The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 3049 Mercury Notes (35)

Chapter 3049 Mercury Record (Thirty-Five)

The matter ended so peacefully, not because the other party was not capable enough, but because this was just an appetizer. The other party would use countless such tiny water ripples to push up a huge wave until everyone was buried in the sea.

Sure enough, less than half an hour after the murder was over, the Mercury base terminal received an alarm from the probe that an alien spacecraft was approaching Mercury rapidly.

The base terminal did not receive any communications from the spacecraft, nor could it recognize the spacecraft's identity code, so it sent out a defense drone to stop the spacecraft outside the safety line and prevent it from approaching Mercury.

Clark went to check the situation and found that the spaceship exploded. Although he was not hurt at all, he was still scared and broke into a cold sweat.

Now humans in the DC universe have not developed to the interstellar age, which means they do not have any means of space defense and rely entirely on the security measures of the Mercury base. Assuming that the defense drones fail to stop the spacecraft and allow it to directly rush to Mercury and explode, it is very likely to cause great casualties.

This incident alarmed almost all the senior officials in the base, so the professor team, which had just been disbanded for less than half an hour, gathered again.

The drones sent back the images they had taken, and it was clearly visible that the spacecraft was not a product of the solar system. The words engraved on the fragments after the explosion were also unfamiliar. For a moment, 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 this spaceship came from the planet Exo in sector 1601. It was a civilian spaceship. The code had been invalid for a long time, so its 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 on this planet is highly similar to that of the Earth, and not everyone uses superpowers. Although their physical fitness is many times better than that of humans, the magical twins who possess superpowers are also outliers among them.

Many years ago, a plague killed many residents of the planet Exo and also caused the death of the parents of the Wonder Twins. The two wandered into a circus, and the younger sister used her ability to transform into an animal to work for the circus owner.

Later, the two sides fell out, and the brother and sister stole the circus's spaceship and came to Earth.

Clark looked at the spaceship up close and was sure that there were actually no weapons on board. It did not look like a combat space weapon and was even somewhat shabby. If it hadn't been for the huge explosion at the end, Clark would have thought it was some space junk.

The professors had no choice but to call the Wonder Twins over again. Zane and Jenna were completely stunned when they saw the fragments.

This was indeed the spaceship they stole, but according to them, they had hidden the spaceship deep in the Rocky Mountains a long time ago, and the spaceship was in poor condition when they first arrived on Earth. By the time they had basically adapted to life on Earth, the old spaceship could no longer be started.

After the drone dragged back all the spacecraft debris, Bruce conducted an inspection and, combined with the analysis of the smart butler, confirmed that what the brother and sister said was true. The spacecraft was so old that only a shell was left, and it was difficult to fly out of the Earth's atmosphere.

Moreover, out of caution, sister Jenna directly dismantled the engine of the spacecraft and completely destroyed it. This was the only part of the spacecraft that could explode. Without the engine, all that was left was iron sheet, which could not possibly explode. So the explosion was very strange.

The professors watched the video of the explosion in the room for a long time, and finally Bruce came to a conclusion that the explosion must not have been caused by some kind of machine, because the flow of energy was too strange.

He sent the video back to Earth, and several professors at the Gotham School of Magic watched it. Madam Xanadu confirmed his point of view and said, "I can confirm that the energy flow at the source of the explosion is closer to magic. Someone compressed a large amount of magic energy and charged it into something, causing it to go out of 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 explanation, that it was a magical accident.

But the more troublesome thing is that before the brother and sister came to the earth on the spaceship, they modified the then very old spaceship, otherwise it would not be able to fly to the earth.

There are some traces of their modifications retained 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 was to allow it to take off again. Fortunately, it is not impossible for it 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 spacecraft was stopped outside the safety line and no one suffered any losses, so the students could have kept it a secret.

But they soon realized that if someone was causing trouble, even if they blocked the news, someone would spread the news among the student community.

The so-called official denial must be true. The fact that professors united to block the news is itself likely to arouse students' resentment. If they also knew that the spaceship came from the magical twin brothers and sisters, combined with the role played by the older brother in the teacher's murder case, it is inevitable that people will think too much.

It was indeed a chain of schemes, one linked to another, the purpose of which was to arouse suspicion among the student community. Suspicion was like a virus that would eventually lead to an 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. Find a way to call Zatanna and Madam Xanadu over. I will also call one of my friends over."

