Chapter 485 The simple folk customs of Gotham City (2)
The car stopped on the road in front of Gotham University, and the tires made a squeaking sound as they rubbed against the ground. Victor quickly opened the door, got out of the car, and saw the brightly lit Gotham University dormitory.
When he did, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"I've said it before, Gotham City is so big, even if dozens of people fall, they won't hit Gotham University by chance." Harvey patted Victor on the shoulder.
Victor took a deep breath and did not relax. Instead, he continued to walk quickly towards the university. He said: "No, I'm not sure yet. The laboratory is far away from the dormitory building..."
Harvey shook his head helplessly, but still followed him. The two of them walked quickly through the buildings of the university, passing through the teaching building, government affairs building and dormitory building, and finally arrived at the experimental building on the east side.
On the surface, the laboratory building is dark, because it is already early in the morning, and there are no students or teachers in Gotham University who would stay up late to do experiments, so the laboratory building has always been very quiet at night.
However, this irritated Victor a little, reminding him of many bad things. Perhaps, he had rehearsed this situation countless times in his mind, and the madness caused by that kind of paranoia almost overwhelmed him.
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"Calm down, Victor...Victor! Come back!" Harvey shouted from behind, and Victor had already hurried into the laboratory building.
Heavy footsteps sounded in the stairwell, and Victor rushed to the floor where the laboratory was located. When he stopped at the top of the stairs, he saw a faint light coming from a door in the corridor.
Like a moth fascinated by the light, Victor walked straight towards the door. When he opened the door, he saw several children standing under the cold light cast by the freezer.
Outside the cabin door, he looked up at his wife.
Hearing the noise, the children turned around. When they saw Victor, they gathered around them chattering. Victor was a little at a loss. He recognized that these seemed to be the newsboys who had been delivering letters to Gotham University.
"Professor Victor! You are finally here, if you don't come we will fall asleep!"
"Yes, yes, we arrived ten minutes ago. We thought you wouldn't come. We were planning to leave."
"What's going on? Why are you here? Where did you get the lab key?"
The group of little newsboys began to explain again, and Victor had a headache due to their noise. He held down the head of one of the little boys and said: "Don't make any noise, you speak first."
The little boy raised his head with some pride, cleared his throat and said, "Originally, we all lived in the guard room of Gotham University, the one at the east gate. You should know that it was specially used for newsboys.
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"About ten minutes ago, we received a call from Boss Cobot. He asked us to get the key hidden on the door frame, and then come to the laboratory to wait for you."
"The door frame is so high that we stacked it on top of each other to barely get the key off. He said that if someone invades the laboratory, use the freezing gun next to it to freeze them."
"You haven't finished speaking yet!" A little girl raised her voice and added: "Boss Cobot said that if the lights here are dark and there is no response when pressing the switch, go next door and turn on the generator."
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"Yes, that's right, he said what button to press!"
"We have been waiting here for a long time. No one came to invade, and the power was not cut off. We almost fell asleep while waiting..."
This group of children is very young, only about seven or eight years old. They are all little cubs. They chatter like sparrows in the snow.
Victor looked down at them. When they heard Victor didn't speak, they all became quiet. Everyone raised their heads and looked at Victor.
Victor slowly knelt down, held the leading little boy in his arms, touched his head and said, "Thank you."
This was what Harvey saw when he walked in. After the two sent the children back to sleep, they returned to Victor's laboratory.
They stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking at the burning Gotham City. The changing light outside the window made their shadows appear and disappear. Harvey heard Victor say:
"Many people say that this place cannot be saved. They say that the darkness here is hopeless and never-ending..."
"People say that it is the people of Gotham who constitute this darkness, so the chaos and madness are the consequences they deserve. Do you think they are really hopeless?"
Harvey turned his head and looked at the buildings in the city. He said: "I have always adhered to the belief that no place in this world is hopeless, so I came here."
