Martin Variety in American Comics.

Chapter 291 The Torn Mother Box (Please subscribe, read, vote and comment)
"Apocalypse, how arrogant!"

It didn't take much effort for Martin to dig out the memories of Bruno Mannheim and Onomatopoeia and found information related to Apocalypse.

Batman glanced at the prisoner who had fallen limply.

"Don't worry, I just let them fall asleep so they won't make any more noise later."

"It's better to lock them up in Gotham. This will cut off their connection with the international gang and avoid the pressure from the Metropolitan City Government."

Batman made the decision instantly. Martin didn't say anything. It didn't really matter how to deal with the two prisoners.

Batman threw the prisoner into the seat of the Batmobile specially for holding prisoners, patted the outer shell that was pitted by the concussion grenade, and sighed helplessly.

The enemies are getting stronger and stronger, and their attack methods are becoming more and more diverse. He can't stay at Gotham's combat level and must improve himself as quickly as possible.

Although the criminals in Arkham Asylum are cruel and crazy, their technical level is actually not high. Simply put, it is the rotten environment of Gotham for hundreds of years that created these villains. If they leave Gotham, most of them will soon be captured by the relatively perfect order and become ordinary criminals.

The bodies of Martin Trakin Lun and Ushar Lun were placed in body bags and also in the Batmobile.

The bodies of the other members of the Lun Knights were turned into particles in the explosion, leaving nothing behind.

In order to prevent someone from dissecting the bodies of humans from the Star Wars universe, he collected the bodies of the remaining two members of the Knights of Ren.

"let's go!"

Batman walked around the ruins again, and when he found nothing missing, he prepared to leave.

Martin, who had just stuffed the body into the Batmobile, shook his head: "Don't worry, there is something very important hidden in this manor."

"Is it related to Apocalypse?"

Batman stopped walking towards the Batmobile and turned to look at Martin.

Martin nodded. "Like I said before, the New Gods of Apocalypse are extremely arrogant. They didn't protect Bruno Mannheim's head at all. They just put all the information out there, as if waiting for people to check it out. They don't worry at all that someone will see through their tricks."

Batman's face under the mask became serious, and he said in a deep voice: "We are not you. With the power of mankind, facing the New God's base like Apokolips, even if we know everything, we can still be lambs to be slaughtered."

Martin blinked, not sure what to say.

Batman asked directly: "You don't think you are just an ordinary person, do you?"

"Of course not, but I wish it was. It's not nice to be the special one."

Martin never emphasizes his own uniqueness, but this can only deceive himself. Everyone who gets close to him will not treat him as an ordinary person.

"You watched your parents being killed, Superman's home planet exploded and all that was left were enemies, Wonder Woman was born a weapon of the gods, and Arthur was caught up in a royal power struggle."

Martin recounted the tragic life stories of the alliance members, and this was just their origins.

In their long lives, they paid a price that ordinary people could hardly imagine in order to achieve their ideals.

Especially Batman. Even with the help of the Justice League, this stubborn man will probably fight until the last moment of his life. Being able to die lying in bed would be considered a good ending.

"Well, people like us are destined not to have a so-called 'peaceful' life."

Martin raised his hands and made a gesture representing quotation marks.

Then, he raised his hand and pushed forward, and the Force burst out, pushing all the rubble on top of the house away, revealing a hidden secret door.

The explosion of the shock grenade failed to cause any damage to the secret door, but the surrounding cement base turned into brittle material.

Martin walked towards the door, raised his hand to grab the lightsaber, and stabbed the blade directly into the secret door. The high temperature directly melted the connecting point between the secret door and the secret passage.

Then, he used the Force to grab the heavy secret door and threw it away, revealing a dark passage.

Batman frowned and put his hand on his universal belt, ready to deal with various traps.

Martin raised his lightsaber to illuminate the front, walked into the secret passage first, and said to Batman: "Don't worry, this basement was built by Bruno Manheim to contact Apokolips. There are no traps in it."

It is not an easy task to communicate with the other end of the universe across a distance of who knows how many light years.

If a bunch of traps were installed in the basement, then every time Bruno Mannheim contacted Apocalypse, it would take five hours to decrypt the code for five minutes.

Batman also understood this, but he did not let his guard down. He still kept his hands on his universal belt and looked around vigilantly to prevent possible dangers.

