"What happened to you today? Your head is filled with water?" The alliance talks were over and the Kryptonians had left. Luther no longer suppressed the anger in his heart and shouted directly at General Lane.

Laien was not a soft persimmon, and was not fooled by him at all. His eyes were stern and his tone was cold: "Luthor, don't forget your identity. You are just an 'alien' who has given up his citizenship on Earth. You have no right to attack the United States." The general is gesticulating."

The second leader, Cameron Lincoln, quickly stood up to smooth things over and said: "We are all partners and will continue to cooperate in the future. Don't hurt the harmony and affect our big plan."

He turned to Luther and his tone was gentler, "Don't worry, the Kryptonians just said to go back and discuss it carefully, and did not refuse. There is still hope for the 'Kandor City-Mecha Legion Alliance'."

Then he turned to General Lane again, this time with a hint of reproach in his tone, "It's no wonder Luther was angry, we worked hard for half a month, and even took the initiative to release Zod in order to promote cooperation.

Seeing that the talks are getting better and the Kryptonian is obviously tempted, why do you suddenly say the depressing words of 'the future of the Mecha Legion is unknown'?"

"It's not a depressing statement, it's a true prophecy!" General Lain said seriously: "The Grand Alliance is not a one-time deal. Even if you deceive the Kryptonians to Apokolips now, when Harley's prophecy gradually becomes a reality, the Dark Elite The revenge caused great trauma to Luthor's legion. Wouldn't the Kryptonians retreat midway?

Why not talk about it now, put the risks and interests on the table, make them clear and visible, and let everyone be honest with each other. When encountering setbacks in the future, let alone share the joys and sorrows and work together, at least there will be no discord."

Lincoln thought for a while, tilted his head and said to Luther: "What Sam said makes sense, Kryptonians are not idiots without the ability to resist.

Earth has Harley and Zheng Lian, so we are not afraid of them, but we alone cannot force seven million men of steel to do something they don't want to do.

If they see that the situation on Apokolips is not as good as you promised, they will retreat immediately, and we can't stop them.

Now if we get vaccinated in advance, they won’t be embarrassed to run away immediately if something happens to them.”

"Do you believe Harley's divination?" Luther said disapprovingly: "Harley is the King of Gods and is very powerful, but she has just come into contact with prophecy, how reliable can she be?

She won't lie, but she is biased against our new human gods.

She only saw some illusions that she didn't understand, and she insisted that we were going to be unlucky. She probably didn't believe it herself.

And even you all know that Kryptonians are not stupid and will retreat from Apokolips when they encounter setbacks. Am I stupid?

If the mecha army suffers heavy losses, am I still stubborn and do not know how to leave Apokolips?

The Mother Box is in my hand and I can come and go freely, so how can the future be unknown?"

General Lain sighed: "This is exactly why I warned you, you are too confident. Although I can't refute your words, I can't guess the dark elite's methods to deal with you.

But I know that if you continue to maintain this mentality, something big will happen sooner or later.

Don't ask me about any big things. If I know, you are smarter than me, and you will probably know it too.

Even you and I can predict it in advance, so there is no need for Harley to divine."

"You're just talking nonsense! You think I can't predict the dangers I may encounter in the future, so why are you warning me?" Luther left his seat impatiently and prepared to leave the conference room.

General Lain also stood up and followed him outside, saying, "If I just wanted to warn you, I would talk to you alone.

Since I told Harley's prophecy in public, I naturally hope that you and the Kryptonians will find a solution together.

If everyone is open and honest, works together, and works together, there will always be more opportunities to avoid the "unknown future" than if each has his own agenda.

At that time, Harley only saw the figure of the Dark Elite, not you, the mecha army, nor the Kryptonians.

There are two possibilities in this situation, either you are really in an unknown situation, or your future is uncertain, or it is possible that man can defeat nature."

"Wait until the Kryptonians agree to form an alliance, and then consider pooling our efforts."

With these words, Luther left the Pentagon without looking back.

...

Two days later, Zuo De was officially free.

Not bail.

The "Galaxy Grand Court" of the Metropolitan City directly pronounced that he had served his sentence.

The Phantom Zone is the "shadow realm" of Krypton.

The flow of time in the shadow world is very different from reality. A moment in reality may last for several minutes or even dozens of minutes in the shadow world.

Black magicians often choose to sit on a high-backed chair when their souls travel to the shadow world.

The moment the spell was cast, the body sitting on the chair fell back.

The short one or two seconds between the chair tilting and completely falling to the ground is enough for the black magician's soul to swim in the shadow world.

When the body falls to the ground with the chair, the physical body will feel strong vibrations and severe pain, which will pull the soul back from the shadow world.

This kind of forced interruption of spell casting through physical stimulation can avoid situations such as wandering and forgetting time, or the soul being trapped by the devil and unable to return.

How long does it take for a chair to go from tilting to falling to the floor?

This time in reality has reached the shadow world, which is enough for the mage to complete an "astral projection".

