6. Invitation to the Shadows - Add more to the Cloud Brothers who chase the wind for "Leisure" [33/40]
Ten minutes later, Amanda Waller left the basement, and Merlin's eavesdropping and information gathering ended there.
Eavesdropping on this conversation was valuable, and Merlin had gathered a lot of useful information from Waller's and Tfrey's chat.
For example, the Eye of the Sky Society is trying to woo a mysterious woman named Diana, and for example, the Eye of the Sky has been looking for something in Smallville, Kansas, and finally, the Sky Eye Society is likely to be constantly observing the movements of the undersea people.
This represents the current trend of the nascent organization of the Celestial Eye Society, and it is not difficult for Merlin to guess that the Celestial Eye Society is now in a stage of "recruiting manpower", and the previous golden transvestite warrior with a strange combat uniform Michael is likely to be the newcomer they recruited.
And from Michael, you can see the criteria for recruiting members of the Sky Eye Society, what they need is not ordinary agents, but like S.H.I.E.L.D., they are looking for those who have extraordinary powers.
From this, it can be seen that although the Tianyan Society has not been established for a long time, it undoubtedly has great ambitions.
Of course, Merlin also collected some interesting personal information from this conversation, such as Amanda Waller, this cold, fierce female agent, is actually Fury's former student
It's no wonder that her occasional movements or demeanor are very similar to Fury when she was planning a conspiracy.
It is also unknown if Fury knew that his disciple had become a contender in his career.
However, these things can be put into a later talk, Merlin did not forget his purpose of invading the base of the Sky Eye Society, he left the ring office, and continued to wander around the underground facility along the ventilation pipe, and after searching for several rooms, Merlin finally found the place where the Sky Eye Society stored materials in this base.
"Although it is a new organization, the security is really not bad."
Merlin hid his form, cautiously advancing through the dimly lit data room. The room is littered with motion-triggered sensors, and if Merlin accidentally steps on it, the entire base will be alarmed.
Luckily, he doesn't need to be on his feet to walk.
Merlin was suspended a few inches above the ground after his lower body transformed into a smoke form, and he shook his head as he looked at the secret lock in front of him that required a matching fingerprint and a key to open, and pulled his wand from his waist.
βalohooraοΌ (Lockpicking Spell)"
With the shaking of Merlin's wrist, the moment the spell fell, the complex and delicate lock made a low gear collision sound, and the next moment, the data cabinet that had been made with a lot of money was open to Merlin.
Wearing black leather gloves, he searched through the large data cabinet in front of him for the scene of the Gotham City batman attack, and after flipping through several investigation reports, Merlin found a special letter that had been burned in half.
He picked up the letter and found that underneath it was stamped with a strange stamp, a red triangular sign dotted with arcs underneath.
"The logo of the League of Assassins, Bruce said."
However, the contents of the letter were not as useful as Merlin had imagined, and it was actually an "invitation" with a warning nature, in which the Assassin League, in its capacity as suzerain, asked some of the forces they had previously financed to rejoin the Assassin League system after several years of absence.
And, of course, the customary death warning and the like.
This is not much different from what Fury told Merlin, and it is no wonder that the Sky Eye Society has been tracking it for months without much improvement.
These guys themselves are good at stealth activities, they have been hiding in history for hundreds of years, relying on some ordinary agents, relying on this little clue in their hands, they don't even want to catch their tails.
The clues really seem to be broken.
Merlin was a little helpless, he put aside the burned letter in his hand, and began to look for other materials of the Tianyan Society, using the camera he carried with him to shoot, but just a few minutes later, Merlin, who was busy copying documents, suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his heart.
"Something is wrong with this letter."
He put down his camera and floated to the table, looking back at the half-burned invitation.
"If this is a warning, then the gangsters have two options, either refuse and be eliminated by the Batman Assassins of the League of Assassins. Either obey and return to the arms of the Assassin League, but this thing is not a two-way communication communicator, how can the Assassin League know whether these gangsters refuse or obey? β
"Send out an inquiry, no matter how good or bad the outcome is, and you will inevitably get a response."
