Volume 5: The Young Wolf Seeks Home Chapter 56 In order to compete for the title of Mason’s most admired person, the two uncles started a duel!
“ Ahem…”
A difficult cough sounded in the bat cave, causing Ah Fu, who was delivering coffee to his master who was working overtime late at night, to stop.
The old butler glanced at the Kryptonian medical cabin with some concern, then walked over to Bruce who was sitting in front of the Batcomputer monitoring the city. He said in an elegant voice with a British accent:
"I support your Night Watch career, Master Wayne, but could you please stop picking up these weird things? Previously, a group of children were picked up and trained to be Robins.
At that time I thought you were interested in the business of human traffickers.
But now this bad habit has become worse. You actually brought back a strange lady in distress. If I didn't know the truth, I would have called the police to old Gordon right now."
"She needs help, Alfred."
The old man without the bat mask leaned back in his swivel chair. He was checking the camera near the old site of the Gotham Orphanage from more than ten minutes ago. He pointed at the few seconds of footage that was playing over and over again in front of him and said to the old butler:
"She comes from another world... Look, Afu, that door..."
The old butler looked at the screen, and the fleeting light of the space-time rift made him squint his eyes. As a former ace agent, he immediately realized the seriousness of the matter.
Especially in this special period.
"Do you need to activate the shielding device?"
Ah Fu asked softly:
"Magicians are constantly monitoring the global magic network, and such a crossing of the boundary will be sensed by them. If you want to take in that strange lady, then disguise is necessary."
"I have already contacted Zuckerberg."
The master took a sip of coffee, stared at the screen and said in a hoarse voice:
“She will take care of it. What I am more concerned about now is the identity of this lady and why she appeared in the site of an orphanage that has been abandoned for more than ten years.
Ah Fu, this place reminds me of some old memories."
The old butler was stunned for a moment, then reacted.
As Batman's most trusted butler and assistant, Alfred is probably the person in the world who knows the master's secrets best. He whispered:
"You mean Mason's background?"
"Um."
Batman nodded and said:
"This location is exactly the same as the one where Mason was sent to Gotham seventeen years ago. I suspect that this lady might be..."
"Shua"
A breeze blew, and Flash, wearing a worn-out retro Flash suit, appeared next to the Batcomputer. He was chewing a piece of pineapple pizza in his hand. It was obvious that he didn't have time to eat dinner, so he just made do with it.
"The seventh test of the cosmic treadmill has just been completed, and the results are promising."
Barry grinned and reported:
"I have successfully approached that hidden strange plane. Although I still cannot find the specific coordinates of the Isu world, we have taken another big step towards success... Hmm?
This woman!
etc!
I've seen her!"
Xiao Shan almost dropped the delicious pineapple pizza in his hand. He pointed at the space-time gate that flashed across the screen and said to the master:
"I won't make a mistake! It was this door that brought Mason here seventeen years ago, and the lady who fell down. Oh my God! How did she age so much all of a sudden?"
"She showed up unannounced at the Gotham Orphanage fifteen minutes ago."
The master stood up and explained:
"I was on night patrol when I happened to see her and brought her back. Come with me, Barry."
He led Barry to the cave where the bio-capsule was located, and said to Old Alfred:
"Alfred, go help Grayson. The stuff over there is obviously more dangerous. If you run into trouble, seal off the area."
“This is also the second point I want to complain about!”
The old butler said expressionlessly:
"Next time you bring back a dirty skeleton, please let me know in advance. Look at how dirty the ground is. I have to send someone to clean it up.
Uh, speaking of this, Master Wayne, there is something I need to report to you.
Because I have to take care of Master Damian, I can't devote too much energy to taking care of your unusual daily life, so I specially selected a reliable maid to help you clean the room and organize the sundries.
Her name is Elsa.
I have worked at Wayne Manor for thirty years and have watched you grow up like me. I am an absolutely trustworthy person. "
"Ah? Do you still have servants to help you clean your room and organize your clothes?"
Xiao Shan, who was listening in, 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? It's just cleaning a room, how much time will it take you?"
The master, who had put on his bat helmet again, was too lazy to even answer this common sense question. The old butler glanced at the poor young man and sighed, saying:
"Mr. Wayne has seven rooms that he often uses, with a total area of more than 700 square meters, and he has 300 sets of daily clothes, excluding the new styles and special dresses that he orders every month.
Six lockers were filled with all kinds of accessories, including four hundred ties alone...
Barry, 'cleaning the house and tidying up the mess' means two completely different things to you and to Mr. Wayne."
"ha?"
Barry sighed and said in a sour tone:
“My poverty has opened your eyes once again, hasn’t it?
I guess Bruce never grew up in a shabby house that you could clean with your bare hands and a broom in ten minutes, and I even took out a mortgage on a house like that..."
"Think positively, kid."
