Chapter 227: Their Dilemma! (4000 words)
Earth, watchtower!
In the case of the Wayne Group providing materials and superheroes such as Superman providing knowledge or strength, in just half a month, a huge space station appeared in the Earth's orbit, which was named by the superheroes - Watchtower.
Limited by the technological level of the earth, this huge space station with a length of 100 meters has actually only created a base.
In the center is a cylindrical core, equipped with a core control room, a scientific research area, a rest room, an energy area, a resource storage area, and a teleportation unit.
The exterior surrounds a ring of space, which is equipped with self-defense weapons, shield lifting, power engines, and large and small drones and observation devices.
The two are connected by four corridors, and there are still many planned modules in the middle that have not been installed, so they are empty, and they look like they have a broken beauty.
When the space station faces the sun with the rotation of the earth, the solar panels produced by the Wayne Group open to absorb solar energy and convert it into energy for storage.
"It's time for us to be on duty today."
Clark jumped up from his chair and waved at Barry beside him, beckoning him to leave the watchtower and leave work.
Although the watchtower is operated by an intelligent system made by Kryptonians on a day-to-day basis, in order to ensure safety, the superheroes who were pulled up by Ian still have a system of shifts on duty.
Working in pairs, they focus on both what's happening inside and what's happening outside the planet.
Jon and Hal have brought them Ian's warning, telling them to be aware of the darkness coming from deep space.
Ian's warning hasn't been missed in the general direction so far, so everyone is on alert.
"Bruce, it's been half a month, not only is there no shadow of the enemy, but even Ian hasn't come back from the universe, nothing will happen, right?"
Clark looked at Bruce in a bat suit and was worried, he really didn't have the same strong will as Batman.
"We just need to do our own thing."
Bruce calmly answered Clark's question and calmed his nerves.
This would have been impossible before, but Ian's plan gave Gotham hope, and Bruce had more chances to show up.
"But after so many searches, there is still no trace of the mother box in Ian's mouth, and Victor Stone is indeed dead."
Clarke knocked on the door with a headache.
Alerted by Ian, they launched an investigation into Professor Stone's family.
According to official records, Victor Stone was the best football player at Gotham University.
But just after he won the biggest ball game of his life, he was in a car accident that killed his relatives on the spot, and Victor himself died of serious injuries shortly after he was taken to the hospital.
None of the records were flawed, and if it weren't for Ian's reminder, Superman wouldn't have held on until now to trouble a middle-aged man who had lost his wife and son.
Because Bruce didn't find any key clues, there is only one last way left, which is to open the coffin for an autopsy.
However, Clark did not think that the corpse inside was fake, and he had examined it many times with eyes comparable to X-rays, and there was nothing wrong with the mutilated corpse inside.
And even if it's Bruce, he wasn't so arrogant as to open the coffin for an autopsy without the consent of Victor's father, that's not humane.
So now he's busy collecting all kinds of evidence, trying to find something that doesn't make sense.
"Dr. Silas is the senior head of the Stellar Laboratory, and he has many secret research and development projects in his hands, which are classified and cannot be viewed even by the high-level."
Clark raised his tone in surprise and said strangely, "Even you can't check it, I remember that Star Labs has a stake in the Wayne Group." ”
"Even in the past, there were many people who didn't like me and wanted to bite off a piece of meat from the Wayne Group."
Bruce stopped what he was doing, turned to Clark and said, "Right now, our actions are harming the interests of the top echelons of the government in the Met, and they want to dismantle me to warn everyone." ”
According to Ian's plan, Wayne Group, Quinn Group, and Leah Luthor, which was established by siphoned off the resources of the Luther Group, took the opportunity of the reconstruction of the metropolis to form a new economic entity and establish a new metropolis - the Gotham metropolitan area.
The connection between Gotham and the Metropolis has become stronger and stronger, and those Gotham people who used to be able to fight in the mud pit of Gotham see a new hope, and they have turned to support Wayne Company, receive their training, and then go to the Met to work as workers, getting rid of the rotten mentality.
