"So, where has Scarecrow been lately? I still haven't seen him. If I wanted to commission some high-concentration genuine venom, who should I contact?"
Su Ming took a dozen syringes from Thomas and calmly inserted them into his neck one by one while chatting with Oliver.
Oliver winced as he watched Deathstroke, and whenever he saw him plunge the needle into his neck and press the plunger all the way down, Green Arrow instinctively shrank his neck:
"I checked Arkham's records earlier. He escaped during the flood. The last time anyone saw him, it was said he was going to meet with Luthor."
"Oh? Looks like I really should have a chat with Scarecrow." Su Ming nodded, pulling out the blood-stained syringe and replacing it with a new one, unfazed.
"If it's just for venom, the Justice League can help you develop it. We have the Science Squad." Barry shrugged.
"No thanks, can you so openly discuss infringing on intellectual property? I'm the biggest supporter of genuine products, doesn't your conscience hurt?"
Su Ming replied righteously, though that wasn't the real reason. It was because everything the Justice League made had traces of bats crawling on it.
If he commissioned them to make fear venom, Bruce probably wouldn't refuse.
Batman would most likely prepare a few doses of antidote for each member of the Justice League, notify everyone that Deathstroke had fear venom, and write a detailed memo on the composition, concentration, and how to avoid poisoning, stored in an unsecured computer!
Such venom would probably only be used by Su Ming for kicks....
"Ugh... it's really Batman's fault, honestly."
Barry touched his chest, as if it indeed hurt a bit. Yes, even villains' patents are patents, and bad guys are people too. When did he start considering villains as not being US citizens? He reminisced painfully:
"Last time Bruce brought out Atom Hero's white dwarf star technology and asked Superman and me to copy it onto his aircraft. We all said it was wrong to steal others' technology and knowledge, but Batman didn't care at all and used the Totality issue to force us to choose, boohoo... Since then, I've been learning bad habits, but I'll change and protect intellectual property in the future."
Everyone's eyes fell on Thomas, making him feel itchy all over as if being pricked by needles. Those gazes carried reproach, helplessness, and a questioning of humanity.
He had to express his stance: "Bruce was wrong. I'll educate him when I get back."
"Well, you can't be blamed for this. I believe you didn't want to be apart from him for so many years, causing a lack of proper education."
Su Ming looked at the bat symbol on the syringe in his hand and injected another shot without hesitation, treating Thomas's words as a cold joke.
"Ahem." Thomas noticed his gaze and blushed, quickly changing the subject with a cough: "You've injected so much venom, how come you don't have any reaction?"
Su Ming sniffed and casually wiped the rain off his face: "Because I have strong willpower and greater control over emotions than others. Our Bruce is sometimes called 'Refuse Lantern Hero', and his willpower is similarly honed through resisting emotions. It's not a rare ability."
Completely emotionless people also have it, let alone Gotham's lunatics who rarely have emotions. When madness fills the mind, who still feels emotions?
Who's ever seen Joker get poisoned?
He's so thoroughly mad that any toxin would just make him more high; pesticides would be his couch-potato soda, and highly concentrated venom would be like the salad dressing in a hamburger.
Poison Ivy once poisoned him, and it's said Joker happily made clucking chicken noises...
"So, are these venoms effective? Do you need more?" Oliver asked.
"That's enough. When you can see fear like a yellow ocean beating against your skull in your mind, it means you're sufficiently scared." Su Ming responded with a laugh, waving his hand: "I'm getting ready to deactivate the willpower boost on my Yellow Lantern Ring. You all better find a place to steady yourselves. I plan to blow away the clouds, and when the blades blow air upwards, the air around us will flow rapidly."
Diana drew her Fire God Sword and stabbed it into a nearby building, while Arthur struck his Trident into the ground. Green Arrow flashed out of the city, and Barry rushed out with Thomas.
Su Ming took a deep breath, pointing his fist at the sky: "Black Day obscures, White Night shines. Villains and treacherous parties, fear my divine light. Inferno buries in terror, those who defy me perish. The bell tolls, a frightful light!"
The Yellow Lantern Ring, under its possessor's intense emotions, emitted a light as bright as the sun, lighting up the surrounding alleys and streets as if it were daylight. Countless city residents awoke from their dreams, all of them having nightmares.
And those who hadn't fallen asleep for various reasons suddenly felt as if faced with a great terror between life and death, their faces turning pale as paper, sweat pouring down like rain.
Su Ming partially hypnotized himself, amplifying his reflections on 'death', 'destiny', and other such rules to force himself to enhance his emotions, which inadvertently affected the surrounding city area, a short-lived side effect.
"Lantern Ring energy level... 200%, increasing... Error... Warning, error occurred."
The Lantern Ring emitted sounds akin to a cassette tape crumpling, accompanied by fine cracking noises. Su Ming maintained his sanity; he wouldn't make the same mistake as the Dawn Deceit Lantern.
Several Lantern Rings on the gauntlet were revealed, including the Red Lantern, White Lantern, and Invisible Light.
"Repair the Yellow Lantern Ring!"
Different beams of light shone, and yet everything was eventually covered by the Invisible Light. Although the rings continuously made noises as if about to shatter, they quickly stabilized with the addition of X Metal.
"Energy level, immeasurable, please return to Kovad to take the power of the Lantern Group, and make others submit beneath your fear."
Su Ming smirked; the Yellow Lantern Corps was full of ambitious people, and he had no time for those games of power.
And now his Yellow Lantern Ring had evolved into the 'Three-Ring Lantern Ring', a special mutation, containing fearpower that even Sinestro couldn't withstand in the past. The previous owner of such a Yellow Lantern Ring was Menggo; if it weren't for Sinestro's sneaky tactics in battle, he wouldn't have defeated Menggo.
But for Su Ming, he could deal with Sinestro even without the ring; such a thing was merely icing on the cake, not a lifesaver.
Not to mention the thought of those Little Blue Men made him nauseous; he knew that when the cosmos calmed down, those guys would trouble him for sure.
The spectacle earlier was conspicuous enough, time could not be wasted, so he immediately pointed the ring skywards, shooting a golden beam that manifested into a giant fan in the air, which then began to rapidly spin.
The enormous fan covered half the city's sky, and as the blades turned, a terrifying wind howled through the towering buildings.
The clouds in the sky got blown to sea, like stirred batter becoming thin strands, gradually torn apart and dissipating.