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Chapter 581 Seeking Help (Please subscribe and read, and recommend with monthly tickets!)

While Martin was bustling about like a busy bee, sorting out the ideology of the Allied forces, Savage's side was in a state of chaos.

This chaos wasn't a complete mess; on the contrary, the area under Savage's control was quite quiet, and people continued to live and work at their original pace.

If it weren't for the impending war here, this situation would be perfectly fine.

Even as the enemy besieged the city, these areas controlled by Savage remained unchanged, serving as a symbol of Savage's loss of control over his men.

"Something's not right. Something's nine out of ten wrong. This place doesn't look like it was before the big battle."

Dick was wearing the latest armor manufactured by headquarters, which further improved the armor's optical stealth capabilities and could also block some electronic signals.

He had assumed that the area controlled by Savage had been transformed into some kind of biological weapon manufacturing base, but after crossing the edge, he discovered that it was just an ordinary North African landscape.

The people living on this land are ordinary people, without even superpowers. They simply worship Savage as God and Jesus.

Only a few places have built towering industrial buildings, whose exteriors are filled with various blood-like red energies even from a distance.

"Everyone be careful, something's not right here. Avoid crowded places unless absolutely necessary."

Although Dick didn't know what was going on here, seeing the idols and pictures in every household, he knew that Savage's authority here was even greater than that of Sazara, who forcibly controlled the area with the hive.

Once their identities are exposed, they will become the target of public criticism. At that point, let alone close reconnaissance, even escaping safely will be a pipe dream.

The communications officer accompanying Dick used an encrypted channel to transmit the warning message to each squad. They then packed up their equipment, quickly left the area, and headed further towards the center.

Dick didn't just skim through the villages; he skipped around and selected several. He found that although there were militias there and their weapons and equipment were not weak, they had not received any special training and were completely unsuspecting.

If he wanted to, he could take out the village in less than fifteen minutes, without any casualties or disturbance.

After passing through three villages, everyone there was in the same state. And every infiltrating squad observed this situation.

Dick finally realized one thing: he was operating the radio himself to send secret messages to command.

"The enemy is complacent and has no will to fight. The situation is still unclear, we will continue to reconnoiter!"

After completing his reconnaissance of the surrounding area, Dick bypassed the villages and headed directly for the industrial facilities, acting with increasing caution and trying his best to avoid being discovered.

Diana received the coded message and immediately forwarded it to Martin, then received four words in return: "Be lenient with the enemy."

So the Justice League continued to mobilize its warriors, and each unit was engaged in intense combat, developing its own plan based on the messages sent back by Dick.

After Martin finished reviewing the ideological work of the troops, he ended the day and lay down directly in the tent of the last company.

Superman and Martian Manhunter then returned to command post and waited with Diana for Dick's reconnaissance intelligence.

"I still don't understand. Savage is cunning and treacherous. How could he do nothing when we're at the gates?"

Superman looked at the complex battle plan, but something always felt off.

“I don’t know what Savage is planning, and we can’t control this guy. All we can do is mind our own business.”

Diana didn't try to guess Savage's personal thoughts; she simply speculated on what might happen on the battlefield.

Superman sensed something was wrong, but couldn't quite put his finger on it, so he abandoned the idea and discussed tomorrow's battle plan with his advisors based on his situation.

At the same time, significant conflicts were indeed taking place within Savage's power structure.

This conflict didn't originate between Savage and anyone else, but rather stemmed from a quarrel among Savage's staff.

Savage was not a modern man; he always wanted to be an absolute monarch and to achieve political unification, so he transformed himself into a being who was both human and divine, like the Japanese Emperor.

However, as an immortal being, Savage is able to maintain his strength and youth, so he doesn't have the same worries as the Japanese Imperial Family, who fear that a certain emperor might be incompetent and thus be forced to lose his authority.

Through his relentless use of tactics, coupled with the support of Apokolips, he finally realized his political ideals.

As the saying goes, rewards for good and punishments for evil both come from above, and all authority rests in Savage's hands, which means that he has never encountered any challenge in any sense over the years.

However, this also completely destroyed his subordinates' sense of responsibility.

Since Savage is the one who decides everything, it is natural that Savage should also decide how to deal with any force that can challenge the group.

These subordinates can only blindly obey and should not take any initiative to shoulder any responsibility.

They had been educated in this way since childhood, so when the first unit they sent out failed completely, these staff officers reported the situation to Savage. Their first thought was not how to deal with the war, but to blame each other and want someone else to take the blame.

As for what to do next, Savage should point out a general direction so that these people can make the most of their intelligence.

Dick simply couldn't understand the thinking of such people, so he didn't even consider it that way, but just regarded these things as a harbinger of some kind of conspiracy.

Fortunately, he remained rational throughout. Before his suspicions were confirmed, he kept them to himself and did not reveal a single thought in his reports to headquarters.

"What a bunch of idiots!"

Savage knew exactly what his staff were doing, but he had no intention of giving orders.

"You know the current situation; the Justice League is now our biggest enemy. What are you going to do?"

Savage still contacted Darkseid at the last moment. He stood in front of the stone tablet, saw the Darkseid bust that looked like a relief, and asked the question directly.

"In other words, you are of no value to me anymore, but you are implying that I should continue to support you. I really can't see any reason why I should do that."

Darkseid had no respect for this enemy from ten thousand years ago; now the enemy was nothing more than a dog kneeling at his feet.

