Chapter 412 Everything Starts in Winter (Part 2)

Hal, wearing a pilot jacket, a thick scarf, earmuffs, gloves, and cotton boots, was walking on the streets of Gotham. He looked at the dead trees on both sides of the road that had lost all their leaves and looked a little bleak, and sighed silently.

To be honest, he felt a little guilty now. Hal was a good man. Although his experience in the first half of his life was not very smooth, and his dream of becoming a test pilot turned into ground logistics because of his family's opposition, he never wanted to give up, and was finally chosen by the green lantern representing firm will.

After becoming the Green Lantern, he tried his best to punish evil and promote good, and made his greatest efforts to maintain peace. However, he had just arrived in Gotham for a few days, and he caused the largest traffic jam in Gotham's history.

The chaos he caused by landing on the traffic light pole was much bigger than it looked. Not to mention the three-digit car accidents on the entire central turntable, because there were too many cars to be towed away, the towing company was not done until night fell, and that night, the largest blizzard in Gotham's history came.

Since the ground below Gotham is now covered with ice and the temperature has dropped sharply, the snow has been falling for several days and nights until last night. This snowfall, which can be called a snowstorm, has made the traffic situation in Gotham extremely bad. No one has cleaned up the wreckage at the central roundabout yet, and the traffic in the entire city has basically stopped.

Hal originally wanted to show his identity as a Green Lantern and use his superpowers to maintain traffic, but looking at the traffic police carrying rocket launchers and portable machine guns on the streets, he felt that his deterrence seemed not enough.

He couldn't understand this strange city, couldn't understand everything here, he felt that he couldn't fit in here at all. Originally, Hal had planned to leave, but the guilt in his heart had been bothering him, making him hesitate for a long time and not leave.

Until last night, he suddenly received a letter from Schiller, who said that the battle against the fearful laughing demon that day was a great success, so he wanted to invite several people who participated in the battle that day to visit his home.

Thinking of that battle, Hal still feels like he is dreaming. He never thought that he would face such a terrible monster, but after defeating that monster, he did have a transcendent sense of achievement.

Since it was a celebration party organized by Schiller, Hal felt that he could go, after all, he also contributed.

Hal put his hands in the pockets of his pilot jacket, lowered his head and kicked the pebbles on the road while walking forward. At this moment, a series of "ding-ling-ling" sounds came from behind him, and a newspaper boy on a bicycle passed by him.

Hal's eyes widened, and the newspaper boy turned around and smiled and made a face at him. Just when Hal waved his fist to express his anger, another large group of newspaper boys, riding bicycles, passed by him.

Hal was choked by the snow and smoke. He stretched out his hand and waved it vigorously in front of his face. He walked a few steps forward and looked up. He saw a small mailbox with a small wooden sign hanging on it, which read "Rodriguez House".

Hal walked over and rang the bell on it. Soon, a butler in a well-dressed suit, white shirt, white gloves and bow tie came out. Hal rubbed his hands in embarrassment. He had never enjoyed such aristocratic service. …

Merkel smiled and nodded, and opened the door of the manor for him. When Hal just walked into the reception room, he saw that there were already three people waiting for him. In addition to Schiller, the remaining two were Victor and Gordon.

Victor was holding a glass of water and explaining simple physics knowledge to Dick sitting next to him. Schiller was holding Elsa and patting her back to let her loosen her mouth from biting the cane.

Harvey saw Aisha's unusual teeth at first sight. He was indeed following Aisha before, but in order not to be discovered, he was far away. Aisha didn't often open her mouth outside Wayne Manor, so Harvey had never seen the shape of her teeth.

Such shark-like teeth would be scary even for a little girl, not to mention that Elsa's teeth were like wood chippers. With one bite, the cane broke into two pieces. With a few "cracks", the originally smooth and beautiful solid wood pole turned into wood chips...

"Hey, Elsa, don't do that!" Dick jumped off the sofa to stop her. Elsa said "Pfft, Pfft" a few times and spit out the wood chips in her mouth. Schiller saw Hal coming in, he stood up, walked up to him and shook his hand, then said: "Hello, how are you doing recently?"

"Uh... okay." Hal's attention was on Elsa, so his answer was a bit perfunctory. Schiller looked at his expression, followed his gaze, turned around and looked at Elsa who was tossing and turning on the sofa, and said: "A very lively little girl, right?"

"It depends on how you define the word 'lively'." Hal said with some embarrassment.

Schiller smiled, looked at Aisha and said, "Lively is the opposite of her father. I can't believe that Bruce has such a lively and lovely daughter."

Hal pursed his lips and said, "We all know that this is not his..."

Just when he said this, he felt an inexplicable chill on his back. Hal turned back nervously, but saw nothing.

Soon, the candles were lit, and the lights in the manor were all on. Under the light, the silver and glass vessels swung out circles of halos. With a clear "pop" sound, several glasses touched each other, and the wine of different colors rippled from the mouth of the glass, like rolling waves.

