The aliens who were picked up by Superman at the beginning

Chapter 82 Shrinking to Cure Disease

As Nightwing was laid flat on the test bench, Cai Ruian, who had been out of sorts before, seemed to instantly transform into a different person.

Serious and focused, as if all the distracting thoughts in my mind had been cleared away in an instant.

A female assistant named Rhonda pushed over a device that looked like an enlarged version of a table lamp.

Cai Rui'an pulled off the lampshade, aligning the flat device on top of the instrument with Nightwing's head.

"The oracle has already described the problem to me briefly."

Cai Ruian seemed to be muttering to himself.

"We now need to pinpoint the location of all the aerosols adhering to his blood vessels as soon as possible and remove them one by one."

Cai Ruian suddenly looked up at Li Zhen.

"However, this laboratory does not have the corresponding antidote, and removing the aerosols is a rather lengthy process —"

The oracle delivered a new prompt to Li Zhen at just the right moment, and Li Zhen reached into the tactical pocket on the right side of her waist and pulled out a syringe.

The syringe was inserted into the side of Nightwing's neck, and the entire dose was injected into Nightwing's muscles.

Cai Ruian lowered his head and used his fingers to pry open Ye Yi's eyelids to take a look.

After confirming that the temporary antidote used by Li Zhen was effective, Cai Ruian nodded to Langda, who was standing to the side.

Ronda activated the screen that the scanner was connected to, and Cai Ruian then lifted his coat, revealing a strangely shaped belt around his waist.

Only then did Li Zhen finally recall the impression from her memory.

Among the superheroes who came to visit The Flash in the Batcave that day, there was indeed a man wearing a red and blue suit with a belt around his waist.

Lee Jung felt a little strange, recalling the oracle's earlier statement that Ray Palmer was the Atom.

"So this is your teacher's equipment?"

Cai Ruian seemed a little nervous. After taking a long, deep breath, he slowly nodded.

"Dr. Palmer often goes on field missions, and before he leaves, he entrusts his equipment and laboratory to me—the Justice League occasionally needs Atom's shrinking ability, and at those times I temporarily take over as his teacher."

This is the first time I've ever heard of such a person as Ray Palmer. He really trusts his students.

Cai Rui'an left behind the superhero's equipment, the laboratory, and even his beautiful assistant.

If something were to happen to the real Atom, wouldn't Cai Rui'an be a seamless successor in life?

Cai Ruian had no idea what kind of nonsense Li Zhen was thinking.

He took the helmet from Rhonda, who was supposed to be his teacher's assistant, and after putting it on, he reached for the activation device on his belt.

"Next, I will shrink it to a size of 5 micrometers and enter the blood vessels in his face and brain through Nightwing's nasal mucosa. Rhonda, after you scan the location of all the aerosols, transmit the corresponding signals to me."

The female assistant with brown-gold curly hair finally spoke her first words.

"Okay, Dr. Cai."

Cai Ruian nodded and activated the shrinking device. His entire body shrank as if the frame rate had been extracted, leaving behind layers of light and shadow.

In the blink of an eye, Cai Ruian shrunk to the size of a micrometer, soaring through the air towards Nightwing's face tribe.

Li Zhen silently activated the force field, and the sudden increase in sensitivity accurately captured the shrunken Atom Man.

Although the naked eye can only vaguely see a speck of dust, and even a slight distraction will cause one to instantly lose sight of Atom Man's location.

However, the force field can help Li Zhen pinpoint a general area.

As Cai Ruian disappeared into Nightwing's face, Li Zhen finally had a chance to take a closer look at the famous Star City Laboratory from her previous life's comics.

In the DC universe, 70% of the advanced technologies that originated on Earth and far surpass the average human level, aside from those possessed by some superheroes, originated from this famous place.

Before today, Li Zhen had no idea that Star City Labs had so many branches, almost all over major cities in the United States.

New York branch, Metropolitan branch, Central City branch, and so on.

Li Zhen had previously thought there was only one.

Different branches should focus on different research directions. I remember that the Star City Laboratory branch in Metropolis could even freely open two-way channels for traveling between parallel universes without relying on the Speed ​​Force in an old DC comic.

Even the technology inside the bat cave couldn't accomplish this so easily.

Just as Li Zhen's force field inadvertently swept over the female assistant named Rhonda, her extraordinary perception suddenly detected something strange.

The cold gaze behind the bat helmet instantly locked onto Rhonda.

The latter visibly jolted.

"You're very nervous."

The voice changer was still on, and Li Zhen's voice sounded almost identical to Batman's, putting Rhonda under immense psychological pressure.

The female assistant laughed awkwardly twice, her fingers unconsciously fiddling with a strand of curly hair hanging over her shoulder.

"It's normal to be nervous seeing Batman so close to me for the first time, right?"

Li Zhen did not answer, but after a few seconds of silence, she looked away.

Actually, it's not normal. Li Zhen's ability to perceive the female assistant's emotions comes from his superpower. Compared to observing with the naked eye, he can discover more details.

She didn't seem nervous about whether the surgery to shrink Atom would go smoothly.

It's more like a subconscious fear that leads to a reluctance to be in such close proximity to Batman.

What kind of person would be afraid of Batman?

One is having a basic understanding of Batman, since residents of other cities outside Gotham City only know him as a superhero with a slightly eccentric temper.

Secondly, it's because they understood Batman's true nature and had something to hide.

A woman hiding behind Dr. Ray Palmer, with a guilty conscience.

It's most likely targeting a villain from one of the original comics who plays Atom.

Li Zhen was not a stickler for historical research, and besides, many of his memories from his previous life were too distant for him.

The name Rhonda Panida was completely unfamiliar; it was the kind of name I had never heard of no matter how hard I tried to recall it.

Li Zhen wouldn't have bothered to learn about a relatively unknown second or third-tier hero like Atom Man if she hadn't known from her previous life through DC movies that a certain young male actor in China played Cai Ruian.

This Rhonda might be a minor villain or nemesis of a second- or third-tier hero.

Just minutes ago, Li Zhencai had beaten the infamous Gotham villain Bane to his knees, so he was even less inclined to get involved with this insignificant character.

As long as you don't dare to interfere with Nightwing's surgery in front of him, it's fine.

If both Cai Rui'an and Rhonda believe that Li Zhen is Batman, then it means that the Bat-family did a very good job of keeping Batman's coma a secret.

It is estimated that apart from the Justice League's seven members and Lee Jung, the other members of the Justice League are unaware of Batman's coma.

After watching Rhonda dutifully report the location of the toxic aerosols detected to Atom, Li Zhen simply stepped back a few paces.

This would at least give the woman, who might be haunted, some sense of security for now, and allow her to work even harder to complete the surgery for Nightwing.

My gaze shifted to the display screen connected to the scanner, which displayed dynamic graphics based on some kind of 3D modeling, marking every capillary node in Nightwing's head that had malfunctioned.

A blue dot representing Cai Ruian moved continuously along the blood flow, pausing briefly at each abnormal point until the markings for the abnormal points disappeared on the display screen.

The efficiency was quite fast; in less than ten minutes, eighty percent of the abnormal nodes in Nightwing's head were cleared.

With the temporary antidote he had been injected with, Nightwing groaned and opened his eyes slightly.