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Chapter 2245

~11 min read 2,133 words

Loki and Talia both felt the shaking of the ground. Talia's back pressed tightly against the corner of the wall to stabilize her figure, while Loki let out a low cry of pain because the wound was shaken.

"Uh..."

"Are you okay?"

Talia had just finished asking this when she heard a bang, and somewhere at the end of the corridor collapsed. Talia immediately rushed to the railing and looked over there, only to see a thick vine stretching out from the ground, poking a hole in the ceiling above the cellar.

"We can go out," Talia said.

"It's very dangerous outside," the tone was still angry.

"It's more dangerous to be trapped here." Talia lifted her dress and walked to the railing to take a look at the lock. This kind of cellar lock is the most ordinary big padlock. Talia poked the wire of her earring straight into it and found that as long as she could hook the lock core, she could pry it open.

But this requires a certain amount of time, so Talia said to Loki, "If anything falls out, help me block it. I have to pry the lock open."

Talia started to get busy. Because she was very focused, she didn't see the magic light in Loki's eyes flash. At this time, a space crack was opened somewhere.

Above the cellar, the guests showed their magical powers, dodging the vines rushing out from the ground in their own ways. Some flew directly, some jumped into the air, stepping on the surface of the thick vines.

At this time, the Parliament of Trees also revealed its true form. The phantoms of countless towering giant trees appeared above Cat Getan.

Tourists who were still clubbing in bars in the middle of the night all exclaimed and poured into the streets. Those with mobile phones and cameras all took them out to take pictures, and those without them called their friends who were still in hotels, asking them to hurry over to watch the large light show.

Yes, this looked completely like a light show, because before this, Luo Yi often held various cool light shows at the central turntable to attract tourists.

The technology of the Bat-signal is indeed advanced, and the projection it makes is not inferior to the true form revealed by the Parliament of Trees at this time, so many people mistakenly thought this was just another large-scale light performance.

And Gordon, Luo Yi, and Falcone were also confirming with each other. They couldn't be sure if it was a performance created by the other party. After confirming with each other, they found that this was really not a light show, but the prelude to the outbreak of a super-powered war.

Out of consideration for tourist safety, Gordon immediately started to organize evacuation, but this was the most wrong decision he made, because Cat Getan people deeply understand that before the official organization of evacuation, there is no valuable fun to watch.

Conversely, how small could the fun be that made James Gordon prepare for evacuation? Originally, only tourists liked to go to the light show venue to join in the fun. Once they said this wasn't a light show, but a real fight, Cat Getan people's interest came.

Tourists crowding together at most squeeze and affect traffic. Cat Getan people crowding together is really a city full of golden armor.

Within just over ten minutes, the city lit up. The lights on the windows were lit one after another, and soon this prosperous city became brightly lit.

Countless superheroes rushed into the mid-air giant trees under the illumination of the lights. The shadows of the vines were like ghost claws under the night sky, and when they landed, they seemed to be beating drums, melting into the roars, screams, and cheers, becoming the best prelude to the music festival.

After fighting for a while, the Parliament of Trees felt something was wrong. He always felt that he couldn't exert his strength. It wasn't that this would make him fall into a comprehensive defeat, but he just felt uncomfortable everywhere.

At first, he thought it was because Cat Getan had almost no plant power. The green elements spread in this city were too few. There were not many plants from the ground to the underground here, so he could absorb very little elemental power, which led to feeling somewhat weak.

But this feeling of weakness became more and more obvious. The Parliament of Trees immediately felt that something was wrong. The alarm bells in his collective consciousness were ringing, and countless small consciousnesses were roaring and howling.

"No, no, stop quickly, we have been affected."

"Stop quickly, very wrong, this might be a trap, I feel like I've been affected by something!"

"No, it has nothing to do with these guys in front of us. Hurry up and find it, hurry up and find it, this is very dangerous!!!"

In the end, all the plants started to howl in pain. The vines danced wildly in mid-air like they had gone crazy. The Parliament of Trees was already in so much pain that he could hardly speak.

The crowd who were planning to attack also found something wrong. To be honest, the battle hadn't entered the white-hot stage at all. Even Superman and Wonder Woman, who flew very fast, were just approaching the center of the giant tree now, at most beating the vines that blocked the way a few times. Why was the other party running away?

Could this guy be here to touch porcelain?

Everyone stopped in doubt. According to reason, a guy with such a large volume shouldn't be so unable to take a beating. Why was he screaming so miserably before he was even hit???

But as the pain became stronger, more giant vines appeared in mid-air, almost covering half of Cat Getan's sky.

Schiller, who was stitching up Pamela's wound, sighed lightly and said, "Don't move. You wouldn't want to hear the price of another kind of consultation fee."

Pamela lay on the ground, lifeless. Batman was even more lifeless than her, because he still wasn't wearing pants, and there were about 150 superheroes around—now the whole world knew what the inside of the Bat-suit looked like.

The most outrageous thing is that Batman could now feel about 120 hot gazes staying on his butt, and there were only 67 ladies at the scene.