Merlin's eyes narrowed, his mind racing.
"Excluding the fact that the Assassin League has sent people to lurk in the gangs, those who obey them will inevitably respond to the Assassin League. Therefore, there must be other information in this letter, maybe an address, maybe a contact information, but it must be a secret word and a code that only people inside them can decipher. β
"What a bunch of clever ghosts."
Merlin rolled up the half-burned invitation and put it in his pocket.
"I was almost deceived by you."
He put the papers behind him back in their original places, and then quickly left the place through the route he had come.
A few minutes later, he reappeared at Wayne Manor in Gotham City.
Appeared in Bruce's bedroom, to be exact.
He really didn't know the secret codes within the Assassin League, but Bruce should have known that although the guy was tight-lipped about what he had done during his years in the Assassin League, Merlin could tell it from his tone and expression.
Bruce is deeply involved in that organization, and is definitely not as breezy as he appears on the outside.
He must have been exposed to the core secrets of the Assassin League
"Huh? No one? β
Merlin turned into smoke and seeped into Bruce's room through the window of Bruce's bedroom, but it was empty. The quilt on the bed was neatly arranged, and there was no trace of sleeping at all.
"Are you out to work again?"
Merlin shook his head:
"What a dedicated warrior of the night."
He turned, opened the window, and stretched out his left hand, and in the glow of dark red, the spirit raven Victor appeared on his arm, and it turned its head to meet Merlin's eye, then spread its wings and rushed out into the deep night outside the window.
With Victor's flight speed and detection range, it will take about a few tens of minutes to turn Gotham City, which has nearly 8 million people, around, and it should not be a problem to find Bruce who fights crime in the dark.
Merlin, on the other hand, sat in a chair in Bruce's bedroom, closed his eyes, and began to meditate in the quiet of the night.
Ten minutes later, Merlin, who was quietly hidden in the darkness and looked like a statue, opened his eyes, and Victor sent back a message that he had found Bruce's location.
"Huh"
The shapeshifting spell was activated, and the next moment, according to Victor's coordinate point, Merlin's figure appeared in a closed warehouse in a flash.
The moment he appeared, a whirling bullet struck him in the head, piercing through his forehead and coming out of the back of his head, sending a wisp of smoke fluttering.
Merlin pushed his glasses, and when he turned around, he saw a bandit in a vest, a gun in his hand, and a meaty face, looking at him dumbfounded.
Merlin smiled at him in return.
"Huh"
His figure disappeared in place, and in a movement close to the speed of sound, a punch smashed into the stomach of the fierce man, seeing that the guy flew out like a baseball that had been knocked away with a wail, Merlin shook his head, his left hand shook slightly, and the Cybertron weapon module appeared in his hand, and after a transformation full of technology, a large-caliber energy hand cannon was raised.
He didn't even need to aim, he aimed the muzzle of the gun at the wall next to him, pulled the trigger, and the moment the scorching light sprayed out, the solid wall melted as quickly as if it had been scorched by flames, and even a few thugs on the other side of the wall were burned by the light and knocked to the ground.
This scene caught the attention of both Bruce and the gunmen who were fighting fiercely, and the fighting on the other side of the warehouse stopped for a moment.
As they approached, they saw a guy in a casual suit with a blue half-covered visor, Shi Shiran, walking out of the other side of the melted wall.
"Boo, Batman, I have something to ask you."
Merlin looked at Bruce, he waved his right hand, and the black mist wrapped around his hand flew out of his palm like a foraging snake, and at the moment of leaving, those scattered black mist whistled, in the form of dark tentacles, accurately wrapped around the bodies of the remaining thugs, under the effect of the dark power that became tighter and tighter like a snake, these thugs howled and were lifted into the air, but no matter what, they could not break free.
Merlin showed mercy this time.
