A low-key luxury car waits in the underground parking lot of the afterlife bar, and the expressionless driver looks straight ahead, waiting for the order to leave.

In his hand was a loaded pistol.

The buddy in the passenger seat seemed to be listening to music, but in fact, the small tablet in his hand was checking the surveillance of several nearby blocks, and there was a rifle with a folding stock next to his leg.

You have to have this stuff when driving in Gotham, because you don't know what's going to happen at the next intersection.

If you're lucky, it's just a dog rushing into the street, and if you're unlucky, you'll have a group of big guys with guns to rob your car, and in that case, you can also have a gun to "reason" with the big brothers calmly.

The elevator opened not far away.

Thomas Wayne was walking out of the elevator with his loyal butler. The old lady took off the hat from her head and handed it to Oswald's butler behind her, and he pulled the car door and asked with a laugh:

"Where's Hal?"

The penguin butler behind him whispered:

"The young man said he wasn't used to being in the Order, and he wanted to act with Luther's team, so he stayed here today."

"Well, let him go."

The old lady did not force it, he sat down in the back seat, and said to his butler:

"You don't have to go with me this time, stay in Gotham to help maintain the bar and integrate the resources of the Black Zone by the way, and if I don't come back in seven days, I will obey Martha's instructions in the future."

"Master, you just met the young master."

The penguin butler whispered:

"Perhaps there is no need to be in such a hurry, Mr. Mason did not rush you. Besides, it's Ms. Talia's territory, and we should probably keep a low profile. ”

"He really won't rush me, but if I act late, it means less time to prepare."

Half of the old lady's face was hidden in the darkness of the carriage.

He looked out the window at the butler and said:

"The Assassins who have lost Rayyogu need a Batman to lead them, and Thalia can't control the ancient Order, so Mason has come to me.

If I don't go, then this heavy mission will fall on the shoulders of another person. ”

This sentence made Steward Oswald completely abandon the idea of persuading Thomas.

He knew that the old lady had made up his mind, so he could only watch the car disappear into the exit of the underground parking lot, and he also knew that in the meantime, Ms. Talia El Gul must have been on the plane back to the European headquarters.

The next demon leader will be decided between these two.

"Doodoo"

Before the penguin housekeeper could finish his prayer to the old master, the phone in his pocket rang, and the loyal butler, who was five short and tall, took out his mobile phone and glanced at it, and then answered the phone with a strange look in his eyes and put it to his ear.

"Oswald, tell me honestly!"

Damian's voice rang on the phone, along with the sound of the wind breaking at high speed, and the next heir of the Wayne family asked sharply:

"Did Thomas go to a duel with my mom? Just for the sake of the goddamn leader? I just found out that my grandfather's sword is missing!

It must have been one of them who took it away! ”

"Young Master Damian, this is a matter between adults, and you shouldn't be involved in it."

The penguin housekeeper persuaded:

"The old master has promised that there will be no death in this duel, just to the point."

"He would have said that for sure, my mom was no match for him at all! It's too much for him to hit her with one hand! ”

Damian screamed:

"Find a plane waiting for me at Gotham Airport as fast as you can, I have to rush back! Hell, that sword was given to me by Mason, and the League of Assassins is my grandfather's legacy!

Neither my otherworldly grandfather nor my mom is qualified to snatch it from me! ”

"Uh, with all due respect, little master."

Oswald hesitated and said:

"This duel is the way chosen by the elders of several factions, and even though you have direct bloodline, you can't interfere with the elders' decisions, not even your mother can do that."

"Those old immortal playful eyes, when my grandfather was there, I didn't see them dare to jump out and be demons!"

The rice was almost roaring.

He shouted:

"I order you to find a plane at once, I'll be there in ten minutes, don't worry about my safety, I'm not stupid enough to go alone."

With that, Rice hung up the phone.

As he raced all the way from Wayne Manor to Gotham Airport, this daring little guy dialed another number while manipulating his motorcycle.