The master finished the fight with a perfect voice and said:
"Your empty wardrobe means you don't have to worry about what to wear today, which can greatly reduce your decision-making pressure.
Well, there is work to do.”
He took Barry to the functioning Kryptonian bio-chamber and looked at the old lady lying inside. She had been changed into a clean tights for treatment.
But painful groans were still being emitted from the constantly operating life repair beam.
"That's her!"
Xiao Shan looked carefully at the woman in the bio-capsule. He said with some reluctance:
"But she's disfigured, oh my god, her teeth are all...what happened?"
“It’s not clear at this point.”
The master reached out and turned on the display of the bio-capsule, looking at the complex data on it and explained:
"Her leg bones had been broken and healed repeatedly, her body was covered with burns and scars from toxin abuse, one-third of her vocal cords were cut off, and her cerebral cortex was severely damaged.
The initial estimate was that he had suffered a frontal lobotomy.
But she has a certain self-healing power that allows her to heal, however, for the abused, this may not be a good thing.
I can't be sure what kind of treatment she has suffered in the past seventeen years, but what is certain is that someone has damaged her brain and messed with her memory and cognition.
The damage is almost irreparable.
Unless we send her to Mason, maybe magic can solve problems that technology can't solve. In addition, the remnants of quantum energy were found in this lady.
She may have been evacuated to the place where she had been in order to escape some devastating situation..."
“She’s amazing.”
Barry said:
"When I tried to talk to her seventeen years ago, she almost grabbed my heart. This lady has some kind of 'time travel' ability, and can ignore all obstacles to get what she wants.
It is hard to imagine under what circumstances someone with such top-notch escape ability would be captured and tortured like this.”
"Wait until she wakes up."
The master, wearing his cloak, said in a hoarse voice:
"Try to talk first. If that doesn't work, I'll have to ask you to go to Osborne Tower again."
"I'm fine!"
Barry nodded and said:
"My connection with the Speed Force is getting deeper and deeper. I can feel my speed is still increasing. Traveling through the worlds that was once difficult is now... huh?
Something happened over there!"
As soon as Xiao Shan stopped talking, he grabbed the master's hand and disappeared from the spot with a whoosh, and appeared on the other side of the Bat Cave.
In front of them, the embarrassed old butler was struggling to block a steel door, while Nightwing Grayson, wearing anti-Superman power armor, was fighting with a naked guy holding a stun baton.
The guy growled in a low voice like a wild beast.
The alloy steel claws with scorched marks pierced through the skin as his fists were clenched tightly, and every swing left sparks on Grayson's armor.
High voltage electricity that was enough to knock out a superhuman was useless to him, and every shock only made him more furious.
It is worth mentioning that at the heart of this beast-like man, inside the healed strange alloy body, right at the position of the heart, there is a ball of purple light shining faintly.
It's like a beating quantum heart.
"Who is this again?"
Little Flash exclaimed.
The old man instantly grabbed the bat dart and threw it forward to help Nightwing. The bat dart was easily torn apart by the beast-like man, but the explosive inside was activated and blasted him away with sonic shock.
Taking this opportunity, the embarrassed Nightwing exited the blockade area.
Ah Fu also successfully initiated the blocking procedure, trapping him in the narrow area behind the all-steel gate.
"That guy is so difficult! He didn't even give me a chance to talk to him."
Nightwing in the Anti-Superman armor panted and said:
"He had just woken up from the biopod when he tore it apart roughly. The kryptonian metal was like paper in front of his claws. His reaction speed was amazing, and I couldn't hit him at all.
Something's wrong!
I doubt even Superman's man of steel could stop that dangerous claw.
Bruce !
Where did you pick up this dangerous guy? "
"He landed in Gotham with that lady."
The master realized the difficulty of the problem, and while activating his personal power armor, he explained:
“He was held in the arms of the lady, and when he came over, only a skeleton of alloy remained. He was indeed healing, but I didn’t expect his healing speed to be so fast.
His rage is most likely a stress response, and perhaps communicative.
Barry, can you hold him down?"
"I'll try."
Xiao Shan began to move his body on the spot, and then, amid Ah Fu's screams, the steel door that could withstand Superman's punches was pierced by the alloy steel claws with a sharp tearing sound, and then an X-shaped cut was made in the cutting with sparks flying, and then exploded like a bomb attack under the powerful kick.
The naked man howled and rushed out, pouncing on Nightwing who was closest to him.
The young master was not afraid of him. He had been training himself ever since his girlfriend left, and now was a good opportunity to test his recent progress.
However, Xiao Shan was faster than him. He rushed forward with a whoosh and circled around the dangerous man. The storm formed by the speed force was confined to a narrow area, making it difficult for the claw man to break through.
"Hey, man, calm down!"
Barry ran at an extremely fast speed, forming dozens of almost identical individuals who began to speak. It was just like a slide, making people dizzy.
