A retired magician raises a bucket daily

"Speak clearly," Bruce threatened.

The Laughing Bat half-closed his eyes. Although he raised his hands and made a gesture of surrender, his tone was still full of sarcasm: "You don't really think this can threaten me, do you?"

"What will happen in the future, the dark multiverse, Barbatos... want to know about these things," the Laughing Bat's fingers lightly landed on the back of Bruce's hand, and only one swipe of the Command Seal remained. It was just like the way he used to flirt with his girlfriends, "You have to use this to ask me."

"I'll check it out," Bruce shook off his hand, and withdrew his weapon, and said in a cold tone, "I don't need to trouble you."

"You will change your mind." Heroic Spirit said noncommittally: "Don't look at me like that, I won't hinder your plan."

He shrugged his shoulders: "Just because I understand the clown doesn't mean I'm in love with him, little Bruce, I still hope he goes to hell."

After the Heroic Spirit finished speaking, he disappeared in front of them.

Reed looked at Merlin, and the great magician shook his head, "He is afraid of that command spell, at least the current him will not do anything against Bruce Wayne's wishes."

Fortunately, their plan is not very complicated. Since the Holy Grail has revealed itself, they decided to make a quick decision and not let the people on the side of the clown get the Holy Grail.Dick, Jason, and Damian were responsible for rescuing the children who were caught. Tim was in charge of backup, and the oracle was there at the same time. Tim told the other party some vague truths remotely, and Barbara was straightforward. accepted.

Reed asked Merlin how they should solve the Holy Grail. They couldn’t cut it off with a sword, so no one knew what would happen, but this matter couldn’t be known to the Church of Magic. He hasn’t exposed himself yet. In the current situation in Gotham, once the Church of Magic is notified, the Tranbelio family will find him and bring him back.

"Don't worry about this, you can do it," Merlin patted him on the shoulder, pointing out: "Changing [reality] can change the existence form of the Holy Grail."

Half an hour before departure, everyone was adjusting equipment and testing instruments. Reed packed up all the magic gemstones on his body and turned around. He didn't see Jason, so he walked up , leaving the Batcave.

After the magician asked Alfred politely, he got the news that Jason was in the hall of the Wayne House. Reed walked over there. For the second half of today, Jason has been very silent, although He was like this before, showing a certain degree of resistance to everyone in the Bat family, but after he heard what the Laughing Bat said, Reid felt that he was obviously affected again.

The one Abigail had mentioned to them, the force in Jason's chest that drained his spirit might have something to do with the Laughing Bat.After all, every time Jason met him, he wasn't in a good mood.

He saw Jason on the stairs in the hall, a tall young man leaning against the wooden handrail, looking expressionlessly at the paintings and photos on the wall.

Reed stood at the bottom of the stairs and looked at Jason for a while. He didn't seem to notice Reed's appearance, his lips were pursed, and his side face showed a firm line, which reminded Reed of Giacometti's sculpture inexplicably. The loneliness is like a silent atmosphere spreading in the surrounding air.

Reed walked up the stairs step by step, glanced at the photo frames, and saw the people in them smiling, holding hands, or hugging, seeing the teenagers receding a little bit and going through hardships, growing up to what they are now, and seeing Bruce Wayne went from a smiling boy to the middle-aged man who seldom smiles.Finally he saw the huge family portrait in the middle, and Jason's eyes fell on that too, but there was no Jason in that portrait.

"Are you leaving?" Jason asked Reed. He had already equipped himself with a pistol in the butt, darts in his belt, and two large caste blades by his side. A set of combat uniforms is also fully charged for emergencies.

"Not yet, it will take a while." Reed shook his head and stood beside Jason.

"Then what's the matter?" Jason subconsciously held Reed's hand, which seemed to have become an unspoken habit between the two of them recently. Jason had never felt that he was a hand-hungry patient before.

"I just think I should ask my boyfriend for a kiss before leaving." Reid didn't ask him anything else, he just wanted to calm Jason's emotions.

Jason smiled and moved closer to him, "Why?"

"It can bring good luck and boost morale. I want to make a quick decision," the best-selling author stared at those beautiful green eyes and whispered without changing his expression, "and then... go home with you sleep."

Jason paused, then ran his fingers through Reed's black hair, and approached him, his voice was as soft as a whisper, "Okay, let's go home together."

The heroic spirits could perceive that the place where the Holy Grail appeared was in the forest where the clown was hiding, so Gotham ushered in the early morning. The city hadn't started to operate yet, and they drove away in the silence.

Dick has his own car, Robin rides in the Batmobile with Batman, Jason has his own motorcycle, Reed wanted to drive his own Land Rover, but Batman didn't think so, so Tim took his own red The Batmobile was lent to Reed, and as for Iron Man...he can fly right there.

There was a huge roar of the motor when the car started, and the buttons in the Batmobile were weird, which Reed had never experienced before. Tim was obviously busy with other things, and Reed hesitated to touch the buttons in the car. , but did not dare to press down.

Jason's gentle voice came from the headset, "On your right, can you see a red button with an arrow, press it."

"I did." Tim's Batmobile lit up, and a screen appeared on it, and he asked blankly, "And what to do?"

"After the screen lights up, enter the coordinates of the destination, and it will drive automatically." Jason said, and then reported a series of numbers.Since Red Robin is sleepy most of the time, he has a lot of slacking programs on his car. Sometimes Tim will take a nap in the Batmobile. The Batmobile has an automatic recognize and avoid system. , so don't worry about hitting pedestrians or buildings.

