#837 - Wood briefly awakens

Anyone who knows about haunted houses understands that they must be built in dim and narrow spaces to create the atmosphere. Similarly, Interstellar Crossing needs to be in complete darkness to simulate outer space.

Dreamlike航线 (Dreamlike Voyage) occasionally enters various manufactured scenarios, like dragon nests or dwarf caves. While these scenes aren't pitch black, the light isn't sufficient, and it's easy to miss things if you're not careful.

Originally, according to Dick's grouping, there were four teams: three to investigate the missing persons and one to check out other suspicious locations.

However, after Batman's regrouping, the original four teams were reduced to three, which inevitably slowed down their progress.

Finally, they decided that Team A, consisting of Conner and Megan, would be responsible for the most dangerous haunted house; Team B, consisting of Dick, Aqualad, and HB, would handle the Dreamlike航线 (Dreamlike Voyage), which involved water and took the longest; and Team C, consisting of Wally, Courtney, and Plastic Man, would handle Interstellar Crossing, which had the shortest playtime and the fastest speed.

This allocation was carefully considered. The two members of Team A were virtually unaffected by darkness, Aqualad in Team B could submerge underwater to inspect, and Wally in Team C could keep up with the high-speed roller coaster.

Basically, each team had someone who could leverage their strengths, which was Dick's consideration after seeing the data, and Batman didn't modify it later.

The three teams set off towards their respective mission areas. The first to arrive was naturally Team A, who entered the amusement park first and had the fastest combined pace.

With the help of super VIP tickets, the Young Justice members didn't need to queue. Team A only needed to wait for the previous group to exit.

After all, haunted houses require atmosphere. If there are too many people, it's not as scary, so the authorities definitely limit the number of people entering.

Dim lighting, narrow environment, and a small number of people – basically everyone felt this was the easiest place to lure the kidnappers to strike, so this most dangerous place was rightfully assigned to Team A.

Megan reported her team's situation on the mental link, then sat with Conner in the waiting area. Although the latter no longer frowned as much, he was still a silent type.

'Shouldn't the guy start a conversation at this time? At the very least, he should buy an ice cream or some snacks, right?'

Of course, Megan didn't really understand these things. She had only seen them on TV.

Megan was a little frustrated. Although they were on a mission, and she admitted that she shouldn't bring impure thoughts into the mission, she just felt annoyed!

"Hmph!" Megan huffed in dissatisfaction, drawing Conner's attention.

"What's wrong? Did you find something?" Conner wasn't on the same wavelength as Megan. His mind was full of mission-related things, and he looked around when he heard his teammate make a sound.

Megan looked at Conner's simple-minded appearance and couldn't help but laugh at herself. The speed of this emotional shift stunned Conner.

"What's wrong?" Conner asked humbly. If it were someone else, he would have been annoyed long ago, but he always had a lot of patience with Megan. He speculated that it might be because she had played games with him for several months.

But his brother HB told him that wasn't the case. HB pointed out that these months of being together had planted a seed in Conner's heart, waiting for the right time to sprout.

Conner immediately asked what kind of seed it was, which sounded mysterious, wanting HB to explain it clearly, but the latter said that such things couldn't be revealed, and Conner could only discover it himself.

Conner was on the verge of being broken by the riddler, but even so, HB didn't tell him clearly.

Back when he watched *Young Justice*, his favorite pairing was Conner and Megan, but these two always put on an American version of "I'm So Frustrated!" Both sides used mixed tactics in the process of falling in love.

Conner stepped on Megan's landmines, and Megan also touched Conner's reverse scales. The two broke up and made up because of this, which made Yang Le suffer a lot. When he was a child, he questioned DC's screenwriters because of this.

Therefore, HB felt that he could slightly interfere with the love affair between the two. Of course, this interference didn't refer to the kind of large-scale, direct guidance. What he wanted to do was subtly influence the two.

Because Conner was a clone, he was slow to accept everything. He found it difficult to directly trust someone, and he often hid things in his heart. Conner always felt that he was different from others.

This difference wasn't that he felt superior to others. On the contrary, he was a little inferior. It wasn't until he met the Young Justice people that he got better and became a warm-hearted young man.

And Megan, in terms of feelings, she was even inferior to Conner. Her hidden identity as a White Martian also brought her more inferiority. She really felt that she was inferior to others.

So she especially valued other people's opinions of her, and she valued feelings more than her life, so she did a lot of wrong things, such as tampering with Conner's memory.

Because of his background, tampering with memories and interacting with mental abilities were Conner's reverse scales. It was also because of this incident that Conner and Megan broke up, allowing a certain fish man to take advantage of the situation.

Yang Le didn't like to see this kind of NTR (Netorare) happen. This kind of thing must be stopped. The first thing to influence was Conner. Yang Le wanted him to discover earlier that Megan was different from others in his heart.

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So he used riddles to leave a small question in Conner's heart, so that he always focused his attention on Megan. If this continues, he may discover his feelings earlier and more directly than in the original work.

As for Megan, she needs subsequent guidance, at least until she actively exposes her identity as a White Martian.

Now, just as HB thought, Conner was thinking about Megan's affairs because of his words, so he could discover the subtle changes in Megan's emotions, and he could also notice that Megan seemed to be like this because of him.

The young Conner couldn't solve this problem, but he would learn, so he moved his gaze away from Megan and turned to the several men and women who were like them.

He found that these paired men and women were basically all together. He wasn't very comfortable with this kind of interaction that broke the safe distance, so he chose another niche approach.

Conner immediately got up and walked to the food cart next to him in Megan's surprised gaze, bought an ice cream, and handed it to Megan, who was full of surprise.

"Here you go." Conner's tone didn't change much, but Megan's surprised face did make him feel a bit elated.