American comics: Praising the sun, starting from Gotham!

Chapter 352 You know I know, I know you know I know

Faced with the multidimensional energy core thrown by Xiu En, Reed suspended it in the center of the energy field.

"My God, four-dimensional folding technology! And this energy circulation mode too!"

"Kang is a madman, but also an absolute genius!"

"That's not all."

Tony waved his hand, bringing up a series of data streams.

"In this core, there is not only the same technology as Kind Kang, but I also discovered some different technological remnants!"

"That's right! Kind-hearted Kang gave us the key to lock the door, but that unlucky guy also bundled in the design blueprints for their most powerful battering ram and gave them to us along with it!"

Tony was very excited.

"Based on this new core, I immediately had a completely new idea: the MK2 existence-locking armor!"

With a wave of his hand, the armor design blueprints unfolded in the air: "MK2 will directly use its built-in micro multidimensional core as its energy source, eliminating the need for external power! And! It can perform short-range existence jumps! In other words, everyone can teleport in bullet time! How about that? Cool, right?!"

Just as Tony and Reed began to envision the next generation of armor, on the other side, a dozen Bruce Waynes had already surrounded Shuen.

A small holographic analysis screen appeared in front of each of them, with blue scanning beams covering Xiu En's body.

"What are you doing?"

Xiu En looked at the Batman projection that was trying to scrape some powder off its Golden Crow Armor with a miniature mechanical arm and asked curiously.

"Research."

"A Bruce replied."

"Your new armor is a perfect combination of divine power and technology. We must figure out how it works. This is crucial for our understanding of conceptual-level defense."

"Oh, a medical check-up? You should have said so earlier."

Xiu En suddenly realized what was happening, and then obediently opened his arms.

"Come on, do whatever you want to do, just don't make it to my dinner."

"Is he always this cooperative?"

A more realistic Bruce asked in a low voice to Bruce from the world of Shuen.

You'll get used to it.

"Your Majesty."

"It was an older-looking Batman," said one of the Batmen.

"Please try to maintain the output of the Golden Crow Divine Fire at 50% power for three minutes. We need to record its energy dissipation curve."

Xiu En nodded, and golden flames immediately ignited around his body.

"Alright, now please switch your armor between divine power form and technological form three times. We need to capture the quantum data of the moment its matter recombines."

Another Batman immediately followed.

Xiu En did as instructed. His Golden Crow Divine Armor sometimes transformed into a dazzling pure energy divine armor, and sometimes reverted to a technologically advanced battle armor covered with intricate mechanical structures.

"Incredible!"

"His divine power seems capable of directly rewriting the fundamental physical rules of metals!"

"More! Bigger! Better! I have a better idea than the railway gun!"

The Bruces recorded the data while letting out suppressed gasps of amazement.

"Hey, did you guys forget something?"

Sunflower grumbled on Xiu En's shoulder.

"When you are studying the sun, shouldn't you also take photosynthesis, the most important topic, into account?"

The reason this suit of armor could fuse perfectly is because it contains my life energy! I am the core technology!

Upon hearing this, the dozen or so Batman projections turned their heads in unison, and a dozen blue scanning beams focused on the sunflower that was protesting with its hands on its hips.

Inside the command center.

Meanwhile, Tony and Reed were excitedly working on deciphering and designing the multidimensional energy core, constantly uttering various terms.

On the other side, a dozen Batmen with different styles were like a group of gods, undergoing a comprehensive scan and test, occasionally having brief arguments about which angle to analyze his armor plates.

The other heroes of the Justice League and the Avengers naturally split into two groups.

Led by Clark, Diana, and Steve, the hero team is assisting Alfred in systematically planning the resettlement, food supply, and psychological support for the tens of thousands of alien refugees. Their faces are filled with responsibility and worry.

Meanwhile, the group of Thor, Hal Jordan, and Barry Allen, who were always eager for a good show, brought out small stools and snacks provided by Alfred, and watched the technical team's amazing work with great interest. Every now and then, they would place bets on whether Tony or Bruce would be the first to produce the final product.

