"Human beings are incomprehensible, aren't they?" the woman said to him, casually tossing the sculpture in her hand, "and you don't belong in that category."

Atal looked at her warily: "What do you want to do?"

Just as he finished speaking, a figure also appeared in front of them. It was Lei Xiao Aogu, who escaped from the water and stood between them.

Lei Xiao obviously knew more than Atar, he hesitated for a moment, and instantly recognized the identity of the other party.

—Nyarlathotep, daughter of the swelling.

This is an ancient Outer God.

But she shouldn't be here...

"..." Lei Xiao opened his mouth, but before he could express any more doubts, she had already teleported beside him.

——"Crack".

There was nothing easier than this, Atar saw Lei Xiao maintaining a shocked expression, and fell on his back.

Maybe, he himself didn't understand what happened, and everything ended like this.

This man who has lived for thousands of years and named after the "Devil's Head" never thought that he would end up being such a casually created ending, no different from those so-called ants in his eyes. He fell to the ground and ushered in a long-overdue death. Even the others were stunned by the accident.

Atal: "..."

Even he didn't expect the other party to be so moody, acting entirely according to his mood.

The non-human with a female appearance looked at his fingers casually: "Do you know when I noticed you?"

"..."

"Connor Hawke, a young human who came to China and successfully slayed a dragon, has such a conspicuous aura on his body that it's hard for me not to notice it." She said, covering the lower half of her face with a fan, "He's been around you for more than a while, right? Is he someone who cares? That's why I came here easily."

This avatar of hers was only active in China, but the timing of Connor's appearance was so coincidental that it was like a decoy that attracted her to the United States.

"Connor..." Atal repeated the name in a low voice.

He felt in a trance for a while, although he hadn't seen him for a short time, but he still missed him very much.

——To be honest, Atar wants to go back to Star City.

Judging from her current actions, it is clear that what this non-human being wants to know more than conspiracy is who is trying to challenge her authority.

However, after arriving, the swollen daughter was very disappointed. To her, who is keen to deceive and play with humans, these human methods are simply pediatrics, like a child holding a branch as a sword gesture.

"...However, you are very interesting," the female avatar said again with ambiguous words, "I am not interested in the extinction of human beings for the time being, because my fun has not been implemented yet, so you can think that I will help you."

Although human beings are so insignificant that they are not worth mentioning, just like you see a bunch of busy little ants on the side of the road, even if you step on it or watch it curiously, it is just a kind of Just entertainment in spare time.But she took a rare pleasure in driving humans mad, and she didn't want it to end abruptly if she could.

It's still for... such an old ruler.

Atal refused vigilantly: "No...I think..."

Cooperating with such a non-human is obviously the most unreliable behavior, and the madness revealed from her few words is enough to make Atal refuse to consider working with her.

You don't know what the other person is thinking at all, even if you try to guess the other person's thinking, you will be led into an incomprehensible abyss, so he is not willing to take risks.

"...I know a way to stop the ceremony." She said, raised her head, and cast her eyes on Atar, who had a vague feeling that the other party was smiling at him with seductive interest, "Since you It's the so-called 'key', so in the ceremony, wouldn't it be fine to choose to bring the king in yellow?"

Due to the awakening of the angel's memory, Atar immediately realized who she was referring to in such vague words...

The king in yellow, Hastur.

The other party and the old ruler Cthulhu are half-life brothers, but due to various reasons, they have become sworn enemies.

If Hastur's ritual is used in Cthulhu's seal breaking ceremony... Although he has never considered the whole thing, acting rashly like this may lead to a more terrible ending, but there is nothing worse than the current situation .

The female avatar shook her fan and disappeared in front of the two of them out of thin air.

She is undoubtedly a strange person who likes to stir up troubles, but Atal has a vague feeling that there is no need for her to lie this time.

Jason paused, he stood up from the ground, his eyes fixed on Atar: "... What are you going to do?"

