Opened a martial arts school, and his eldest disciple Batman

Chapter 223 Batman Becomes Wary of Stars
Zod didn't quite understand, but Du Mu needed him to understand.

Then, a translucent glass jar suddenly floated up in the martial arts hall and gently landed in front of Zod and Fiora.

"Zod, look at this, does it look familiar?"

Zod frowned and looked at the jar, feeling a little annoyed by the man's mysterious attitude.

But when he took a closer look, he immediately reacted and asked in confusion: "Kando City? Why do you have a model of this city?"

As a general of Krypton, Zod not only knew about the mysterious disappearance of such a prosperous city as Kandor overnight, but he also worked overtime for several months for this matter.

During this process, Zod could quickly remember not only the landmark buildings in Kandor, but also how many streets and buildings there were.

After being exposed to the sun, Zod's observation skills are now much better than before.

His expression suddenly changed, and he reached out to hug the huge glass jar. His eyes widened with the most horrified expression so far, and his facial expression was completely out of control.

The hands that were able to support Tian Qing were now shaking constantly, and his breathing was becoming increasingly rapid.

Fiona was a little surprised by Zod's reaction and looked over there.

Then, she couldn't help but open her eyes wide with an incredible expression.

In the glass jar, inside the building that looked like a miniature model of Kandor City... there were countless tiny figures shuttling back and forth in the city.

A city of seven million people has been shrunk into a glass jar, and each person is not much bigger than a grasshopper.

If both of them had not been exposed to the radiation of the yellow star, it would be absolutely difficult to observe the people in this miniature city with the naked eye.

Zod stared at the glass jar, looking at the neat and orderly order inside, and looking at the people doing their jobs in an orderly manner.

This kind of life, this kind of daily routine... is exactly what his home planet once looked like in its most beautiful form.

Zod's eyes were filled with tears, and his voice was trembling as he said, "They... they are still alive. There are so many people, so many Kryptonians are still alive..."

Du Mu explained calmly, "This is thanks to Brainiac. He likes to collect cities. He stole your Kandor City but did not destroy Krypton... With his level of technology, he could tell that Krypton was doomed and was too lazy to do it himself."

Although in some worldviews, Brainiac is the mastermind behind the destruction of Krypton, those Brainiacs are generally artificial intelligence invented by the Kryptonians themselves.

Du Mu had already roughly browsed through Brainiac's database. Brainiac really saw that Krypton would not survive for many days, so he did not do anything unnecessary.

"Look around you. Those glass jars are all cities of different civilizations, just like Kandor."

Upon hearing this, Zod only glanced at the glass jars and then greedily turned his gaze back to the city of Kandor.

He hadn't seen such a harmonious and healthy urban scene for a long time.

He once thought that he would never see such a scene again in his life.

However, just to allow such a civilized scene to reappear in the world, he was willing to have his hands stained with the blood of his compatriots and slaughter billions of aliens, just to plant the seeds that could ignite the reappearance of civilization.

"It's Brainiac..."

Zod had mixed feelings.

Although the disappearance of Kandor City made many Kryptonians heartbroken, it was the greatest disaster the entire Kryptonian civilization had ever experienced since it entered the modern era.

The disappearance of seven million people is enough to make hundreds of millions of Kryptonians uneasy.

but……

But then Krypton was destroyed.

This turned Brainiac's theft of Kandor into saving seven million people from disaster.

The fickleness of fate made Zod feel an unprecedented sense of powerlessness.

He was originally a tough hawk, but he could neither save his compatriots nor rebuild Krypton after being exiled.

After Krypton's destruction, the only thing he did for Krypton was to kill an innocent baby...

Looking at the people of Kandor and remembering the blood of the child from Kal in his hands, Zod closed his eyes.

The heart-wrenching pain and shame almost overwhelmed him.

Zod doesn't mind slaughtering millions of so-called innocent babies if what he's doing is meaningful and valuable.

Even compatriots.

But when he found out that everything he did was worthless, counterproductive, and only hindered his progress... pragmatic thinking could no longer serve as a shield in Zod's heart to resist the guilt and self-scorn that never subsided.

