Chapter 214
New York City, night.
"What is this place?"
Black Adam stood tall on the top of the city, and next to him stood Dr. Sivana.
"This is New York." Dr. Sivana said: "The world has changed a lot, Black Adam. This is called a city."
"I know what a city is."
"You knew it before, but you have been sleeping for a thousand years."
"I am not sleeping, I am just imprisoned."
"Yes, and I gave you freedom."
"Why?" Black Adam turned his head and looked at Dr. Sivana.
Dr. Sivana knew that he needed to give Black Adam a satisfactory answer, otherwise...
A few minutes ago, the scene of his assistant being burned to charcoal by Black Adam was still vivid.
"I am an archaeologist, and the only reason I joined this business is my family. Science can't help my family's serious illness, they need magic. And you can bring magic back to this world."
Dr. Sivana lied. He controlled his heartbeat.
He knew that Black Adam was a complete superhuman, and even a slight change in heart rate would alert him. Once he thought you were not a good person, the end would be tragic.
Especially since Black Adam had spent several hours learning English and no longer needed him to act as a translator.
But Black Adam didn't seem to care about his little thoughts, nor did he answer Dr. Shivana directly.
He looked at the crowd of demonstrators below.
"Black Adam... Can you heal my father's legs?"
Dr. Shivana was still pretending that he cared about the father who abused him and discriminated against him, but the next second, he was dragged by Black Adam's neck and landed directly on the ground.
"Why are those people gathering there?"
Dr. Shivana followed his gaze and saw countless people holding signs and roaring.
"They are protesting, they are angry."
"Why are they angry?"
"Their employers embezzled their money."
"Then the world has not changed as much as you think, Shivana." Black Adam said: "The pharaohs still live by exploiting slaves."
He asked Dr. Shivana:
"Where is the oppressor?"
"Upstairs."
Boom!
Accompanied by the roar of thunder and lightning, Black Adam disappeared from the ground in an instant. Dr. Shivana was shocked and fell to the ground. He looked at Black Adam flying up the tall building, and his eyes showed an expression that could not be described in words, desire, jealousy, malice, fear, greed...
But he quickly abandoned all these emotions, and his face became calm again.
And then a few seconds later...
"Goodbye, Pharaoh."
"Help, save me, ah ah ah ah ah——"
Bang!
The child accidentally threw a bag of ketchup on the ground with force, and the ketchup exploded on the ground, covering the surrounding audience. Because the ketchup fell headfirst, a lot of sweet and fragrant white cream was mixed and sprayed out, red and white mixed together, it looked very beautiful.
"Slaves--" Black Adam landed in the screaming crowd: "You are free."
"Ahhhhhhh--"
Black Adam saw a family of three. They held up a sign that said "Down with Gray." The woman in the family of three screamed:
"Oh my God, he killed Mr. Gray..."
"Will he kill us too?"
"Go, go, let's run!"
"They are afraid of the people who saved them?"
Black Adam put his hands on his waist and felt very unhappy.
Dr. Shivana said: "We have to go."
"Yes, I have observed this world enough and know what to do next."
Black Adam said: "We have been to the Eternal Stone Castle. The wizard has selected his new magic guard."
"And whoever that guard is..."
Blue lightning flashed in Black Adam's eyes.
"We will all find him."
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Alfred sat in the Batcave with great satisfaction, happily monitoring his Bruce and Diana's first date.
He had carefully selected the location. Across the street from the restaurant was the famous Lovers Avenue, where men and women holding hands and walking around, as well as flower vendors. Sitting in the restaurant, you could eat as much dog food as you wanted.
A little further away was the amusement park, where there were ice cream shops everywhere. Alfred knew that Miss Diana Prince's favorite thing to eat was ice cream. He had used money to ask the owner of the ice cream shop to prepare an exclusive event. All you needed to do was take a photo with the couple to get free ice cream and limited ice cream pendants.
In order to prevent Miss Prince from resisting, he also asked the owner of the ice cream shop to set up a lottery, and his Bruce and Diana would "just happen" to win the first prize: as long as you take a couple photo, you can get a "Haagen-Dazs ice cream free lifetime coupon".
"Hehe, hehe..." Alfred laughed in a low voice, and then stopped talking.
Tsk, I often hear Bruce making such weird laughter recently. Even he has been brainwashed by this laughter and actually laughed like this. It's too outrageous.
Across half a street is the third largest open-air stadium in the metropolis. Alfred has booked this place for a week.
His Bruce can practice with Miss Prince here. Bruce once said that he wanted Wonder Woman to teach him some fighting skills suitable for superhumans, right?
He had an idea as soon as he heard this request.
Well, everyone knows, whispering in each other's ears, teaching and training hand in hand, etc. Many young women cheated on their fitness coaches because... cough, anyway, this stadium is empty today, and he has made sure that not even a chicken will disturb them.
Things should have ended at this point, but how could Alfred be satisfied with this?
He has arranged an artificial rainfall. He knows that Bruce and Miss Prince should not bring umbrellas, and he happened to have acquired the nearest hotels to them a few days ago. The rain will continue until the next morning. If they hide in the hotel, there will be only one room left, hehehehehe...
Of course, if Miss Prince resists, it is also possible to change it to two rooms.
In short, this is the perfect script planned by him, Alfred, for his Bruce!
Since his Bruce came back, he has become much more shy. But Alfred likes him more like this.
