Chapter 414 Hal's Bad Luck (Part 1)
In the dark night, in a room on the second floor of Wayne Manor, the lights flickered faintly. Hal raised his hands and stood in the middle of the room. He turned around and saw the face of an old man.
"I know you have a strange ability that can disappear and reappear immediately, but from my observation, it takes a certain amount of time for you to activate this ability. Do you think you disappear faster, or I pull the trigger faster?"
If the people living in Wayne Manor heard what Alfred said at this time, they would be very surprised, because the old butler seemed to have changed. He had never said such words to anyone in the manor in such a cold tone.
In the eyes of most people, Alfred is always the old butler who smiles and holds a plate, stands by the table to set the table, or cleans the museum shelf with a duster.
But from his current posture, it can be seen that this is not the first time he has held a gun. He is holding a double-barreled shotgun with a solid wooden grip. The long barrel reflects a chilling cold light under the light, and the muzzle is against Hal's waist.
Hal swallowed his saliva. He didn't dare to move at all. Just as Alfred said, it takes a certain amount of time for him to activate the green light ability. Under normal circumstances, this time is so short that it can be ignored, but the most fatal point is that the green light ring will glow.
Once Hal calls on the green light energy, the green light ring will emit a green light, which will spread all over his body in an instant. Even if it is a very short moment, there is this time. Hal has no doubt that as long as his ring emits a trace of light, the trigger will be pulled.
Hal didn't dare to bet whether the green light could block his waist at the moment the bullet was fired, because if not, he would be cut in half directly. The green light can indeed allow Hal to recover quickly, but this self-healing ability has an upper limit, and being cut in half is definitely not included.
"You are Bruce's housekeeper, right?" Hal asked, he wanted to ease the current atmosphere. Alfred did not answer him, but just pushed the shotgun forward. Hal closed his eyes hard and said:
"Okay, okay, don't be like this, do you know where this child came from? She is not a human being, but a monster..."
Hal suddenly heard a "click" sound behind him, that was the sound of the trigger being pulled. The huge fear overwhelmed him. After a cold sweat, he found that the expected pain did not come. Alfred just pulled the trigger.
"I know a lot of things." Alfred stared at Hal in front of him and said, "Much more than you think."
His tone was always cold, so Hal couldn't hear his emotions at all. Alfred continued, "I know that you think of me as an ignorant old butler, otherwise you wouldn't dare to invade this manor like this."
"I'm not going to invade, I just... uh!"
Hal was pointed at by the muzzle of the gun again, and he shut up decisively. Then he heard Alfred say, "If your parents didn't teach you that you need to make an appointment in advance and go through the front door when visiting other people's homes, then I think you should have remembered it today."...
Hal put down his hands, he sighed, then turned around, faced Alfred, looked into his eyes and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Butler, I know it's wrong to break into private houses, and I also know This is a very dangerous and rude behavior. "
"But you have to allow me to explain, Aisha is not..."
Seeing the barrel of the gun slowly raised between his eyes, Hal raised his hands again, he slowly stepped back two steps and said: "Okay, let's not talk about this."
He also found that as long as Aisha's life experience was mentioned, the old butler didn't want him to speak. As expected, Alfred also looked into his eyes and said: "The butler has the obligation to help the master deal with all the children's problems, including the possible doubts and dishonorable parts of their life experience..."
"I think you don't want to be one of these background stories." Alfred stretched out the ending tone a little, and Hal understood what he meant. If he wanted to leave here alive, it would be better to shut up and swallow this secret.
He took a deep breath and said, "Okay, let's not talk about this issue. I came here just to make sure that her extraordinary abilities will not endanger the safety of ordinary people..." After that, Hal began to explain to himself, regardless of whether Alfred could understand him or not: "Yellow Lanterns have always been the biggest threat to Green Lanterns. Although I have never encountered real Yellow Lanterns, the Green Lantern Corps attaches great importance to them." "This time is the same." Hal sighed and continued, "When they learned that the leader of the Yellow Lantern Corps and the Lantern Beasts had descended to this place, they thought about sending a powerful Green Lantern to deal with these problems." "But it all happened too quickly. After the resolution was over, the matter was over, so I could only stay here to finish the work." "Whether it is for the safety of the universe or for the safety of ordinary people, I have to do this." "Your name is Hal, right?" Alfred asked suddenly.
Hal put his hands on his hips and nodded. Alfred looked into his eyes and asked Hal: "What do you think is the cause of all this?"
Hal felt strange about this question. He scratched his head and said puzzledly: "The cause? Actually, I don't know why. I just suddenly received an order saying that the people of the Yellow Lantern Corps came to Earth and asked me to deal with them..."
