dhibooks Chapter 182 A New Kryptonian Escape Pod!?
Chapter 182 A New Kryptonian Escape Pod!?
Chapter 182 A New Kryptonian Escape Pod!?
This is the conference room at the US military base. Amanda Waller is sitting in the head seat. They have just been having a meeting, a very, very important meeting.
At this moment, the meeting was interrupted by an uninvited guest who projected his own face onto the big screen.
"Miss Waller, it's a pleasure to see you again."
Amidst the murmurs of many voices, Amanda Waller slowly stood up, staring intently at the face on the screen.
Despite being a large, robust woman with a figure comparable to a water bucket, she could still be addressed as "Miss" whenever someone needed her help.
But Waller didn't appreciate it at all.
She stared silently at the thin, middle-aged man with orange-red hair and glasses in front of her, through the screen.
"Dr. Randolph Porter, you should know that for your illegal misuse and sale of venom, using civilians for experiments, openly attacking a national research laboratory, violently resisting law enforcement and killing multiple agents after being charged with dozens of counts, you are now an A-level wanted criminal."
Amanda said, "Your cooperation with the government ended long ago. How dare you show your face in front of us?"
Amanda knew perfectly well that the moment she saw this live broadcast, the FBI's most elite computer experts would begin tracking the signal in an attempt to locate this audacious individual.
What she had to do was to delay as much as possible to create an opportunity for the computer experts.
But Dr. Randolph in front of him seemed not to have heard what he said at all.
He continued, "Two weeks ago, I attacked your secret laboratory in Kansas."
His expression was cold and wooden, but as he spoke, fine green lines crept up his cheeks, adding to his sinister and terrifying aura.
"Yes, with your unconscious Venom people."
Amanda Waller said, "You're asking for it."
She suspected the person in front of her wasn't live-streaming but a video, so she probed, "Answer me, Randolph, do you want to die?"
"Don't put it so harshly, Waller. Guess what I found?"
Dr. Randolph responded immediately to Amanda, seemingly unconcerned by her reaction, and continued, "I simply can't believe you guys discovered this."
Then, in a dreamlike tone, he said, "You have detected a new Kryptonian refugee ship heading towards Earth."
"A Kryptonian baby who might be just like Superman! This means the future!"
Amanda Waller looked at Dr. Randolph with a grim expression, and chuckled softly:
"So that's why there were so many news reports about monsters jumping out of the coast and eating people, right? And that's why the state police and the military were completely indifferent to those monsters."
"You want to keep Batman's attention completely focused on that matter, to make sure he doesn't jump in and try to steal this new Kryptonian from you!"
Amanda's gaze began to turn dangerous.
This guy knows way too much.
He knew so much just from the lab he attacked? Bullshit.
Amanda didn't believe it.
She realized that the other party must have used the addictive nature of Venom to control some officials, and even some of their own people.
Thinking about this made Amanda feel terrible.
They have taken the secrecy measures to the extreme, and to prevent intrusion, they haven't even kept electronic records.
The problem is that those secret agents are ultimately just ordinary people. Even if they have been trained to resist drug interrogation, they will still surrender in the face of Titan Venom, a highly addictive drug that is hundreds of times stronger than opium.
Not to mention they were facing Dr. Randolph, the creator of Titan Venom.
Amanda believed that the other side had discovered part of their plan when they invaded the experimental base, but did not know the whole picture. The rest should be the result of the other side's own investigation.
The funniest thing is that they knew nothing about it from beginning to end!
"So you're here to brag to us that you've discovered our little secret, is that it, Potter?"
Amanda remained expressionless: "What exactly do you want, Randolph Porter?"
"Don't be so confrontational, Miss Waller."
He heard Dr. Randolph chuckle softly on the other side of the screen.
"We can cooperate."
"I have nothing to talk about with terrorist attackers."
Amanda said, "Your destiny is prison."
"Our previous collaboration was very successful, wasn't it? I successfully developed Venom using those foreign prisoners."
Dr. Randolph said, "It's the same now."
He glanced down at his watch, then gave a reserved smile.
