PFC Chapter 3072 Mercury Notes (58)
Chapter 3072 Mercury Notes (58)
Chapter 3072 Mercury Record (Fifty-Eight)
In the office at Mercury Base, the argument continued, and Oliver and Bruce had a serious disagreement.
"No, Oliver, we don't have enough evidence. Based on the clues we know now, we can't prove that Miss Cain is the murderer." Bruce said with his hands on his hips.
"I'm not saying she's definitely the murderer, but I think in this case, it's better to restrain her first. That way, if there's another attack in the future, she can be ruled out as a suspect. Isn't that a good thing?"
"Since we can't prove she's the murderer, we have no right to imprison her!"
"This is not imprisonment." Oliver was still trying to convince Bruce. He said, "We just put her in a place with better surveillance to help her eliminate suspicion..."
"I don't agree with this either." Clark said, "Cassandra is too young. Such suspicion may cause her psychological trauma. Besides, if we don't let her go for a long time, other students will know what's going on. How can she get along with them in the future?"
Oliver seemed a little helpless and continued to persuade them, but Bruce and Clark firmly disagreed. Cassandra seemed to be unable to speak and just listened quietly beside them, not expressing her own opinion at all.
Jenna is also helping Cassandra argue her case, and Oliver is currently alone in the fight until Diana joins the battle.
"I have to say that Miss Cain is indeed the most suspicious person at the moment, but the evidence is indeed not enough to prove that she is the murderer. So why don't we find an excuse to send her back to Earth and tell the students that she has something to do. This way, even if she is wrongly accused, she won't be resented."
After she said this, the room fell silent.
Bruce asked a crucial question, "Who will send her back then?"
There was still silence in the room, so Diana had to speak again: "I can't go back. Oliver is an ordinary person and might be in danger. Clark has to stay on Mercury, so I'm afraid Bruce will have to go..."
"I'll go." Jenna stretched out her hand and volunteered, "I can also protect Cassandra and prevent anyone from harming her."
"You should be careful too." Diana said to her, "Now is a time of trouble. Come back as soon as you have settled Miss Cain."
Jenna nodded vigorously, pulling her brother and Cassandra out of the office, and as soon as she left, she breathed a sigh of relief.
They ran to the portal in one breath, and Zan grabbed his sister and said, "What are you doing? There has been something wrong with you since a while ago. You winked at Lilith, and now you agree to let Cassandra go to Earth. This is not like you."
"We have telepathy, can't you sense what I'm thinking?"
"Normally, I can only sense general emotions, but I do sense that you're not as anxious as before. What happened?"
Zan was about to walk towards the portal, but Jenna stopped him. Zan asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Didn't you say you were going to send Cassandra to Earth? Let's go."
"Don't be impatient." Jenna said with a smile.
At this time, Zan turned around and saw Cassandra looking around, lowering her head and touching the surface of the table with her hand, with a thoughtful expression on her face.
During the time they spent with Cassandra, they had discovered that although this Asian girl was taciturn and seemed to have no emotional fluctuations, she was actually very thoughtful and always noticed small details that others could not.
Just as Zan was about to say something, the portal flashed and a person walked out.
Barry said to the three of them, "You are the only ones left. Follow me."
Zan looked confused, not knowing what to do, but Jenna caught up with Barry, and Cassandra followed closely behind, so Zan had no choice but to follow them through the portal.
With a flash of light, they arrived at a familiar yet unfamiliar world. It was not the Earth teleportation station that this portal was supposed to lead to, but a place exactly the same as the Mercury teleportation hall.
What's going on? Zan looked around in bewilderment. Did they go through the portal or not? Why did they seem to stay put?
Led by Barry, they walked out of the portal hall. In the corridor, Zan saw students of all kinds, so they really didn't teleport at all, right?
Zan was not stupid either. He suddenly realized that why he didn’t see so many students on the way from his office to the teleportation hall?
He thought back to what happened at that time. The entire Mercury base was eerily quiet, as if everyone had disappeared in an instant. It was not unreasonable to say that the students had hidden themselves away for fear of being attacked, but Zan always felt that it was not that simple.
The three were taken to a classroom, where they saw several familiar faces, including Bono, Blue Beetle Ted, Golden Booster, and several students who had been attacked before.
Now Zan was even more confused. Was this going to be a victims' gathering?
Jenna smiled and finally told her brother the truth. She said, "There is a traitor in the Justice League."
"what?!"
"When I empathize with Bruce, I can feel that he already knew this and was not completely unprepared, and what we had to do at the time was to buy him time."
Zan was slightly stunned, then suddenly realized, he said: "That's why you winked at Lilith, hinting that she could read your mind so that you could tell her your guess."
"Yes, it turns out that my guess was correct. Lilith must have read Bruce's mind and knew their plan, so she asked for this and that, and acted crazy and stupid to delay time."
