Chapter 302 1 Justice League: Criticism and Self-Criticism

Chapter 302 1. Justice League: Criticism and Self-Criticism

The atmosphere in the Justice League's watchtower today was unusually solemn.

Green Arrow Oliver Queen, who had just been discharged from the hospital and was still a little weak, walked into the Hall of Justice on crutches and was supported by his girlfriend, Ms. Black Canary.

When the high-tech hatch opened, the round table in front of him was already full of people.

This scene is very similar to the last time everyone was here discussing how to deal with the alien world that crashed into the earth, but the purpose of today's meeting is obviously different.

Oliver thought that all the attendees were extremely serious, and their faces were so full of deep thinking that not even a trace of a smile could be seen.

This is obviously a statement of high emotional intelligence.

Low emotional intelligence, it's more vulgar so I won't say it out loud.

Even the face of Miss Magician Zatanna, who was attending the audience on behalf of the spellcasters, was full of frustration and worry. Apparently, she had been the "nanny" of a group of young wizards in the past few days, which made the famous unmarried white wizard feel the horror of marriage in advance. After life.

+1 for daily fear of marriage!

The atmosphere was depressing, aggravated by the pale-faced Wonder Woman sitting at the round table and the tired-looking Flash holding a cup of wolfberry tea.

The most outrageous thing is Cyborg.

The Justice League cyborg is still in the process of self-upgrading his quantum brain, so he has a thick data cable connected to the back of his head.

Almost all of the outer armor of its entire mechanical body has been removed, and it is sitting on a chair in the posture of a "mechanical skeleton". A large number of mechanical nanobugs are swimming around in its body frame to reorganize its internal modules.

To be honest, this scene looks a bit eye-catching.

But Green Arrow knows the origin of this scene. Everyone's low pressure stems from the shameful failure they just suffered. Everyone here is a loser.

Even Batman, who was dressed in black and didn't say a word.

"Green Arrow, sit down."

Superman stretched out his hand to invite his companion to sit on the chair. When he saw the corners of Oliver's mouth twitching under the domino mask, Superman asked softly:

"Is your leg feeling better?"

"It's not bad, I can already walk."

Green Arrow whispered:

"It just takes some time to recover. That crazy young man broke my legs and poured a terrible potion on me. The pain made me see the gates of hell opening with my naked eyes."

"He just removed your leg bone. How serious can it be? Stop complaining."

Out of breath, Wonder Woman touched her wrist and sighed:

"I still don't know how much he took away from me. To be honest, if he hadn't thought of that shameful and vicious way to torture me, I wouldn't have known that I still had such a weakness."

"He also took your weapon."

Arthur Curry, who was present here, glanced at Diana, who was in a depressed state. The deep-sea man whispered:

"I think for a warrior, this is much more serious than physical pain, right?"

"The loss of the Lasso of Truth is not a big deal."

Diana shook her head and said:

"The temple on Paradise Island still enshrines the girdle of the goddess Hestia. We only need to find skilled craftsmen to make it again. But you are right, Arthur.

I am a warrior, and my weapons have been taken from me, making me a disgrace to all Amazons. "

"That's much better than being tied to a rocket and rushing into your own farm with the attention of the whole town, right?"

Dachao couldn't help but join in the complaints.

This gentle Kryptonian seemed to have remembered some embarrassing scenes. He couldn't help but put his hand on his forehead and sighed:

"My family was freaking out, and except for my idiot son who was excited, everyone was worried that my career as a hero would be ruined.

The Daily Planet has published several articles to refute the rumors, but the negative impact cannot be dissipated in a short time.

The worst part is that I still have to find a way to make up for the losses caused by the poor harvest on the farm this year due to the corn fields I destroyed, and to explain to my family the disappearance of my cousin.”

"So is this a competition for everyone to compete in misfortune? No matter how miserable you are, can you be worse than me?"

