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

It was as if they had fallen into a rabbit hole, and they kept falling. Dick felt that it had been 5 minutes, but there was still no sign of falling to the bottom.In the darkness, he suddenly became interested in teasing Wade, and shook him with his hand, gesturing him to open his eyes, but Wade still pressed his head on his chest, refusing to lift it up.

"I'm done," Wade said sadly, "I've lost all face."

Fortunately, he also boasted that he would cover Dick in the future, and now it seems that going to night patrol with him has become a luxury.

"I respect you a lot." Dick grinned, "You are also invincible."

"I would be more grateful if you could tell your lies more sincerely."

But Dick was actually enjoying the moment, and it was a great satisfaction to his boyfriend's dignity - albeit based on Wade's pain, ah, sweet trouble.

Finally, they passed through the darkness and landed softly on the ground.It was silent, windless, and eerily dry.According to legend, someone should lead them to the edge of the River Styx.Dick immediately stood up and looked left and right vigilantly, like a vigilant bird protecting its food.The land here is dry to the cracks, and the edges show a red-hot magnificent color, which makes people awestruck by the deep and old emotions that the soil can convey, which is a place that human beings cannot touch when they are alive.

"What are you looking at?" Wade asked.

Dick touched his chin: "Uh, shouldn't Hermes lead us to the gate of hell?"

"It would be good if he didn't take us into the gutter." Wade said helplessly, "Many people misunderstood him. If he finds the door three times out of ten, it means he played well today."

So there is often a huge gap between legends and real people. After all, before meeting Wade, Dick never thought that Pluto was like this... Dick would not tell Wade that when he was young, he was once scared to cry by the legend of Pluto ——Hades doesn't have a good reputation among humans, but when Dick himself was Nightwing, he could barely be regarded as an urban ghost story, and they were all the same.

Dick gave Wade a hand and pulled him up, and they stood on the dark clouded ground.The trees are all dead, casting shadows with their fangs and claws.Dick was surprised that he could see a crescent moon looming between the black clouds, occasionally shed some light, and then hide among the clouds, like a mottled fence, planning their next path.

"Put this on." Wade took out a black robe from nowhere and threw it to Dick. "You have the breath of a living person on you, which will cause a lot of trouble."

"Isn't the underworld yours?" Dick muttered.

"A long time ago, it wasn't my territory. I came here after drawing lots. You can't imagine the power here." He said, urging Dick to put on a cloak, and he also wore one to cover it up. The breath of the whole body, Dick dressed very quickly, not very carefully, the shirt turned up, Wade immediately went to his side to help him tidy up the collar, then pulled Dick's hood, combed his hair, and stepped back Appreciate your masterpiece in one step.Dick put on his cloak and hood and had a mysterious air about him, like a night elf.

"Does it look good?" Dick turned around pretending to be a girl, and blew a kiss at him, "Am I a hanger?"

Wade clapped his hands: "Yes, you are a clothes hanger. I will build a fitting room of [-] square meters for you, install hundreds of mirrors, and order a servant to stand behind each mirror. When you ask questions, They just responded, 'You're the most beautiful person in the world, Dick,' so you're satisfied?"

"Then have I become the most pompous hero in the superhero world?"

"This is how you deserve to be the richest man." Wade finished speaking, gave him a hand, and pointed to the front, "Did you see that forest?"

Dick followed his line of sight, and in the distance there was a black forest, hidden in the shadow of dark clouds, barely visible.But it was indeed a forest, with the color of dew shining in the blackened light of the green leaves.Further in, there are black poplars and coconut trees, with black and thin branches twisted like dry and burning torsos.

"That's Fangorn Forest behind Persephone's garden. She has a lot of weird pets," Wade said. "Don't be fooled, okay?"

"I realize you've said this to me countless times," Dick rubbed Wade's head, "No, I'm vigilant and trustworthy."

Wade suddenly smiled: "At the same time... it can also open your eyes."

"What? A strange creature?"

"No," he said, "elf."

……

Obviously, there are still elves living in this land, which made Dick unbelievable. He kept asking Wade all the way: "Elves? Is that the elves I thought? They shouldn't live in..."

— Where there is a forest where flowers cover the ground, there is sunshine, breeze, and birdsong.

Wade replied patiently: "Yes. But there are always some elves who didn't have time to cross the west, and for various reasons, they couldn't live on the human surface, but came to the underground, which is the legendary Fangorn Forest. Besides , here is still some distance from the gate of hell, it is not counted in the underworld. Compared with getting along with human beings, they can adapt here."