He said to the other side:

"Two barrels! Busy? Come with me to Europe, right away. ”

"No, no."

The answer of the second barrel of a person who was wiping the war knife in the brightly lit box was as simple as ever, and Damien gritted his teeth in anger.

But he could only persuade patiently:

"You are also a Master Assassin trained by Lei Xiaogu, and now that the second Demon Head is about to be born, you must be on the sidelines! Remember to bring a gun, the more the merrier. ”

"If you want to convince me to join you in stopping that duel in front of the pool of Lazarus, then you can give up."

The second bucket said in an indifferent tone:

"That's the rule set by your dead ghost grandfather, whether it's Thalia or the old lady, if you want to control that organization, you must pass a cruel trial."

"Don't be stupid, the elders of the various factions who already have signs of rebellion will not allow the second demon head to appear, they are afraid of my grandfather, and naturally they will also be afraid of my grandfather's heir."

Damien said coldly:

"I'm sure both Thomas and my mother will be plotted by the masters when they make it through the trials laid down by the masters to reach the final area.

Two buckets, I'm not trying to stop that showdown!

I'm here to make sure it's fair.

I guess Mason doesn't want to see his plans disrupted by a bunch of treacherous villains, right? How could he have time to play with them?

This is for the benefit of Team K.

Pack your things now and follow me to Europe.

I know how to sneak into the chamber of Lazarus' Pool beneath that castle, where we will be ambushed in advance, and I will cut anyone who dares to do anything! ”

There was silence on the other side of the phone for a few seconds, and then the second bucket spoke:

"I'm underestimating you, Damian, it seems that you and Mason have grown a lot after going out for a spin, and they have learned to use their brains in trouble. Okay, I'm going to ask Mason for permission to move.

But this time you're going to listen to me the whole time, understand? ”

——

"The stars in this world are brighter than mine."

On the rooftop balcony of the afterlife bar, in the shadows of the edge of the dark air conditioner, Hal Jordan in a bomber jacket is lying on the railing.

He was slightly drunk and enjoyed the night breeze while gazing at the starlight overhead.

Although the hazy weather in Gotham City makes "stargazing" here completely blame for his eyes, for Hal, who is currently in another world but has not yet been assigned a specific task, this is not a bad leisure time.

The handsome young man had just drunk a lot of alcohol in the bar, and he already had several scented notes in his pockets with phone numbers written on them.

But he had no intention of going out for fun tonight.

He just wants to stay alone and quietly, and by the way, think about the second life that he seems to be quite confused at the moment.

No matter how you think about it, you can't avoid the green ring he was holding in his hand at this time, and it was because of this ring that Thomas Wayne and Mason Cooper flew into his hand before the end of the world that brought him here.

And he also heard the story of Green Lantern and the entire Justice League in this world.

The heroes of this world use their powers to make the world a better place, not to destroy it like the bastards in his homeland.

This alone is enough to make Hal full of admiration and kindness for the heroes of this world.

"I might be able to be Green Lantern, but only if you give me some reaction!"

Hal looked at the dim green light ring in his hand with a headache.

Ever since he got it, it had been looking half-dead.

The young ace pilot doesn't know what went wrong, but he can't find a living Green Lantern to ask for the trick to activating the light ring.

"Star, I am willing to make a wish with the womanhood of my life, and I hope that a Green Lantern will appear in front of me now."

Hal took a sip from the bottle, half-jokingly wishing at the stars in the sky, and the moment he swallowed it, a green light fell from the sky.

Right in front of Hal Jordan's eyes.

The guy in front of him, wearing the Green Lantern Corps suit, suspended in a cloud of green light, and wearing a domino blindfold, waved his hand in a friendly way, causing the young man to almost squirt the wine out of his mouth.

No way?

Is the wish of the stars of this world so fulfilling?

Then I change my wish and hope for world peace, okay? Wait, I just used something pretty awesome to get this opportunity. !

Green Lantern Hal Jordan hovers in the shadows of the top floor of the Afterlife Bar.

