0p0 Chapter 250 From the Illusion Space
Chapter 250 From the Illusion Space
Chapter 250 From the Illusion Space
The answer is obvious: when Joey and Mark traveled through dimensions, they passed through the Flashpoint universe. Even though they only stayed for less than five minutes, they still attracted unnecessary attention.
It's difficult for anything that happens on Earth to escape the Kryptonians' watchful eyes.
Angustran's ability to transcend dimensions was a gift to him, but to a genius like Tony Stark it was merely the result of a reckless experiment.
Unfortunately, Carl El's adoptive father, Joe El, was also such a genius.
Even if Joey didn't tell Joe Al certain key information, it wouldn't be difficult for his own father to realize how the Phantom Dimension exists in the multiverse.
In virtually every universe, Jor-El was the one who discovered the Phantom Space, and most of the time, the Kryptonians used it as a prison for exiling criminals.
However, as a transdimensional realm outside the normal spacetime continuum, this formless realm, which consists only of nothingness, is essentially a barrier between different universes.
At least the Dark Multiverse and the Matter-Antimatter Universe can be connected through the Phantom Space.
If we compare different universes to islands, then the Phantom Space is the void that fills the space between them. As long as we can find the way to cross the ocean, we can naturally reach our destination.
Since Joe Al has already begun using the derivative technology of the Phantom Space to perform faster-than-light jumps within this universe, it's easy to see why he can still do something with this void sea that hardly interacts with the outside world.
After all, this is a ruthless individual who successfully changed the fate of Krypton in the Flashpoint universe, organized an expeditionary fleet, fought all the way from sector 2814 where Krypton is located to sector 2682, and fought against the Lightbringer, the Senagan Eagleman Empire, and the Lann Star Magic Legion at the same time, and was invincible, destroying Tamaran as easily as eating and drinking.
Now that Joey has suddenly appeared and disappeared from the dimensional portal, it is undoubtedly a wake-up call for Jor-El.
With the warning triggered by the instinct of Doomsday, there is no doubt that the other party has found a way and has likely already tracked down the trail.
"Ah, this—"
After hearing the whole story, Mark was a little speechless. He thought his father, Almighty, was bad enough:
"Your father is indeed a super dangerous person. In that case, your home planet Krypton is basically a replica of Witrum."
"No, it's the enhanced version."
The term "copycat" is used too lightly; Joey feels that Mark still hasn't grasped the seriousness of the problem.
"I can precisely kill anyone from Earth's satellite orbit using thermal vision, and I can cause the moon to collapse with the blink of an eye, or even easily drag a moon from another galaxy to Earth—"
After recalling his several encounters with Kara and his first meeting with Jor-El, and comparing this to Zod's strength in his past life memories, Joey easily arrived at a conclusion:
"I feel like there are at least 8,000 to 10,000 people in Krypton who can reach my level."
"You're not kidding, are you!"
Seeing Joey's genuinely serious expression, Mark's anxiety finally subsided.
He thought he was already under enough pressure, but he didn't expect there to be even more experts among them.
"So what do we do?"
"us?"
Joey turned his head in confusion: "What's it to you?"
He didn't want to drag Mark, this fragile universe, into this mess.
The reason why that madman Joe El recklessly abandoned his advantage in the battle against Senagon and Lann was partly because someone told him that there was an anti-life equation on Earth, and he came here to look for it.
Secondly, they came for Joey.
After understanding the destructive potential within himself, Joey understood even better why Jor-El was so eager.
As for reasons like family ties and a sense of community, Joey didn't believe that such a mentality would exist in someone who could unify power and seize control of Krypton on the verge of implosion, becoming the chief ruler of Krypton.
Although it is unknown what methods the other party used to locate this place, judging from Doomsday's straightforward and restless behavior, it is clear that this tracking is directly aimed at Joey himself.
So it's time for him to run away again.
The most urgent task is to put that pile of scrap metal back together and send a message to Iron Man as soon as possible.
"I can help you—"
Mark's impulsive words were interrupted by Joey before he could finish:
"No, you can't! Use your brain, Mark!"
An eighteen-year-old is naturally full of youthful vigor, but in Joey's eyes, that's no reason to take on everything so readily, especially since this young man faces no fewer problems than himself:
"Your universe has no Old or New Gods, no Cenagon Eagleman Empire, no Oa or Green Lantern Corps. Fighting the Witrum Empire is a near-certain death, but fighting the Kryptonian Legion?"
Joey raised his hand and pointed with his thumb to the yellowish-brown moon behind him:
"For a Kryptonian like me, it wouldn't even take ten seconds to push that satellite and make it crash onto Earth's continental shelf."
Mark was speechless. Joey's words were merciless. He was unhappy, but he couldn't find any reason to refute them.
Morally, he shouldn't have stood by and watched his benefactor, who had saved his family, fall into danger and die without offering assistance. However, from a sense of responsibility...
He couldn't bear the safety of the entire planet and risk everything to follow Joey.
"You young man, who told you I was going to die!"
Despite having a face that looked even younger than eighteen-year-old Mark, Joey still dared to criticize Mark about his age without batting an eye.
"I'm just temporarily avoiding the limelight and getting away from you bunch of burdens. They can't do anything to me!"
These words were hurtful, but they couldn't convince Mark; deep down, he still couldn't accept this outcome.
"I'm sorry I can't be of much help."
"No, you can still be of some help."
Joey had Friday's crew print out a list full of raw materials that were difficult to obtain legally just by spending money:
"Take this to Cecil and tell him I'm going to build a better signal tower to get home."
Snapped!
Director Cissell slammed the materials request form on his desk with a bang: "Mark, do you know how much these materials cost?"
At least 1.5 billion!
The invincible young hero's trip has truly brought him back a living father.
Who would have thought that asking for help would lead to such a mess?
"It's not expensive."
Having seen the Global Defense Agency's exorbitant budget, Mark had become somewhat insensitive to money:
"Every time you use teleportation, that giant device burns through five million taxpayer dollars!"
"That's for expense reimbursement, cough cough!"
In a fit of anger, Cissel almost blurted out the truth: "It's for national security!"
"That's perfect, it's also for national security."
Cecil wasn't always a stingy person; Mark knew that after the incident with the All-Powerful, he simply subconsciously distrusted Superman.
"Sign it, Cecil. He just wants to go back!"
"Sigh~" Cecilia knew she had no choice. If she didn't approve it, was she going to force Superman to come and snatch it?
So, on the spot, he generously increased the Global Defense Agency's materials budget by $4.5 billion under this pretext:
"Let Donald take you to the lab to get it!"