Chapter 4459

The Justice League headed toward the nail again. And at this time, the resurrected Atlan and Steppenwolf had also learned to be smart. They didn't show their faces in front of the Justice League at all, but directly burrowed into the ground, wanting to pull the nail out from underneath.

"I'll open a path," Arthur said, "You follow me, but be sure to be careful; I'm afraid they will sneak attack you in the dark."

"I'm responsible for protecting Clark." J'onn said, "If there is an attack, I can block it for him. Anyway, I can molecularize, so I won't get hurt and won't be polluted."

Clark moved his lips; he didn't quite agree, but he also knew that taking risks with himself was not a wise move, so he followed behind J'onn.

Victor followed behind Clark. His main goal was also to protect Superman, his nerves highly strained. Once someone attacked, he would immediately turn on modification mode and teleport the opponent away. Although this method couldn't be used many times, blocking once or twice was no problem.

The group of people headed toward the deep sea along the path opened by Arthur. All the way down, they reached the place where the nail was driven in, but they didn't see the figures of Atlan and Steppenwolf. They didn't dare to scatter to look for them either, so they guarded the nail.

But soon, a familiar figure appeared. Arthur screamed: "Mother?!"

The person who came was none other than the Queen of Atlantis. Clark's heart sank, he hurriedly stopped Arthur, and said: "It might be a fake."

How could Arthur not know? He just clenched his fists tightly and said: "The last time I saw her, she was still alive."

Hearing this, everyone was somewhat silent. This might mean they killed the Queen and then resurrected her.

But it also made sense; after all, Atlan had long been resurrected, and the graveyard was not far from the Trench. He would definitely take action against the Queen.

"Don't you recognize me anymore? Arthur?"

"Shut up, you fake!" Arthur was furious and wanted to curse something else, but soon widened his eyes. Because Atlan walked out from behind the Queen, holding a man in his hand.

"Father!!" Arthur was devastated.

"Wait." Clark stopped him again and said, "Batman has long sent people to protect our families. They won't be able to capture your father so easily. This might also be fake."

After speaking, he carefully looked at the man, wanting to find flaws in him; the others were the same. Although Arthur's reason returned, he still couldn't recover from the shock. And just at this moment, a dagger flashing with cold light was inserted straight into Arthur's back.

"Careful!!" Victor roared, and the Mother Box flashed with light. At the moment of being teleported away, the undead Amanda revealed a cruel smile.

Arthur fell down, clutching his wound in pain. J'onn hurried to support him. Arthur subconsciously wanted to use water magic to heal, but the seawater was full of death power, and even if he didn't actively use it, the death power was invading his body along the wound.

"Damn it, fell for it!" Clark glared at Atlan. And that man was also put down by him. The opponent was wrapped in dense death power; that was not Arthur's father John at all, but a man wearing a black hood with a ferocious face.

J'onn was somewhat puzzled; when did Nekron learn illusion magic? Just now, even he hadn't seen it.

Subsequently, he thought that this might not be Nekron's ability. He and Darkseid had long been in cahoots. Darkseid's side could have fierce generals like Steppenwolf, so naturally, there would be other capable people. Even if the main force was held back by the Lantern Corps, sending one or two subordinates to come over and make trouble was not impossible.

J'onn took a deep breath and said: "Can't stay in the sea, let's go up."

Clark also knew there was no other way at this moment. Without Arthur, the ocean was Atlan's territory. They were fighting here, consuming several times more power than the opponent, and they could be exhausted to death.

Several people immediately swam upward, but Atlan clearly didn't intend to let them go. Accompanied by his raising both hands, the seawater became increasingly thick. The death power was like substance, the aura of corruption wrapped around everyone, and even Clark couldn't swim much.

Knowing this was no way, Victor gritted his teeth and said: "I'll open a Boom Tube."

After speaking, his body emitted a burst of white light, and the Boom Tube opened. J'onn escorted Clark away. And just as Victor stepped away, a water arrow that Atlan had condensed for a long time directly pierced his shoulder.

Victor fell heavily out of the portal, and Clark hurriedly caught him. Victor struggled in pain for a moment and said: "Don't worry about me, I'll go back to the base myself. You have to stop them, don't let them attack Batman!"

Victor gritted his teeth, opened the transmission channel again, and sent himself directly back to the Justice League Hall. Schiller walked out of the office, was taken aback to see him lying on the ground, and hurriedly helped him up.

Victor looked down at the wound on his shoulder. Fortunately, the Mother Box's energy and the death power were evenly matched, so the corpse spots on his body were not spreading fast. But this blow still hurt him quite a bit. Schiller called an ambulance and sent him to the hospital.

Hal arrived late. Hearing that Victor and Arthur were both injured, he took a deep breath. And at this moment, Clark's anger had reached its peak. He fired a laser at the sea surface, and immediately, the nail even trembled along with it.

