23. The Sons of Gotham owe me money, it's a great feeling--[6/50]
(For the "Midsummer Presumptuous" brothers)
"It's going to be so exciting."
In the office cubicle on the top floor of the Iceberg Bar, the three Masons walked out of the door of the world, and Catwoman with a voodoo cage fed veal to her new pet like a voodoo birdcage, and said while stretching her neck:
"But is it really okay to leave Zakang there alone?"
"Let him be there, don't be afraid that he's lonely, that guy has a lot of eyes."
Mason pouted and said:
"He provoked a lot of guys in this world that he couldn't afford to mess with and shouldn't mess with, both above and below, and when he came back here, he had to fight with those guys all the time.
But staying in the Forbidden Forest would allow him to worry about these troubles for a while.
I suspect that guy is going to be happy enough to run around the Forbidden Forest.
Besides, the magician who can use the fire of purgatory to kill the zombie wyvern probably won't have the turn of us rookies to worry about his safety, so let's think about the trouble with the batboy."
With that, Mason picked up another item in his pocket and looked at it in front of him.
It was a silver teardrop-shaped pendant, made of magical metal, with a faint stream of blood floating in it, like some kind of fantastical and beautiful work of art.
When Mason took it out, Catwoman and Kite Man next to him were also attracted to it.
Charles couldn't help but ask:
"Is this thing really as amazing as it is written? With it, can't we really hurt each other?"
"Why don't you try it?"
Catwoman popped out of her handmail with a magical cat's claw and swung it towards Charles's neck, but her movements stiffened before she could touch Charles.
"No! Not at all."
Selena withdrew her paws, rubbed her forehead and said:
"The idea of hurting you is snuffed out of thin air as soon as it comes out, and there is a terrible feeling of guilt as if I wanted to hurt a cute kitten with my own hands.
It makes me feel so bad that I want to cry."
"Your metaphor always feels a little weird, but it also shows that it works."
Mason placed Team K's "Blood Pact of Four" into the jewelry box where the resurrection stone fragments were previously stored, and tossed it into the suitcase, which was now empty.
Old K's magic apartment was left in the Forbidden Forest for Zakang to use as a "mage tower".
Now all that is left in this box are two zombie dogs and the "treasures" that were brought out of Batman's laboratory.
"Let's go, let's go see Batboy."
Mason pulled out the old flip phone Alfred had given him, with a contact information on it, and he called to find out the new hiding place from the old butler.
At the end of the conversation he said to the other side:
"Alfred, that parcel to Liverpool can be withdrawn... Well, yes, things worked out perfectly, thanks for your help.
Ha? Of course you and I know it's just children's biscuits, but John doesn't. And with that guy's personality, even if he knew about it, he probably would suspect that we were doing something in the dark."
The young man hung up the phone with a smile, turned back to the kite man and said:
"Are you going?"
"No, every time I'm with Batboy I feel sick."
Charles moved his shoulders and said with some trepidation:
"I'd better stay here, I'm almost done with the renovation of the bar and I'm going to get ready for the opening, so I'll take the time to refine the preliminary design of my kite makeover.
If necessary, please contact me directly.
I'm always on call, boss."
"Hmm."
Mason nodded, followed Selena, who had quickly changed her clothes, to the roof of the building, threw out the flying bike and put Catwoman in the car body, and the two of them staggered into the air and rushed towards Batboy's hiding place.
The rescue adventure lasted nearly seven hours, and it was already dawn before midnight when they set out, and a red sun could be seen in the distance of the city.
To be honest, this scene is almost a cape for Mason and Catwoman to take a classic photo of "superheroes guarding the city" in front of the sun.
"Who is that Oriental man reflected in the Magic Mirror of Desire before?"
As the Flyer crosses the city light rail, Catwoman suddenly asks.
Mason said with a blank face:
"I don't know."
"John said that the mirror can reflect the deepest desires and the truest self of the human heart, so Mason, that well-mannered scholar is the real you?"
Selena held the cat cage in her arms and yawned.
Mason was silent.
It wasn't until a few seconds later that he spoke:
"Almost, since I was a child, I have dreamed of being that kind of person, to be a learned and idealistic person who knows what he pursues and can go through his life in his own way without regrets.
While doing your best, let the world become a little better because of yourself.
Even if it's just a little bit.
But fate casts, Selena.
Think about the first time we met, I was just a gangster."
"You made a change."
Catwoman closed her eyes and leaned into the comfortable car body, and she whispered:
"A lot of people who share your ideals are afraid to take the first step to change, and that's what takes the most courage. Maybe that's why I think you can be trusted, little Mason.