It can be seen how different the speed of time in the shadow world is from that of the material universe.

The same goes for the Phantom Zone.

Da Chao personally calculated that the time flow rate in the phantom space where Zuo De was imprisoned was 200 times that of the real world.

Zuo De invaded the earth more than ten years ago, so his real sentence was more than 2,000 years.

However, the Galactic Court only sentenced him to 800 years for the crime of "attempted invasion of Earth"... Because the Kryptonians paid a fine of 30,000 trillion U.S. dollars by donating science and technology, the sentence was only 800 years.

If there is no compensation, Zuo De will be sentenced to life imprisonment.

In short, Zuo De is completely free now.

"Congratulations, General Zuo De, now you can let your hands and feet go and show off your ambitions!"

On the day when the judge announced that Zuo De would be released after serving his sentence, Luther, who was wearing a suit and ties, saw General Zuo De, who was also in a suit and ties, dressed like an ordinary earthling outside the court.

Zuo De stretched out his hand to shake Luther's hand and said directly: "I understand your intention, but regarding the future of Kandor City and even the entire Kryptonian civilization, we must carefully consider it."

Luther said with a sincere expression: "You Kryptonians have steel bodies and super brains, and you have initially possessed the characteristics of the gods.

Once you are recognized by Apokolips, you will officially become a new god, realize divinity, and obtain godhead."

"Although the benefits are great, the risks are also high. Now there is only one city of Kandor left in the Kryptonian civilization. We cannot withstand the storm." Zuo De said.

Luther said: "Didn't you get the 'Code of Life'? Even if I invite you to join the alliance, I don't expect all the Kryptonians in Kandor City to enter Apokolips.

The city of Kandor has a population of seven million. Even if six million people form the "New Gods Army of Krypton" and the remaining one million people guard the "Code of Life", they can still maintain the foundation of Kryptonian civilization.

This method of putting eggs in two baskets is also used by our planet.

After Harley introduced the "New Human God Restriction Law", only 200 million people left the solar system with the Mother Box, and the basic foundation of human civilization remained.

If the 200 million new human gods win this great wealth, the earth's civilization will benefit from it; if we fail, the earth's losses will not be big, the progress of civilization will not be interrupted, and we will only learn a big lesson."

Zuo De was silent for a while and said: "In addition to the powerful strength and unpredictable abilities of the dark elite, the shortcomings of the dark protoss of Apokolips themselves are also the reason for our hesitation."

"What defect do you mean?" Luther asked.

"If we become a dark god, the dark divinity will distort our nature, make us degenerate into demons, and be driven by the origin of Apokolips to invade the material universe." Zuo De said.

Luther smiled strangely, "Having such worries shows that your understanding of divinity is very superficial."

"Oh, is there anything else we don't know about divinity?" Zuo De asked curiously.

Luther chuckled lightly and said: "Divinity is actually the sublimation of humanity. Only those who have no confusion in their hearts and fully understand themselves can sublimate their humanity into divinity.

In other words, divinity is a person's true face.

Humans can deceive themselves, but gods cannot lie to themselves.

The so-called dark divinity distorts human nature is just an excuse for us, the dark gods, to justify our sinful behavior.

It is not that divinity forces us to kill and plunder, it is our inner desire to kill and plunder.

We can find satisfaction in killing and plundering and live out our true selves.

This is the reason why Superman clearly has the power of Darkseid, but is actually a member of the Light Gods.

If your nature is biased toward light, even if you become a new god on Apokolips, you will still leave Apokolips and enter the Creation Star next door and become a god of light.

Of course, the Light Gods also have restrictions, and they are no more free than the Dark Gods."

"It turns out to be like this..." General Zuo De was surprised at first, and then said with twinkling eyes: "Most of the 200 million new human beings are dark gods.

It’s not because they don’t want to become the God of Light, but because their nature is such that they cannot become the God of Light.”

Luther frowned and said: "The Eclipse Lord crisis proves one thing, there are no absolutely good people or absolutely evil people in this world.

Even bright and stalwart heroes, such as the heroes of Zhenglian, will also expand their evil thoughts under the influence of Pandora's Box.

Super villains who are considered extremely evil will awaken the good thoughts in human nature after touching the magic box.

Whether you become a light god or a dark god has nothing to do with human nature, it just depends on your personal choice."

"And evil is not shameful." He continued: "In the eight divine realms of Limbo, light and darkness are always in opposition.

Apokolips and the Dark Gods exist because the multiverse needs them.

Who would think Darkseid's behavior is shameful?

Everyone, including Harley, has either respect or fear for Darkseid.

Only the cowardly and weak will be laughed at."

There was hesitation on Zuo De's face, "Otherwise, Kandor City will first send some representatives to join your 'Mecha Legion', and we will serve as observers to conduct on-site inspections of Apokolips' environment and the prospects of the New Dark God.

How about we wait until the observation results come out and then decide whether to cooperate with you?"
To be continued...