33. TMD, I'm really an orphan now
The zombie three-headed dog Maomao, or a more majestic and formal name "Lu Wei", was ruthlessly hacked to death by Lao K in the wizarding world, and was "resurrected" by Mason with three resurrection stone fragments.
It's still in zombie form, and it won't listen to Mason, a stranger.
If no one else is around, this guy will attack Mason himself as soon as he is released, but unfortunately, the black warriors don't know this secret.
The moment they saw the appearance of the nearly four-meter-tall zombie three-headed dog, they fell into a stupor, and then a guy who owed or reacted quickly subconsciously pulled the trigger.
That's it.
The first bullet hit Mao's middle head, leaving a small wound on the door of its head, and it healed quickly under the effect of the resurrection stone fragment without even bleeding.
But the attack immediately directed Maomao's attack.
A trio of screaming horrors echoed through the filthy sewers.
The black-clothed samurai at the front didn't even have time to escape when he was knocked away by the terrifying three-headed dog that pounced on him, and was bitten by the heads of three terrifying dogs at the same time in the air and then tore outward.
Hot blood mixed with internal organ fragments was sprinkled everywhere.
This ferocious fatal blow completely opened the curtain on the destruction of the last elite squad of the Assassin League.
As for Mason, who was maintaining the animal trainer posture and pretending to have a great advantage, he moved his neck and pulled his cannon from his waist to search the blood trail on the ground.
It was the blood stains left by the penguin people.
He'd been punched through the thigh by Gordon before, and he would have been running away in despair in the sewers but hadn't been able to get far.
The Penguin is not a superpower.
He's got to where he is today with his own brain, and of course being able to make something like an armed umbrella proves that the Penguin Man is also a very good engineer.
But these two advantages will not help him escape in the current situation.
"Bang"
Mason, who caught up, fired a bullet that broke Oswald's other leg as he staggered forward, causing his short, fat body to fall to the ground in embarrassment and screaming like a pig.
Pain filled every nerve in the big guy, and he struggled to roll himself over, supporting his body with two hands in a pool of blood, and Mason strode in front of him with the strange shotgun that looked like a sawn shotgun.
There wasn't much light in the sewers for the penguin man to see Mason's expression, but as he looked at the young man who was getting closer, a wave of despair rose in his tried and tested heart.
He knows.
He's done.
"Why?"
At this last fateful moment, the big man shouted hoarsely:
"I'm not sorry for you! Mason, I'm kind enough to your daddy Robert, who took you under his command immediately after his death, and plans to give you a future!
Why? ”
"Do you mean, you're going to buy me a life insurance policy and then the second beneficiary will write your name?"
Mason stopped and looked condescendingly at the penguin as he came to his end.
He whispered:
"What about Robert Cooper's pension after he fought for the territory of Port Miller for you, and was hacked to death by Maroney's men? The insurance money you bought for him didn't go to me.
As for the future...
If being a doorman at the Iceberg Bar is a bright future, then you're really good to me. ”
"But we can talk! You look like a good boy..."
The penguin man waved his bloody hand and shouted:
"If only it were money! We can totally talk, Mason, young man, I have a lot of money, I can give it to you! I volunteered to give it to you, what more do you want?
Status?
Woman?
It's okay, say it.
As long as I have, you can take it!
As soon as I go back, I promise I'll give them all to you, but if I die here, you won't get anything but a corpse.
It's not worth it at all, kid!
Rest that bullet, look at me, I'm sixty years old, I have terrible lifestyle habits and diabetes and high blood pressure, I'm going to die sooner or later.
It's just a matter of time, you don't need to help me physically speed up!
You know, I've always been a man of my word.
I was able to get a big bang in Gotham because of the reputation I've accumulated over the years, you know. ”
"Click"
The light in the penguin's eyes dimmed little by little, and he knew that his persuasion had failed.
Seeing Mason raise his gun, the cunning fellow's mind was in a hurry, and he suddenly shouted:
"You bastard! I should have let Robert smash you to death in the first place! That dog thing doesn't know what's going on, so he has to adopt a little cub of unknown origin!
I knew that those who do what we do cannot be merciful. ”
"Huh?"
Mason's action of pulling the trigger stopped.
