Su Ming had thought Barry had made some new discovery, perhaps something that required a Justice League meeting to decide, which was why he had been gone for so long.
But when the secret elevator arrived and the group entered the Hall of Justice's control room, they found only Arthur there. He was sitting in the seat Batwoman had once occupied, while Barry was nowhere to be seen.
Su Ming sent Harley to find Barry while he stayed behind to watch Aquaman, who was so busy that he had not even noticed anyone behind him.
To be honest, this job really did not suit him.
The control room was the Justice League's hub, where the computer mainframes were kept. A massive console stood in the middle of the room, with a huge wall of hundreds of smaller screens behind it. At the moment, every screen displayed a different live feed, tracking heroes' operations across the globe.
Given Arthur's intelligence, watching TV while playing Snake on his phone was already his limit. Now he was expected to monitor more than four hundred feeds at once.
All Su Ming saw on his face was utter bewilderment.
Sitting in that seat did not just mean watching surveillance feeds. He also had to answer calls from heroes in the field, investigate intelligence, and give directions when necessary. There was simply too much for him to handle.
When Batwoman sat there, she handled everything with ease. She even had time to take a sip of coffee and chat with whoever happened to pass by.
But with Arthur in her place, his hair was practically standing on end. Just answering communications had him scratching his head, and he had no chance at all to observe the progress of missions around the world.
He truly was trying