The Death Knell

The two were about to open the door to see what was going on inside, when suddenly a strange thing appeared behind them and attacked them.

In the dark, it looked like a soft slime that suddenly rose from the ground, but when it launched an attack, it turned into a faceless human form, except that it had one arm that still looked like a spike. , which is its attack weapon.

Su Ming grabbed its back thorns, but the conical spikes flowed away from the fingers like liquid. The silver liquid rolled on the ground a few times like mercury, and merged into the opponent's constantly twisting and changing body again. New spikes formed on his body, and he raised his hand to pierce them again.

There was nothing more. Superboy had already reacted. His eyes shot out red heat vision, burning the monster made of silver liquid into a pile of black ash.

"What is this? I always feel familiar..." Superboy wiped the corners of his eyes, a little curious.

Su Ming pulled the ashes a few times with the sword in his hand and shrugged nonchalantly: "It should be a liquid metal robot. If you have seen it, it is most likely in the "Terminator" movie. I remember the one who was hit in the chest by a shotgun. A silver robot that blossoms but keeps moving forward?”

"Oh, I remember, that scene in the corridor is really a classic." Superboy suddenly realized, he looked down at the pile of black ash next to the two of them again: "Then did I kill it?"

Deathstroke opened the door with his sword and nodded, patting Clark's shoulder with his free hand:

"It is a robot made of technology. Even if it is made of memory metal, it must abide by the basic reality of energy conservation. It may originally weigh a few hundred kilograms, but you use heat vision to heat it and vaporize most of the mass. There are about 20 grams of ash left now? Generally speaking, it should be dead."

"Just like in the movie, the T1000 died in the steel-making furnace." Superboy-Prime nodded with a smile. He was confident in the strength of himself and Deathstroke, so he was still talking about watching the movie when the mercenary pried open the door of the control room. Thoughts: "Although I don't use heat vision very often, I will use this trick to deal with robots in the future."

The command room was not very spacious. It was originally used by Batman when he was on duty. It only had a chair, a lot of large and small screens hanging from the ceiling, a water dispenser in the corner of the room, and a small cabinet.

Various technological equipment takes up most of the space in the room, leaving not much area for people to use. After all, entering this small room is to 'answer the phone' on duty, and there is no time for other things.

At this time, there were two figures lying next to the chair. They were Green Arrow and Black Canary. They didn't know why they fainted, but after inspection, it was determined that these two people were alive.

Deathstroke took out the mineral water from his pocket and poured it on Oliver's face. After the man with the golden mustache shook a few times, he sat up suddenly and gasped for air.

"Phew!!! Am I not dead?"

"It seems not yet, Oliver." Su Ming smiled and stretched out his hand to help him up. Strangler took the opportunity to confirm that the person had not been replaced with a fake: "Tell me what happened, be brief."

Oliver, who seemed to have a headache, shook his head, took the remaining half bottle of water and went to wake up his ex-wife. He glanced at Superboy-Prime, who was blocking the door like a security guard, and told him about what happened before.

At the time, Dinah said she felt like they were being watched, and he told his ex-wife that he felt the same way and promised to play it by ear.

After that, they received communications from Superman one after another. Clark and Luthor went to Metropolis to look through the collection. Others also divided their duties. Oliver simply wrote it down and prepared to wait for Brutus' next invasion. Place.

But at this moment, strange patterns of 'dots, lines, and circles' suddenly appeared on many display screens. The pictures shook for a while, and then the power went out.

Oliver and Dinah wanted to leave the surveillance room to find others outside, but they found that the door was locked with encryption. Canary was about to break the door with a scream, but if they screamed in such a confined space, the two people would probably be the first to scream. Killed by sound waves.

So he prepared to use explosive arrows to break out of the door, but at this moment, the anti-intrusion mechanism left by Batman in the room suddenly activated, injecting a large amount of hypnotic gas into the room.

He and his ex-wife came to work at the Hall of Justice. Neither of them brought gas masks to work, so they lost consciousness without even a chance to struggle. The drug Batman prepared was too strong, and the hypnotic smoke was still light green. It was probably mixed. Kryptonite powder.

Presumably it was prepared to deal with Superman.

"That's about it. If you ask me if I have thought of anything, it means no. I still have a headache." As soon as he spoke, Oliver woke up his ex-wife, and the two embraced each other affectionately.

"Ollie!"

"Little birdie!"

"Honey! Are you okay?!"

"I'm fine, what about you, baby?"

The two people's eyes met and they stared at each other affectionately. The faces of the man and the woman were getting closer and closer...

"Ahem! So, the power outage here in Washington should be earlier than in Gotham." Su Ming watched the two of them begin to make out regardless of the occasion, coughed slightly speechlessly, and checked the golden thread with strangulation. Is the bird genuine? "I was in Gotham before, and I went back to Sepurk. Within a few minutes, I found that the entire earth was without power."

The atmosphere was ruined. Oliver could only help Canary stand up. He picked up the bow and arrow set that was leaning on the instrument and put it on his back. He frowned and jumped back to the topic:

"Is the blackout scope global? Is this Darkseid's work?"

"It's not clear yet, but electricity is too closely linked to human society. Once the power outage lasts for a long time, even if he doesn't send any troops to attack, people themselves won't be able to survive." Su Ming walked out of the control room and returned to the corridor. He looked around at the dark environment: "And this is not a simple power outage. The generator can operate normally, but the electricity generated has been stolen out of thin air."

The key is still the pattern. The combination of points, lines, and circles should be the most intuitive way to express the flow of time.

Dinah rubbed her nose and pushed away her ex-husband who was supporting her: "Is it wireless transmission technology? If it is some application of the earth's magnetic field, then we have to think more about earthquakes and tsunamis."

"Sorry, beauty, none of us men are scientists. You are asking the wrong person when you ask us this." Su Ming handed the two cans of coffee to refresh them, and began to let Strangler stretch out tentacles to each of them. Searching for survivors in the room: "By the way, Mr. Excellence escaped early again. His sixth sense is better than that of a mouse."

Green Arrow and Canary looked at each other, and black lines seemed to fall on their heads. They said in unison:

"I knew it!" X2

The little superman guarding the door couldn't help it anymore. He leaned against the door with a numb expression on his face, kept touching his two arms and shivered and said:

"You two have such a tacit understanding, why don't you just remarry where you are? It really gives me goosebumps all over my body, ugh~~~"

But Oliver immediately raised his hand and made an X shape in front of his chest, his eyes widened so much that the boss shook his head:

"Superboy-Prime, you can't just say this casually, like 'I'll go home and get married after this mission', 'The photo in this helmet is my girlfriend', 'Mom is waiting for me to come home for Christmas', etc. Whoever talks about these topics will die..."

Green Arrow is indeed smart enough, and he always knows what he says.