The Death Knell

The mantis man, who was tied into a caterpillar shape by the mantra lasso, was put back into the dormant chamber. The ink on the black chip on his head was wiped away during the friction, revealing a purple light.

"For Brainiac!"

The creature named Neo struggled and shouted slogans in a mechanical voice.

But he is just an ordinary person. The alien's strength and physique are only slightly stronger than those on Earth. He cannot get rid of the mantra lasso. This thing was originally an elastic band on the waistband of Gaia, the mother of Titans, and passed through the god of fire. Carefully crafted, genuine artifact.

"Barry, use your socks to gag him. No one will come to save him even if he screams and his throat is broken, but those nonsense words are annoying."

Just saying "for Brainiac" back and forth is like a repeater, it's so annoying.

Barry looked embarrassed and opened his arms to show Su Ming: "There are only underwear in the uniform, I don't wear socks."

Indeed, this is true for all superheroes who wear one-piece uniforms. Batman only has a pair of shorts underneath his uniform. Superhero simply wears the uniform close to his body and wears a suit or other clothes outside.

As for Diana, she wears sandal-style hollow combat boots all year round, Bobo is used to going barefoot, and Su Ming himself is the symbiote host and does not need clothes.

"I'm here, I'm wearing socks." Harley raised her hand to sign up, and as she said so, she was about to take off her boots and bubble socks.

"No, Barry has already brought the curtains over." Su Ming raised the rag in his hand, balled it up into a ball and stuffed it into the mantis's mouth. It became quiet now: "Besides, stuff your girls' socks into his mouth. , it feels like handing out welfare, you see he looks so wretched, what if he tastes bad?"

"..." Diana showed her dead fish eyes to show that she didn't know what Deathstroke was talking about, but her slightly red face betrayed her.

Harley smiled and pointed at Deathstroke's face: "Then you still maintain the appearance of a mantis."

"It's a tactical necessity. After a while, Cyborg arrived and I entangled him. Diana pounced from behind and chopped off his head." Su Ming didn't change his expression, but just ignored the topic and continued to arrange the task.

At this time, Bobo put the glowing link helmet back on Mantis' head, took a few steps back and wiped his sweat: "It should be OK, he was connected to the network, and Brainiac's mind control program began to spread. If all the mantis people surfing the Internet at this time wear this iron hat, the mind control program can spread in the virtual world without even using a chip."

"These people themselves have been coded, so the dormant warehouse and the network address should be the same. Cyborg will be aware of the presence of the virus in the Alien Box network no matter where he is in the Ghost Sector."

Su Ming nodded, and now he just waited a few minutes for the failure of Cyborg Network's anti-virus attempt.

He is bound to fail. Even though Darkseid's technical level is higher than Brainiac, as an AI, Brainiac's self-replication and spread of programs are like instinct. Apokolips technology can stop Brainiac. Yake's invasion could not drive him out of the network.

Otherwise, Darkseid had killed Brainiac before, and could he still endure it until now? It is not without reason that the two sides have always maintained a balance of power in the previous universe.

Nowadays, the upgraded Cyborg can only isolate the virus at best, turn the network in this area into a local area network, and then go to Steel Star to try 'physical' anti-virus. But as soon as he comes, Deathstroke, Wonder Woman, Can he escape the Flash's siege?

Bobo nodded and asked thoughtfully: "Deathstroke, do you think we really live in a real world? The fourth dimension doesn't sound real."

"If I lied to the mantis, why did you get in by yourself?" Su Ming rolled his eyes helplessly and found a place to sit down near the door: "Our current dimension is the third dimension. The previous third dimension was My destruction has brought our reality to a lower level, and also forced Pepatua to fight us in reality."

Bobo touched his hair, found a corner and sat down, showing a wry smile: "Maybe I think too much. Sometimes I think about whether we actually exist in reality? Are we living in this world?" In an imaginary world.”

Harry's eyes lit up and he was about to say something, but Su Ming beat him to it: "You're overthinking."

The orangutan let out a long sigh, took out a wine bottle from his clothes and drank from it: "That's right..."

............................

If he was still the same Cyborg as before, he would be very upset at this time. He not only has to deal with the almost endless scavengers, but also investigates the mind control unit left by Brainiac. Almost every planet in the ghost universe has There are both of those things.

Before Sepurk can take the Ghost Universe out of the multiverse, these hitchhikers must be dealt with first.

This is a very arduous job and very boring, but now that we have completely abandoned the human thinking model and only have the steel bones of calculation, we can no longer feel the emotion of boredom.

He will only complete the tasks assigned to him by Darkseid.

The Scavenger is very powerful, and even today's Cyborg can hardly match it. Fortunately, he can also summon those bloodless and tearless demon-like armies, and defeat the Scavenger with continuous human sea tactics.

The effect is very limited, these scavengers are just separate bodies, and they share information instantly. The method used to defeat one scavenger last time will not be very effective when facing the next one.

