"So...... That's the result of a week of wandering the streets of Gotham, Oswald? ”

The man who spoke wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses and looked like Sven — or Sven scum.

He gave the penguin a mocking smile.

Little Hope was obediently led behind by Peter, and he looked up at the adults in front of him with a curious look. Peter quietly hid the child behind him and motioned for him not to speak. But the two imps were about the same size, and it was difficult for Peter to block Hope completely.

"You got two five-year-olds? Are you kidding me, Mr. Copote? Edward Nygma smiled at the two children, and then immediately turned cold.

He tugged at the penguin's sleeve and pulled him aside, gritting his teeth and whispering, "You, the former king of Gotham, Oswald Copote, can't even find a decent helper now?" Or are you going to let these two children go and help you find your mother? What can they do? Perform public milk or cry to scare off Theo Galevin and his 180-pound gun-wielding lackeys? ”

"Don't jump to conclusions, my dear Edward." Completely different from the state before going out, the penguin man is now swept away from decadence, and his whole face is radiant: "You have no idea how cute children are, especially - especially our honorable little Mr. Hope. ”

Copote's loving eyes fell on the two little children as if they were his most precious possessions. Of course, if possible, the penguin people are willing to treat their two cubs as their most precious treasure.

Peter looked wary and hid little Hope behind him, blocking Copote's malicious gaze. The child curiously poked his little head out from Peter's back, like a curly-haired Ragdoll cat.

Hope was curious about this tall, thin man with a slightly eccentric temperament, a soul he had never seen before. He felt that there were two souls hidden in this person's body, like two completely different people, but completely fused together.

The Riddler smiled at little Hope.

This déjà vu villain's grin made Peter's fists itch a little.

As soon as he entered, he saw the uniform belonging to the GCPD on the hanger - a man who worked for the Gotham Police Department. However, he seems to be very good friends with Copote. Gotham cops and Gotham gang leaders don't sound like a good match.

"Mr. Copote," Peter pushed Hope's cat-head resting on his shoulder to keep him dodging behind him, "it looks like you don't really need our help, you've got enough friends." ”

"I agree with that, kid. He really doesn't need the help of two small children, you are just small children, you should go home early and not be deceived by strangers. Nygma reached out and slammed her mouth around the penguin, holding her down by her height.

The penguin man widened his eyes and whined, trying to break free from the grip of the Nygma, dancing like a penguin crawling on the shore.

"How about I get you out of here, boys? But only if you've never seen us and you've never been here, have you? ”

The penguin man continued to whimper and whine, trying to stop Nygma from sending the two cubs away. But he hadn't eaten today, and he couldn't match Nygma's strength at all, not to mention that Edward Nigma was a head taller than him.

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The Riddler was just going to do Copote a small favor and satisfy his own play, and he didn't want to expose himself as a villain—although it was true.

He and Copote weren't good friends either.

Edward Nigma, now a well-known freak data keeper in the GCPD, is an ordinary good guy, but also a freak. He has a lot of quirky hobbies and messy obsessive-compulsive disorder, and he looks out of place with the police around him.

In fact, it is indeed out of place - he has murdered two people, and he has done it himself. One of them was even his colleague.

Luckily, he has a super high IQ and perfect strategy, and no one has been able to debunk him so far.

However, Nigma knew that she had a split personality and that the bad things were done by another person. His main personality is cowardly, conscientious and conscientious to play the role of GCPD's data clerk, humble and pitiful. And another evil personality pops up from time to time and sits in a conspicuous way. Both personalities share a fanatical obsession with puzzles, and are gradually merging in the near future.

So Edward Nigma became more and more unable to control his urge to sin.

No one in the entire GCPD has yet found him to be similar to the lunatics locked up in Arkhamri. He was still the timid and eccentric guy in the eyes of everyone, and in the short term, he didn't want to spoil that impression.

But seeing the King of Gotham return to the top is a pretty good pastime for the Riddler, and a lucrative investment. So he gave Copote, who was being hunted down, a place to stay, and was willing to take some risks for it.

