"Roar!"

The contents of the rusty iron cage in the bilge of a merchant ship smelled of fresh flesh and blood.

As the four of Team K approached, its white eyes rolled over, its distorted nostrils sniffed and then roared and pounced.

With a thud slamming into the edge of the cage, its twisted claws poked out and scratched, and with this movement, its festering wounds and shriveled flesh emitted a disgusting rancid smell.

The black mage slag Kang looked at the things in front of him, and a serious expression appeared on his face. As for Catwoman, who is still angry, she directly thinks of the covered disaster that happened in Gotham just a few days ago.

"Bang"

Mason, with an ugly face, raised his hand and pulled the trigger.

A spinning bullet flew out of the chamber and blasted the contents of the cage in front of him in the head, and the headless corpse smashed into the damp bilge deck, sending filthy blood pouring out.

"Zombies... It's zombies again! ”

He looked at the equally ugly kite man behind him, and whispered:

"Go check on the people on the boat, if they have been scratched or have come into contact with zombies, they have been thrown into the sea."

"No, Boss."

Charles whispered:

"The locals called the infection the 'Black Death,' and according to the boatswain, it had been circulating in the Old World for more than two months, and it was said that there were few people left alive in Europe.

Their merchants who ran by sea were now in the 'immigration business', specialising in sending the living of the Old World to the New World for refuge, so they knew how to prevent this danger.

Before we arrived, all of the scratched crew members on the ship had been disposed of, and they kept the zombie because it was the captain of the ship three days ago. ”

"Zombies appeared more than two months ago?"

Mason was surprised and said:

"So, the official government of this world has not been attacked by the 'Destroyer of the World'? Also, a world with a civilization in its modern era is simply not able to withstand such a rapidly spreading biochemical catastrophe.

Those bastards don't need to go to great lengths to destroy the center of civilization.

They only need to drop the virus to make the world end in rapid blood loss. ”

The conversation between Mason and the Kite Man was overheard by Catwoman, and the big sister looked at Mason and said:

"Isn't this the first time you've been exposed to such a global catastrophe? Where did the zombie beast you used to attack the Black Gate Prison come from? ”

"Another world."

The Kite Man explains:

"The first world we were held hostage to by the old K, it was even worse than here, the zombie crisis and the attacks of the world destroyers have made it a real apocalyptic wasteland.

There is no living person left in that world. ”

With that, the Kite Man handed Mr. Potter's diary to Catwoman at Mason's suggestion, and on the way out of the bilge and onto the deck, Catwoman showed it to Zackon again.

When everyone saw the sun again, even the most heartless Konstantin had no smile on his face, and the sun that was still warm just now could only make them feel a burst of coldness when it shone on the four explorers.

It's like a replica of a disaster.

What happened in the world of Hogwarts is being repeated in this Pirates of the Caribbean world, and in a more brutal and cold-blooded "global battle royale" way.

Mason remained calm.

He looked at the group of dejected sailors on the deck and the haggard faces of all the people who had bought tickets to leave the Old World for the New World.

According to Charles's inquiry, the group had two ships that had 420 people on board when they had departed from France ten days earlier.

And after encountering an attack caused by the zombieization of an infected person on the way, the only people who survived were less than 50 people in front of them.

All have lost hope, like the walking dead waiting for the mercy of death.

"Boatswain!"

Mason shouted:

"Do you have any problem with us taking over the ship now?"

A middle-aged man with a blind eye patch raised his head, his thirsty lips moved but he didn't say anything, just nodded silently.

"Bang"

A large box of compressed biscuits and several buckets of water were taken out of Mason's bag and thrown on the deck, and this magical "miracle" immediately made everyone look at him.

Mason kicked the pensive Zackon, who immediately snapped his fingers.

A green flame appeared on the deck out of thin air, forming a hideous skeleton howling and pounced on the crowd in front of them, causing the men and women who had survived the catastrophe to scream and fall, and dodge in embarrassment.

It's a bad thing to do, but under the magic of Zakkang, these guys finally have some reaction that a living person should have.

"Wizard! They're wizards! ”

Screams of terror echoed across the deck where the traces of battle remained, and in this day and age, "wizard" was no good word.

"Quiet!"

Mason raised his intimidating cannon and fired a shot into the sky, and as the deck fell silent, he said indifferently:

"Now, you're all slaves of the wizard! Come and get food and water, you poor creatures, the merciful wizard wants you to work hard.

Whoever dares to be lazy will hang on the mast and die in the sun! ”

The cold words had a miraculous effect, and the forty or so people on deck immediately rushed up and lined up in a row cowering under the threat of the black hole in the hands of the kite man.

Catwoman picks up the compressed biscuit and hands it to a few gray-faced and obviously malnourished children.

She sighed.

