27. Truth or Dare
"Gotham at night is so lively."
Mason stood by the window of the safe house on the top floor of the old apartment near Crime Alley, looking through the blinds at the night scene outside in several places as far as the naked eye could see.
In the distance, smoke from a fire rises across the Gotham River.
It's hard to imagine how much evil could happen in the city in one night, but to the young man's surprise, he soon saw the traces of the batfighter falling from the clouds and rushing towards the place of the fire.
He looked back at Nightwing behind him in surprise and said:
"You're pretending to be Batman, so who's flying the Batfighter?"
"Robin Three."
Grayson glanced at Mason and replied:
"As I said, Robins will help each other."
"It's all out of the third machine?"
Mason pouted, no wonder there are always some outrageous rumors among the villains of Gotham.
What they said they had seen Batman appear in three different parts of the city at the same time, the crazy car villain, and some people swore that Batman was an alien orphan who could act as a doppelganger or something.
Anyway, these folk rumors are just how outrageous they come about, but these outrageous rumors really have prototypes.
"You're going to interrogate her?"
Mason glanced at Catwoman, who was still unconscious with her hands and feet tied to a chair, and he rubbed her neck that had been pinched by Catwoman before, and said:
"I don't think you can ask anything, and it's impossible to torture to extract a confession, she is Batman's lover and is your 'adoptive mother', and secondly, you can't do it as a bad person."
"That's not how this relationship works!"
Grayson pushed the Bat Helmet and retorted.
But the expression of his serious chin and the corners of his mouth under the mask also meant that Da Shao was very distressed at this time.
Although he learned the methods of torture from Batman, he is a true gentleman and really can't do such a thing to a lady who is not a bad person.
"I'll do it."
Mason took the initiative to take over the task, saying:
"I need some materials, you can help me prepare them."
"Alchemy you learned with wizards again?"
Grayson glanced up at him, Mason nodded and moved his fingers, and said:
"I saw a potion in the wizard's notes called 'Truth Elixir'... Don't laugh, wizards used this name a thousand years ago, and it's not something the FBI or KGB just created.
In short, if torture cannot be used, this potion is suitable. ”
As he spoke, Mason took out a piece of paper, scribbled down the names of many materials, and handed it to Nightwing.
The latter's eyes widened when he held it in his hand, and after a few seconds, he shook the piece of paper on which at least fifty drugs were written, and said suspiciously:
"Are you sure you need so many herbs to boil one dose of medicine? The amount you want adds up to twenty adults. ”
"There is a chance of failure in alchemy, not to mention that I'm just a novice, is there anything wrong with preparing more raw materials?"
Mason asked rhetorically with a blank face:
"Or is it that Batman is poor and can't get so much stuff?"
"You'd better make sure it works."
Grayson no longer retorted.
Got up and walked to the window to connect the communication of the bat cave, and said in a low voice:
"Alfred, I need some materials to complete the operation, I'll read you the list... No, I'm not going to change careers to open a pharmacy, and I'm not wrong about these outrageous amounts.
Do you happen to have all of them in the warehouse?
That's great!
I need the Batfighter to get them to me as quickly as possible, and remember to tell Tim not to drink too much coffee when he flies the plane. ”
Hearing Nightwing and Ah Fu's conversation, Mason behind him quietly showed a well-planned smile.
The herbs were enough for him to make most of the primary potions of the alchemy branch, but they weren't prepared for the elixir.
How can the real elixir be so easy to refine?
Let's not talk about the minimum skill standard for the production of this thing in Alchemy Lv3, just talking about its production cycle requires a whole month of fermentation and purification process.
Not a day less.
And the core of the material of that thing is the feathers of the stunner bird.
There was probably no such thing in this world, and Mason didn't have a specimen of the feather on hand.
At his current level, he can't make a truth potion at all, but that doesn't stop Mason from using this reason to get a handful of Batman's fat wool.
Because he happened to have a finished product of the truth elixir at hand.
The Kite Man found a lot of potions in the ruins of Hogwarts, and they were all in Mason's bag at this time.
Ten minutes later, the ghostly Bat Fighter hovered on the roof of the old apartment, and several large boxes were thrown out of the plane, and by the time Nightwing and the pilot, Robin Tim Drake, the third generation, turned around, the boxes were heavy enough to crush people.
"Where did you get them? Have you eaten it? ”
Nightwing asked in surprise, Mason patted the bag on his waist, took out a few strangely shaped beakers as if by magic, and said briefly:
"Magic, don't ask. I need twenty minutes to make a potion. ”
"It's unmagical to use alchemy to make a potion on the roof of an old apartment to pry open the mouth of a street hero."
As a joke, he pushed open the door and walked into the stairs.
Soon Mason hears the sound of a awakened Catwoman arguing with him.
Catwoman is still scolding Dick Grayson for having no conscience, saying that he bought Batman ice cream when he was Robin, and that she hugged him when he wore open crotch pants when he was a child.