Adventure?Or……

Atal stared at him, and Jason suddenly seemed a little nervous under his gaze. He tucked his hair behind his ears, showing a clean side face, using such movements to cover up his heart beating suddenly.

...stop looking at me, Jason thought, we're busy with business...

His cheeks burned from the other party's focused eyes, embarrassment and embarrassment rushed into his heart at the same time, but Jason resisted the desire to escape, and looked directly at Atal's aggressive eyes.

Never show cowardice, this is his creed.

However, Atar was quiet for a moment, then suddenly approached him, and kissed the side of his face where his hair was pinned to his ear.

Jason was startled, he took a step back, looked at Atal who was still leaning over, and said in a panic: "What are you doing—"

Atal wondered: "Don't you want this?"

His eyes seemed to say to Jason: It's so difficult, didn't you just stare at me just waiting for this?

Jason took a deep breath: "I..."

"What is that?" Atal asked patiently.

Jason was stuck, he stayed where he was, and it took a few seconds before he heard his own voice say, "It's nothing..."

Nothing, well, he might know the answer to a question.

Jason laughed from the bottom of his heart.

"Oh, then we'll talk about this later." The other party said, "I'll go to work first, see you later."

Before Jason could stop it, Atar's figure disappeared out of thin air just like the female incarnation just now, leaving the bodies of Jason and Lei Xiao at the port where the salty wind was blowing.

While wringing the water out of his clothes, Jason said in a low voice, "I really owe you."

"In short, come back alive." He said again.

Jason sighed. He walked towards Lei Xiao's body and stared at it for a while, as if he was sighing.

However, the next moment, he looked away unemotionally, fiddled with his communicator resignedly until it returned to normal, and said impatiently to the opposite side: "Dickie Bird, bring your little bird over here, Ray Shaw is here."

"...Me? I'm going to Star City."

……

On the other side, when Atar's cell phone was turned on, he found that there was an extra missed call.

Expected.

When he was in high school in Metropolitan Chris, he was asked for his cell phone number by a cute girl.Logically speaking, Atar is not the kind of person who gives numbers casually.

Although he looks easy to talk to, in fact, he has a vague sense of alienation from the people around him. It is impossible for him to pay attention to this kind of strike-up behavior, and he can't do the behavior of giving people the number casually.

However, when he saw the other party at that time, he suddenly had an idea to tell him: This girl is very important.

Sure enough, the call from an unknown number now shows that his intuition was not wrong at all.

Atar dialed back the number calmly, waiting for the other party to connect.

But within a few seconds, after the bell rang, the other party was connected, and Atar could hear the quiet breathing of the other party. He was not in a hurry to speak first, but waited for the other party to respond.

"... Atar," said the other end with a smile, "I am the secret keeper of "The King in Yellow."

Guess it, Atar said in his heart, after all, he was going to listen to the speech of an investigator at the level of Carter, but Carter suddenly chose to do another dangerous thing after the narration, which only explained one The only thing is that in the venue, he saw an existence that changed his mind.

And those who appeared there were either ignorant people like Peter, or another kind of guy who knew too much about the truth.

Based on Carter's behavior, the second guess can be easily judged.

Not to mention, the other party used "dreamland" cryptically to remind Atar to pay attention to his surroundings.

The famous play "The King in Yellow" records a vague and dreamlike play, no matter who is gradually dominated by the chaotic dream sent by Hastur, the king in yellow , presumably, Carter noticed at that time that the Keeper was observing him secretly.

It can only be said that Carter deserves to be recognized as the strongest investigator.

And at that time, Atar was so stupid that he didn't notice anything, thinking that the other party asked him to go to the dreamland.

"You have passed my approval, Lord Hastur will notice you," the other end of the phone laughed again, with undisguised malice, "Look forward to it, your end will be extremely miserable."

"Thank you." Atar hung up the phone.

He looked at the back of his hand, there was already a trace that humans could not understand out of thin air.

