24. Further to the narrow island

What is it like to be in the water? Especially if your hands and feet are tied.

Kevin can tell you that it was definitely not a pleasant experience, the moment he fell headfirst into the water when he couldn't move his whole body, and the moment the cold water splashed, it felt like his head was mounted on a thin wooden plank.

He tried his best to hold his breath, but when the splash burst he realized that it was almost impossible to do, because you couldn't plug your nostrils, and the water seeped into your nostrils and poured into your trachea, which was an instinctual challenge.

Maybe there are people in this world who can learn to break through under the pressure of instinct, but that will definitely not be the current Kevin, he is just a 24-year-old young man, thanks to his father who died 7 years ago, he has more identity in the dark than other young people, and has also received training from his father, but that is not enough for him to maintain his unchanging mood in this situation.

And at the moment of falling into the water, he vaguely saw the corpse bound with stones at the bottom of the water, it was Thompson... This made the young man feel a touch of cold despair in his heart.

Panic always arises inadvertently, and then it can't be eradicated, but when Kevin faced the pain of drowning, the moment he habitually struggled, he clenched the handle of the knife in his hand.

This is what he learned from his father, "The more dangerous it is, the more you can't let go of the weapon in your hand." ”

The cold blade gave him the last shred of confidence in this desperate situation, and he slid the short knife belonging to Thompson into the rope of his wrist with difficulty, and erected it, and with difficulty cut the rope on his wrist, the saw blade on the other side of the blade cut through his skin, and it was painful... The pain of bleeding made him want to open his mouth and scream, but he couldn't!

In this case, opening his mouth was tantamount to suicide, and he could only grit his teeth to admit the pain of tearing his skin, and when he felt the last breath of air in his lungs about to be squeezed out, when he felt the dullness of his chest be overwhelmed, the rope was finally cut.

A glimmer of hope of survival burst in Kevin's eyes, he frantically shook his hands, the rope became looser and looser, and finally, his hands were free, he moved his wrist, cut off the rope with stones hanging from his body, and then swam frantically towards the sky, looking up from the dark water, revealing a miserable white light.

It was an escape, a ray of hope.

"Poof"

The water splashed, Kevin slapped the water in embarrassment, breathing heavily, he looked up and looked overhead, the guy with the monkey mask was leaning on the railing with his hands, and there were fireworks on his mouth, he waved at him, like an old friend who hadn't seen him for many years, but it was this bastard who pushed him down just now.

Hell, this difficult madman! Why hasn't he left yet!

"You know what? In that case, only people who are not crushed by their inner fear can survive, when drowning, the vast majority of people die from that uncontrollable panic, in fact, as long as they calm down a little, the hope of survival is actually very great, although you behave badly, but there is no doubt that you are a good young man. ”

Cyber looked at Kevin, who was wet and walking up the steps, he had taken off the monkey mask on his face and looked at him completely as he was, but Kevin looked at this talkative bastard, and Ed, who was lying at his feet, barely regaining a trace of sanity, an irrepressible anger burst into Kevin's heart, he howled, and threw himself at Cyber with the short knife in his hand.

He was a little taller, but watching the exhausted young man pounce on him, Cyber pouted and shook his head, not moving at all, and when the short knife was about to touch his body, his body shifted slightly, and while dodging the weapon, he smashed a punch into Kevin's abdomen.

The young man's eyes widened at this moment, and then his legs went limp, and the anger was completely extinguished by the pain rising from his body, and he knelt on the ground with his stomach in his arms.

"There's a fine line between recklessness and courage, Kevin, and it looks like your father didn't teach you that. ”

Cyber squatted down, took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, stuffed it into Kevin's mouth, and lit a fire for him, he followed the temptation, "Look, the feud between us is over, you want to kill me, and then I punished you, it's a hundred, let's talk about what you're going to do?"

"What?"

Kevin held his stomach and collapsed on the ground, he looked at Cyber, the pain just now was still spreading in his body, and he once again recognized the other side of this guy, violent... It's very violent.

"I mean, you leaked the secret, didn't you? You said they were going to punish you, what are you and your brother going to do? Run away? Kill you by the neck? Or do you have to find a way to survive?"

The young man subconsciously breathed, but inhaled a puff of smoke, choking him and coughing, he took the cigarette off his mouth and threw it aside, but he had to admit that Cyber was right, and the biggest problem in front of him and Ed now was how to escape the pursuit of the Shadow Warrior Alliance.

They are just small people, and the upper class can solve it with their fingers, but the little people also want to live.

"It's none of your business! Hell, can we go?"

Kevin didn't want to have any more contact with Cyber, and until now, he didn't think Cyber would let them go, so he held the dagger tightly, but he regretted that it didn't seem to protect him.

Faced with the young man's anger, Cyber made a regretful expression, he stood up, patted the dust on his pants that didn't exist, and shook his hand,

"Okay, you guys go, but I actually have a little suggestion for that question, if you feel like there's no way out, why don't you come to me, you see, we're facing the same dilemma, we have to help each other, understand? You know where I live, right?"

After Cyber said that they could go, Kevin looked at him suspiciously, and after seeing that Cyber had no intention of making a move, he gritted his teeth, walked over and cut the rope on Ed's body, and carried his brother away from here step by step, until he walked out of 20 Kevin, he looked back, and Cyber was still standing there, with no intention of killing them at all.

