Chapter 3986

In most cases, expecting Iron Men to be disciplined is unlikely. It's not that they deliberately disobey orders, but genius scientists always have new ideas. When there is only one person, they might be more well-behaved; once there are so many counterparts, everyone wants to prove they are the best, so it's inevitable that things will go wrong.

But it must be said that the pre-war preparations in the central universe were very thorough. In fact, those pieces of equipment didn't necessarily have to be picked up by Iron Men—although those things require professional technicians, since the fighting hadn't started yet, sending professionals among ordinary people to transport them would also work, at most it would just be slower. Such an arrangement obviously had a deeper meaning.

Almost all Iron Men felt shocked after seeing that terrifying equipment warehouse, and at the same time felt pressure. They themselves didn't have the ability to build so much equipment, not that their level wasn't enough, but the universal conditions were limited: the military and government there wouldn't allow them to master such power.

So they couldn't handle this equipment with the idea of "if it breaks, it breaks, at worst I'll build some more to compensate you," but had to be as careful as possible, because if it broke, there would really be nowhere to find it.

Most Iron Men were in this situation, so their mentality changed from "I must surpass others" to "I must not be the one holding everyone back," and they started to become cautious when dealing with the equipment.

Because this was the first time most Iron Men were engaged in pure space combat, most of them let Jarvis take over the mechs, and they themselves only were responsible for making decisions, leaving the detailed operations to Jarvis, while also freeing up some time to learn how to read universal coordinates.

The "Eastern Front" mentioned in the mission objective is actually relative. With the outpost as the center, it is divided into 8 areas, still following the principle of left-west and right-east. The Eastern Front is to the right of the outpost, and also the direction from which the Green Lantern fleet came.

Space combat can also have trenches, but they are not dug, but rather use various obstacle equipment and traps to prevent spaceships from passing, mainly divided into physical traps and gravity generation devices. The Iron Men are deploying physical traps this time.

Main universe Iron Man is holding the equipment he transported over before. Under Jarvis's guidance, he quickly arrived at the target location, but most places in space are endlessly empty, without any celestial bodies, and without light, so naturally there are no reference objects. He confirmed the location several times before he was sure it was correct.

Then he used the Pym particle generator to enlarge the shrunken equipment, and then further enlarged it according to the required data, until this thing could no longer see its full picture, like a high wall standing in the universe.

After the enlargement was completed, he pressed the start button on the remote control again. After the machine started step by step, it rotated and then further expanded into a huge space platform, and the machines inside were also revealed. Immediately after, a blue arc of electricity was emitted from the tower-like structure at the top, and began to spread in one direction. Main universe Iron Man turned his head to look, that blue arc of light should have connected to other bases.

But this was still just a rear base, not the front line. After the base connection was completed, the production line started to operate, many smaller pieces of equipment were produced, and then automatically flew to the front line.

Main universe Iron Man stood above the space base and observed for a while. Those small pieces of equipment could mainly be divided into two types: one was permanent fortifications, and the other was robots that could move freely. As more and more bases were connected, the speed of production became faster and faster, many parts operated between the blue arcs of light, constantly splicing and processing, and the robots flew to the front line like a tide.

Of course, it wasn't far from the front line here. Main universe Iron Man checked, it was only about one light-year away—like a chasm for those of them who couldn't fly faster than light, but most of the machines produced here were very fast, it was nothing more than a difference of a few times the speed of light.

The Green Lantern fleet came even faster. They seemed to have used a portal halfway, obviously wanting a quick victory, but the mobilization speed on the central universe side was faster, so when the Green Lantern fleet arrived, the trenches had already been completely set up.

In such an empty place in the universe, a densely populated area appeared out of thin air. Looking forward, there were countless nests and robots, laser weapons, magnetic storm mines, artificial suns, and gravity traps laid out for a full few hundred layers, and the thickness of the trenches was almost close to half a light-year.

Hal covered his forehead when he saw this battle formation: not to mention anything else, this universe is really rich. When he was roaming the universe before, he had never seen any civilization fight an interstellar war by first laying trenches half a light-year thick.

Then he thought: Earth doesn't have so many resources either, has the Earth here completed the development of the solar system? Maybe even more than the solar system, the neighboring star system might have also been poisoned.

Taking a deep breath, Hal cleared his thoughts. First of all, their spaceship is not affected by gravity traps, because they can convert from matter to energy at any time. As long as the Green Lanterns are careful, even if they fall in, they can fly out.

Laser weapons are actually not very difficult to deal with, although they are simulated spaceships, they have a certain strength, and there are Green Lantern energy shields, getting hit a few times at most loses some energy, it's not a big problem.

The most troublesome thing is various bombs, especially the fusion bombs that look very dangerous. Hal actually isn't quite sure what the specific principle is, but main universe Batman emphasized to him in the headset: "Never touch that thing that looks like the sun, once that big fireball explodes, it's approximately equal to the sun exploding. Green Lantern energy might not be able to withstand this level of impact."

And the bombs here are extremely dense, if one explodes, basically all of them will have to explode. Such a chain explosion could blow them into nothingness.

"Too ruthless," Hal sighed in his heart, "what kind of hatred and resentment is this, using the sun to bomb us."

