[Comprehensive British and American] The vest system of the son of hell

"Take it back."

Superman was worried that unknowable items like the Holy Grail would be found in the remaining boxes, so he decided to take the boxes to the hotel and hand them over to Luthor or Batman.

If Luthor and Batman teamed up, they should be able to take care of whatever nonsense beings are in the box.

Superman, who has absolute confidence in the IQ of his old enemy and best friend, thinks so.

Now, there is only one last problem before them: how to take away the three large boxes silently without disturbing other residents in the block.

"Let me do it……"

With that said, Matthew snapped his fingers.

The power of the dream stone spreads silently in the neighborhood. The already sleeping residents are indulging in beautiful dreams, and those with long-term insomnia can't help but close their eyes.

Soon, the whole block was filled with the sound of snoring one after another.

"They are all asleep, we can carry the boxes and leave."

"Thank you, Matthew."

While talking, Superman has already carried a large box on his shoulders in one hand, and the third box is ready to—

"I'll get it."

Matthew hurriedly stopped.

He knew that Superman was extremely powerful as a Kryptonian, but it was a bit—

"It's okay, I can handle it."

"I can carry it too."

After the words fell, Matthew had already picked up the third box with black magic power.

Superman never knew that magic could still be used in this way, and said with emotion: "No wonder Bruce has always been full of scruples about magic."

"Bruce is—"

Matthew asked knowingly.

Superman hurriedly said: "A friend of mine, a very good friend."

"I already know that Bruce is Batman..." Matthew continued frankly, "Batman is your good friend, an upright and melancholic person."

"turn out to be--"

Superman breathed a sigh of relief.

Matthew raised his hand, wanting to pat him on the shoulder, and saw that he was carrying black boxes in each hand, and hurriedly withdrew his outstretched hand: "It's getting late, let's go back quickly, the power of the dream stone can't last long .”

"it is good……"

Superman left the basement first and told Dick: "The things in the box are more difficult than we expected, and we must take them back and study them slowly."

"I'm going to drive."

Seeing that Matthew also used magic to bring out a black box, Dick took the initiative to sit in the driving seat.

Superman didn't want to increase the burden on the vehicle, so he chose to carry the box and fly in the air, but Matthew put the big box in the trunk frankly, sat in the co-pilot's seat, and told Dick what the two had seen and heard in the basement.

Dick was also stunned to learn that the first box contained the Holy Grail after opening, and there was still flowing red liquid in the Holy Grail.

"May I have a look?" Dick said. "I've heard a lot about the Holy Grail, but I've never seen the real Holy Grail."

"of course can."

Matthew took out the Holy Grail temporarily sealed with magic, and brought it to Dick.

At this time, the red liquid emerging from the bottom of the holy grail has already filled a full third of the cup.

Dick couldn't help worrying that the liquid from the bottom of the glass would flow out of the glass: "Can you put the glass back in the box?"

"I'm afraid it's not possible..." Matthew said, "After the cup is taken out of the box, the box disappears, so the box itself is a magic item."

"That--"

Dick frowned and asked, "Is it possible that someone entered the basement and opened the boxes before we brought out the four boxes in the basement?

And given superpowers because of what's in the box?That's why they killed Jack in the street and sneaked into Harry's place to try to kill Harry?Now go to jail and kill Jimmy? "

"Because they want to monopolize all the boxes?"

"Maybe this is the truth, but unfortunately we don't know anything about the origin of these boxes."

Having said that, both Dick and Matthew were silent.

……

After Superman and his party returned to the Planet Hotel, after a brief discussion, they decided to bring Luther into the plan.

Of course, considering that Luther's position has always been vacillating, they only intend to confess to Luther the Holy Grail and a black box brought back to the hotel, and the remaining two black boxes are scheduled to be handed over to Batman who will arrive in Metropolis tomorrow afternoon.

After receiving Superman's contact, Luthor hurried to the hotel. After meeting, he inevitably made some sour complaints about Superman and Batman's sons, and then had a dialogue with Connor about his father's kindness and his son's filial piety.

Finally, Luther's eyes fell on Matthew: "You really didn't tell me the truth before, Matthew."

"Boss Lai didn't tell me the whole truth, did he?"

Matthew looked at the big glowing "S" symbol on the chest of Luthor's mech and said.

Luther smiled and asked them to hand him the mysterious Holy Grail immediately: "I need to see the real thing."

"no problem……"

Matthew opened the magic space and took out the Holy Grail.