Just as the physical sciences group and the theological concepts group were each engrossed in their own problems, a glimmer of hope for a breakthrough emerged.

The first to report the good news were the Batman technical advisors who were circling around Shum.

Bruce from the world of Shuen looked at the energy core on the screen, which had been finally modeled, and announced the results.

"We succeeded."

With a wave of his hand, a holographic projection of a core module composed of countless golden runes and structures appeared in the center of the hall. At its core was a faint but inextinguishable golden flame, and the entire module looked like a small sun encased in a technological shell.

"We cannot completely replicate the power of God, but by analyzing the energy conversion pattern of Mr. Shuen's Divine Power Armor, we successfully simplified this divine conversion ability and ultimately created an energy module."

"We call it the Golden Crow Engine."

"Install it on a locked-down armor."

He paused, then looked at Diana and Thor who were present.

"In theory, it can transform your own divine power, or any external high-level energy, into a small-scale divine fire, granting you the ability to erase lower-level laws."

Simply put, they turned a portion of God's power into a mass-producible add-on.

Almost the instant Bruce finished speaking, a shout came from the other end of the laboratory, belonging to Tony Stark.

"I did it too!"

He and Reed were surrounding the multidimensional energy core. On the screen, the last firewall was brute-forced open, and the deepest encrypted files in the core were opened. In addition to more data, a video log also popped up.

"What is this? Kang's home video?"

Tony pressed the play button, puzzled.

The video footage was dimly lit, resembling a heavily guarded conference room. Countless holographic projections of Kang were engaged in a heated argument around a round table. Their debate centered on only one point: the recent death of one of the survivors, Kang.

"That old geezer is finally gone!"

"The youngest-looking Kang variant shouted."

"The Sacred Timeline is a lie! It's time for us to establish a true order that belongs to Kang!"

"Shut up, kid! What do you know!"

A man dressed as a pharaoh, Ramatukham, shouted angrily.

"That guy was in the way, but he was the only one who could suppress that Time Predator in the Void! If he dies, who will deal with that Time Predator?"

"He's dead, and the throne and TVA he left behind are now ownerless!"

"Speaker Kang, who was dressed in a more somber parliamentary uniform, said."

"The most urgent task is to find his castle; the first person to sit in that chair will become our new king."

""

"Why should I?! I've spent countless years in the quantum realm trying to overthrow him!"

"My legion is the strongest!"

The argument grew increasingly heated, with accusations and threats flying everywhere.

"Wait! Look here!"

Reed pointed to a corner of the screen.

In the video, after calming all the arguments, a Kang has a very low-volume, encrypted communication with his adjutant.

This communication was recorded exactly as it was by the new core's logging function.

"Are we really going to let that sun from the DC Universe take the core technology back with us, my master?"

"The adjutant asked."

"Of course, an unobservable variable, a monster possessing primordial divinity."

"I need him."

"I need him to get rid of those useless idiots in the council. Once he's cleaned up all my brothers and is exhausted, I'll reap the final harvest."

"I left a backdoor in the data the old man left behind. I can cripple all the technologies and weapons he and his self-righteous allies developed based on the core in an instant."

"I never fight a battle I'm not prepared for. All the sacrifices are for the ultimate victory that will belong to me."

This concludes the video.

If previous victories and technological breakthroughs filled everyone with hope and optimism, now some are beginning to feel pessimistic.

Even the amused smile on Shu En's face vanished. He could sense a mixture of anger at being deceived and resentment at being looked down upon rising from Bruce and Tony, those intelligent people.

"Hehehe."

Tony chuckled softly.

"Backdoor? Detonate? Great! Excellent!"

"It seems our MK2 project needs a small upgrade!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, and the strange and wonderful gods!"

Tony cleared his throat and used his flamboyant, product launch-like tone to grab everyone's attention.

