The dim sewer.
The stench swallowed the scent of blood.
After Killer Croc had been forced back into a toy, the battle was already over.
Of the Amazon warriors who had fought Killer Croc for quite some time, only Fury remained in good condition, along with four female warriors who had hidden far away before the battle began.
The others had become floating corpses in the water.
"You should pay the price!" Fury raised her sword and pointed it at Li Zu. "I'll cut off your legs and feet, then throw you into a concentration camp! You'll suffer every torment!"
She should have been gritting her teeth as she spoke, her bearing unfolding like that of a female leopard. Unfortunately, Li Zu wore a strange smile the entire time.
"Can I make a small request? Let's wait until we leave this stinking place before we start. You definitely don't want to carry me on your backs, right?" Li Zu seriously considered things from their perspective and made the suggestion.
As a member of the Resistance, Li Zu's "value" was far from low.
"Hmph! Take him out!" Fury carried her longsword and turned to leave.
Her companions' corpses were submerged in the water. They could only wait for the follow-up team to deal with them.
Lois Lane, who had escaped, could be captured later.
But before that, they had to take Li Zu away, lest he pull something terrifying out of one of those bizarre boxes again.
Lois Lane ran for several minutes.
She ran from darkness into even deeper darkness.
She could not tell which way was which, only stretching her ears to the limit so nothing could slip out after her.
Her heart was still pounding wildly. She did not know whether it was the physical result of running so hard, or whether she had just escaped that terror and could not suppress her nervous tension.
"I can't leave him there alone!" Thinking of that strange man, Lois hesitated, then decided to turn around and run back.
"And those four women from Gotham!"
Remembering how those "friends" who had shared a dormitory with her and even trained alongside her had immediately brought people after her the moment she escaped, Lois was filled with hatred for those four women.
When she returned, she found that the battle was already over.
Li Zu had vanished without a trace.
Fury and the four women from Gotham had disappeared as well.
Only corpses soaked in sewage remained.
Fury walked in front.
Li Zu's hands were bound, and four Amazon women guarded him as they surrounded him and walked forward step by step.
"Do you scream?"
Li Zu asked the question mysteriously.
He admitted that the awkward air of mystery was something he had forced on purpose.
Compared to silence, he preferred a livelier atmosphere.
Who would have thought that the four women would nod seriously, playing right along?
"Are Amazons this easygoing?" Li Zu found it strange. Those Amazons had clearly wanted to chop him into minced meat.
"Sir, it's us!" The woman to his front left lowered her voice, afraid Fury ahead might hear.
"He definitely forgot us!" the woman to his front right declared.
"Gotham, sewers, Killer Croc... Sir?" another woman tried asking.
The last one nodded vigorously and looked at Li Zu hopefully. "When we came to Europe, we ran into Amazons..."
"We were captured by the Amazons, then became warriors!" another woman continued.
They placed their hopes on Li Zu, hoping that he would act again and help the four of them escape.
Just like when they had escaped Gotham's sewers.
"Oh~"
Li Zu nodded as though it were true. "Gotham?"
From the look of it, he had not remembered who those four women were at all.
"I told you he forgot us! It's only been a month or two!"
Rather than forgetting them, Li Zu had never remembered them in the first place.
"Ah!!"
A scream came from behind them. Fury, who had been walking proudly in front, froze before spinning around sharply.
To her relief, Li Zu's hands were still bound, and he was being escorted obediently.
"What happened?" she asked with a frown.
These four were the recruits she thought most highly of. They trained desperately, and their willpower suited the Amazons as well.
They were simply too frail as ordinary humans.
But that could all be improved through training.
More importantly, the four of them proved that ordinary humans could also become Amazon warriors.
"Over there, someone was stabbed by a sword..."
Fury followed the pointing finger and saw an Amazon warrior lying on the beach.
She rushed over and crouched beside the warrior.
A sword was still embedded in the woman's abdomen, an Amazon-standard longsword.
"She's still breathing! Save her!" Li Zu shouted from the side, waving his arms around.
"It's none of your concern!" Fury snorted. She raised a hand and lightly patted the warrior's cheek, waking her.
"Which unit are you from?"
"..." The warrior opened her eyes. The whites were bloodshot, and her gaze could not focus.
Her breathing was faint.
"Have I returned to Themyscira?"
"You're in London, the Queen's new colony," Fury said softly, completely unlike the decisiveness with which she had mercilessly slashed at Li Zu.
"I'll send you back for treatment right away. You'll return to Themyscira~"
Fury lowered her head and gently brushed over the eyelids of the Amazon warrior, Adeline.
When her hand lifted, the warrior's eyes had closed forever.
"There's a traitor!" Fury stood and glared at Li Zu before saying to the four women, "I need to report this to the Queen! Take him back. The Resistance must have plenty of useful information. Maybe we can get more of what we want to know out of him!"
"Yes!"
Fury strode away, like a race car at full throttle. Her heels kicked up dust as she ran farther and farther, until she vanished completely.
With a swing of the sword, the cloth rope binding Li Zu was cut apart.
The four women followed behind Li Zu with perfect understanding.
It was like returning to the past, when four destitute women had followed him out of those abyss-like sewers.
"Shall we go?"
"Where?"
"To the concentration camp. Isn't that your mission?" Li Zu asked strangely.
"You still want to go there? That place is..." They found Li Zu's decision strange.
Once someone entered that place, it was hard to leave again.
"Hmm~"
Li Zu raised his head and looked ahead.
Time-Space Gate: Cooling Down (Countdown: 254h) ... World Exploration Progress: 45% ...
"You're right. Hiding out like this seems like a waste. Batman and the others should have arrived too. Missing the final battle would definitely be a shame."
He nodded seriously. "Then we'll go to the concentration camp!"
"What?"
The four women were confused.
How was this decision any different from before?
First, go to the concentration camp and hide for 254 hours, waiting for the Time-Space Gate to open so he could leave this chaotic world.
Second, go big and explore more!
It seemed that no matter which option he chose, the concentration camp was the best choice!
Li Zu still entered the concentration camp.
It was dilapidated, pitch-black, and filled with despair.
The men were like livestock penned in captivity.
Their eyes were lifeless as they stared blankly at Li Zu being escorted inside. Countless men were sent here every day.
He was the first one to arrive with a smile on his face.
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