At this time, the red liquid emerging from the bottom of the Holy Grail was already half full.

"When I first got it, there was no liquid in the cup..." Matthew explained, "When I showed it to Dick halfway, a third of a cup of liquid came out, and now it's a half of a cup."

"At this rate, when the sun rises in the morning, the cup will be filled with liquid and then overflow." Luthor said bluntly, "a large pool of the same material as the cup must be prepared immediately."

"Why does it have to be the same material as the cup?" Superman asked.

Luther: "Because we don't know whether these liquids are corrosive and harmful to carbon-based organisms."

"All right……"

Superman looked at the cup and determined that its main ingredient was gold, with some unknown metals from outer space added.

"An unknown metal plus gold?"

Luther thought for a while, and said to Mercy who was accompanying him, "Use gold to make a swimming pool in the shortest possible time."

"Boss, how big is the swimming pool? How thick does the gold plate need to be on the surface?"

"Find a swimming pool nearby. For a gold plate, it must be at least one centimeter thick."

"understand……"

Mercy went down and carried out Luthor's order.

Luther held up the mysterious Holy Grail and observed the red liquid in the Holy Grail: "Judging from the color and taste, this is not blood, at least not the blood of carbon-based organisms on the earth..."

"what is that?"

"My IQ is outstanding, but it does not mean that I am omniscient."

I don't know if it was because Superman wanted something from him, but Luthor seemed to be in a great mood, with a smug smile on his face all the time, and he almost hummed a rap.

This scene fell in the eyes of the gossiping members of the Titan team, and they couldn't help but whisper together.

"I've always heard that Luthor has always been a villain in order to attract Superman's attention, and now it seems to be true."

"If he didn't care about Superman to the extreme, how could Luthor have brought out Connor? After all, we all know that his attitude towards Connor is not all about taking advantage of him..."

"But Superman already has Lois, and Superman's relationship with Batman is decidedly more—"

"Maybe Luther likes this feeling, after all, he wanted everything until he met Superman."

"You're right. Everyone has obsessions, some of which may seem masochistic to others."

……

"Cough cough!"

The young people's comments reached Superman's ears verbatim. As straightforward and kind as he was, he was naturally embarrassed to interrupt, and could only express his dissatisfaction with a violent cough.

Luthor actually heard the young people talking about his relationship with Superman.

Unlike Superman, he enjoys these discussions very much, and even expects these young people to make up a bloody and tragic love story with thousands of twists and turns.

After all, his feelings for Superman were genuine—

I only have eyes for you.

Thinking of this, Luther glanced at Superman again.

Superman had no choice but to turn his head and concentrate on calling Batman.

"Bruce, the situation here in the Metropolis is very tricky, I need your help, the situation is probably like this..."

"Okay, I'll be there tomorrow."

Bruce Wayne, who already knew part of the situation from Dick, Barbara and Tim, agreed without hesitation after listening to his friend's narration.

Considering that the relationship between Damian and Tim has always been unharmonious, he decided to keep Damian in Gotham, under the care of Jason, who now calls himself Red Hood, and Alfred, the almighty butler.

As for whether those lunatics in Arkham would break out of prison and make trouble while he was away from Gotham——

Batman, unable to divide himself in two, can only prioritize the troubles happening in Metropolis for the time being.

……

"I think I know where the liquid in the Holy Grail comes from."

When the sun was about to rise, Luther, who had been studying the mysterious Holy Grail all night, finally smiled: "I didn't expect the legend of the golden branch to be true!"

"Golden branch?"

"Yes, Legend of the Golden Bough," Luther said.

Legend has it that in the ancient past, there was a temple whose priests were called the "King of the Forest", but escaped slaves could only serve as priests.

Moreover, any other fugitive slave who can break off a branch from a tree guarded by the temple priest day and night is eligible to duel with him, and if the duelist kills the priest, he can also replace him.

This is an ancient religious custom with many doubts about its origin and existence. The textual research on it has not stopped since the classification of folklore appeared, and a large number of classics explaining religion, witchcraft and human beliefs have been born from this.

"The liquid that emerges from the cup is blood, but it's not blood in the traditional sense. It's more like a concept, a conceptual liquid that originated from human beings' taboo emotions towards red liquid that resembles blood..."

Luther said, "Ancient humans couldn't understand why organisms lost a lot of blood and died, but they have realized that there is a positive correlation between death and blood, which gave birth to blood worship and blood taboos, as well as various horror legends including vampires."