Green Lantern Hal Jordan, who was sitting on the chair unscathed, complained with pain in his face:

"My lamp ring encountered a virus invasion and issued a shutdown command. This is a rare situation that the entire Green Lantern Corps has experienced in countless years in the past.

I was ordered to write an accident report and rush to Oa to attend an inquiry meeting composed of 72 Lanterns.

The worst thing is that the central battery of Oa Star entered the process of self-upgrading due to a bug I discovered. Until the cause of the fault is found out and the upgrade program is written, all lanterns are not allowed to excessively use the lantern ring.

What the hell!

If I lose, that's fine. The Lantern is never afraid of failure. But the sad thing is that I didn't even see the enemy. How should I write this accident report?

The minimum requirement is 40,000 words! No matter how hard you try, you can't even get it together. "

Seeing the Justice League's "misfortune competition" getting more and more intense, the master, who had been silent for a long time, felt that he couldn't do anything if he didn't come forward. If this continued, everyone's morale would be lost.

He looked around, and while thinking about whether the "Anyway Alliance Tactics" Mason left for him needed to be supplemented, he said:

"Everyone!"

As soon as the master spoke out, everyone stopped complaining.

They all looked at Batman.

The meanings in the eyes are different. It is said that the master had encountered a brutal attack by a strange individual on his own territory in the Batcave in Gotham.

If he hadn't made preparations in advance, he probably wouldn't have been able to show up here today.

And according to the gossip from the telescopic man who was the first to rush to support after receiving the distress signal, Batman was badly beaten by that fierce and mysterious opponent, and even the Bat suit was torn to pieces everywhere. .

It is said that the master was covered in injuries, extremely weak, and out of breath, as if he had suffered some kind of suspicious abuse.

"We are not here today to share our experiences of defeat."

The master ignored the glances directed at him. He stood up and said in his trademark dumb voice:

"Although it is rare, it is an unavoidable fact that we suffered terrible defeats, and our enemies cunningly discovered our weaknesses and targeted them.

We could say he was opportunistic.

But in a life-and-death confrontation, such a failure can be fatal and cause irreparable damage.

This failure should make us vigilant! We are not invincible, and we should face up to our weaknesses and avoid them. "

"That's right."

Dachao also looked at his companion with a serious face, and said in a deep voice:

"Is our failure really due to our lack of strength? No, absolutely not. From what I know about Mason Cooper, he is not an opponent of any of us in terms of absolute strength.

Yet he toyed us with applause overnight.

We are not losing to a powerful force.

We lost because of our own mentality. We thought he couldn't make any splash, but that magical young man gave us a few words with his practical actions.

But, that’s not a bad thing.”

"Please, Superman, don't try to change bad things into good things at this time."

Neptune complained:

"If we lose, we lose. It's not like we can't afford to lose! I also know the reason why everyone is gathered here today. The first failure can be said to be underestimation of the enemy and lack of preparation, but if we suffer a second failure, then there will be no more No excuses whatsoever.

The most important thing now is not to review, but to come up with methods. "

Having said this, Arthur glanced at the master with a strange look and said:

"I estimate that Batman's alliance tactics have been greatly expanded. In order to protect us from being defeated by powerful enemies, and to protect us from being seen through by our own people, I think it is necessary for us to carry out targeted training in the coming time.

And this mission belongs to none other than Batman. "

"Yes, for a guy who thinks about how to beat his own people every day, it is a matter of course for him to design a strengthening plan for us."

Green Lantern echoed:

"Also, the intelligence collection part has to be put back on the agenda. It turns out that our estimate of the capabilities of that mysterious member of the Society of Stars was seriously underestimated.

They are by no means the third-rate opponents we imagined.

They are dangerous!

We must prepare in advance.

I have sent information about the Society of Stars to Oa and am applying for assistance from the Lanterns. Although the Monitors do not participate in or advocate this matter, they have not stopped my recruitment.

With any luck, the next time the war breaks out, we will have powerful allies from other planets. A true lantern group!

