The Track of Dawn In the World of Marvel

   Chapter 302 1. The Justice League: Criticism and Self-criticism

  In today's Justice League watchtower, the atmosphere is unusually dignified.

   Green Arrow Oliver Quinn, who had just been discharged from the hospital, was still a little weak. He walked into the Hall of Justice with the help of his girlfriend, Ms. Black Canary, on crutches.

  When the technological hatch opened, the round table in front of me was already full of people.

   This scene is very similar to the scene where everyone discussed how to deal with the alien world that hit the earth last time, but the theme of today's meeting is obviously different.

  Oliver thought that all the participants were extremely serious, and their faces were full of deep thinking so that no smile could be seen.

   This is obviously a statement of high emotional intelligence.

  Low EQ, I won’t say it if it’s vulgar.

Even Zatanna, the magician lady who attended the audience on behalf of the spellcasters, was full of frustration and worry on her face. Obviously, being the "nurse" of a group of little wizards in the past few days made the famous unmarried white wizard feel the terrifying marriage in advance. after life.

   Daily fear of marriage +1!

  The atmosphere was very depressing, and the pale Wonder Woman sitting at the round table and the Flash who looked exhausted holding a cup of wolfberry tea aggravated the spread of this atmosphere.

  The most outrageous thing is the steel frame.

   This Justice League cyborg is still in the process of upgrading himself with a quantum brain, so he has a thick data cable attached to the back of his head.

  Almost all the outer armor of its overall mechanical body has been removed, and it will sit on a chair in the posture of a "mechanical skeleton", and a large number of mechanical nanoworms are swimming in its body frame to reorganize the internal modules.

   To be honest, this scene looks a bit bleak.

  But Green Arrow knows the origin of the scene in front of him. The low pressure of the big guy comes from the shameful failure he just encountered. Everyone here is a loser.

   Even Batman in black, who doesn't speak a word.

   "Arrow, sit down."

  Da Chao stretched out his hand to invite his companion to sit on the chair, and when he saw the twitching corner of Oliver's mouth under the domino mask, Superman asked softly:

   "Are your legs better?"

   "It's okay, I can already walk."

   Green Arrow whispered:

   "It just takes some time to recover. That crazy young man smashed my leg and poured me a terrible potion. The pain made me see the gate of **** open with my naked eyes."

   "He just took off your leg bone, how bad can it be? Stop complaining."

  The lack of breath Wonder Woman touched her wrist, sighed and said:

   "I still don't know how much he took away from me. To be honest, if he didn't think of that shameful and vicious method to torture me, I don't even know that I still have such a weakness."

   "He also took your weapon."

   Arthur Curry, who was present here, glanced at the depressed Diana, and the deep-sea brat whispered:

   "I think for soldiers, this is much more serious than physical pain?"

   "The loss of the lasso of mantra is not a big problem."

  Diana shook her head and said:

   "The temple on Paradise Island still enshrines the girdle of the goddess Hestia, which can be remade only by finding a skilled craftsman. But you are right, Arthur.

   I am a warrior, and I have been seized with weapons, which is enough to make me a disgrace to all Amazons. "

   "That's much better than being tied to a rocket and diving into your own farm under the attention of the whole town, right?"

   Da Chao couldn't help but join in the complaints.

  This mild-mannered Kryptonian seemed to recall some embarrassing scenes, and he couldn't help sighing with his hands on his forehead:

   "My family was terrified, except for my stupid son who was excited, and everyone else was worried that my hero career would be ruined by this.

  Planet Daily has published several articles to refute the rumors, but the bad influence caused cannot be dissipated in a short time.

   Worst of all, I still have to figure out how to make up for this year’s crop failure due to the cornfield I destroyed, and explain to my family that my cousin is missing”

   "So everyone is competing for misery now? No matter how miserable you are, can you beat me?"

   Green Lantern Hal Jordan, who was sitting on the chair unharmed, complained with pain on his face:

  "My Lantern Ring encountered a virus invasion and issued a shutdown order, which is a rare situation for the entire Green Lantern Corps in the past countless times.

