With a flash of electric light, they appeared on the beach of a small island, surrounded by the vast ocean, with a dense rainforest in the middle of the island.
The golden beach felt like a soft carpet, and the ocean's scent filled every corner of their nostrils. Occasionally, in the jungle, dark shadows could be seen swaying, as huge creatures lived on this island.
Barry dropped the unconscious Hero, perhaps intentionally, making him eat a mouthful of sand.
"Phew... It's the first time I realized that not just anyone looks good in Diana's uniform." Barry shook his head wildly, his mouth making a whirring sound in the wind.
Su Ming looked at Briss, who was waiting under a tree, removed his mask, and, grabbing Hero by an arm, walked towards their prepared base.
He found Circe in the temple on Aiyu Island, successfully obtaining props to restrain the divine descendants using the magical herb Moly and his own martial skills, without much effort. The old witch obediently agreed to Su Ming's demands after realizing her witchcraft was ineffective.
The Medusa Bracelet seemed like a magical prop, but it was actually just for show. The key was the black liquid it secreted, the famous Circe's venom, capable of turning ordinary people into pigs and gods into ordinary people. This process is irreversible unless a professional mage breaks it.
After the venom infiltrated Hero's skin, he became inferior to even an ordinary person. Su Ming had to drag him away, fearing the damp sand would suffocate him.
"It seems everything went smoothly."
Briss stepped out from the shade; she disliked acting during the day, feeling that wearing this attire in broad daylight was too conspicuous.
Su Ming tossed Hero onto the meadow, the peculiar plants beneath him like a bed, bouncing him slightly, and calmly said:
"Everything went as planned; after being provoked, he was too combative and chose to engage in a fight with sword and shield to prove his valor. Then Barry had the opportunity to seize the lasso, use it to restrain him, and replace his Divine Power Arm Guard with the bracelet."
Barry also approached, picked up a coconut, drank a few mouthfuls, and sighed contentedly: "Yeah, I never knew dealing with Diana was this easy. Uh, what's this world's Diana called again?"
"De'an," Briss replied blankly, checking the person on the ground.
Barry nodded, looking helplessly at the person on the ground: "To be honest, he's not much to look at."
Su Ming was not surprised that Flash could restrain Wonder Woman. Actually, if Barry let loose, his abilities could easily reign supreme in this world.
However, the kind-hearted Little Flash often restricted his speed in cities to avoid the devastating damage sonic booms and electromagnetic forces could cause to those outside of Divine Speed.
The displayed speed was already adequate enough. Coupled with the intelligence Su Ming gathered from comics, dealing with this Hero who isn't the real Wonder Woman was no challenge at all.
In the comics, a cancer-stricken, dying Speedster villain named Mayfly could even hang Wonder Woman out to dry without being as thoroughly prepared as Su Ming.
While he and Barry were executing the kidnapping, Briss stayed on the island, making preparations. Using various props, she made comprehensive preparations in a short time.
But only having Hero wasn't enough; now Su Ming and the others needed to kidnap the Sea Queen too.
Compared to Paradise Island, Poseidonis was a more troublesome place, being completely underwater. Fighting amphibious creatures underwater, no matter how reckless, was not a plan Su Ming was inclined to make.
"You stay hidden, throw him in the cabin, and just make sure the dinosaurs don't carry him away."
Su Ming drank some water to moisten his throat slightly before putting on the hood, transforming into Sharp Claw. This set of seemingly luxurious clothes, in fact, was a costume pilfered from some theater in Gotham, lacking the original uniform's gliding function and being unbearably hot and moldy-smelling.
Briss nodded; as long as she protected the guy during his unconscious phase, there was nothing to worry about once they woke up. The outskirts of the island only had small dinosaurs, nothing to be concerned about. So she dragged De'an into the cabin and threw him in a corner, waiting for the Sea Queen to accompany him.
She believed in Deathstroke's capability because of his exceptional intelligence analytical skills, as if knowing everyone's weaknesses and knowing what to use to counteract them. With this ability, his plans were never futile.
There were many things she wasn't aware of or had never heard of, but genuinely effective tactics were about attacking the enemy's weaknesses. Thorough planning could make battles much simpler.
Batwoman herself was a Tactical Master; many of her opponents were much stronger than her, but the eventual victor was still her.
So she understood that Deathstroke's fearsome nature wasn't due to his martial prowess and marksmanship alone, but that he was also one of the world's top tacticians, hidden under the guise of the world's best assassin.
Watching their footprints on the beach disappear, Briss meticulously erased them and then hid in the darkness.
............
Out on the ocean, Barry was carrying Su Ming, running frantically. He knew that if this plan succeeded, Earth -11 would be basically secured, and they could return to the Main World to confront the real enemies; the Justice League friends were still waiting for him.
Su Ming's series of plans also filled Barry with confidence; he now entirely regarded Su Ming as an ally.
Su Ming had already told him that their next destination was Ci'en Port in Maine. Of course, Maine was the Main World's term; as long as Barry knew the geographical location, it was fine.
There lay the Sea Queen's hometown.
She was the illegitimate daughter of humans and Atlanteans, grew up on land, then surprisingly, inherited the Sea God's Trident and the undersea throne after a few years underwater.
Unlike the Main World's Arthur, this Earth -11's Sea Queen was more inclined toward the Atlanteans, more belligerent, with a mind completely filled with muscle accurately describing her. A ruthless undersea warlord was her character trait.
Su Ming didn't intend to fight her underwater. Her strength was 1,500 times that of ordinary humans, let alone the fact that Su Ming couldn't outcompete fish underwater. Hence, he needed to lure the Sea Queen on land, collaborate with Barry to hit her with a dose of Fear Venom, and applying the Medusa Bracelet that sealed Divine Power would ensure security.
The battlefield choice, of course, was her hometown, the Ci'en Port Lighthouse. She had many childhood memories there and wouldn't bear to flood it with a tsunami subconsciously, preventing her from going all out, making it simpler for Su Ming.
As for how to lure her out...
Watching the lightning disperse beside him, revealing the towering lighthouse on the cliff, he already had a plan.
The Lighthouse Keeper here is the Sea Queen's father, but several years ago, he should have been killed by Black Manta. In the Main World, Sea King and Black Manta mutually murdered each other's fathers, forming a deep vendetta.
This lighthouse appeared to be maintained by someone occasionally from the town because the small cottage under the lighthouse was completely without signs of habitation, seemingly abandoned for years.
Her father's grave was not far away.
Su Ming didn't intend to desecrate someone's grave. Although Slade's memory had done grave digging not once or twice, Su Ming's memory quite rejected it; it's highly unscrupulous, and there's no need for such actions.
He could absolutely use this grave as a setup.