Although with the help of the "Outer Galaxy Expeditionary Force", Zion destroyed the command center that directed the attack of the mixed army of reapers and mechanical octopuses, the policy of focusing on the defense of important cities has not changed, because...even without command,
There were too many Reapers who broke through the defense line and reached Zion itself.
Although they will no longer carry out sudden attacks on important targets to decapitate them, nor will they detect Zion's attack plan in advance and make changes, they will still wander aimlessly on the ground and attack at will.
Hostile targets within the range will also pose a major threat to the "retro city" that is still stuck in the 20th century.
The Citadel fleet originally wanted to rush to the rescue of the ground army, but after piloting in several cities, they were surprised to find that compared to "alien invasion, we bravely resisted the enemy with the help of superheroes", Zion residents were more concerned about "the existence of a group of aliens"
The "compatriots in space" who were separated from the society in which they lived were even more unacceptable, causing a considerable degree of confusion.
The Citadel was shocked by this: they built a "retro city" for them because their ancestors had just been rescued from the matrix and could not adapt to the environment, as a "transitional greenhouse" for them to enter the universe in the future, but everything
Unexpectedly, these people actually took this world that could be seen as fake with just a little in-depth analysis to be real.
After discovering the problem, the Citadel's scientific and social research team immediately launched a project on this problem and its solution. However, before detailed research could begin, it would have to wait until the Reapers were officially defeated. Before that, the Citadel's airborne troops
We can only put away our overly advanced weapons and pretend to be the "retro army" of Zion's "retro city" to fight the "superheroes".
Compared with the aggrieved Citadel Space Force, people with the status of "superheroes" can do whatever they want. No matter how exaggerated their abilities are, people who see them will say "Oh, they are superheroes".
Leave it behind.
"Noon has arrived!" "This is so Imba!"
For example, the elder sister, a field doctor who is always on target, and the girl pilot who got countless mechas from nowhere and used them to self-destruct.
Angela cleans up the corpse puppets and mechanical octopuses, Emil blows up the big reapers, and if anyone slips through the net, Yueyong Shena will smash them with her hammer. This is already a familiar cooperation.
However, this time, Yue Yong Shena was suddenly stunned on the spot, and did not even react when a few mechanical octopuses that were lucky enough to be hiding behind telephone poles and were not hit by the explosion jumped in front of her.
"What are you doing?" Emil, who had just thrown the self-destructing mecha, flipped over and landed on the ground, casually using a small pistol to explode the octopuses: "Have you contacted Kangna?"
"No..." Yueyong Shena's eyes were unfocused, as if she was looking at something in front of her: "The new options are 'Destroy the Reaper', 'Control the Reaper', and 'Merge with the Reaper'."
"It sounds like they have hit the core of the matrix," Angela flapped her six diamond-shaped light wings and landed: "These options should be able to end the harvest cycle, but..."
"I feel like these options are not very good... Do you want to add more options? But we don't know what the situation is at all." Yue Yongshenna's tone was a little anxious.
"There is an existence of the same level as us, no, a higher level, with Kangna. We have no way of knowing what specific information she has obtained, but there is no need for information at all." Angela pondered for a while, raised her hand and chanted the moon to Shena
Swipe lightly in front of you.
"'Not decided yet', 'asking friends for help'? Will this be useful?" Yueyong Shena stared at the empty space in front of her for a while, then turned to look at Angela.
"Although I don't know what the methods of 'destroy', 'control' and 'fusion' are, but as expected, choosing them means choosing 'sacrifice many innocent people', 'sacrifice a few people you know' and'
Sacrifice yourself'," Angela held up the halo above her head: "First stabilize her, let her contact us, and then let us choose the option of 'sacrifice yourself'. After all, she is not a 'follower' yet. It would be troublesome to choose that.
That’s big.”
"But that, in her opinion, is 'sacrifice of the few people she knows.'" Emil said.
"..."
"Moreover, didn't you say you wanted to give her a surprise, and you never confessed that you are Matthew and Sophie? Then there is no one among her friends who can solve this matter." Emil added.
