Chapter 483: Gotham City with Simple Folk Customs (Part 2)

The car stopped on the road in front of Gotham University, and the tires rubbed against the ground, making a sharp "squeaking" sound. Victor quickly opened the door and got out of the car. When he saw the brightly lit dormitory building of Gotham University, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"I've said it before, Gotham City is so big, even if dozens of people fall, it won't be so coincidental that they hit Gotham University." Harvey patted Victor on the shoulder.

Victor took a deep breath, but did not relax, but continued to walk quickly into the university. He said: "No, it's not certain yet. The laboratory is far away from the dormitory building..."

Harvey shook his head helplessly, but still followed him. The two walked quickly through the buildings in the university, through the teaching building, the government building and the dormitory building, and finally came to the laboratory building on the east side.

On the surface, the laboratory building was dark, because it was already early in the morning, and there were no students and teachers in Gotham University who would stay up late to do experiments, so the laboratory building was always very quiet at night.

However, this somewhat stimulated Victor, and made him think of many bad things. Perhaps, he had rehearsed this situation countless times in his mind, and the madness brought by the paranoia almost overwhelmed him.

"Calm down, Victor... Victor! Come back!" Harvey shouted from behind, and Victor had already run into the laboratory building.

Heavy footsteps sounded in the stairwell, and Victor rushed to the floor where the laboratory was located in one breath. Just when he stopped at the stairs, he saw a faint light coming out of a door in the corridor.

Like a moth fascinated by the light, Victor walked straight towards the door. When he pushed the door open, he saw that under the cold light projected by the freezer, several children were standing outside the cabin door, looking up at his wife.

Hearing the movement, the children turned around, and after seeing Victor, they chattered and surrounded him. Victor was a little at a loss. He recognized that these seemed to be the newspaper boys who had been delivering letters to Gotham University.

"Professor Victor! You're finally here. If you don't come, we'll fall asleep!"

"Yes, yes, we arrived ten minutes ago. We thought you wouldn't come and were planning to leave."

"What's going on? Why are you here? Where did you get the lab key?"

The group of newspaper boys started to explain again. Victor was a little headache because of their noise. He held one of the little boys' head and said, "Stop making noise. You talk first."

The little boy raised his head proudly, 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 is specially for newspaper boys to live there."

"About ten minutes ago, we received a call from Boss Cobblepot. He asked us to go get The key hidden on the door frame, and then come to the laboratory to wait for you. "

"The door frame is very high. We had to pile on each other to barely get the key down. He said that if someone invades the laboratory, we should freeze them with the freezing gun next to it."

"You haven't finished yet!" A little girl raised her voice and added: "Boss Cobert said that if the lights here are all dark and there is no response when pressing the switch, go to the next door to turn on the generator."

"Yes, that's right, he said to press a button!"

"We have been waiting here for a long time, no one has invaded, and there has been no power outage. We are almost asleep waiting..."

These children are very young, probably only seven or eight years old. They are all a group of little kids, and they chatter like sparrows falling on the snow.

Victor looked down at them. When they heard Victor not talking, they also quieted down. Everyone raised their heads and looked at Victor.

Victor slowly squatted down, held the leading little boy in his arms, touched his head and said, "Thank you."

This was the scene Harvey saw when he walked in. After sending the children back to sleep, the two returned to Victor's laboratory.

They stood in front of the French window, looking at the Gotham City with flames everywhere. The flickering 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 endless..."

"People say that it is the people of Gotham who make up this darkness, so chaos and madness are the evil 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 always believe that there is no place in the world that 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 dark night falls, there is no light left, but humans still create fire and illuminate 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 so easy to save Gotham, I wouldn't have been dormant until now and accomplished nothing."

"Justice? What basis do they have to define Gotham's justice? If they have never lived in this city, never understood the people and things on this land, and cannot empathize with the people here, then their so-called justice will become like this..."

As they said this, they both looked at the city at the same time, where chaos continued.

They all understood that this was not the so-called pain of the transformation process. This group of justice messengers who came from the sky could do nothing except disturb the good sleep of the people of Gotham.

The central turntable of Gotham was bustling with activity. Tyrone held up the green lantern ring in his hand and shouted, "Green Lantern is always on, eternal 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, who was standing next to Tyrone, shouted, "Where's Carol? Why didn't he come?!"

"He was attacked by a magician before!" Tyrone 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 Tyrone couldn't help but look sideways.

But at this time, their situation was very bad. The bat fighter above their heads kept dropping bombs, the gangsters kept firing, Clark was watching from the side, and the Green Lanterns didn't even have time to escape.

"Concentrate your strength! Shoot down that plane!" Tyrone began to command. The Green Lanterns focused their attention and continuously emitted green light waves, but the Batfighter dodged flexibly.

At this moment, Clark heard Batman's voice from the Batfighter flying by him: "Attack!"