They helped him. When Wade came from the edge of the Styx with no memory, it was the elves who sent him out of the ground so that he could return to the world.This group of nearly immortal creatures is friendly to all intelligent beings.Orpheus loved Eurydice very much, but she was bitten by a poisonous snake and her soul returned to the underworld, so Orpheus came to the underworld, praying to bring back his lover.

As the son of Apollo, he is a natural musical genius, but the sound of the piano alone cannot impress Calon, the god of crossing.So the elves taught the poor god their singing skills, and he used it to make Charon and Persephone let go, and promised him to take his wife back to the world.

Elves are not found in Greek mythology, but they do have a branch in Hades.

When the hem of their robes swept across the grass, the red-rimmed moon illuminated the black cloth, and there was only the sound of rustling through the grass. Dick kept his hand in front of Wade, To prevent him from being swept in the face by the branches, help him push aside the branches along the way, but suddenly, Dick's figure paused: "Did you pull my clothes?"

"No." Wade replied.

They immediately looked warily at the hem of Dick's cloak.There's nothing there, just being hooked by a branch protruding from the ground.

Dick heaved a sigh of relief, and he went to pull his cloak, but suddenly, it came alive, moved immediately, grabbed Dick's ankle, and was swiftly severed by the latter.The branch let out a shriek and jerked back.It curled up like a bug, twisted into a half-arc in mid-air, and made a piercing buzzing sound towards the two people who entered the forest, as if roaring and probing.Dick clicked his tongue and commented objectively: "...It's really disgusting."

Because he soon discovered that this was not a branch, but a kind of bug.It opened its mouthpiece to Dick, and if you don’t look carefully, you can’t see it clearly at all. After all, compared to its thick body, the small opening is more like an ulcer, and densely packed teeth are turned out. In mid-air, it trembled and hissed like a rattlesnake.It wasn't just this one. Soon, one after another of the voices echoed around Wade and Dick.Dick silently broke a branch from his side.

In the hazy bloody moonlight, they couldn't tell what was a branch and what was a bug.They lurk cunningly.

Dick looked at Wade expectantly: "Can you tell them to go away?"

"Unfortunately, I can't," Wade clapped his hand on Dick's hand, ticking his little finger, "These are monsters bred by Persephone."

As soon as his words fell, the two worms couldn't hold back any longer, like two snakes, they rushed towards the two of them. Their thick bodies were faster than lightning, and Wade immediately opened his hands, and a black barrier immediately Protruding out from the darkness, they quickly covered the two of them, they whispered excitedly, the insects rushed to the black mist, Dick was very close to the barrier, he felt a coolness from head to toe, those who appeared out of nowhere The black mist seems to have allocated part of its energy to look at this human being, and Dick feels that he has been seen through.

But these weird bugs seemed to be burned by high temperature, screaming and writhing on the barrier trying to get rid of, but the black mist refused to let go, it imprisoned them between the two layers of black mist, gradually emitting scorched The pungent smell of mushy food.

"You're not very good at cooking," said Dick.

"Then let me be half-familiar."

Wade closed his eyes and focused on the mist. The black mist around them suddenly stopped flowing, and he was stunned as if he could think, as if to say: Are you fucking kidding me?Reluctantly, they slowed down the speed of the flow. Under Dick's gaze, the bugs rushed up like a heavy rain, hitting the screen that Wade propped up like an umbrella, making a muffled sound, and then became the outside world. The charred and tender roast meat fell back to the ground and became steaming hot and half-cooked just out of the oven.

Wade could see that Dick was uncomfortable with his fog, and he was right, they did see through his past.

So after it was all done, he blinked and said, calming down, "Does it look like I have a multi-function grill on top of my head?"

Dick was amused: "Wade, how can you tell me to eat barbecue in the future."

"Aren't you a foodie, Dick?"

"It doesn't mean this."

They're on their way, and Dick is stupidly carrying his makeshift weapon, a broken tree branch, which is useless and just makes Dick look even more of a fool.Dick stuck a worm in a stick, held it up, and watched it for a while.

"It's such a romantic date, a picnic trip." Dick said depressed, "It really makes my index finger move."

"Let's go, Dick," Wade said with a smile, and pulled him away, "There is still a long way to go."

His footsteps stopped because a figure flashed through the grass.The person who appeared here turned his back to them, lowered his head, and stood in front of them.

