NABC Chapter 392 Destruction is Knocking
Chapter 392 Destruction is Knocking
Chapter 392 Destruction is Knocking
After Reed launched the stone golem from the sling, the Human Torch hanging on the side of the golem immediately burst into flames, propelling the golem to a faster acceleration.
Just as Reed had predicted, the kinetic energy released from the stone golem, combined with the acceleration it had accumulated along the way, allowed it to smash through countless walls and enter the room where Starfire was being held captive.
"You are—"
Xinghuo, who had been lingering inside, looked surprised. When he saw the boulder and a burning humanoid figure burst through the wall, he couldn't immediately figure out that they were the same group of people he had contacted earlier.
The Fantastic Four didn't even inform the other side about this escape operation. Starfire was only forced to join the prison break plan when the cell was smashed open.
Unlike a real sling, Reed didn't use the stone as a one-way bullet when he threw it.
To be honest, their combined attack is more like a meteor hammer with a very long range.
Reed's body also extended outwards as the stone golem flew, until it reached its destination and then began to gradually tighten again.
"There's no time to explain, ma'am, hold on tight!"
The Stone Man felt Reed's arms tightening around his body, and without hesitation, he roared and ripped the main frame of the floor where Starfire was located with two powerful punches.
Just like now, as Reed's arm tightened step by step, the inward elasticity combined with the Human Torch's return acceleration, the Stone Golem brought Starfire back, floor and all.
After returning, Reed twisted the Thing dozens of times on the spot, cleverly dissipating its kinetic energy before throwing it into the seemingly half-destroyed spaceship. Reed also tensed up, using the Thing's inertia and his own elasticity to pull himself in, and reached out to press a switch: "Johnny! Go to the engine area!"
"What engine?" Thunderbolt hadn't been paying attention at all. "Isn't the engine on the back of your car?!"
And the rear of their spaceship is still in another universe!
"Johnny, you idiot!"
If the frantic Stone Golem hadn't already seen the Kryptonians flying over from the other side of the hole, he would have loved to give the hapless Human Torch a good whack on the spot.
At least the Stone Man had actually heard what Reed had just said: "Quickly stand over there at the back of the ship and ignite it! You're our engine!"
"Damn it, why didn't you say so sooner!"
Although he was considered foolish compared to Reed, at least he was a former soldier and knew what discipline and execution meant, unlike Reed's brother-in-law, who was a complete idiot who could cause trouble even in life-or-death situations. "Reed has told you eight hundred times already! Move that precious butt of yours!"
"Ignition!" x2
Despite the noise, Mr. Fantastic, who had stretched out his arm and touched the central control lever, and the Human Torch, who was standing at the stern of the spaceship, started the engine at the same time with perfect coordination.
The spaceship, which was originally split in half, was forcibly propelled back to life by the power of the Thunderfire, and the warp system at the bow managed to complete its final mission.
As the warp drive system was activated, the half-ship in which Reed and his crew were located began to collapse from the center, gradually shrinking into a black dot before disappearing with a "poof".
"Goodness!"
Lor Zod, arriving late, poked his head out from the large hole that had been smashed open and gave the Fantastic Four's combo act, from the start of their operation to their successful escape via teleportation, extremely high praise: "It took less than fifteen seconds. This is the most spectacular circus act I've ever seen in my life."
He turned around with a grin and counted the holes in the spaceship's interior walls, pierced by the stone golems: "The only downside is that the show tickets are a bit pricey."
Only when he saw Joe Al's old face appear at the end of the series of holes did he quickly suppress his smile, stand at attention, and salute: "Teacher!"
"Don't always be so serious, Lorre." Joe El, standing in the room where Starfire had just been, waved his hand to signal his nephew to relax. "You're too much like your father in front of me, not at all like a young man. I really wish Karl El were half as sensible as you!"
Even though they were hundreds of meters apart, the Kryptonians' superhuman senses allowed the two to communicate normally.
From the perspective of these Kryptonians, Reed and his group's half-day of plotting was no different from playing it on loudspeaker, but Jor-El still let them leave.
It was simply because he needed to get Reed and the others to the extremely difficult-to-locate universe where Karl El was.
Although the three members of the Fantastic Four combined into a slingshot and went through a lot of dismantling and tinkering, it did look like a comical circus or performance art.
But Joe Al, also a researcher, understood that behind the three men’s strong execution was the value of Reed Richards’ super brain: “Don’t underestimate those three men, especially Reed Richards. His ability to stretch and contract like a rubber man is probably just the most inconspicuous weapon he has.”
Not everyone can convert a pile of spaceship wreckage, which is no different from scrap metal, into an emergency jump device in just one or two hours, including rest time.
"What if he discovers our tracking plan?"
Lor Zod flew over from the distant hangar and entered the room where Starfire had been imprisoned. He looked at Jor El with a puzzled expression: "Someone as smart as him should have been able to easily find the tracking program you planted on his ship, right? Not to mention we also lost Karl El's sweetheart—"
The time difference between the two universes means that our side has far less time to act than the other side. If the tracking program on the other side is discovered and removed in time, wouldn't we lose both our efforts and our resources?
Joe Al remained unperturbed, because there was no tracking program involved: "I never tampered with their ship in any way."