A hint of suspicion appeared on his face, and this suspicion was also keenly captured by the penguin people, and he seemed to see a glimmer of light, so he shouted loudly:
"Ha, you don't know yet, do you? Poor boy, you don't know your true origins! It's actually a small thing for me, just because Robert was my right-hand man.
That's right, it's your father.
At that time, my career was just getting started.
I didn't have a better choice, and Robert, though he had a bad brain, was loyal and fierce enough to make me remember the incident that almost made me fall out with your father.
Do you want to know?
Leave me alone! Take me out! That's all I have to tell you! I can guarantee that you won't find a second person other than me to tell you this.
The people who witnessed it back then are all dead. ”
Mason pondered in silence in the dark, and after a dozen seconds, under the gaze of the penguin, he lowered his gun, and said:
"Say, I'm listening."
"Take me first, the monster you unleashed looks hungry."
The penguin man laughed dryly twice, but he didn't let go.
Mason glanced at him, dragged him by the hand, pulled him through the sewer exit, and dropped him on the floor of the Black Gate Prison a minute later.
Oswald, who seemed to be back on earth, let out a hoarse and staccato laugh, coughing, as if glad that he had escaped from the devouring of the three-headed dog.
Under Mason's cold gaze, the penguin man wiped his muddy face and said:
"You were picked up by Robert!
16 or 17 years ago, I can't remember exactly when.
All I remember was that it was a very cold night, and I had just killed my boss to get a small piece of land, and Robert had done me a great favor and I had a lot of money to share with him.
You know, your dad is a total rotten man, drunkard and irritable, and when he gets drunk, he's like crazy, but there's something good about him, he loves his wife very much.
Even though his wife, who is your mother, is unable to have children due to physical reasons. ”
Oswald gasped, pain eating away at his body and making him lie there twitching, but in the face of Mason's black hole muzzle, the big guy still insisted on speaking slowly:
"I don't know the exact process, I just know that Robert took the money from me and ran to drink and be dashing, and he bought a lot of expensive things like crazy and said that he would take them back and give them to his wife to make her happy.
He left the bar drunk, and a few hours later he and his wife ran back and I was already asleep when they woke me up.
He showed me what was in his arms...
Oh, a baby in swaddling clothes, that's you!
Robert doesn't want you, Mason, but your mother is holding you to death, and she says it's a gift from God, and she'd rather give up everything than keep you.
Your dad really loves your mother, and he can't resist her, so he comes to beg me to use my connections at the town hall to get you a proof.
Do you know what's the most bizarre? ”
The penguin man chuckled twice and said:
"Your complexion is very similar to that of your mother, and it was like a gift from God to that poor woman, and I helped them, after all, Robert is my right-hand man.
After two years, that guy lost his mind and went crazy, but he really changed his mind and planned to live a good life.
But alas, your mother didn't have the blessing to see you grow up, the poor woman was seriously ill, and Robert went crazy to make money to treat her but didn't let her get through it.
You may have forgotten.
When your mother died, she begged Robert to take care of you.
I've seen it with my own eyes, but unfortunately Robert is a rotten man, and he's gone completely crazy when he loses the last bit of goodness the world has given him.
I'm done.
I knew that, but I guess this old secret would buy me my life. ”
"But I don't think it's enough."
Mason raised his gun, pointed it at the penguin, and said:
"You've got to tell me a little more, where did he pick me up?"
"I don't know!"
Oswald was a little irritable and said:
"As I said, I was resting by then, but, if I'm not mistaken, you had the Gotham orphanage label on your swaddling clothes when they brought you.
I once suspected that Robert, the madman, had gone to an orphanage to please his sick wife and stole a child.
But then he said it when he was drunk, and it didn't seem to be the case.
He says you picked it up by accident from the scene of a car accident, otherwise it wouldn't have been so easy to put you in the Cooper family.
The process by which he picked you up was indeed not illegal.
I've said everything I know, it's time for you to keep your promise, you bastard, you've killed both of my fingers, and I'm sorry it's time to pay for your grievances.
After all, it was my help that you were able to survive back then!
Brat!
You have to know the kindness! ”
"You're right, I really should be grateful."