"Isn't he afraid that I will go back and tell the truth?"

Everything that happened tonight made the young man's mind a little confused, and he simply stopped thinking about these things, since the other party didn't intend to kill them, this is the best outcome, isn't it?

As for the troubles of the Shadow Warrior... Let's wait for Ed to recover, thinking of this, Kevin also felt a burst of despair, he was too weak, so weak that even self-preservation was a problem. He was even a little envious of Cyber, if he could easily kill one and capture two surrounded by three people, even in the face of those killers, he would have a little confidence.

10 minutes later, the panting Kevin put Ed, who couldn't even speak, on the side of the road, he sat there and planned to rest, but in the middle of the night, the roar of the car sounded from behind them, and soon, two bright headlights shone on the young man raised his palm, blocking his eyes, and then he heard a click, some old, but well-maintained pickup stopped in front of him, the window rolled down, and the sunglasses of Cyber waved at him,

"Come up, brother, it's a long way from the narrow island, and you need a ride to see what you look like. ”

"What the hell are you trying to do?"

Kevin was a little crazy, he thought he and Ed were going to be killed, and this bastard in front of him let them go, but when he thought he would get rid of him completely, this guy appeared in front of him with a very familiar look, it was like a lingering nightmare.

"Didn't you say that the grudge between us is over for a hundred years, and do you want to kill us?"

"Hell, the people in this city are so unfriendly!"

Cyber cursed, he knocked on the car door, and his tone was heavier, "Yes, the previous thing is over, but I need your favor now, I don't know where the madhouse is, you won't refuse me, right?"

Kevin was stunned, a sense of absurdity appeared in his heart, and he couldn't help but ask,

"Why should I help you? Why should I help you? You almost killed me just now!"

Hearing this, Cyber's eyebrows furrowed,

"Well, that's a good question, but I think it'll convince you. ”

His left hand was on the window, where he held a silver glittering pistol, after seeing that thing, all Kevin's anger was suppressed, he became depressed, he was ten thousand reluctant to deal with Cyber, but in the end, he still carried Ed, sat on the old pickup truck, under the darkness, the car that was well maintained by Daddy roared again, and drove all the way in the direction of the narrow island.

At the same time, above the filthy streets of the narrow island, a black shadow scurried back and forth between the rooftops, its sturdy hands like a beast hunting in the dark, precise, fast, and without pause.

It was a guy dressed like a black bat, and he leaped off the edge of the roof, his black cloak unfolding silently behind him, helping him glide to his destination, a nondescript house, but according to the information he had received from the hapless Sheriff Frass lately, it was one of Falcony's strongholds on the Narrow Island.

Not only Cyber, but "Batman" was also interested in the ingredients that Falcone had sent to the Narrow Island many times, and after interrupting the deal at the docks last time and sending Falcone to prison, he had come out several times in recent nights and beaten more than 10 dangerous guys to death, tied them up and thrown them at the back door of the Gotham Police Station.

The experience he once had made Batman hate crime very much, these criminal guys should be punished, but he won't kill them, because he doesn't want to be the same villain as those criminals, this is the bottom line in his heart!

In the last 7 years since he disappeared, he has lived almost entirely among criminals, will he sympathize with them?

Yes, he would, Batman felt like he had lost the ability to judge right and wrong when he first stole to avoid starvation, and more than once he experienced the fear he felt before making the choice between sin and death as he wandered around the Far East.

He would steal because he was hungry, he would steal warehouses with other thieves he didn't know, just to get food for the next day, and the thrill of committing a crime, he spent 6 years fully understanding the bizarre world of criminals, he even forgot his original intention in that bad time, and he was even one step away from being finally lost!

But there was a force that sustained him, so that he never became one of them! The parents who had died before his eyes represented the horrors of the past, and in that last year of hard training, he armed himself with a strong will, great strength, and skillful martial arts, and after killing Han Aragul, the leader of the Shadow Warrior Alliance, he was finally reborn in the melting of fear!

"I can't be them, I'm not going to be them!"

Batman muttered to himself as he stood on the roof of the narrow island of hell, he looked at the people below who were forced to do less righteous work in order to make a living, they were the lowest level of Gotham, they lived in the slums, many things were not for them to choose, he would sympathize with them, but when they crossed his inner line, he would punish them mercilessly.

With fear, with violence, to make himself something more terrible than crime, a symbol, just like the person who once appeared in front of him, his best teacher in the Shadow Warrior Alliance, said,

"Apparent maintainers of order are self-satisfied, and they can easily lose their fighting spirit, and even themselves will eventually fall into unrighteous hypocrites, but if you can transcend yourself and dedicate yourself to a certain belief, if no one can stop you, you will become ... Something eternal! to become a symbol, and to transcend it!"

Batman moved his hands, he feared the power surging in his body, but when he found the path he chose to vent his inner anger, he found the benchmark that kept him from getting lost between revenge and power, a line of defense that blocked everything!

The figure, which almost merged with the darkness, spread its arms and fell downward, like a cross falling from the edge, and the moment it fell into the air, he opened his eyes, and a determined light flashed in his eyes.

He can't be them! He's lost a lot, so he can't lose anymore, himself!