Chapter 483: Talents Emerge from Arkham! (Part 1)

It has been mentioned before that Cat Getan's first law is that no matter how correct and standard the beginning of a matter is, the people of Cat Getan will definitely handle it in a mess, and Cat Getan's second law is that the people of Cat Getan do not believe in any ghosts or gods.

It is hard to say that the citizens of a city on the East Coast of the United States are all firm materialist warriors, but the fact is that when the people of Cat Getan see anything they cannot understand and does not exist in common sense, what they think of is absolutely not any paranormal event or divine punishment and natural disaster. What they do is absolutely not screaming and running away in a panic.

When facing this situation, every Cat Getan local will only have one reaction, and that is to find a gun, pull the trigger, empty the magazine, and then walk up to confirm whether those things they cannot understand are dead or not.

This is actually a manifestation of natural selection, because people who are easily startled and only know how to run away cannot survive in Cat Getan City.

Therefore, after the fisherman, the first eyewitness in the previous haunting event, shouted that sentence, all the gangsters in the corridor on the third floor of the psychiatric hospital opened fire at the same time. When the muzzle fire lit up, the windows at both ends of the corridor shot out white light straight, illuminating the dark night sky like large searchlights.

How to describe the intensity of the firepower at this moment? Simply put, Batman and the Joker were scurrying around with their heads in their hands, the Penguin and Scarecrow were rolling and crawling, and the Hellblazer Constantine almost caught the express train to hell.

The gangsters of Cat Getan, although their appearance is not beautiful, their inner... is not much better either.

This night, they were first inexplicably woken up by a ghost, and then stirred up a fierce firefight. After fighting for a long time, everyone discovered that they had been played, and they had to work hard to sweep the building and track down this ghost. The gangsters had long been impatient.

Pulling the trigger and pouring out bullets is the simplest way to vent the anger in one's heart. Don't worry about whether you can kill the opposite side or not. When the bullets are sprayed out with anger, the violent factors engraved in the bones of Cat Getan people are ignited, the anger burns more and more, and begins to tend to madness. Everyone keeps attacking everything green within their field of vision.

This did not give the Green Lanterns who had just descended here any time to react at all. They didn't even open their shields, only relying on the green light flickering on their bodies to resist these bullets.

The green light energy attached to the body surface did indeed block the attack of the bullets, but it did not block the shock wave of the explosion. When the first rocket shell entered the field with the sound of breaking through the air, except for Hal who had expected it, everyone else was blown away.

And after they crawled up, the first thing they did was not to counterattack, but to run away.

Indeed, Green Lantern energy is very powerful, but the ones using this energy are still intelligent life. As long as there is intelligence, there will be fear.

The Green Lanterns knew clearly in their hearts that human bullets and explosions did not exceed the range of Green Lantern energy defense. Theoretically speaking, even if they stood in the place with the densest firepower, there would be no life danger, but theory is just theory.

For example, humans know that it is unlikely that an animal like a goose can kill them, but when a bunch of geese rush towards you with their wings flapping aggressively, you will panic when you should panic, and you will run when you should run.

The Green Lanterns had just landed when they encountered the gangsters full of anger. They were chased like ducks, running around in the corridor in a panic, looking like headless flies emitting green light.

"Don't run! Don't run! Everyone come back and organize a counterattack!"

Adjutant Carol shouted loudly, but the Green Lanterns who had never seen this kind of scene were indeed panicked. They fought on their own, drilled wherever there was space, desperately trying to find something to block themselves, and the formation was in a mess.

In the end, it was Hal who used Green Lantern energy to pull them all back through the wall, barely maintaining the line.

"Damn it! Didn't you just finish training?!" Carol roared angrily: "Didn't the instructor tell you?! Organize a defensive line immediately when encountering an attack, joint shield!"

But Hal beside him turned to ask him: "They 'just finished training'?! Don't tell me they are all novices??"

Carol cursed and said: "I think you should be able to see that the commander didn't take your words seriously at all. The second squad is all novices who have just taken office. They might not even have as much experience as you!"