After getting the guarantee in disguise, Atar had time to look down. He came back here and was standing on the roof of the building of Quinn Enterprise.

The wind that was different from Gotham blew his coat, bringing a slight chill, but it gave Atal a feeling of nostalgia and familiarity.

Sure enough, no matter how other cities are, in the end, only Star City can bring him such a different feeling. This is the existence called "home".

Although I have only left here for a few days, it seems like a century has passed, and the familiar scenery has become distorted, with a strange feeling of being changed.

But Attar found a sense of belonging.

The traffic in Star City is like clogged blood vessels, scattered on the road, like children's toys.

All the lights are extinguished, this is a city in deep darkness, Lei Xiao's hands have cut off the electricity in the whole city, malice is growing crazily like an unstoppable weed.

Atal stood by the railing, flipped up, and looked down at the entire city.

Unlike being forced to fall from the building by Thalia before, this time, he will not ask anyone for help, nor will he fall into any passive situation.

—and no one will worry about him anymore.

He turned and fell.

In mid-air, he stretched out his fingers and drew a well-known symbol. After they took shape, they seemed to be trembling and spinning in the sound of the wind, and after the final wave, they were frozen in the air.

Atar touched the center of the formation with his index finger.

It shattered, and white light instantly enveloped his seemingly small body, enveloping him, and the body of this human youth disappeared into midair out of thin air.

Almost immediately, he came to the dark underground. Due to the closeness of this body to the dark attribute, he used this formation to land where he should appear most——

Atal stood up, and he saw a door right in front of him.

Perhaps by pushing it away, he would be able to reach the site of the pagan ritual.

A shout came from behind him: "Attar!"

He immediately looked at the source of the sound. Connor's cheeks were bloodstained, and he was holding a bow and arrow in his hand. He looked at his figure that appeared out of nowhere in disbelief, wiped his cheeks with his hands, and hurriedly wiped away the blood.

But soon, a new string of blood beads appeared again, flowing over half of Connor's face again. His wound hadn't healed, and he was reddened by the young man's impatient actions.

"How did you appear in..."

Before he could finish his sentence, a figure in black robe rushed towards his back. Connor's eyes showed a fierce look. He turned his bow and arrow and yanked it like a crowbar, instantly knocking him away. .

Afterwards, Connor quickly pulled out the arrow behind him and shot an arrow directly at the opponent's chest, nailing the person who attacked him to the ground.

After finishing this set of movements smoothly, Connor looked at Atar again: "You shouldn't be here."

He asked blankly, his cheeks were pale due to the long battle, showing a sense of fatigue: "Didn't Chris take care of you? What about Jason and the others?"

Everyone else was solving other things on the ground, and Connor was the first to discover the address of the ceremony, but before he entered, he met Atal in the corridor.

This confused and disturbed him.

Atal shook his head at him, Connor stopped talking, he looked at Atal, as if he was puzzled that it was only a short period of time, and his temperament had already undergone earth-shaking changes.

"...Are you going to end all of this?" he asked, hesitantly seeing something from his expression, "Really?"

Atal has no intention of hiding Connor anymore, this is the person he has ever seen who is best described as a "relative", and in front of Connor, he is like a cocoon that has been peeled off layer by layer. Wanton leakage of the soft inside.

He used his eyes to describe Connor's facial features. This is a young man who is still immature but is already becoming a man.

"...Then go." Connor said, "I think you probably won't need me this time."

Connor could feel that there was something else on Atal's body, which he could only smell from those supernatural creatures, and in such a high-latitude battle, ordinary people like the Green Arrows had no choice but to admit defeat , Admitting that I can't help much, the only thing I can do is not to hold back.

Admitting defeat does not make people feel embarrassed, what really makes people feel complicated is actually "not being needed" itself.

He sighed, took off the bow and arrow from his body without hesitation, and threw the quiver together with the quiver to Atar, and unexpectedly showed him a smile that only a 19-year-old would show when he was young.