Mason let out a sigh of relief, put the cannon back into his waist and reached out to lift the penguin man with his broken legs and pull a few steps outward, after pulling the blood on the ground, he glanced at the penguin, picked up a gun from the blood stain next to him, removed the magazine and withdrew the bullet, leaving only one inside.
Then, under the wide-eyed gaze of the penguin, he lifted the muzzle of the gun and pulled the trigger.
With a "bang", the head of a zombie wandering in the distance exploded, and the remaining few were also attracted by the sound and staggered towards this side.
Oswald struggled frantically.
He knew what Mason was going to do.
He shouted:
"Nope! You can't do this! You vicious son of disaster unleashed! Batman won't let you go! ”
"So you know you can't be known to Batman?"
Mason laughed and leaned over, placing the gun without bullets in the penguin's arms, and said:
"That bullet of yours has been spared, Mr. Oswald, now use the secrets in your mind to convince these 'friends' in front of you.
Don't think I don't know why you want me to bring you up.
You know you won't survive today.
But you're not afraid of death.
Because your partners have the means to resurrect you... The Pool of Seralus of the League of Assassins, a magical artifact that brings the dead back to life.
Sadly, I know the secret too. ”
He patted the penguin man on the shoulder and said:
"Bullets won't kill you, they will only free you faster. And I'm doing my best to arrange all this, not so that you can escape death and continue to be free, and become another trouble in my life in the future.
I hate trouble.
As for the baby you helped seventeen years ago... Sorry, he's dead.
He could have completed his studies at Gotham High School in safety and spent his own ordinary and satisfying life, but you pulled him into your gang.
You were the one who pulled him back into the darkness, and it was you who brought him bad luck.
One life, one death.
Now it's clear.
Pray, Mr. Oswald. ”
Mason pulled the struggling penguin man by the collar from behind and threw him at the zombie that pounced, and the moment he let go of his hands, the young man said to him:
"The penguin-man feud with the Cooper family is over. You're free, and I'm free. ”
"Ahh
The short, bloody man screamed at the hungry zombie brothers, and Mason didn't look back, let alone enjoy the dying wail.
Despite creating a catastrophe tonight, Mason is not a man who takes pleasure in cruelty, and it's all just a means to an end.
After all, it was the Penguins and the League of Assassins who provoked him first.
Since they started a war on their own initiative, they must be prepared in advance to bear defeat.
In this way, there is no right or wrong.
The young man walked down the sewer with a voodoo cage in his hand.
Mao Mao should have eaten enough, it was time to recycle it, he didn't want to give Black Gate Prison another legend of the three-headed dog of hell that lived in the sewers.
But Mason's mood was not calm at this time.
He walked down the sewers, following the direction from which the roar came, and the secret that the penguin man had just told kept coming to his mind.
complained in his heart that when he was reborn, he was still glad that his cheap father was hacked to death in the fire and became an orphan without care.
I didn't expect it to be a prophecy.
The secret identity hidden under the beginning of his new life is really a fucking orphan.
He recalls the body's ordeal over the past 17 years.
So little joy, so much sadness.
And when exploring the details, I couldn't help but comment, this young man's past is so miserable and so mediocre, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like he has any special identity.
"Boss, the Batfighter is starting to clear the ground, I see the Batmobile coming over, are you done?"
The Kite Man's urging rang out in the headphones, accompanied by the low roar of some large artifact being blown up, and Mason shook his head to calm himself down.
The three-headed zombie dog was screaming and stepping on the sewage to pounce on him, and Mason took out the voodoo birdcage like a matador and pulled it into the strange magic cage the moment the furry pounced, and threw it back into the suitcase.
A minute later, Mason climbed back onto the floor of the Black Gate Prison.
glanced at the distance, and at a glance, I saw His Excellency the Penguin Man who had been mixed in the zombie herd and "swayed happily" with the "good brothers".
He took a look at his surroundings, put on his cloak of invisibility, and hurried in the direction of the tooth roar, and said to the anxious kite man:
"Sorry, something happened just now but it's been resolved. Prepare to blow up the escape exit, Charles, I'll get the tooth back and rush over!
Next, help the bat family clean up the zombies. Remember not to be so 'professional' for a while, so as not to be seen. Also, remember to dispose of this set of headphones before you meet!
Don't let them get caught in any detail. ”