American comics: Praising the sun, starting from Gotham!

When Shuen stepped out of the portal.

He found himself standing in a dimly lit country bar.

The old wooden bar counter was worn smooth and shiny, a huge horn of some unknown animal hung on the wall, and the ceiling fan spun listlessly.

Several burly men wearing denim vests and hats, with stubble on their faces, were arguing loudly around a pool table.

Xiu En's sudden appearance drew everyone's attention to the black-haired youth who looked completely out of place.

And the sunflower on his shoulder.

"Uh, sorry."

Xiu En raised his hand, revealing an innocent and kind tourist-like smile.

"Excuse me, where is the restroom?"

Half an hour later.

Xiu En sat down at the bar as he wished.

He successfully persuaded the bartender to exchange a gold coin for two iced cola.

And the full enthusiasm of the bartender who looked older than the bar itself.

"A young man from out of town? Here for tourism?"

The old bartender wiped the bar counter while rambling on. Although he clearly didn't believe Xiu En's story, he still agreed with him for the sake of the gold coins.

"Yes, market research."

Xiu En took a sip of his cola and answered casually.

"Research? What's there to research in this godforsaken place?"

The old bartender chuckled.

"Besides dust, there was just a broken-down road that seemed to stretch on forever. Oh, and there was him too."

"he?"

"Yes, it's him!"

The old bartender's tone suddenly became mysterious, and he lowered his voice and leaned closer.

"That's the guy riding the devil motorcycle!"

He began to vividly recount urban legends that had long circulated along several highways in the vicinity.

A skeleton engulfed in flames rides a Harley-Davidson motorcycle that is also on fire, speeding down a highway at midnight.

It is said that he will catch up with the guilty and then drag their souls into hell with a burning iron chain.

"Sounds like a traffic cop on duty?"

Xiu En complained to Xiao Hua through their mental connection.

"They might be hellish traffic cops who specialize in catching drunk drivers and speeders."

Ivy made the connection in a very serious manner.

"Of course, these are all just legends."

After the old bartender finished speaking, he waved his hand and resumed his usual nonchalant demeanor.

"These days, nothing is out of the ordinary. Not to mention your sudden appearance, a huge lump of metal fell from the sky the other day."

"However, the strangest thing in town lately isn't that devilish motorcyclist."

"Oh? What is it?"

Xiu En immediately pressed for details, feeling that this might be the real clue.

"It's a little girl."

"A little girl who looked no more than seven or eight years old always wore a Gothic black dress. The strangest thing was that she was always accompanied by a big black dog that was as big as a calf."

"She's just like that, all alone with her dog, wandering around the surrounding towns, and now it seems she's come to our town. She ignores everyone who talks to her. But if anyone dares to show even the slightest hostility towards her dog..."

"Last week, Bill, the butcher in town, got drunk and tried to kick that dog. The next day, he was found in the junkyard outside town."

"He's dead?"

Xiu En asked.

"No, it's worse than death."

"He's still alive. But he can no longer speak. It's as if something stole his tongue and his courage to lie."

As I stepped out of the bar, the sky outside was already tinged with a layer of orange-red sunset.

"Two clues."

Sunflower analyzed on his shoulder.

"One is Ghost Rider, whose target is clear but whose whereabouts are elusive. The other is a strange little girl whose location is clear but whose identity is unknown."

"From an efficiency standpoint, finding that little girl and getting some information out of her seems like a better option, since she's in this town and it would be faster to find her. And from the description, she's an orphan, so I want to go and see her."

"But that burning skull sounds cooler!"

Xiu En retorted.

"And I'm really interested in his motorcycle that can still catch fire!"

"So, we're splitting up? You go after your new fuel, and I'll study that little girl who can steal tongues?"

"No, no, no, that won't do."

Xiu En immediately rejected it.

"How can we split up? Besides, we don't know anyone here, it's too dangerous for a little girl like you to be out here alone."

Ivy: "..."

"Alright, I'll use my food radar to scan this town."

"Food radar? Have you given your intuition a new name again?"

"yes!"

Xiu En said matter-of-factly.

"That skull is burning with hellfire; its energy reaction must be very special! And that little girl, who could scare a thug leader so badly he couldn't speak, either she or her dog must be no ordinary creature!"

Xiu En closed his eyes, and a golden sense of perception swept across the entire Texas town, centered on him.

One second later.

He opened his eyes.

"Found it!"

