[Comprehensive Anglo-American] Gem Merchant

As soon as the words fell, the whole land of Gotham trembled.

"Boss... Earth veins!"

The little clerk looked at the direction of the veins in the sand table in shock. The mercury that originally flowed in an orderly manner now looked like a turbulent and disorderly undercurrent, oscillating in the sand table: "The magic range can no longer be observed. The entire Gotham City The leylines of the land have already..."

"—into chaos."

In the low-slung room, the clown took over the clerk's words and said the second half of the sentence: "The entire Gotham leylines were briefly emptied due to the summoning of the heroic spirits. Now that Mephisto has been completely defeated, the magic power of the leylines Drastic changes in levels will bring about more intense fluctuations in magic power."

Just like the ebb tide before the tsunami, and the difference in electric potential will form an electric current, the ground veins of Gotham City are now completely damaged and urgently need maintenance and repair.

The blond alchemist looked dignified. The turbulence in Gotham City this time was sudden and turbulent. It cannot be ruled out that Mephisto had manipulated the pulsation in Gotham. A detailed analysis would take time, but for the current Alvon For Sri Lanka, time has become the most scarce thing.

The intensity of the earthquake was not great, and soon, the earthquake broadcast on the Internet popped up the news of a 3.4-magnitude earthquake in Gotham City, but Alphonse had no time to check his phone. The city does not have the Great Grail system like Fuyuki City for maintenance and anchoring. The current short-term stability is just the calm before the storm. He needs to hurry up to build the maintenance technique of the leylines. When the ley lines were abnormal, he asked the magicians of the New York Temple to make preparations together.

"I'm running out of time."

Alphonse supported the wall and stood up, changed into the appearance of Batman again, and gave instructions extremely fast in the communication frequency band: "If left unattended, the magic riots in this city will make the entire Gotham We are in crisis. Arrange someone to treat the comatose people in the TV building, and I must return to the magic workshop as soon as possible to set the anchor for the leylines."

As soon as the words fell, the portal opened in front of the sand table in Wayne Manor, and Alphonse staggered out of the door, being carried by the clerk and Alfred in the middle.

This rare look of embarrassment reminded the clerk that there were times when his boss fell asleep after returning from "going out to deliver goods". When he woke up the next day, his eyes were still full of unhealthy blue eyes. black.

This is a short-term aftereffect caused by the excessive extraction of magic power.

"Mr. Alphonse, don't you need to rest first?"

Even Alfred was silent for a short while. Escaping from the god of death obviously put a huge burden on the other party. Even if he knew nothing about magic, he could still feel the other party's poor condition.

Alphonse stood up supporting the clerk's arm: "It doesn't matter for the time being, if the magic power of the atmosphere in the parallel world can be affected, then there will be no problem in launching the operation."

He intends to use the jeweled sword as a wedge.

Just as Alphonse dug out several pieces of obsidian from the gem box, the real clown let out a shrill laugh.The siren of the police car is nearby, and he will soon be relocated to Arkham Asylum, but the Joker himself is obviously not paying attention to this fact.

This game of chess has only now reached its most intense stage.

"Choose, magician."

He yelled at Batman in an aria-like tone, with a hoarse voice and a high-pitched tone, bringing a bewildering oath: "Are you going to choose to save the world or save Gotham."

"……What did you say?"

Batman's pupils contracted suddenly, and Alphonse and the others who were connected to the communication frequency band also had a serious look on their faces. The little detective immediately contacted the SHIELD headquarters, and Tony Stark also ordered his Artificial intelligence monitors abnormal data from all over the world in the whole network.

Alphonse stared intently at the leylines of Gotham City. Mephisto had the roughest spirit base map in the records of Animsfia. Caster's methods are just cunning, and this cunning is often reflected in the ability to plant bombs in unexpected places. There is nothing special about it other than that, but...

"S.H.I.E.L.D. branch in Alaska, everything is normal."

Soon, wave after wave of information was sent back.

"New York headquarters, everything is normal for the time being."

"The unmanned reconnaissance drone has flown over Hawaii, and everything is normal."

"Wyoming..."

Stark Industries has several orbiting satellites outside the atmosphere. The first time they heard about the accident on Alphonse's side, these satellites all changed their perspectives and focused on all parts of the earth. Collecting abnormal information somewhere on the earth is still tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

Comparing the world and Gotham on the scale is too heavy a measure.

In front of the sand table, everyone's brains are running at high speed.

"Mephisto's characteristic is to create explosions. The parasitic bombs made of magic power can appear in almost any place where his magic power can reach, and there are not many explosions that can cause harm to the entire world. Even the nuclear weapons stockpiled by the United States Waste leaks or nuclear weapons..."

"Boss, I just confirmed that everything in the weapon inventory is normal."

The clerk put down the phone and responded quickly.

"What about the earthquake information?"

"Everything is normal and no abnormal seismic waves have been detected worldwide."

Tony Stark replied on the comms band.

Alphonse closed his eyes, and with the closure of vision, his mind was extraordinarily clear in the darkness of the whole world.

El-Melloi II once said that in the world of magicians, it is meaningless to pursue Howdoneit and Whodoneit, because unlike the world of science where everything can be forensic, everything here can be easily verified. Falsification and re-editing.

But only the motivation is certain, to explore the behavior of a magician, it is often necessary to start from why done.

The Joker is always talking about choices, choosing between the two explosions, the ruin of Batman and the choice of the hostages in that building, and the last sentence threatened by the other party, "the choice between Gotham City and the world" .

The other party seems to be more willing to repeatedly touch the nerves of others on the balance of difficult choices.Alphonse's fingertips lightly brushed the edge of the jeweled sword, so it can be deduced that the last move must be aimed at the magician, and it may have a similar connection with the current changes in Gotham City.

