I, V, Gotham Legend

"I hope there's good news." The Flash clasped his hands together.

Batman carefully observed Valerie's physical condition to make sure she was not hurt.

"Everyone... good news, I actually found a clue to Darkseid's target." Valerie sniffed and went straight to the point, "That thing is called the Anti-Life Equation... It really is an equation!"

NO23. There is still great power!

Maybe it was a signal, or something emitting signals, but whatever it was, it was running a series of incomprehensible equations.

The underlying programming of these spacecraft's computing is like a broadcast semiconductor that is specifically designed to receive this signal.

While Valerie was sharing the current information with Batman and the others, she was fanning herself, and when she felt her body temperature had dropped enough, she swiftly climbed back into the mecha.

"This fleet has almost abandoned most of its intelligence in order to find the signal... Even so, they have still wandered in the universe for tens of thousands of years."

The ancient system contained too much information, and Valerie almost lost her life trying to analyze the clues.

"Can you find the equation?" Batman asked.

"Yes, as long as you do as I say." Valerie rubbed her eyebrows to calm her dizzy mind. "But when I was looking through the historical data of these spacecraft, I saw some strange things. Do you want to hear about them?"

"Don't be pretentious."

"Okay." Valerie opened her eyes full of wisdom, "This fleet came to Earth with Darkseid. After Darkseid was driven away, they stayed behind to recover the Anti-Life Equation. But in fact, they were never lost. They locked onto the place the next year, but have been circling the Milky Way for tens of thousands of years."

She ran the past of this fleet directly in her mind, and had a rough look at the long journey that had never changed since ancient times.

"You mean, they should have arrived on Earth a long time ago?" Batman immediately grasped the point.

"Yes, that's what's strange." Valerie said, "Apocalypse's search system for equations is very mature, but they don't know why they can't find the earth."

The Sea King, who was watching the screen together, guessed: "Is there anyone who blocked the Apocalypse Fleet's perception of the Earth?"

"This is the most likely guess at the moment. Remember what Wonder Woman said?" Valerie said, "The ancient people on Earth once sealed the Mother Box."

From this, it can be inferred that those people may have used some means to prevent Apocalypse from finding the Earth.

“If that person were still alive—or if there was some legacy left behind—it might be a great help,” Valerie said.

"Aren't you going to use that equation against Darkseid?" asked the Flash.

"Looking at it now, it would be safer to find a way to destroy that thing." Valerie sighed.

She nearly died simply analyzing the internal systems of a spacecraft, let alone the anti-life equation that not even Apokolips itself could reproduce.

Although the information we have obtained so far is rather confusing, the good news is that we are no longer completely in the dark.

"Tell us the possible whereabouts of the equation." Batman finally decided.

"OK." Valerie gestured, "Joe, share your location with me... just through this wire."

As she spoke, Valerie touched the wire connected to her neck.

With this trick, Valerie could also feel the effect of the clone chip.

As before, she used her brain as the computer to run the search system and set up an electronic map on the Kryptonian spacecraft.

Originally, Valerie thought that reaching intelligence level 10 was no different from before, but after using her brain this time, she suddenly realized that she could think in multiple threads.

In the past, she would have put all her energy into doing such a brain-intensive task, but now she felt that she could even dance while calculating the formula.

It seems that doing more brain work and solving more problems does help improve intelligence, but Valerie feels that she has reached a bottleneck and it is not so easy to improve her intelligence further.

"These fleets are useless...BT, it's our turn to dance!" Valerie said, pressing her fingers on the console.

The name of the mecha changed from Old Joe to BT, which means that Valerie is returning to the battlefield.

With a crackling sound of machinery turning, the mecha stood up from the ground. Its nearly six-meter-tall body looked like a low building.

Valerie turned around and rushed to the spacious area outside in the mecha. If nothing unexpected happened, Green Lantern was still fighting the slime-type demon.

But after pushing open the wall of the room and walking out of it, Valerie only saw green plasma on the ground and the Green Lantern suspended in the air, covered in a layer of fluorescent light.

"You actually won?" Valerie asked in surprise.

"It's just that I got ambushed a few times and caused you to misunderstand my strength." Green Lantern said proudly, "There is more than one slime here, but under my force, they all turned into a puddle."

There might be corpses of slime demons on the ground, all over the ground like a pool of water.

Valerie controlled the mecha's arms and clapped enthusiastically: "Not bad...but we should go now."

"My performance has just begun..." Green Lantern pointed behind him, "I have basically figured out the rules of the Apokolips spacecraft. That's the energy source of this spacecraft."

