Chapter 308 7 Although Everyone Is Called Hal Jordan, We Are Not Really Familiar with Each Other. You Can See that We Don’t Even Work in the Same Unit.

Chapter 308 7. Although everyone calls him Hal Jordan, he is really unfamiliar. You can tell he doesn’t even work in the same company.

A low-key luxury car was waiting in the underground parking lot of the Afterlife Bar. The expressionless driver looked straight ahead, waiting for the order to set off.

In his hand lay a loaded pistol.

The buddy in the passenger seat seemed to be listening to music, but in fact he was checking the surveillance of several nearby blocks on the small tablet in his hand, and beside his leg was a rifle with a folding butt.

It's a must when driving in Gotham because you never know what's going to happen at the next intersection.

If you're lucky, it's just a dog running into the street, but if you're not lucky, a group of gun-toting guys will try to steal your car. In that case, you have a gun so you can calmly "reason" with the guys.

The elevator not far away opened.

Thomas Wayne is walking out of the elevator with his loyal butler. The old man took off the hat on his head and handed it to Butler Oswald behind him. He opened the car door and asked with a smile:

"Where's Hal?"

The Penguin Butler behind him whispered:

"The young man said that he couldn't get used to being in the organization. He wanted to act with Luther's team, so he will stay here today."

"Well, let him be."

The old man didn't force it. He sat in the back seat and said to his butler:

"You don't have to come with me this time. You will stay in Gotham to help maintain the bar and integrate resources in the black zone. If I haven't come back in seven days, you will obey Martha's instructions from now on."

"Master, you just met the young master."

Penguin Butler whispered:

"Perhaps there is no need to be so anxious. Mr. Mason did not rush you. Besides, it is Ms. Thalia's territory. We should probably keep a low profile."

"It's true that he won't rush me, but one day later means I have one less day to prepare."

Half of the old man's face was hidden in the darkness of the carriage.

He looked at the housekeeper outside the window and said:

"The assassins who lost Lei Xiaogu needed a Batman to lead them. Thalia couldn't control that ancient organization, so Mason found me.

If I don't go, then this heavy responsibility will fall on someone else's shoulders. "

This sentence made Butler Oswald completely give up the idea of ​​persuading Thomas.

He understood that the old man had made up his mind, so he could only watch the car disappear at the exit of the underground parking lot. He also knew that at the same time, Ms. Talia Al Ghul must have got on the bus to return to the European headquarters. s plane.

The next leader of the devil will be decided between these two people.

"Dudu"

Before Penguin Butler could finish praying to his old master, the phone in his pocket rang. The short and loyal butler took out the phone and took a look at it, then answered the phone with a strange look and put it to his ear.

"Oswald, tell me the truth!"

Damian's voice rang on the phone, along with the sound of a motorcycle traveling at high speed. The next generation heir to the Wayne family asked sternly:

"Did Thomas go to duel with my mother? Just for the damn leader position? I just found out that grandpa's sword is missing!

One of them must have taken it away! "

"Master Damian, this is a matter between adults and you should not get involved."

Penguin Butler advised:

"The old master has promised that no one will be killed in this duel, but that's the end of it."

"He will definitely say that. My mother is no match for him! He can even hit her too much with one hand!"

Damian screamed:

"Find a plane waiting for me at Gotham Airport as quickly as possible. I have to rush back! Hell, that sword was given to me by Mason, and the League of Assassins was a legacy left to me by my grandfather!

Neither my grandfather from another world nor my mother are qualified to take it away from me! "

"Well, with all due respect, young master."

Oswald said hesitantly:

"This duel is the method chosen by the elders of several factions. Although you have direct bloodline, you cannot interfere with the elders' decision. In fact, even your mother cannot do this."

"Those old guys are so naughty. When my grandpa was here, I didn't see them daring to come out and act like monsters!"

The rice was almost roaring.

He shouted:

"I order you to find a plane immediately. I'll be there in ten minutes. Don't worry about my safety. I won't be stupid enough to go alone."

