[Comprehensive British and American] I open a haunted house in the superhero world

At first, Mary Shaw didn't believe in gods.

Her mother is the believer in that god, she said, and her family has worshiped a god for generations.

Her mother has superb ventriloquism and can make voices from the abdominal cavity, and she wants to use this to promote her gods to everyone.

But in the era when science became popular, no one believed her words. They understood that ventriloquism was just a skill, not a miracle.

"Pray to God, Mary." Mother pushed Mary Shaw, "It's time to pray to God."

Mary Shaw stood still.

So the mother pushed her again.

"Does praying to God help?" said Mary Shaw, "and if it does, why don't the rest of the village pray to God?"

Snapped--

Mother gave her a slap, Mary Xiao covered her face, and stood there unwillingly looking at her.

"Don't be disrespectful to God!" My mother said angrily, "Stand here and ask God for forgiveness for the disrespect in your words!"

Mary Shaw curled her lips. She stood in front of the puppet that night, looking at the dilapidated old puppet.

After a while she said: "You are miserable too, and no one remembers you now."

She glanced at her mother who was silently praying outside, and said mockingly: "Only an old woman and a reluctant little girl have to believe in you."

The shadow of the puppet flickered, as if someone had moved.

At this time, her mother came in and asked her, "Do you know that you are wrong?"

"Yes, I understand." Mary Xiao lowered her head and said submissively, but her eyes were still dismissive.

"Then did the gods forgive you?" asked the mother.

"I think so." Mary Shaw glanced at the puppet, "The gods are magnanimous and will definitely forgive me."

And he had to, Mary Shaw added inwardly, if he really had brains.

The puppet's shadow trembled violently, but neither mother nor daughter noticed.

Not long after, Mary Shaw's mother died.

Mary Shaw inherited her work, but she did not continue to be a loyal servant of the gods.

The people in the village didn't like her playing with those puppets very much, so she turned her head and took the puppets of the gods to other places disrespectfully. watch.

I don't know if it's because she doesn't have faith or because she is not capable enough. Her skills are far inferior to her mother's, and she went wrong several times in the middle of the performance.

But there are still a lot of people who come to watch her performance, and they are all men. She guesses that the people are purely to see a beautiful girl who is alone.

Although Mary Xiao was disgusted, she didn't care.

Left and right she is just a woman with nothing, even if those who come to see her have evil intentions, what can she do?

She encountered several troubles, but she managed to avoid them all.

She was triumphant, and she felt that she was omnipotent.

Until one time she was covered by two tall men in an alley and dragged into the depths of the alley.

Panicked, she struggled to pray to God for the first time with sincere hope—help me, help me.

Maybe God really exists, she saw the eyes of the puppet she fell on the ground blink twice, and the next second the two men covering her mouth and nose had their throats cut.

The body was still attached to her body, and warm blood soaked her clothes.

She sat down with a thud, staring dumbfounded at the corpse behind her, then turned to her puppet.

There was an emotion in the puppet's eyes that she couldn't read.

"Are you...a god?" she whispered to the puppet.

The puppet's fake eyes flickered, as if smiling.

[Hello, you name me Billy, just call me Billy. ] said the puppet, 【I am an abandoned god, we were all abandoned by Levansfair. 】

That was the first time Billy showed his existence in front of Mary Shaw - a "believer" who didn't have much loyalty to this.

Because this is already his last believer.

Puppet Billy looked at the last believer in front of him, and thought about Levansfell who abandoned him from afar—the woman in front of him also came from there, and was also abandoned there.

Then he asked: [Do you want to go home? 】

I really want to go home, even if it is destroyed, I want to be with that family.

People will abandon me and they will abandon you.

West lowered his eyes, watching the ground shake around him.

After Billy disappeared, they were successfully released from Revansfair.

This village buried underground is just like his original ending, buried deep underground.

The false sky above their heads disappeared. After returning to the ground, they realized that the sky outside had cleared up long ago.

It was like having a dream.

Tony and the others who had been waiting outside breathed a sigh of relief when they saw West and the others come out.

They couldn't find the entrance, because it doesn't accept souls.

At this time, the remaining Horus people came to West under the leadership of the boy with the eagle head mask.

Some of them had died in the attack on Billy, and the rest had volunteered to fill West's strength.

Only a few of these remained.

They saluted West, who nodded at them and said, "Go."

The dead should return to the land of the dead, waiting for the call of the world.

