Chapter 359: The Green Lantern Corps is no longer hot, the current situation of the Red Lantern Corp
You know, just like how every story begins.
A long time ago, on the planet Lute in the 666th sector of the universe, it was the hometown of Atrocitus, the current leader of the Red Lantern Corps.
At that time, his name was Atros, and he was very thin.
Atrocitus used to be an ordinary psychologist who would cook for his wife and children after work.
But since the massacre that destroyed his world, Atrocitus' life has been filled with revenge and there is no room for anything else.
He seems to be always entangled in anger and has never stopped being angry.
Everyone who knows Atrocitus will say that he is a beast captured by anger. If it weren't for the few senses of justice that still drive him, he would almost sink into endless anger and become a beast that attacks indiscriminately, just like...
his colleagues.
"Roar!!!!"
Talia took a breath.
As the only sober human among the group of people who had passed through the black hole and appeared on the planet Ismote, when she was led into the Red Lantern Corps headquarters, she saw a scene that she would never forget in her life - of course, it was not the large basin of "food" that Atrocitus took out, which was still twitching slightly and seemed to be alive, like insects, but Talia saw that in the huge hall, a large number of Red Lantern Corps members were wearing restriction collars around their necks, and were tightly tied to the wall by iron chains that emerged from the iron holes in the wall. In front of each person was a urn similar to a dog bowl. The people who tied these Red Lantern Corps members here seemed to have deliberately calculated how far they could reach the dog bowl, and deliberately adjusted their iron chains to a length that could barely touch the dog bowl but was a little short. Therefore, those Red Lantern Corps members who looked extremely hungry could only desperately dig the floor, and then began to roar endlessly like mad dogs. Talia even saw a few of them desperately pulling the iron chain on their necks, and even strangled themselves until their necks were obviously broken, but they still couldn't break free from the mere iron chain. "This... this..."
Talia took a half step back.
Her father was an ancient man who had lived on Earth for 600 years. She had seen her father's body soaked in the green spring water countless times and resurrected intact.
She had seen superpowers, magicians, demons from hell, necromancers who summoned Mr. Skeleton, telepaths, and even gods like the Justice League who walked on earth. They were the dragons among men whose strength far exceeded that of ordinary superpowers.
She had even seen what kind of terrifying and powerful thing her lover Batman had become.
But at this moment, seeing those crazy alien monsters still made Talia feel cold in her heart.
"Ah. Please don't mind."
Atrocitus said.
He ignored Talia who was standing there stiffly, and continued his actions.
He placed pots of insect dishes on the table next to him, which was the only place where the crazy Red Lantern Corps members were not tied up.
He stretched out a hand, and the red light ring on his hand materialized into some kind of alien-looking mechanical arms and mechanical hands, picked up the unconscious Teen Titans, and shot out another red light, and the red light ring materialized into a soft big bed on the ground.
"To be honest, I'm not very good at materializing, but I can do it with a little practice."
Atrocitus said.
He put each unconscious member on the bed, and then covered them with a quilt.
Then the healing magic circle prepared by Atrocitus in advance lit up under each bed.
If such an action was made by a gentle and kind mother, it might seem very warm, but Talia looked at Atrocitus's red-faced and fanged face, and inexplicably felt that what he did was just like the action of an ogre placing the ingredients before putting them into the pot.
Atrocitus didn't know how disrespectful Talia's thoughts were turning in her mind.
He saw that Talia had no intention of sitting down, so he didn't force her.
He walked to the table and pulled a seat to sit down. Then he used the red light ring to materialize a strange-looking tableware that looked like a combination of a fork and a blade. He directly pierced a twitching insect and threw it into his mouth, chewing it carelessly.
"You came at a good time. It's just meal time."
The blue-purple juice flowed out from the gap between Atrocitus' sharp teeth and was licked clean by his tongue.
"Maybe you will say that the internal organs of every member of the Red Lantern Corps have actually been expelled from the body by the red light ring. The red light energy fills our bodies and maintains our lives. We don't even have organs to digest food. So what's the point of eating?"
Atrocitus said while eating: "But in fact..."
"Roar... Roar..."
The violent roars came one after another, mixed with a large number of hysterical and meaningless howls.
Atrocitus frowned, then stood up and said, "I'm sorry, guest. This place was built not long ago and there are not many rooms, so we have to keep everyone in the hall. I live with them day and night, and I never thought about soundproofing. I think it's disturbing you." Talia didn't say anything, and Atrocitus raised his hand and clenched it.
As he moved, each chain tied to the Red Lantern Corps members glowed red, and soon they were strangled one by one and vomited red blood foam... Wait, that's not blood foam, but some kind of blood-red fluid that burns like flames.
"That's what every Red Lantern Corps member has in their body."
Noticing Talia's gaze, Atrocitus said: "It's the same in my body, this energy replaces the internal organs."
Then he sat back down: "Where were we just talking about? About eating."
"Batman's teammate, before we start, let me introduce myself, my name is Atrocitus..."
Atrocitus first briefly introduced the relationship between himself and Batman to Talia. This made Talia feel a little relieved, and then he continued:
"I think you have already seen that these legion members belong to my Red Lantern Corps through the same signs on their chests as mine when you came in, but you must be very curious about what these legion members are like."
