Chapter 372 71. Batman: Look, it turns out that my distrust is exactly the means to protect you
"This kind of creature is called a Skrull, an alien life. It is good at disguise and lurking. It is a natural spy race and is extremely good at sneaking in, destroying and collecting intelligence.
It's almost their gift.
If there really was a god who created life in the universe, then he would have been immersed in spy novels during those days when he was a race of Neskrulls.
Otherwise, there is no way to explain the fact that these guys' racial talents are all focused on the field of espionage. ”
In Mason's office, he used a holographic image to explain the current situation to the master, which included various data and characteristics collected by Osborne Tower's first round of testing on the two Skrull spies.
In Mason's complaint, he announced further research results and life characteristics, pointed to a simple and easy-to-understand six-sided diagram, and said to the master and Wick who were "listening carefully":
"Currently, no samples of high-level Skrull lifeforms have been captured. Just from the vanguard level, the vitality of these guys is close to that of weak superhumans.
Their strength and agility are three times higher than that of ordinary people, and their long-lasting endurance allows them to maintain sharp thinking after undergoing high-intensity torture for twenty-four hours.
He is born with a certain degree of psychic enhancement, is very resistant to charm and temptation, and has a very high level of technology, and can control almost all electronic devices at the current level of the earth.
But all these characteristics are effective in conjunction with their camouflage abilities.
They can transform into any target they have seen without contact. After contact, they will simulate all the target's abilities at the same time. Although it is currently weakened, this simulation has almost no restrictions. ”
Mason emphasized:
"That is to say, if they come into contact with Super, they can turn themselves into a weakened version of the Kryptonian.
It is also important to note that when a Skrull comes into contact with a target, it will read part of the target's memory. This range depends on willpower, so you don't need to worry about this.
But other people in Zhenglian could easily leak important information.
The Skrulls also have the technology to create deep memory mining equipment, so if someone is determined to be missing, they need to be prepared for the secret to be leaked in advance. ”
"Yeah."
The master’s brows were frowning under his mask.
Just from what Mason explained, it can be judged that the enemy this time is indeed difficult to deal with. John Wick beside him is still expressionless, revealing the appearance of a cold assassin.
"There is so much information collected so far, I have summarized it all."
Mason took off the separation chip and handed it to Batman, then pointed to the computer on his desk and said:
"This machine is connected to the database at Osborne Tower, and any newly discovered information there will be passed over. If you find anything, you can communicate with researchers through it.
What I want to say next is the main point.
I have created an instrument that can identify the Skrulls, and have sent someone here to assist the two in finding the spies who have infiltrated this world."
"No need."
The master waved his hand, walked to the computer on the desk and entered a line of code.
The detection program of the Bat Network was immediately activated. While connecting it to the global monitoring system of the watchtower, he said to Mason and Wick:
"The preparation plans I made in the past included tactics specifically for situations like this. It was one of the many preparations I made after Yamodra lost control for the first time.
If only those Skrulls who are currently infiltrating the Justice League are found, this tactic should work. ”
"They have already infiltrated, and there must be more than one!"
John Wick, who had been silent, took out a few photos from his arms and placed them on the table. The master looked down and found that they were two second-tier superheroes active in Metropolis.
He looked at Wick in confusion, who pointed at the photo and explained:
"The day I joined the Justice League, I noticed something was wrong with the auras of these two people, so I made a focused observation on them, and the conclusion I got was very consistent with the news that Mason brought back today.
I'm pretty sure these two are definitely Skrulls. ”
"Oh? How did you find out?"
Mason was very interested in this. He picked up the photo, looked at it and then looked at Wick. The latter hesitated and said:
"Assassin's intuition!
Of course it’s not just intuition. I have no evidence to expose their disguise, but I can tell you that their disguise is so ‘perfect’ that it appears false.
All their actions center on a special "personality", and every move they make in front of outsiders reinforces this impression.
It's like the best actors taking part in a live movie. ”
John Wick paused and said:
"However, no matter how good actors are, they are still actors. In my eyes, their temperament is still incompatible with ordinary people. I feel awkward every time I come into contact with them. This is also something I want to report to Mason.
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I think there's something wrong with them. ”
"Let's see and find out."
The master nodded. After the connection procedure was completed, he took out the bat-shaped key from the multifunctional combat belt and inserted it into the computer, and then a hidden plug-in was activated.
In addition to the watchtower's real-time monitoring of all members of the Justice League, special data signals are activated by the watchtower and spread around the world. After a few seconds, red and green dots appear on the world map on the screen.