"I am pleased to announce that a new operation, codenamed Trojan Horse, designed to completely end this tedious war, has been launched!"

With a wave of his hand, a multiverse star map unfolded in the command center. On the star map, a dozen or so red crosses marked the worlds that had been discovered, controlled by different, relatively dangerous Kondratiev variants.

"The plan is simple."

"As a first step, over the next twenty-four hours, we will dispatch several elite squads composed of top heroes and Mr. Xiu's clones to launch feint attacks on these Kang worlds simultaneously!"

"We will attract the vast majority of the attention of the Kangzhi Council. They will think we are crazy, that we want to start a full-scale war with them."

He paused, then turned his gaze to Loki and Sylvie standing to the side: "While everyone is focused on our fireworks, the assassination squad led by Mr. Loki and Ms. Sylvie will use the backend data left behind by Kang to silently infiltrate the Kang Council's board meeting room, which is their central conference room."

"at last."

Tony snapped his fingers.

"Our Xiu En and Ivy can simply tear open a portal to that conference room and wipe out all those arguing Director Kangs. After the operation, everyone can go home for dinner. How about that?"

The plan sounded perfect. It was imaginative, and many people showed expressions of approval.

"A feint to the east while attacking in the west, striking straight at the heart of the enemy. A classic tactic." Steve Rogers nodded.

"I love this!" Thor immediately raised his hammer, unable to wait any longer.

However, amidst the chorus of approval, a voice from Batman's technical advisory group expressed disapproval.

"This plan has a fatal flaw."

The one speaking was a Batman projection covered in spikes on his armor.

"What vulnerability?"

Tony frowned; he didn't like people questioning his brilliant plans.

"You've all overlooked a very basic premise."

"Our enemy is Kang. A tyrant capable of conquering countless timelines. Do you really think he's foolish enough not to see through such a simple feint?"

He pointed to the multidimensional energy core that Reed had suspended in the center of the energy field.

"While Kang was fighting Shuen, all the variants of the Kang Council watched the battle in real time through their shared network."

"In other words..."

"They all saw with their own eyes that Hugh took the core from the battlefield. They all knew, we knew they had added a backdoor to our technology. They all knew, we knew they knew."

Yes. The Council of Kang must have received an alarm the moment Shuen's clone stole the core. They knew the Alliance possessed the technology to counter them, and they knew the Alliance was developing targeted weapons.

"In this situation, they will see it not as a feint, but as our call to arms for a general offensive. They will not be lured away or distracted. On the contrary, they will immediately consolidate all their forces and turn their central conference room into an ultimate fortress filled with countless traps and heavily armed troops."

"What you call a Trojan horse will not send in assassins, but rather dinner that walks into a trap."

"Then—what should we do?"

Peter Parker asked.

"How can we fight this battle? They saw through all our cards from the very beginning!"

Barry Allen also felt a sense of powerlessness.

"wrong!"

Bruce from the world of Shuen shook his head.

He walked up to the star map and looked at the dozen or so red crosses.

"Your analysis is correct, but Kang made a mistake, a mistake often made by conquerors."

"What's wrong?" Tony asked.

"He's too arrogant."

"He deliberately left a backdoor so that we would clean up his own mess. This means that he believes he can perfectly control the whole situation. He believes that we won't discover the backdoor he left, and even if we do, we won't be able to counter it."

"He gave us what he wanted us to see."

Bruce turned around and glanced at Hugh, who was smiling at him.

"But we have a bug here that he can never calculate. Our newly developed Golden Crow Engine was derived from observing Xiu En, and Kang's technology accounts for a small percentage."

"So, Tony's plan is on the right track in general. But we need to try a different approach."

He reached out and tapped on the star map.

"We'll play along."

Everyone in the command center was waiting for him to reveal the final answer to his clever plan.

However, Shuen had completely lost interest in these convoluted schemes.

"This is too much trouble—"

He muttered to himself as he quietly slipped away from the group of heroes and geniuses who were completely immersed in the atmosphere of tactical simulation.

