"Ahem..."

A difficult cough sounded in the bat cave, stopping Ah Fu, who was bringing coffee to the old man who stayed up late and worked overtime.

The old butler glanced at the place where the Kryptonian medical chamber was housed with some concern, and then walked over to Bruce, who was sitting in front of the batcomputer monitoring the city, and said in an elegant English voice:

"I support your Night Watch, Lord Wayne, but can you please stop picking up these strange things and coming back, before a bunch of kids were picked up and raised to be Robin.

At that time, I thought you had become interested in the business of human traffickers.

But now that this bad habit has intensified, you have brought back a strange lady who has been shipwrecked, and if I didn't know the truth, I would have to call the police of old Gordon right now. ”

"She needs help, Ah Fu."

The old man, who was not wearing a bat hood, leaned back on the rotating chair, he was checking the camera near the former Gotham orphanage site ten minutes ago, and pointed to the few seconds of footage that kept playing repeatedly in front of him, and said to the old butler:

"She's from another world... Look, Ah Fu, that door..."

The old butler looked at the screen, the light of the fleeting rift in time and space made his eyes narrow, and as a former ace agent, he immediately realized the seriousness of the matter.

Especially in these extraordinary times.

"Do you need to activate the masking device?"

Ah Fu asked softly:

"The mages have been monitoring the global magic web, and such transgressions will be perceived by them. If you're taking in that strange lady, disguise is necessary. ”

"I've already contacted Xiaozha."

The old man took a sip of coffee, stared at the screen and said in a dumb voice:

"She'll take care of it, and I'm more concerned about the woman's identity and why she's in the orphanage site that has been abandoned for more than a decade.

Ah Fu, this location reminds me of some old things. ”

The old butler was stunned for a moment, and then reacted.

As Batman's most trusted butler and assistant, Ah Fu is probably the person who knows the master's secrets in the world, and he asked in a low voice:

"You mean, Mason's background?"

"Hmm."

Batman nodded and said:

"This location is exactly the same as the one where Mason was sent to Gotham seventeen years ago, and I suspect that this lady might be..."

"Huh"

A breeze blew, and Xiao Shin, in a shabby retro blitz suit, appeared next to the bat computer, still holding a piece of pineapple pizza in his hand and munching on it, and it looked like he didn't have time for dinner, so he casually made do.

"The seventh test of the cosmic treadmill has just been completed, and the results are gratifying."

Barry grinned and reported:

"I've managed to get close to the unfamiliar plane that has been hidden, and while I still can't find the exact coordinates of the Isu world, we're one step closer to success... Well?

This woman!

Wait a minute!

I've seen her! ”

The delicious pineapple pizza in Xiao Shan's hand almost fell to the ground, he pointed to the flashing time and space door on the screen, and said to the master:

"I won't admit it! Seventeen years ago, it was this door that brought Mason, and the lady who fell, oh my! How did she get so old all of a sudden? ”

"She popped up at the Gotham orphanage fifteen minutes ago."

The old man got up and explained:

"I was on night watch, and I happened to come across her and brought her back, come with me, Barry."

He led Barry to the cave where the creature pod was located, and said to Old Afu:

"Alfred, you go help Grayson, things are obviously more dangerous over there, and if you get into trouble, lock down that area."

"This is also the second point I want to complain about!"

The old butler said expressionlessly:

"Please let me know in advance the next time you come back with a dirty skeleton man, and see what the ground has become dirty? I'll have to send someone to clean it.

Well, speaking of which, Lord Wayne, there's something I have to report to you.

Because I have to take care of Master Damian, I can't devote much energy to serving your unusual life, so I have specially selected a reliable maid to help you clean your room and organize your clutter.

Her name is Elsa.

Having worked at Wayne Manor for thirty years and watching you grow up like I did, you are an absolutely trustworthy person. ”

"Huh? Do you still have a servant to help you clean your room and get dressed? ”

Flash, who was listening, was surprised again.

He ate the pizza in a few bites, wiped his hands, and said in a teasing tone:

"Can't you do this kind of thing yourself? Isn't it just cleaning a room, how much time can it take you? ”

The old man, who had put on his bat helmet again, didn't even bother to answer this common-sense question, and the old butler glanced at the poor young man faintly, sighed, and said:

"Master Wayne has seven rooms, which add up to more than 700 square meters, and he has three hundred sets of daily clothes, in addition to the new and special dresses that are ordered every month.

Six lockers were filled with various accessories, and there were four hundred ties alone...

Barry, 'cleaning the room and tidying up' is a completely different concept for you and Lord Wayne. ”

"Huh?"

Barry sighed and said in a sour tone:

"My poverty is another eye-opener for you, isn't it?

I guess Bruce hasn't lived in a shabby room that can be cleaned in ten minutes with his hands and a broom, and Ju even took out a loan for that house..."

"Think about the good, kid."

