[Comprehensive British and American] The richest man in the super British world

"So, you killed the clown," Dick tried to make his words sound less difficult, "just before you dated me."

"I told you all." Wade said, "This matter is very complicated. But...it's not particularly difficult to understand. I didn't kill the clown, I just let him go where he should go."

"...is this your trial?" Dick asked. "What's the place to go?"

"He died long ago. It's just that I didn't take care of the God of Ferry, Caron, and let him betray me. He was the one who sent back the clown to disturb the world."

"Wu Shen?" Dick repeated subconsciously, "Then you are?"

"Ancient Greek." Wade smiled, "Do you have the habit of reading mythology?"

Dick was choking: "So you're a myth?"

OK, great.Great, he thought his identity as a masked vigilante was divisive.As a result, his new boyfriend is even more powerful than him.

"Hades," Wade said, approaching Dick, "have you ever heard of it?"

……

Dick stayed where he was, and Wade patiently gave him time to digest the message. Of course, not everyone can accept falling in love with a Greek god who has lived for thousands of years. If Dick broke up with him on the spot, he would understand, Wade took a slow breath, waiting for Dick's trial.Dick blinked slowly, still in a state of panic because of the name.After a while, he finally moved and asked a question: "So you are much older than twenty now?"

"What?" Wade was confused by his question, "Yes, of course."

Dick breathed a sigh of relief exaggeratedly: "Great."

"...?"

"You look like a student, the kind who didn't come out of society," Dick complained a little bit, "I put photos of you and me on social networks, and my friends said I was eating young grass. Now it seems that I It's the one that gets eaten. Don't worry."

Wade asked, "Is that the point, Dick? You wake up!"

——Is he Hades, the king of the underworld? !Hades, Hades!The god who controls death and money, the brother of Zeus, Hades, the master of the underworld in Greek mythology!And Dick's attitude towards him was like hearing that his boyfriend is an idol team in the entertainment industry. After being excited like a big boy, he didn't have any special reaction, which made his anxiety dissipate in an instant.In fact, Dick was not as calm as he appeared, and the seemingly off-line question was thrown out to make Wade no longer tense.Soon, Dick himself accepted Wade's identity, and he was more open-minded than the latter himself thought.

He thought, Wade is Hades, so what?Dick has seen all kinds of people. He has climbed the steep snow peaks that no one has ever reached, where the snow will show a dazzling wine blue light in the afterglow of sunset. He has seen a planet crash and burn. The blue-red flame, it ended his tens of billions of years of life with a burning sigh. He also knew friends of different races on different planets. They had different skin colors, three eyes, or tentacles. He drank thirty kinds of most Drinks that people have never seen before, and heard the solemn reverberation hymns of more than a dozen other intelligent biological religions. In Dick's short human life of more than 20 years, he was lucky enough to appreciate the scenery that most people can't peep in their entire lives.

He had seen too much, and life was too short to waste time fighting his own mind.No matter who Wade was, Dick decided to be with him after getting to know him.So everything is fine.

Dick hugged Wade tightly and wrapped him in his coat, protecting him from the cold wind.The latter was immediately surrounded by warmth close to the body.

"So? What reaction do you expect from me?" Dick's voice rang in his ear with a smile, "I made it! I'm in love with God!—"

Wade let himself stay in his arms for a few minutes, Dick hugged him childishly and shook him on the spot, making him move accordingly, then the former lowered his head and put his forehead against Wade's forehead: "Tell me quietly If I fall in love with Pluto, will there be any surprises?"

Wade asked in a muffled voice, "Isn't this a surprise?"

Dick rubbed his cheek: "Let's talk about the clown then. You seem to have a lot to tell me."

Wade thought for a moment and said, "The clown should have died the first time he fell into the chemical liquid, but someone gave him the Dionysian factor behind my back - that's what you call it, or, Lazarus Road spring water? That’s something from the underworld.”

Dick froze for a moment at the word "Dionysian factor."It is an extremely scarce thing that can make people have a strong self-healing ability and can hardly die. It is because of this thing that the clown makes it almost impossible for people to get rid of him.

"Someone betrayed me," Wade said, frowning. "So technically, I didn't kill the Joker. I was just chasing the fugitive."

"Like a cop, aren't you?" Dick asked. "Bruhaven Dick Grayson's good partner."

"You're teasing me. I haven't been to work for a long time." Wade buried his face in Dick's arms in embarrassment, "...Forget it, just treat it as if I went to play tickets. What I have to do The matter is much more important than being a policeman. Of course, after the resolution is over, I may come back and continue to be a policeman, which is also my wish."

