The world needs more heroes

Damian Wayne is proud of his bloodline. He will inherit everything from his father in the future. He is a well-deserved son of bloodline.

But just over three months ago, he suddenly had a sister who was three years older than himself—maybe not so close, but she also had the blood of the Wayne family—this matter was not to him. So easy to accept.

Damian could accept Grayson as his older brother, Todd would go home and fight his father from time to time, and he could accept Drake's arrogance and demeanor from time to time.

Because they are strong enough, maybe not stronger than themselves, but enough to get Damian's approval.

But he absolutely cannot accept a powerless person as his sister.

The blood of the Wayne family is naturally strong.

"My God, Damian, the blood can at most determine your talent. If you haven't been trained for 16 years, I bet you can't even beat Philomena." Dick said goodbye to Philomena Afterwards, he returned to Superman's house with his three younger brothers, feeling that his whole body was going to burn up in place.

Originally, he had reached a consensus with Philomena, and he would not bring up the issue of Philomena's life experience until Philomena approved it.

But the sudden visit of several younger brothers completely disrupted this rhythm. He knew that they wanted to see Philomena at most. After all, the identity of Bruce's biological daughter was too tempting for their curiosity.

But it shouldn't be now.

"I was born to inherit my grandfather's legacy!" Damian protested loudly. It has only been two years since he returned to Wayne Manor, and his personality is much better than when he first came here, but he still hates dogs. , is a veritable brat.

"Just...don't bother her!" Dick shouted helplessly. If the voice hadn't been for the fact that Superman's room had been remodeled and had a thick sound insulation layer, he might have been slashed by Philomena's eye knife again. Several times: "I said—forget it, now that the matter that Bruce explained has been resolved, little red bird, you take the things back to Gotham...don't forget to bring Damian back with you."

Tim and Damian looked at each other in disgust, then turned their heads away at the same time, neither of them wanted to talk to each other.

Although Dick is usually a tolerant big brother, he is not without his temper. He pushed his two younger brothers hard and threw them out of Superman's room. After two seconds, he heard Tim talking to Dar The sound of Mian's daily quarrel became farther and farther away as the elevator arrived.

Then he turned to face his more difficult second brother.

"Little Wing?" Just as he was about to utter the euphemistic words, Jason, who had been sitting silently on the sofa just now, stood up abruptly and strode towards the door, muttering something to himself as he walked, a little None of them planned to talk to Dick.

Dick said again in a daze: "Wait, Little Wing──"

"Bang!" The sound of closing the door interrupted Dick's next words. He looked blankly at the living room, which was noisy half an hour ago, and now it was a mess. Scattered cake trays and coffee cups were eaten, and the opened potato chips were emitting a faint aroma, and the noisy air from the window was just like Dick's mood at the moment.

Jason, who left Dick's house, strode out of the apartment and found the motorcycle parked in a nearby parking space. While thinking about something, he stepped on the motorcycle and drove away, but the road he was heading for was not the direction back to Gotham.

Philomena's room was on the side facing the street. She looked down at Jason who was galloping away in the night from a high position, without any warmth in her eyes.

After a while, she closed the huge light-blocking curtains in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows with a "shua!", completely isolating herself from the scene outside the window.

Everything is going according to plan, the annoying noise outside the door has disappeared, and the original silence has returned. Philomena has just recovered from the tense state at this time. What impact did her body have, and there were not many homework assigned by the school, and she finished it long before the end of the last class in the afternoon.

The empty home was full of cold air. Philomena glanced at the bookshelves where the books were placed. The spines of the few books on it that had been turned by her were a bit old, and she was not in the mood to read now.

She was so busy at first, but strangely, she had a lot of free time at this moment. Athena was as quiet as if there were no dangers in the entire metropolis. In the end, Philomena's eyes fell on the clean Like the unused kitchen.

Two boxes of microwave food were scattered in the emptied microwave food cabinet, instead of piles of heated rice, microwave pasta and canned food as before.