"Wait a minute, Clark, don't be impulsive!" J'onn hurriedly stopped him, "Can't make too much of a commotion, Batman is still inside."

Clark clenched his fists. The situation now is that good people should be held at gunpoint. The Earth is theirs, the nail is theirs, and Batman is still theirs. For the safety of these things that belong to them, they cannot use overly violent means. But the opponent is unscrupulous, cheating and lying, using every trick in the book.

"I'll go down and deal with them," Hal said, "Don't worry too much, they are no match for me. Didn't this death power not do anything to me either?"

After speaking, he flew down. J'onn was somewhat worried, but he didn't dare to leave Clark, afraid that Nekron would play some other tricks and catch them alone.

"It's a pity, my offensive ability is not strong enough," J'onn said, "Although I can use intangibility power to not be disturbed, I have no way to be the main attacker. Otherwise, it wouldn't be so passive."

Seeing him blame himself, Clark also hurriedly expelled the irritable emotions in his mind and said: "No, your ability to not be polluted might be our trump card."

Hal sank to the bottom of the sea, but didn't expect that group of people not to attack the nail directly, but to stand neatly, as if welcoming him.

"Hal." A strange man wearing a black mask called his name and said, "The famous Green Lantern."

"You know me?"

"Of course, I'm also from Coast City. When your mother died back then, maybe it was I who laid her out."

Hal narrowed his eyes and looked the person up and down. But Coast City is not a small city; even if he knew the other party's profession might be a mortician, he didn't recognize the other party.

"Join us, Hal. You will become the greatest Black Lantern in history."

"What kind of dream are you having?" Hal mocked, "Could the greatest Black Lantern be much stronger than the greatest Green Lantern?"

"Of course. Nekron is the greatest..."

"Do you not understand human speech? My meaning is, even the greatest Green Lantern is not much better, why must I be the greatest Black Lantern?"

Actually, the actions of the Green Lantern Corps had already made Hal somewhat cold. You know, Sinestro is not unaware of the danger Earth is facing now, and he might even know it better than others. But he still chose to attack Darkseid.

That's right, in their view, the Central Power Battery was taken away by Darkseid. But Hal knew that the Green Lantern headquarters still had plenty of Green Lantern energy left, enough for them to fight.

Earth is a relatively remote sector; although Hal made contributions in the battle to seal Parallax, he was still just a recruit and was not valued at all. So Sinestro started from the overall situation and chose to attack Apokolips directly. And this choice meant he abandoned Earth.

Hal was still very grateful to this teacher who taught and led him when he first joined the Corps. But undoubtedly, this decision of his made Hal completely disappointed in the Green Lantern Corps.

Not expecting him to reply like this, the man in the black hood was choked, and then he said: "You didn't have a good time in the Green Lantern Corps, that's because they didn't have the eye to recognize talent. Lord Nekron values your potential, Hal. Join us, give those who look down on you a taste of their own medicine, isn't that good?"

"So you guys actually ask for my opinion." Hal sneered, revealed the corpse spots on his arm, and said, "Then what is this? A greeting gift before the formal visit?"

That man was taken aback when he saw the corpse spots on his arm, then immediately changed the topic and said: "This is a gift from Lord Nekron to you; you should naturally accept it with joy. Soon you will feel how powerful this is!"

"Powerful my ass." Hal vented all his frustration at this moment, and he said, "This piece of junk can't even break through the defense of my Green Lantern energy. If your master only has this much ability, he should roll back to the sewer in his hometown early!"

"You!!!"

Hal was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, waved his hand, Green Lantern energy swept out, and several people were all knocked over.

After a while, Hal surfaced again, nodded at Clark and said: "Repelled them. But I can't kill them; they will come back even if I kill them. Forget it."

"Are you okay?"

Hal shook his head and said: "The erosion of death power on me is not obvious. You don't need to worry about me."

"What did Schiller call you to do?" Clark asked somewhat puzzled.

Hal hesitated for a moment before saying: "They are preparing a plan and need a backup candidate. We don't know if I can do it, but we can only try first."

"What plan?"

"I don't know too clearly either, but it might be related to the Lantern ring." Hal said, "It can be considered a backup insurance."

"I have to go see Batman," Clark said, "This group of unkillable guys is harder to deal with than imagined. I'm afraid he can't hold on."

Hal persuaded him, saying: "Even if you go, you'll just be comforting him; you can't do anything substantial. Just now when I went to the bottom of the sea, I felt the flow of death power. We have to look in that direction, maybe we can find the source."

Since Hal said so, Clark hesitated for a moment before nodding and saying: "That's right, we have to eliminate the source first and stop the ocean pollution before we can help Batman. Let's go, let's go take a look."

Hal breathed a sigh of relief. Although in the conversation just now, Schiller did mention the candidate for the plan, more of it was showing him the massive amount of Seven Lights power snatched back from Oa, as well as the unscathed Batman.