8. Baby! Salute to the King!
In Senisto's giant office, the King of Fears and Batman stand opposite each other.
In terms of his own strength, the current Batman is trying his best to fight, and it is not without a chance of winning, but in the face of the once most powerful Green Lantern and the current King of Fear, he is still at a disadvantage, but fortunately, this time the competition is more of a confrontation of hearts, just like Cyber said, Bruce doesn't even need to raise his fist.
However, before the confrontation began, Cyber took off the yellow ring from his finger and threw it to Bruce:
"To project your fears, you need a medium, use mine first, and give it back to me when you're done. ”
Bruce nodded, put Cyber's ring on his finger, and the next moment, the yellow light shone on Batman's body, just like when Cyber just brought it, the fear from the soul slapped the waves, trying to break Batman's will from the heart, but obviously, it failed, and in just a few seconds, Bruce's body returned to its normal posture.
And Senisto, who watched this scene, was dumbfounded, he turned his head to look at Cyber, and asked loudly:
"How can your lamp ring be used by other people? This is not at all in accordance with common sense! A lamp ring binds a soul! This is the absolute criterion of the psychic spectrum!"
"Surprised?"
Cyber shrugged: "The rules are for those who don't have the ability to break it, I'm not like you, Lord of Fear, my soul is pure and powerful, I choose it, not it chooses me, since it has obeyed me, it naturally has to act according to my will." ”
"You're a weirdo!
Senisto shook his head, he looked at the lamp ring that Bruce wore on his finger and shone with a faint yellow light, he took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "In the face of a beginner who fears power, let's start with something simple!"
"I can smell the horror of your family being ruined and alone!"
"Buzz"
With Senisto's voice, the image in front of Batman's eyes suddenly changed, his mind was absorbed into his own memory, and he saw his past self from a third-party perspective.
It was Gotham during the Great Depression, and in the glamorous, chaotic theater passage at the back, a robber tried to hurt him in order to steal his money, and his parents were shot dead by the robber to protect him, and the bastard ran away with the money, leaving Bruce Wayne, who was less than ten years old at the time, sitting alone next to his parents' corpses.
In the cold winter night, he could even remember the warmth of his fingers touching the blood, the loneliness and pain of losing everything.
But standing in the third-party perspective, Bruce calmly looked at himself crying helplessly in the dark, and there was a touch of sadness in his heart, this scene would appear in his memory almost every night, like a nightmare that could not be erased, but there was no fear in his heart for a long time.
He looked at his childhood self and suddenly remembered his son, Damien... He couldn't let his son suffer everything he had suffered in the past, and those who had suffered the same way as him, which was probably the original reason why he grew up and threw everything he had into fighting evil.
"Is that all you have to do?"
The first time Bruce spoke, the memory in front of him suddenly dissipated, and he saw Senisto standing across from him, who also had a slight surprise in his eyes, but then, Senisto's voice sounded again:
"Well, let me smell it again, I also smell the fear that you are tempted by the darkness, and you are only one step away from falling into it, completely losing your soul!"
"Buzz"
Batman's vision blurred again, and he saw himself in the world from the same perspective, it was in Nepal, he hadn't eaten for 5 days, he was very hungry, he secretly took a loaf of bread from a store, and hid in the corner to eat sweetly, and at this moment, a child, a hungry child, looked at him with a blank eye, and stood in the corner.
Bruce hesitated, tightened the half of the bread in his hand, and put it back in his pocket, and the next moment, he saw a group of wanderers like him knocking over the guards in the warehouse next to him, rushing into it and plundering, he subconsciously rushed in, and rushed out of the warehouse with a bag of food, and at this moment, the defeated guard saved his leg.
Bruce was still very young at that time, it was his first crime, he picked up a stick from the side in a hurry, and smashed it at the head of the guard, in an agitated mood, it was difficult for people to judge their own destructive power, just before the last blow, he saw the guard who was beaten in the head by himself, and he would be unconscious, even dead, and no one would know that he had stolen something.
