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space.

In the cold and dark space of the universe, a huge cone-shaped building floats quietly here. The steel body reflects the silvery and cold light in the space.

It stared at the seemingly endless blue planet below. In the silence, it was cold and dead, but the auxiliary satellites surrounding it and the steel shell on the main torso would occasionally flash bright indicator lights.

This shows that it is still in the process of operation.

This is the space strategic base that the Justice League spent two years and painstakingly building, [?Watchtower].

In the uppermost parliament hall, several bright beams of light were projected from the ceiling of the honeycomb electronic network, and the particle waterfall surged like a tide, forming an entity incarnation, from which four figures walked out.

"You are back."

Cyborg was sitting on the main console observing the real-time images transmitted from the satellite computer. When he saw this scene, he immediately stood up and came forward.

"Is everyone else okay?"

This is Bruce's first sentence.

"The few of us standing here are all fine. We also brought back Harley Quinn and Killer Frost by the way, but the bodies of the other dead people...we failed to take care of them and brought them back."

Shaking his head, Cyborg continued: "I imprisoned Harley Quinn and Frost in the 'space prison' that is still under construction on the first floor. The former is fine, but the latter has a broken arm, but there is no fatal injury. It's just that Frost's power has been severely damaged, and it may only be half of its original strength. As for us, the only bad thing is... the heroine was very seriously injured, her bones were broken in many places, and her internal organs were also damaged to varying degrees. The crush injury, under the circumstances at that time, if it had been delayed a few seconds, she might really have died."

Cyborg also knew that there was no time for small talk now. Seeing that Bruce was fine, Cyborg breathed a sigh of relief and explained the current situation with a serious look on his face.

"Fortunately, she has amazing resilience. Coupled with our medical treatment, she should be out of danger in two hours. However, for a short period of time, at least for 24 hours, she may not be able to go to the battlefield."

"Batman, your mask?"

Cyborg saw his tattered and embarrassed appearance, and then looked at Constantine on the other side.

"None of that matters now."

Bruce shook his head.

"...In just one face-to-face encounter, we lost the combat effectiveness of a general."

Bruce looked around at the other people in the council hall.

Aquaman Arthur was sitting on the sofa and resting with a gloomy expression on his face, while Green Lantern Hal Jordan was nowhere to be seen.

"Where's the green light?"

Bruce asked.

"Green Lantern returned to Oa to seek help from his Guardian Corps. But I think the situation is not optimistic. He once said that the Lantern Corps organizations are distributed throughout the universe and are basically independent. He wants to gather enough people in a short time. The Lantern... I'm afraid it will be a bit difficult... and whether they are willing to come or not remains to be seen."

"Do you think we will definitely fail?"

Bruce frowned.

"Although I don't want to admit it, Batman, my computer brain tells me that after my calculations, based on our current strength, the winning rate against that monster is less than 3%."

He looked at the big screen showing live satellite footage.

"After previous battles, I calculated that if Superman fights it head-on, it will only take up to fifty rounds before Superman will be defeated or even killed."

These words are very heavy to say.

"According to the most difficult monster we have ever encountered before, that is, 'Doomsday,' Superman was knocked down after more than 600 rounds of fighting with him. If it were not for relying on kryptonite in the end, I'm afraid we would really The group is destroyed.”

"But it is still within the scope that we can understand and can ultimately solve."

"As for this monster, we can't detect any weaknesses at all, and we can't study its attack method."

Cyborg said, taking a few steps forward and pressing a few buttons in front of the main control console. The image currently being monitored by the satellite was projected on the huge screen.

The flickering blue light reflected everyone's solemn expressions.

"Two hours ago, we captured the appearance of Gaia as soon as we escaped from the trap. Superman originally planned to fight it head-on, but I stopped him."

Cyborg glanced at Clark, who looked unhappy.

"Bruce, with all due respect, with the current strength and means of our Justice League, we are unable to confront a monster of this level head-on."

Cyborg's words were relatively merciless, but everyone present could understand his underlying meaning, 'If the Justice League faces Gaia, who has occupied the body of Deadshot, it will be tantamount to committing suicide. '

"Allowing the human army to deal with that monster is no different from committing suicide."

Clark couldn't help but said.

"We are risking our lives! If we go there, we might have a chance. Isn't it that we formed the alliance to protect those innocent people?"

"But the probability of this opportunity, I just told you Superman."

Cyborg shook his head.

In his view, facing Gaia and facing the enemy head-on, the Justice League might just repeat the same mistakes as the Doomsday incident.

It was also a sudden incident. More than two years ago, Doomsday, the Kryptonian monster created by Lex Luthor, caught the young Justice League by surprise.

Everyone gathered together, but was defeated by the opponent. If Superman hadn't fought desperately alone in the end, and relied on the power of kryptonite to win by chance, let alone the Zhenglian, maybe human beings... no, it should be said that all of the earth All the creatures on the planet have already been wiped out by it.

"At this moment, Gaia has entered the city of London, and the local armed forces are fighting it. And follow-up troops are constantly coming from all over."

"But even if the government troops have made such efficient response measures, everything is almost in vain in the face of this kind of monster that cannot be reasoned with at all."

Cyborg said quickly.

"I compared and observed in detail a large amount of data from on-site battles, and found that its attack methods and its power are invisible and extremely difficult to detect in advance. Moreover, the destructive power and defensive power of this power have reached An incredible situation. It can freely generate an indestructible unknown protective shield around its body. I cannot analyze the composition principle of this unknown shield. It is not within the range of the energy field that is known to be controllable. I have a guess, maybe It is composed of some kind of dark matter energy that we don't know. In the more than two hours of the current exchange of fire, all the heavy attacks carried out by the human army on it, including our heavy missiles and even armor-piercing bombs, have not yet touched it. The body was blocked by the protective shield when it hit the target, and it seemed that its destructive power was fully unleashed, but in fact it was not able to cause damage to even a single hair on its body."