"There should be no living people here," said Dick.

"He's a lost soul..."

So I was able to sit on the stones here and stare blankly.

"Could it be here on purpose to confuse me?" Dick asked, with a hint of apprehension, "Uh, for example, it's my father, or my friend?"

"No, Dick." Wade thought about his choice of words, considering his fragile boyish heart, "Persephone looks down on humans."

He walked up to the soul under Dick's gaze, and he didn't respond to Wade's approach.When he turned to the front, he realized that he didn't recognize the blond man at all.Time has not left traces on his face. This is a young man in his twenties, sitting on a stone with blank eyes, wearing a military uniform, his face is pale, and he is whispering inaudible words.He was tired, miserable, and secretly sad.There are traces of flames on the military plate. This is a long-dead undead.

"He's trapped here." Wade concluded, "He must have been a strong-willed man during his lifetime."

"Why?" Dick also stepped forward.

"Few souls can stay here, but after people die, there is an unknown force that drives them to the gate of hell and to the river Styx. Many people feel unwilling, painful or resentful after death, but they are all in front of this force. It's not enough, they still have to go to the underworld. And this man's soul stayed in the forest, there must be something in his heart that he couldn't let go, so strong that even if he was a soul mentality, he would not forget it and wanted to return to the world. Wade explained patiently, "Look at his clothes, he's been here for a long time."

Under the moonlight, Dick saw the other person's face clearly. He had seen it...he definitely saw it somewhere, and he desperately rummaged through it in his mind.

"Steve Trevor—" His eyes widened in disbelief, and he turned to look at Wade, "I know him! He's Wonder Woman Diana's boyfriend, I've seen him in a photo .Brusto I got it for her, and the man in the picture is him."

Faster than Wade asking the question in doubt, was Steve's movement. This dazed and silent soul suddenly reached out and grabbed Dick's wrist, and repeated slowly: "...Diana?"

Wei pulled Dick's arm, pulled out his wrist, and shook his head at Dick: "He is dead."

Dick knew Wade was right, but he couldn't help but stare at Steve.This man once danced with Princess Diana, who had just left Paradise Island, in a snowy night after a battle. They leaned together softly, the dance music was very gentle and light, and someone was playing the piano in the room. , the future and tranquility, a kind of affection spread between the two, but the flames of war abruptly cut off all possibilities, the dance music changed, and their hands separated, but they could not be pulled together again.Dance music can be repeated, but how can life be?

From the moment Steve got on the plane, their ending could not be changed.He saves the world, but loses Diana.

"If he's a soul," Dick asked suddenly, "how could he touch me?"

"He will return to the world."

A strange and ethereal voice.

Wade turned his head and saw a familiar person who jumped down from the tree and landed lightly in front of him.

"Wade, long time no see." The other party tilted his head, and the blond braids were hanging down his shoulders. This elf who suddenly appeared exuded a soft light all over his body. Is it to end your fate?"

"This is Green Leaf," Wade said to Dick. "He's the Prince of Elves..."

The opponent simply took off the bow and arrow on his back and shot it without much aiming. A spider was shot and fell to the ground.The monster had been approaching them quietly just now, and he caught traces of it. He was obviously very good at dealing with things here.

"I remember correctly that you should be in Valinor?" Wade asked, and under his gaze, Dick walked over and shook off the worm stuck in the branch in his hand, and poked the spider with it, keeping his typical face Dick-style depressed expression - "You guys talk, leave me alone."

"Something called me back." The elf glanced at Steve, the lost soul, "His destiny is special."

Elves can see some future farther than what is happening now.He sensed it all from the other side of the seagull's cry.

Dick finally lost interest in the big spider: "Then when will Steve go back? Diana will be very happy."

"Compared to this, why don't you care about yourselves?" said the elf, and took off the bow and arrow and handed them to Dick, who was stunned for a moment and took them over, "Persephone is waiting."

He was right, since Persephone was born without a godhead, she and Wade were doomed to have an inevitable battle.It's just that it has lasted for thousands of years, lurking silently and dangerously, like a monster, waiting for everything to come in the darkness of Hades—it is determined by fate that it only needs one master.

"Thank you." Dick whispered, and put the quiver back on his shoulder, feeling a sense of mission to protect Wade.

The shadow of a gigantic creature suddenly appeared, running towards them with the heat of a living creature and the lingering fear of throwing them at them. Dick immediately pulled out an arrow and shot it, with a standard posture, a serious expression, and a quick movement.