Even if you let zombies kill hundreds of people, even if you colonize the Caribbean world, even if you use bad guys to coerce Zakang.
But I still feel like you have a warm heart.
Especially since you're growing up in the mud pit of Gotham, it's even more valuable."
With that, the eldest sister chuckled and let the sun shine on her healthy wheat-colored skin, and she let out a long breath and lit a lady's cigarette.
This time Mason didn't stop her.
In the sweet smoke, Big Sister Selena whispered:
"If my sister were twenty years younger, I would love you, little one. Thank you for everything you've done for Bruce, and want me to reward you with a kiss?"
"Nope."
Mason refused in a resistant and indifferent tone:
"I hate women who smoke... Alas! What are you doing? This car is going to fall! Go down!"
"Come on, what are you shy about?"
In the next moment, a passionate kiss fell on the young man's forehead, symbolizing gratitude like a dragonfly in water.
Ten minutes later, the Scooter landed on the outskirts of the city in an old factory building with barbed wire fence in Wayne Industries, just before dawn.
Relying on Lv2's engineering skills, Mason was keenly aware of the fact that there were at least seven fully automatic guard gun towers hidden in this deserted place when he jumped off the motorcycle.
And several of them have already locked him and Selena.
But as they got closer, the hidden firepower went into hibernation.
Following the route given by Alfred, the two of them took the camouflage elevator all the way down and went nearly thirty meters underground before entering another secret stronghold of Batman.
As Mason enters the underground hall through the heavy special steel door, he is greeted by Bruce Wayne hidden in an oddly shaped medical pod, as well as Alfred and Dr. Leslie, who is operating the medical equipment.
Finally, someone he didn't expect.
Mr. Lucius Fox, who resembles Morgan Freeman.
Instead of wearing the lavish suit of his chairmanship of the Wayne Group, he was dressed like an old engineer at a complex workbench.
Mason glanced at it.
It was found that there was a reinforced titanium bat suit on it, which he also had in his "collection".
But that's without weapon accessories
The original version, and the set of weapon modules in front of him that has been added by Mr. Lucius is a full set of weapons, even if it is not worn on Batman, but it still looks imposing.
In particular, the very mechanical bat helmet is like a bloodthirsty bat that wants to choose people to devour itself.
"Brought things back?"
Alfred was anxious, but the old English gentleman, who had fought in war, been an agent and had met the Queen, still tried to look unhurried.
As he watched, Mason pulled out a small tube of silver liquid.
When the thing was taken out, Dr. Leslie and Mr. Lucius turned their heads at the same time, especially Dr. Leslie, who pushed his glasses and said:
"This is the blood of unicorns? It looks like some kind of compound."
"It's the first choice."
Mason flicked the test tube slowly, letting the silver liquid refract beautifully in the light.
He looked at Old Ah Fu, and then at Batman, who was still in pain in the healing pod, which was said to be made with Kryptonian technology.
The young man explains:
"This is blood taken from a harmed unicorn, pure blood but with a curse, I can use it to heal the antidote, and I promise it will surely restore Mr. Bruce in a few days.
But I said it before I left.
Any unicorn blood taken in the form of harm will inflict lifelong pain on the drinkers, eternal mental suffering, and a cursed health in which their bodies decay without death."
Mason paused, glanced at Alfred, and said:
"Are you sure you want to give this medicine to Bruce?"
"Alright, Mason!"
Catwoman shook her head and said to Mason:
"I know you have better, don't tease poor Ah Fu, look at how much hair he lost in one night, it's not easy for an old man of his age.
Take it out."
"It's not my bad taste, Selena."
Mason sighed and pulled another tube from his bag.
There were only a few drops of silver blood in the tube, but it was noticeably brighter than the blood of the cursed unicorn, and seemed to draw all the light together.
"The umbilical cord blood of this unicorn is so rare, it's the only pure blood that can't be cursed, and I may never be able to get it again in my lifetime.
It's really expensive.
I know that the Wayne family is rich and has even surpassed the concept of "rich", but in front of what I have, it is a little too vulgar to talk about money."
"What do you want?" c
Alfred's expression became serious, and the old butler said very seriously:
"As long as you can save Master Wayne's life, the Wayne family will pay for everything you want!"
"But I just want a favor from Batman."
Mason shrugged his shoulders and unleashed his alchemy workbench from his bag.
Under the gaze of the others, he poured the uncursed pure blood into the distillation tube and lit it on fire, and began to handle the other antidote materials with his hands and feet.
