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Chapter 396 The World Engine is in Place

General Zod looked at Superman strangely, but happily answered the question: "Because only by terraforming Earth can we Kryptonians rebuild Krypton here."

Superman exclaimed in surprise: "If you're going to change Earth's environment, what about humanity?"

General Zod replied dismissively, "Humans? Of course humans will die. Not just humans, but when the modification is complete, any living thing on Earth larger than a fungus will die."

"There's nothing to regret. Kryptonian civilization doesn't need a weak Earth ecosystem. We will rebuild our own ecosystem."

Superman roared, "You're kidding me!"

He never imagined that the revival of Krypton would come at the cost of Earth, that all of humanity would die, and that even Earth's ecosystem would be destroyed.

Superman immediately decided to escape.

Escape the Kryptonian spaceship, return to Earth, alert the Earth's government, and prepare to fight for survival.

However, his actions were thwarted by Zod's adjutant, the dashing Kryptonian warrior Fiora. Fiora and her Kryptonian soldiers had no psychological burden of fighting one-on-one and swarmed at Superman, leaving him helpless.

It's not that Superman is weak, but rather that Shazor forgot that the environments of Krypton and Earth are vastly different. So Superman entered the Kryptonian spaceship without any precautions or preparations to cope with the environmental changes.

The Kryptonian spaceship naturally maintains a standard Kryptonian environment, but for Superman, who is used to Earth's environment, this is the biggest negative constraint, causing him to be severely weakened without realizing it.

After being stopped by Fuora, Superman, whose arms and legs were weak, was brutally beaten by the Kryptonian giants. Soon, the two men were pinned to the ground, and Superman was even beaten until he vomited blood and collapsed helplessly.

Seeing that Superman had been completely subdued, General Zod said angrily, "As expected, you have betrayed the great Kryptonian civilization."

Superman gritted his teeth and demanded, "Why? Why must we seize Earth and kill its inhabitants?"

General Zod replied with an icy expression, "Krypton no longer exists. I need a new planet to rebuild Kryptonian civilization, and Earth is suitable. That's the reason."

"As for humans, hehe, I have no intention of killing humans. I don't care what kind of creatures are on the chosen planet. If they can't adapt to the new environment, that's their fate."

General Zod spoke in a very calm tone, without the slightest hint of murderous intent.

It felt like a farmer was describing his land reclamation plans, completely disregarding the animals living on the target land.

But General Zod cared about Superman, and he decided to try to persuade him one last time.

"Kal'el, return to the embrace of Kryptonian civilization."

"There aren't many Kryptonians left. If you join us, I will treat you and help you get back used to the Kryptonian environment so you can survive on the revamped Krypton. Otherwise, I'll have to imprison you forever."

Superman firmly shook his head and said, "No, absolutely not!"

"General Zod, your plan is doomed to fail."

General Zod shook his head. He was not good at negotiating, and seeing that Superman's refusal was firm, he simply waved for his men to drag him away and imprison him.

"Fine, don't join me then. You can't stop me from using the Central Codex within you, you can't stop me from reviving Kryptonian civilization."

"Once I transform Earth into the new Krypton, you will become the material, the material for nurturing a billion Kryptonians."

Superman, who was dragged away, was filled with regret. He wanted to sacrifice himself to stop the war, but he never expected that his own people would have such a wicked heart.

However, he was too severely restrained by the Kryptonian environment, and even if he knew General Zod's purpose, he couldn't do anything about it.

But Superman did not despair, because Shazor had promised that he would go to the battlefield to fight the Kryptonians.

"I'm entrusting the Earth to you, Mr. Shazo."

Superman, with his "super brain," is a foolish saint, but Earth's politicians are not, and the leaders of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council are even less so.

As seasoned politicians, when they agreed to hand over Superman as the trigger, they had already completed all preparations and were ready to deal with the Kryptonians breaking their agreement and launching an attack.

There's absolutely no need for Superman to remind them.

For example, at the University of Tokyo, they will never forget that someone once told them, "We've lost a soldier; we need to enter the city to search!"