"Damn it! Kangna! Don't choose randomly!" Angela raised her hand and connected dots in the air in front of Yueyong Shena.
"Ah, disappeared." Yueyong Shena blinked and her eyes returned to focus. She was about to say something, but in the next second she suddenly raised her head and looked at the sky.
"That's too late……"
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Zion, Gotham.
If a city is guarded by a "superhero", it means that there will be "supervillains" in the city specifically to fight against him. In the attacks of the reapers, these "supervillains" have to join in order not to be "harvested".
to resist the Reapers, but it is tantamount to fantasy to expect these unruly guys to obey the orders of Zion officials or "superheroes".
Gotham City has Zion's strongest "superhero" Batman, and naturally has the strongest "supervillain" the Joker. Other "superheroes" such as Catwoman, Mr. Freeze, Batwoman, etc.
Now you can deal with the Riddler, Scarecrow and Penguin.
...Although the battle between Batwoman and Penguin is more like a quarrel between best friends.
After "Batman" temporarily left Gotham in order to launch an attack on the Matrix from the virtual dimension, a silver-haired girl named "Sitonai" took his place.
Although they had no time to do anything because they were being invaded by the Reapers, the "super villains" still looked down upon this new city guardian.
Real superheroes: frightening black costumes, high-tech equipment that can cope with various situations, voices that are as hard to hear as throat cancer, mysterious and high-speed Bat-series vehicles.
Fake superheroes: a pink skirt with no deterrent, empty hands that cannot be lethal, a soft and completely non-deterrent voice, a stupid white bear that can be seen two kilometers away.
Even if she used ice and snow to freeze a giant Reaper into ice, and then let a white bear named "Barsaka" smash it to pieces with one palm, the "super villains" still refused to recognize her as Batman's successor.
However, because there are so many "superheroes" and "super villains" in Gotham, the Reapers who attack Gotham can even have "empty windows" from time to time. During these "empty windows", the "super villains"
Naturally, he couldn't resist the urge to cause trouble. After causing trouble, he was beaten up by the superhero. Then the reapers gathered their troops to fight, and the two sides had to join forces again... The whole thing seemed to be quite regular and rhythmic.
At this moment, due to Shidunai's too young appearance, he was soon targeted by a green question mark monster who was always unable to trouble anyone... Of course, there were also reasons why the reapers could be poisoned by fear gas but refused to guess the riddles.
The Riddler stopped Shidu Nei in an alley:
"Hehehe~ Shidunai, do you know what has six legs, but after passing through the alley, it only has two legs?"
"Saber just bought a family bucket." The girl tilted her head.
…?
"The less something is, the more precious it is?" The Riddler blinked in confusion and continued to ask.
"Command Spell." The girl answered.
…??
"Wait a minute, why can't I understand what you're saying, but I think it's right? Another thing, what can't be used until it's broken?" The Riddler's forehead was sweating.
"Holy Grail."
???
"No no no, that's not right, that last one, 'I feel your every move, I know your every thought, I've been with you since you were born, I'll watch you mold, what am I?'
'"
"...Stalker?" Shidunai tilted his head and tapped his cheek with his finger.
"Haha! Wrong -"
"By the way, it's Kotomine Kirei." She clapped her hands.
"No, no, no! Although I think you are right, that is not my answer! I want to-" The Riddler waved his arms.
"[Get away as far as you want.]" A low, sharp voice with a hint of madness sounded.
At the same time as this sentence appeared, there was a weirdo wearing a long purple suit, dyed green hair, and a clown face, and next to him was another female clown with a slightly different look.
"Damn it, don't think I'm afraid of you." The Riddler said harsh words and climbed the wall and ran away.
"Well..." Shidunai looked at the clown and then at Harley Quinn, then lowered his head and flipped through the cheat sheet in his sleeve: "A talented man and a beautiful woman, a perfect match."
"Really? Hehehe~" Harley Quinn covered her face and laughed.
