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Chapter 471 Death Countdown
Chapter 471 Death Countdown
"I'm just here to tell you that your time is running out, son."
After uttering those words, Jor-El turned and left, adding only, "By the way, thank you for rescuing your fellow Kryptonians."
My son isn't entirely the way others say he's biased towards outsiders, is he?
Seeing Jor-El wandering around the outer reaches of Earth for no apparent reason, leaving behind a few words and then leaving, Joey was initially a little confused, until he remembered what had happened when he encountered Captain Marvel before.
At the time, Carol kept asking what was happening on Earth, but Joey kept quiet no matter how much she asked, and did not reveal anything about the collision of the multiverses.
At the time, Joey didn't believe that alien civilizations, including the Kree Empire and the Nova Empire, would come with good intentions to help Earth solve its problems.
The reason is quite obvious: if you are healthy all over, but a small part of your toenail has become diseased, a bump or fall could cause you to die suddenly and unexpectedly.
So any normal person would choose to quickly cut off that small piece of nail.
To the entire universe, Earth is just a tiny, insignificant fingernail.
Upon reflection, Joey immediately understood—Old Deng had come to warn him.
After checking it again, Joey found that Joe Al's countdown was basically correct.
Just now, the toxic sun Solaris and the giant planet Mogo were pulling against each other in order to find the right angle to fire, and the massive gravitational tides accelerated the entire collision process as if pushing the waves.
Four hours later, virtually every corresponding high-rise building in Metropolis/Gotham and New York City and its surrounding areas will be in direct view.
What followed was the collision of the earth's crust, a massive earthquake, and a lava eruption, plunging everything into destruction.
This is without taking into account the possibility that the Roche limit might suddenly take effect, causing the two Earths to be torn apart by each other's gravity and disintegrate.
The Kryptonians under Jor-El's command were indeed a little more polite than the Guardians, but not by much.
This seemingly polite timer is actually an ultimatum leading to destruction.
If the Kree Empire and the Nova Empire would send troops to destroy Earth for their own survival, then the Kryptonians would certainly not accept entrusting their own survival to others.
There is always a simpler way than resolving a collision crisis within four hours while ensuring the survival of both Earths.
For example, destroy one of them.
The Kryptonians would not destroy Earth in the Flashpoint universe, where the Spirit of Existence still resides, and there are traces of the Anti-Life Equation that Jor-El is searching for.
"This is what I've been worried about all along."
Batman wouldn't miss the unspoken message from Joey, his adoptive father: "Too many uncontrollable variables have come into play in an instant, and the situation is about to spiral out of control."
Joey forced herself to calm down quickly: "Let's go back first."
"Which side should we go back to?"
"What about Tony?"
Since they can't find the Mother Box in the Flashpoint Universe, there's no point in saying anything. They might as well try their luck with Tony first and strengthen their communication along the way.
At times like these, the two planets need to communicate and cooperate more. Trust between the two sides is already extremely fragile, and once internal chaos breaks out, it will be truly beyond saving.
"So, it's said that two groups of people came from outside the solar system."
Upon hearing Joey's account, Tony's expression immediately turned incredibly grim: "One group wants to destroy your Earth, and another group wants to destroy mine?"
The Guardians want to destroy Joey's Earth in order to extract the Spirit of Existence and ensure that the existence of all living beings in the universe is under their control.
When the Kryptonians learned that the survival of the two Earths was also closely related to the survival of the two universes, they would naturally take action to destroy Tony's universe in order to protect themselves.
"How about this: let's have a quick battle, the winner survives, and end all this as soon as possible?"
Under such immense pressure, Tony was on the verge of collapse: "Why did it turn out like this?"
They do know that the triggering factors of cosmic collisions are related to time and gravity, but even with beings like Reed and Cyborg, it would be impossible to find a solution within just four hours.
Reed's proposed research initially seemed promising, but as the research progressed, Tony felt utterly lost and hopeless.
Time, in the end, is still time.
Whether it was the collision crisis or the war between the Little Blues and the Chlorine Stars over the Spirit of Existence and the Anti-Life Equation on Earth, it all came too quickly and too suddenly. There was simply no time to react!
"Calm down, Tony!"
Seeing Tony completely consumed by anxiety, Joey knew that problems were starting to emerge within their ranks: "We're not finished yet!"
Joey tried not to think about the worst-case scenario until the very last moment.
"Us?" Unlike Tony, who was slumping in silence, Reed Richards, still engrossed in his research, directly addressed the issue of their positions: "Are we really on the same side now? Are 'we' still 'us'?"
This is absolutely a veiled attack on the heart.
Superman is a member of another universe. In any mature legal system, it is known that when there are stakeholders involved, both sides must recuse themselves from being considered stakeholders.
Now, this is no longer a matter of interest but a matter of life and death. Does Superman, who is in charge of the overall situation, really place the two universes on an equal footing in his heart?
How could you say that?!
Cyborg knew this wasn't the right occasion for him to say such things, but he wouldn't allow anyone to question Superman's motives: "If Superman really acted based on principles, then there wouldn't be an Earth anymore!"
This doesn't refer to just one Earth; it applies to both Earths.
Without Superman, Cyborg's Earth would have been destroyed in the war between the Amazons and Atlantis long ago, and Tony's Earth would probably have been doomed by either Galactus or Ultron.
What did Reed think Superman was standing in this place for?
If Cyborg had to put it in an inappropriate way, all of Superman's unhappiness today is entirely his own doing. Compared to the simple path to instant success, Superman has forged an extremely complex and twisted new path.
He was an outsider, detached from both Earths, and neither Earth was as close to or important to Superman as his home planet, Krypton.
If we're really talking about stances, isn't Kal-El, the son of Jor-El, the first ruler of Krypton, more prestigious and illustrious than Superman?
"Everyone, calm down, calm down!"
Joey, despite being Reed's target, wasn't in a hurry. Instead, he urged everyone to remain calm.
He also felt that the situation was very difficult, and it was even a complete dead end, but that was not a reason to give up: "Maybe the chance of us surviving at the same time is less than 0.001%, but if we give up now, it will be 0%!"
"Amid the arguing, the sky outside the window began to brighten."
"What?"
Keep in mind that this night has only just begun, and the Guardians' Solaris has only just been driven away. How come it's already dawn again?
Everyone looked outside, and Joey, who had been trying to calm everyone down, was the first to lose his composure: "I'll f*** you! That old man!"
He should have known long ago that Jor-El, that old bastard, had practically schemed his way into this universe. How could he not pull some tricks?!
The reason we knew it was Joe Al was because a dazzling beam of light was shining into the sky from outside the atmosphere, like a bat light projected backwards.
The projected light was a long text message presented in all human languages and Kryptonian, containing a perfectly timed four-hour countdown—
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