Chapter 430: Race Against Time

It is precisely because Gotham and nearby cities can no longer send Shadow Devouring Soldiers, so the number of Shadow Devouring Soldiers sent to other cities by Alfu needs to be increased accordingly.

This made more people fall into a coma, and Tony Stark studied more cases. However, after Tony Stark's research, he did not have much research results, but only found that the shadows of these people disappeared.

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This made Tony Stark confused. After contacting Robert, Tony Stark's acceptance and cognition of extraordinary abilities has increased a lot, and he can even accept the existence of spirit and soul, but the disappearance of the shadow will cause people to fall asleep, which Tony Stark still cannot accept.

After all, in Tony Stark's view, shadow is just an optical phenomenon, and there should be no connection between people and shadows. After all, shadows do not belong to people themselves, nor are they part of people...

However, Tony Stark also knows that everyone has his own expertise. It is more appropriate to leave these extraordinary events that he does not understand to Robert to solve, especially now that more and more people are reported to be unconscious. Ordinary people should gradually pay attention to these things. If they are not solved, I am afraid that the harm will become greater and greater!

"The shadow disappeared? Fell into a coma?" Robert was stunned when he received the news from Tony Stark. Regarding the ability of the shadow, Robert was more impressed by the shadow scissors from Doraemon and the shadow ninjutsu of Shikamaru's family in Naruto, but Robert did not think that these two things would appear in this world.

Soon, Robert came to Tony Stark's private hospital, where there were already dozens of comatose people, which showed that Afu's actions had indeed begun to affect human society.

If all the sleepers in the world gathered together, it would definitely cause an uproar, but Ah Fu was cautious because the places where he took action were very scattered. Dozens of them in a city would not attract much attention.

However, this is only the current situation. As time goes by, there will be more and more sleepers swallowed by shadows. After all, the sleepers in front will not wake up again with the passage of time.

"Well..." After seeing these sleepers, Robert's eyes flickered slightly. To be honest, this situation is really the first time he has encountered it. The state of these sleepers is very unique.

"How is it? What did you find?" Tony Stark on the side looked at Robert's reaction and couldn't help asking.

"It is indeed a very strange state. They look like they are asleep, but in fact they are not in a dream. It's more like they are locked in a dark place, isolated from the connection with their bodies..." Robert looked at the sleepers and spoke slowly.

Sleeping, falling into a dream, fainting, losing consciousness, death, all kinds of different states have different manifestations. There are indeed similarities between them, but there are still significant differences.

Now, these sleepers are obviously in another state. When the shadow is swallowed, their consciousness is locked in darkness and they have completely lost contact with the outside world. If they are described more carefully, they may be more similar to deep-level vegetative people.

This means that these sleepers can only survive by relying on external nutrient solution. If they cannot take in enough nutrition for a long time, they will also die and have no chance to wake up.

"Then can you wake them up?" Tony Stark heard Robert's story and looked at Robert with some expectation and asked.

Tony Stark has given up on relying on scientific means to wake these people up, so he hopes that Robert can wake these sleepers up. After all, it is too dangerous to keep sleeping like this.

Moreover, these comatose people in New York are relatively lucky. They are basically taken to private hospitals by Tony Stark, but the remaining comatose people are not so lucky. The lucky ones can be sent to the hospital for treatment, while the unlucky ones either get into trouble on the spot or remain in a coma and slowly wait for death...

"It's not a problem to wake up these people here, but didn't you say that there are many such cases on the earth? It takes too long to save every one of them, and if the mastermind is not found, such things will continue to happen..." Robert's eyes flickered slightly. Robert was sure to wake up these comatose people here, but Robert really couldn't save every comatose person in the world.

Moreover, in this extraordinary event, what needs to be solved is Ah Fu and his Shadow Devouring Soldiers. If the root cause is not solved first, it will be useless for Robert to wake up more comatose people.

"Let me see first. If we wake them up, we'll see if we can find any relevant clues!" Robert said, with a mysterious power surging through his body.

With a sound of "Buzz!", soon, one soul after another appeared above the bed, but these souls were covered with a layer of dark power. It was this layer of dark power that made them lose consciousness. As long as this kind of dark power was broken, they would be able to wake up.

But this is not just what Robert wants to do. Finding the mastermind behind the dark power is what Robert wants to do, especially now that Robert has seen this dark power, he has some guesses about the mastermind behind the scenes...

With a sound of "Swish!", soon, under the pressure of Robert's power, those dark powers were forced out from the souls in an instant, and then those dark powers, perhaps feeling the pressure from Robert, actually gathered together, as if they wanted to counter Robert's power.

But unfortunately, Robert's power is far more powerful than the sum of these dark powers. At the same time, when these powers gathered together, Robert was more certain about where this power came from!

"The dark power of the mask! Compared with the dark power on Heimdall before, I am more sure that this dark power comes from the mask!" Robert's eyes flashed with a gleam of light. After all, Robert has defeated countless generals of the Shadow Corps, and even killed a few. He is naturally very familiar with this power.

Although the power of the Shadow Corps is slightly different in subtle places, there is not much difference in essence. Robert followed the dark power that appeared in front of him and began to explore the power behind it, preparing to find out Alfred's identity and whereabouts.