"Then, I came to Gotham and was inexplicably pulled into a dream. Then I started fighting with the monster. In the end, I don't know how I won, anyway, I won..."
"Suddenly, the Yellow Lantern Beast turned into a little girl, and the leader of the Yellow Lantern Corps didn't know where to go..."
Hal said helplessly: "In fact, I didn't know what happened from beginning to end..."
"Then you just Report to the so-called Green Lantern Corps? "
"I..." Hal was choked, Alfred said with some contempt: "When you don't know the cause, the process, or even the complete result, you choose to report to your superiors?"
"What shocked me is that your superiors actually gave you orders directly based on your incomplete information..."...
"Green Lantern Corps..." Alfred sneered softly, and said: "If you are only at this level, it is better to go back to where you should be and don't get involved in the affairs of the earth."
Hal put his fingers on his forehead. He didn't know how to describe the old butler in front of him. The simple and elegant British accent made him seem to be talking to an aristocrat, but what he said was merciless.
"I am also an earthling!" Hal emphasized.
"An Earthling who makes a living by selling Earth's intelligence?"
Hal was choked again. He gestured helplessly: Then he said: "I am doing this for the safety of the Earth..."
"Every spy says so."
Alfred lowered his eyes, not wanting to look at Hal's somewhat stiff expression. He said: "One day, a group of foreigners found you. They gave you money and power, and then told you that you should maintain peace in your home country. The way is to tell them everything there in detail."
"You take the money to do the job, complete the task, and after being arrested, The judge said that you are just maintaining peace ... "said, Alverd's eyes fell on the green light ring, and he said," ... but he didn't talk about the interests you got from them. "" I have seen too many such people in my first half of my life. " "But they are innocent? The huge interests from the selling countries allow them to survive the ordinary people who have suffered from this. In the end, only one of him has been peaceful and enjoyable. Generally, it can bring us the greatest enjoyment. "" But how do you know, the thing you wear in your hands is not playing such a role in the universe? "" Maybe, in your opinion, it is a garbage and residue that you can't even be considered sugar. They only need to provide you with a little bit of garbage. …”
“Stop talking!” Hal closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and pressed the ring on his hand with his thumb. It was very obvious that his fingertips were trembling a little. Alfred then said to him:
“If you don’t remember who you are, where you come from, who you will eventually work for, and can’t carry out this goal to the end, then what awaits you is only the fate of being betrayed by everyone together…”
Hal’s mood seemed to be fluctuating violently. He tilted his head to one side. After a while, he took a deep breath, and in an instant, the green light of the ring lit up.
At this moment, he did not hear the sound of the trigger being pulled. Hal pursed his lips hard. Just when he thought he was about to leave this place and could find a quiet place to think about these problems alone, suddenly, the door of the room opened and a small black figure appeared outside the door. …
Hal didn’t see her movements clearly at all. At the moment when the light of the green ring spread to his arm, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his arm.
"Ah!
!" Hal screamed, and when he looked down, he saw Aisha with sharp teeth biting on his wrist guard. The thick wrist guard could not block her sharp teeth at all, and blood was oozing out from between her teeth.
Hal instinctively swung his arm to throw Aisha off, but his teeth pierced through the wrist guard, and the wrist guard slid down with it. When it slid to his hand, it wrapped around Hal's hand like a glove.
Hal was in great pain and kept shaking his arm. When the wrist guard and the little girl were thrown down together, the ring on his finger that emitted green light was taken down with the wrist guard.
Hal gritted his teeth and covered his bleeding arm. He looked at the princess bed. There was no little girl on it. The bulge in the quilt was a doll stuffed inside. This was a trap from the beginning.
Just as he realized this, he suddenly found that the green light energy that was spreading into his body disappeared. He turned his head and saw that the green light ring that fell off drew a high parabola——
With a "dingling", the crisp sound of metal touching the floor sounded, and Hal breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the ring would not be broken.
He was about to walk over to pick up the ring, but found that the black muzzle of the gun appeared in front of him again. Hal slowly raised his hands.
At this time, a tender hand slowly approached the floor and picked up the ring. Dick, who had just been woken up, rubbed his eyes and looked at the ring in his hand.
"Hey, kid, put it down, it's not a toy..." Hal stretched out his hands to dissuade him. Dick, who had just been woken up, was drowsy. Before he even opened his eyes, a green light spread directly to his body.
"Wait... what is this?" Dick asked vaguely.
Hal slapped his forehead and said, "No!
!"
"I seem to... seem to feel something... should I do this?" Dick muttered vaguely. Hal seemed to suddenly remember something and said, "No! Don't teleport! This ability is hard to control..."
With a "smack", Dick slapped the wall.