Chapter 55: CH-55. Mother Box, the Crisis Approaches
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Mike's heart moved, and he looked at Diana beside him.
Diana's face was solemn, and she nodded at him imperceptibly.
After Wanda returned to her room and started to sleep, Mike secretly came to Diana's room, entered the room, and found that his aunt had changed into Wonder Woman's heroic costume.
"That's Paradise Island giving us a warning. It should be telling us that there is an invasion by foreign enemies!" Wonder Woman said quickly, "I'm going to the Amazon Temple now to see if there are any clues there."
"I'll go with you." Mike said in a deep voice, his eyes gleaming with icy silver divinity.
"Okay " Diana nodded in agreement.
That night.
Crete, Amazon Temple!
The local government mobilized countless people to put out the fire, and no one noticed that two figures fell from the sky into the ruins of the temple!
Crete, on the coast.
The white ancient temple had stood there since who knows when. Because the exterior and interior of the building were well preserved, it remained a major civilization relic that many archaeologists were obsessed with studying.
It was late at night.
While local firefighters were extinguishing the fire around the ruins, two figures, one large and one small, walked naturally inside the temple ruins. They were a black-haired woman wearing strange ancient battle clothes and weapons, and a silver-haired boy wearing an ordinary white long windbreaker.
Sensing the traces of divine power remaining in the temple, Diana and Mike soon came to an open-air fire room, which was still burning and spewing flames. It was obviously the source of the fire in the Amazon Temple.
As if sensing the arrival of the supreme being of the gods, the flames in the temple's fire chamber suddenly slowed down and went out, revealing the most central object in the room.
Mike, in demigod mode, immediately walked into the room, bent down, and pulled out an arrow that was stuck diagonally in the floor.
The arrowhead flashed with the chilliness of the starry night sky, and the arrow seemed to be coated with a layer of dark gold. There were mysterious ancient Greek inscriptions on the arrow body, just like the material and workmanship of the various artifacts on his aunt's body.
Another artifact?
When Mike held it in his hand, he could clearly feel a vigorous and hot divine power lurking and hidden.
Diana looked at the arrow in his hand and whispered, "That is the Arrow of Artemis. It can pass through the barrier of Paradise Island and reach the human world here. Queen Mother shot it here from Paradise Island and lit the ancient beacon fire. It should be to give us a warning."
"Foreign invasion?" Mike whispered to himself, holding the magic arrow in his hand as a weapon.
"That's right. As for who the enemy is, there may be information left here." Wonder Woman walked into the innermost part of the temple's fire room and suddenly placed her slender palm on the wall.
The divine power was activated at this moment and triggered the mechanism, causing the solid and sealed stone wall on one side to sink inward. Along with countless pieces of gravel and dust falling off, a tunnel that had not been opened for thousands of years was revealed.
It's unknown how deep the tunnel was underground. It was dark, silent, and filled with the breath of ancient times.
"Let's go." Diana took out the Lasso of Truth with one hand and reached out to Mike with the other.
Mike held the cool jade-like hand.
Mike and Diana jumped into the tunnel and fell twenty meters to the underground space under the temple.
Diana raised her left hand slightly, and the Lasso of Truth hovered like a firefly, its golden light providing dim illumination.
Mike touched the inner pocket of his windbreaker, took out his cell phone, and turned on the flashlight mode.
The phone immediately emitted a dazzling daylight, like a small flashlight, illuminating the white stone stairs leading down ahead.
Mobile phone, the eternal god!
"Times have changed, Aunt." Mike blinked proudly.
Diana calmly retracted the Lasso of Truth and flicked her finger on the boy's smooth forehead, causing Mike to shut his mouth tactfully.
Under the light provided by the mobile phone, Mike and Diana went deeper and deeper down the stone steps, and finally arrived at a truly secret underground dark room.
Diana suddenly had an idea and said, "Use your phone to take a picture of the wall."
Mike did as he was told and raised his phone towards the huge dark room, instantly illuminating the huge mural printed with strange patterns and ancient Greek characters.
Mike opened his eyes wide. Although he couldn't understand the words, he recognized one of the patterns at a glance.
