Chapter 42: The First Kill (Seeking Follow-up)

It's too fast to react.

How did he do it?

John Stewart's mind went blank, he couldn't understand that he had just put the shackles on Red to suppress his emotional energy, and that the green lantern cage he had built should be indestructible, not to mention that he had the automatic energy barrier of the light ring.

However, all of this seemed as fragile as glass in front of Red.

The moment he broke free from his shackles, Red condensed a bloody blade in his hand, destroying the structure cage in one fell swoop, and severing John's arm cleanly.

Yes, it's not even a complete blade, it's just a hilt, and the blade is less than 10 centimeters long.

But there's no time to think too much about John Stewart, he needs to make the Lantern Ring fly to his other hand, so as to gain the strength to compete with Red-

But Red didn't give him that chance.

Swish!

The broken blade that had just been picked up slashed downward, splitting the head of John Stewart, which was not protected by the light ring, from the middle.

I see, is that the power of anger? Because I also succumbed to anger, it was impossible for my willpower to stop his blade.

John recalls a memory of being in the Marine Corps.

Then again, at that time I was in the shoes of myself, in the shoes of my friends—but never in the sense of the people who were burned by the war......

This was John Stewart's last memory before he died.

[Detected that the Green Lantern of Sector 2814 is dead and is looking for a successor.....]

Red reached out to grab the Lantern Ring, but the Lantern Ring nimbly dodged him and flew into the air quickly, but Red didn't care, he heard Lingxing's dissatisfied meow, so he reached out and easily crumpled the restraints on the cat's limbs into pieces.

The demonstrators, who were still in a state of turmoil just now, watched all this in amazement, as if they had not yet reacted, and it was clear that it was their "victory" just now.

But in less than a second, Green Lantern was killed in public, and the "demon" easily broke free from the shackles.

"Green Lantern...... Green Lantern is dead! He killed Green Lantern too! ”

"Help, help, !!"

"Run! He's going to kill us all! ”

"Don't push me, don't push - I've been stepped on ......"

Serious riots broke out in an instant, and people panicked and pushed wildly, causing even more serious chaos in a vicious circle. Before Red had to make a move, the number of casualties was already mounting.

"Thanks to you, the anger of you fools has helped me a lot."

Red lowered his head and looked at the red light ring he was wearing, which was now glowing with a faint red light, and if he looked closely, he could see the amplification lines on the ring that were hidden by the cracks.

As mentioned earlier, while these restraints suppress red light energy, they do not affect the power bonus from the kicker.

In the battle on Chinese New Year's Eve, in order to help Lingxing forge a new red light ring, Red killed four superhumans, Earth Power Man, Earth Stone Girl, Black Thunderbolt, and Halo in one breath, and when Halo was finally confirmed to not die on the spot, which also made Red's energy storage limit reach 500%.

Red also concluded that the limit increase was 200% when he killed Bane, and there was no bonus when he killed Black Mask, which seems to indicate that each superhuman blood absorbed can only increase the energy limit by 100% - and ensure that it is indeed dead.

All in all, the biggest effect of the 500% energy cap is that Red can use 256% of his energy to challenge the increase in red eight to red nine. The only problem was that the promethium katana he had captured from Deathstroke had been taken from him, and he had no weapons to use to amplify it.......

But he has jewelry that he can use to kick up.

The Red Lantern Ring itself is an extremely rare high-level item, and it was only during the process of forging the Spirit Star Ring that Red realized that it could actually be used as a kick-up target. Although the success rate of increasing to Red Nine is extremely low, Red has plenty of time to try in his cell, and the anger that fills the city is constantly replenishing his energy.

If the Red Eight state can give him ordinary superhuman-level strength, the Red Nine Amplification gives him a top-level hero-level strength level.

"Although it is good to eat and live in the cell, it is still more enjoyable to be free, right, Lingxing."

"Meow~"

Psychron let out a meow of approval, then floated up and lay on Red's shoulder, which it seemed to have made its seat for battle.

"Okay, it's almost time to solve the previous problem first, Amanda Waller's words, it should be in the White House...... That is, in that direction, by the way, you can go to the Hall of Justice and get the promethium katana back. ”

Red and Lingxing floated into the air, but before they could officially take off, a red-blue afterimage crashed directly into him with a roar that broke through the speed of sound, pushing him hard against the statue of the Three Saints on the lintel of the Supreme Court.

"Stop Red! We can't go on wrong—"

Sure enough, the most powerful hero in the world is the one he must overcome.

The second round of the battle with Superman has officially begun.

——

In an alley not far from the Supreme Court, a female agent from the Superhuman Affairs Management Department watched with concern as John Stewart carried Red Douglas out of a green-light structure cage as the demonstrators crowded the streets cheered wildly.

They were excited about what they thought had been done, but it seemed so ironic to think back to the destroyed door of the Hall of Justice.

The female detective sighed, and Batman had warned her to avoid showing up as much as possible during this incident, otherwise she would be convicted of murder and orphans of the Amazons who had attacked Washington, D.C., and she would be angered by the crowd.

She is Wonder Woman, and since the Amazon Attack, with the help of Batman, she has been hiding her identity as Diana Prince, an agent of the Super Human Affairs Management Department.

But now maybe it's time to have to make a move, some people say that Superman's biggest weakness is kryptonite or the red sun, but as one of Superman's closest comrades, she knows very well that these out-of-control people are Superman's biggest weakness -

Superman can't hurt them, and he can't stand them hurting themselves.

Maybe it's time for Wonder Woman to make a move.

However, just then, she heard a cry for help from somewhere.

"Oh my gosh...... Please, can someone help? ”

Diana looked around and saw that in the middle of the procession, an old woman looked like someone had been squeezed out of her hands, and she wanted to bend down to pick it up, but the frenzied crowd around her almost pushed the old woman and trampled on it.

"Be careful! Dangerous! ”

Diana secretly cursed in her heart that these people were about to go crazy, and hurriedly squeezed into the crowd and used her super strength to push a path and protect the old lady.

"My stuff...... Please, that's important....."

"Don't move, I'll pick it up for you."

Risking being trampled several times by the fanatical demonstrators, Diana finally picked up the old lady's things from the ground, and just as she was about to return them to the old lady, she paused.

Because she found out that it was a metal mask with terrifying fangs, and it didn't look like something that an old grandmother would hold.

"It's beautiful, isn't it, Diana, take her."

Hearing this voice, Diana instantly felt creepy, but before she could react, something seemed to pierce her invulnerable skin.

"This is a gift from Grandma Kindness."