The world needs more heroes

Those were the last few words left by the old housekeeper when he came back to life.

"I—killed, Miss."

Daniel Kirk grew up in the Canberra family since he was a child, and he was born and raised here. His father was originally the head of the Canberra family. Dedicate my life to this family.

He thought that no one would be more loyal to the Canberra family than him, and even the owner himself might not love this place more than him.

"16 years ago, on June 16, I abandoned you, Miss." Daniel felt the blood rushing to his throat, and he knew that he would die here, but this secret that had been buried for [-] years could not be followed. He died together: "Miss Adele, ask me to kill her──"

"I can't—"

Even if his eyes were blurred and black shadows swept over all his senses, he knew that he was going to find the old master who had been loyal to him all his life.

Suddenly, the little lady who used to be a small group suddenly appeared in front of him, who seemed to know the fact that he was about to be abandoned by his biological mother, and was crying softly.

"Kill her and dispose of the body." Miss Adele is one of the old Patriarch's most beloved daughters. The children born in pregnancy can be sent to her to die without any emotion.

Miss Adele could do it, but Daniel couldn't.

The old butler has been taking care of Adele Canberra since she was a child, just like her other father. He has never married or had children all his life, and treats Miss Adele as his own.

And the little baby looked exactly like Miss Adele when she was born.

Daniel did not kill, but he did not dare to disobey the orders of the owner and the lady, so he could only throw the little lady on the cruise ship that was about to sail, and let the baby, who was just a few days old, fend for itself.

Daniel knew better than anyone that it was impossible for a baby to survive such a situation, not to mention that the cruise ship departed from Gotham itself, which was itself a cover for arms smuggling.

Even if the little lady survived, her life would be worse than death.

Before he died, Daniel was finally willing to admit that he was just a hypocritical old man, and he couldn't let her go, and he didn't want to bear the conscience of killing the little lady.

Batman, who stood on the side and slightly bent over to listen to the old butler's words, was thinking. For him, this should be the old butler's last words of confession.

He has concealed things from his family all his life, and he has no scruples after the family he loyal to has been wiped out. He really needs a chance to repent with others before he dies.

But that's not Batman's job, it's God's job to forgive him.

"Bruce Wayne──" Just when Batman thought the old butler's words were over when he was dying, Daniel suddenly opened his mouth, and the three people present──Batman, Nightwing and Red Robin─were shocked Jump, is it possible that Batman's disguise has been seen through?

The old butler grasped Batman's cloak tightly, and said with dilated pupils: "Find him...tell him, I'm, I'm sorry──"

"He should, have, a daughter—"

The noisy Gotham night wind wailed and hit the window of the safe house, the fragile glass was blown and trembled slightly, Nightwing and Red Robin, who stood aside and listened to the whole process, looked at each other blankly, bent slightly and approached Batman at the old butler's ear froze.

Daniel Kirk slowly let go of Batman's cloak. His body had no strength left to support the old butler's life. He slowly closed his eyes as if he had fulfilled some wish. Weakly fell to the side of the bed, and then lost his breath.

Tonight, no one is a winner.

"What the fuck did you just say—?" Jason Todd fell off his bipedal chair in disbelief, and Damian Wayne by his side wasn't much better, 13 The [-]-year-old boy jumped up from the sofa, and said with a ferocious expression: "Another woman with my father's blood?"

"Actually, according to the old housekeeper, if she was born 16 years ago, then I wasn't even adopted by Bruce at that time." Dick Grayson, now 23, shrugged. Adopted by Bruce when he was eight years old, and that was only 15 years later.

That was supposed to be Bruce's first child.

"I remember what Adele Canberra said, didn't you marry Houston Green the year you were adopted?" Red Robin crossed his arms, holding a thin board between his index finger and middle finger. It showed all the information he found: "The news is quite big. This famous courtesan in Gotham was said to be the person closest to Mrs. Wayne... But you all know that if it is Bruce- -"

Then it's just fake.

Obviously Adele Canberra is smart enough to realize that she has been fooled, and when the family arranges a new fiancé, because the child in her womb that should bring prosperity and wealth is already the future A stumbling block in life, and it is too big to be drained, so it was secretly born and then killed.

