*Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!*
Wally had just turned around when several lasers shot head-on.
Heatblast returned the same amount of fire, and the two met in the air, sending an explosion into the air.
Black smoke filled the air.
*Dang! Thud! Thud!*
Twenty machine soldiers emerged from the smoke and landed on the ground with a heavy thud.
Wally was at full attention, as if facing a formidable enemy.
Yuri, on the other hand, after checking his surroundings and confirming that only machine soldiers appeared on the opposite side, showed a confident smile.
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A few kilometres away, on a mansion near the Van Buren Bridge, the Blacksmith came to the top and gazed at the battlefield through binoculars.
While Central City had been torn apart by the previous battle, and was now on ablaze, Keystone across the bridge was much quieter.
Outside the Central City, thousands of Blacksmith's men were driving around in vans scavenging for anything of value, cash, jewellery, paintings, antiques, medicines, technology ... anything that could be cashable was loaded into vans and sent to Keystone, where a second round of scavenging would begin.
With all the police and the vast majority of the citizens of both cities sealed in the mirror world and Wally and the others held in the center of Midtown, there was no one to stop the network's robbery.
"Although I didn't expect the appearance of Captain Cold and that Flaming creature, it's still a big win for my side."
The Blacksmith was extremely confident in the twenty machine soldiers she had spent a lot of money on, and even if it couldn't defeat Kid Flash and the others, it would still be easy to hold them within the Central City.
The wealth of Midtown had already been mostly taken by the Network's men, and thousands of long trucks had been driven to Keystone to continue their plunder.
Keystone is not as highly prosperous as Central City, which is a heavily industrial city, so the only two things of value are cash and industrial technology.
This was the reason why the blacksmith went after Midtown first and then Keystone.
Suddenly, the blacksmith faintly heard a cacophony of voices, vaguely coming from the direction of Keystone.
She raised her binoculars and looked suspiciously across the Van Buren Bridge.
As she did so, her eyes widened.
Thousands of uniformed workers suddenly emerged from the depths of Keystone, armed with spanners, pliers, chains, crowbars and other weapons, and rushed towards the blacksmith's men without fear for their lives.
The workers wore uniforms with the words "Kenyon Union" written on them, and at the front of the group was an old man covered in gold.
*Crack!*
At the sight of this man, the blacksmith couldn't help herself and angrily crushed the telescope in her hand. Her face full of with anger.
"Goldface!"
The blacksmith gritted her teeth as she revealed the man's identity.
The Man with his whole body covered in gold color is named Keith Kenyon. He was Blacksmith's ex-husband, the betrayer who had secretly leaked information to the FBI, and the founder of Kenyon's Union.
"No! Mirror Master has put everyone in the Kenyon union into the mirror world, these people couldn't have escaped of their own accord, someone must have let them out ... wait!"
Suddenly, the blacksmith thought of a situation that would be extremely detrimental to her.
"If the Kenyon union men were released, then the same imprisoned police officers ..."
*Thump, thump, thump!*
As if the gods themselves were playing a joke on Blacksmith, just as she was thinking about it, gunshots suddenly rang out.
Without warning, thousands of policemen emerged from the sides of Keystone and began a fierce gun battle with the blacksmith's men.
The Blacksmith's men only had a thousand men, but the equipment and weapons they used were more advanced than even the police, a bulletproof vest for each man was standard, and the firearms they used were among the best in the army.
There were also many superhumans among them.
One meta looked like a giant upright sea turtle, carrying a large turtle shell of one and a half metres in diameter. Looking so hard that it seems that not even a rocket could break it.
Another was a head-geared man, two and a half metres tall and so muscular that he didn't even wear a top. And as he was then shot by guns, the bullets ended up getting stuck on the surface of the muscles and not getting into the flesh at all.
These two were the most troublesome metas for the police at the blacksmith's disposal.
Still, the cops plus the union workers had an absolute numerical advantage and soon had the upper hand, and it was only a matter of time before the network's army was defeated.
But still, how exactly did the group escape?
That was a few hours ago.
In the Cole Cemetery, Chyre was about to leave when a hand suddenly reached out from the grave next to him, and then the soil began to squirm.
The person buried underneath had crawled up!
And it was the same Detective Morillo that Chyre knew all too well.
It turned out that Morillo hadn't been killed by the Plunder, rather, killed but not completely.
Morillo's resurrection needs to be traced back to that incident three months ago when Cicada and Magenta teamed up to take on the Kid Flash.
Cicada could absorb other people's life force and store it in his dagger, then transfer it to himself by stabbing it into himself, and the guy lived on this ability for over a hundred years.
At that time, Morillo was accidentally cut on the wrist by Cicada's dagger, causing him to absorb some life force, which made Morillo's self-healing ability increase by an unknown number of times.
Even though he was shot in the head by the Plunder, he eventually recovered.
Since Plunder didn't know that Morillo, who was buried underground, was still alive, he was overheard by Morillo with a lot of important information, including which mirror people were sealed on ...
What happened next was clear, Morillo and Chyre together released everyone.
The ordinary citizens concentrated on staying in a safe place, while the Goldface man brought the Kenyon union and the police into the fight with him.
The blacksmith's entire face twisted in a grimace as she watched what had been a great situation turn around in an instant.
"Keith! I'll tear you!"
"Before you tear him, I'll first freeze you into a popsicle!"
Suddenly, a cold voice was heard.
The blacksmith looked up and saw that the Weather Wizard and Captain Cold had come above him at some point.
The weather wizard used the air currents to drag himself and Captain Cold along with him as they floated in the sky.
"Mark, what is this..."
The blacksmith's face was already ugly from being so enraged but now, it just went up more.
"I'm not helping him, this is for Lisa."
The weather wizard clasped his hands to his chest, his face expressionless.
"You traitor!"
The blacksmith pointed at the weather wizard and roared. Then her skin instantly morphed into some sort of blue metal and her clothes burst open at the same time.
"Hmph, do you take me for a fool? your actions are already tantamount to abandoning the New Rogues!"
"Blacksmith, you're the traitor!"
The Weather Wizard snorted.
"No need to bullshit with this bitch, just finish her off."
Captain Cold clasped his hands together and an ice prison suddenly rose from beneath the Blacksmith's feet, covering her in it.
The next moment, the furious blacksmith smashed the ice prison.
"That statement of yours is the only one I would like to express my approval of today, Cold." The weather wizard raised his weather wand and dark clouds began to gather high in the sky.
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