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Chapter 198 Apocalypse
Chapter 198 Apocalypse
"Little Pa, was that spaceship you and Selena stole this big?"
"The Withering Ashes?" Harley asked, pointing to the enormous spaceship overhead.
"No," Connors said, looking at the spaceship.
The spaceship, about half the size of a city, hovered high in the air, casting its shadow over the area below.
Furthermore, it appears that the spaceship has a protective shield, and the surrounding air is abnormally distorted.
Connors saw a small black dot hit the shield and sink deep into it before being bounced off and crashing heavily onto the ground some distance away.
The "Athena's Vision" allowed Connors to see clearly that the small black dot was "Superman," who had arrived a day earlier than him.
Not only "Superman", but also "Mars Manhunter" and "Hawkeye" are attacking the shield.
Unfortunately, neither their fists, nor their transformed thorns, nor even their Demon-Slaying Hammer could budge the protective shield in the slightest.
This appears to be some kind of force field shield, capable of deflecting any attack.
In Harley's eyes, the three members of the "Justice League" were like fleas, constantly rushing towards the shield, only to be bounced away again and again.
"Quick, let's go try it too!" Harley shouted excitedly.
"Try what?" Connors looked at Harley blankly.
"That protective shield looks like a trampoline, it sounds like it'll be really fun!" Harley said, her eyes lighting up.
"No, let's not rush to reveal ourselves. I want to see what Darkseid is up to. That old guy is definitely up to no good. He might have some kind of plan against the Justice League."
Connors pulled Harley, who was in high spirits, aside and said.
"But they seem to have reached a crucial moment," Harley persisted, though she remained obediently in place.
But all eyes were on the location of the spaceship.
"Superman," "Mars Manhunter," and "Hawkeye" launched attacks on the spaceship's protective shield in turn. After several attempts proved ineffective, "Superman" hovered in front of the shield.
He lifted a piece of Apokolips debris with both hands and slammed it down on the protective shield.
But his fists couldn't break through the protective shield, and the rubble he threw out naturally didn't damage it at all. Instead, it lured out the artificial intelligence, Friel Dax.
"Kryptonian?" Dax's first words as he stepped out of the spaceship immediately revealed his identity as "Superman." "What are you doing here?"
"I'll finish you off," Superman said.
"But even your Krypton's most powerful technological weapons can't break my shield, and you alone can't?" Dax mocked expressionlessly.
"He can even mock people, much more sophisticated than that 'grid' thing!" Harley almost clapped.
"The 'Grid'? I swindled them out of everything with just a few words. They'll obediently abandon the Crime Syndicate and go get beaten up by 'Cyborg'."
Connors said in a low voice:
"But I don't think this artificial intelligence will be easy to fool."
"It seems so." Harley nodded in deep agreement, because while Connors was speaking, "Superman" also saw Dax and said:
"Take off that protective shield, and you'll see if I can take you down."
Superman attempts to deceive the robot in order to engage in close combat with it.
"No need to do that. I just need to open a small opening so that my attack can pass through," Dax said.
A hole the size of a bowl appeared in the protective shield, and then Dax's wrists crackled with electricity as he released a blue-white energy beam from his hands.
A beam of light shot out from the opening in the protective shield and aimed at "Superman".
Where is Darkseid?
Harley watched with great interest as "Superman" withstood Darkseid's attacks, while Connors unleashed his "telepathy" in hopes of finding Darkseid's trail.
The beam struck Superman, erupting into bursts of liquid-like light. Superman was not blasted away by the beam.
Instead, it withstood the beam of light and continued to approach the protective shield.
When Superman finally flew to the shield and tore it open with his bare hands, revealing a small opening, Connors finally found Darkseid's trail.
The two figures vanished from their original spot in an instant and appeared not far from Darkseid.
This place looks like a factory, with thick pipes, each over a meter in diameter, intertwined, constantly transferring substances between various instruments.
At the end of the pipes and instruments was a turret-like device. Darkseid gripped the turret with both hands and aimed the cannon at it.
"Superman".
"Superman is tearing open the protective shield. He's done his part. Now it's our turn."
Darkseid said, then pressed the launch button.
The factory floor suddenly shook violently, and the thick pipes jumped up and then crashed down heavily.
A very thin, orange beam of light shot out from the cannon barrel and attacked "Superman" from behind.
There are attacks from the AI Dax in front and attacks from Darkseid behind.
Superman is bathed in the beam of light in front of him, but he is oblivious to what is behind him.
Hawkgirl and Martian Manhunter rushed over, intending to help Superman widen the opening, but were hit by the aftershocks of the beam and fell to the ground.
Darkseid's beams drew ever closer, until they reached behind Superman and passed right under his armpits.
It hit Dax, who was attacking "Superman".
"What kind of weapon is this? It looks really powerful!" Harley's eyes lit up as she looked at Darkseid's weapon.
But this time, Connors' attention was on "Superman".
As Dax was hit, Superman quickly followed up with a heat vision, then passed through the shield to Dax and threw a punch without saying a word.
He and Dax grappled closely, while Hawkgirl and Martian Manhunter took to the air again, working together to widen the hole in the shield until the entire ship was exposed to Apokolips.
"Fire!"
One of Darkseid's subordinates shouted, and immediately, cannon fire erupted from all over Apokolips, with countless energy projectiles flying towards the spaceship.
At the same time, Darkseid turned around and glanced at Harley, who was picking up a piece of equipment, preparing to slip away:
"Put them down. Without weapons, these instruments are just junk."
After speaking, Darkseid looked to Harley's side, then looked up at Connors fighting in the sky above:
"You're with Superman and his gang, right? I need your help with something."
Connors looked away and continued to look up at Darkseid, who was three or four meters tall.
Constantly craning his neck was getting tiring, so Connors used "mimicry" to grow even larger until he was the same size as Darkseid.
"What's wrong?"
"Go to New Genesis, find my son 'Orion,' and bring him back to help me fight against the artificial intelligence Dax."