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Chapter 303 Evolution Begins to Accelerate
Chapter 303 Evolution Begins to Accelerate
Lex the Bomb is a brash guy who always says what he thinks. For example, he thinks the current situation is probably that the two Kryptonian women are pulling each other's hair, and Mark is being beaten up by another Kryptonian.
So, the only one with free time on our side naturally has an obligation to do something.
Sitting idly by and waiting for death is not his style.
"That's why you lost half your arm, you idiot!"
As a former teammate of the Junior Guardians, Kate, after examining Lex's severed arm and confirming that he hadn't bled, was also furious at the latter's reckless behavior:
"None of us could stop that laser beam just now. That was just a warning. If you really do it again, you might actually die!"
"I don't think so."
Before Lex could even process what was happening, he was already using his remaining hand to power up the mechanical prosthetic limb that had been removed.
"Lex!" "Hey! Hey! Hey!" "Holy shit!"
Amidst the gasps of his teammates, Lex suddenly flung his fully charged mechanical prosthetic limb out, his target no longer the teleportation device, but a Superman.
It has to be said that Lex's thought process is truly unique.
Since attacking the teleportation facility will attract attacks from Kryptonians, why not try attacking Superman instead?
Superman is now like Helen of Troy, the beautiful woman who started the Trojan War, with people from different universes arguing about him endlessly.
In that case, the main character can't just float comfortably in the air and sleep forever, can he?
At the same time, the familiar thermal vision came from the horizon again, but this time it was not as accurate as before.
Lex, who always acts faster than he thinks, was startled, only to find that the heat gaze wasn't directed at him or anyone else present; it had simply evaporated most of the clouds in the sky.
Without the interruption of heat vision, Lex's long-charged attack struck Superman with perfect accuracy, causing an extremely violent explosion.
If it were an ordinary person, he might worry about whether he would hurt the other party, but a Kryptonian?
That kind of power probably wouldn't even kill Mark, let alone Superman!
On the other side of the Earth, in the sky, the invincible young hero, still enraged by Lex's "death," realized that if he held back any longer, it would be irresponsible to the safety of his companions.
He let his inner Kryptonian fighting instincts drive him, launching a desperate attack on the Kryptonian before him.
This Kryptonian description of the Vitrumians may not be wrong; the Vitrumians are inherently suited to fighting and killing.
Mark's fighting spirit continued to push his power to new heights, and the Kryptonians' deliberate leniency caused what should have been a battle where giants were teasing insects to escalate, or at least become a game between adults and children.
Upon seeing Nam's eyes glow red again, Mark recalled the result of Lex's death during the heat vision scan and immediately roared:
"You dare!"
The invincible young hero unleashed a speed he had never achieved before, keeping up with the Kryptonian's movements and reaching out to fiercely gouge out the Kryptonian's eyes.
"Ah!" — This scream didn't come from a Kryptonian, but from Mark.
For someone of Mark's strength, even a Kryptonian's eyeball is about as hard as the rest of his body, and his attacks on these two weak points did not result in a fatal blow.
On the contrary, he himself was seriously injured—even during the charging-up launch phase, the intense heat around the Kryptonian's eyes still carbonized Mark's two thumbs on the spot.
Fortunately, due to interference, the direction of this thermal vision was slightly deviated, which, magnified to tens of thousands of miles away, would be enough to show a difference of thousands of miles.
"idiot!"
Nam was caught off guard by the invincible young hero's sudden outburst, and he didn't know whether to call himself or the other person an idiot.
To make this warm-up before returning to the Kryptonian army more interesting, he told a little lie to "motivate" the Viking with unlimited potential in front of him.
But he shouldn't use it at this particular time!
The three Kryptonians present possessed superhuman vision and were fully aware of this—the sleeping Kal'el was at a crucial stage of evolution, a phase similar to the metamorphosis of some insects, and forcibly waking him would inevitably lead to disastrous consequences.
In ordinary species, interruptions to the evolutionary process usually result in permanent evolutionary failure or self-repair and re-evolution. The problem lies with Carl...
