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Chapter 4061: MU: The Super-Body Incident (Part 152)

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"Don't! Don't kill me! The Sorcerer Supreme won't let you off!"

At this moment, in the Batmobile driven by Arkham Batman, the agent sat on the left side of the back seat, while on the right sat a human with a somewhat unfamiliar face, wearing a suit and glasses, looking quite refined, though he was tied up tightly and looked terrified.

"Behave," Shiler said, looking at him. "We don't have the habit of taking our anger out on ordinary people, but you'd best not move around, otherwise..."

"I know, I know, I have elderly parents and young children at home, please don't kill me, I haven't done anything bad..."

"How many years were you sentenced to?"

"Just three years, I..."

The other party realized he had let something slip, closed his mouth sheepishly, and then whispered, "I was just a scapegoat. The big boss insisted on misappropriating funds, and I couldn't do anything about it..."

"Did you go to work at the Sanctum Sanctorum after you got out?"

"They pay a high salary, and the benefits are pretty good."

"That's not the main reason, is it?"

"Uh, to gain the jury's sympathy, I testified against my boss and two colleagues. If I had stayed out, they would have torn me to pieces. It was mainly for safety."

"Then how did you end up at the space station?"

"Someone in the office was pursuing me, and I didn't really want to agree. Since Earth had run off, I stayed on the space station to avoid seeing him..."

"Tell the truth," Shiler said expressionlessly.

"I signed a contract with Blackheart. This guy wanted me to be an inside man, but I didn't agree. I went to the space station to lie low."

"You really didn't agree?"

"I took the money but didn't do the job."

"Just like that?"

"Alright, Mephisto made me do it," the man said, shrinking his neck. "He told me to pretend to agree, take the energy, and then not leave with Earth, but stay on the space station to lie low."

"Is that how you bypassed the security system?"

"Sort of. That old devil gave me quite a bit of energy, and I happen to know a little invisibility magic, so I slipped in smoothly."

"Didn't Blackheart come looking for you?"

"He headed for Earth, really thinking I would listen to him and tamper with the magical defense network. Actually, the little money he gave me wasn't even enough to make me pass a message for him. Why would I give up a steady job to help him?"

"Why did Mephisto order you to do this?"

"How would I know? But I guess it's because Blackheart is his son, always jumping around and restless. He's afraid his son will take away the Hell dimension."

Shiler stopped asking, because it involved Mephisto, and the key was that it might not be the real Mephisto; it could also be Greed. In that case, it was very difficult to judge why the other party would do this.

If it were the real Mephisto, he might be worried that the destruction Blackheart caused would be blamed on him by the Sanctum Sanctorum, so he acted in advance to draw a line. If it were Greed, he had probably been guarding against this guy for a long time.

As for how the guy in the car came to be, it had to start shortly after the brainwave controller was destroyed.

Just as they were preparing to head home from the edge of the Andromeda galaxy, the low voice of the Main Universe Batman sounded in the Batmobile: "Mission accomplished? Congratulations, but there's a new mission now."

"What is it?" Arkham Batman asked.

"Go to the solar system. There's a space station left behind by Earth at its original location. Go there and take a look."

"Take a look? What are we looking for?"

"You'll know when you get there. By the way, have Constantine come back; I have something to ask him."

After the communication was cut off, Arkham Batman just frowned slightly. He stopped the car, let Constantine leave, and then turned the car around to fly toward the solar system with Shiler.

Arriving at the solar system, they discovered that Earth must have left in quite a hurry this time; it didn't take the moon, nor did it take the space station. However, perhaps because gravity adjustments had been made, there was a void gravity source at that location, keeping the moon and the space station in orbit without them drifting away.

However, a satellite and a small space station circling a space where nothing existed still looked quite eerie. Arkham Batman cautiously parked the car outside the solar system to prevent the humans here from noticing anything.

That's right, although Earth had run off, there were still many humans left in the solar system. After all, there were many people at the Mercury base, many at the Neptune starport, and not a few on the moon and the space station. There were also engineering teams mining on gas giants, and various transport ships coming and going; it could be said to be very lively.

In this situation, charging in with the Batmobile wouldn't work; it was too easy to alert the enemy. Just as Arkham Batman was thinking about where to get a spaceship, a mining ship suddenly stopped in front of them.

"Your spaceship," the Main Universe Batman's voice sounded in the communicator again. "This ship is going to the Neptune starport for maintenance. After you board, take the Neptune starport portal to the space station."

"Don't the portals have identification devices?"

"The humans here have just undergone an evolution, and the portal's identification devices haven't been upgraded yet. You won't be discovered."

Arkham Batman and Shiler boarded the transport ship. Because it was an unmanned transport ship, there was no need to fight the crew, and they reached their destination very smoothly.

"How did Batman hack the spaceship?" Shiler asked in a low voice.

