American comics: Praising the sun, starting from Gotham!

"Take care, Hal."

Carol said softly as the two were about to step into the portal.

"Um."

Hal responded and followed Xiu En into the golden portal.

Passing through the door, they entered an energy passage filled with bizarre and fantastical sights.

All around them were countless blurry, fragmented images, like shimmering snowflakes, rushing past them.

Hal saw a winged eagle being banished by his companions, his eyes filled with the pain of betrayal.

Ivy saw a massive planet on the verge of decay, using its last strength to try to protect the tiny, trembling creatures on its surface.

Shuen saw a warrior covered in scales, who, after winning all the wars, sat alone on an empty throne, feeling endless loneliness.

Countless sorrows, countless pains, countless stories that deserve pity.

They formed the only route to the mysterious tribe.

Finally, the passage came to an end.

They arrived.

This is a jungle planet.

Unidentified purple trees, like canopies, blocked out the sun.

Countless strange vines emitting fluorescent light hang down from the tree trunk, like natural curtains.

Houses built of mud and vines are scattered across the land.

Some humanoid creatures with indigo skin, slender bodies, and expressionless faces are carrying out their daily work in the jungle.

Yes, they were using a peculiar ritual to appease a jungle beast that resembled a giant rhinoceros.

Yes, they were watering a giant purple tree that was about to wither with a liquid that emitted an indigo glow.

Some sat cross-legged by the stream, holding a staff that also emitted an indigo glow, motionless, like a stone statue.

Their faces were expressionless, like robots programmed to do all this.

They are the Indigo Tribe.

"Hal".

"Um?"

"Have we gone to the wrong place?"

Looking at the scene before him, which was even more outrageous than Zamalun, Xiu En began to doubt his own intuition.

"This place looks like a nursing home run by a pyramid scheme."

"I have no idea."

Hal was also dumbfounded.

The scene before him was completely different from the dangerous descriptions of criminals that he had heard from Ganther.

If it weren't for the faint, indigo energy fluctuations in the air that made their green light rings extremely uncomfortable, he would have thought he had arrived in some isolated primitive civilization.

"It doesn't taste right."

Xiu En frowned.

"This tastes so fake."

"How so?"

"Sunflower asked curiously."

"It smells like pity."

"But this pity has no roots. It's like an artificial flower in a vase."

"It has the form of compassion, but not the core of compassion. It lacks none of that empathetic, compassionate feeling that comes from sharing another life."

Xiu En looked disgusted.

"The worst cooking."

While the three of them were hiding behind a giant purple tree, quietly giving their food reviews.

A member of the Indigo tribe noticed them.

Or perhaps it was a small, glowing blade of grass beneath his feet that, through its underground network of roots, reported to him the intrusion of outsiders.

The indigo tribesman turned around.

He walked towards them, leaning on his staff.

His face remained expressionless.

But the aura of compassion emanating from him grew stronger as he approached.

It sends chills down one's spine.

Xiu En calmly stepped out from behind the purple trees to meet the Indigo Clan member who was walking silently towards him.

Seeing this, Hal could only sigh helplessly and follow along, the green light representing his will flickering at his fingertips, ready to deal with any unexpected situation.

"Hello?"

Xiu En stopped in front of the other person and greeted him.

"Excuse me, where are your lantern beasts? I'm here to collect some, and I'll leave as soon as I'm done, making sure I don't damage a single plant."

The Indigo Clan member stopped and looked at Xiu En.

He raised the staff in his hand, which radiated an indigo light.

Hal tensed up and flashed in front of Shuen, instantly creating a green barrier!

"Watch out! Ganther said there's something wrong with their staffs!"

The Indigo Clan member pointed the tip of his staff at the barrier constructed by Hal.

A surge of energy spread out along the staff!

Hal's pupils suddenly contracted!

In that instant, he saw it!

Countless sorrows! Countless pains! Countless negative emotions magnified a thousand times, like a mental tsunami that swept away the defenses he had built with his will!

The green barrier is broken!

Hal grunted and took half a step back.

If Hal hadn't experienced something similar before at the Red Light location, he might have been killed by their first encounter this time.

The Indigo tribesmen's eyes seemed to say: Now, do you have pity?

"Tsk."

Shuen caught Hal, who was about to fall, and looked at the expressionless saint in front of him, his brows furrowing even deeper.

"Forcibly implanting someone else's pain into another person's mind, and then calling that pity?"

"Does your tribe have some misunderstanding about the word 'compassion'?"

Xiu En's voice was tinged with anger.

It's like a cook forcibly stuffing a live pig, along with its screams, into your mouth in order to make you feel the pain!

The indigo tribesman seemed unable to comprehend Xiu En's anger. He simply raised his staff again, preparing to let this golden outsider also savor this delicious pain.

But this time, he couldn't bring himself to strike with his staff.

Because a hand had already grabbed his wrist.

A hand, burning with golden flames.

"I originally intended to have a proper conversation with you."

Xiu En grabbed the Indigo Clan man's wrist, rendering him unable to move.