The Kryptonians would use such absurd reasons, and other responsible major powers have also used them, so people believe that the Kryptonians will use them too, and may even attack directly without any pretext.

Now, their fears have come true.

When the Kryptonian spaceship in orbit launched two strange spacecraft, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the University of Tokyo all noticed it immediately.

None of the three permanent members of the Security Council harbored any illusions; they all believed it was an attack by Kryptonians.

The leaders of the three permanent members of the UN Security Council immediately communicated and confirmed that it was indeed the case. They could now begin the second plan and fight the Kryptonians to the death.

Various missiles took off one after another, and all kinds of laser weapons and anti-missile weapons were activated, targeting the two aircraft with full force.

In particular, those large rockets that soared into the sky and reached terminal speeds of over Mach 30 detonated fusion bombs upon approaching the Kryptonian spacecraft, transforming into a massive plasma fireball.

General Zod's face turned ashen instantly. He never expected that such a primitive civilization as Earthlings could actually threaten his plans.

When the second rocket approached the "World Engine," General Zod could no longer sit still.

Those are Krypton's only two remaining world engines. Given their current condition, let alone rebuilding them, even repairing them is impossible.

Without the World Engine, General Zod loses his ability to terraform planets. How can he then revive the Kryptonian civilization?

He flew to the battlefield at top speed and used himself as a shield to block the power of the second nuclear explosion.

Fuora and all the Kryptonian warriors mobilized to intercept all weapons launched by the Upper Three, even using their own bodies as shields to block the laser beams.

However, the density of attacks on the ground increased, and even with the strength of the Kryptonian warriors, they gradually became overwhelmed and unable to cope.

General Zod's expression grew increasingly grim, but he had no choice but to issue the order: "Fora! Protect the World Engine with all your might!"

Fiora responded swiftly: "Yes! I will protect the World Engine at all costs!"

Then, General Zod apologized to his men: "I'm sorry, I underestimated the people of Earth."

"No, General, this is not your fault," said Fiora. "Who would have thought that such a primitive civilization would possess such powerful weapons? Earthlings are simply war monsters."

General Zod nodded and said, "You're right. Earthlings are simply war demons. If their technology were to develop, it would inevitably bring devastating disasters to the entire universe."

"No, they are a disaster in themselves!"

General Zod's expression was serious, adopting a serious attitude towards war: "We must allocate manpower to counterattack all human attacks. Only by eliminating their offensive forces can we safely proceed with the terraforming of the Earth!"

"Yes, General!"

General Zod opened the Kryptonian computer and assigned the coordinates of the rockets, missiles, and lasers he had just recorded to the Kryptonian warriors.

The Kryptonian warriors then transformed into streaks of meteors, flying towards military bases across Earth.

General Zod guarded the World Engine behind him as it flew toward its target, but his heart was heavy.

This is not Krypton's normal war pattern. The original plan was to first conduct several rounds of bombardment, burning everything threatening on the planet's surface into glass, before deploying Kryptonian warriors.

However, the spaceship they were on was not a Kryptonian warship, but a well-defended transport ship equipped only with defensive weapons and not with planet-destroying weapons.

Therefore, Zod had no way to launch a firepower attack and could only launch a landing operation directly.

Coupled with his disregard for threats to Earth and the impulse to realize his decades-long dream, he couldn't wait to see Krypton's rebirth, which led him to impulsively deploy the World Engine.

As a result, the World Engine became a shackle that bound the Kryptonians, severely limiting their initiative.

Zod could only pray in his heart: No super soldiers, no super soldiers!

However, things didn't go as planned. Almost at the same time Zod ordered the attack, Earth's superheroes began to move out.

Green Lantern, Flash, Green Arrow, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg, and Batman all predicted the Kryptonians' target through various methods.

Some went to intercept the two enormous spacecraft, while others rushed to the nearest military base to intercept the Kryptonian warriors.

Shazor made no contact with any superheroes and went to Metropolis on his own to intercept General Zod, the most powerful of them all.