Ha, we will be invincible. "

"luck?"

Xiao Shan, who had been silent until now, suddenly raised his head and said in a firm tone:

"We can't leave this kind of thing to luck, Hal! That will lead to quite terrible results. We must be 100%! No, 500% prepared!"

These words made everyone around look at Xiao Shan in surprise.

In their impression, The Flash is a very active and kind character, occasionally a little rough but always optimistic, making it hard to imagine that such bat-like remarks would come out of his mouth.

"Speaking of which, where have you been recently?"

Flash's good friend Hal Jordan frowned and said:

"Why haven't you answered my calls these past few days to ask you to come out and relax? I thought you were traveling through the timeline again."

"I"

Xiao Shen hesitated, coughed and said:

"I went out for a run. After all, being frozen by an ordinary person would hurt your self-esteem."

"Yes, I heard that your bare butt was still frozen."

Green Lantern joked:

"It's a pity that I was busy and didn't go and take some photos to laugh at you."

"Everyone!"

The master's tone increased, causing Green Lantern to immediately make an apology gesture, and then stretched out his hand to pull on his mouth, indicating that he would not interrupt anymore.

"Zatanna, release the information you have collected."

Batman made a "please" gesture to Zack who was watching, and the latter immediately stood up and placed a magic ornament at the center of the Justice League round table, and soon a series of projections were released.

She took off her tall hat and put it aside, explaining:

"Our operation in Gotham was not without success. Everyone, we captured 15 spellcasters from the Society of Stars. They are currently imprisoned in the House of Mystery and undergoing questioning and torture.

We have obtained a lot of valuable intelligence from several weak-willed people, but the soul curses attached to them prevent them from telling any information related to the core secrets of the Star Council.

We cannot determine their headquarters, their high-level structure, their action mode and specific plan.

What we can determine at present is that the core members of this organization are in the tens of thousands, and there are even more low-level members who are used as consumables.

The most terrifying thing is that they occupy the resources of many parallel worlds.

We can't fight a war of attrition with them, there is no chance of winning. ”

"Wait, Zatanna."

Wonder Woman, who has always been very emo, suddenly raised her head, she looked at Zack and said:

"There were more than just these spellcasters fleeing in Gotham City that night. Are there still fugitives who have not been caught?"

"Yes!"

Zack brushed his smooth black long straight hair and said seriously:

"Doctor Fate is personally leading the team to hunt them down, but we can confirm that there are some people in this world who are secretly helping these outsiders, and their traces are quite secretive.

This is also the reason why I came to the meeting today. We need to get intelligence support from the Justice League and search for their traces throughout the world.

The barrier that suppresses the gate of the world to prevent crossing the boundary cannot be opened for a long time.

That will damage the stability of the magic network of this world, so before it is forced to shut down, we must catch those fugitives. "

"We must also prevent them from jumping off the wall!"

"We must also prevent them from being desperate!"

"Those people have very dangerous abilities, and they have strong malice towards our world. They may create inhumane disasters all over the world at any time.

We must act!"

"Yes, if we can't catch Mason Cooper, can't we catch them?"

"Arthur stood up suddenly, and the deep-sea man said loudly:

"I will go back to Atlantis and mobilize marine life to be alert worldwide. If you need help, just let me know and I will rush over immediately."

"I will go too."

Wonder Woman, who still looked a little weak, moved her wrist and stood up. The female demigod moved her wrist and gritted her teeth and said:

"I am very angry now and urgently need a battle to make myself alive again."

"Cyborg? "

The master glanced at the cyborg that seemed to be down for maintenance. The latter was still in the process of system upgrade. It would respond with an electronic voice without any emotion using the backup thread:

"World monitoring program is online!

The energy tracking program is in operation, and the mobile communication authority is decentralized. Areas with residual energy characteristics have been detected in South America, Africa and Antarctica.

The target is designated, waiting for the assignment of combat tasks. "

"I will lead the team."