In his previous contact with Bruce, he learned that the dark warriors of Gotham City never kill with their hands. Although this is not in line with Merlin's values, this is Bruce's territory, it is Bruce's battlefield, and it is better for him to follow the local customs.
"Stop! Don't move forward! β
Beside Bruce, a kid in a red cloak and goggle who looked like a teenager stepped forward, holding a bat-shaped fighting knife in his hand, and yelled at Merlin as he walked towards them:
"Stop!"
"Huh?"
Merlin looked at the helper-like child beside Bruce, he looked at Bruce again, and said:
"Who is this?"
"Robin."
Bruce stretched out his hand and put it on the young man's shoulder, and said:
"He's a friend. You go outside and keep watch, and I talk to him about something. β
"But he looks dangerous."
The stubborn child looked back at Bruce, who said to him:
"Don't worry, Robin, I'll be fine."
The kid seemed to have a good relationship with Bruce, and as he walked out of the warehouse at Bruce's behest, he looked back at Merlin frequently, and his eyes were anything but friendly.
Seeing the boy named "Robin" leave the warehouse, Merlin took off his mask and said to Bruce in front of him:
"Who is this kid? I heard from Afu that you had an assistant named Grayson before, but he went to college in Brookhaven. So, is this kid Jason? β
"This kid, he's very talented."
Bruce looked out of the warehouse and said:
"I found him a few months ago when he was stealing the tires of my car, he was a lone thief and a little bit of a famous person in the slums. But you also know the current state of Gotham, where he steals just to get by. So I adopted him, he is not bad in nature, occasionally a little reckless and stubborn, but he also wants to do good. β
"You're really obsessed with saving the city."
Merlin Says:
"But I think, if you change back to Bruce Wayne's identity, you can do more kids like him, how many are there in the whole of Gotham? You might as well invest in an orphanage and put them all together. β
"Actually, I've already entrusted Ah Fu with doing this."
Bruce smiled under the bat mask and said:
"I'm not going to waste resources, you just left, why did you come back? Did you find something? β
"Yes, this!"
Merlin took the half-burnt invitation from his pocket and handed it to Bruce, saying:
"I suspect there are code words in this letter, maybe an address, maybe a contact information, but I can't find it, maybe you can."
"Let me see."
Bruce raised his hand, and on the wrist of his black, well-made combat uniform, a small lamp lit, and in the light of the light, Bruce read the letter carefully.
After a few minutes, he looked up and said to Merlin:
Indeed, there is a code word in it, written in the manner of the Assassins' League. But it was partially burned down, and I can't tell you the full address, I can only tell you that this location is in Interlaken, Switzerland. β
"Yo, a tourist attraction."
Merlin chuckled, and he said:
"The people of the Assassin League are very good at choosing places."
"No, Merlin. They weren't chosen randomly. β
Bruce's tone became a little more cautious, and he said to Merlin:
"Interlaken was once the domain of a knight hundreds of years ago, and that knight was the pseudonym of Lars Ergur in that era, which means that it was the territory of the Assassin League and probably their base in Europe. That organization has a lot of energy, and there are hidden forces all over the world, and they cannot be underestimated. β
"It doesn't matter, no matter what it represents, I'm going to go over."
Merlin reached out to take the letter from Bruce, and he nodded to Batman, saying:
"Thank you for your help, Bruce. I won't bother you. β
"Wait, maybe you need some help."
Bruce called out to Merlin, saying:
"Wait a minute, I'll send Robin back, and then I'll go with you"
"Nope."
Merlin looked back at Bruce and said:
"It's my business, Bruce, don't interfere, your city can't do without you, and most importantly, go this time, maybe I'll go on a killing spree. This conflicts with your creed, so stay here. β
"Huh"
In the distorted light, Merlin's figure disappeared into the dark warehouse, and after he left, a note with a phone number on it swayed into Bruce's hand.
There's a line on it.
"When you're in big trouble, don't forget that you have a 'big guy' friend"
"Good luck, Dark Knight of Gotham."