Isn't it the metal box he saw on the stone altar in the main hall of the building where he lived on Paradise Island?
The only difference is that there are three boxes on the mural, and they are connected together in a trinity composition.
Mike continued to look to the side, and what came into view was a mural depicting a grand scene that looked like an ancient battle.
Well, an ancient battle with giant space battleships.
Diana looked at the ancient Greek text, her delicate and beautiful face becoming more solemn, and she began to explain, "It records an ancient battle that took place a long, long time ago. The invading enemy is a dark and ancient cosmic force that wants to invade the earth and conquer the world. The leader of the invading alien fleet is named Darkseid!"
"Darkseid..." Mike pondered.
Diana looked at the mural and said, "This name is cursed and feared throughout the universe. At that time, the guardians of the earth started a great war with Darkseid. There were old gods, humans, Amazons, guardians from the stars, Atlantians, and other forces participating in the war."
"And just when Darkseid was provoking a war, he discovered a secret on Earth, which is a force hidden in infinite space!"
"What power?" Mike frowned, and suddenly remembered the Cosmic Cube and the Mind Scepter he had obtained. The power hidden in those two mysterious items was unfathomable.
"We have no way of knowing what secret he discovered." Diana shook her head and continued, "But it is obvious that Darkseid is eager to get it in his hands, so he used the three Mother Boxes created by their Apocalypse civilization — that is, the living, indestructible products of Apocalypse technology. When the three Mother Boxes are combined into a trinity, the power it generates is enough to refine the entire planet, making the earth completely controlled by Darkseid!"
"He failed." Said Mike.
After all, if the other party achieved their goal, the Earth would no longer exist as it is today.
Diana nodded, "Yes, the ancient guardians of the earth united together and drove Darkseid and his fleet out of the earth."
"As for the three Mother Boxes, in order to prevent it from calling Apocalypse again, one was controlled by the human forces at the time, one was controlled by the Kingdom of Atlantis, and you know the whereabouts of the last Mother Box. It is hidden in the Paradise Island of our Amazon tribe."
"The situation is not optimistic." Mike's eyes narrowed slightly. Paradise Island would light the beacon to send out an early warning. Obviously, the mother box had been seized by the Apocalypse forces that had infiltrated the earth.
If the other party finds the remaining two mother boxes, the consequences will be disastrous.
"Aunt, what do you want to do next?" Mike looked at Diana beside him.
Wonder Woman raised her heroic eyebrows and said, "We can't delay any longer. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I will go find the two people I mentioned earlier and ask them to join the Justice League. We must assemble a strong enough team as soon as possible to prepare to deal with the infiltrating forces of Apocalypse."
"Don't forget me. I can still fight as long as you are here." Mike took a deep breath and said in a deep voice.
"Of course, you are the real trump card. If I need you at that time, I will not forget you." Diana smiled slightly and reached out to touch Mike's black hair.
However, Mike did not notice at this time that a strange and determined look flashed in her eyes!
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Late at night, in the top floor office at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.
The cool and sexy Black Widow stood upright in front of the desk, while Nick Fury, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., sat on the office chair, his deep single eye fixed on a report document on the desk.
"Is this the intelligence result you obtained from your investigation?" Director Fury asked in a deep voice.
Natasha nodded quickly, "Yes. Although many things happened in school, this is the conclusion I came to through intelligence analysis."
"Thank you for your hard work. You should go back and rest first." Director Fury lowered his eyes, glanced at Natasha's bandaged arm, waved his hand, and said.
Natasha nodded and turned to leave the director's office.
There was only one person left in the office.
Director Fury opened the intelligence file submitted by Natasha, which contained the personal information and photos of "Mike Prince."
He flipped through the intelligence document a few times and turned directly to the last page.
In the last column of the personal information file, it says:
After five days of in-depth investigation and personal analysis, the target of investigation, Mike Prince, is——
Ordinary human being, without any extraordinary abilities.
Director Fury was silent for a moment, and finally, he sighed softly. He sorted out all of Mike's intelligence information and put them into a drawer in his desk.
Director Fury did not notice that among the data files that he had not read, in an inconspicuous everyday photo of Mike, there was an orange kitten!