Chapter 457: Hacker Techniques Are Also Based on Physics

After Ares took the blame for everything, Diana and Arthur finally let go of their grievances against each other, realized that continuing to fight like this was meaningless, and chose to surrender one after another.

Besides, they had no choice but to surrender.

Darian stood right there, looking at them with a menacingly kind expression, clearly not discussing matters with them.

If they had been any slower in making their decision, they probably wouldn’t even have had the chance to surrender.

They had seen that colossal spear blocking out the sky in the air just now, and they had no confidence in surviving a hit like that.

As Diana and Arthur successively expressed their stance, the cease-fire order quickly spread to all parts of the battlefield, and the armies of Atlantis and Amazon completely stopped fighting.

The human resistance army, upon discovering this scene, was stunned for a few seconds before bursting into cheers.

At this point, this war that had almost dragged the entire world into the abyss finally came to an end.

The game system’s prompt tone rang in Darian’s mind at the appropriate time.

These quest rewards were abstract as always.

Darian had heard a little about the Mistress Blade.

In web novels for female readers, this was the exclusive skill of a mistress, belonging to the existence of ultimate imperial weapons.

Whenever the mistress took a knife to retaliate against the protagonist, she could ignore distance and instantly teleport in front of the protagonist to stab them. Even if the protagonist was surrounded by bodyguards three layers inside and three layers outside, it couldn’t be stopped. It could be called a causality-level weapon, and its effect was extremely domineering.

Unfortunately, the main body was just a fruit knife. No matter how strong the effect was, the power was also limited, but the operational room was still quite large.

The invisible airplane was even more absurd.

The exterior of the airplane was invisible, but the people inside were not invisible. What was the point of this thing?

Compared to these two strange items, Darian paid more attention to the other two.

The God of War Helmet didn’t seem simple just by looking at its description.

Especially with that huge side effect. He didn’t know if the Dummy Ring could offset it. To be safe, it was better not to try it rashly.

As for the Power Bank, this skill was similar to Max’s ability, capable of absorbing electricity for storage and release.

With this skill, in the future when encountering opponents who played with thunder and electricity, he wouldn’t have to worry about being electroshock-treated anymore.

Thor’s electricity resistance ranking dropped another spot.

Thor: “…”

Darian was not in a hurry to leave the dungeon.

He reached out and grabbed Thomas, dragging him out from where he was hiding in the dark.

Thomas: “…”

“Let’s go, let’s go find Clark and the others.”

Darian grabbed the back of the necks of Thomas and Barry, flew directly away from the battlefield, and headed towards the location where Clark and the others were.

As for Diana and Arthur, the Grade-A criminals who almost turned the world upside down, Darian did not plan to handle them personally, directly handing them over to the human forces of this world to decide for themselves.

Anyway, his task was already completed, and subsequent matters had nothing to do with him.

However, after this battle, Atlantis and Amazon suffered heavy losses, with most of their military forces folded on the battlefield. It was unknown how much their strength had been weakened.

With the current strength of the human side, they could barely wrestle with them, at least no longer being passively beaten like before.

Not to mention that Clark had appeared out of nowhere.

As long as Lois, the leader of the human resistance, sacrificed herself a bit and used a honey trap to pull this newly debuted God of Earth into their camp, Diana and Arthur wouldn’t be able to stir up any major trouble in the future.

The three flew all the way and quickly found the trace of Clark and his party.

In addition to the rescued Captain Atom, there were many more people around them, among whom a bald man was particularly conspicuous.

Unlike Luthor in other DC Universes, the Luthor of this Universe stood on the side of justice and was also a member of the human resistance, fighting against Atlantis and Amazon.

Relying on his own brain and technology, Luthor gathered a batch of human resistance fighters, formed a fleet to quietly go out to sea, and searched for the whereabouts of the Doomsday device.

Unfortunately, before they could find anything, their whereabouts were discovered by Atlantis, which directly dispatched troops to encircle and suppress their fleet.

