Chapter 341 The Mastermind Behind the Scenes (Back to the Main Story!)

Death Valley, California.

"Power doesn't corrupt, fear does. Perhaps it's the fear of losing power..."

Clang.

A leather boot stepped on the hollow iron mesh steps, and the sound was particularly eye-catching in the empty corridor.

This is the Berelf Prison of the Eye Society. The villains such as Cheetah, Steel Beam, Shrapnel, and Giganta were imprisoned here before and after being defeated by Batman and Wonder Woman.

As one of the superhuman prisons controlled by the government, Amanda Waller has devoted enough effort to this prison. Not only has it deployed enough defenses to deal with Superman's attacks, but in order to prevent criminals from escaping, she also specially invited Batman to use Brainiac's technology to reinforce it.

She knew that even if she didn't let Batman intervene, the other party would still take action. In this case, it would be better to let Batman's behavior be under her control.

In short, sandwiched between Batman's entire Justice League and the government, Amanda Waller found her own balance point.

A small part of this prison belongs to Batman and the Justice League, although Batman has never placed his prisoners in this prison; the other part belongs to people in the government, such as the messy government organizations that Amanda Waller has no right to ask about except the Sky Eye Bureau, such as the Shogi Club; there is even a part open to colleagues that Amanda Waller thinks are threatening enough, such as the Shadow Agent Bureau. Amanda Waller has seen the old man who looks like a little girl in elementary school and her biological commandos.

Frankly speaking, people who hear this design for the first time will definitely think that such a prison design is simply idiotic. If you just want to build a prison, how can so many forces place their own forces in the prison? Isn't this a sieve?

It can only be said that people who think this way don't understand politics. For some people in the government, they will never allow Amanda Waller to own a prison that they can't interfere with at all.

These people are powerful. If Amanda Waller cannot resist such people, she might as well give up some of them in exchange for retaining most of the control of this prison.

She took the initiative to abandon the useless or dispensable parts of this prison in exchange for the absolute iron wall under her control.

She carefully selected every guard to ensure that there would be no spies from any other forces or bribes. She even found a piece of land in the wealthy area of ​​​​New York for the families of these soldiers to live.

Since the establishment of this prison, this has been her base camp. No one has ever been able to invade here, and no prisoners have ever escaped. However, recently, several escapes of Leopard Woman and Black Manta have cast a shadow on the reputation of this prison as an iron wall.

For this reason, Amanda Waller has strengthened security more than three times to ensure that there will be no problems. The escape of Cheetah and Black Manta had already made Amanda Waller lose face. After Batman and Wonder Woman caught them, Amanda Waller could not allow her people to let them go again. Therefore, the Berelv Prison was in a critical stage of full martial law at this time.

But to be honest, this is very strange. Black Manta and Cheetah were not imprisoned in this prison for the first time. Why did they escape frequently in the recent period of time, just like going home, coming and going as they please?

Clang!

The pair of boots stepped down the suspended wire steps step by step, and soon came to a closed iron door.

Click, click.

The pair of boots walked towards the two guards in front of the iron door.

"Good morning, gentlemen."

The owner of the boots said. The voice sounded very gentle, polite, and full of a man's intellectuality. Even if you can't see the face, the moment you hear this voice, you will feel that the owner of this voice must be a gentle and elegant poetic man.

"No entry without permission, sir." The guard said, "Please stop. This is the restricted area announced by Ms. Waller."

The guard took a close look at the badge of the visitor, and his tone slowed down a little, becoming more polite: "Sir, you must stop here. We have been strictly told that due to the previous jailbreak, everyone must-"

"There is no need to do this." The guard saw the man in leather boots and said in a gentle voice:

"It's really unnecessary."

The guard took a deep breath and repeated again: "Sir--"

However, at this time, he heard the owner of the boots say:

"You would rather kill each other."

"What? What..."

Bang bang bang bang bang!

There was a burst of gunfire in front of the iron gate, but the strange thing was that the countless alarm measures originally prefabricated on the iron gate were all silent, as if they did not exist.

Bullets tore flesh apart, fragments cut arteries, and the two guards who had shot each other into sieves lay on the ground, making a hoarse sound with their last breath, but they still tried to pull the trigger of the submachine gun whose magazine had been emptied.

"Thank you."

The owner of the boots said, he stepped carefully over the two bodies on the ground, and stepped on the pool of blood with his shiny boots. The blood stained it, as if his boots were coated with a nice layer of olive oil.

"Walk through here... This area is what Amanda Waller calls the 'crypt'... The world's top secret prison, used to detain a handful of dangerous criminals."

The owner of the boots walked along the corridor and soon walked into a huge hall.

His figure was stretched out by the corridor lights, projected on an experimenter in a white coat in the hall. Half of his face was hidden in the shadows due to the backlight, making it difficult to see his face clearly.

"What are you doing here?!"

The lab worker in the white coat screamed: "You don't have permission to come here!"

"Come and release the prisoners, Doctor."

"No!" The lab worker in the white coat flatly rejected him: "You don't understand at all, what we have gone through to detain them, do you really know who they are? They don't belong to this world!"

"I know. Now, release them."

The shadow said.

The owner of the boots didn't threaten him and just gave the order in a normal way.

But the doctor's whole body began to tremble.

"Why...why are you doing this?"

The doctor in the white coat tried to delay as much as possible. He had heard countless footsteps coming towards him not far from the corridor.

But he couldn't control his body. He kept manipulating something on the computer console next to him, and released what the owner of the boots wanted him to release against his subjective will. He tried to refuse, but he was powerless.

"Because I believe in the second chance." He heard the owner of the boots say, "Sometimes I seem to feel that the end of the world has come and gone..."

