Just as Bruce was calmly issuing orders, the door of the control room opened, and Barbara walked in, panting heavily with someone slung over her shoulder.
"Whew, ugh, my back..." Barbara dropped the person painfully on the ground and quickly found a chair to sit down, moving the opposite way slightly, implying some old injuries were acting up.
Megan floated over, reached out her small hand to rub her: "Who is this person? Did someone else fall into the Hall of Justice?"
"I sent her to check on Nightwing's situation over there."
Batman said casually, his eyes still not moving off the screen. Barbara ripped off her mask and looked indignantly at Batman's back.
"I was late, Nightwing was taken away by Wolf Spider again, that woman is so shameless!"
"But you caught Copperhead back." Batman seemed to have eyes at the back of his head, no, more accurately, Can Luo on the desk saw it and told his old man.
"Her? Or him? Anyway, this person fainted in Dick's ward, I found it strange so I brought him back, she must be planning to do something bad."
Megan showed a puzzled expression, tilting her little head: "Why is it him for a moment, her for another?"
Barbara tugged Megan's hand to make her bend over, whispered a few words into her ear, and Megan quickly covered her mouth, showing an incredulous look.
Humans... are indeed so complex.
Batman turned around and checked Copperhead's injuries, who appeared to have been knocked unconscious from a blow to the head but showed no signs of being poisoned by Wolf Spider's venom.
"Neither Arkham nor Black Gate is repaired, first lock him in the basement of the Justice League Hall."
"So, what should we do next?" Barbara put on her mask, tossed back her hair, and pulled Copperhead off the floor with force, Megan assisting from beside.
Batman walked silently to the console, squinting his eyes: "You go back to Gotham and prepare, I'll go find you."
"I got it...."
The door opened once more, her figure gradually faded out of sight, while Batman stayed silent for a second or two, then said to Megan: "Contact Diana, she couldn't have disappeared after having dinner with Deathstroke."
Megan closed her eyes, pressed her temples with both hands trying hard, but then shook her head: "Deathstroke messed with her, we've lost contact with her."
His corners of the mouth drooped down again, displaying his classic expression—skepticism.
At this moment, someone with purple pentagram drawn on their chest, full head of white hair, walked into the room again: "Your friend needs help now, come with me quickly."
Bruce silently looked at Star Hero, who seemed to be bouncing around as if nothing had happened, Deathstroke's black and yellow armor quietly standing there in the corridor behind him.
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"I don't know what you think, but I feel Star City is somewhat... calm."
Standing on top of a tall building, Bo Bo squatted and said to Su Ming beside him. They both came through the teleportation gate directly, which was Su Ming's biggest advantage, the fastest action speed.
The precise location of Green Arrow and Diana was unclear at the moment, so climbing high to see where the commotion was and going over there was the plan.
Su Ming felt that monster invasion had to happen all over the world simultaneously to be effective. After all, for something at such power level, to divert the Justice League's attention, there must be enough numbers and spread across the world.
When monsters start appearing globally simultaneously, even if Batman knows it's Mad Laugh forcing him to split his forces, he has to do it.
Doing their best to protect the safety of people worldwide is Justice League's duty, even knowingly stepping into traps, they have to do it.
This will cause the Hall of Justice troops to be vacant, and once a wave of strong teams similar to the Dark Knight Order comes, Batman will definitely be overwhelmed. Bruce Wayne, Batman, and Mad Laugh are evenly matched, it just depends on which side has more Bruces.
But unexpectedly, Star City tonight is very peaceful, the gigantic pentagram-shaped green space in the city center, under the night, is like a calm lake.
Su Ming took out two cigarettes and squatted on the edge of the building with Bo Bo, below was a hundred meters cliff, they pressed together against the tall building's wind to light the cigarettes.
Two red dots lit up, the cold night blew away the white smoke, Su Ming's gaze scanned back and forth over the dark city below.
"Wait the time of a cigarette, if we happen to 'run into' Green Arrow, great, if not, we'll go to Queen Mansion and look for him."
Bo Bo nodded, if it's 'run into', Deathstroke can pretend to be here to help in Star City, brushing off some impression scores, if asked why here, he could place the excuse on Diana.
Going specifically to someone's door makes it easy for smart people like Green Arrow to seize conversational control.
As to what Deathstroke's conspiracy was, Bo Bo didn't know, nor did he want to know, he just wanted to live a few more years.
So Detective Gorilla switched the topic, talking about things in the past: "Heard when Barbatos invaded, Green Arrow drilled sewers for a month, not entirely empty-handed, he seized an Owl Court's armory, secretly took many weapons made of N Metal."
Su Ming watched Detective Gorilla's animated face, touched his own beard, squinted to avoid the swirling smoke ashes.
"Owl Court stole from the British Museum, took away those treasures from Hawkman and Hawk Woman's first lifetime, placed them where they thought safe, unfortunately, no matter the calculations they didn't predict Green Arrow would drill Gotham's sewers... probably those N Metals have all turned into arrowheads now."
"Do you reckon Batman knows?"
Detective Gorilla also took a puff of smoke, revealing a weathered look sitting at the edge of the rooftop, legs dangling out.