He took out his pocket the high-end snacks and candies he used to relieve boredom and stuffed them into their hands, and the children's eyes were only afraid of the most beautiful big sister they had ever seen since birth.

But the others were happy.

While being a slave was a tragic thing, it was nothing new in an age when the triangular trade was in full swing, not to mention that the arrival of sufficient food and water was a miracle for a group of people who were dying of starvation and thirst at sea.

After barely filling their stomachs, the Kite Man drove the poor group of people to the nearest dock city at Mason's behest.

Mason, on the other hand, called in the boatswain, a taciturn middle-aged blind man who was the only remaining leader of the group.

Team K now needs his years of seafaring experience.

"Let's talk about it."

Mason took out a map of the world and placed it on the table in the gloomy captain's room, lit a portable lamp, pointed to the map, and said to the boatswain with the biscuits:

"Where are we now? And where are you going? ”

The boatswain had never seen such a delicate map, but he quickly pointed to it with experience, and said:

"Master Wizard, we were supposed to go to Virginia, but the disaster got us lost here, and in my experience, we should be near Haiti by now.

If you do it right, you'll be in Port-au-Prince tonight.

But..."

Seeing that he was a little stumbling, the kite man who was unhappy in his heart said impatiently:

"Something to say!"

"Well, I heard some bad news when the ship wasn't attacked by that 'ghoul'."

The boatswain hesitated and said:

"It is said that some smugglers were blinded by money and accidentally transported some patients infected with the Black Death to the New World.

It is said that Haiti is now a living hell.

Maybe we shouldn't have gone there, we managed to survive the ghoul siege after all. ”

"Then you give me a suggestion."

Mason looked at the map and said:

"We can't keep drifting down the sea, your ship is starting to leak."

"We can go to Tortuga!"

The boatswain came to the spirit at once.

He also wanted to show his ability in front of this "new captain" who mastered terrible witchcraft, so he ate the biscuit in his hand in a few bites, pointed to a small point on the map, and said:

"Although I am a serious businessman, I have some friends who are in the less serious business on this sea.

They told me that Pirate Kings from all over the world had decided to meet on the island of Tortuga to reopen the Pirate Kings meeting to discuss how to survive the end of the world.

That was half a month ago.

If all goes well, we will be in time for the meeting when we arrive in Tortuga. ”

"A bunch of pirates, talking about saving the world?"

Catwoman, who was sitting in the captain's room, seemed to hear a black humorous joke, and she held the hilt of her sword at her waist and said:

"So there's no one else here? The rat who got to the sewer walked to the front of the stage? ”

"Selena, your words remind me of the common tone of young people born in peacetime... Don't be angry, I don't mean to be sarcastic. ”

Mason, who has seen the post-apocalyptic world with his own eyes, sighed and said:

"I just think that even though you have seen how the end comes, you still don't have a clear understanding of the concept of 'the end times'. It's not that the pirate kings are crowned by monkeys, but if they don't stand up again, this world won't even have a last chance. ”

"Yes, two wizards!"

The boatswain waved his hand with some excitement and said:

"It sounds ridiculous that the pirates want to save the world, but they do have the ability!

I've heard that Captain Barbossa, the legendary great pirate of the Queen Anne's Revenge, has pulled out the cursed gold and is ready to summon the undead legions. And the Flying Dutchman, who had been missing for several years, also reappeared, bringing with them the demons of Hell to deal with the ghouls who had desecrated death.

It is said that even the royal fleet sent emissaries to the conference.

After all, the Venerable King can only live on the flagship of the fleet with his wife and lovers, and dare not set foot on the cursed land again.

And Jack Sparrow...

Damn Jack still owes me thirty gold crowns.

But he also made a rare trip to Tortuga with the Black Pearl.

It is said that he brought news about the legendary Trident of the Sea God, which can purify all curses.

As for the other pirate kings, they intend to ask the wild goddess of the sea to get her protection.

Come to think of it, Lord Wizard, the gathering of so many rare treasures will surely defeat the terrible Black Death, and at least protect the sea as our last hiding place. ”

The boatswain clearly had the characteristics common to the people of the time who roamed on the seas, such as being very superstitious, such as vulgar words, such as not liking cleanliness, etc.

But the news he told made Mason's eyes light up.

He glanced at his companions behind him, and, having received their unanimous consent, turned back to the boatswain and said:

"Good!"

"Then let's go to Tortuga and go at once!"

---

While Team K is experiencing the Age of Discovery in another world, Gotham City has ushered in the middle of the night when crime is bursting out.

Gordon House.

Barbara Gordon closed the computer in her arms a little tiredly.

As the bat family's codename "Oracle", she has been very busy lately, with a lot of data and information to be processed, and the follow-up information about the Black Gate Prison has to be sorted out and stored in the bat database.

Not to mention the sword-shaped hard drive that was left behind by his boyfriend.