"What? You plotted against me, and I plotted against you? You think I knew, but you don't know that I know you do. Why don't we just kill them all?"

He found Ivy's true form on the other side of the command center and excitedly went over to her.

"Ivy Ivy!"

He pulled a holographic projection chip from his trench coat pocket; it was data he had just copied from the Train Cannon Batman.

"Look at this!"

The chip projected a design of a bat-shaped airship into the air, and Xiu En's eyes lit up at the sight of its cannons and heavy armor.

"Didn't we just build a corn cannon? Can we build one of these too? Made of plants! Let's call it the Giant Bat Fighter - Corn Cannon Mounted Type!"

Xiu En excitedly suggested.

Ivy stopped what she was doing, took a serious look at the design drawing, then looked at her own whimsical sun, and a troubled expression appeared on her face.

She sighed and patiently explained.

"Shuen, the principle behind the corn train cannon is to use the earth's veins and laws as its foundation, turning the entire plant itself into a launch pad. It pursues power and range, but at the cost of sacrificing all mobility."

"This Batplane, on the other hand, pursues ultimate maneuverability and agility. It's difficult for plant growth to perfectly simulate this kind of mechanical structure born to adapt to the laws of physics. Even if I could forcibly grow a plant shell like this, its flight speed would probably be slower than Barry walking. Moreover, the cost-effectiveness is too low. With that material, I could grow a sunflower as big as Godzilla."

7

"oh----"

When Xiu En heard that even Ivy said it wouldn't work, he became dejected.

"Okay, then forget it."

He readily abandoned this unrealistic idea, expressing full understanding of the opinions of professionals.

Meanwhile, the tactical meeting at the command center also entered its most crucial stage.

"Kang thought the backdoor he left behind was to disable our weapons."

Bruce's voice from the main world rang out again, tinged with a cold laugh.

"But he was wrong. This backdoor has now become our VIP channel to the core of all his systems."

"His fingers traced across the star map, and an even bolder and more insidious plan surfaced."

"We'll play along. Tony, Reed, you two are in charge of creating a fake MK2 armor development process. We need to show Kang's monitoring system that we've discovered a backdoor and are working hard to crack it, but progress is slow and fraught with difficulties."

"We need to give him the illusion that we have everything under control."

"at the same time."

Bruce looked at the group of himself surrounding Shum.

"We will concentrate all our computing power to analyze the newly completed Golden Crow Engine module. Our goal is to write a virus."

"A logic virus based on divinity that can directly infect existence."

Tony nodded. "I understand! We won't bomb his servers; we'll modify his operating system! We'll make his soldiers think the order to fire is a warning, but they'll actually be firing at themselves!"

"That's not all."

"If we succeed, we can even give the concept of Kang itself a logical instruction that makes it nonexistent! Let its own system delete itself!"

"This is insane."

Even Steve Rogers, who had seen it all, was shocked by the viciousness and genius of the plan.

"This is the best solution I can think of besides the Doomsday Clock."

"When they think we're on the first level and we think they're on the fifth level, we're going to flip the whole chessboard over."

"The plan is finalized."

He looked around at everyone.

"Technical team, begin writing the divine virus, codenamed 'Sun.' Until it's complete, the armor production line must operate at full speed without interruption."

"The action team, with all combat personnel donning first-generation battle armor, will be led by Mr. Xiu's clone to carry out a feint attack mission."

Your task is to perform! Fight hard, fight fiercely, but don't die. Hugh will help you. You must convince Kang that his plan is going perfectly. Buy us enough time.

"Tactical group."

He looked at Loki and Sylvie on the communication screen.

"You are the ones who know Kang best. I need you to use the strategies Kang left behind to find the contradictions in Kang's Council and prepare a gift for me that will keep them fighting amongst themselves."

"When the virus is finished, their infighting breaks out, and Kang thinks he is about to reap the rewards of victory, that will be the moment for us to launch our final offensive."