novelhk Chapter 276 Exposed
Chapter 276 Exposed
Bruce Wayne received an invitation to a charity dinner signed "Alexander Luthor".
The location of the dinner was inside Lex Group's Gotham branch, which had a reception room specially used for hosting dinners.
Batman immediately chose to go alone, without anyone, and without informing the Justice League.
At the moment, he thought this was an incident that he could solve independently.
When he drove his expensive classic car to the charity dinner, he found that Alexander Luther was standing at the door, and he was standing there specifically to greet him.
Bruce felt a little wary in his heart, but he still showed a professional smile on his face and stepped forward to shake hands cordially with the other party.
"We haven't seen each other for a long time. Gotham's most famous business wizard, I always miss you at the recent parties."
Luther faced him with the same commercial smile. As the helmsmen of two well-known companies in neighboring cities, Luther and Bruce were no strangers.
They occasionally communicated at some commercial evening parties, and they became familiar with each other after going back and forth.
"What have you been busy with lately? I haven't seen your heroic appearance in Gotham newspapers for a long time." Luther joked.
Bruce said helplessly: "I'm already very old, maybe it's time to settle down a bit."
"Wow, these are actually words spoken by Bruce Wayne. The ladies of Gotham must be very sad~"
Luther came forward, patted his shoulder affectionately, and shook his hand again.
Bruce's expression changed slightly, but it passed quickly, as if it was just an illusion.
Luther's expression remained unchanged throughout the whole process. He let go of his hand and introduced Bruce to the banquet.
"You're welcome, just enjoy it!"
"I will." Bruce said meaningfully, and then walked into the dinner party.
After two hours, Bruce excused himself and left, citing physical discomfort.
After getting in the car, he drove quickly back to the manor, and then went straight to the Batcave.
"Anything to gain?" Alfred is still working in the Batcave.
To be honest, there is probably only one butler like him in the world who is willing to work overtime, and he is still so old.
Bruce took out a gadget from his pocket, which was a USB flash drive.
"I guess, the harvest is great." Afu said after seeing the thing in his palm.
Bruce turned over the USB disk and found that there was writing on it: Do not connect to the Internet!
He instantly thought of the recent power grid system. The Lex Group's laboratory clearly consumed excessive amounts of electricity, but it was not displayed on the networked system. It was obviously tampered with by some special program.
"Afu, give me a computer without Internet connection~"
Alfred immediately found a laptop for him, and Bruce inserted the USB flash drive into it, which contained several folders.
He immediately clicked on the folder and found that there were video files and text files on it.
He first opened the video file, which contained surveillance videos arranged in chronological order.
Judging from the way the file is named, it should have been taken by a surveillance camera inside the laboratory.
Bruce clicked on the first video.
At first everything was normal, but a few minutes later, something similar to a transmission channel appeared in the surveillance video, and then an alien shape began to appear on the screen.
He wore silver armor, held a giant axe, and had two deformed horns on his head.
After him, there were more humanoid creatures with wings in the three passages. They were not very tall, but they could fly and were extremely bloodthirsty!
Because the angle was average and the radio reception wasn't very good, Bruce couldn't hear clearly what they were saying.
But he could roughly understand that some kind of agreement had been reached with the alien.
Then he saw three regular hexahedral boxes appearing in front of the alien in armor, with a flash of light erupting from them, and the video was interrupted.
Bruce didn't stop. He then clicked on the second file, which detailed the final destination of the lost power.
This large amount of lost electrical energy eventually went to a laboratory—Star Laboratory.
Bruce has vaguely realized that this matter is more serious than he imagined. Even Luther has to pass the news to himself through this method, which shows that he should be under control at the moment.
The biggest change that has happened to Bruce in the past few years is that he finally knows how to pick up people when he shouldn't show off.
So he immediately contacted the Justice Building, while Dane and Cortana were on the observation deck in low-Earth orbit, and they picked up Batman's signal.
"Bruce?"
Bruce said concisely and to the point: "I have a little trouble here and I need to meet with you in person.
Dane thought for a while, asking Batman to take the initiative to find him must be a big event that he couldn't solve by himself, so he nodded: "I'll be there soon."
He said to Cortana beside him: "You stay here first and continue to fight that electronic consciousness. I must go to Gotham to see it."
Cortana obediently agreed.
Dane followed the teleportation light to the Batcave and saw Bruce in formal attire.
"What's so urgent?"
Bruce moved the laptop on the table in front of Dane and let him see the surveillance video.
"The look on your face makes me think you know this."
He captured the subtle changes on Dane's face.
Bruce then asked: "You know who the guy up there is, right?"
Dane did not hide anything, and said directly: "Steppenwolf, one of the new gods of Apocalypse, I just met him once not long ago."
Batman pinched the bridge of his nose with his fingers, and an idea flashed in his mind.
"Apocalypse... I remember you once talked about this..."
He was talking about those movie plots that Dane once told when he was pretending to be a magician. It turned out that he still remembered that Dane had the character of a prophet.
"Yes, this is the alien invader I once saw in the prophecy, but I thought he would never appear again..."
"According to what I predicted, Doomsday... is the Kryptonian monster we met in Saint Locke last time. It will eventually kill Superman and die with him."
Batman's expression changed when he heard this.
"After Superman dies, the Mother Box will wake up from its slumber and summon Steppenwolf into the world."
"I thought that since Clark changed his own destiny, Steppenwolf would never appear again.
But I didn't expect that he would still come as predicted, but the details were slightly different. "
In the original movie plot, Luther knew the news of Steppenwolf's arrival in advance through some method, but Dane confirmed that he had not had any contact with Steppenwolf.
But in this world, the two of them have a deeper intersection.
Although Lex Luthor appears to be under duress, Dane doesn't trust him.
Even if his hair is still healthy now.
"~Who gave this video to you."
Something that even Cortana couldn't get was actually obtained by Batman.
"It was Lex Luthor. He gave it to me secretly."
Dane looked him up and down and understood how he got it.
So you see, Batman is his true identity, Bruce Wayne is just his mask!
It was obvious that Luther knew who he was. Fortunately, he didn't come to ask for the "Confusion Curse", otherwise he wouldn't even be able to get this information.
But the news that Luther came to the door on his own initiative... doesn't this take a lot of time?
"I understand the matter, but it is not appropriate to alert others. There is one thing I haven't had time to tell you yet. There is more than one Doomsday."
"What did you say?"
Now Batman couldn't sit still, and judging from Dane's (good Zhao) expression, he had a bad guess in his mind.
Dane soon fulfilled his suspicion.
"I suspect that Steppenwolf has mastered the method of mass-producing destruction, and you probably don't know that Saint Roch's Doomsday was actually accidentally released by the Lex Group.
After passing the news to Bruce, Luther returned to Star Laboratory as if nothing had happened.
Steppenwolf has taken over this place in his own way, turning it into an energy base that powers the "Mother Box". All the electrical energy that disappeared in Gotham City has been transferred here.
"How long will it take for us to complete this work?" Luther quietly inquired about the information.
But Steppenwolf just sneered: "Don't ask if you don't know, human!"
Luther didn't pay attention to the contempt in his tone. He had already grasped Steppenwolf's bottom line. He would not kill him before he truly completed his mission.
At the moment, he has a strong curiosity about what the "Mother Box" is. He believes that Steppenwolf came all the way to the earth, definitely not to come here to give his master an iron hand.
Just charge it and it's done.
These three "mother boxes" must have secrets that he doesn't know about. .