Mephisto is good at explosions. This explosion is related to mystery and may cause disasters in the entire world, and this disaster...he himself has the ability to prevent it.

News of melting asphalt roads near Yellowstone Park in Wyoming is circulating on the Internet, but this is a volcanic area with rich geothermal resources. This kind of thing is not unusual, so the artificial intelligence is only displayed on Alphonse's mobile phone. In a few seconds, the news was swiped down.

All the information was pieced together into intermittent clues by motivation, and Alphonse turned on the communicator. He is not the type who is good at reasoning, nor is he as experienced as El Mello, with uncertain hesitation in his voice.

"...Yellowstone Park."

Alphonse said softly, "He wants to blow up the Yellowstone volcano."

The largest crater in Yellowstone Park is about 45 miles from east to west, 64 miles wide from north to south, and has an area as large as three Rhode Island states. The volcanic ash raised by a major eruption 130 years ago directly created the present-day crater. On the Yellowstone Plateau in the United States, the two previous volcanic eruptions were 210 million years ago and [-] million years ago. Based on simple statistical laws, the next volcanic eruption is not very far away.

Scientists predict that the eruption cycle of this volcano is about 60 years, and it has been 64 years since the last volcanic eruption. Once it erupts, the magma erupted by this super volcano is enough to submerge most of the United States , the acid rain brought by volcanic ash and ejected material will continue to bring damage to human civilization.

After the simulation of the mathematical model, the impact of this disaster is almost all over the world.

"..."

Alphonse dropped his hands, and he seemed to think for a moment, then put back the obsidian he had taken out of the box, turned to look at the clerk, his lake green eyes showed no expression.

"Kevin, get ready to go to Yellowstone Park."

The blond-haired alchemist put a hanging ring on the index and middle fingers of his left hand: "Let's stop the Yellowstone volcano from erupting."

This decision was made without hesitation, and as soon as the words fell, Gotham City ushered in the second earthquake. This time it was obviously stronger than the previous one. A growing earthquake is enough to make the citizens of Gotham City panic - and this time, even the villains are no exception.

The little clerk picked up the gem box silently. As an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., no matter how depressed and uneasy he felt, he still knew which was more important. Just when he was about to turn around, the cold gun barrel The touch directly touched the back of his neck, making him stiff and unable to move.

"What are you doing, sir."

Alphonse held the jeweled sword in his hand flat in front of his body: "Please let go of my clerk, please."

Batman's voice was low: "You have to give up Gotham."

"If it is measured against the world, sir, I am an alchemist, and the magical characteristics of the family are called the balance of measurement."

The jeweler's eyes glowed like phosphorescent fire, and those magic eyes looked directly at Batman, but unexpectedly did not directly activate the control function of a pair of magic eyes: "I have long been used to making trade-offs and choices. Will adding another human to Gotham's balance affect my decision?"

What he said was true.The little clerk was pressed against the brainstem by the barrel of the gun, and he would be killed instantly with just one blow, but he didn't feel much fear at this moment, but only felt sad.

As we all know, Batman will never kill people, and he will never point his weapons at innocent people. Everything just now was just to reconfirm Alphonse's choice. My boss may not even know that "Batman doesn't really kill people". Apart from selling gems and his unspeakable jobs, he doesn't seem to care about anything else.

Batman didn't back down, and neither did Alphonse.However, when facing the crow-black cloak that belonged to the hero, some memories flashed by.

There was once a magician who tried to do the same, always killing a few people to save the majority, expressing indifferently that he wanted to be a "partner of justice", even the characteristics of magic were contradictory, and it would make two completely different Attributes join together, cut off, and connect.

Later he died.

Of course, in the magician's world, death is not so rare, and death in a certain corner of the world may indeed be the end of that person.

But... the alchemist reached out and grabbed the first of the three gemstone buttons on his skirt.

The lake green eyes stared at Bruce seriously, and said in a calm tone:

"Moreover, I don't intend to give up Gotham. Temporarily destroying my identity in this world, causing the symmetry of the existence of 'Alphonse' in this world to spontaneously break, can make me with different phases appear in Gotham separately. Tan and the crater of Yellowstone Park, if a large-scale interruption technique is deployed in Yellowstone Park, it will be enough to remove all parasite bombs."

One of Alphonse's hands was placed on the position of the left chest and heart, which of course would create a load on himself, but it was still within the acceptable range.Just like the supreme mage can never die easily, unless a successor is found, even Alphonse himself cannot easily take his own life.

He has more important things to deal with.

"Hey, gentlemen, and especially Alphonse, how are you doing?"

Just when the atmosphere was so severe that it was approaching freezing point, a voice suddenly forcibly connected to the Wayne Manor LAN.

Bruce: "..."

It's time for his firewall to be upgraded.

The owner of the voice didn't seem to think there was any problem with this, and Tony Stark looked triumphant: "I heard that someone wants to blow up Yellowstone Park. I just used my genius brain to do some analysis, but these processes It can be omitted and I won’t tell you, anyway, you can’t understand. In short, the structure of the underground magma pool of the Yellowstone Super Volcano is very special. If a specific detonation method is not used, it will not cause a large-scale volcano. As it happens, according to the previous explosion on the top floor of Gotham City TV Building, the power of a single-point explosion is enough to be used as data to introduce into the mathematical model, that is to say—"

The mustache businessman said a long series of words in one breath in the steel battle suit. He took a deep breath and added the second half: "Children make choices, and of course all adults have to. I will solve the problems in Yellowstone Park. Speaking of which, I'm near Oregon right now... Al, everyone's a superhero and you can't do it all by yourself."

The author has something to say: Batman: Tell Your Plans.

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