"And the liquid that comes out of the cup isn't actually a liquid, the congealed concept of this ancient fear emotion?"

Superman frowned: "But even conceptual liquids are composed of ingredients, aren't they?"

"Clark..."

Luther looked at Superman helplessly: "Of course conceptual matter also has components, but if you know the possible constituent elements of these things, you will only be more shocked."

"What is it?"

"Remember the Wall of Origin?"

"The Wall of Origin?"

Superman's expression turned serious.

In fact, following Luthor's words, all the superheroes present became serious.

They have mixed feelings about Papetua, the creator of the multiverse, and the walls of origin that separate the different multiverses.

"Are you sure these fluids may have come from the Wall of Origin?" Superman asked uncertainly.

Luther said with a wry smile: "It is more accurate to say that these liquids may come from the Prometheus galaxy behind the wall of origin, and it is part of the creation source material."

"However, any creature that tries to approach the wall of origin will be stuck by the wall of origin and hang on it permanently. Only a very small number of life forms with special powers can separate the life form from the wall of origin..."

Superman said, "As for the crazy thing of breaking the wall of origin and releasing Him who was sealed in the wall, so far there is only—"

"The Laughing Bat."

Luther spoke the dangerous word for him.

Everyone is afraid of this word.

Once the wall of origin is broken and Papetua is released, the seal balance of the multiverse will also be broken, and the superheroes will be forced to get involved in cosmic-level wars with their evil self from other universes. fight.

In the end, the universe ushered in another great destruction.

"But—if these liquids really come from the world behind the Wall of Origin, why are they brought into Metropolis in ordinary boxes by a few street thugs?"

Connor raised a question: "Is it because the more inconspicuous the method is, the less likely it is to be discovered?"

"It sounds absurd, but it's not impossible, if our enemy is the Laughing Bat or a powerful villain with similar intelligence."

"That……"

Dick and Tim both looked concerned.

So did Barbara.

If the man behind this unusual incident is really laughing, Batman will be in absolute danger!

Laughter will not let go of any living and righteous Batman!

"What now? Should we return to Gotham immediately to protect Batman?"

"If the opponent is really laughing wildly, it must be too late to return to Gotham now..." Luther said, "The terrible thing about laughing wildly is that he is not only cruel, but also moves all darkness, and possesses super wisdom. In other words, he can always predict others The only thing we can do is to predict his prediction, and act stupidly as if he doesn't know anything about the status quo, so as to confuse his judgment and make him wonder whether we are ignorant of the dangerous status quo. Ignorance is still a prediction of his prediction!"

Isn't this a nesting doll?

Matthew on the side couldn't help but slander.

[Respected and great master, your always humble and prudent servant Kespler agrees with your point of view and thinks that you have made a wise and incomparable conclusion. This time the matter is indeed very difficult, but it is not crazy enough The level at which the balance of the universe may be broken at any time. 】

A long series of sentences came out of the system unexpectedly, telling Matthew the truth in a consistent flattering manner.

From this, Matthew once again realized that the attitude of the system has gradually evolved from the hypocrisy called flattery to actually flattery, to flattery with words and deeds, and has even become as humble and cautious as it claims to be.

Why is this happening?

Because my strength has grown significantly?

So its attitude towards me has changed from disdain and use to sincere obedience?

In any case, the system's key reminders about this matter suddenly reduced the weight on Matthew's shoulders by more than half.

He asked Luthor: "If we pretend to be ignorant of the origin wall crisis and concentrate on handling the engagement banquet invitation, can we confuse the mastermind behind the scenes?"

"Your suggestion can be used as a kind of alternative plan..." Luther said, "In fact, I am already preparing for the engagement banquet, and I used the excitement of the engagement banquet to receive the engagement invitation letter issued by the mastermind behind the scenes to enter the big hall. The supervillains of the city, and temporarily push all the recent illegal events on their heads, so as to show that we really don't know anything about the crisis of the origin wall, and at the same time divert the public from the serial bizarre deaths of Jack and Jimmy brothers. s concern."

"That's a really good idea," said Superman.

He patted the shoulder of Connor, who was half genetically related to himself: "The upcoming engagement is just a formality, and you don't have to bear any burden."

Connor: "Actually, I'm not opposed to getting engaged to Tim."

Tim nodded in agreement.

Clearly, young people have ideas of their own.

Superman, who is not old-fashioned, accepted this reality with ease after only a few minutes of shock.