Atrocitus said: "In order to prevent you from thinking of me as a dangerous enemy or a character that is not easy to get along with, I am afraid I must explain to you why they are like this now."
"After I established the Red Lantern Corps on Ismote, I cast the Red Lantern Central Energy Battery and began to look for members of the Red Lantern Corps throughout the universe."
"This is not a difficult thing. The Red Lantern Ring will find those who are full of anger on its own and then choose them to become members of my legion."
Although Atrocitus kept talking, he still ate his meal like a whirlwind, almost without chewing.
This is no wonder. For the other party, eating is simply a formality. Whether he eats more or less, or chews or not, it is just a formality for him.
So when he wants to stop eating, he just does it.
Atrocitus walked up to a legionnaire who was howling non-stop.
He reached out his hand and caressed the strange-looking alien legionnaire, which immediately caused the other party to attack without hesitation. The other party opened his mouth full of fangs and bit Atrocitus' palm, but soon he was slapped to the ground by Atrocitus and then strangled by the throat.
"I am not your prey, a beast with low IQ. If you dare to bite me again, your education will end here."
Then he didn't care whether the other party could understand or not, and directly pressed the other party against the wall and slapped him in the face.
The expression of the legionnaire suddenly became clear, he whimpered and curled up in the corner.
After dealing with the rebellious legionnaire, the other legionnaires saw that Atrocitus was killing the chicken to scare the monkey, and they immediately stopped roaring, but curled up together and whimpered, like a frightened dog.
Atrocitus materialized into a mechanical arm, which continuously poured large quantities of insect food into the dog bowls of the legion members. When Atrocitus was a little further away from them, the rope behind each legion member would be released to a certain length so that they could reach the dog bowl. Then, the legion member would bury his face directly into the dog bowl like a starving dog and start to eat heartily.
"My corps is growing every day, but one problem always bothers me. Every member of the Red Lantern Corps who is recruited into the Corps will fall into great anger after putting on the ring. That anger devours their sanity and turns them into mad dogs."
"No matter how hard I try, I can't think of a way to keep them sane for the time being, and they don't have the ability to materialize like me and the Green Lantern Corps members. Their only way of attacking is to open their mouths and spit out the red light energy from their mouths.
They transform that energy into a blazing blood flame. Apart from this single method, they no longer have any other abilities."
Atrocitus kept feeding his insect food to each member of the Corps as he spoke, just like an old farmer feeding a pig. It took a long time before he finally fed everyone.
Atrocitus turned around and walked towards Talia with an empty food bowl: "So, I tried to feed them. Although the Red Lantern Corps members don't need to eat, I still tried to feed them, trying to let them regain the memory of being born as intelligent life through the feeling of eating." Atrocitus said: "Eating makes people peaceful, brings a sense of fullness and satisfaction, and makes us mistakenly believe that we still need to eat to survive, and makes us mistakenly believe that we are not the monsters devoured by hatred now." "These are just some attempts." Atrocitus said: "In short, I don't know how long you will stay here, but Batman said that he will come to you soon, so stay quietly. There is food on the table, I sincerely recommend you to try it." "You just need to..." Atrocitus turned his head suddenly, and he suddenly felt the portal opened by the sonic boom channel appeared next to his central energy battery. He turned his head and looked at Talia:
"It seems that Batman has arrived."
"But before you meet him." Atrocitus said: "I have to meet him first and talk about something."
Before Talia could react, Atrocitus shot out a red light from his hand, fixing Talia in place.
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“Okay, okay, let’s play it this way, right? I just solved the problem of Eclipse, and Aquaman has another problem. This job can’t be done. After solving one problem of Eclipse, Aquaman and Night Owl pop up. Can this matter be over?”
“Hal Jordan is the most talented leader in the entire Justice League. Although he is also quite out of line, at least compared with other members with obvious character weaknesses or strength weaknesses, Hal himself is a good leader material…”
“No, after this matter is over, I will call Hal Jordan on Oa Star. If he doesn’t answer the phone, I will go to him in person. He has to return to Earth quickly…”
Chen Tao thought so while crossing the sonic boom channel. As the channel closed behind him, Atrocitus, with a big mouth full of fangs, came into view.
“Ah, it’s Atrocitus, you…huh?”
When Chen Tao saw Atrocitus for the first time, he felt something was wrong.
To put it simply, Atrocitus is a beast that is always angry, but his willpower is strong enough to control his temper.
But at this moment, Atrocitus seemed at a loss. It was not that his eyes lost their luster like a raped groundhog, but that he lacked the raging anger he once had.
This was unusual, very unusual.
Chen Tao lowered his head and even saw traces of a meal between his teeth.
What kind of life is this? Does it match your temperament as the Lord of Red Light?
He saw Atrocitus flying over with a gloomy look, and before Chen Tao could ask what the Teen Titans were doing now, Atrocitus spoke first.
"Batman, I have something to tell you."
"Well, you go."
A question mark floated on Chen Tao's forehead. In fact, he wanted to ask Atrocitus what was going on with his current look of losing his target, but Atrocitus seemed very serious, so Chen Tao asked him to speak first.
"Tell me, what's going on?"
"Oh, it's like this." Atrocitus said:
"The Green Lantern Corps is gone."
Chen Tao almost choked to death.
"What? Say it again?"
"Okay." Atrocitus said: "To be exact, the Green Lantern Corps is missing."