"Is it feasible to detonate in advance?" Hal asked. "If the power of this fusion bomb is as you said, then as long as it is detonated in advance, it will be fine, right?"

"That also depends on whether it is exploding outward or collapsing inward," main universe Batman said. "I guess this might be a bigger trap: you think this is just an ordinary bomb, after you detonate it, they are very likely to collapse inward continuously, jointly forming a black hole, and suck you in."

"Hiss..." Hal took a deep breath. These people are even more ruthless than he imagined, what is an artificial black hole?

Generally speaking, Green Lanterns will not be captured by black holes—a few unlucky ones had approached the event horizon before, but still ran out, which is unimaginable for any ordinary person or aircraft, generally reaching this level means there is no rescue.

But this doesn't mean they can take a black hole head-on, because there is currently no evidence that any Green Lantern who fell into the range of the event horizon can survive and come out, let alone the center of the black hole. Hal had long suspected that those missing Green Lanterns might have been in the center of the black hole by accident during the formation of the black hole, and then died on the spot.

At their current distance, once a black hole forms on the other side, they are guaranteed to be in the center of the black hole too. In such a place, Green Lantern portals might not even open, and they definitely can't run.

"Then what should we do?" Hal asked. "Otherwise, we can only use the stupid method, clearing mines one by one."

"Don't rush, I'll send Superman over," main universe Batman said. "They can use large-scale freezing breath to freeze most of the physical bombs, and then you can use Green Lantern energy to drag the bombs out and pull them to the black hole for destruction."

"Are you sure freezing breath can cool down sun bombs?" Hal was a bit skeptical. Main universe Batman said: "As long as Superman thinks he can, he can."

Hal suddenly realized: logically speaking, the universe has a minimum temperature, and if the temperature is not low enough, the sun cannot be extinguished, but Superman is somewhat "wishful thinking," he thinks he can freeze it, so he can freeze it, the key is to believe firmly.

Obviously, the "brainwashing" of the Batmen was done very well, and the Supermen all looked confident. The Green Lanterns first retreated to the second line, waiting for the Supermen to freeze the trenches before coming out to clean up.

"What should we do now?" Captain America said, looking at the monitoring screen. "They are obviously going to use Superman to dismantle our trenches, we can't let them be so smooth, we must interfere, maybe it's our turn to go on stage."

But the command center had a different view, and he said: "Using these worthless bombs to trade for Superman's physical strength and energy is too profitable. Even if this breath is useful, they can't breathe there for a year, but our resources are enough for us to continuously replenish the bombs."

Main universe Iron Man also approved of his statement, because he had already discovered that there were already some machines on the space platform producing some large-scale mining equipment, looking like they were going to mine.

Out of curiosity, main universe Iron Man followed a mining train—which consisted of a transport spaceship, a bunch of guard robots, and a large pile of mining equipment. The flying speed was not fast, main universe Iron Man could barely keep up.

After flying for half a day, they didn't arrive at the mining location, but at a portal. This portal looked like it had been set up in advance, main universe Iron Man followed through, and the coordinates showed that they were already five light-years away.

Once he landed, he was shocked: what he saw was not a star system, but the wreckage of a star system. The four planets here were all shattered, a large amount of debris was floating in space, affected by unknown gravity, and was converging toward the center.

"What are you doing here?!" main universe Iron Man suddenly heard a roar, "This is a mine! It's very dangerous! You can't stay here!!"

Main universe Iron Man looked everywhere for the source of the sound, and then saw a person behind a huge piece of wreckage. He immediately asked Jarvis: "Who is this? How does he seem..."

"Hey, human! I'm talking to you!" The other party flew over quickly and said, "I'm an Asgardian. Are you lost? Do you need me to send you back?"

"No, I followed the mining ship, I wanted to see where the mining ship collects resources." Main universe Iron Man said truthfully.

"Oh, by Odin's beard, fortunately you came late, otherwise the Bifrost would have shattered you along with those planets!"

Main universe Iron Man opened his eyes wide and said: "These planets were shattered by the Bifrost?"

"Yes, you humans don't have planet-killing weapons, you can't rely entirely on Magneto, right? We came to help under the command of the God King, helping you shatter some resource planets to facilitate your collection of resources."

Main universe Iron Man was speechless for a while. He said how the production line dared to go full throttle, it turned out there was such a violent means of mining resources—it's fine to directly use planet-killing weapons to shatter planets.

"Don't stay here, it wouldn't be good if the laser that dissolves minerals hits you later," the Asgardian said, "I see you can fly too, just fly back along the portal you came from. Oh, by the way, this portal is one-to-many, when you go through the portal, you have to think about the original coordinates, don't transmit to the wrong place."

Main universe Iron Man nodded somewhat absent-mindedly. His mind was still thinking about planet-killing weapons—in fact, he had long known that the Bifrost was very powerful, not just a simple portal, but facing the consequences caused by this powerful weapon so intuitively, he still had some emotions. Not emotions about the power, but emotions about the way the Asgardians of this universe used this powerful weapon, which was actually to help humans collect resources.

Main universe Iron Man's mind was in a mess, completely forgetting to think about the coordinates before transmitting. Although Jarvis could help him operate the mech, he couldn't invade his mind, and the mages' portals mainly depend on the mind. When main universe Iron Man reacted, he had already appeared in a strange area.