FBI: Chapter 170/171

Chapter 170: Welcome Back, Creator

Dante looked at Sarah Lance's emotional expression and couldn't help but reach out and pat her head.

"You're waiting for your teacher here, aren't you?"

"Hehe, mainly because this matter is indeed significant."

Sarah Lance smiled, then led Dante to the rooftop of the adjacent building.

Dante looked around, there was nothing.

But his powerful perception had already sensed a slight abnormality ahead, and he pointed with his hand.

"Although it's invisible to the naked eye, is the Waverider parked right there?"

"Wow, Teacher truly lives up to his name! When we encountered Doctor Doom and a darkened Tony Stark on other timelines, the Waverider was never discovered!"

"Alright, stop flattering me."

Dante rolled his eyes, looking at his apprentice and adopted daughter...

Although his adopted daughter was the same age as his current self.

"The more you flatter me, the more I feel this matter will be difficult to handle."

"You're overthinking it! This time, at most, it's just a bit difficult... I mainly wanted to see Teacher more often~" Sarah Lance smiled a little shyly. "The forty-five-year-old Teacher went missing, so I could only come find the twenty-five-year-old Teacher."

"What? My future self went missing?"

As soon as Dante's question left his mouth, Sarah Lance opened her communicator and gave an order.

"Gideon, disable optical stealth."

The next moment, the massive temporal spaceship, Gideon, appeared before them.

"Let's go, Teacher, we'll board first."

Dante nodded, his future self was already missing anyway, so there was no need to rush.

He would see if Sarah Lance had any clues later.

If not, he would transform into Ion Man and see if he could find his future self.

So he followed behind Sarah Lance and boarded the Waverider.

"Welcome back, Captain Sarah Lance."

"Welcome back, Creator Dante."

Dante was also surprised to hear Gideon's address for him.

Shouldn't the creators of temporal spaceships be the Time Lords? And wasn't Gideon's creator that kid Barry Allen?

"I am your creator?"

"That's right, You created me twenty years from now, and You built this temporal spaceship with uru alloy as the main body, supplemented by Adamantium."

Dante nodded, the reason he could sense the Waverider was that he detected the unique energy fluctuations of uru alloy.

After all, it's the stuff used to forge Mjolnir and the Orange Lantern Ring.

"Everything about The Legends was personally crafted by You."

"It seems I am indeed skilled with my hands." Dante shamelessly praised himself, then followed behind Sarah Lance into the cabin.

As expected, Captain Carter and Howard Stark were standing in the cabin.

There were also two others standing beside them.

Martin Stein and Ray Palmer.

"Gentlemen, I haven't seen You since our first meeting a while ago."

"To You, it might have been just a while ago, but to us, it was already a year ago." Ray Palmer shrugged. "The temporal buffer is really no place for a human."

"So we searched through the timeline and finally found a safe point that wouldn't affect any causality..." Martin Stein continued Ray Palmer's sentence. "This point is based on You."

Dante understood immediately.

So he had become their temporal blind spot.

It seemed that this situation was caused by the nature of his Ion Man affecting the main timeline of the real Universe, making him a temporal singularity.

After all, Ion Man transcends time and space.

"Alright, I can more or less understand that." Dante expressed understanding and agreement, then continued to ask, "What about the other team members?"

"Oh, I rushed over immediately after getting the news, the team members are still drinking in a bar in Los Angeles." Sarah Lance said excitedly. "And the owner of that bar actually knows Constantine from way back, so he comped our entire tab."

Dante's eyelid twitched.

"Sarah, can't you have some ambition? It's just a comped tab!"

"Getting something for free is making money, that's what You taught me! Besides, Director Fury's budget is just too small, You don't know, the future Director Fury is so stingy, even You won't easily get more funding from him!"

"...Does my future self dare to teach anything good?"

Dante shook his head.

What is all this...? Wait!?

Los Angeles?

The owner of that bar knows Constantine?

"Sarah, the bar you mentioned, wouldn't it happen to be a bar called 'LUX'?"

"Right, right, right! That's the one! What's wrong? Teacher, have You been there too?"

Dante rubbed his temples.

It's really f*cking coincidental, how could this even be related to that unreliable deity, Lucifer?

"Ugh! Let's go! We're departing!"

"First, head to LUX to pick up all your teammates."

"Then, let me see how big of a mess You've stirred up in the timeline!"

(To be continued.)

