I, V, Gotham Legend

"Aaaaaaah!!!" Steppenwolf screamed in pain. Even for an alien with thick skin and flesh like him, the eyes are an extremely vulnerable part of the body.

Aquaman pulled out his bloody trident and rode the current to land next to Valerie.

"What should I do next?" Aquaman asked Valerie.

"Gather your water stream." Valerie pointed to Superman and the Flash beside her, "Splash them."

"Ah? I want one too?" The Flash was a little confused, as Aquaman's water flow was already splashing towards them.

The flood soaked the Flash's red battle suit and also woke up Superman, whose face was swollen.

"What am I doing..." Superman opened his eyes dazedly.

"Shh...it's not time for you to wake up yet." The Flash immediately stopped Superman in a low voice as he was about to get up.

Superman immediately understood and closed his eyes, pretending to be still asleep.

But Superman inevitably made some small moves, which made Steppenwolf, who was already a little panicked, even more anxious.

"The last time I suffered this level of injury was four hundred years ago." Steppenwolf said coldly and angrily. He slammed the axe against his eyes and used electric current to stop the bleeding.

Then he pulled his feet out of the floor and ran a few steps towards Valerie and Aquaman.

Valerie exchanged a glance with Aquaman, then jumped forward. With a double jump, she was above Steppenwolf's head, waving her hands as if she were spreading a blanket.

A whip of light with scorching heat was swung out from Valerie's palm. Steppenwolf immediately raised the axe and held it horizontally in front of his head. The single-molecule wire wrapped around the axe like a normal whip.

Valerie bent down in the air and stepped on the handle of Steppenwolf's axe with her legs almost overlapping.

The steppe wolf immediately stretched out its claws and grabbed Valerie's waist.

Valerie breathed a sigh of relief, but she still pretended to dodge with her feet. Finally, she pretended that she couldn't dodge in time and let Steppenwolf catch the Mother Box.

"No——" Valerie cried exaggeratedly.

Hearing Valerie's "unwilling" howl, Steppenwolf felt safe. He swung his axe hard and threw Valerie out.

Valerie almost hit the wall again, but was fortunately blocked by the water flow gathered by Aquaman.

Superman beside him slightly opened one eye and said in a very low voice: "Can I get up now?"

The Flash raised his head and looked at Steppenwolf who was proudly summoning a beam of light to take him away. He nodded slightly: "Okay, try to go slower and give him time to run away."

Superman understood what he said, then raised his voice slightly: "Flash? What's wrong with me?"

"Oh my God, Mr. Superman, you were just controlled, just like Uncle Cai Lun's lawn mower!" The Flash shouted exaggeratedly, "Don't talk about this! The alien is running away! It all depends on you!"

After hearing the conversation between the Flash and Superman, Steppenwolf immediately sped up the transmission.

As a warrior, Steppenwolf is never afraid of enemies stronger than himself, but now that he has just obtained the Mother Box, everything has to be prioritized.

Superman raised his head very, very slowly by his own standards, then slowly turned his head to look at Steppenwolf, who was illuminated by the light.

The Steppe Wolf didn't leave any harsh words and disappeared along with the beam of light.

Seeing that Steppenwolf finally disappeared with the fake Mother Box, the several drama queens all breathed a sigh of relief.

"V, how are you?" The Flash appeared in front of Valerie and asked with concern.

"Fortunately, I have thick skin." Valerie rubbed her smooth face.

"You're really worthy of being V..." The Flash had both of his legs broken by Steppenwolf's sudden attack, although he's healed now.

"Why not just execute Steppenwolf right here?" Superman also stood up. It was rare for him to say something violent.

"How dare you say that? Who was the one who was mentally controlled right after coming here?" Valerie complained mercilessly, "How could you be so inexperienced?"

"After all, this is the first time I've encountered an enemy who can manipulate people's minds." Superman laughed.

The Flash also scratched his head: "Grudd's mind control is theoretically very strong... although I haven't fought him much."

He looked at the headless gorilla corpse on the ground, feeling inexplicably melancholy.

"Let's go back to the spaceship... Oh, and the question you just asked." Valerie looked at Superman, "Apokolips already knows that the Mother Box is on Earth. Even if we kill Steppenwolf, they will send others over. It would be better to enter their base through the Mother Box and meet with the top leaders of Apokolips directly."

"Isn't that Mother Box fake?" The Flash didn't quite understand the logic.

"Of course, the fake Mother Box can't attract people from Apokolips, but Steppenwolf must have a way to contact Darkseid." Valerie said, "If we kill Steppenwolf, it will definitely alert the enemy, so why not make a bigger noise? If we can kill all their generals who come to Earth under their noses, they might be afraid to act rashly."

And there is also good news, Steppenwolf, the general of Apocalypse, is not as scary as imagined.

