After Eric and Revan finally withdrew from the Antarctic base, the facility collapsed almost the moment they left. The young superheroes' first active counterattack against NOWHERE was finally a complete victory.

But of course, there is no regret. After the battle, everyone spent some effort to almost lift the base upside down, but only found a group of fish that were injured and killed. Omega himself, or the Quick Silver and Scarlet Witch who were knocked down during the battle, were missing.

Just a slight difference, Dr. Charlotte's bionic body slipped away again. However, this made Eric more sure of the fact that someone else was secretly helping him. With the final state of the bionic body, it was hard to imagine that he had recovered his mind and tried to escape.

No matter what, the incident should have come to an end for the time being. Even if the NOWHERE organization did not collapse, this surprise attack must have hurt them a lot of energy, and it should have stopped for a while in the next period.

One day later, Nightwing was in a stronghold in New York.

Most of the teenagers rescued in the last raid were chosen to return to their own lives after regaining their freedom and left on their own. In addition to Eric, Raven, Nightwing, Fantastic Girl, Blue Beetle, Lightning Boy, there were also rescued Jessica and Kitty.

This is not an unexpected result - Kitty was struggling to find that it was the future destination of the mutant, and encountering so many compatriots of the same age might be the opportunity God prepared for her; Jessica lost her only job for her after Nick Fury stepped down, and it seems to be a good choice to live with so many young people who are similar to her in the future.

After gathering everyone on the sofa in the hall, Yeyi came to the middle of everyone, cleared his throat and said, "Well, I believe everyone knows what we are going to discuss today... It is related to our future decisions and determines where our 'Young Titan' will go."

"'Titan'." Bart sat cross-legged on the edge of the sofa and interrupted, "Is this the name you came up with yesterday that you spent all night?"

"I just thought it out." Ye Yi glanced at him and said lightly, "This is not important. The topic we want to decide now is - who will lead this team?"

"Since you have brought it up like this, I guess, you want to carry this banner gloriously, right?" Kashi smiled and sarcastically.

Ye Yi said lightly: "I didn't say that. I just hope that we can choose the most suitable person to lead the team. He not only needs sufficient decisiveness and leadership spirit, but also needs to be able to think from the team's perspective, and also prepare for various situations that the team may encounter..."

"It sounds like you are just describing yourself with shame." Cahish said without giving face, and his eyes turned to Eric, "I think he is more suitable than you. Is Eric the one who brings us together? It is because of him that we all gather together, and then we obey his command to fight together. Why shouldn't Eric be the leader?"

"I object." Before Nightwing could speak, the Blue Beetle rushed to speak. He stared at Eric and said coldly, "Do you know that this guy had known that a certain organization was arresting his compatriots for a long time, but he had been indifferent?"

Everyone's eyes focused on Eric.

"Is he true?" Bart's tone also contained a hint of doubt.

"Ah, that's true, I admit it." Eric responded lightly, "There's nothing to hide. It's like asking me why I didn't go to the Middle East to stop terrorists from massacre villagers. I don't think there is anything to defend myself."

Reyes suddenly stood up and said, "Do you know what happened in that hell-like base when you were doing nothing? Do you know how many children of my age were tortured to death?"

"I am sorry for your experience, but there is nothing to be sorry for." Eric shrugged, "What must be said, unjust happens on the earth every moment, and countless people suffer at every moment, and I can't save them all."

He paused, stood up, and patted the blue beetle on the shoulder.

"I understand. If you insist, then I will quit here, right?"

Yeyi opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but Eric waved his hand to signal him to stop.

"It's okay. In fact, what I wanted to do at the beginning was just to integrate resources and gather the strength to fight against the NOWHERE organization. Now my goal is accomplished." He said, turning to Reyes, "But it's a last word to be a hero - try not to be a hero with the idea of ​​trying to save everyone like this, and one day you will bring yourself a tragic ending."

"I don't need you to tell me how to do it." Reyes shook his hand off with his shoulder and said unceremoniously.

Eric shrugged indifferently, and actually walked through the hall and walked out the door.

But he had nothing to regret. As he said, from the beginning, he did not mean to join the young Titan. What he did was to integrate the resources that could be used to fight NOWHERE.

Seeing that Eric was about to leave, Raven stood up without saying a word and prepared to follow.

"You'd better stay if you want." Eric stopped, turned to her and said, "There's no need to follow me to decide."

"If you don't care, I don't care." Ruiwen said lightly.

"But this is also an opportunity for you, right?" Eric smiled. "Didn't you always hope to make friends like ordinary people? This is your opportunity."

Ruiwen didn't say anything, but seemed to hesitate.

Eric patted her on the shoulder: "I will be very happy that you can make more new friends. Don't worry, don't show such a look, this will not change our relationship."

After saying that, he smiled slightly, touched her head, turned around and went out.

It was already night outside when he came out of the stronghold, and Eric went straight back to his home.

He took out the key and opened the door. He just walked into the living room. Before the light was turned on, he stopped in the corridor at the door.

"Who?" he asked in a low voice to the darkness in the living room ahead.

"Don't be nervous, child." The woman, wrapped in a dress that was almost darker than the surrounding environment, stood up from the sofa, and her voice seemed to be ringing in Eric's mind.

"I just want to talk to you about something."

Eric's pupils shrank and he stood there in a daze.

"Mom...Mom?"
Chapter completed!