American comics: Praising the sun, starting from Gotham!

Chapter 325 The System's New User is Superman?

Xi Mu Jie.

A golden portal opened in front of Xiu En's true form!

Two excited figures darted out of the door, one after the other!

Lucerne took the lead! Upon landing, he even stirred up a gust of wind due to his excitement!

It wagged its tail and stuck out its tongue on the grass, searching everywhere for the figure it most wanted to see.

Following closely behind is the Black Gold Carnivorous Flower.

Its size seemed to have increased since it arrived. A more subdued metallic sheen flowed across its metallic body. The vines bearing the Sun Ring were held aloft by it.

It was also looking around, searching for those chattering human cubs.

They're back.

I felt a sense of accomplishment from the successful business trip.

Get ready to come back and be greeted with cheers and adoration from the children!

However, they were greeted by a lawn.

"Huh?"

Luceria wagged his tail even more vigorously.

The black and gold vines also fell down.

They looked at the deserted paradise, and a question mark, just like the ones from the mages earlier, slowly appeared on their huge heads.

What about people?

"Welcome back, my two S+ level employees."

Xiu En walked out with a smile.

He patted Lucerne's furry head. Then he patted the black and gold metallic petals.

"You're a little late."

"My other self had already put the children back in their beds at the orphanage half an hour ago so they could get some sleep."

Xiu En shrugged.

"After all, children need enough sleep to grow."

Upon hearing the news that the children had returned home, both of the heroes emanated a low, dejected aura.

Luceria lay on the ground, holding his head with his two front paws, making a whimpering sound of grievance in his throat.

The black gold plant also drooped its huge flower buds, making even the rings on the vines appear somewhat dim.

"Hey, hey, hey!"

Xiu En looked at the two big guys who had turned into lost children and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Don't say that! Even though the children are gone, the awards ceremony has only just begun!"

"Speak."

"This is to reward you for your outstanding performance in this internship."

"What do you want?"

"Anything is fine."

"Power, delicious food, wealth, metal—whatever you desire, I can grant it to you!"

The two large creatures exchanged a glance.

Then Luceria passed his wish to Shuen through the Sun Ring.

Xiuen listened quietly.

The smile on his face faded.

He paused for a moment, then translated Lucerne's wish.

"You said you don't need greater power. Nor do you need a more delicious soul."

"Your sole purpose in coming into this world is to protect the little girl named Serafina."

"You said you didn't want Serafina to become too strong, nor did you want her to have any extraordinary destiny."

"You only hope..."

Hugh paused, looking into Luceria's eyes.

"You just hope that Serafina can grow up healthy and happy, like other ordinary children, in a safe, warm place filled with sunshine and laughter."

"I can eat lots of delicious snacks. I can wear lots of pretty dresses. I can make lots of true friends."

"To have someone to comfort me when I'm hurt. To have a place to hide when I'm scared."

"To have a happy childhood."

"This is all you wished for."

Xiu En turned his head and looked at the black-gold man-eating flower.

"And what about you?"

"Big guy. What do you want? You want something to protect you, too?"

Black Gold looked at Xiu En.

It still wasn't quite sure how to use the Sun Ring, so it chose to convey its wishes through Ivy's plant empathy.

The sunflower head trembled slightly.

She remained silent for a longer period.

Then he translated.

"It said the Dawnwood Realm is wonderful. The sunlight here is warm. Its kind here respects it. And the metal here tastes delicious."

"But it still prefers the Martha Wayne Memorial Home in Gotham City."

"It likes the children there."

"There was a boy named Jerami who secretly gave it a piece of bread when it first arrived at the orphanage."

"It said it wasn't smart. It didn't know what a home was."

"But it feels that if it has a home, then its home should be there."

"So, it wants to go back."

"It wants to go back there and continue being an inconspicuous gatekeeper."

"Go and guard those noisy human cubs."

"Until they all grow up."

Xiu En and Ivy looked at the two employees in front of them.

They suddenly realized that all their previous discussions about KPIs, system bugs, and project summaries were no longer important. They yearned for the existence of light; did they really need so many restrictions?

Xiu En smiled like the sun.

"I see."

He stepped forward and hugged the two little ones again.

"Your wishes."

"I see."

Xiu En looked at the two big guys in front of him who had become happy again because their wishes had been verbally promised.

"I, in the name of Zhaoming, hereby formally approve your requests for paid leave."

"Effective immediately!"

"etc."

The sunflower spoke.

"Since they are S+ level outstanding employees, their benefits should also be adequate."

A curtain of light, brimming with life energy, unfolded before her.