  I was ordered to write an accident report, and I had to rush to Oa Star to attend an interrogation meeting composed of 72 lanternmen.

  The worst thing is that the central battery of Oua Star is in the process of self-upgrade due to the bug I found. Before the cause of the fault is found out and the upgrade program is written, all Lanterns are not allowed to overuse the lamp ring.

   What the hell!

   It’s fine if I lost the battle. Lantern Man is never afraid of failure, but the sad thing is that I haven’t even seen the enemy’s face. How should I write this accident report?

  The minimum requirement is 40,000 words! I searched and scratched my stomach, but I couldn't get it all together. "

  Seeing the intensification of this Justice League "tragedy contest", the master who has been silent all this time feels that he will die if he doesn't come forward. If this continues, everyone's morale will drop.

  He looked around, thinking about whether the "Anyway Alliance Tactics" left by Mason needed to be supplemented, and said:

   "Everyone!"

  As soon as the master spoke, everyone's complaints stopped.

  They looked at Batman in unison.

  The meanings in the eyes are different. It is said that the master was brutally attacked by strange individuals on his own territory in the Batcave of Gotham.

  If he hadn't made preparations in advance, he probably wouldn't be able to appear here today.

And according to the gossip from the retractable man who was the first to rush to support after receiving the distress signal, Batman was beaten terribly by that fierce and mysterious opponent, and even his bat suit was torn to pieces everywhere. .

  It is said that the master was injured all over his body at the time, extremely weak, and his lack of energy seemed to have encountered some suspicious abuse.

   “We are not here today to share each other’s defeats.”

  Master ignored the gazes looking at him, he stood up, and said in a characteristic hoarse voice:

   "While such occurrences are rare, it is an unavoidable fact that we have met with dire defeats, and that our enemies have cunningly picked up on our weaknesses and targeted them.

   We can say he is opportunistic.

   But in a life-and-death confrontation such a failure can be fatal and cause irreparable damage.

   This failure should make us vigilant! We are not invincible, we should face up to our weaknesses and avoid them. "

   "Exactly."

   Da Chao also looked at his companion with a serious face, and said in a deep voice:

   "Is our failure really due to our lack of strength? No, absolutely not. From what I know about Mason Cooper, he is not an opponent of any of us in terms of absolute strength.

  However, he played us in the applause overnight.

   We are not lost to a mighty force.

  We lost in our own mentality. We thought he couldn't make any splashes, but that magical young man gave us a few mouthfuls with practical actions.

  But, it’s not a bad thing.”

   "Please, Superman, don't force bad things into good things now."

   Neptune complained:

"If you lose, you lose. It's not like we can't afford to lose! I also know the reason why everyone gathered here today. The first failure can be said to be underestimation and lack of preparation, but if you suffer a second defeat, there will be no more No excuses at all.

  The most important thing right now is not to review, but to come up with methods. "

   Speaking of which, Arthur gave the master a strange look, and said:

   "I estimate that Batman's anti-union tactics have been greatly expanded. In order to protect us from being defeated by powerful enemies, and to protect us from being seen through by our own people, I think it is necessary for us to carry out targeted training in the next time.

   And this task is none other than Batman. "

   "Yes, for a guy who thinks about how to beat his own people every day, it is a matter of his hands to design a set of reinforcement plans for us."

  Green Lantern echoed:

   "And the part about intelligence collection has to be put on the agenda again. Facts have proved that we have seriously underestimated the ability of the mysterious member of the Constellation Society.

  They are by no means the third-rate opponents we imagined.

   They are dangerous!

   We must prepare in advance.

  I have sent the information of the Constellation to Oa Star, and I am applying for the assistance of the Lanterns. Although the watchers do not participate in or advocate this matter, they have not stopped my recruitment.

  With any luck, we'll have powerful allies from other planets the next time the war resumes. A real lighthouse!

   Ha, we will be invincible. "

   "Luck?"

