Chen Tao turned his face expressionlessly.

"Uh, he's Alfred."

Diana leaned a little closer, tilting her head to look at him with those ocean-blue eyes that looked like a lake.

"Huh?"

Uh, it's really oppressive, and she coming up like this undoubtedly visually suppresses my space for action, it's a negotiation technique, invading other people's territory through approaching body language, she wants to ...... Belch......

Chen Tao subconsciously wanted to start speculating on the logic of the other party's actions, just like he had done countless times. Pursuing clues and calculating results should have been his forte.

However, he met those sea-blue eyes, and then he couldn't guess anything.

He remained expressionless. It's a camouflage color, never let people realize what you're thinking, and if you can't make sure you don't show a flaw on your face, it's better to fix your own expression.

- As it should be.

"Take your hood off." Then he heard Diana say.

"Nope."

"Take it off."

"Okay."

Chen Tao took off the bat hood on half of his face, exposing his true face to the air made him a little unaccustomed.

He didn't ask Diana why he asked him to do it, and he didn't mention it.

He's been around for a while, either doing different things as Batman in different locations, or synchronizing with other Batmans, such as Batmage, and soaking in the lab with the frothing Flash and Lucius, who is starting to show some signs of the Mediterranean.

"That's Alfred, old butler Alfred. Well. ”

Chen Tao began to unconsciously rub his hood, but soon he realized it himself, and then tucked the hood into his belt, and then said:

"He's getting old and sometimes he gets it wrong.

"Uh-huh." Wonder Woman nodded.

However, just when Chen Tao thought that he had been fooled, he suddenly heard the Amazon female warrior ask directly and abruptly.

"So you didn't use my photo as your desktop?"

Chen Tao almost didn't hold back the expression on his face.

"I ...... I took a picture of everyone in the Justice League in order to make everyone's pass card and enter information. ”

"Oh, that's right." Wonder Woman nodded.

"He must have seen my P picture (touch up stuff), so he was mistaken—"

"Touch up stuff?"

“…… You want to be crooked. ”

Then Diana smirked first, and Chen Tao raised the corners of her mouth slightly.

Such a small joke made the atmosphere between the two seem to have been suddenly added to the catalyst, and it suddenly became harmonious.

"So...... Are you leaving for Atlantis tomorrow? ”

"Tomorrow at 10 a.m., probably noon, I'll find someone."

"Well, you have to be careful. I have some connections in the government. They revealed to me that the government's attitude towards Atlantis is still relatively ...... Unfriendly.

I guess the Atlanteans wouldn't be so friendly, as Paradise Island (the island inhabited by the Amazons from whom Wonder Woman was born) has fought with them before. ”

"Hmm."

"Hmm."

Then they found that there was nothing to say.

"So...... Is there anything else you'd like to talk to me about? Diana asked.

She turned slightly to the side, as if she was about to walk away naturally.

She waited.

"Didn't you?"

Batman didn't react. The familiar, common, consistent, expressionless face that Diana had always felt began to appear on his face again.

In Diana's eyes, Batman always seems to have only two emotions, one is a maniacal smile used to intimidate the enemy, and the other is a preoccupied expressionless face.

The shallow smile just now was like an illusion.

"Is there really no words? Then I'm gone. ”

Batman still didn't say anything, and Diana was a little disappointed.

She turned half of her body to the side and lifted her steps slightly, "So, see you next time—"

"Uh, of course, uh."

Diana turned her head back sharply and blinked her blue eyes: "Are you okay?" What's up? ”

Then there was a pause that lasted for more than 10 seconds.

"Do you want to ...... or not"

I'm a bit incoherent.

Chen Tao thought so.

"I don't know, I mean," he said. We can...... We can do something else, I mean or ......."

"Not to discuss things?"

"What? No, of course not. It's not a negotiation, it's not part of a plan.

It's just that...... Do something else.

Ah, I know you're going to be busy when the Justice League is formed, and sometimes there's something to ask you about the government, please, if you don't have time, then it's-"

"Okay."