Atal hugged the bow and arrow and quiver he threw over, raised his head for some unknown reason, and met Connor's half-faced smiling face hidden under the blood.

"Although I don't know what your current identity is and what step you can do," Connor replied, rubbing his index finger and middle finger together, he looked embarrassed, "But the bow and arrow are the best weapons we can give you Sorry, I can't help you more."

Atal suddenly felt a surge of complex emotions churning in his heart, and almost felt his heart beating faster.

Connor says he's changed a lot, but so has Connor himself.

Although he didn't know what changed Connor's mind, he still said thank you immediately at this time, and hugged the bow and arrow in his arms tightly.

Connor moved his fingers and said with a smile, "Then I... will go where I should go."

He pointed to the top of his head, Star City was not peaceful at the moment.

"You won't say anything about protecting me now?" Atal couldn't help asking before turning around and running away.

Connor gave a "hmm", although he didn't want to answer this question, but it was Attar's question, so he couldn't just ignore it.

After all, he has always had a double standard for Atar.

"Actually... It's a bit ridiculous to say it, that is, I actually dreamed that the strange thief was going to steal you away," he said, "I have failed twice, because I couldn't protect you in my dream, and you took the initiative to go away with others again. gone."

——The most important thing is that Atar has never shown that he needs protection.

He just needs someone to say such things to him, not really need someone else to pretend to be a protector.

Connor didn't realize this until very late, so that's why he failed.

"Then I wondered if I've been taking the wrong approach to you. If this continues, the relationship between us will be unequal," Connor stared at his fingers, "This behavior seems to be just to satisfy I myself...that's why you..."

— will choose a person who treats you with equal eyes.

I can't say I don't feel sorry, but at least all of this is fair, and it's justifiable for what happened.

But the next moment, Atar hugged Connor, it was a very shallow hug, but Connor still showed a surprised expression, and then gently hugged him back.

After a few seconds, he pulled away from the embrace.

"Thank you." Atal repeated his thanks, and he turned around and walked towards the door with his bow and arrow in hand.

Behind him, Connor smiled, looked at his back, then turned and left.

Atal took a deep breath, pushed the door open, it made a creaking sound, and unfolded the whole darkness.

While avoiding the self-mutilated corpses, they walked towards the center of the altar along the bloodstains while they were wearing black robes and maintaining expressions of pain and joy.

There was also a knife stuck there, and hanging from the side of the knife was the head of a man whose throat had been cut limply on the high platform. The blood had already flowed out, and only the last few remnants flowed feebly like a thin red thread. , the air was filled with an unpleasant smell of blood, almost nauseating.

The ceremony is complete.

Through the narrow window at the top, Atal could see the crystal moonlight penetrating through, catching a few strands in this small space.

The dark clouds are moving, and in a trance, it seems that the stars are also changing, waiting to move to a correct docking position in a mysterious and solemn atmosphere, opening up all possibilities.

Atal pulled out the dagger, and made a few gestures on the pattern on the back of his hand.

At this moment, a figure smashed through the glass, rolled down behind him, stood up, and shouted in the direction of the glass: "Lionel, I remember you!"

It was Jason's voice.

A youth from Krypton could be seen flashing past the window. He raised his eyebrows at Jason and shouted in the same way: "You're welcome, the consignment is what I should do for Tim."

Jason: "..." Tim and you are dead.

Atar really did not expect that the other party would choose to appear here.

"You..." he hesitated.

In order to avoid accidentally injuring Jason, he left him and appeared here alone.

Jason looked away, turned to him abruptly, and said, "Are you kidding, how could I not be here."

He's like emphasizing one thing... I'm not here to protect you, I just think you need someone to watch your back for you.

So, it was Jason.

He seemed to be able to suddenly understand why his glory asked that question in the small town, let him choose a camp, and gave him all the possibilities about his identity.

It is reminding Atal that this is a language trap, no matter which one he chooses, he will lose something.

But he has made a choice.

Atar just replied: "Then you remember to hide."

