"You finally ca back. I thought you'd miss the start of the new academic year." Shiller sat behind his desk, looking at Victor who had just walked in.
"What's going on with Pala? Why does she want to lead people to Krypton?" Victor sat down on a chair beside and said, "Surely, this isn't your doing, right?"
"This ti, you're wrong." Shiller said, "Pala is with the Justice League. She's always been working for them, it has nothing to do with ."
"Then you must know what they're up to, right?" Victor said with a look of resignation, "The Justice League has been gone for almost a month now, shouldn't there be so movent?"
"I'm sorry, but I really don't know." Shiller said, "The reason I got involved in this was purely to help you get so more funding."
"But in reality, we didn't get much." Victor sighed, "Amanda is simply unreasonable. If she were just a bit smarter, our inco could be ten or a hundred tis more..."
Victor's tone revealed regret, and Shiller could see that he genuinely had counted on Amanda. But unfortunately, Amanda was not Nick; her mind doesn't adapt easily. Even if she understood how S.H.I.E.L.D. operates, she couldn't emulate it.
Shiller's involvent seed to bear little effect, failing to allow the Federation Shield to achieve a good financial cycle like S.H.I.E.L.D. But the main problem wasn't with Shiller, it was Amanda.
If Nick had been there, Shiller would have provided him with a perfect opportunity. Because if the Federal Governnt also chose to side with Brainiac, then the remaining opposition would all be the power of the Federation Shield.
In other words, negotiations between Congress and Brainiac were not the end, but a beginning.
It's impossible for everyone on Earth to be in the surrender camp. To be precise, only those politicians would choose Brainiac over Amanda because they fear Amanda settling scores with them afterward. They'd rather take a long-term poison than suffer short-term losses.
But there are, after all, people with foresight in this world. They clearly realize that even if Brainiac poses no harm now, he must have ulterior motives. They will definitely not side with Brainiac.
Such people not only have long-term vision, but are usually quite smart and certainly have so power, making them excellent choices for supporters. The actions of the Federal Governnt are equivalent to directly pushing this group of people to Amanda's side.
As long as Amanda can figure out a way to contact the leaders among this group of people, there's much potential.
Although the Federation Shield is an Arican organization, the world has more than just Arica. The Soviet Union still exists, and a few countries in East Asia cannot be underestimated. Since the Federal Governnt chose to betray, contacting them wouldn't count as treason.
Not to ntion, if we can sohow connect with the KGB in the U.S., they can tie up with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for quite so ti, and maybe even secure so funding from across the ocean.
In short, if Nick Fury had experienced this, he might have already organized a giant entity similar to S.H.I.E.L.D. amidst the chaos. Unfortunately, in this cosmos, there was no Nick, only Amanda, who could only end up in defeat.
Though we didn't swindle much funding, it wasn't completely without results. The biggest achievent was pushing the Federal Governnt towards Brainiac, which could accelerate Brainiac's control over Earth.
Shiller wasn't truly concerned about benefiting Brainiac, but the quicker he takes over Earth, the faster his true motives will be revealed. It's better to suffer now than later.
Solving this before the official start of school would be much better than dealing with classes and piles of assignnts later, being overwheld.
However, it now seems that the Justice League might be planning to take action.
Batman and his team traveled through the Green Lantern Teleportation Gate on Earth and arrived on the surface of Krypton. But here, it was evidently far from the central area and still retained a bit of natural scenery.
No one had the ti to marvel. Batman checked around and found that the entire planet's energy had basically been restored, so he hotwired a small spaceship driven by ordinary people. After charging it, they flew towards the central zone.
"We need to find the laboratory where Brainiac was created," Batman said, "There, we should be able to find more information about him."
"Then we need to create so commotion." Pala said, "First, draw Brainiac's attention away, and then sneak into the laboratory to look. Otherwise, if he finds out, he will definitely try everything to stop us."
"I'll go with El Diablo." Pala continued, "Our abilities are quite conspicuous, we can surely draw Brainiac's attention. You guys, who are good at sneaking, find the information quickly and then we retreat."
Batman nodded, agreeing to this plan. Because he could tell, El Diablo and Pala weren't on the sa team, they supervised each other, and he didn't fear them causing trouble.
After approaching the center region, no one dared to relax because Brainiac surely kept a tight watch here.
They split into two groups: Pala with El Diablo, two Batn with Deathstroke, one went south, the other north, heading in two different directions.
"You make so noise here." Pala said, "I also have sothing I need to find, don't tell them."
El Diablo squinted his eyes and stared at her, seemingly hesitating whether to stop her. Pala looked at him and said, "Believe it or not, it's the Justice League that wants to do this. This whole plan is theirs."
