The Death Knell

Arthur held the boat in the bottle in his hand and watched it floating and bumping inside. He could not help but think of the past.

When he was a child, he went to sea with his father countless times in his family's small sailboat.

Once, on a bright morning, their boat came to a bay where his father would fish to support the family.

His father was a lighthouse keeper, and that salary was not enough to support his wife and children.

Neptune's mother may have been the Queen of Atlantis underwater, but after skipping work and escaping to land, she became a completely unemployed vagrant without even a legal identity.

And little Arthur is about to reach school age, which requires money.

For people who live by the sea, the only solution is to rely on the sea.

"Father, look, there is a new bay over there."

Arthur sat on the bow deck of the boat, pointed to a golden sea in the distance, and shouted happily to his father.

The father who was steering the boat and preparing to stop the boat just shook his head: "We have come here to fish before. It's just that the sunshine makes it look different now. This is not a new sea area."

Arthur was a little disappointed. He looked at the water under the bow of the ship, and those golden waves illuminated his face.

"I wanted to be like the sailors of old, the kind of sailing where... you didn't know what you were going to find."

The father touched Arthur's head, knowing that this was just a child's fantasy.

He is a lighthouse keeper, a fisherman and a sailor. He will not cultivate innovative thinking or artistic taste in children.

He chose to tell his children only the truth.

"Our ocean is only so big. Everything has been charted. Arthur, there are no unknown seas anymore. In fact, the earth has no more...surprises for humans?"

As he spoke, Arthur's powers kicked in.

He wanted a share of the unknown sea. He spoke to the sea, and countless fish responded to Arthur's call.

Countless whales and dolphins, even sharks and turtles, surrounded their boat and began to rotate underwater, welcoming an Atlantean prince, the son of the sea.

Arthur didn't know what was going on at the time. He just pointed at the big fish in the water and asked his father to look at it.

"Dad, we have fish! Can't we still find unknown waters?"

But his father knew, when he picked up his mother from the beach a few years ago, that Arthur had finally shown Atlantean characteristics after all these years.

His father had no intention of lowering the net, and he would not be able to take Arthur out for fishing in the future. None of the following fish could be caught.

So he didn't answer Arthur's question, and Arthur never got an answer from him.

............................

The tremor of the invisible plane landing brought him back to his senses. The landing was slightly displaced, and the ice under his feet was not very solid.

Diana jumped out of the plane and looked at everything around her in the cold wind.

There are some strange circular marks around it, as if huge cylindrical ice blocks have been removed, leaving only large pits.

Firestorm said that he would explore in the air. He was very aware of the second-tier heroes, that is, when acting with the first-tier giants, he had to take the initiative to attack.

"It stopped moving." Arthur put the bottle in his hand and spread it out in front of Diana.

"We are close, the target is near us." Diana pulled off her cloak, and the hot breath she breathed formed a white mist in the air: "I know Poseidon's tricks, all pirate treasure maps are like this , it’s easy to find the island where the box is buried, but you have to find it slowly under which tree the box is.”

Arthur shrugged. As the son of a sailor, how could he not have played pirate games?

He has even seen many real treasure maps. Indeed, as Diana said, the treasure location has either a skull or a pair of bones drawn on it, and the terrain description has never been accurate.

The fire storm descended from the sky and floated in front of the two of them. He went to look in several large pits and discovered what was underneath.

"Guys, this is a graveyard of ships, frozen under the ice."

"Here? You know that although Antarctica is covered with ice and snow, it has always been a continent, right?" Neptune scratched his beard and let out a breath that made them freeze here.

Firestorm spread his hands. One of his hosts was a university professor. How could he not know such an obvious thing?

"I know it, and the average altitude of Antarctica is 2,350 meters, making it the highest continent on earth. But the reality is that if there really wasn't an unknown eighth ocean, then someone just dumped these ships here."

Diana nodded. Firestorm's second guess was more reliable. It was indeed thrown here.

She approached a deep pit and looked down. Under dozens of meters of ice, there was a half-destroyed Galenic sailing ship.

If the gods wanted to throw ships onto the Antarctic continent, they could do it. Although she now knew that they were ancient sorcerers, their power was still there.

If Poseidon is willing, he can use tsunamis or huge waves to rush any ship from any corner of the earth to Mount Everest.

But now that Deathstroke has replaced Hecate with the Upside Down, Diana can't say what impact it will have.

The energy Hecate stored in her body was still there and had not been retrieved. She could vaguely touch some shadows, but she could not use it yet.