Hal said somewhat desperately: "Don't run! Don't run! Stabilize the defensive line! Joint shield! Can't you take a look at the tactical manual in the ring?"

But there were still several Green Lanterns who wanted to escape through the windows. Their faces looked very young, obviously having become lantern heroes not long ago, and these lantern heroes looked more like humans, obviously coming from civilizations with styles similar to humans, and therefore could better understand the danger of heavy firepower.

Carol and Hal organized for a long time, and finally stabilized everyone. Green Lanterns are indeed worthy of being lantern rings representing willpower. This group of people only took a few dozen seconds to overcome the fear of bullets and explosives, barely forming a joint shield at the end of the corridor.

Resisting the first wave of firepower attack, the next thing to do was defensive counterattack. Soon, light waves of green energy were fired towards the other end of the corridor, directly blowing several gang members away.

The leading fisherman was furious. He raised his gun and roared: "The ghost is counterattacking! Punish them! Kill them! Let them go to hell!"

All the gang members were unusually angry, pressing forward step by step, not caring about the loss of manpower at all, just wanting to cause the greatest damage to the opposite side.

The Green Lanterns who had just descended didn't understand what was going on at all, and faced such a fierce attack. Even if Green Lantern energy was very powerful, the opposite gangsters not only had many people but also many weapons, and the firepower was very sufficient. The Green Lanterns were suppressed and could only fight and retreat.

But even so, the gangsters were still dissatisfied. While shooting, the fisherman said to the people behind him: "Send people upstairs, call everyone down, and by the way, let those boys go to the North District to send a message, we need more lethal firepower!"

"Cobblepot has already sent people!" Soon a voice sounded behind him: "Young Master Falcone has already called the Godfather, support is coming soon!"

Just as they were continuously outputting, the Green Lanterns finally reacted from the panic and began to no longer fight as scattered soldiers, but launched an attack in an organized manner.

The firefight in the hospital corridor was another kind of street fighting, with a space much smaller than street fighting. The battle line couldn't be spread out at all, and the height difference was almost equal to zero, so many human weapons couldn't be used, because whether it was guns, cannons, or grenades, there was friendly fire.

And the advantage of the Green Lanterns was that Green Lantern energy had no friendly fire. Whether it was energy shock waves, energy weapons, or energy shields, they were only effective against people without Green Lantern energy. Therefore, they didn't need to consider the arrangement of the line of fire and just output forward.

Soon, the situation began to become anxious, and then, the Green Lanterns gained the advantage. The battle line of the gangsters began to waver, and then gradually retreated.

But just at this moment, a light descended from the sky, and Constantine landed in front of the Cat Getan gangsters.

His blonde hair moved without wind, his trench coat fluttered, his hands flickered with dazzling light, and with a wave of his arms, a huge silver shield blocked in front of everyone.

He waved his hands again, drawing smooth arcs in front of him. Complex magic circles lit up under his feet, and several magic missiles flew out from his hands, passed through the barrier of green light energy, and landed in the center of the Green Lanterns' formation.

"Imprison!"

Accompanied by Constantine's low voice, the magic missiles turned into chains and entangled towards the Green Lanterns. Carol was not to be outdone. The green light solidified, turned into a sharp sword, and chopped the chains apart in a few strokes. The remaining Green Lanterns followed suit and cut the chains one after another.

But at this time, Constantine revealed a malicious smile. The fragments of the chains that were cut apart turned into more magic missiles, bombarding the Green Lanterns like a blizzard descending from the sky, forcing the Green Lanterns to stretch out their arms to block their eyes.

The gangsters pulled the trigger again, pouring out firepower. A gap was opened in the shield formed by the inattentive Green Lanterns.

With a "bang", the ceiling of the third floor collapsed, raising countless dust, making the situation at the end of the corridor confusing.

The gangsters who lost their field of vision could only slow down the firepower output. Constantine waved his hand, and several whirlwinds flew out from beside him, blowing away the dust.

Successive blows made the Green Lanterns unable to maintain the shield with all their strength. The gap in the shield healed very slowly. Carol turned his head and shouted: "Concentrate your attention! Exert the power of your willpower, heretics, fear my divine light! Green Lanterns shine forever, ten thousand generations of light!"