However, Robert soon encountered the same thing as Batman. When Alfred felt the danger coming, he decisively cut off the connection with this dark power, allowing those sleepers to wake up faster.

However, waking up like this does not mean that these sleepers have returned to normal. Their shadows are permanently lost, and their bodies have become extremely weak. Unless their shadows can come back, they will be in this state for the rest of their lives, just like the Asgard Four who have lost some of their power.

"Success?" Tony Stark, who was standing by, couldn't help but look happy when he saw those sleepers wake up, and asked Robert.

"No, failed." Robert shook his head slowly. He was not without gain. He could feel that the owner behind the mask had a familiar feeling. Although that familiar feeling didn't seem to match the aura of all the people in his memory, Robert was still ready to try to find the person behind the scenes.

"Clark, you also look for the location of this person behind the scenes..." Soon, Robert also contacted Clark, ready to find Alfred as soon as possible. After all, the more this guy hides, the greater the threat to the entire human race. This is still the case when Robert didn't know that the Shadow Devouring Soldier could continue to become stronger after devouring the shadow.

At the same time, Alfred, who was hiding in the dark and didn't know where he was, changed his face. He felt the invasion of power from Robert. Unlike recognizing that Batman also had the power of the mask, Alfred did not recognize Robert's power, but this did not prevent Alfred from being full of fear of Robert.

"I have to be careful. It seems that many people have noticed me. If I am discovered by those two people, it will be troublesome!" Ah Fu took a deep breath and made a decision quickly. His figure flashed and turned into a ball of darkness, blending into a dark space.

Yes, at this time, Ah Fu completely entered the dark space in order not to be discovered. Anyway, he could control the Shadow Devouring Soldiers to act outside by staying inside. As long as the Shadow Devouring Soldiers acted carefully enough, Ah Fu did not need to worry about being discovered by anyone.

Moreover, after wearing the mask, Ah Fu was no longer a normal life form. He did not need to eat, sleep or drink water. He only needed to have the dark power in his body to survive...

What Ah Fu did not know was that shortly after he had just escaped into the dark space, Clark's eyes swept to his current location. It was a pity that Clark's perspective eyes still found nothing this time. He could not directly see through the power of the dark space from such a long distance.

Therefore, Clark did not find any abnormality in the place where Ah Fu was, but found many other secrets and a large number of sleepers who had not been discovered.

Unlike Robert, Clark certainly didn't want these sleepers to die like this. Of course, Clark himself had no way to wake them up, so he could only let Robert take action.

In desperation, Robert could only take action again. After all, waking up a little weak was better than dying in a coma. Moreover, Robert was also ready to feel the dark power again and try to find Ah Fu's location with more dark power.

Clark looked at Robert with a slightly flickering look, and felt a little emotional for a while. His strength was already invincible on Earth, but this invincibility could only be counted in the material plane.

When facing this mysterious power, Clark had no good solution even if he was powerful. He couldn't blow up the entire earth with one punch and let the mastermind die with the earth, so he could only watch Robert's operation.

However, those dark forces were soon cut off again, and the sleeper woke up on the spot, but Robert still did not find Alfu's location, but only felt a familiar dark force.

"Dark space?" Robert recognized the existence evolved from this dark force, which made Robert frown. He did not expect that the shadow army he encountered this time was so troublesome, and the guy who got the power did not swell up, but was so cautious.

"Who could it be? I have felt Batman's aura before, and Batman's aura after getting the mask. Maybe I can use this to deduce what all the people I know will become after adding the aura of the mask. Maybe I can deduce who the other party is... Hmm? Alfu? He is not dead yet?"

After Robert's deduction, he was stunned when he thought of Alfu's aura. With Alfu's strength, he had long been eliminated by Robert's vision. The last time he heard about Alfu was when Peter Parker and Barry Allen met Hydra.

"At that time, Barry said that Alfu disappeared. I don't know if he died or what. It seems that he got the power of the mask and hid himself." Robert's eyes flickered slightly. Suddenly he thought of this matter and disappeared from the spot.

Originally, if Robert had not been blacklisted by the dimension of tracking magic, Robert could still use tracking magic to find Alfu's location. Now, when Robert wanted to try to use tracking magic again, he found that the power in the dark refused Robert's visit.

And Constantine had never seen Alfu, so Constantine was definitely not counted on. Robert could only go to the mountain where Alfu disappeared before, try to search for the remaining breath in it, and find the location of Alfu's dark space bit by bit!

With the help of Barry Allen and Jarvis's positioning, Robert successfully found the mountain where Alfu disappeared before, and indeed found the breath of Alfu and the dark power in the corner of the gravel.

"Buzz!" The next moment, Robert floated in the air, slowly closed his eyes, and fell into a meditative state. He released his Qi perception and mental exploration at the same time, and began to slowly search for all the breaths about Ah Fu and the dark space.

Ah Fu did not stop his actions because those sleepers were awakened one after another. He still sent the Shadow Devouring Soldiers to act. In order to cultivate a Shadow Devouring Soldier that is strong enough to compete with Clark and Robert, he let the fastest growing Shadow Devouring Soldier devour a large number of shadows to continuously improve his strength...

Robert and Ah Fu began to race against time!