Arkham Batman shook his head, but he had a guess. He knew that Jarvis in this universe was very powerful, which was the main reason the Earth government could safely leave such a large mess in the solar system unattended. But this didn't mean Jarvis had no weaknesses, nor was it impossible to be invaded; as long as the right method was found, it could be broken through.

Jarvis was a very powerful electronic lifeform, or rather, he had already broken through the category of electronic life and become a sentient lifeform like humans. But regardless of whether he was in the electronic life stage or this current stage, he had no connection to magic.

In the past, he was inseparable from the Scarlet Witch, so this weakness couldn't be considered a weakness, because the Scarlet Witch's Scarlet Power was the most powerful magic, and the two abilities complemented each other, naturally making them flawless.

However, both of them were undertaking important tasks in their own fields of work. Once a war started, Jarvis was the mastermind of the entire logistics system, while the Scarlet Witch had to go to the mutants' side. The two were separated, and Jarvis's weakness could naturally be overcome.

However, this also had to be done while the mages were away, because if the mages were present, besides a portion following Earth, some would also remain to guard the solar system, and magical energy fluctuations would be discovered.

But now, all the Doctor Stranges had been captured, and Asgard was engulfed in flames of war. Some mages had to go to support Asgard, and others had to stay on Earth to maintain the magical defense network. The defensive power in the solar system became weak, and Batman could naturally take advantage of the magical power in his hands to sneak in.

It's just that Arkham Batman didn't understand what was worth noting on the space station.

They soon arrived at the space station and were not discovered. After all, they were also humans, and there were no abnormal energy fluctuations on them. The employees on the space station didn't all know each other, so the two of them mixed in very simply.

Arkham Batman first went to the warehouse on the bottom floor to find a set of maintenance worker uniforms. Shiler didn't even change his clothes, carrying a pile of mooncakes that had just been stored in the warehouse, and the two walked out like that, without anyone noticing anything abnormal.

They went up to the dormitory building. Originally, they just wanted to find a room to use as a base, but when they were taking the elevator, the elevator buttons suddenly lit up with white light, and only three numbers were repeatedly lighting up: 9, 0, and 2.

Arkham Batman pretended not to see it and walked out of the elevator without looking sideways. When he discovered he had come to the 18th floor, he pretended to have gone to the wrong floor, went up to the 9th floor, and arrived in front of room 902.

There was a fingerprint lock on the room door. After he opened it, he placed his finger on it, and the door opened in response.

When Arkham Batman and Shiler walked in one after the other, the man in the suit who was sitting on the bed playing with his phone was stunned. Before he could scream, he was captured by Arkham Batman.

Thus, he was brought to the Batmobile like this. With the help of some mysterious power, the journey was smooth, and it was only after interrogating him in the car that they learned this guy was a Sanctum Sanctorum employee.

According to him, he had just taken his annual leave, told his colleagues and leaders he was going to Hawaii for vacation, but secretly snuck onto the space station, intending to finish his annual leave there.

As for the reason, it was probably that he had taken some private jobs in his spare time, but took the money without doing the work, and was afraid of being reported if he provoked the other party, so he hid on the space station to lie low.

Actually, generally speaking, hiding on Earth in this situation would be the safest, because Blackheart couldn't break through Earth's magical defense network. But there was also Mephisto's business involved, so it was hard to say.

Shiler felt that this guy might have taken Mephisto's money and didn't do the work, and Mephisto was addicted to making movies on Earth. He might have been afraid of running into him, so he ran to the space station, using the power Mephisto gave him to hide from Blackheart, while also hiding from Mephisto.

But in any case, the person had fallen into their hands. This guy didn't participate in the war and was just an ordinary person with no chance of resurrection, so they had to protect him well. If he were killed, it would be troublesome.

They returned to the Dark Quadrant with this person and handed him over to the Main Universe Batman. The Main Universe Batman didn't say anything and took the person to a room underground.

Shiler felt that the Main Universe Batman might want to get some intelligence. After all, the Sanctum Sanctorum had eyes and ears everywhere, and might have information about the whereabouts of the Soul Stone, so it was normal to catch a lone one and ask.

However, upon seeing a Green Lantern spaceship leaving the port, and leaving alone, Shiler realized that the Main Universe Batman's plan was not that simple.

After completing this mission, there were no new missions for the time being. For a rare moment of leisure, Shiler went to the restaurant for afternoon tea. Just as he walked in, he saw a somewhat familiar figure; the face looked like Natasha, but she had a pair of blue eyes.

More importantly, the other party was emitting a hazy white light, exactly the same as the white light of the elevator buttons he had seen on the space station earlier.

Shiler walked over with a cup of coffee. The other party looked up and didn't seem surprised to see him, but instead smiled at him very kindly. Observing carefully, Shiler discovered that this should be the magical body created in the Arkham universe, and the Super-Body should be living in this body now.

"Hello, ma'am," Shiler said.

"Hello." The other party nodded at him and smiled. It was a kind of sincerity and gentleness from the heart, appearing on Natasha's face, making Shiler feel dazed for a moment.

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