The aliens who were picked up by Superman at the beginning

Before completely leaving the solar system, Li Zhen chatted with Shazam for a while.

The coordinates of galaxies in the universe are not fixed. Due to the influence of gravitational fields in different regions within the Milky Way, the solar system moves forward in a wave-like spiral shape, while constantly moving up and down the Milky Way's galactic disk.

The average speed of the solar system is 70,000 kilometers per hour. In addition, Li Zhen himself is in the reverse motion of superluminal leap. Once they leave the solar system, without scientific guidance, it will be almost impossible for an individual to find the location of the Earth again.

Therefore, before completely leaving the solar system, Li Zhen needs to have the instruments he carries record the unique signal structure of the entire Heng galaxy.

If something unexpected happens on Oa Star, Rachel won't be able to bring them back through the Shadow Dimension like she did on Apokolips before.

That means we'll be wandering the universe from now on.

"How is Mia doing now?"

I was supposed to visit Mia after the test, but I later learned that Mia wasn't inside the Titan base, but had been taken away by Green Arrow to another place for treatment.

To save time, they decided to embark on a cosmic journey ahead of time.

At this point, Shazam was still able to keep up with Li Zhen, flying at a short distance, and was wearing a simple oxygen mask on his face to facilitate communication between the two.

"I don't know much about medicine, you know, after all, those are things you can only learn in university."

Shazam scratched his head somewhat sheepishly. "They said the virus in Mia's body is very strange. The timing of her infection was too coincidental. The Amodro virus is catalyzing another completely new virus that targets your race's genes."

"Both viruses were present in Mia's body at the same time, and Mia's weakened immune system caused by AIDS happened to become a natural culture medium for the two viruses."

"After Mia's blood sample was sent to professional medical equipment for testing, they said they found a completely new viral pattern in the sample."

Hearing this, not only Shazam, but even Lee Jung had a headache.

Fortunately, his cultural level is slightly higher than Shazam's.

"It sounds like the AMD virus and the Cataclysmic Virus exchanged and recombinated gene fragments within the same host cell?"

Shazam clenched his fist and pounded it in his palm, nodding repeatedly.

"Yes, yes, that's what Cyborg said back then."

Li Zhen stopped flying and looked at the Hengxing Star System Information Recorder in her hand, which had begun to beep.

Then he took out the Mother Box from the Shadow Dimension, attached the magical gadgets that Steelbone had created to it, and imported all the recorded data into the Mother Box.

"Alright, now we can set off without worry."

Shazam, who had crept closer to take a look, stared at the Mother Box with eyes full of amazement. "A more advanced civilization's technology—forgive my bluntness, but at this moment, I feel an epic sense of mission descending upon me."

Li Zhen knew that Shazam was relieving tension by muttering to himself. For his original self, Billy Batson, this was perhaps one of the few times he had been so far away from his homeland.

"You've actually been to other universes before."

"It's different, really, it's different. That time it actually felt more like going out for a trip."

Shazam put his hand on Lee Jung's shoulder, then glanced back at where he had come from.

They had already flown quite a distance, and looking back now, apart from seeing the sun, which was about the size of a grain of rice, the Earth was so small that it could not be detected at all.

Li Zhen showed some patience until Shazam reluctantly turned back.

"Maybe nothing has happened on Ou A Xing's side. If we go quickly and come back quickly, you might even be able to go home and have dinner that day—hold on tight."

As Li Zhen finished speaking, a strange feeling enveloped Shazam's entire body.

It started with his brain, like a giant vacuum cleaner being put on his head. Shazam felt his brain being deformed by some strange and powerful force, as if his brain was being stretched into a huge strip.

Next was the body, as if it had been stretched into a long noodle, its entire body wrapped in some kind of extremely narrow passage.

Several minutes after his physical senses returned, Shazam finally snapped out of his daze and began to carefully look around. He could feel his hand still on Li Zhen's shoulder, but he couldn't see Li Zhen in front of him.

Or rather, Shazam couldn't see anything at all at that moment.

This is unlike anything we imagine: at extreme speeds, starlight from deep space transforms into long lines.

From beginning to end, all Shazam could feel was endless darkness.

This darkness, stemming from absolute nothingness, brought him an unprecedented sense of fear. Even the wisdom of Solomon, which was always constantly whispering in his ear, lost its voice under this nothingness.

Shazam began trying to call out to Lee Jung.

But they received no response at all.

Yes, at this moment he has transcended light, let alone the propagation of sound and signals, there is no real medium at all.

Shazam shut his mouth again.

He began to try to endure this loneliness until this 'nothingness' began to wear down his other physical senses.

The moment his sense of time began to crumble, Shazam even seemed to lose the tangible sensation of his hand firmly resting on Lee Jung's shoulder.

He could no longer bear it and began screaming wildly. (Buffer!)

All sensations began to regress; first, the body felt 'flattened,' and then the brain began to swirl.

In his dizziness, Shazam accidentally let go of his hand.

Just as he was about to fall into despair, a strong hand supported his waist.

Li Zhen looked at Shazam with some helplessness. The latter's six blessings might not include the adaptability to faster-than-light space travel. After flying for only a short time, he felt that his shoulder was about to be crushed by Shazam.

Left with no other choice, he withdrew from the jump and landed on a nearby asteroid.

Seeing Shazam, who was completely unsteady on his feet, swaying from side to side, Li Zhen barely managed to reach out and support him before noticing that his pupils were swirling around in their sockets like tornadoes.

It took Shazam more than ten minutes to finally "see" Lee Jung again.

"Oh God, I really am."

Shazam suddenly knelt down on the spot, took off his mask, and started gagging.

Li Zhen frowned, lightly kicked Shazam in the stomach, and then dodged the vomit that was spraying irregularly in the vacuum environment.

"Ugh~ Why did you hit me?" "You're used to everything in a gravity environment. You almost threw up just now."

With a flick of his wrist, he summoned a bolt of lightning from the void of space, erasing the vomit that had scattered around him. Shazam struggled to his feet from the rock, spat clean his mouth, and put his mask back on.

"Have we arrived?"

"...only a third of them have left."

Li Zhen glanced at the master box that had been entered into the coordinates of Oa Star by Steel Bone, made a rough estimate, and then gave an answer.

"Good heavens, do we have to do this twice?!"