But he didn't expect that instead of contacting his old department, the penguin man brought the two children into his house.

This means that there is a good chance that these two ignorant cubs will inadvertently say something to someone else. Especially one of them, who was richly dressed and looked like a child of a wealthy family.

It's not easy to deal with, and Nigma has a headache.

He gave the penguin man another hard blow. However, this gave the penguins a chance to break free.

"Edward Nigma, you don't know anything!" "These two kids are hundreds of times better than my stupid and useless men!" exclaimed. ”

"Really? Why don't you prove it to me? Negma could only let go of Copote, who looked down at the penguin with his height advantage: "Are they crying more than you or running faster than you?" I guess the latter might be easier, after all, you do run like a stupid penguin. ”

"You...... You ......" Colbert was half angry at Nygma, and he shivered and pointed at the Riddler's nose speechless.

Who doesn't know that Oswald Cobot hates being called a penguin the most, but Nygma pokes him madly at his sore feet. And at this time, he was favored by others under the fence, hiding, and there was no way to go out directly with a backbone.

Forget it, Copot tried his best to comfort himself, just as he remembered the bittersweet memories and recalled the sad time when he was the little brother who held the umbrella.

"I ...... I ......, I said it wrong? Nygma rolled her eyes and continued, "If you're going to give up saving your poor mother and don't want to get back to the top, just say it. I thought I was saving the King of Gotham, but it turned out to be just a coward. ”

"I'm not, coward!" Copote angrily shoved Nygma, nearly knocking him down.

The two quarreled like no one.

Peter took two steps back, pulling Hope to quietly leave.

He was now sure that the Penguins were indeed not good people. As for his mother's troubles, Spider-Man Five will go and see for himself if the guy named Theo Gellervin is really a sanctimonious hypocrite, as Copot said.

On the other side, Alfred was talking to Bruce with a frown, worried face.

"You're saying Hope didn't go to kindergarten today?" Bruce was enjoying a single life without cubs at school at the moment, but Alfred's phone call directly made him panic: "But this can't be, I watched him go in with my own eyes!"

The child is reluctant to carry a small schoolbag in the morning.

"Master Bruce, I think you need to reminisce about it again." Alfred himself remembered this, but he didn't get out of the car in the morning and didn't look very closely.

"I've informed James Gordon that Inspector Gordon is taking Inspector Bullock to kindergarten." "Inspector Gordon will go to the kindergarten to investigate, and we need to be patient," Alfred said. I guess if Master Hope had run out on his own, he would have come looking for you. ”

"I'll keep an eye on it, Ah Fu." Bruce said.

But he wasn't going to stay here and play a worried role, he preferred to go out into the streets and find it himself.

Hanging up the phone, Bruce turned and ran out of the school.

Peter held Hope's hand tightly and stopped Hope from walking in the direction of the penguin. The child was forced by Peter to change direction, and he turned back one step at a time. He was actually curious about what the two adults were arguing about, although he didn't quite understand it.

"Before they react, let's get out of here." Peter whispered. He himself can rely on his own ability, ignore the danger, and subdue the criminal. But now he's going to protect Hope.

Hope quietly backed away from Peter's movements, not understanding what he was doing, but it seemed interesting.

Peter held Hope tightly with one hand and gently opened the door with the other.

Like thieves, the two cubs prepare to secretly leave the Negma house.

The door opened softly, and Peter couldn't reach the doorknob, so he jumped several times to open it.

However, the view outside the door is not what it just was.

"Oswald?" On the other side of the door stood an old woman. She was the first to notice the sight, staring at the penguin man with a staring eye on it, and then she held out her hand to Copote with a trembling voice.

As she moved, the sound of chains clashing was heard.

Both Colbert and Nygma in the altercation were drawn to attention. The penguin man suddenly felt that he heard a familiar voice, and he turned his head.

Then widen your eyes.