"We haven't gathered like this for a while..." Gordon said first. He moved slightly to the side to make room for the butler who was pouring the wine, and then said: "Unfortunately, several people can't come because of various reasons."

"It doesn't matter, we have new friends." Schiller raised his glass and raised it to Hal. Hal also raised his glass to greet him. Hal took a sip of wine and said: "I didn't introduce myself before, but you should know that my name is Hal, Hal Jordan."

"A famous surname, Jordan from the Bulls is in the limelight recently." Victor echoed.

Hal smiled and shook his head and said, "Because he is so popular, people often ask me if I have any relatives with him recently. God, I have never been to Chicago."

Hal then introduced, "I was originally a test pilot, but later I became a ground crew member and now work at an air force base in Seaside City."...

Then he stretched out his hand. Showing his green lantern ring, he said, "Just as you have seen before, I am a Green Lantern of the Green Lantern Corps, also known as the Emerald Knight."

"I have wanted to ask for a long time, what exactly is the Green Lantern Corps?" Gordon asked with some confusion.

"You can think of it as an organization that maintains peace in the universe. They divide the universe into sectors and send out Green Lanterns to guard these sectors. I am a Green Lantern in the sector where the Earth is located, and I am mainly responsible for protecting the safety of the Earth."

Hal briefly introduced the history and code of conduct of the Green Lantern Corps to several people. Gordon's frown gradually relaxed a little. He said, "You should know how much trouble you caused in the central turntable area of ​​Gotham. Until now, those gangsters are still asking me what the green light is all about."

Hal showed a guilty expression. He turned down the corners of his mouth and said, "Then what did you say?"

"Originally, I wanted to tell them that a super human with a glowing body fell on the traffic light pole and caused this accident, but..."

Gordon looked at Schiller. Schiller put down the cutlery in his hand, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and then said, "I suggest that he better not do this. If it is in other cities, this explanation may be regarded as a fantasy. It was regarded as a ridiculous excuse made by the police department to shirk responsibility. "

"But this is Gotham. There is nothing that people here dare not believe. They are all angry. If Gordon said so, they would definitely dig three feet underground to find you. "

Schiller shook his head, looked at Hal, and then said: "Believe me, even if you have superpowers, once you fall into the quagmire of Gotham, you may not even have a chance to escape."

Hearing this, Hal felt the temperature around him drop a little. He shuddered, picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine. The spicy wine made him a little warmer. He looked at Schiller, raised the glass with some gratitude and said: "Thank you, professor, thank you for understanding me. I didn't mean it. I really didn't know that the traffic situation in this city was like this..."

"It doesn't matter, I'm also an outsider." Schiller also picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine. He smiled and said: "Although many people don't see this, I am not used to traffic like all outsiders."

"You are only uncomfortable with this." Gordon also said with a smile.

"Speaking of which, what are you going to do with this little girl?" Hal looked at Elsa who was sitting next to Schiller. The housekeeper prepared a children's meal full of broccoli and carrots. Elsa accepted it, but judging from her expression, she might want to eat raw carrots more.

"What should we do?" Schiller looked at Hal and said, "Bruce Wayne officially adopted her. Now her full name is Elizabeth Martha Wayne."

"But..." Hal showed a very embarrassed expression, he said, "We all know where she came from, that monster..."

Victor was the first to shake his head. He looked at Hal and said, "But now, she is no longer that monster. If her soul is still the same, or she can still become that posture, then I do agree that she needs to be supervised to prevent her from hurting ordinary people."...

"But now that Aisha has become a human being in both soul and body, she should enjoy the rights that humans should have."

"At the same time..." Victor looked at Aisha and said: ·It is obvious that she is intelligent and can be taught, no different from human children. If she really harms society in the future, it is also because of the failure of education. "

Schiller looked at Victor with some surprise and said, "I didn't expect that you are a supporter of the theory of acquired education. ”

“I have said before that my wife and I have taught younger children. In this process, I deeply understand the importance of acquired education to human beings.”

Gordon put down his glass, touched his temples and said, "Although I am also worried that she might cause trouble in the future, but aren't there enough troubles in Gotham?"

"A mouth full of sharp teeth, great strength, and extremely fast speed sounds quite intimidating, but in Gotham, there are many things scarier than this."

Gordon used a fork to pick up a steak and put it into his mouth and said

"Remember the last riot in the cathedral? I don't know why the people there went crazy, and later we took a lot of effort to wake them up."

"I don't know about that." Victor turned his head, looked at Gordon and asked: ·Is it the accident that caused serious damage to the Gotham Cathedral? What happened at that time?"

Gordon sighed and looked at Schiller, but Schiller was eating the food on the plate leisurely, and then said:

"This has to start from the underground of the Gotham Cathedral, a thing called the 'Wine Pool'. "