Chapter 292: Sinestro's Danger

Dick sat at a breakfast stall holding Aisha, while Jason was stuffing a sandwich into his mouth. Several other older children gathered in front of the food truck to order. Jason looked at Dick and said, "So, that rich old man is really going to send you to boarding school? That's not a good place!"

"It's the normal kind of boarding school, the kind that rich kids go to, not those child prisons."

"That's better. If he sends you to those prisons, I think you'd better run away as soon as possible. The kids there are miserable." Tire walked over with a cup of iced fruit juice.

"I heard they sell the kids sent to boarding schools to those most vicious small bosses, or after making them disabled, sell them to other cities to beg." Red Train also walked over.

Several people brought their food over and sat around the small table again.

Just then, Jason sighed, looking somewhat troubled. The others asked him, "What's wrong with you?"

"I don't know what to do about the task that weirdo in the bat costume gave me."

"He made it sound easy, telling me to investigate those 'mommies and daddies' who control the children, but I can't just go up to those kids' bosses and ask, 'What exactly is going on with you?'."

Behind Red Truck, Cobblepot walked over with a tray. He put the tray down, sat in a chair, and straightened his collar. Rocket Launcher laughed at him, "You always make yourself look like an old-school aristocrat. Does eating like this make it taste better?"

Cobblepot ignored her and just said to Jason, "Actually, you're not old. You could completely find another street, mix in with the kids there, and then find a job like that. Wouldn't you be able to see those bosses legitimately?"

Tire thought for a moment and said, "Indeed, we definitely can't. We're too old and our builds are too sturdy; those small bosses won't want us. But you, oh... and you, Dick, your age and appearance should be able to blend in..."

Dick shrugged and said, "In a few days, I might have to go to school."

He turned his head and saw Jason staring at him. Dick sighed and said, "Fine, it wouldn't hurt to play along with you for these two days."

After discussing it, Jason and Dick decided to go to Green Street on the edge of the East End to find work as cigarette peddlers, to see if they could get any intelligence from those small bosses.

After eating, Dick took Aisha back to Wei En Manor. Alfred said to him, "Master just returned and is looking for you."

Dick nodded and took Aisha to Bruce's study on the third floor. After he entered, Bruce said to him, "Pack your things; you're going to school next week."

Dick moved his mouth, appearing somewhat resistant. When Bruce looked at him, he suddenly felt a very deep sense of emotion.

When a person faces the same thing with a different identity, they discover that their younger self appeared reckless and impulsive. Bruce looked at Dick standing at the door, as if he saw his younger self standing in the psychological counseling room.

He always felt that the professor had some unspeakable secret and must have some superpower. He was eager to learn mind-reading from that psychology professor and attempted to skip all theoretical learning stages to directly master the ultimate mystery of psychology.

What did the professor do back then? Bruce found his memory a bit blurry. At the time, he didn't understand why Schiller wasn't willing to teach him. He felt he was talented in psychology and should be the kind of student who understands everything at a hint, the kind all teachers like.

But later, Bruce discovered that psychology doesn't just include the topic of "what the other person is thinking right now," or rather, this topic is actually relatively shallow and superficial in psychology.

The exploration of the human inner world, personality composition, and the root causes of human behavior is the essence of this discipline, and this essence can only be learned in those profound and cumbersome tomes, and requires years of application and analysis to master.

And clearly, Dick now also wants to skip the processes of schooling, practicing, and experiencing, and directly learn Bruce's superpowers. And now, Bruce, standing in the identity of an elder to dissuade him, deeply felt Schiller's helplessness at the time.

Does Bruce have superpowers? If viewed from the perspective of an ordinary person, he indeed does. Not only is he super rich, but he was born with an extremely high IQ, learns everything quickly, and his athletic ability, coordination, and flexibility are all excellent. In a sense, this already belongs to a type of superpower.

But Bruce was very clear that his current level wasn't just relying on talent; those learning and practice processes couldn't be skipped.

"Listen, Dick, I can certainly let you not go to school, run around the streets every day, and be no different from other children in Cat Getan, or you can continue to practice the acrobatics you like, and not learn those foreign languages, math, and dance you don't like..."

"But precisely because I think you have talent and shouldn't stop at the profession of an acrobat, you need to undergo more systematic and extensive learning to find the path you truly want to walk..."

Perhaps because Bruce had also played a role like Dick's in front of Schiller, he was more patient with Dick, and even very rarely explained to Dick the reason for his arrangement. In the past, Bruce wouldn't explain the reasons for his actions to anyone.

"Really? You really think... my talent is not bad?" Dick looked at Bruce and asked.

