Chapter 18: Necromancy
Thanks to the Gotham Police Department's excellent communication with the major media outlets, the news about the Clowns' robbery of the Gotham National Bank was not very widespread - the public only knew that it was a failed criminal operation that was stopped in time.
Of course, in the eyes of some well-intentioned people, this criminal activity is only a brief prelude to a magnificent and magnificent grand opera, and the gangsters rooted in Gotham Harbor will definitely not sit still, like bloodthirsty crocodiles lurking in the muddy waters, ready to brew the next wave of even more fierce and ferocious retaliation.
Leon's injuries were not serious, and after showing a slightly faster recovery rate than ordinary people, he was quickly released from the hospital and returned to his ordinary routine.
Because his left arm was still in a plaster cast, Leon had to do the work of collecting accounts at the Red Armadillo Mexican restaurant, but fortunately, he could control the cash register with one hand and without much effort.
After working odd jobs at restaurants during the day and borrowing books from the Gotham City Library in the evening, Leon finally went to the hospital to remove the plaster bandage, which was also signed by Christina and others with highlighters with hearts and flowers.
During this period, Leon also consulted the best local public high school in Gotham, passed all the tests with a near-perfect score, and became a high school student.
At this moment, the math teacher with Mediterranean hairstyles was still babbling on the podium, the threads of his hand-knitted brown sweater stained with a hint of pale chalk ash, and two eyes that narrowed into a slit hidden under the slightly comical large glasses.
The content of his speech was boring and dry, and the dry tone of his voice was even more drowsy, and the students in the audience were already wandering around the world, or passing notes to discuss some party after school.
Leon, however, was not one of them, and with his chin on his pencil, he listened with great interest as Mr. Xie Ding gradually moved away from the simple textbook and into the more difficult parts, such as the theory of Jan Mills and the Navell-Stoker equation.
After all, he majored in thunder in his previous life, and ruled the thunder with talismans and seals, and the physical theory that developed into a towering tree in later generations simply opened the door to a new world for him, electrons, ions, electromotive force, electrostriction, hysteresis loop, electropolarization, electric dipole moment, .....
All kinds of new terms and theories are like an initiation, so that Li Ang can't wait to break through the foundation and start to simulate it with cinnabar rune paper.
Mathematics, as the most crucial cornerstone of modern science, is what Leon must learn well, and if it weren't for that, he wouldn't be a naΓ―ve and ignorant high school student.
The bell rang suddenly, and the bald teacher suddenly came back to his senses, looked at the dense calculation formulas on the blackboard and the students below, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, wiped the blackboard, and walked out of the door quickly after packing up the lesson plan.
I heard that this classroom named Durang Jones used to be a physics professor at a first-class university, but because he offended a respected academic lord because he didn't understand the world, he was expelled from the academic circle, and he could only be reduced to teaching high school students here.
As Leon was squinting and calculating, he noticed the sound of quietly approaching footsteps behind him, and said lazily without looking back: "Miss Christina, if you have anything, please hurry up, my time is very tight." β
Christina, who happened to be in the same class as him, jumped up in front of him, stuck out her tongue, leaned her upper body on Leon's table, and said, "Leon, we have a party this weekend in a forest west of Somerset, and Uncle Mike has a small cottage with a swimming pool, where we can have a beer and dance or something, do you want to come?" β
Li Ang rubbed his eyebrows when he heard this, threw the "Nature" magazine in his hand aside, and said, "Thank you for the invitation, but you know that I have always disliked joining in the fun, and I have some things to do." β
High school students in the United States have always been energetic, not afraid of the sky, even if they are found by a brown bear in the wild, they can laugh and take a video and upload it to social networks, so that Leon can get along with this kind of person It is a waste of his brain cells, and it is not as meaningful to read two more books with this effort.
Hearing the expected reply, Christina sighed helplessly, but a few tall and handsome boys not far away, who glanced at them intentionally or unintentionally, were happy.
Rugby team members, basketball team members, these high school teenagers with eight-pack abs almost marked the words "hormonal vigorous" on their foreheads, the young and beautiful Christina has always been the focus of boys, and it is really good that this annoying Chinese kid can disappear automatically with such eyesight at this moment.
The teenagers clapped their hands quietly, and even came to Li Ang to say a few words of false regret, and turned their heads to discuss how to show their toned bodies to the girls at this party.
The campus youth drama has nothing to do with Li Ang, after school, he first rode his bicycle to the elementary school to pick up Elizabeth and Isabella home, and then rode all the way to the Red Armadillo restaurant on duty.
When it was late at night, Leon helped Domingo unload the ingredients from the truck, pushed them into the warehouse with a cart, and then covered his face with a hood and blended into the dark corners of the city.
He's going to catch another "odd job".
Gotham is a huge city with a population of more than 8 million, and it is also the capital of crime, a quagmire of crime, and the corpses of poor insects who die every year can be connected and circled around Gotham Harbor.
In this case, the density of undead ghosts wandering in Gotham City is naturally outrageously high, and Leon recently visited Wayne Tower as a tourist, standing on a high place and looking down, in his spiritual sense, those dark green, confused undead are densely distributed in every corner.
These dead spirits are imperceptible to ordinary people, and in fact they will dissipate naturally after a period of time without external interference. However, sometimes due to many factors such as geographical patterns, causes of death and methods of death, these resentful spirits will stubbornly take root in a certain corner and refuse to leave.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the traces of the existence of resentful spirits are embodied in the creaking sound that suddenly sounded in the middle of the night in the rental house, the inexplicable blurred focus when taking pictures, and even the looming slender figure behind the curtain.
Sometimes the situation is even worse, and the jealousy of the living, the coveting of flesh and blood, will occupy the already few minds of the resentful spirits, causing them to entangle and attack the innocent living.
And the "odd job" that Li Ang is looking for is to destroy those spirits, in exchange for payment, and at the same time, he can also absorb the yin qi from the dead spirits and use it to sacrifice and refine magic weapons