"Green Lanterns shine forever, ten thousand generations of light!"

Just when they were shouting slogans, the fisherman on the opposite side asked somewhat puzzled: "What are they shouting, what heretics?"

"They are scolding us as heretics???"

"They are ghosts, we are humans, they actually say we are heretics??? Are ghosts nowadays so damn arrogant?!"

"Stop talking nonsense, shoot!"

Just at this moment, the green light flourished, turning the entire corridor into a faint green. The Green Lanterns firmed their beliefs, so their power greatly increased. They flew into mid-air one after another and began to attack the gangsters with various energy light waves.

Adjutant Carol was even more charging at the front. After floating into mid-air, all the bullets and explosives stopped and condensed in the air within half a meter around him. His low roar echoed in the corridor, carrying unparalleled power:

"For justice!"

The light became stronger and stronger, and the rich green light condensed on his right arm. Then he stretched out his hand and aimed at the gangsters in the corridor.

Siluke

The originally small energy beam, with a "hum", became incomparably huge. But the scene where everyone was blown away and fled in all directions as expected did not appear.

Constantine raised his hands, magic brilliance covered his whole body, and the magic circle under his feet expanded again, the color changing from silver to evil and deep dark red.

Rolling magma surged out from the center of the magic circle, but disappeared in an instant, like bubbles that break at a touch, or like a fleeting hallucination. But at the same time, a tall figure stood up, directly breaking through the ceiling of two floors. That was the Hell Hatred Demon surging with evil energy all over his body.

An evil, deafening voice sounded in the corridor: "Who... summoned me..."

Constantine waved his arm directly, slapped the calf of the Hatred Demon, and said: "It's me, stop talking nonsense, beat them!"

"Damn it, Constantine, why aren't you dead yet?! When do you plan to die?!"

The tall Hatred Demon lowered his head and stared at Constantine with huge vertical pupils. At this time, the green light energy beam just hit over. The Hatred Demon waved his hand, and a flame barrier ignited, instantly flying out along the corridor.

When the flames swept past Carol, the green light energy helped him block the heat and the erosion of dark energy, but it ignited around him.

This kind of rune was not aggressive, but it meant that he was marked by a demon. Anyone who could communicate with demons could find him by following this mark, and because the mark had no attack power, the green light energy seemed unable to dispel it.

The Hatred Demon moved his gaze away from Constantine and then looked at Carol. While moving towards Carol, he said: "Constantine, you'd better prepare the sacrifice quickly..."

Saying that, he spat out flames from his mouth and grabbed towards Carol with claws surging with magma. Carol was not to be outdone. The green shield lit up, and the energy shock wave swept onto the Hatred Demon's eyes.

Just when the Green Lanterns and the Hatred Demon were fighting together, a burst of manic laughter came from the hole where the ceiling had collapsed before. They heard a high-pitched voice shout:

"Joker's surprise is here! Cheer for it!"

"Boom!"

"!"

After a loud noise, the main building of Arkham Asylum collapsed entirely.

The Joker can be called an expert in attacking various buildings with explosives. Even those rather sturdy buildings built by the Wayne family with layers of defense could not withstand the bombs set by the Joker, let alone an old psychiatric hospital that had been ravaged?

The moment the Joker's laughter came, Constantine took everyone and transferred. They appeared on the side of a highway some distance away from the psychiatric hospital.

Looking at the building that was slowly collapsing, Constantine smiled very unconscionably.

But soon, he couldn't laugh anymore, because in the dark night sky of Cat Getan, a meteor-like light slid across the end of the sky, and immediately after, it became larger and larger in the field of vision. The tail flame of the missile illuminated the entire sky like broad daylight.

In Shiler's manor, Merkel had arranged guest rooms for the two children staying over. Dick, who was just about to sleep, felt the floor under his feet shake.

He turned his head somewhat curiously, opened his eyes wide in shock. Outside the floor-to-ceiling window of the bedroom, on the city skyline, after the fire exploded, a huge mushroom cloud rose into the sky. ===== CHAPTER 484 =====