Currently, only Cortana has noticed the anomaly in the cyber World.
Although this power has turned everyone into "blind men," not many people are aware of this fact.
Other organizations or individuals can still browse non-confidential content normally through the network, so they are unaware that a giant curtain has fallen in the digital World.
The purpose of this giant curtain is not to block the network; according to Cortana's speculation, it should be to conceal a specific secret.
However, in the World of the internet, if such a technology only acts on a specific service terminal, it is equivalent to telling everyone that there is a problem there.
So it envelops all network information, but only modifies a few key pieces of information, allowing forged new information to replace real information, thereby achieving the purpose of misleading the public.
And it has been very successful; those who cannot realize this continue to remain ignorant in their normal trajectories.
And those who can realize this, like Cortana, cannot distinguish which key information the other party has modified, because this giant curtain covers all information, making it like watching flowers from across the river.
In this World, besides Cyborg, what other power can achieve this?
Dane thought for a moment and suddenly thought of the mother box.
Cyborg's power is bestowed by the mother box, so strictly speaking, the mother box also possesses the abilities Cyborg has, and only stronger.
"Steppenwolf has such a brain?"
Dane had to admit that his impression of him was biased; looking at it this way, Steppenwolf is both brave and resourceful!
In this case, they would not be able to find Steppenwolf's hiding place by monitoring the global network.
And now there is no Silas Stone to sacrifice himself to charge the mother box, so they also have no way to use satellite searches for abnormal thermal radiation to find the mother box's location.
"Have you tried using magic?"
Cortana also knew the tracking spell, but she shook her head.
Dane could also anticipate that no matter how weak Steppenwolf was, he was still a New God. Even if he wasn't proficient in magic, he should have one or two pieces of equipment that could block magical detection.
This made things a bit tricky, but there were still things they could do.
In the movie, Steppenwolf built his fortress in a very desolate area, and his Parademons Army was also concentrated, so the Justice League could directly raid with a very small number of people.
However, from the current intelligence, Steppenwolf's Army is probably no longer small fry like Parademons, but deadly things like Doomsday.
One Doomsday can make the Justice League, excluding him, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern, struggle greatly, let alone a group of Doomsdays.
They urgently need a more targeted weapon to deal with killing machines like Doomsday.
The colorful Kryptonite in Dane's warehouse finally had a use. By the way, the Kryptonite he distributed to the members last time doesn't seem to have been collected back?
Gotham, Batcave.
Batman was studying a green Stone. Behind him, Alfred, the butler, brought a cup of coffee.
"Are you still studying this Stone, Master Wayne?"
Batman took the coffee from him but remained silent regarding his question, because he knew what Alfred wanted to say.
As expected, Alfred couldn't help but speak: "Master Wayne, Master Kent is not our enemy!"
This is something Alfred has always emphasized; he does not want this matter to cause Batman to be ostracized by the Justice League.
No one likes a teammate who is always thinking about how to deal with his own people behind their backs. Alfred originally thought that after years of shared efforts, Batman had learned to trust, but he didn't expect him to still be like this.
Batman's movements paused for a moment, then he continued: "My purpose in doing this is not entirely directed at Clark, Alfred."
"But I have to do this. You've seen it during this time; the last two opponents we encountered were Kryptonians!"
Hades's Kryptonian Army, and Doomsday—these were all Kryptonians.
In the face of their power, Batman felt no sense of security.
So he had to figure out the principle by which Kryptonite weakens Kryptonians, and in fact, he had already figured it out.
What weakens Kryptonians is a special electromagnetic wave emitted from Kryptonite, not the decaying particles he previously thought.
This is very important, because he can create the former without Kryptonite, while for the latter, he can only use the limited Kryptonite he has and try to replicate it.
But Kryptonite is a substance produced when Krypton exploded, and it requires extremely high temperatures and pressures to be born.
And the existing Kryptonite was formed under the conditions of a nuclear chain reaction on Krypton, making it extremely rare.
Even Bruce Wayne, the richest man in Gotham, would find it difficult to gather so many conditions specifically for synthesizing Kryptonite.
However, if it's just electromagnetic waves of specific wavelengths, it's much easier, and this preparation won't attract anyone's attention.
He increasingly felt that Cortana was always monitoring them; although there was no evidence, he just had a gut feeling.
Just as Batman was planning how to design his Kryptonite ray weapon, the Batcomputer received an emergency call—this was their internal Bat-Family communication signal.
And this signal came from Batgirl, Barbara.
He opened the communication: "What is it?"
Barbara wasn't alone; she was with the other members of the Birds of Prey.
"We've recently discovered something very strange. Gotham's electricity consumption has been a bit too fast lately."
Upon hearing this, Batman immediately sat in front of the computer to check the recent electricity usage, but he couldn't see any problems from the data at first glance.
So he asked Barbara: "Do you have any ideas?"
"We've checked several drug factories; it's not them. No gangs have been conducting any strange experiments that require large amounts of electricity recently."
"Can we determine it by the actual electricity consumption in various places?"
Barbara was a little surprised to hear this: "What are you suspecting?"
"Although it can't be seen from the power grid system, what if the system itself has a problem?"
Batman thought more deeply. What if the problem wasn't just the power grid, but… the entire network?
But he didn't know who else besides Cortana could do such a thing.
"We'll go check immediately!"
Although the power distribution system is networked and could be tampered with manually, factories in various places have their own electricity meters, which cannot be modified through network means no matter what.
However, this workload was enormous, and the Birds of Prey alone were not enough, so they also pulled in the Titans.
Damian was very annoyed. It was fine to let him fight and kill, but he really didn't want to do such tedious work!
How could I, the heir to the Wayne Group, do such work?
But Barbara was the elder sister in the family, and he couldn't resist, so he could only bite the bullet and continue.
However, he didn't just blindly work; he also used his brain a bit.
He coerced a group of Gotham thugs into helping him by threatening and enticing them.
It was just checking the electricity meters of various factories. They only needed to wear a power company uniform to openly enter and check the meters.
Anyway, the power company was also an industry of their Wayne Family, so this identity couldn't be considered false.
Through this method, they actually discovered an anomaly.
So Barbara contacted Batman again: "We found that a laboratory under LexCorp recently has a huge discrepancy between the electricity consumption logged on the power grid and its actual electricity consumption!"
"Lex? That Lex from Metropolis?" Batman asked.
Barbara nodded: "That's right, that Lex."
As prominent companies, Wayne Group and LexCorp also had business collaborations, and he also had a very deep impression of Lex Luthor himself.
This was a very shrewd and unpredictable person, and he always felt that the other party seemed to have an inexplicable hostility towards metahumans.
If he was secretly pulling strings, then it was already worth Batman's attention.
"Alfred, if I want to infiltrate LexCorp, how can I get in?"
Besides being a butler, Alfred occasionally acted as his strategist, often checking his plans for omissions or offering constructive suggestions.
This time, the Butler once again played his role, handing over an invitation.
"Perhaps, you could choose to walk straight in."
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