"Who are they dealing with? Brainiac?"
"Don't ask so many questions, just do your job. If this succeeds, the Justice League won't treat you poorly."
El Diablo was sowhat inclined towards the Justice League, but what Pala said made him feel like he was on so pirate ship.
But in the end, he didn't stop Pala; on one hand, he might not have been able to, and on the other hand, if the Justice League was really preparing sothing and he ended up disrupting it, affecting their arrangents, which further impacted Earth's safety, it wouldn't be good.
Pala sneaked away alone. El Diablo simply unleashed his Fire God form, rampaging through the city, burning down several buildings, and hurling cars at various structures.
Brainiac quickly noticed the anomaly here. He dispatched defensive robots, which were not Earth's products but genuine Kryptonian specialties. Although Kryptonian civilization wasn't adept at creating robots, their advanced levels in materials science and chanical engineering made their robots far superior to those of humans.
Even so, they were made of tal. El Diablo's high-temperature flas were the nesis of all tals. He could fight dozens without losing ground, forcing Brainiac to divert more attention his way.
Pala didn't linger nearby for long. She didn't go near the research institute, instead heading to the Krypton History Museum, and she didn't wander around inside, going straight to the target on the top floor.
Unlike humans, the lower the floor in a Kryptonian history museum, the closer it is to modern tis; the higher the floor, the older it gets. Pala went all the way to the top floor to find information about the Kryptonians.
After leaving there, Pala went to the Noble District, where the Kryptonian council mbers lived. There she scavenged and took away a lot of information.
Once Batman also found the information they needed, Pala and El Diablo t up, heading nonchalantly to the crossroad where they had separated earlier.
"How's it going?" Pala asked, feigning anxiety, "Robots are increasing, we can't stay here too long."
"No problem, we found so research docunts from back then. I think we might be able to find a loophole or a base protocol in its system through these docunts."
"Then let's not linger here, let's go."
Just as they were about to leave, countless robots jumped down from the rooftops. Pala sighed, "Ignore them, just head towards the teleportation portal."
After saying that, her eyes glead green. All the robots were swept away by vines, and a small spaceship zigzagged successfully, dodging various weaponry and wobbling its way through the teleportation portal.
Successfully returned to Earth, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Batman said, "I need a bit of ti to conduct research, about 2 to 3 days. But I need a place where Brainiac won't find out."
"That's difficult," Pala said, "It seems Brainiac has already reached an agreent with the Federal Governnt, and now the entire Arica is under his control. But I think you can go to a place without internet, those relatively primitive areas, which likely haven't fallen into Brainiac's claws yet."
The two Batn exchanged a glance and imdiately thought of the sa place, which was Brude Haven. Although Brude Haven is a coastal city, it has vast forests and canyons. At the bottom of many canyons, not only is there no internet, but even phone signals are unavailable.
Moreover, Batman knew that during the Cold War, many air-raid shelters were built there, with so still storing supplies. Conducting research there might allow them to discover Brainiac's weaknesses before he actually takes over the globe.
The Batn hurriedly left. Pala also breathed a sigh of relief. She returned to her laboratory and then used magic from All Things Green to block all caras and signals before beginning to study the pile of information she brought back from Krypton.
Although there were two Batn, their research speed was far from Pala's. After all, Pala only needed to find sothing, not actually conduct research; whereas Batman's target was Brainiac, which was much more challenging.
Eventually, Pala found what she was looking for. It was a series of Kryptonian numbers, sowhat like a human phone number, but actually a type of cosmic signal wavelength used to transmit broadcasts towards a specific location in the cosmos, like making a call to the other side.
Then, Pala pulled out a rather peculiar item from a box. It looked just like an ordinary box with two antennas on top, like a radio, but the Green Lantern emblem on the back indicated this was a piece of equipnt used by the Green Lantern Corps, which could be called a "Cosmic Phone."
The string of numbers she had could be dialed out using this device. Pala dialed the number on it. After a sound very similar to a busy signal on a human phone, the call was connected.
"Hello?" Pala spoke in English, "Can you hear ?"
There was clearly soone on the other end, but no response. Pala quickly said to the other side: "Whoever you are, I hope you can help us. There is a very evil artificial intelligence invading Earth, it seems to be from Krypton. If you are so alien civilization, could you co and help us? Our address is..."
There was no response from the other side, but the call wasn't disconnected either. After Pala finished speaking, she created a series of noises around her and then hung up, pretending to be interrupted by sothing.
After hanging up, the person on the other end was silent for a mont before turning to his subordinate and saying, "Go invite Lord Desaad, and tell him that there's news from Krypton again."
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