  Little Shan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly raised her head and said in a firm tone:

   "We can't rely on luck for this kind of thing, Hal! That would lead to pretty dire results, and we have to be 100% ready! No, 500% ready!"

   These words made everyone around look at Xiao Shan in surprise.

  In their impression, The Flash is a very active and kind character, occasionally rough but always optimistic, making it hard to imagine such a bat-like speech coming out of his mouth.

   "Speaking of which, where have you been recently?"

  Small Flash’s good friend Hal Jordan frowned and said:

   "Why did I call you these few days to ask you to come out to relax and you kept refusing to answer? I thought you ran to cross the timeline again."

"I"

  Xiao Shan hesitated, coughed and said:

   "I went out for a run. After all, being frozen by an ordinary person hurts my self-esteem too much."

   "Yeah, I heard that your buttocks were still frozen."

  Green Lantern joked:

   "It's a pity that I was busy at the time and didn't go to take a few photos to laugh at you."

   "Everyone!"

  The master emphasized his tone, causing Green Lantern to make an apologetic gesture immediately, and stretched out his hand to tug on his mouth, indicating that he would not interrupt again.

   "Zatana, publish the information you have collected."

  Batman made a "please" gesture to Xiao Zha who was watching, and the latter immediately stood up and placed a magic ornament on the center of gravity of the Justice League round table, and soon a series of projections were released.

   She took off her tall hat and put it aside, explaining:

   "Not for nothing in our Gotham operations, folks, we captured 15 of the Stellaris spellcasters who are currently being held captive in the Mystery House for questioning and torture.

  We have obtained a lot of valuable information from a few people who are not determined, but the soul curse attached to them prevents them from revealing any information related to the core secrets of the Stars Council.

   We cannot determine their headquarters, their high-level structure, their mode of operation and specific plans.

   What can be confirmed at present is that the core members of this organization are in the tens of thousands, and the number of bottom-level members who are used as consumables is even larger.

  The most frightening thing is that they occupy the planetary resources of many parallel worlds.

  We cannot fight a war of attrition with them, it has no chance of winning. "

   "Wait, Zatanna."

  Wonder Woman, who has always been very emo, suddenly raised her head. She looked at Xiao Zha and said:

   "There were more than that number of spellcasters who escaped in Gotham City that night. Are there any escaped people who have not been captured?"

"have!"

  Xiao Zha flicked his smooth black long straight hair, and said seriously:

  "Dr. Fate is personally leading a team to hunt them down, but we can confirm that some people in this world are secretly helping these outsiders, and their tracks are quite secretive.

   This is why I am here today. We need intelligence support from the Justice League to search for their traces throughout the world.

  The enchantment that suppresses the gate of the world and prevents it from crossing the border cannot be opened for a long time.

  That would destabilize the magic web in this world, so we must catch those escapees before it is forced to shut down. "

   "And prevent them from jumping over the wall in a hurry!"

  Da Chao got up and said:

  "Those people have very dangerous abilities, and they have strong malice towards our world, and they may create brutal and inhumane disasters around the world at any time.

   We must act! "

   "Yeah, can't catch Mason Cooper and can't catch them?"

   Arthur suddenly got up, and the deep-sea brazen said loudly:

   "I'm going back to Atlantis to launch a worldwide alert for marine life. If you need help, just say so, and I will rush there immediately."

"I am coming too."

  Wonder Woman, whose face was still a little weak, moved her wrists and stood up. The demigod moved her wrists, gritted her teeth and said:

   "I'm very angry right now and desperately need a fight to bring myself back to life."

   "Steel bone?"

  Master glanced at the cyborg that looked like it was down for maintenance. The latter was still in the process of system upgrade, and he would use a spare thread to respond with an electronic voice without emotional fluctuations:

   "The world monitoring program is online!

  The energy tracking program is in operation, and the mobile communication authority is delegated. Areas matching energy signature remnants have all been detected in South America, Africa, and Antarctica.

   Target designation, waiting for the assignment of combat tasks. "

   "I will lead the team."

   Dachao moved his fingers, exchanged glances with Batman, and said:

   "About Mason Cooper who mysteriously disappeared after that night"

   "He used to be a member of the Bat-family."