Only children are innocent.

"Where's the old man?" Jason, who was called back urgently, was silent for two seconds before asking.

"...He has to ask for proof of this matter, and he has already gone to Mrs. Adele Green." Dick shrugged helplessly, and it was difficult to describe what Bruce was like when he went out.

But he knew Gotham's punks had better be tighter these days.

"But—" Red Robin frowned and paused for a few seconds, looking at the few words recorded from Daniel Kirk, he felt that these descriptions were really familiar: "I seem to have seen it somewhere. "

"What have you seen?"

"June [-]th, Gotham cruise to New York, girl."

Tim, who had picked up the important information, was still puzzled, but Dick, who exuded a gloomy air, suddenly raised his head: "Little Red Bird, are you sure it's June [-]?"

"Yes?"

"Call out the photos of Bruce and Adele Green." Dick rushed into the Batcave in a hurry, and ran to the Batcomputer. Although Tim was a little dazed, he still followed behind him, and called out the pictures for him according to his request. After collecting the information, the four brothers ran into the bat cave one file at a time.

Dick stared intently at the two photos in front of him. Gotham's most beautiful face was not just for fun. The blue eyes and the big black back hair looked masculine and handsome.

On the other hand, Adele Green is still in her most beautiful years. It is a photo of her in her 20s. Her slender eyelashes are spread out densely, and her elegant and arrogant temperament seems to be from a famous family. Her slender The fingers pinched the wine glass slightly.

Dick stared at these two photos for a long time without even blinking. The other three felt that he looked a little crazy, so they couldn't help but leaned over in confusion: "What's wrong?"

"I think she might be alive," Dick said, projecting a photo onto the screen: "Superman's neighbor, Philomena, bought the house next door to where Superman lived shortly after Superman died. Out of vigilance, I investigated with Bruce and the little red bird."

"She was found on the cruise ship on June No. 13. The cruise ship departed from Gotham on the night of June No. 12. Her parents were unknown, and she was sent to the municipal orphanage by the local police station." Dick had already sent He has a thorough understanding of these materials, so now he just gave a brief introduction: "When I was more than eight years old, I experienced an alien invasion, was rescued by Superman, and was adopted by the Olsen couple within two years. Mr. and Mrs. Sen died of falling from the building."

"..." The scene fell into silence, and finally Red Robin was the first to speak: "I need a DNA test."

The information about Philomena Olsen is very detailed. After she was sent to the orphanage, in order to find the girl's parents, the New York police had already archived her DNA. The DNA belonging to Bruce Wayne will do the comparison.

After a period of time, the scene fell into silence. Dick, who had already firmly believed in his guess, had taken the time to read the other articles about Philomena Olsen with Damian, who didn't care much about this matter. material.

Damian, who stood aside with his arms crossed, paused for two seconds, then said with a sneer: "Philomena, ha!"

Everyone present was proficient in several languages, including Greek. Dick was silent for several seconds, and no one felt the irony more than them.

Sent to a dead end by her biological mother, forgotten in the orphanage until Superman heard the cry for help, and indifferent adoptive parents who only wanted to use her to cheat money.

The name Philomena stands for 【Strong Love】.

Something she'd never had in her entire life.

Bruce Wayne, in his wrinkled suit, holds a forged letter in Daniel Kirk's handwriting, filled with the words he said to Batman on his deathbed.

Bruce had to find out.

This was a banquet held by the Green family. Although the invitation letter was sent to Wayne Manor, everyone agreed that Bruce Wayne would not participate in such a banquet with unequal classes. Therefore, the people who came to this banquet were basically A middle-class family in Gotham.

Rich, not so rich.

Powerful, not so powerful.

Entitled, not so entitled.

In general, it is a half-baked child in various fields.

So when the Greens learned that Bruce Wayne broke into the Green Manor where the banquet was held in a sports car, almost everyone was shocked. The clothes on the man's body were wrinkled, and his face was still slightly flushed. It looks like you've been drinking.

