The aliens who were picked up by Superman at the beginning

Thanks to Steelbone's decryption and Li Zhen's brief research, Li Zhen is now able to use some simplified versions of the Apokolips Mother Box in her hands.

Shazam is flying around the Oa fragment, which is slightly larger than the moon, examining it step by step, trying to find traces in this most conspicuous clue.

Li Zhen then attempted to invoke the Mother Box, which was touted as a cosmic-level artifact.

"This thing can record signals and open a popping sound channel in any space. Theoretically, it should have both positioning and signal scanning functions."

Having not dealt with technical stuff for so long, Li Zhen's technique for manipulating the mother box was still a bit rusty.

"Let me see... why does activating location services also open the database?"

After some half-baked fiddling, and seeing the dazzling streams of data popping up on the motherboard, Li Zhen decided to pull off a miracle by slapping the side of the motherboard a few times.

Shazam wasn't around at the moment; he'd probably flown to the other side of the Oa fragment. Otherwise, he would definitely have complained that Li Zhen's method of repairing the Mother Box was more like dealing with an old television set on Earth.

However, to Li Zhen's surprise, his "universal repair" technique actually worked to some extent.

After two soft crackling sounds of electrical sparks, the mother box successfully started operating.

"...Select energy trait...Green light, begin loading..."

"Just start reading!" After waiting for a long time without getting a response from the master box, Li Zhen shook the master box a couple of times in frustration.

Then he looked up and glanced around with a complicated expression.

No way, are they really going to rely on him and Shazam to search for any surviving creatures within light-years of this area with the naked eye?

This carbon-based life form is so small, yet it is ten thousand times harder to find than the geological debris from the Oa explosion.

A vacuum doesn't transmit sound, and it's pitch black; you might not be able to find anything even if you stare until you're blind.

Seemingly dazed by Li Zhen, the mother box finally uttered another sentence.

Please enter the target you are looking for...

"Huh? How do I type? There's no keyboard here—Hal Jordan?"

Li Zhen muttered something casually.

To everyone's surprise, the mother box actually responded.

"Hal Jordan identified, currently searching for..."

"Holy crap! You should have said earlier that it could recognize voice." Li Zhen felt like he had finally figured out how to use the Mother Box, and couldn't help but feel a little annoyed that Cyborg hadn't explained it clearly to him after simply training the Mother Box.

Seeing that the mother box had finally started to work normally, Li Zhen no longer stood there waiting, but instead picked up the mother box and flew away from the Ou'a fragment.

Not long after it flew out, the mother box in my hand made a sound.

Li Zhen was stunned. After looking around, she blinked, turned around in space, and raised the mother box to aim at the fragment.

The mother box indicated that it had detected Hal Jordan's residual green light energy signature.

"What do you mean?"

It's not surprising that the Mother Box records Hal Jordan's Green Lantern energy signature, as Apokolips has conquered more than one universe, and Hal, as Green Lantern, may have existed on most of those Earths.

Li Zhen circled the fragment once.

The mother box in my hand continued to vibrate regularly until it flew over a giant crater, at which point the frequency of the vibrations increased slightly.

Shazam happened to circle around from another angle at that moment and saw Li Zhen hovering above a pit. He flew over with some curiosity.

"Did you find anything?"

"Yes, the Mother Box says that Hal Jordan's Green Lantern energy remains on this entire fragment." Li Zhen descended to the vicinity of the pit and lifted the Mother Box forward.

"The signal characteristics are strongest here."

As the words fell, the mother box suddenly emitted two soft beams of red light, scanning the entire interior of the pit.

Immediately afterwards, the red lights began to deform, like a projection, condensing into a dynamic light and shadow in the void.

A familiar figure appeared in Li Zhen and Shazam's field of vision.

It's Hal.

The dynamic light and shadow effect was very brief; you could roughly see Hal raising the light ring on his hand and throwing a punch at the sky.

A large amount of even more intense red light appeared and shot towards the sky.

Then the light and shadow disappeared.

Li Zhen and Shazam exchanged a glance.

"Is the master box recreating the scene that occurred on this fragment?"

"It should be. This thing is really high-end." After saying that, Li Zhen suddenly realized something and her face darkened.

"Wait, that projection just now, did it mean that Hal is attacking something?"

If I'm not mistaken, the suddenly thickened light and shadow burst forth from the center of the lamp ring on Hal's raised hand.

Li Zhen activated the mother box to replay the scene from earlier.

This time, Shazam flew directly over to Hal's projection, staring intently as he carefully observed Hal's every move.

"He was furious and unleashed an energy attack from the lamp ring, targeting the sky... Damn it, what can you deduce from that!"

click!

Projection paused.

As Shazam looked back with a puzzled expression, Li Zhen shifted her attention to the background surrounding the still projection.

It was spacious and flat, like a wide square.

Hal stood in the center of the square, fist raised, with some shadowy buildings visible in the distance.

But strangely, there was no one else around Hal. Li Zhen narrowed her eyes.

At Oa headquarters, the place with the most Green Lanterns in the entire universe, is Hal isolated and helpless against some being?

This is unreasonable.

Even if they weren't very familiar with each other in real life, Li Zhen could guess from her past life's stereotypes about Hal Jordan that if some powerful foreign enemy invaded, Hal would definitely be the guy on the front line.

Even if Hal becomes the last warrior due to various coincidences, there must be at least a few other Green Lantern corpses lying around him, right?

The surrounding area is too clean, which is also unreasonable.

Suddenly, an idea popped into Li Zhen's mind.

Could it be that Hal Jordan is fighting against the entire European and American army?

Would he really do that? Is there any precedent for this in the comic book storyline of my past life?

Hmm~ I think I vaguely remember that.

Li Zhen looked down at the mother box.

"Could you make the projection area a bit larger?" Based on previous experiences, Li Zhen strongly suspected that this thing actually had a considerable degree of intelligence inside.

As expected, the mother box directly projected its response into Li Zhen's mind through a signal transmission similar to electromagnetic waves.

"Current backtracking is a 100% simulation based on known information. It can be expanded through calculation and analysis, but the wider the scope, the higher the calculation error rate?"

What's there to be afraid of?

Li Zhen did not hesitate to expand the simulation range of the mother box.

This time, red rays shot out from every side of the mother box, instantly covering the entire Oa fragment and encompassing a large area of ​​vacuum around it.

As the area constructed by the projection gradually expanded, Shazam also got up and stepped back a distance.

Until a projection area floating in the air shows the first shape change after being forcibly calculated by the master box.

Shazam stared blankly at the projection area that looked like a crescent moon, and then suspiciously rubbed his eyes.

Suddenly, all the projections disappeared.

Shazam quickly turned around, but before he could even ask a question, he saw Lee Jung looking up at him with a serious expression.

Even the mother box in his hand was put away. Shazam looked in the direction Li Zhen was pointing.

In the starry sky, where there should have been nothing but a few fragments of meteorites floating, a dark shadow was steadily approaching them.

Two seconds later, Shazam was shocked to discover that it was actually a planet.

It is almost half the size of Earth, and it doesn't resemble a normal planet at all, because its trajectory in the universe is very strange.

Like a cartoon book that keeps turning, it jumps and skips towards them between frames.

The circular shadow grew larger and larger in the field of vision.

boom!

boom!!

boom!!!

"What the hell is that?!"

"I don't know. It seems like he was attracted by the Mother Box signal, but I hope he has some connection with Ou A Xing or knows something about him."