Suddenly, a voice that I hadn't heard in half a year sounded in my mind. Memories of the past rushed towards Philomena like a tide. The cold voice was like a huge hammer, knocking little Philomena Na woke up from the dream of family affection.

"This is your monthly living expenses. There is only so much. You can take care of what you eat and drink." He gave the little child a few banknotes: "We have no obligation to take care of you. If you don't want to go back to the orphanage, you'd better obey me."

From that moment on, Philomena knew that in her whole life, it was impossible to get what she dreamed of.

The name Philomena was just a joke from the beginning.

Batman has been very busy recently, Black Mask has been fighting with Penguin recently, and is vying for the territory of the West District, while Red Hood has taken advantage of the situation, and as the third party behind the oriole, he is reaping the benefits.

Jason has his own sense of proportion. At present, they have reached a tacit peace for the time being. It is indeed less worrying for Jason to snatch the territory of those two people.

But Black Mask obviously doesn't think so, and has smuggled a little weird thing from all over the United States, and now they are temporarily calling it an alien life form.

Those extraterrestrial lifeforms will devour human flesh and blood, but if they find a suitable host, they can inspire powerful combat power. So far, Bruce has only found out a way to stop these alien lifeforms by using sound waves.

However, the last mutant abduction incident has not yet been found out. The penguin was labeled as a pig-faced professor. Possibly from somewhere other than Gotham.

It has been a long time since no non-Gotham person dared to enter and leave at will in Gotham, a place where two steps are a small leader and five steps is a big villain. Not only the Copperpot family is dissatisfied with these outsiders, but even other Gotham forces There was already a faint phenomenon of rejection, which made the group of outsiders more cautious, and they didn't show their heads once for ten days and a half months.

But none of these are the biggest factors affecting Batman—or rather, the man behind the mask, Bruce Wayne.

The man sitting in front of the bat computer propped his chin with his hands, and looked at the ID photo on the big screen with a serious face. The girl on the screen had an indifferent face, a pair of deep blue eyes without any emotion, and a beautiful and beautiful face. Most of them inherited her mother who was once the most beautiful woman in Gotham.

Bruce thought he saw a pool of stagnant water.

"Are you thinking about Miss Philomena again, sir?" Alfred's voice suddenly sounded beside him, and Bruce, who rarely noticed the old butler's footsteps, raised his head and frowned tightly: " Alfred."

"With all due respect, my lord, I don't think it's any use to look at this...passport photo here. Maybe you should go see Miss Philomena in person." The old butler put down the coffee on the tray: " And stop drinking things like black coffee."

"I need to wake up." Bruce said briefly, took a sip of coffee, and still stared deeply at the screen during the period: "Dick said she was a very strong child... and made it clear that she didn't need biological parents. Plant something."

"I don't think there is any conflict between Miss Philomena's own thoughts and whether you have tried to contact her." The old housekeeper said viciously: "What stopped you from moving forward fearlessly?"

Bruce was silent for a long time: "She's just an ordinary child."

And he has been struggling in Gotham's unending evil for more than 20 years, and it is very likely that he will continue to struggle for the rest of his life.

What right did he have to drag that girl who was living well and safe and without any danger into this vortex?

Alfred didn't speak again, he sighed silently, and actually didn't have much hope for tonight's persuasion.

His master Bruce has always been unmatched in his self-sacrifice and self-destructive tendencies.

Bruce reached out and pressed Philomena's ID photo on the big screen, and raised his voice to ask, "Dick isn't going back to Gotham tonight?"

"Master Timothy called back. Master Dick will stay in Metropolis tonight." Alfred held the tray behind his back, and the old butler stood upright, just like when he first entered Wayne's house and became a butler same time.

"──That's fine."

Dick seems to have a good relationship with Philomena. Judging from the data, Philomena had a very, very unfortunate childhood. If it wasn't for Clark, she might have died in the collapsed orphanage at the age of eight inside.

In the data, Philomena's life can even be summed up in one word: [solitary].

When I was in elementary school, I was often detained for probation and invited the director of the orphanage and adoptive parents. The incident was all because someone mocked Philomena as an unwanted freak orphan. All of Luomina's people were overthrown by Philomena, causing her reputation to spread far and wide, and no one dared to provoke her again.