Even though the data had been deleted, she still had to find a way to extract some data that could be recovered, which Batman said was important.

"I'm going to work overtime again tonight!"

The beautiful and gentle girl stretched out in her wheelchair, glanced out the window at the night, activated the security system of the house, and pushed the wheelchair out of her room.

She plans to get herself some supper before staying up late after working overtime.

His boyfriend has gone back to Brughhaven, a small city near Gotham, where he is the "Guardian" just like Batman's character in Gotham.

But Brughhaven is clearly not as exciting as Gotham City, where Grayson has settled in, and he invited Barbara to move in before leaving.

In addition to the boyfriend and girlfriend wanting to live in a two-person world, Barbara also knows the subtext of her boyfriend.

Grayson apparently doesn't want Barbara to continue her superhero job, and the last time she was shot by the Joker and paralyzed her, Nightwing was almost scared to death.

He almost thought he was going to lose the love of his life.

"Alas, like a child who doesn't grow up, he is obviously very mature in front of outsiders."

Barbara sighed, feeling cold as soon as she turned on the kitchen light, the former bat girl grabbed the dinner knife in her hand and stabbed her back in a fierce attack.

But a strong and powerful hand accurately clasped her wrist, making her let go of her hand in pain, and also let the dinner knife fall to the ground.

A figure in a black cloak appeared beside Barbara, he let go of the girl's hand, and in her vigilant gaze, he quickly pulled out all the weapons in the special wheelchair, closed Barbara's distress device, and took off the bat watch on her wrist and threw it aside.

This series of actions made Barbara Gordon's heart sink more and more.

Whoever it was, he knew a terrible amount about the Bat Family and himself.

"Are you scared?"

A hoarse voice sounded, somewhat gloomy.

The tall man walked up to Barbara, who looked wary.

He didn't hurt the girl in the wheelchair.

Instead, he crouched down, the strange and strange armor on his body clicking.

The moment he looked up to meet Barbara's gaze, the man with the strange helmet reached out and grabbed the edge of his helmet and removed it.

The face hidden under the helmet was revealed.

When she saw the face in front of her, Barbara's heart was like being struck by lightning, and she was dumbfounded and wanted to say the name of the person in front of her, but the latter gently stretched out her hand and pressed her lips.

He reached out and turned off the kitchen light.

In the darkness, he took Barbara's trembling hands and placed them on his forehead.

"In one creepy nightmare after another that will never really wake up, I really miss you. Barbara, don't be afraid of me, I will never hurt you.

I know you have a lot of questions, but now you have to listen to me.

I need your help.

And I can understand the hatred that lies deep in your heart..."

"I don't hate anyone!"

Barbara subconsciously retorted:

"That's just a mistake! I'm not going to waste the rest of my life hating a madman, I still have my life, I've come out of it. ”

"I didn't say you hate clowns, Barbara."

The man let out a low laugh, and he said:

"You hate Batman... Bruce wayne! The man who was supposed to protect you but failed to protect you, the guy who should have punished the murderer but let the madman go free and did a lot of blood feuds.

I know what's in your mind.

Don't hide it from me, Barbara.

For I was as victimized by him as you are.

He thinks of himself as our father, but he has failed to fulfill his duties as a father, he is the worst guardian in the world, and I have come back to correct that mistake. ”

The man stood up, reached out and embraced Barbara as she struggled, lifted her gently from the wheelchair, and whispered in her ear:

"I will not let my brothers and sisters be led by him into disaster after calamity, and I will protect you. I can still get you on your feet! Barb.

If I can come back from death, I will be able to give you a new lease of life.

Think of Grayson.

You will have a perfect life blessed by all, with your own family and even children under the sun... I can help you, Barbara.

But you have to help me too. ”

"You..."

Barbara's struggles grew weaker and weaker, and it seemed that the words hit those shadows that had been hidden in her heart, and eventually, she gave up her struggles.

She rested her head on the shoulder of the man in front of her and whispered:

"You're going to kill Bruce?"

"Nope! He is the father. ”

The man whispered:

"No matter how bad a father is, he is still a father, and I will give him a reason to retire and then take his cloak and put an end to all the mess and dirt in Gotham.

Help me, Barbara.

You've been my target when you got your hands on that hard drive, but I'm not going to hurt you! They've got their eye on you and Gordon, and you're going to get you in even more trouble if you investigate. ”

After a long silence, Barbara Gordon took a deep breath.

She whispered:

"Okay, Jason, I'll help you, but I have one request, you can't hurt anyone in this family!"

"I promise!"

The returnee from the dead said earnestly:

"But stop calling the name 'Jason Todd,' the name of that poor kid who was abandoned in hell by that man in the past, just like you.

They gave me a new name.

Barbara, now my name is 'Scarlet Knight'.

And I'm here to make Gotham a Crimson City! ”

(Volume 1, End)