Xiao Shan advised:
"No one here is a bad person, maybe we can talk!"
In the face of dissuasion, the claw man responded by looking around like a frightened beast, and then with a hoarse roar, he suddenly punched to the side as if he had predicted the future.
"Bang"
Xiao Dodge dodged the punch by running quickly, but was forced to slow down.
"Beast Sense!"
He exclaimed:
"Same spider sense as old Peter, retreat quickly! Nightwing, Batman, you can't act recklessly against guys like this, the more injured they are, the more dangerous they are."
"Seal off the Batcave! Alfu."
The master drove into the battlefield in a black power armor and said to the old butler:
"Wait for my order, and prepare to call for superhuman support. Nightwing, cover tactics!"
At Batman's command, the young master immediately stepped forward to withstand the Claw Man's crazy slashing, and the master attacked from behind. The power armor activated the entanglement tactics to pop out Doctor Octopus's mechanical tentacles, and anti-Aquaman quick-drying glue was sprayed out.
But these attacks were dodged by the Claw Man in advance.
As Xiaoshan said, sneak attacks are often very effective when facing enemies with beast perception.
After realizing that he was under siege, he cleverly adopted guerrilla tactics. He relied on his extremely flexible skills to jump back and forth in the bat cave, and whenever he had the chance, he would use a claw to make the attacker retreat.
The master was collecting combat data, and then he discovered that the enemy's attack power was increasing rapidly. Even without the need for technological means, he could tell by just using his senses that the beast aura was rising from the naked man.
We can't keep fighting like this!
The strength of his and Grayson's armor could not withstand the sharp claws in this guy's hands, and although the Flash's attack could hit, the damage was too slight, almost like a tickle in front of the latter's super self-healing ability.
"His fighting style is very similar to that of Leopard Girl..."
The master stared at the Claw Man's wild attack, and calmly analyzed it as sparks flew from his outer armor:
"Same swiftness, same super perception, same beast posture, so just follow Diana's tactics against Cheetah and use his beast perception to confuse him and distract him."
"Bang"
The shoulder cannon of the anti-Superman armor was turned on, and after ejecting the master's cockpit, hundreds of induction bombs were ejected. As the armor self-destructed, the Claw Man was blasted away and landed in an area full of bombs.
The danger reminder from the beast's perception made the Claw Man dare not act rashly, as every step he took could trigger the bomb.
Nightwing also popped out his shoulder cannon and was ready to imitate the tactic but was blocked by the master who came down with his flying claws. With his cloak lifted up, he looked at the grinning claw man in front of him and waved his hand to throw something in front of the latter.
The master said in a hoarse voice:
"You came to Gotham with the lady who could travel through the world, you were supposed to be friends or companions, and the lady had sent Mason Cooper.
I assume there is some kind of relationship between you.
So I will tell you, sir, Mason Cooper is my friend.”
The claw man didn't answer, but just looked at the photo in front of him.
The photo shows Mason's sneaky scene when he first entered the Batcave storage room to "steal something" and was captured by the camera installed by the master.
That familiar face seemed to bring back a bit of rationality to the restless Claw Man. He let out a threatening growl from his throat, but the dangerous steel claws in his hands were retracted into his skin little by little.
Under the gaze of the master and the other two, he bent down, picked up the photo and examined it carefully, then looked up at the master.
He said:
"You...you are Batman? The person Mason admires the most?"
"Yes, I am."
The master counted silently in his heart and looked at the man in front of him. When the ten-second countdown took effect, the latter shook his body and fell to the ground with a thud.
Under Xiao Shan's surprised gaze, the master explained in a hoarse voice:
"Extracted biological paralytic toxin, extracted from the hormone spores of Poison Ivy, capable of paralyzing any standard human life within ten seconds.
Superman lasts ten seconds."
"You put that thing on Mason's picture and carried it with you?"
Xiao Shan couldn't help but said:
"What's wrong with your brain? And your relationship with him is too good, isn't it?"
"You'll get used to it."
Young Master Nightwing manipulated the mechanical tentacles on his power armor and grabbed the unconscious Claw Man back from the bomb-filled area. He opened the cockpit and said to Little Flash:
"At any time, be careful of anything Batman hands you, even if it's just a piece of toilet paper..."
"bass"
Before the young master could finish his words, a flash of a knife appeared before his eyes.
The sturdy octopus tentacle was 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 claw man's steel claws were pressed against his neck.
"Mason described to me the Bat-Family's style of doing things..."
The claw man held the young master's head, and he could separate his head with just a move of his hands. He looked at the master in front of him and said with a grin:
"It just so happens that most neurotoxins have no effect on me, Bruce Wayne. You don't look as powerful as the legend says. Nice to meet you. My name is Logan.
Logan Hautley.
Now I have a hostage, let's talk."
