Volume 7: Da Mu Da Mu Chapter 28: You have to throw the proton torpedo accurately into the hatch... You have a star destroyer? That's fine.
As an exploration organization formed across countless parallel worlds, although the Star Society did not live up to its due status most of the time due to its poor style of doing things and plunder-first strategy, the fact that they were able to run rampant in the Dark Ages for seventeen years did indeed give them a very good foundation.
For example, at this moment, the Grand Master Warlock ordered the "Battle Death Star" to be teleported outside the orbit of the Gotham world.
This thing belongs to the "deterrence-level" weapon of the Star Society, so the confidentiality level is naturally very high. Moreover, it has not been actually used many times since it was created by the crazy scientists of Fox Nest, resulting in Mason, a B-level personnel, knowing nothing about this thing.
Therefore, after receiving Ciri's cross-world warning call, Mason, who was directing the second-line heroes in Washington to capture the defeated pioneers, rarely looked confused.
"What the hell? The Death Star?"
A rather terrifying thing immediately appeared in his mind, and when he felt his scalp tingling, he asked again:
"Are you talking about that super war fortress with a diameter of 160 kilometers, carrying two million people, and capable of shaking celestial planets with its own gravity alone? It has 768 tractor beams and 15,000 turbolasers, and its planetary laser cannons can penetrate a star with just one shot?
Does the Star Society have something of this level?
If you had it, you should have said it earlier!
What are we going to do if this thing comes out? We can just throw it at the start and avoid a beating.”
Mason quickly calmed down after a brief shock.
He realized he must have been wrong.
If the Warlock really had this thing and could send it out in any world invasion war, the Star Society would not be just a pioneering organization.
So he rubbed his brows and said to Ciri on the other side of the phone:
"The 'Battle Death Star' you mentioned and the 'Death Star' I imagined are actually two different things, right?"
"Well, what you're talking about is the 'decisive weapon' of the Cleansers Corps, an ancient relic they dragged back from the starry battlefield after the collapse of the Galactic Empire in a certain dimension.
I heard that after it was repaired by the scientists at Fox Nest, it has been used as a training ground and base of operations for the Conqueror Sequence."
Ciri, who was in the office of Star Castle, rolled her eyes and explained:
"The 'Battle Death Star' in Warlock's hand is a downgraded version. It only uses the weapons of the real Death Star and adds a fully automatic mechanical space station structure. It was an 'experimental' weapon made by Fox Nest scientists ten years ago and sent to the Star Society. It was originally intended to be tested for destructive power during an impact event.
Later, the researcher who led this project, MODOK 15, was executed for abusing resources, which resulted in the operation itself being shelved. The experimental Death Star remained in Star Fort as a "mascot".
I also didn't expect the warlock to activate it at this time.
But don't worry, this thing is only 30 kilometers in diameter and its attack range is not enough to affect the earth's environment by its own gravity.
But the bad news is that it is equipped with a more dangerous neutron-killing beam engine."
Ciri looked at the weapon parameters in front of her and said with some worry:
"I just found its description document, which says that when this thing attacks a planet, it can lock onto fifty targets at once and kill twenty of them at a low-energy level. Its power is enough to clear out all organic matter in a large city in an instant.
At maximum power, an entire world can be cleared of rebels in a matter of minutes while leaving buildings and valuable property intact.
When it starts, it will cause a lot of optical pollution, and its manifestation is..."
"A plume of blue light beams."
Mason looked back at the sky, and seven white rays tearing through the sky appeared in everyone's sight like pillars piercing the sky and the earth.
There was no need for Ciri to read out the weapon parameters on the document at this time, because one of the seven beams shot from space to the earth fell in the center of the city in front of Mason.
The moment the continuous neutron killing beam touched the ground, a large amount of vaporized and decomposed organic matter, that is, walking humanoid creatures, dissipated in the surging beam.
The last screams of those pioneers who were still defending the city center were suspended at this moment.
The only good news was that such a death was painless, and the area where Mason was at this time was a little far from the city center.
This meant that he had a few seconds to repent for his past regrets and the little sins hidden in his heart before he was engulfed by the destructive beam.
Or he could choose to activate the speed ring in his hand, allowing himself to run at the speed of light and instantly transfer all other people in a few seconds.
As far as Mason knows, the strongest record of all the speedsters in saving this field was set by the third-generation Flash Wally West.
That kid once saved 530,000 people in 0.00001 microseconds. Mason had no idea what speed that was, but the situation he was facing now was actually similar.
The only lucky thing is that he only has about 3 seconds left, and there are only tens of thousands of people who need him to save. But to accomplish this goal, Mason must try to exceed the speed of light for the first time.
"Shua"
His figure disappeared on the spot.
Faced with the sudden calamity, everyone in the city of Washington, whether they were pioneers, rebels or even ordinary people, had fallen into a daze.
Only that beam of light is running continuously, accelerating again and again.
