Chapter 272: The Terrifying Laughing Demon (Part 2)

"Wait, but..."

In an apartment in Seaside City, a man in a pilot jacket was talking to himself. He paced around the room with his hands on his hips. He said, "I know, I know, it's my duty, but..."

"Well, if it's really as you said, then I'll go over, but I think you're really making a fuss."

"When I just joined the Green Lantern Corps, you told me that the Green Lantern Corps is the most powerful of all the Lantern Corps, and I also felt this. I don't quite understand what makes you so nervous..."

"...Well, if you must do this, I won't object. After all, the earth is also my home, and it's my responsibility to protect it."

"Do you know the specific location of the yellow light? I was sleeping just now and didn't feel anything unusual."

The man scratched his hair. His brown hair looked a little messy. Just as he said, he had just woken up and was still a little sleepy.

"What? Gotham? Why is it in that damn place? Well... not surprising. What do you say the yellow light represents? Oh, fear. The environment there is indeed terrifying enough."

"I'm going to use teleportation to take a look now. If things are as serious as you say, I will deal with it as soon as possible."

"Listen, now, I, Hal, Hal Jordan, am the only Green Lantern on Earth. I can't embarrass my hometown. If I ask for support before the battle starts, it will seriously lower my image in the Lantern Corps, right?"

"Oh, yes, I know, you are kind, and I also know that the Yellow Lantern you are talking about may be difficult to deal with, but you have to believe me and believe in my willpower. During the time I became a Green Lantern, I performed well, right?"

The man who called himself Hal put his hands on his waist and said, "You know, not all people on Earth are With my ability to accept and willpower, although I have only accepted the power of the lamp ring for a short time, I think I can still handle these troubles on Earth without any problems..."

After a while, he sighed, then touched the pet dog at his feet and said: "Sorry, it seems that I can only take you out for a walk later. I have something to deal with, but you have to believe me, I will be back soon..."

As he said, a green light flashed, and Hal's figure disappeared. However, he did not appear directly in Gotham when he appeared again, but appeared on a road in Blüdhaven. He stood on the road and looked at the sky, and said in confusion: "...What's wrong? Am I lost?"

Blüdhaven has a good climate and clear weather, so even during the day, you can see the stars through the sky. Hal judged the direction and found that he should have gone right.

If he followed the normal direction, when he teleported here, he should have stopped just below the sign at the entrance of Gotham, but now there is a straight road here, and there is nothing.

What about such a big city?

Hal turned around twice in confusion. He thought that maybe there was something wrong with the direction of the stars. This was not impossible. After all, when each ring descended, some strange phenomena would occur. So he teleported to Blüdhaven again and bought a nearby tourist map.

Hal didn't feel troublesome walking to Gotham along the tourist map, because he was now a Lantern who inherited the Green Lantern Ring. He had no problem with physical strength and walked very fast. Besides, Blüdhaven and Gotham were not far apart.

But he became more and more confused with the map. He put the map in front of him and said, "Damn it, isn't it written here? Just walk here and cross the pine forest on the right, and you can see the tallest building in Gotham, Wayne Building... Where is the building???"

Hal didn't see anything after crossing the pine forest planted beside the road on the right, but there was a faint smell of alcohol in the air. Hal thought it was the alcohol left by other people's camping parties and didn't care.

He continued to walk forward and walked a long distance before finally seeing a sign.

What made Hal a little strange was that there was a man standing under the sign with an umbrella in his hand. Hal walked over and asked him: "Hello, I want to go to Gotham. Should I go straight along this road?"

The man shook his head and asked: "Are you Hal? Hal Jordan?"

"Do you know me?"

"Not only do I know you, I also know your identity. You are a pilot and the owner of the Green Lantern ring, a Green Lantern, right?"

When Hal heard the first half of his sentence, he was already very confused. He was not a big star, and it was impossible for any ordinary person to know him. When he heard the second half of the sentence, he narrowed his eyes and looked at the man and said: "Who are you? Why do you know about the Green Lantern?"

"Do you remember that not long after you got the Green Lantern ring, you posted a post on a forum related to aliens, and only one person replied to you on that post, and that was me..."

"You are that... Oh my God! I sent you so many messages, why didn't you reply to me?!"

Hal's tone was still shocked at first, but later it turned into a complaint.

Schiller sighed and said to him: "I can explain this later, but now there is a big trouble that you may need to deal with."

"Big trouble? What big trouble? Why are you here? What is going on?"

Hal's state was full of question marks, but Schiller did not intend to answer his series of questions. Instead, he said to Hal: "Aren't you going to Gotham? I'm sorry to tell you that you can't get to Gotham if you keep going along this road."

"Impossible." Hal directly denied this statement.

"It says on the map that after seeing the traffic sign, go forward and you will reach Gotham..."

You can try it.

Haier stretched out a hand and waved, then made a running gesture, "whoosh" and disappeared, and then "whoosh" again, rushed to the sign from the other end.

Hal was confused when he saw Schiller and the signboard appearing in front of him again. However, Schiller said, "Indeed, the earth is round, but I don't think you are fast enough to go around the earth so quickly?"

Even if Hal underestimated his enemy, he knew that things had changed. His face gradually became serious and he asked Schiller, "What is going on? You'd better give me a reasonable explanation."

"Give up all your fantasies about 'reasonableness.'" Schiller crossed the guardrail of the highway, walked to the signboard on the side of the road, and said to Hal, "Because, you are in a dream now."

As soon as he finished this sentence, Hal saw that the pillar supporting the traffic sign was getting bigger and bigger in his sight until it became an extremely huge tower of Babel, located in a charred black area. On the ground, Hal raised his head, opened his mouth, and said, "What is this?"