"That----?"
Faced with the young man's question, Joe Al patiently explained: "Our coding method is completely different from that of the other party's system. The probability of being discovered if we rashly implant a program is almost 100%."
So how exactly do we track down Reed Richards, who has already escaped?
"The program is certainly precise, but—"
Joe Al clapped his hands, and the warship's central system began to repair the parts damaged by the Fantastic Four's rampage at the nanoscale: "There is always a human being more reliable than a program."
In no time, both the hangar and the confinement cell at Xinghuo were restored to their original state by the central AI's nano-active metal restoration.
Just as Lor Zod was frowning in confusion, unable to understand what this meant, in the distance of the corridor, Jor El's two most trusted guards, besides Fiora, respectfully ushered an orange-haired figure back into the room: "You've come from afar, please rest well, Princess Corianda."
As she brushed past Lor Zod, Starfire glared at Joe El, but having learned from her previous experience, she didn't act rashly upon arrival. Instead, she obediently entered the cell and waited to see what would happen.
"Wait a minute—" Lor Zod's mind hadn't quite caught up since seeing Starfire: "Didn't you order them to bring the princess of Tamaran over a while ago?"
"That's right." Joe El watched Starfire enter the confinement room, a rare hint of paternal tenderness appearing in his eyes. "But she's the princess of Tamaran, and my son's woman. When she comes to visit her father-in-law, you should at least give her some time to pack her bags, shouldn't you?"
"It's true that we should try our best to satisfy whatever she needs, even if she wants to tear down the cell door, as long as we don't let her go back for the time being."
After repeatedly giving instructions to the personnel in charge of guarding the ship, Joe Al strolled leisurely to the center of the bridge with his hands behind his back.
Judging by the time, the bat should have arrived at the other side by now. Karl El should find out soon, right?
"wrong!"
Lor Zod caught up, turning to look at the now-closed confinement room: "If the princess of Tamaran just arrived here, then who were those three who rescued?"
Who is "Corianda," who played a crucial role in the Fantastic Four's escape plan?
Lor knew that Starfire's ability to contact the Fantastic Four was definitely a setup orchestrated by Jor-El, but he had no idea that even the princess of Tamaran herself was a fake!
"Lor," Jor-El's incessant questioning made Lor Zod suddenly turn around, his eyes making Lor Zod's scalp tingle: "There are many secrets that were originally meant for you to know only when you became the Grand General of Krypton, but I can tell you now. Do you want to hear them?"
"No, no, no————"
Upon hearing this, Lor Zod, a second lieutenant and a third-term graduate of the Kryptonian Military Academy in New Kandor, shook his head frantically.
After being glared at by Dr. Banner for design flaws in the Infinity Gauntlet, Joey was forced to leave the workshop again, abandoning his plan to make the Infinity Gauntlet look even more perfect.
"No!"
He had just returned from the other side of the galaxy and couldn't sit still any longer: "Any progress on the whereabouts of the Soul Stone?"
He first approached Batman, and after receiving a negative answer, he found an empty balcony, looked up at the sky, and roared: "Heimdall!"
Nothing happened.
It seems that Asgard isn't always going to pay attention to him—Joey will just take that as a sign that they don't care.
The next collision crisis could happen at any time, and Joey doesn't want to end up like this, with nothing to show for it.
Not doing it—it feels like sitting and waiting to die.
Thor himself might have a hard time finding out, but he could easily find out the exact location of Vormir by going with the Spider Lanterns.
Joey's sudden shout startled Tony, who had just calmed down Invisible Susan and peeked out: "My God, what are you yelling about here?"
Joey told him the truth: "Have Heimdall open the Rainbow Bridge and send me to Thor."
Upon realizing that Superman was still in a one-way communication mode with Thor, Tony laughed in exasperation: "Why didn't you just give Thor a communicator in the first place?"
Joey couldn't immediately connect the words "smart device" with "Thor": "Would he even use that thing?"
Doctor Doom, disguised as Tony, wished he could immediately rip off his mask and punch Superman. He'd only exchanged a few words with Superman, yet he'd already rediscovered that familiar, brain-numbing feeling: "They're the Asgardian gods, technologically several generations ahead of Earth, they just like to dress in ancient Scandinavian attire, they're not real Vikings!"
If Joey had been a little more quick-witted and less stubborn, their entanglement wouldn't have lasted so long and ended up in this situation!
"The others in Asgard may indeed know how to use these advanced technologies, but Thor—"
Joey thought about Saul's escape from the US-Mexico border to New York on a bull, and immediately shook his head: "Hard to say."
Just as the two were debating whether Thor could actually use a smartphone, Joey suddenly looked up at the sky and asked, "Did you hear that?"
Click~ Click~ Click~
It sounded like shattering glass, a sound so familiar that Joey was certain he had heard it before.
Joey found the sound familiar, and Doctor Doom even more so—he already knew exactly which three annoying things would be brought after those few clicks.
But unlike before, this time the path they came from is no longer limited to parallel universes, and what is about to happen has completely exceeded Doctor Doom's expectations.
Past experience may no longer be applicable. It can be said that from now on, both sides are completely in the dark again and need to start all over again.
Just like the first time.