"Don't let him escape!" The noisy voices in the corridor finally approached the room.

With a bang, a large number of guards wearing protective clothing, wearing white iron masks on their faces, and armed to the teeth with various weapons rushed out of the door behind them: "Catch him!"

The owner of the boots turned around: "But I still have hope."

Swish!

A figure as fast as a startled bird appeared behind him, and a flaming blade chopped off the soldier's head as if it were alive, and the movement was as easy as pulling a small tomato from a small tomato tree on the roadside.

The owner of the boots raised his head slightly, and then closed his eyes.

"I hope I can encourage everyone to do better."

A green light penetrated the poor many soldiers. Although those mortal soldiers were wearing heavy bulletproof armor, they were still annihilated under this green light.

"I just need some brave souls who can bear the weight of the world..."

The floor tiles under the feet of many soldiers were broken. One by one, the steel bars mixed into the building drilled through the ground like snakes and strangled the soldiers. Some soldiers' lower bodies and some steel bars even drilled into the soldiers' bodies, which looked terrible.

The helpless screams of the soldiers were connected, creating a lot of horror atmosphere in this house out of thin air.

"And have the will to sacrifice all their lives to save others."

Puff! A stream of blood splashed on the professor's face, and he collapsed to the ground trembling all over. The blood seemed to be gushing out of a squeezed bag.

His pupils reflected the raised butcher knife.

"I love this world..."

The doctor in the white coat gasped, and he felt his alveoli groaning and gushing blood foam. He realized that the other party deliberately did not kill him, just to satisfy the desire to watch him die slowly.

So he could only twitch desperately and suck air again and again, and then desperately saw them leaking out of his broken trachea, and not a breath could enter his lungs.

Before he died, he heard the murderer who invaded the Berelf prison say: "But something has changed...something must change."

"It seems that I am the only one who can realize that humanity is falling apart, and those who have the power to correct the chaos are at a loss."

The owner of the boot stood in front of the many shadows that were released, and then he snapped his fingers.

"We can take advantage of this, so I released you from prison."

He looked at the hideous monsters fearlessly, with the same hideous smile on his lips.

"You have long been forgotten, you have been betrayed by those you once trusted. You represent the government's darkest secrets and dirty past. And united, we can complete a cause that we have started for a long time."

He walked slowly around the released monsters.

"If you help me find what I need, I'll help you fulfill your wish. All of you."

He promised: "I'll help you kill Amanda Waller."

"Hey, that sounds better than singing."

The owner of the boots heard a strange laugh at this time, as hoarse as the cry of a vulture before pecking at carrion, making people feel uncomfortable.

"Then what is your purpose? What benefits can you get?"

The owner of the boots raised his head and saw five people sitting in front of him.

The space mercenary Baolang used a corpse as a seat, put one foot on the cut brain, and twisted it with the sole of his shoe. His name is Rob, a Zanian. He was born on Czarnia and killed all the people on his planet when he was 17 years old. As an interstellar bounty hunter, he has black hair that stands upside down, red eyes, pale skin, and an immortal body.

Standing behind him is Dr. Polaris, a master who can control magnetism. He folded his arms and reflected a purple light behind his forehead.

He is the greatest master of magnetism in the world. He can easily use magnetism to lift and move heavy objects, control iron particles in the air, and even change the earth's magnetic field. He can also use magnetism to fly, control any natural or artificial electromagnetic field, or create an impenetrable electromagnetic force field that can defend against any mental, energy or physical attack.

(Note: This person is one of the inspirations for Magneto in Marvel.)

The Emerald Queen stood on his right, she was dressed in green, and a huge eyeball floated on her forehead. It was the Emerald Eye of Ekron, an extremely dangerous and deadly weapon.

And standing next to the three of them was Johnny Solo, the agent of death and the enemy of the Justice Society, his head was a floating mask.

Rustam stood at the end, he was a sturdy man in a cloak, holding a burning flame knife in his hand.

"Me?"

The owner of the boots hesitated for a moment.

He gently pinched his nose with his right hand, and then shook off a few drops of blood that flowed out of it.

"You see, Batman has no time to care about what we are doing now. I helped his son Damian hack into his database, and now he must be worried about his son accidentally defeating the companions he arranged for him."

"I caused an earthquake, provoked a war, and successfully dispersed all the members of the Justice League. They were busy. I took away the power of the Cheetah, and then returned some of the Cheetah's power to her at the right time, and just now I let her go again."

"Batman, who is unable to split his time, will have to hunt her down in person, and after hunting down the Cheetah, he will have to go back to deal with Damian's affairs. This will greatly delay his time."

"And all things will bring me an opportunity, an opportunity for me to come to you, everyone-"

"I tell you this because I hope you can know how much I have paid to see you."

The owner of the boots bent down slightly, then wiped the blood from his nose:

"Let's meet formally--"

"My name is Maxwell Lord, from the Shogi Club."

"I can save the world."

(Note: Maxwell Lord, Wonder Woman's villain, telepath, and the strongest one. The most famous thing is that in the comics, he once controlled Superman's mind to attack Batman and Wonder Woman, and conspired to threaten the safety of the world. In order to stop him, Wonder Woman was forced to break his neck, but Lord anticipated his own death and broadcast the image of Wonder Woman killing him to the world, successfully destroying Wonder Woman's reputation. This incident, along with "Death in the Family" where the second-generation Robin Jason Todd was beaten to death by the Joker, and "Emerald Twilight" where 7 million people died in Coast City and Hal Jordan turned into Parallax, became one of the three reasons why Superboy-Prime believed that there was no hope in the world.)