Although no one had rung the great bell, the boilers began operating normally. Thunderous piston noises erupted in waves as vast amounts of steam filled the tower.
"That's pretty loud. All the zombies in the sewers will come after us."
As a young woman, Laurie had never played with an antique like a steam engine. Though she spoke worried words, her eyes remained fixed on the furnace fire burning red-hot.
Earth-12's Entity of Life seemed dead. Su Ming had used the White Lantern Ring, yet it showed no response. If not for Tenth Metal serving as a source of the same Force of Connection, another White Lantern might not have had enough energy to replace all the Venom and accelerant.
Although Su Ming had not brought enough water to serve as a white light energy carrier, this was a sewer. If there was not enough clean water, there was dirty water.
After having Strangle's tentacles close the last poison-gas tank, Su Ming clapped his hands. "It's fine. As long as this system starts up, Gotham will soon be purified by white light. I'm just thinking about the Entity of Life. Logically, after Blackest Night descended, the Entity of Life, the White Lantern Beast and Earth Will itself, should have awakened as well."
"You mean Earth-12 should have a White Lantern, right?" Laurie understood Deathstroke's meaning.
It was like balance in nature. If someone walking through the jungle accidentally ate a poisonous plant, then within a hundred paces, there was often another plant that could detoxify it.
Crisis Energy had the Force of Connection as its balance. The Light Multiverse had the Dark Multiverse as its balance. Chaos had order as its balance.
For a Parallel Universe to exist within the Multiverse and manifest in the Timeline meant that it was