In a flash of a few seconds, the dark blue plume eventually engulfed the entire Washington city area.
Mason didn't know whether he had broken through the speed of light, but the moment he dragged Catwoman and the two barrels out of the neutron killing range 30 kilometers away from the city, the speed ring on his finger shattered with a click, and the remaining speed force energy in it exploded and threw Mason out and hit the ground hard.
His body was shattered by the violent kinetic energy, and then reassembled into water in the next moment.
When he stood up, beside him were thousands of people he had just dragged out of the annihilation zone, including superheroes and terrified pioneers.
The moment he stood up, Mason even had hallucinations.
He vaguely saw a skeleton in a black lightning suit emerge from the light and reach out his zombie-like claws towards him.
When the thing was about to touch Mason, Professor McGonagall next to him let out a shrill hiss and arched her body like a cat in danger. The Black Death Sword battle suit suddenly covered her whole body, and the illusion of black lightning disappeared, allowing Mason to wake up.
He looked at the person next to him.
I saw the distraught Catwoman and Ertong roaring with his fists clenched.
He searched in the crowd but couldn't find Zack and Ivy. Zack and Demon Knight were nowhere to be seen either. Less than one third of the superheroes he had summoned here were rescued by him.
The rest are...
"No!!!"
Shazam, who fell from the sky, looked at the dead city in front of him. The buildings were still intact, but all the life in them had disappeared. The fifteen-year-old powerful boy roared like a beast in pain and despair.
Mason's body swayed.
Not only was he weakened by the Speed Force explosion, his face turned pale in an instant, because this was the first time he truly lost his teammates and partners.
The thing he feared most finally happened.
He had promised not to make any of his fellow travelers a "price," but now he had broken his promise.
"Bang"
Mason fell to his knees, gripping the dirt in front of him with both hands, veins bulging on his fingers.
An indescribable feeling of frustration filled his heart. He should have made a plan for this situation in advance. He should have provided more protection for his teammates instead of letting them come here without any protection.
He should have worked harder to repair the Speed Force armor seized from Savitar in advance, so that he could have rescued more people in the last few seconds.
He made a mistake.
The silent city before us is the price of mistakes in war.
"Mason..."
Catwoman stepped forward, suppressing the pain of losing her companion. She reached out and hugged Mason, who was lying on the ground without saying a word, and gently patted his back.
As Mason's original partner, no one understood Mason's persistence in this regard better than her.
"You've done well enough, don't blame yourself so much."
She whispered, and was about to say more to comfort Mason, but suddenly a scolding voice appeared in front of them.
"Oh, is this the old lady finally not hiding her desire for young hunks and decided to give Batboy a super green hat? I knew something would go wrong if you two were together.
See, I guessed right . If I had come out one second later…"
"Shua"
Mason and Catwoman looked up at the same time, and saw John Constantine appearing in front of them, blowing smoke rings and hugging the frightened Zack.
Not only these two people, in the air that keeps "swaying" like water waves behind Zha Kang, Poison Ivy Ivy, Demon Knight and those superheroes and pioneers who were not brought out by Mason are quickly appearing.
It was as if some magical concealing spell was being removed, and a dense crowd of people appeared before the silent crowd.
Zha Kang curled his lips and looked at Mason with red eyes and Catwoman with wide eyes with a weird smile. He flicked the ash of his cigarette in a mean way and said in a long voice:
“Although it’s touching to see people so sad if I died, did my two idiot teammates forget one thing?
I have learned all the black and strange magic!
Although I may not be proficient in it, isn't the excellent magic of mirror dimension, which can save lives and control people, prepared for that moment just now?"
He grinned and squatted down, handed a dirty handkerchief to Mason who was staring at him, and said softly:
"Just now I was about to call you back when I saw you trying to drag these out like a fool, but there was no need for you to try so hard and end up being targeted by the 'Speed Force Traffic Policeman' Black Lightning because of your FTL.
But it's actually pretty nice to see you being silly once in a while.
We are your teammates, Mason.
You just need to worry about the others, everyone in Team K is capable of taking care of themselves..."
Mason took Zhakang's handkerchief expressionlessly, broke away from Catwoman's embrace, rushed forward and punched Zhakang in the eye, then rode on his waist and punched him left and right as the latter screamed.
This was the first time Mason was truly frightened. The despair of losing his companions was even greater than the panic he felt when facing Black Strange.
"Stop fighting!"
Zack was saved by Zack and was trying to pull Mason away in a panic, but was pulled aside by Catwoman. Er Tong took off his helmet and threw it aside, then pounced on Zack and kicked him in the face.
This bastard!
This kind of lame joke is really not funny!
"stop!"
While the three little men in the team were playing a war game, Catwoman, on behalf of the captain, issued an ultimatum to those pioneers who had escaped the disaster and were planning to sneak away.
Poison Ivy stood behind her, and the power of green unfolded silently, causing the weeds on the surrounding ground to grow wildly into snake-like monsters that blocked the way of these guys.