"The spaceship will land in four minutes, won't it?"
He said, "Isn't this meeting all for the purpose of witnessing this moment?"
He spoke with malice: "Discussing how to divide up the value brought by this new Kryptonian?"
Amanda Waller couldn't take it anymore. She turned to the technicians beside her and yelled, "You idiots! How come you still haven't found his location! You…"
Waller suddenly looked enlightened, stared intently at the computer expert, and then abruptly pulled up his sleeve.
She found a pinhole on his forearm.
"It's you!"
Amanda's face darkened: "You work for Potter!"
"No, no, I didn't..."
The computer expert still tried to deny it. But the words of his colleagues extinguished his last shred of hope: "No wonder we haven't been able to track him down, team leader, you..."
Amanda Waller quickly retreated, and the guards on site immediately drew their guns and pointed them at him. The officials and officers sitting next to the computer expert, as well as the subordinates who had just been criticizing him, also scattered like birds and beasts, making way for an open space.
The computer expert was terrified, his forehead covered in sweat. He looked at everyone pleadingly, but only received cold stares in return.
"No, no..."
Under the barrage of gunfire, his psychological defenses finally crumbled.
"I'm so sorry, Ms. Waller, I... I didn't mean to, but Venom was just too good, I just couldn't control myself... Oh my god, oh my god..."
"Are you still looking for my place, Waller?"
"Keep the change, please."
Amanda turned her head and saw Dr. Randolph's malicious smile on the screen.
He picked up the camera and stepped out of the white background. Amanda then realized he was inside a tent, while outside...
It was an endless desert.
"Longitude: 116.293417, Latitude: 40.068589," Dr. Randolph announced. "Kansas, the place where the spaceship is about to land. Welcome to the live broadcast!"
Amanda gasped. She saw countless tanks and soldiers lying on the ground in the distance. This was the army she had arranged to bring the Kryptonian ship back. She had just received news that everything was normal a few minutes ago, but it was obviously a fake.
And standing on their corpses were dozens of muscular giants roaring to the sky.
Their bodies were covered in sharp claws and fangs like those of ferocious beasts, and their skin was an unnaturally pale white.
Green veins crawled along their veins, making them look like hungry ghosts.
The tank was cracked open like a walnut and then torn apart. Amanda could even see a monster lifting a surviving soldier up and putting him in its mouth, chewing him relentlessly amidst his screams.
This is no longer human...
"Three minutes left," Randolph said. "The Kryptonian ship will fall into my palm."
He sighed. "You have no idea how much effort I put into this day. You guys were too focused on Batman; you wasted most of your energy on distracting him and neglected me. I never expected it to be this easy."
He even seemed somewhat devout: "Soon, the Kryptonian will be mine, and I'd be happy to test whether he can use Venom on him as well."
"Steve!" Amanda Waller turned to Steve Trevor and shouted, "Contact Wonder Woman immediately, we need..."
But she stopped abruptly halfway through her sentence, then changed her mind: "No, we'll just take off the planes and bomb that area, killing everyone!"
"What about the Kryptonians?"
"If we get a real Kryptonian, then the bomb won't kill him."
Amanda Waller said, "Go quickly!"
"Why? Wonder Woman is clearly more capable of..." Steve hadn't finished speaking when he realized why Amanda was doing this.
Once Diana's help is sought, the new Kryptonian will inevitably be exposed to Wonder Woman's view.
Therefore, what they are about to do to the Kryptonians is probably, no, it should be said, something that will absolutely not be accepted by the Kryptonians.
However, Steve still rejected the suggestion to use bombing.
"We can't be sure if that Kryptonian can withstand the bomb's explosion!" he said rapidly.
"Although our prior trajectory tests showed that the spaceship passed by the sun, and the Kryptonian should have absorbed enough of the yellow sun's energy, it was all just calculations on paper!"
He said, "If our calculations are correct, then there's naturally no problem. But if our calculations are wrong, it could very well lead to the deaths of the Kryptonians!"