Fortunately, his new owner was very considerate and created some inferior new gods for Cyborg to use. It has to be said that they are all stupid and completely brainless, but they are enough for cannon fodder. .

"Ping?"

Just when he cooperated with the new gods and killed the second scavenger with the meat grinder his arm turned into, he suddenly received an early warning signal.

At Steel Star, one of Brainiac's terminals was connected to the network, and the local network immediately initiated isolation measures, but even the alien box could not kill Brainiac's program.

It is like a living string of characters, constantly infecting healthy data in the network, which is intolerable to Cyborg.

"What's wrong, Brother God? Do you need Tasol to do something for you?"

Next to Cyborg, a strong man with yellow skin who looked like a giant lizard man asked. He had yellow scales all over his body and a thin wing membrane on his head, where his beard was.

"Ping."

Cyborg shook his head and passed a string to the other party.

The big man nodded clearly: "We can't help you with the problems in the online world, Brother God, just like you said, we will stay here to continue looking for lurking scavengers and wait for your return."

"Ping."

Flames burst out from under Cyborg's feet, and he flew straight out of the atmosphere. He was going to Iron Star to deal with a small problem.

The new god who calls himself Tasol understands again: "Yes, Darkseid is always there."

Cyborg's silver body flew in the universe, and he even changed his body shape through calculation to reduce the resistance to escape and enter the atmosphere. At the same time, he began to read the data of the Iron Heart and conduct electronic warfare against Brainiac.

The situation is not ideal.

The super energy network is like a sea, and now Cyborg as a 'code' is like Neptune, but Brainiac's program is like a grain of sand. Cyborg can feel where it is, but every time When you try to grab it with a fist, it always slips through your fingers, and then becomes infected with more sand and turns into the green color that represents Brainiac.

Fortunately, the local gateway responded quickly and limited the infection to the planet Iron Heart, which had little impact on the Alibox network.

Cyborg tried many methods, such as the super computing of hypertime flow, or the network protocol of Apokolips. Unfortunately, in the end, he determined that he could only use physical anti-virus.

The target location is locked, and all the intelligence of the terminal individual is read. An ordinary broiler, no threat at all.

Two minutes and thirty seconds ago, his residence had a brief alarm, but it was later deemed to have been accidentally triggered. He canceled the alarm program himself, and there was no abnormality.

"Ping!" He calculated and started the physical isolation process of the building, preparing to eliminate the infected hosts.

From the 3D structure diagram in his mind, Cyborg could see that every floor of the entire skyscraper was separated by steel plates. At the same time, the planet's security system was also capped, completely surrounding the entire building from the outside.

If necessary, everyone in this building can be cleaned out, but according to Cyborg's judgment, this Brainiac mind control unit has not mastered the production process of electronic components and is not contagious in the real world, so Only minimal extermination is required.

He went straight to the sky above the city, passed through the thick black cumulonimbus clouds, arrived at the bottom of the building, and broke in through the window.

"Ping?"

He saw a metal mantis man sitting on the sofa with a straight body, looking at him calmly, as if he was looking through him towards the building on the other side of the road.

The alarm systems of houses and buildings are flashing, yellow warning lights are lighting up, and there are also voice announcements, asking all residents to stay at home, lie on the ground, and raise their hands above their heads.

Obviously, the other party did not do this, and Cyborg did not see any trace of the mind control chip on the other party's head.

So with a strange noise, he started to scan, not through the network but through the device he carried. It usually only takes 0.1 seconds to complete the scan in such a small room and get all the reports.

But he is too arrogant. Maybe for an ordinary mantis man, 0.1 seconds is indeed unable to react and respond in any way, but for Deathstroke, this time is very rich.

As if the other party was sure that he would scan, the mantis man seized this opportunity, came to Cyborg from the sofa in an instant, and hugged him.

"Long time no see, Victor, I heard you have grown up? Let uncle see..."

The other party said strange words.

The information about Deathstroke from another world automatically popped into Cyborg's mind, and the Mother Box began to formulate counterattack plans and countermeasures.

But at this moment, he found that the world was spinning and his head fell to the floor.

Barry retched, and he led Diana to the back of Cyborg through the Speed ​​Force, and executed the previous plan perfectly. The Vulcan Sword still chopped off Cyborg's head effortlessly.

But he just felt awkward in his heart. He never thought about cutting off his teammates' heads, but Diana did it according to the death knell's arrangement without raising any objection.

Without giving him a chance to spit on the steel head, Su Ming bent down and picked up the head, wrapped it in a bag with the remaining curtains, and hung it on his belt.

"Pack your things and evacuate."

Diana retracted her lasso and grabbed Barry's arm. Several people walked out from behind the table or sofa, stood on the flying carpet turned into a cloak, and then disappeared in an instant.

Only the headless body of the steel skeleton was left on the spot, spraying sparks and lubricant while squirming on the ground.

Of course, there is also the savior Neo in the room. He is still in the dormant chamber, probably subconsciously still dreaming of saving the world.