In an apartment in Beach City, a man wearing a bomber jacket was talking to himself. He was pacing the room with his hands on his hips. He said: "I know, I know, my duty is, but..."
"Well, if things are really as you say, then I will go over there, but I think you are really making a fuss out of a molehill."
"When I first joined the Green Lantern Corps, you once told me that the Green Lantern Corps was the most powerful of all the Lantern Corps, and I felt this too. I don't quite understand what makes you so nervous..."
"...Well, if you must do this, I will not object. After all, the earth is also my hometown, and it is my responsibility to protect it."
"Do you have the specific location where the yellow light came? I was sleeping just now and didn't feel anything unusual."
The man scratched his hair. His brown hair looked a little messy. Just as he said, he had just woken up and was still a little sleepy.
"What? Gotham? Why are you in that ghost place? Well...it's not surprising, what do you think the yellow light represents? Oh, fear, the environment there is indeed scary enough."
"I will use teleportation to take a look now. If the matter is as serious as you say, then I will handle it as soon as possible."
"Listen, now, I, Hal, Hal Jordan, am the only Green Lantern on the planet. I can't embarrass my hometown. If I ask for support before the fight starts, it will seriously lower my standing in the Lantern Corps.
image, isn’t it?”
"Oh, yes, I know that you mean well, and I also know that the Yellow Lantern you said may be difficult to deal with, but you have to believe in me and my willpower. During the days when I become the Green Lantern,
I'm doing pretty well, right?"
The man who called himself Hal put his hands on his hips and said: "You know, not all people on earth have the acceptance and willpower like me. Although I have only accepted the power of the lamp ring for a short time, I feel that I can handle the earth."
There is nothing wrong with all these troubles..."
After a while, he sighed, then touched the pet dog at his feet and said, "Sorry, it seems I can only take you out for a walk later. I have some things to deal with, but you have to believe me.
I'll be back soon..."
As he spoke, a green light flashed, and Hal's figure disappeared. However, he did not appear directly in Gotham again, but appeared on a road in Blüdhaven. He stood on the road and watched.
He looked at the sky and said in confusion: "...What's wrong? Am I lost?"
The climate in Blüdhaven is very good and the weather is very clear, so even in the daytime, you can see the stars through the sky. Hal judged the direction and found that he should be on the right track.
According to the normal direction, when he teleported here, he should have stopped right under the sign at the entrance to Gotham, but now there is a straight road here and there is nothing.
What about a big city?
Haier turned around twice in confusion. He thought that maybe there was something wrong with the direction of the stars. This was not impossible. After all, every time the ring came, some strange phenomena would occur, so he teleported to Blue again.
DeHaven, and then bought a nearby tourist map.
Hal didn't find it troublesome to follow the tourist map on foot to Gotham, because he was now a Lantern who inherited the Green Lantern ring, so he had no physical problems and could walk very fast. Besides, Bludhaven and Gotham
They are not far apart.
But the more he walked with the map, the more confused he became. He put the map in front of his eyes and said, "Damn it, isn't it written here? As long as you walk here and cross the pine forest on the right, you can see Gotham's tallest building.
The building of the Wayne Tower… where’s the building???”
Passing through the pine forest planted on the right side of the road, Hal saw nothing, but there was a faint smell of alcohol in the air. Hal thought it was the smell of alcohol left by someone else's camping party, so he didn't pay attention.
He then walked forward and walked a long distance before finally seeing a sign.
What made Hal a little strange was that there was a man standing under the sign with an umbrella in his hand. Hal walked over and asked him: "Hello, I want to go to Gotham. Is this the way to go?"
Keep going forward?"
The man shook his head and asked, "Are you Hal? Hal Jordan?"
"you know me?"
"Not only do I know you, but I also know your identity. You are a pilot, the owner of the Green Lantern Ring, and a Green Lantern, right?"
When he heard the first half of his sentence, Hal was already very confused. He was not a big star and it was impossible for any ordinary person to know him. But when he heard the second half of his sentence, he narrowed his eyes.
, looked at the man and said: "Who are you? Why do you know about the green light?"
"Do you remember that not long after you got the green light ring, you posted a post on a forum related to aliens, and only one person responded to that post, and that was me..."
"You are that... Oh my god! I sent you so many messages, why don't you reply to me?!"
Hal's tone was shocked at first, but later turned into complaints.
Schiller sighed and said to him: "I can explain this matter later, but now there is a big trouble that you may need to deal with."
"Big trouble? What big trouble? Why are you here? What is going on?"
Hal's state was full of question marks, but Schiller did not intend to answer his series of questions. Instead, he said to Hal: "Aren't you going to Gotham? I'm sorry to tell you that along this road.
If you go forward, you won't reach Gotham."
"Impossible." Hal directly denied this statement.
"It says on the map that if you see the traffic sign and then move forward, you can reach Gotham..."
You can try.
Haier stretched out a hand to wave, then made a running gesture, disappeared with a "swish", and then "swish" again, rushed from the other end to the sign.
Looking at Schiller and the sign that appeared in front of him again, Hal was confused, but Schiller said: "It is true that the earth is round, but I don't think your speed is fast enough to go around the earth so quickly, right?
"
No matter how much he underestimated the enemy, Hal knew that things had changed. His face gradually became serious and he asked Schiller: "What is going on? You'd better give me a reasonable explanation."
"Abandon all your illusions about being 'reasonable'." Schiller stepped over the guardrail of the highway, walked to the roadside sign, and said to Hal: "Because you are in a dream now."
As soon as he finished saying this, Hal saw that the pillar supporting the traffic sign was getting bigger and bigger within his sight, until it turned into an extremely huge Tower of Babel, located in a charred black field.