"You should now know who your real enemy is."
Selina put her hands on her hips and shouted to the dusty pioneers in front of her:
"We don't ask you to defect to our side, but next time the warlock treats you as dispensable cannon fodder because of his evil deeds, don't pray for us to show up and save you again!"
"Ma'am, we may not be good people, but we remember the kindness of Team K."
The most senior B-class captain among the nearly one hundred pioneers who escaped the encirclement and survived the annihilation beam stood up. Wearing the sergeant's Spartan armor and carrying a ray rifle, the old man solemnly made a strange gesture with his chest.
He said in a hoarse voice:
"No one can tell what will happen in the future, but at least in this war, we will definitely stay away from wherever Team K goes. We are not die-hard fans of the Warlocks, we were also forcibly recruited.
If given a choice, no one would want to be involved in the infighting among the three mentors."
"This is not an internal fight between the three mentors. This is a duel between Team K and the Warlock. The Swordsman and the Hunter are not the leaders, but Mason is! And you should know who will win, and clearly know which side to expect to win!"
Catwoman snorted and said:
"The Warlock can't cover up everything, and he doesn't even have the chance to return to Star Castle to issue orders. You should also know that you have to earn your own lives.
Forget it, get out!
Don’t let me see you again.”
She waved her hand in a very queenly manner, and Poison Ivy cleared a path. Under the gaze of the heroes of this world who shared a common hatred and great disgust, these pioneers could only leave in disgrace.
"Stop fighting! Think of a solution!"
The beaten scumbag screamed:
"This time there are seven annihilation beams. God knows how many there will be next time. Seven cities have already suffered. This instant annihilation will cause terrible pressure on ordinary people here. The warlock is forcing them to surrender!
Damn it!
Instead of continuing to beat me up, why don't you come up with a decision quickly?"
"Of course I've always had the idea."
Mason stood up unhappily and wiped the dirt off his face. He looked up at the sky again. He kicked Zha Kang again in a bad mood and then took out the communicator and said to the other end:
"Judy! Turn on secret device X. Has the location of the annihilation beam just now been locked?"
“Just outside the Earth’s orbit, at the synchronization point, the target is 30 kilometers in diameter and is easy to target. It needs to be maintained in a specific location to maintain accurate attack on the surface.
It's moving over Gotham City!
The next target must be here, and it will be within the effective range of secret device X in five minutes!"
The tech girl from the Next Life team quickly reported:
"I've already activated the energy supply, but I doubt your craftsmanship! Mason, the thing you made can only fire two shots now. Are you sure it can really be used as a 'star destroyer'?"
"I'm sure that even though I only treated it as a model at first, it was made by me after all, and no one knows its stability better than me."
Mason took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. The scumbag Kang who was beaten into a panda eye next to him offered a flame to help Mason light it. The captain blew a smoke ring and said to Judy:
"Just fire the cannon...but for safety's sake, you'd better stay away."
"Hey, this feels increasingly unreliable."
Judy complained and hung up the phone, and a five-minute launch countdown appeared on Mason's watch.
Shazam came up and looked at the ticking time curiously. He whispered:
"How are you going to get rid of that thing hanging over our heads? And I just heard that sister say something like 'Star Destroyer Cannon' to you. Do you really have such a thing in your hand?"
"Shua"
Mason pulled out a BFG9000 from his bag and put it in his hand, then said to Shazam who looked curious:
"Look, it's an electromagnetic gun."
"I know. It's very powerful. I've seen you use this thing to wipe out the swamp monster's army of tree men."
Shazam nodded vigorously but still didn't understand what this gun had to do with the topic he was discussing with Mason. Mason blew out a smoke ring and patiently explained to the little fool:
"The most amazing thing about this gun is that if it is magnified 1,000 times, it will become a super star destroyer that has been tested in actual combat. Of course, with my current skills, I can't do such a restoration, so I just made a 1:500 model in the Gotham basement with the help of the Wayne Group.
It is definitely impossible to destroy a planet, but if the target is an armed space station with a diameter of only 30 kilometers within the maximum range, it can basically guarantee a one-shot hit."
"Is it so cool?"
The Atom, the second-tier hero who was listening intently nearby, asked:
"So when did you start preparing this incredible-sounding thing?"
"Um……"
Mason thought for a moment and said:
"Probably the night I got the blueprints for BFG9000? After all, which craftsman can resist the temptation of making a star destroyer by himself?"
"So was your act of hiding it underground in Gotham City intentional? Or was it carefully selected?"
Zha Kang said dissatisfiedly:
"You did it secretly without telling us. You can't trust your own people, right?"
"It's really just a model I use to amuse myself. I have no intention of using it in actual combat. As for the site selection, well, I admit that I took a gamble."
Mason shrugged and said:
"But I bet right. Amazing Gotham will indeed encounter anything you can imagine, even being targeted by a neutron-killing cannon."