After saying that, Da Mi hung up the phone.

On the way from Wayne Manor to Gotham Airport, the daring kid dialed another number while steering his motorcycle.

He said to the other side:

"Two barrels! Are you busy? Come with me to Europe, right away."

"No."

Ergong, who was wiping his sword alone in the brightly lit box, answered as concisely as ever, making Damian grit his teeth in anger.

But he could only persuade him patiently:

"You are also a master assassin trained by Lei Xiaogu. Now the second head of the devil is about to be born, and you must watch the ceremony! Remember to bring a gun, the more the better."

"If you want to persuade me to join you in preventing that confrontation in front of the Lazarus Pool, then you can give up."

Er Tong said in an indifferent tone:

"Those are the rules set by your dead ghost grandfather. Whether it is Talia or the old man, if you want to control that organization, you must pass a cruel trial."

"Don't be silly. The elders of the various factions who have already shown signs of rebellion will not allow the second demon leader to appear. They fear my grandfather, and naturally they will also fear his successor."

Damian said coldly:

"I am sure that no matter whether it is Thomas or my mother, they will be ambushed by them when they pass through the layers of trials set by the masters and reach the final area.

Second barrel, I am not trying to stop that duel!

I want to make sure it is fair.

I don't think Mason wants to see his plan being disrupted by a group of treacherous villains? How can he have time to play tricks with them?

This is for the benefit of Team K.

Pack up your things now and follow me to Europe.

I know how to sneak into the secret room of the Lazarus Pool under the castle. We will ambush there in advance. Whoever dares to make trouble will be killed by me! ”

There was silence on the other side of the phone for a few seconds, and then Ertong said:

"I underestimated you, Damian. It seems that you and Mason have grown a lot after going out for a while. You have learned to use your brain when encountering problems. OK, I will go to Mason to apply for permission to act.

But this time you have to follow my command throughout the process, understand?"

——

"The stars in this world are brighter than those in my side."

On the top balcony of the Afterlife Bar, in the shadow of the edge of the dark air conditioner, Hal Jordan, wearing a pilot jacket, lay on the railing.

He enjoyed the night breeze with a little drunkenness, while looking at the stars above his head.

Although the gloomy weather in Gotham City makes "stargazing" here completely a torture for his eyes, for Hal, who has come to the other world but has not been assigned a specific task, this leisure time is not bad.

This handsome young man had just drunk a lot of wine in the bar, and his pockets were already filled with several notes with phone numbers and scent.

But he had no intention of going out to have fun tonight.

He just wanted to stay alone quietly and think about his second life, which seemed quite confused at the moment.

But no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't get around the green ring he was holding in his hand at the moment. Thomas Wayne and Mason Cooper brought him here because of this ring that flew into his hand before the world was destroyed.

And he also heard the story of Green Lantern and the entire Justice League in this world.

The heroes of this world use their own power to make the world a better place, instead of destroying it like those bastards in his hometown.

This alone is enough to make Hal full of admiration and kindness for the heroes of this world.

"I may also be a Green Lantern, but the premise is that you have to give me some reaction!"

Hal looked at the dim green lantern ring in his hand with a headache.

Ever since he got this thing, it has always been in this half-dead look.

The young ace pilot didn't know what went wrong, but he couldn't find a living Green Lantern to ask for the trick to activate the ring.

"Stars, I'm willing to use my lifelong luck with women to make a wish, hoping that a Green Lantern will appear in front of me now."

Hal took a sip of the bottle and half-jokingly made a wish to the stars in the sky. At the moment he swallowed the drink, a green light swooshed down from the sky.

It just floated in front of Hal Jordan.

The guy in front of him, wearing the Green Lantern Corps uniform, suspended in a ball of green light, and wearing a domino eye mask, waved to him friendly, making the young man almost spit out the wine in his mouth.

No way?

Is it so effective to make wishes on the stars in this world?

Then I change my wish and hope for world peace, okay? Wait, I seem to have used something incredible to exchange for this opportunity just now. Fuck!