He didn't bring an invitation letter, but the doorman at the door didn't dare to stop him at all. Bruce Wayne's face itself was the best sign.

On the land of Gotham, who would dare to stand in front of Wayne.

The current owner of the Green family, Houston Green, appeared at the gate with his wife, Adele Green, in a hurry. Obviously, he hurried out after receiving the news from the guard.

Their family and the Canberra family that were exterminated two days ago belonged to the Coppert family, but Wayne was one of the four Gotham families on an equal footing with Coppert.

Without a huge conflict of interests, it is impossible for the Penguins to embarrass Wayne because of their small subordinate families, so they had better treat the most willful prince of Gotham as a guest of honor.

"Mr. Wayne! I didn't expect you to come here!" Patriarch Green still had an expression of surprise on his face, and Adele who was following him had been slowly engraved by time, and the well-maintained There are still some fine lines on the skin, showing that she is no longer the glamorous courtesan who circled the Gotham social scene 15 years ago.

When Adele appeared, Bruce stared fiercely at the woman with his hazy eyes. His right hand, which was not holding anything, was tightly clenched into a fist, and a person's name popped out from his clenched teeth, like To eat it raw: "Adele Canbella."

Patriarch Green's heart skipped a beat, confirming that Wayne came to them this time not with good intentions, and it sounded like he even wanted to seek revenge on his wife.

There is no love between him and Adele Canberra. The combination is due to the order of his parents. The marriage between the families can make the Copperpot family more stable.

After the extermination of the Canbella family two days ago, Patriarch Green did not receive any instructions from the Copperpot family, which meant that the Copperpot family did not intend to stand up for Canberra.

Adele Canberra was already useless to him, an outcast to be discarded.

Almost as soon as he realized it, Patriarch Green quietly pulled his arm out of Adele's embrace, and said with a smile: "Since Mr. Wayne has something to say to Adele, Say, then I won't bother, I still have a few unopened bottles of good wine over there after the chat, if Mr. Wayne is free, remember to come and taste it."

Those who gathered nearby to watch the excitement saw this posture, and knew that there must be important personal matters, and don’t mess with anyone. Don’t mess with Wayne. Bruce Wayne’s madness is sometimes worse than the clown in Arkham Asylum Crazy batch.

Bruce, who smelled of alcohol, saw that the people around him dispersed, and he threw the letter in his left hand to the ground forcefully.

He has always been a very gentleman and polite person in front of outsiders, no matter how angry he would be, he would never do such a thing to a woman, this time it would show that he was already in a hurry.

"Bruce." Adele Green calmly looked at the dream of this woman in Gotham. She had been extremely close to that dream, and finally realized that the reason why the dream was called a dream was because it was so close in front of her eyes, but she couldn't see it. And far away.

The sea blue evening dress on the woman was hanging down, she squatted down gracefully to pick up the letter, her every move was not affected by Bruce's bad temper.

She opened the letter and paused slightly after seeing the signed Daniel Kirk, and then began to read it from the beginning.

She looked at it very slowly and carefully, until the last punctuation came into view, and the woman smiled lightly with a decent smile.

"I know I can't hide it." She sighed, folded the letter in her hand, and put it back in the envelope: "I just didn't expect that the one who betrayed me would be Daniel."

"Betray, betray." Bruce, with slightly red eyes, split the word into two syllables, and repeated each syllable heavily: "Do you think he betrayed you?"

"Of course it's not just him." Adele gracefully straightened her sideburns that had slipped due to squatting down: "And you."

"I was pregnant 17 years ago, but you went to some damn snow mountain adventure, and I couldn't even tell you myself. When you came back, I was already pregnant for more than four months, but you told me You want to break up with me?!"

Adele Canberra's world was once full of Bruce Wayne, and she can guarantee that no one in this world loves him more than herself at that time.

She loves his blue eyes, loves his black hair, loves his inherent elegance and nobility and acquired melancholy and decadence.

At that time, she even loved Wu Jiwu so much that she loved the piece of flesh in her belly that sucked her own flesh and blood.

But in the end she was abandoned, and she was abandoned like a fool before she even had time to say that she was pregnant.