Reed entered the coordinates, and the car sped out without a pause. Reed was pressed on the back seat by inertia. He reached out and touched the seat belt on one side, pulled it hard, and buckled it for himself. on.

Due to the convenience of transportation and the fact that no one in Gotham has woken up yet, the road was unimpeded, and they reached their destination very quickly.

That forest was colder than yesterday when Jason and Reed came here. The thick branches covered almost all of the sky, the tails of the usnea leaves were yellow, and the wind blew with a long 'woo' sound. Howling, heralding the coming of winter.The magician, whose body is not very good, has been shrinking since he got out of the Batmobile. He feels so cold and wears so thin clothes.

Before Jason put on the metal mask, he stood beside Reed and took his hand. The material of the combat gloves was rough, and Jason bowed his head and let out a sigh.Ahead is the factory where the clown is. Batman and the others are doing the final inspection and confirmation. Jason smiled lightly, feeling like the kind of boy who didn't study hard in his high school class and secretly fell in love under the nose of the teacher— —but he got straight A's in school.

"Why are you so cold, is it made of snow?" Jason laughed at him, but he still closed his hands together, putting Reed's hand in the middle and warming it up for him, "What should I do if my hand is stiff when drawing a magic circle? That's not too shameful."

Reed glared at him, the tension that had arisen earlier was broken by a few words from Jason, he said angrily, "No, you can't question my professionalism, I've been teaching this for six years, why? It’s possible to make such a low-level mistake.”

"Oh," Jason raised his eyebrows, "then you are amazing."

Reed rolled his eyes. He never thought the two of them would have such a childish conversation, but he said anyway: "You can really go too far sometimes."

Jason smiled and touched his cheek, "Don't lose, Xue Bao."

The magician pulled Jason's face with his hand, and said in a vicious voice, "Don't get hurt, Aisha."

"Guys?" Tim's weary voice finally came through the headset, "I guess it's time to get moving?"

So the two childish ghosts finally stopped their behavior, Jason put on the metal mask and red hood, and Reid also held the few gems he put in his coat pocket.

Tim, who was forced to listen to the dog food for a few minutes, sighed quietly in his heart. He felt that he would go back to Titan Tower immediately after finishing this matter, and he would never stay here for a second.Just now Connor sent a message to ask him what happened to Gotham, and was he injured?It is estimated that he will fly directly over in a while.

"According to what Reid and Merlin said, all the barriers here have been removed. I can scan the situation inside. I don't know if this is a trap or what, but pay attention, the scan shows that there are active existences inside, except The clown and the kids, and three...things."

The improved satellite scanning technology was kindly provided by the great magician Mr. Merlin, and it can detect the existence of pure magic power like heroic spirits.Generally speaking, the heroic spirits that are summoned - he asked Reed and several heroic spirits - are all human in size, and they will not be exaggerated in any way, but one of them makes him feel very strange, or extremely weird , that can no longer be regarded as a human existence, it is a huge swollen thing that almost fills the entire room.

It's not moving, it's just like a giant blob of gel or something, quietly 'resting' in the room, but it just makes Tim feel a little sickly creepy.

"There's a Heroic Spirit on the second floor, it's very strange, very strange," Tim projected the image on the watches they were wearing, "Be careful with this, I don't know why, it gives me a weird feeling."

"I see it, kids, it's right next to those kids," Tony said, crossing his arms and looking at the opposite factory in the perspective mode of the steel armor.The factory has only two floors in total, but the roof is very high, which is equivalent to the height of four or five floors of other buildings. The weird existence on the second floor occupies almost two-thirds of the second floor, "It looks so big , there are still tentacles... Ugh! Thank God, I didn't eat."

"What the hell?" The three little birds greeted cordially at the same time. After estimating the size of the thing, they felt even more disgusted.

Damian asked in disbelief: "The clown actually raised a Kraken*?!"

"If we go in, will it be... uh, grab it with its tentacles and eat it? I hate giant octopuses," Jason said.

"It is sleeping," a strange voice came from beside them. Everyone was shocked, and no one noticed this person who appeared suddenly.

"Abby?" Reid felt something black flashed in his peripheral vision just now, and it turned out to be Abigail.

The little girl had a calm expression, and pulled up the corner of her skirt as a lady's salute.

Merlin suddenly gave a meaningful oh, his clairvoyance just now didn't see through what the existence inside was, but after Abigail appeared, he could understand.

That is also a part of God from the depths of the universe, something that cannot be seen.

"Its name is Floating Horror*," Abigail explained to them. "Although it was summoned, it can't move now. Only when the human container suitable for it appears, it will parasitize it. .”

Abigail's eyes fell on that place, the place occupied by the huge body, "If there is a suitable container for it, it will wake up and occupy that body forcibly."

"It sounds too bad, it's a little bit worse than Alien," Tony said, "so are they going to use that with all those kids or wake up this...what the hell fear?"

Abigail nodded, "That's Naia's incarnation."

Reid thought of something and asked, "So that's what you meant by the 'dirty guy' you said last time?"

"Yes." Abigail, who is one of the three pillars of the original gods and represents the existence of infinite wisdom, is Yog's representative on Earth in various senses. Or, so Abigail instinctively dislikes Nyarlathotep's 'shallow, stupid, and ugly' guy, "Last time there was only one, and now there are two more annoying guys."

Abigail stuck out her tongue and made a disgusted expression, "It's so annoying."