"I swear that's not what I said."

Shen You said seriously.

"I never said that."

"So it means that something like that hasn't been said before, right?" Sero was empty-eyed.

Shen You: "."

Shen, who knew that he was at a loss, was speechless, so he had to glance at Kara with a small mouth in displeasure. The latter has shrunk his head and tried to reduce his sense of existence since he said the wrong thing, and now it seems to him that he has lowered his head even more, and whispered something similar to "I forgot to turn off the faucet" and ran away with his tail between his legs.

Fortunately, there are a lot of young adults, and with a wave of his hand, the matter will be turned over, in fact, Shen You thinks about it, and the main possibility is that the rabbit does not feel offended.

Stinky fart is his character, and he has long accepted this setting. After all, his strength is there, and he also has a strange physique of "if you don't pretend to die". Even if you pretend to be forced by lightning sometimes, you will still be arrogant next time.

"You're still doing so much research here."

"yes."

As soon as he talked about his subject area, Shen You immediately became interested, and introduced it like a few treasures.

"This is a matter of speed, that is. Well. The study of a certain law based on time and space. To put it simply, he can make me look fast.

Here, I'm working on a project called 'Source', which is called the Mother Box, which is a tool and weapon directly connected to the Source. However, this project is much more complex than anything else I've worked on, and it involves the birth of this universe and the entire multiverse to which it belongs, and I am not making much progress for the time being."

As he spoke, he noticed that Sero's gaze was drawn to the colored light rings floating in the force field.

"Oh that." Shen You introduced, "Those are the lamp rings that control the color lights, which I demonstrated before. There are many people in this universe who use rings to harness the power of light, and the spectrum of each color is related to a source of emotion for all living beings in the universe. If you're interested, I can show you in-depth research material."

"Haha, no, then it's free." Sero smiled dryly.

Just kidding, when he was in class, he was sleepy when he read the textbooks. He already wanted to yawn as soon as he heard about the research entry.

He belongs to the kind of combat genius who can get started in three or two clicks when you hand over the developed equipment, and he can quickly adapt and master the use of various weapons. But it would be too embarrassing for him to figure out where the gun was made.

"Sure enough, people can't understand what comes out of the Science and Technology Bureau."

He muttered quietly, and his gaze quickly fell not far away.

On the other side of the lab, near those floating light rings, there was another thing bound by the force field.

Big black book.

"This thing," he said, frowning slightly, as he stepped closer, "it doesn't feel very good to me, a little indescribable, but dangerous. ”

If it must be said, it is similar to some things related to the mastery of the ultimate dark existence in their universe. As a race of light, just by approaching these things, they will instinctively reject them, and feel some kind of invisible sense of crisis.

"Oh that."

Shen You was checking the readings of the lamp ring, and said casually without looking back.

"It's called the 'Book of Darkness,' and it's dangerous. It's pretty powerful to involve a guy named the Black Death Emperor. Theoretically, it could overthrow an entire universe, turning the worlds of the living and the dead upside down. ”

"So dangerous?" Sero was surprised.

"yes. But don't worry, I've already mastered the strategy for the potential threat of the Black Death Emperor. I've been trying to search for clues about the Black Dead through the Dark Book, but so far I haven't made much progress."

"Well, that sounds like you're in control. But. Anyway, what kind of dark book are you, it's flashing around, is this normal? ”

"Huh?"

Shen You was stunned for a moment and turned his head.

Sure enough, I saw the Book of Darkness shrouded in a force field, and the big line on the cover was flickering and disappearing.

Shen You narrowed his eyes.

Is it finally here?

Seaside City.

The moonlight poured down on the graveyard at night, staining the dead place a silvery white. The tombstones were erected like ghosts, and the weeds swayed gently in the night wind, making a rustling sound like the whispers of the dead.

Between the graves, a tombstone has fallen down. The graveyard was dug open, revealing a coffin that had been half-filled with rainwater. The edges of the coffin are mottled with dirt and traces of time.

The man lay quietly in it.

Dressed in a black uniform, tight leather cut from a funeral home's body bag, and a black cloak. He was holding a skeletal head in his hand, and he was smiling head-to-head against the skeleton, as if it could bring him great relief.

And that's not even the only one.

Underneath him, there were more skeletons. The bones shimmered in the moonlight. Everything seems extraordinarily quiet, as if the place of the deceased has formed a natural forbidden place. Only the occasional chirping of insects and the rustling of leaves could be heard in the distance.

His name was William Hand, but that was the name he had long since abandoned.

He once called himself the Black Hand and used a lost wand of aliens to fight Green Lantern against him. It was the magic wand that the Red Lantern Leader Atohitas had used in the past, and it could undo the power of the Colored Lantern Ring.

But that's long gone.

Throughout his life, the Black Hand was obsessed with death. Buried in the cold, damp earth, all you can hear is the sobbing of your body, and all you can see in your eyes is the endless darkness beneath you

He was so enchanted that he couldn't help himself.

Although he was still alive, his heart had long been filled with death.

He was happy.

As a child, William was told that the journey was just as important as the destination. And in his eyes, the so-called destination is death for everyone.

Eventually, the moment of eternal darkness envelops a person in the judgment of his or her life, and that darkness will take away all pain and trouble, forever and ever.

Clutching dry bones and his head to the ground, William Hand narrowed his eyes and whispered to himself.

"Yes. I'm listening. ”

"Hello? Is it still there? ”

"Yes, it's me."

"I can hear you."

He could hear the voice calling his name.

He'd been hearing it for as long as he could remember.

His family lives and works in a funeral home in Seaside City. His parents, as well as his two brothers, are a family of five.

He is the second child in the family. His earliest memories are from when he was a toddler, or rather the only scene from that period that still stands out to this day.

He broke into where his father was working, and saw the woman lying there coldly, exhausted for a long time.

That scene was deeply imprinted in his young mind.

"It's beautiful." He thought.

His father never understood him, and neither did his family.

But he soon discovered his talent. It's like he was born, what he was destined to become, what he was meant to do.

He could hear death.

(End of chapter)