The sun shines brightly in the metropolitan city in summer, and the excessively strong sunlight makes all the glass products on the street shine with brilliance. A layer of heat waves visible to the naked eye on the asphalt road binds people's footsteps like a condensed colloid.
A young man wearing black-rimmed glasses hurriedly crossed the zebra crossing. Although he was wearing formal clothes and had a briefcase on his shoulder, he did not look like he was going to work because he was holding a dog in one hand.
One hand holds a black cat.
But with this attitude, he walked into a small newspaper office located in the XC District of the metropolis. After passing the little-known newspaper sign, the young man was about to walk into the office when he heard a scream.
"Clark, my God! Are these your dogs and cats? Ahhhhh! Come out and see, he really brought them!
Clark looked back and thought that Louise was the only one standing at the top of the stairs. But a few seconds later, a group of women rushed out from the top of the stairs. All kinds of screams could be heard.
His head was touched eighteen times in one second, and the bat cat couldn't escape the clutches.
"Ah, yes, this is Xiao Krypton, and this is Xiao Bu. I'm here to deliver something. Louise, the information you want."
As he spoke, Clark took out a document from his bag with the hand holding the dog leash and handed it to Louise next to him. Louise shook her head and said, "I told you I'm not in a hurry.
, you can just bring it over when you go to work tomorrow, this is not at the Metropolitan Daily."
"We all feel it is a pity." Clark sighed and said, "A reporter as good as you can only stay in a small newspaper."
"It doesn't matter. This is also my choice. You have to work harder, otherwise you won't be able to take care of your cats and dogs. Oh, by the way, someone just called here to find you. Do you want to give it to me?
Did he call back?"
"Call me here. Could it be that I left the wrong phone number for the customer? Give me his phone number and I'll call him when I get home."
Clark got the number from Lois and found it was an unfamiliar number so he didn't care. When he got home and dialed the number, he was about to apologize when he heard a familiar voice coming from the other side.
"Hey, Clark, this is Bruce, and I want to ask you a favor, okay? To be precise, it's you, Diana and Hal, but neither of them are at the base right now, and your phone can't be reached,
I can only call Louise’s phone number to find you.”
"Oh, I'm sorry, some hackers got my private number before and kept making harassing calls here, so I hung up the phone. Next time if you have something to do, just call me by my full name and talk to the air.
I can hear it."
"It's like this. You should have watched the variety show "Millionaire", right? But something went wrong now. The black diamond that I thought was ordinary actually contains some kind of powerful power. A vampire attack broke out in London.
The human incident has caused great chaos in the magical world, and now both parties want to get the black diamond."
"You also know that whether it is a vampire or a mage, it is difficult to expect them to care about the feelings of ordinary people. I hope that the three of you can help recover the black diamonds to prevent the ordinary people holding them from being attacked, and to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.
in the hands."
"Oh my God." Clark said, "Why didn't you tell me this earlier?"
Then he remembered that his phone was on the phone and Bruce couldn't get through, so he didn't say "I can handle this myself" that he had already said, and sighed and said: "I'm going to find Hal and Dai now."
Anna, it’s better not to throw anything dangerous out in the future.”
"Yes, this is my fault. It's all your fault. Goodbye."
After hanging up the phone, Batcat jumped on the table, snorted and said, "What trouble did that guy give you again?"
Although it was a question, the tone was affirmative, but Clark was already very used to this. He said to himself: "I have to find those black diamonds, but I haven't seen what they look like. It seems
We still have to talk to Diana about this matter."
But before Clark could go to find Diana, Diana came to him first, with a very serious look on her face. Clark was cooking food for Krypton in the kitchen while listening to Diana talk about recent experiences.
"Dick from another universe went with me to my brother's palace. I persuaded the God of Fire to open his warehouse, but Dick was not dazzled by those artifacts. He just picked some small ones based on his own combat style.
artifacts, and did not look at those precious but bulky things at all."
"He is very popular with my brother. Hephaestus thinks he is a stable and not greedy person. The two of them talked very happily. I was also very happy at first. But at this time, Helmer, the messenger of Olympus,
Si brought me some bad news."
"My nemesis, the witch Circe, is now tracking down a black diamond with powerful power. She calls it Eclipse, saying that it is the angry spirit that caused the flood at the beginning of God's creation. She wants to get its power.
Bring destruction and disaster back to the world again."
"In fact, when the eclipse came to the world, she had already started to collect it. Now she has more than a hundred fragments in her hands. Before, she saw a variety show in which Bruce Wayne asked ordinary people to collect black diamonds for him.
Fragments, she thinks Bruce already knows how valuable black diamonds are, and may even have obtained many fragments."
"So, her next target is Bruce?" Clark asked with wide eyes.
"It is very possible that the magic world has encountered an unprecedented disaster. The mages are unable to stand up and stop this riot. We can only rely on us."
"Then what are you waiting for? Let's go quickly."
