This is the conference room of the US military base. Amanda Waller is sitting in the chair. They have just been having a meeting, a very, very important meeting.
At this time, the meeting was interrupted by an uninvited guest who projected his face on the big screen.
"Miss Waller, it's nice to see you again."
Among the many whispering voices, Amanda Waller slowly stood up and stared at the face on the screen.
Although she is a strong aunt with a figure comparable to a bucket, she can still be called "Miss" whenever others ask for her.
But Waller didn't appreciate it at all.
She looked at the thin, orange-red-haired middle-aged man in front of her, wearing glasses, across the screen.
"Dr. Randolph Porter, you should know that because you illegally abused and sold venom, used civilians for experiments, openly attacked the National Experimental Research Laboratory, and after being indicted on 10 counts, you violently resisted the law and killed many people. Due to what the agents did, you are now a Class A wanted criminal."
Amanda said: "Your cooperation with the government has ended long ago. Do you still have the guts to appear in front of us?"
Amanda knew very well that the moment she saw the live communication in front of her, the FBI's most elite computer experts would begin tracking the signal in an attempt to locate this daring man.
What she has to do is to delay as much time as possible and create opportunities for the computer experts.
But Dr. Randolph in front of him seemed not to hear what he said at all.
He said to himself: "Two weeks ago, I attacked your secret laboratory in Kansas."
His expression was cold and dull, but when he spoke, little green lines quietly climbed up his cheeks, adding a bit of a sinister and terrifying temperament to him.
"Yeah, with those unconscious Venom people of yours."
Amanda Waller said: "You're looking for death."
She had some doubts that the person in front of her was not a live broadcast but a video, so she tested it: "Answer me, Randolph, do you want to die?"
"Don't say it so harshly, Waller. Guess what I found?
Dr. Randolph immediately responded to Amanda. He didn't seem to care about Amanda's attitude and continued: "I can't believe you guys discovered this."
Then he said in a dreamy tone: "You have detected a new Kryptonian refugee ship heading towards Earth."
"A baby Kryptonian who might be just like Superman! That means the future!"
Amanda Waller looked at Dr. Randolph with an ugly face, and he smiled lowly:
"So that's why there was so much news about monsters jumping out of the coast and eating people, right? And why the state police and the military were completely indifferent to those monsters."
"You want to keep Batman's attention completely on that matter to make sure he doesn't jump out and snatch this new Kryptonian from you!"
Amanda's gaze became dangerous.
This guy knows too much.
He knew that much just from the lab he attacked? Bullshit.
Amanda didn't believe it.
She realized that the other party must have used the addictive nature of venom to control some officials and even people within them.
Thinking of this, Amanda felt very bad.
They have taken their confidentiality work to the extreme, even leaving no electronic files in order to prevent intrusion.
But the problem is that those secretive agents are just ordinary people after all. Even if they are trained in anti-drug interrogation, they will still surrender in the face of Titan Venom, a highly addictive drug that is hundreds of times more powerful than opium.
Not to mention they were still facing Dr. Randolph, the creator of Titan Venom.
Amanda believed that the other party was aware of part of their plan when they invaded the experimental base, but did not know the whole story. The rest should be the result of the other party's active investigation.
The worst thing is that they were completely clueless from beginning to end!
"So now you're here to show off to us that you discovered our little secret, huh? Potter?"
Amanda deadpanned: "What on earth do you want to do, Randolph Potter?"
"Don't be so tense, Miss Waller."
He heard Dr. Randolph chuckle quietly across the screen.
"We can work together."
"I have nothing to talk about with the terrorist attackers."
Amanda said: "Your destination is prison."
"Our previous cooperation was successful, wasn't it? I successfully developed venom using those foreign prisoners."
"It's the same now," said Dr. Randolph.
He looked down at his watch. Then a reserved smile appeared on his face.
"In four minutes, that spaceship is about to land, isn't it?"
He said: "Isn't this meeting you held just to witness this moment?"