"They must have already known, but until the Mad Laugh is destroyed, they will pretend not to know." Su Ming moved his feet and shielded the cigarette with his palm, "Speaking of which, you really have some insider info, huh? How do you know Green Arrow Hero secretly stashed a batch of N Metal?"
Bo Bo smiled and scratched his face, his black fur was tousled by the wind.
"N Metal is anti-magic metal, Bat Gold is magical metal, a lot of people in the Magic Realm are keeping an eye on these things."
"I don't remember Green Arrow having any connection with the Magic Realm, did he find someone to learn magic arrows?"
Bo Bo was also helpless about Su Ming's sarcastic joke, magic arrow my ass, if you have the time to engrave a magic array on an arrow, why not just cast a spell directly?
Enchanting thrown tools isn't unheard of, but those who did it are all dead. If that arrow misses and the opponent picks it up and fires it back, it's basically Russian Roulette.
Moreover, with the cost of that one arrow, you could directly hire a professional mage.
"In any case, Star City is a place where the Assassin Alliance is deeply involved, and information here is quite fluid," the gorilla did not touch the topic of magic arrows, but obscurely mentioned his source of information.
"I guess it was just some drunkard who let something slip at your place." Su Ming looked into the distance, envisioning a figure in a dirty yellow raincoat, "Wait, look at the forest over there, isn't there a piece that's sunk in?"
The gorilla stood up, squinting and looking over.
Indeed, just as Deathstroke said, like one tip of a pentagram, a small patch of trees was swaying, as if something was tunneling through the green sea.
"Hmm, with such movement, it should be Diana." Bo Bo put the detective hat on his head, stretched his shoulders, and raised a hand.
Su Ming dropped the cigarette butt, his face covered by the mask, grabbed the gorilla's arm, and flew towards the spot.
When still at a distance, Su Ming could already hear the sound of shield and sharp claw clashing, followed by a loud bang, as a large swath of trees were uprooted.
Strangulation was very uncomfortable, but could still endure it; Su Ming saw the earth seemed to have been tilled, Diana lowered her arms, pulled out the sword stuck in the ground, and dashed around finishing off the dizzy monsters.
The man and the monkey landed in front of her, Su Ming's Godslayer joined the finishing off ranks, while Bo Bo declared himself a pacifist, merely raising a furry paw to greet Diana.
"Good evening, Your Majesty the Queen."
"Oh, good evening, why are you here too?"
Diana wiped the sweat from her forehead, curiously asking Bo Bo.
Su Ming slayed one creature before Bo Bo and Diana could start their idle chatter, he also rushed to ask in a peculiar tone, "Where's Oliver?"
"I was targeted by these strange things as soon as I arrived in Star City, haven't had a chance to find anyone." Diana replied forthrightly, tapping her Shield with the Fire God Sword to attract monsters from further away.
Su Ming closed his eyes in pain, with a battle going on, Diana would never refuse, but clearly this was being dragged into an endless swarm of monsters!
"From the time we split up till now, it's been over half an hour, how many monsters have you slain?"
"About three or four hundred? I can't remember, these monsters are fast, sometimes several come at once, I don't have time to count." Diana spoke proudly, her face full of pride.
Though these monsters were somewhat weak, their numbers were enough, defeating them was also a kind of honor.
Bo Bo rubbed his forehead, he was unable to say anything further, this was obviously a delaying tactic, Diana seemingly remained oblivious.
Better not to expose it, best to be a simple gorilla.
Su Ming looked at her helplessly, but Diana seemed to expect his affirmation, staring at him, raising an eyebrow with expectation.
He could only nod to her, not knowing what to say, then turned around and took off his cloak, "There's someone driving a magic array nearby, find them."
The cloak twirled in front, stuck to the ground and flew away, the soil below flipped, splattering mud everywhere.
Diana might have thought there were no buildings here, fighting had less impact on the city, but probably forgot that the flood hadn't receded for long, these plants and trees were soaked like pond scum, making her steps difficult.
Monster bodies mixed with mud were like a blend of purple sweet potato paste and chocolate sauce, disgusting to look at. It wasn't the time for idle chatting, as more monsters flew out from the distant woods, hurtling towards the group.
Su Ming clenched his fist, a yellow light suddenly lit up, manifesting a high-caliber gun turret, he jumped onto it and fired relentlessly at the monster horde.
Golden light streaked through the night sky, leaving beautiful trails on the retina.
Doing this, Diana only needed to deal with the fish that slipped through, as most monsters couldn't withstand the Lantern Ring Energy's attacks.
Besides giving Su Ming a Ten Rings United big move, the Lantern Ring also allowed him to quickly clear out small fry. Manifesting large heat weapons against dense weaker enemies was definitely faster than slashing with blades.
Once no more monsters emerged, Su Ming put away the manifested object, stretching his skeleton put through the recoil.
"Lantern Ring Energy: 60%."
The Yellow Lantern Ring informed him of the remaining energy, without a Lantern Furnace, he had to slowly charge it with his emotions, and using the Green Lantern next time would be necessary.
As for the Purple Lantern and Cyan Lantern, he didn't dare use them randomly, without toxins or hypnosis assistances, probably couldn't charge them at all.
Only after the firing ceased did the cloak return from the woods, carrying a shadow figure, leisurely arriving late.