The fact that this matter ended so peacefully does not mean that the other party is not good enough, but that this is just an appetizer. The other party will use countless such small water ripples to push up a huge wave until everyone is buried in the sea.
Sure enough, less than half an hour after the murder incident ended, the Mercury base terminal received an alarm from the detector that an alien spacecraft was rapidly approaching Mercury.
The base terminal did not receive any communication from the spacecraft, and could not identify the identity code of the spacecraft, so it sent out a defense drone to block the spacecraft outside the safety line and did not let it get close to Mercury.
Clark went to check the situation, but the spacecraft exploded. Although it didn't hurt him at all, it still scared him into a cold sweat.
Human beings in the DC universe have not yet developed to the interstellar age, which means they do not have any means of space defense. They all point to the security measures of the Mercury base. Assume that the defense drones did not stop the spacecraft and let it rush directly to Mercury.
In an explosion, it is very likely to cause heavy casualties.
This incident alarmed almost all the senior officials in the base, so the professor team that had just been disbanded less than half an hour gathered again.
The drones sent back the footage they shot, and it was obvious that the spacecraft was not a product of the solar system. The words engraved on the debris after the explosion were also very unfamiliar. For a while, no one knew where the spacecraft came from.
Fortunately, the Justice League in this universe has sufficient interstellar intelligence support. They sent all the videos to Green Lantern Hal who was working at the Green Lantern headquarters.
Hal quickly recognized that the information code on the spacecraft came from the Axl planet in sector 1601. It was a civilian spacecraft. The code had been invalid for a long time, and the specific identity could not be identified for the time being.
The name Axl sounded strange, but when this name appeared in Hal's mouth, everyone was silent, because the magical twins came from the planet Axl.
The civilization of this planet is highly Earth-like, and not everyone uses superpowers. Although their physical fitness is many times better than that of humans, the magical twins with superpowers are also an outlier among them.
A plague many years ago killed many residents of the planet Axl, and also caused the death of the parents of the magical twins. The two wandered to the circus, and the younger sister used her ability to transform into animals to work for the circus owner.
Later, the two sides broke up, and the brother and sister stole the circus's spaceship and traveled to the earth.
Clark had seen the spacecraft up close. He was sure that there were actually no weapons on the spacecraft. It didn't look like a space weapon used for combat. It was even somewhat worn out. If it hadn't been for the huge explosion at the end, Clark would have thought it was...
What space junk?
Several professors had no choice but to call the Magic Twins over again. Zan and Jenna were completely stunned when they saw the fragments.
This is indeed the spacecraft they stole, but according to themselves, this spacecraft was hidden deep in the Rocky Mountains a long time ago, and when they first arrived on Earth, the spacecraft was in poor condition.
, and by the time they had basically adapted to life on Earth, the old spacecraft could no longer start.
After the drone towed all the spacecraft fragments back, Bruce conducted an inspection and combined with the analysis of the intelligent housekeeper, confirmed that what the brother and sister said was true. The spacecraft was so old that only a shell was left, and they wanted to fly out of the earth.
The atmosphere is very strenuous.
Moreover, out of caution at that time, my sister Jenna directly removed the engine of the spacecraft and completely destroyed it. This was the only part on the spacecraft that could cause an explosion. Without the engine, all that was left was iron. What do you think?
It's impossible to explode, so the explosion is very strange.
The professors watched the video of the explosion in the room for a long time. Finally, Bruce came to the conclusion that it must not have been some kind of machine that exploded. The flow of energy was too strange.
He sent the video back to Earth, and several professors from Gotham Academy of Magic watched it again. Madam Xanadu confirmed his point of view and said: "I can confirm that the energy flow from the source of the explosion is closer to magic.
, someone compressed a large ball of magic energy and charged it into something, causing it to lose control and explode at a designated time. It is similar to a failed artifact. This is a man-made magic experiment accident. "
Diana also sent the video to Vulcan, who gave the same statement that it was a magical accident.
But what is more troublesome is that before the brother and sister took the spaceship to the earth, they had to modify the already old spacecraft, otherwise this thing would not be able to fly to the earth.
There are some traces of their modifications on the spacecraft. Now that it has been completely blown up, it is difficult to explain why these traces were modified. It is said that it is to allow it to take off again. Fortunately, it is not impossible to explode on Mercury.
"Don't block the news," Schiller said immediately.
Everyone looked at him because this was a counter-intuitive answer. After all, the exploding spaceship was blocked outside the safety line and no one suffered any losses. In fact, it was completely unnecessary to let the students know.
But they quickly realized that if someone was causing trouble, even if they blocked the news, someone would spread the news among the students.
The so-called official denial must be true. The fact that the professors united to block the information can easily arouse the resentment of the students. If they were to know that the spaceship came from the magical twin brother and sister, combined with the fact that the brother was involved in the teacher's murder case,
The role he plays will inevitably make people think a lot.