  Master said hoarsely:

   "I'll deal with him!

  After you come back, I will come up with an intensive training plan. In addition, Diana, I can help you find a craftsman who is capable of handling divine items, if you don’t worry.”

   "I don't worry if you do things."

  Diana waved her hand and followed Da Chao out of the hall. She said arrogantly:

   "The warriors of Paradise Island will send you the girdle of Goddess Hestia, and help me finish re-arming as soon as possible."

   "Uh, now that it's all said and done."

  Green Arrow also raised his hand and said:

   "I think the weapons of Black Canary and I also need to be upgraded. Facts have proved that ordinary battle suits and weapons can no longer protect us in the face of attacks from the Constellation Society.

   But if I'm messing around with myself on this, I'd rather ask you for help, Batman, you're the acknowledged master at it. "

   "Well, a comprehensive costume change plan has also been put on the agenda, and I have found enough reliable masters to help."

  Master nodded and said:

   "I will come up with the finished product as soon as possible, Green Arrow, you and Black Canary stay in the watchtower to assist Cyborg, Flash, you come with me.

  I need you to help me find the traces left by Mason in this world. "

   A few minutes later, the bat-fighter flew out of the watchtower and headed towards the earth. In the cockpit, the master activated data protection to avoid being snooped, and the little flash behind him took out a document and handed it over.

   He whispered:

   "I went to the Gotham orphanage seventeen years ago and witnessed the scene where the baby Mason was sent there, and I have to say, Bruce, we really underestimated his origin.

   I almost got my heart pulled out by that mysterious woman. "

"Um?"

  Batman didn't expect this kind of thing to happen when he sent Xiao Shan to fetch the documents. He asked in a hoarse voice:

   "You mean, Mason was sent there on purpose?"

   "No, I mean that maybe Mason doesn't know it himself, he is not from our world at all! He is an alien! Just like Clark, although he didn't fall here in a spaceship."

  The Flash sighed and said:

   "I saw the woman open a very strange door. She seemed to be seriously injured, and she left Mason at the gate of the orphanage and staggered away.

   Someone should be chasing her. I tried to help but was attacked by her.

   And the car accident the night Mason was adopted was also intentional, and another group of people who crossed the line tried to take him away, and I stopped them.

   I was also the one who guided the drunk Robert Cooper to him at the scene of the car accident.

   To be honest, I wanted to send him to you when I was a baby. But I have seen the consequences of disrupting time with my own eyes, and I am also very surprised. It turns out that I met Mason seventeen years ago.

   No wonder I always have a strange sense of intimacy when facing him.

   I suspect he has too.

  Otherwise it wouldn't explain why he'd be sparing me while beating up other people. "

   Batman listened to this incredible story, while opening Mason's adoption documents and his childhood belongings, he looked at one of the blood-stained cards and fell into thought.

  After a few seconds, the master suddenly said:

   "Barry, tell me honestly, did you and Mason bring back something from other worlds?"

"Um?"

  Xiao Shan was stunned for a moment, and he whispered:

  "We didn't, that's against the laws of space and time, I won't do that kind of thing, you know me. But, do you feel anything?

   Could it be that people from the Constellation Club are already lurking by your side?

  Need my help finding it? "

   "No need, I can't be sure, but if necessary, I will contact you as soon as possible."

  Master shook his head.

  He played with the blood-stained card that belonged to Mason in his hand, stopped talking but recalled the meal he had last night.

  He didn't know how to describe it to Barry, but during that mediocre supper, he felt a feeling he had never had before. It was a feeling that was very strange to Batman.

  It's so warm that it makes people uneasy, but it's irresistible.

It's just like.

  It was as if a treasure that had been lost for a long time suddenly returned, and even made him resist for the first time in his life to uncover the truth behind it. However, he is Batman after all.

  Tenderness is just an illusion to him.

  He must keep his eyes bright at all times. It seems that it is time for a "big inspection" of Wayne Manor.

  (end of this chapter)