Chapter 171: Even More Outrageous Than Fake Certificates

Outside LUX, Chloe Decker pushed the door open.

LUX, usually bustling with people, was surprisingly quiet at this time, with only a few people chatting and drinking.

And she saw Lucifer sitting on his exclusive sofa, smiling and talking with a blonde man from England.

They seemed to be getting along very well.

"Lucifer! Did you forget that we are partners now!?"

"My God, can't you just answer a call?"

Chloe's voice echoed through the bar, reaching Lucifer's ears.

Lucifer waved Constantine away, then stood up and walked over to Chloe.

Compared to his good partner, Constantine was nothing.

"Oh, Detective, you called me? I'm sorry, my phone was probably thrown into that beautiful woman's bag... Oh no, it might have been into another 'inside'." Lucifer gestured with some inappropriate content. "But for this matter, calling my father is useless, he wouldn't be bored enough to personally manage whether someone answers the phone."

"I said God! Not your father!"

"That's right! God, that's my father!"

Chloe rolled her eyes, she was already too lazy to talk in circles with this unhinged fellow.

Why does a person with such a handsome face always act so improperly?

"I don't have time to get involved in your childhood trauma and religious metaphors right now!" Chloe clapped a hand over Lucifer's mouth. "Listen to me, there's another murder case, and as the police consultant, my partner, you need to come to the scene with me."

After speaking, she even gave a slight nod to the onlookers enjoying the show.

"Customers, I apologize for interrupting your drinking."

With that, she tugged on Lucifer's tie and headed out.

At this moment, the door opened again, and another group of people entered in single file.

And the one leading them was Dante.

As soon as he entered, he saw the members of The Legends looking at him with surprised eyes.

"Yo, Constantine, long time no see, you've been traveling abroad for a while, haven't you? How do you feel?"

"Isn't this my favorite bald... I mean, isn't this my favorite Heat Wave and Captain Cold? Haven't seen you in so long, don't you miss me?"

"And Jefferson... Well, we don't seem to be very close, but if I don't greet you, it'll look like I'm isolating you, which isn't good, doing that in the U.S. can very likely lead to a lawsuit."

"Pfft! Phew, that's much better." Lucifer removed Chloe's hand from his mouth, let out a long breath, and then walked forward to chat with Dante, an acquaintance he had only met once. "Dante, it's only been a few days, and you're back here drinking again?"

"This time it's really a coincidence." Dante pointed to a few people inside the bar, then pointed back over his shoulder. "These people are all from our Federal Bureau of Investigation."

"Wow, you're actually from the Federal Bureau of Investigation? You didn't tell me last time."

"There was no need at that time..." Dante smiled and shook his head, then looked at the wary Chloe.

Chloe was clearly a bit skeptical at this point.

She had, of course, heard of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's renowned reputation, but her rank wasn't high enough, her knowledge of this mysterious special department was limited to knowing of it and recognizing its identification.

As for further understanding, there was absolutely no way.

After all, she was just an ordinary Detective.

However, she didn't believe that people from the Federal Bureau of Investigation would have any involvement with an unhinged fellow like Lucifer.

Although Lucifer's behavior was vastly different from ordinary people, he was just a wealthy bar owner.

"Excuse me, friends, although I don't know what strange cosplay game you're playing with Lucifer, I really need to take him out of this door right now, get into my car with new tires, and head to that damned crime scene."

Dante fully understood that having an unreliable slacker at work would definitely affect one's mindset.

But he didn't move aside.

Only because Sarah Lance whispered in his ear, in a voice only the two of them could hear:

"Teacher, go with them, this case is related to an event that affects the timeline."

"...What in the world?"

"Otherwise, why do you think I would come to this bar at this time? If you understood me better, you'd know I'm always a very goal-oriented person."

After speaking, Sarah Lance took out her Federal Bureau of Investigation identification and handed it to Chloe.

Chloe was a bit confused now.

These people dared to make fake Federal Bureau of Investigation IDs!?

But after checking, she was even more confused.

This was real!

FBI agents are friends with Lucifer?

This was even more outrageous than making fake IDs!

But Chloe confirmed it repeatedly, the identification was indeed real, so she could only return it to Sarah Lance.

And Sarah Lance revealed a pure and harmless smile.

"Chloe, we are very interested in the murder case you just mentioned..."

"And I happen to think you have the potential to become an excellent FBI agent."

"How about this, take us along to see?"

(To be continued.)