"I hate you."

"So I'm going to kill your daughter."

"You, do you know Bruce Wayne?" Dick stood at the door, and Philomena frowned in confusion. The girl paused for two seconds, and then said, "Isn't he the richest man in Gotham?"

Could it be that the person who is following him is Batman?Did he discover the connection between the identity of Philomena Ocean and Overwatch?

Philomena's vigilance was aroused again, and the girl was like a hedgehog trying to protect herself. With a "shua!", all the defenses on her body were erected: "Why did you mention him to me?"

"Wow, she must really dislike the old man." Jason Todd, who was dragged to participate in family affairs, put his long legs on the table in front of the surveillance screen. At this moment they, he, the little red bird and The imp was watching from Jason's safe house.

It wasn't Bruce's idea to find Philomena Ocean, in fact, Bruce didn't even know about it.

"I guessed it a long time ago." Jason rolled his eyes: "It's impossible for the old man to recognize relatives."

It was all the decision of the four brothers, of course two of them voted for it, one voted against it and the other abstained.

Dick sincerely didn't bring any communication equipment with him. In the past few months, he could feel that Philomena Olsen was indeed a girl who rejected people thousands of miles away, but in that ice In a chest that has been sealed for thousands of miles, in a box bound by heavy chains.

There is also a warm heart that is beating.

The vigilance around Philomena made Dick smile bitterly, and he didn't know how to speak, after all, the most innocent person in this matter was Philomena.

Was it she who wanted to be born into that kind of family?Did she want to be born in that situation?Did she want to be abandoned by her biological mother right after she was born?

neither.

This made him unable to utter the words stuck in his throat. In the end, facing Philomena's vigilant gaze, as well as the brothers who clearly knew that they were sitting behind the monitor watching all this, he uttered a sentence with difficulty: "Do you still have any impression of your biological parents?"

When Dick's words entered Philomena's ears, she was even dazed for two seconds when she heard the word "biological parents", and then reacted slowly.

When she finally digested Dick's words, the girl's face changed suddenly. If she was a hedgehog with vigilance before, then now she was the wolf king with his fangs. The bad mood from before flooded my heart again.

"I don't have parents." She said coldly, the eyes that looked at Dick had lost all the warmth when she opened the door, and the young man standing in front of her felt as if she had fallen into eternal winter: "I don't need a family either."

Immediately afterwards, she slammed the door of the house directly in front of Dick with a "bang", almost smashing the police flower of the Bludhaven Police Department into a flat nose.

"I'm starting to like her a little bit." Finally, Jason's exclamation ended the visit, which lasted less than 5 minutes, and the young man whispered: "It would be even better if she could break your nose."

Philomena is not stupid, on the contrary, she is terribly sensitive in some things, such as what Dick Grayson just said.

He brings up Bruce Wayne first, then the biological parents she never met, who abandoned her at birth.

Grayson's identity is not just a superhero flying in Gotham and Bludhaven. He was adopted by Bruce Wayne when his parents died of murder when he was eight years old. up.

He is Wayne's first adopted son.

Philomena held the door handle tightly with her hand, trying her best not to crush the poor handle.

After being rescued from the orphanage by Superman at the age of eight, Philomena never thought about the possibility of being approached by her biological parents.

She let go of the doorknob, but the chill and anger in her body soared layer by layer. Philomena even felt that if she didn't vent it, she might be exploded by this resentment.

The girl's neatly trimmed nails pinched tightly into her palm, and the crescent-shaped mark began to ooze blood slowly with increasing force, and the fine pain was transmitted to Philomena's mind through the pain nerve , she let go of her hand belatedly.

'Hold your breath, Philomena. 'She took a deep breath, and the depression in her chest was slowly suppressed, and the unsteady cry stuck in her throat was also swallowed by her:'You are no longer what you used to be. own up. '

She spoke in a low voice, as if she was speaking to herself or to the whole world, but she used the tiniest volume that only she could hear.

"You don't need your family anymore."

"Business trip?" The glamorous S.H.I.E.L.D. agent crossed his feet and leaned lazily on the sofa: "To Metropolis?"

