Chapter 1497: Twilight Event (19)

The summer sunshine in Metropolis is bright. The overly intense sunlight makes everything glass on the street emit a shining light. A layer of visible heat waves on the asphalt road binds people's steps like solidified colloid.

A young man wearing black-rimmed glasses hurried across the crosswalk. Although he was wearing formal clothes and carrying a briefcase on his shoulder, he didn't look like he was going to work at all, because he was holding a dog in one hand and a black cat in the other.

But he walked into a small newspaper office located in the XC district of Metropolis with this posture. Passing through the unknown newspaper office sign, the young man was about to walk into the office when he heard a scream.

"Clark, my God! Is this your dog and cat? Ah ah ah ah ah ah! You guys come out and see, he really brought them!

Clark looked back. He originally thought only Lois was standing at the stairs, but a few seconds later, a group of women rushed out from the stairs upstairs. All kinds of screams were endless. Krypto's head was touched eighteen times in one second, and the Bat-Cat couldn't escape the clutches either.

"Ah, yes, this is Krypto, this is Bruce, I came to deliver something, Lois, the information you want."

Saying that, Clark took out a document from the bag on his body with the hand holding the dog chain and handed it to Lois next to him. Lois shook her head and said: "I said I'm not in a hurry, you can bring it over when you come to work tomorrow. This is not the Metropolis Daily anymore."

"We all feel it's a pity." Clark sighed and said: "You are such an excellent reporter but can only stay in a small newspaper office."

"It doesn't matter, this is my own choice. You have to work hard, otherwise you won't be able to support your cats and dogs. Oh, by the way, someone just called here to find you, do you want to call him back?"

"Calling here to find me, could it be that I left the wrong number for the client? You give me his phone number, and I'll call him when I get home."

Clark got the number from Lois and found it was a strange number, so he didn't care. After returning home, he dialed the number. Just as he was about to apologize, he heard a familiar voice coming from the opposite side.

"Hey, Clark, I'm Bruce, I want to ask you for a favor, can I? To be precise, it's you, Diana, and Hal, but they are both not at the base now, and your phone can't get through, I can only call Lois's phone to find you."

"Oh, sorry, some hackers got my private number before and kept calling harassment calls here, so I hung up the phone. Next time you have something, call my full name and talk to the air, I can hear it."

"It's like this, you should have watched the 'Millionaire' variety show, right? But now something went wrong. The black diamond I originally thought was plain and unremarkable actually contains some powerful power. London broke out in a vampire attack on humans, and the magical world also had a big mess. Now both sides want to get the black diamond."

"You also know that whether it is vampires or magicians, it is hard to expect them to care about the feelings of ordinary people. I hope the three of you can help recover the black diamond, so as not to let ordinary people holding them be attacked, and also not to let it fall into the hands of bad people."

"My God." Clark said: "Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"

Then he remembered that his phone was hung up and Bruce couldn't get through, so he didn't say the "I can handle this thing by myself" that was already on his lips, sighed and said: "I'll go find Hal and Diana now. In the future, don't throw dangerous things out."

"Yes, this is my fault, it all depends on you, goodbye."

After hanging up the phone, the Bat-Cat jumped on the table and sneered and said: "What trouble did that guy find for you again?"

Although it was a question sentence, it was a positive tone, but Clark was already very used to this set. He said to himself: "I have to find those black diamonds, but I haven't seen what they look like. It seems this matter still needs to find Diana."

But before Clark could find Diana, Diana came to find him first, and her face was very serious. Clark listened to Diana's experience while making food for Krypto in the kitchen.

"Dick from another universe went to my brother's palace with me. I persuaded Vulcan to open his warehouse, but Dick was not dazzled by those artifacts. He just picked some small artifacts according to his own combat style, and didn't look at those precious but bulky things at all."

"He is very liked by my brother. Hephaestus thinks he is a steady and ungreedy person. The two of them talked happily. I was originally very happy, but at this time, Hermes, the messenger of Olympus, brought me bad news."

"My nemesis, the witch Circe, is currently tracking a black diamond with powerful power. She calls it Eclipso, saying it is the Spirit of Wrath that caused the flood at the beginning of God's creation. She wants to gain its power and bring destruction and disaster back to the human world."

"In fact, when Eclipso descended, she had already started to collect it. Now she has more than a hundred fragments in her hand, and before she saw the variety show clip of Bruce Wei En letting ordinary people collect black diamonds for him, she thought Bruce already knew the preciousness of black diamonds, and might even have obtained quite a few fragments."

"So, her next target is Bruce?" Clark widened his eyes and asked.

"Very likely, the magical world has encountered an unprecedented catastrophe, magicians are unable to stand up to stop this chaos, we can only rely on us."

"Then what are we waiting for, let's set off quickly."

