Chapter 010: Lasso of Truth

Diana heard the voice coming through her earpiece and looked around, noticing some people flying planes slowly approaching the area.

Her brow furrowed slightly.

Wang Bo saw this and couldn't help asking, "You don't want to contact the UN people?"

Diana nodded and said, "Yes, my companion told me they want to study me. I hate that."

Wang Bo made no comment on that.

He admitted that Diana's companion was right.

What was the UN's purpose in frantically searching for Diana these days if not to study why she was so powerful?

Maybe they wouldn't dare to slice Diana for research, but drawing blood for tests was definitely a necessary procedure.

That would mean Diana would spend at least most of her twenty-four hours in a lab.

If Diana didn't cooperate, they would use all sorts of methods—pleading, threatening, seduction, etc.—anything that helped the research, they would use without hesitation.

There were even many politicians who would use Diana as a tool.

These weren't impossible things; on the contrary, they could all happen.

It was clear that Diana's companion was no ordinary person, very familiar with the tricks of human high-ups, and able to help Diana hide her form and tracks, remaining undiscovered until now.

Her companion was definitely a woman of outstanding talent.

But Wang Bo had finally met Diana and naturally didn't want to let her go.

"Alright, let's talk somewhere else." Wang Bo clapped his hands and instantly disappeared with Diana.

The next second, they had crossed half the globe and arrived in the Eastern Hemisphere, in the United States, the Hawaiian Islands.

The Hawaiian Islands are volcanic islands and a famous volcanic activity zone in the Pacific, because these islands lie on a fault line in the Pacific Ocean floor, formed by magma erupted from the crustal fracture.

The two arrived at a beach on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Wang Bo pulled out a table and two chairs from the Time Villa, spread the Gourmet Tablecloth on the table, ordered some dried fruits, peanuts, and sunflower seeds, and also a glass of iced cola.

Diana watched Wang Bo produce so many things out of thin air and couldn't help asking, "How did you do that?"

"Just a little magic."

"Are you a magician?"

"Yes." Although Wang Bo had a steel body, he also had magical power and was proficient in magic, so calling him a magician was not wrong.

"Please sit." He pulled out a chair.

"Thank you." Diana sat down. "So, where is this place?"

"Unbelievable, you're on the Big Island of Hawaii."

The person answering Diana's question was not Wang Bo, but Diana's companion, who seemed to have locked onto Diana's location and told her the answer through the tiny earpiece in Diana's ear.

Wang Bo smiled slightly and said, "It seems you already know where you are."

"How is that possible? He can hear what I say too?" came the exclamation from Diana's companion through the earpiece.

Wang Bo pointed to his ear and said, "When I concentrate, I can hear the sounds of an entire city, even footsteps."

"That kind of hearing is too unfair. Are you really human?" the other couldn't help complaining.

Wang Bo said, "In a sense, I'm indeed no longer human."

After all, Wang Bo not only had a steel body but also Spartan blood in his veins, so it was very accurate to say he had now transcended the realm of humanity.

Diana's companion: ...

This joke really wasn't funny at all.

But recalling Wang Bo's abilities just demonstrated—flight, heat vision, super hearing—the other couldn't help feeling a bit uneasy; could this guy really not be human?

Diana's expression remained unchanged, but a hint of indescribable meaning appeared in her eyes.

Just then, Diana suddenly interrupted Wang Bo and her companion, saying slowly, "Alright, enough probing. Can I ask you a few questions?"

"Of course," Wang Bo replied.

"Who are you, what's your name, why do you know me? Where have you seen me before? What is your purpose in finding me?"

"My name is Wang Bo, an envoy of the Multiversal Gods. I know you because your comics and movies are very famous. I haven't seen you before; this is my first meeting with you. My purpose is simple: to send you home, or more precisely, to send you back to Themyscira."

Diana was taken aback after hearing this.

"You can send me back to Themyscira?" she couldn't help asking.

"Envoy of the Multiversal Gods? That's quite a claim. And Themyscira isn't even in this world. How can he send you home? Be careful, Diana; he might be lying to you."

Her companion immediately warned Diana.

Diana looked at Wang Bo, who decisively extended his hand and said, "You have a way to tell if I'm telling the truth, right?"

Diana's right hand involuntarily fell to her waist.

There hung a whip.

The Lasso of Truth, forged by Hephaestus from the Golden Girdle of Gaea, compelled anyone bound by it to speak only the truth.

This had never failed.

Since Wang Bo agreed, Diana unceremoniously used the Lasso of Truth and asked the same questions again.

Wang Bo answered fluently.

This made Diana both surprised and delighted; she finally confirmed that Wang Bo had not deceived her, and couldn't help asking, "How do you plan to send me back?"

Wang Bo said, "Take my right hand, and I can send you back immediately."

Diana looked at Wang Bo's right hand and said, "Is this also magic?"

"To be precise, it's an artifact sending you back through my hand, not magic." Wang Bo continued to tell the truth. There was nothing to hide about this.

Diana withdrew the Lasso of Truth, reattached it to her waist, shook her head, and said, "I can't leave here now. This world needs me."

Wang Bo was not surprised at all upon hearing this.

This was a very standard heroic answer.

If someone else had said it, Wang Bo might have mocked them, thinking they were putting on an act, but if it was Diana or a superhero like Clark saying it, it meant they truly thought so.

After all, superheroes in the DC world were always so noble and full of positive energy.

In Wang Bo's eyes, there was a huge difference between DC heroes and Marvel heroes.

It was like one was a celestial being untouched by worldly affairs, and the other was an ordinary person full of human气息.