"Because you don't have absolute confidence in defeating the Justice League. If I continue to live, I can provide you with a springboard for your attack. If I am killed by the Justice League, you can only slowly fly over from outside the solar system in your spaceship."

Savage didn't yell at Darkseid because he was insulted; instead, he stated a fact. "Without the Justice League, Apokolips could easily take over Earth with its power. But facing the Justice League, which includes Kryptonians, Amazons, Atlanteans, Martians... can you still be as confident as you are now?"

"Not to mention, Martin, who created the Justice League, is so mysterious. He just killed Steppenwolf not long ago. I bet you only just found out about this too!"

The more Savage spoke, the deeper Darkseid's silence became.

Although he used Steppenwolf as cannon fodder, he didn't think this cannon fodder would die easily. However, Steppenwolf, who had an entire fleet, died at the hands of that absurd interstellar court.

At first, he also thought that Steppenwolf died at the hands of the Green Lantern Corps, but now he realized that the one who killed Steppenwolf was just a human, a very mysterious human.

"what do you need?"

Faced with an unknown enemy, Darkseid changed his mind about abandoning Savage.

Savage wouldn't have gone to such lengths if it were just the Justice League. He has a deep understanding of even the Kryptonians, and he doesn't even consider the Old Gods' minions and humans on Earth a threat.

But when faced with Martin, this mysterious figure, he truly didn't understand him, and had no way of dealing with him.

Since that's the case, let Savage live a little longer and test Martin again.

“I need an army, a real army. Only by transferring all the Justice League members away will Martin rush to the front lines, and only then will I have a chance to test him.”

Savage was ultimately unwilling to accept defeat; he could have simply left and rebuilt his empire elsewhere.

He had done this more than once.

However, he couldn't just abandon his men. It wasn't that he cared about their lives, but rather that he couldn't bear the loss of face.

If people found out that they had fled without a fight...

How will he ever be able to survive in the world of immortals again? As for these lives, they are just numbers in his eyes, tools to achieve his ideals.

"This price isn't too high. You already have the Mother Box. Once you open the coordinate channel, countless Parademons will obey your commands."

Darkseid's disdain for Savage deepened.

It was nothing more than a few strands of hair on his head; he had expected the other party to make some demanding request, but now they only wanted something this simple.

He had already sentenced Savage to death in his heart.

"That idiot is dead meat. He's no match for the Justice League."

Darkseid sat on his throne, with Dessaid and the kind grandmother, two new gods, standing on his left and right respectively, and told them his views.

"Command the army to move out! We can't give the Justice League a chance to develop, otherwise our offensive will be greatly hindered. Earth, this planet always surprises me."

"Our great master, shall we continue to send troops to Savage?"

Disadvantage bowed humbly, Darkseid pleading for specific instructions, not daring to act on his own before a clear order was given.

"They're just a bunch of Parademons. Let Savage take them! Let that foolish human test the Justice League's mettle, especially Martin's abilities."

Darkseid's wariness of Martin did not surprise the new gods of Apokolips.

Since the birth of the new gods, they have been able to roam the universe with impunity, and no group has been able to stop them. Over time, a consensus has formed among them that only the new gods can kill the new gods.

Of course, this is a propaganda strategy. There are people in the universe who are capable of killing the new gods, but there are so few that these new gods haven't even considered the possibility of dying for tens of thousands of years.

But after Martin killed Steppenwolf, he finally made these new gods remember the feeling of death again.

It was a strange feeling; they felt nothing, yet were deeply distressed by it. What frustrated Apokolips even more was that if McDonald hadn't revealed his identity, the new gods would still have no way of knowing who had killed them.

This buildup of emotions led them to wholeheartedly support Darkseid's probing action.

Desard even assigned his latest Parademons research to the army, and the kind grandmother assigned her strongest Valkyries.

After completing these tasks, the entire fleet of Apokolips set out, traveling at faster-than-light speeds, heading straight for the solar system.

The difference between a regular mother box and an original mother box lies in this: a regular mother box can transport small devices like monsters on a large scale, but it cannot transport large objects like warships.

Because warships are equipped with too many sophisticated instruments, when passing through a regular mother box, they are likely to be affected by unstable sonic channels, which could lead to uncontrollable disasters.

Parademons, which are known through the common Mother Box, will also be affected in a similar way, but the probability is even smaller. Even if something unexpected happens, it will only blow up a few Parademons, which is not worth Darkseid and the others' concern.

However, spaceships capable of interstellar travel are a different story. Even though Apokolips conquered so many worlds, building a starship capable of rapid interstellar travel is no easy task, and naturally, it cannot be disposed of casually.

……

On Earth, Dick was scouting those towering devices, using optical cloaking devices and the infiltration skills unique to the Bat family to avoid attracting any attention.

He successfully infiltrated those devices, but he couldn't understand the principles behind these Apokolips technologies. The workers inside those towering devices were like zombies; they themselves didn't know what they were doing.

With no other option, he could only take pictures of the situation in the core area and send them back to headquarters for the scientists there to analyze.

Just as he was snapping photos incessantly, the tower, which had been operating at a fixed frequency, suddenly shifted position. The energy flowing like blood began to burn, and bursts of light rose from the ground, shooting directly up the tower into the sky, piercing through the clouds and distorting the space above.

"Retreat immediately!"

Although Dick didn't know what had happened, he knew that anything involving spatial changes was never simple.

There was absolutely no need to report to higher authorities. The tower in Savage's controlled area was operating at full capacity, and the light waves emitted from it illuminated the entire sky. Anyone with eyes could see it.

(End of this chapter)