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Chapter 358 Smuggling Marvel Superheroes to DC

Chapter 358 Smuggling Marvel Superheroes to DC

Interestingly, news of Logan's life in the New World spread across the planet Rune had pioneered, attracting many superheroes to seek out Rune, hoping to make their mark in the New World.

These heroes have many reasons, such as wanting to experience the customs of other worlds or being too bored in this world.

This was exactly what Rune wanted. He took in the other superheroes into this world to escape the Secret Wars, asking for almost nothing in return. Of course, he wasn't doing charity; he hoped these superheroes could help his world stop the Forgotten Ones.

Considering the rapid pace of project initiation, disbandment, and human forgetting in the real world, the number of forgotten people is growing at an astronomical rate.

If these forgotten beings do not wish to completely disappear into the river of time, then they have two choices: one is to replace another version of themselves in some universe.

For example, Professor X in front of Rune, and Red Skull whom he once defeated, either found another world where they had died and replaced each other's concept of existence, or they directly killed and replaced another version of themselves.

This way of surviving has many drawbacks. The former is completely outnumbered, like Batman in The Forgotten. It is easy to imagine how difficult it would be to find a world where Batman is dead but the dimension itself still exists.

The latter, however, would have to pay no less price to kill another version of themselves than the former. The alternate dimension counterpart exists in its own world, possessing local advantages, and in some worlds, the alternate dimension counterparts of the Forgotten are extremely powerful.

More importantly, even if these forgotten beings successfully replace another version of themselves, they cannot be certain that this dimension will remain popular in the real world, and that is the biggest problem.

The second way to escape disappearance is even more brutal.

war.

Indeed, after numerous experiments, these Forsaken discovered a consensus—as long as there is enough conflict and enough heroes or villains die, this dimension can almost always exist.

The Brainiac who was taken down by Rune was a member of the Mechanical Alliance of the Forsaken, an alliance that included Skynet from Terminator, Matri from The Matrix, Ultron from Marvel, and many others.

This mechanical alliance orchestrated an interdimensional war, and Brainiac's main task was to mass-produce Compound V, using this drug to lure ordinary people from other worlds, or simply inject it into cloned human bodies to provide soldiers for the war.

In this mechanical alliance, Brainiac is just one of the villains providing manpower. Well-known villains such as Skynet and Ultron are preparing their own soldiers to support this terrible interdimensional war.

That's the truth, but the situation isn't that dire. Besides the internal conflicts among the Forsaken, those who escaped the Forsaken through the first method will also fight for their world; they don't want to die.

In this way, Rune was able to roughly distinguish which people could be united and which people were destined to become enemies.

Rune agreed to most of the requests from these superheroes to come to the DC universe, and most of the heroes went to the cities they originally lived in. However, a small number of heroes who wanted to visit Gotham were stopped by Rune.

Gotham is more than just the sin city it appears to be; this damned city has at least 6-7...

There are curses from different sources, and several gates that lead directly to hell, and none of them can be sealed off. When demons from hell come to Gotham, they feel like they're coming home.

Gotham's water supply system is contaminated with Lazarus Pool water, Carnage Swamp water, and many other terrible substances. The water contains so many chemicals that even Aquaman wouldn't consider it water—the superhero even thinks cola is water. And due to excessive exposure to this water, even vampires are poisoned after drinking the blood of Gothamites.

Even more terrifying is that the body of an ancient god is buried here, which will gradually cause people to lose their humanity and pursue only knowledge.

And that's not all. Rune has reason to believe that if these Marvel superheroes, who are good at causing trouble, were to live here, the entire Earth would be blown up in less than three days.

There are always people who question Batman, thinking he's just a rich second-generation heir who likes cosplay, and questioning why, as the richest man in the world, he doesn't take on infrastructure projects to provide more jobs for the city and make Gotham a better place—

Even disregarding these terrible hidden dangers, Bruce Wayne is just a billionaire. As an entrepreneur, there are very limited things he can do. In fact, in both comics and animation, Wayne Enterprises has gone bankrupt quite a few times.

But as Batman, he has managed to reduce the number of innocent deaths in Gotham to around 200, and that number is decreasing year by year. That is the significance of Batman's existence.

Of course, Rune knew that these superheroes wouldn't completely heed his advice, so he used magic and telepathy to give them double insurance, ensuring that these troublemakers wouldn't go to Gotham.

Smuggling these Marvel superheroes into DC was no easy task. Rune had to identify the cities they valued, create fake IDs for them, and provide them with security.

In a small alley in New York.

"It's unbelievable," Stark sighed, "that I'm the world's richest man, and now I'm heading towards the future—"

Adults borrowing money—

"I'm an adult now, I just haven't turned 18 yet," Rune reminded the man, noting that Tony had only just received his identity card in this world.

"Alright, alright, you're an adult now, okay?" Tony took the suitcase from Rune's hands; it was full of money. "When the company is established, I'll give you a share."

"No need. Money is something I can have as much as I want." Rune looked disdainful. He had too many things that could be exchanged for money. Even if it was for the expenses of "smuggling" these superheroes, it would only reduce the first number in his account from 5 to 4.

Considering that this money has become a debt of gratitude to these superheroes, Rune felt like he had made a fortune.

Tony rolled his eyes. "You'll regret this!"

"Don't worry, I wouldn't borrow money from a penniless wretch," Rune said with a smile. This remark stirred up a hornet's nest. Tony immediately flew into a rage and started playfully fighting with the mage. If Rune hadn't feigned defeat, Tony probably would have continued to berate him for hours.

Even so, Tony was still very angry, which could be clearly heard from the deliberate stomping of his feet as he left.

After seeing Tony off, Rune breathed a sigh of relief; this was the last illegal immigrant.

He can finally explore a new world!

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