The hierarchical system of authority has been flawed for a long time, but it makes sense that it has not been outlawed. And now is not the time to talk about that.

Previously, because Skye found out that Stark was taken hostage by mutants, Rhaegar wanted to know about Stephanie Malik, which led to Rhaegar telling about 'his' pitiful experience later. And just as Coulson, as the leader of the squad, was about to say something to stop the topic, another thing came to his aid, stopping the topic.

He received a phone call from Alfred Pennyworth, an old butler they had met at Wayne Manor.

"That's right, I'm Phil Coulson."

"What, are you sure?"

"Good. But did he show anything special at the time? ”

"...... like this"

"Don't worry, I will."

"Okay, you take care of Mrs. Wayne, and I'll see what we can do here."

Coulson said these words into the phone, both his expression and tone revealed a solemn emotion, which made several people who were still trapped in Rhaegara's story curious and worried.

"Coulson, what's going on?" Skye asked Coulson. Judging by her expression, her attitude towards Rhaegar had softened, but she had only been an observer before, and had not directly participated in the discussion between Rhaeggar, Fitz, and Simmons.

"Bad thing." Coulson said in a deep voice, "Thomas Wayne is back at Wayne Manor alone. ”

"What?!"

This made the team members unresponsive for a moment, especially Rhaeggar. Previously, he had already said that Death Bell had taken away Old Wayne and deliberately modified the traces of the scene to blame Wolverine, and came to the conclusion that Blame Wolverine was just a casual one, and Death Knell wanted to use other means than the rules to use old Wayne to do something. But now, old Wayne has actually returned to Wayne Manor alone?

"What's the bad news?" Skye continued, "Now that Mr. Wayne has returned, don't we know from him what Death Knell is up to?" That guy dared to kill Lei ...... Well, if you dare to attack old Wayne, maybe we can complain about him. ”

Complaints are naturally impossible. Compared to their special operations team, it is obviously the death knell inside Hydra. Instead, Skye said that the leak revealed his concern for Rhaegar, which relieved someone.

And Coulson didn't have the time or the mood to pay attention to that. He was going to finish what he hadn't finished: "Old Wayne went back to Wayne Manor alone, and then left alone. No one knows where he is going and what he is going to do. And that's not even the worst. Because three minutes before he returned to the manor, Bruce Wayne, along with the nutrition pod we had seen before, was found to have disappeared out of thin air. ”

These two things are bad enough to be released alone, but now they are all together. When the old butlers, Ah Fu and Mrs. Wayne, find out that Bruce Wayne, who had been in a vegetative state for several years and had recently been kept in the nutrition pod, disappeared along with the nutrition pod, it was bad enough. And before that, the attack on the charity party and the unknown whereabouts of the old Wayne made the two very, very worried. Then he finally waited until the old Wayne, who had been worried before, came home, and was about to tell the backbone of the main thing, but the old Wayne walked back home with a restless look, but as soon as he heard about his son's disappearance, his expression changed greatly, and then he drove away without saying a word.

Mrs. Wayne couldn't catch up with old Wayne and fainted on the spot.

At that time, the old housekeeper Ah Fu panicked. There were only three members of the Wayne family, and now one disappeared without warning, one left in an unusual manner, and the last one simply fainted and fell to the ground. In this case, Ah Fu wanted to ask for help from the person who was most trusted by Old Wayne, and there were two people who were trusted by Old Wayne and known by Ah Fu, one was Lucius Fox, Old Wayne was the most powerful hand in Wayne's enterprise, but unfortunately he was seriously injured by the saber-toothed tiger before; The other is James Gordon, Gotham's police chief, but he can't be reached for a while. After thinking about it, Ah Fu, who had no other way, could only ask Coulson, who had been to Wayne Manor before and the old Wayne had a high evaluation, for help.

"And how are we going to help?" After hearing this, Skye asked Coulson.

"Let's sort this out first." Coulson rubbed his temples and reluctantly responded.

As for Mrs. Wayne who fainted, Ah Fu had already summoned the personal doctor of the Wayne family, so he didn't need to pay attention to it for the time being. As for Thomas Wayne, who behaved abnormally, according to Ah Fu, combined with what Rhaegar said about Death Knell taking him away, Old Wayne should have heard something from Death Knell, and returned home in a state of distraught, only to find that his son was taken away by someone he didn't know, and chased him out in a hurry. Notice that the verb 'chase' is used here, which means that he knows where Bruce Wayne is being taken, or that he knows some clues. This is the most likely possibility. And once this speculation is true, it means that what Death Knell said to Wayne Sr. has something to do with Bruce Wayne's whereabouts. In this way, there are three directions to solve this matter.

“…… Where Bruce Wayne and his nutrition pod were, the path of Thomas Wayne and the car he drove, and, well, something has been hiding from our death knell. After analyzing with Ward, Fitz, Simmons and Skye, Coulson concluded.

"Don't forget, this third one is trying to kill us." Fitz said angrily that he had long been dissatisfied with the death knell. "Oh no, come to think of it, Deathstroke didn't 'want' to kill Rhaegar – he did, and he did! If it weren't for Rhaeggar's superpowers......"

Ward looked at Fitz helplessly and said, "Fitz, what you are saying now is not helpful to the problems we are facing. ”

Fitz had no choice but to shut up.

And Coulson continued his 'summary': "Okay, now we're facing Bruce Wayne's nutrition pod, Thomas Wayne's car, and the death knell. Excluding this last one certainly won't share any information with us unless it's a murderer in his own favor, about the first two, they're both machines, is there any way you can track them down? ”

Fitz and Simmons looked at each other first. Although Fitz was a mechanical expert, they hadn't really touched the pod, and they hadn't done anything to the Wayne car, so naturally there was no way to track or lock on. With that, the pressure is all on Skye.

"Well, I can try hacking into Wayne Enterprises' network. If the pod had been developed in-house at Wayne Corporation, maybe I could have found the instructions for it, and maybe I could have found something that would allow us to trace its parts or something. As for Mr. Wayne's car, I could have tracked it by investigating the cameras, but unless it drove into the city, there weren't many cameras in the suburbs. So ......"

"So we just have to gamble and wait for the outcome that we can't control, and we don't even know when the outcome will come?" Coulson's face was a little ugly.

Skye was also helpless: "Although I don't want to say that, but, yes. ”

Coulson let out a long breath. It wasn't the answer he wanted to hear. However, there is no other way for them.

"No, we have another way." Rhaeggar, who was not included in the conversation circle because of his injuries and could only sit in on the conversation, suddenly spoke, instantly enlivening the atmosphere that had been depressed because things were not going well.

"What's the solution?"

"Our in-ear communicator, that 'earbud.'" Rhaegar clutched the wound on his chest from the operation and said, "If I'm not mistaken, you found this place through the location of your phone, right?" Well, it's good that you did, if you had locked on my 'earbuds', I might have died by now. ”

"What do you mean......" Fitz's voice meant a little incredulous, but more with joy.

"That's right, that's what I meant." Rhaegar smiled softly. "That earbud broke when Thomas Wayne and I faced the Kraken, the mutant who unleashed a sonic attack, but it was the communication part that was broken, and the built-in GPS wasn't affected. To be on the safe side, I sneaked it in Thomas Wayne's clothes when I came out of the underground parking lot of the Gotham Hotel. So, now you can activate it remotely. ”

(P.S.: As soon as I wrote about the simple folk customs of Getan City, I couldn't help but write the plot a little more complicated and depressed. I'm going to finish this story as soon as I can, and then I'll write something brisk about it...... ）