It seems that these two are also old acquaintances.
Mason, who was on the roof, wasted no time, lit the alcohol lamp he had brought from Barbara's safe house, took some of the newly acquired herbs, took out a few bottles of mineral water and began to boil the medicine.
The potions in the wizarding world require strange recipes, and some of the ingredients are very netherworld.
Strange things like air-dried rat spleens or mint leaves plucked in the morning light are very unfriendly to newcomers.
Therefore, Mason chose the primary potions that had already included the drawings, and these primary potion series were obtained from Old K, and the recipe was improved by Old K, and all the ingredients could be purchased from ordinary herb stores.
And the whole process is very simple compared to traditional alchemy, but it is a test of the alchemist's level.
The young man tried it four times.
All failed...
It seems that Dashao's complaint is justified.
Burishing potions on a roof with wind on all sides was nothing magical, and the Potions God cursed Mason for his disrespect and wasted twenty precious minutes of his life.
He shook his head, disposed of the black carbon-like residue, then took out the bottle of Truth Elixir, which was very similar in appearance and color to the Wind Oil Essence, held it in his hand, pushed the door open, and walked downstairs into the safe house.
"You're a little creature with no conscience!"
Upon seeing Mason come in, Catwoman who was tied to a chair immediately screamed:
"It's a shame that my sister is so good to you, you actually teamed up with bat cubs to bully me! Sure enough, the man who can be looked at differently by Batman is not a good thing! ”
"First of all, I didn't feel sorry for you, but you have been owing me favors.
Secondly, don't try to pick the lock, it's said to be made for a flying thief like you, and you don't even want to untie it if you break your finger.
In the end, I'm not here to hurt you.
I even added orange water to this thing to keep it tasteful. ”
Mason walked up to the irascible Catwoman and twisted the lid of the crystal bottle in his hand, and a pungent smell poured out of it, causing the young man beside him to take a slightly uneasy step back.
The young man took out a small medicine spoon.
He dropped two drops of viscous truth potion on the spoon, looked at Catwoman with an angry face, estimated the anger and resistance of the big sister, shrugged her shoulders and continued to drip two drops into the spoon.
That's a double dose.
If Mason has a bad heart, he can even ask Catwoman's first love and her lingerie color today... Well, that's not a problem.
The first choice of this kind of big sister must be the mysterious and charming black.
"Also, you are the one who pulled us into a dangerous situation, and you should know that I just want to live a peaceful life."
Mason spoke, and put the remaining half of the potion back in his bag.
This bottle of Truth Elixir can be used ten times, which is worthy of its lengthy production process.
He gave the bat next to him a look, who stepped forward to fix Catwoman's struggling face, and stuck her mouth to reveal her clenched teeth.
To be honest, this scene is really too forbidden.
"It's okay, that's fine, the potion can seep down."
Mason put the spoon on the cat's feminine lips and said:
"It can penetrate the tongue, don't struggle, it's said to taste good like rum, and it's harmless when used in small amounts."
"What did you give me a drink!"
After a few drops of cold potion were dripped into Catwoman's mouth, Nightwing also let go of the struggling Wildcat Lady, and the two young men took a few steps back, looking at the somewhat manic Royal Sister Beauty in the chair.
She yelled at Mason, and Nightwing glanced at the young man and whispered:
"How long does it take for the elixir to take effect?"
"Now!"
Mason replied, looked at Catwoman, and said:
"Your age!"
"Do you ask such a hot question in the first place?"
Da Shao shrank his mind and said:
"This is a woman's death hole, be careful that she will strangle you for a while."
"It's a test, shut up."
Mason flicked his finger to shut up, and the two men stared at Catwoman in front of them.
The expression on her face was very strange, and her whole body was tense at this moment, as if she was holding back something that was about to erupt.
She bit her mouth so hard that she wouldn't let herself say the damn answer.
But the urge to share the secret with the others was like a cat's claw, so that this seductive big sister couldn't hide those words at all.
Her face flushed.
Under the gaze of Mason and Nightwing, after nearly twenty seconds she opened her mouth as if suffocating, and gasped with her head down, and said:
"18 years old..."
"Alright, the test has failed, and your truth teller has failed."
Da Shao shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and Mason raised a finger and shook it, and then crossed his arms and said slowly:
"Don't jump to conclusions, she's not done yet."
"18 years and 228 months and 17 days!"
Catwoman finally has her answer.
The light in her eyes burned like angry fire, glaring at Mason and Nightwing eager to tear them apart, and Dashao was in shock.
To make a mysterious woman like Ms. Selena take the initiative to tell her real age, Mason's truth elixir can really do it!
Is this the power of magic?
Loved, loved.
"I'll test it too."
Da Shao coughed, and Mason next to him made a "please" gesture to him.
Grayson quietly turned on the communicator on the bat gauntlet, looked at Catwoman with a look of resistance, and finally asked the question he wanted to know the most.