The light screen displayed the architectural plan of the Martha Wayne Memorial Home in Gotham City.

"Under the oak tree in the back garden of the orphanage."

Ivy made a dot on the drawing.

"I will set up a permanent two-way plant portal there."

She looked up at the two large, excited creatures.

"This portal can only be used by the two of you, all the children in the orphanage whom I have approved, as well as Xiu En and me."

"This way, you can perform your security duties at any time, and you can also bring the children here whenever they want to have a picnic."

Xiu opened the portal.

He returned to Gotham with a jubilant Black Gold and Lucerne.

He watched as Black Gold silently slipped into the shadowy corner of the orphanage where it usually stayed.

As he watched Lucerne find Serafina, who was having trouble sleeping because her dog wasn't there, and then curl up and fall into a deep sleep by her bedside.

Xiu En felt a sense of satisfaction.

Xiu En returned to the Xi Mu Realm, and by then Ivy had updated the system.

"Sun Ring V3.3 (Fully Automatic Tracking Beta Version)".

Xiu En held a ring that Ivy had personally fixed, fixing all known bugs and incorporating a completely new causal chain tracking algorithm.

His face was full of curiosity and anticipation.

"Ivy! My dear Ivy!"

He proudly displayed the ring in front of the sunflower clone.

"Look! This is our latest scientific research result!"

"Now, there shouldn't be any bugs left, right?"

"Theoretically, there isn't any."

A helpless expression appeared on Sunflower's face.

She looked at Xiu En's impatient expression and sighed again.

"Shuen, I must remind you. Any complex system may encounter problems we cannot foresee before it is actually put into practice."

"Relax, relax!"

Xiu En waved his hand.

"Make bold assumptions, but be careful... uh, no, be bold in your experiments!"

"We'll deal with problems as they arise! Anyway, you're here!"

"Look, Little Flower. Although there was a tiny hiccup along the way, the result was good."

"And our system also exposed problems in this test, which led us to find a direction for evolution."

He became more and more excited as he spoke, as if he could already see the day when his system of rewards and punishments for gourmets from all over the world would officially go online.

"Once the patch is complete, version V3.3 will be officially released. Our Sun Ring will then possess the most comprehensive dynamic ethical standards and cross-dimensional law enforcement authority!"

The sunflower stretched out a leaf and tapped it on the control panel of the light screen.

Another data monitoring interface was brought up.

The interface displayed a star map of the universe.

On the star map, hundreds of tiny points of light drift like headless flies in the vast universe.

These are the first batch of solar ring systems.

"You're asking if there are any more bugs?"

"Theoretically, no."

She paused, then pointed with the leaf to the golden dot on the screen.

"But have you forgotten to shut down those old versions of yours that are still floating in space?"

"Well……"

Xiu En looked at the hundreds of dots on the screen that were persistently executing version V1.0.

He seems to have genuinely forgotten about it.

"It's okay!"

"The logic of version 1.0 is quite simple. It's about finding life forms with the strongest will and the brightest hearts. Such beings are extremely rare in the universe. They might not find a suitable one even after drifting for tens of thousands of years, so there's no rush..."

He hadn't finished speaking.

On the star map, a golden dot of light from the Milky Way stopped.

Then it seemed to see something that excited it!

Its radiance increased dozens of times!

It's as bright as a miniature sun!

Immediately afterwards!

The solar ring was pointing towards a seemingly ordinary planet.

Earth.

It charged straight ahead!

Next to the star chart, the basic information of the target locked by the ring also appeared.

[Super Light Source Detected!]

[Vital signs assessment: Perfect!]

[Willpower Rating: Perfect!]

[Moral Standard Rating: Perfect!]

[Overall Rating: S++, Chosen Host!]

[In progress, binding program!]

[Target coordinates: Earth, North America, Metropolitan City, Daily Planet Building, 12th floor, storage room.]

Xiu En and Ivy both fell silent.

They stared at the line of coordinates on the screen.

They didn't dare to breathe loudly.

Planet Daily.

Storage room.

An extremely ominous, even fatalistic, premonition welled up in Xiu En's heart!

"Ivy, tell me quickly, that big guy named Clark, he probably didn't go to work today, right?"

"Well, although I really want to tell you that I didn't come to comfort you, I don't want to lie to you either."

Sunflower wore a helpless expression.

"Mr. Clark Kent is right there."

“…………”

Xiu En looked at the golden streak on the star map that was about to enter Earth's atmosphere.

He raised his hand and covered his face with a look of utter despair.

"No way..."

"Not again?!"

"It's someone I know again?!"

"What the hell is this damn idiotic system?!!!!"