Because Atlantis’s military force was simply too massive, their fleet of less than a hundred people simply could not resist and was quickly captured by Atlantis’s army, leaving only a small portion of people still stubbornly resisting.

Just when Luthor and the others were about to fail to hold on, Clark and a few others happened to come looking for Captain Atom and rescued them in time.

Without needing Hal and Victor to make a move, Clark, with the power of one person alone, resolved the encircling Atlantis soldiers.

He spent another half a minute locking onto an Atlantis warship hidden deep in the seabed, rushed in, and fished out the imprisoned Captain Atom as well.

Things that Luthor and the others tried their best to do could not be accomplished, yet Clark completed them in less than a minute.

Witnessing such a huge gap between the two sides, Luthor seemed to have opened the door to a new world.

He realized that human strength was too weak, and in front of monsters like Diana and Arthur, there was simply no chance of winning. Humanity needed a powerful Guardian deity to protect them.

And this Guardian was undoubtedly the Superman in front of him!

So he began to pester Clark. The more he contacted him, the more he felt that the other party was pure-hearted, and he became even more determined to build Clark into humanity’s Guardian deity.

“Superman, you are my god!”

Darian casually glanced at Luthor’s thoughts and was suddenly left a bit speechless.

In those worlds that possessed Superman, Luthor believed in human supremacy, and humanity did not need Superman.

When he arrived in this world without Superman, he instead felt that humans were too weak and wished he could enshrine Superman as a savior.

One could only say that people indeed desired whatever they lacked.

However, this was fine too. It just so happened that the Batman of this world liked to fight alone, had no interest in Superman, and had no intention of being his external brain.

And now with Luthor, the smartest person in this world, Clark’s super brain could rest indefinitely again.

Darian complained, “Could this be the true ability of a super brain? There will always be an external brain to do the work instead.”

He took the opportunity to invite Luthor to join the Avengers.

As soon as Luthor heard that Clark was also among them, he agreed without even thinking, pushing the quest progress forward a bit more.

Afterward, Darian similarly invited Captain Atom and the rest of the human resistance into it. Finally, two more members met the conditions of the quest: Captain Atom, and Deathstroke, the bodyguard hired by Luthor with a heavy bounty.

Darian looked at Deathstroke and suddenly asked with curiosity, “Do you know Wade?”

He remembered that DC and Marvel had a special Easter egg, which was that Wade and Deathstroke, two people with similar vibes, were cousins.

Deathstroke was stunned for a moment, nodded, and said, “I know him. He is my cousin, but we haven’t seen each other for a long time. What’s wrong?”

“Nothing, he asked me to say hello to you.”

With the addition of the three new members, the quest was considered completed.

However, there was one thing that made Darian a bit unhappy: he himself was not counted within the quest progress.

“Game system, this is blatant discrimination.”

Darian protested in his heart, “I am a renowned superhero. To take a step back, even if I am not a superhero, I should at least be a supervillain. Why do I not meet the quest conditions?”

However, the game system completely ignored his intent and directly began calculating.

Good grief, another Clow Card.

Darian’s mouth twitched.

Previously, when he used the shadow card, it directly turned him into a magical girl. Wouldn’t this Clow Card turn him into a magical girl once more?

There was nothing much to say about the Strength Pill; it was just the literal meaning.

Darian put his gaze on the Crossing Card.

It was actually an item capable of bringing people across to parallel Universes.

He currently had no means of bringing people across, other than exploiting a bug to bring Max, who had transcended biological categories, across. As for everyone else, they would be squeezed out by space.

Unfortunately, it was a one-way ticket. Once they went over, they couldn’t come back and could only stay in that parallel Universe.

Just based on this point alone, most people probably wouldn’t agree, unless they were driven to desperation or had no attachments left.

Darian allocated all fourteen free attributes obtained from the two quests, and the panel updated immediately.

Now Darian had many skills, and different skills relied on different attributes. Piling up just one item was no longer realistic.

Darian decided to pull back some of the other weak attributes.

Even if he couldn’t play a bucket build, he at least had to lean in that direction.