Green Lantern Hal Jordan floated in the shadow of the top floor of the Afterlife Bar.

He looked at the young man in front of him who was very similar to him in body shape, but with a completely different face and a look of regret as if he had lost something precious, and finally looked at the dim green lantern ring in his hand.

It should be this thing that suddenly appeared in Gotham, causing the Green Lantern in this world to sense the ring, so Hal had to leave his girlfriend and rush all the way from the seaside city.

"Hey, man, where did you get the ring in your hand?"

The Green Lantern frowned and asked:

"I don't remember there is a second Green Lantern in this cosmic sector. Have you registered on Oa Star? Are you a wild Lantern like me?

What's your name?"

This series of questions made Hal Jordan somewhat unable to answer.

He looked at the suspended Lantern in front of him and knew that this was his time and space alternation in this world.

The two people even had almost the same hairstyle. Fortunately, he came here to relax tonight and was asked by the old man to drink the disgusting polyjuice potion, otherwise the two would be exposed as soon as they met.

Seeing that the man in front of him didn't speak, Green Lantern Hal Jordan prepared to take some "compulsory measures".

This is a very serious issue concerning the possibly lost lantern ring. He must ensure that the unlit lantern ring in this guy's hand was obtained in a legitimate way.

"Hehehe, don't get excited! Don't do it!"

Seeing that the other self clenched his fist and used the green will energy to conjure up a cage, the pilot Hal immediately threw away the bottle and explained:

"I said! I was just a little surprised because it was the first time I saw a living lantern man. This ring was not stolen by me. It flew to my eyes on its own initiative.

I was flying my cool flying machine up and down the East Coast at Mach seven, and I remember saying, I'm not afraid of anything for the world, and then it happened.

I swear I'm not lying. "

"Huh? A pilot? And a Mach seven cruise speed?"

Hal scoffed at the lie.

He had already decided that the guy in front of him might have drunk too much, so he said jokingly:

"Why didn't you say you were flying an alien aircraft?"

"Indeed! It was adapted from the alien cockpit that crashed in Metropolis. Its only mission was to destroy the doomsday weapons used by the Atlanteans to destroy the world.

To be more precise, it is an attack pattern of mutual destruction. "

Pilot Hal explained very seriously:

"If necessary, I can even recite its flight parameters to prove that I'm not lying, so put down the shining ring in your hand, okay?

I don't want to fight anyone here.

Also, do you know how to activate this thing? "

He raised the dim light ring in his hand and said to Green Lantern Hal:

"Teach me."

"Your ring is different from ours!"

Green Lantern heard the guy in front of him talking more and more outrageously. He didn't want to waste more time with him, but when he was preparing to arrest him, he suddenly discovered that the light ring in this guy's hand was only roughly similar to his own.

The two differ in many details.

It's like it was carved from a mold, but there must be one part that was carved wrong.

This discovery surprised Green Lantern.

He released the will energy in his hand and stretched out his hand to try to pick up the ring in front of him and observe it carefully.

But before he touched the ring, he felt that part of his own light ring energy had strangely disappeared and been transferred to the depleted ring in front of him.

Then, in the astonished gazes of the two Hals, the dim light ring shined brightly. It floated from pilot Hal's hand, circled around him again, and then hovered in front of Hal's eyes.

"Intelligent life has been locked! The fearless one from the dead world, you have a strong will that remains unyielding despite destruction. Welcome to join the Green Lantern Corps."

A cold voice sounded from the ring, making Hal's heart skip a beat in the other world.

Oh, it turns out that the reason why I didn’t respond before was because the battery was out of power! Damn it, does such an advanced gadget actually need to be recharged?

"this"

Lantern Hal, who was originally full of doubts about the pilot Hal, saw the light ring being activated, and immediately realized that the nonsense guy in front of him was really the person chosen by the light ring.

This discovery immediately dispelled his suspicion of the person in front of him.

Nothing else.