The most outrageous thing is that the reporters in Cat Getan, who mainly wanted news rather than their lives, had already arrived at the scene. If nothing went wrong, tomorrow about 30 million more people would know what the inside of the Bat-suit looked like, and the day after tomorrow it would be 300 million.

Batman didn't even dare to think about how much tourism revenue this would bring to this city guarded by Batman.

"Don't look at me," Schiller looked back at Batman who was staring at him and said, "You wouldn't want to know how much of a consultation fee bill I issued to another Batman."

The situation above the Rodriguez Manor was getting more and more anxious. The Parliament of Trees kept screaming, and the heroes looked at each other, not knowing whether to continue fighting or find a way to save him, because he was really screaming too miserably.

"He has a problem," a shout came. Everyone looked in this direction and saw Bruce Wayne jumping down along the vines.

Today Bruce was wearing that protective suit that Superman, Diana, and Green Lantern had built for him together, so he had a certain ability for aerial combat and wasn't very afraid of falling. He jumped down layer by layer of vines flexibly to the ground. Looking down from top to bottom, the ground covered by the giant vines was pitch black at this time.

Clark followed closely behind Bruce, seemingly afraid that he would get hurt, but his movement down wasn't that agile. It couldn't be called flexible obstacle avoidance; it could only be called crashing through.

Also because of his movement, the vines above the small piece of ground where Bruce was were all torn open. When the bright light from the banquet hall shone on the ground, people saw black lines spreading on the ground one after another.

This definitely wasn't a light and shadow effect, because this thing was so rich that it started to swallow light.

"This makes me feel very bad," Clark frowned tightly. He rarely showed such a serious expression. He said, "Everything in the world preserves the heat of the sun, but there is none here. It swallowed the sun."

Strange and Constantine, these two masters of mysticism, knew it was their turn to appear when they saw this situation. They jumped down on the left and right, standing in a place without black lines, staring at it cautiously.

"Very wrong," Constantine said. "This thing isn't formed naturally, it's almost close to a law."

Strange's gaze keenly passed through the soil layer. He was too familiar with the means of these demon god-like guys making trouble.

"Underground," Strange said. "Someone poured this kind of power into the underground, so this green big guy was poisoned when he absorbed his energy from the soil."

Once these words were spoken, everyone stopped standing still and started digging down, each showing their own skills. They didn't dig very deep at all before everyone discovered traces of the building's existence.

At this time, Batman had already come over. He and Bruce walked over to take a look at the familiar cyan wall carved with patterns. He sighed and said, "These nocturnal bird lovers are really everywhere."

Constantine's face gradually became serious. He said, "The feeling this dark power gives me is very strange. It's not a kind of evil energy, but the darkness that already exists in the universe. If this is really the case, then it's big trouble."

Regardless, everyone had to open the building first. Stark finally let go of Pepper's hand. In fact, he didn't participate in the battle at all just now, and had been staying in the lounge accompanying Pepper.

His arm armor was armed and formed. Two small drones flew out from inside with blasting tools. Because they were miniature bombs, the power of the explosion was much larger than everyone thought, almost blowing everyone nearby into a gray face.

Fortunately, this mysterious building was opened. Batman chose to jump down, Clark and Diana followed closely behind. Captain America and Natasha from Marvel chose to go down, and the rest stayed behind to guard the top. After all, the Parliament of Trees was still going crazy, and they needed to limit his range of activities so as not to hurt the surrounding residents.

After coming down, Batman was familiar with the road. After all, when the Sky Island Cat Getan flew into the sky, it directly lifted the lid of the Owl underground labyrinth.

Batman had studied the structure of the labyrinth several times and then reached a conclusion: the architectural level of this thing is a pile of dog shit. Being able to produce a confusing effect relies entirely on the metaphysics factors within it.

But because he didn't know much about metaphysics, Batman didn't delve into it further. But at this time, Constantine spoke.

"This is a labyrinth, but in essence, it doesn't trap people with walls like other labyrinths. Or rather, he built it into the shape of a labyrinth just to make people think so."

"But in fact, this is a cage. There is no exit at all. The way to trap people is to use the darkness that is everywhere here."

Constantine pointed to the darkness at the end and said, "You think that's just an optical phenomenon in physical form, but it's not. This kind of darkness is the darkness we are familiar with, but it's not."

"What do you mean?" Diana asked.

"The darkness we are familiar with is diluted from this kind of thing. If I have to give it a name, I would call it the Source of Darkness. Although it looks the same as the darkness we are familiar with to the naked eye, it is actually a law power, controlled by people."

Batman frowned deeply. He could think that with his level of metaphysical knowledge, it would be very difficult to understand this symbolic expression with philosophical meaning. If he fell into this labyrinth, he would likely think that the wall was the only obstacle.

Thinking this is a labyrinth, then naturally he would want to find an exit, which fell into the trap, because this was never a labyrinth, but a prison, and the purpose was to trap people to death here.

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