Martin strode ahead to lead the way, his boots hitting the neatly laid tiles, making a continuous tapping sound, and he never stopped.

He still had his eyes closed at this moment, letting the Force guide his perception, and then he sensed darkness all around him.

In the eyes of the powerful and sensitive, darkness also has differences.

Martin could see that the darkness surging in the secret passage was like the black smoke emitted by a volcano before it erupted, full of the breath of destruction.

They seemed to sense something breaking in and instantly became irritable. They bit the Force and began to climb towards Martin, the source, along the Force.

"Go away!"

Martin didn't think about what this thing was at all. He suddenly opened his eyes and a faint light emanated from his body, instantly illuminating the entire dark passage.

The deeper the darkness, the more precious the light becomes.

The light bursting out from the Force instantly tore apart the dark auras that were clinging to the Force, like a mountain range moving sideways, directly pressing the dark auras back.

"what happened?"

Batman vaguely felt what was happening through his telekinesis, but he had learned this new ability for too short a time to sense what was happening specifically.

"It's just a little trouble, not worth mentioning."

Martin was not bragging, he simply used the Force to suppress all the dark auras to the vicinity of their source without encountering any resistance.

"Although they are not willing to be suppressed by me, they have no ability to resist. Let's end this adventure quickly!"

His voice was very steady and he did not lose his composure because of the series of victories.

Apocalypse does have an overwhelming advantage over the Earth. Even if the other party only extends one finger, it can directly destroy the entire Earth.

The longer the time drags on, the more beneficial it will be for Apocalypse.

It would be a lot of fun if the other party sent an army directly to Earth through the channel that supplies weapons to Bruno Mannheim.

Martin and his men were not prepared for a war.

Therefore, we should cut the Gordian knot now and cut off the channel that can transport personnel and equipment on a large scale as soon as possible.

Swish!
Martin pushed the ground with his feet, and every cell in his body resonated with the Force, pushing him quickly through the entire secret passage.

Before he took action, Batman took out his grappling gun, wrapped it around Martin's ankles, and led him along, sliding through the secret passage like surfing.

When Martin stopped, he opened his arms and his cape, like a real bat, and flew three circles in the hall supported by several pillars before slowly landing on the ground. Martin rolled his eyes helplessly at Batman's behavior and kicked the rope of the grappling gun away with his legs.

The basement built by Bruno Mannheim was very large, but apart from an altar, there were only a few beads carved with reliefs of Apocalypse's conquests of various planets.

Martin didn't care about Darkseid's affairs. He held his lightsaber and walked straight to the altar.

The Force was trembling, warning him that he was approaching something very dangerous.

"Calm down, it's just Darkseid, there's nothing to be afraid of!"

Martin muttered softly. He was not afraid of the dark lord Darkseid. There were very few things in the world that could scare him.

But not being afraid is one thing, and how to deal with the possible Apocalypse army is another.

He climbed up the triangular altar step by step. Bruno Mannheim often came here and the steps were very smooth after walking through them.

Placed on the altar was a cube with deep cracks on one side, so deep that one could even see the dark metal at the core of the cube.

The cube was suspended two meters above the altar, and the dark aura that Martin felt was emanating from it.

Bruno Mannheim used to be just an ordinary history professor. About ten years ago, his wife, also known as Onomatopoeia, was diagnosed with cancer. No matter how many doctors he looked for, they were unable to save his wife's life.

In desperation, he had to place his hope of saving his wife on mysticism.

After studying history, with the support of an unknown organization, he found a mysterious box in an underground tomb in Central Asia.

In order to find this mysterious box, a total of two hundred people died.

Bruno Mannheim saw the mysterious magic for the first time in the underground tomb and realized how fragile life is.

Surrounded by blood and corpses, he swore to heaven that if he could survive, he would never be an ordinary professor, but would gain more power and wealth and become the one who controlled the lives of others.

Then, he luckily survived the self-destruction of the underground ancient tomb and obtained part of the remains of the box.

With the help of the wreckage, Bruno Mannheim contacted Apokolips, obtained a large number of weapons, and also obtained drugs to alleviate his wife's cancer, and gradually became an upper-class person in Metropolis.

Just yesterday, he received a request from Luthor, hoping that the two parties could cooperate to fight against the Justice League.

Bruno Mannheim didn't want to get involved in the matter.

