Chapter 2205: Battle of Two Cities! (Sixty-Nine)
The method of entering the shield was very simple. They squatted aside until an alien spacecraft flew out. They followed them all the way to a deserted place and took down the spacecraft. They then drove the spacecraft to another door and everything went smoothly. Passed.
This was not a method they came up with, but a direct copy of Batman's homework. Bruce speculated that Batman only used this method once or twice, and the other party's security system had not been updated so quickly, so they used it again. It should be no problem.
The shield flashed, and the part under the gate disappeared. A shuttle-shaped surface spacecraft flew out carrying two mechanical soldiers. They were staff who inspected and maintained the shield generator.
Because he had to inspect the status of the shield, the spacecraft flew very slowly. Superman carefully controlled the biological force field and followed behind until the spacecraft flew to the middle of the shield, far away from the two doors. The mechanical soldier turned into ashes as if it had been pierced through a candied haws.
The spacecraft floated in place, and Bruce immediately boarded the ship and cracked the spacecraft's system with a few clicks using the microcomputer given to him by Batman.
Bruce drove the boat, Peter sat in the co-pilot, and Clark sat in the back seat with the Joker in order to watch the Joker.
"You said you've been in some trouble recently?" Bruce turned around and asked while flying the spaceship: "I think you can talk about it, maybe we can provide you with some suggestions."
"Originally it was trouble, but after your Gotham was turned into a mess, these were nothing." Clark sighed and said, "After the aliens arrived, it was even less worth mentioning."
"Of course you can't think like that." Bruce retorted: "The world situation, the future of the race, and personal well-being are equally important. No matter what the world is like, the troubles you encounter are very important turning points in your life, sometimes more important than the general environment. It deserves your attention.”
"But we can't solve these troubles now." Clark shook his head and said, "We have more important things to do."
"But in fact, if you can realize how powerful your ability is, then you will understand that external troubles are not troubles for you. The real troubles always come from the inside out, right?"
Clark was stunned when he heard this. Peter turned to look at him and asked, "Have you had any troubles recently? Although we may not be able to help you solve your problems..."
"Of course we can." Bruce interrupted Peter and said, "Clark, the Mr. Clown sitting next to you now is the most professional psychology master in the world. You should know that this is not a joke."
"We are a team now, and there is no doubt that you are the most effective person in the team. If you are not focused and determined, then we may all be in danger, so I think if you have any troubles, You can talk to him and Peter and I can put on our headphones.”
Clark and the Joker were stunned.
Clark looked at the clown in shock, doubtful, but he also felt that Bruce, the richest man in the world, must be more knowledgeable than him, and there must be a reason for bringing this strangely dressed man with him.
The clown was shocked by Bruce's shamelessness. In the process of artistic creation, I use various methods to manipulate others or manipulate people's mentality. That is my hobby.
You just let me treat this kid and talk about teamwork. Obviously you don't want to pay a penny. Doesn't it mean that you don't regard yourself as an outsider?
Of course, the Joker thought about manipulating Superman, the strongest fighting force in the team. He originally thought that Bruce's chat with Superman before was actually to inoculate him in advance and keep him away from him.
As a result, now Bruce has pushed Clark over again. What does he want to do? It's not like he's just paying for his own treatment, right?
The Joker discovered that this young Batman never played according to the routine. He was really an old sow wearing a bra, doing one thing after another.
At this time, Bruce and Peter had already put on their headphones. Clark put his elbows on his knees, touched his face with his hands and said, "Actually, it's nothing. It's just that when I was working at the newspaper recently, I often thought about a question... "
To be honest, providing psychological counseling to aliens is also a novel experience for the clown, because usually, aliens who come to Gotham usually cannot reach the area where he lives alive, but will appear in the Batcave All of them are specimens.
The clown occasionally saw it when he was shopping for groceries. At that time, the red and blue search and rescue dogs from the metropolis passed over his head, but he didn't care. Above the roof was the domain of the gods, and he only interacted with the people under the eaves. Ordinary people play games.
But it is impossible to say that the Joker is not curious about Superman at all. What he is most curious about is what kind of parents can raise a super-powerful creature that has no resemblance to humans except in appearance to become more human than human. saint.
This is like asking a human to identify himself as an ant. Even if the clown is given ten years, he may not be able to brainwash people to this extent, because this is completely counter-instinct and counter-common sense.
Bruce deliberately drove the spaceship slowly, sightseeing around the city outside the shield, without paying any attention to the Apokolips military headquarters, which was in chaos because the maintenance spacecraft was attacked again.
He leisurely drove to the farthest door from the previous door, which was almost on the other side of the city. The movement behind him finally fell silent. Bruce took off his headphones and found Clark thoughtful, while the Joker closed his eyes to relax.
Psychological treatment was obviously quite successful. Clark, who was a little distracted, became focused again and was no longer so unfriendly.
The Joker's state was a little strange. He seemed to have become peaceful and lazy, but Bruce was very familiar with this state. After a thorough analysis or treatment, the master of psychology needed time to digest and absorb.