Hades, the king of the underworld, is a little policeman in Bruhaven... What a very promising wish.

"anything else?"

Dick accepted Wade's argument.He abides by Batman's principle of not killing, because no one can be above the law, and arbitrarily use his own ideas as a judge. He agrees with this point of view, because it is precisely because of this bottom line that they are wandering on the edge Only vigilantes can maintain their bottom line.And Wade...Hades, Pluto, first of all, he is not human (he hasn't figured out how to tell his family the news, Dick fell in love with a non-human, of course, they may not be surprised at all), human laws seem to be It didn't work for him.Second, he is Pluto.No one is more qualified to judge sinners than he is.More importantly, the clown was already dead, and all Wade did was send him back.

Dick couldn't figure out why he thought he'd be angry—unnecessarily, would he be angry at his boyfriend because a criminal had been re-arrested for death?

"It's very complicated and long, I don't know if I should say it," Wade struggled, "I don't think you want to hear it."

"I want to know all about you," Dick said, touching Wade's forehead with his forehead, and walked away. "Come on, tell me."

……

The news of Pandora's theft came suddenly.Wade just dozed off in his palace, and then Hermes' brisk voice came all the way down the palace covered with vines.The messenger of the gods flew into his hall unannounced.Huge white pillars propped up a huge protruding dome arch imprinted with the sky.Wade liked it here because it was close to the Elysee and some distance from his and Persephone's palace, which kept her from bothering him.

"This matter is very important, very important," Hermes said seriously, "Master Hades, I hope you can seriously think about this matter."

Wade broke out of sleep and was stunned for a while.

"Oh, yes," he said, "I see. My plague has been stolen."

He was in charge of the plague at the same time, because Zeus wanted to punish the world, so at the request of this difficult brother, he put the plague into Pandora's box.He doesn't hate humans, and thinks they are interesting, so he put the plague at the bottom and bound it. Even if the box is opened, it can't fly out completely, leaving a way for humans to survive.Pandora opened the magic box and brought disasters to the world. Although the "gift from heaven" closed the magic box in panic, most of the disasters still came to the world.Only the remaining half of the plague and the beautiful thing "hope" left by Athena, the goddess of wisdom, remained.

He took back the box, released "Hope", stuffed the rest of the plague back into the box, and put it somewhere in his palace.

Hermes bowed in front of him.

"Everyone knows that you are in charge of the plague." He pointed.

"I've said it, I understand," Wade said impatiently, "I will go to the world to find the things back."

So Wade needs to get out of the underworld.The three-headed dog does not allow the living to enter, nor does it allow the dead to go out.As time changed, these Greek gods lost some of their freedom and were trapped in their own domains, unable to easily reach the human world at all.For example, Zeus, the god of thunder who is famous for his stallion, heard that another god of thunder "Thor" appeared in the world, and he was so angry that he couldn't come down from his city in the sky to the mortal world to have a fight with the person who took his name away. In a battle of honor, you can only stay in the sky and sulk.

The same is true for the underworld. Wade's pet, the three-headed hellhound, has become a gatekeeper, not allowing the gods of the underworld to come and go freely, and the original pet has become a bondage.They couldn't find their original strength, so they could only be trapped in this piece of soil that smelled of scorched earth and dead people.Therefore, even as Pluto, Wade must find a way to go to the world in accordance with the "laws", and he can no longer use his ability to split the land at will, and appear among mortals out of thin air on his four black horses.

It's just that this thing must have its source.

"Who stole it?" he asked.

Then he got a name.Epimetheus.

In today's legends, he is usually compared with Prometheus, one as a symbol of stupidity, and the other as wisdom.But in fact, the two Greek gods who jointly created human beings were much more cunning than the world imagined.Moreover, there is no such difference as everyone thinks.Prometheus, who stole fire for mankind, was punished in his underworld, while Epimetheus, another man who rejected humans, stole into his underworld and stole Pandora's demon without seeing his brother. box?

"Who let him in?" he asked.

Hermes glanced at him cautiously: "Your Queen of the Underworld, Persephone."

Wade felt a little unbelievable: "What is her reason this time?"

He doesn't like Persephone, the former goddess of spring.He was hit by the carefully planned arrow of Eros, that's why he fell in love with the woman he met for the first time. As the power of the arrow dissipated, his feelings for her gradually became clear, and it was never the same. result of planning.He didn't love her at all, and this woman had to pay the price for what she did to get the godhead she shouldn't have, so he ate pomegranate seeds for her, forcing her to stay in the underworld to atone for the godhead.