"I……"

Zod's voice was so hoarse that it sounded like two pieces of sandpaper rubbing against each other.

"I killed Carl, a baby, in a non-war and without orders..."

Zod said, and with great strength, he slowly moved his hand above the city of Kandor.

When he no longer touched the glass dome of Kando City, it was as if all his strength had been drained away. His arms and head drooped limply, and he knelt in front of Du Mu.

"Kandor City still exists. With a population of seven million, it is enough for the city to thrive."

"But I am not worthy of seeing Krypton's glory repeat itself."

Fiora's expression finally broke a little.

She looked at Zod with sad eyes, but pursed her lips and said nothing.

Zod's will is her will.

She would never make the decision for Zod.

Therefore, no matter what decision Zod made or what order he gave, she would obey it without hesitation.

Zod raised his head slightly.

The moment he made up his mind to pay the price for his crimes, he finally stopped feeling confused and painful, and regained the seriousness of a soldier who obeyed orders.

He said to Du Mu seriously: "There is no death penalty on Krypton. The highest punishment is imprisonment and exile. But I have shed the blood of my compatriots and I want to invade your planet. I am not worthy of being judged by the laws of Krypton."

"Whatever your next sentence is, I will accept it unconditionally."

I just hope... I just hope you can take good care of my compatriots.

Zod clenched his fists tightly on his knees when he said the last sentence, but he didn't have the face or the position to say it out loud.

Even though Du Mu seemed like he would not just abandon Kandu City, even if they were willing to properly settle Kandu City, it would never be for his own reasons.

Either he is kind-hearted, or he is considering Kara's position as his student. In any case, Zod has no say in this issue at all.

If you say too much and make the other person unhappy, you will be blamed for your crime.

Du Mu looked at Zod, and he didn't expect that showing him the city of Kando would make his defense so broken.

However, he has the Mind Stone, so he knows Zod's mental activities throughout the whole process and can understand it.

Zod is not a murderer after all, all his actions are for the continuation of the existence of the Kryptonian race. In the original book, he went crazy because Superman destroyed all hopes of rebuilding Krypton. In that state, he and Superman were naturally in a life-and-death relationship.

But in this universe, Carl, as a newborn baby, represents a certain kind of "hope for the future".

Zod killed Carl for the Book of Life, which was like killing vague hope for a clear future.

But after discovering that there was no Book of Life in Carl's body... Zod was essentially strangling Krypton's precious vitality for nothing.

Especially Carl's young shroud, which clearly represents the "S" meaning "hope" of Krypton.

Except for Du Mu, no one could understand how devastated and desperate Zod felt when he looked at the blood-red 'S'.

And, after the collapse, he became more determined, colder, more cruel, and willing to pay any price to restore Krypton.

He cannot afford it because of the sunk costs that have already been lost.

But now, an intact Krypton city lies before Zod.

Although on the surface it seemed that Zod's wish was directly fulfilled...but from Zod's own perspective, this undoubtedly negated all of Zod's previous actions, turning all his persistence and sacrifice into a complete joke.

"I will take good care of Kando Star."

Du Mu said softly.

Zod raised his head and looked at Du Mu steadily.

After a long while, he said, "Thank you."

At this point, Zod wanted nothing more.

After performing the so-called tea ceremony as instructed by Du Mu... Zod and Fiora, under the control of the Mind Gem, all their mental fluctuations were suppressed into nothingness.

They can't even dream, and if Du Mu doesn't wake them up, they will remain in this state forever until their physical death.

If it were an ordinary human being, without anyone to feed and care for him, he probably wouldn't survive long.

But they are both Kryptonians, and just basking in the sun is enough to provide all the nutrients for their bodies.

The iron body that emerges in this process is immune to all microorganisms and adverse reactions caused by long-term sleep.

After Du Mu gave them several more layers of invisibility, he anchored them to the walls of the martial arts hall.

And it's the front wall.

Of course, Du Mu did not dismember them. He just used simple spatial topology to evenly expand every inch of space on their body surface into a plane.