The old man said in a just right voice:

"Your empty wardrobe allows you to never worry about what to wear when you go out today, which can make your decision-making stress a lot.

Okay, there's business to be done. ”

He led Barry to the working Kryptonian pod, looking at the old lady lying inside, who had been changed into a clean straitjacket for healing purposes.

But in the constantly working beam of life repair, there was still a moan of pain.

"That's her!"

Xiao Shan looked carefully at the woman in the biological cabin, and he said with some reluctance:

"But she's disfigured, oh my God, her teeth are... What's going on? ”

"It's not clear."

The old man reached out and turned on the monitor of the biological cabin, looked at the complex data on it, and explained:

Her leg bones had been repeatedly broken and healed, her body was covered in burns and dark wounds from toxin abuse, a third of her vocal cords had been cut off, and her cerebral cortex was badly damaged.

The initial estimate is that he had suffered a prefrontal lobotomy.

But she has a certain self-healing power, which allows her to heal, but this may not be a good thing for the abused person.

I can't say for sure what kind of treatment she's endured in the last seventeen years, but it's certain that someone has destroyed her brain and messed with her memories and perceptions.

It's almost irreparable damage.

Unless we send her to Mason, maybe magic can solve problems that technology can't. In addition, remnants of quantum energy were found in this woman.

She may have rushed to the place where she had been to escape some devastating situation..."

"She's amazing."

Barry Says:

"When I tried to talk to her seventeen years ago, she almost scratched my heart, this lady has some kind of 'crossing' ability to get what she wants, ignoring all obstacles.

It's hard to imagine under what circumstances such a top-notch escape ability would be captured and subjected to such torture. ”

"Wait until she wakes up."

The old man threw up his cloak and said in a dumb voice:

"Try to talk first, if it really doesn't work, I'll have to ask you to make another trip to Osborne Tower."

"I'm fine!"

Barry nodded and said:

"The connection between the Speed Force and me is getting deeper, and I can feel my speed still picking up, and the once difficult world has been shuttling through me... Well?

Something happened over there! ”

As soon as Xiao Shan's voice stopped, he grabbed the old man's hand and disappeared in place with a whoosh, and reappeared on the other side of the bat cave.

In front of them, the embarrassed old butler was struggling to block an all-steel gate, while Nightwing Grayson, dressed in an anti-superhuman power armor, was holding on to a stun baton and fighting a red. Naked guys fighting.

The creature roared low and furrowed like a beast.

The scorched steel claws of the fists pierced the skin, leaving sparkling claw marks on Grayson's armor with each swing.

The high-voltage electricity that was enough to stun a superhuman was useless to him, and each shock only made the other person more furious.

It is worth mentioning that in the heart of this beast-like man, inside the strange alloy body that has healed, there is a purple light shining slightly at the place of the heart.

It's like a beating quantum heart.

"Who is this?"

Flash exclaimed.

The old man instantly grabbed the batrang and threw it forward to help Nightwing relieve the siege, and the batrang that flew over was easily torn apart by the beast-like man, but the hidden explosives activated and blasted him out with sonic shocks.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the embarrassed Nightwing exited the lockdown zone.

Ah Fu also succeeded in initiating the blockade procedure, sealing him in a narrow area behind the all-steel gate.

"That guy is so tough! I wasn't given a chance to talk to him at all. ”

The Nightwing in the Anti-Superman armor gasped and said:

"He had just woken up from the pod and ripped it open, Kryptonite metal was like papier-mâché in front of his claws, and his reflexes were so fast that I couldn't hit him at all.

That's not right!

I suspect that Superman's steel body can't stop that dangerous claw.

Bruce!

Where did you pick up this dangerous guy? ”

"Fell to Gotham with that lady."

The old man realized that the problem was thorny, and while activating his personal power armor, he explained:

"He was held in the arms of the lady and when he came over he was left with only an alloy skeleton, he was indeed healing, but I didn't expect him to heal so quickly.

His rage is most likely due to a stress response, and perhaps he can communicate.

Barry, can you pester him? ”

"I'll try."

Flash began to move her body in place, and then, at Ah Fu's exclamation, the steel gate that could withstand the super punch was pierced by the alloy steel claws in the piercing tearing sound, and then made an X-shaped cut in the sparkling cut, and exploded like a bomb in the huge kick.

That naked. The man howled and rushed out, pounced on the nearest Nightwing.

Da Shao is not afraid of him, he has been exercising himself since his girlfriend left, and now is the right time to test the recent progress.

However, Xiao Shan was faster than him, and with a whoosh, he rushed up and circled around the dangerous man, and the storm formed by the operation of the speed force was confined in a narrow area, making it difficult for the claw man to break through.

"Hey man, calm down!"

Barry was running super fast, almost forming dozens of identical entities talking, as fucking as a slide, dizzying to watch.