As for her divine power, she still had it, and she didn't feel like she had to pay a price for using it, which made her a little strange.

What is this? Because the magical power is integrated into the bloodline, has the Upside Down been let go temporarily?

Diana put these chaotic thoughts aside for the time being and focused on the task at hand.

She looked at Neptune, who was cleaning the ice on his beard, and Firestorm, who was still burning but not bringing any heat. She explained to them the reason for the existence of this place.

"I have heard of this place before, and it is also a legend for me." She touched her ears: "It is said that Poseidon hid the key to the Tomb of the Gods in the belly of an ancient ship. "

Neptune frowned and turned his ears as if he didn't hear clearly: "What's the tomb?"

"The gods, those gods who were really killed or forgotten, that is their Hades." Diana sighed, she didn't know what to say: "I even think that place should not be in our universe."

"Wait a minute, I thought the gods couldn't be killed, but they just died of a human host or something..." Neptune shrank his neck: "Is Poseidon really dead?"

Diana rolled her eyes angrily. She had long known that Mela was having a hard time, but she was too tired to have to explain everything.

"It didn't happen before, but now it's clear that our enemies have figured out how to kill gods. Oh, and Deathstroke has managed to kill a cosmic concept, while the Justice League is still standing still."

Seeing Diana's face, Neptune decided not to ask any questions for the time being. He pierced his trident into the ice around him and looked under several holes around him.

"There are Maori rafts and Japanese submarines. They are all here. What are we looking for?"

Firestorm pointed at hundreds of other large holes. Wonder Woman was obviously in a bad mood, but he could explain: "If I guess correctly, you should also be looking for a ship that combines the styles of Atlantis and Amazon." .”

Neptune understood, and there was some excitement on his rough face: "So the strange building we found on the seabed before, and the one with the Atlantean style of Amazon River, is Aryan's villa?"

Firestorm twitched his lips: "Actually, that's the starting point for inferring what kind of ship to look for... But you can just understand it this way."

At this moment, Batman seemed to be finished with the surgery, and he contacted Aquaman through the Zhenglian communicator.

"Arthur, tell me about the progress on your end."

Arthur looked at the large pit around him. There were at least a thousand ships from different eras here that needed to be dug and searched under the ice, while Diana's face looked like a zombie.

"Actually, Batman, I'm 'falling through the ice' right now."

............................

Batman cut off the communication with a deadpan expression. Arthur actually learned the idiom, which needs to be recorded.

Learning idioms is equivalent to learning Chinese, and learning Chinese is equivalent to beginning to understand Chinese culture. In the process of understanding the culture, you may come across books such as Sun Tzu's Art of War.

From this, Batman deduces that Arthur's intelligence may grow, and he needs to make some necessary preparations...

Of course, that matter was not a high priority. When Deathstroke and the others were taking action, he was never idle.

He had already calculated the location of Luthor and others' home base, and dispatched a 'quick response' team of The Flash, Superman, and Adam Strange.

The three are now on a tropical island called Honest Island in the Banda Sea near Indonesia.

It was originally an ordinary island with dense forests and a mountain range.

But then something emerged from the ground, I can't tell what it was, maybe a lava titan, but it ended up dying there.

Since then, some elemental creatures made of lava have been active on the island. They have low intelligence and are very dangerous. They call themselves the Volcano Tribe.

And now Superman and the others are being besieged by the volcano tribe. The extremely hot lava is swayed or sprayed out by the fiery elemental creatures and used as weapons to fight against the heroes.

Superman shatters some of the Volcano Men, but more are emerging from the lava of the volcano.

"Look, more enemies have emerged from the giant corpse's stomach." Superman pointed at the giant corpse that had been assimilated into a volcano and told several people, and the crater was just in the belly of the corpse.

Barry complained again: "What you said is disgusting."

Batman contacted them: "Superman, what's the situation over there."

"Can you give me a second? We're a little busy right now." The three of them were surrounded by hundreds of blazing stone elements. There was no way they could conduct any investigation unless they defeated these things.

Batman was silent for a while: "Okay, I gave you six seconds, report now."

For a combination of Superman and The Flash, plus an Adam who can fly around the universe at the speed of light, that's more than enough time.

Hundreds of volcano people have been beaten into rubble. The heroes have arrived next to the crater and are using scientific instruments and superpowers to investigate the whereabouts of the Legion of Destruction.

Barry searched the entire island and found no obvious clues with the naked eye. He took some time to answer Batman's questions.

"We are in full swing here, haha."

Batman just narrowed his eyes. Why has idiom become so popular recently?