But in reality, Persephone is more cunning than she makes it out to be.This goddess should actually be a female Pluto. If it wasn't for the gradual decline of the matrilineal line and being replaced by the paternal line, she would even have the power to surpass Hades, the king of the underworld, and be more capable of controlling the underworld than him, because she had another identity at the beginning of her birth. Is the goddess of death.And Pluto's power is the reason why she planned all of this. The power she wanted was not obtained successfully, so she always behaved hoarse and resentful in front of Pluto.

"Epimetheus's love for Pandora moved her. He longed to go to the underworld to see his wife again. Even though she had done many wrong things, he still loved her."

A trace of envy flashed in Hermes' eyes.The Greeks have always appreciated these loyal feelings, especially when the feelings of the gods are always short and confused.

Wade felt helpless and speechless for a while.

"Pandora is here to be punished, Zeus meant, because she did not fulfill her mission, and fell in love with Epimetheus," he said, "and, last time Persephone let go of a pair of lovers, Then she managed to keep one of them in the underworld forever, which was a seemingly benevolent game of hers, and she was not qualified to let other people's feelings be her way of pastime."

Persephone is even more disgusting than he thought. She has obtained the godhead of the queen of the underworld, but she also longs for the right to control the underworld that does not belong to her, and she deliberately wants to regain her due identity.Moreover, he didn't want to deal with her underground love affairs with God of Ferry Calon, younger brother Zeus, etc. He never touched her at all.

However, what he didn't expect was that the relationship between Dushen and Minghou almost cost him the price.

Wade put on a cloak to cover his whole body, so as not to let the queen of the underworld spy on his whereabouts.He has never been able to use his own thinking to understand what this goddess will do.However, Cuaron counted all of this. He tipped off his lover Persephone, and then took advantage of the appearance of the talkative mercenaries to put Wade into their elaborate trap.Calon awakened the hell three-headed dog, so that he could not leave the underworld easily, and then seemed to make a contract with him to let him go out of the underworld smoothly, but in fact it was to restrict him from returning to the underworld. ", then Pluto is equivalent to being trapped in the world.

For two years, he could not return to the underworld.So this gives Queen Hades a chance.Perhaps during the time Pluto was in the world, she had done a lot of things in the underworld, but he couldn't go back and stop this crazy goddess.But now that he has arrived in the human world, Wade will still find his stolen Pandora's Box first, and then...think about how to go back and find trouble with these daring gods.

Messing up his memory did take him a lot of time, so he needed to pick up the pace.

Still, he was kind of thankful that his memory was messed up.Otherwise, how could he get the memory, become Wedblake, let this person, or the new self be resurrected, and at the same time find the value of life beyond death.

……

"So, you have a queen," Dick immediately grasped the point after listening, "Queen?!"

Acidic water bubbled out.

Dick felt like he had eaten 1 lemons.

Wade was amused by his reaction: "It's only in name. In fact, she was born in the world with her own mission. In a sense, she is also considered Pluto, but due to various reasons, she can only become my The queen of the underworld cannot actually fully grasp the power of the underworld. I have no relationship with her, you know, it is the arrow of the god of love—”

He used his finger to make an arrow in front of Dick, and under the latter's gaze, he gradually moved his finger to the heart of his chest, poked it lightly, and said, "That's it, shot an arrow. This is an arrow." an inevitable fate."

Dick grabbed his finger, a little unhappy: "Fate is for people to break."

He thought about it for a while, but still felt a little uncomfortable, so he changed the wording: "No, there is no such thing as fate between you and her."

Hmph, fate sounds very romantic.

"Anyway... what you say always makes sense." Wade felt like he was smoothing his feathers, and the little bird was so unhappy that it was about to shed its feathers.

"I... you, are you committing bigamy?" Dick suddenly said something surprising, he seemed completely entangled, "Is the Greek god allowed?"

"...What?" Wade was shocked, "What are you talking about?"

He was again baffled by Dick's unexpected brain circuit.

"We are not married yet," he said, still choosing to explain patiently, "so there is no need to consider bigamy at all."

Dick looked even more shocked than he was, almost sad. "Haven't you thought about it? Wade? Never?"

Wade was even more confused.If he remembered correctly, they decided on their relationship as a couple in the morning, right?Is their age gap so big?