"Private matters." The richest man in New York squeezed the sunglasses in his hand, and with a slight flick of his wrist, the folded frames were easily shaken off. He put the sunglasses on with one hand, and there was already a helicopter on the apron outside. Waiting: "Help me hold that kid."

"What are you going to do, Tony?"

Tony Stark twitched the corners of his mouth: "Think of the rescue foundation as a regular family return visit."

Natasha Romanov—aka Black Widow—rolled her eyes and waved her right hand casually: "Peter is not as easy to deceive as you think, don't go too far, be careful even the last fan They all defected."

Tony didn't reply, and after he waved his hands casually, he pushed open the glass door of the roof. The helicopter outside had finished the final inspection and was waiting for their boss: "Mr. Stark, everything is ready."

After Tony arrived in the metropolis, he borrowed the apron from the Lex Group. Of course he could buy a house with a helipad in the metropolis, but why waste that time? The bald man would not refuse for such a trivial matter he.

Since the death of Superman, Lex Luthor seems to have lost some lifelong enemy, and even the intensity of targeting another Kryptonian has become smaller, which is not at all like when he was making trouble for Superman.

It is even heard that he is quite optimistic about Overwatch, a new superhero organization in Metropolis.

According to the original words of the interview: "Humans have finally proved that we can save the world by ourselves, instead of relying on an alien rescue dog."

Of course, borrowing Lex Luthor's tarmac would mean wasting a few words with him, but Tony himself is not a very polite person, and almost the whole world knows about it.

So even if he responded perfunctorily as he walked, Luthor just shrugged, and then asked the secretary to be in charge of receiving Stark's driver, and let Tony enter the sports car that had been waiting for a long time at the door.

Naturally, the sports car was temporarily mobilized by Stark Enterprises for the boss.

The loud rumbling sound of the sports car engine ignited everyone's attention. Tony pressed twice on the phone, and the address of Philomena Olsen's apartment appeared on it: "City center? Not far away .”

He stepped on the accelerator, and the red sports car rushed out with a roaring engine. The man pushed down his sunglasses with one hand and complained: "Why is the sun so bright in the metropolis, it's really dazzling."

On the other side, Philomena did not expect that she would be stripped of her vest by Tony Stark, who was far away in New York, had never even met, and had never tried to hack into her computer, so when she opened the door , when he saw the famous Iron Man looking around in disgust, he subconsciously took a step back.

"Philomina Olson?" The man standing at the door took off his sunglasses with one hand, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly when he saw Philomena. He pointed to the room: "Tony Stark, Can I go in?"

Philomena had just shut the door to Dick Grayson who approached her about an hour and a half ago, and now she is in an extremely bad mood. Her blue eyes are like ice in winter. If eyes can kill, Tony feels that he should be dead by now. Died five hundred times.

The girl said coldly: "No time."

After finishing speaking, he was about to slam the door, but Tony raised his voice and stopped her: "Wait!"

The man raised his eyebrows, put the sunglasses into the inner pocket of the suit jacket calmly, and then held a small, ant-like robot in his hand, and slowly opened it in his hand: "I guess you I should have a lot to talk to, don't you think, Miss Orson?"

"Now, can I go in?"

Philomena was silent for several seconds, the girl lowered her head slightly, her long black curly hair like seaweed hung down her cheeks, densely covering Philomena's cheeks, making it difficult to see her expression clearly.

Finally, Philomena took a slight step back and made way for the door.

"Dicky bird, did you see it?" Jason, who happened to be okay and was staring at the monitors all over Gotham eating potato chips, happened to see this scene. Slumped on the couch in Superman's house, there's no sitting figure.

The young man's voice came through the communicator tiredly: "What do you see, Little Wing?"

"Tony Stark just broke into Philomena Ocean's house."

"You follow me." Philomena said briefly, her piercing eyes followed Tony closely, as if she was about to tear him apart in the next second.

"To be precise, I'm following [Genji], but it just so happens that you are her."

Philomena closed her eyes slightly, resisting the urge to roll her eyes. The girl sat on the sofa heavily with her arms crossed, with a strong sense of defense.