"Each red dot represents the communication point of a member of the Justice League. Even if the communicator is not turned on, there will still be a positioning signal."
The master pointed at the screen and explained briefly:
"The corresponding green dots represent that the identification devices on their bodies are operating. The current number of red dots matches the number of people being contacted, but there are seven fewer green dots.
We are penetrated.
The enemy sneaked into our midst silently.
Wick, your intuition is very accurate. The two members of Metropolis are indeed pretenders. I have reason to suspect that they are lurking in that city to get close to Superman or Lois Lane. ”
"A very keen intuition, the Isu saint is so terrifying."
Mason shook his head with regret and said:
“It’s a pity that this strategy cannot be promoted.”
"I'm curious, when did you implant the locator in me?"
Wick looked at the light spot representing him on the screen, and he couldn't help asking:
"With my perception, it is impossible not to notice this process, and every time I come into contact with you, I deliberately distance myself from you. I know that you have the habit of placing bugs on other people."
The master did not answer this question.
Naturally, this "bat secret skill" belonging to him cannot be easily revealed to others. He only reveals a fleeting mysterious smile under the mask.
But Mason was less particular.
He stretched out his hand and made a gesture of pressing fingerprints, and whispered to Wick:
"You need to enter your fingerprints to join the Justice Network. Do you think the fingerprint machine specially installed at the Metropolitan Headquarters has been tampered with?
But don't be angry.
He tagged me with an isotope when I first met him and I was just a weak 17-year-old high school dropout.
This is how Batman makes friends with other people.
How can you make him feel comfortable talking to you further without a locator on you? ”
The frustrated master frowned and looked back at Mason.
The latter made a hidden "3" gesture to him, which meant that in addition to the locator placed by Batman, Wick had three additional devices that could be activated.
This response finally satisfied the master.
At the same time, he felt in his heart that he was a terrible person, and decided to do two full-body checks on himself after going back to the Batcave today. He suspected that there might be something left by Mason on his body. No, there is no need to doubt it!
Definitely!
"Except for the two pretenders in Metropolis, two of the remaining five are in London, one in Atlantis and one in Khandaq.
The last one is in Star City!
This is the most dangerous one. She has disguised herself as Black Canary, and her target should be Oliver, the Green Arrow. I don’t know if he has found any clues. ”
The master retrieved the information of the seven discovered pretenders. He nodded and stood in front of the computer and said in a hoarse voice:
"The main members of the Justice League are all being targeted. The good news is that none are around me yet. Maybe they feel that an ordinary person is not worthy of being taken seriously?"
"Rather than despise the enemy, I prefer Selena to always be by your side. Once the symbiote completes its parasitism, it can also see through the disguise of the Skrulls.
They may feel threatened. ”
Mason looked at the Black Canary avatar on the screen and said to Wick next to him:
"We should have been harder when we beat this lady last time. If we had been more ruthless then, maybe the disguise of these guys would have been discovered long ago."
"But this is just a pretender within the Justice League. It does not represent the external situation."
Wick reminded:
"Even if we don't count the ordinary people in this world, there are many small groups outside the Zhenglian, such as super villains and spell casters. I have enough reason to suspect that the situation of being infiltrated in those groups is more serious."
"So, this is the next step."
Mason patted the arms box at hand, took out a biological bait bomb from it and said to the two people:
"Each one can be used three times. I have brought one hundred and an additional two hundred energy plug-ins, which should be enough for your consumption in the next period of time."
"But I think we might be able to adopt a 'stalking' tactic."
The master did not go to get the biological bait bomb. He narrowed his eyes and said:
"The current situation is that these seven people don't know that they have been discovered by us. I guess that such a spy pioneer must have an internal communication network, and they will summarize information and communicate progress every once in a while.
Instead of relying on us to passively search for them, we should wait for them to actively expose them.
Tracking seven points at the same time can draw a spy network, and through continuous observation of this network, we can grasp their movements without irritating them, and then catch them all at the right time.
But to execute this plan, I need an all-weather stealth reconnaissance drone that can conceal my keen senses.”
"Pa"
Mason snapped his fingers, and the three small drones that had been floating in the room since the beginning of the meeting lifted their optical camouflage and were exposed to the eyes of the master and Wick.
He said:
"The prototype is a Pterodactyl spy assassination drone from a military technology company. It was upgraded with Isu technology and added a little bit of Attilan City's alien technology.