"Uh, think about it, think about it now, immediately, think about it right away," he said carefully, trying to make his eyes look very sincere, and then he changed the subject, "...Aren't you going to invite me to a movie? What movie ?”

"Oh, yes." Dick's attention was successfully diverted away. Perhaps, he was intentionally teasing Wade. "Love You Rosie, it was released recently. I heard it is, cough, a romantic movie."

Superheroes may encounter all kinds of troubles every day. They may still greet strangers on the street today, good morning, how are you, and they will encounter unexpected difficulties at night.So what Dick learned was that no matter what happens tomorrow, what happens the next moment, the next second.Divide every day into 24 hours. If it is too whole, then divide it into minutes, or even, every second, and enjoy yourself in time.So no matter what Pandora, Dionysus factor, Lazarus spring water, Queen of the Underworld's conspiracy... nothing can disturb Dick's date tonight.He wanted Wade to relax.

Dick had selectively forgotten that this movie was the best choice he'd harassed Jason all afternoon.The latter almost flew over to beat Dick, but Dick was smart enough to let it go, and hung up the phone before the other party could bear it no longer.

"Midnight show! I like to watch movies at midnight." Dick said, took Wade's hand, put it to his lips, let out a breath, and frowned, "...your hands are so cold."

Wade naturally held Dick's hand with a backhand.

"Let's go."

……

This movie was a midnight show, and there were only him and Wade in the big movie theater.The light projected from the screen fell slightly on the faces of the two of them.

Wade rested his chin on one hand, rested his elbow on the armrest, and looked at the screen intently, while Dick also looked at his side face without blinking.

"So, do you still remember what I said?" He said suddenly, "On that snowy night."

"Of course." Wade turned his head to look at him and smiled at him, "I remember everything you said."

"Well, okay," Dick said softly, and he touched the tip of Wade's nose with his finger, "...Don't embarrass yourself, and don't think about it. Whether it's Wade or Hades, I love you."

A burst of electricity spread numbly from the place where Wade touched his fingertips, and Wade trembled.He opened his mouth to say something...

Dick saw it.He kept convincing himself that it didn't matter, the name didn't matter, but he really didn't know what Dick was thinking on this matter.He pretended to be indifferent, bypassing the details about the memory, but Dick was naturally sensitive to other people's feelings, and he could know what Wade was worried about.It was unnecessary, because Dick knew that he had feelings for him only after he got along with him.No matter what his past status is, Wade, Hades, it doesn't matter.

"I've had a lot of movie dates," Dick said, stopping Wade, "and I've had a lot of movie dates. I'd pick the busiest times, or the quieter nights. But I'd never invited anyone. Watched the midnight show with me—"

"Is this a little secret?" Wade asked.

"Yes, I'll tell you secretly." Dick followed his words, turned his eyes back to the screen, and looked at the picture on the movie, "It's always lively around me, Wade. Sometimes, I also miss someone Stay for a while. But if you're in an environment where everyone's related to each other, you'll find that you can't do it at all, because everyone will notice 'happy dick is not happy!', and they will keep asking, your Silence will become a burden to the person who loves you, which is not good, I can't do it. So I will be alone in the middle of the night, buy a movie ticket, and then sit anywhere alone."

Wade listened quietly.At a certain point in the movie, soft music was playing, a light blue light was projected on Dick's face, and he intertwined with Nightwing again for a moment.

"I have heard a saying that people who always laugh are prone to wrinkles. Because the actual smile is a kind of thing that can corrode yourself. It spreads your happiness to many people, leaving you with only lines , tired and scratched. I'm tired, Wade. I explore my worth, my Dick's, Nightwing's, Robin's, oldest son's... I have so many identities, so , I can only say that I am what I make, the choices I make every moment, they shape me." Dick shrugged, then he couldn't hold back his expression, and smiled embarrassedly, "...I don't know what I'm talking about What nonsense. But you too."

Wade stood up suddenly, he threw himself into Dick's arms and hugged the human being.

Dick was taken aback by his actions.

"I have a lot of money, you know, when I used to pester you for sponsorship," Wade said, "I once told you, give it all to you, very willing. Because that's what I could have at the time, you need But it's different now, Dick. I'll give you anything you want, and you can come to me whenever you want. No movie theaters, no pretending to be happy forever."

Dick hesitated and hugged him too.

"Okay," he said.He knew it was a promise.

Suddenly, the phone rings to break it all.Wade looked into his coat pocket, stood up, and took out his phone.

The screen displayed the name of the caller—Spencer Read.

Why did you suddenly contact him at this time?Did he find news of Pandora's box?