This can be considered as adding a layer of defense for the martial arts school.

Afterwards, Du Mu allowed the sun's radiation to shine into the martial arts hall again.

Almost in an instant, Du Mu felt that his physical fitness was improving.

Well, the amplitude is not as big as the first time Kara sunbathed.

After all, these two people have been exposed to the sun, and the increase in strength has begun to gradually stabilize.

However, it is still much better than Kara's current improvement of basking in the sun alone.

"My physical fitness can improve automatically without me having to exercise, and the freed-up time can be used for study... It's also a good time to live a healthy life."

Du Mu couldn't help but smile as he felt the growing power in his body.

But now, he also has to consider how to relocate these cities.

Of course Du Mu would not put Kando City on Earth. That would be too stupid. Would he artificially create a mutant world where conflicts were intensified billions of times?

Even Du Mu didn't plan to put Kando in a yellow star system. What does seven million supermen mean? They can walk across the entire universe. There is almost no difference between putting it in a yellow star system and putting it on Earth.

It’s better to find a red star system, or even a world without stars.

Well, if we weren't afraid that these Kryptonians would come out from the center of the earth to bask in the sun, the center of the earth in the Titan universe of Godzilla and King Kong would actually be a good choice.

Du Mu looked at the city of Kando in the glass jar. He had just told Zod that Kando was just like the other cities stolen by Brainiac. This statement was actually not accurate.

Many ordinary people at the bottom of those cities were killed by Brainiac, leaving only the so-called social elites and scientists, because Brainiac didn't want those people to pollute the gene pool.

But Kryptonians are the product of genetic engineering, and their entire social structure is already like a beehive or anthill, well-organized and orderly.

This is actually the type of person that people like Brainiac like the most. Kryptonians live their lives like some kind of perfect model. Any change requires a lot of adjustments to make up for the missing productivity. Naturally, Brainiac has no reason to clean up the so-called low-level Kryptonians.

In fact, there are no such things as lower-level Kryptonians. Due to genetic engineering, for them, being a general or a cleaner is just a job, and everyone works hard in their own positions. The future is determined at birth, and there is no question of whether you work hard or not.

Regardless of whether such a utopia is good or not, it always makes Brainiac very satisfied, which is why the population of seven million was successfully preserved.

"Well... we still need to communicate with the people in these cities and ask them whether they want to return to their destroyed home planets or look for new habitable planets. What are the conditions on the planets..."

Du Mu immediately looked embarrassed.

If it is learning, whether it is flipping through materials, reading minds, or reading books, it is a personal matter. With Du Mu's high-speed mode, a large amount of information can be obtained in seconds.

But to communicate with canned cities...Du Mu has to consider the thinking speed of these aliens.

This kind of thing cannot be done quickly, and the repetitive and boring task of dealing with different people is no less than a torture for Du Mu now, and the effect is comparable to being locked up in a small dark room.

"Fortunately, this kind of thing can be left to the apprentices."

Thinking of this, Du Mu finally relaxed.

Apprentices are meant to be used. How can the master have to work every day while the apprentices enjoy a leisurely life?

Finally, they have found a place to use their talents. It is their blessing to be able to share the worries of their master.

So Du Mu immediately began to recruit able-bodied men from all over the world.

The first ones to be captured were naturally the two Bruces, Bruce Banner and Bruce Wayne.

When the two were brought to the martial arts gym by Du Mu and learned that the cans contained prosperous cities from different civilizations, they were naturally a little surprised.

Banner was very excited. Although theoretically, he had seen many aliens, he had almost no contact with "alien civilization".

The closest ones are the Asgardians, but they only have a few small animals left, and they have a close relationship with the Earth, so they can't be considered a true alien civilization.

Being able to see the appearance of different civilizations is naturally a pleasure for a scientist, for Banner, who is now full of energy and no longer wastes time on internal affairs.

As for Bruce Wayne...

"Master, what do you mean..."

Bruce Wayne, wearing a suit, looked at these glass cans with a heavy expression: "These cities...are all from my galaxy?"

It was the first time for him to know that the universe in his world was so lively...

(End of this chapter)