And Bruce also saw that Gotham's poor municipal planning was not pleasing to the eye, and took the opportunity to demolish Gotham's messy buildings.
In order for these new policies to be carried out, economic union alone is not enough, because government officials, gangsters, and businessmen of all stripes want a piece of the pie.
Frankly, Ian and Bruce didn't leave them a chance, after all, the earth is now in the industrial age, and it's not that simple to build a city.
Before the Mets were formed, Ian didn't mind those guys joining in, and no matter who they were, as long as they were willing to contribute, they could get some shares.
It's just that the problem makes him more serious, and those people don't know if there is a problem with their brains, or if there is someone behind them, who still wants to take advantage of it.
Bruce directly rejected their unreasonable demands, and the bastards either rejected their proposals at the city council or bribed the gangsters to cause trouble on the construction site.
Although the superheroes took turns and caught a lot of gangsters.
But the metropolis is now in ruins, people without jobs abound, as long as there is money, there are as many people who dare to lick blood from the knife.
And the government wants to rectify them, Superman caught the people who went to the construction site to make trouble, turned around and released people in prison, and was unwilling to go through the perfunctory bail procedure.
After a few rounds of continuous fighting, the resentment in the hearts of the superheroes grew, and the people who originally thought they should be patches to the current order gradually shifted to Ian's position.
Both Clark and Bruce noticed this and had a lot of headaches about it, not knowing what to do.
And that's why they turned their attention to the mother box for the time being.
"Maybe we should wait for Ian to come back and ask what he thinks."
Clark hesitated to say this to Bruce.
Although Bruce is an old Star-Spangled Bannerman, he has been exposed to the mixed values of Puritan and neoliberalism in the United States, and he has no intention of compromising with the city government bastards on the issue of positions.
The only thing he worries about is the degree, how to overturn those bastards without angering the bureaucrats in the central of the Federation, once these people unite, the good situation will fall into a depression in an instant.
Federal officials are now neutral, partly because of the long-standing central and local conflicts caused by the federal system in the United States, and partly because of the prestige of Wayne, Quinn, and Luther.
If they don't break out of the stalemate soon, those in the White House Congress will swarm and tear a piece of flesh off them.
Thinking of this, Bruce sighed in his heart: "This kind of thing of creating and using the situation to calculate people is still better at Ian!" ”
After fighting those criminals in Gotham for ten years, Bruce's tactical level has reached its peak, and he has a mediocre grasp of the general direction.
After all, there are not many people in the Gotham gang of criminals who dare to ignore the system.
The Joker is one, but he is a pure anarchist terrorist, and his understanding of social organization is not as good as that of Penguins and Two-Faces.
Ian's plan before leaving Earth crushed the powerful factions of Gotham and cornered them, but using the Metropolis to rebuild the cake gave them a glimmer of hope that those people would not be destroyed.
Bruce can crush the enemy in the first half, but he can't help them in the second half.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but miss Ian and hoped that they would return from the universe as soon as possible.
"Warning, detected that the system did not record energy in the vicinity of lunar orbit with a high energy level."
The communication between the two was interrupted by the system of the watchtower's intelligent system, and they sat down in front of the core system.
"System, start the basic defense system, raise the energy shield and particle shield, the weapon is online, but there is no command to fire."
Bruce quickly enters Batman state, he releases a string of names, and the watchtower instantly transforms from an ordinary space station into a war fortress.
"The images near the moon's orbit have been turned."
Clark operated and connected the probe near the moon to the screen in front of him.
Then they saw a blue stargate suddenly appear near the moon, and a giant blue bird with a length of hundreds of meters flew out of it.
"I didn't find any life in this giant bird."
Clark looked at the 4K120 frame to show a portion of the giant blue bird, next to the various data detected by the probe.
"The energy index on the other party's body is almost breaking through the upper limit of our meter, what the hell is this bird?"
In fact, Clark's eyes are much better than the detector, but he only sees a patch of blue light.
