Chapter 436

Facts proved that the trouble caused by the blizzard that lasted all night was far greater than imagined. When a violent explosion occurred in a certain room of one of the most important and magnificent buildings in the entire Metropolis, and sky-high fire light emerged, all police cars and ambulances could not arrive on time, because the snow had blocked the roads.

Someone might ask, then what about the snowplows? The snowplows were blocked in a place further away than the police cars and ambulances, and it would take two hours to shovel all the way over.

Shiler walked forward along the corridor very suspiciously, completely ignoring the rolling thick smoke emerging from downstairs. He walked downward along the spiral staircase. Just arriving at the floor of the reception room, he saw a red-haired figure stumbling and running over.

Shiler watched Lex run to the corner of the corridor, open the window, stick his head out, take a few deep breaths of fresh air, and then cough violently a few times.

When he straightened up, seeing Shiler standing at the stair entrance, he pointed to the end of the stairs and said: "It was all done by Bruce Wayne!"

Bruce walked slowly out from the smoke carrying a fire extinguisher. He wore a simplified version of a gas mask on his face, obviously one of the equipment Selina had brought back before. He threw that fire extinguisher on the ground and said: "This thing is expired, we have to think of other ways."

Shiler slowly opened the umbrella he held in his hand. Lex and Bruce both watched his actions, not understanding what he wanted to do. But following him raising the umbrella above his own head, the space under the umbrella had absolutely no smoke, appearing to be immune to all poisons.

Shiler just held the umbrella like this, stood in the smoke and glanced at Lex, and then glanced at Bruce. He asked: "Can any of you explain to me, what exactly is going on?"

Lex looked up and counted the patterns on the ceiling. Bruce lowered his head and looked at the text on the fire extinguisher. Shiler coughed, and finally Bruce spoke first: "I swear, I dismantled the helicopter engine just to prove that my design was perfect, and it was he who proposed it."

Lex watched Bruce's finger pointing at himself. He refuted loudly: "You said the helicopter engine you modified was the best in the world, you were completely bragging, because the best aircraft engine must be the one I invent!"

"But you don't have any evidence to support it, but I have a ready-made finished product."

"But just now I have already pointed out the errors in your engine parts. Your utilization rate of energy is really low to the point of being low. If it weren't for that old guy Lionel before, I wouldn't have had the chance to build my own laboratory, otherwise I would definitely let you see what a real genius invention is!"

"Your arrogance and conceit are completely violating the spirit of scientific exploration." Bruce's tone was consistently calm, but it could be seen that he very much wanted to refute Lex.

This was the first time he truly faced someone whose wisdom was on par with his own. At least in the field of invention and creation, it was hard for Luthor and Batman to distinguish a high and low.

Moreover, both of them now were under 20 years old. Even if their wisdom was high and their character was firm, it was hard to avoid having thoughts of wanting to win. Or rather, everyone who could climb to the peak in the scientific research field had absolute confidence in their own scientific research level.

Therefore, after they conducted initial mutual probing, they discovered that the other party's brain calculation speed and IQ were on par with their own. At this time, they both understood that they had met an opponent.

Next, it was a long process of theoretical discussion. It could be said that if it weren't for the fact that the two people had just met and completely didn't trust each other, then after this night, the scientific level of the DC world would definitely have gone to a higher level.

However, theoretical discussion couldn't demonstrate the full level. Soon, they wanted to turn to the experimental link. But this was the Mayor's Mansion, not their laboratory, and there weren't so many things to give them to do experiments.

Then, as they talked, they talked about those small equipment Bruce carried on his body, and subsequently, they also talked about the transportation tool Bruce took to come here, which was that helicopter.

As everyone knows, just like the Batmobile, all of Batman's transportation tools only look like that transportation tool on the surface, but actually have been magically modified into a completely different kind of thing. The helicopter is also like this. Even if it suddenly transforms into a rocket launch base and assembles a rocket out of thin air to launch into space, it is not unexpected.

Talking about the helicopter, one must talk about the helicopter engine modified by Bruce. Of course, this is the most essential part of every transportation tool. Bruce had confidence in his own modification. He believed that he had considered every aspect, and that was a most perfect helicopter engine.

Lex of course didn't believe it. In the two years he didn't take medicine, he finished learning the vast majority of knowledge that humans could master. Just like Bruce, any scientific technology that was deep and obscure to ordinary people was as simple as eating and drinking to him. Therefore, he sneered at the so-called most perfect helicopter engine of Bruce, feeling that he could definitely pick out the faults in it.

Bruce was also a bit curious whether Lex could really pick out faults. Therefore, he climbed out of the manor window overnight, arrived at the helipad on the roof of the building opposite, and then dismantled his helicopter engine.

It could only be said that fortunately, when doing this thing, Bruce didn't wear the Bat-suit, otherwise that would make him look more like someone stealing a battery.

Regardless, the helicopter engine was successfully brought into the reception room by Bruce, and then the two people began to study it by knocking and hitting.

Not saying anything else, anything Batman makes is very guaranteed in terms of safety.