Krypton's technology is very advanced, and the World Engine's flight speed is extremely fast, reaching super-high flight speeds of over Mach 30 after the initial acceleration.

This speed is not the limit of the world's engines, but it is the limit of Earth's atmospheric environment.

Once this speed is reached, the safety of the world engine will no longer be an issue, because weapons on Earth simply cannot aim at it, let alone intercept it.

metropolis!

A massive world engine descended from the sky, its enormous size supported by a tripod, resembling a steel behemoth suspended in mid-air.

On the other side of the Earth, the same enormous object flew along Earth's orbit and eventually landed on a remote island in the Indian Ocean.

As the machine took place, its immense energy was activated, and a circular energy barrier appeared, tightly protecting the World Engine.

The World Engines first fired an invisible beam of neutrino particles, establishing a direct connection between the two World Engines located at opposite ends of the planet, and then began to fine-tune their own coordinates.

Once the coordinates of the two colossal objects were aligned, they simultaneously released dazzling plasma pulses.

The highly penetrating shockwave pierced through the Earth's iron-nickel core, increasing its mass and speed through repeated oscillations.

A few seconds later, the Earth trembled almost imperceptibly.

Centered on the world's engine, the ground in the city center of the metropolis suddenly shook, and the ground instantly subsided by a full 50 meters.

What followed was the collapse of high-rise buildings, cracking of the ground, and cars and people falling fifty meters before being smashed into mincemeat and pancakes.

With the World Engine officially commencing operation, the planetary terraforming project first altered the gravitational environment around it.

Inside the US military base closest to the metropolis, the command center was in complete chaos. Soldiers were running around frantically, computers were operating at high speed, and massive amounts of data were displayed on large screens.

Inside the command center, a three-star general stood on the command platform, his face ashen as he stared at the data on the screen.

Although he couldn't understand the specific meaning of the data, he keenly sensed that the situation was very bad.

Despite the general’s best efforts to remain calm, his hands gripped the armrests of the command platform so tightly that his knuckles turned white.

In the conference room behind the general, thousands of experts in physics, aerospace, high-energy physics and other fields were discussing and arguing about the data.

They were passionately arguing, even waving their documents and hitting each other hard on the head.

Bang bang bang!

The general emptied his sidearm magazine in one go, then slowly reloaded it, pulled the bolt back, and said to the group of experts, "Gentlemen, you weren't invited here to argue and then have an academic discussion!"

"Now, I need you to tell me the results: what exactly did the enemy do?"

When a scholar encounters a soldier, reason is useless.

The experts were horrified by the bullet that had grazed their scalps. After exchanging bewildered glances, one gray-haired expert became the focus of everyone's attention.

Under the general's intense gaze, he had no choice but to step forward and try to explain: "What we can confirm at present is that the Kryptonians are using gravity weapons, and they are changing the gravity of the Earth."

"That machine also uses molecular reactions to change the composition of Earth's atmosphere —"

"Results!" the general snapped. "I want results! What will happen to us in the end?"

The gray-haired expert swallowed hard: "General, the Kryptonians aren't attacking; they're terraforming Earth's environment."

"Based on current data trends, Earth's gravity will increase more than tenfold, and the air will become highly toxic, capable of killing humans and all mammals."

"In other words—" the expert swallowed hard, uttering the cruelest conclusion: "If we can't stop the Kryptonians, we'll all die!"

Inside the command center, everyone looked at each other in silence, not daring to even breathe.

The general took a deep breath and asked, "How much time do we have?"

"Minimum eight hours, maximum—maximum 24 hours."

The general looked at the colonel beside him and ordered, "All fighter jets, take off! Bring your most powerful weapons, all weapons are unrestricted, bring them out!"

As the general spoke, he couldn't help but look at the screen on the side, which showed the collapsing downtown metropolis.

Seeing the skyscrapers collapsing like dominoes, he gritted his teeth and ordered, "Now is not the time to worry about sacrifices, but the time to fight to the death! Give them a good beating!!"

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