Martin Variety in American Comics.

Chapter 495 Arrived in Time (Please subscribe and read, monthly ticket recommendation!)

"Gideon, report the damage to the aircraft!"

Pat lay in the cockpit, holding his chest where the pain came from, and gave orders to Gideon.

After saying this, he forced himself to swallow the rusty liquid in his mouth.

But the swallowing action pulled on the broken bones in his chest, causing severe pain, forcing him to hold his breath to endure the pain.

"The damage to the machine is not serious, but the outer shell has been covered by a layer of ice from an unknown cryogenic attack. It will take time for the machine to recover its normal function."

Gideon was not affected at all. As long as his body was not attacked, the low temperature for humans could not affect his calculations.

"This is such bad news!"

Every time Pat said a word, his chest would hurt badly, but he still managed to hold on and communicate normally with Gideon.

"First, restore the robot's vision and see who is attacking us. Even if we have to die, we have to die knowingly."

Pat was just joking. He had a loving wife, a sensible son, and a stepdaughter who had just been recognized by her old friend's relics. Of course, he would not die in this place.

"I hope Martin will be able to come and rescue me soon after he notices the communication problem!"

Gideon melted the ice covering the camera, restoring the robot's vision and allowing Pat to see the outside world.

The energy beam bombing just now left a big hole, and all the soldiers of the Injustice Society team were killed, but the neighbors on this street were not hurt at all.

When Gideon forced back the soldiers of the Injustice Society, he had already taken the problem of subsequent attacks into consideration, so he specifically forced these soldiers to withdraw from the inhabited areas.

Pat also noticed this, which is why he was so resolute when attacking.

"Stars and Stripes, you are such an old friend! We haven't seen each other for almost twenty years!"

When Pat heard the voice, he frowned and recalled many past events.

Memory is a magical thing. Many things that people think they have forgotten are simply retained more deeply in their minds in a different way.

Pat thought he was far away from the Injustice Society, but when he heard the voice of an old acquaintance, memories of the past came flooding back, as if he had returned to twenty years ago and nothing had changed.

"icicle!"

Pat saw someone walking towards him.

To be precise, the other party is an ice man, a walking and living ice man.

Bingzhu used to be a living person with flesh and blood, but as he gradually awakened his abilities, his control over the cold became deeper and deeper, and simply freezing things from the outside world could no longer satisfy his desires.

So, he began to use his ability to transform his body, turning his flesh and blood into sparkling ice.

No one knows how much time, energy, and methods he spent to achieve this goal.

In short, in the form of an ordinary creature, the icicle appeared in front of everyone in the form of an ice body.

From hair to toes, from skin to internal organs... everything turned into ice, sparkling in the sun, looking like a carefully carved work of art.

But this artifact that will never melt can take someone's life at any time, turning living flesh and blood into a cold corpse.

"We are indeed old friends in a sense."

Pat felt uncomfortable when he saw the smile on Icicle's face.

He didn't want to embarrass himself in front of his old rival, so he controlled the robot to forcibly break the ice, and stood up with a click amid the sound of the machine running.

"Twenty years have passed, and you seem to have not changed at all. You are still the little follower hiding behind Alan Scott, pretentious but always doing childish things."

Icicle stood twenty meters away from Pat, which was enough for him to activate his abilities at any time, but Pat could not attack him with his robot.

Superpowers are still convenient, but it is not as convenient for Pat to control robots as it is to control his own body.

"Speaking of no changes, you are the one who has not changed. Twenty years have passed, and you haven't aged at all. This can really be considered a miracle."

Pat was in no hurry to leave. No matter what he did, he had to wait until his robot returned to normal.

While observing the icicle, he suddenly realized that there was no change in the body of this old rival.

Maybe this is my illusion. There are no gods in the Injustice Society. How is it possible that they don’t age at all?

"Gideon, pull up my survey of Injustice Society members and compare them with the person in front of you!"

Pat was frightened and gave orders to Gideon.