As he worked, he said:
"Everyone here is a testimony to me that Bruce Wayne, also known as Lord Batman, owes Mason Cooper a debt today.
Other than that, I don't take a penny."
"You want to be beautiful."
Mr. Lucius, wearing an engineer's mask, said quietly:
"Even the most undignified thugs in the Gotham Minions know that personal debts are the hardest to repay, and they have to be restricted, young man."
"Don't let Bruce join some secret organization!"
Selena was the first to speak.
Mason shrugged his shoulders and gestured OK. He knew what Catwoman was worried about, but the young man really didn't have the idea of recruiting Batman into Team K.
Mason knew very well that he couldn't control the old man's absoluteness at all
The world is ruthless.
"Can't let Bruce do anything that goes against his rules!"
Mr. Lucius also added his own conditions.
Mason nodded again.
"You can't ask Bruce to hurt himself."
Dr. Leslie is a healer, and her starting point is to protect the only son of her former friends, Thomas and Martha.
Mason also has no objection to this.
Finally, there was Alfred, the old butler looked at the Kryptonian treatment chamber with some difficulty breathing, and the muscles of his whole body obviously appeared obscene Bruce Wayne.
He looked at this man who had been raised by himself since he was a child like his own child.
He sighed and said:
"My restriction is that you can no longer take away the few precious things in Master Wayne's life. None of them!"
"Understood."
Mason nodded.
He accepted the restrictions in their entirety, and then made a gesture asking the crowd not to disturb him again.
In fact, this antidote is not that complicated, and its recipe is a mixture of the antidote potion left by Old K and the antidote "dung stone" recorded in the Hogwarts Potions Book.
Mason had tried both mixtures before, and the legendary ingredient Unicorn Blood was super easy to use, requiring only the addition of the potion during the boiling process.
There is no need to do any additional processing at all.
In the movie, Voldemort is directly lying on the body of the killed unicorn and drinking blood, if it weren't for the fact that the unicorn has been zombied, maybe that original feeling is the roarest.
In other words, in fact, Mason doesn't have to go to great lengths to make an antidote, he only needs to drip the blood into the master's mouth, and the rest will be left to the magical magic.
But the process is so simple, how can it reflect his role?
Every qualified fisher knows that it takes simple things to complicate in order to prove their worth to the boss while fishing. What's more, isn't this still easy to practice alchemy?
After nearly ten minutes of complex concoction, the strange potion in the Mithril Cauldron was purified by the fire.
As Mason stirred with the crystal rod, a silver-gray viscous liquid was formed, which he carefully poured into a triangular crystal bottle.
The finished product is like mercury, but it reflects a beautiful tricolored light in the light.
While Mason was holding it, a prompt popped up in front of his eyes:
Purity healing potion
Quality: Epic Alchemy Creation, Excellent Craftsmanship
Traits: Toxin Purification, Negative Curse Purification, Physical Strength, Longevity Water
Item Effectiveness: Neutralizes most of the effects of poison and negative curses (effective for three days), and provides a certain amount of physical enhancement according to the drinker's constitution, making up for the lack of vitality and increasing the maximum lifespan.
[Can be drunk multiple times, the limit is 200 years old]
Maker: Mason Cooper
Item description: You made such a mediocre potion out of rare legendary materials? Do you have pig's trotters?
Successfully completed an Epic Quality, Excellent Craft Alchemy Item Crafting, successfully completed a Legendary Material Fusion, and the alchemy skill proficiency X6X5X10=X300 increased, currently Lv4.
[Alchemy Transformation] recipe unlocked.
New trait unlocks [Luxurious Alchemist: Increases the quality of artifacts when using high-grade materials for alchemy]
"Huh? Does this thing have a kryptonite mode too?"
Mason blinked.
Unexpectedly, the fusion of legendary materials gave him a rocket-like leap all at once, which made him very delicate and deeply frustrated at the same time.
The item stated that the damn foul language had broken his heart once more.
But Mason, who wants to face, also has to admit that this complaint is correct.
He used expensive and rare legendary materials to make only potions of excellent craftsmanship, which made him feel like he had grown a pair of pig's trotters.
"Let it sit for ten minutes
and give him a drink."
With a sense of sorrow, the young man threw the alchemy stone into the warm potion and handed it to Alfred, and the old butler held it in his hands as if he were holding the last hope.
Mason advised:
"It takes two to three days to take effect, but he was able to sober up quickly and contact me if he had any questions. Now I'm going back to sleep, I'm really tired.
Also, don't forget to tell Lord Bruce Wayne.
Now, he owes me a great favor."