Zan nodded. Lilith's way of stalling time was very unique, but very effective. It took a long time to deliver each thing she wanted. A shaman performance took at least two hours, and a complete show took an entire night.
"But why are they stalling for time?" Zan asked. Others also gathered around, especially Blue Beetle Ted. Blue Beetle obviously knew something but didn't tell him, and he was now extremely curious.
"The purpose of stalling is to catch the traitor. Obviously, if we act the moment we know about it, we will inevitably be unprepared. Although I think they will not be hurt, don't forget that there are still so many students in the Mercury base."
Ted pushed aside the others, stepped forward and said, "If you want to transfer the students, then hurry up. What are you waiting for now?"
Others also echoed this. In their opinion, if they needed to move, they should gather and move quickly instead of continuing normal teaching activities here.
Jenna smiled and said, "It has been transferred a long time ago."
"what???"
The others were puzzled, but Jenna smiled and said, "Look carefully at the sun outside the window, don't you think there's anything wrong?"
After hearing her words, everyone turned to look out the window. The mysterious patterns on the sun were still spinning and flashing, and it looked no different than usual.
Because Mercury is too close to the Sun, most of the field of vision is blocked by the Sun, making it basically impossible to see the conditions in other places in the solar system. However, the patterns on the Sun all look similar, and no one noticed anything unusual.
"Bonu, your water control magic is very powerful. How about taking us out to have a look?" Jenna looked at the girl from Atlantis.
Bonu was also very curious. He thought that since he had died once and there was a way to resurrect, it wouldn't be dangerous to do anything, so he might as well go out and take a look.
So she controlled the water flow to cover the bodies of several people, allowing them to survive in space, and Blue Beetle teleported them out together through the glass.
As they gradually left the Mercury base, everyone was stunned, because at this time the eight planets in the solar system had suddenly become nine planets.
"Don't get me wrong, it's not that the one who was kicked out came back, but that there is an extra Mercury."
There are now two planets in Mercury's orbit, both slowly rotating around the sun. And based on the limited cosmic science knowledge that a few people have, the position of the Mercury in the distance is correct, and this Mercury is an extra one.
Everyone was stunned.
And if you look more closely, you will see that both Mercuries have been transformed and both have Mercury bases. From the outside, there is almost no difference between them. It's just that they are diagonally opposite each other in orbit. If you don't fly far and high enough, you can't see the flaw.
"So what's going on here?" Ted asked. "How did a Mercury appear out of nowhere?"
But Bonu already understood a little. She said, "I understand. When I was washing my hands before, I found that the water flow in the base had some abnormal slight vibrations. At that time, I thought that the Mercury base had activated some machine with high power, which caused the overall vibration. Now it seems that the planet is changing its orbit."
"Planet change?"
"Yes, do you think a super base this big that almost empties out Mercury can't be moved?"
Ted's mouth opened wide. This was obviously beyond his comprehension. He said, "You mean, the Mercury Base ran away with Mercury?!"
"The Mercury Base is Mercury." Jenna said, "Don't be so surprised. Isn't this something you humans created?"
"But...but...this shouldn't be something humans did," Ted stammered. "Humans' cars haven't even started to fly yet, so how could they make Mercury run away?"
"It's true that this thing was developed by humans, because all the equipment inside is obviously adapted for humans, but it may not be developed by this group of humans." Blue Beetle spoke up, and said, "There is a future person standing in front of you now. What else is impossible?"
Golden Pioneer nodded and said, "It is true that human technology will be very advanced in the future, but I didn't hear about any planetary battleships at that time. This kind of equipment may come from a more distant future."
"I understand this part." Zan nodded and said, "A base device that occupies 80% of the mass of Mercury secretly moved its position, allowing the Mercury where the students were to come here, but what about the fake Mercury? Why did they move Mercury away first and then create a fake one?"
"Of course it's to confuse the traitor." Jenna said, "The traitor is not stupid. He knows how much the Justice League values the students. As long as he stays inside the base, he will think that the Justice League will not dare to take action against him easily, because it is very likely to endanger the students."
"And as long as he is still inside the base, he can capture hostages at any time and use them to negotiate with the Justice League. He will always have a way out. The Justice League wants to give him this illusion, so they let the real Mercury leave first and then create a fake one, so that the inner ghost will mistakenly believe that the current situation is still in his favor and will not escape easily."
"So that's how it is." Ted also understood it completely. He said, "In order to stabilize the traitor, we have to resort to this method of subterfuge. But even if we stabilize it, we still have to fight in the end, right? Mercury is so close to the sun. If the sun is endangered, not to mention the students, the earth will be finished with it."
"I don't know about that." Jenna shook her head and said, "But don't you think it's a little strange? Humans in this era can't build a Mercury base at all, so where did this fake Mercury base come from? And it was restored to be exactly the same as the real one in such a short time. There must be something fishy, right?"
As soon as she finished speaking, in front of everyone's shocked gazes, the fake Mercury in the correct position turned green.