As expected, it is a series of interlocking schemes, the purpose of which is to arouse suspicion among the students. Suspicion is like a virus, which will eventually lead to the outbreak of panic.
"What do you think we should do, Professor?" Diana asked immediately.
"The other party is obviously from the magic side, and we don't have enough manpower on the magic side. Try to find a way to call Zatanna and Madam Xanadu. I will also call a friend of mine."
Diana nodded and went to make a call. The friend Schiller wanted to call was Brand. The school hospital happened to be short of a psychiatrist, and the salary of working on Mercury was much higher than that of Arkham Asylum.
, Naiya’s human body also needs to eat.
"How to calm public opinion among students?" Schiller looked at Clark and asked: "This is the reporter's job."
Clark thought for a moment and realized that the few bad things in this kind and powerful superhero's belly were basically used as a reporter, and he immediately said.
"Before the other party makes this a big deal, it must be Zan and Jenna who make the big deal."
He looked at Jenna and said: "When you go back later, you will start crying along the way, saying that your spaceship flew here and exploded for some reason, and you can never go home again."
Jenna's eyes widened and she said, "We had no way of flying this broken spaceship home. It would be complete suicide!"
"Does anyone else know?"
The brother and sister looked at each other and shook their heads. In fact, they had forgotten about this old spaceship a long time ago, so they never mentioned it to anyone.
"Then just pretend it has never been broken." Clark said firmly: "Not only has it not been broken, but it is also very advanced, surpassing the level of human science and technology by several orders of magnitude, including all the words you can imagine to improve the level of science and technology.
When using it, you should also emphasize that it has cost you all your money, and now that it is broken, you will suffer a heavy loss."
Jenna immediately understood that they had to portray themselves as victims before the mastermind could portray them as malicious perpetrators, emphasizing that they had no motive to use their ship as a bomb.
Naturally, the better and more expensive the spacecraft is, the smaller the incentive will be.
"No." Jenna asked another question, "We are not the only aliens among the student body. Some aliens know the history of Planet Axl and will not believe what we say."
"He understands the planet Axl in the past, not the present."
"But there aren't many now..."
"It's not that advanced now, but don't forget who has the right to speak in interstellar public opinion."
Jenna was even more confused. She looked at Clark and said, "You don't want to say it's the Earth, do you?"
"Of course not, it's the Green Lantern Corps." Clark said while typing a message to Hal on his mobile phone: "We should cooperate internally and externally and let Hal modify the history of the planet Axl that the Green Lantern Corps had recorded at the terminal at the Green Lantern headquarters.
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"I will write a few more news about the launch of spaceships across the ages, and insert them into their history of technological research and development. The time of purchasing the spacecraft will be around the same time as yours, and I will naturally be able to confirm your statement."
"The aliens who come here will not hold high positions on their own planet. It is difficult to find deeper information, and there is no way to expose you."
"You are actually able to control the Green Lantern Corps." Zan sighed: "The Justice League is indeed a very powerful organization."
Next, the work began to be arranged. Clark took Oliver to write the news, Diana went to pick up the reinforcements from the magic side, Bruce stayed at the headquarters to monitor the unexpected situation, and Arthur took the two brothers and sisters to spread the news.
Other professors went to class step by step. The more crisis there is, the more order should be maintained, so as to dispel the panic atmosphere to the greatest extent.
As for Schiller, no one arranged any work for him, because everyone knew that the professor who had been interrupted would not give up and he was the one responsible for fighting back.
Schiller called Brand first. He was originally reluctant to come, but when he saw the string of zeros after the salary, he immediately said that there was no psychiatrist in the world who was more suitable for working outside the world than him.
Brand arrived quickly, in a flash to be exact. When he arrived, Schiele was writing and drawing, seemingly sorting out the sequence of events.
Brand leaned over and took a look at Schiller's notes, and he discovered that the starting point of the Mercury incident Schiller wrote was not the security check, nor the classroom murders, but the Scarecrow serial murders.
This case has been going on for some time now, and from the murderer to the victim, it seems that they have nothing to do with Mercury. The only presence is that it appears in Bruce's lesson plan.
But there is another case next to this case, and that is the Nygma serial murder case.
Comparing these two cases, in addition to having three victims, there is another key point of overlap, which is the totemic nature of the crime scene.
In the Scarecrow murder case, the scarecrow standing on the flat ground is itself a totem, and in the Nygma serial murder case, the murderer in the last case made a totem out of the corpse.
The two victims were actually in similar states. They were both impaled on wooden stakes and stood on a flat ground, showing the most conspicuous raised state on the earth. The origin is traced back to totems.
In fact, totem corpses are not uncommon in serial murder cases. The vertical totem is a more primitive form of reproductive worship, demonstrating male power, and is a form that many serial killers like to use.
But the problem is that the suspected murderers in these two cases don't look like people who would use this method.