"Then what do you suggest we do?" Amanda Waller asked him in a low voice. "The Red Sun Armed Forces we prepared for that Kryptonian have been destroyed by Dr. Randolph and his Venom Legion."
Amanda said, "Wonder Woman can't be used, so we have no choice unless..."
Steve knew that the other person already had the answer in their heart.
"We're bringing in John Coburn, the Metal Man," Steve said. "Although there are some aftereffects, John is able to overcome them."
Amanda nodded immediately: "Okay, I authorize you to awaken—"
But her words were interrupted again. A violent roar rang out in the conference room. The computer expert who was surrounded suddenly broke free of the handcuffs that had just been put on him. Then, in full view of everyone, his muscles burst through his clothes, and his whole body swelled up like an inflating balloon.
"I am...innocent!"
"Aaaaaaahh ...
Immediately afterwards, several other people in the crowd knelt down and grew larger amidst low, frantic roars.
The guards raised their energy weapons and opened fire on the small giants that had appeared, causing chaos at the scene.
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Bain disguised himself as a plant.
In the literal sense.
He buried himself completely in the sand and then sensed everything happening on the ground through the colorful ferns that grew from his back and head.
He had done this before, using flowers to sense the enemy's location, but frankly, it was a very abstract feeling, much like the echolocation of a bat. While sighted, this perception might be a valuable aid, but without sight, it becomes incredibly awkward.
Humans are, after all, a species that is accustomed to obtaining information through vision.
But the problem is that Bain is not simply a user of the Green of All Things. Since plants don't have eyes, why don't I just use the Red of All Things to grow an eye on the plant?
This is actually a high-level application, just like another superhero who is compatible with both red and green powers, "Black Orchid," who can also make his limbs and body have the characteristics of plants.
After several days of investigation and various interrogations involving broken bones, Bain finally located Dr. Randolph's location; it was definitely a long journey.
At first, he had the leisure to break other people's bones, but later the investigations and interrogations became too much and annoying. Most of the middlemen and distributors were the kind of people who wouldn't admit their mistakes until they were forced to.
So, to make the investigation easier, he went to where he had hidden his things and brought the zombie Blake with him.
With the discovery of the body of the telepathic purple-haired Blake, who could forcibly read memories, Bane's investigation efficiency increased several times over.
And this is the place where he found out Dr. Randolph was going by by forcibly reading the brain of a muscular man who had been permanently modified by Venom.
Although the unfortunate fellow, who had gone mad due to having his memories forcibly read, had no idea why the other party had come to this godforsaken desert for no reason, the read memories did not lie. So Bane had been lying in ambush here for a long time, quietly waiting for the rabbit to come to him.
Then he watched as a large army and soldiers marched in, designated the area as a military zone, and were then annihilated by Dr. Randolph and his men.
Fortunately, he buried himself in a relatively far place and was able to dig in the sand underground to move around, so neither of the two sides who were fighting tooth and nail discovered him.
So Bain had been squatting there quietly, observing them, from the moment they left until now.
With the battle over, Dr. Randolph finally walked alone to a certain place.
When Bane manipulated the eyes on the plant to look up at the sky, he finally discovered what Dr. Randolph was waiting for.
A loud bang.
Dr. Randolph raised his arm, using his sleeve to shield himself from the flying sand and dust. Then he bowed his head, stood on the desert, and clasped his hands together.
Bain saw his hands trembling with excitement, while he focused more of his attention on the spaceship.
Was that the spaceship of a Kryptonian orphan?
No, it seems a little small.
Bain pondered silently.
Is it a baby spaceship?
It looks a bit like one, but it can't be a dog, can it?
But whatever it is, he cannot let Dr. Randolph have it.
Dr. Randolph staggered to the spaceship, which was still emitting hot smoke.
His voice trembled slightly: "In the first half of my life, I created a treasure, his name was Bane. And in the second half of my life, you are my treasure, my dear... After all that effort, I'm finally going to have you!"
Bain was ready to take action.
Dr. Randolph then opened the hatch.
The next second, he froze on the spot.
(End of this chapter)