Chapter 4016

"What the hell is that?!" Even the Green Lantern of the main universe couldn't help but curse. Even standing on the outskirts of the Andromeda Galaxy, he had to look up and stare at that magical statue that fused countless powers. That Shuma-Gorath, which originally looked large and terrifying enough, seemed like it could be grabbed in the palm of this statue's hand.

"Are you kidding me? Which one of you is the Demon God?!" The main universe Green Lantern couldn't help but say to the main universe Batman in his earpiece, "When we fought that battle before, if this guy had gone all out, none of us would have been able to run."

"Then he must have had a reason for not being able to go all out." The main universe Batman said slowly; his tone was still calm, but his heart was actually not as stable as he appeared.

He knew he had been played. Because just a moment ago, he had already found clues on the interstellar internet.

The three major empires invading the Nine Realms and returning in defeat was no secret. In the central universe, this news was spread everywhere. Even the three major empires could not suppress all the news.

But how this battle actually started, there was not a single word about it on the interstellar internet. Almost everyone thought it was just a small skirmish at first, and it was only when both sides got angry that it created such a tragic situation.

But the main universe Batman discovered that the beginning of this war had been artificially hidden. Especially the confrontation process in the Feather Star system, the capital star of the Shi'ar Empire, at the beginning of the war; there was really too little that could be found online, and not a single direct shot. This must have been erased by someone.

And when he learned that the Earth in this universe could perform planet-level superluminal jumps directly, the main universe Batman understood: someone deliberately erased this information just to cover up Earth's mobility, thereby causing the enemy to deviate in their arrangements against Earth.

The main universe Batman had fallen for it. Before making these arrangements, he had of course investigated the situation in the solar system; not only did he send the Flash to take a look, but he himself also collected a large amount of information on the cosmic internet. But there was no information indicating that the Earth could run.

This proved that the other party must have the ability to control the interstellar internet and could erase certain reported information cleanly. Connecting this to what the Arkham Batman had said before—that Jarvis in this universe was a top-tier electronic life—the main universe Batman roughly knew what was going on.

In fact, this could not blame the main universe Batman for not being cautious. He did anticipate that the other party might use electronic life to cause trouble, such as invading command systems or modifying certain important information to mislead them. The main universe Batman also thought that all the information he collected from the interstellar internet was deliberately released by Jarvis, so he did not take this information as a primary reference, but specifically sent the Flash to investigate.

However, no matter how god-like the main universe Batman's foresight was, he would not have suddenly thought that the humans in this universe had modified the Earth and then ran away with it.

In fact, even now, the main universe Batman still had doubts about this. Because in his view, unless everyone on Earth and the superheroes were all crazy, how could such a situation occur?

The Batmen's reasoning required logic, but installing an engine on the Earth to run around the universe was simply not within the logic that humans could infer. There was nothing that required this ability to solve, nor should there be anything that would make humans take such a risk.

You have to know that the vast majority of humans cannot survive in the universe, and even if they could persist for a while, they couldn't last long. If the Earth exploded, humanity would really be on the verge of extinction.

And theoretically, this was also unscientific. Not to mention how the Earth that ran out solved the temperature and tidal problems, what about the gravity of the solar system? The solar system was not really stationary in place, but was revolving around the center of the Milky Way with the planets at a certain speed. If the Earth ran away, wouldn't the other planets be disturbed too? How was this solved???

The main universe Batman of course knew that with Magneto there, these might not be problems. But the problem was, why would Magneto help? As someone who understood magnetism and magnetic fields better than any scientist, he wouldn't fail to understand the risks of doing so. How could he think of helping?

The main universe Batman felt more and more that the universe where Greed was located was as crazy as he was. Either Greed drove the central universe crazy, or the central universe drove Greed crazy; in any case, the upper beam was not straight and the lower beam was crooked, a contagious global mental abnormality. If he were an alien, he would designate the entire galaxy as a mental hospital. And if the galaxy was Arkham Asylum, then Earth was the undisputed Joker. Asgard wasn't much better; at the very least, it had to be a Bane—it was all connected, all connected.

The main universe Batman tapped his head with his hand. After staying in this universe for too long, he was a bit abnormal; his thinking was like a wild dog off the leash, starting to run wild.

The main universe Batman took a deep breath. He knew that his strategy of "besieging Wei to save Zhao" might not work.

Because Demon Gods were mostly interested in the Earth itself; they had no interest in the solar system, and they wouldn't go to a solar system without Earth to wreak havoc, but would definitely go to chase the Earth. However, they might not necessarily run faster than the Earth, and whether they could catch up was another matter.

The Earth itself was a berserker with an assassin's build; it looked like a small room, but if you rushed up and kicked it twice, a carload of bread-men would rush out from inside and beat you up violently.

The Demon Gods couldn't be counted on; now they could only look at the performance of the three major empires. The main universe Batman logged onto the interstellar internet again and began to look up detailed information about that previous battle.