Flash dissuaded:

"None of the bad guys here, we might be able to talk!"

In response to dissuasion, the Claw Man responded by looking left and right like a frightened beast, and then suddenly punched him to the side like an uncertain prophet in a hoarse roar.

"Bang"

The fast-running Dodge dodged the punch, but was forced to slow down.

"Beast Sense!"

He exclaimed:

"The same spider sense as old Peter, get back! Nightwing, Batman, you can't be brute in the face of such guys, the more they are injured, the more dangerous they are. ”

"Lock down the Bat Cave! Ford. ”

The old man drove into the battlefield in a black power armor and said to the old butler:

"Wait for my orders, get ready to call for Superman support. Nightwing, cover tactics! ”

Batman gave an order, and Da Shao immediately stepped forward to resist the crazy slashing of the claw man, and the old man sneaked around the back, and the power armor activated the entanglement tactic to eject Doctor Octopus's mechanical tentacles, and the anti-Sea King quick-acker was sprayed out.

But these attacks were dodged by the claw man in advance.

As Flash said, when faced with enemies with beast sense, sneak attacks are often effective.

And after realizing that he was under siege, he cleverly adopted guerrilla tactics, relying on his extremely nimble skills to jump back and forth in the bat cave, and taking time to make the attacking creature retreat with a single claw.

The old man was collecting battle data, and then he found that the attack power of the enemy in front of him was rapidly increasing, even if he didn't need the means of technology, he could distinguish this naked by just observing with perception. The beastly aura on the man's body was rising.

It's not okay to fight like this!

The strength of his and Grayson's armor couldn't stop the claws in this guy's hand, and although the Flash's attack could hit, the damage was too scraping, and it was almost the same as tickling in front of the latter's super self-healing.

"His fighting style is very similar to that of the Leopard Girl..."

The old man stared at the wild raid of the claw man, and calmly analyzed in the sparks of the outer armor:

"The same swiftness, the same extra-sentience, the same beastly stance, so just follow Diana's tactics against the leopard girl, and use his beastly perception to throw him into chaos and distract him."

"Bang"

The shoulder cannon of the anti-superman armor was opened, and after the cockpit of the old man, hundreds of induction bombs were ejected, and as the armor exploded, the claw man flew out, and landed in the area full of bombs.

The danger alert from the beast's perception keeps the paw man from acting rashly, and his every step he takes can trigger a bomb.

Nightwing also threw out his shoulder cannon and was about to imitate this tactic, but was stopped by the old man who fell with his flying claws, and he looked at the grinning paw man in front of him, and waved his hand to throw something in front of the latter.

The old man said in a dumb voice:

"You came to Gotham with the lady who could travel through the world, you should be friends or companions, and that lady sent Mason Cooper.

Let me think there's some kind of relationship between you.

So, I'll tell you, Your Excellency, Mason Cooper is my friend. ”

The paw man didn't answer, just looked at the photo that landed in front of him.

The photo shows Mason sneaking up on a camera set up by the old man when he first entered the Batcave storage room to "steal".

The familiar face seemed to bring the restless paw man back to his senses, and he was already letting out a menacing growl from his throat, but the dangerous steel claws in his hand were gradually reclaimed into his skin.

Under the gaze of the three masters, he bent down and picked up the photo carefully, and then raised his head to look at the master.

He said:

"You... Are you Batman? The person Mason admires the most? ”

"Yes, I am."

The old man silently counted the seconds in his heart, looked at the man in front of him, and when the ten-second countdown took effect, the latter shook his body and fell to the ground with a pop.

In Xiao Shan's surprised gaze, the old man explained in a dumb voice:

"The extractive bioparalytic toxin, extracted from the hormonal spores of poison ivy, is capable of paralyzing any standard type of human life in ten seconds.

The time that Superman holds on is ten seconds. ”

"You put that thing on Mason's picture and carry it with you?"

Xiao Shan couldn't help but babble and said:

"What a brain do you have! And you have a good relationship with him, right? ”

"Just get used to it."

Nightwing manipulated the mechanical tentacles on the power armor to snatch the unconscious claw man back from the area full of bombs, and he spread out the cockpit and said to Flash:

"At all times, be careful of anything Batman hands you, even if it's just a piece of paper..."

"Wow"

Before Da Shao's words were finished, a sword light lit up in front of him.

The sturdy octopus tentacles were split into six by the sharp claws, and then under the threat of the cold breath, his whole body was pulled out of the power armor, and the steel claws of the claw man were pressed against his neck.

"Mason described to me the bat family's style of doing things..."

The paw man clasped Da Shao's head, and he only needed to move his hand to separate his head, he looked at the old man in front of him, and grinned:

"It just so happens that most of the neurotoxins don't work for me, Bruce Wayne, you don't look as powerful as the legend, first meeting, my name is Logan.

Logan Houtley.

Now that I have a hostage, let's talk about it. ”