Superman's fingers moved, and he looked at Batman, and he said:

"About Mason Cooper who mysteriously disappeared after that night"

"He was a member of the Bat family."

The master said in a hoarse voice:

"I will deal with him!

After you come back, I will come up with an intensive training plan. In addition, Diana, I can help you find a craftsman capable of handling divine items, if you are assured"

"You do the work, I am assured. "

Diana waved her hand and followed Superman out of the hall. She said heroically:

"The warriors of Paradise Island will send the belt of the goddess Hestia to you. Help me complete the re-armament as soon as possible."

"Well, since we are talking about this."

Green Arrow also raised his hand and said:

"I think the weapons of Black Canary and I also need to be upgraded. Facts have proved that ordinary battle suits and weapons can no longer protect us in the face of the attack of the Star Society.

But I would rather ask you for help in this regard than to mess around by myself. Batman, you are a recognized master in this area."

"Well, the comprehensive replacement plan has also been put on the agenda. I have found a master craftsman who is trustworthy enough to help."

The master nodded and said:

"I will come up with the finished product as soon as possible. Green Arrow, you and Black Canary stay in the watchtower to assist Cyborg. Flash, you follow me.

I need you to help me find the traces left by Mason in this world. "

A few minutes later, the Batfighter flew out of the watchtower and headed for the earth. In the cockpit, the master activated the data protection to avoid being eavesdropped. The little Flash behind him took out a document and handed it over.

He whispered:

"I went to the Gotham Orphanage seventeen years ago and witnessed the scene where Mason was sent there in his cradle. I have to say, Bruce, we really underestimated his origins.

I was almost ripped out of my heart by that mysterious woman. "

"Huh?"

Batman didn't expect that sending Little Flash to get the file would happen. He asked in a hoarse voice:

"You mean, Mason was sent there on purpose?"

"No, I mean that maybe Mason himself doesn't know that he is not from our world at all! He is an alien! Just like Clark, although he didn't fall here in a spaceship. "

The Flash sighed and said:

"I saw the woman open a very strange door with my own eyes. She seemed to be seriously injured. She put Mason at the door of the orphanage and staggered away.

Someone must be chasing her. I tried to help her but she attacked me.

The car accident on the night Mason was adopted was also intentional. Another group of people who crossed the border tried to take him away. I stopped them.

I also guided Robert Cooper, who was drunk, to find him at the scene of the car accident.

To be honest, I wanted to send him to you in his cradle. But I have seen the consequences of disrupting time with my own eyes, and I was also surprised that I knew Mason seventeen years ago.

No wonder I always feel a strange sense of closeness when I face him.

I suspect he has too.

Otherwise there is no explanation for why he would go easy on me while beating up other people. "

As Batman listened to this incredible story, he opened Mason's adoption papers and his childhood belongings. He looked at one of the blood-stained cards in deep thought.

After a few seconds, the master suddenly said:

"Barry, tell me honestly, did you and Mason bring something back from other worlds?"

"Um?"

Xiao Shen was stunned for a moment, and he whispered:

"We didn't. It was a violation of the laws of time and space. I wouldn't do that kind of thing. You know me. But, did you feel something?

Could it be that people from the Star Club are already lurking around you?

Do you need my help looking for it? "

"No need, I can't be sure, but if necessary, I will contact you as soon as possible."

The master shook his head.

He played with the blood-stained card that belonged to Mason in his hand, saying nothing but recalling the meal he had last night.

He didn't know how to describe it to Barry, but during that mediocre late-night snack, he felt something he had never felt before. It was a feeling that was very unfamiliar to Batman.

It's uncomfortably warm, yet irresistible.

It's just like.

It was like a treasure that had been lost for a long time suddenly returned, even making him resist for the first time in his life to uncover the truth behind it. However, he is Batman after all.

Tenderness is just an illusion to him.

He had to keep his eyes open at all times, and it seemed it was time for a "major inspection" of Wayne Manor.