"Come with me first, I will explain everything to you." Schiller led Hal forward, Hal's brown eyes were full of doubts, he chased after Schiller and asked: "Where is this? Is this an illusion you created? Who are you? Is it related to the yellow light?"

Schiller sighed and said, "I won't explain the previous things to you, let's start from the advent of the yellow light."

"Do you know that the yellow light has come? Oh, yes, you should not be an ordinary person, but I have never heard of any lantern ring that can make a city disappear."

"Because it is not the lantern ring that makes the city disappear, but me."

"Don't joke." Hal's tone revealed disbelief.

"That's Gotham! One of the largest cities on the entire East Coast. How could you make it disappear in an instant? How much panic would that cause? Why didn't I see it on the news?"

"Gotham didn't disappear in the real world. You can't see it because you've already entered a dream the moment you stepped on that road."

"As for why I did this, it's because I have a certain responsibility..."

Schiller sighed again. He sighed more today than in the past few months combined, because things were indeed a little beyond his expectations.

His and Jack's original plan was to go deep into the edge of Batman's consciousness, and then dig out the possible dangerous thing and kill it. Although the process was very complicated, the goal was very clear. Simply put, it was to kill all the possibilities of the Laughing Bat appearing.

In this process, Schiller killed the Joker when he met the Joker, and killed the Bat when he met the Bat. In short, as long as he could prevent the extremely annoying Laughing Bat from appearing in his life, he would do whatever it took.

In the first two stories near the end, everything went very smoothly. They successfully came to the edge of Batman's dream, and then found the embryo that might hatch into a laughing maniac, and almost killed him.

But what was unexpected was that this stimulation caused the black tide deep in Batman's heart to overflow, and it surged out of his soul in an unprecedented violent state and rushed into the universe.

This purest fear power in the entire universe will of course attract the attention of an existence, that is, the yellow lantern ring, or the representative of the fear power in the emotional spectrum, the yellow lantern beast "Parallax Monster".

All the lantern beasts with color lantern rings in this universe are very powerful, and so is the Parallax Monster.

But in the same way, the Parallax Monster is also a master who has seen and eaten. Ordinary fear power is not enough to attract his attention, but the problem is that the fear power in Batman's heart is almost the purest fear power in the origin of all DC universes. For the Parallax Monster, this is simply an irresistible temptation.

So, along with the arrival of the yellow lantern ring, there is also a terrifying monster, that is, the yellow lantern beast Parallax Monster.

"Parallax monster?" Hal asked doubtfully. He said, "I've heard from the seniors in the legion that every lantern group has a lantern furnace and a lantern beast. They mentioned that the lantern beasts generated by each emotion are very powerful, but at the same time, they will not come easily..." "You mean, in this city, someone's fear power triggered the arrival of the yellow lantern beast? This is really a bit troublesome..." Hal's expression became more and more serious. Obviously, he realized the seriousness of the problem.

"I didn't think of that either, because according to the timeline, this is impossible, because you just..." Schiller turned his head and looked at Hal and said.

The reason why he didn't worry about the yellow lantern ring is that if according to the normal timeline, at this time, Hal had just become a Lantern, then Sinestro, the founder of the Yellow Lantern Corps, should still be a Green Lantern. If the two of them hadn't fallen out, then Sinestro would not have betrayed the Green Lantern Corps and would not have created the yellow lantern ring.

When the black tide was rising, Schiller didn't consider the issue of the emotional spectrum at all. He thought that there was no fear category in the lantern rings in the universe at present, but who knew that the yellow lantern ring would come like this.

Schiller reflected on it. The universe has changed enough, and it is not impossible for the Yellow Lantern Corps to appear in advance.

"But you still haven't said, what's going on in Gotham? Where is this place?"

"Don't worry, I was just about to say this..."

"The arrival of the yellow lantern ring and the yellow lantern beast is not the biggest danger. The biggest danger is that the host that the yellow lantern ring and the lantern beast want to parasitize has an egg in its body that is being chased and fleeing for its life."

"Egg, what is that?"

"I'm not trying to scare you, but I have to tell you that it is an existence that if all your lantern groups are tied together after hatching, it will not be enough to fight him alone."

Just as Hal was about to refute, Schiller continued: "But fortunately, he is indeed just an embryo now, and his ability to move has been greatly weakened, and he is only a step away from death."

"But at this moment, the yellow lantern ring and the lantern beast arrived, one trying desperately to run away, and the other trying desperately to "Guess who won in the end?"

"Well, it should be the Lantern Beast, right?"

"No, they both lost, and Batman won both. Now, he has both the Laughing Egg and the Yellow Lantern Beast."

Schiller explained again: "Originally, Batman could have rejected the Yellow Lantern Ring with his own will, but the egg that was almost dying in his body saw the only way to survive."

"So. He took advantage of Batman's attention shifting to the Yellow Lantern Beast to control his consciousness space and accept the Yellow Lantern Ring, and the Yellow Lantern Beast followed the Yellow Lantern Ring into Batman's body. Now, they are one."

As Schiller told the story, the two walked into the Tower of Babel, and then, in the changing light and shadow, Hal found himself on the top of a tall building. He looked down and saw the entire Gotham City under his feet.

Finally arrived in Gotham, but Hal did not feel happy at all, because when he looked up, an indescribable monster was standing above Gotham.

He has a multi-segmented, multi-legged, yellow centipede-like lower body, a pitch-black upper body with a bat pattern, and a head without eyes or any other facial features, only a big red mouth.

At this time, Schiller's voice sounded:

"The yellow light ring, the parallax monster, the Batman, and the laughing egg are mixed together, and I call it..."

"The Fearful Laughing Demon."

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