Outside the Origin Wall, Su Ming and the mafia were explaining contract terms.
On Earth, the Justice League had already finished their meeting. Except for the stiff Batman, everyone returned to the bridge looking puzzled.
What did Batman say? Why did his words sound so reasonable? But it's simply incomprehensible...
Diana planned to secretly ask Deathstroke, while Barry intended to ask him outright.
According to Batman, he indeed planned to give the Totality to Luthor, and after that, he had a very comprehensive plan.
For some reason, these illogical words, when spoken by him, seemed so convincing, as if the world would operate according to his intentions.
This is what Diana and Barry wanted to figure out: why does Batman appear so confident? Where does this confidence come from?
Superman, on the other hand, had no such doubts. He trusted Batman greatly, to the point of almost being blind to it.
Their mothers are both named Martha; they are practically real brothers.
As for the Sea King, although he and Batman's father are both named Thomas, this isn't the main reason for his lack of doubts.
He fights; he doesn't need to listen to the details of plans, just needs to know where the Justice League's enemy is and whom he should focus on attacking.
His style is very similar to Steel Bone, filled with the blind spirit that the Teen Titans had back in the day.
Steel Bone, being young, cannot understand the tactical intentions on the battlefield, so Batman taught him to treat the fight as a football game.
Whether to block the opponent's center or to interfere with the enemy's quarterback, it all depends on Steel Bone's intuition.
Steel Bone lacks a background in the military or police, making it indeed difficult for him to grasp advanced tactical commands.
But he's an athlete; he's very familiar with football, and with the help of the Mother Box, he and Sea King are both able to fight based on intuition.
Some might think Steel Bone, judging by his appearance, seems very high-tech and good at using various cyber-style equipment, assuming he is a scientist, which would be incorrect.
He is just an athlete; without the Mother Box, he's clueless about high-tech stuff.
Now, although Victor computes quickly, being scatterbrained is still an incurable issue; the flaw of machines is the lack of innovative awareness, incapable of coming up with impressive tactics.
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Diana returned to the bridge in a hurry, flipping the captain's chair around; she wanted to ask Deathstroke what everyone should do.
But after the chair turned around, there was only a black-haired gorilla sitting there, staring back at her.
Diana: "..."
Bo Bo: "...."
"Where is he?"
Diana only felt a surge of anger; Deathstroke slipped away once again. Every time they want to find him, he's nowhere to be found – so elusive!
Bo Bo, with a cigar, bitterly swallowed a mouthful of saliva; can he stop Deathstroke from leaving?
Godslayer and Nightfall, these two legendary weapons, he couldn't afford to mess with either!
"He said he would leave temporarily and completely transferred command to Batman."
Batman, walking at the back of the team, squinted his eyes; he was a bit perplexed. If Deathstroke had been trying to divide the Justice League, or constantly looking for opportunities to gain benefits, then what is he plotting now after returning all command?
Batman scanned the crowd and found that Harley and Poison Ivy were missing, but there was too little information. Even for him, he couldn't guess what Deathstroke was doing with the two women now, considering Earth was submerged.
Could it be a romantic boat trip on the sea?
Batman raised his arm, stroking his stubbly chin, yet still found no answer.
Just now, Diana, in anger, even pushed him, and even wearing Power Armor, Batman now felt internal soreness.
Harley and Ivy are both old acquaintances of Batman; he knows their abilities even better than they do themselves.
And ironically, this misled Batman; he hadn't considered what Harley, Ivy, plus Deathstroke, could accomplish together.
But since Deathstroke relinquished command, Batman openly accepted it, although he originally planned to compete with Deathstroke for the command position in battle.
Now the situation is clear; the aliens, after being repelled in the desert and learning that Earth obtained weapons to counter them, will definitely come out in full force to make the final strike.
As for these beings who have been imprisoned for millennia, Atlantis City seemed to be Earth's center, as it was back then.
So even if Atlantis is submerged, the enemy will certainly choose it as their battleground.
"We are going now...."
He spoke in a deep voice, planning to command the ship to head to the current Atlantis, that is, Poseidonis.
At this moment, Bo Bo jumped off the captain's chair, casually saying: "Oh, before Deathstroke left, he already ordered us to go to Atlantis, and we're about to arrive."
Batman opened his mouth slightly, then tightly closed it, his mouth corners drooping, sitting down on the captain's seat.
Deathstroke calculated everything; really...
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Su Ming pulled out a black-light-emitting ring from a pile of flesh, along with several black lantern batteries that looked like flashlights.
The Black Lantern Ring is actually very powerful; as long as the wearer can maintain sanity, it doesn't need to rely on a Lantern Furnace, it can be directly charged by extracting others' hearts.
The other Seven Lantern Rings all rely on electrical devices, occasionally requiring a Lantern Furnace or intense emotional charging.
But Su Ming bypassed this step; he has X Metal, what kind of charging does it need? Is the World Origin Energy charging sufficient for you?
To be honest, it's quite difficult to kill the mafia completely. As a dead person, it's really not easy to make him truly 'dead'.
No matter what, once he started, he found that the mafia would not die even if decapitated or halved, as black mud-like stuff sprayed from the Black Lantern Ring to repair the mafia's body.
There was no other way but to use dual blades to slash rapidly, combining the abilities of other lantern rings to cut the mafia finely into pieces faster than the Black Lantern Ring's self-healing speed.