They also paid tribute to West, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into points of light, drifting towards the distant polar sea.

The soul returns and is finally liberated.

The others didn't know about the relationship between Horus and West, but they were a little surprised to see the soul who had just fought with them disappear in an instant.

They turned their gazes to West, but saw West lowered his head, facing the direction Horus left—Death saluted them, expressing respect for them who sacrificed everything for death for thousands of years.

When he raised his head again, the others probably knew about their relationship.

Under such circumstances, they did not ask any further questions.

West is also very considerate to tell everyone what happened before. They have heard the story about Horus and death, but they will still feel sincere when they listen to the process of their fighting for West. admiration.

"They really are heroes," Steve said after a sigh.

"I have also completed the task that death wants me to complete." West said, he subconsciously touched the silver cross pendant on his chest, which was the last gift left to him by Lady Death.

He did it.

More importantly, he remembered some words that Lady Death had given him—he thought those words were what Lady Death wanted to give him most.

Although he really didn't quite understand the meaning of those words, he could feel how important those words were.

Putting those things aside, West actually has another gain

He has a bag full of dirt in his pocket - this is what he got from the destroyed villagers.

Billy used this mud to create the bodies used by the villagers, and those bodies made them almost indistinguishable from normal people except that they had no soul.

He has felt that the soil contains a taste similar to that of the resurrection town, but it is different.

This is the result of Billy's transformation.

Before Levansfell was about to be destroyed, he subconsciously collected all the soil—he knew why he did it.

Because at that time he thought, since Billy can make a body, can he use this clay to make a body for Tony and Clark?

He has always wanted to give them a gift, and this is the best gift.

But after he got it, he didn't know whether he should do it or not.

He wasn't sure, if he did that, would he be the same as Namonros - no, he didn't need to be sure, he knew that if he did that, he would be doing what he agreed with Namonros again - playing with life .

As he thought this way, he uncontrollably felt guilty towards his superheroes.

It made him wonder what to do.

"What's wrong?" Probably because the expression on his face revealed some of his emotions, Tony looked at West worriedly.

He failed to go down with West. At this time, West's expression was a little bit wrong, and he wondered if West had been hurt when he didn't see it.

The same goes for Clark, who leans closer to West and looks at him worriedly.

They treated him like this, and West felt suffocated in his heart—they treated him so well, and he was hesitating whether to give them what they deserved.

"Nothing." West said reluctantly.

Only Batman, who was debugging his own equipment, looked up at West suspiciously.

Fortunately, the sudden appearance of Hall interrupted the situation, allowing West to breathe a sigh of relief.

The black cat jumped out from nowhere, and jumped onto West's shoulder in twos and threes.

"What are you doing?" West changed the subject by pretending to be angry.

Fortunately, everyone didn't doubt him much, and they were all attracted by Hall.

It was the black cat who jumped out suddenly and led them to Levansfell, and it was he who took Wester that led him into the forest where Horus was imprisoned.

The black cat also looked confused, shaking its head, completely unable to remember how it brought West into there.

It's really like a dream.

West leaned closer to his body, and vaguely smelled a familiar smell—the smell of death.

So he knew who Hall was bewitched by, and who led him all the way there.

"Let's go." At this moment, the bat whose instruments returned to normal finally managed to contact other people.

Dick had already set off to the haunted house to retrieve his body before they were attacked. At this time, he received a signal from Bruce, so he set up a new bat fighter to pick them up.

The road is still not safe, but it seems that they have successfully thrown off Fury's pursuit by straying into Rawansfell.

This did them a great favor.

But why didn't Billy ask Namonros to help him during the battle?Several people have this question.

"Billy doesn't really like that Namonos took his place to house the Horus family." West explained, "But because he accepted Namonos' help and promised to give him in return, he had to It doesn't mean he wants to do that—Billy is very bossy."

Revancefell is his obsession, and he respects Narmonos, but that doesn't mean he's completely willing Narrone Roth to treat his world as a cage.

Even if he himself regards it as a cage.

West did not say that during that process, Billy actually asked Namonros for help.

But Namonroth was too busy draining West's power instead of helping Billy with his immediate troubles.

And after those souls who followed him helped him resist Namonos' aggression, Namonos gave up and didn't care about Billy at all.

Namonroth didn't really care about Billy that much—or rather, he didn't care much.

He didn't say anything about it, even though he felt that what Namonroth had done was too ruthless.