"Wow, don't you even have a cup of tea? You really are not a good host." Tony is quite familiar, he looked around twice, and then slowly sat on the sofa next to Philomena Sit down, keeping a safe distance between the two of you.

"Don't." Philomena took a deep breath, feeling the veins on her forehead twitch slightly: "Don't make me regret not killing you."

Tony Stark stopped the next coquettish words wisely, and the man raised his hand slightly, making a gesture of surrender, which made Philomena's anger on the verge of exploding slightly stopped.

"I'm not here to cause trouble... In fact, no one but me knows that you are a member of Overwatch, Genji."

one of the members.

Genji.

Philomena keenly captured these two key words. She raised her eyebrows calmly, and instead of following Tony's words, she looked very displeased and said in a vicious voice: "We don't like being Espionage privacy."

"But you never talk about cooperation—and I'm just here to talk about cooperation." Tony stood up and mobilized the information he kept in the confidential core database, which was the only one in his hand about 【Genji】 The backup of the action is carried by him in a folder that is not connected to the Internet.

"Beep." The play button was pressed on the data, and Philomena saw that she was disguised as Genji and dropped Soldier: 76's biological force field, which was preserved when she transformed into Soldier 76 supplies.

In order to fit the world of Overwatch and give the host the greatest convenience, the Overwatch system has made many changes to the main system, including skills.

When a skill is actually based on a certain item, Philomena can take out that item in advance for storage, even if it is converted into another character, and save it in the system bag in advance.

These include soldiers: 76's biological force field, Baptiste's life-support force field, Anna's biological grenade, Junkrat's bomb, Widowmaker's poisonous mine and so on.

And that's why Philomena dared to attack without any seriousness. As long as they didn't die instantly, these things preserved in advance were enough to keep those criminals alive.

As for missing arms and legs, that's God's business.

Tony paused the video, and the screen was fixed on the biological force field. The man lowered his volume slightly: "When we are fighting, it is easy...to affect civilians. This is what I am willing to cooperate with."

"You want a biological force field?" Philomena raised her eyebrows and instantly understood Tony's intentions. She shook her head: "Instilling a biological force field takes time and energy, and it's not easy to preserve. We can't mass Supply, moreover, the maintenance time of the biological force field is only five seconds."

"Listen, I have seen with my own eyes what that Dr. Angela Ziegler is capable of. I don't know why she is willing to remain anonymous—her research is simply genius!" Tony interrupted Philome, who was about to continue. Na, the man said impatiently: "I know there are some secret regulations for your organization, maybe you have more important things to do, but I'm talking about saving lives!"

"The nano repair technology you have can change the world!"

Philomena sat firmly on the sofa, and after a long silence, she smiled softly: "No one can change the world."

"I have a friend who is as close as a brother. We used to talk about everything, and we swore that we would never fight each other with swords." Philomena stood up, and she modified the original game settings, because the character of Genji had been replaced. Firmly based on the identity of Philomena Olsen, then the original set of brothers must be changed.

Philomena Ocean was adopted from an orphanage, and she had no brothers.

She lowered her head slowly, the body that was originally wearing loose home clothes seemed to have been lifted from the mimesis, slowly changing from bottom to top, and the semi-mechanical body covered Philomena's whole body.

She did not choose to use the [Evil Ghost] skin this time, but the silver-white armor that the system originally had.

A female mechanical ninja with a cyberpunk style appeared in front of Tony Stark. Philomena stretched out her right hand, held down her visor, and then slowly took it.

Under the visor was a broken face, with hideous scars stretching across most of the face, and the girl's azure blue eyes with awe-inspiring murderous intent almost frightened Tony who saw this scene.

"And this is a gift from my brother." Filomina twitched the corners of her mouth, but there was no smile on her lips. With a murderous look, she seemed to be swallowed by the resentment and turned into Li Gui only wanted to kill him: "He turned me into a monster."

"Dr. Ziegler could heal the scars on my body, but I choose to stay."

"It's a warning, it warns me—"

"Human beings never change."