He was full of malice: "Discussing how to divide the value brought by this new Kryptonian?"
Amanda Waller couldn't bear it any longer. She turned and shouted to the technician next to her: "Stupid pig, why haven't you found his location yet! You..."
Waller suddenly showed a look of realization. He stared at the computer expert suddenly, and then suddenly opened his sleeve.
She found a pinprick in his forearm.
"It's you!"
Amanda's face darkened: "You work for Potter!"
"No, no, I didn't..."
The computer expert still wanted to deny it. But the words of several colleagues beside him cut off his last trace of luck: "No wonder we haven't been able to track you down, team leader, you..."
Amanda Waller quickly retreated back, and then the guard at the scene took out his gun and pointed it at him. Several officials and officers sitting next to the computer expert, as well as the few subordinates who were accusing him just now, also Immediately the birds and beasts dispersed in a hurry, leaving an open space.
The computer expert was so frightened that he was sweating all over his head. He looked at everyone imploringly, but received only cold looks.
"no no……"
Under numerous gunshots, his psychological defense finally collapsed.
"I'm sorry, Ms. Waller, I, I didn't want to, but the venom was so good that I couldn't control myself... Oh, my God, my God..."
"Are you still looking for my location, Waller?"
Keep the change, please.
Amanda turned her head and saw Dr. Randolph smiling maliciously on the screen.
He picked up the camera and walked out of the originally white background. Only then did Amanda realize that he was in a tent, and outside...
It is an endless desert.
"Longitude: 116.293417, latitude: 40.068589." Dr. Randolph said: "Kansas, the place where the spacecraft is about to land, welcome to the live broadcast!"
Amanda took a breath of cold air. He saw countless tanks and soldiers falling to the ground in the distance. These were the troops he had arranged to bring back the Kryptonian spaceship. She had just received a message that everything was normal a few minutes ago. The news was obviously faked.
And stepping on their bones were dozens of muscular giants roaring upwards.
Beast-like sharp claws and fangs appeared on their bodies, and their skin was abnormally pale.
Green lines one after another climbed up their bodies along the veins of their bodies, reflecting them like hungry ghosts.
The tank was smashed open like a walnut and then torn into pieces. Amanda could even see a monster lifting a surviving soldier and putting it into its mouth, and then kept chewing it while the other party screamed.
This is no longer a human being...
"There are still three minutes." Randolph said: "The Kryptonian spaceship will fall into the palm of my hand."
He sighed: "You simply have no idea how much effort I have put in to prepare for this day. You care too much about Batman. You waste most of your energy on distracting Batman and ignore it instead." Me. I never thought it would be so easy to succeed.”
He actually seemed a little pious: "Soon, the Kryptonian will be mine, and I am happy to try on him to see if he can also use venom."
"Steve!" Amanda Waller turned to Steve Trevor and shouted: "Contact Wonder Woman quickly, we need..."
But she suddenly stopped mid-sentence, and then changed her words temporarily: "No, just take off and use bombs to bomb that area and kill everyone!"
"What about the Kryptonians?"
"If what we got was a real Kryptonian, the bomb wouldn't kill him."
Amanda Waller said: "Go!"
"Why? Obviously Wonder Woman is more capable of..." Before Steve could finish his words, he realized why Amanda did this.
Once Diana's help is sought, the new Kryptonian will inevitably be exposed to Wonder Woman's vision.
So, what they are going to do to the Kryptonians next will probably, no, probably not be recognized by the other party.
But Steve still rejected the proposal to use bombing.
"We are not sure whether the Kryptonian can withstand the explosion of the bomb!" He said very quickly:
"Although our previous trajectory test of the spacecraft showed that it passed through the sun, and the Kryptonian should have absorbed enough yellow solar energy, these are all calculation results on paper!"
He said: "If our calculations are correct, then there will be no big problem, but once we make a mistake in calculations, it is very likely to cause the death of Kryptonians!"