Diana nodded and went to make a phone call. The friend Schiller wanted to call was Brand. The school hospital happened to be short of a psychiatrist, and the salary on Mercury was much higher than that in Arkham Asylum. Naya's human body also needed to eat.

"How do we calm down the students' public opinion?" Schiller looked at Clark and asked, "This is a journalist's job."

Clark thought for a moment, and immediately said that the few bad intentions of this kind and powerful superhero were basically used in his work as a reporter.

"Make this a big deal before the other party does, and it must be done by Zane and Jenna."

He looked at Jenna and said, "When you go back later, you will start crying all the way, saying that your spaceship exploded here for some reason and you will never be able to go home again."

Jenna's eyes widened as she said, "We can't fly this crappy spaceship home anyway. That's 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 long ago, so they had never mentioned it to anyone.

"Then pretend it's never broken," Clark said firmly. "Not only has it never broken, but it's also very advanced, several orders of magnitude beyond the level of human technology. Use every word you can think of to describe it, and emphasize that it cost you all your money, and now it's broken, and you've suffered a great loss."

Jenna immediately realized that they had to portray themselves as victims before the mastermind portrayed them as malicious perpetrators, emphasizing that they had no motive at all to use their own spaceship as a bomb.

Naturally, the better and more expensive the spacecraft is, the smaller this motivation will be.

"No." Jenna raised another question, "We are not the only aliens among the students. Some aliens know the truth about the planet Axl and will not believe what we say."

"He knows about Exo in the past, not the present."

"But there aren't many now..."

"It's not that advanced now, but don't forget who holds the power of interstellar public opinion."

Jenna was even more confused. She looked at Clark and said, "You don't mean to say it's the Earth?"

"Of course not, it's the Green Lantern Corps." Clark typed a message to Hal on his phone and said, "We can work together inside and outside to have Hal modify the history of the planet Axl that the Green Lantern Corps once recorded at the terminal at the Green Lantern headquarters."

"I'll write a few more news stories about the launch of epoch-making spacecraft and insert them into their historical news on scientific research and development. The time when you purchased the spacecraft will be around the same, which will naturally confirm your statement."

"The aliens who came here would not hold high positions on their own planets, so it would be difficult for them to find out more in-depth information, and they would not be able to expose you."

"You are actually able to control the Green Lantern Corps." Zan exclaimed: "The Justice League is indeed a very powerful organization."

Next, they began to arrange the work. Clark took Oliver to write the news, Diana went to get reinforcements from the magic side, Bruce stayed at the headquarters to monitor unexpected situations, and Arthur took the brother and sister to spread the news.

Other professors all went to class as usual. The more crisis there is, the more order should be maintained, so as to dispel the atmosphere of panic to the greatest extent.

As for Schiller, no one assigned him any work, because everyone knew that the professor who was always disturbed would not give up, and he was the one responsible for fighting back.

Schiller called Brand first. Brand was reluctant to come at first, but when he saw the string of zeros after the salary, he immediately said that there was no psychiatrist in the world more suitable for extraterrestrial work than him.

Brand arrived very quickly, or to be more precise, in a flash. When he arrived, Schiller was writing and drawing, as if he was sorting out the sequence of events.

Brand leaned over to take a look at Schiller's notes and discovered that the starting point of the Mercury affair Schiller wrote about was not the security check or the classroom murder case, but the Scarecrow serial murder case.

This case happened a while ago, and from the murderer to the victim, it seems that Mercury has nothing to do with it. The only thing it exists in is that it appears in Bruce's lesson plan.

But next to this case there is another case, that is the Nygma serial murder case.

Comparing these two cases, apart from the fact that both involved three victims, there is another key point of overlap, which is the totemic nature of the crime scene.

In the Scarecrow Murders, the scarecrow standing on the flat ground is itself a totem, while in the Nygma Serial Murders, the murderer in the last case created a totem with a corpse.

The conditions of these two victims are actually very similar. Both were pierced on wooden stakes and stood on a flat ground, presenting the most conspicuous protrusion on the earth. The root cause is related to totems.

In fact, totemic corpse states are not uncommon in serial murders. Vertical totems are a more primitive form of reproductive worship that demonstrates male power and are a form that many serial killers like to use.

But the problem is that the suspected murderers in these two cases do not look like people who would use this form.