Chapter 3898

When Peter rushed into the conference room, almost all the mutants had arrived. He squeezed through the crowd and saw Magneto standing in the center of the room, with Cyclops Scott lying beside him, though his chest was rising and falling slightly, looking as if he had fainted.

Peter wanted to open his mouth to ask what was going on, but seeing that everyone remained quiet, he also suppressed his desire to speak, until the figure of Professor X sitting in the wheelchair appeared, and this pool of stagnant water finally showed some ripples.

"He's fine," Professor X said. "Just a bit too exhausted recently and received a magnetic field shock, so he has fainted temporarily."

Hearing him say this, Phoenix rushed up and picked him up. The X-Men crowd gathered around and helped Phoenix carry Cyclops to the bed in the lounge.

"Go call the Avengers." Magneto spoke. Although he didn't speak to Peter again, Peter knew it was meant for him, so he went out to make a call.

Not long after, the Avengers all came, and even Nick came over. Magneto still stood in place, lost in thought. The Avengers crowd thought he was fighting with the electronic lifeform, so they didn't dare to get close. It wasn't until about 10 minutes later that he slowly turned his head to look over here.

"I chatted with it," Magneto said. "To be precise, this is an accident; its target wasn't us. However..."

Not a single person present could understand what he was talking about. And Professor X gave Magneto a look, and Magneto slowly took off his helmet. Peter saw this scene and snorted disdainfully: who said they weren't flirting? Others exchange wedding rings, but you two exchange helmets and wheelchairs, right?

After pondering for a moment, Professor X said, "So that's how it is; things are a bit complicated. You all sit down first, let's talk slowly."

The Avengers, X-Men, and Mutant Brotherhood parties sat down one after another. Except for Mystique and Rogue who stayed in the lounge to watch Cyclops, everyone sat neatly in three rows.

Just as Professor X was about to start speaking, a red and blue figure flew in through the window and said, "I felt a very intense energy explosion here; are you all okay?"

Peter turned his head to look and was surprised to find it was Superman. And Bruce, sitting next to Peter, frowned slightly. Peter caught this little expression of his, so he asked in a low voice, "You don't have a good relationship with him?"

"Average." Bruce shook his head and said.

"We're fine, but you came just in time," Professor X said. "Since the two earths have merged, the people on your side should also know the truth. Please sit down, sir."

Superman looked at the sea of mutants and superheroes in the conference room and seemed a bit hesitant. However, after seeing Bruce, he still chose to walk over and sit in the back row. Bruce turned his head away and didn't look at him.

Peter felt a bit strange: in other universes, the relationship between Batman and Superman is very good, but in this universe of theirs, the relationship between Spider-Man Bruce and the Joker is even better than with Superman. This is truly a cosmic wonder.

However, he still put his attention back on this case. Professor X said, "Erik intercepted a radio wave of it; later he will put this radio wave into a machine that shields all external electrical signals, so that we can communicate with it later. But that efficiency is too low, so Erik chatted with it first."

"I have a question," Iron Man spoke up. "What did he catch? A program or a radio wave?"

"It's a radio wave. It can't be completely counted as an electronic lifeform, but should be called an electrical signal creature. This technology is very magical and far beyond our imagination. However, Erik happens to restrain it, so he was able to catch it."

"Are you sure this is its main body?" Iron Man asked again.

"Of course not," Professor X shook his head and said. "However, this is its only clone in this universe of ours."

The conference room was suddenly in an uproar. Captain America said with a dark face, "As expected. This kind of technology is not something our universe could have; even Ultron back then didn't reach this level. It really is related to the multiverse."

"Where could it be from?" Nick asked Iron Man beside him in a low voice. "From our side, or from next door?"

"It's highly likely from next door," Iron Man thought for a moment and said. "The electronic lifeforms on our side don't follow this route; you can tell from Ultron. And I always feel that this matter has something to do with Batman; the technology on their side is just mystical."

"As you all expected, this Mr. Radio Wave Ghost comes from the big world next door to us, which is that world with Batman, but it didn't reveal which universe it specifically came from."

"Then why did it come to us?" Nick asked with a frown. Once it involves the multiverse, he, as the Director of S. H. I. E. L. D., has to take it seriously, because if there is a multiverse invasion, S. H. I. E. L. D. will have work to do.

"Wait a minute," Peter suddenly spoke up. "It's not the world next door now; we are in their world."

Everyone was stunned one after another, and then they realized: that's right, although they came from the Marvel world, because it was the old earth abandoned after the reboot, it was they who came to someone else's world and merged with someone else's earth. In terms of cosmic position, they are no longer the Marvel 616 main universe, but DC Earth 1.

"So Erik said this was an accident. This guy was going to invade the universe here, but we came over and merged with this earth, and it seems it didn't know this, so it invaded us along with it."