On the ground, Hal raised his head, opened his mouth, and said, "What is this?"
"Come with me first, and I will explain everything to you." Schiller led Hal forward. Hal's brown eyes were full of doubts. He chased after Schiller and asked: "Where is this place?"
Is this an illusion created by you? Who are you? Is it related to the yellow light?"
Schiller sighed and said, "I won't explain to you what happened before. Let's start when the yellow light comes."
"Do you know that the yellow light is coming? Oh, yes, you are probably not an ordinary person, but I have never heard of a light ring that can destroy a city."
"Because it is not the lamp ring that turns the city into a city, but me."
"Stop joking." Hal's tone revealed disbelief.
"That's Gotham! One of the largest cities on the entire East Coast. How could you possibly wipe it out in an instant? How much panic would that cause? Why didn't I see it on the news?"
"Gotham has not disappeared in the real world. You can't see it because you have already fallen into a dream the moment you set foot on that road."
"As for why I do this, it's because I have certain responsibilities..."
Schiller sighed again. He sighed more times today than in the past few months combined, because things were indeed a little beyond his expectations.
His and Jack's original plan was to go deep into the edge of Batman's consciousness, and then dig out and kill the potentially dangerous thing. Although the process was very complicated, the goal was very clear. Simply put, it was to kill all possibilities of the Laughing Bat.
In the process, Schiller encounters clowns killing clowns, and bats killing bats. In short, he will do whatever it takes to prevent the extremely annoying Laughing Bat from appearing in his life.
In the first two stories near the end, everything went very smoothly. They successfully reached the edge of Batman's dream, found the embryo that might hatch into the Laughing Man, and almost killed him.
But what is unexpected is that this stimulation caused the dark tide deep in Batman's heart to overflow, and surged out of his soul with unprecedented violence and rushed into the universe.
This purest force of fear in the entire universe will of course attract the attention of an entity, that is, the yellow lantern ring, or the attention of the yellow lantern beast "Parallax" that represents the power of fear in the emotional spectrum.
The lamp beasts of all colors of lamp rings in this universe are very powerful existences, and so are the parallax monsters.
But in the same way, Parallax Monster is also a monster that he has eaten before. Ordinary fear power is not enough to attract his attention, but the problem is that the fear power in Batman's heart is almost the most powerful among all the origins of the entire DC universe.
The power of pure fear is simply an irresistible temptation for Parallax Monster.
Therefore, along with the arrival of the yellow light ring, there is also a terrifying monster, the yellow light beast Parallax Monster.
"Parallax monster?" Hal asked doubtfully. He said: "I once heard from the seniors in the legion that every lantern group will have a lamp furnace and a lamp beast. They once mentioned that the lamps produced by each emotion
Beasts are very powerful, but equally, they will not come easily..."
"You mean, in this city, someone's power of fear caused the arrival of the yellow lantern beast? This is really a bit troublesome..." Hal's expression became more and more serious. Obviously, he realized the seriousness of the problem.
sex.
"I didn't expect this, because according to the timeline, this is impossible, because you just..." Schiller turned to look at Hal and said.
The reason why he has not worried about the Yellow Lantern Ring is because if according to the normal timeline, Hal had just become a Lantern at this time, then Sinestro, the founder of the Yellow Lantern Corps, should still be a Green Lantern. The two of them did not
If they fall out, Sinestro will not betray the Green Lantern Corps and create the Yellow Lantern Ring.
When the dark tide was rising, Schiller never considered the issue of the emotional spectrum at all. He thought that the category of fear did not yet exist among the light rings in the universe, but who knew that the yellow light ring would just come.
Schiller reflected for a moment and realized that the universe had changed enough, and it was not impossible for the Yellow Lantern Corps to appear in advance.
"But you still didn't tell me, what's going on in Gotham? Where is this place?"
"Don't worry, I was just about to say this..."
"The arrival of the yellow lantern ring and the yellow lantern beast is not the biggest danger. The biggest danger is that the yellow lantern ring and the host that the lantern beast wants to parasitize has an egg in its body that is being chased and running away.
"
"Egg, what is that?"
"I'm not trying to scare you, but I have to tell you, that is a being that if all of you were tied together, it wouldn't be enough for him to fight alone."
Just when Hal was about to refute, Schiller continued: "But fortunately, now he is indeed just an embryo, and his ability to move has been greatly weakened, and he is only one step away from death."
"But at this moment, the yellow light ring and the lamp beast arrived. One tried desperately to run out, and the other tried desperately to squeeze in. Guess who won in the end?"
"Well, it should be a lamp beast, right?"
"No, they both lost, and Batman both won. Now, he has the Laughing Egg and the Yellow Lantern at the same time."
Schiller explained again: "Originally, Batman could refuse the yellow light ring by his own will, but the almost dying egg in his body saw the only way to survive."
"So. He took advantage of Batman's attention to turn to the yellow light beast, controlled his consciousness space, accepted the yellow light ring, and the yellow light beast followed the yellow light ring and came into Batman's body.
,Now, they are one.”
Following Schiller's narration, the two walked into the Tower of Babel, and then, as the light and shadow changed, Hal found himself on the top of a tall building. He lowered his head and looked down, seeing the entire Gotham City beneath his feet.
Finally arriving in Gotham, Hal felt no joy at all, because he looked up and saw an indescribable monster standing in the sky above Gotham.
He has a multi-legged, yellow centipede-like lower body, a pitch-black upper body with a bat pattern, and a head without eyes or any other facial features, only a bright red mouth.
At this time, Schiller's voice sounded:
"The Yellow Light Ring, Parallax Monster, Batman, and the Laughing Egg are mixed together, and I call it..."