The residents were pragmatic. Once they realized they were no match for Deathstroke and that there was no fundamental conflict between them, they quickly abandoned their hostility. Captain Rabbit did not even need to comfort them.
Most of the people in the settlement silently began cleaning up the battlefield, salvaging usable metal from the Mechanical Worms and collecting the bodies of their fallen comrades.
The atmosphere was not particularly sorrowful, as though they had long since grown accustomed to the deaths of friends and family.
At Basin Exit Canyon, a basin surrounded by mountains on three sides, there had originally been a crude fenced checkpoint. But when faced with the Swarm, the sentries there had not only failed to stop the enemy—they had not even had a chance to run.
Su Ming suspected that this Mechanical Worm Swarm's collective consciousness was most likely Extermina. They had shown no intention of taking away the human corpses, nor had they reused the bodies on the spot. They were simply killing every intelligent life-form.
"Can Jesse catch Jay? If we're talking about the Otherworld Variants of these two from Earth-0, I know them both. One is a member of the Justice League of America, the other is a member of the Justice Society. How should I put it? Young people still can't compare to the old veterans in some respects. Even their fighting spirit is worlds apart."
Bobo, who had asked Deathstroke the question, had his pipe clenched between his teeth. His large black grape-like eyes rolled about as he delivered that tactful assessment while looking over the settlement's buildings.
The place looked like a haphazard Wasteland-punk stronghold, yet also like a medieval European village from a fantasy world. A ring of towering Greatwood palisades surrounded it, while strange-looking homes stood within.
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