No one dared to approach her.

Bruce Wayne has always been good at hiding his true emotions. When he read this material, he held the coffee in his hand steadily, and his eyes scanned the dense database like electricity, but at that moment, nothing happened. Can't think.

"A freak orphan that no one wants." He read out the description calmly, quoting from the impolite parents of the brat who was beaten to the ground by Philomena.

"Crack!" A tiny crack cracked the mug in his hand, and in the next second, the porcelain mug was crushed into pieces by him, and the steaming coffee was poured onto the insulated bat armor Actually, that cup didn't even scratch the skin of the battle armor.

It's all his fault.

Philomena jumped out from the top of the building, and Genji's figure was running on the tall building at such a fast speed that passers-by could only see a group of blurry shadows flashing past the tall building, and basically no one noticed. to this matter.

Just 2 minutes ago, Philomena received an emergency notification from Athena. Unknown energy fluctuations appeared in the suburbs of the metropolis. The value was extremely high, almost comparable to the energy accumulated by a nuclear bomb explosion.

"How could such a large amount of energy appear there silently, without a track of action?" Philomena knew that something was absolutely wrong when she heard it, and now it is very different from when she first came to the metropolis , the small-scale crime rate in the metropolis has been greatly reduced, but instead, every one or two months, there will be super villains looking for fights to cause trouble. Philomena has only encountered toy people so far, and it is useless to use the shadow. After a lot of work, he was dealt with, and the other Bizarro was dealt with by the Bat Family.

[There is no movement track. ] Athena said clearly that although Philomena could not entrust her personal safety to an artificial intelligence to judge, it was impossible for her not to believe in Athena in such a matter. After all, Athena had no reason so far Don't lie to her because of these things that can also be investigated by Philomena herself.

"Understood, how long am I away from there?"

[According to your current running speed, you will arrive at your destination in 15 minutes. 】

"Fifteen minutes? Too long."

"Whoosh!" A figure suddenly appeared in front of Philomena, and Philomena quickly rolled to the side, and at the same time she clenched her fist, three shurikens appeared from the phalanx.

She threw three consecutive darts without any hesitation, and hit the wrist of the visitor with great speed, but was jingled away.

Only then did Philomena see who it was that appeared in front of her.

"Super girl." Genji said in a low voice, and there was no trace of emotion in the slightly electronic voice, but Carla Zor El was slightly floating in the air and trembling, she hurriedly landed on Genji's In front of him, this cyborg female ninja is probably one of the Overwatch agents most often seen in Metropolis, and one who is notoriously bad-tempered.

Although other people may not be so easy to get along with, Genji's cyberpunk, semi-mechanical appearance itself created a certain sense of distance for her. One of the hottest images of Overwatch.

"I noticed that you are on your way, do you need help?" Supergirl landed on the roof in embarrassment, a few meters away from Genji to give the other party a safe distance. After Genji was silent for two seconds, she unexpectedly He opened his mouth: "There are unknown energy fluctuations in the eastern suburbs of the metropolis. I need to go there."

"Oh! Okay!" The super girl said flattered, she took two steps forward, stretched out her right hand and handed it to Genji hesitantly: "If you don't mind──"

Philomena didn't hesitate anymore, she also stretched out her right hand, the mechanical arm that looked like a normal human hand under the cover of the evil ghost's coat, tightly holding the super girl, which is also comparable to the Man of Steel average arm.

The two superheroes held each other's arms. In the next second, Philomena felt that her body weight was completely leaning on the mechanical arm, and the whole person was completely off the ground. The super girl who grabbed her arm was very He obviously controlled his strength, otherwise, according to the normal strength of a Kryptonian under the yellow sun, he might be able to break Genji's hand.

Flying over the Metropolis was magical, if Philomena had to say it was so fast, I didn't actually see it clearly.

The biological force field covering the two people is one of Supergirl's abilities. She opened up enough to cover Genji's biological force field. Philomena didn't even feel the wind blowing on her face. In seconds, she had already appeared in the eastern suburbs.