Xiu En shook his head, a helpless expression on his face saying, "You forced me to do this."

"But now I've decided to restore your factory settings first."

As he spoke, his other hand had already grasped the indigo ring on the finger of the Indigo Tribe member.

"Wait! Xiu En! Don't do anything rash!"

Hal covered his head and hurriedly shouted.

But it was too late.

The divine fire blazed!

A thick plume of smoke was forcibly vaporized from the ring!

The ring's luster dimmed and eventually went out!

"Ugh... Ah... Ahh ...

The Indigo Clan member, whose expression had remained hidden, let out an excruciating scream of agony!

He threw away his staff, clutched his throat with both hands, and his originally indigo skin returned to the skin color of some humanoid creature.

His body was unconsciously moving backward, getting further and further away from Xiu En and the others.

His slender body, with its bones crackling and popping, became thick and sturdy!

On his bald head, a head of long, fiery red hair grew rapidly!

In just a few seconds!

The expressionless ascetic saint transformed into a quintessential space pirate with a face full of scars, eyes brimming with bloodlust and rage, and a single eye marked by a scar!

"Hahaha...hahahahahaha!!"

After the pirates adjusted to the changes in their bodies, they tilted their heads back and let out a loud laugh that sounded like they had just survived a disaster!

"I am Kha'Zix! I'm fucking back!"

He looked at the stranger who had given him his freedom.

"Thank you, you two idiots!"

He grinned maliciously and pulled an energy axe from his waist, which seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

"In return for your kindness, I will grant you a quick death! Then, I will hang your heads on the bow of my ship!"

Kha'Zix charged menacingly toward Shun and Hal!

"Thank you, you two idiots!"

Hal Jordan: "..."

He looked at this strange man who had become braver after losing the power of the lamp ring and said, "You've lost the power of mercy, so who do you want to kill with your energy axe?"

Then he looked at Xiu En next to him, whose face was full of an innocent expression as if he had gone too far.

"See? I told you not to mess around."

"No, no, no, you don't understand."

Shuen said confidently to Hal.

He pointed at Kha'Zix, who was charging at him, brandishing an axe and yelling.

"See, I told you I'm good at dealing with criminals."

Hal: "..."

"Look at him, his goal is clear. What does he want? To chop off our heads. What is he going to do? Charge at us and chop with his axe."

A relieved smile appeared on Xiu En's face.

"This is much easier to communicate with than those crazy women who wanted to kill you but first tried to lecture you on love, then, realizing they weren't going to listen, tried to take you hostage, and then, after taking the hostages, discovered you were even more ruthless and started admiring you!"

Hal felt his headache starting again.

"Hmph, its form is unstable too."

Sunflower also shared her insights at this time.

"It jumps from one extreme to another in an instant, without any transition in between. The energy conversion efficiency is extremely low, and a large amount of biomass is wasted in the process of changing its form. A failed design."

"right!"

Xiu En nodded in deep agreement.

"It's like a hodgepodge of leftovers thrown in! Terrible!"

"Die!"

Kha'Zix finally rushed up to the two of them!

He brought his giant axe down on Shuen's head!

He could almost see the golden fool being cleaved in two by his axe!

However, his giant energy axe, which had once cleaved through countless alloy armors and warship hatches, stopped less than half a meter above Xiu En's head.

The giant axe was caught in a vine.

Kha'Zix: "???"

He paused for a moment, then tried even harder to chop down with the axe!

But the vine remained completely still.

"This quality is garbage!"

The sunflower was full of disdain.

Then, Kha'Zix saw more vines bursting forth from the ground beneath his feet!

"What the hell is that?!"

Kha'Zix let out a horrified scream, and he promptly dropped his axe and turned to run!

His intuition, honed from years of experience in the interstellar world, was warning him.

These guys in front of me are definitely not to be trifled with! The talking flower is even more dangerous than that golden madman and that green expressionless guy!

But his leg, which had just stepped out, was quickly entangled by a vine!

Next came his other leg, his waist, his arms, his neck...

"Let me go! You damned green monsters! Ah!!"

Amidst a chorus of curses filled with resentment and pain.

Kha'Zix, the space pirate who had just regained his freedom and was ready to make great strides, was quickly wrapped up by Ivy's vines and turned into a mummy with only his head sticking out, unable to move the rest of his body.

The vine even thoughtfully used its own tattered belt to shut up his incessant, foul mouth.

The world has finally fallen silent again.

Xiu En took the energy axe, looked at it with disdain, and then, with the mentality that since he was already there, he might as well try it, he tentatively smelled it.

"Pooh!"

A look of pain crossed his face.

"It smells like rust! It smells like rust, full of bacteria and the dust of history! Even dogs wouldn't eat it!"

In a fit of rage, he threw the energy axe far into the depths of the jungle.

Then he pulled a bottle of mineral water out of his pocket and started frantically rinsing his mouth.

After Xiu En finished rinsing his mouth, Hal finally found a chance to speak. He pointed to the green mummy that was still wriggling on the ground and asked.

"What do we do now?"