Although the mafia's flesh and blood were all black and emitted the rotten smell of the deceased, his meat texture was actually decent, half fat, half lean...
This only eradicated the vitality of this flesh, the mafia's soul would always persist.
If I'm not mistaken, he'll be reborn within the wall.
Normally, a living creature wearing the Black Lantern Ring would immediately die, the heart becoming a vessel of Black Lantern Energy.
But Su Ming is confident that wearing this ring won't affect him; Sister Death would never let him die. According to DC's rules, 'death' won't let him die, hence no one can kill him.
The Black Death Emperor has utterly no means to deal with Su Ming.
These were all pre-calculated, as Su Ming shook off the flesh and blood on the ring and took off the hand armor to put it on directly.
The black, obsidian-like ring instantly tightened, directly piercing the flesh and caught onto the bones of his fingers, but here outside the Origin Wall, the will of the Black Death Emperor couldn't reach here.
Hence, the original aura of annihilation and decay inside the ring just circled through Su Ming's mind and then faded away instantly.
With this ring, Su Ming could gain the ability to mobilize the dead, and gain a slight permission over death.
Delay death.
Yes, even the cosmos would die eventually; everything is inevitable, and the role of the Black Lantern Ring is actually to hold back part of the dead to serve the Master of the Lantern Rings before achieving true eternal peace.
"...."
The Black Lantern Ring had no welcome speech, but Su Ming knew it was waiting, waiting for an oath, waiting for the deputy.
"In the Blackest Night that covers the sun, one waxes as the dark swallows the light. Pluck the heart and grasp the soul, thy commandant to die, the demise bell tolls!"
The Black Lantern Ring instantly erupted in a black strong light, the icy death aura instantly engulfing Su Ming completely.
Everything around seemed frozen, this feeling of death filled with a cold, indifferent aloofness, as the world of the living is receding, and the aura of death descends here.
Decay, dryness, just like the lonely taste in a spacious, unlit underground cellar.
Due to the role of the Black Lantern, the emotional influences brought by the previous lantern rings instantly dissipated.
After some dark suggestions and asking Strangulation to provide some hormones, Su Ming adjusted himself slightly and gradually returned to normal.
"Tsk, really potent, it's a miracle that the mafia can even show emotion."
Now, it's time to return inside the wall. Before obtaining the White Lantern Ring, there's still one hidden threat to address slightly.
That is, invisible light, that ghostly purple patterned ring inscribed on the finger like a tattoo.
Not to mention that Holy Walker had already given Su Ming a reminder about it once, he himself would not forget its existence, to know that the action of detonating the Eclipse Star Lamp Furnace was the closest Su Ming had ever been to death.
Even so, the Eclipse Star hasn't been completely eliminated yet, it still hides somewhere in the cosmos, beneath that invisible phase curtain.
Previously, it might have been difficult to locate it, but now that he has the Black Lantern Ring, things are different.
Su Ming had once detonated a Black Lantern Battery at its core, and now with the Black Lantern Ring's sensing, he could track it down like a bloodhound smelling its prey's blood scent.
Luthor, aliens, Justice League, they are now all enjoying the play, seeming to have forgotten about the Eclipse Star issue, just like they forgot about the powerful spectrum force existing in the cosmos.
It might be that Luthor intends to use the Eclipse Star as the sun in his plan, hence he exiled all Lantern Heroes out of Earth, just hiding the Eclipse Star.
What Su Ming wants to say is: your sun is nice, but the next moment, it's mine!
Since the Eclipse Star is a Lantern Furnace, it can activate the Invisible Light Ring, and the spectrum from outside the Origin Wall is very beneficial in terms of power.
As long as other lantern rings balance it, Su Ming is not afraid that it would overthrow everything.
Knowing Su Ming now has the Black Lantern Battery again, he could repeat the tactics from last time countless times, he is invincible.
At most, just go sit and chat with Sister over there.
But can the Eclipse Star endure being blasted a few more times?
Legend says it is a living Central Lantern Furnace, both the Lantern Group and the Lamp Beast; if a dialogue can be established, Su Ming intends to turn it against its side.
Regret and guilt, these two emotions are not negative emotions. On the contrary, they are feelings humanity has during self-reflection.
However, the Invisible Lantern Demon had clearly over-reflected.
Human beings need various emotions, but every emotion must be moderate, not blind.
If that big Light Ball can behave obediently, there's no need for Su Ming to destroy it; humanity needs introspection and self-examination.
But if it misbehaves or is not tactful, then humanity does not mind going all the way to the dark, Su Ming can think of other ways, the cosmos is so vast, and this is not the only star with self-awareness.
Amid the face-off between the Justice League and the Destruction Legion, Su Ming chooses to make a move, wrecking Luthor's plan.
If Su Ming's plan succeeds, the bald guy would definitely be stupefied.
"Black Lantern Ring! Search for similar energy!"
Returning inside the Origin Wall again, avoiding the sight of idle folks like Hal, he immediately commands the Black Lantern Ring to start searching for similar energy in Sector 2814.
Luthor wouldn't let the Eclipse Star run too far, and Su Ming only needed to guard against Sinestro.
But now that he has so many rings at hand, even forming a full shield, dashing forward wielding swords, Sinestro probably wouldn't be his opponent.