"The environment creates people, and people create the environment. I don't know where the darkness here originally came from, but I know that when the long dark night fell, there was no light left, but humans still created fire and illuminated their own
civilization."
"Did you hear what those people were shouting?" Victor looked at the scene outside the window and said, "They said they wanted to eliminate evil and maintain peace. They said they wanted to save this place..."
Harvey shook his head and said: "If it was that easy to save Gotham, I wouldn't have been dormant until now, accomplishing nothing."
"Justice? Why do they define justice in Gotham? If they have never lived in this city, never understood the people and things in this land, and cannot empathize with the people here, then their so-called justice,
It will become like this..."
As they spoke, the two of them looked towards the city at the same time, where chaos continued.
They all understand that this is not the so-called pain in the process of change. This group of justice messengers descending from the sky can do nothing but disturb Gotham people's good night's sleep.
The central carousel in Gotham was bustling with activity at this time. Tyrone raised the green light ring in his hand and shouted loudly: "Green light, everlasting light, United Shield!"
All the Green Lanterns who were driven out of the central turntable stood together. They simultaneously activated the remaining Green Lantern energy to form a shield. Hal, standing next to Tyrone, shouted loudly: "Where's Carol?"
?Why didn’t he come?!”
"He was attacked by a magician before!" Tai Lung replied: "The magician seemed to have found him through some curse mark. The energy in his ring was exhausted and he was unconscious!"
Hal stretched out his hand and tried to concentrate. A rich green light bloomed from his hand, and Tai Lung couldn't help but look sideways at it...
But at this time, their situation was very bad. The Bat fighter above them kept throwing bombs, the gangs' firepower output was non-stop, Clark was watching eagerly from the side, and the Green Lanterns didn't even have a chance to escape.
"Concentrate your strength! Shoot down that plane!" Tyrone began to command. The Green Lanterns concentrated their attention and continued to fire green light waves, but the Bat fighter nimbly dodged.
At this moment, Clark heard Batman's voice coming from the Batplane flying past him: "Attack!"
"No, I can't do it in the city center! It will ruin everything here." Clark said hesitantly.
"Do it, I can rebuild it."
"No, that will affect a lot of buildings!"
"I have money!"
Clark was speechless, but looking at the Green Lanterns who were gradually organizing their attack, he knew that it was time to take action.
Clark opened his arms, and the blizzard was swirling around him. With the biting cold current, he swooped down like a falcon with snow as its feathers. Just as he was approaching, Tyrone shouted: "Concentrate your defenses! Stop him.
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The green energy gathered in the direction of Clark's dive, forming a more solid shield, but the moment it came into contact with Clark, the shield shattered.
"boom!"
Clark was like a human-shaped missile, and the aura around him blew all the Green Lanterns away.
Faced with an almost irresistible and powerful force, many Green Lanterns did not even have the strength to stand up. Green Lanterns who rely on willpower to fight have almost lost all combat effectiveness once they start to feel fear.
Even Legion Commander Tai Lung no longer had the courage to face Clark directly. He collapsed on the ground and slowly closed his eyes.
But at this moment, a richer green light lit up around him.
Hal floated into the air and came face to face with Clark. Tyrone saw that the ring on his hand had begun to flash, indicating that he was running out of energy. He wanted to open his mouth to warn, but he heard Hal say:
"You can't hurt them, stay back!"
The biological force field around Clark is getting stronger and stronger, Hal's figure is crumbling in the storm, all the Green Lanterns on the ground are extremely nervous, and despair is spreading.
But suddenly, the rich green light pierced the wind and snow like a sharp sword, and a green shark with a somewhat unreal figure swam over from the clouds.
Talon opened his eyes wide and said: "Green Lantern Beast Ion Shark?! How is this possible??!... Ion Man! Hal is the new Ion Man!"
The green shark slowly swam into Hal's body, and a green sun rose from the wind and snow.
Not to be outdone, Clark also emitted strong sunlight. Just when the two huge light balls were about to collide, a small black fighter plane passed through the light.