Intelligent AI control, multiple tracking and encrypted recording modes, all-weather optical camouflage, solar power, bee swarm module, and can launch three anesthetic needles when necessary.
I made it myself, and its effect can bring down a Tyrannosaurus rex in five seconds.
I guess you will choose to use it long or short to catch big fish, so a special isotope marker will be sent over in a few days. It is made by Firestorm. Only the instrument I designed can detect its unique spectrum.
Look, Craftsman Mason has prepared all the support for the two of you, and now he's just waiting for you to bring back the good news. ”
"I need to talk to Superman and The Flash."
The master didn't stay too long.
He took a small box of biological decoy bombs and five tracking drones from Mason, as well as the Justice League's equipment upgrade blueprints and Wonder Woman's second truth lasso before leaving.
After watching him leave, Mason looked at Wick next to him. He was still here because he obviously had other things to say.
The Master Assassin pointed to his cloak and said to Mason:
"This Johnny Silverhand is very noisy and will affect my lurking rhythm. Can you deal with him?"
"I guess he's chattering next to you right now and saying bad things about me?"
Mason smiled and waved to the air next to Wick and said:
"Hey, Silverhand, why don't you bother me, you idiot? Am I not important enough so I haven't asked the guys behind you to send a special envoy?"
"He said that sooner or later he would make a hole in your head and do some disgusting things inside. In addition, he said that the gun in your waist was his."
Wick repeated Johnny Silverhand's words expressionlessly.
Indeed, as Mason said, the data consciousness transferred into the replica Isu Shroud cloak would give Mason a crazy middle finger and try to prevent Wick from revealing the secret conversations between him and the Master Assassin.
But unfortunately, John Wick obviously believed in Mason more than he was a washed-up rock singer and sociopath, so he told Mason exactly what Silverhand said to him during this period.
He said:
"He has been trying to persuade me to join a strange organization, claiming to me that they have the ability to protect my world from the evil intentions of the Constellation.
He and the people behind him all know about the existence of Team K, and they are very precious to you.
This makes me a little uneasy, Mason. ”
"I presume their leader's name is Bartmos?"
Mason popped out a cigarette and played with it in his hand. He glanced at Wick, who nodded. After realizing that Mason also knew something about this force, Wick was visibly relieved.
For the Master Assassin, knowing an enemy is not scary. What he really fears is knowing nothing.
"You keep talking to him."
Mason said to Wick:
"Don't worry about their slander and evaluation of me. You can even introduce them to Sister Ka according to Silverhand's ideas, but this will have to wait until Xiaoshan successfully opens the connection between the two worlds.
I believe these data beings will send envoys to interview me when necessary.
Finally, Silver Hand"
Mason winked and said to his invisible data life:
"Your gun and your girlfriend are both great. Thanks to her for helping me last time. Thank you to Ott for me. I look forward to meeting her. Also, if you want to take advantage of Barbara, give up now.
Since you know me, you should understand my style and attitude.
If any harm is done to Barbara, even if it is not your doing, I will blame it on you!
So be it. ”
He nodded to Wick.
The Master Assassin no longer had to worry about his interactions with Johnny Silverhand once he had gained the confidence. When he left Mason's office and walked into the exiting elevator, a projection very similar to the way Mason and Consus interacted hit him next to Wick. Johnny Silverhand appeared in the elevator wearing a vest, jeans and toad glasses.
He leaned to the side and sarcastically said to Wick:
"Are you thinking shit? I told you not to expose my existence! You actually choose to believe Mason Cooper? No! That guy is the same as those corporate dogs.
He treats you as expendable tools.
You, the gloomy Batman, and the world."
"That's better than you guys hiding your head and showing your tail."
Wick pulled up his hood and said expressionlessly:
"I already know what happened in your world from Judy. I know exactly what you 'data ghosts' want to do, but the Isu world already has a group of ancient ghosts from 70,000 years ago haunting our veins. Not scattered
We don't need to bring in any more troublesome guys. ”
"Whatever you idiot says, you know in your heart that I am helping you."
Johnny Silverhand said sarcastically:
"If I hadn't warned you earlier yesterday, your dog would have been shot to death by that lunatic."
When Silverhand mentioned Gouzi, Wick's coldness obviously went up a notch, and he walked out of the bustling Afterlife Bar with a permeating aura.
In the rainy day with neon lights shining outside, he tightened his hood and said:
"He can try, you can all try! But the consequences are at your own risk." (End of Chapter)