The commercial break was brief. Calendar Man had only come over to chat with Deathstroke and Harley during the downtime, then quickly returned to the center of the studio.
Just as previewed, they began a live connection with Vartox on Earth-44.
Su Ming sat back down in the darkness, observing and recalling, comparing everything before him with the intelligence he remembered.
The three of them seemed to vanish. Even Harley fell silent. From afar, only the flickering glow of cigarette butts could be seen, like red fireflies.
Earth-44 was a rather special world. There were no superheroes there, or rather, its only superhero was Dr. William Magnus.
He had created the Metal Men, a group of robots whose members included Gold, Iron, Lead, Tin, Mercury, Platinum, Copper, and others, and had them maintain peace.
Believing that the heroes of Earth-0 had killed his wife, he had once launched a multiversal invasion against Earth-0. He was ultimately driven back by Luthor of that era, using Artificial Superman.
After the misunderstanding was cleared up, he upgraded his Metal Men and developed new models such as Robot Superman, Robot Batman, Robot Wonder Woman, and more.
However, he did not use the name Justice League, nor did he join Justice Incarnate. He relied only on himself and his robots to preserve world peace.
Of course, that was the positive interpretation. The resistance in their world had always believed him to be a Mechanical Dictator who upheld so-called justice through killing machines.
But that was irrelevant. Earth-44's Metal Men were still allies of the Justice League.
Once the opening remarks were over, a bearded, muscular man appeared on the large screen behind Calendar Man. Bare-chested beneath a red vest, he wore only a pair of briefs below and had shoulder-length hair cut bluntly at the