Chapter 21 Chapter 21 It’s better to arrive at the right time than to arrive early
"Don't tell horror stories so late at night. It's scary." Jason rubbed the goose bumps on his arms. He was frightened by Li Hua's question. "I don't know what Luther is thinking. If you're really curious, you can ask Luther in person when you have the chance."
Then he beat Luther half to death.
"No need, I'm just asking casually. I don't care about other people's emotional lives." Li Hua pulled out a [Flying] card. "Where is Luther's laboratory?"
As a wealthy conspirator, Luther certainly wouldn't put all his eggs in one basket.
It is impossible for him to openly place a laboratory for illegal cloning experiments in his own shopping mall, and it is impossible for him to have only one laboratory.
In this world filled with aliens, magic, and superpowers, ordinary humans must make far greater efforts to fight against enemies with incredible powers and stand shoulder to shoulder with their teammates. They must be more cautious than those with special abilities to protect themselves and others in battles far beyond the capabilities of ordinary people...
And turn the tide of battle.
To be able to fight against this "God on Earth" in human form, and to remain at large for so many years, Luthor is naturally a cunning and cautious enemy. This is also why many people often know that Luthor is behind some bad things or is the one who did it, but they cannot produce evidence to send him to prison forever.
But that doesn't mean that no one will try to find Luther's connection to these illegal activities and give up sending him to jail.
Batman, like Luthor, is an ordinary human being without any special abilities who often deals with Superman, but the difference is that he stands on the side of justice, standing beside Superman instead of against him.
Protecting is harder and more stressful than destroying, let alone protecting an entire city in this world with a mortal body. So inevitably, Batman's suspicion and desire for control rise day by day...
Li Hua: "Um, I'm very sorry to interrupt your story, but we are a little pressed for time now, so could you please tell me briefly, should we go to Gotham or Metropolis, and grab Batman or Luthor?"
Listen, the child was so anxious that he even came up with the option of snatching Batman.
"I'm just trying to give you some background on the interpersonal relationships here. Young people are just impatient."
Jason ignored Li Hua's protest, "I am obviously one year older than you, and I am taller than you," and said.
"To put it simply, I've seen several marked locations of Luthor's secret laboratories in Metropolis on the Batcomputer. Although it's been a year, I'm not sure how many are left, but we can go look for them."
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"You're saying that two hours ago, a group of unidentified individuals attacked several of my secret laboratories, silently knocked out all the remaining researchers and disconnected the surveillance cameras, but they didn't damage any equipment or steal any research data?"
Lex Luthor, who was woken up from his bed by an emergency call, sat at the head of the bed in his pajamas with an angry look on his face, listening to the report from the laboratory manager.
"So what did they do?"
The manager shuddered, "After counting, we found that only the bottle containing Superman's blood is missing."
Even with ninth-level intelligence, Luther was confused for a moment.
Luthor knows that he is a villain in the circle of superheroes and supervillains. It is reasonable for someone to want to destroy his laboratory and make trouble for him. If a super villain wants to come to him to intercept Superman's research data or "borrow" precision instruments, he will spit on them as a freeloader but can also understand their motives.
But Superman's DNA? Besides him, who else would have that?
What are you doing with this thing? Are you going to learn how to operate it yourself and create a Superman clone?
But if we have the ability to create such a laboratory and organize such a research team, it shouldn't be unimaginable to obtain Superman's DNA, right?
If they are from the hero camp, they can ask Superman directly for it if their reasons are legitimate, or they can find a chance to collect it themselves; if they are from the villain camp, they can ask me directly, and I won't refuse to give it to them if they explain their reasons. After all, it will cause trouble for Superman, and he has many ways to obtain it.
After much thought, Luthor reasonably deduced that the thief must not have used Superman's DNA to do anything good. The most likely perpetrator was a villain who wanted to use Superman's DNA to cause trouble, or a future villain who had his own ideas. Otherwise, he would have come to him for cooperation.
Since it doesn't cause any loss to myself and can cause trouble to Superman, why not do it?
Thinking of this, Luther's anger subsided a lot, and he even felt a little excited.
He couldn't wait to see what kind of trouble this guy who took Superman's DNA would cause Superman.
"Mr. Luther, do we need to change the address of our laboratory now?"
"Put together the important data and research projects. I'll send someone over to transfer you."
This time the laboratory was not destroyed and the data and research results were not affected, so the laboratory will not be scrapped. After transferring sensitive data and R&D personnel, it can still carry out some normal, legal commercial research and development.
"Go find out who did what happened today. Once you find out, don't do anything extra. Report to me and continue your work."
"Yes, Mr. Luther." The laboratory manager who had saved his job felt as if he had been pardoned. He hung up the phone respectfully and asked his colleagues to pack up.
After hanging up the phone, Luther was no longer sleepy, but he knew who and where to vent his resentment about being disturbed, and he also knew how to do some brainstorming that could serve as a bedtime diversion.
Luther propped up the pillow at the head of the bed, took out a palm-sized notebook and a ballpoint pen from his bedside table, half-leaned on the pillow, turned to a new page in the notebook, and wrote -
[How to Kill Superman Idea #80134]
He hoped that the real metropolis would soon become like the one in his last dream that ended abruptly, without any aliens.
Li Hua is still unaware of Luther's grand ambition.
