Superhero Exchange System [Comprehensive British and American]

"Dolphins?" Aum showed a strange look on his face, "Why should I save a dolphin?"

"Probably because they are your citizens of Atlantis?" Emma looked at the task list.I don’t know why, but since Aum was set as a helper, most of the tasks in the task list have become to save all kinds of marine life-whales, crabs, clownfish, dolphins... This dolphin seems to be dying , it has the highest mission urgency, so Emma took over the mission without hesitation.

"I won't do it." Aum said disgustedly.

"You don't have a choice," Clint said. "Do you want to meet Aquaman or not?" "

Orm stared at the two people in front of him. He still didn't understand the relationship between these strange tasks and Arthur.But the two people in front of him didn't seem to give him any explanation.

"Hey", Emma looked at Aum who was still indifferent with her arms folded. "Please, your brother is someone who won't even give up on a lobster!"

"That's because he's just hopelessly stupid," Orm commented. "The lobster is a low-end creature in the ocean world, and it should be taken as a meal by higher-level creatures."

"There's no point in discussing that now." Clint looked at him. "As I said, you have no choice."

Om snorted.

"Where is that dolphin?"

The three of them slowly approached the beach where the dolphins were stranded.

Emma saw the dolphin stranded on the beach at a glance.

The blue-and-white elf lost its way in Nuo Da's ocean. It stumbled into the shallow water by mistake, and then ran aground on the beach, never going back to the sea.

The whole body of the dolphin is covered with sand, and the sand is reflecting the golden light in the sun.The gigantic creature lay motionless on the sand, as weak as a Superman covered in kryptonite powder, seemingly dying.

Emma ran over.Orm and Clint followed.Emma began to check the dolphin's injury - there was a scar on the dolphin's abdomen that originated from the reef, and blood flowed out from the wound, spreading from the ocean to the beach.At this time, there was a pool of blood under its body.

It probably won't live long.Aum looked at the dying dolphin and thought.Even if it were brought back to sea, the wound would have killed it.

The dolphin suddenly opened its eyes.His dark eyes looked at the three people in front of it chaotically, and then exhausted the last of its strength, rubbed its nasal bone against Aum's arm, and then let out a shallow cry.

Orm froze.He understands the sounds of all sea creatures.

The lowly creature was still courting them, to strangers it had never met, at the last moment of its life.

Emma sighed.She glanced at Clint.

"Just do what you want." Clint patted Emma on the shoulder and said.

"System, open the exchange interface."

After exchanging the primary blood recovery talisman, the light red flame talisman danced in Emma's hand.The second after the flame covered the dolphin, the elf life in the sea gradually became alive.Its tail began to swing, and then the dolphin began to sing slowly.

Orm froze.He glanced at Emma complicatedly, and the other side looked back at him, and Aum turned his eyes away.

"Can you release it into the sea?" Emma asked.

Aum stretched out his right hand, and a huge glass ball mask tightly wrapped the dolphin stranded on the beach.The glass ball soared into the sky and slowly returned to the deep sea with the dolphins.

The moment the dolphin touched the surface of the sea, the dolphin suddenly let out a high-pitched cry.

The dolphin's tail swung, rolling out huge waves.It continued to sing cheerfully towards Emma, ​​Orm and Clint on the shore for a long time.

With the chirping of the dolphins, the corners of Aum's mouth fluctuated slightly.Seeing Emma staring at him, Aum coughed lightly to hide the embarrassment of being found smiling.

When completing the task of rescuing the dolphins, Aum's attitude is obviously much better.He even dived into the bottom of the sea and helped Emma and the others do some extremely trivial tasks alone-such as helping the clownfish to retrieve the school of fish, or helping the hairy crab that was crushed under the stone to get rid of the boulder.

As the kings of the ocean, the Atlanteans accomplished these simple tasks with little effort.In just half an hour, Emma and Clint waited for Orm's gap on the shore-Hawkeye insisted not to let Emma go into the water to do tasks with Orm alone-Emma found that her points were It rose to 900 points.

At this time, Aum has almost completed all the tasks from the deep sea in Emma's task list.

After completing the last task of [Save the Sea Anemone], Aum's figure appeared from the sea.He walked towards Emma and Hawkeye without saying a word, but Emma keenly noticed that Aum's light purple eyes began to brew some emotions other than coldness.

He stared at Emma and Hawkeye:

"What else?"

"Then there are human tasks." Emma said.While waiting for Orm to complete the task, he and Clint went to a nearby distribution station to get some bread, drinking water and coats.

Before the superheroes came to the city, a dark dude who supposedly "looked like an alien" preempted the villains who controlled San Francisco.The residents of San Francisco also imitated the central city and did some self-help work. They organized the city government spontaneously and established distribution stations in various areas.

"See that lighthouse ahead? We need to send some food and clothes to the keeper of the lighthouse."

A towering white lighthouse stands on San Francisco Beach.It was dusk now, and the rays of the setting sun and kumquats shot out from the gaps in the clouds.At dusk, the white light of the lighthouse scatters onto the sea, guiding the passing fishing boats and passenger ships.

Jack's hair and beard are grizzled, and his face is covered with grooves left by the years.As he grew older, his legs and feet became more difficult.

He is 70 years old this year. Since he was 19 years old, he has been a lighthouse keeper in San Francisco. He has been a lighthouse keeper all his life.

Although after the superhero disappeared, there was not a single ship on the sea for a long time.Occasionally, the fishing boats of San Francisco fishermen could be seen, but those fishing boats would always return home early, for fear that something might happen later.

