The rise of comics

"Barry, what's going on over there now?"

Walking to the main console and looking at the various information windows that kept popping up on the huge display screen, Bruce frowned, raised his hands to his ears, and adjusted the miniature headset inside the mask to a certain signal enhancement channel.

"Batman... we have a slight situation here."

Two seconds later, Barry Allen's vague voice came from the other end of the communication.

"what happened?"

"There are many traps buried in this ghost place. We followed what you and Constantine said and followed the gold-seeking bug he gave us to explore. However, we encountered many strange things along the way, such as some weird black Fog, various scary mechanisms, and stuff like zombie mummies..."

Barry's tone sounded obviously helpless.

"But fortunately we were safe...I won't go into details, but the bug didn't take us to the magnificent giant palace you mentioned. Instead, it took us into an ocean. Neptune and I were trapped here. , Damn it...were we transported to the Pacific Ocean? Neptune took me to swim here for a long time, but we still couldn't find a way out."

After saying that, there seemed to be a faint teasing from Neptune King Arthur on the other end.

Bruce could vaguely hear words like 'three hundred kilometers an hour' and 'a dead sea without even a fish'.

"So I'm not sure whether your guess about the 'Artifact Pass' is correct. I'm carrying Heroine's sword, and Aquaman is holding his fork. Although we were not suddenly teleported to the past as you said. In that cave, but this sea is also very strange."

Barry added.

"..."

With a thoughtful look on his face, Bruce turned around and reflected the situation to Constantine.

"There is such a thing."

Constantine turned on the tiny headset he was temporarily given and connected to Barry Allen's channel.

"Maybe you can try to dive to the deepest point, can you do that?"

"I should be able to do it, but the Flash can't. We are just moving forward in the shallow sea with a depth of tens of meters. From time to time, we have to let him go up for a breath. If we want to dive deep, then I can only take him Put it on the water for now.”

At this time, Neptune Arthur connected to the communication channel.

"And if I want to dive to the deepest point, the communication equipment will be temporarily unavailable. To be honest... I can't estimate how deep this Dead Sea is, and... what if it's like that fiery cave? , if there are some terrible monsters hiding in this deep sea, I'm afraid I won't be able to deal with it alone."

If this had happened in the past, Neptune would definitely not have said such words to destroy his prestige, but in this hellish place, he was much more honest.

"You need to explore first. It doesn't have to be to the bottom. If something is wrong, come up in time."

Bruce instructed.

"Well, you'd better position the portal for us first. If there is any new situation, we will contact you here."

Poseidon finished speaking neatly and unilaterally interrupted the communication.

After a moment, Barry's voice came through the communication channel.

"He has already gone down. Since he went to explore the bottom, let me try to find the boundary of this ghost place from the water surface... I don't believe there is no land in this sea."

After finishing speaking, a certain low-frequency buzzing sound suddenly came from the communication channel. It was caused by Barry stimulating the speed force in his body, which caused interference from the special magnetic field.

"Do you know what the reason is?"

Bruce turned around and used his hands on the console to activate the positioning device of the hyperspace transmission system. Its signal actively showed that Barry Allen and Aquaman Arthur were currently located in an unknown place [-] miles below the center of the earth. There is no doubt that this is close to the inner core of the Earth, a realm that has never been reached before.

But if we follow the saying that the closer to the center of the earth, the higher the temperature, then there is still some basis for the emergence of the sunwell. Is it just that a pure ocean appears in the center of the earth?What does this mean?

"I don't know... Do we still have few doubts now? There must be more secrets hidden in the Gaia Sealed Land that we don't know about."

Constantine shook his head.

"Batman, there is a new situation in Gaia. You may need to take a look."

At this time, Cyborg's voice came from the channel communication.

"My stealth drones and surveillance radars scattered in London have detected an extremely strong energy fluctuation. I suggest you immediately use the reconnaissance satellite to see what is happening there. I have uploaded the coordinate points to the main control in the system."

For a moment, Bruce immediately called up the satellite surveillance screen with both hands in front of the console, and then saw an aerial view of the ruins of the city.

"......"

The huge image display also attracted Clark and Green Arrow Oliver. The four of them stood under the big screen and looked at the panoramic view of the ruins of the city, and they all felt their hearts blockage.

"That is..."

Constantine found that he captured two high-speed afterimages in mid-air.

Through screen comparison, filling and repair, and still image copying, everyone can see the two restored blurry figures.

"It's Deadshot."

Clark said solemnly.

"I'm afraid there will never be another Freud in this world."

Batman shook his head.

"Then who is the other guy? Do you know him? I didn't expect anyone other than us to fight Gaia. And it seems that he was defeated in just a few moves."

The other person waving his fist at Gaia's possessed body was a burly man dressed in black. There were atmospherically distorted lightning spraying out from his body. He looked majestic and mighty, as if he was the arrival of an ancient god.

"I don't know about this person. Maybe he is a hidden ability user on the earth, but we have not discovered him before."

Bruce groaned.

"Among billions of people, it is inevitable that there will be some people who hide deeply and are unwilling to appear in the world. Just like when the Justice League was formed, if it weren't for the melee of ability users caused by Savage, no one would have thought about it. There are so many special people in the world.”

"It would be great if this guy who came out of nowhere could defeat this monster."

Oliver sighed.

"...The energy signature is missing."

But just as he finished speaking, Cyborg's voice came from the communication channel again.

"I think your dream was shattered Oliver and he died."

"Dead? He died like that?"

Oliver was stunned for a moment, then looked helpless and smiled bitterly.

"An explosive energy blast was detected in London, damaging most of the detection radars and drones I left there. Only some of the machinery I placed very far away survived... From the force field detection Look, the source of this burst of energy has completely disappeared.”