"Then what do you think we should do?" Amanda Waller asked him in a low voice: "The Red Sun Armed Forces we originally prepared for the Kryptonian have been destroyed by Doctor Randolph and his Venom Legion."
Amanda said: "Wonder Woman cannot be used, we have no choice unless..."
Steve knew that the other party actually already had the answer in his heart.
"We brought in John Cobain, the metal guy." Steve said: "There are still some residual effects, but John can overcome it."
Amanda nodded immediately: "Okay, I give you the authority to wake up——"
But her words were interrupted again, and a violent roar rang out in the conference room. The computer expert who was surrounded by him suddenly broke free from the handcuffs that someone had just put on him, and then in full view of everyone, his The muscles collapsed his clothes, and his whole body swelled up like a balloon.
"I am innocent!"
"Ah ah ah ah ah--"
Immediately afterwards, several other people in the crowd fell to their knees, and the roar grew louder.
The guards raised their energy weapons and continued to fire at the little giants that appeared. The scene suddenly became chaotic.
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Bane disguises himself as a plant.
Literally.
He buried himself completely in the sand, and then sensed everything happening on the ground through colorful ferns growing out of his back and head.
He has done this before, using flowers to feel the enemy's position, but frankly speaking, this feeling is very abstract, just like the ultrasonic feedback of a bat. When you have vision, this kind of perception may be a very good aid, but when you lose your vision, this kind of perception is very awkward.
After all, humans are a race accustomed to obtaining information visually.
But the problem is that Bain is not a simple user of the green of all living things. Plants have no eyes, so wouldn’t it be good if I use the red eyes of all living things to grow one on the plant?
This is actually a high-level application. Just like another superhero "Black Orchid" who is compatible with both red and green powers, he can also make his limbs and flesh have the characteristics of plants.
After days of tracking and various bone-breaking interrogations, Bain finally found the location of Dr. Randolph. It was definitely a long journey.
At first, he still had the leisure to break other people's bones, but later the interrogations became too much and became very annoying. Most of the middlemen and dealers were characters who would not shed tears until they saw the coffin.
So in order to make the tracing easier, he went to the place where he hid the things and brought the zombie Black over.
With the help of purple-haired Black, a telepath who forcibly read memories, Bane's tracking efficiency increased several times.
And here is where Dr. Randolph, who he obtained by forcibly reading the brain of a muscular man permanently modified by venom, will be.
Although the unlucky guy who has gone crazy due to being forcibly read the memory has no idea why the other party came to the middle of such a barren desert for no reason, but the read memory does not lie, so a long time ago Bain came here to ambush, waiting quietly.
Then he watched the whole process of a large group of troops and soldiers coming in forcefully, classifying this place as a military special zone, and then being beaten into little cookies by Dr. Randolph and his men.
Fortunately, he buried himself relatively far away and could dig sand underground to move his position, so no one on either side found him.
So Bain has been squatting beside them from just now to now, quietly observing them.
With the end of the battle, Dr. Randolph finally walked to a certain place alone.
And when Bain manipulated the eyes on the plant to look up at the sky, it was only then that he finally discovered what Dr. Randolph was waiting for.
There was a loud bang.
Dr. Randolph raised his arms and used his sleeves to cover the flying sand and smoke. Then he lowered his head, stood on the desert, and clasped his hands.
Bain saw that his hands were shaking with excitement, and he turned more attention to the spacecraft.
Is that a Kryptonian orphan's ship?
No, it seems a little too small.
Bain thought silently.
Is it a baby spaceship?
It's a bit like, it can't be a dog.
But whatever it was, he couldn't let Dr. Randolph get his hands on it.
Dr. Randolph staggered up to the spacecraft that was still smoking.
His voice was trembling: "In the first half of my life, I created a treasure, and his name is Bain. And in the second half of my life, you are my treasure, my dear... After spending so much energy, I finally want to get you. Got it!"
Bain was ready to take action.
And Dr. Randolph opened the hatch.
The next second, he was petrified on the spot.
(End of chapter)