On his food radar, most of the dots were dim white dots representing ordinary humans.

But at the other end of the town, in an abandoned building that looks like a church.

A small, but ominous, and deathly purplish-black dot of light was there.

Next to that spot of light, there was another slightly larger spot, also black, but filled with hunger as if it came from the depths of hell.

Following the purplish-black dot locked onto by the food radar, Xiu En arrived at the abandoned church in just a few minutes.

The church's structure had collapsed halfway, and several vultures circled in the gray sky.

The point of light landed in the messy cemetery next to the church.

Xiu En hovered slightly in the air and looked down.

A little girl wearing a black Gothic dress is sitting on a tombstone.

She looked to be only seven or eight years old, with skin so pale it looked like she had lived underground for a long time. Her long, black hair hung down to her shoulders, and she was munching on a sandwich that was almost flattened.

At the girl's feet lay a huge black dog.

The dog was as strong as a calf, with eyes like two shining dark yellow gems, and lay obediently beside the little girl.

But at this moment, this seemingly docile creature was chewing something.

The big black dog was chewing on a semi-transparent object.

That is a person's soul.

Moreover, it is a soul that is wailing in despair.

The chewed soul was shaped like an adult male curled up in a ball.

Beside that soul lay several automatic pistols lying carelessly on the ground.

It seems that not long ago, a very unfair robbery took place here, and the result was that the robber's body was abandoned in a dark corner, while his soul became this big black dog's afternoon snack.

Xiu En watched as the dog devoured the souls of sinners.

"Did you see that, Little Flower!"

"Look at that dog! It's eating souls! Wow!"

Ivy's voice was full of disgust.

"It is devouring the soul of a living person. This is called cruelty and leniency in any legal code."

"No, no, no, you have to look at it from another angle!"

"Look, that soul is wailing, but its color is murky, indicating it's filled with evil. Our perspectives are different; this dog looks like a demon hound, somewhat dark, but its inner self is full of humanity! I love humanity! I love it!"

He couldn't wait to fly even lower in the air.

Xiuen's tone became serious.

"I also want it to join my Sun God Cult!"

"Your goal now has shifted from learning about trial mechanisms to buying dogs?"

The sunflower hid its face with its leaves and sighed deeply.

"I really wonder if you've forgotten why we came here."

Just as Xiu En descended in excitement, the large black dog, which had always seemed docile, locked onto Xiu En in the air.

Even from a distance, Xiu En could feel a sense of oppression emanating from the depths of an abyss from that gaze.

At the same time, the little girl sitting on the tombstone stopped eating her sandwich.

She turned her head and gazed at the luminous youth descending into the air above the cemetery.

Faced with such a dazzling and sacred being, her first reaction was to stop the black dog.

"Little black dot".

"Don't go up, come back!"

A big black dog.

The creature she called a little black dot leaped up in the cemetery, its movements so fast that it disappeared from the spot almost instantly.

It charged straight at Xiuen in the air, opening its blood-red maw, attempting to attack this seemingly dangerous light-man!

What appears to be a warm glow to ordinary people is clearly a threat to the hellhound.

Faced with this attack, Xiu En extended a finger and tapped the center of the big black dog's forehead.

"Bang!"

Accompanied by a golden arc of light.

The big black dog was thrown back and crashed into the tombstone, shattering it into countless pieces.

"Well……"

The big black dog struggled to its feet from the pile of rubble and shook its head.

It turned and looked back at the little girl in the black dress.

He indicated that he couldn't beat her and wanted the little girl to run away quickly.

The little girl, however, didn't seem to want to run away. She could sense that Xiu En meant no harm, and she looked somewhat apologetic.

"I'm sorry, sir, my dog ​​doesn't like strangers."

The little girl said softly.

"Especially those who look a lot like the sun, it usually only attacks bad people who pose a threat to me. This time it was an accident, and I'm sorry."

Xiu En looked at the strange little girl and a happy smile appeared on his lips.

"Hello, little friend."

He eventually landed on the ground in the cemetery.

"My name is Xiu En. I'm sorry I scared your dog like a ray of sunshine, but I'm very curious about how your dog manages to perform the function of chewing souls."

As he spoke, he secretly plotted in his mind that if he could recruit this master-servant pair, they would be the first qualified candidates for his position as the "Sun Judge." Well, no, the little girl needed to be sent to school; it should be said that the candidate dog would be officially in his grasp.