He is a good boss. Why would he bother to mess with those superhumans when he has nothing to do? Does he think he is living too comfortably?

However, Apokolips also received orders to deal with the Justice League, forcing him to cooperate with Luthor and send people to Los Angeles.

Then, he lost both himself and his wife, and was left with nothing.

Until he lost all his chips, he still didn't know what he was holding, but Martin knew very well where it came from.

Mother Box!

The reason why Apocalypse was able to quickly conquer so many planets, in addition to the powerful force of the New Gods themselves, was also due to the Mother Box, a weapon that could travel freely through the universe.

It is precisely because of the existence of the Mother Box that Apocalypse can deploy troops to the enemy's territory at will and quickly strike the enemy.

Martin suspected that the reason why Krypton lost so badly was because it did not have a weapon like the Mother Box, and was unable to deploy its own troops quickly, so it could only be suppressed by Apokolips.

Of course, the decline of Krypton should have happened after Darkseid was defeated in his first invasion of the Earth. Otherwise, given Krypton’s habit of colonization, they would never have let the Earth go.

It was during the first invasion that the young Darkseid lost three of his original Mother Boxes and suffered a disastrous defeat.

The three Mother Boxes were separated and kept by the Amazons, Atlanteans and human kings respectively.

What Bruno Mannheim found was the mother box kept by the human kings.

The Amazons and Atlanteans used their own unique methods to seal the Mother Box, making it impossible for it to communicate with Apokolips.

The human kings are even more ruthless. They set up a self-destruct system in their own tombs. Once someone tries to get their hands on the Mother Box and the reserved information, the Mother Box will be torn apart.

In this way, even if the Mother Box leaves the tomb, it cannot be reunited, and it will not be able to sense the existence of other Mother Boxes, let alone complete the Trinity process and destroy the entire Earth.

"No wonder Apocalypse has contacted the Mother Box but there has been no movement for so many years. It turns out that it's not that they don't want to, but that they can't!"

Complex thoughts flashed through Martin's mind, but he finished thinking in an instant and raised his hand to grab the cube on the altar.

The torn remains of the Mother Box sensed the presence of life forms other than Apocalypse, and the surface began to surge. Small cubes surged like waves, causing the surrounding space to begin to distort, trying to use space to tear Martin's hand apart.

Martin spread out his five fingers, and the Force spread out in all directions, temporarily freezing those tiny space vortices, and then he reached out and grabbed the cube on the altar.

Even after falling into Martin's palm, the torn wreckage of the mother box did not stop, and was still rushing around, trying to fly out of Martin's palm.

"Don't dream about an incomplete thing!"

Martin stared at the torn remains of the Mother Box in his hand. Waves of powerful Force emanated from him, following the gaps in the Mother Box and entering the interior of the artifact, forcibly terminating its internal operations.

After a few seconds, the torn remains of the Mother Box stopped moving and stayed quietly in Martin's palm.

The darkness in the basement suddenly became much lighter, and the heat that had come from nowhere disappeared, replaced by the dampness that was supposed to be in the basement.

"Is this the Mother Box you mentioned before?"

Batman examined the cube with a deep crack in it, wanting to study it.

"The human kings of this world are indeed very smart and determined. In order to protect the earth, they used magic to attack the Mother Box for nearly ten thousand years at the cost of their own bodies and souls, and finally accomplished a miracle that even the New Gods could not do."

Martin used the Force to block the activity of the Mother Box and gave it to Batman for temporary study.

"But if this happens, a certain football player will be in trouble!"

"And what do you know?"

Batman couldn't analyze anything from the remains of the Mother Box with his naked eyes.

"If this mother box can remain intact, it will create a superhero in the future. However, it is hard to say what will happen to the unfortunate football player."

Martin did not say Cyborg's name.

Becoming a superhuman is not a good thing for Cyborg, but if it can prevent a tragedy, it is also a good thing.

"We can't keep the seal on the Mother Box for long using only the Force. Let's find someone who knows magic and seal this thing away completely."

Martin took back the remains of the Mother Box, left the underground base with Batman, and drove away.

Now is not the time to deal with Apokolips. Incomplete members of the Justice League are included, let alone other forces. It is not so easy for them to turn around and adjust themselves.

As for Luther's whereabouts, Martin has found it out from Bruno Mannheim's head.

　The decadent days every month are over. Today I have to try to cheer myself up and work hard to update!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)