Back in reality, Dane arrived at Diana's house.
At this moment, she was cooking in the kitchen, and seeing Dane return, she exclaimed, "You're back? Why didn't you say anything beforehand?"
Dane walked behind her and hugged her tightly, resting his head on her shoulder.
"What are we eating tonight?"
"Steak, do you want some?"
"Yes." Dane's actions began to become mischievous.
Diana lightly tapped him on the head, telling him to behave.
After dinner, the two entered the bedroom to begin their post-meal exercise.
Three hours later, the battle ended, and Dane felt his soul had been sublimated.
During the casual chat afterwards, Dane casually asked about the 1984 dream stone.
"What happened with that incident back then?"
Diana keenly sensed something, and leaning into Dane's arms, she asked, "Are you investigating this?"
Dane did not hide it and nodded in admission.
"Recently, I encountered a tricky character, and he and I made a bet to see who would find something called a dream stone first."
"I now suspect that the thing you encountered back then was the dream stone."
Diana frowned, falling into thought.
"Back then, Max wished upon the dream stone to become it, but in the end, he gave up that wish."
She recalled for a moment and continued:
"According to him, when he made the wish, the dream stone turned into a pile of useless fragments.
When he gave up the wish, the stone's power disappeared from him, and I thought it had returned to the God of Lies."
Then she asked in confusion, "What is the dream stone?"
Dane briefly introduced her to the Endless Family, a secret Diana had never encountered before, and she was very surprised for a moment.
"If what you say is true, and that dream stone was the dream stone, then it is very likely now in the hands of some people who shouldn't possess it, which is very dangerous."
Dane was silent for a while, then suddenly asked, "What wish did you make back then?"
Upon hearing this, Diana's eyebrows curved, "Guess?"
Dane raised an eyebrow, his weapon stirring.
Diana pressed it down, then whispered into Dane's ear, "I wished for it to give me a powerful partner…"
Dane immediately threw off the covers, ready to use all his lifelong skills.
"Your wish has come true!"
Just as Dane was preparing for another round, an unexpected person called his phone.
Dane immediately answered, "Bruce? Now is not a good time."
"I've run into trouble here," Batman said concisely.
Dane was able to control himself; he could still distinguish between what was important.
"Where?"
"Gotham."
Dane and Diana exchanged glances, immediately getting up to change.
They were very fast; a few minutes later, Dane used teleportation and arrived in Gotham with Diana.
They appeared right near Batman.
Bruce turned his head and saw that Diana had also come, surprised for a moment but then paid no more attention.
"What happened?"
Batman's location was on the top floor of Wayne Tower, which offered a panoramic view of Gotham.
He stepped aside, signaling for them to look for themselves.
Dane and Diana both had excellent eyesight; they looked down and quickly saw a group of citizens fighting each other.
Then Batman explained, "This is the fifth incident today, and the scope is still gradually expanding."
"What's wrong with them?" Diana did not act rashly; if they could be saved, Batman would have done so already.
Batman turned his head, "I investigated the victims and perpetrators; they claimed to have seen Demons."
"However, in reality, both those who assaulted them and those they assaulted were ordinary people."
Dane immediately reacted, "Cognitive error, they are caught in an illusion."
Batman nodded, "I think so too, but I originally thought someone was using the Scarecrow's leftover fear gas to cause trouble, but that's not the case."
"Their physical examinations are all normal; someone did something to them, but not through chemical means… or I should be clearer, the mastermind did not use technological means."
So that's it, Dane mused, this plot seemed familiar.
He carefully recalled in his mind and finally found the corresponding work.
"Dark Justice League," which was exactly about this incident.
Dane thought, what a coincidence, isn't it? I was just wondering where the dream stone was, and here you are.
He couldn't help but wonder if it was fate, that he was destined to gain the ability of "Dream"?
In "Dark Justice League," it was the villain "Destiny" who cast a magic spell on the World, making them think they were in the World of Hell, thereby driving them mad.
At that time, most of the Justice League members were non-magic heroes, and they couldn't solve this problem.
Later, when Destiny appeared, they also fell under his spell, mistaking their teammates for Demons and fighting each other.
In fact, the power of the dream stone was far more than that; even a proper magician, if caught unaware, would find it very difficult to solve.
So Dane immediately said to Batman:
"This matter, as you suspected, is a magic event; do not let Alliance members participate in the rescue, otherwise they are very likely to fall into the same illusion."
Batman looked at the citizens fighting on the ground, his brows furrowed under his mask.
"Are we just going to do nothing?"
"Not at all," Dane said, pulling out a small black pouch from somewhere.
He grabbed a handful of sand from it and blew it towards the citizens below.
The tiny sand particles scattered into the air and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Batman was wondering, and not long after, some changes occurred below.
The people who were originally fighting suddenly stopped, then softly fell to the ground, as if they had fallen asleep.
"What was that?" Batman asked calmly.
Dane dangled the pouch and smiled at him, "Good stuff, it can make some people fall into a warm sleep."
Batman did not continue to ask, merely adding another heavy entry to his internal file.
"What's next?"
Dane thought for a moment, "I'll try to find the mastermind."
He carefully recalled and tried to find him using Dr. Destiny's real name, but after several attempts, he failed and could only give up.
"No, the tracking spell can't find him; he is very likely in a dimension completely different from ours."
Batman said worriedly, "Then what do we do?"
He hated this feeling of powerlessness, but as an ordinary person, he truly knew nothing about things like magic.
Dane comforted him, "Don't worry for now; the mastermind must have his own purpose for causing all this; he will eventually appear, he can't hide forever… Eh?"
As he was speaking, Dane suddenly looked up at the sky and saw two figures flying from different directions.
He recognized one of them; wasn't that Hawkman Carter Hall?
And the other… Dane carefully distinguished for a while, his expression becoming surprised.
Her equipment was very similar to Hawkman's, with a pair of golden wings, a hawk-beak-like helmet, and she was carrying a spherical metal mace in her hand.
Hawkgirl? Or Hawkgirl?
He was a bit confused.
Just like Hawkman's chaotic origin, as his accompanying female hero, Hawkgirl's origin was also very chaotic.
Some say she was the reincarnation of Khufu's lover, some say she was a space detective, and some say she was an alien spy like Hawkman.
Anyway, no matter how many times the DC Universe has been rebooted, they have that many origins, not counting the re-settings in individual comics.
However, they seemed to be unaware of the current situation in the field. Hawkman quickly landed on the streets of Gotham and began to examine the unconscious citizens.
At the same time, a strange power seeped into his body, blurring his senses, yet Hawkman remained completely unaware.
Just as he was absorbed in his investigation, Hawkgirl also descended from the sky.
As soon as she landed, she saw a man dressed very similarly to her squatting in the middle of the crowd.
"What the hell is going on?" she wondered.
She was Hawkgirl, real name Shayera Hol, a warrior from the Thanagar Planet, who came to Earth on a secret mission.
But before she could begin her mission, she learned that there was an organization called the Justice League on this Planet.
After a thorough investigation, she found that this organization possessed astonishing combat power.
To ensure the mission's smooth execution, she could only devise a new plan, choosing to infiltrate the Justice League and bide her time.
This time, she received news that a supernatural event had occurred in Gotham.
She hoped to resolve the matter before the Justice League noticed, using it as a stepping stone to join the Justice League.
But who was this man in front of her? Why did he have N Metal from her home Planet?
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