"[Humph, 'Batman always has a plan', I didn't quite believe this at first,]" The Joker glanced at the small notebook that was barely hidden in Shidunai's hand: "[Even the answers to the Riddler's questions have been arranged in advance.
, then he must have taught you how to deal with me, a 'madman', right? If not, he would have lost his daughter.]"
The clown raised the corners of his mouth, showed a terrifying smile, took out a sharp dagger from his sleeve, and compared it with his mouth, but finally did not lick it.
"Hmm..." Shidunai lowered his head and flipped through the booklet, tilting his head as if confused, then climbed down from the bear's back with a hesitation, walked up to the clown with small steps, and then kicked him on the knee.
Above: "Hit me, you idiot!"
"[...]" The clown was stunned.
"...My father asked me to do this." Shidunai seemed to have some doubts about doing this. After kicking, he ran back to the white bear and said.
"[...Hmph, the dignified 'Batman' is actually cheating,]" the clown put away the knife and snorted: "[No one with a little bit of brains would do anything to 'Illya', and a fool without a brain would
It's no match for your bear. The only one who might hurt you is the 'Reaper', but...]"
He raised the corners of his pale mouth and looked at the high wall next to the alley: "[But you still have 'mother' following you.]"
Phew... Following his words, a slim woman wearing a tight black leather jacket and a cat-eared mask appeared on the roof of the towering apartment building.
It seemed that she originally wanted to appear on all fours, but after a moment of hesitation, she chose to sit by the wall and hid something behind her.
"Joker," she said, "are you sure you can feel free to relax here? Your boss is about to be destroyed by Batman, why don't you think about a way out?"
"[Destroy? Are you kidding,]" the clown showed a sarcastic expression: "[That is not hundreds of millions or tens of billions of lives, but the total life that has existed in all the galaxies in countless reincarnations. If that'justice
If his partner makes a decision, he will most likely choose to let the harvest continue and then run away with his family.】"
"...I only figured it out after Neo set out," Catwoman paused: "It seems that you already knew that, so you didn't continue to fight against the 'superheroes'."
"[Don't forget what my former identity was,]" the clown responded: "[I have known from the beginning that the actions of you 'awakened ones' to rescue your compatriots will only end in failure. Challenge the Matrix? Without the Matrix, there would be no you.
, there is only one being who can solve this matter, but something seems to have gone wrong with her.】"
When he said this, the clown glanced in the direction of Shidunai, or Illya.
"Such as..." "[If it were me, as long as I had the chance, I would destroy the matrix directly,]" the clown didn't wait for Catwoman to finish speaking and then continued: "[Ancient creatures that are still alive and have consciousness,
What does this reincarnation have to do with? This reincarnation may give birth to reapers again in the future, so what does it have to do with me? Why should I think about such a long-term problem? "
"You are no longer an agent, Mr. Smith." Catwoman changed her title slightly mockingly.
"[Do you want to discuss lifespan with me? Trinity?]" The clown followed suit.
"..." This kind of quarreling situation obviously did not exist in Ilya's little notebook. She rummaged through it for a while and found nothing, so she turned to look at the white bear: "Basaka, we..."
!
Halfway through her words, the girl suddenly raised her head and looked up at the sky, as if under the influence of some kind of intuition.
Phew——buzz——
Silently, a bright but not dazzling super-giant aqua-blue light beam shot straight down from the sky, instantly tearing apart the dark clouds that had always shrouded Gotham's sky, illuminating the entire city brightly.
Under the light of the beam, the Reaper warships suspended high in the sky, ready to look for opportunities to launch attacks on various cities, seemed to be cast in a faint blue light.
No, it's not as if the light emitted by the "big lights" above the heads of the Reapers changed from dazzling scarlet to ice blue as gentle as water at this moment. Those Reaper warships glanced at the surface of the earth as if they were nostalgic, and then turned back without hesitation.
Lifted off and left Zion's atmosphere.
Illya looked up at the light and simply thought the scene was beautiful. It wasn't until Catwoman suddenly jumped down and held her in her arms that she was surprised to find that tears were flowing out of her eyes like a fountain.
