The aliens who were picked up by Superman at the beginning

Chapter 111 Sending Jenny Away

"I want to check on Rachel's condition first."

Li Zhen put the Atom Man helmet back on, her voice once again carrying a somber tone that made it difficult to discern her identity.

Batman frowned and began to think.

"Do you know anything more about the 'other you' who took your place?"

"A future version of myself—theoretically, Reverse-Flash should know this better."

Batman shook his head very slightly.

"Reverse-Flash has always been elusive. I lost contact with Reverse-Flash after the other you entered this world."

Li Zhen chuckled under the helmet.

Clearly, when the other self squeezed into this world from the hyper-time flow, Reverse-Flash, who was quite sensitive to the flow of time, immediately sensed that something was wrong.

That bastard Swan will definitely hide right away.

A speedster who can travel through time at will, racking his brains to hide, who can find him?

However, we can glean quite a bit of information from this point of view.

"It's unlikely that my future self will be weaker than I am now, but he must have given up some of his power when he entered this world. To be on the best-case scenario, that guy should be about as strong as me."

"So, if you were to predict what you would do in the future?"

Batman's problem has once again hit the nail on the head.

Li Zhen looked somewhat embarrassed.

"If the divergence occurred after Reverse Flash appeared, and if my ideal remained unchanged, it would probably be to rule the Earth, right?"

Batman smirked, looking completely as if he'd known it all along.

The blue Boy Scouts, who had been sitting obediently in their seats, were shocked once again, suddenly straightening their backs as if they were seeing Li Zhen for the first time.

"Ruling the Earth? You actually thought about that? I thought we were friends who could confide in each other!"

Li Zhen turned her head away somewhat embarrassedly, avoiding Superman's sad and disappointed deep blue eyes.

"Cough~ Who would want to live a secluded life by the sea, catching fish and eating them, wearing better clothes, eating better food, and having someone wait on them every day—can you honestly say you didn't fantasize about these things when you first awakened your superpowers during puberty?"

Li Zhen became more and more eloquent as she spoke, and finally clapped her hands.

"I'm not like you. I endured fourteen years of utter misery. What's wrong with wanting to enjoy life a little?!"

Li Zhen finally stood up for herself, staring back defiantly at Superman.

Batman, however, fell silent, which was unusual for him.

After a long while, he finally managed to utter a sentence that nearly broke Li Zhen's defenses.

"So that's all the ideals you had before. I always treated you like a world-class villain and was on guard against you."

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The atmosphere in the meeting room suddenly became cheerful, Superman's disappointment vanished, and his shoulders were shaking.

Li Zhen, through the helmet, raised her hand and made a face-rubbing motion, then chuckled coldly twice.

"This little bit?"

"As an alien with no identity and a terrible background, if I were to appear openly in front of any official Earth power, any provocation that angers me could trigger me to kill someone on impulse."

"Killing the spies means facing the army; killing the army means facing you all. The final outcome won't be much more merciful than those so-called super villains."

"I'm not like Superman who's willing to pity the weak, and I certainly won't obediently put on handcuffs and go to court to defend myself just to prove I'm harmless."

"At that time, in order to save time, once I arrived on Earth and found that the so-called Justice League was not that powerful, I would choose to skip directly to the last step."

Superman's expression turned serious.

"But you don't agree with Wittrum's culture, do you?"

Li Zhen was stunned.

He suddenly remembered Trigger, who had been beaten to the point of near death by him, yet still thought about the Witrum Empire.

After realizing that Li Zhen was a stronger person than him, that guy was even able to beg Li Zhen to compete for the position of regent without hesitation.

He was filled with the idea that the Witrum Empire could achieve prosperity and conquer the vast universe under the leadership of a stronger power.

Regardless of whether his inner convictions were corrupted by power after entering the main storyline a thousand years ago, at least the previous thousand-year civil war did not shake the beliefs of people like Trigger in any way.

If it weren't for Li Zhen's final, insightful remarks as a prophet of the plot, which broke Cui Ge's defenses...

Simply killing Cui Ge would likely not bring Li Zhen any sense of satisfaction from revenge, no matter how many times she killed him.

The people of Witrum are incredibly resourceful, and their extreme militarism is executed far too well.

True revenge can only be achieved by killing all the old-fashioned people whose minds cannot be easily changed, and then slowly changing the mindset of the next generation of Witrum people.

Li Zhen was originally willing to undertake this monumental task, which would take at least a thousand years to complete.

If I hadn't met Rachel in this world.

Li Zhen lowered her gaze, her tone slightly forlorn.

"Every culture has its dross and its essence. At least the Witrum people's way of doing things is very efficient. Conquest and killing may not be the most appropriate, but it is the fastest way for the Witrum people to develop in the process of tens of thousands of years of civilization exploration."

"After all, compared to most civilizations in the universe, the Vitrum people can be considered natural-born strongmen. Just like even if I escape to Earth, if the Justice League does not reverse the power imbalance, my relationship with Earth will ultimately lead to slaughter."

"Learning from the technological achievements of other civilizations to strengthen ourselves is a choice that belongs to the Vitrum civilization as a whole. Theoretically, even if the first Vitrum ancestors who set out to explore the stars had goodwill towards other civilizations—"

Superman understood what Lee Jung didn't say at the end.

What would happen if a race whose individual members could fly, move mountains, and shake the seas took the initiative to contact other races?

Just like how Earthlings are wary of Kryptonians.

Superman is special, though; he's actually willing to wear handcuffs to Earth's court to defend himself.

Wittrum simply chose the path of directness: from the moment he saw the weak, if the weak did not submit, they would die.

There's no time to play games that last for decades or even centuries, games of covert vigilance where the weak rack their brains trying to kill the strong.

Batman was not intimidated by these words and responded calmly.

"Unfortunately, Superman is stronger than you, and he is an anomaly who can uphold justice and order, so in the end you can only catch fish to eat on the beach."

Li Zhen remained silent for a while, then began muttering things that Superman and Batman couldn't understand.

They spouted incomprehensible phrases like "if only it were Dark Wing instead of Batman" or "if only it were Eternal Man instead of Superman."

Considering that Li Zhen's upbringing was complicated and her recent experiences were quite fantastical, Batman didn't delve into it, simply assuming that Li Zhen had encountered some strange people during her previous voyages and adventures.

Batman steered the conversation back on track.

"I have a plan to get Jeanne away temporarily."

Regardless of how Zhen Te is ultimately dealt with, Batman now needs to prioritize addressing Li Zhen's urgent need to visit Rachel.

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