Bruce tried hard to recall the scene of him getting along with Schiller back then, and then he said to Dick, "Yes, currently it seems so. But what kind of achievements you can attain depends on your grades in school..."

"Of course, don't forget, although your parents have returned to Blüdhaven, I can still communicate with them by phone. If your grades are poor, I think I can invite them to Cat Getan..."

"I'm going to pack my things!" Dick put down Aisha and turned to run. Bruce stood in place, exhaling with some emotion. He discovered that being invited to see a teacher as a parent was very uncomfortable when it happened to him, but it was indeed very useful and satisfying when used to threaten others.

On this very morning, Bruce, who had been promoted to an elder for the first time, suddenly understood his university professor Schiller somewhat subtly. Sure enough, position determines attitude.

After lunch, Dick took Aisha to play on the lawn of the manor. Dick swung nimbly on the horizontal bar, extended his arms, landed steadily on top of the bar, and then grabbed the bar with both hands. He did a somersault and landed on the ground in a beautiful pose. Aisha kept laughing and clapping.

Dick walked under the horizontal bar, intending to swing a few more times. Just then, he suddenly discovered that on the lawn not far from Aisha, the grass in a small patch looked as if it had been blown over by the wind.

He was just about to walk over to check when he felt a violent whirlwind blow up around him. He blocked his face with his arms and took a few steps back. When he opened his eyes again, he found that Aisha had also been blown over onto the lawn.

"Star-Treading"

He was just about to walk over to pick up Aisha when he saw a yellow light descend from the sky, and then a man wearing a yellow tight-fitting suit floated in the yellow light, suspended in mid-air.

Dick widened his eyes and looked at him, asking, "Who are you? Why are you appearing here?"

And at this time, Sinestro, who had descended into mid-air, was also very depressed.

The Power Battery's navigation only went as far as Earth's atmosphere. He had to find out which city Parallax had specifically landed in himself. But just as he descended near Earth, he was intercepted by a Green Lantern named Hal.

That Green Lantern saw Sinestro was yellow and threw a punch. The two fought fiercely above Earth.

What Sinestro didn't expect was that Hal, a Green Lantern who had just debuted and was unknown, was outrageously strong. Sinestro almost exhausted all the fear energy in his ring before he managed to beat Hal into the sea.

Taking advantage of this gap, Sinestro hurriedly flew around the Earth and finally discovered that the target sensing fear energy was located in Cat Getan on the East Coast.

When he landed, he thought he would see the city turned into ruins by the person possessed by Parallax, but he didn't expect this city to be surprisingly quiet. The buildings weren't destroyed, the residents weren't fleeing, as if nothing had happened at all.

In Sinestro's memory, this was almost impossible. Parallax was a chaotic creature and should completely fail to understand how the orderly world operates, so it would destroy things unscrupulously. When Parallax possessed him before, it had destroyed cities on several planets, and Earth should have been hard-pressed to escape unscathed.

And what made him even more puzzled was that after searching for a long time, he found that Parallax's aura was coming from a human house. And after he descended here, he discovered that in front of him wasn't that huge monster with sharp teeth and a ferocious appearance, but a... human little girl?

Sinestro looked down at the yellow power ring on his hand, then looked up at the little girl, then looked down at the yellow power ring on his hand again. After repeating this several times, he finally confirmed that this was truly the Power Battery's entity of their Sinestro Corps, Parallax.

Sinestro landed on the ground and said to the little girl, "How did you become like this? What are you doing staying here? Hurry and come back with me."

Aisha kept staring at him with those big eyes, appearing very resistant. Dick, who was beside her, saw Sinestro walking toward Aisha. He ran over without thinking, blocked Sinestro, and said, "What are you doing? This is Wei En Manor!"

Sinestro didn't want to waste words with a human at all. With a wave of his hand, Dick was sent flying by a yellow light. Aisha looked at his figure flying away, widened her eyes, and then turned her head back to look at Sinestro.

Aisha opened her mouth, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth. Only then did Sinestro confirm that Parallax had disguised itself as a human.

Sinestro was just about to reach out when, in the next second, he saw the little girl take two steps back, take a deep breath, open her mouth wide, and tilt her head up...

Instantly, an incomparably huge scream pierced the sky over Cat Getan—

"DA—DDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

———Side Note———

This is for the 17th.

Let me mention the pattern of chapter titles: those without "Upper, Middle, Lower" are basically setup chapters; "Upper, Middle, Lower" are normal plot chapters; those with numbered chapter titles are basically major events. ===== CHAPTER 293 =====