He looked at the young man in front of him, who was very similar to him, but with a completely different face and a look of regret as if he had lost something precious, and finally looked at the dim green light ring in his hand.

It should have been this thing that suddenly appeared in Gotham, causing the Green Lantern in this world to be induced, so that Hal had to leave his girlfriend all the way from Seaside City.

"Hey man, where did you get the ring in your hand?"

Green Lantern frowned and asked:

"I don't remember that there was a second Green Lantern in this cosmic sector, did you register with O'Astar? Like I was a wild lantern man?

What is your name? ”

This series of questions made Hal Jordan a little unable to answer.

He looked at the levitating lantern man in front of him and knew that this was his space-time alien in this world.

The two of them even had almost the same hairstyle, but fortunately he came here tonight to relax and was asked by the old lady to drink the disgusting compound decoction, otherwise the two would have leaked the filling as soon as they met.

Seeing that the person in front of him did not speak, Green Lantern Hal Jordan was ready to take a little "coercive measures".

The issue of the Lamp Ring that could be lost was a very serious matter, and he had to make sure that the unlit Lamp Ring in this guy's hand had been obtained in the proper way.

"Hey, hey, don't get excited! Don't do it! ”

Seeing that the other self clenched his fists and conjured a prototype of a cage with green will energy, Pilot Hal immediately threw away the wine bottle and waved his hand to explain:

"I say! It's only the first time I've seen a living lanternman, so I'm a little surprised that I didn't steal this ring, it flew in front of my eyes.

I was flying over the East Coast at Mach 7 in my super cool flying machine, and I remember saying that I was not afraid of anything for the sake of my world, and then it appeared.

I swear I didn't lie. ”

"Huh? A pilot? Also a cruising speed of Mach 7? ”

Hal scoffed at the lie.

He had already decided that the guy in front of him might have drunk too much, so he said jokingly:

"Why don't you say you're flying an alien vehicle?"

"Indeed it is! It was based on the alien cockpit that had crashed into the metropolis, and it was designed with the sole mission of destroying the Apocalyptic weapons used by the Atlanteans to destroy the world.

To be precise, it's a pattern of attack that ends all together. ”

Pilot Hal explained very seriously:

"If I need to, I can even recite its flight parameters to prove that I'm not lying, so, put down the glittering ring in your hand, okay?

I don't want to fight anyone here.

Also, do you know how to activate this thing? ”

He held the dim lamp ring in his hand in the palm of his hand and said to Green Lantern Hal:

"Teach me."

"Your ring is different from ours!"

Green Lantern heard the more outrageous the guy in front of him said, he didn't want to waste more time with him, but when he was about to arrest him, he suddenly found that the lamp ring in this guy's hand was only roughly similar to his own lamp ring.

The two differ in a number of details.

It's like a mold carved out, but there must be a feeling that it's wrong.

This discovery surprised the Green Lanterns.

He released the will energy in his hand, stretched out his hand, and tried to pick up the ring in front of him to take a closer look.

But before he could touch the ring, he felt that part of his lamp ring energy had strangely disappeared and was transferred to the ring in front of him.

Then, under the stunned gaze of the two Hals, the dim light ring shone brightly, and it floated from the hand of the pilot Hal, circled around him again, and then hovered in front of Hal's eyes.

"Intelligent life is locked! Dreadnoughts from the dead world, you have a strong will to endure destruction, welcome to the Green Lantern Legion. ”

An indifferent voice rang out from the ring, making Hal's heart skip a beat.

Oh, it turns out that I didn't respond before just because I ran out of power! Damn, does such an advanced thing still need to be charged?

"This"

Originally full of suspicion of the pilot Hal, the Lantern Warrior Hal saw the Lantern Ring being activated, and immediately realized that the gibberish guy in front of him was really the one chosen by the Lantern Ring.

This discovery immediately dispelled his suspicions about the person in front of him.

None of them.

As a first-class intelligent weapon in the universe, the Lantern Ring is a will-based judgment on whether a life is qualified to become a Lantern Hero, and any disguise is meaningless under this judgment.