Cyborg paused and continued.

"Evaluated in terms of energy value, this explosion is no less than the explosion of a nuclear warhead of more than 500 million tons...London's urban area may have been leveled."

In the last sentence, his voice became a little softer.

"What, is it a self-destruction?"

Bruce immediately enlarged the real-time image uploaded by the reconnaissance satellite to the window level, but only a piece of white remained on the screen... Obviously, this terrifying energy burst made all detection methods temporarily ineffective.

"It's so powerful that the explosion can be so powerful..."

Constantine and Oliver also gasped on the spot.

This unexpected incident caught everyone off guard.

"Damn it, Falk! Falk!"

Constantine's expression was a little out of control, and he gritted his teeth. London was his hometown after all. Although he never had a sense of belonging to his homeland, he still felt helpless when he saw his hometown being destroyed like this. Time emotions are somewhat uncontrollable.

As for Clark, he stood there as if his whole body was frozen. After a while, he suddenly turned around and walked towards the portal in the hall without looking back.

"What are you doing!"

Bruce noticed it in time and grabbed him.

"I'm going to kill that bastard!"

Clark growled.

"Cyborg, what's going on in the town where Gaia sealed the entrance?"

Bruce held Clark's wrist and whispered into the communication channel.

"Fortunately, we escaped the impact... But judging from the current situation, there is no doubt that the level of danger is rising sharply."

"So...Is Gaia still alive?"

Slightly relieved, Bruce continued to ask.

"That's right. The special force field fluctuations emitted by him can still be detected, and there are no signs of weakening... This is enough to prove that even a nuclear bomb-level destructive power cannot hurt him. Or maybe, even if it is equivalent to 500 million The explosive power of a ton-yield nuclear bomb is not enough to cause fatal injuries to him... and he has some ability to absorb damage without damage as long as he does not suffer damage exceeding the upper limit... In view of his unknown defense method like an invisible shield, I prefer the latter possibility."

In fact, Cyborg is more willing to believe the latter, because if Gaia can eat a nuclear bomb with a yield of 500 million tons head-on with only his body and still remain unscathed, he really can't use any known principles to explain why the other party can achieve such incredible results. Strength of.After all, it was originally just Deadshot's body.

After a pause, Cyborg continued.

"This is very bad news. The nuclear bomb launch order passed at the United Nations emergency meeting will be officially launched soon. Russia and the United States will each launch two 100 million-yield nuclear warheads to carry out precise strikes on Gaia's path. . Although this resolution was strongly protested by European countries an hour ago, preparations are now in place. Judging from the latest intelligence... I just found out from the global network that the nuclear weapons of Britain and France 2 minutes ago The armed forces have been dispatched urgently. It seems that the disaster in London has made Europe crazy, and I am afraid that it is preparing to fight Gaia..."

"The situation will only get worse. If Britain and France also start to launch nuclear weapons regardless of the consequences, and nuclear warheads explode around London on a large scale, it is conservatively estimated that half of Europe will be irreversibly damaged, and hundreds of millions of people will be killed. Death, originally based on the data I compared in detail, I found that Gaia did not seem to be anxious to kill all humans directly. He seemed more like making some kind of observation, perhaps studying human civilization in this era, although I don’t know What is his purpose, but London is just the beginning. Once he starts going all out, he is fully capable of killing all humans in Europe within three hours, and within 48 hours, he can remove humans from this planet ...completely disappeared. Note that this is just a conservative guess based on the available data."

"I'm afraid that the explosion of the nuclear warhead... will completely anger him. After all, he is the incarnation of this planet. Throwing nuclear warheads on the earth is equivalent to throwing a bomb on him, although this bomb can only destroy him. Skin, but the consequences... must be out of control."

Cyborg replied.

"You heard it too."

Clark's eyes held deep anger and remorse.

"I had a chance to save them, but I didn't go. As long as this monster goes on a killing spree or even a nuclear weapon explodes, more people will die in the next moment! That's hundreds of millions of living people! No matter what, I We cannot just sit back and do nothing, even if it means delaying for a while so that people can evacuate..."

"Where to evacuate?"

Bruce's voice also rose.

"Tell me, facing such a monster, where else can people evacuate?"

There seemed to be veins on the backs of Bruce's hands from clenching them so hard.

"This is not a hero game!"

He took his hand off and stepped forward to grab Clark's cloak tie.Staring at each other with terrifying eyes.

"Since the founding of the Justice League, our purpose has been to be the guardians of all human civilization. This is why we freaks gathered together. To fight to protect this world. Now... the world has betrayed us, I know All this happened so suddenly... But think about when those Kryptonians invaded, and when the Doomsday came to the ground to massacre, did they also give us a chance to prepare or evacuate? "

Clark lowered his eyelids and fell into silence.

"War. There have to be sacrifices."

Only Bruce himself knew how uncomfortable he felt when he said these words in a low and hoarse voice.Letting go of Clark, he said slightly tiredly.

"If you want to go, just go. If you insist on going to die, no one here can stop you."

"...Calm down, everyone."

Constantine, who was in deathly silence, spoke.

He took out a pack of crumpled cigarettes from the lining of his windbreaker, snapped his fingers, and a mini flame rose from his fingertips, lighting a cigarette for him.

In front of the white smoke that covered his bearded face, Constantine stared at the burning cigarette in front of him and said slowly.

"London is my place after all, I'll go."

"You go?"

Oliver beside him was a little dazed.

"What Superman said is not wrong. The purpose of all of us is just to save people. London should not be abandoned like this. Even the whole of Europe and all human life, including the people on this land."

"Now Gaia may move to other places at any time. Someone has to delay it. Although it may just be to die, it is better than doing nothing."

"The Rise of American Comics"