Jason took a few steps back, and he stood at the door, looking at Atar, keeping a safe distance.

The latter picked up the dagger, his expression gradually disappeared, and began to cut the first knife on the back of his hand.

Beads of blood seeped out immediately, and he dripped into the groove beside the man who cut the throat, and Atal murmured some terrible sentences in a low voice.

"The wonderful night when the black star rises, the wonderful moon that moves in the night..."

This is the praise of the king in yellow, and it flowed out of Atar's mouth so clearly, those unsealed memories flooded his mind again, and he slashed a second time jerkyly but without hesitation.

The ominous moonlight shrouded his body, enveloping Atal in it, and complicated traces gradually appeared around him, carrying a mysterious and terrifying aura.

"Atal..." Jason said in a low voice, his breathing became short of breath, "..."

"Remember to take me to find someone else." Atar said, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, "...boyfriend."

He admitted it, Jason thought.

"Then, let me give you a word, after you finish these things, go on an adventure with me." He said.

Under Jason's gaze, as the dagger continued to self-mutilate, Atar's eyes were gradually covered in pure black, and the looks that belonged to humans gradually disappeared in those blue eyes.

……

The gods came mixed with chaos.

The strong wind blew away the corpses that had been placed in a certain order, and rolled up all the blood. The blood beads were flying in mid-air, blocking the moonlight that leaked in from the top window.

Jason held his breath, and he stared intently at the scene in front of him. This was a terrifying scene that even the most insane brains of humans could not imagine.

This is a power that is close to the legendary "god" or "destruction". The earth is trembling, the ground is cracked, and the corpses that cannot howl fall into the abyss, and the small figure But in the center of the power.

So frightening and yet so mesmerizing.

Even so, only the position where Jason was standing was intact, the crack stopped a foot in front of him, and the flying stones also bypassed his position, an invisible existence was protecting Jason.

This is the first time that Atal has activated these two powers at the same time when he changed from an angel to a so-called key.

And such a destructive force, while disintegrating everything, gently protected Jason.

Just like the summer three years ago, it fell beside Jason.

……

Connor returned to the side of the Green Arrows. This was the roof of a building. Roy immediately looked at him and asked suspiciously.

"Where's your bow and arrow? Also, didn't you go..."

"Attar is here." Connor said succinctly, and he looked at Oliver the Green Arrow, "I let him handle it by himself."

Oliver just said, "Is that so?"

Connor's heart moved. He followed Oliver's gaze and looked in another direction. There were Iron Man, Batman, Superman and others with the same tired faces. It was really a long night.

If it wasn't for Lex blocking the news of the chaos outside Star City and providing support from the outside, they might have suffered more than just minor injuries like now.

They all noticed that the ground was shaking, and from somewhere in the Star City, it began to collapse crazily, like a nuclear explosion unfolding here, and the floors sank deeply.

But the spread stopped after some distance, as if someone was still consciously controlling this grand ceremony... This must be a person with great willpower.

After being silent, Roy said, "Is it him?"

Connor nodded.

"...I'm proud of it," Oliver said, letting out a sigh with his hands resting on the railing.

Both Connor and Roy looked at him, puzzled. They were two exceptional young men.

"Of course I sigh for being so lucky." Oliver said, looking at their young faces.

——With you children.

He thought so in his heart.

Green Arrow jumped down from the elevated and came to his two sons: "Come on, we'll take him home after the riot is over."

Tall buildings on the other side.

Superman helped Batman with a bandage and said, "Come out..."

After his words fell, a figure quietly came out from the shadows. He didn't dare to get too close to Superman, but just looked at him from a distance.

"Lionel, thank you for your help," Superman said softly.

Lex didn't come to Star City himself, but Lionel was sent by him to help them.

Lionel was almost dumbfounded because of this sentence: "...how, how could you say that? It's nothing, this is what I should do, Superman."

"Have you thought about your code name?" Superman continued to ask.

Lionel lowered his head: "..."