Chen Tao and her eyes met.

"So. You agreed. ”

"Well, you can do anything."

"Oh, uh, uh. Good. Chen Tao said.

"But not now, it's inconvenient now," he was a little hesitant, but even at this time, the serious expression seemed to be fixed on his face, and he subconsciously turned his head: "I still have to deal with the affairs of Atlantis." ”

"Yes." Diana said. She suddenly realized something, and hurriedly turned her head like Batman.

The two men looked left and right at different places on both sides, and then looked at each other with their peripheral vision.

"Ah, yes, I'm busy right now."

"I know, I'm okay too."

"But maybe ......"

"Yes, you see......"

"In two days?"

"In two days, okay."

"Okay."

"Goodbye."

"Goodbye."

……

……

……

"We were looking for a Caucasian man of about 28 years old, with blond hair and golden eyes, and if he had a beard, he would also be golden. Name Arthur Curry, code name: Aquaman. ”

Chen Tao, supergirl Carla Kent and superboy Conor Luthor sat in a hidden tactical van.

This kind of van looks like an ordinary car, but on the inside it is decorated with something else, almost a small bat cave.

In the early days of Batman's career, Bruce Wayne used to live directly in the car, spying on the Falcone family (the crime syndicate of the DC villains Romans) on a weekly basis in order to gather evidence that would legally send them to prison.

At this time, the three of them were sitting in a row in the carriage, and on the screen in front of them, Amanda Waller was presenting the information that the government had in hand.

"His height is about 1.9 to 2 meters, although according to those fishermen, he is already more than 2.5 meters tall, but after many verifications, we believe that it is a false rumor——"

"Arthur Curry's height is 1.93 meters." Chen Tao said.

Then he saw Amanda Waller glaring at him with a "why didn't you say it earlier" look.

"You go on."

"He is extremely dangerous, and the highest amount of power we have ever observed has ever used is lifting a 160,000-ton cruise ship with his bare hands while bearing the impact of tidal waves. This known ceiling of power, while not as good as Superman as we know it, is no less than that of Wonder Woman Diana Prince. ”

Among the three people present, the super girl listened attentively, and Chen Tao already knew this information, but the super boy Connor was distracted.

Chen Tao stretched out a hand, synced his fingers all the way to his shoulder, and then knocked Connor a chestnut from behind.

"Whew!"

"Concentrate."

Superboy Connor clutched his head: "Why did you beat me so hard?" ”

He looked at the seat under his buttocks, "And it hasn't collapsed yet!" ”

This is, of course, because Chen Tao used a force from back to front, not from top to bottom. He hadn't planned to tear down the car he was sitting in.

Amanda on screen is still speaking: "Dr. Stephen Shen was commissioned by Arthur Currey's father Tom Curry to conduct research on the Atlanteans when he was a child. ”

Later, however, Stephen Shen tried to make the study public. He intends to obtain the blood of the young Aquaman, Arthur, and prove to the world that he has discovered the existence of the Atlanteans. ”

As a result, the two families fell out, and Aquaman Arthur's father, Tom Curry, would never allow this kind of research that put his son in danger to be made public. For reasons why Dr. Shen was tight-lipped and unwilling to share, Arthur's father, Tom Curry, died, and he never saw Arthur again. ”

"Dr. Shen's reluctance to share is simple," Chen Tao said, "He hired a mercenary named Black Manta to steal the blood of Arthur of the Sea King, and accidentally killed Arthur's father." Enraged, Aquaman goes to Black Manta Ray's salvage ship to seek revenge on him, only to accidentally kill Black Manta Ray's father. They killed each other's fathers and formed a deep hatred. ”

He shrugged: "The summary is to kill each other's dads as a sign of friendship." ”

Amanda Waller rolled her eyes. How do you know everything? You know so much, why am I here pretending to explain to you what you already know?

"You go on."

