The Death Knell

The only people who are okay now are Shazam, Blue Beetle and Hawkman. Laughing Gordon did not participate in this operation. He is still in another place with the Laughing Bat.

Watching Luther walking towards them step by step, fear actually emerged in the hearts of the three of them. This feeling made them want to laugh loudly, because they could not feel any human breath in Luther at all. This contradictory feeling It tickles everyone's nerves.

Every time the bald man took a step forward, the three of them took a step back, because Luther's body began to deform like a Martian, and he turned into a giant more than four meters tall.

Luther glanced at them, threw a smoke bomb before Shazam could attack him with magic, and then disappeared instantly.

Immediately afterwards, Blue Beetle suddenly fell down holding his head.

"No! Ricky's Zerg technology has been cracked, and his computer is invading me in reverse!"

Blue Beetle huddled on the ground holding his head while constantly trying to cut off the network link, because once the armor was controlled by someone, he would be little different from a useless person.

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His armor is actually a type of alien insect called "Scarab". Generally speaking, this kind of insect is somewhat like a symbiote.

The scarabs were originally the war tools of a space predator race, the Reach, and had their own intelligence. They are often given to the warriors of a certain planet as gifts from aliens, but they secretly control them and transform into the "ultimate infiltrators" of the Rickies.

Its body is about the same size as a watch on Earth, and its appearance can be ever-changing. "Kaji dha" is its activation password. As long as the host reads this password, the scarab will instantly turn into armor, providing a A series of incredible abilities.

Such as super strength, changing weapons, high-speed self-healing, space flight and other abilities.

It's just that the scarab of Blue Beetle has its own plans. It doesn't get along with every host. In the past, it always wanted to conquer the earth for the swarm.

It was first discovered in an Egyptian tomb, and an archaeologist named Daniel Garrett became its first host. The cunning scarab completely deceived him, making him think that the scarab was an ancient magical artifact, and the activation password "Kakida" was a transformation spell.

In this way, many unreasonable and weird things were pushed to the magic. The first-generation host was tricked into turning around. Although he was a hero, the scarab on his body did many bad things behind his back.

Until more and more people began to doubt the actions of the first-generation Blue Beetle, the Scarab designed to trap the first-generation host to death. Before its death, it was given to his students.

That is the second generation Blue Beetle, Ted Kord.

As a student of Daniel Garrett, Scarab also knew Ted. He was usually a carefree tease and always loved to tell cold jokes, making him a perfect fool.

Therefore, being handed over to the hands of the second generation by the first generation was also a decision made by it by manipulating the mind of the host before death.

However, the scarab misjudged the wrong person. It did not know that there is another kind of person in the human race called a wise and foolish person who pretends to be a pig and eats the tiger.

When the scarab was bound to Ted and completed symbiosis for the first time, it was shocked. Is this person really Ted? Could it be Batman in disguise?

It just wanted to read a bit of the new host's memory, and was immediately discovered by Ted.

Ted even instantly blocked its methods through random thoughts and self-hypnosis, and immediately deduced that it was not a magical creation at all, but an alien technological creature.

Non-my family, its heart must be different.

So Ted never used the scarab again and locked it in a secret safe.

Without a host, the scarab has little chance of escaping.

Ted himself used technology to create a fake scarab system, named it 'Bug', and also created his own set of high-tech armor and a beetle-shaped aircraft. He inherited his teacher's identity as Blue Beetle and became a superhero. .

He is also a business genius. Unlike the rich second generation like Batman and Green Arrow, he built his own business from scratch and was considered the third richest person in the Justice League that year.

It's just that he likes to play dumb and keep a low profile, so he can only be ranked third in the Justice League. In fact, his intelligence level is on par with Batman.

Rather than being a bug host, he is more like a beetle version of Iron Man. The second generation and the first generation are not the same thing at all.

He was very smart, but unfortunately, he was an ordinary person after all. In the end, in "Countdown to Infinite Crisis", he died at the hands of the leader of the 'Shogi Club', the DC version of Professor X, Maxwell Lauder.

It really only took a moment for the psychic power to kill someone. Maxwell glanced at him and he died.

At the end of the incident, Diana ripped off Maxwell's head in order to avenge the second generation Blue Beetle.

As a result, the video of her murder was secretly filmed by Luthor and spread all over the world. Because the Shogi Club was a state department, this also triggered the Justice League's first public crisis of trust. That is another story.

Since then, thought blockers have become popular in DC, and now they are sold on black markets around the world.

After Ted died, his good friend Golden Pioneer wanted to save him by modifying the timeline, but he refused. He knew that he had to die so that the Justice League could see who was behind the scenes from his death, and he probably I have a premonition that resurrecting people through the timeline will definitely cause big problems.

So his business collapsed, the building was sold, and the staff was dispersed.

But the scarab that was locked in the safe, something that even Batman didn't know existed, was teleported to Shazam in the same city after Ted knew that he was going to die from the golden pioneer in the future. .

It turns out that Shazam didn’t understand...

He also wondered what Ted meant by giving him a glass toy.

Isn't it too vulgar? What he likes is video game consoles or tablet computers. Who wants glass crafts? It’s still in the shape of a beetle, which is not cool at all!

He wanted to throw this thing into outer space, but when he exerted his strength, he ducked his waist and threw it away.

The scarab was thrown thousands of kilometers, but still landed in the United States.

As a result, the Scarab fled to Texas and took up residence in the body of a junkyard owner's son, Jaime Reyes, the third-generation Blue Beetle.

When Shazam threw it, he used great brute force and powerful lightning magic. A large part of the scarab's program was destroyed. In other words, it became a good bug with amnesia and forgot to occupy the earth for the insect swarm. mission, I only remember the time when I helped the first-generation host to do justice...

oh? Turns out I am a superhero, it thought.

Therefore, with its help and encouragement, young Reyes also wanted to make a career in the big city. He went to the Zhenglian headquarters in Washington DC, and with his identity as the third-generation Blue Beetle, he successfully became a breadwinner there. Live on duty heroes.

Since Scarab is a technological Zerg and is very good at computer networks, the third generation Blue Beetle is not as rigid as Cyborg, but has the cleverness and flexibility of a small citizen. Therefore, Batman often hires him to do "dark" private work, the number of times is difficult to count.

In short, it only took one year after Reyes joined Zhenglian to make his debut.

He bought a manor of several thousand square meters in the southern suburbs of Gotham as his base, a penthouse rooftop apartment with a swimming pool in the metropolis, a high-end bungalow in Washington, a sea-view villa in Miami, and a hotel in Central City. A huge cellar was dug as a backup base...

Buy a sports car, buy an airplane, buy a super computer, etc.

He also brought all his relatives and friends to the east coast, formed a team of his own, and kept them to play with, just like looking for playmates.

This made everyone further realize how inhumane Bruce is, and also realized how chaotic the security in Gotham is. Batman has several tasks assigned to Blue Beetle almost every night, and he is almost becoming a supernumerary member of the Bat-family. member.