Lex didn't let him be a superhero in front of the public for the time being, so he didn't even think about what kind of hero nickname he would have, because it meant that he became a recognized superhero, and Lionel I can't even get out of the darkness right now...

"Call it 'Superboy,'" he heard the revered Superman say to him, "You deserve the prefix super."

Lionel jerked his head up, and Superman turned to smile at him.

Chris didn't know what quietly landed on his back, and put his hand on his shoulder.

"I'm learning to be a big brother," Chris said, treated with uncanny tenderness by Superman's adopted son. "You're welcome, Lionel."

The breeze caressed their cheeks, the dark clouds cleared, and the night in Star City was over.

The light of dawn shrouded them, and a new day was about to begin.

……

As soon as the turmoil was over, Jason immediately jumped over the gaping cracks and rushed to Atar's side as fast as he could.

The latter fell down due to lack of strength, was caught by Jason, and fell into a coma.

Jason checked his body for any injuries.

He picked up his hand, and found that the scars drawn on it with deep bones had not disappeared, but were still bleeding continuously.

Beads of blood came out one by one, and Atal was bleeding like a human being. Jason frowned, and there was no sign of stopping.

This doesn't make sense, because as far as Jason knows, the angel power, key, and Kryptonian genes in Atar's body will quickly heal his wounds and allow him to repair himself.

And although such wounds look terrifying, it only takes less than a few seconds for them to disappear.

But it didn't happen, so something must have gone wrong.

Jason carried Atar on his back, thinking about why this happened, and an incredible thought suddenly flooded into his heart.

—he thought he might have an answer.

Because the gods have selfishness.

He descended beside Jason, and his glory, keys, and even the forcibly activated Kryptonian genes were all destroyed in this ceremony.

Atal can't be an angel because he protects the insignificant Jason.

And the power of the key was exhausted by the ceremony of summoning the king in yellow. Having lost the power of both, he was no longer able to support the needs of Kryptonian genes.

Now, Atar, who was lying on Jason's back and still unconscious, really became a human completely.

A normal human who bleeds, doesn't heal wounds, and loses his Kryptonian powers.

Jason's heart was beating fast, and there was some heat rushing through his heart, which made him almost unable to control his breathing. This was the unique joy of human beings being favored by God.

—made him happier than anything he'd ever had.

He even thought that he had become a 15-year-old boy again, which was why he was so excited, so hard to restrain himself, and felt the overwhelming joy.

Human beings are such despicable creatures, Atal became an ordinary person because of this, but he laughed because of it.

"Let's go on an adventure with me. The extrajudicial team just added you, so there are only three people," Jason decided, and he said to himself, showing a big boy's smile, his eyes are amazingly bright, "Star City is very beautiful , Gotham is also good. But have you ever been to an alien planet? Have you seen scenery other than the earth? Of course not, let’s go and see it together?”

Although he has not received a response for the time being, he is still happily making some future arrangements.

"There are other things, shall we plan together then?"

"Jason..." On his back, Attar's weak voice suddenly came from a coma. His arms were around his neck, looking a bit dull, "Has everything been resolved..."

Jason finally recovered from his fantasy, hugged him on the back, and replied easily, "Yes."

Atal's head rubbed against his cheek, causing a shudder...purely human touch.

"You said, I found your secret, and there will be a reward..." he said.

"Well, I remember, I won't break my promise." Jason answered him, he carried Atal one by one and left the ruined place, "As for the reward, it's..."

Their voices faded away.

—Summer ends and autumn begins.

The third summer is over, and Jason finally got his simplest wish, talking to someone he likes in the fall.

This is going to be one of the favorite summer days of his life.

--because……

God finally came to Jason, who had never been favored before.

The author has something to say: the story line of the main text is over, and there are still a lot of cute daily side stories~

It is expected to write about the daily life of the Green Arrow family, where the brothers face the Shura field of Jason, the boyfriend, Peter's transfer student bb...

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