Chapter 4396: Far Star Project (21)

Arthur looked at the news headline and said with some confusion: "What is this snake thing for? And what does it have to do with Mars? Are there snakes on Mars?"

Mera on the side rolled her eyes and said: "You've been on land for so many years, how come you seem illiterate?"

"Sorry, I have some reading disability, especially after seeing a bunch of words that mean about the same thing." Arthur rubbed his eyes, nodded to the waiter serving the food, and then asked, "Have you heard of Martian civilization?"

Mera thought for a while, then shook her head and said: "Really haven't, but the Ancient One might know. Do you remember when we went to ask for information about the Mother Box, he mentioned that the Mother Box came from a powerful extraterrestrial civilization?"

"Could it be Mars? But Martians are so strong, how could they be extinct?"

Mera shook her head, indicating she didn't know either. But suddenly an exclamation came from the next table; that man was holding his phone, talking to his female companion in shock.

Arthur leaned over, vaguely hearing some vocabulary like "Mars". But the news he saw didn't seem worth being so surprised about; weren't they all guesses?

Thinking of this, he swiped casually, and ended up seeing a new headline—"Latest photos taken by Mars rover, suspected city on Mars?!"

Arthur gasped; he enlarged the picture to look carefully and discovered it wasn't forged; it really was the Martian city, the skyline was exactly the same, and even the spaceship belonging to Darkseid parked above the city was exactly the same as the one he had seen; this photo was real!

And the point most people were surprised about was this spaceship, because they had seen this spaceship appear over the US East Coast two days ago. That is to say, the ones who invaded Earth two days ago were Martians?!

Then connecting it to the previous report, which was the alien spaceship in the Serpent of Phrine mural, pointed out by Diana, the art critic, as possibly related to Martian civilization. Now everything was connected.

Many years ago, Martian invaders had visited Earth, only to be defeated by the Pharaoh. Later, they didn't give up, continuously grabbing people from Earth to do experiments; this was the source of those unidentified flying objects. And today, they threw powerful monsters at Earth again, fortunately repelled by the Justice League. But they hadn't given up their evil invasion plan, still sharpening their knives on Mars.

This was just the information the public could understand, lacking certain corroboration. However, the high-level officials knew more than this.

When Steppenwolf appeared in Metropolis, there were many military armed helicopters on the scene; recorded images showed that he seemed to be looking for something. And his subsequent actions toward Themyscira and Atlantis hadn't escaped the intelligence organizations either.

Everyone was convinced that he was indeed looking for something on Earth. As for what he was looking for, no one knew better than this group of high-level officials.

"Red Room" was a safe house established by the military and governed by the federal government specifically for housing super-powered individuals and alien items, among which there were many extremely powerful items. But to say which was the most mysterious, it was the "Cube" that had mysteriously disappeared in an accident before.

This accident was the car accident and resurrection drama self-directed and self-acted by the military in order to master Victor's father, Dr. Silas.

That's right, the positioning backdoor device on Victor's mother's phone wasn't installed by Schiller, but was a real thing.

Back then, the military already knew the Cube was an extraterrestrial object and required Dr. Silas, an expert in the alien field, to conduct research on it. Dr. Silas had success in his research, but he called this box Pandora's Box, believing that humans should never open it. No matter how the military forced him, he wouldn't bow his head.

So the military installed positioning devices on his family's phones and manufactured a tragic car accident, killing his wife and seriously injuring his son. The purpose was to force Dr. Silas to use the power of the Cube to save them.

Dr. Silas did indeed do so, but what the military didn't expect was that the power of the Cube far exceeded their imagination. Victor broke free from their control the first time, and later, Dr. Silas also got rid of the military's control with the help of Superman. Up to this point, the Cube was completely out of control.

The reason the military was convinced that Steppenwolf was looking for the Cube was because in the process of the Justice League fighting Steppenwolf, they had already discovered that this alien monster was powerful far beyond imagination. Several such powerful super-powered individuals of the Justice League joined forces, yet were unable to defeat him. Then among all the items in the Red Room, only the Cube had value to him.

There was another piece of evidence corroborating this point, which was that in the final beach battle, Steppenwolf had a different interest in Victor, wanting to grab him twice in a row. And Victor was fused with the Cube, which proved that Steppenwolf was looking for the Cube.

The high-level officials had long known that the Cube was an extraterrestrial object; this thing was definitely accidentally lost on Earth, and those aliens would very likely come looking for it. When Steppenwolf's spaceship came, of course, it was impossible for them not to be discovered, so the location where this spaceship finally stayed would be regarded by the high-level officials as the home of Steppenwolf and the Cube.

Of course, the Justice League finally boarded the spaceship, but because Bruce had Victor black out all cameras and such around, the high-level officials didn't know the Justice League had boarded the spaceship.

In their eyes, the process was like this: Steppenwolf was defeated by Batman, and his accomplices on the spaceship saw that the situation was bad and prepared to run away; when the spaceship took off, it caused electronic interference, and for a period of time, cameras captured nothing. By the time the interference ended, the spaceship and the Justice League were gone.