He said:
"Why did you run away from your wedding to Batman in the first place? Do you know that you made him so sad that he almost collapsed because of it? ”
"I refuse to answer!"
Ms. Selena is going crazy.
She screamed, but the devilish potion continued to take effect, and she couldn't hide the secrets she never wanted to be known.
Once again, she blushed her face.
I even want to bite off my tongue.
But in the end, she bowed her head weakly, and said like a whisper:
"I'm afraid... I'm afraid he'll get tired of me after having me, the cat you can't catch is your favorite cat, and I'm even more afraid that I'll be willing to become a vassal of that man after becoming Mrs. Bat.
The uneasiness in my heart drove me to do something stupid.
As it turned out, I had once again been used by Batman's enemies as a sword in his torn heart.
I've hurt him more than his enemies, and I'm sorry for that.
But I really enjoy the shyness of showing me his hidden intentions when he is alone again and again, and I hope this pattern will continue until the day I am old.
I swear!
As soon as the first wrinkle on my face grows, I will not hesitate to marry him.
But until then, I'm going to keep playing like this with him.
I'm going to see, to see who will fall first. ”
Da Shao pursed his lips, and Mason, who was listening, was expressionless but a little moved in his heart, well, is this the twilight love of the elderly?
It's really literary.
But this answer was not beyond Nightwing's imagination, and he turned on the communicator on his arm by the way, and said to the person on the other side of Catwoman:
"Do you hear that? This may help you untie the knot. ”
After nearly ten seconds of silence, Batman's trademark husky voice rang out over the communicator.
He said:
"Dick! You're so bored! ”
Subsequently, the communication hung up.
"Alright, let's get down to business, shall we?"
Mason stepped forward to look at Catwoman, who had completely stopped resisting with her head down, he squatted down and said to the big sister who was being peeped at in front of him:
"Lady Selena, we really need the information on that hard drive, if you crack it, please tell us the content, why are the League of Assassins and the Penguins going crazy chasing us?"
"We're not in this group anymore, Mason! You're the most vicious of all the bat cubs! ”
Catwoman looked up.
The big eyes that were already stained with tears stared at the young man, and she said viciously:
"But I'll tell you this, because the Penguins have been in league with the Assassins for a long time. Together, they are carrying out a plan called 'Advent'.
I didn't have much information to crack.
It's a smart program that encrypts itself all the time.
I can't hack it with a bat computer.
Because it would be parasitic on Batman's database and security network, perhaps even the theft of the hard drive itself was a conspiracy against the man.
But I'm sure that both the League of Assassins and the Penguins were participants in the project, and that its first step was to start with the fall of Gotham and the death of Batman. ”
Catwoman gasped.
She looked at Mason and said:
"The penguin man has to get the hard drive back or destroy the information because he doesn't want to die quietly. As for the League of Assassins, they didn't want the entire plan to be canceled because of this misstep.
Everyone who has touched that hard drive is a roadblock that must be removed, and you two can't solve it!
Batman has to come back...
Hey, why is your pin glowing? ”
"Bang"
Just as Catwoman finished speaking, a bullet swirled through the window and shot at her.
Mason threw Catwoman and her chair to the ground, while the reflex Nightwing opened her bulletproof cloak to block the deadly bullet.
Mason pulled out the Eagle of the Jaccojack to cut the rope, and pressed Catwoman under him as she tried to break free, and casually opened the invisibility cloak to wrap the two of them inside.
"Don't move!"
He scolded, then looked up at Nightwing and said:
"I took her to a safe place, the seventh pier in Port Miller! I will reach out to you. ”
"Let's go! I lure them away. ”
Dashao was not ambiguous at the critical moment, and stepped forward to throw a bat-dart to break the glass and rush out, followed by the piercing gunfire and the sound of the Batmobile's engine starting.
As for Catwoman.
She watched in amazement as Mason wore the magical cloak to hide the aura of the two of them completely, and fled all the way down the stairs.
"We're really in this group, Ms. Selena."
As he fled into the nearest alley, Mason picked up his gun and carried it behind him, and said to Catwoman, who was glaring at him:
"I want to get away from these haunting pursuits, and you want to live until the day you marry Batman. We have every basis to work together.
As for the elixir...
I forgot to tell you that it only takes about five minutes to take effect. ”
Mason shrugged his shoulders, wiped his eyes with feigned emotion, and joked:
"The secret about you and Batman was told by you of your own free will, don't leave it on my head, and besides, you world-class thief can't see Nightwing's little action of turning on the communicator?
The way you two get along with each other is really distorted.
It's really hard to have a lover like a fairy like you. ”
"Shh
Catwoman, who was pierced through her heart, pursed her lips and said while putting on her ruby goggles:
"Do you really think I've been a fool for all these years? You bastard bat cub, my sister is a professional when it comes to fishing for Kaizi! Do you understand the technical content in those sentences just now?
That's enough to make that silent man love me to death. ”