"What about energy attacks? Don't we have beam weapons that are in the experimental stage?"

Bruce frowned.

"It can be handed over to the ground special service team. Isn't there our branch team in London?"

"No, according to my calculations, this can only be a wasted death."

Cyborg shook his head for a while.

"Based on the conclusions I can draw so far, even if we gather all the superpowers on the earth, plus the top technological weapons we have to attack and the Atlantis army, our winning rate can only increase to 7.3% at most. . This is only a theoretical calculation, and the implementation of tactics is extremely difficult, which leads to a huge change rate in the actual effect, and I have no way to really determine it."

"Do you know what this means?"

Cyborg was pacing back and forth.

"Although there is only one person on the other side, the threat it poses is definitely far greater than the Doomsday, especially since Constantine told us that the current Gaia is just a possessed consciousness, and its true identity is It's still under the lava well that sealed it. Even if we can eliminate this clone, none of us can guarantee that Gaia, whose consciousness has escaped, will have any other means to liberate him first when he is under a fatal threat. By that time, all human beings will probably be completely wiped out in an instant."

"But even so, we can't just sit back and let it kill humans like this."

Clark's anger clearly spilled over his face.

He was indeed restraining, but in fact... he even wished he could rush to London right now and fight Gaia to the death.

He didn't even dare to open his five superhuman senses. If he listened to the earth now, I'm afraid he could hear countless screams and cries of grief.This heavy feeling that makes him even feel a little suffocated is something Clark has never felt since he decided to become Superman.

"Don't be impulsive, Superman. If Gaia's body is once released, we will completely lose the capital to fight against it."

Constantine advised.

"In the final analysis, no one has ever truly faced the existence of Earth Consciousness. We don't yet know what methods and capabilities it has. If we confront it head-on, we will only lose our lives in vain."

"...When things have developed to this point, I have an unshirkable responsibility."

Seeing the anxiety rising on the surface of the always confident and calm Superman, Bruce sighed...his palms also clenched unconsciously.

"Don't think too much, it's beyond your control."

Constantine comforted him unexpectedly.

"No one thought that such a big accident would be involved this time. Speaking of which, it would be better for me to commit suicide first and not let you in."

In the last sentence, he was obviously mocking himself.

"If there is no need for self-examination, what are we going to do now?"

Barry Allen scratched his head restlessly.

"...Constantine and Cyborg are right. I think the only thing we can do now is to be patient and look for opportunities. Because the only ones who still have a chance to save others are us and the Justice League. ”

Bruce was silent for a moment and said in a deep voice.

"The Justice League is the last firewall of human civilization. We gathered together precisely because when there is a disaster in the world that we cannot solve alone, we can bring together the strength, wisdom, experience, and... We are willing to devote our courage and sacrifice to protect this world to ensure that our compatriots, our fire and hope can continue."

He looked around at the members present, including Constantine.

"I know what it feels like to sit and watch your world burn. But we must be patient, because if even we fail, it will mean that we humans have lost the last sharp sword in our hands and can only let this The 'planet' that gave birth to us and wants to destroy us will completely erase us from this universe and cease to exist."

"...What we are facing now is an unfinished war that mankind has never fought. And this war has already begun thousands of years ago. Rather than leaving it to future humans, we should fight it thoroughly Solve it and bring a final end to this war that has lasted for thousands of years."

Constantine spoke silently at this time.

"But what shall we do?"

Barry Allen said with a bitter expression.

"Such a big boss was suddenly released. We were not prepared to deal with such an enemy at all."

"Bruce, that's your opinion."

Clark asked in a solemn voice.

"Cyborg, you just said that it is impossible to predict whether the current 'Gaia' possessing the body will release his body at any time, and since we all agree that he has such power..."

Bruce did not answer Clark directly, but asked Cyborg suspiciously.

"So why didn't it do that?"

"why?"

The red light in Cyborg's mechanical eyes flashed twice.

"I'm also speculating on the possibilities, but I think Constantine may already have his own conjecture."

When everyone heard this, all their eyes turned to Constantine.

"Why doesn't it liberate its own body? If it liberates its own body, I think all life on this planet may be wiped out in a single thought."

Constant narrowed his eyes.

"But he didn't do that. Yes, I did have a guess... There is definitely some reason, and even this reason is enough to cause Gaia's consciousness to be suppressed by thousands even if it escapes. Nian's true self was liberated, but returned to the surface temporarily in this possessed existence."

These words made everyone look thoughtful.

"Is there any basis for this speculation?"

Clark asked.

"I understand, is it because Batman inherited the power of the so-called saint?"

Barry's eyes lit up and he blurted out.

"Is this related to the holy relics you mentioned? Could there be other holy relics in the place where we stayed before?"

"...You think too much."

Constantine rolled his eyes speechlessly, shook his head and said: "You have to know that I gave Batman the Holy Relic of Moses. We don't know what else is buried in the Gaia seal. You know, even if there are really holy relics, the possibility is very low. But unfortunately, even if Batman gets all the holy relics of Moses at this time, and completely reproduces the power of the ancient saint, it will not be Gaia. opponents. Don’t tell us that we don’t have time to look for them now.”

"You mean...even the legendary 'angels' can't defeat that Gaia?"

Barry Allen's eyes widened, and then he suddenly looked a little crestfallen.

"Then what do you think is the reason why Gaia chose not to liberate her own body?"

Clark motioned for Constantine to continue.

"Why didn't Gaia release its original seal..."

Constantine walked back and forth twice.His eyes were burning, and the light of wisdom was shining.

"I have a suspicion that maybe... it's because of Cain."