#872 - aware

"This doesn't seem like something Bane would do."

The athlete also crouched down next to the unconscious cultist, grabbing him roughly and slapping him across the face.

The loud slap echoed through the narrow control center, knocking off the attacked cultist's hood. Looking at his swollen cheek, one couldn't help but wonder if the slap might kill him.

"Hiss... ah!" The cultist woke up and instinctively covered his cheek. When he opened his eyes, he saw the athlete's cold eyes and was so scared that he almost wet his pants.

"Tell me, what happened?" The athlete released his right hand, which had been grabbing the cultist's collar. "Who attacked you guys?"

"Rep... report!" The cultist covered his mouth, his tone sounding strange due to his swollen face. "I... I don't know, I don't even know what happened..."

"Highly effective anesthetic."

King Snake extracted a key piece of information from the cultist's words.

"This high-end stuff is hard to come by even outside of Santa Prisca, let alone on the island."

The implication was that Bane, in his desperate situation, shouldn't be able to get his hands on this stuff, and that someone else must have attacked the control center.

The athlete agreed with King Snake's assessment. His eyes began to scan the room, and with effort, he soon found something useful.

The athlete pushed away the cultist who had fallen in front of him, leaned towards the chair in front of the console, reached under it, and picked something up.

The thing looked very inconspicuous, a black sphere split in the middle, looking like a capsule for storing something.

With his rich criminal experience, the athlete immediately recognized what it was, and he was also very familiar with the owner of this thing.

"Hypnotic gas grenade, Batman?"

King Snake was also experienced and could recognize the item, but his statement was not supported by the athlete, who shook his head and said.

"No, not Batman. If it were him, the rest of the Justice League would be with him, and we would have been taken down already."

The athlete thought for a moment, and the group of active youngsters recently immediately came to his mind, including one of Batman's sidekicks, who should also be using this standard equipment.

"It's Robin. It seems the Young Justice League has infiltrated Santa Prisca."

"So, what we're doing here has been discovered by the Justice League?" King Snake frowned at first, then curled his lips and said with a smile.

"That's great. I thought they were blind and couldn't find this place."

Hearing this, the corners of the athlete's mouth under his mask also turned up, and he said, "Good, now all that's left to do is make those kids do a little more, King Snake?"

"I've already notified the cultists under my command."

King Snake nodded. "They are already blocking the entrances to Bane's secret passages, and manpower has also been deployed in those relatively flat areas."

"They won't escape so easily."

...

'Seriously, what did you guys find?'

In the long tunnel, the members of the Young Justice League were retreating. Wally, with his strong curiosity, couldn't help but ask on the telepathic channel.

'The Cobra Cult is just a bunch of small fries. The Illuminati is behind Santa Prisca.'

Robin knew everyone had questions in their hearts, and he didn't hide anything, directly simplifying what he had searched for and said it.

The amount of information in this sentence was very explosive, directly shocking the few who knew about the Illuminati.

'What... what is that?' As a newcomer, Wonder Girl didn't know. Wally immediately kindly explained it to her.

'Simply put, it's a group of criminal organizations hiding in the dark. They are particularly large in scale, and everything else is a mystery. By the way, O-weapons are what we rescued from them.'

Wonder Girl took the time to glance at Habie, she didn't expect him to have such a past.

'Let's talk about chatting when we get back.' Robin interrupted the conversation between the two. Even though telepathy doesn't require speaking, the voices that directly appear in the mind will still affect other people's attention.

The two immediately stopped talking and focused on retreating. It has to be said that the Young Justice League is becoming more and more like a regular team. Everyone not only listens to Robin, but also pays attention to teamwork on weekdays.

For example, even when retreating, Kid Flash would not deliberately show off his proud speed and run far ahead, but would follow the large group in an orderly retreat.

'Almost there.' Robin felt the breeze coming from ahead, and sure enough, he looked up and saw the cave entrance with a glimmer of light.

'Wait a minute, everyone, there's a situation ahead.' Miss Martian suddenly spoke and stopped everyone. At this time, the color of her eyes' irises changed slightly, obviously using special vision.

'In the woods fifty meters ahead of the tunnel entrance, there is a group of people ambushing in it.'

'They move fast!' Robin gritted his teeth secretly. These Illuminati people are smarter than he thought. Bane has been kept in the dark, still dreaming of taking back the factory, but he doesn't know that the other party has already figured out his old nest.

If Bane rashly rushes in, he will probably experience another failure.

'Miss Martian, how many people are there?'

After Miss Martian scanned around, she said, "There are about twenty people, it is not clear whether anyone has a device to avoid infrared detection."

'This information is enough.' Robin thought for a while. 'It seems that this matter cannot be resolved peacefully, we can only fight our way out.'

This was not a solution, but it was the only way for them to go, after all, there was signal interference here, and they could not ask the Justice League for help.

'Remember to be quick, we must solve everyone before the other party's support arrives!'

'Got it!' ×5

...

Outside the tunnel, a group of Cobra Cultists were lying in ambush in the bushes. These people would not complain because the task was boring or tiring, because the nature of the Cobra Cult was different from that of ordinary criminal organizations.

Cobra Cult, the word 'Cult' can explain everything. Like those harmful cults, they also rely on brainwashing with doctrines to control their subordinates.

Brainwashed people are far more loyal than the subordinates of ordinary criminal gangs. They don't even ask for high rewards, and some even dedicate everything to the organization.

This kind of organization is the most difficult to destroy, and even the Justice League feels a headache.

At this time, this group of fanatical cultists was guarding outside the tunnel, waiting for the people who blasphemed the Holy Church to run out, and then they would be surrounded and taken down.