Supergirl slowed down and asked, "Is it around here?"

Philomena looked around for two seconds: "Did you hear that in the woods over there?"

"Yeah, there are strange noises."

Philomena also heard a strange sound, as if a machine was running slowly. Supergirl put her on the ground, and Philomena rushed to the woods in three steps at a time.

"Click click ─ ─" The mechanical sound with a regular rhythm is getting louder as it gets closer. Philomena is accompanied by a super girl. Her long golden hair flutters with the evening wind, and her blue eyes are like the sky of a metropolis. , with a little confusion: "What's that sound?"

"I don't know." Philomena, who didn't intend to answer, paused for two seconds, but still responded to the super girl's words. The two walked into the forest quickly. Weird machinery.

The periphery of the machine is densely packed with gears, which are running tightly. The lava-colored inner core looks extremely hot, but when Philomena and the two approached, she couldn't feel the slightest temperature. She frowned tightly, but Hearing Athena's voice, I suddenly remembered: [An object from another world was detected, the function of the object is unknown, and the source is unknown. 】

[Athena? 】

[According to the judgment, this item does not belong to this world, do you choose to store it in the equipment library? 】

Items that do not belong to this world suddenly fell on the outskirts of the metropolis, carrying the power to blow up the metropolis and Gotham at any time, quietly running here.

Philomena pondered for two seconds, then shifted her gaze to Supergirl: "I want to take this thing away."

"Ah? Oh, okay." The super girl was stunned for two seconds, then nodded blankly.

She has no intention of snatching items from Overwatch. In fact, the only reason she will appear in Metropolis is to protect this city that has lost its heroes like her superman cousin. It is such a difficult thing to balance the work of a superhero and the identity of a student. Without Overwatch's overt and secret help, she feels that she should not be able to take care of the entire metropolis.

Sure enough, she is still not as good as Superman's cousin, but Supergirl doesn't care at all, she just wants to become stronger, so strong that she can not only take care of the metropolis, but also take into account the voices of human beings calling for help in the whole world.

Kara, who has super hearing, always hears the cry for help when she is powerless. She can't appear in every corner of the world, at least she can't be as fast and efficient as Karl.

And she doesn't have anyone to help research these things now. Batman hasn't appeared on the watchtower for several days. Everyone said that a lot of things have happened in Gotham recently, and Batman has been busy.

"However, if there are any results, can you give me an analysis report then?" She said cautiously: "I'm afraid there are other things like this appearing in other places."

Philomena nodded silently, and then stepped forward: [Determined to enter the equipment library. 】

The index finger of one hand touched the huge mechanical Philomena, and instantly put the strange object into the equipment library. The super girl beside her widened her eyes, and finally asked her what she had been doing for so many months. Question to ask: "Is that the teleportation capability of your organization?"

"kindness?"

"The agents of Overwatch are very fast when they disappear, and now they can move things away instantly. Everyone is wondering if they have mastered some more powerful teleportation technology!"

"..." Philomena didn't expect that she didn't even apply the patch, and relied on the brains of passers-by and other superheroes to fix the big bug of teleportation and income in the equipment library.

Sure enough, no explanation is the best explanation.

Philomena nodded at the super girl, and disappeared in the next second, and reappeared in the house through the teleportation beacon thrown in the living room beforehand.

At that moment, she turned her head abruptly, and looked out of the French window where there was nothing. The curtains were drawn tightly. According to the thinking of ordinary people, she would definitely feel safe.

It's just that Philomena has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time. She squinted her eyes, and a mocking smile appeared on her face hidden under the prajna mask. She made an action that she had never done before. Slowly take off the mask engraved with ghost faces.

A girl with a huge scar across her face appeared in the living room with those small scars beside her.

Under Philomena's gesture, Athena flashed Genji's appearance twice before removing Genji's shell disguise, and all the scars on Philomena's face disappeared. At the same time, Philomena I asked in my mind: [Did he see it? 】

[As you wish, Philomena. 】