The high-level officials didn't care where the Justice League went; they cared about whether the spaceship released electronic interference when it left because it had a guilty conscience?

After all, Earth wasn't far from Mars, and this spaceship looked so advanced, it was just a kick of the accelerator. If it didn't interfere, it might be seen by them that the spaceship went to Mars. Didn't this make sense?

Plus, many high-level officials also knew that Themyscira had some tricks, not ordinary humans. Themyscira stood up and said that Martians had visited Earth before, so this matter was eight or nine out of ten.

Although, the spaceship in the mural was more like the one that was punched and exploded by Superman, logically speaking it should be Superman's home, but who said Superman's home couldn't be Mars?

Most people only knew Superman was an alien, but they didn't have the ability to investigate which planet he specifically came from.

In the final analysis, humans were still a weak surface civilization, and the ways to explore the universe were too limited. The only one in the entire Federation who could be called an expert was forced away by them. This led to them being unable to prove that the spaceship in the Arctic, the alien Superman, the spaceship punched and exploded by Superman, the aliens who once descended on ancient Egypt, the spaceship in low Earth orbit, the spaceship Steppenwolf rode, and the Cube didn't come from the same planet.

In their view, these things were all from an extraterrestrial civilization with super-strong technology. And compared to Krypton, which didn't even have a shadow, of course, Mars, which had a huge city photographed directly, was more conclusive.

Of course, it wasn't that no one discovered that the small escort ship that looked like a giant squid that was punched and exploded back then, and the huge spaceship hovering above the Martian city, had a somewhat different style.

But the problem was, this small escort ship and the spaceship in the Arctic, as well as the Kryptonian main ship in low Earth orbit, all had completely different styles.

The squid escort ship looked like a bionic spaceship, the spaceship in the Arctic looked a bit like a flying saucer, the Kryptonian main ship looked like the Millennium Falcon, Steppenwolf's spaceship looked a bit minimalist, none of these had anything to do with each other.

Not to mention, Superman looked like an ordinary person, Doomsday looked like a mutant Ninja Turtle, Steppenwolf looked like a yak spirit, and Parademons were a mixture of biological and mechanical modifications. These so-called alien creatures didn't look the same at all, so judging whether some things came from the same planet by style didn't work.

After all, humans were divided into several colors, and the architecture and creations of various countries also had great stylistic differences. Maybe people on other planets were also divided into several countries, and they all looked different. So just using different styles to refute that they didn't come from the same planet didn't make sense either.

Actually, up to the point where the photos of the Martian city were exposed, it was just the public boiling for a while, the high-level officials held a few meetings, and it was left unsettled.

After all, they were used to this kind of thing; the Kryptonian main ship was still parked in low Earth orbit, and it didn't delay the Capitol from continuing to argue about voting. As long as aliens didn't invade for a day, they wouldn't worry for a day.

What really added fuel to this heat was the day a completely "Martian-style" space station was launched into the sky.

After this thing was launched, it squatted together with the International Space Station; in the windows of the International Space Station, one could see this thing that looked completely inconsistent with the laws of physics and looked like a telescope.

Now the high-level officials couldn't sit still; what did this mean? This meant Martians had already broken in! Otherwise, how could this thing, which looked like an alien civilization product at a glance, be launched from Earth?!

If aliens invaded from the outside with force, the Justice League would be there to hold it up even if the sky fell. Steppenwolf was so strong, wasn't he finally knocked down by Batman? A punch smashed out the world's largest trench; what was Earth afraid of alien invasion for?

What really made them anxious was the key question: what time was it now? Now was the critical period for deciding whether to re-vote!

In the eyes of politicians, what alien invasion, Earth destruction, Martian city, were not as important as whether they could be re-elected.

And now you say Martians have mixed among us, then are there Martians among those voting? Are there Martians among those counting votes? Are there Martians among those stopping the re-vote?

Regardless of whether you are a Martian or not, as long as you don't fit my interests, then you must be a Martian, because Martians don't have the legal political right to vote, let alone block the re-vote. As long as all dissidents are labeled as Martians, naturally the goal can be achieved.

The Martian space station launched by Bruce was like dropping a depth charge in the federal political arena. For their own and their party's interests, politicians spontaneously launched a large-scale "witch hunt", from the Capitol down to county councilors, exposing and being exposed, hunting and being hunted, killing each other, not giving an inch.

In just one week, the entire federal high-level was like boiling water.

At first, it was just mutual attacks and manipulating public opinion, but after the first murder case broke out, everything began to run toward an out-of-control direction.

Clark Kent, who had just returned to Earth and was ordered by the editor-in-chief to interview the Minister of the Metropolis Municipal Planning and Management Department, looked at the corpse falling in front of him in disbelief, his hand holding the camera trembling slightly.

A person died, and he was the only one in the room. The good news was that he was an alien; the bad news was that the one hit was an alien.

?? Clark Kent is having terrible luck. ===== CHAPTER 4397 =====