Because at this moment he was riding on a galloping staff, with a freshly baked [shield] and a small glass bottle of Superman's blood just taken out of the refrigerator in his arms, and a dozen hairpins made of sequins, bows, rhinestones, and glitter clipped on his ruffled collar and cuffs. On his back was a pair of pink, transparent, glittery butterfly fairy wings bought from a gift shop - the kind that were placed in the children's area of the store together with cartoon princess dresses and veil headbands.
The Li Hua of today is no longer the Li Hua of the past. He is the Magic Boy PLUS version with even more BUFFs. Li Hua!
In order to sneak into Luthor's laboratory, Li Hua used the [Time][Quiet][Flying] cards several times in turn, and finally found the place where Superman's DNA was stored in the laboratory under the command of No. 666.
After a round of consumption, even with the blessing, Li Hua's mana was not enough for them to fly back to Bludhaven, but he did not dare to bet whether the Ice Ghost would get into trouble during this period. At this time, all the shops on the street were closed, so he had to work with Jason to make a decision that went against their ancestors.
They broke into a supermarket that was closed by picking the lock and took all the small items on the children's shelves. Finally, they went to the checkout counter to pay according to the marked prices of the items and left the excess money at the counter.
Li Hua also took an extra piece of paper and a pen and left a note for the store owner, sincerely apologizing for his behavior of prying open the door late at night.
"That's about it. Don't write too much."
Jason originally thought that Li Hua would just leave a short sentence, but after waiting for a minute, Li Hua was still writing. He couldn't help but move closer to see what Li Hua had written, and saw that Li Hua had written:
[Mr./Ms. Manager, I am deeply ashamed and sorry for my behavior. However, there are no stores open at this time. My brother is about to say goodbye to his child forever. We hope to catch up at the last minute.]
Jason: ...
Although what he said is true, why does it seem so weird?
After Li Hua finished writing, he put the paper under the money, found a barcode scanner to press these things down, and then left through the gate, locking the door again before leaving.
"Okay, let's go."
Jason was carrying a travel bag he'd bought with the "friendly sponsorship" money from the Blüdhaven thugs. Inside was a fishing net, a butterfly net, several large bundles of nylon rope for wrapping gifts, and other fishing gear he'd bought before heading to Luther's lab. He looked at Li Hua with a complicated expression, "Did you write that on purpose or accidentally?"
"What I said was the truth. Ben's condition can't be delayed. We don't know when Ice Ghost will give birth. Besides, saying this doesn't reveal our identities, and it also achieves the effect of an apology."
Li Hua tried to put the hairpin on his head, but his short hair, which had just undergone the appearance inspection at Hua Xia High School, was obviously not able to bear this task, so he had to let the ruffled collar and cuffs do the job.
After this brief respite and the blessing of the BUFF, although Li Hua's mana was not fully restored, it was enough for them to fly back to Bludhaven and send out the [Shield] at the critical moment.
But even though Li Hua and Jason hurried all the way, they were still one step late... or rather, half a step late.
When they arrived, there was no trace of Benjamin in the nest. Only the gun parts that Jason left for Benjamin before he left were scattered on the ground. And on the top of the steel nest that was swirling like a solid whirlwind, there was a figure kneeling, who seemed to be wearing a black and blue hooded cloak.
That was an ice ghost with its wings folded.
Jason put his palm to his mouth and yelled down, "Hey, what are you doing?"
The Ice Ghost looked up at Li Hua and Jason who were landing, and saw that their landing point was some distance away from its nest, so it turned its head away again, and its crystal-like green compound eyes continued to stare intently at the gloomy nest under its knees.
His voice was not loud, but it clearly entered everyone's ears in the silence of the night in the suburban wasteland.
"I'm waiting for my children to be born."
The author has something to say:
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Luthor's vengeance notebook comes from the 10th volume of "The Adventures of Superman 2013".
In the original novel, it took the Ice Ghost almost three days from building the nest to sending the children to outer space. Ahhhhh, I finally caught up!
PS: To add a common misunderstanding, the number of children of the Ice Ghost.
The plot clearly states that there are 14 of them. This can be seen from the birth of the first cub at 19 minutes and 8 seconds in the fourth quarter of the second season of "BEN10 Alien Heroes" to the birth of the last little one at 19 minutes and 38 seconds. It is clear that there are 14 of them.
The often-misunderstood misunderstanding (12 cubs) comes from the image of the Ice Ghost and his children that appears at 19 minutes and 42 seconds, but in fact this image is incomplete, most likely due to angle problems or drawing errors. Even in the image of flying into outer space at the 20th minute, there are only 10 cubs. Therefore, the close-up of the birth image [14] is used as the standard here.
PPS: Due to some well-known reasons (Warner), there are contradictions and even contradictory timelines between the different versions of BEN10. For example, at the beginning of the second season of Alien Heroes, 15-year-old Benjamin said that he had taken off his watch for five years. When the 17-year-old Benjamin (16 years old at the minimum) in the fourth season met his "five-year-old" self, this "Benjamin five years ago" was also wearing a watch! ! ! !
To use the official words in the drama, "The Outer Heavens (X-Man) have restarted the universe again——", the style of painting, settings, and characters (even Benjamin's future IF line has changed) are all due to their restart of the universe————
...So it's normal to be confused by BEN10's timeline. I'll try my best to make it right in this article, but if I can't make it right, let's just treat it as a parallel universe [bursts into tears]. After all, BEN10 itself fought the Multiverse War and the Time War... [cracks open]
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