The aliens who were picked up by Superman at the beginning

Li Zhen did have a very brief moment of hesitation.

He didn't know if he really wanted to go find that guy.

He didn't even know if he could find that guy.

But Li Zhen knew one thing: when he inevitably thought of that being, it was bound to be a journey he had to take.

He landed in Los Angeles and tried to use his phone's navigation map to locate the place he was going to.

Lux Piano Bar

Looking at the three results that popped up on her phone, Li Zhen felt a little numb and raised her hand to scratch her right earlobe, which seemed to be itchy.

The other party is the strongest person he may have encountered so far, and there may never be anyone stronger than him in his lifetime.

I feel that it's a bit strange that the map shows three luxes, but perhaps this is some kind of test designed by the other party?

But Li Zhen didn't have the confidence to turn around and leave, because he had already landed.

Forget it, let's just go and find them one by one.

From Santa Monica Pier to the Palm Garden in Beverly Hills, then down a short, narrow street just over 300 feet from Venice Beach. The first two places were deserted; one wasn't even a bar.

Li Zhen didn't dare use his usual method of descending from the sky, but instead measured every brick and stone he had to pass by with his own footsteps.

Standing at the door, Li Zhen briefly recalled some descriptions of Lucifer in literary works from her previous life.

He doesn't care about human life, nor any other life, only those lives that he can use to his advantage.

This caused Li Zhen to have a rather conflicted feeling.

He didn't want Constantine to succeed, even if there was only a one in ten thousand chance that the guy, who was now in Batman's custody, was telling the truth.

But he didn't want to be a life that was beneficial to Lucifer. Even being with Blackie made Lee Jung uncomfortable, let alone Lucifer, who was so powerful in this world that he was said to be half God.

However, Li Zhen still stepped onto the stairs, even though her divine intuition gave her no indication whatsoever.

As soon as the door was pushed open, another world rushed into my eyes and ears.

Inside the bar, warm yellow lights flowed like honey across the dark wooden walls, and jazz music languidly swirled in the air.

The notes of the saxophone coiled like snakes around each bottle of wine that looked to have been aged for who knows how many years.

The air was filled with the aroma of whiskey and cigars. For Li Zhenna, whose taste had not been assimilated by the West, the aroma of the cigars was alright, but the smell of whiskey made him feel as if he had plunged headfirst into a pile of rotten rubber baked by the scorching sun.

After trying to ignore these ordinary things that shouldn't have disturbed his senses, Li Zhen finally spotted the person he was looking for today.

He hadn't expected Lucifer to actually be there, and to be sitting almost face-to-face with him in the last row of chairs in the bar.

And she looked at him with a faint smile.

Although the moment she thought of this guy, Li Zhen immediately warned herself and dismissed the idea of ​​continuing to think about it.

But the moment he met Lucifer's gaze, he couldn't help but dig out information related to him from his memories of his past life.

Before the New 52 Flashpoint event, Lucifer did not belong to the DC universe, but to the Vertigo universe. However, during the Flashpoint event, the Vertigo universe, the Wildstorm universe, and the DC universe merged into one, forming the New 52 universe.

From then on, Lucifer was incorporated into the DC universe system, but Lucifer, who had just entered the New 52 universe, was far less powerful than he had been in the Vertigo universe, and a large part of his settings were changed.

It wasn't until the Rebirth period in 2018 that Lucifer in the DC Universe regained power comparable to that in the Vertigo Universe setting. In the same year, the comics completely rejected Lucifer from the New 52 era and some of his solo Lucifer comics from that period.

The problem is that during the bizarre period in which Li Zhen lived, it was impossible to know whether the new 52 era had begun.

Because his current universe is clearly not the New 52 universe, the Flashpoint failed to restart.

If this is Lucifer from the New 52 era, then this Lucifer could even be killed. If this is Lucifer from any other era, then…

"So from the moment you stepped into this bar, I knew every single word you were thinking... You little brat, the moment you saw me, you were already plotting how to kill me?"

Li Zhen's pupils contracted slightly.

His first thought was why his super mental abilities hadn't prevented the other party from reading his mind.

My second thought was that my decision to come and see this person who was said to be the most important person under God was too hasty.

It's practically the same as someone who's into Marvel seeing Stan Lee on the street and just going up to him and saying hello.

The third thought was that Lucifer didn't seem to like being called the first man under God.

The instant the third thought arose, Li Zhen felt a tightness in her chest, and several spurts of blood instantly gushed from her mouth and nose.

"Wait a moment."

Li Zhen raised one hand to try to explain that she did not mean to offend the other party, while using the other hand to ignite magic to create high temperatures, drying and evaporating the blood gushing from her mouth and nose so as not to soil the other party's floor.

"I'm sorry, I'm not used to controlling my thoughts, and there have been almost no occasions in the past where I needed to do so."

Li Zhen's neural thought and reaction speed is at the nanosecond level. The three thoughts popped up faster than the last, and there was no way to stop them. So he had to start talking and allocate some of his brain power to the language area to prevent any more disrespectful thoughts from arising.

It has now been clarified that this is not the relatively weak Lucifer from the New 52 era, but the strongest and most common version.

It is said that even if all the living beings in the entire universe were crowded together in front of him, he could see all the information about all the living beings at a glance, including ethereal things like thoughts.

This means that Li Zhen is like an open book to Lucifer.

What past life, the Witrum era, or what happened after arriving in this universe—all this information is within the other party's grasp in the blink of an eye, so there's no point in hiding anything.

I really didn't expect him to have such a fiery temper. He got a lecture for having a disrespectful thought.

"I'm not that petty."

Even in his own bar, Lucifer, always impeccably dressed in a black suit, slowly rose and walked toward the bar counter.

"It's just that you subconsciously felt you had offended me, and then your body intentionally injured itself."

Li Zhen blinked in disbelief, then removed her hand from her mouth and nose to take a look.

The gushing blood just now seemed like an illusion, as if it had never existed at all.

She felt no discomfort, but it was unclear whether she was genuinely uninjured or had been healed by his super self-healing abilities. In any case, after arriving at this bar, Li Zhen had the illusion that she had become an ordinary person again, and her sensory integration was somewhat disordered.

"...It's practically unfair that someone like you exists in the human world."

Lucifer stood behind the bar and started fiddling with things, his orange hair trembling slightly.

"Normally, whether people don't know me or are vaguely aware of my existence, they don't think I can have any impact on the world. For most people, they always think that the most powerful and dazzling guy in the world is called Superman."

"But you are different. You are the only person in all these centuries who knows my entire background, yet still dares to step into this bar. That's why you think my existence is unfair."

Lucifer pushed over a glass of freshly mixed cocktail. The glass shone with a lemony luster, and Li Zhen could vaguely smell the fresh aroma of fruit.

"You don't appreciate whiskey, so this is a special cocktail to suit your taste."

Li Zhen hesitated for a moment before taking the glass of wine, her nose twitching slightly as she considered whether to drink it.

Lucifer, oblivious to everything else, wiped his palms with a hot towel he'd somehow produced, while continuing his narration in his usual unhurried tone.

"Strictly speaking, I should thank you. You prevented the birth of the New 52, ​​and I wouldn't have been sent to that unfortunate place by the cosmic reboot, where I would have been killed at some point, waiting helplessly for the next reboot in complete ignorance."