——Then, it was off.

"It's windy," Dick said reluctantly.

Wade didn't expose him, he just snickered in the dark when Dick wasn't looking.

He, Dick Grayson, is a superhero with world-class fighting ability and stick skills. His archery skills are actually not bad, but because the laws of physics here are different from those on the ground, he made a mistake.But he still felt that he was embarrassed, and handed the bow and arrow back to the elf with great sadness: "Thank you, you should come."

The dark clouds withdrew from the moon, flowing with blood-colored outlines, illuminating the sudden appearance of creatures.Dick held his breath and stood ready.The elf stepped back.Instead, Wade stepped forward and stood in front of the two.It showed the whole picture, its size was extremely huge, and it stared at the three people in front of it coldly with a cold and ruthless coercion.

"You shouldn't come back," it said, with a force that made the forest ground tremble constantly, "Persephone is looking forward to this moment."

"Then what should I do? Hide and become a deserter?" Wade asked back, with a rare aggressive attitude, "Don't forget, I am Pluto. The godhead is with me, and she is nothing."

"Titans." It was short and to the point.

"And you, Cerberus, are just my watchdog, a pet. Keep that in mind," Wade said, "If I can lock them into the underworld once, I can lock them up a second time."

"I just care about you." The huge three-headed dog suddenly said in a low voice, "You went to the world through the gate of hell, and many things have changed..."

"Then don't stop me," Wade said. "That's all I want."

With a wave of his hand, Cerberus' figure dissipated like mist.This is just a projection, the three-headed hell dog cannot leave the gate of hell, this is the rule, and it is also fate——

"I suddenly thought of our three-headed dog." Dick sighed, "This one is scary."

Wade glanced at Dick: "Are you sure? It bit your favorite coat."

"It's Damian's dog. It has a bit of a temper, which is normal. Damian once shoveled down the wall of the apartment in order to get revenge on me."

"He doesn't want to hear you compare him to a pet, and slightly better."

The elf's eyes turned back and forth on the two of them.

"So you're a couple living together?" he asked.

"No."

"Yes."

Dick tilted his head in disbelief.

"Aren't we lovers?"

"Aren't we living together yet?"

Dick had "I'm hurt" written all over his face.

"Well, let's talk about it after we get out." Wade could only say, "Dick, we're not focusing on the right thing."

The elf smiled: "—I understand."

Dick stomped on the branch he had thrown aside.

"Listen to you." He said, "But after we go out, we must put this matter on the schedule."

"Got it." Wade said helplessly.

They went on, and the elf went first, to lead them to their place.

There is a place to rest temporarily.Dick's clothes were soaked in water and became dirty, and his mental state was exhausted and tense. After fighting the abyss monster, he needed to rest.Although Dick has been holding on and not showing it, and he doesn't want to delay the schedule, Wade still insists that they pass through the gate of hell after Dick is ready.

When you step over a barrier, everything seems to change.The trees became tall and vigorous, and the dense trees were surrounded by hanging lights, which exuded a hazy beauty and cast mottled shade.There was less darkness in this area, and only the radiance of the gemstone barrier remained. The pearl-colored light shone on the three people who appeared here along with the singing, and the breeze rustled the leaves.The living environment of the elves is like a fairyland on earth. Dick has never seen such a soft and quiet place, and such a place is actually close to the underworld-the land of death.

"...No matter how noisy a person is in life, death will always be the same quiet." The elf seemed to see through what Dick was thinking, and he smiled at him. "A good soul will take a rest here. We are here Met Steve. It's just that sometimes he likes to hang out."

Dick nodded.The elf prepared the room for them.

Wade walked up to him and took his hand: "Go to sleep, Dick, I will be with you. There is still a long way to go."

They walked up the tree along the ladder extending from the trunk, and everything was just right, quiet and distant, just like Dick imagined, the gentle touch of the sea waves rushing up to the ankles.

Dick lay on the bed, and Wade sat on the edge of the bed and touched his right arm.

"Does it still hurt?" he asked.

"You're cured."

"I didn't ask that." Wade was lying next to him, Dick closed his eyes, and he was looking at Dick's face without blinking, "The wound will heal, but you hurt."

"It doesn't hurt now," Dick said lightly.

Dick was getting ready for bed, he needed to get his energy back so he could use a human body to protect the one he loved in a few hours.

And Wade didn't need sleep, he just started counting Dick's eyelashes while quietly waiting for him to wake up.