The Comprehensive Evolution of American Comics.

Chapter 1262 Outside the Atmosphere, Inside the Atmosphere

"Batman, did you notice?"

Like the old Bat, Mr. Excellence, who doesn't play a significant role in space combat, acts as the fortress's pilot, responsible for some minor adjustments.

"You mean the Zerg in Reach are starting to shrink their battle lines?"

Batman kept staring at the tactical board above his head, which displayed the real-time battlefield distribution. Of course, it was only a rough estimate and not entirely accurate, but it still gave a sense of the overall battlefield situation.

On the tactical board, blue dots represent friendly members, and red dots represent the enemy.

At this moment, the red dot representing the enemy is gradually shrinking towards our own warship. Generally, when this happens on the battlefield, it only means one possibility: the enemy wants to retreat.

This is a normal phenomenon. After all, since the start of the battle, the Scarab Warriors of the Reach have been rapidly depleting their numbers. At this rate of attrition, even the large and powerful planet Reach cannot withstand it.

"Could this be a trap set by the enemy?" Mr. Zhuo frowned.

“You’re overthinking it,” Batman retorted. “You can tell from the tactics board that the Scarab Warriors are retreating in an orderly fashion, and besides, their numbers are far from being a complete rout.”

"They just don't want to expend any more resources. It's clear that the personnel losses in this engagement have exceeded the Reach's expectations."

"Moreover, the Reach insectoids themselves are well aware that there are Green Lanterns stationed on Earth, so we can notify those cosmic police as soon as something happens."

"That's why they want to launch a blitzkrieg to see if they can take over Earth before Green Lantern arrives, and then negotiate with the Guardians. If they can convince the Guardians, then Green Lantern won't be a problem."

"The Zerg of Reach just didn't expect our resistance to be so strong. If they can't take us down, the Green Lanterns could arrive at any time."

"This is just a normal tactical retreat, not a five-star general-level attack on the rear."

Perhaps because the battle was going well, Batman took the opportunity to make a small joke about America.

"So what should we do?" Mr. Zhuoyue asked. "Should we just watch them leave, or..."

“Chase after them,” Batman said decisively. “You can’t just come and go as you please. There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”

"We all know that many people in the universe have their eyes on Earth. We must take this opportunity to tell them all that Earth is not to be trifled with, and we must make our name known in this battle."

After saying that, Batman opened the voice channel and first contacted Hal privately.

"HAL, where is the Green Lantern Corps now?"

“You scared me, old bat,” Hal complained, then paused for a few seconds before saying, “The main force will reach the Orion Arm in 10 minutes.”

"Understood." Batman hung up the independent communication channel and then announced it on the mental channel.

"Attention everyone, the Zerg of Reach have begun their retreat. The Green Lantern Corps will arrive on the battlefield in a maximum of ten minutes. I need you to hold the enemy here."

"Attention everyone! Our operational objective has changed. It is no longer to stop the invaders' advance; we must annihilate them!"

As soon as Batman finished speaking, he heard many voices of agreement in his mind, clearly indicating that they also agreed with the plan.

After filtering out some meaningless comments, Batman informed Mr. Excellence, and the two then piloted Cybertron to advance. "Anyone who isn't confident in their defense and speed should take cover inside the ring's protective shield to avoid being hit by stray bullets from the enemy."

"The others who are careful about their own strength should not be pursued too deeply. Let's stick together and advance slowly."

Despite the Justice League's relentless pressure, the Zerg of Reach never dared to make a desperate, all-or-nothing decision.

It seems Yang Le's intelligence was correct; this fleet is already the main fighting force of Reach. They dare not fight to the death because they cannot afford the cost.

However, this only strengthened Batman's desire to annihilate the entire fleet, meaning that even if the Reach wanted to retaliate, they would be unable to mount a decent attack for at least a century.

...

With overwhelming superiority on the front lines outside Earth, the situation on Earth was far less favorable.

At this time, it seemed that the supervillains on Earth knew that most of the Justice League members were not on Earth, and a large number of criminals began to commit crimes at the same time.

This has left the remaining superheroes on Earth and the members of the Young Justice League extremely busy.

This was actually something Batman had discussed with the Young Justice League beforehand.

Several members of the Young Justice League are ostensibly double agents who obey the Illuminati. After some discussion, the Young Justice League decides to regularly send the latter some half-true and half-false information.

The news of the Justice League's absence was spread by the Young Justice League at Batman's behest, with the aim of preventing the Illuminati from suspecting the double agents' identities.

As expected, upon learning of this news, the Illuminati immediately released a group of supervillains to verify its authenticity.

However, after confirming the authenticity of the news, the leaders of the Illuminati did not plan to do anything. Their exposure had been too high recently, and they needed to go into hiding for a while.

However, while assigning missions to the Young Justice League, Batman also assigned a mission to Damian.

Damian's mission was to raid the Nakvergi's base on Earth after learning that the Justice League was not on Earth, and then stage a scene of killing the Nakvergi.

This was to gain Damian some of the Illuminati's trust, since the public now knows that the Nakvergi are aliens who are friendly to Earth and the Justice League, essentially allies.

Killing Justice League allies is what a ruthless supervillain should do.

Sitting in an ordinary flying vehicle, Damian felt unusually calm as he looked at the strange-looking buildings below.

This is because he knew that the Nakfir people also knew that this was a charade, and all he had to do next was to make the scene as bloody as possible, and then be careful not to make any big commotion.

"Lord Shredder," the elite ninja beside him said respectfully. "We've already communicated with them; they're fully prepared and can begin their operation."

“Yes.” Damian nodded. “Don’t forget the arrangements we made beforehand. Let’s begin.”

"Yes!" The elite ninja bowed, then stood up straight and turned to look at the Bigfoot ninjas behind him who were fully prepared for battle.

"Remember, this operation absolutely cannot be messed up. Operation begins!"

(End of this chapter)