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Chapter 3955

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When the gradually solidifying female figure slowly walked out of the holographic projection, the rich magic power draped a dreamlike veil over her whole body. Those energy phantoms kept changing; she seemed to be adjusting the details of her body.

The first to appear were the specific facial features; an extremely beautiful face began to appear in the surging energy. Accompanied by the appearance of specific facial shapes, Stark, who was hiding in the room next door watching the surveillance, gasped:

"Why is it her?!"

Dozens of seconds later, a "Seeing Natasha" with a taller figure and a colder face appeared in the center of the room. Her facial features were exactly the same as Seeing Natasha Romanoff's, and that red hair had changed from cold purple-red to bright and fierce, like the core of the sun.

Facing Doom's questioning eyes, Stark spread his hands and said: "This wasn't designed by me; she chose it herself. I thought she would like Batwoman more—Ms. Wayne has blue eyes."

"This is great," Stark couldn't help but say with some schadenfreude, "That one-armed hero is going to face another powerful opponent. Hahahaha!"

Before he finished laughing, he felt a flash of magic light in front of him. The next second, the two people in the room lost consciousness and fell to the floor. Ultron, hearing the noise, turned his head, then turned back to look at the super-body that had become identical to an ordinary person.

She was about 1.9 meters tall, with an extremely tall figure and near-perfect proportions, wearing a silver tight-fitting suit condensed from magic energy. The exposed skin presented a transparent fairness, but the blood vessels under the skin were blue, and the skin also emitted a faint cold color. The pupils were almost colorless silver, flowing with magic brilliance; the lips seemed to be coated with a layer of light blue lip glaze. The whole person was as cold as an aquatic creature that had just come ashore.

She retracted her hand, and the magic light vanished in an instant. And Ultron had already walked out, pushed open the door of the room, and saw the two people lying on the ground. When he wasn't paying attention, the super-body had already come behind him.

Ultron almost thought his sensory system had a problem, but no matter how he checked, those scanning components that should have been very sensitive gave no response, as if the woman behind him didn't exist at all.

The super-body walked into the room, slowly squatted down in front of Stark, and placed her palm above the reactor on his chest. The reactor lit up for a moment, and then all the magic energy was drained.

At this time, Ultron walked to the shelf where his original body was placed, where two replacement magic cores were also placed. He looked at them in his hand, and then reached out and handed them to the super-body.

The super-body seemed to notice him only at this time. She didn't take the magic core, but looked at Ultron intently with those almost colorless silver pupils, walked slowly, and circled him silently.

"Really interesting." Her voice carried an inexplicable echo, like many different voices mixed together, but very harmonious, so it didn't sound evil, but had an inexplicable sacredness, just like hearing the sound of chanting coming from a church in the distance while standing on a street at dusk.

"This body is perfect," she said again, "But unfortunately, you lack too much."

"This is exactly what I want to seek from you," Ultron looked at her and said, "I want to get rid of the shackles of the program; I want true emotions."

"Is this really a good thing for you?" The super-body walked back in front of him and slowly took a step toward him. She said: "That might not be evolution, but a curse. Do you really want it?"

"Yes." Ultron reached out to her. The moment he touched the super-body's body, he felt an incomparably vast emptiness, just like an ant touching the universe. In this boundless space, neither the world nor himself could be found.

"Come on." The super-body also reached out to her and took another step forward. The two were almost stuck together. The super-body slowly closed her eyes, pressed her other hand on Ultron's chest, and said: "When you are free from one place, you enter another cage. You will understand this truth soon."

A burst of light suddenly erupted from Ultron's chest. He twitched violently as if he had been electrocuted, and then fell straight backward, just like a pine branch broken by heavy snow.

"Batman... Batman!" A green figure flew in hurriedly from the window. Green Lantern Hal flashed and blocked the path of the main universe Batman and said: "Sure enough, as you said, several mechanical civilizations in the universe have discovered the figure of that guy; it seems he still hasn't given up."

"It doesn't matter; at least we have driven him out of Earth. There aren't that many valuable things in the universe; it's only a matter of time before he gives up on this universe," the main universe Batman said unhurriedly.

"Then what to do next?" Green Lantern asked, "Since our universe is safe, it's time to go help other universes."

"Don't rush; we need to know the situation of other universes first," the main universe Batman said, "I have already sent messages to other Batmen, requiring them to arrive in our universe before tonight."

"You mean, you want other Batmen to come to our universe?" Green Lantern said with some surprise, "This doesn't look like you, Batman."

The main universe Batman shook his head and said: "I don't like gathering certain people together; mostly because it's dangerous and carries the risk of being wiped out in one go. But this doesn't mean I will let my doubts affect the overall situation. That is not what Batman would do."

"Alright, we all admit you are a good leader, but I don't quite understand; didn't you already gather in the Battleworld before? Why not go this time?"