However, this was not a laboratory, and there weren't so many professional tools to pry open the engine shell. But the two people's argument about the engine became increasingly intense, and neither could convince the other, only able to speak with facts. Therefore, Lex intended to use a directional explosion to attack the internal circuits directly.

As for the result, it was successful, and Lex did indeed successfully pick out the engine's faults at that moment. However, following that, the sparks rubbed out physically were much bigger than the sparks rubbed out by their wisdom.

These two people might not have insufficient wisdom, only able to say they were relatively unlucky. Logically speaking, the explosion was within a controllable range, but don't know which link went wrong, anyway, the helicopter engine exploded.

Before the explosion, both people realized something was wrong, so they dodged, so the two of them didn't suffer any harm, but the power of the explosion was still very big, blowing all the glass of the entire reception room to pieces, and causing a fire.

Shiler, who heard the whole process, stroked his own brow with his hand, then looked at the watch on his wrist. It was about 7 o'clock in the morning. Looking at the window outside again, winter dawns relatively late, therefore the sky outside was still pitch-black.

Shiler somewhat helplessly put away the umbrella, looked at the two people, and said: "What are you still stunned for? Save the fire."

Lex and Bruce sighed in unison. Clearly, they also understood that in such weather, counting on the police and fire trucks to come over to extinguish the fire was unrealistic, only able to use the most ancient method.

Bruce walked toward the end of the corridor and said: "I'll go to the nearest washroom to catch a water pipe, you go downstairs to evacuate those crowds who are trying to run out to the courtyard behind."

Lex muttered a few words in a low voice, then glanced at Shiler beside him, finally still didn't say anything, turned around and wanted to walk downstairs.

Just when he approached the window, he glanced outside the window, then placed his hand on the balcony, looked outside the window, and whispered: "Am I hallucinating? Why does it seem like something is flying in the sky?"

Lex narrowed his eyes, looked outside the window, then turned his head, and said to Bruce who hadn't walked over yet: "I said, that thing of yours couldn't possibly be a perfect helicopter engine. Your helicopter can't fly in this kind of weather either, but some helicopters can."

Bruce was anxious to save the fire and didn't pay attention to Lex. But just when he went to the nearest washroom to connect the water pipe, and then carried the other end of the water pipe to the reception room intending to extinguish the fire, he vaguely saw a figure appear where the glass was broken.

The figure's hand seemed to be carrying a real fire hose, at this time spraying water outward, but he himself was somewhat staggering and leaning against the wall.

Except for the initial explosion power being relatively amazing, the fire left inside the reception room wasn't too big. Bruce pushed forward little by little with the homemade water pipe, soon opening a path. Following that, he arrived at the window side, picked up that fire hose that didn't know where it came from, and then began to extinguish the fire.

The effect of the fire hose was much stronger than the homemade water pipe, therefore soon, the fire inside the room was extinguished almost completely. Bruce also arrived at a position close to that figure. He threw the water pipe aside, then walked quickly to the side of that figure, took off the gas mask on his own face, and put it on his face.

He looked at the figure, and then asked him: "Who are you? How come you are here? Why didn't you stay in the guest room?"

"I..." That person just made a syllable, and then followed a series of coughs.

Bruce sized him up. That was a teenager whose body size looked similar to Bruce's, with a head of black hair. The color of his eyes couldn't be seen clearly in the smoke, but his appearance was very handsome, and his figure was also considered strong.

Bruce furrowed his brows. He didn't remember there being such a person among the guests invited. But looking at it, it was he who brought the fire hose to save the fire.

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Bruce turned his head again, landed his gaze on the fire hose, and then discovered that the fire hose seemed to be stretched in from outside the window.

He walked to the window side, picked up that water pipe, and then lowered his head to look downward, seeing the water tank of an entire fire truck.

Even with Bruce's wisdom, he couldn't imagine how this huge water tank appeared here.

He lowered his head and glanced at the water pipe in his hand, then turned his head and glanced at that teenager again. Finally, he threw down the water pipe, then walked to the side of that teenager and asked him: "Did you bring the water tank over?"

"Uh, no, it should be the fire brigade or something, right?"

Bruce narrowed his eyes. He asked: "Then why did you appear here? I don't remember you being among the people who came to participate in the banquet."

"I just came to help." That teenager struggled to explain. He said: "I am a student of Metropolis University. We just had a holiday. Originally I was going to go home, but because of the blizzard, all transportation tools stopped operating."

"I just happened to see the house emitting rolling thick smoke at school. I knew it was a fire, so I wanted to come and help."

"Just happened to see?" Bruce repeated these words. Seeing his face full of disbelief, that teenager still wanted to explain, but at this time, Lex walked in cursing and swearing. He said: "God, what are you doing inside? Is such a small flame worth you..."

"Oh..." Lex stopped at the room door. He looked at Bruce and said: "In order to prove that your helicopter engine is the most perfect in the world, so you turned it into a person?"

"No, he said he came to help." Bruce turned around to walk back?

But just at this time, he suddenly heard a "bang" sound from behind. That somewhat strange teenager fell to the ground.

No one attacked him, and there was no debris that would trip him. He just fell to the ground out of thin air like that.

Lex looked at the fallen teenager, and then said: "If he really is turned from your helicopter engine, that's really rotten enough."