They care more about every detail they learned from individuals in the world than ordinary people. They need a certain amount of time to remember these details and condense and sublimate them into an art that belongs to them.
During this period of time, the madness and excitement that should have been wantonly swayed were temporarily restrained, because inward exploration requires concentration and tranquility. Bruce drove the spaceship into the city, and the shield did not stop him at all, but after that, the shield behind them flashed and changed color, and it seemed that they were in emergency defense mode.
This shows that Bruce's timing was very good. He expected that the people responsible for maintaining the shield and those who needed the shield were not the same group of people. Power struggle is the eternal theme of intelligent creatures, so once one side makes a mistake, mutual criticism is inevitable, and chaos will follow.
The entrance they came in from is the upper reaches of the Hudson River, and also the upper reaches of the Gotham River. It is the source of the outbreak of this war, and now it has become a complete ruin.
This is one of the positions taken by Hydra. They should have continued to advance southward, but because of the arrival of the Apocalypse army, everyone gathered in the middle of Queens to fight a mess.
After the Court of Owls obtained a huge dark power, they turned over and became the master in one fell swoop. Their first target of revenge was not the Apocalypse army that came here for some reason, but Hydra.
They knew that this group of strange aliens came to find something. If they found it, they would leave naturally, but Hydra wanted to take over the city they had worked hard for many years. It goes without saying which one is the mortal enemy.
The Court of Owls, which had once won, sounded the clarion call for a counterattack, but Hydra was no longer the same as before. After a series of poor operations by the German Hydra, most of the Hydras turned to Nick's faction.
As I said before, they will follow whoever gives them meat to eat, no matter whether you are SHIELD or HYDRA, they can be any identity when necessary.
Obviously, Hydra is no longer reliable, so they are naturally the unshakable SHIELD warriors, united under Nick Fury, and resolutely fighting against the terrorists named the Court of Owls.
This also has an advantage, which immediately turned the war from a struggle between two terrorist organizations into a siege of terrorists. There is more than one city like New York in the world. They have fought like this, and Congress cannot ignore it.
Nick's means of putting pressure on Congress are much more ruthless than his original self. Don't forget that one-third of the SHIELD in his universe is KGB. Even if there is no KGB in this universe, there can be KGB at this time.
Anyway, somehow, Russia got a top-secret intelligence about the Court of Owls, which partially showed important celebrities on the East Coast who were involved with the Court of Owls, and even well-known American upper-class people.
And somehow, the search team sent by the aliens who landed on the East Coast of the United States accidentally crashed in the South China Sea. A certain Eastern power expressed its close attention and deep concern for the security of the two cities at the Security Council meeting on the New York-Gotham terrorist attack.
And somehow, the alien army that was searching in the cities on the East Coast of the United States fired a laser shell into the Danish Strait, which is extremely important for international energy security. NATO exploded on the spot, and the phone of Congress was busy for three consecutive days.
After such an operation, the New Jersey National Guard must also be in charge, and even the two surrounding states are sending people, otherwise Nick Fury will dare to let the next shell fall on the head of the state legislature.
The United States is essentially a union of several small countries. The National Guard is the highest armed force of the state. In terms of equipment and quality, it is not inferior to the federal army at all. Some richer states are even better equipped. New Jersey and New York are obviously one of them.
The support of a large number of regular troops cannot be ineffective. Humans underestimate their firepower. Apart from other things, no matter how hard the claws are, they can't withstand the bombing of large-yield air-to-ground missiles.
There is no human rights bill to talk about with these monsters and aliens. If it doesn't work, use armor-piercing bullets, and if it doesn't work, use solid gasoline. Anyway, as long as the rules of physics still exist, it is basically difficult to find a complete body under the firepower bombing that can plow more than ten meters on the ground.
These means are not too lethal to the demons of Apocalypse. The defense of the exoskeleton is still very strong, but the trouble is that various electromagnetic signals interfere, and the ground is bombed with smoke, which greatly reduces their search efficiency.
The arrival of the regular army of SHIELD has obviously put a lot of pressure on the other two parties, but they are not without trump cards.
The Court of Owls called Barbatos again, saying that they needed stronger forces to deal with the regular army. The Apocalypse Army also sent a message to the headquarters behind the portal, saying that they needed stronger equipment and personnel support.
Once they mobilized a stronger force, Nick would not hesitate to let the weapons of terrorists and aliens reach farther, forcing the countries that stood by and watched to come out and show their real strength to deal with these monsters.
If you can't beat them, call for help. If you can beat them, call for help. If you can't beat them, call for help again. If there's too much water, add flour. If there's too much flour, add water.
In this way, in the new city formed by the fusion of New York and Gotham, the magic side of the Court of Owls, the technology side of the human coalition, and the independent system of the Apocalypse Army, started an unprecedented arms race based on hot war.
When Bruce's team headed towards the city center, the intensity of the war here was already magical.