At least Billy had followed him sincerely.

The way he gave up Billy was so heartless that even West began to feel that it was too unfair to Billy.

West would never give up on anyone like this.

This is the difference between him and Namonros. West lowered his head and kissed the silver cross necklace hanging on his chest.

A few hours later, they entered the watchtower.

It seems that the Avengers are quite familiar with them, and there are some Avengers' equipment in the guest room of the Justice League.

It was the first time for West to meet the other members of the Justice League. There were not as many people in the watchtower as usual, only Martian Manhunter and Cyborg. Most of the others should have been stumbled by the war on the ground and were busy at the moment. with.

When the Martian Manhunter saw Clark, he paused for two seconds, then nodded towards Clark with relief in his eyes.

Even knowing that Clark was still alive, Cyborg was also excited when he saw Clark. He walked up to Clark, looking like he wanted to give him a hug, but he held back.

"It's fine," Victor said.

Clark gave him a smile back.

"Lauriel had an accident in Central City, and Diana and Hal went to support her." Just after exchanging feelings, Steel Bone started to talk about business.

Chaoying is like this, there is not even a second of rest.

Batman frowned. They were trapped in Revansfell, so he didn't receive a call for help from the Justice League.

And what is Black Canary doing in Central City?What happened to The Flash?Central City is the territory of the Flash, shouldn't the Flash be the first to support it?Why Wonder Woman and Green Lantern?

Is something wrong now?Such a coincidence?After thinking about it, West felt that this time sounded a bit strange.

"When did it happen?" he asked.

Victor gave West a strange look, but he didn't expect the young man to speak first.

But the bat had already sent back West's information, so he knew who West was.

"Just a few hours ago."

After Victor finished speaking, everyone else became silent.

If the timing was correct, this was exactly when they were fighting Billy.

And West figured it out better than they did—that was exactly when Namonroth wanted to snatch power from him.

He pissed off Nameros, what Narmonos did, let Black Canary go to Canterlot.

Thinking about the relationship between Laurel and Oliver, they can guess what she is going to do.

West wasn't sure if it was out of anger or because the loss of Billy wasn't entirely untouched by Namonroth.

This group of people who had just left Levansfell immediately decided to set off for Central City.

But when West was going, Bruce stopped him.

"Wait a minute." He said to West, "Others, get ready, we will leave in 10 minutes, West, I have something to ask you."

West was puzzled, and then heard Bruce say to him, "It's best in private."

After saying this, he made a "follow me" gesture.

West didn't know what he wanted to say, so he followed Bruce to the side.

The two faced each other, and the first sentence Bruce said was: "You successfully sent that child's soul back into your body."

West's heart sank, he thought about whether someone in the team would find out - he didn't report much hope for this, but he didn't expect Bruce to expose this so eagerly, even before the battle was over, Let West think clearly.

The expression on his face remained unchanged, he just sighed: "Yes."

He looked up at Bruce calmly: "I also know how Billy made those bodies."

The expression on Bruce's face was obviously not well controlled, showing a trace of excitement, but he quickly took it back.

Because he has already read something from West's attitude.

"You didn't tell the others," Bruce said affirmatively, "not because you didn't know what to do, but because you didn't know whether to do it."

West nodded.

"Why?" Bruce asked.

He didn't immediately deny West, but put on a questioning gesture.

"Because...if I did, I would be doing the same thing as Namonros." West twitched his lips, "This world has its own laws, and we are the laws, not those who break the laws. I have no right to resurrect anyone."

Bruce didn't speak immediately after listening.

He looked at West, and said after a long time: "This is the truth."

West raised his eyebrows and looked at Bruce in surprise.

He didn't expect Batman to agree with him so bluntly.

He thought that Bruce would tell him a lot of truths, he would tell him that the world needs Superman, Iron Man, and those who should be on the front line of saving the world, but are forced to hide in his haunted house.

Just like West expected before saying that sentence.

Batman always has a reason to convince him.

And he didn't.

"No one can force others to violate their own principles." Bruce said, there was pain deep in his eyes, but he didn't show it. Only people who have a deep understanding of the soul can feel this pain from him. The right thing to do."

"I'm sorry," West said.

"You should say sorry." Bruce nodded. "But it's not about this matter, but you didn't tell other people about it. Do you think if you tell us, we will force you?"

West shook his head.

He doesn't think so, it's just...