Diana shook her head and said: "The power of the eclipse is very powerful. Anyone who touches it with his hands may be confused. Hal's green light energy can isolate this effect. He is planning to use the green light energy to create
Several pairs of special gloves allow us to safely touch the eclipse fragments."
In the space station base outside the earth, Hal, who was trying to use green light energy to shape gloves, also received a call.
"Hey, Professor Schiller, what's going on? I'm at the base of the space station. Oh my God, have you heard about this too? Yes, we are working on solving this problem."
Hal lowered his head, changed the phone's hand, and said: "Diana plans to collect such fragments around the world, at least more than the witch Circe found, so that her conspiracy cannot succeed."
"But even Diana and Clark have to be careful when touching this kind of fragment. I'm planning to make them a pair of gloves made of green light energy... What? You want it too? Oh, your friend got a piece, you
Want to do research?”
"Okay, okay, I know I shouldn't remind you that this thing is dangerous. What else is more dangerous than you? But I still have to say, don't let ordinary people touch it... As for the gloves, I will make them as soon as possible.
I'll fly over and give it to you, okay, that's it, goodbye."
Schiller hung up the phone and turned to look at a man behind him. He was wearing a long brown trench coat with his collar turned up. His face was a typical Slavic look, with sunken eye sockets and prominent eyebrow arches. He was the man who had worked for Schiller before.
Petrov, deputy director of the 11th Directorate of the KGB, who sent back the medal.
"The gloves that allow you to touch black diamonds will be delivered soon. Before then, keep an eye on all targets who have been confirmed to hold black diamonds. Don't let them out of sight. Once they go crazy, stop them remotely and don't let anyone get close to the black diamonds.
"
"Don't worry, Director. Under your leadership, the Eleventh Bureau has been collecting various powerful items from all over the world for many years. Our comrades are familiar with similar processes. As soon as the containment equipment arrives, we will immediately take action.
.”
In Wayne Manor, Damian, who had just finished a day of classes, threw his schoolbag on the sofa as soon as he got home, and hurried into Elsa's room. In Elsa's room, Elsa, Harley, and Jason
Sit together.
"Why did you come back? Come on, come on, we have come up with a new method, which will definitely be much faster than asking Thomas to find it." Harley waved to Damian and said.
"What are you going to do?" Damian also walked over and sat down and said, "Thomas has been watching me very closely these days. He won't let me go out to look for fragments at night, but I'm sure there must be fragments scattered in Gotham.
.”
"I told you not to think about looking for it yourself. There are only a few of us. Even if we look for it every day, how long will it take to find a thousand dollars?" Hallie crossed her arms and said, "You have to learn to use your brain!"
"What are you going to do?" Damian asked curiously.
"Do you remember that Arkham Psychiatric Hospital provided a place for mercenaries to gather and communicate, right? We can spend money to post tasks there and let the mercenaries help us find them, right?"
Damian raised his eyebrows, thought for a moment and then said: "That's a way, but where do we get the money? The wages of those top mercenaries should be very expensive, right?"
"Indeed, so I definitely don't have enough money. I was able to ask Deathstroke for help before because he owed me a favor, but it can't be done this time. But don't forget where we are. Thomas likes you so much. Ask him for help."
Will he still refuse to give me pocket money?"
"But I can't ask him for pocket money." Damian pursed his lips and said with some embarrassment: "How can I... I can't..."
Ten minutes later, Thomas in the office helplessly looked at the four little heads looking up at him. He stretched out his hand and touched each of their heads, and then said: "Okay, I'll spend more money on you than on that prodigal Bruce."
Strong, Morey! Morey! Prepare a card for me!"
Harry made a "just tell me what you see" gesture towards Damian, and Damian rolled his eyes helplessly.
After leaving Thomas' office, Damian asked: "Harry, who are you going to hire with this money?"
"Of course he is the strongest mercenary."
In this way, the battle for the spirit of God's wrath, that is, the celestial eclipse fragments, is quietly going on in the dark world that is difficult for ordinary people to detect.
A thousand fragments sounds like a lot, but under the search of various people with special skills, most of the fragments have nowhere to hide, and the specific locations and owners gradually surfaced.
But as the battle becomes more and more intense, this group of people will inevitably encounter each other on various occasions. Since the number of fragments is fixed, you have more and I have less. It is a zero-sum game. Everyone wants to keep their inventory.
Next, they snatch more fragments from others, so it has become normal to start fights when they meet.
The first one to make breakthrough progress was Zatanna. Her irony magic was very unreasonable, free of cost and very convenient. The unsuspecting Gabriel was frozen in place with a finger from her hand.
Zatanna pulled out the core fragment from his chest and forcibly saved Constantine's body. However, Gabriel was very cunning and used the spare body he had prepared to escape the moment the seal on the fragment was lifted.
.
Zatanna took the extracted core fragment back to the Oblivion Bar to find Bruce. While the two were studying the fragment, there was a "bang" and the door of the Oblivion Bar was knocked open.
Just when Zatanna thought it would be Night Master Jim and his party, a figure wearing black and yellow armor appeared at the door.
"Don't waste my time, give me what you have in your hand."