But in the midst of their eyes, Bruce saw that fear, that it was the first time he had inflicted his fear on someone else, that was the first time he felt that he could give fear to others.
It's like the abyss is calling, and a dark voice rings in his ears, smash it, smash it, and you will become a strong man!
"Bang"
The stick slammed down, but it smashed into the guard's side.
Bruce took two loaves of bread from the food pocket, enough to satisfy himself, then put the bag in the guard's arms, strode out, and as he passed the corner, he reached out and shoved half a loaf of bread to the hungry boy, wiped it on his head, and left laughing.
"Buzz"
The image before Bruce's eyes dissipated again, and he began to get a little bored, he looked at Senesto, and said in a deep voice:
"It doesn't do anything but make me stronger... Is that all you do?"
"You!!"
Senisto gritted his teeth, he took a deep breath again, he opened his arms, and said in a deep voice: "I also smell that you are powerless in the face of hatred, and you fall into darkness and cannot extricate yourself from fear! It's a lost one!"
"Buzz"
Batman's image changes again, he sees himself in the most painful part of his life, in adulthood, the robber who shot his parents is about to be tried, he longs to see the criminal get to justice, but in the end, with the help of the villain's lawyer, the murderer is sentenced to be released in court.
An enraged Bruce has a pistol in his hand and intends to shoot the bastard outside the courtroom.
If the law can't punish evil, then he will do it himself!
But just before he fired, the moment the smug guy walked out of the courtroom, he was shot by a hitman hired by the gangsters, and Bruce was shocked, and finally felt the thrill of revenge, and he even began to thank the gangsters.
But then, with the death of the bastard, order in Gotham begins to crumble rapidly, and in the darkness of the night, Bruce sees with his own eyes how the gangsters who helped him stab his enemies destroy the city and tarnish the peace that his philanthropist parents worked for, which makes him feel ashamed.
He chose to go into self-exile in extreme pain, and when he returned as a hero of justice, he personally captured the murderer who designed everything in the first place, the shadow warrior who tried to subvert the order of Gotham, and in the face of the murderer, he wanted to end his life with his own hands, just like he tried to shoot a robber outside the courtroom, but in the end, he thought of the broken order, and in the end, he chose to let go.
And his revenge, done by his friends for him...
"Buzz"
The picture before him crumbled again, and Bruce breathed a sigh of relief, he turned his head to look at Cyber, smiled at him, and then returned his attention to Senisto, and he said in a deep voice:
"Your methods are just that, your understanding of fear is too superficial... Look out the window, your people live in fear, and fear breeds resentment, resentment drives anger, and anger eventually leads to crime... You're destroying your kingdom instead of maintaining it, and now it's my turn!"
"I don't need to stir up your fears, I just need... Let you become me!"
"Buzz"
The yellow light ring in Bruce's hand shone brightly, and in Senisto's determined gaze, his mind was thrown into the memory from the perspective of Bruce Wayne.
There, he was born like Bruce, grew up like him, fell into a dark bat cave like him, experienced the first taste of fear in his life, then suffered the tragic death of his parents, suffered the collapse of the city, suffered the betrayal of his friends, encountered the torture of good and evil, entered the shadow warrior training like Bruce, thought he was a hero, and then awakened by the cruel reality.
Until he confronts the Shadow Dance Master, and confronts the even more terrifying Clown, all of this is like a real nightmare that embroils him.
Senisto had never seen such a painful fate from the perspective of a mortal, he was born with strong strength and did not need to worry about the design from Xiaoxiao, but because of this, after such a bumpy fate, he became at a loss.
At the end of the story, Senisto is driven mad by the Joker's terrible tricks, he is armed with two blood-stained blades, and at his feet, the Joker's mangled body is twisted with a strange smile on his lifeless face, while Senisto stands in the ruins of Gotham, which he has destroyed with his own hands, laughing, this scene directly affects his mind, until Batman withdraws the power of the Dreadlamp Ring, and Senisto is still immersed in the destructive nothingness.