"Since everyone has no objection, I will now let my wedding company start preparing the venue and items needed for the engagement banquet!" Luthor said, "Of course, the security measures for the venue must be super-level."

……

"Oh my God! There is really an engagement banquet? I'm so happy!"

Originally planning to watch a joke, now that Luthor is really planning to hold an engagement banquet for Connor and Tim and Superman does not object, Harley Quinn is so happy that she can't close her mouth.

"I knew Luthor had a crush on Superman! Just like the clown! Always put Superman first! The only old enemy in life! The two sides of light and dark! Bah! A group of gays!"

"It's okay, they play theirs, we play ours."

After so many years in hell, Metz, who has seen all the blood in the world, calmly comforted Harley Quinn: "Does Poison Ivy know about our relationship?"

"What do you say?"

"Then she has no objection?"

"Of course she is very opinionated, but she knows she can't beat you, and I like you very much now, and you are a famous supporter of open relationships..."

Harley Quinn said, "So she's going to come to me after you're gone."

"But she doesn't know that what you want most now is Louise."

Mads lowered his head and touched Harley Quinn's earlobe: "Of course, Louise is so upright that she will never accept you."

"That's why I'm interested in Louise..." Harley Quinn said, "If Louise is a woman you can get with a hook, how can I fall in love with such a serious and boring guy?"

"But Superman likes her."

"Because Superman himself is a boring guy..." Harley Quinn complained, "He is a very rare guy who can make a clown feel boring."

"But--"

Mize looked up and looked at the sky outside the window: "Luther loves him very much."

"Luthor didn't love him, but Superman who was deified by the people of Metropolis..." Harley Quinn said, "But I don't completely understand Luthor, I used to love the clown like he loved Superman, until I found out This guy is a fag! Running after Batman's ass! Batman is all on his mind!"

Speaking of this, Harley Quinn suddenly had an idea: "Batman will also come to the Metropolis to attend the engagement ceremony, right?"

"That's for sure..." said Mize. "Tim's the nicest of his boys."

"The clown will probably come after him, he is a crazy guy, he must breathe the air of Batman to live, and I—"

Harry gave a sinister smile: "The show is about to begin, isn't it?"

……

At noon, Batman's private jet landed on the top floor of the Rex Tower.

The fully armed Batman stepped out of the plane and walked towards Superman and Luthor who greeted his arrival: "What's the situation now?"

"It could be worse than you think."

Luther snorted disdainfully and led Batman and Superman into the secret compartment.

In the wide and empty compartment, a golden wine glass suspected to be the holy grail was lying alone in the middle of the swimming pool covered with a centimeter thick gold, and blood-red liquid kept coming out.

"This is the trouble we are facing..." Luthor said, "the source may be a mysterious liquid hidden behind the wall of origin."

"This one……"

"There is more than one box containing similar items..." Superman added, "We don't know what we saw when we opened the box. We only opened the first box for the time being."

"And then a Holy Grail was opened?"

"Yes."

Luthor proudly showed Batman the results of his research on the composition of the Holy Grail liquid that he had worked up all night: "Take a look."

"it is good……"

Batman took the research results and read them carefully and patiently while walking. By the end of the reading, they had also arrived at the Planet Hotel and came among the young superheroes.

"dad--"

"Batman—"

The young people greeted Batman enthusiastically, but Batman's attention fell on Matthew.

He vaguely remembered most of what happened during the lucid dream, and the moment he saw Matthew, he immediately felt familiar: "Who are you? Have we met somewhere before?"

"My name is Matthew, from Gotham..." Matthew said, "I look familiar to Batman, maybe it's because you passed by my window on one of the night patrols, or maybe it's because I look like my father." Many similarities."

"Your father?"

"John Constantine."

"John..."

Batman's expression froze immediately, and a lot of unpleasant memories related to John Constantine flooded his mind: "So you are John Constantine's son, so your childhood must have been very difficult."

Batman doesn't ask Matthew's mother's name, nor does he question John Constantine having such a big son without knowing it.

This guy wanders between hell and the world all year round, and it is not uncommon for any kind of bizarre things to happen to him.

But the starfish on Batman's shoulder, Staro, raised its cute tentacles and introduced himself: "Hi, I'm Can Luo... Dad's favorite Robin——"

Said, Guan Luo also jumped up and offered to kiss Batman.

The serious Batman was expressionless, only the cat ears on the hood quivered.