The few people left the subway line without any hurry, and lined up to walk out of the subway station under the horrified eyes of the soldiers and the remaining hostages.

Although many people did not see how these people came in, everyone heard the deafening noise of the battle just now, and they were still organizing the evacuation.

Looking at the majestic superheroes, several soldiers looked at each other, not knowing whether they should step forward to stop them. In the end, no one said anything. Anyway, no one gave any orders, so they just pretended not to see anything.

But Valerie took the initiative to find them.

"The one on your chest is different from the others... It should be an officer, right?" Valerie accurately grabbed an officer and simply opened a box with a scanner, "Okay, it looks like it's you."

"Any instructions?" the officer had no choice but to ask back.

"There were some hostages inside, they were controlled by the bad guys. Fortunately, we rescued them." Valerie said, pointing to the long tunnel behind her.

"Okay, I'll send someone to pick it up right away." The officer nodded reluctantly, "Um...are there any more aliens inside?"

"Theoretically, no." Valerie looked back at the heroes and said.

"Okay then..." The officer breathed a sigh of relief.

Feeling that she had explained everything, Valerie continued to walk past the officer and led the team out of the subway station.

Central City is not shrouded in dark clouds like Gotham, but the temperature difference between day and night still makes ordinary people shiver. Fortunately, few people have this worry.

There was a knocking sound overhead, as if announcing his presence. Batman was squatting on a street lamp, and it seemed that he had been waiting for a long time. The moonlight shone on him and the street lamp, casting a very long shadow.

"Any results?" Valerie asked.

"They took great pains to conceal their transmission beam, but my satellite still captured it." Batman said, looking at the screen on his forearm. "If nothing unexpected happens, it's in Chernobyl."

NO15. Secret base, start!

Steppenwolf rode the teleportation beam and returned to his temporary base on Earth in an instant.

So many years have passed since the Chernobyl nuclear power plant leak, and the nuclear radiation in the air is no longer as high as before. In order to ensure the source of power for the Apocalypse Demons, he deliberately spent a lot of effort to manually increase the radiation here.

After the excitement of the battle faded, the excruciating pain of having one eye stabbed out climbed into Steppenwolf's brain, and his face twitched as he walked.

The Apocalypse Demons turned a blind eye to their general's discomfort, or their intelligence was unable to comprehend it, and they simply fled as if seeking refuge when the Steppe Wolves approached.

The Steppenwolf forced himself to smooth the skin on his face that was twisted together due to pain. He was about to meet his master, and even if it would only be a projection, he had to maintain the most basic decency.

The Steppenwolf walked through the weed-covered streets and entered a deserted building covered with rubble. Inside, there were several large flower bud-like things that looked like insect eggs, and countless people were wrapped in them with only their heads exposed.

There were yellow slimy things growing on the ground like tree roots. The steppe wolf held the mother box carefully and walked through the dirty ground under his feet with ease.

The meeting room for the master is behind a partition, and those dirty things must not offend the master's eyes.

After walking into the compartment, Steppenwolf looked at the table in the middle of the room with gentle eyes. He walked up and pushed away the debris on it.

After debugging the remaining instruments on the table, he placed the mother box flat on the table, then took a few steps back, knelt on his knees, and waited for a reaction.

At the same time, on the Krypton spaceship, several superhumans gathered together and looked at the pious look on Steppenwolf's face on the monitor.

Wonder Woman watched for a while, and felt that the important part had not yet arrived, so she sneaked to the kitchen to eat some ice cream. The others gathered together and watched with great interest.

"Here it comes." As she said that, Valerie took out the real mother box of this world from her pocket.

Although Steppenwolf's fake Mother Box was made by Valerie, it has more functions than just transmission, monitoring and styling. After all, Valerie has been studying the Mother Box for almost half a year.

What the Mother Box does exactly is still a mystery, but it is undeniable that it must contain some kind of computer capability.

Valerie made the fake mother box connect to the real mother box network, which is equivalent to the relationship between the host and the server, or the relationship between her own remote control and the hacker access cabin, so that even if they are halfway across the world, they can provide services remotely. It's like adding a ladder.

Valerie took out a square repeater, pulled out a wire from it and connected it to the mother box, and then she pulled out the data cable from her wrist and plugged it into it.

This is done to avoid any virus in the mother box.

As Valerie passed the connection, Steppenwolf on the screen finally saw the virtual image.

Like pixels gathering in the air, a man covered in a robe was slowly assembled.

The mother box had very good recording, and Steppenwolf could clearly hear the breathing of his former colleague.

"Powerful Steppenwolf, it seems you have found another Mother Box." The man spoke slowly, as if he was breathing.