In fact, he really didn't understand how the armies of Asgard and Earth had completely annihilated the main forces of the three major empires.

Anyone with war experience understood that even in the modern era with many destructive thermal weapons, it was very difficult to completely annihilate a unit. Many "total annihilations" mentioned in war reports referred to destroying the organizational structure of the opposing force, not really killing everyone until none were left; even taking all prisoners was very difficult.

And at the technological level of the three major empires, being completely annihilated was even more unimaginable. Because their superluminal jump systems were very popular, any equipment could jump, and some even had individual jump systems. Under such circumstances, how could the main force not have a single one escape?

Previously, the main universe Batman thought that this might be information deliberately tampered with by Jarvis for strategic intimidation. But now it seemed that this might not be the case; the outcome of that battle had not been modified, but something must have happened during the process that they didn't know about.

After some speculation, the main universe Batman felt that the event that happened in the middle could not be the opponent's conventional weapons, otherwise Apokolips definitely wouldn't have been able to hold up, and the other party would have already adopted a strong offensive approach.

Since there was none now, it meant that this kind of thing might have a certain contingency, or it was a one-time weapon. Then the conventional armed forces of the three major empires could still cause some trouble for the other party.

Batman's judgment had always been very accurate. Asgard was indeed a bit overwhelmed at this time. The Kree Empire and the Skrull Empire were completely not hiding anything this time; they were hitting Asgard directly.

What was even more fatal was that these two major empires were mechanical civilizations, and mass-producing troops was the norm for them. Don't look at the loss of a lot of main forces last time; after all, the main territory was not threatened, and the major mines and factories were fine. Judging by their technology, it was too simple to regroup.

And in order to take revenge, they had also entered a state of wartime mobilization; this time, the troops dispatched were even more than last time, and there were endless troops rushing here, determined to make Asgard pay the price.

"How is it?" The main universe Lei Shen looked at Steve from the central universe who walked in and asked, "I saw on the internet that the Nine Realms are surrounded."

"You could say that," Steve replied, "They have blocked the main exits of the Nine Realms and are now preparing to detonate dimensional bombs. Once they blast a gap, they will directly attack Asgard's homeland."

The main universe Lei Shen took a light breath and said, "Can they really hold them off?"

"Don't worry, with Odin and Lei Shen joining forces, their individual mechanical troops are just cannon fodder. Frigga and the mages of Vanaheim have already gone to support, and Loki and the Frost Giants have also gone."

"Frost Giants?!" The main universe Lei Shen said with some surprise, "Are they willing to aid Asgard?"

"This is not a question of willingness. Once Asgard is destroyed, can the other realms stay out of it? Besides, Loki himself is the prince of the Frost Giants and has a natural right of inheritance; he has also never given up on controlling the Frost Giants, and there is still a group of supporters at present."

The main universe Lei Shen breathed a slight sigh of relief. He hugged his arms and said, "Batman is indeed powerful. With the full-scale attack of the two major empires, even if they can win, Asgard will need a period of time to recuperate, and the superheroes here will find it difficult to get support from the God race again."

Steve did not refute, because the facts were indeed so. Fighting head-on with the three major empires, it was absolutely impossible to have no casualties. Once there were casualties, recuperation was inevitable. Odin and Lei Shen would probably find it difficult to spare energy to support here again.

For the superheroes, it was equivalent to losing the regular army that could block the front line. And although the Green Lanterns on Batman's side had suffered some losses, their organization was complete after all, and they could regroup after a little rest; perhaps they could already be put back into battle now.

Modern warfare sounded complicated, but it was actually a turn-based game; it was about using one's strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses and timing the cooldowns well like Tian Ji's horse racing. Whoever could bring the most decisive power to the battlefield at the same time would win.

Previously, their regular army was more regular than the opponent's, and their power was stronger, so they gained an advantage in the collision of regular armies and won a victory. But Batman turned around and kicked all their regular armies out. This time, it was not that the enemy was strong and they were weak, but that the enemy had what they didn't have; the next battle would probably be very difficult to fight.

"The Green Lantern Corps has moved," Professor X's voice suddenly sounded, "Three Green Lantern fleets are heading toward your unit; be sure to make defensive preparations."

Steve's heart tightened suddenly, but then he felt relieved. He wasn't afraid of them coming; he was afraid they wouldn't. Batman really wanted to seize this node where they had no regular army and win back the advantage.

"Quick, go to the war room!" The main universe Lei Shen grabbed his hammer and ran out, looking back as he ran, "We must take the initiative this time and intercept the opponent outside the base's defense line. Once they break through, the consequences will be unimaginable!"

Several people ran very fast, but when they arrived at the war room, there were not many people; only the few members of the Avengers led by Coulson were reorganizing their equipment.

"They have all set off," Coulson said, "The battle plan has not changed; we are still adopting a full-scale defensive posture. You should all take your positions as well."