Shadow of the Beautiful World

Ten minutes later, Amanda Waller left the basement, and Merlin's eavesdropping and information collection came to an end.

It was valuable to eavesdrop on this conversation, and Merlin gleaned a lot of useful information from Waller and Trevor's chat.

For example, the Sky Eye Society is trying to win over a mysterious woman named Diana. For another example, the Sky Eye Society has been looking for something in Smallville, Kansas. Finally, the Sky Eye Society is likely to continue to observe the movements of the people on the seabed.

This represents the current trend of the new organization Sky Eye Society. It is not difficult for Merlin to guess that Sky Eye Society is now in a stage of recruiting manpower. The former golden transvestite soldier Michael with weird combat uniform is probably The newcomers they recruited.

And from Michael, we can see the criteria for recruiting members of the Sky Eye. What they need is not ordinary agents, but just like S.H.I.E.L.D., they are looking for those who have power beyond ordinary people.

From this point, it can be seen that although the Sky Eye Society has not been established for a long time, it undoubtedly has great ambitions.

Of course, Merlin also collected some interesting personal information from this conversation, for example, Amanda Waller, this cold, fierce female agent, was actually Fury's former student

No wonder her occasional actions or demeanor are very similar to Fury when she was planning a conspiracy.

I don't know if Fury knows that his apprentice has become a competitor in his career.

But these things can be discussed later. Merlin did not forget his purpose of invading the base of the Sky Eye Society. He left the circular office and walked around the underground facility along the ventilation ducts. After searching for several rooms, Merlin Finally found the place where Tianyanhui stored the data in this base.

Although it is a new organization, the security is really not bad.

Merlin concealed his body and walked cautiously in the dim reference room. This room is full of motion-triggered sensors. Once Merlin accidentally steps on it, the entire base will be alarmed.

Fortunately, he doesn't need to be on both feet to walk.

After his lower body transformed into a smoke form, Merlin was suspended in the air a few inches above the ground. He looked at the secret lock in front of him that could only be opened by matching fingerprints and keys at the same time. He shook his head and pulled out his wand from his waist.

alohora!

Accompanied by the shaking of Merlin's wrist, the moment the spell fell, the complicated and precise lock made a low sound of gears colliding, and the next moment, the filing cabinet, which cost a lot of money to make, opened its arms to Merlin. .

Wearing black leather gloves, he searched for the on-site information left by the Batman attack in Gotham City from the large file cabinet in front of him. After reading through several investigation reports, Merlin found one of them that had been burned. A special letter from Xiao Ban.

He picked up the letter, and found that under the letter, there was a strange seal, which was a red triangular logo with arcs dotted underneath.

The logo of the League of Assassins, Bruce mentioned.

But the content of this letter was not as useful as Merlin imagined. It was actually an invitation letter with a warning nature. Some forces that rose up returned to the system of the Assassin Alliance after wandering for several years.

And of course there's the customary death warning thingy.

This is not much different from what Fury told Merlin, and it's no wonder that the Sky Eye will not make much progress after several months of investigation.

These guys are good at hiding their activities. They have been hidden in history for hundreds of years. Relying on some ordinary agents and relying on this little clue in their hands, there is no way to catch their tails.

The thread really seems to be all broken.

Merlin was a little helpless. He put the burnt letter aside and began to search for other materials of the Tianyan Society. He took pictures with the camera he carried with him, but a few minutes later, Merlin, who was busy copying the documents, suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his heart. .

There's something wrong with this letter.

He put down the camera in his hand, floated to the table, and looked at the half-burned invitation letter again.

If this is a warning, then those gangsters have two choices, or refuse, and then be wiped out by the Batman assassins of the League of Assassins. Or obey, and return to the embrace of the League of Assassins But this thing is not a two-way communication device, the League of Assassins Over there, how do you know whether these gangsters refuse or obey?

Send an inquiry, no matter the result is good or bad, you will definitely get a response.

Merlin narrowed his eyes, his thoughts running fast.

Excluding the factor that the Assassin Alliance sent people to lurk in the gang, those forces that obey them will inevitably respond to the Assassin Alliance. Therefore, there must be other information in this letter. Maybe it is an address or a contact information. , but it must be a secret word, a code, that only those inside them can decipher.

It's really a bunch of clever ghosts.

Merlin rolled up the half-burned invitation letter and put it in his pocket.

I was almost tricked by you.

He put the documents behind him back to their original location, and then left here quickly through the route he came from.

A few minutes later, his figure reappeared in Wayne Manor in Gotham City.

To be precise, it appeared in Bruce's previous bedroom.

It's true that he didn't know the secret codes inside the League of Assassins, but Bruce should know that even though the guy kept his secrets about his years in the League of Assassins, Merlin could tell from his tone and expression.

Bruce was deeply involved with that organization, definitely not as calm as he appeared on the outside.

He should have come into contact with the core secrets of the League of Assassins

Huh? Nobody?

Merlin turned into smoke and seeped into Bruce's room through the window of his bedroom, but there was no one there. The quilt on the bed was neatly placed, and there was no trace of sleeping at all.

Going out to work again?

Merlin shook his head:

He is really a dedicated night warrior.

He turned around, opened the window, and stretched out his left hand. Amidst the dark red light, the spirit raven Victor appeared on his arm. It turned its head and looked at Merlin, then spread its wings, and charged Into the deep night outside the window.

With Victor's flying speed and detection range, he can go around Gotham City, which has nearly 8 million people, in a few tens of minutes. It should not be a big problem to find Bruce, who fights crimes in the dark.

And Merlin himself sat on the chair in Bruce's bedroom, closed his eyes, and began to meditate in this quiet night.

