strokinit Chapter 137 Hope and Compassion
Chapter 137 Hope and Compassion
Chapter 137 Hope and Compassion
Where am I?
Joey suddenly opened his eyes, only to see two dark shadows.
"You're awake!"
As Joey, who had been resting his head on Carla's lap, suddenly sat up, Carla, who was kneeling on the ground, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. She had heard snippets of the story from her father, and if the legend was true, death could never catch up with her cousin.
Even so, seeing him unconscious, Kara couldn't help but feel a sense of worry.
Especially now that the two are being held captive in an underground cave that is completely blocked from signal.
Fortunately, we can put those worries aside for now. All we need to do is figure out how to get the tracker's signal back out and find a suitable opportunity to escape.
After being imprisoned inside the planet Mogo, Kara, temporarily out of danger, finally calmed down and began to think about how Joey had teleported to her in an instant.
After finding the tracker hidden in her inner clothing, Kara discreetly hid it again.
Now, if the two of them want to escape, they might have to rely on this little tracker.
The rock walls around them were still covered with a faint green light for illumination, and Kara got up with Joey.
She tentatively punched the light screen of the green-lit cell, but it didn't even cause a ripple.
"+!"
The Kryptonian physique is not always invincible.
"Don't even try. Are you really planning to find a spoon or something and carve a hole through the inside of a living planet to escape?"
After figuring out the situation, Joey was truly at a loss. He was currently in a state of extreme energy depletion and couldn't think of a way to escape for the time being.
The prison that held him was not an inanimate object; it could detect any disturbance immediately.
Rumble~
As soon as you speak of the devil, Joey felt a sudden increase in pressure, probably because the ground beneath his feet was rapidly rising under Mogo's control.
A short while later, the rock wall above them cracked open, allowing the two people inside to see the light of day again.
However, the color of this sun has changed.
"Red Sunshine"
Joey looked up at the huge red sun overhead and squinted. He turned to look at Kara, who was also somewhat confused:
"How long was I unconscious?"
Could it be that I've been in a coma for billions of years, long enough for the yellow dwarf star in our galaxy to expand to gigantic size?
A red giant in the decay pool?
"Stop making such lame jokes at a time like this!"
Seeing that Joey was in such good spirits that he could even crack jokes, Kara, who had been worried before, now felt like punching her cousin.
"You were only unconscious for 37 minutes and 26 seconds! Isn't it obvious that this planet grew legs?"
Within just half an hour, the planet moved on its own into another star system covered by a red star.
This led Kara to reassess the difficulty of the escape mission.
She remained resilient and brave under the red sunlight, but this resilience could not allow her to fly or dive into the earth.
If this planet is determined to trap the two of them here, it will be difficult for them to escape on their own.
A voice like a thunderclap boomed from the open plain beneath their feet, through the distant forests and mountains, and above the sky and clouds. He was calling Joey's name:
"Karl El from sector 2813."
A piece of ground rose up beneath their feet and began to move rapidly, arriving in a short time at the outskirts of a valley a thousand miles away.
Looking at the entrance to the valley, Joey didn't hesitate and walked straight in.
Kara grabbed his hand: "Are you sure?"
"Are you sure about what?"
Joey didn't know what Kara was hesitating about:
"Do we have any other options now?"
Upon hearing this, Kara pulled Joey behind her and stepped forward, saying, "Then let me go scout ahead."
"I'm sorry, you're not welcome here."
The soil beneath her feet rose up, forming a low wall less than a meter high that blocked Kara's path.
"I'm sorry, you're not welcome here."
The will of this planet, Mogo's voice, rang out once more:
"Please allow me to speak with Karl El alone. This is very important; it concerns the life and death of the entire universe."
"You!... Never mind, this is your territory after all."
Kara, who was about to retort because she was "unpopular," immediately deflated when she remembered that Mogo had indeed saved her life. She could only grab her cousin's arm and repeatedly remind him:
"Don't easily believe anyone who gives you a green light. They may be good people, but good people don't always do good deeds."
Joey nodded absentmindedly, and after calming Kara down, he walked straight into the valley.
To be honest, based on the few Green Lanterns I've met, the Green Lanterns in this universe are already very close to the normal, familiar image in my mind.
Even if I were to shrug and say, "Nobody knows more about green lights than me," no one could find fault with me.
Soon, in the next second, Joey realized that he knew absolutely nothing about Green Lantern.
As he entered the valley, he discovered that beyond the path extending from beneath his feet lay a dense mass of skeletons.
Looking around, corpses of all shapes and sizes and identical green lantern rings covered almost every corner of the valley.
In terms of the number of remains, it is no exaggeration to say that this valley is the graveyard of at least tens of thousands of Green Lanterns.
If calculated by the number of lamp rings, this number would probably be several times higher.
Seemingly sensing the shock in Joey's heart, Mogo's will caused a juni flower to sprout a tender bud beneath the skeleton beside Joey. The plant grew rapidly and bloomed, its blossoms extending to Joey's ear as it whispered something to him:
"Don't be afraid, this is the final resting place for all Green Lanterns and Green Lantern rings who have nowhere else to go since the founding of the Green Lantern Corps."
"Most members of the Green Lantern Corps die alone. After their mission is interrupted, their rings do not always find suitable successors, and their bodies are not always able to be buried. So, with the help of another person, I gave them a temporary resting place."
Mogo thus became a transit point for the nameless dead and lost ringers of the Green Lantern Corps, and Mogo was always trying to send every lucky Lantern who was lucky enough to retain their body back to their respective hometowns.
However, as the conflicts between the universe intensified, Mogo discovered that this was no longer an impossible task.
Every time Mogo takes a break, at least a hundred civilizations are wiped out on a cosmic scale. Mogo's stop in the star system where the battle took place was not accidental; he is still searching for the origin of every Lantern.
However, what he found was already a desolate wasteland.
"First of all, I certainly pay tribute to these Lantern Spirits, but!"
Joey had previously stated that the average term of service for Green Lantern Corps members is only four years. This does not mean that after four years they collect a large pension and go home to farm, but rather that the vast majority of Green Lanterns do not live past the fifth year in the process of maintaining universal peace.
But this valley contains more than just the body and the green light ring!
"What the hell are those two lamp rings, Mogo? Aren't you a Green Lantern?!"
Joey pointed to the very center of the valley, surrounded by endless wreckage and unclaimed green lantern rings.
Two rings, completely different from the other green light rings, were floating in the air, radiating a dazzling light.
Blue represents hope, and cyan represents compassion.