El is unusual.
Even if they were unwilling to let Fiora take Karl El back to Joe El's side, they could only try to find a way out from other places.
Even if this method involves defeating Fiora, Joe Al's right-hand man, which is almost impossible.
No matter what, she wouldn't be like those Earth idiots, especially the dumbest one, who rashly awakened Karl El!
Oblivious to this, Mark was still preoccupied with the assumption that the Nitrogenian wanted to "kill" his partner. Even though his body was covered in blood from the dozens of clashes just now, and even though both of his thumbs had carbonized and fallen off, he still fearlessly bit forward with a life-or-death attitude:
"You won't kill anyone else!"
"Stop fooling around!"
Nam dodged to the side, seized a gap in Mark's defense, and kicked him away with such precision that his figure skipped more than a dozen times on the sea surface after flying backward.
The mission has encountered some unexpected changes, so this messing around has to end here.
The next second, Nam's figure flashed, turning into a black streak and arriving at the location where Karl El was.
The moment Lex's uniquely shaped bomb detonated, the members of the guard first saw a dazzling mushroom cloud.
Then everyone realized that something was wrong.
Aside from robots and those in mechanical jackets who don't use eyes and ears to observe the outside world, everyone else immediately looked at each other and asked:
"Am I deaf?" — "Try saying something to me!"
Because the seemingly powerful explosion caused by Lex only produced flashes of light, but no sound was heard.
Soon they witnessed something even stranger than the complete silence:
The thick smoke and dazzling flames from the explosion seemed to rewind like a movie, gradually receding from their explosive state and disappearing without a trace within seconds.
"What happened?"
The Beast Girl looked at the robot, whose emotions remained normal. The robot, through joint scanning analysis with the tech jacket, also provided its own results:
"Superman hasn't woken up, but Lex's actions should have triggered his self-preservation mechanism, and the data that came back is a very bad omen."
The one who caused all these anomalies was undoubtedly Superman at the center of the explosion.
Based on past incidents, such as the yellowish-brown moon hanging overhead tonight, the robot succinctly summarized what would happen next in three words: "Doomsday."
The robot was unaware of Superman's inner workings, and the doomsday he spoke of was not the actual doomsday, but rather the literal meaning of "doomsday."
Based on the on-site readings, Lex's explosion truly triggered the final apocalypse.
The three Kryptonians who were fighting immediately stopped what they were doing and rushed toward the center of the incident.
"Does anyone feel a bit cold right now?"
The werewolf, with its thick fur resembling that of a husky, should theoretically be the least afraid of the cold. However, it suddenly shivered under the bright sun, its entire body trembling from the tips of its ears to the end of its tail.
The next second, he forcibly exited his transformed state, turning into an ordinary middle-aged man: "Achoo!"
Fortunately, after reverting to his original form, he was no longer as cold as he was in his werewolf state, even though he was completely naked.
All of this aligned with the robot's assessment: "Superman is drawing upon all the life energy that exists around him."
It seems that it discovered that the surrounding biological energy was too scarce, so it changed its passive energy absorption target.
The bright sunlight in the sky immediately dimmed by several percentage points, and the heat in the air was quickly stripped away.
"Achoo!" Lex sneezed along with the werewolf's true form.
Everyone felt a bit cold.
"What happened?"
Kara and Fiora put aside their argument and approached Joey. The coldness wasn't just affecting these native inhabitants of Earth; they could even sense it themselves.
"Isn't this obvious?" Although Fiora didn't fully understand Joel's research, she could at least see the flow of energy:
"External stimuli accelerated evolution."
This evolution was supposed to be a smooth but somewhat lengthy process, and after a period of dormancy, the perfect Kryptonian species was born.
In this process, even the slightest stimulus might be perceived by Joey's subconscious as a prelude to an impending deadly threat.
What else could Fiora say?
Since some reckless individuals insist on manually accelerating this process, let it happen.
The only cost could be the energy of the entire galaxy.