As the first-class intelligent weapon in the universe, the Lantern Ring determines whether a life is qualified to become a Lantern from a will level. Under this determination, any disguise is meaningless.

The Lantern Ring recognized him as a man of determination. This was a call from the Green Lantern Corps as a positive organization, which was enough to show that the man in front of him was a fearless man.

Seeing the pilot Hal still standing there stupidly looking at the ring, the lantern Hal couldn't help but remind him in a low voice:

"What are you doing standing still? Reciting lyrics!"

"ah?"

After all, this was the first time for pilot Hal to experience such a scene. For a moment, he was as at a loss as an embarrassed man lying on his girlfriend's hot body but not knowing how to proceed.

He could only look at his other self with pleading eyes as if questioning his senior.

The Lantern shrugged, feeling like he had met a fool.

He said in a long voice:

"Okay, read it after me."

Then, he made a solemn gesture and raised his hand with the light ring to the sky, signaling the other Hal to do the same as him, and he read:

"The day is bright, the night is vast"

"That's the wrong word for you!"

Pilot Hal shook his head violently as soon as he heard the beginning. He said to Lantern Hal:

"It said you mispronounced it, not this one."

"ha?"

This time it was Lantern Hal's turn to be confused.

How come you are so wrong about the green light oath that is valid in all 3,600 sectors of the universe? Are you doing something special? Or are you here to find fault?

How can I, a genuine lantern who debuted for two and a half years, read you the wrong oath?

Doesn’t this mean you’re ruining your own job?

But pilot Hal couldn't hear his complaints.

Because he had already begun to clumsily try to communicate with his strange lantern ring. Under the guidance of a voice, he maintained the posture of the lantern oath and whispered:

"Hope is dim, despair is vast; the road to come has faded away, and I will never lose my dream. The night is spreading, it is difficult to cover my light; I am here alone, and I will never surrender!"

This was recited quietly at first, but the last few words became a roaring declaration.

The huge green light blade surrounded the pilot Hal and formed a suit. When the light dissipated under the stunned gaze of Lantern Hal, the man in front of him had put on a suit of will armor that was completely different from his tights.

Uh, how do you compare this?

The expression of high emotional intelligence is the difference between liberals and militants.

Low emotional intelligence directly shows that in front of the green light armor in front of him, Hal feels like a perverted stripper wearing tight clothes.

Everyone is a member of the Green Lantern Corps, why are your clothes so cool?

And what’s going on with your oath?

If I hadn't seen you armed with will energy with my own eyes, I would have thought you were a ruthless person from the Red Lantern Corps. Why are you so murderous? Who wants to persecute you?

"Thank you, Hal, for helping me with this last step. I knew you would help me."

Pilot Hal, who had completed his gorgeous transformation, no longer had any confusion in his eyes at this moment.

He knew the meaning of this ring choosing him.

It doesn't want to die silently with the dead world. It wants to light up another ray of light in this dark era. He is a member of the Green Lantern Corps.

But he is not the Lantern of this plane.

He comes from a dead world and is the last warrior sent by his hometown before its destruction. He wants to challenge the hopeless future to death.

"Who the hell are you! Don't make it look like we are familiar with each other!"

Lantern Hal is going crazy.

Why does this guy in front of me speak like a member of his family? The problem is that we are so unfamiliar with each other. Brother, why don't you tell me your name?

Hal Jordan, who had just completed the "entry ceremony", seemed to have guessed what his other self was thinking, and laughed.

He raised his left hand and let the energy of will wrap around him to transform into the cool alien fighter plane before. At the moment when it started to fly at ten times the speed of sound, he reminded his other self in this world:

"In the future, if you encounter someone you can't beat, just call me. We are all brothers and will definitely help you. In addition, you'd better go back and accompany Carol as soon as possible. Don't let that bastard Kyle take advantage of you."

This is a rule of thumb. Although we are Green Lanterns, we don’t want to be cuckolds, right?

Come home quickly, I'll go for a run in outer space.

Don't come after me.

You can't keep up with my speed.

After all, I escaped from the apocalypse on my legs."