In the Batplane, a phone was thrown out, and Batman said to Clark: "Then, there's your phone!"
Clark's momentum froze. After he answered the phone, he was a little stunned, but soon, the harsh ringtone rang, and Clark subconsciously picked up the receiver and put it to his ear.
"Hello?...Uh, professor, I'm sorry! I was delayed by something!...Really? You've been waiting for me for a long time? Oh my God! I'm so sorry! I almost forgot what I came here to do.
!”…
"Okay, okay, I'll be there right away... Ah, don't be angry, I'll explain to you later, I'll be there right away!"
After hanging up the phone, Clark calmed down the light on his body and said to Hal: "I have something urgent today, please wait for me next time!"
After saying that, he flew away. Hal put his hands on his hips in mid-air and looked at his back, but the Green Lanterns below were already cheering.
They shouted the name of Ion Man, and Hal slowly landed in the center of the turntable. After having enough green light energy, he waved his hand and brought everyone back to the headquarters.
After landing on the ground of the headquarters, Tyrone breathed a sigh of relief. He stepped forward and said to Hal: "Excellent recruit, your performance exceeded my imagination."
He glanced at Hal's chest, which had the looming logo of the Ion Shark, and said, "It seems that the Green Lantern's lantern beast, the Ion Shark, has chosen you, and you have become the unique Ion Man."
As he spoke, he took a deep breath, then sighed and said, "After Sinestro, the original commander of the Green Lantern Corps, betrayed the Corps, I was ordered to do so in a critical situation and did not fully anticipate various situations."
He looked around the Green Lanterns and said: "Hal, without you, we would all be lost. You saved everyone and deserved to be promoted. From today on, you are the official Green Lantern."
Everyone cheered, but Tyrone pressed down with his hand, and then said: "In addition, the original adjutant Carol was seriously injured, and I am afraid he will have to go back to recuperate for a while. I hope to invite you to become my adjutant to make up for it."
My work is not enough."
Just when Hal wanted to be humble, Tyrone said: "Please don't refuse. I have a hunch that you have the potential to surpass your predecessors. Perhaps, you will become the greatest Green Lantern in history..."
As he said that, he stretched out his hand. Hal paused on the spot and sighed, but still walked up and held his hand. The two of them clasped their hands together, and the belief in their eyes was even stronger.
firm.
At the same time, in Rodriguez Manor, Schiller leaned on the back of the sofa, and Batman across from him looked at him and asked:
"So, what are you trying to do by deliberately creating so many coincidences and going in such a big circle?"
Schiller turned sideways, leaning on the armrest of the sofa and asked, "Do you remember that mysterious list that made CIA agents search the entire East Coast?"
"You mean the Philby List? What does that have to do with it?"
Schiller smiled, and when he raised his eyes, Batman was sure that he saw a light called wisdom in the professor's eyes.
"Maybe we're going to have a 'Hal's List' soon."
In the headquarters of the Green Lantern Corps, the injured and exhausted Green Lanterns all dispersed. After the Corps Commander Tyrone handed over the work to Hal, he also left.
Hal was the only one left in the central core of the headquarters. He sighed with some emotion and looked around. There were all devices and screens that he couldn't understand.
But when he turned to look to the right, he suddenly noticed that a screen was lit up.
He walked forward and found that it seemed to be the office interface that Tai Lung had forgotten to close. Just when he was about to reach out and touch it, a line of words popped up on the screen: "Encrypted information, permission confirmation... Confirmation completed."
Hal didn't do anything when he saw the ring on his hand light up, and then the entire screen was filled with dense information.
On it, there are detailed defense maps of all sectors of the Green Lantern Corps, as well as detailed personal information of all official Green Lanterns.
Hal's heart skipped a beat.
A series of pictures flashed before his eyes, the dark corridors of the mayor's manor, Elsa and Dick's enlightenment courses, the mysterious and old butler...
He remembered that at that time, among the courses Alfred taught, there was a skill called...self-cultivation of spies.
