The aliens who were picked up by Superman at the beginning

"Ha, Gotham again?"

The night sky was overcast, the Gothic buildings were towering, and the alleyways were deep and dark.

Li Zhen stared at the familiar scenery before her, standing still for a full three seconds.

At this moment, he was absolutely armed to the teeth, even his face was covered with a tactical mask resembling a skull model.

The design extends to both sides, even covering and protecting the ears.

Whether it's poison gas, nanoweapons, or other random microscopic attacks, they will all be isolated by this high-tech mask.

The dark eyepiece is equipped with a scanning function, which helps him detect extremely subtle trap arrangements in various complex environments.

The headset kept beeping with notification sounds.

Air composition analysis shows that air quality is below average, but no highly toxic aerosols were detected.

No nanomechanical signals were detected.

Because of the dense surrounding high-rise buildings, Li Zhen decided to fly higher to get a wider view.

As soon as he flew up more than ten meters, a line of large characters came into his view.

It was a huge white banner hanging between two tall buildings, about several hundred meters ahead, with a line of large characters written in red paint on it.

"Don't look up! If you do, please don't move."

A large smiley face was painted in the same red paint, and it looked like it had just been painted. Red streaks dripped vertically down the white background of the banner, creating an eerie visual effect.

Turning my head, I saw similar banners hanging in the darkness in the distance, all around me.

"It's dangerous here!"

Don't go this way!

Just stay where you are!

Each banner was followed by a red smeared emoji. Although they looked bizarre, they were mostly smiles, and the kind of smiles that were extremely exaggerated, with the two lines at the corners of the mouth deliberately stretched all the way to the back of the ears.

This feeling...

Li Zhen was startled, and Batman's solemn voice came through her earpiece.

The image transmitted back to the other world through the eyepiece has a slight delay of one or two seconds.

"This is the Joker's style. Don't act blindly. You can't have any rebellious thoughts at this time."

"Alarm! Signal lock detected from outer space."

"What?"

A strong sense of crisis suddenly welled up in Li Zhen's heart. She looked up and saw a dazzling blue light flashing in the center of the originally dark Gotham night sky.

This scene feels so familiar.

"They even have space-based cannons?!"

A columnar satellite floating in outer space, aimed at Gotham City, was accumulating energy at its base. In the next instant, a high-energy ray, wider than the diameter of the base of the Egyptian pyramids, slammed down on Li Zhen's location.

The instinct triggered by the crisis made Lee Jung want to avoid the attack from outer space.

But when he instinctively tried to fly at full speed to find a direction, the strange banners all around and Batman's instructions made him forcibly suppress his instinctive impulse.

A massive beam of blue light instantly enveloped his figure, causing a deafening roar through the streets of Gotham City. The earth and buildings continued to collapse under the sustained high-energy impact.

As the blue light gradually dissipated, Li Zhen looked around.

Aside from the small space he was in, directly below him stood a patch of ground about eleven square feet in size, while the surrounding dozen or so streets and high-rise buildings had all been reduced to dust in the high-energy impact.

The earth collapsed into the crater, and the rocks at the bottom of the circular pit melted under the high temperature, emitting black foam.

The attack circled around, but conveniently spared the vertical space where Li Zhen was located.

"So that space attack just now, which I felt was a matter of life and death, was just a joke?"

Li Zhen felt much more energetic.

"Yes, that's the Joker's style, but if you moved around a bit... *sizzle*... well... *sizzle*."

The cross-platform communication device seemed to be affected by some kind of signal interference, and Batman's voice was replaced by a jarring electronic sound.

Li Zhen frowned and patted the earpiece. After realizing that she could no longer receive a signal, she had no choice but to temporarily turn off the earpiece.

It landed gently on the only intact ground in the eleven square feet area. Before it could even think about its next move, a sharp, piercing laugh came from a dark, distant alley several hundred meters to its left.

"Hehehehe—"

"Cheating is no fun. Since Batman is so familiar with my methods, why doesn't he come from that world himself?"

The sharp sound suddenly turned incredibly mournful, and at the same time, it silently changed location, echoing again in an alley a few hundred meters to the right.

"It's been a long time since I've had a proper game with Batman. Why doesn't your Batman come over here himself?"

Li Zhen ignored the changing voice. Although it was his first time facing the clown, he knew how to break the opponent's defenses.

With a light touch of its toes, it flew out of the deep pit radiating scorching heat and headed towards the first banner it had just seen.

"Hello!"

The shrill voice was no longer resentful, but seemed to have become somewhat dissatisfied.

Why are you ignoring me?

Li Zhen ignored him. Based on the plots she had read in those comics, whether she flew into the alley on the left or the alley on the right, whether she could find the clown was another matter, but she was sure she would not get away with it.

Li Zhen, who had come to the banner, casually tore it apart.

The goggles scanned the empty night sky.

Unknown metallic material discovered.

As the eyepiece continued to turn red, behind the original banner, between the two Gothic skyscrapers, in the air that was barely visible to the naked eye, dozens of fine red lines formed a chaotic grid of interception lines.

It is a nanoscale metal wire made of a certain material.

Li Zhen frowned and slowly approached one of the red-marked nanowires. She extended her index finger and touched the nanowire with the slightly longer tip of her fingernail.

Withdrawing his finger and giving it a gentle shake, the small section of his fingernail, which had seemed unchanged, suddenly split open and fell into the dark street below.

Although it's still unknown whether the threads of this unknown material can cut through his bones, they should at least be able to cut through his flesh.

If he had been controlled by instinct and had tried to outrun that high-energy ray that actually had a space for survival in the middle, what would have happened?

No matter which direction it dodges, after smashing through the banner, its high-speed flight, carrying unparalleled potential energy, crashes into these nanogrids...

The outcome could be similar to the laser trap in the Resident Evil movie or the Guzheng Operation in the Three-Body Problem novel.

Cutting the body into hundreds of pieces is considered a small amount.

That sharp laughter came from behind Li Zhen again.

"How about it? Isn't it an interesting design? It's a pity that Batman helped you cheat, otherwise I would never have seen a superhuman who can fly and dive into the earth being dismembered."

This time, Lee Jung directly responded to the clown's boasting.

"Yes, it really opened my eyes."

"But you didn't go so far as to reshape the entire world, did you? Such a massive project would be incredibly boring!"

The clown's laughter came from another place.

"Hahaha, you have a good eye! You can guess what it is; you know, when someone is preparing a prank, their energy is limitless!"

Li Zhen revealed an expression that said, "I knew it."

"So, there's a high probability that this world isn't Lex Luthor's base of operations."

Li Zhen pretended to lift the locator as if preparing to activate it.

"Then I won't have time to play with you. Go enjoy this world by yourself. No one will appreciate your traps anymore."

"etc!"

The shrill female voice finally became furious.