The process of disinfecting and sterilizing Takron, plus the round-trip travel time, took Su Ming twenty-seven minutes. That was already extremely efficient.
But when the two returned to the maintenance room where everyone was hiding, they found that Mister Miracle had already brought Hal back. Everyone was now sitting together, eating the food Deathstroke had left behind and chatting.
When it came to souls, the West and China had quite a few things in common. Ancient China had legends of borrowing corpses to return souls and souls seizing bodies.
For example, the "Zuo Commentary: Seventh Year of Duke Zhao" recorded Zhao Jingzi asking Zi Chan, "Bo You, a Zheng State official, was killed by Si Dai. Can he really become a vengeful ghost?"
Zi Chan answered, "When a person first takes form, it is called a po. Once the po is born, its yang aspect is called the hun. The more refined essence one possesses, the stronger the hun and po become. Thus one gains spiritual brilliance and eventually reaches divine awareness. Even ordinary men and women who die violent deaths may have souls capable of clinging to others and becoming malignant ghosts."
In other words, even if the body died suddenly, the soul could still possess someone else and haunt them.
In the West, whether in Ancient Egypt or Ancient Greece, there were also concepts of the soul.
Egypt regarded the soul as more important. Even if the body perished, as long as the soul remained, there was a chance to return to the world of the living. At least, that was what the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt believed. They even mummified their cats and waited in the pyramids for a future resurrection together.
As for Greek Mythology, the existence of the Underworld was enough to explain everything. Though