In the past, although Bruce was unrestrained and a womanizer, every time Alfred saw the smile on Batman's face completely disappear and reveal that pensive expression, he would immediately realize cruelly that everything before was just "Bruce" played by Batman.
But now, even if his Bruce wears Batman's uniform every day, he is either practicing moves or sighing after coming back, or making plans.
But for the first time in so many years, Alfred feels that the current situation is "Bruce playing Batman". Compared with Batman playing Bruce, this is such a huge change, how can he not be happy?
Oh!
Alfred sat up straight and saw his Bruce walking into the restaurant in a decent suit. Great! He originally thought that with Bruce's mental state, he would run into the restaurant directly in Batman's uniform.
He quickly picked up the microphone next to him and gave an order to Mudface, who was acting as everyone in the restaurant: "Quick, Robin! Send a waiter to stand next to them. I want to see the expressions on their faces when they talk."
"Okay, Robin got it." Mudface said in the communication.
At the same time, the real Robin Tim was teaching in the classroom.
"Turn to page 52. To be honest, your class is the worst I have ever taught..."
"Ah-chu!" Tim sneezed.
Alfred saw Bruce sitting down facing Diana. He greeted the other party, which was the most basic social etiquette.
Alfred nodded happily. He poured himself a cup of steaming coffee and took a sip with satisfaction.
Well done, Bruce!
Then he saw Bruce exchange a few pleasantries with the other party and then invited Diana to have lunch with him.
Yes, that's it. Make the atmosphere a little more casual and don't be too nervous.
Alfred thought: Enjoying the food first is a good way. Then you can start a pleasant chat, and when the time is right, you can make a request or invitation to her--
"Diana, time is tight, so I won't waste any more words and just get straight to the point."
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Then Alfred heard Bruce say this.
His eyes widened all of a sudden, and the action of drinking coffee that he was halfway through also stopped there.
"I have an uninvited request."
"You say." Diana lifted the hair beside her ear.
"Then I'll say it."
"Wonder Woman, I need you to help me catch a woman."
Puff!
Alfred sprayed a mouthful of coffee directly on the monitor screen, and the waiter next to him, Mud Face, dropped the plate with a bang, and then gasped.
Even Mud Face couldn't stand such straightforward words.
"..."
"What did you say?"
Diana felt her head buzzing and froze for a moment. The Amazon female warrior was not a fool. Since she came to the agreed place for the conversation in casual clothes, she thought that Batman might make some requests to her.
As one of the few powerful fighting forces that the government can mobilize, Amanda Waller and Steve had already told her how Batman used pretentious negotiations and a mother box made of mud to fool the government.
It was not only Steppenwolf who left that day with a gloomy face and a face full of mud.
Diana thought that Batman came to her privately this time, maybe because he wanted her to be a peacemaker, or maybe he wanted to test which side Wonder Woman would support if he had a conflict with the government, or even to use their personal relationship to try to persuade her to help him.
But no matter how the smart and heroic Amazon warrior guessed, she never expected Batman to ask him to help her as a human trafficker!
And Chen Tao quickly realized that Diana had misunderstood, so he quickly told her about Supergirl Kara.
"No, the government will never..." Diana subconsciously wanted to refuse. This was completely going against the government, but she soon thought of some things she knew, and she got stuck in the middle of her words.
"But Steve and Waller will stop these things." Wonder Woman finally said hesitantly: "Maybe... right?"
She added an uncertain question word at the end.
Chen Tao easily read her subtext: What evidence do you have to prove that the government will use the new Kryptonian to experiment on Earth?
Fortunately, Chen Tao had made detailed preparations for this issue before.
He successfully took out several intelligence reports about various human experiments conducted by the government.
At the earliest time, he left nanorobots in Luthor's lair, and the things they collected were used in this situation.
"Moreover, the child named Kara who is about to get off the spacecraft is a relative of Superman."
Seeing Diana wavering, Chen Tao immediately struck while the iron was hot: "Superman can take good care of him and guide him to use his abilities well. The government and habitual use of guns and attempts to arrest to restrain a Kryptonian, I personally think it is very dangerous."
Chen Tao finally added fuel to the fire.
"You know how eager the government is to achieve quick success. If they develop a Kryptonian with ill intentions towards the entire planet, frankly, I don't know what to do."
Diana was finally convinced: "Okay, when are we going to catch a female-supergirl?"
"Now."
She heard the other party say.
Alfred behind the monitor slapped himself on the head, and all the preparations he had made before were ruined.
"Alfred, where is my invisible plane?" Batman asked in his headset. Alfred finally struggled: "There are too many people on the street, and there is no place to park. I can't push the invisible plane into the downtown area. Even if it keeps no sound when hovering, it is still too loud when it flies." "Then why did you choose the place--" Alfred knew that his reason didn't make sense, and he quickly said: "I have parked the plane at the corner of the street on your left. You and Miss Diana should leave that area on foot first!" "Hey, Bruce, why are they walking hand in hand?" Chen Tao heard Diana ask him this before he hung up the phone. He stretched his head and saw couples on the street. "..."
"Well, they hold hands to show that they are a group, and..."
Then before Chen Tao finished speaking, Wonder Woman grabbed his wrist: "Which direction is your Batplane? Did the person on the phone tell you that he had parked it at the corner of the street?"
"Yes, but..."
Then the next moment, Chen Tao was lifted up from the ground by the strong Amazon girl with one hand like a chicken, and was carried towards the corner of the street with a whoosh.
Oh, it's so hard to describe female characters