Arkham District, beside a small dock.
Lights shone inside the warehouse-turned-martial-arts gym, accompanied by fierce thudding strikes that sent the punching bag swinging wildly.
Miao Mu stood on the pitch-black dock with a cigarette between his lips. The ember glowed and dimmed with every breath.
He raised his hand to check the time on his watch and thought, This Barry Allen really has no sense of punctuality.
He couldn't be much of a superhero like this. Miao Mu also had no idea how much control the guy had over the Speed Force.
Miao Mu exhaled a cloud of smoke and paced along the dock, reaching into his pocket to grip a metal device—the Hyper-Adapter.
Miao Mu had studied this creation of Darkseid's for some time, only to discover that he couldn't figure it out himself.
This thing had two forms. One was an ordinary mechanical egg form, capable of absorbing Omega Energy from the universe.
The other transformed it into a mechanical injector, something like an injection gun, capable of releasing Omega Energy.
If it stored some Omega Energy, Miao Mu estimated that it could probably wield one-tenth the power of Darkseid's Omega Beams.
Of course, if its energy storage was full, Miao Mu didn't even dare imagine it.
This was the thing Darkseid had used to hunt Batman. Once fully charged, it could destroy this entire world along with him.
There was no question about it. This thing had come from the future.
As for how it had somehow circled around from the past to the present, Miao Mu could roughly guess. That was why he felt somewhat uneasy.
It was no longer a question of whether Gotham would survive, but whether this universe would live long enough to see the sun.
So Miao Mu intended to train The