"The target and the information recorded in the data are completely matched, with only one percent change."

Gideon's answer surprised Pat even more.

He looked at the icicle in front of him and said, "You haven't aged at all. Could this be the secret operation carried out by the Injustice Society hidden in Blue Valley Town?"

"You are really outspoken, but do you think I will answer you so simply?"

Icicle gave a mocking smile, and although he didn't say it out loud, that smile was clearly mocking Pat's question as being very childish.

"Of course you won't answer me, but your secret won't be kept secret for much longer! The Justice League has noticed this place and your collaborators."

Pat suddenly felt that these people were so boring. Why did they have to live such a hard double life when they could do something else in their twenty years?

"I investigated these famous people in Blue Valley Town and found that they are all old friends from the past, just like you. I thought that Blue Valley Town was a den of thieves, but I found that your family and descendants did not know about the past, and instead became admirers of superheroes."

He stared at the icicle through the robot's eyes and asked in a deep voice, "Can you answer my question? When your son told you at the dinner table how to admire those heroes of the past and how to defeat the Injustice Society, how did you feel as a father?"

The icicles clenched their fists, and their frozen bodies rubbed against each other, making crackling sounds and dropping layers of ice powder.

"I misjudged you! Twenty years have passed, and your mouth has become much more powerful! But I'm curious if you can block my ice."

Icicle suddenly attacked, pushing his palms forward, causing the surrounding temperature to drop rapidly. The water vapor in the air was transformed into a cold current, like two protruding spears, directly piercing Pat's robot.

"Takeover in progress, start combat mode!"

Pat was not proficient in fighting, and when Gideon's voice sounded, the joints at the robot's knees moved and it knelt down directly, just in time to avoid the cold current released by the icicle.

"You are not good at fighting. It is recommended that you evacuate quickly."

Gideon controlled the robot, constantly dodging and avoiding the attacks launched by the cold currents controlled by the icicles, creating long ice belts around it, absorbing the heat in the air and constantly limiting the robot's range of movement.

"I want to run too, but there's probably more than one Injustice Society member around. Even if we escape from Icicle, how are we going to deal with the next enemy?" Pat is not a pessimist, but as he looks at the robot's decreasing energy level, he becomes uncontrollably anxious.

He controlled the small cannon on the robot and blasted the surrounding ice belt that looked like a work of art, trying to create more space for movement.

But no matter how Pat blasted the ice bands, more icicles always appeared quickly.

"Old friend, stop resisting. Just surrender. Your friend from the Justice League can't save you. No one can stop us in Blue Valley Town."

Icicle clenched his fists, and the cold current around his palms quickly condensed into two long ice spikes.

The man, who was only wearing pants and had his upper body exposed, lightly jumped onto the ice belt he had made earlier. He assumed a skating posture and kept approaching Pat's robot, swinging the ice spikes in his hands one after another. The sharp spikes flashed through the air and hit the robot's shell, leaving obvious holes.

Compared with the huge body of the robot, these holes are insignificant.

But small injuries accumulated over time, and even with Gideon's help, Pat couldn't grab the icicle. The opponent was like a loach on ice, so slippery that it seemed as if it was covered with oil, and it was impossible to catch him.

"Alert, the energy to sustain the battle is less than 10%!"

"Mr. Pat, I suggest you leave the battlefield immediately. You can transform into a car and leave along the road!"

Pat felt bitter and regretted not installing the things prepared for the Injustice Society members on the robot.

But it was too late to regret now, and he could only accept Gideon's advice.

hum-

The two small cannons on the robot's shoulders fired lasers, drawing a circle around the robot and temporarily forcing back the icicles wielding ice blades.

Then, the robot changed back into vehicle form. Gideon transferred the energy into the engine and rushed out without caring about the risk of scrapping the car.

My car!
Pat's heart was bleeding as he listened to the harsh sound of the engine running at full speed, but he only wailed a few times in his heart.

At this time, life is of course more important.