Just like the previous cooperation with Superman, if the energy source is exploded, the spacecraft will naturally disintegrate.

"An outdated strategy." Valerie stuck out her tongue in the cockpit. "Come out with me... The heroine should be outside by now, right?"

The Apocalypse Demons did not appear out of thin air. Their reproduction method is basically to use other life forms as a breeding ground, regenerating like fungi.

The regeneration of the Apocalypse Demon in this spaceship relies on the lives captured from various planets over a long period of time.

As agreed, Valerie and Green Lantern went to find the main control room to find clues to the equation, while Wonder Woman split up with them to look for the possible Apocalypse Demon Hotbed.

However, this fleet has not found Earth for tens of thousands of years. Before seeing it with their own eyes, no one knows from which planet the animals being rescued will be.

The heroine seemed to have some ability to find life. At least when Valerie returned to reality from cyberspace, she had already received news that she was ready.

"Come with me, let's fight our way out." Valerie said to Green Lantern. She turned around in her mecha and rushed towards a wall without hesitation.

Although it looked like a dead end, Valerie didn't care. She controlled the mecha and raised her fist towards the wall, and a missile shot out from her wrist.

The missile blew up the wall, revealing a secret passage behind it.

"Follow me closely, so we can get out as soon as possible...this spaceship won't be safe for much longer." Valerie said as she ran.

"What do you mean? You set this spaceship to self-destruct?" Green Lantern hurriedly floated after it.

"It's more exciting than self-destruction." Valerie said mysteriously.

They quickly rushed to a narrow area similar to the capillaries before. Valerie took the initiative to transform the mecha into a claw shape and rushed through the passage, rubbing against the wall.

The tail flame representing power stretched out several meters away, and the metal shell directly rubbed against the wall of the corridor to produce sparks.

Compared to the groping when she came, Valerie had a clear purpose when she left. She faced every fork without hesitation and was even able to fire directly at the wall to find the hidden path.

After crushing countless demons along the way, Valerie's mecha drove to the last wall. She controlled the mecha and clenched it into a fist, while increasing the driving speed to the extreme.

Like a boxer punching a glass with all his strength, the mecha broke through the wall and rushed into the outer space cleanly and neatly.

Green Lantern followed closely behind, they were almost on the same pace, and the vast universe seemed to welcome them with open arms.

After rushing through space for a while due to inertia, Valerie and Green Lantern both stopped.

Valerie's robot transformed back into a mecha, and she stared at the far rear of the ship. "It looks like she found a way... I thought I'd have to go over and help."

Green Lantern floated behind Valerie's mech, also looking toward the tail of the spacecraft.

There is a spaceship there that is smaller than all the surrounding spaceships, even smaller than the outermost "worker ants".

It should be the escape boat of the main ship. Although Wonder Woman is a "classical" person who is out of touch with the times, she can still quickly master the alien technology she has never seen before.

"Really reliable..." Green Lantern commented halfway, then changed the subject, "Very suitable for cleaning up after I finish my work."

"Really... But I think this is called aftermath." Valerie's brain was still working hard. She took out the remote control from her pocket and pressed the button on the spacecraft in the cockpit...

……

Gotham, at Commissioner Gordon's home.

Barbara placed the computer Valerie lent her on the table and worked on her homework with her head down and her brows furrowed.

Gotham was unusually peaceful today, with nothing bad happening. Jim Gordon was ready to spend a rare family dinner with his daughter.

As a result, the city government suddenly held an emergency meeting. Gordon was thinking of abusing his power once and for all and shirking the meeting, but he suddenly received news that this meeting was led by the US government.

The country's top leadership convened police systems and military and political agencies from all over the country, and it was obvious that something big had happened.

Although Gordon didn't reveal a word, Barbara already knew the answer.

Aliens are invading, and on a larger scale than ever before.

Originally, Barbara was considering going to the next life to inquire for further information, but the manager of the next life, Marlon, simply sent her back. According to him, this was no longer a level at which she could interfere.

She also saw the huntress, who was sweating and unconscious. She didn't look very well, but it was said that she was just overworked.

Barbara had no choice but to go home and finish her unfinished homework.

Even if the earth is going to be destroyed by aliens tomorrow, homework must be handed in on time.

Just when Barbara was tormented by her homework and didn't want to think about anything, white smoke suddenly came out of the computer on her desk.

"What's going on?" Barbara was surprised.

This is a laptop designed specifically for her by Valerie. It is said that it is equipped with something called "prosthetics", which is very suitable for hackers.

Usually, Barbara would only use this thing to complete some daily commissions. Apart from that, it was used as a cloud server to allow Valerie to use her hacking abilities remotely.

