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Prelude to Chapter 142
Prelude to Chapter 142
"Huh? Weren't they forced to flee here after their hideout was wiped out?"
"If it weren't for Little Pa opening the passage, they would all be dead—why do they act so arrogantly?"
Harley Quinn lay on the soft sofa that had materialized in the "Mystery House," looking at the external projection on the wall that Connors had created by combining the "Kusama Man" and the "Mystery House," and wondered aloud.
The palm-sized grenade seems bigger and more bouncy than before. Is Harley's figure and strength increasing proportionally?
Connors measured and thought about it with his hands.
"It's easy to understand. If they walked out of the tunnel and found hundreds or thousands of superheroes staring at them, I don't think 'Superpower' would make such a boast."
"But it seems like the superheroes of this world are being decided internally?"
Poison Ivy, like a diligent little bee, kept collecting nectar while answering Harley's questions.
"Oh~ you're a bully who picks on the weak and fears the strong, huh?" Harley understood. "Looks like you're like me, you like the strong and dislike the weak."
"It'll hurt if it's too hard," Ivy said.
"—What kind of indecent things are you two saying?"
Connors projected the vision provided by the "Kusama Man" onto the wall of the "Mystery House," watching what was happening outside as if it were a movie.
Outside, the "Criminal Syndicate" is attacking Earth-0's superheroes, but inside, the two women's conversations are gradually drifting away from the battle.
"Atomic Girl" remained shrunken, perched on Connors' shoulder, watching Johnny Quick of the Crime Syndicate outside grit his teeth, and said with a wicked grin:
"Poor Johnny, I think he should swap uniforms with the 'Divine Ring'."
Johnny Quick was dressed in red, while the Power Ring was dressed in green.
"Aren't you going back to the 'Criminal Syndicate'?" Connors asked curiously.
"Atomic Girl" grabbed Connors' earlobe with one hand to prevent herself from falling off, and covered her mouth with the other hand while laughing:
"I'm not going back. I want to stay by your side and see just how badly you can destroy this world. Anyway, it seems like there's no hope of turning this world around."
"Even so, Lady Shangdu still believes you are the hope to save the world. How interesting. I wonder what she's thinking."
After speaking, Rhonda Panida, the "Atomic Girl," turned to look at Madam Shangdu.
Currently, there are four people in the Mysterious House besides Connors: Atom, Harley, Poison Ivy, and Lady of the Upper City.
At this moment, Lady Shangdu was sitting on a chair with her legs together, staring intently at the projected image on the wall.
However, her slightly flushed cheeks, her legs pressed too close together, and her fingers white from gripping the hem of her skirt tightly...
Most importantly, the way Lady Shangdu would occasionally steal glances at "Poison Ivy" Ivy while she was collecting nectar betrayed her.
"Ah, although I don't know what her views are on the future, at least I know what she's thinking now."
"Atomic Girl" said mischievously, jumping off Connors' shoulder.
She didn't do anything to Connors, but instead ran to Lady Shangdu, lifted her up along with her chair, and moved her directly opposite Connors.
Lady Shangdu: "."
Now she didn't need to use the corner of her eye; right in front of her was the scene of hardworking little bees collecting nectar.
Connors: "...Why don't you join us?"
He extended a sincere invitation to Lady Shangdu, but she shook her head vigorously, as if frightened, and stood up from her chair, running to a room in the Mysterious House.
She covered her face and locked herself inside.
"What is this woman doing? It's so weird," Harley Quinn said, looking up blankly, a curly hair still dangling from her mouth.
"She's not some older sister; she's lived for thousands of years," Atomic Woman said.
Poison Ivy finally harvested the honey, which she greedily swallowed, leaving not a single drop for Harley.
But what she said was still in Harley's favor:
"I've lived that long too. Halle, Connors, we all have. So age doesn't mean anything to us."
Ivy possesses the green of all things, Harley possesses the gray of decay, and Connors has various abilities, so living for hundreds or even thousands of years is not a problem.
So "Atomic Girl" hated it:
"You guys—well, it seems only my life is a mere few decades long."
Harley Quinn greeted "Atom" familiarly and said to Connors:
"Little Pa, you haven't introduced her to us yet."
In Earth-3, Connors only had Poison Ivy help him find Atom.
Although the two had brief contact afterward, and Harley even teased Atom with a foxtail grass, she didn't actually know who the other was.
"She was a member of Earth 3—the world that's already finished—the 'Criminal Syndicate,' and I kidnapped her."
Connors said, stroking Harley's head with his hand.
"Oh." Harley nodded. "What are we going to do with this world? Should we just let Ivy control all the plants in the world and make them grow wildly, attracting that person?"
Connors mentioned the title "Anti-Surveillancer," but Harley Quinn didn't care and completely forgot about it.
"Call her 'Anti-Monitor,' little Harley," Ivy reminded her.
"Thank you, Ivy, but I'm not small." Harley straightened her back.
"Indeed." Connors nodded in agreement.
Harley Quinn's figure is now comparable to that of "Poison Ivy" Ivy. If the two of them hugged face to face, there would be enough space between them for Connors to squeeze through sideways.
Without considering height.
"Oh right, the 'Anti-Monitor,' he's already swallowed that world. Should we lure him back here?" Harley asked.
"This time we don't need to lure him in; the 'Anti-Monitors' will come knocking. But our goal isn't to destroy the world," Connors said.
Atomic Girl: "!"
She thought that Connors destroying her original world was just an exaggeration.
But what these people said seemed to be true. Could it be that her world had really been destroyed?
"When Sea King emerged from the tunnel, he was severely injured. 'Super King' also said that although Sea King didn't make it, they survived—."
When "Atomic Girl" thought of "Sea King" walking out of the passage and his terrible injuries, she no longer had any doubts about what Connors had said.
"So, what are you going to do next? Let the 'Criminal Syndicate' run rampant on this planet?"
"Atomic Girl" asked haltingly, "Through Kusama, everyone in the house can see the outside world."
The Justice League, the American Justice League, and the Dark Justice League were supposed to work together to resist the external enemy, but due to internal conflicts, almost everyone was seriously injured and collapsed.
The "Criminal Syndicate" is about to unleash atrocities on these heroes.