If the vehicle is broken, it can be repaired, but if it falls into the hands of the Injustice Society, you may lose your life. Or worse, it may become a tool for them to threaten Martin.

"I want to leave, but there's no way!"

The icy face of the icicle actually frowned. He looked at the fleeing Pat, threw away the ice blade in his hand, and sprayed cold air from his palm, creating a skating ice track, sliding and chasing Pat.

The most outrageous thing is that he could even catch up with Pat's car while skating on the ice.

"These superhumans are so exaggerated. My car is almost scrapped, and he can still catch up with me?"

Pat seemed to be holding his breath. He slapped the steering wheel hard and shouted, "After this, I must modify my robot and upgrade all the configurations to the highest level!"

"I suggest you focus on escaping. There seems to be a new enemy ahead."

Just as Gideon finished his reminder, the road in front of Pat suddenly bulged up, like a mature abscess, and suddenly exploded, with fragments flying all over the sky.

Pat gritted his teeth and tried to rush through, but the rubble seemed to be possessed by something and was much more powerful than usual. It flattened the front of the car and shattered the front windshield into a spider web shape, almost exploding.

The front wheel of the car was knocked off course, the front of the car shifted, and with the car moving at high speed, there was no chance for adjustment.

Pat could only watch his car crash into a big tree on the side of the road and then lose all power.

“This time it’s really over!”

Pat looked up from the airbag and saw a man in a green leather jacket floating closer and recognized him as Brainwave.

"Gideon, are you okay?"

"You actually spoke to a machine. It looks like you're seriously injured!"

Brainwave looked at Pat, whose head was covered in blood, without showing any special expression, as if he was just looking at a useful tool.

"Now you have no choice but to surrender to us!"

Icicle also caught up. He raised his hand and released a large amount of cold air, blocking the surroundings with ice. His eyes, which looked like they were carved out of ice, looked at Pat emotionlessly.

"I don't think so. He always has a choice!"

The two super villains of the Injustice Society were about to drag Pat out of the car when they heard a man's voice above their heads.

They looked up and saw a charred wallpaper of drone wreckage falling down, right in front of Brainwave and Icicle. There was still steam coming out of it, but it was quickly extinguished by the cold air emanating from Icicle.

Brainwave and Icicle didn't look up, but looked at each other in tacit understanding and took action at the same time.

The icicle activates its ability to quickly create a large mass of special ice that is as hard as steel.

Brainwave used his telekinesis to carry the block of ice high into the sky and smashed it directly at the person wrapped in green light in the sky.

Martin smiled slightly, and the green light energy was compressed into a thin beam of light, which directly penetrated the ice block and destroyed the brain waves and mental power buried in the soldier's body.

Click!

The ice exploded, but it did not explode in the air as Brainwave and Icicle had expected and become a weapon to attack Martin. Instead, it was wrapped in green light energy and hit them like a blizzard.

Brainwave opened a telekinetic shield, and the icicle used the cold current to support an ice dome.

Amidst the crackling sounds, they dodged Martin's first counterattack.

Then, Martin swung his huge green fist down from the sky, smashing the ice created by the icicle and sending him flying into the ice wall, which looked like a work of art.

Naobo was so surprised that he didn't even turn his head and just ran away. With the help of his mental power, he was as light as a swallow and jumped hundreds of meters in one jump.

Martin looked at the guy's running back, materialized a bow and arrow, and shot an arrow at Brainwave's back.

boom!
The energy arrow shot out at a high speed, making a sound similar to a sonic boom. It first shot high into the sky, and then fell from the sky, hitting the ground directly.

The green light energy exploded, shaking the surrounding land and buildings, making them all soft and brittle, and completely useless.

Brainwave opened his telekinetic shield, his eyes became bloodshot, and he used all his strength. His head became a little bigger, but he only managed to save his life.

Martin gently moved Pat out of the car and checked his body with the green light energy.

"Why didn't you keep them? Why did you let them go on purpose?"

ps: There will be two chapters tomorrow, and the update will continue to be 8,000 words!
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