Bruce stared at the picture for a while, and then suddenly said, "Not long ago, when Hal returned to Earth, he said that Ian found a light beast called 'Shine Phoenix' on a planet near North Star. ”
It was only after he reminded Clark to react, his eyes widening and began to observe the approaching blue bird, eventually seeing Ian and Diana on her back.
"You're right, it's Ian and Diana!"
Clark jumped up excitedly and ran to the ring to open the passage to the space station for Ian.
……
"They're moving so fast."
Ian looked at the watchtower that was about to be completed, nodded unexpectedly, and then he jokingly said to Diana: "I didn't expect Clark and Bruce to have the potential to become civil engineering brothers, and they don't need to worry about workers if they build anything in the future." ”
"It's not funny at all." Diana said solemnly, "You're not really going to drag us all to the construction site!" ”
"There's nothing wrong with that."
Ian didn't continue the conversation, and as the group approached the watchtower, he told him to stop.
He stood up and said to Ganther and Seid, "For the rest of the day, I will stay on Earth for a long time, and the affairs of the Blue Lantern Legion will be left to you. ”
Guardians have an almost pathological reverence for order, even for the rebellious Ganser and Seid, which leads to them being the makers of order, but in turn being controlled by the symbols of order.
Now that the new Blue Lantern Legion has been decided, Ian isn't afraid of what the two of them will do.
Ganser and Syd looked at each other, and then took out a blue ring, which was similar in size and size to the Green Lantern Ring, the only difference was that the pattern on the ring was that of the Shining Chamber.
They held the ring and handed it to Ian, and said sincerely, "This is the first ring of the Blue Lantern Legion, please accept it!" ”
"The construction of the central energy battery has not yet begun, so you will directly make the lamp ring?"
Ian didn't take it, and he looked at the two of them with a little confusion.
"You also know that ordinary life can't withstand the power of the lamp beast, so it needs a central energy battery as a relay."
Ganther and Said explained, "But you're different, the power of the Lamp Beast won't hurt you, so you can use the Lamp Ring directly. ”
Knowing that this meant that the two Guardians had surrendered to their own ideas, Ian took the Lamp Ring with his hand and said to them, "Thank you, then!" ”
Ganther and Syd didn't speak, just bowed to Ian.
Ian nodded to them and led Diana to jump off the back of the Pyroscope and into the protective range of the watchtower's shield.
"Be careful, although I don't recommend you to take the initiative to find trouble with the Green Lantern Legion, but if they are pressing forward, don't be polite."
Ian reminded them once again that despite the presence of the Shining Room, the Blue Lantern Legion would never be finished.
He has always scoffed at the that "sacrifice is the cornerstone, life is the currency", and the reliable people are dead, who will advance the cause of the Blue Lantern Legion.
Ganther and Syd nodded their heads to indicate that they knew, and of course they weren't joking with the lives of the Blue Lantern Corps and the Lantern Heroes.
"Also, if you have time, find the Green Lantern Tribe as soon as possible, and let Yao Murohuang find a way to cure the converted sect."
"I can put the tentacles I lent to the Ion Shark back on the Conversion Crab."
Among the lamp beasts, Yao Room Huang and the converted worm have the best relationship, and the two of them enter the physical universe with their front and back feet.
It's just that the converted Worm was eroded by the Black Death Emperor in order to save other light beasts, and in order to save the ion shark, he divided part of his body, and was attacked by a light beast like the Python, and finally became a fool.
"If there is a problem, go to Hal, he has inherited Abin Sue's Lamp Ring, and there may be the whereabouts of the Green Lantern Tribe in it."
"What about parallax? According to what you said, sooner or later, the yellow light beast will break through the green light central energy battery, don't we interfere? ”
Ian touched his chin and said, "The guardians of the O'a Star may not let us interfere, and this matter can be solved by Hal." It's enough for you to concentrate on completing the infrastructure of the Lantern Corps. ”
"When you find the first Lanternmen, I'll teach them how to practice the Alien Energy."
After Ian's careful instructions, Yao Murohuang said goodbye to him, then turned his head to open the stargate, flew in and left the solar system.
Ian and Diana also flew through the hatch that Clark had opened, and entered the Watchtower space station.
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