Diana shook her head and said: "The power of Eclipso is very powerful. Anyone who touches it with their hands may be bewitched. Hal's green lantern energy can isolate this influence. He is planning to shape a few special gloves with green lantern energy so that we can safely touch the Eclipso fragments."

In the space station base outside the earth, Hal, who was trying to shape gloves with green lantern energy, also received a call.

"Hey, Professor Schiller, what's wrong? I'm at the space station base, my God, have you heard about this too? Yes, we are working to solve this trouble."

Hal lowered his head, changed the phone to the other hand, and said: "Diana plans to collect this kind of fragment globally, at least find more than the witch Circe, so her conspiracy cannot succeed."

"However, even Diana and Clark have to be careful when touching this kind of fragment. I am planning to build a pair of gloves made of green lantern energy for them... What? You want one too? Oh, your friend got one, you want to do research?"

"Okay, okay, I know I shouldn't remind you that this thing is very dangerous, and what is more dangerous than you? But I still have to say, don't let ordinary people touch it... As for the gloves, I will do it as soon as possible. When it's done, I will fly over to send 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 brown windbreaker, stood up the collar, and his face was a typical Slavic look, with sunken eye sockets and prominent brow arches. It was Petrov, the deputy director of the 11th Bureau of the KGB, who had returned the medal to Schiller before.

"The gloves that allow you to contact the black diamond will be sent soon. Before that, keep an eye on all targets that have been confirmed to hold the black diamond, don't let them out of sight, once they go crazy, stop them remotely, no one is allowed to approach the black diamond."

"Don't worry, Director, under your leadership, the 11th Bureau has been collecting various items with powerful power all over the world for many years, and our comrades are very familiar with similar processes. Once the containment spare products arrive, we will immediately launch an action."

In Wei En Manor, Damian, who had just finished a day of classes, threw his schoolbag on the sofa as soon as he got home and ran into Aisha's room in a hurry. In Aisha's room, Aisha, Harley, and Jason were sitting together.

"Why are you just back? Hurry, hurry, hurry, we thought of a new way, it must be much faster than letting Thomas find it." Harley beckoned to Damian and said.

"What are you planning to do?" Damian also walked over and sat down, saying: "Thomas has been watching me very closely these days, he won't let me go out at night to find fragments, but I can be sure that there must be fragments scattered in Gotham."

"I said don't think about finding it yourself, there are only a few of us, even if we find it every day, when will we find a thousand pieces?" Harley hugged her arms and said: "Learn to use your brain!"

"What are you planning to do?" Damian asked with some curiosity.

"Do you remember that Arkham Psychiatric Hospital provides a place for mercenaries to gather and communicate? We can spend money to post tasks there and let that group of mercenaries help us find it, right?"

Damian raised an eyebrow, thought for a while and said: "That's a way, but where do we get the money? The remuneration of those top mercenaries should be very expensive, right?"

"Indeed, so my money is definitely not enough. I was able to ask Deathstroke for help before because he owed me a favor, but this time it won't work. But don't forget where we are. Thomas likes you so much, you ask him for pocket money, will he not give it?"

"But I can't ask him for pocket money." Damian pursed his lips and said with some difficulty: "How can I... I can't..."

Ten minutes later, Thomas in the office looked helplessly at the four little heads staring at him. He reached out and touched each of their heads, then said: "Okay, spending money on you is better than giving it to that prodigal Bruce, Morey! Morey! Help me prepare a card!"

Harley made a "look, I said so" gesture to Damian, and Damian rolled his eyes helplessly.

After leaving Thomas's office, Damian asked: "Harley, who do you plan to hire with this money?"

"Of course, the strongest mercenary."

Just like that, the battle for God's Spirit of Wrath, that is, the Eclipso fragments, was quietly proceeding in the dark world that ordinary people could hardly perceive.

A thousand pieces sound like a lot, but under the search of all kinds of people with special skills, most of the fragments have nowhere to hide, and the specific locations and holders are gradually surfacing.

But as the battle became more and more intense, this group of people inevitably bumped into each other on various occasions. Because the number of fragments is fixed, zero-sum game, everyone wants to grab more fragments from others while keeping their own inventory, so meeting and fighting has become the norm.

And the first to make breakthrough progress was Zatanna. Her reverse magic was very unreasonable, neither needing to pay a price nor being very convenient. Gabriel, who had no defense, was pointed at by her and froze on the spot.

Zatanna pulled out the core piece from his chest and forcibly kept Constantine's corpse, but Gabriel was very cunning. At the moment the seal of the fragment was lifted, he used a spare body he had prepared long ago to escape.

Zatanna returned to the Forgotten Bar with the core piece she pulled out to find Bruce. Just as the two were studying the fragment, with a "bang," the door of the Forgotten Bar was knocked open.

Just when Zatanna thought it would be Master of Dark Arts Jim and his party, what appeared at the door was a figure in black and yellow armor.

"Don't waste my time, give me what's in your hand." ***