“Guys, nice meeting you, but I’m getting ready to leave.”

Barry looked at Darian and Thomas, saying softly, “This world has been saved, so I must also go back to save my own world. I can feel that my memories are beginning to be tampered with again, and I’m afraid time is running out.”

Thomas suddenly spoke, “Give this letter to Bruce.”

As he spoke, he handed a letter to Barry.

Barry reached out to take it and said solemnly, “Rest assured, I will definitely deliver it.”

Seeing that Barry was about to activate the Speed Force to reboot the Universe, Darian stopped him and said helplessly, “What’s the rush? Time isn’t down to just a few seconds. Why don’t you go find your mother and say goodbye first? At least this trip won’t have been in vain.”

“That’s right!”

Barry looked enlightened and said gratefully, “Thanks for the reminder. Then I’ll be leaving first.”

As soon as his voice fell, his figure turned into a yellow flash and instantly disappeared on the spot.

Darian clicked his tongue and said, “The Speed Force is really fun, pity I don’t have it.”

Just as he was sighing, he suddenly felt a chill behind his back. Turning around, he saw Thomas’s bat death glare.

“What’s up? Are you also going to give me a letter to mail to the Bruce in my world?”

Thomas expressionlessly said, “Did you forget something?”

Darian looked blank: “What matter… Cough cough, of course I didn’t forget. I promised you that after things ended, I would let you and Bruce video chat, right?”

Thomas: “…”

You simply forgot, and only remembered because you eavesdropped on the words in my heart.

Hearing Thomas’s inner complaint, Darian felt a bit awkward no matter how thick-skinned he was.

At this moment, a good idea suddenly popped into his mind, and the corners of his mouth couldn’t help but curl up, revealing a malicious smile.

“Old Man, how boring is video chatting? I have a better idea. Want to hear it?”

Thomas’s heart skipped a beat.

Intuition told him that this guy was definitely not plotting anything good.

But eager to see his child, he had to ask, “What idea?”

Darian’s tone carried a hint of temptation: “Are you interested in coming with me to that Universe? But the price is…”

“Alright!”

Thomas nodded directly without a trace of hesitation.

Darian was stunned: “Aren’t you going to listen to what the price is first?”

Thomas’s eyes were firm: “No matter what the price is, as long as I can see Bruce, I am willing to pay it.”

“You said it yourself.”

Darian chuckled and said, “Then you go home and pack up, and we’ll set off directly.”

Thomas nodded immediately, then hesitated for a moment and asked, “Um… can only I go over alone?”

“Not really, I can bring a few more people across, but at most two or three people, and they must be voluntary.”

Darian thought of the description of the Crossing Card.

The crossing range was two meters. If they squeezed a bit, stuffing two or three more people wasn’t impossible.

Thomas’s eyes lit up: “Alright, then I’ll wait a moment.”

After speaking, he turned around to find Clark.

The two conversed in low voices for a few sentences. Clark nodded, grabbed Thomas, and flew away directly with him.

Darian stood in place, suddenly having free time, and for a moment didn’t even know what to do.

He thought about it and decided to find some entertainment for himself.

He released Ultron, had it invade the government system, and pulled out all of Clark’s relevant files and experimental records.

Not long after, Ultron sent back a message: “Divine Lord, there is a firewall of unknown origin outside the system, which cannot be broken through in a short time.”

Hearing this, Darian understood immediately that it must have been done by Victor.

Although Ultron was a strong artificial intelligence, compared to Victor, who was a humanoid Skynet, there was still quite a bit of gap.

“It’s fine, I am proficient in hacker techniques, I can get it done given a little time.”

Ultron was stunned upon hearing this.

Having followed Darian for so long, it had never seen him type a few lines of code.

Then, it saw Darian walk up in front of Victor.

After a friendly exchange, within a few seconds, Victor wretchedly removed the firewall with a wronged expression.

“Ultron, did you learn it? Hacker techniques shouldn’t just rely on programming; sometimes they also have to be based on physics.”

Ultron: “…”

Learned and abolished.