But now the Port of San Francisco began to prosper slowly, and old Jack returned to his post.Although there is nothing in this job now except the new government's promise to "compensate you in the future", it doesn't matter, after all, he loves his job very much.

He has lived on the lighthouse for three days, and the dry food he brought during the period has basically been eaten, but he still dare not leave the lighthouse.Because no one can take his place now, there is another ship from Detroit arriving in San Francisco tonight.

While hesitating, Old Jack heard a knock on the door.

He froze for a moment, tremblingly picked up the shotgun at hand, and after some hesitation, he still opened the door of the room.

Standing at the door were two young men and a girl.

"Mr. Jack Ant?" Emma asked with a smile.

Jack nodded cautiously, still holding the shotgun in his hand: "I am."

"We are government workers," Emma said, "bringing you some food and clothes."

Only then did Jack realize that the handsome man behind the girl was carrying a large bag of bread.He quickly put down the shotgun, took the bread from the man's hand, and held the man's hands tightly——

"Thank you, thank you!" Jack said gratefully.Aum wanted to break free, but he was afraid that the grizzled old man would be overturned if he tried hard. Aum, who was originally reluctant to carry a big bag of things, became even more stinky.

The old man boiled some tea with the drinking water brought by Emma and the others, and served it to Emma, ​​Clint and Aum.

Emma and Clint thanked each other and drank tea first.The tea is the most common black tea. It is now the end of September, and Emma takes a sip. The hot tea warms her whole body.

Seeing that Aum didn't move, Old Jack was a little embarrassed: "The tea is not very good..."

"Leave him alone," Clint said, "he just likes ice water."

The old man breathed a sigh of relief, "Young man, you should drink some tea in moderation, this season is not the time to drink ice water." Then he suddenly found the gills on Aum's neck that were covered by the high-necked armor. Ma secretly groaned inwardly——

"Are you from Atlantis?"

Orm stared at the old man.

In terms of human age, this person is very old.He seems to have trouble with his legs.

Aum's right hand moved. He seemed to be able to crush the old man like an ant with just a little force by holding the old man's neck.

Clint had already stood up, but before he and Orm could move, the old man named Jack actually hugged Orm——

Orm froze.

"I finally waited for you..." Jack hugged Aum tightly, the embrace was so strong that it even gave Aum the illusion that he couldn't break free. "I've always wanted to thank you...and apologize in person."

"Ten years ago, at that time, I listened to the government's slander, and was dominated by inexplicable fanaticism. I thought that the Atlanteans would declare war on us, and that the people from Atlantis were devils—then At that time, the war between Atlantis and humans was on the verge of breaking out, right here, in the port of San Francisco, countless fighter planes from Atlantis floated to the surface, confronting humans.”

Old Jack saw it all from the lighthouse.He looked at Aquaman, at the man in the golden tights, and said to the Atlanteans who came to rescue him after being inexplicably imprisoned by the human government:

"return to."

Then he walked up to the head of the Marine Corps:

"War is a complicated thing. There will be no draws, only winners and losers."

"For the yearning for peace, we are the losers. I admit defeat."

An imminent war was resolved by the king of Atlantis and the veteran of the Justice League.But all this was not reported by the media, but it was clearly seen by Jack on the lighthouse.

Jack began to doubt the original rendering of the media.

Maybe the Atlanteans weren't the war madmen they said they were.Jack thought.

Then, when going out to sea, Jack fell into the sea due to a sudden storm at sea.Death was so close to him that at this moment Jack was rescued by an Atlantean.

The Atlantean didn't give Jack time to thank him, and he left quietly after saving a whole boat of people.

"I've always wanted to thank you and apologize." Jack choked up. "I realized that you are no different from us humans. You are not a cold-blooded race. You also have love, compassion, and yearning for peace."

Orm was silent.

"You are very good people," Jack said. "We were wrong, and our government should apologize to you for smearing you."

Orm looked at Jack.He glanced at his face, left the table abruptly, and rushed out the door.

Jack froze.Aum walked so quickly, leaving only the open door and the sea breeze blowing into the bedroom.

"I……"

"It has nothing to do with you." Emma said softly. "He has experienced a lot of things this day, so let him think about it."

Orm dived into the deep sea.

As deep as he dived, the water became colder and colder, but the cold water could not cool Aum's mind.

Today, everything about him, his arrogance towards lower creatures, and his hatred of people on the surface have been completely subverted.There is chaos in his mind, his father has ruled Atlantis for decades with iron discipline, and Aum also believes that force and hatred are all that govern a country.

But not.

The set of Arthur's things he abandoned - peace, compassion, love, are torturing his heart.

He really is a qualified monarch.Orm thought.

Worthy of everyone's admiration.

While waiting for Aum, Emma suddenly heard a distant, faint singing sound from the sea.

Emma looked at the sea strangely, it was already dark, and it was almost impossible to see anything clearly. "You..." She turned to Clint, only to find that he was in a trance, his eyes fixed on the dark sea.

Emma felt a "thump" in her heart, and she intuitively felt that something was about to happen—the next second, Clint jumped out of the small window of the tower!

Emma exclaimed.Seeing that Jack next to him seemed to be following Clint's footsteps, Emma quickly knocked Jack out—fortunately, Sea King's power had not disappeared.After putting Jack to bed and giving him sleeping pills, Emma chased him out.

Everything in front of her shocked her.

The light from the lighthouse clearly illuminated the current situation on the sea—the ship from Detroit completely shattered in Emma's eyes, and all the people on the ship fell into the sea.

On the shore, more people rushed straight into the sea.

The singing from the depths of the ocean grew louder.