"No, I can't do it in the city center! That will destroy everything here." Clark said hesitantly.

"Do it, I can rebuild."

"No, that will affect a lot of buildings!"

"I have money!"

Clark was speechless, but watching the Green Lanterns gradually organizing the attack, he also knew that it was time to do it.

Clark opened his arms, the blizzard swirled around him, and with the biting cold current, he swooped down like a falcon with snow as feathers. Just as he approached, Tyrone shouted: "Concentrate defense! Stop him!"

The green energy gathered in the direction of Clark's dive, forming a more solid shield, but the moment it touched Clark, the shield shattered.

"Boom!"

Clark was like a human missile, and the aura around him blew away all the Green Lanterns.

Faced with an almost irresistible force, many Green Lanterns didn't even have the strength to stand up. Once the Green Lanterns who relied on willpower to fight began to feel fear, they almost lost all their fighting power.

Even the Legion Commander Tyrone didn't have the courage to face Clark directly. He collapsed on the ground and slowly closed his eyes.

But at this moment, a stronger green light lit up beside him.

Hal floated in the air and faced Clark. Tyrone saw that the ring on his hand had begun to flash, indicating that there was not much energy left. He wanted to open his mouth to remind him, but he heard Hal say:

"You can't hurt them, retreat!"

The biological force field around Clark became stronger and stronger, and Hal's figure was shaky in the storm. All the Green Lanterns on the ground were extremely nervous, and despair spread.

But suddenly, the strong green light pierced the wind and snow like a sword, and a green shark with a somewhat illusory figure swam over from the clouds.

Tyrone opened his eyes wide and said, "Green Lantern 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.

Clark was not to be outdone, and his body also emitted strong sunlight. Just when the two huge light balls were about to collide, a small black fighter passed through the light.

A phone was thrown out from the Bat Fighter, and Batman said to Clark, "Next, there's your call!"

Clark's momentum stagnated. After he received the phone, he was a little stunned, but soon, the piercing phone ring rang, and Clark subconsciously picked up the receiver and put it to his ear.

"Hello? ... Uh, Professor, 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 for!"

"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 retracted the light on his body and said to Hal: "I have an urgent matter today, wait for me next time!"

After that, he flew away. Hal stood in the air with his hands on his waist, looking 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 he had enough green lantern energy, he waved his hand and took everyone back to the headquarters.

Landing on the ground of the headquarters, Talon breathed a sigh of relief. He walked up and said to Hal: "Excellent recruit, your performance is beyond my imagination."

He glanced at Hal's chest, where there was a faint Ion Shark logo. He said: "It seems that the Green Lantern's Lantern Beast Ion Shark has chosen you. You have become the unique Ion Man."

As he said, he took a deep breath, then sighed and said: "After the original Green Lantern Corps leader Sinestro defected from the Corps, I was also appointed in a critical situation and underestimated various situations."

He looked around at the Green Lanterns and said: "Hal, if it weren't for you, we would all be lost there. You saved everyone and deserved a promotion , 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 may have to go back to recuperate for a while. I hope to invite you to be my adjutant to make up for the shortcomings of my work."

Hal was about to be humble, but 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, he stretched out his hand. Hal paused and sighed, but still walked up and shook his hand. The two held hands together, and the faith in both sides' eyes became more firm.

At the same time, in Rodriguez Manor, Schiller leaned on the back of the sofa, and Batman opposite him looked at him and asked:

"So, you deliberately created so many coincidences and went through such a big circle. What is the purpose?"

Schiller leaned on the armrest of the sofa and asked: "Remember the mysterious list that made CIA agents search the entire East Coast?"

"You mean the Philby list? What does this 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.

"Perhaps, we are about to have a 'Hal List'."

In the headquarters of the Green Lantern Corps, the wounded and exhausted Green Lanterns all dispersed, and the Corps Commander Tyrone handed over his work to Hal and left.

In the core of the headquarters, only Hal was left. He sighed with some emotion and looked around. There were all devices and screens that he couldn't understand.

But just as he turned his head to look to the right, he suddenly found that a screen was lit up.

He walked forward and found that it seemed to be the office interface that Tyrone forgot to close. Just as he wanted to reach out to touch it, a line of words popped up on the screen: "Encrypted information, permission confirmation... Confirmation completed."

Hal did nothing, and saw the ring on his hand light up, and then the whole screen was filled with dense information.

On it, there were detailed deployment maps of all sectors of the Green Lantern Corps and detailed personal information of all official Green Lanterns.

Hal's heart skipped a beat.

A series of pictures passed before his eyes, the dark corridor of the mayor's manor, Aisha and Dick's enlightenment course, the mysterious and old butler...

He remembered that at that time, among the courses taught by Alfred, there was a skill called... the self-cultivation of a spy.