marvel's Earth and Asgard. Although human individuals do not have the ability to survive in the universe, because the big brother on top can fight, even if it is a place where soldiers must fight, they have lived safely for many years.

Similarly highly humanoid civilization, born with the ability to survive in the universe, personal martial arts off the charts, small population, limited scope of rule. Isn't Krypton equivalent to Asgard of DC Earth?

What's more, with Clark around, it is very likely to win H'el over. Now the All-Father also has one.

"I have a question," Injustice Batman said. "You said that the super artificial intelligence born on Krypton is called Brainiac? Do you know who he is?"

"Slightly understand," Oliver said. "I know you want to ask why we didn't kick him out before bringing Krypton over. I can only say, we just wanted to bring him over."

Injustice Batman frowned at him.

"Think about it, how did our Mercury disappear?"

"Destroyed by H'el."

"Then who sent H'el?"

"Brainiac."

"That is to say, our Mercury was destroyed by Brainiac," Oliver spread his hands and said. "He destroyed our Mercury, he needs to compensate. If we let him go, who will compensate for our Mercury?"

"But Krypton isn't..."

"Krypton was definitely coming," Oliver said. "When the time comes, moving Mercury a bit inward, it's not like we can't clear an orbit. By then we will have two Mercuries."

"But just because of this evil artificial intelligence, our original Mercury was destroyed, and now there is only one Mercury left. This is a huge loss for humanity!"

Oliver said with some heartache: "You have all seen the original Mercury base, that is a high-tech, high-value space base. It was destroyed just like that, can't we even demand compensation?!"

Injustice Batman opened his mouth, but in the end, he was speechless. What Oliver said indeed made some sense.

If Mercury and Krypton were both here now, then humanity would have really made a fortune. Unfortunately, only Krypton is left now, although it is better than the original Mercury, it is not that profitable.

Oliver let out a long sigh and said: "More importantly, the original Green Lantern Corps had done a lot of management there. This time, not only was Hal seriously injured, but the original layout of the Green Lantern Corps was also destroyed, humanity has suffered heavy losses..."

Just at this moment, Hal flew in. He was glowing with health, not looking like he had just been seriously injured at all, and put a stack of documents on the table, saying: "It's a tragic disaster, the Green Lantern Corps just issued a document expressing regret for this attack."

"I got another large budget for base construction in this sector. Let's think about how to spend it first. I think we can take one-tenth to buy another set of equipment from Iron Man and put it on Mars..."

Oliver pulled him. Hal then realized that there were outsiders present. He immediately covered his chest and coughed a few times, then whispered: "Also approved a lot of medical expenses, count as my personal property. I'll send it to the Gotham School of Magic later..."

The two Batmen felt more and more that something was wrong.

It was Brainiac who tricked H'el into coming to find Zod, so even if Earth's signal was shielded and H'el didn't find Earth, why did he head toward Mercury?

The entire solar system has only this one artificial planet, and most of the other planets do not have any particularly valuable assets. If there are any, they do not belong to humans, and they have nothing to do with the Green Lantern Corps.

H'el came and just happened to blow up Mercury, causing humanity and the Green Lantern Corps to suffer major property losses, why does it feel a bit too coincidental?

The two Batmen narrowed their eyes at the same time.

Oliver also coughed twice and said: "Now our most urgent task is to count the losses of this battle. First, the energy consumption of starting various shields is..."

Oliver read a long list of losses, anyway, from the time Malafak came to Earth until Krypton jumped to the solar system, all the resources used were counted as losses.

Finally, while aligning the documents, he said:

"Brainiac, as an artificial intelligence created by Kryptonians, has brought such huge losses to humanity. Unfortunately, the Kryptonian High Council that created him back then has unfortunately perished, leaving only one planet. If it really doesn't work, we can reluctantly accept this planet as compensation."

"Yes, although Brainiac is an artificial intelligence life with autonomous intelligence, he was created by Kryptonians after all. They are really hard to shirk responsibility." Lex echoed.

"I think so too, the Kryptonian High Council back then was not a good thing. Creating such an evil artificial intelligence without regulation, they must bear the main responsibility. Since the people are already dead, then take the legacy to compensate." Bruce also said.

Others also nodded one after another, while denouncing the losses brought to Earth by the evil artificial intelligence, while saying that it is logical for humans attacked by Kryptonian legacy to accept the legacy of the Kryptonians.

"Cough cough." Oliver coughed twice more and said, "Although logically speaking, it should be like this, but Kryptonians haven't all died after all. We still have to conduct a democratic vote."

"You Kryptonians vote internally, those who agree to use Krypton's legacy to compensate for human losses, please raise your hands."

Clark and Kara both raised their hands.

"Okay, now there are four Kryptonian visitors on Earth, but one of them is a clone. According to Kryptonian law, he does not have the rights of a Kryptonian. So there are three Kryptonian citizens."

"Now there are two votes in favor, 2 to 1 vote passed—let's applaud for the friendship between humanity and Krypton!"

Oliver took the lead, and warm applause rang out in the conference room. Everyone looked at each other and smiled, high-fiving to celebrate.

After the meeting, Injustice Batman deliberately walked a step slower and walked side by side with Barry. Injustice Batman glanced at him and said: "You did it, right?"

"Not entirely," Barry's eyeballs turned and he said, "I just found the past me in the Speed Force, and while moving Zod's ship with the Speed Force before, I cut off the signal transmitter and threw it to Mercury. Not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning."

Now, Injustice Batman felt that the Joker he saw before might not only be more reliable than the entire Justice League combined, but also kinder than them combined.

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