23. The secrecy of the tortoise
"The tortoises live in the sewers of New York, they are miserable, the fools on the ground are afraid of them, they can only live in the dark, and only come out at night. ”
Catherine grabbed Cyber's arm and said to her brother with a look of dependence, "Shall we bring them back to Gotham? ”
Cyber sat in the back seat of the car, a little speechless looking at the serious Ninja Turtles driving in the front row Donatello, he couldn't tell the four Ninja Turtles apart, so Catherine taught him a very simple way to tell the difference:
Sitting in the passenger seat, with blue eyes, is Leonardo, the leader of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and his weapon is a katana.
The one with the red eye belt is Raphael, the general of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the weapon is a water fork.
The one with the yellow eye belt is Michelangelo, the flank and funny role of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the weapon is a katana stick.
Driving is Donatello with purple eyebands, the brains of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who also wears a special goggle on top of his head, which is easy to recognize, and his weapon is a nunchuck.
Donatello skillfully reached out and stepped on the accelerator, so that the speed of the already fast off-road vehicle increased again, Leonardo heard Catherine's words, looked at her from the rearview mirror a little speechlessly, and whispered,
"The little girl always likes to exaggerate the facts, in fact, our home in the sewers in New York is very clean, my father is an elder who likes to be clean, we are also doing well in New York, the children around us like to play with Michelangelo, and the delivery man who delivers the pizza is also used to putting the pizza directly in the locker nearest to the sewer, well, we have a great time here. ”
"Turtles do like damp and quiet environments, and you don't get used to living on the surface. ”
Seber waved his left hand and rubbed his right hand vigorously on Catherine's head, and he smiled and said, "But I listen to Catherine, you seem to have been in New York for a long time, and you are still active in the fight against crime, and I come here a lot, I have never heard of the legend of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles walking upright in this city." ”
He reached out and took out three bottles of beer from the hidden wine cabinet next to him, threw two bottles to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and asked curiously,
"How the hell do you hide yourself?"
"Thank you for the beer!"
Leonardo directly bit the bottle open, took a sip of cold wine, and burped pleasantly, and a smile appeared on the very anthropomorphic turtle face,
"My father trained us from a young age in the strictest and most orthodox ninja training method, when we ran at full speed, ordinary people could only see a shadow, and the thugs and criminals in the streets were no threat to us, and we didn't even have to fight with all our strength. ”
He shrugged his shoulders, the turtle shell behind him colliding with the car door, "So even if we grew up living in the Hamlet neighborhood, the people there only have legends about dark monsters, and they can't be sure of our existence at all, and for you humans, there are too many such stories, so no one will come specifically to find us." ”
"Oh..."
Cyber took a sip of his beer, "A cautious and low-key lifestyle? But I'm curious, are you and the Hand hostile?"
"Huh?"
Leonardo froze for a moment, he turned his head to look at Cyber, a hint of surprise flashed in his brown eyes, "I didn't tell the little girl this, how did you guess?"
"If it's not hostility ... It's good that righteous heroes like you will jump out when we destroy Hell's Kitchen. This proves that we are in this group. ”
He drank the beer in his hand and wiped his mouth, "At least it's a gang now." ”
Cyber turned his head to look out the window, and the SUV drove into the Manhattan sewage treatment plant, and then turned into an abandoned warehouse, a secret door that led straight underground, but the door was certainly not big enough for the car to pass through, so they opened the door and jumped out.
Donatello, who was silent all the way, turned off the car, pulled out the key and threw it to Cyber, his purple eyes were full of pleasure, he patted the powerful Dodge SUV, and snorted at Cyber,
"Your car is great, Catherine's brother. ”
Cyber shrugged his shoulders and threw the key back again, "I think so too, and there are too few models that can carry 4 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at once, so it's yours." ”
Donatello grabbed the key and was about to speak, when he saw Cyber wave his finger at him,
"That's Catherine's food expenses for the past few days... I don't have many opportunities to show kindness, so don't say no to it. ”
With that, he followed Leonardo into the passage, and Catherine jumped up and down behind Cyber, and she grimaced at Donatello.
"Dhoni, the chicken fillet you made is delicious, thank you for taking care of me these days, and most importantly, you look good when you smile, smile more!"
Donatello froze for a moment, and the little girl rushed into the tunnel, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle looked at the car key in his hand, he cracked his mouth and smiled, and then he circled around the rugged big guy with his fists, his eyes were full of love, and even the coldness towards Cyber dissipated a lot.
You know, Donatello is the coldest of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, so you see, even if it's a gift, you have to do what you like.
The Ninja Turtles chose a very nice place to live in the intricate sewers of New York, where a dozen sewers converged, and they cleaned up the dark place, hung improvised electric lights on the top of the tunnels, and made it look more like an old-school museum.
There are also several televisions, telephones and 2 computers, as well as a fighting room, kitchen, bathrooms and a small well-cultivated garden, which has few faults except for the lack of light and excessive humidity.
Catherine, as a tour guide, takes the curious Robin and Sergei back and forth in this not too small space, showing her colorful life in the past two days, while Cyber follows Leonardo to meet the mysterious "father".
Cyber could vaguely sense that this might have something to do with the Hand Bracelet that he had just destroyed.
"It's here!"
Leonardo, who led the way, stopped in front of a severed sewer pipe with a wooden door, and he turned sideways to get out of the way, his brown eyes full of seriousness and seriousness,
"Father is a quiet man who is a bit old-fashioned, so I hope you don't get angry, whatever he talks to you. ”
"Oh?"