"You tell Tony, and Tony will never blame you. He will pretend to be angry at most, but he won't feel anything in his heart." Bruce said, "Clark doesn't need to say anything, he won't have that kind of thought at all. .”

"What about you? What about the others?" West blurted out. "What about me? Me? Don't I blame myself?"

"Yes, Tony won't blame me," West said, "Clark won't, and neither of you. But, I can't help it, I can't accept this. In fact, I am still a person at heart, and I am just a person." Ordinary people, in terms of thinking, are not as good as you."

In fact, he is still an ordinary person in essence. For more than 20 years, he has been an ordinary person.

The biggest difference between a hero and an ordinary person does not lie in his ability, but in his choice-whether he has the determination to sacrifice when faced with a dilemma.

It's not just about sacrificing yourself, it's about sacrificing those you care about.

He didn't, he never has.

"Sorry." West laughed at himself in a low voice, "It's been so long, and I still haven't made any progress."

This sentence is not speaking to Bruce, but also to the death lady who gave everything to him.

"Actually, you've already made your choice, haven't you?" Clark, who had been listening by the side, finally couldn't help but speak.

He floated to West and looked at West with such serious and firm eyes for the first time: "You can feel pain for this, but you shouldn't indulge in this pain."

"Didn't Ms. Death suffer when she sacrificed Horus? But she did it anyway." Clark said, "I can't make a decision for Tony, but I can tell you that I don't need a body, and I don't need you to go against it." This law."

He looked at West resolutely, his blue eyes full of determination.

Bruce sighed and twitched the corners of his mouth: "I think I know Tony, he won't agree."

Clark nodded, and then grabbed West's shoulder: "West, the soul follows death, and we will not turn our backs on you."

"I owe you all." West sighed long.

"No, we are the ones who died." Clark said, "It is a gift for us to still be able to walk in this world, so how can we say whether we owe it or not? You have already made your decision, and you don't need to apologize to anyone. "

West lowered his eyes, and then heard Clark say: "You can take a break, I think you are too tired to compete with Billy, you can stop and take a break, you must know what I mean."

West also felt that he was a bit tired, he should participate in this battle, because Namonros suddenly shot in a rage, and it was very likely that it was aimed at him.

But he also clearly felt that he should stop and take a break.

This fatigue does not come from the body, but from himself.

"Okay, I'll be waiting for you at the watchtower," West said.

Clark heaved a sigh of relief. After discovering that West was not in good condition, he wanted him to rest a long time ago, but he never found a chance.

He stretched out his hand to touch West's head, and gave him a comforting smile.

"In this case, Bruce and I will go, and you stay in the watchtower to rest." Clark said.

A disembodied Superman doesn't help much in combat.

But he still insisted that every battle must be reached - what if there is a battle that can use the soul.

The news that West would not go did not surprise everyone. In fact, even though they knew that he was not an ordinary person, these superheroes still treated him as an ordinary person in their hearts.

Instead, they were surprised that he had been participating in the battle.

And it is obvious to all that West is not in a good state.

They were all worried about whether West had been injured in the fight with Billy—after all, West was the one who worked the hardest when fighting Billy.

But they didn't ask, but said it was better.

When the superheroes left the watchtower one by one, there were only West and Cyborg left in the Justice League base.

The Martian Manhunter has mind reading skills, but it has no effect on the law, so West is not worried that his thoughts will be read out.

But Martian Manhunter is obviously not only good at reading minds, he is also very good at understanding emotional changes from people's expressions.

So he thoughtfully arranged a room for West to rest, so that West could be quiet.

After West thanked him, he accepted his kindness.

He really needs a break.

Lying on the comfortable bed in the watchtower, West's thoughts were still running away.

He actually knew he was doing the right thing, but...

Why do I feel so much pain when I'm doing the right thing?

West thought like this, even he didn't know how long time had passed, only his mind kept struggling, wanting to figure out why he actually knew why.

Time seemed to have stopped, waiting for him to think clearly.

Suddenly, a throbbing pain in his heart brought him back to consciousness.

Then he heard Namonroth's voice in his ear: "If you don't come, I will kill all the people here."

West sat up suddenly, and then he realized that the time between when he lay down and when he sat up was only five minutes.

These 5 minutes were obviously not enough, and Namon Ross caught Bruce and them.

In other words, this is... a dream?

He looked down and saw that the dream sand bag belonging to the succubus on his body had scattered at some point, and the dream sand inside had scattered all over the bed, as if telling West something.