Cyber and Bruce looked at him with the same eyes as they looked at the poor creatures.
"You've failed!
Cyber's voice woke the Lord of Dread from his vision, and he jerked his head down, then turned pale.
The yellow light ring on his finger had abandoned him and instead hovered in front of Batman, Cyber took his light ring and put it on his finger, he walked up to Batman and patted him on the shoulder:
"Take it, you deserve it, this fear projection ability suits you very well, with it, you will be invincible!"
Bruce glanced at the yellow light ring floating in front of him, and he only needed to reach out to hold the power in his hand, but eventually, he shook his head.
"No, I don't need to!"
Batman took a step back: "I don't need this power to manipulate other people's fears, like you said, it belongs to Batman, but it shouldn't belong to Mayor Bruce Wayne, I have a new life." ”
"Keep it for me! ”
Bruce said to Cyber, "When Batman needs it, you give it to me, and then, send me home... Rachel and little Damien are still waiting for me to have dinner. ”
"Hahahaha"
Cyberhaha smiled and reached out to hold Xeniste's light ring in his hand, he waved his finger, and a portal opened behind Bruce:
"This is the Batman I know, this is my good brother of fear... Go, I hope you will never experience war again in this life!"
Bruce put his glasses back on, smiled at Cyber, turned and walked into the portal, and vanished, Cyber turned his head to look at the dead face of Senisto, he looked at his finger, and after seeing the betrayer fall to such a deplorable end, the ring's resentment vanished, and it turned back to the pale green of the other lantern men, and surrendered to Cyber and belonged completely to the new owner.
The energy combat suit on Sinisto's body has disappeared, but compared to the weak strength, the soul is broken is the real fatal wound, he is slumped on the ground, his eyes have lost focus, seeing this scene, Cyber suddenly feels that it is pointless to kill such a person.
He stepped forward, crouched down beside Senisto, looked at him, and whispered:
"Do you know?Lantern Man, in fact, after I heard your story, I felt that the best place for you is not the Yellow Lantern Army, you are still a hero of light in essence, but you lack peace of mind and faith, so go back, Senisto, poor Green Lantern need you... Without you, they're nothing more than a mess. ”
"I took a gifted Green Lantern from them, and I should give him back a future leader!"
After speaking, he stood up and stretched his waist: "If it's still too late, I hope to see you on the battlefield of the stars... It's not just you!"
"Wait!
Senisto stopped the departing Cyber and asked softly, "Batman, has he really, really ever killed a man, even in the face of a terrible criminal like the Joker..."
"Of course!"
Seber shrugged his shoulders, he didn't answer, he just said happily: "I killed the clown with my own hands, you see, behind every great hero, there must be a good friend who specializes in dirty work, Senisto... Follow his example, learn from him, and become a real... King of Green Lights!"
"Huh"
As soon as Cyber stepped into the territory of the Red Lantern Legion, the world in front of him had completely changed, as if he had been trampled by an incomparably large interstellar beast, his eyes widened, he looked at everything around him, then shook his head, took a few steps forward, and saw the huge body of the Hulk, and the Destroyer standing next to him.
After seeing Cyber return, both Hulk and Drax beckoned to him, and when Cyber got closer, Hulk threw away the half-eaten melon in his hand, and proudly raised his finger and shook it, he had two red light rings in his hand, one of which was apparently his trophy.
And beneath his ass, the bones of Atohitas were not yet cold, and blood was flowing everywhere on behalf of anger.
"Hulk!
The Hulk stretched out his thumb and pointed at himself proudly, and then his little thumb and pointed at Cyber with disdain:
"Cyber!
Finally, he patted the bone throne under his feet with both hands, and proudly spread his hands, and the four completely subdued Red Lantern Men knelt behind Hulk with blue noses and swollen faces, making the Hulk really look as proud as a king:
"Look! Hulk's... Legion!"