The Comprehensive Evolution of American Comics.

Chapter 1066

"Fifteen minutes have passed."

Mary lowered her left hand, which was adorned with a wristwatch, and peered out from behind a plant display case at the closed door not far away.

"Why hasn't Garfield come back yet after so long? Do you think he's run into some trouble?"

Mary was naturally asking about Carla, who was in the same room as her. Unlike the former, who was full of worry, Carla kept wandering around in front of the various plant display cases.

Seeing Carla's unproductive behavior, Mary couldn't help but get annoyed and asked, "I don't think we have time to look at those plants, do we?"

“Do you think I want to see this?” Kara rolled her eyes. “I’m looking at these plants to see if there are any that can only grow with the help of the yellow sun.”

Mary then remembered that Kara had said she was a Kryptonian like Superman, and Kryptonians could continuously draw energy from the yellow sun, meaning Kara wanted to use the yellow sun to restore her abilities.

“This…” Mary licked her lips. “I, I’ll help you look too.”

As Mary was about to get up and walk out from behind the display case, she suddenly heard the sound of a door opening not far away.

Mary and Kara looked over and saw countless robots filing out of the door, all equipped with various weapons, clearly not benevolent beings.

"Looks like we've been exposed." Kara clicked her tongue in annoyance, and at the same time rushed to Mary's side and pulled her behind the display case.

"Hide well, I don't have the energy to save you right now."

After saying that, Kara ignored Mary's reply, turned around, grabbed a candlestick-shaped decoration next to her, swung it around a few times, felt that the weight was just right, and then took it in her hand to use as a weapon.

"Capture Kryptonians and Earthlings."

The machine guard's cold, mechanical voice repeated the Canned King's orders, then it aimed the stun gun on its arm at the display case where Kara and Mary were hiding, ready to fire.

Kara also sensed the intentions of the robot guards. She glanced at the defenseless Mary, clicked her tongue, and then changed direction, coming out from the other side of the display case.

The display cases in this corridor-style exhibition hall were almost tightly connected. Kara had just walked out from behind one display case, and after taking four or five steps, she turned to the back of another display case.

As soon as the target changed position, the robot guards followed Kara's lead and pointed their guns at the display case where Kara was hiding.

In their programming, Kryptonians were indeed considered a much greater threat than humans, so at this moment, no guards paid any attention to Mary, who was from Earth, and all went after Kara.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Several shots were fired in quick succession, turning the display case where Kara was hiding into a sieve.

Seeing this, Kara quickly lay down on the ground to hide, muttering to herself, "Damn it, is the Canned Food King not going to take care of his exhibits?"

Knowing that her question had no answer, Kara twisted her body and rolled out from behind the display case. Then she lay on the ground like a female leopard, all her muscles taut as if they were a string.

"ah!"

With a soft shout, Kara shot forward like an arrow, crouching low to strike the guarding machine, simultaneously thrusting out the candlestick in her hand. With a sizzling sound, the tip of the candlestick pierced from bottom to top into the connection between the guarding machine's head and body, its weakest point, the candlestick penetrating straight in.

The surging current flowed along the candlestick to Kara's body. Perhaps because she was far away from the red sun, the current could not harm Kara. Instead, it stimulated the warlike genes hidden in her heart.

With a sinister grin, Kara turned the handle, and the next second the robot guard was decapitated. Kara took advantage of the situation and stepped forward to block the attacks of the other robots by using the guard's body as a shield.

Kara knew this couldn't go on forever. Holding the candlestick in her left hand, she snatched the stun gun from the guard with her right and pulled the trigger on the robot in front of her.

"Bang bang bang!"

Three gunshots rang out in succession, and these three gunshots caused the three machine guards to malfunction.

Kara knew that the stun guns equipped by these robotic guards were connected to the robot itself, and the stun guns were powered by batteries inside the robot. Now that the owner of the stun gun she was using was broken, the gun naturally didn't have much power left.

Sure enough, after firing five or six shots, the stun gun ran out of energy with a few empty shots. Kara casually pushed the guards toward the machine guards and then hid in a display case to the side.

Her current strength is less than one percent of her peak strength. Although her biofield has reacted somewhat, she is not yet strong enough to physically withstand firearms.

Fighting a guerrilla war is the best option she can think of besides surrendering.

Moreover, she can't just fight and run away. Kara also needs to find the Yellow Sun that can restore her strength. As long as she can be exposed to the Yellow Sun, she will be confident that she can fight her way out!

As Kara thought this, she jumped toward the nearest display case, but she overestimated her abilities; Kara wasn't fast enough to dodge bullets.

These canned kings have created guard machines that are far superior to their predecessors. They were created to suppress rare animals that have escaped and rioted.

It's important to know that the Canned King's collection includes many extremely dangerous monsters. The reason he was able to place them on his spaceship so openly, besides his own strength and the spaceship's security, was largely due to these mechanical guards.

Individually, they may not be very strong, but when they fight in groups, even monsters have no choice but to submit.

After locking onto their target, these fearless guards, undeterred by the loss of their comrades, resolutely pulled the trigger, and the barrage of bullets struck Kara, who was still in mid-air.

One shot, two shots, and then a dozen more all landed on Kara, electrocuting the Kryptonian girl until she convulsed and flew backward, smashing through the glass of a display case and landing inside.

Kara, lying in the display case, kept pulling out the stun guns. The output of these stun guns was precisely calculated so that they could make the victims feel intense pain without harming them.

"The Kryptonian has been defeated." After scanning Kara's physical condition and confirming that she was unable to move, the machine guards proceeded in an orderly manner toward Mary.

Mary, who was hiding behind the display case, saw the whole thing. She had initially wanted to befriend Kara after seeing her take down so many guards, but she didn't expect the situation on the battlefield to change so suddenly. Kara, who was showing off her prowess just a second ago, was now lying on the ground convulsing.

Seeing the machine guards advancing towards her, a dazed Mary could only grab the candlestick beside her, trying to fight back like Kara.

However, Mary, who was in a great shock, did not notice that the candlestick in her hand was very different from the one Carla used; its surface was shimmering with patterns like those on a circuit board.

(End of this chapter)