"Mother?" The penguin man looked out the door in disbelief: "Why are you here?" Oh my God, who did this? ”

It was incredulous, but the fear of his mother instantly took hold in the penguin's heart, and he limped out the door.

Mother and son hugged each other tightly. Mrs. Copote held her son like a baby, leaving countless kisses on the head of the once-mighty King of Gotham.

Peter and Nigma opened their mouths wide as they watched as the penguin people pounced on their mother's arms like little birds.

“…… What's going on here? Peter wrote on his left face and thought on his right.

First of all, Peter is pretty sure that the mutant spider that bit him never showed the ability to open dimensional holes; Second, Peter was pretty sure he hadn't been to Kama Taj or met the Ancient One - he wasn't even sure if the Book of the Emperor Vishan still existed in this world.

So it wasn't him who caused it...... Right? He's a superhero without magic. He only has high technology.

No, not anymore.

But the thought of having traveled through time and space made Peter less sure.

Could it be that he learned magic the moment that big purple taro snapped his fingers? Now you have magic and don't know it?

Peter looked at his right hand in disbelief.

Does this hand contain the power of space? Peter's eyes were filled with awe.

"So, that's what you're capable of? That's why Oswald said you can help? Nygma finally calmed down, his eyes were full of concern: "You can open the spatial passage, can you go anywhere?" Why did you know where Mother Oswald was? It's just incredible, so there's really magic in the world, right? ”

Nigma licked her lips, which were a little dry from excitement, "Or is it an illusion on the other side?" You hallucinated me? ”

"I ...... I don't know. Peter still couldn't believe he had such abilities, he had a vague sense that something was wrong, but he couldn't say anything was wrong.

"You don't know?" Nygma looked away from the warm scene of mother and child outside the door—or inside the door—and looked down at Peter, who had finally calmed down now. But it makes him even less like a normal five-year-old.

Isn't he excited about it? He can even think. Nigma calmly analyzes Peter's dark colors.

The kid named Hope next to him also seemed a little strange, and he didn't seem surprised by the scene.

Nigma thought for a moment, but continued to ask, "So, you haven't had such an ability before. Or there's another possibility, which isn't what you're capable of at all. ”

Peter subconsciously followed Nygma's train of thought.

His gaze fell on Hope.

Hope didn't look surprised at all, he just quietly looked at the scene opposite, not knowing what he was thinking.

Nygma hesitated for a moment, then decided to walk to the other side of the door, he wanted to see what was on the other side first. The Riddler walks through the gate and finally concludes that this is not a hallucination, but a real thing.

"Oh my God......" Nygma felt a whole new riddle come to his mind, one about time, space, and magic, something he had never been exposed to before, and the one that attracted him the most so far.

The puzzle gradually became more concrete, and he looked at Hope, and couldn't help but be a little excited.

Peter also took Hope's hand and walked to the other side of the door.

Upon entering, Peter realized that there was a prison opposite, and it seemed that Colbert was not lying. His mother was indeed taken captive and imprisoned.

The gate was closed behind several people.

"Door...... It's gone. Igma reached out and touched the wall in disbelief, but it turned out it was, and the door had just disappeared.

The Penguins have finally recovered from this magic.

"You're helping me, aren't you, Hope?" Ignoring the child's dislike, Copot hugged little Hope with a stinky embrace, and kissed the child on the face several times: "I don't know how to thank you, Hope, I promise, I will repay you!" ”

He was thinking in his mind whether to take advantage of this opportunity to kidnap Hope into his den. The reason is to repay the kindness of his mother who saved him.

"Thank you so much, Hope!" Colbert couldn't stop crying—half genuine, half pretending: "Thank you so much, Hope!" ”

He let out a long sob, ready to continue expressing his gratitude and hooking up with the super cubs.

He was interrupted.

Nygma patted the penguin on the back, "I think we're in trouble." ”

A few people walked at the end of the prison.

Peter felt that the man at the front looked familiar.

The man gave a dangerous smile: "Look who is here." It's amazing, how the hell did you get to my dungeon to have a party? ”