Ten minutes later, quietly hiding in the darkness, Merlin opened his eyes like a statue, and Victor sent back a message that he had found Bruce's location.

swish

The Transfiguration Spell was activated, and the next moment, according to Victor's coordinates, Merlin's figure appeared in a closed warehouse in a flash.

The moment he appeared, a whirling bullet hit his head, pierced through his forehead, passed out from the back of his head, and brought a wisp of smoke.

Merlin pushed his glasses, turned his head, and saw a gangster wearing a vest, holding a gun in his hand, and looking at him dumbfounded.

Merlin smiled back at him.

swish

His figure disappeared in place, and while moving close to the speed of sound, he punched the ferocious big man in the stomach. Seeing that guy fly away like a baseball being knocked into the air with a howl, Merlin shook his head. Shaking his head and shaking his left hand, the Cybertron weapon module appeared in his hand. After the transformation full of technological sense, a large-caliber energy hand cannon was raised.

He didn't even need to aim, he aimed the muzzle at the wall around him, pulled the trigger, and at the moment when the scorching light sprayed out, the solid wall melted quickly like cheese that had encountered a flame. Even several thugs on the other side of the wall were burned by the light and fell to the ground.

This scene also attracted the attention of Bruce, who was fighting fiercely, and those gun-wielding thugs, and the battle between the two sides on the other side of the warehouse stopped for a moment.

As they approached, they saw a guy in a casual suit and a blue half-face mask stepping out from the other side of the melted wall.

Boo, Batman, I have something to ask you.

Merlin looked at Bruce, he waved his right hand, and the black mist entangled in his hand flew out of his palm like a poisonous snake looking for food. The moment he left his hand, those drifting black mist roared, in the form of dark tentacles, precisely The thugs were wrapped around the bodies of the remaining thugs, and under the action of the dark power that was getting tighter and tighter like snakes, these thugs howled and were lifted into the air, but no matter what, they couldn't break free.

Merlin was merciful this time.

In his previous contact with Bruce, he learned that this dark warrior in Gotham City never kills. Although this is not in line with Merlin's values, but this is Bruce's territory, Bruce's battlefield, it is better for him to do as the Romans do.

Stop! Don't move forward!

Beside Bruce, a teenager in a red cloak and goggles took a step forward, holding a bat-shaped fighting knife in his hand, and shouted at Merlin as he walked towards them road:

Stop!

Um?

Merlin looked at the kid next to Bruce who looked like an assistant, he looked at Bruce again, and he said:

Who is this?

Robin.

Bruce put his hand on the young man's shoulder and said:

He's a friend. You go outside and watch while I talk to him about something.

But he looks dangerous.

The stubborn kid looked back at Bruce, who said to him:

Don't worry, Robin, I'll be fine.

The child seemed to have a good relationship with Bruce. As he walked out of the warehouse under Bruce's urging, he looked back at Merlin frequently, and his eyes were definitely not friendly.

Watching the kid named Robin leave the warehouse, Merlin took off his mask and said to Bruce in front of him:

Who is this kid? I heard from Ah Fu that you had an assistant named Grayson before, but he went to Brookhaven to go to college. So, is this kid Jason?

This kid, he's very talented.

Bruce looked out of the warehouse and said:

I found him a few months ago, he was stealing the tires on my car. He was a lone thief, well known in the ghetto. But you know the state of Gotham, he stole Stuff is just for living. So I adopted him, he is not bad, he is sometimes reckless and stubborn, but he also wants to do good things.

You are really dedicated to saving this city.

Merlin says:

But I think, if you return to the status of Bruce Wayne, you can do more things like him. How many children like him are there in the whole of Gotham? You might as well invest in an orphanage and collect them all.

Actually, I have entrusted Ah Fu to do this.

Bruce smiled under the bat mask and said:

I won't waste resources. Speaking of which, you just left, why did you come back? Did you find something?

Yes, this!

Merlin took out the half-burned invitation letter from his pocket, handed it to Bruce, and said:

I suspect there is a code word in the letter, maybe an address, maybe a contact, but I can't find it, maybe you can.

let me see.

Bruce raised his hand, and on the wrist of his black, well-made combat uniform, a small lamp was lit. Under the light, Bruce read the letter carefully.

After a few minutes, he raised his head and said to Merlin:

Indeed, there is a code word in it, which was written in the way of the Assassin's League. But part of it was burned. I can't tell you the address completely. I can only tell you that this location is in Interlaken, Switzerland.

Yo, a tourist attraction.

Merlin chuckled lightly, and said:

The people of the Assassin League are very good at choosing places.

No, Merlin. They didn't pick at random.

Bruce's tone became more cautious, and he said to Merlin:

Hundreds of years ago, Interlaken was once the domain of a jazz, and that jazz back then was the alias of Lars Al Ghul in that era, that is to say, it was the territory of the League of Assassins. Their territory may also be their base camp in Europe. That organization is very powerful and has hidden forces all over the world, so they cannot be underestimated.

It doesn't matter, no matter what it means, I will go there.

Merlin reached out to take the letter from Bruce, he nodded to Batman, he said:

Thanks for your help, Bruce. I'll leave you alone.

Wait, maybe you need some help.

Bruce called to Merlin, he said:

Wait a minute, I'll send Robin back, and then I'll go with you

No.

Merlin looked back at Bruce, and he said:

This is my business, Bruce, don't meddle in it, and your city can't do without you. The most important thing is, go this time, maybe I will kill. This conflicts with your creed, so stay in Here.

swish

Under the distortion of the light, Merlin's figure disappeared into the dark warehouse. After he left, a note with a phone number dangled into Bruce's hand.

There is a line on it.

When you're in big trouble, don't forget you have a 'big shot' friend

Good luck, Dark Knight of Gotham.