"This is not a difficult task for me. My punishment is about to end. You should let me meet the master, Desaad." Although the Steppe Wolf was kneeling, his tone was not humble.

"It's very strange. Although we are indeed communicating through the Mother Box, the delay seems a bit too great." Desaad suddenly raised his head and said as if to confirm something.

"Maybe there's something wrong with the instrument." Steppenwolf looked at the instruments and equipment placed on the table together with the Mother Box.

The Mother Box would not have any problems even if it was buried for another ten thousand years, so the only possible problem could be the other props of mine.

"Then you'd better figure it out yourself. We won't help you solve it." Desaad said mercilessly.

Steppenwolf was silent. He understood that Desaad's words also meant that Darkseid rejected his request for a meeting.

Not only that, his colleagues didn't care at all about his blind eye. All the politeness and courtesy were only on the surface, and Desaad couldn't see him clearly at all.

But Steppenwolf was not going to retreat just like that. He still had something to ask: "When I was trying to take back the Mother Box for my lord, I met a native creature from Earth. He said he knew you."

"Earth's homeland? No impression." Desaad shook his head.

"His name is...Grudd? He said you should tell me about his existence."

"Maybe there is such a thing? I forgot. I work hard for my lord every day. There are countless lives that can be connected to my detection equation. If it's just a few ants, there's no need to remember them."

Desaad's arrogance was uncomfortable, but Steppenwolf roughly understood what was going on.

The big black hairy man accidentally connected with Desaad, so Desaad used him as a chess piece, but forgot about it as soon as he turned around.

"You serve the lord, so you should remember the men you recruited." There was some jealousy in the tone of the steppe wolf.

"It's not your turn to teach me, traitor." Desaad also tore off his face, and his kindness and courtesy were completely gone. "You'd better atone for your sins. Remember the oath you swore? To conquer 100,000 planets for the master."

Steppenwolf clenched his fists, the unwillingness on his face almost dripping with water.

In the spaceship, Valerie and others looked at each other.

"This guy really came here alone, and he seems to be very unwelcome in Apocalypse." Valerie was already excited, and she stood on tiptoe eagerly, "Shall we go and kill him?"

Originally, she was planning to kill Steppenwolf in front of the Apocalypse's top leaders, but now it seems that Apocalypse doesn't take either Earth or Steppenwolf seriously at all.

In other words, after they finish talking, the superheroes can just rush over and kill Steppenwolf, and then Apokolips will simply forget about this planet.

Even if they haven't forgotten, it will take a lot of time for them to find the Earth again, so Valerie and others can make adequate preparations.

"V, there's a situation." Just as Valerie was still seeking opinions from several heroes, Batman, who was sitting in the back, suddenly raised his head. He was not only paying attention to Steppenwolf's screen.

Batman didn't waste any time. He raised his arms across everyone, with a projection suspended above them.

It was a picture of the Milky Way, with several spaceships gathered together like a swarm of bees.

"What is that?" The Flash asked, tilting his head.

"This is a picture taken by my personal satellite," Batman replied. "It's not far from the Earth."

At the same time, Steppenwolf, who was arguing with Desadra in the base, suddenly raised his head and looked at the light on the ceiling that suddenly flickered.

"This communication signal... Did Apocalypse send troops here?"

"Army?" Desaad was surprised, and his shadow suddenly trembled and flickered.

Steppenwolf was startled by Desaad's sudden change. He stood up suddenly and summoned the axe lying not far away: "What happened? Desaad!"

However, the phantoms that converged into Disad were like clear water that was stirred, a dark and mixed mass, and it was impossible to see the shadows it formed.

As the shadows spun and gathered, the Steppe Wolf vaguely saw a figure. He seemed to be struck by lightning, the axe in his hand fell out of his hand, and his body uncontrollably knelt down again.

A dark figure, smaller than him but still sturdy, gathered before his eyes. He was not wearing a gorgeous crown or luxurious clothing, but he still exuded an indescribable kingly temperament from the inside out.

"..." The Steppe Wolf opened his eyes wide, even opening his bad eye which was only a bloody hole. He looked at the figure in front of him with respect and fear.

Darkseid's red eyes just stared at him for a while, then he looked up at the sky, and then the figure disappeared again.

Steppenwolf was surprised that his master, whom he rarely saw, did not say a word until Desaad appeared before him again.

"Be prepared, Steppenwolf." Desaad's voice sounded frightened. "The Dark Lord is also coming to your planet. Be prepared to welcome him."

"Darkseid... the Lord is coming here in person?!" Steppenwolf's expression was full of surprise. He had not yet recovered from the shock.

Desaad nodded. He looked up at the sky with lingering fear, even though he could not see anything. "The army that suddenly appeared was left behind by Darkseid after a war tens of thousands of years ago. Their purpose is to help the great lord find what he lost."