Hearing Batman's words, Amanda Waller could only sigh, and then continued: "Therefore, Dr. Shen can only provide us with some information that has long been outdated, which will allow us to speculate on the current state of Arthur the Sea King. ”

As he spoke, he pondered Arthur's question. Unlike Wonder Woman Diana, based on what they know and what Batman said, it looks like the other party is a ...... Someone who is more impulsive, reckless, and aggressive?

However, according to the timeline provided by Dr. Shen, it is only a profile of his character when he was a teenager, and it does not represent the current state of the other party. Amanda continues:

"Time has passed, and his appearance may have been different from that of his youth, so in the preliminary preparations, we have a lot of fallacies, found a lot of mistakes [Aquaman Arthur], and due to the improper expression of the communication staff, it even caused a certain panic in the fishermen's circle, making Aquaman Arthur hide himself even more, which increases the difficulty of the task in disguise."

"But fortunately, after a long period of hard work and follow-up capital investment, we have finally locked down the position where Arthur the Sea King may exist, no, or rather, if the Sea King Arthur is not here, it means that it is basically impossible for us to find him again."

On the screen, Amanda Waller taps the table with the pen in her hand, and then the camera cuts to the door of a tavern near the sea.

"We ended up locking up here, the town of Derry, Maine, the Little Boy in Yellow beer hall." Amanda Waller said: "Due to the 1990 movie 'Return of the Joker', the town of Derry has ushered in a wave of small development, even if there are almost no dividends now, but there is the Internet, you can contact the outside world, and it is also one of the most popular coastal towns.

If Aquaman Arthur needs to get information about the outside world, this would be the right place. In the end, it is another reason that prompts us to make a judgment. ”

Amanda Waller puts a photo of a person on the screen.

It was a muscular man who was clearly taller than the others, with blond shawl hair, a golden beard like a lion's, and the most striking thing was his eyes:

It's really golden, and it's as unreal as wearing contact lenses.

"This man called himself Arthur Morgan, who was now a security guard at the Little Boy in Yellow Tavern, and was a part-time worker, working two days off and five days off, and only working on weekends, because weekends are a time when people relax, and they are also the time when there are probably the most security incidents in the tavern.

People around us told us that he showed up in Delhi town two months ago. There is no record of his train ticket or plane to Maine, and the name is not found in Maine, so it is likely to be a fake name. ”

"What's his height?"

"According to the calculations of professional agents, it is 1.98 meters. This is in line with what the fishermen said, a height of about two meters is indeed likely to be mistaken for about 2.5 meters, but it is not the same as Batman's intelligence. We didn't dare to confirm that it was him, so we quoted an estimate of about 1.8 to 2 meters. ”

Chen Tao motioned for Amanda Waller to continue.

"We found out that he was running his own intelligence network locally, and was consciously avoiding our people while seizing the government's movements."

"Of course, not only many of us locals also suspected that he was the sea king among many fishermen, but no one dared to ask him. Our agent tried him once, but he acted like a normal person, and it's hard to tell if he was too good at acting or if we were mistaken. ”

Amanda Waller says:

"The name Arthur is so common that there are people with that name everywhere. We didn't dare to try too hard to avoid getting the wrong fake Arthur again, as we had done before, and nearly killing civilians. ”

"But in any case, according to the analysis of expert probability, Aquaman Arthur must have his own intelligence channels, otherwise there is no way to explain that he can hide from us for so long, you know? The search for his submarines and fleet, on the premise of a deliberate search, did not encounter a single Atlantean once, even once. Even if we deliberately find someone to pretend to be a fisherman to fish and enforce the law in an attempt to lure him out, he will not be fooled. ”

"It's almost impossible to happen without a sense of the outside world."

Amanda Waller concluded, "So, Aquaman Arthur Curry must be hiding among us, and if not the long-haired blond target, he must be in Derry Town, because this is the easiest place to get information in the coastal towns." ”

"I'm done." She said.

Chen Tao touched his chin.

"Well, in that case. So what are you waiting for? Let's try him for ourselves. ”

(End of chapter)