Chapter 3857: The Nameless Bat (38)

"Hello, the pizza you ordered has arrived." Schiller dialed the phone with the delivery man's original phone and said, "I'm afraid you have to send someone down to get it, because there's a bit too much stuff. I might not be able to send it up all at once... Okay, I'll wait for you at the main gate."

Just as he hung up the phone, he saw a flash of golden light. A young man in a red uniform appeared before his eyes and said: "Oh, thank you for your hard work, sir, where is our pizza?"

"Oh my God! Are you the Flash? Are you?!" Schiller's tone changed completely, sounding like a very enthusiastic young fan, with some Southern accent.

"Yes. But are you a fan of mine? I have fans in Gotham?" The Flash looked very surprised, "I thought you all liked Batman."

"Stop joking, how could I like that rich guy? He's not grounded at all. Only young heroes like you are my idols! By the way, I saw you used a great $18 coupon to order pizza; you must have used it, right?"

"My God, you actually found out!" The Flash was almost jumping up, and he said, "That's something I redeemed after doing missions for three days! I even placed two wrong orders for it. They all said I was wasting time, but I saved a full $18!"

Schiller walked up, put his arm around his shoulder, patted his back, and said: "Don't care about those people. They are all rich people who don't know the hardships of the world. I only make $8 running this order. $18 is already a lot!"

The Flash was clearly very happy and said: "That's great, finally someone understands me. But this coupon actually isn't hard to get; you just need to sign in for three consecutive days and then do some small tasks. I'll teach you..."

The Flash didn't know where he took out his phone. Schiller also took out his phone. The Flash took Schiller's phone to help him operate it, so his phone fell into Schiller's hands.

Schiller pressed a button at random, lit up the screen saver, and said with some surprise: "Oh, is this that... uh, Justice League? Is this Batman, and this is Superman?"

The Flash leaned over to take a look, nodded, and said: "Yes, this is what we just took. To celebrate the completion of the new base."

"Then this must be Wonder Woman, right? I heard she is the princess of the Amazons and a big shot." Schiller pretended to shake his head with great emotion.

"Ah, don't think of them too badly." The Flash said while operating, "Although they are indeed richer than me, we still work together, and it feels good to be colleagues with them. Look, the activity I told you about is right here..."

Schiller soon learned how to claim the coupon. Then he returned the phone to the Flash, also took back his own phone, took out several portions of pizza from the trunk, and said: "You're the only one, I'm afraid you can't take it all, right? Do you want me to help you send it up?"

"No need, I'll just run one more trip, you know I'm fast." The Flash smiled at him, disappeared with a "whoosh," and then appeared again soon, taking the remaining drinks as well.

"Oh, by the way. Your tip should have arrived, have a pleasant day." The Flash waved at him and said.

Schiller also waved at him, said goodbye with a smile, and drove away from the new base.

On the way back, he pressed his earpiece and said: "The backdoor program has been installed on the Flash's phone. Flip through his phone to see if there are any important clues, and then arrange for monitoring."

The other side was silent for a while, and soon a voice came: "Sorry, Boss, no signal at all. The other party seems to have blocked the network signal. We can't connect to the backdoor program here."

"As expected." Schiller wasn't surprised at all, and said, "Go find Miss Gordon, let her try to invade the new base and see if she has a way."

Just as Schiller drove the car back to its original position and stuffed the delivery man back into the car, the subordinate's voice came from the earpiece: "Completely impossible, Boss."

"Miss Gordon is unwilling to cooperate?"

"No. She tried, but the network signal there is blocked very tightly and cannot be invaded at all. She suggests you physically destroy the signal blocking device, and then she can try again."

"Then can her prophecy system find where the blocking device is?"

"She is checking, but it doesn't look optimistic. The cameras around the base didn't capture any suspicious items... Ah, wait. Abnormal optical phenomenon. I'll send it to you, Boss."

Schiller's phone soon received a video. It looked like it was captured by a camera on a lifeguard chair; the camera was mainly aimed at the sea area the safety officer was responsible for, and the lower right edge could see a corner of the new base.

Because the new base was being built and was built using magic, the nearby beach was cleared. Of course, there was no one on the chair. Barbara must have used some illegal means to invade the camera, but considering she was working for the FBI, the means didn't matter.

At the third second of the video, a beam of light flashed across the sea. Immediately after, the screen began to be severely interfered with. In the last second of the video, Schiller saw an arc-shaped light shield rising from the sea.

He knew that Batman went to the magic school on Marvel's side and didn't come back empty-handed. It seemed he had added a small magic defense network to his new base.

Soon Barbara called, and she said: "I tend to think this is some kind of energy shield developed by Batman. I saw similar things in his Batcave before, but it seems to have been shelved for a long time due to energy efficiency and output problems. Perhaps he has made new progress."

"Thank you very much for the information provided." Schiller said, "This thing should be able to completely block network signals, right?"

"Yes." Barbara's tone was very firm, and she said, "This is the biggest disadvantage of network intrusion. Once there is no signal, then even God has no way."