"No--!"

As he watched the golden streak of light piercing the metropolis on the star map, Xiu En let out a mournful cry that could make all the flowers in the entire Xi Mu Realm wither!

"Little Flower! Help me stop it!"

Xiu En clutched his hair and made a final, desperate plea for help to the sunflower beside him.

"Feel sorry."

Ivy's sunflower-like face displayed a helpless, spectator-like expression.

"I do not have administrator privileges for the V1.0 version backend. I cannot perform remote operations on it."

"Damn it!"

Xiu En cursed himself for his damn laziness in posting with one click to save time!

There's no time!

He stretched out his hands and tore the void in front of him to both sides!

An unstable portal, filled with violent spatial turbulence and golden divine fire, opened!

This method of opening the door is rather dangerous, but it's faster.

Across from the door is the Daily Planet building!

Xiu En plunged headfirst into the spatial rift!

Metropolis, Daily Planet, 12th Floor Storage Room.

Here, there were piles of discarded newspapers, broken printers, and moldy lunch boxes that no one knew who had left them.

Clark Kent had just helped the new intern move a box of old files.

He was about to go to the break room to pour himself a cup of coffee before going back to write his report on the city's stray cat rescue program.

Just then.

A golden beam of light pierced through the thick concrete floor slab and ceiling.

Then a familiar aura of the sun floated in front of him.

The light faded, leaving behind a golden ring floating there.

Clark was stunned.

He looked at the ring and blinked in confusion.

His super brain didn't even need to ask Bruce; it analyzed the energy fluctuations and easily identified the power of the sun.

This power belongs to Xiu En!

However, before Clark could figure out why his friend would suddenly send him a package in this way...

As if it had chosen him, the ring suddenly selected a spot randomly and slipped onto the ring finger of his left hand!

A power as great as the entire sun surged into his body!

But this power is for a Kryptonian who is himself a walking god.

It cannot be said that it has no effect at all.

It's better than nothing, to say the least.

Then, the ring's AI, version V1.0, emitted a notification sound in Clark's mind.

[S++ level chosen host detected! Soul binding in progress...]

Clark: "..."

[Unknown background interference caused binding failure!]

[Interference filtering; the priority of light is above all else!]

[Switching to backup plan, activating appeasement mode!]

【Greetings, esteemed one whose heart turns towards the light. I am the Sun God Cult's Intelligent Missionary System. I now sincerely invite you to join us in the struggle for love, justice, and light!】

Clark listened to the enthusiastic yet idiotic AI voice in his head and fell silent.

Xiu En... you bastard...

What exactly did you do outside?

Just as Clark was feeling both amused and exasperated.

"Sizzle!"

The space behind him was violently torn apart!

A figure burst out from that extremely unstable crack!

"No! Stop! You idiotic AI! Stop right there!"

The person who came was none other than Xiu En!

He's arrived!

Then he saw it.

He saw Clark Kent, wearing black-rimmed glasses, a plaid shirt, and looking like an honest man.

I saw Clark Kent's left hand.

That damned Sun Ring is radiating golden light!

And, the complex expression on Clark's face, a mixture of amusement and exasperation, and the realization that it was him.

Xiu En: "..."

Two people, one of whom had just arrived from another time and was still in a forward-leaning posture.

A hand that has just been forced into a sale, still holding up a ring.

Right here in this storage room.

Eyes wide open.

In the end, it was Clark, this kind and honest man, who broke the silence first.

He watched as Xiu En went from being frantic to shocked, then to desperate, and finally to a look of utter despair.

He couldn't help but laugh.

"I'm sorry, Xiu En."

His voice carried a good-natured teasing tone.

"Do I seem to have caused you trouble again?"

"No trouble at all, Clark. Um, it was a misunderstanding..."

Xiu En was incoherent and even wanted to crawl into a hole in the ground.

"I know."

Clark smiled and shook his head.

He raised his hand, which was adorned with a ring.

The original Sun Ring seemed to sense the dimensional reduction attack from the Creator himself. Trembling, it withdrew from Clark's finger on its own, then obediently floated in front of Shuen and rubbed its light against his hand.

"It's great, Shuen."

Clark praised it sincerely.

"I can feel the power within it. Warm, pure, and full of hope."

"But I'm afraid I can't accept it."

"Why?!"

Clark scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly, a blush of shyness appearing on his face.

"Because I've already prepared another ring."

As he spoke, he pulled a small, dark blue velvet box from his shirt pocket.

He opened the box.

Inside the box lay a diamond ring.

The diamond wasn't very big.

But it is very bright.