American Comics: The Law of Strength

Chapter 74: The Girl Who Left Home

"Bang dang, bang dang."

The night bus sped off the beaten path, its shock springs and loose shell making a rhythmic noise with slight bumps, while Peter was sitting in the last row of the bus, looking out the window at the night.

However, his eyes were blank and unfocused, and from time to time a dark green light appeared in the palm of his hand hidden in his jacket pocket, faintly reflecting his silhouette.

With a "click" sound like glass being crushed, the green glow disappeared again.

This slightly strange phenomenon has been repeated since Peter boarded the bus, but both passengers and drivers have become accustomed to it.

Since that Batman became the darling of the major media, there have been many weirdos with black helmets on this route, some holding bright flashlights with bat markings, and some carrying various peripheral products.

Some of them are pure comic book fans who want to make a pilgrimage to the place where the so-called dream began, and some are the emerging streamers or freelance writers of this era who want to rub some heat from Batman.

However, the most outrageous are the fun people with garlands with Martha's name written on them, but generally these people are usually sanctioned by comic book fans before they go anywhere.

This also led to all the buses on this route being celebrated every day as if they were celebrating Halloween, and the strange scene that Peter showed was naturally ignored by the passengers.

What they don't know is that with every green glow appearing, one or more criminals will be attacked and even killed.

As soon as he saw that Gwen had found Diane, Peter immediately separated the free crow and went to the city to find the perpetrator.

However, this is not that Peter suddenly wants to enforce the righteous sanctions, but after extracting Alexei's life force, Peter suddenly found that this ability can bring a little higher than he thought.

Although there is no accurate panel data, the strength extracted from Alexei is enough to more than double the physique of an ordinary adult man.

Even because Alexei himself is physically strong, Peter absorbs the life force of others, but it is only limited by skill cooldowns and mana.

It's like if you're willing to run ten kilometers a day, do a hundred push-ups, sit-ups and squats, and you can naturally become a superman.

This also made Peter immediately turn on the brush mode, and the reason why he only extracted the life force of these criminals was only because injuring or killing the criminals made Peter less psychologically stressed.

Before, Peter still disliked these crows for not being worthy of the name of the envoy of the secret demon, but now he just thinks that their number is too small.

"Squeak."

As the body trembled violently, followed by a shrill sound of braking, the old bus finally stopped slowly, and Peter just crushed the last formation.

He could see several criminals with guns kneeling on the ground in an instant, everyone's expressions became sluggish, and an illusory light gushed out from their bodies and floated into the air, and then merged into the crow's body, and at the same time, Peter also felt a warm current in his body rushing to his heart, and then was transported to the limbs.

This feeling of being able to actually experience the increase in strength is really addictive, but the feeling of mana being consumed is not very good.

If the system could add a blue bar to the status bar, Peter was sure it would have been drained, and the tingling in his brain and a slight tinnitus made him give up the idea of another knife in the gun-wielding thugs.

He sighed and recalled the crow and stepped off the bus, while inside the bus stop, several youths, also wearing bat helmets, passed by Peter.

Only a few people glanced at Peter and only regarded him as a companion who came to the "pilgrimage" like a few of them, but they also lost their intention to greet the "hobby" after their energy was exhausted.

Now this bat helmet has really become the best protective color.

Although there is an endless stream of people who come to visit and "pilgrimage" along the way, they only pass by Peter, the "real" Batman, and even say hello is quite rare.

Although it was late, the people left behind at the moment had no intention of leaving, most of them gathered in groups of threes and threes on the dirt slope next to the manor, loudly discussing the difference between the "real" Batman and the Batman in the comics, and some people directly set up tents, which meant to wait here overnight.

In these groups, people who do not wear helmets have become outliers.

Standing in front of the huge iron gate of the manor, Peter showed the anchor-like family crest to the security guard at the gate and entered the manor.

Only then did a few people in the crowd on the hill react, pointing at Peter who was allowed to let him go and screaming violently, and soon the rest of the people joined the screaming and shouting, even if the security guard at the door shouted a warning to no avail.

And Peter directly ignored the shouting and supportive crowd behind him, and quickly rushed to the study in the mansion, although he had arrived inside the manor, but Peter had no intention of taking off his helmet.

Because he knew Gwen was about to arrive, he had to find Diane before Gwen did.

He had already foreseen Gwen's departure from home through the crow's monitoring, and he knew the purpose of Gwen's trip, the teenage hero who had just confessed her true identity to her father now only needed a place to calm her down.

Originally, with Gwen's personality, he would definitely look for his friends in the band to spend the night.

But although Mary Jane and Glorie were not harmed, they were affected by the explosion and were still in the hospital at this time, even if the physical examination confirmed that their health was fine, they would be detained by the police for a period of time to record a confession.

So the only friend Gwen can trust at this time is Diane.

Peter had no opinion on this, and even supported it, but in order for Diane to make proper arrangements, he still needed to discuss the details of Gwen's stay with Diane in advance.

He doesn't want to wear his helmet on his head twenty-four hours a day, as he did when he lived in a safe house.

Although Diane also knows that she is hiding her true identity from Gwen, she will never understand what kind of crisis will arise when her identity is revealed.

But just when he was still one step away from the door of the study, he suddenly slowed down and stopped at the door.

Because his crow clearly saw that Diane was opening the window speechlessly, while complaining, "I remember that there seems to be something called a door in my house." While letting Gwen climb into the study.

(End of chapter)