"No wonder," Peter said. "If it knew the situation on our side, it would definitely not choose to appear on Earth in the form of an electrical signal. Isn't this delivering itself into Magneto's mouth?"

"Exactly so," Professor X nodded and said. "Although it has some understanding of the heroes on our side, it never thought that we would collectively come here, and Erik happens to be the person who restrains it the most, so it was caught."

"Then why did it want to invade the multiverse here?"

"That I don't know," Professor X shook his head and said. "Its life form is different from ours, so there's no talk of morals or good and evil. What we call an invasion, in its view, might just be a way for it to understand and recognize the world. It is indeed constantly innovating itself."

Peter had another flash of inspiration, and he said, "So the things it did to Cyclops were to innovate itself?... Is it exploring desire? Emotions? Love?"

Professor X nodded and said, "Indeed. According to what it said itself, it wanted to evolve into a more perfect life form, so it wanted to make up for its own blanks. And as an electrical signal ghost converted from an electronic lifeform, it once existed in a purely logical form, so emotions were naturally its shortcoming. Now it wants to make up for this shortcoming, so it has made many attempts."

"Many?!" Captain America was horrified. "Could it be that the victims aren't just Cyclops? How many other people has it induced?!"

"In our universe, there is indeed only Cyclops," Professor X said. "However, other universes are hard to say."

The eyes of others all fell on Spider-Man Bruce. Although he is Spider-Man now, Battleworld doesn't seem to recognize it and still treats him as Batman, so he is still in the group chat of Battleworld Batman.

Spider-Man Bruce also opened the group chat at this time, but soon he shook his head and said, "No news. They haven't chatted for almost a month."

"That's not right," Peter pointed out. "Batman would definitely be very active in collecting news from the multiverse; with such a convenient platform, it's impossible for him not to say a word. No chat messages precisely indicate that something has happened."

Others also nodded one after another, clearly agreeing with Peter's view. Spider-Man Bruce frowned and said, "The Joker told me that Batman has been busy with energy recently, building an Earth magic defense network, which is the kind you had before. Some Batmen went to Mount Olympus, and others are fighting a cosmic war..."

"No," Peter shook his head again and said. "Batman is not a reckless person; on the contrary, he doesn't like to master power that is too strong, because he believes that it might mean a greatly increased risk of loss of control, let alone killing gods or triggering wars to master such power—unless he has to do so."

He stood up and looked around, then said, "Do you know? The central universe, which is the universe other Spider-Men often go to, uses a magic defense network that can monitor all energy fluctuations on Earth, completely block Earth's signals, monitor Earth's communication with extraterrestrial life, and the network built by magic power is completely different from other radio waves and cannot be interconnected."

"I understand," Iron Man said. "The reason Batman is so eager to build a magic defense network might also be because he sensed the invasion of this radio wave ghost. They want to use this method to stop this invasion."

"We have to do something," Nick stood up immediately and said. "If I'm not mistaken, our universe should be the only universe that successfully caught the electrical signal creature. This is very valuable information and can completely help us gain a firm foothold in the multiverse."

Others also exchanged glances and then nodded slowly. Of course, they all understood: what advantage their universe has over other universes is that they are the only universe with all the heroes of two big worlds.

Although it did cause a lot of chaos during the merger, and there are still various problems at present, the power of Earth is now unprecedentedly strong, and they also occupy an information advantage—not many people in the multiverse know the situation of their universe.

Just like this unlucky electrical signal ghost, it thought it only invaded DC Earth 1, but didn't expect it to also invade the Marvel 616 main universe.

If it were only Earth 1, then no one could do anything to it. Those other powerful Batmen couldn't do anything about this guy, and I'm afraid the superheroes on Earth 1 who are terrible would be even more baffled.

But the 616 main universe is not to be trifled with. The current 616 is the version before the All-New, All-Different universe; although the All-New, All-Different version was brought forward because of the active reboot, they basically experienced the major events before the All-New, All-Different universe. They are all peerless masters who have fought strong dragons, suppressed local snakes, beaten aliens, kicked mummies, traveled through time and space hundreds of times, and fought dozens of civil wars, large and small, forming a perfect complement to Earth 1.

And the DC universe started with the New 52; the main universe is relatively young. The major events experienced so far are actually just the Darkseid invasion and the later cosmic war. Compared with the weathered 616, it's like a new recruit. They are indeed remnants of the old era, but it just so happens that this new ship needs a group of old sailors.

For other Batmen, they are experiencing a multiverse-level major event for the first time, but for the people of the former Marvel main universe, multiverse invasions are too common. No matter what disaster happens on the Marvel side, it eventually affects the main universe; their experience is too rich.

So they didn't need to discuss at all; they all knew what the current situation meant, and almost everyone even knew how to fight this battle, just looking at each other tacitly, knowing what to do next.