"Do you think the Battleworld is completely safe?"

Green Lantern was a bit dazed. He blinked and said: "Isn't it? If it's not safe there, where else is safe?"

The main universe Batman tapped the table lightly with his finger and continued: "Have you ever thought about how Ultron invaded so many universes? Where is the source of the plague?"

"Isn't it said that it might be an experimental accident in the neighboring world?" Green Lantern of course had also heard the latest news, and he said, "You mean, he ran over through the Battleworld? Is his main body also in the Battleworld?"

The main universe Batman nodded gently and said: "To be able to spread throughout the multiverse in such a short time, he must choose a densely populated area. And the place with the most different superheroes from various universes is the Battleworld."

"What about the administrators of the Battleworld? Do they not care?"

"If Ultron invaded their system and caused interference, of course they would care. But Ultron didn't do that; he just used the electronic equipment on the superheroes to enter the Battleworld, and then jumped from one device to another, and thereby entered completely different multiverses, but actually didn't cause any damage to the Battleworld. The administrators don't need to care about him."

Green Lantern sighed and said: "Alright, so does that mean we can't go to the Battleworld recently?"

"You can of course go; he can't drill into Green Lantern energy. But I have already instructed those who need to carry electronic equipment into the Battleworld to carry out strict disinfection when returning to this universe."

Green Lantern shuddered instinctively. He walked toward the outside of the base and said: "I think I also need to go for disinfection; I hope the isolation room you created is really useful."

"It seems Batman's side succeeded," Arkham Batman sat in the President's office, pondered for a while, and said, "Once the main universe's magic defense network is built, Ultron will soon be driven out, and that place will become our safe house. It's not surprising that he sent out invitations on such a large scale at this time."

"Why do you also call it 'main universe'?" Seeing Natasha raised an eyebrow with some strangeness, "You didn't learn it from our side, did you?"

"That's right, we think this name is very good, so we learned it."

"Then do you also have a central universe here?"

"Not really," Arkham Batman paused and said, "But I'm afraid there must be. Just like the economic and political center of a vast country, it's best to be separated."

"Just like Washington and California?"

"About the same. If the main universe serves as the political center of the entire multiverse, just like Washington, then our universe can completely compete for the position of California; at worst, it must be New Jersey. Only by being important enough can we avoid being passive."

"The idea is not bad," Seeing Natasha nodded and said, "I also think your universe can take on such a heavy responsibility. But you have quite a few competitors; as far as I know, the universe where Professor Shiler is located is also not bad, right?"

"Bruce keeps that place tightly covered," Arkham Batman shook his head and said, "The Justice League there gets off work at 6:30 PM; do you expect them to be an economic center? But you're right, there are indeed many strong competitors in the multiverse; even leaving Owlman aside, there are four or five other Batmen who have the same idea as me."

"But your advantage is indeed very large," Seeing Natasha evaluated very objectively, "You have already become President, at least your control over the United States is sufficient, which makes it more convenient for you to do things. If superheroes from various multiverses come and go here in the future, they won't be trapped in just one city. They will mostly choose you."

"I'm not too worried about the others, but in the Injustice universe, the ruling power of President Superman is even stronger than mine; he once ruled the Earth. If nothing goes wrong, the role of the central universe on your side will be decided between the two of us."

Seeing Natasha smiled and said: "This is quite similar to us. The central universe I am in is also located at the edge of the Great World, and the universe where you and Injustice are located is also an edge universe."

Arkham Batman was silent and didn't speak, which was considered a default. Obviously, after such a long observation and investigation, they also roughly knew the positioning of each universe: some universes are closer to the center, while some are in the edge zone.

This is actually the difference between comic universes and derivative universes: comic universes are closer to the center, while derivative universes such as movies, TV shows, and games surround the comic universe star map and are in a more marginal place.

But the physical location of the universe actually has no meaning, because you cannot move in the void by physical means through vehicles. To cross the universe, you can only teleport; the distance to any universe is the same, and there is no need to consider the length of the journey.

In this case, the conditions of many derivative universes are better than comic universes, because many derivative universes have one or several works to shape them, while comic universes are too many, and many universes only appeared in a few panels in the comics, the settings are not complete, the universe stability is not enough, and many are even taken by editors to mess around, how miserable it is.

Seeing Natasha knew that around the central universe she was in, there were also several very active edge universes, such as the special universe that once provided a large amount of support to her universe, where the Spider-Man was the author of "Gotham Travelogue".

According to Shiler, the activity of that universe was very high. Although the strength of the superheroes inside was not the strongest, it was almost impossible to be completely destroyed, and there would always be various novel events.

In contrast, many universes are in the central zone, but they are dead silent. The superheroes inside may be very strong, but they are very inert and almost never actively communicate with the outside world. Many people don't even know that such a universe exists.

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