Cyber glanced at Leonardo in surprise, he looked down at the ninja turtle leader who was not very tall, "This is not quite like what the leader said, Leo, I feel your defense against me, and there is a kind of forbearance, why?"
Leonardo glanced at him,
"Isn't this kind of precaution and forbearance necessary for a man who can ruin the Hand overnight? You see, although I don't look like you, to be honest, my IQ is still higher than that of most of your compatriots, and I will still do it if I seek advantage and avoid disadvantage. ”
"But your attitude really makes me very sad..."
Seber made an exaggerated expression, and he looked at Leonardo playfully, "I see you as friends, and you saved Catherine, and you are the eternal friends of the Devils." ”
"That's the problem. ”
Leonardo's turtle had a smile on his face that looked very innocent, "Father made us read a lot of human books, there are no permanent friends in this world, do they? Michelangelo and Catherine had a good time, they are already close friends, and Raphael also likes that energetic little girl, but I... I'm a leader, and I have to be responsible for my family, so I have to think about it more. ”
"So..."
Cyber reached out and patted Leonardo's shoulder on the shell, "You're a wise turtle, Leonardo, and... There is no eternal friendship between human beings, but you are not human beings, so why should you restrain yourself with the crazy words of human beings that bind themselves?"
"You could have lived more freely..."
"Bang"
The closed wooden door was pushed open at this moment, and a deep voice sounded in the darkness, "Mr. Cyber, don't influence my children with your dangerous logic, come on in, I have something important to talk to you about." ”
The voice paused, accentuating the tone,
"About the Hand and about Catherine... Don't you realize that your sister is getting weak?"
Cyber's expression changed, he nodded to Leonardo, and said solemnly,
"Forget all the nonsense I just said about freedom, it's like a ghost, and if taken seriously, it can cause a collapse of the old order, which is not a good thing... Continue to be your righteous hero, Leonardo, and if you need anything, go to the rebuilt Hell's Kitchen to find the Devils. ”
He turned and walked into the dark pipe, "As long as Catherine is around, the Devils Gang will be your good friends, I, talk counts!"
The area of this passage was not large, only the size of an ordinary bedroom, and when Cyber walked into it, he saw the guy sitting in the darkness in front of him, his eyes narrowed, and then patted his head,
"I knew... Things that get involved with Catherine can get weird, like when she was saved by four big talking turtles, how can the father of these four turtles be a normal human... But I still didn't expect that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were actually raised by a big rat. ”
Cyber breathed a sigh of relief and rubbed the corner of his aching forehead,
"So, are you Master Prince?"
The figure turned around, revealing its true face, just as Cyber said, a huge mouse, walking upright, a quarter of a quarter shorter than the tortoises and tortoises at 1.6 meters, and only about 1.3 meters tall, but this giant rat that should have been creepy did not have the disgusting feeling of its kind, probably because of its spiritual eyes, and the rust-red ninja master costume it was wearing, and it also carried a short knife like an ornament behind its waist.
It has a gray mane all over its body, but at the corners of its eyes and chin, it has a white beard and eyebrows, and its ears are puffed up, and it looks like a serious old man, well, this is not an adjective, this big mouse named Prince, really looks like an old human man.
He looked at Cyber with no sorrow or joy in his eyes,
"You're as rude as rumored! But I won't let that dismiss you for doing great things, and I have to emphasize one thing!"
The delicate cane he was holding in his hands tapped on the ground, accentuating his tone,
"I'm not a big rat! I just fell for Schredder's cursed ninjutsu and had to change into this, and as for my children, their origins are even more miserable, so I don't need to tell you, okay, let's talk about more important things. ”
Princet stretched out his paw to wipe his beard, he squinted,
"About the Shadow Domain, and the soon-to-be-awakened Shadow Beast... And a small piece of your sister's lost soul, I can tell from your eyes that you've actually discovered that, right?"
Cyber nodded, in his eyes, the soul was not secret, Catherine's soul was indeed missing a piece of the abdomen, as if it had been cut open by a sharp blade, the little girl herself did not know this, she thought that her weakness was caused by the injury.
Cyber took a deep breath, he looked at the big mouse in front of him, Prince, and he asked softly,
"Since we're going to share some secrets, let's be honest, Master Prince, who are you? I don't think an old man who lives in the sewers would know such a secret thing, and the ability to peek into the soul, tell who you are, and then we'll talk about the rest of the matter. ”
The question was a bit more than Master Princester had conceived, so he sat back cross-legged on his cushion, and he narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment, before finally whispering,
"Well, it's not something that has to be kept secret, but you have to promise that you can't tell it to my children without my permission... I can't put them in danger. ”
Master Prince's snow-white eyebrows twitched, and the bamboo pole in his hand like green jade struck on the ground, with a special frequency,
"You can call me Lin... The former master ninja of the Toei Holy Ninja Society, but that is a thing of the past, and now I'm Prince, as you said, just a big rat cowering in the dark, afraid to see people... I know Catherine has heard some stories about the Toei ninjas from the Foot Gang, but that's not complete, and there are some things that have been hidden, and they're the real point. ”
Princet sighed, he looked at Cyber,
"The thing my mentor once longed for most was to eradicate the fallen Hand Order, and you did it, so in return, would you like to hear about me, and the stories behind the Holiness Society, the Foot Gang, and the Hand Order?"