But now this thing suddenly emitted white smoke as if it was spontaneously combusting. This was something Barbara had never imagined. As far as she knew, the configuration of this computer was completely ahead of its time.

Barbara stood up anxiously, not even caring about her homework. She hurriedly opened the cabinet, looking for peripherals, trying to find a way to cool down the computer, and finally tapped the keyboard like a paperhanger.

"This operation scale... looks like a really big deal..." Barbara looked at the shocking amount of code on the screen and took a deep breath...

……

Valerie certainly didn't intend to hack into the spaceship directly. She had had direct negative-distance contact with the spaceship's system not long ago.

Before she left, she used all her life's knowledge to leave a virus in the underlying system of the spacecraft. Now, pressing the remote control at it was purely to control and activate the trap she left behind.

Surprisingly, while Valerie had no trouble infiltrating the ship's systems after a direct connection, it was far less easy when using the hacker access pod.

Although it took a lot of time, it was successful. The virus that Valerie left at the bottom of the spacecraft server exploded like a mine.

This does not allow Valerie to obtain the right to use the spaceship. Valerie can only disconnect the spaceship from the entire "Ant Nest Consciousness" by trying her best.

This is enough. The "queen ant" in the middle of the ant colony loses its connection with the entire ant nest, and then it will only be regarded as a foreign invader by other ants.

The spaceships surrounding the main ship had no self-awareness. They followed their instincts and surrounded the spaceship, gathering energy at their gun muzzles and pouring fire at the main ship like ants spraying formic acid.

The shallow AI built into the main ship would not allow itself to be blown into mud. It also raised its guns on the surface and fought back with all its might.

For a moment, the barrage of comments flashed across the universe, like a celebration scene at a grand fireworks show.

Green Lantern stared at the fighting spaceships in amazement. He finally understood what Valerie meant by "more exciting than self-destruction".

Compared to simply self-destructing, letting them kill each other will cause greater damage to the fleet in the end.

"Is this the mind control called the Anti-Life Equation? Can it even control a mindless spaceship?" Green Lantern did not attend the meeting, he asked based on blind guessing.

"Unfortunately, this is Earth's technology." To be exact, it was Valerie's technology. She risked being burned to death after analyzing the Apocalypse spacecraft and tailored the virus for them.

"It seems that I underestimated you before." Green Lantern said seriously, "Should we do the same to other spacecraft?"

"If you want to do this, you must first enter the spacecraft and have close contact with their cockpit," said Valerie.

"That's easy." Green Lantern immediately flew towards the nearest main battleship. "I called for support from the Green Lantern Corps, but now it seems that just the two of us are enough!"

NO24. Back again?

The Kryptonian spaceships were flying at unprecedented speeds. They flew under the nebula at night, giving people the illusion that time was peaceful and tranquil.

Sitting on the spaceship are some of the most powerful people on the planet.

Originally, this team was to fight alongside Superman against Darkseid himself, but things were unexpectedly going well for Valerie, and the ship found a new purpose and changed direction, temporarily giving up on supporting Superman.

The air conditioner was on in the spaceship, so the climate wasn't so hot and stuffy, but the Flash still got a box of ice cream from the kitchen and ate it while sitting on the table. It wasn't because it was so hot, but just to replenish his calories for the next battle.

"You look like you're thinking about something?" Aquaman walked up to the Flash, who was eating absentmindedly, with his upper body leaning against the wall.

The Flash held a spoon in his mouth with a painful expression: "If the Anti-Life Equation is really an equation, how did it stay on Earth in the first place? Why did Darkseid use the word 'find' to describe it?"

"There are always some unreasonable things in the world." As he spoke, the Sea King raised his hand, and a trident flew into his hand from afar. "This thing in my hand is known as the symbol of the King of the Sea. It can command all marine life - of course, it is not that exaggerated in reality, but it is also equivalent to the authority of God."

"Are you bragging?" The Flash narrowed his eyes.

"When I first heard about it, I thought it was bragging, until I actually got it." Aquaman said, raising his eyebrows ostentatiously, "Do you want to know how I got it? To be honest, it was a long and glorious journey..."

"The spaceship is arriving." Batman suddenly spoke, interrupting the conversation between the two and also interrupting Aquaman from sharing his glorious deeds.

"So fast? Some magical illusion tunnel or something?" The Flash said, sitting upright.

"I'm surprised too." Batman said, staring at the images playing on the monitor.

What surprised Batman was not that they were in some unfamiliar place, but rather that the place Batman was in was too familiar.