The Lantern Ring recognized him as a strong-willed man, and this was still the call of the Green Lantern Corps as a positive organization, which was enough to show that he was a fearless person in front of him.

And seeing that the pilot Hal was still standing stupidly looking at the ring, the lampman Hal couldn't help but whisper a reminder:

"What are you doing? Pronounce the words! ”

"Huh?"

After all, it was the first time for the pilot Hal to experience this kind of scene, and for a while he was as helpless as the embarrassed man who was lying on his girlfriend's hot body but didn't know how to proceed next.

He could only look at his other self with a pleading gaze as if he was questioning his seniors.

The Lampman shrugged, feeling like he had met a fool.

He stretched out his voice and said:

"Okay, read it with me."

Then, in a solemn gesture, he raised his hand with the lantern ring to the sky, and motioned to the other Hal to do the same as him, and he read:

"The day is clear, the night is blank"

"You're not right!"

Pilot Hal shook his head violently as soon as he heard the beginning, and he said to Hal the Lamplightman:

"It says you're mispronounced, not this."

"Huh?"

This time it was Lampman's turn to be confused.

How is this the green light oath that all 3,600 sectors of the universe are passing, and you are wrong? Are you special? Or did you run to pick a thorn?

Can I, a genuine lantern man who debuted for two and a half years, recite the wrong oath to you?

Isn't this the same as smashing your own job?

But about his complaints, the pilot Hal could not hear it.

Because he would have begun to clumsily try to communicate with his peculiar lantern ring, he maintained the posture of the lantern man's oath under the guidance of a voice, and whispered:

"Hope is slim, despair is boundless; The road is gone, and the dream is never lost. The darkness is scattered, and it is difficult to hide my light; Lonely and brave here, swear not to surrender! ”

At first, it was whispered, but the last few words were a roar.

A huge green blade of light surrounded the pilot Hal into a suit, and when the light dissipated under the stunned gaze of Hal the Lampman, the dude in front of him was already wearing a suit of will armor that was completely different from his tights.

Uh, what does that look like?

The term high emotional intelligence is the distinction between liberals and militants.

The low EQ directly indicates that in front of the green light armor in front of him, Hal feels like a perverted stripper in a leotard.

Everyone is a member of the Green Lantern Corps, why are your clothes so cool?

And what the hell is going on with this oath of yours?

If I hadn't seen you armed with volitional energy, I would have thought you were a ruthless person from the Red Lantern Legion, why were you so murderous? Who is going to persecute you?

"Thank you, Hal, thank you for helping me with this last step, I knew you would definitely help me."

Hal, the pilot who has completed his gorgeous transformation, is no longer at a loss in his eyes at this moment.

He knew what it meant to choose him for this ring.

It doesn't want to die silently with that dead world, it wants to light another light in this dark age, and he's a member of the Green Lantern Legion.

But it's not the lightman of this plane.

Coming from a dead world, he is the last warrior sent by his homeland before it is destroyed, and he will challenge himself to a desperate future.

"Who the hell are you! Don't make it look like we know each other very well! ”

Hal the Lampman is going crazy.

Why does this guy in front of him speak in the tone of his own family, the problem is that everyone is really unfamiliar, buddy, can you tell me your name?

It seems that he guessed what he was thinking in his heart, and Hal Jordan, who had just completed the "induction ceremony", laughed.

He raised his left hand and let the will energy envelop him into the cool alien fighter plane from before, and at the moment of starting at ten times the speed of sound, he reminded his other self in this world:

"In the future, if you meet someone who can't beat me, you will definitely help you, and besides, you'd better go back and accompany Carol quickly, don't be taken advantage of by Kyle's bastard

This is a matter of experience, although we are green lanterns, we are not interested in bringing a green hat, right?

Come home, I'm going for a lap in outer space.

Don't chase me.

You can't keep up with me.

After all, I escaped from the end of the world with my legs."

(End of chapter)