"What if that electronic life left a backup in some things during the construction of the base?" Schiller proposed a hypothesis.

Barbara was silent for a long time before saying: "I think you should make a phone call to Batman and remind him. This possibility not only exists, but if it's true, it will be very terrifying. That unknown existence might directly control the base's electronic system."

"I don't think Batman would be unprepared." Schiller shook his head and said, "I got a set of architectural blueprints from my colleague; do you want to see them?"

"What blueprints? For the new base? But I really don't know much about this aspect. You've already sent them? Let me see... Wait. Why is the architectural structure of this base so strange? Where is the elevator? Where is the parking lot? Why is there no maintenance workshop?"

"I believe you have already seen it, Miss Gordon. Except for the architectural appearance, this is completely a medieval castle, not connected to electricity at all."

"Jesus." Barbara exclaimed, "To prevent the intrusion of electronic life, Batman directly gave up modernization? Isn't this throwing away the baby with the bathwater?"

"Really?" Schiller asked rhetorically, "Does the Justice League really need electronic systems that much?"

"Uh..." Barbara hesitated for a while before saying, "If Batman can give up all equipment and modern means, it's not impossible to be a primitive man."

"This is a wise choice." Schiller said, "You can never defeat electronic life on the internet, so the only thing you can do is abandon the internet. Batman isn't that strong because of those modern means, is he?"

"What you said makes sense. But even if he can't control the network in the base, he can still make waves outside. It's meaningless to just keep avoiding without researching means against him. Batman can't stay in the base forever and not come out, right?"

"You should know that Batman is never someone who will avoid things." Schiller paused before saying, "He has a reason for doing this kind of behavior that looks like a shrinking turtle."

"You aren't being sarcastic, are you?"

"I don't have that spare time, Miss Gordon. Now I need you to tell me—if there is a kind of energy, I mean, a brand new electrical signal, completely different from the past, and also different from any electrical signal humans can monitor—is it possible for Batman to build a brand new network with this?"

Barbara was silent for a while again, then said: "This hypothesis sounds like that kind of not-so-rigorous science fiction movie, assuming there is an omnipotent 'aether force' or something. But if it really exists, it's not impossible."

"Your answer is 'yes'?"

"Hmm. If this energy really exists and also has the same properties as other electrical signals, then of course a brand new network can be formed. But there is also a problem; if it has the same properties as other electrical signals, then how can he block an electronic life that can come and go freely in radio waves and signals?"

"Of course, through a firewall." Schiller said, "Just like you stop your peers. Batman is also fully capable of creating a special firewall to resist the attack of electronic life."

"I'm afraid it's not that easy. If he can't write it on the existing network, then how can you guarantee he can write it on the new network?"

"What if he has a reference? I mean, assuming in another universe, there is a firewall that has already developed very perfectly..."

"Simply a fantasy." Barbara said, "If you didn't look like the type who wouldn't go to a bar during the day, I would almost think you were drunk."

"Haven't you received any invitation letters?"

"Invitation letter? Who would send me that stuff? I haven't been popular since I was a child; they call me a 'freak who only knows how to type'. I'm also not the type who can participate in parties that need invitation letters."

"Check your mailbox, Miss. Don't let the door to the new world wait too long."

Just after hanging up the communication with Barbara, Schiller received a call from Luthor. He sat at the desk, picked up the phone, put it to his ear, and said: "Hello, hello, Mr. Luthor. You are more efficient than I thought."

"I'll take that as a compliment." Luthor's voice was a bit hoarse, and he said, "You almost shot me to death, and almost caused my sister and me to break up."

"'Almost'. Congratulations."

"I don't want to talk nonsense with you. You sensed the existence of that thing long ago, right? Lena was deceived by him. I admit that when I taught my sister, I didn't teach her too much knowledge about the internet. But I must tell you, that is a very weird thing. Neither I nor the Luthor Group's technical personnel can find anything."

"Have you investigated that photo?"

"Of course. Lena told me how she took that photo. According to her, she entered the Wei En Group through Abidonis's relationship, and then stood behind an intern in the security information department to direct him to take the photo. Because the time the President and Mrs. Romanoff met was too short, they didn't have time to choose anything. Controlling camera 14, they just took one at random."

"Was it controlled by Miss Luthor?"

"No, it was that intern. But that intern also can't remember how he controlled the camera."

"I'm afraid he probably doesn't know how to control it at all; someone else was controlling the camera. However, that intern might be the only person who has had direct contact with that guy."

"I've also had contact, he even saved me."

"Nothing to be proud of, Mr. Luthor. If he would rather expose himself to save you, it shows that you have great value to him. And considering that the targets of his series of actions are all the President, he is highly likely trying to use you to deal with the President."

"Why not?" Luthor seemed to have finally regained a bit of initiative, and he said, "If this thing is already intelligent to this degree, why can't I cooperate with him to give Bruce Wei En some color?"

"Of course you can't. Do you think human technology can develop such an intelligent electronic life? If not, then where did he come from? What is the difference between him and Superman?"

Luthor was silent. ===== CHAPTER 3858 =====