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Chapter 284 Fighting Fire with Fire
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Ma Zhaodi wasn't quite sure who the Stranger was, but the guy looked like someone from the magic side—maybe he could ask Constantine next time he saw him.

In any case, the mysterious man in the blue trench coat charged into the storm, while Superman struggled against the magical storm.

Although he couldn't lose, he also couldn't win. The Storm Giant expanded little by little, eventually becoming almost outrageously large. It was foreseeable that if Stranger couldn't deal with the giant quickly, the entire metropolis would be crushed by this thing.

Superman used every trick in the book, but when he was finally pushed to the limit, he even charged up his power and punched the earth.

"boom!"

The destructive force swept across the ground, sending soil and gravel flying into the air. In just a second, a trench thousands of meters long and several meters deep appeared on the outskirts of the metropolis, exposing the solid rock beneath to become an obstacle to the storm's advance.

"Hopefully, the stranger's speed is fast enough."

Superman still needs to pray and wait, but Ma Zhaodi can simply drag the progress bar. He casually dragged it to three minutes later—if Stranger hasn't resolved the issue by then, Metropolis will probably be shattered by now.

Sure enough, the giant had stopped in the air above the edge of the metropolis and began to collapse—but Ma Zhaodi thought that with its current size, even if it collapsed directly, it would be enough to cause a terrifying earthquake in the metropolis.

So next up is the classic Superman time.

In the lens of a dedicated photographer, Superman flies into the sky, carrying a huge aggregate of earth and stone that is almost the size of a village, and quickly flies higher and higher until it is completely out of sight.

"He probably wants to just throw this thing into outer space," Ma Zhaodi thought. "But considering he's Superman, it makes perfect sense."

The video ended there; he closed the news and couldn't help but sigh.

"As expected of the Metropolis, the workload isn't as heavy, but the quality is high. The bosses also seem to prefer grouping up and taking turns attacking."

Although he could only observe a few events in the Metropolis from an outsider's perspective through videos, Ma Zhaodi really didn't want to know any more about it. In fact, he had now decided to temporarily avoid the city of Metropolis.

"I was thinking that since there was a Superman there, it would be safe enough for me to go and work there," Ma Zhaodi breathed a sigh of relief, "thank goodness I didn't go."

Drake included his new phone number in the letter. After finishing his melon, Ma Zhaodi picked up his phone, intending to comfort his unlucky old friend. As he dialed the number, his eyes suddenly caught sight of today's news on the Planet Daily homepage—one of the addresses stood out prominently.

"Hmm? News from the city center?"

Something is wrong, very wrong.

A sense of foreboding welled up in Ma Zhaodi's heart.

"Drake can't be that unlucky, can he?"

He clicked on the news in the city center, and a headline immediately jumped into his eyes.

Fire and loud noises spotted in central city: Where did the explosion illusion come from?

At that moment, my phone started beeping.

"Sorry, the number you dialed is not in service." Ma Zhaodi's vision went black.

When Ma Zhaodi boarded the train to the city center, it was already afternoon.

Scrolling through the news reports on his phone, he couldn't help but sigh. Although there wasn't much to do in Gotham right now, it was still relatively peaceful. Not to mention that he had just died once and only had seven or eight days of vacation, and now he had to go to Central City to find the Drake family.

The report was quite detailed, basically stating that strange phenomena occurred in the central city around midnight yesterday, with a towering flame and a terrifying explosion coming from the particle accelerator location, a scene as terrifying as a small nuclear bomb exploding.

Many people witnessed the incident from different corners of the city. Some speculated that someone had secretly activated the deactivated machine and blown it up; others guessed that some force/organization had indeed dropped a super bomb on the particle accelerator, intending to destroy some strategic research within the Star Labs. Opinions varied, but the general consensus was that an explosion did indeed occur that night.

However, according to the investigation and reports the following day, the enormous flames and sounds seemed like a dream in the city center. The particle accelerator did not explode, no surrounding buildings were damaged, no one was injured or killed, and there was no tremor or shockwave generated at the time of the incident.

In fact, according to the police's investigation and interviews, even the huge flames and sounds that people saw last night only lasted for a few seconds before disappearing without a trace.

At this stage of the investigation, if it weren't for the fact that people saw the same firelight, and if it weren't for the fact that some surveillance footage did indeed record the strange scene that night, then this incident could even be explained as a hallucination caused by the collective dream of the citizens.

Even if it could be confirmed that what happened that night was not a dream, Central City could not do anything more about it. The staff inside the Star Labs were helpless against this almost untraceable phenomenon. Without any explosion-related samples, they could not study or analyze it. Therefore, the newspapers only gave it a small section, which was equivalent to people talking about it over tea.

But Ma Zhaodi was certain that the Drakes' disappearance was related to the news reports.

The system triggered the task after he finished reading the news in Zhongcheng.

【Ding】

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Fighting poison with poison

Task Introduction: As the saying goes, no child cries every day, and no gambler loses every day.

Before moving to Central City, the Drakes believed that while a person might experience one stroke of bad luck, or even two, three strokes of bad luck were something that only happened in novels or movies. They thought that this move to Central City would be the beginning of their happy second half of life.

Note: As it turns out, the Drakes were wrong. Besides novels and movies, the world of comics is never short of coincidences. Therefore, upon arriving in Central City, the couple, unsurprisingly—encountered an accident.

But then again, isn't sending a jinx to save two unlucky souls a kind of "fight fire with fire"?

Status: Pending (0%)

Reward: Intermediate Energy Affinity (Increases maximum mana and grants seven additional anti-crisis energy affinities)

Ma Zhaodi raised an eyebrow. The price of intermediate energy affinity was one million US dollars in asset points, while the mission requirement was simply to find the Drakes.

If the system doesn't suddenly start giving away freebies, then there's something wrong with the task itself.

(End of this chapter)